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Good morning, mate. How are doing? Morning. I'm doing well. No complaints over from me. Life is good. Training's good. I haven't touched a drop of alcohol for the entire month of July, and I'm feeling the benefits of it. Really?

What are the benefits? Not starting the week minorly hungover, more energy, clear ahead. No. That that's like that makes it sound like I had a drink problem, which is very far from it.

I just I had those two holidays back to back, didn't I, where I just royally kicked the arse out of it for pretty much two weeks, and I just got home, and I was just like, I just need to

just need to, like, eat salad and just not drink for a few weeks. A few weeks turned into a month, and now I'm at the point where I'm like, do you know what? I don't really miss it that much. I'm just gonna see how long I have Yeah. Go for Fair play. You're you're joining the club, mate. Yeah. Well, I even went to the pub on Saturday

Saturday night and just had a a nonalcoholic Heineken. Okay. K. Yeah. It's it's replacing the it's replacing the drinks that you'd otherwise have with something that's okay. And if you're a beer drinker, I feel like it's not too bad. It's lot better nowadays.

Yeah. Yeah. Like you said, the Heinekens aren't bad. The 0% Guinness isn't bad. What are what are the ones that I tried? Oh, yeah. Actually, the what's the is it BrewDog? BrewDog. Dilswood one. Yeah. Yeah. Sort of okay.

I find it difficult because I like spirits or like spirits. So it's like and wine. Non alcoholic wine is fucking horrible. And then all the spirits are a bit shit. Like, I found a a gin, the fake gin that's, like, almost ish okay. And then there's this other stuff I've bought, which is, like, fermented ginger with a little bit of chili

and, like

it gives, like, a bit of a kick and a burn in the throat that gives what I would want from, like, a spirit. Like, if I was drinking, like, a whiskey or, like, rum or something, like, gives that little bit of something. So that kind of works to some extent. But Yeah. It's never the same. It never gives that, like, that first

first one or two. You you'd be pints. I'd be, like, glass of wine or two and, like, that first one or two. Yeah. That's the best. It's like a bit of a wind down. I do miss that. So I don't know. People would say, like, microdosing mushrooms is quite a good one and some other, like, bits and pieces I wish I've not tried, but Me neither.

Yeah. But it's good feeling the benefits. My I'm I'm a bit of a stats nerd, as you know. Yes. I know that. Like, resting heart rate is down significantly. Body fat is down significantly. VO two max is up significantly.

Like, everything's really, like Really? Locked in at the moment. So it's going really well. Nice. You're a well oiled machine. Literally. Literally, I am. Yes. Yes.

Well, I missed Freedom Tech Friday last week with dad. So but, yeah, I haven't even had a chance to catch up on that one. How was it? Well, it was just a master class as you would expect.

Yeah. Made mine incest life very easy. He just he actually told a really cool story, which I believe, I don't think he's told on any of the shows before now, about how he came to own a natural gas well, which is

That's a great story. It was very interesting actually, like for him to go back and because I like, just glossed over it as thinking that the focus was, oh, we want to talk about mining. And he's like, yeah, so I got this natural gas well, and I'm like, hold on a minute. Like, that's not a normal thing. Like, you don't just stumble across

a natural gas well and like, come to own that. So walk us through that, and that was like the bulk of the show, it's really, really good. Yeah. We, as always, we we could have gone for a lot longer than an hour, but yeah, great show. So go back and and check that one out. It's already on the feeds.

I'm gonna go back and have a listen. And if anyone wants to dig even deeper on that one, I did do a two part series with John going into the the gas well, and maybe three, four months ago or something like that.

So it is on the feed, but we go into it. And it is it is a really cool story. It's a really interesting story. And the and what's coming next is maybe gonna be more interesting. So very cool.

He sat down like a character, something that he'd been working on, but he didn't go into the details. So looking forward to an announcement of that. He's been an easy boy. Outside of that, since we last recorded brief two weeks ago, we did also launch Freedom. Tech, which was also on Freedom Tech Friday, as you would imagine.

So if you only listen to the Bitcoin brief and you have no idea what freedom.tech is, we have been teasing it a little bit in previous briefs. Go and check it out. Again, there there's a full deep dive on Freedom Tech Friday from two weeks ago.

