Nextcloud running on @Umbrel ☂️ crashes with every app update. Guess it's ossification for me now.

I first bumped into @NoGood ✌️ at TABConf2024 @TABConf 8 - Oct 12-15, 2026 ATL when I volunteered to help out at the event. He wasn't there. Or if he was, we wasnt introduced. The posters and banner artwork immediately caught my attention. Comic books are always something I've enjoyed, fat as far back as I can remember. And it's almost always the visuals that gets me. I've been away from comics for a while but walking into that room brought it all back to me. It's also not just the style I love about NG, it's the subject matter too. My dad bought a ZX Spectrum 16k machine in the early 80's. You needed to plug in a tube TV and tape deck (software was a cassette tape back then). Growing up with computers, watching them evolve (along side myself) but struggling to get other people to share my fascination was just how it was. My best friend could even switch it on. Building PC's from ordered parts, adding in sound cards and video cards, watching Commodore and Amiga do amazing things that pc's couldn't do (back then), has been a huge part of my childhood and teenage memories. In my adult years it was setting up a raspberry pi to my my first bitcoin node, and btcpayserver, and all the wallet & nostr stuff. No Good brings all that wonder back into one book. (The stickers are a wicked bonus too). Thanks man, the wait was worth it.

We weigh up BIP 110 and Bitcoin spam without pretending anger is a strategy, then zoom out to how narratives shape both protocol fights and geopolitics. We end on hands-on freedom tech, from Start9 and Nostr to self-hosted AI, plus a reminder that most Bitcoin “disasters” start with a basic node check.
• why BIP 110 is framed as a fix by some and a protest by others
• the uncomfortable idea that fees may be the only neutral filter
• how knee-jerk reactions and online behaviour distort technical debates
• Iran, the Strait of Hormuz, and the economic knock-on effects of escalation
• propaganda incentives and “good guy” branding in foreign policy
• South African elections, legitimacy, and the case for smaller governance units
• the Freedom Stack framing: Bitcoin, Nostr, and AI as practical tools
• Start9 experiences: remote access, services, hardware constraints, and experimentation
• privacy trade-offs when using hosted AI versus local models
• troubleshooting a “missing payment” by checking node sync and connectivity
Get yourself a little bit of Bitcoin, get off zero, buy something, move it around from your phone wallet onto somebody else. Just mess around, just get comfortable with it. Take five bucks, ten bucks, something, fifty bucks, something that you're not afraid to lose, and just try something.
@vryfokkenou @Ricki Allardice

https://fountain.fm/episode/SKEc9swfpnQW0Cu9wbDR

The next wave of AI will not only change how we work, it will change what we believe. When deepfakes get plausible, citations can be fabricated, and “evidence” can be manufactured at scale, the real threat becomes an epistemic crisis: a slow collapse of shared reality where even experts struggle to verify what is true. We sit down with freelance journalist Ivo Vegter to talk honestly about that risk, and why the fix is not panic but disciplined source checking, clearer provenance, and a return to careful fact-finding.

https://fountain.fm/episode/TJiFIiQnc9i5WKj5xzWh

We trade jokes and hard truths about stablecoins, surveillance, and why “self-custody” means very different things depending on who holds the off switch. We move from BTC Prague and Europe’s privacy-first Bitcoin culture to South African capital controls, then finish with a hands-on tour of tools like silent payments and Start9 for anyone who wants more real-world sovereignty.

• BTC Prague highlights and why European Bitcoiners feel more cypherpunk
• DAC8 as automated KYC data sharing and why Bull Bitcoin takes it to court
• On-chain spam arguments and why virtue signalling does not fix technical problems
• Rwanda and South Africa regulatory pressure through the lens of property rights
• Why capital controls undermine a free and open society
• Party politics scepticism and why “a saviour” narrative fails
• Silent payments in Sparrow Wallet for better Bitcoin privacy
• Progressive web wallets as a path around app store gatekeepers
• Nostr VPN, decentralised tools and peer-to-peer messaging under censorship
• Start9 OS 0.40, remote access and making self-hosting usable
• Private AI trade-offs, data retention and why cloud convenience has a cost
• Mining centralisation, Stratum V2 and the nation-state angle

If you've got any SATS lying around, please donate to property rightsdefense.org. Send some SATS over to us, please.
@OKIN @Ricki Allardice @vryfokkenou

https://fountain.fm/episode/5qAinf7cQ4JdepKX7DEm

They don’t need to pass a new law to change your life, they can update “regulations” and call it a day. We sit down to unpack South Africa’s draft capital flow regulations from Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank, why the public comment window matters, and why the process feels like it dodges real democratic accountability. @Ricki Allardice @OKIN @vryfokkenou

https://fountain.fm/episode/M5cYVubxgBtN484BApxM

A government can threaten bans, taxes, and capital controls, but what happens when the thing it is trying to control is just code running on a global, decentralised network? We sit down with Jacques “Jabu Jacks” Strydom to get past the noise and talk about Bitcoin in South Africa the way business owners, engineers, and everyday people actually experience it. The conversation starts with identity and lived experience, then quickly lands on a practical question: how do you fit Bitcoin into the real world without turning it into another hype product?

https://fountain.fm/episode/wAik5NAxdplAQ5qO0jkb

The latest monthly roundup episode:
We go deep on what “sovereign computing” looks like when you try it for real, from spinning up a Fedimint federation to self-hosting services that keep working even when platforms or politics turn against you. We then connect local AI, persistent knowledge bases, and geopolitics to one question: do we own our tools or do we rent our future?
@OKIN @vryfokkenou @Ricki Allardice

https://fountain.fm/episode/TZH8CDPw9GF6Hu0fow6r