My previous presentation at Linuxfest (2018): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnCXJn2cRf4 Southeast Linuxfest (SELF) website: https://southeastlinuxfest.org/ My proposed talks this year will be: "Private and Sound Global Currency with Free Software" If libre and privacy-respecting software can run a personal computer, can it run a global financial system? How to store and exchange value has been a decades-long puzzle among cypherpunk and FLOSS circles, resulting in many payment processors, ecashes, Bitcoin, Monero, GNU Taler and many other projects. This talk overviews the core issues and solutions, and what hope we can place in free software to secure our privacy and access to sound money. and possibly as well: "Reject Modernity. Return to Web 1.0." The once colorful and chaotic Internet was filtered into a small number convenient social media sites in the early 2000s. While this shift enabled microinteractions like "liking" and commenting and standardized user accounts, nearly all Internet traffic is oligopolized by several "Big Tech" sites are personal websites are now a rarity. This doesn't have to be inevitable. As public perception of social media sites has now soured, tools from faster Internet speeds, to static-site generators, federated software, even old RSS have given us a second chance at an Internet that is easy-to-use, powerful and controlled by the user. My website: https://lukesmith.xyz/ Classical books reprinted by me: https://lindypress.net/ Get all my videos off YouTube: https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/ or Odysee: https://odysee.com/$/invite/@Luke:7 Please donate: https://donate.lukesmith.xyz/ BTC: bc1qw5w6pxsk3aj324tmqrhhpmpfprxcfxe6qhetuv XMR: 48jewbtxe4jU3MnzJFjTs3gVFWh2nRrAMWdUuUd7Ubo375LL4SjLTnMRKBrXburvEh38QSNLrJy3EateykVCypnm6gcT9bh OR affiliate links to things l use: https://www.vultr.com/?ref=8384069-6G Get a VPS and host a website or server for anything else. https://www.epik.com/?affid=we2ro7sa6 Get a cheap and reliable domain name with Epik.