If you like to just click around, literally just go to freedom.tech. And it's me me and Clanker have been very busy putting together an AI powered news desk that monitors and updates on a daily and weekly basis across 500 there or thereabouts, different FreedomTech,

GitHub repositories, and news outlets basically, so that you can stay up to speed on a daily basis with any of the projects that you you care about. You can fire hose it and just get the daily briefs, which come out on NosterX and obviously on the site every morning,

UTC time. There's also a weekly recap, and you can also go make your own personal feeds in there as well. So if you don't wanna fire hose it and you only have an interest in, I don't know, 7 Bitcoin specific projects and you want your own personal feed to stay up to date as and when they release, make your own feed. You can do that.

Feedback is is welcome. It's a new project. You know, it's by no means the finished project. I've got loads of additional personalization features that are

90% of the way there at the moment, incorporating some of the feedback from Max and from Seth that was brought up live on Freedom Tech Friday when I did the showcase. So stay tuned for those coming soon as well. And, yeah, check it out. Give us some feedback. Definitely. If there's any projects missing that

you're passionate about, let me know and I'll be happy to to add them so that they they don't get missed in the future. Yeah. It really is of all the things that you've built, I think probably the most useful for the average person who wants to keep up to date. Like, it's exactly what I wish I had when first coming into Bitcoin

and, like, learning about this stuff. The the ability to just follow all these projects and have everything at your fingertips without searching around a billion sites and fucking Reddit and, like, searching trying to find, like, useful information in a sea of nonsense on Twitter. It's, yeah, it's really fucking cool.

Yeah. Absolutely. So feedback welcome. Let me know what you think on Governables. And

for the third time, we're we're also gonna show FeedInTech Friday. I know we've only been recording for like seven minutes and this is the third time I mentioned it, but we do we do put a lot of time and effort into that show. So if you don't already listen to it, please go and check it out.

This is the announcement of the announcement, but something else very, very exciting that we're gonna be sharing on this Friday's Freedom Tech Friday, Max. Can't wait to for everybody to see it. Something that you and I have been collaborating on for a number of weeks now, and we're gonna put the finishing touches to it this week and

get it into into the public domain. So lots of changes are thought, and once again, excited to see what all of the ungovernables think of of that new project that we've been working on. An exciting thing for it to be out there. Can't tell you yet. Yeah.

Yeah. Well, by the time by the time this hits the feed, you'll only have, like, a couple of days to wait.

Yeah. True. That's true.

Very good. Yeah. And Final bit of housekeeping for me. We talked about the the KeyOS Passport Prime firmware version 1.3 beta version that was announced on the last brief two weeks ago. That is now publicly available.

So hit update, in Passport Prime and get yourself on the latest release because there is a lot of good stuff in there. If you wanna know the details, you can go to Freedom Tech Friday. You can go to freedom.tech.

You can go to the foundation blog, or you can listen to the last brief. We've got you covered no matter what medium you you like to learn about the latest find. If you want. Yeah. Yeah. That's it from me. Any any other AOB gossip news scandal from you?

No. I don't think so. Well, in that case, let's waste no time and hit the news, shall we? Let's do it. Alright. First off, we're starting in India of all places. Not a place we we talk about a lot on the brief. It is generally pretty US focused. It really is, isn't it? But India's I four c, don't ask me what that stands for,

issued a three hour takedown order for Jack Dorsey's BitChat repositories on GitHub last week. They cited the apps anonymous and decentralized architecture as a problem. Well, duh, that's kind of the problem.

Kind of the whole point, should I say. For those of you that live under a rock, BitChat is Jack Dorsey's open source Bluetooth mesh style messenger built exactly for, you know, circumventing Internet outages or intentional Internet cutting, particularly in parts of the world where there's lots of protests and draconian governments.

BitChat was the answer to that, meaning that it uses Bluetooth mesh so that you can continue messaging, coordinating large or small groups of people even if the Internet has been cut down. No central server, no Internet, all of that good stuff.

It has seen adoption on Iran or unsurprisingly in places where there has been protests where the Internet has been taken down, proving that it does what it says on the tin. India or the Indian government

doesn't like that presumably because there may be some protests or they're expecting some soon or there's already some going on. I'm not actually that sure. But they basically said they want it gone because, quote, it enables anonymous communication without mandatory user registration

and it impedes lawful interception. Yes. Well, that's again what the whole point. There was no illegal content cited, not a single piece and basically, they're pointing the finger that the architecture is kind of the crime and they want GitHub to take it down.

Can't be surprised, I guess. What's your thoughts? I foresee much more of this.

