Grafton

It do be like that

Hello 911

I’m a meme account now I guess 😂

I just beat the NORMIE DUEL challenge on

and got 21 sats ⚡

Can you beat it?

https://game.chainduel.net/

Sign in with Nostr → pick a challenge → beat the bot → collect sats.

#markedsafewithAircon

This is fine

The seagulls in Oslo are massive.

I absolutely love where we are when it comes to the tinkering and software development

I got a new MacBook yesterday.

It’s the first time I’ve had my own laptop in years.

So while setting it up installing apps I realized there want an app that did what I wanted for free.

So last night me and Claude built

Built MenuClock because I wanted a Mac menu bar clock that’s actually useful instead of just decorative. It gives you multiple world clocks for teammates and friends across different time zones, makes it way easier to figure out meeting times, quickly see who’s likely awake/available, and check the weather without digging through apps and tabs. Basically: one clean little menu bar app for staying in sync with people scattered all over the world. If that sounds useful, grab it here and

check it out: https://github.com/satsdisco/MenuClock/releases/latest

And if there’s something you’d like for me to add, just open an issue or tag me here

What kinda slop do you produce?

I promise this is not a meme account now

I can’t stop making stuff no one asked for.

Where would we be without the New York Times helping us figure out this image is AI

Anybody here got some experience with developing for logging into nostr with signers like amber or aegis. I’m finding it difficult to get it to work with primal remote login or others.

Just can’t seem to solve it gracefully. Anybody can help or connect me someone I’d like to chat.

My parents just cut down an old oak tree. What should they do with all this wood? Best answer gets 1000 sats 😂

I honestly had so much fun making it and learned so much about nostr.

Would love to hear any feedback 🙏

I wrote another article on why I think we’re so back. Why I’m optimistic and freedom in all forms rules.

I also built and developed a new way to write articles and publish on nostr.

I’ve never had so much fun playing with my bitcoins.

Do you remember the first thing you ever saw on the internet?

I do. It was an image of a1995 Honda CR 125cc dirtbike.

https://samizdat.press/a/naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzq3e8d6ck8lz5kdenjv9ttn74l22xs7se2wr34pe66naway0g5hecqy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hszrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqq8rxwfjk2er0d5kkjuedvykkyetpw46xjen4dskhg6rfdens0h6szt

Do you think this is what makes them so delicious?

You will eat the slop

I feel you Lisa

What’s the best private web of trust in existence?

Public Keys are very public it exposes your web of trust how do you solve that I don’t want people to know everyone that I know?

I’m playing around with flotilla it’s pretty cool I set up my own server and relay.

But having some issues with UI anyone else using flotilla?

We should bring back film cameras.

All these AI images are getting too good.

I crave physical analog things.

Made with ai ❌ Taken with Kodak ✅

So be honest who you riding with?

Is your MacBook acting up having a difficult Claude code session?

Someone made corporal punishment possible

https://github.com/taigrr/spank

Check this out there’s a company making accessible hardware to stop unwanted recording of you

Heck out their site https://www.deveillance.com/

The best part of the day are evening walks in the sunshine with this guy

So now that anyone can write software…. The real game is making freedom tech hardware.

The age of iPhones and android wont matter much longer. Just give me hardware and let me build my own OS.

💯

Look how convenient they’re making it for us now

🥸

Everyone needs to read this please share it

😂

Looking towards St. Vitus cathedral. Prague, February 26, 2026.

What a year!

So how do I write an article on nostr? Do I just publish it as a note, I don’t see any special option

Eat more beef

I usually hate getting stuck behind vans like this

ah shit, here we go again

4 days ago a company called IDMerit left their database with 1 billion personal records open on the internet with no password. What is IDMerit? A KYC verification company. One designed and promised to keep your data safe.

Welcome to the dawn of AI powered identity verification. Cybernews researchers found a totally unprotected MongoDB database in November last year. With.. get this.. 1 terabyte. 3 billion records with 1 billion containing sensitive personal info across 26 countries.

So what sensitive information? Pretty much exactly what you would want to protect. Full legal names, home addresses and postal codes, dates of birth, national identification numbers, phone numbers, email addresses and telecom metadata.

