Guy Van Sanden

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2026-02-05 19:46:36 UTC

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In Belgium you may have to. We have unrealized capital gains taxes. But not losses. So if your bitcoin were up 31/12 you pay on those hypothetical profit even if you sell them later at a loss.

2026-01-16 11:39:02 UTC

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Is it sure this will happen? Why keep the brand a secret?

2025-12-28 20:49:49 UTC

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I think @keychat had a better nostr based solution but @SimpleX remains my best bet overall. But fully agree with centralization making Signal a liability

2025-12-27 11:35:14 UTC

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This was mind blowing. I discovered it about a decade ago.
I had cancer over 30 years ago and I've come to the conclusion that it was entirely avoidable and that my so called treatment was more harmful then the disease.

2025-12-14 09:00:49 UTC

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Moral of the story, don't put your data in things you don't control and you don't actually own devices locked into cloud crap

2025-11-14 21:39:23 UTC

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Except it won't protect from the worst privacy invader, Google itself.
GrapheneOS does, thank you for that

2025-11-13 05:55:09 UTC

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Respect!

2025-11-11 19:13:12 UTC

We got married yesterday ❤️❤️❤️ https://image.nostr.build/fc8f008487ffcf66ea821631a1549d628ae78c8a6eb609ff690e677663a6d6a6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fc8f008487ffcf66ea821631a1549d628ae78c8a6eb609ff690e677663a6d6a6.jpg

2025-11-11 16:31:58 UTC

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I am a bitcoiner. Though I don't travel to El Salvador. I think lightening is a bad solution and an unnecessary admission that Bitcoin doesn't scale.

2025-11-10 09:19:44 UTC

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What is the citadel?

2025-11-10 09:18:37 UTC

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Look, it is back
I can no longer see your mention, only older ones are there. Sometimes it goes even further back. I see the recent ones fine in other clients https://image.nostr.build/17435cf9f3a2f1db22713405cb621dc27d12925fab2b3d0707fcc1a4a3c7ea00.jpg

2025-11-10 07:36:26 UTC

I'm getting married today ❤️

2025-11-10 07:34:31 UTC

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Besides draining battery I have this weird issue where the bell icon doesn't always show my recent notifications. They come back for a while when a new one appears.

2025-11-09 07:51:48 UTC

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Belgium already has these, businesses can't accept large cash payments and if you're caught anywhere carrying over 10k, you are arrested and the money is confiscated.

2025-11-04 06:31:17 UTC

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It's not even factory farming, don't drink UHT milk. It's toxic. I get raw milk from a local farm where the cows are mostly outside.

2025-11-03 07:52:04 UTC

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There is a huge difference in home made vs factory made. The later should be avoided (not only for this).
But it remains that like fruit juice, there are problems consuming more soy then you could by eating the plant. More so for men then for women (women with disrupted female hormones benefit from it, while men should avoid it)
My whole argument applies to boiled UHT milk as well.

2025-11-02 09:00:58 UTC

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It may not be normal to drink milk as an adult. It's far less natural to process plants (except coconuts), often chemically, the add more chemicals to achieve the ultimate goal of resembling actual milk.

2025-11-02 08:55:38 UTC

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Belgium is exactly like that. You can put cups next to the machine but it had to say prohibited for consumption without boiling....

2025-11-01 18:15:49 UTC

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The thing is she may be right for centralized messengers. Any decentralized messenger can scale out without hyperscalers. Currently my top pick is @nprofile…jglt

2025-10-10 18:49:48 UTC

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Nice! Thank you

2025-10-10 07:12:00 UTC

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What kind of relay are you building?

2025-10-10 07:11:04 UTC

Hi @nprofile…4f77 @nprofile…dqzv @nprofile…vdwq, I see no new commits to ditto for months. Is it stille Boeing devloped or did I miss something?

2025-09-28 18:38:41 UTC

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It asks for a account. Probably for a Wallet. https://image.nostr.build/3a4c37cc88e816684497bdaa7dccf31d2093d6d5eefea1436b5020cda9254629.jpg

2025-09-28 18:34:55 UTC

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Ah hyperland. Will try it in a VM

2025-09-28 15:37:13 UTC

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What is omarchy

2025-09-28 15:06:54 UTC

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But look and feel is totally different...

2025-09-28 15:03:53 UTC

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Ah, not in Fdroid. But it requires an account. Not amber

2025-09-28 14:59:57 UTC

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I can't find any indication that it is... Also UI is different

2025-09-28 13:13:34 UTC

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I'd like a native app. Amethyst used to work well but it has always drained battery. Nozzle didn't. Ironically, fedilab seems to work about the best if your account lis tied to a ditto server.

