don't use a VPN in the states.

What about canada

correction. don't use a VPN based in the states and don't use servers based in the states.

Yeah keybase is good

I wouldn't use Canada unless for piracy

Lol

I use Iceland

And Switzerland

keybase is sweet. they need to work on the speed of their stuff though. can get bogged down sometimes.

as in actually going there to do your pirating?

i think hong kong is okay too.

And some Eastern European non EU nations

yeah. sends the request to that server and then that server sends the request on your behalf

Russia is good so is belarus

so the place you're getting the otrrent from only sees the VPN server, not you.

I run a bunch of connections chained thru each other

oh okay so you mean don't have your vpn hosted in the US have it hosted in one of those other places

i have heard that isn't as effective as you would think though. i read somewhere multiple connections aren't any more effective than just using one.

although i believe everything i read on the internet.

I ssh into my main box that is in Switzerland

@Gerry yes

Which has a dedicated Ip and I use ssh keys to log in

Then I use that to log into any number of additional ones

Then my Icelandic one which has arguably the best data protection laws anywhere

hows ssh'ing into a server and requesting from there any different than proxying a request through a VPN in Switerland.

Well

Firstly it keeps my Icelandic box super safe

Am I next?

Set rules on the sshd daemon to only allow connections from my home static Ip and my Swiss Ip

@Picassoツ I would hazard a guess that no you are not, I could be wrong.

Then the Icelandic one i installed a hyoervisor and use it as a virtual machine; which has the benefit of acting as a remote PC that I then plug in my thumb drive with TAILS on it and use it that way

If that makes sense

But yeah I take a lot of measures. I only use cold storage for my btc wallets. Single use wallets

well i agree that it's much more secure to do things that way, but does it improve anonymity?

paper wallets?

Yup

damn that's hardcore.

you write that shit down, right? can't trust the printers!

Well I tend not to but BtC anymore really

Yup

No printers