Governments around the world take trying to take down Freedom Tech. You missed that, mate. I foresee. That's what it's called. I foresee. Oh, god. Yep. I I did miss that. You're right. Well done. I thought of that, and then right at the beginning, and then I just held onto it the whole way through that conversation just so that I could

get that one across the line. Well, well done. Thanks. Outside of what you foresee, what's your thoughts? Yeah. I mean, literally that, like, I foresee more of this. We've it's not surprising.

It is disgusting.

Any government that is gonna treat its people that way, and there are gonna be protests, and people might consider trying to fight back if there is if things go too far, then they're gonna have to reach out and try and use technology that helps them. And then the the oppressors are gonna try and stop that technology from being accessible

or useful in whatever way they can. So, yeah, it's it's frustrating, but at least there is technology out there, and I'm sure that people find a way around this. So,

yeah, it's I don't know what else to say about it, mate. That's it's just it's shit. It's it's like it's we whinge about The UK being a shithole and the stuff that goes on there and sometimes the same in America. But, actually, there are much worse places where governments go much further, and

I just feel sorry for the people who are having to deal with that shit. Yeah. Absolutely. I I mean, it's worth pointing out the obvious here that, like, I I'm pretty sure that GitHub did comply, and it was taken down. However, there's like, that's nowhere near enough to stifle No. Like, or stop the code existing.

The Cali, obviously, a a big contributor to BitChat. He posted something on on x, and within hours, it's already been mirrored to around 50 different nodes on a peer to peer code network called Radi Radical, which I've not heard of Okay. Of until this.

And allegedly, apparently there was also 25 copies back on GitHub as well. Right. Okay. So it seems like a bit of a of a hydro problem that they've they've unleased here. Yeah. And again, we I think it was the last brief where we were talking about was it one of the LDK or something like that that got taken off GitHub?

Oh, they just went to an open source alternative where you can self host it. So you can't stop open source codes like that ship as well and truly sailed. Can you stifle adoption of it through centralized choke points like

the Play Store, the App Store? Of course you can. But it doesn't stop the the code existing for motivated actors that want to run it. So yeah. Yeah. It's also you know that thing, like, no publicity is whatever. The thing about publicity, like,

bad publicity is still publicity or whatever it is. Right. It's kind of like, what is the fucking saying? The Streisand effect. Is that what you're talking about? No. Just like, basically such thing as bad pub publicity. That's how yeah. My brain just doesn't function anymore. But, yeah, that's exactly what I was trying to say.

And and that's the thing is that most of the time, by trying to hide things or trying to stop this type of technology where it can just be shared and mirrored and, you know, whatever. Like, there's so many ways that you can share information.

They are, for the most part, fighting a losing battle. And by attacking it and it hitting new sources and people talking about how they can't get hold of it, it just makes more people aware of it and Yeah.

Makes it more clear why there's a need for it. Because the more they attack, the more aggressive and unreasonable they are, the more people in theory then wake up and go, fuck. This is a problem. Like, maybe I should be prepared for for more problems. And so

in a weird way, you know, like, people always go like, oh, there's nothing bad for Bitcoin. Everything's good for Bitcoin. Similar. Mhmm. Everything's good for Freedom Tech. Indeed. You you can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

Yeah. That's a good one. Alright. Across the the pond over to The US, interesting on this, the this one comes from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Mhmm. They filed an amicus brief to get some details of a of a court proceeding

where the fourth circuit has issued a disappointing opinion in The US versus Belmonte Cardozo. A case that's going on in Maryland, North Carolina. Oh, sorry. Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia affiliates,

and the National Association of Criminal Defense Law. So these are the people that filed the amicus brief alongside the EFF.

Basically, there was a chap that on the thirteenth No, when was the date he went through?

I can't see a date there. Yeah. So on twenty fourth, TechCrunch actually reported that the Sam Tunic case coming into Atlanta from The Dominican Republic, he got pulled for a secondary inspection.

He had a phone running Graphene OS with a duress pin, which is a decoy code that wipes the device if you put that code in intentionally. The phone was reset during the search presumably because he's entered the decoy PIN, and he is now being federally prosecuted under a statute written for destroying property to prevent a seizure.

This is believed to be the first prosecution in The US over a duress password. He's pleaded to he pleaded not guilty and moved to suppress arguing he was denied counsel. So this is, again, dangerous precedent here. We've we've, you know, in the privacy circles of long being big fans of of Graphene OS and all of their features.

However, this basically, you know, if it if it follows through, basically just means that whilst we knew you had no rights at the border, the fact that you had some kind of safeguards to protect your data against unwarranted searches is looking shaky at best.