2025-09-28 10:10:32 UTC

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Nozzle was the only one that worked really well but it's abandoned

2025-09-28 10:08:00 UTC

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The problem is that there increasingly is a lack of good clients... Amethyst sucks my battery if I forget too kill it and the notifications/mention tab is broken. Most others on Android are abandoned. And there are no good Linux desktop apps at all... 😞

2025-09-27 13:22:46 UTC

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Really like Vanadium but today's internet is not nice without an ad blocker.

2025-09-26 05:30:06 UTC

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Amazing! Thanks

2025-09-21 11:10:27 UTC

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I don't trust Apple (or Google)

2025-09-01 06:20:32 UTC

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Not only that it is not our job. In my country we loose 75-ish% of our income to it and with what's left we have to take care of our families, extended families and beyond.

2025-08-30 09:13:49 UTC

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It doesn't support amber?

2025-08-24 17:46:13 UTC

What happened with @nprofile…gzxw? Latest from github only shows global timeline and jumps constantly, my mentions/replies are gone top.

2025-08-24 07:59:54 UTC

Very happy moving as much away from @nprofile…mtrc to @nprofile…jglt as possible now the battery issues have been fixed (beta still). I love the no SIM card requirement but more so, decentralized servers (I run my own). Try it if you haven't already

2025-08-14 21:22:54 UTC

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Confiscated is a euphemism for stolen

2025-08-12 08:32:46 UTC

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0% vegan, I love that 😁

2025-08-08 10:15:24 UTC

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The EU doing what it was created for. We either get rid of it or it's EUSSR.

2025-08-08 10:13:52 UTC

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Nah, it's about on track with what I predicted. I'm not kidding

2025-08-08 10:07:29 UTC

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It can do almost everything a stock phone can without the spying. So I'd say yes...

2025-08-08 10:04:29 UTC

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The problem is that leaving isn't easy. And it's not just Germany but spreading in the entire EU. If you leave, staying in the EU doesn't solve it

2025-08-07 08:11:18 UTC

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True and that implies that people outside of the bitcoin space are shouting into the void...

2025-08-07 08:09:47 UTC

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I'm used to being early, but again, this is a nice proof of concept. I'll keep an eye on it

2025-08-06 19:19:54 UTC

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It's nowhere near usable yet. Let alone ready for normies.

2025-08-06 19:19:02 UTC

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Most countries have central banks as well. We are battling a parasitic infection.

2025-08-06 19:18:06 UTC

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Yeah, and Europa (where I'm from) as well. They should not exist in free markets, which we mostly don't have either.

2025-08-06 15:42:08 UTC

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Yeah, I too think tarifs are bullshit. Ah, they mentioned bullish. Nah

2025-08-06 12:14:55 UTC

@nprofile…q60d @nprofile…vdwq can I run ditto on another port? I'd like to put two instances on one VM...

2025-08-05 07:33:39 UTC

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That's a bit like contacting a cancer cell yo get rid of the tumor. The EU has proven to be the totalitarian project I predicted. Time to remove it.

2025-08-03 13:16:57 UTC

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Thank you for acknowledging that. I've raised four sons and it's shocking how they are treated and portrayed in our culture.

2025-08-03 11:32:29 UTC

I think I have a near 0 chance of discovering users on #bitchat... Interesting question if it will ever pass outside of bitcoin events.

2025-08-03 07:19:39 UTC

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It is the use case for briar as well, though that isn't exclusively local.

2025-07-28 17:47:57 UTC

Woke doesn't exist they say, yet I keep seeing male characters replaced by women or white characters replace by black everywhere. I have yet to see the reverse. The latest #Foundation, I don't much like the change as a long time Assimov fan

2025-07-27 12:47:49 UTC

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It makes perfect sense. When you live of what you steal from others, whoever opposes your legalized theft is your enemy. Margret Tatcher once said that the problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money, that was very accurate

2025-07-26 07:16:05 UTC

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Yeah, as predicted. The next hoax to grab power

2025-07-20 19:55:30 UTC

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Nostr clients like amethyst transmit a user agent identifying themselves if I am not mistaken. So nostr inherently doesn't prevent detection

2025-07-20 16:35:59 UTC

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Not by default AFAIK, most clients send their user agent. Maybe your clients do fix that.

2025-07-20 09:45:00 UTC

Anyone seen the Russian #Wechat, Max? https://max.ru/ that is why they recently started aggressively blocking all the others including #WhatsApp bit also @nprofile…jglt

2025-07-20 09:38:19 UTC

How do @nprofile…xaht and @nprofile…nhd6 protect against aggressive censorship like Russia implemented against @nprofile…jglt? Deep package inspection to block access on a protocol level instead of blocking servers?

2025-07-15 12:58:56 UTC

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Though I advise against keeping a lot of value in online wallets (which is my issue with Lightning as well), ByBit has this awesome MasterCard linked to their wallet.

