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Bring a modern, monthly-patched Android to the best screen in tech – a step-by-step guide to flashing the community LineageOS 23.2 build on a stock Daylight DC-1.

How E-Cash Risks Bitcoiners’ Sovereignty.

Zcash: jack of all trades, master of none.

I’ve been a tech enthusiast since I was a child, and it’s been a very long time since I’ve been this enamored with a piece of technology.

BIP 353: Making payments social, one DNS entry at a time.

I’ve taken the time to collect, rebut, and give resources for each of the most common FUD points against covenants using CTV.

tl;dr - Focus on how we can make Bitcoin better via covenants.

In this guide I will lay out the detailed steps for how you can get started running your own Bitcoin mining pool.

I’m not a Bitcoin maximalist.

In this blog post form of a presentation, we dive into what circular and parallel economies are, why they’re important, and what tools are being paired with Monero to enable them.

If you’ve enjoyed my work and would like to give me a little more time to dedicate to it, I’ll happily accept any Monero or Bitcoin you’d like to throw my way.

A list of Bitcoin proposals and ideas to improve privacy that are still a work in progress, were abandoned or never implemented, or failed to make a noticeable impact.

I’ve spun up a BTCPay Server instance for my own use and built a guide out of the process, so hopefully this will aid others wanting to accept Monero at their stores, for donations, or any other use-case get up and rolling with BTCPay Server!

In this post I’ll dive into the key features of Plausible’s self-hosted statistics tool, the key datapoints you should be aware of, and how to disable or block it if desired.

Dive into a more privacy-preserving mobile OS with CalyxOS, and get there using this guide for installing CalyxOS from Linux

An extensive post detailing a recommendation of the order of steps I would take if starting from scratch in my privacy journey today.

In this post I’ll attempt to walk through the most common FUD around Monero (both valid and invalid) and help to clarify many of these points.

This guide will aim to make it very simple and straightforward for you to start and run your own Monero node and p2pool instance for decentralized and fee-less mining of Monero.

This guide will walk you through how to act as a provider (also known as a seller or “automatic swap backend” (ASB)).

It’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally here.

Welcome to Opt Out, where I sit down with passionate people to learn why privacy matters to them, the tools and techniques they’ve found and leveraged, and where we encourage and inspire others towards personal privacy and data-sovereignty.

This will be a simple guide to get you started with a few more advanced options/recommendations at the end, but hopefully will help to simplify the process for those of you wanting to get started mining Monero!

As a way to celebrate and show the growth that has happened for Monero across the past year on this, the 7th anniversary of the Monero project, I wanted to take a snapshot of statistics and social media posts to highlight this growth.

This post gives some projects and organizations that I personally love and that accept donations in Monero.

Where the pipe-dream of Bitcoin’s real-world fungibility goes to die.

How and why I made the jump to CalyxOS for my mobile operating system.

Community drama, legal battles, slandering, and harassment takes away from the important mission of any OS like this: privacy and security.

This post is an attempt to help clarify and highlight ways that people from all backgrounds and walks of life who love Monero can jump in and help out using their unique skill-sets.

In this short post I’ll detail how to run a Monero node using systemd scripts on a Linux server, the most common OS for virtual private servers (VPS).

In this short post I’ll detail how to easily run a Monero node using Docker on a Linux server, the most common OS for virtual private servers (VPS).

In this blog post I’ll break down a rough timeline of events, a short list of the known attacks that have happened or are still occurring, and what users can do to mitigate these attacks and others like them in the future.

In this post I’ll detail how I spun up my blog specifically and how you can do the same easily.

About Me My name is Seth, and I’ve started this blog to give me a space for longer-form analysis, thought, and content.

I take a look at how each of the three most recognized privacy approaches in cryptocurrency stack up in size, cost (in both money and time!)