Because basically, if you give them a device that gets wiped by entering the wrong PIN, that they're gonna throw the book at you. So this is, yeah, not not great, basically. That's that's actually really fucking scary.

I've actually said to my missus for a long time, she keeps wanting to go to The US, and I've said, no. I don't wanna go there. Like, I don't feel comfortable going into The US. And I've told you the story before. I had a fucking bad experience going in Yeah. Previously.

Whereas, like, I don't wanna go through that shit again. So

if I was gonna fly in, which I'd ideally not do, but if there was a reason I had to or whatever, that would have been my go to would be well, it would either be no useful phone that has all my stuff links to everything ungovernable, and I just go in with a new, like, normie phone or have one of those with a Duress PIN,

I wouldn't have even thought about,

okay, if I've been prepared enough to wipe it and I wipe it, that there's then further issues. That's a that's a real

yeah. You just have no rights at that point. It's that's that's fucking mental.

Yeah. Yeah. It really is. I mean, the obviously, the I think this is still ongoing from what I can see, but the only kind of, I guess, answer to this would be to go through with a completely wiped phone

before you get subjected to a search because like Yeah. You know what I mean? It's like Yeah. Yeah. And that is a massive fucking headache because we all live our lives from our phones whether we like it or not. So Yeah. Yes, there's things you can do with, like, you know, the graphene OS recovery and stuff, but it's still

still a headache. So maybe there would be something like

just trying to think. Because, obviously, if it's like Apple, you could theoretically, like, have everything on iCloud. You could just go over even without a phone, walk into an Apple store, iCloud yourself up again, like, beat me down, Scotty, and you're done. Like, it's it's pretty simple. But if you're if you're running on

a more privacy preserving, like, self hosty type thing. Is there some clever way that like, you're gonna tell me if this is really stupid. But say you could have something like an Umbral thing or a server at home that you could somehow take your phone, mirror everything across as got backup,

and then, like, iCloud yourself, but on graphene. So, like, you go back across with the white phone. It's got nothing on it. And then once you get Internet connection, you log in securely,

and you download everything from your server that's running at home. Like, is there a way to do that, like, safely and that's not you don't have to be like a super coder to do it?

The details of it, I wouldn't be able to go into, because it's been a while since we've done a graphene OS recovery, but, like, yeah, that would be possible. Even if it's like something rudimentary, just having a backup file on like a Proton drive or something like that. Mhmm. Taking the the graphene OS

seed words, I forget what they call them now, but the the word phrase. You you could definitely achieve that. It might not be you know, it's never gonna be punching Yeah. Your iCloud Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But you could do that. But again, it's just a headache in it. It's a headache, and it's it's such a ridiculous situation to have because

you're giving access to, like, all our most important information, pretty much. Most most people is, like, on their phone at their fingertips. Photos of your kids, your your tax information, your business stuff, your your personal conversations. Like, every everything is sort of linked.

And then you're just handing they want you to just hand your phone over with all your information to some cunt at a border. You don't know who they are. Like, it's such a massive invasion of privacy and your personal information. It's really, like,

just really invasive, like, to to do that that level of stuff because it is your personal photos and everything else as well. It's just such a unreasonable and outrageous request.

Yeah. Really is. There's not really a lot to add to it than that. If you're going through a border, then be careful, and you have basically zero rights.

That's that was America presumably, you did say. That was what? Sorry. That is America, isn't it? Yeah. He was flying into Atlanta. Yeah. So specifically in America, it feels like that might be the worst place to fly into for that, you know, if you're running or whatever.

It's it's it's like that is the they are the one that are gonna be the most problem.

Yep. Certainly are. Lovely.

Staying in The US over to to Washington, another bit of a setback for developers and freedom tech enthusiasts. On the July 22, a new draft of the never ending clarity act went over to the senate.

Seven democrats rejected it and by the twenty third, majority leader Thune confirmed it will not pass before the August recess, which we said on the last brief was probably gonna happen. Mhmm. So that means now there's gonna be like another, you know, multiple month delay with the recess before this gets any form of clarity.

The usual casualty for this is forget the section number now, but that that safe you know, there's a safe harbor carve out that could allegedly shield open source developers from SEC liability for publishing code and all of that is obviously further stalled yet again.

Okay. Next up, staying in The US. This is a bit of a strange one. The July 24, the State Department in The US launched the Freedom Tech Excellence Program. Oh. Which is embedding private sector staff to work encryption, VPNs, and countering unlawful digital surveillance.

