New to the Nostr ecosystem. What is going on with this whole Samurai Wallet thing? I’ve seen a bunch of posts but have no clue what’s going on.
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TL;DR: Developers made a Bitcoin wallet that made transactions very private. Bad people used these privacy features for crimes. The developers are going to jail for writing code.
Samourai Wallet was a Bitcoin wallet built to give people real privacy using CoinJoin to break chain surveillance. The devs were arrested by US authorities for basically writing open-source code, and now the government is trying to criminalize privacy itself. This is bigger than one wallet, it’s about whether we’re allowed to use Bitcoin privately at all.
No one wants to hear this, but the path forward is to lobby DC. More FOSS while part of the solution is not going to get us the win we need.
If AIPAC can ensure Jews get all the benefits and protections they want, then why can’t Bitcoiners create PAC to advance our agenda? Neglecting politics has been to our detriment. That has changed recently, but we gotta keep pushing.
This is why I support BPI and have since the beginning
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We need to get broader support from the community. No more “politics don’t matter”
Jews control the US government. I’m sure paying and bribing jews to give you power will work out great. Just look at all those Trump donations are working out. LOL
Jews influence on our politics is a separate issue, but the point remains that they are proof of concept. They didn’t always control things. No reason why Bitcoiners can’t achieve a similar level of influence and control.
All the Trump donations got Ross out of prison, an SBR created, and removed hostility from banks towards bitcoin businesses.
You don’t have to be part of the solution, but at least get out of the way.
I’m not sure why you fagtrons want to save the Masonic slave empire. I guess you still believe in muh freedoms and sing yankee doodle dandy. Muh founding fathers, muh Declaration of Independence.
Collapse all these centralized power structures. Bitcoiners want the power. I hope all the bitcoiners that gravitate to the ZOG get burned as they deserve.
Lol like I said, you’re welcome to continue being a loser incel in your shit hole country
I’m talking to the people that care about bitcoin and want to wield political power so developers don’t go to jail.
If you and hodl want to give jews your bitcoin, fuck kids and kiss the wall to help bitcoin then that’s totally your call. Godspeed.
You can campaign on more than one issue. The libertarians were strategically important in the last election, and there were promises made to that effect. If we continue to campaign we'll have more promises kept and new ones made.
We can also campaign on Epstien, and on Gaza, and on privacy, and tax exemptions, etc.
Bitcoiners have a higher propensity to save, so our time and money spent should be relatively more targeted and efficient. Paying up to the Jews is not the only way to get things done.
Also, you can put a price on your freedoms and pay it up. It's something that people do.
I fukin hate the government. How did we let it come to this.
Some devs made a bitcoin wallet with lots of privacy increasing features. The main one being a CoinJoin coordinator.
You could join at least 5 other ppl to make 5 new utxos by paying a fee to the Samourai devs that made the coordination. Once you pay once you could re-do the CoinJoin as many times as you wanted with different ppl, thus breaking any possibility of chain analysis from that point on.
The US government hated this and claimed that it was 'money laundering' and other made up charges and cracked down the dev team. They have been trying to defend their case since then.
It's an attack on privacy most likely to make an example out of them to suppress other ppl from trying to do the same, since it was all open source and all the dev team did was write the code.
It seems the US gvmt hate if ppl make tools that anyone can use to gain more privacy.