I AM SUPER PUMPED to share this news with all #nostriches here: the #Wyoming legislature today passed a bill prohibiting the compelled disclosure of private keys. It’s short but spectacular—read it below, and you’ll want to move to Wyoming or at least do your business here. This bill is a companion to the bill protecting code as speech, which Wyoming enacted 2 years ago with Christopher Allen’s help (so developers can’t be criminally charged in Wyoming for merely writing code, unless you use it to commit a crime). It’s my little part to help protect you devs when you what you do best. Thank you to all the devs who got us here, and will get us where we’re all going!! 🙏🙏❤️🤠
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Amazing. If I were American I’d be in Wyoming. Such a beautiful state.
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Wyoming continuing to be the Bitcoin beacon 🧡
My private keys are in Wyoming brah! Fuqn beat it.
All you need is one state.
It's why everyone incorporates in Delaware. State protection.
That is wonderful news, seems like you folks are really heading in the right direction in Wyoming.
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this is amazing news!
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I don’t understand legal speak. It’s a foreign fucking language. Am I slow? ELI5 please
Incredible
Sounds great, can you turn off the snow so I can move there?
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How do we go about lobbying other state legislatures to adopt a similar stance. I'm one state south of you in Utah.
Welcome Caitlin!!
Congrats Wyoming! plebs don’t disclose private keys, and since boating accidents are rare in Wyoming, this is helpful!
the fact we are discussing this is nuts!. ''Disclosure of private keys''
Great Job!.
Hi Caitlin, I’m writing a research paper on the legal nature of Bitcoin which will be published this fall in a very important and very visible in honorem volume in my country. I plan on writing about the laws enacted in Wyoming and would very much appreciate if you could tip me off in terms of US relevant case law and regulatory docs should you find the time to help. Thank you so much and congrats on all your achievements in the space!
One step of the time.
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Great news and really happy you join Nostr. Are you coming to Nostrica? I’d love to meet you in person
Well done! 👏
Thanks for the update!
That's a significant step which shouldn't be underestimated! The freedom from state coercion when dealing with any kind of freedom of speech is so important because it is the foundation of Western societies and culture. In my eyes this the trajectory that Jordan B. Peterson has been pursuing over the course of the last years that no state should be allowed to force you to use a certain type of interpretation of the world. Similarly no state should be allowed to force you to refrain from using a certain type of money!
Just want to say on Nostr that you are doing amazing work for so many of us in this space. Sending strength to the warrior queen 💪
Excellent work!
I don't understand lawyer just plain English 🤣
I am not getting the "unless" part
It means this bill has no teeth and just a psyop
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Fantastic! Only question, do I need to bring my own Cowboy Hat or is one provided when I get there!?! 🤠🐮
Based.
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welcome!
It is sad that this has to be explicitly codified, but this is an important step towards protecting civil liberties. Thank you for your work, Caitlin.
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As a person living in Wyoming and brand new to the Nostr space... This makes me happy. Setting up some relays as we speak. Nostr on you Nostr Animals. ⚡💜⚡
Wyoming is the place to be! DM me if you want to be added to the Wyoming Bitcoiners chat. We just met up in Thermopolis, and are planning another statewide meetup for May.
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Holy crap that’s awesome.
Niceeee. Let's go #Bitcoin #Nostr
Hell yeah! Nice work 👏🏻👏🏻🔥
I can tell you that from everything I read up here in Canada, Wyoming seems like the place to be in the US.
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Legend
Very cool
This is awesome and welcome to Nostr.
Dig it! Set up your ⚡️
Caitlin I’d love to hear you expound on this on my podcast The Bitcoin Source.
I would enjoy having a Bitcoin conversation with you.
If you’re interested, use this link https://thebtcsource.com/guests/intake/ and let me know your availability, and we can go from there. Thanks.
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Hell yeah 🙌
This is awesome!
Wyoming blazin the trail - love it!
How do you feel about compelled disclosure of public keys?
It seems to me that US persons are a few years away from being required to register their public keys under FBAR or similar regulations.
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Exciting to see you making posts on nostr 🥳
"unless necessary"
Those two words make this whole bill useless.
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Just saw your tweetstorm about how Custodia got rekt by the DC establishment. I’m not a Twitter user but I’ve admired your work from a distance. You are a huge credit to the Bitcoin space, a voice of experience, ethics and reason, so don’t give up. You have tremendous support out here. ❤️❤️
Hopefully this will serve as inspiration for a uniform law in the future. Ty
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It’s the only choice for incorporating a Bitcoin business in America and a great place to mine Bitcoin.
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Great news!
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How can we get this to become the law of the land? We need these things and more across all states! I hope you continue seeing your successes in this realm, I believe you to be a hero when it comes to peoples right to self sovereignty and self determination. I hope your ideas can grow and influence other leaders across the country!
Your hard work paying off. Some decent people are still out in the world doing good
That's great, thanks for sharing!
Well done!