Founding partners include the Bitcoin Policy Institute, framing Bitcoin as a tool against financial surveillance abroad. All the founding partners are Palantir, and one I've never heard of, Anjuril, and the Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation.

Yeah. Bit of a weird one. It's a bit all over the place, this. You know, it's a counter surveillance program co founded by two of the companies that literally build surveillance and autonomous weapons systems.

What the fuck? Yeah. So it's a strange one. There's a Bitcoin Magazine article linked which, you know, goes into the details, but I just like this is like two polar opposites, like, all jammed in together. It's so weird.

Well, surely that's just like

they're seeing what the counter is to their moves by funding it and then being involved. So it's like, let's come up with ways that we can protect ourselves.

And then they go, great. We'll fund that, and then we'll see exactly how you plan to protect yourselves, and then we'll find a way to fuck you up. Yeah. Well, we've got all the buzzwords here, mate. Listen to this. According to the program's stated goals, participants will focus on five priority areas.

First amendment and free expression protections in the digital age, countering unlawful digital surveillance, and online scams. Privacy enhancing technologies such as strong encryption and VPNs, responsible governance of emerging technologies including AI, and, you guessed it, safeguarding children and other users online.

There we go, guys. Yeah. All the buzzwords.

Heesh. That's a really weird well, it's not weird. It's like kind of you would do it. If you're a Palantir or one of these cunts, would be like, oh, that's a good idea. Let's let's infiltrate and find out what what they're gonna do. Let's govern ourselves.

Onto more positive news. Big release from the Dorsey Camp block. Did you see all of the excitement? I I purposely didn't do the dad joke around Buzz, the open source release from the block team. Have you seen it, Matt? Have.

I do. As you know, I've for about the last week or two, I've just been completely off the grid. So, no, I haven't seen anything. Tell me please, what what have I missed? So on the twenty first day, Block have released Buzz on the an open source license.

Buzz is a workspace chat, basically collaborative communications channels where you, your friends, your teammates, whoever you want to collaborate with can work together with your clankers, your AI agents as well.

It all runs on top of NOSTA relays, so it's somewhat decentralized or, you know, you can kind of self host and have the data distributed wherever you want to. If you want to run a private database, by all means you can.

Basically, every participant on Buzz, be it that a human or an agent has basically a cryptographic keeper as their identity. It's basically a NOS, the NSEC. Yeah. And what that means is you the tagline with this is not the official tagline, but it's, you know, one that's been leveled by many people is, this is Slack,

but you can it's it's open source, it's free, and you can plug in your AI agents. So Max, you know the project that we've been working on that we can't talk about until Friday? Very well. Yeah. The way that we've been doing that is rudimentary.

I've had Clawd Code open. I've been screen sharing with you. We've just been chatting, and I've been driving. Yeah. We could do all of that in buzz in our own private channel. You could talk directly to my agent and we could go back and forth and have a three way conversation and just collaborate with

my agent, your agent, could be both of our agents onto a specific project to work together. So it brings the social layer to vibe coding, essentially. You

can gate this any which way you would. Like, we could have like a channel at foundation where the whole team talks to one agent. We can have a collaborative agent, and we can all vibe go together.

I could have a private one with you where we work on cool and governable shit. Like, the sky's the limits on, like, how you set this up. The the back end, you can plug in whatever agent you want. You can use it with Maple. You can use it with Codex, ClordCode, OpenRouter, PaperQ.

Basically, it's a bring your own agent type of deal. So it's not you're not logged into any specific model, any provider, any specific harness like Goose sorry, not Goose. Buzz

could be your sole harness for all of your AI interaction if you wanted to. You can have your private stuff in there, you can have your collaborative stuff in there. I just think it's really, really like great

take on how people can vibe code in the future and the fact that it's all completely free and completely open source and built on top of Nosta if you wanna leverage that side of things. Like, I'm I'm struggling to see the downside here. So this is very, very exciting.

That does sound very, very cool. Sounds like something that's really very useful to all sorts of people, including ungovernable and all the things that we're always spinning up and building. So I like that. And and the only thing I would say is what one of the things that makes you excited about it makes me slightly worry about it,

which is the Nosta side. And this may not be reasonable, but, you know, we talked to the other day about, well, if you sort of wanna use Nosta, you've gotta have, like, you know, three different types of clients so that you can see all your messages and just, like, you can't just have one thing that you use.

