Love GNU software stack, but they’re about 15 years too late on this one.
Bitcoin can:
Transfer internationally or across the room
Confirms in less than one second (with Bitcoin lightning, otherwise can take a few minutes but still much faster than most banks, especially internationally)
Pay less than one cent in fees per transfer (with Bitcoin lightning, otherwise cents to dollars on main chain)
No middlemen
Operate with 24/7 uptime, 365 days a year without single protocol breaking hack because it’s some of the most widely reviewed code on the planet.
Entirely open source software and protocol
Is available to anybody with a network connection and a cell phone regardless of whether or not they have access to safe, stable banking infrastructure, which billions, with a B, do not. No barriers, no credit requirements, no nonsense.
Has been doing this for 15 years running.
Can’t be printed at the whim of politicians and governments. Has a fixed supply which means as the Bitcoin economy grows, all who have Bitcoin benefit, not just those in charge of monetary policy and whomever they decide to pass the benefits onto. Nobody can split your BTC in half and give the other half to somebody else, which is exactly how supply inflation works.
Using <1% of global electricity, often from renewable resources as renewable and over-produced electricity tends to be the cheapest
Each year it gets easier to use, gains more users, increases market cap, and generally adoption continues to grow.
In my experience. I didn’t like Murena. I used it for a while (I think 6 months. I don’t remember well). And yes, it’s “ok”, but the interface is a bit broken.
The good thing is that there is a lot of software you can use there: OnlyOffice, NextCloud (much of their software), Searx and even Gitlab are there.
Another thing: if you like SMPT and IMAP, the Murena account offers you this. I prefer Proton, but it a good option too.
I use Wireguard VPN with DuckDNS. No need to buy a domain, I just made a name for local use like nextcloud.rudee.com. Even though domains are not expensive (can be 10-20$ a year, but there are also free otions like rudeenextcloud.duckdns.org). You might need reversy proxy like Nginx Proxy Manager unless you want to type IP:PORT
Buku with extension Bukubrow is already good for me to have offline bookmark manager, flexibel function on CLI or browser. With Archivebox combination in my Librewolf reading my archive website.
For any client that does not support ListenBrainz but does support Last.FM you can use multi-scrobbler to chain off of it. github.com/FoxxMD/multi-scrobbler
A GIST with good instructions/how to. Follow the steps until #8, but don’t paste in the following code block; instead scroll down a bit until you see Alternatively, this code can be used to save your tokens as a JSON file, and then paste in THAT code block. That should get you a json file with TOTP credentials ready to import to another FOSS authenticator. I like Aegis and it can import that json file from step 1.
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