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@citizen_web3
Citizen Web3
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Hey yo anon. Check out our updated staking page: https://t.co/SeYtuY0dV1
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@citizen_web3
Citizen Web3
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This was very cool. Thanks all who tuned in. Thoughts and more to follow soon 🙏 https://t.co/FfZjr7lshJ
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@citizen_web3
Citizen Web3
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10/ What You Can Do Right Now? Use E2EE apps (Signal, Element, ETC) Enable 2FA with hardware keys VPN + Tor for sensitive traffic Support EFF, FSF, Access Now Listen to the Freedom Forum The race never ends...
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Citizen Web3
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9/ Endgame Scenarios Total State Victory: Ubiquitous backdoored devices, social credit on steroids, no anonymity. Total Citizen Victory: Universal strong crypto, decentralized everything, governments reduced to traffic cams. Reality? A grinding stalemate where both sides keep
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Citizen Web3
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8/ Asymmetric Warfare: The Chilling Effect Even if you beat the tech, self-censorship wins. Knowing your journalist source, therapist texts, or political DMs might leak makes people shut up. Democracy runs on private spaces; chill those and you chill speech.
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Citizen Web3
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7/ The Encryption Ban Gambit Politicians float outright E2EE bans (US EARN IT Act drafts, EU Chat Control). Math doesn’t care about laws and banning strong crypto just pushes it underground or offshore. Remember the 1990s Crypto Wars? Phil Zimmermann won; the code became speech.
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Citizen Web3
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6/ Government Escalation: Device Compromise Pegasus spyware infects with a missed WhatsApp call. FBI’s CIPAV, China’s Golden Shield app mandates. States want endpoint control. “Lawful intercept” modules baked into 5G standards (ETSI TS 103 221) show the fight is moving to
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Citizen Web3
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5/ Citizen Escalation: Zero-Knowledge & Decentralization Response? Zero-knowledge proofs (Monero, Signal’s sealed sender), decentralized ID (Self-Sovereign Identity on blockchain), and mesh networks (Briar, Session). When the pipe itself can’t be trusted, route around it.
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Citizen Web3
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4/ Counterpunch #2: Mass Surveillance Infrastructure NSA’s PRISM, GCHQ’s Tempora, China’s Great Firewall, India’s CMS… billions of dollars in fiber taps, IMSI catchers, and AI sifting. Your metadata (who, when, where) paints a richer portrait than content ever could. XKeyscore
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Citizen Web3
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3/ Government Counterpunch #1: Lawful Access Demands Australia’s 2018 Assistance and Access Act, UK Investigatory Powers Act, EU’s eEvidence proposal all force companies to build backdoors or hand over keys. “If you’ve got nothing to hide…” rings hollow when the same laws enable
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Citizen Web3
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2/ The Citizen Side: Encryption Goes Mainstream In the 90s, PGP was nerd territory. Today, Signal, WhatsApp E2EE, and Tor are in billions of pockets. ProtonMail, VPNs, and hardware keys like Yubico let anyone run their own mini Fortress of Solitude. Open-source code means the
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Citizen Web3
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Privacy as an Arms Race: Governments vs. Personal Freedoms 1/ Privacy isn’t a static right, it’s a battlefield. Every advance in personal encryption is met with a government countermeasures . Think of it like an arms race. We arm ourselves with tools and the State responds.
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@citizen_web3
Citizen Web3
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Taking Back Control @sethforprivacy ... #PrivacyMatters
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@DarkFiSquad
DarkFi Squad
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CT used to debate Austrian economics vs Keynesianism. Cypherpunk ethics. Digital sovereignty etc. Now you’re crying in a casino.
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@citizen_web3
Citizen Web3
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More fun facts for the X influencers: you can send your BTC using radio waves
@pete_rizzo_
The Bitcoin Historian
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JUST IN: YOU CAN NOW SEND #BITCOIN OFFLINE BETWEEN 2 SMARTPHONES USING NFC THE FUTURE IS HERE 🔥
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@aztecnetwork
Aztec
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Tomorrow.
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@DarkFiSquad
DarkFi Squad
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Everyone's chasing the next 100x shitcoin while governments are building financial panopticons. CBDC rollouts. Biometric verification. Transaction monitoring. Social credit integration. DarkFi isn't a speculative bet. It's infrastructure and user-facing products. Let there be
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Citizen Web3
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Sorry for never selling ourselves, our views, opinions or values
@unstoppablebyhs
Unstoppable | Private Wallet
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We’d Like to Apologize… to Absolutely Nobody. ⚡️ We: Never mixed in KYC “options.” Never added privacy-eroding features. Never played nice with exchanges. Never spied on our users. Never added banana features. Never took VC money. Never hid our code. We built freedom tech!
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Citizen Web3
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Nice. We need more of this in crypto
@cartesiproject
Cartesi
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we're sorry
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Citizen Web3
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Fun fact... There were no seeds around that time
@StarPlatinum_
StarPlatinum
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Fun fact: 24 words in the right order can unlock 111 billion. That fact should scare you.
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Citizen Web3
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We need some of you for the privacy forum people
@web3privacy
Web3Privacy Now
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40+ speakers will activate @ethereum privacy stack 🔥 Expect diverse privacy 💸 Transactional privacy 📱Application privacy 🏦Institutional privacy 📢Public Goods & Privacy 👯Community role in privacy Web: https://t.co/HFDknD0z3A Tickets: https://t.co/OArML7l3hW
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