In light of the increasing frequency of censorship events coupled with awesome guides from bitcoiners like @Diverter_NoKYC + @_k3tan, I've taken steps to become a little more sovereign + less reliant on 'the man'. Here's a few tweets to hopefully inspire you to do the same...
In the space of just a few days, I've created my first VPS at @Namecheap (paid in sats) + installed @yunohost to run my own...
If you want to do the same, @Diverter_NoKYC has this awesome guide (which he's self hosting, obviously!) and was the impetus for me to finally make a move.
After doing that, I'd caught the hosting bug I wanted to try my own Matrix.org server. Matrix is 'An open network for secure, decentralized communication'.
It is to Telegram what Mastodon is to Twitter.
After chatting with some of the pros, I spun up another VPS (takes 5 mins) + followed this guide to install my own Matrix server.
It looks complicated but I literally copy + pasted the commands 1 by 1, easy!
Don't be put off by the terminology in that guide. From ordering my VPS to having my own Matrix server, took me less than 40 minutes, it really is not difficult at all!
If you want to get started with Yunohost or Matrix and learn more on how you can do the same...
Download element.io (an open source client for communicating via the Matrix protocol), create an account + connect temporarily using my server bitcoiner.chat.
Join these rooms full of people willing to help
(To follow because twitter wont let me tweet them
Forget the idea that it's 'not for you'. That's what I thought less than a week ago...
Today is #CoinJoinDay so after smelting a healthy amount of sats in Whirlpool I decided to spend some doxxic change and support the team over @lightnitegame by signing up for the alpha.
With the massive rise in @SamouraiWallet Whirlpool usage since the introduction of mobile mixing I've finally got round to mixing some sats and thought I'd document the process for other people taking their first steps poolside that may have felt apprehensive about starting
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First step is to send some sats into your wallet.
Hit the blue + in the bottom right hand corner of the home screen and hit receive.
You will then be given a screen like this.
Scan the QR code or copy the address and paste into whatever wallet you are sending from.
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The transaction should appear in SW almost straight away and you will then need to wait for the transaction to confirm on chain.
Obviously how long this takes depends on the mempool and the fees paid.
I've decided to do a daily tweet throughout 2020 with something I've learned about Bitcoin. Hopefully come Dec 31st I'll have a juicy thread that I can look back on realise how much I've learned.
They likely wont follow any specific theme but will all be Bitcoin related. Where possible I will reference who/where I learned the info from
Today is Jan 14th so I'm starting a little late but here goes.
Jan 14th - Today in Bitcoin I learned...
How to connect my @ElectrumWallet mobile app to my own node to have a watch only wallet that I can trustlessly and privately over @torproject receive Bitcoin with no xPub leaks.
Thanks to someone in the @mynodebtc telegram group