I care more about taxes and deregulation than I do about a reserve.

💯. This has been my position as well. Citizens own the country, citizens should own the reserves (hopefully widely distributed)

That is not what the Trump admin wants. They would prefer accepting bribes from Garlinghouse and Hotchkinson...

great article Marty...common sense

Wait wait wait

This time is different remember

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I have had the exact same thought! It applies to more than just bitcoin as well. America's greatest strength is its people. It's not manufacturing or energy production, cars or plans, or weapons and computer chips. The leg up that America has are its own people. The government can leverage this by just getting out of the way. Strong people make a strong nation. Strong government makes a weak nation, as a strong government becomes a burden on its people.

What the government gives, the government can take. Do not give them ideas how to define the right to self custody. You may not like it. A permissionless system requires no permission to operate so it’s counterproductive to ask for it. Instead, teach more people to run nodes, to improve their self custody and opsec, to mine at home and to be as self sufficient as possible. Regulation requires compliance to work, so the ability to be defiant is the individual’s natural defence.

This is the way but will never happen