🕵️‍♂️ The $330M Bitcoin Heist That Pumped Monero 50%+

An elderly citizen lost 3,520 BTC in one of the biggest crypto heists ever - Hakeem breaks it down in this video from #TBOT Show Episode 3.

The scammer? Allegedly a Somali operator running a UK call center.

Within 12 hours they:
→ Peeled the BTC off to dozens of exchanges
→ Swapped half of it to Monero, pumping the price 50%

But when I dug into the wallet myself, things didn’t add up. The BTC was moving *before* the reported hack. Custodial exchange behavior? Or something deeper?

Takeaways:
– Don’t trust CEXs
– Hold Monero for private deals
– Use non-custodial tools like StackWallet
-Check out Unstoppable Swap for BTC/XMR swaps

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📱De-Googled Phones Staying Alive

Google removed device trees from Android 16, making it harder for GrapheneOS and others to build private, de-Googled phones. These trees were crucial for adapting Android to real devices—now developers must reverse engineer it all.

GrapheneOS is biting the bullet to make this happen despite this challenge. I donated $5,000 to support their work and encourage you to do the same: grapheneos.org/donate

There are few ways to use a phone privately today—and Google is making it harder. The future of private Android depends on supporting open-source alternatives.

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⚡️TBOT Show Episode #6: Big Tech Power Plays, WiFi Sense Tingling, ICE See You, Going Back IRL

Welcome back to the TBOT Show (now with a little positive news 💘)

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This week’s stories:

Big Tech Makes Power Plays – Data centers across the US are securing first dibs on energy, consuming massive power and destroying the environment. Learn which companies and where.

Is Your WiFi sense tingling? – Comcast’s new “WiFi-Motion” tracks movement in your home using WiFi signals. It can literally see through walls.

ICE See You – An app that tracks ICE gains 240K users. Now the dev is under political fire. Legal? Moral? You decide.

Going back IRL – Youth in the Netherlands are ditching phones for “Offline Club.” The digital detox movement is here.

Solution – Convert units easily with ConverterNOW, a FOSS app on F-Droid.

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Since the latest cover up a lot of people who still believed in the political process and hoped that Trump would do the right thing now realize those hopes were misplaced. It's easy for those of us who saw through the Trump deception to just say "I told you so", but continuing to propagate tribalist rhetoric will not actuate solutions. If we want to create a better future it is imperative for us to be solutions oriented, and that means not relying on politics and fake political saviors. When people who previously believed in the political process realize that it's all a rigged game what they need more than anything is to know that there is a way out. Regardless as to whether or not they fall on the right or left side of the false dichotomy what's important is waking people up from the falsehoods of statist ideology and tantamount to that is reaching out with an olive branch to provide REAL solutions.

So, you're just realizing that politics is a sham, it's all theater, your votes don't count, and this entire system is deliberately built and rigged against the people — so what do we do? What's the solution? The answer is parallel societies. The answer is community cooperation, decentralized systems, independent networks, and individual sovereignty. There's already an entire movement and network of people dedicated to promoting just that. It is called EXIT AND BUILD.

With the #ExitAndBuild strategy, we promote realistic solutions outside of fake politics that prioritize the individual liberty of everyone, including tools that teach people how to enhance their privacy and self-sustainability in ways that help them opt out from dystopian technocratic agendas. And we do it for free, because liberty should not come at a charge.

To learn more about the Exit And Build strategy I will link below a seminar from my colleague Derrick Broze, the founder of The Conscious Resistance Network, where he speaks in depth about the real viable solutions we need to create a better future. I will also provide a link to the #Solutions tab on The Conscious Resistance website that features all of our articles and videos discussing further solutionary techniques.

A better world is possible if we embrace the voluntaryist philosophy, take accountability to Be Your Own Leader, and take the initiative to be the change we want to see.

EXIT AND BUILD —
https://theconsciousresistance.com/exit-and-build-2030/

MORE SOLUTIONS —
https://theconsciousresistance.com/solutions/

Today, the European Media Freedom Act fully applies in all EU countries. I wrote about this legislation in 2023, highlighting that the EMFA has little to do with "media freedom" and everything to do with control and censorship!

https://childrenshealthdefense.eu/eu-affairs/centralizing-information-control-inside-the-eus-latest-proposal-to-censor-the-media/

⚡️New Leak Uncovers AI-Assisted Mass Censorship on Facebook

Whistleblowers say Meta’s takedown system was hijacked. After Oct 7, the Israeli gov flooded Meta with thousands of post reports. Approved 94% of the time, this “poisoned” the AI into auto-censoring Palestine-related content worldwide.

