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Sigge Baskero

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Ex-banker. Now educator, mentor. Freedom, privacy, financial privacy in particular, human rights, stoicism, minimalism

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Tuta @tuta.com · 28/09/2026
🚨🇪🇺 The #ChatControl trilogue starts on Tuesday & the EU Council is trying to pressure Parliament into giving up its opposition. We must stop them once again! 💪🏼 Because no matter the framing, the truth remains the same: There's no backdoor for the good guys only! ➡️ fightchatcontrol.eu
Screenshot from fightchatcontrol website
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 26/09/2026
"PIVX occupies a genuinely unique position in the privacy coin space. No other project combines zero-knowledge proof privacy with proof-of-stake yield in a way that keeps the staked balance hidden." pegasusswap.com/blog/pivx-re... #crypto #Bitcoin #privacy
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PIVX Review 2026: The Privacy Coin That Pays You to Hold It | PegasusSwap
PIVX combines zk-SNARK privacy with proof-of-stake rewards. You can earn staking income while keeping your balance completely private. No other major privacy coin does this.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 22/09/2026
I had a chat with LUMO AI yesterday, about the degrading dedication to the cypherpunk values, that once led to the creation of Bitcoin and later Zcash. Today, the crypto space has mostly been captured ny venture capitalists and greed. But one coin still sticks to those values: PIVX 💜
Screenshot about LUMO AI's honest assessment that PIVX is the best-documented case for maintaining the cypherpunk values today.
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ExamineYourZipper 🌊🇺🇸🦅🇨🇦🍁🇺🇦🌻🇵🇸🍉 @cidbarret85.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
They all knew ahead of time who he is...
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Tuta @tuta.com · 19/09/2026
😡🚨 In July, the European Parliament approved Chat Control 1.0 👉 NOW, On September 29, the negotiations for CHAT CONTROL 2.0 RETURN. Unfortunately, this is a much bigger threat for everybody's #privacy. At Tuta we will continue to SAY NO to Chat Control and fight for our right to privacy ✊❤️
Screenshot taken from fightchatcontrol.eu The EU (still) wants to scan your private messages and photos. 1 member state opposing, 23 member states supporting, 3 member states split.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 18/09/2026
There should not be any doubt who Trump works for. Spoiler alert: it's not the American people.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 13/09/2026
Zcash users aren't happy campers right now. #crypto
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 12/09/2026
New article about our #privacy "PITT is the financial version of the same idea, except there’s no camera on a pole for anyone to see, no obvious physical object to point at, and no way to know it happened to you unless a defense attorney gets lucky in discovery." medium.com/pivx/your-ba...
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Your Bank Account Is the New Probable Cause
First it was your license plate. Now it’s what you spend.
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Tuta @tuta.com · 11/09/2026
"I have nothing to hide." False. You have medical history You have financial behavior You have location patterns You have political views You have relationship data Privacy was never about hiding crimes. It was always about owning your life.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 11/09/2026
Zcash is a corporate VC trap and PIVX is the cypherpunk PoS alternative.
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Jess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Yuuuuup…
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 10/09/2026
"Wherever it becomes technically cheap to monitor some part of ordinary life, something eventually gets built to monitor it, under whatever justification happens to be available that year, and once it’s built, it tends to keep running long after anyone stops asking why." medium.com/pivx/your-ba...
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Your Bank Account Is the New Probable Cause
First it was your license plate. Now it’s what you spend.
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DeFlock @deflock.org · 09/09/2026
“They are not license plate readers anymore; they are people readers at this point.” Matthew Cavedon 👏 www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty-rese... #Flock #DeFlock #Axon #Surveillance #AxonAxoff #fyp #trending
hks.harvard.edu
“Democracy is happening” in the fight over Flock cameras
Scholars look at why citizens are pushing back on the use of automated license plate readers and how communities are weighing tradeoffs between public safety and privacy.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 07/09/2026
Sometimes the herd mentality is keeping you from seeing the obvious. #crypto #PIVX #Zcash #Bitcoin
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Tuta @tuta.com · 07/09/2026
Google's #Gemini AI invasion continues → It wants your biometric data, your selfie, and even your voice. 😡 Now it's adding conversational AI features to Gmail, Docs and Keep. There has never been a better time to #DeGoogle and take back your privacy. ➡️ tuta.com/blog/degoogl...