The USA had 204 million records exposed. Mexico 120+ million. Philippines 72 million. Germany 61 million. Italy and France 53 million each. So is it any wonder kidnappings are on the rise in France? Hell the French tax office is implicated in exposing private data.

This wasn't some sophisticated hack. Not some zero day exploit. It was literally a database being left open on the internet with no password. The companies that are supposed to protect your identity can't even protect their own database.

So yeah, what we get here is not another isolated case. This is a pattern. Let's look at what happened in just the last couple years alone. Coinbase May 2025: employees in India bribed to steal KYC data. 69,461 users. Government IDs, social security numbers, bank details, transaction histories. Cost: $180-400 million.

Transak 2024: 92,554 users' government IDs and selfies stolen from one phished employee. Signzy 2024: major KYC provider breached, customer data from banks appeared on the dark web. NCX Exchange 2025: 2 million records leaked including KYC documents.

Indian Financial Institutions 2025: 500GB of KYC data exposed through a bad storage bucket. UK 2025: a GB of selfies, IDs, passports, and driver's licenses dumped on dark web forums. Just sitting there for the taking.

Then like just a few days ago completely separate from the IDMerit leak, at Abu Dhabi Finance Week more than 700 passport scans and government ID cards were found unprotected on a cloud server. These were world leaders, politicians, and major business figures.

So yeah, you're talking about billions of records in the last year alone that have been leaked. These are just the ones that have been reported so far. It's really not if your KYC data gets leaked. It's when.

Like every company out there that collects your passport is making a bet. Of course they don't WANT your data to get leaked. But they are just betting. Betting an employee won't be bribed. Their database won't get hacked. But the odds are against them. Every. Single. Time.

But you know what? You can't change your passport number. You can't change your face. You can't change your date of birth. When a password leaks you can change it, but when your ID leaks you're compromised for the rest of your life.

In 2024 finance overtook healthcare as the most hacked industry. 30% of breaches now involve third-party vendors. What did Satoshi say about trusted third parties? Well yeah... here we are. Now owning bitcoin can be dangerous if your data falls into the wrong hands.

Last week I shared that KYC catches less than 0.1% of criminal money and costs 100x more than it recovers. I showed you how it can be used as a weapon against protesters, political opponents, and legal businesses. Well look at this. It couldn't be more clear.

The data isn't safe and it was never going to be safe. 1 billion records sitting on the internet with no password just again proves that. But this is what I just don't understand. We have the evidence. We have years of it. Breach after breach after breach.

For a lot of you it starts with your inbox full of phishing emails. Your passport on the dark web. But for some it starts with being dragged into the back of someone's kidnapper van with your pinkie finger removed.

What's even more bonkers is that today as I'm writing this, PayPal has disclosed that for more than six months a code error exposed customers' Social Security numbers, names, addresses, dates of birth. How did they respond? Sorry, here is some free credit monitoring.

In 2023 the Swedish police raided Mullvad VPN with a search warrant. They wanted user data. They left with nothing because there was nothing to give. The answer is never better security. It's never stronger passwords. The answer is to never collect data in the first place.

So yeah, if you're reading this and you're thinking like well what can we do at this point? Is it too late? No, it's not too late. Stop using services that require a passport to buy bitcoin. It's that simple.

Use something like

its totally free, completely open source, lets you buy and sell bitcoin peer to peer with no KYC, no ID, no database, no freaking honeypot. Using Vexl and trading with cash means your transaction history and ID won't end up in the next open database. Download it at vex.it

Genuinely if you think this was useful help me scream it. I think people just don't know this is happening. They hand over their data and they don't hear about this before it's too late. Protect yourself. No one else will.

Sources: IDMerit breach: https://cybernews.com/security/global-data-leak-exposes-billion-records/

Coinbase breach: https://www.coinbase.com/blog/protecting-our-customers-standing-up-to-extortionists

Abu Dhabi leak: https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/data-leak-abu-dhabi-finance-summit-exposes-global-figures-ft-reports-2026-02-17/

PayPal breach: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/paypal-discloses-data-breach-exposing-users-personal-information/

KYC breach tracker: https://github.com/etheralpha/kycisbad

Vexl: https://vexl.it/