Is that gonna be a problem for this, or is there a way to get around that issue? Like, what I'm saying is, like, I I start building something, and then I wanna share it with you. And then you're like, oh, I can't see this part of it. And it's like, oh, that's because you're on primal. What you need to be on is

sawdust light. And and then I'm like, oh, yeah. But you can see that part, but you can't then share to John because he's on butterboard two x three four one. Like, you need to do you know what I mean? Is it gonna be that sort of stuff?

My I this is very new. I've only had a a couple of hours chance to play around with it last Friday, before Freedom Tech Friday. And the the the Nosta stuff is not presented as such. Like, you don't have to go in and configure relays.

I don't even I don't even think I saw the word Nosta anywhere in the UI ever. It's just like a background thing. Have I stretched it its legs to, like, you know, invite multiple people and to test whether stuff goes missing? No. Haven't delved that deep yet.

If the the history of the way that the guys at block, you know, ship products and how they they get things working in a very friendly way, I'm guessing that's probably not going to be a problem.

That remains to be seen, from the few hours that I've had to play with it, it was very easy. I think because this you can basically set up your own communities, which I believe, don't quote me on this, is like each time you set up a community, that's like a standalone kind of relay, like a private relay.

So it's not necessarily like you're looking for posts from a thousand different followers from 50,000,000 different relays like you would if you're, you know, going opening up one of the the Twitter clone style things. Yeah. Yeah. It's much more niche than that.

And I've not seen any of those stumbling blocks yet, but that's not to say that Okay. That doesn't happen in the future. Yeah. But, yeah, this I'm very excited about this, I think this is gonna be, know, it's gonna go a long way.

And I would be very surprised if we don't see competitors to this from chat from OpenAI and Anthropic within the next four weeks. Okay. Okay. Very cool. Well, yeah, I I didn't wanna, like, shit on it there. It would be like an asshole about it. I'll just it was a genuine No. It's warranted.

Yeah. Absolutely warranted. And if it if it does work, then really cool. I like the you know, this is the first bit of, like, news that's not fucking depressing and about governments and courts and just just shit. So that's nice.

Yeah. Absolutely. Alright. Last one on the list, bit one ten. Nearly punch time. Nearly d day, mate. Yeah. We are recording on Monday, July 27. And, yeah, not looking good. The mandatory minor signaling window is projected to to begin August 7,

and at time of writing or within the last couple of days, yeah, not looking great. No major pool beyond Ocean has signal support. Bitcoin Core obviously hasn't merged the implementation. The 55% threshold required for activation falls quite literally orders of magnitude beyond the current pace of things.

As you'd expect, there's still lots of posturing on Twitter. But the In fact, let me pull up the live monitor. Signaling status, this is bit110.org, by the way, for those that want to go and check it live.

Yeah, mandatory signal signaling begins in twelve days, nine hours, forty nine minutes, and seven seconds. The current signal rate is 2.64%. Okay. And they require 55%. So it looks like there's gonna be some mess happening in twelve days.

There's probably gonna be a chain split and it doesn't look like it's gonna go favorably for bit one ten minus, basically. Okay. So not a Yeah. Lot has Okay.

Go on. You were gonna ask? I'm just sort of I'm still unclear of, like, what what the mess is. It's just like a short term. There's a chain split, but then they have less work after that.

And so Yeah. Hash rate's king here. Yeah. The way things currently stand and all well, most if, you know, a very healthy majority of the hash rate has not signaled, they're gonna continue mining non bit one ten compliant blocks after August 7.

Mhmm. The, you know, the handful of miners that do, you know, see it as activated.

When they manage to mine a block, it will be a chain split. The majority hash rate will continue mining on top of the non compliant block and hash rate wins, it will quickly become the majority chain with the most work or the most well, yeah, the most proof of work.

And then you you get a split essentially and the bit $1.10 chain falls behind significantly very quickly. Okay. And then what? Like, then it's just done. Like, that's it. Yeah. Basically, I mean, it's I don't see way a forward for, like, it doesn't there's there's been no signaling for exchanges

that they're gonna, you know, list this coin may you know, that may change afterwards if, you know, if there's enough

appetite for that. But it seems as though across social media, across miners, across economic actors like businesses, there is just zero appetite for, you know, the changes within bit one ten.

So it seems like it's just gonna it's just gonna slowly die off and quickly fall behind because it just has nowhere near the required hash rate to even stand the chance of becoming the majority chain.