Screenshot of a Reddit post titled, "Google is adding voice AI to Gmail, Docs, and Keep, whether users like it or not"Screenshot of a Reddit post titled, " You Can Now Recover Your Google Account With a Selfie Video " with an image of a Google service saying "Look at your phone"Screenshot of a Reddit post titled, "This is getting ridiculous" with an image of a Google service saying "Gesture with your hand"
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 07/09/2026
PIVX is a really interesting play. Risky, but -let's be honest- with a much better upside chance than downside risk. Maybe for those who want to take some of your profits from Zcash and invest into the same technology, but without the venture capitalists. Not financial advice. Screenshot from X.
A screenshot from a post on X about the privacy crypto coin PIVX
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 06/09/2026
Privacy isn't dead. PIVX isn't dead, either 💜 Far from it.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 05/09/2026
Feeling like you missed ZEC at $1k? You didn't miss PIVX. Same zk-SNARK shielded tech, still trading at a fraction of the price, still micro-cap. The "missed the bus" feeling usually means you're looking at the wrong bus stop. medium.com/pivx/the-cyp...
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The Cypherpunks Who Aren’t
Zcash’s Founder Now Advises the Wall Street Fund Buying Up His Own Coin
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 05/09/2026
Everyone's queuing to jump into Zcash at these crazy prices. Meanwhile PIVX, fully functional community driven DAO without VC connection but, ongoing development, friendly community sits there at dirt cheap prices.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 04/09/2026
"A publicly traded company, answerable to shareholders and the SEC, has taken the name of a 1990s cryptographic freedom movement and put it on a stock ticker. Not as commentary. As a business strategy." medium.com/pivx/the-cyp... #Zcash #ZEC #cypherpunk #privacy
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The Cypherpunks Who Aren’t
Zcash’s Founder Now Advises the Wall Street Fund Buying Up His Own Coin
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 04/09/2026
Have you tried mask.id yet?
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 03/09/2026
The cypherpunks wanted money with no masters: no trusted third parties, no capture, no gatekeepers. Bitcoin got institutionalized. Zcash has a corporate board. Monero's chained to PoW's energy politics. Who's actually still building what the manifesto asked for? PIVX is.
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MadeInDex 📰 🌎 @madeindex.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🪪 The recent idscan.net (&more?) breach exposed over 153M Driver's Licenses + 10m IDs + 579k Medical Cards mostly from the #US & #Canada. Age verification aka ID verification proponents should really think about how unsafe data is once it's collected en masse. ⬇️⬇️⬇️ Part 1/2 ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #Privacy #News
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 02/09/2026
PIVX stayed close to the values it started with. Zcash fell for capital, just like Bitcoin. If you only read one thing about privacy coins this year, make it this comparison: medium.com/pivx/the-cyp...
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The Cypherpunks Who Aren’t
Zcash’s Founder Now Advises the Wall Street Fund Buying Up His Own Coin
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 02/09/2026
There's a third option nobody talks about: PIVX. Active since 2016, zk-SNARK shielded transactions, Proof-of-Stake, not mining pools. Masternode-governed, not boardroom-governed. Fees burned, not extracted. Micro-cap, unmarketed, and maybe the closest thing left to the original cypherpunk ethos.
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The Lincoln Project @lincolnproject.us · 01/09/2026
Limp, impotent, saggy... and that's just his polls. youtu.be/FhjyO5rVi3E
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NEW LINCOLN PROJECT AD: Weak
YouTube video by The Lincoln Project
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
The richest man owns X. The second and fourth richest men control Google. The third richest man owns The Washington Post. The sixth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. And now the seventh richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?
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Tuta @tuta.com · 31/08/2026
If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this. Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how. Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:
Image of Sundar Pichai and the Gmail logo
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 30/08/2026
The cypherpunks wanted money with no masters: no trusted third parties, no capture, no gatekeepers. Bitcoin got institutionalized. Zcash has a corporate board. Monero's chained to PoW's energy politics. Who's actually still building what the manifesto asked for? PIVX 💜 Graphics credit @xbelial666
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 30/08/2026
New article live: "The gap between PIVX’s quality and PIVX’s price is not evidence that the market hasn’t finished evaluating the project. It’s evidence that the market’s amplification channels are not built to evaluate projects like this one at all." medium.com/pivx/freedom... #privacy #Bitcoin
medium.com
Freedom of Speech, Not Freedom of Reach
On why the best technology doesn’t win the way we think it should
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 30/08/2026
Zcash's founder Zooko Wilcox stepped down from ECC in 2023 and left its board in 2025, specifically to stop being conflated with the project. But in Dec 2025 he joined the Nasdaq company Cypherpunk Technologies accumulating ZEC as an advisor anyway. Is it all fine? medium.com/pivx/the-cyp...