ICW estimates 38.8M posts were removed not for violations, but because the model was over-trained on biased reports.

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⚡️Resurgence of FreePhones (Free Payphones)

In rural Vermont, electrical engineer Patrick Schlott built 3 “FreePhones” after noticing poor cell service. His company RandTel converts plain old telephone service into digital signals and broadcasts them online, allowing anyone to make a call.

Inspired by PhilTel (Philly) and Futel (Portland), these community phones don’t surveil users. Some even use VPNs.

Futel explains: “Denial of telephony services has long been a tactic against undesirable populations… we will help establish a new era of communication.”

At TBOT & Above Phone, we align with this vision. Like FreePhones, our internet numbers don’t require personal info, aren’t tied to towers, and let you run multiple numbers on one device. Best of all, this internet phone number is built right into the Above Suite—a complete solution for private, flexible communication.

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Not *all* Americans, but the programming is showing...🌀🧠 I wonder if the left and/or right will approve of this free speech.

Additional thoughts and nuance on Kirk’s assassination are available on the Substack version of this video (https://pleasuretoburn.substack.com/p/why-americans-are-losing-it-over)

Everything you need to know about the Roger Ver case ⤵️

https://solari.com/the-prosecution-of-roger-ver-a-lawfare-case-study/

You’re not allowed to talk about it, but…💀

NEW: Chinese Lessons - Part I: The darkest part of China's night, before the dawn of prosperity

Would a government kill 55 million of its own people? -- Eugenics update on China

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Catherine Austin Fitts and I discuss the Roger Ver case and my report in Solari detailing the various intricacies of the case. We also discuss the weaponization of the legal system.

(From August) https://solari.com/the-prosecution-of-roger-ver-a-lawfare-case-study-with-taylor-hudak/

Friends,

We regret to inform our community that the Freedom Cells website (FreedomCells.org) is not currently active.

In truth, it has not been functioning correctly for some months. We apologize for that and for any inconvenience.

Our goal is always to help foster local connections in hopes of building a decentralized network of freedom communities. We have succeeded in that, but we know we can do better.

At the same time, at the end of the day, the Freedom Cell Network is not on a website or even on Telegram. It is in the real world. It is in each of you who go out and connect with like minds in your area and start focusing on solutions for building independence and autonomy.

Still, we recognize that the website has been a useful tool and we want to have it available for those who are struggling to find people in their area.

We are putting together a plan to rebuild the website and do it in a way that is more secure, more private, and more decentralized than ever.

Please stay tuned and keep building.

- Derrick Broze

Dear Abovians,

The right to ‘identification’ has been presented to us as an essential human right; Digital ID programs operational in 90% of countries. After months of researching, we conclude that Digital ID is the cornerstone of the next generation of surveillance.

We are taking a stand by publishing our Digital ID report, raising awareness and presenting solutions to help others avoid Digital ID.

These systems have been planned for decades, they reach the farthest corners of the globe; the goal is to consolidate every human being under Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) which combines identity, payments, and information exchange.

This is a global issue, and there is a lesson to be learned from every region.

North America surprises its residents with surprise biometric ID renewals. Europe and the U.K aspire for universal interoperability. South America, the Middle East, and Africa show us that developing countries receive hundreds of millions in funding for documenting their population. In Asia, we see the bleak future of Life Under Digital ID, where people live under a Digital Caste System. Rights can be taken away with a single misstep or even completely at random.

Digital ID is the first and most important component of DPI. Once enough people enroll in Digital ID, the subsequent components are easily layered ontop.

You give up your rights as soon as you enroll your legal identity with your biometrics.

Our new report will give you knowlege to prepare for the years ahead, and emphasizes that community is the answer. We have a narrow window of a few years to build resilient people-first networks to provide for ourselves and each other.

Download the report here.

Wherever you reside on earth — we are united in this challenge.

— Hakeem Anwar, Founder of Above and #TBOT

If you want change, stop asking tyrants to be nicer. Stop yelling at the sky.

Start refusing to comply.
Start building what replaces them.

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