Okay. And then even if it doesn't become the majority chain, like, for example, like a Bcash, then it could still, in theory, like, do its own thing. Like, everyone gets, like, Roger Vera up and, like, go and do their thing and, like,

argue that even though the split happened and they didn't get the majority and blah blah blah, like, they're still right, and then people could sort of, like, follow that. Mhmm. So they then affect they'd have their own coin.

Then they would have a different version of of the history looking at a different, you know, chain of blocks. Yeah. That is not the majority chain. And, yeah, it's basically b cash all over again.

So what would they call themselves then? God knows. Luke coin bit Bitcoin. I saw that one somewhere. I thought that was quite good. Bitcoin. Bitcoin? Yeah. Nice. Like Bitcoin 10 coin. Yeah. And so and then if it has some value to them at least,

we could sell, we could claim and sell, but then there's no exchanges listing it. Yeah. You have to do market for it. That's the that's the crucial thing. Yeah. I mean, that's what I'm interested in. I think I've said that for months and months now. It's like, just if there's some way of me getting some more stats, like real Bitcoin

for something that I get for free because people are squawking, then I'm like, yes, please. Yeah. I mean, I wouldn't say no to it. Yeah. Okay. So, yeah, if you wanna if you wanna keep up to speed, you can either go to bit110.org, and it gives you the countdown and all of the the relevant stats, or friend of the show, bitorangesurf.

If you go to bit110.orange.surf, he has now got a live monitor there as well, so you can go and check that out to see what's happening in terms of signaling, if and when there is a chain split, it'll you know, he's got a visualizer there as well. Mhmm. As always, he's on it, so check that one out. Yeah.

Very nice. Right. Boosts, I will kick us off. Top of the shop, as always, it seems at the moment, Welder Ian, 2,222 sats. Said great show, boys. Chad Farrow streamed 1,553 sats with no message.

VMVD with 1,021 SATs. They said radar chat is great. Unfortunately, the network effect is not yet our friend. Almost no one to send SATs to. Yeah. Agreed. Although you could argue that

well, I guess there's two there's two types of network effect, isn't there? Because radar chat benefits from the massive network effect the signal has, so you can still message all of your non radar chat friends over signal. But, yeah. Yeah. Then you still got some work to do to to get them over to the other app

Yeah. If you wanna be able to to send us some stats to them. But it's a start. Yeah. Definitely is. VMVD is a new one, isn't it? They've definitely boosted before. I've I've definitely remember reading that. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, okay. Alright. Sorry, vMVD, and thank you for support.

Pleb to Polymath stream 700 sats. Rev Hoddle, 430 sats. They said, if essential, hashtag forty hours per week. As always, amazing list of links in the show notes. Thank you. If you want to, see where they come from, head to freedom.tech.

Nice show. Chad Chad Farrow again with, 333 stats. Lowell, you do need at least three Nostraps to see everything. There we go. He is not Coming from the man himself. He he knows his stuff. He is not So okay. Eric p p streamed 305 sats.

Man Kelly sent 300 sats and said radar for the win. Mad Hatter with 210 sats, boosting the boys lightning thing, always ungovernable, Stay free. Thank you very much, Madhat, sir. And the last one, Nosdagang, 101 sats. And they said, thank you, boys. Well, thank you all.

Yeah. Thank you all. Thank you everyone as well who was sending in XMR on the XMR chat stuff. I've not been monitoring it, but Jordan said to me that we had some very, very kind donations to help keep everything running.

And

especially, sent a very large contribution. So thank you if you're listening. We really do appreciate that. More on that soon. Maybe on Friday. Who knows? Yes.

Right. I need a toilet break, mate. Okay. Do I have time to make another coffee? Go for it. Okay. Alright.

You there, mate? Yep. Cool.

So we're now releases, aren't we? Yes, sir. Woah. You got loads of releases here.

Load always, mate. Always powered by freedom.tech. Check it out. Yeah. I as always, I won't go through all of these. I've just picked out some interesting ones, so I'll whip through them. Nunchuk have added Tether over the liquid network, which I thought was a move out of left field for them. I didn't think they would

Mhmm. Jump on that bandwagon, but there's obviously a demand for it. Yeah, you can now custody your tether on the liquid liquid network. Next up, a big release from Lightning Labs. They've jumped on the agentic payments bandwagon with the release of Wavelength, which is currently in alpha. They released this last week.

Wavelength is basically a a non custodial API toolkit that embeds self custodial bitcoin and lightning payments into any app without the need to run a node, manage channels or source your liquidity.