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The Cypherpunks Who Aren’t
Zcash’s Founder Now Advises the Wall Street Fund Buying Up His Own Coin
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 29/08/2026
This sentence in Michael Saylor's pinned X post says it all. Bitcoin is not the people's money anymore. Time to look for alternatives.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 29/08/2026
Every time I watch Simon Dixon's videos, I become so much more aware of what's actually happening out there. He has a great way to explain the big picture, while too many useful idiots are stuck in the narratives around left vs right, capitalism vs communism. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSfx...
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Genocide-as-a-Service (GAAS): The Business Model Nobody Wants To Talk About
YouTube video by Simon Dixon
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 29/08/2026
There's a company trading on Nasdaq called "Cypherpunk Technologies." It's not commentary. It's a business strategy for accumulating the privacy coin whose whole ethos was never needing anyone's permission. See what happened to that ethos: medium.com/pivx/the-cyp... #Bitcoin #Zcash #privacy
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The Cypherpunks Who Aren’t
Zcash’s Founder Now Advises the Wall Street Fund Buying Up His Own Coin
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 29/08/2026
Zcash has been taken over and has abandoned the cypherpunk values completely
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 28/08/2026
The surveillance industry is a key enabler of vast and untold violations of human rights and civil liberties, but people around the world are pushing back against the mass surveillance that is undermining privacy and free expression for everyone. Go to takebackctrl.org to learn more.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 28/08/2026
There's a Nasdaq-listed company called Cypherpunk Technologies (ticker: CYPH), backed by Winklevoss Capital, buying up Zcash as a balance-sheet asset. Zcash's own founder now advises it. Cypherpunks write code. They don't usually end up with a stock ticker. medium.com/pivx/the-cyp... #privacy
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The Cypherpunks Who Aren’t
Zcash’s Founder Now Advises the Wall Street Fund Buying Up His Own Coin
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The Verge @theverge.com · 27/08/2026
Americans have declared war on Flock cameras. They’ve protested them, damaged them, and destroyed them. Flock camera destruction isn’t just popular — in some cases, it has also proven highly effective at getting rid of them. Read more from @janus.bsky.social: www.theverge.com/tech/985155/...
Verge headline: Americans are cheering for vigilantes who take down Flock cameras

Illustration of a Flock camera flanked at the sides by instruments of destruction and/or vandalism
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 28/08/2026
Wishing you and the PIVX community a Happy Friday with a stoic quote: "You have power over your masternode, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Marcus-PIVXelius
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 27/08/2026
Before you write off a privacy coin because the chart looks quiet: check the chain, not the price. Active masternodes. Live staking rewards. Shielded transactions happening right now. Price is noise. Uptime is signal. #PIVX has never stopped running.
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Jameell @jameelweb3.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Exactly. Financial privacy isn’t about hiding anything. It’s simply about having control over who sees your money and transactions.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 26/08/2026
You lock your bathroom door. You don't show strangers your bank balance. You close the blinds at night. None of that means you're hiding something. It means you have boundaries. Financial privacy is the same idea, just applied to money. That's it. That's the whole argument.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 25/08/2026
Just got tipped for my work. 🎭 app.mask.id/tip/2a008672...
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 25/08/2026
"Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction." Quote source: www.activism.net/cypherpunk/m...
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A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
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gtbarry @gtbarry.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
deflock.org An open-source project mapping license plate readers. These systems continuously record your movements without a warrant, probable cause, or even reasonable suspicion. #deflock #flocksafety #alpr #surveillance #privacy
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DeFlock
Find license plate readers (LPRs) near you.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 24/08/2026
Regarding Flock cameras, technology should empower, not compromise, our right to privacy. We can't accept that they take away our right to privacy.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 24/08/2026
"We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any." www.activism.net/cypherpunk/m...
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A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
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Democrat-God @shamballa-warrior.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
His fat waist? While all middle class Americans’ bank account is much smaller.
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 22/08/2026
PIVX, the community driven, self-sustainable privacy cryptocurrency, is 10 years old. The price is low, about as low as it has been 10 years ago. The price is *not* reflecting 10 years of uninterrupted innovation and development. Imagine being able to buy a PIVX masternode for only US$120. Crazy!
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Sigge Baskero @pivx.org · 21/08/2026
Money is supposed to be fungible. One unit is as good as another. Bitcoin isn't, in practice. Exchanges freeze "tainted" coins based on transaction history. Some coins are worth less than others because of where they've been. That's not money, that's a ledger with a credit score.
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