2025-07-07 21:02:49 UTC

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None of this is surprising with the EU launching it's campaign to ban encryption. Everything that allows is any privacy must be criminalized

2025-07-07 20:56:37 UTC

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I have heard from credible sources that criminals also use oxygen. Hence oxygen users should be looked upon with suspicion

2025-06-21 18:34:56 UTC

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“If we sell, we betray the promise of independence and privacy,” says the dude who has no default encryption on his platform. And uses the BS(tm) algorithm on 'secret' chats 🙄

2025-06-20 06:53:33 UTC

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If you could arrest all politicians that are in them you could fit the remaining into the original mini and still take a family of 4 with you

2025-06-15 06:39:55 UTC

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Explain the ball point pen then

2025-06-15 06:37:23 UTC

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Yeah, I was surprised too at first. But is was a long time ago. I learned to distrust all pushed narratives

2025-06-13 09:10:03 UTC

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I'm in when you launch

2025-06-11 16:00:01 UTC

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Have you got a link to that post? I can't find it on their mastodon

2025-06-11 15:50:12 UTC

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OMG. Would that not violate licenses of components they use? This is a big one...

2025-05-03 18:51:41 UTC

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I predicted that the EU was a totalitarian project early on. People still seem unaware. Crazy.

2025-05-03 18:49:09 UTC

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I missed something, it was admitted too?

2025-04-27 18:18:35 UTC

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He's right. It's rare in European (Christian) countries. It serves no medical need and desensitizes the tip. It' barbaric and should be banned.

2025-04-26 17:13:34 UTC

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Because I have a family of 7 (so 7 chairs as well)

2025-04-24 08:51:07 UTC

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And open source it...

2025-04-17 14:43:04 UTC

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Mastodon.social is an extreme left hellhole.

2025-04-16 05:52:37 UTC

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I agree with the first claim but only USD will go to zero. Gold is not only money, it is a commodity as well. It will always have value but there can be new gold supplies that fluctuate that value. BTC has a fixed, unchangeable amount, it will shoot up. USD/EUR are scams designed to go to zero.

2025-04-14 14:11:45 UTC

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Is your client testable yet? Looking forward to it...

2025-04-06 19:54:53 UTC

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I actually share his question. My business is also focussed on LinkedIn (B2B). I love Nostr as technology but engaging for business purposes isn't a thing yet

2025-04-04 16:36:47 UTC

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DigiCert, but it isn't free

2025-04-04 14:01:15 UTC

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Nope Smime as well. I have a commercial certificate like that, generated the key and CSR and got a cert back

2025-04-04 11:15:08 UTC

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AFAIK you can't generate your own keys...

2025-04-03 08:16:38 UTC

Been doing intermittent fasting and OMAD for about a week. Ups and downs... But overall it is working out. Now I need to stick with it

2025-04-03 08:15:24 UTC

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You can't escape the EU as in that it is a transitional step in a bigger plan and will be destroyed to build increasingly bigger powerblocks until we're living under one authoritarian world government. The EU or the US are just illusions of autonomy

2025-03-31 18:47:49 UTC

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Yes, me top! Pocket knife for 30 years now

2025-03-31 09:23:13 UTC

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Yeah, I get that and mega chatrooms offer little security anyway. Just a warning to those who want to communicate privately that Signal isn't the solution

2025-03-30 07:30:42 UTC

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I have come to the conclusion that the powers that shouldn't be subtly promote it, yes. Together with Signal's unwillingness to fix security of metadata or drop the phone number requirement, it seems like a trap. I don't think they can read messages though (yet)

2025-03-29 22:11:12 UTC

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You have to wonder why that is the case. We're being played and have been for a very long time

2025-03-29 04:35:36 UTC

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Yes, but hell just take most of your food or throw you in a worse shelter called prison and then charge you for that.

2025-03-27 20:25:48 UTC

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Or... Decentralize

2025-03-25 21:49:51 UTC

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And I don't believe a word of it. We're being played all the time by actors

2025-03-25 20:33:51 UTC

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So?

2025-03-25 09:10:38 UTC

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Content: yes
Metadata: no
And it certainly isn't anonymous

2025-03-24 18:12:27 UTC

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And you will pay for that protection, otherwise they will initiate violence against you. Same business model as the mafia, only on a larger scale

2025-03-21 20:50:42 UTC

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Yeah, the facial recognition is bad. Banning pride events I get. No matter your sexual preference, the indecent behavior has no place in public.

2025-03-16 10:53:32 UTC

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Who?

2025-03-10 21:12:28 UTC

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Rebelbase.social free speech, sister site of rebelbase.site which I founded originally during the pandemic when big tech censored anti-covid measures speech

2025-03-08 07:18:32 UTC

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I like the current GrapheneOS to be very light. Apps on top of it can use nostr as much as possible, so I don't see the advantage of putting it at the base level.