Mainnet access is invite only at launch. So this is very new and very early. But yeah, they've actually got like a live demo on their website. If you head to wavelength.lightning.engineering if you wanna be a nerd and have a bit of a play around.

Of course, the SDK is completely open source, and they've got all of the usual good stuff, MCP servers paired with L four zero two, all of that kind of AI stuff. And I believe that all of this is built on top of the ARC protocol, which is very cool and good to see that they have,

you know, built on top of that and it continues to proliferate. If you are a clanker enjoyer and you want to build a wallet, then consider using or testing out wavelength. Yep. Next one on the list, StartOS version 0.4, which we seem to have been talking about in alpha, beta, zeta, gamma versions for

what feels like all of eternity is now a main public release. Nice. So you no longer have to wait for any more stability patches or anything like that. They are deeming that this is stable enough to go and install on your main node.

So yeah, check that one out. If you have been living under a rock, massive upgrade, big redesign of the UI, completely reworked networking stack. They've got start tunnel, which is that kind of reverse tunnel that enables you to expose your services, your local services onto a public domain without revealing your home IP.

Yep. Improved backups, all of that good stuff. Massive, massive updates. So good to see that that's finally out of the public beta. As a quick reminder, we have gone into this before. There is it is quite an in-depth update. It's not just a button click. You do need to take some precautions, so please make sure that you

go and read the update guide before you just, you know, go gung ho and and, you know, go for it. So they're just make sure you got your backups in place, basically.

Blue Wallet eight point zero point one, bit of a redesign. They've jumped on the iOS liquid glass design, which I'm a big fan of. I think it great. Loads of other good stuff in there. They've upgraded the air gapping standard, the QR codes, imported multisig from unchained, arcade lightning push notifications, which is pretty cool.

And they've enabled RBF for single sig watch only wallets as well, along with multiple other good stuff. Cake wallet, minor update version six point three point two. Main upgrade here is home screen upgrades, and I'm really happy to see this one.

Your home screen now has your transaction history, so no more digging through menus to kind of view your most recent transactions. That was always a bit of a headache for me to try and find.

Yeah. So they made to, like, swipe. Yeah. To swipe across. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Maybe saying it was a headache to find was was probably over It was a minor inconvenience, but it wasn't up to snuff with with everything else that they normally do.

Yeah. Indeed. They've now oh, rate what's this? Radar integration. Radar is now fully integrated into the app screen, giving you easier access directly within the wallet. Nice. Didn't I hadn't actually seen that one before.

And then I thought originally was gonna happen. And then someone asked the question, oh, why not have it integrated? And then Seth was like, oh, we're not doing it because of x, y, and zed. And he went off on a long ramble about why not. And I was thinking, I still think it would be better. I'm not gonna I'm not gonna,

like, contradict what he's saying here because he knows how to build stuff and I don't. But I still thought, yeah, I'd probably prefer it was in one app. To well, to be clear, I don't think this is radar messaging in

Cakewallet. I don't think that's a link to it. Or I think it's just a link to it because Cakewallet has the apps page, doesn't it? And so I would imagine if you click on app in Cakewallet, there'll be a radar link. Can you click on that and it'll it will open radar on your phone.

So rather than having to go to GitHub or wherever else, you could if you already have cake, you'd download it. But you're you're not gonna have the ability to, like, swipe across and then have chats within the same app is what you meant? Correct. Okay. Alright. Where's the middle ground?

Yes. Absolutely. And then the last one on the list, save this the best till last, Ashigaru version one point one point two. Quality of life release from mister Linkin Park rules himself. We've got live connection status, just so it's a bit clearer as to what's happening during TOR bootstrapping and Electrum connections.

One click connect or disconnect, again tied to the status indicator and just a faster startup connection. Dojo server history now runs after your server connects instead of completing it if the TOR circuits have any issues.

And for on the Whirlpool side, coordinator warning clears on recovery. So the quote can't reach Whirlpool coordinator banner now disappears as soon as the coordinator is reachable again. So continued improvement, not exactly a show stopper, but like it like he says, quality of life improvements. So hats off Yeah. Jordan.

Keep grinding, mate. Thank you, mate. Thank you for all the hard work. Appreciate you. That's it, mate. We're at the end of the list. K. Okey dokey. Well, flew through those. Looking forward to the big reveal.

We will we'll speak more about that tomorrow, and listeners shall probably see and hear things over the the coming few days. You certainly will. Yeah. We will we'll catch you all on Freedom Tech Friday. Have a good one, mate. Alright. Cheers, mate.

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