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berean jones
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Bitcoiner. Engineer. Christian. Theologian Writer. Husband. Father. Trapped on Prison Island UK. #Bitcoin #Christian #Family

If quantum theory is correct then can you ever truly separate money and state?

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#asknostr

"I can have opinions but my opinions don't matter unless I build something" ~ nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m.

Great explainer by nostr:npub1lelkh3hhxw9hdwlcpk6q9t0xt9f7yze0y0nxazvzqjmre3p98x3sthkvyz, made me even more curious about #Nostr and I've been here for a year already!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aA-jiiepOrE

Who are these 3% who held out so long, but would give it a go if a doctor recommended?

This needs a name.

It looks like a "polarity management" problem, cycling between bitcoin maximalism and shitcoin idealism, depending on external triggers.

Maybe "coinpolar"?

See link below for more context. It's a mental model that has a few applications for bitcoin, imho.

https://www.sloww.co/polarity-thinking-101/

#coinpolar

CIA needs to be dismantled by someone who doesn't get shot in the head by a 'lone gunman'... that's their deterrent and it's been quite effective on successive presidents, including the so-called god-emperor one who talked smack and did nothing (thereby not getting shot in the head).

Signal's coming update, to hide personal numbers behind usernames, is a good step forward.

It's not perfect (why use phone numbers at all), but it's a good compromise between privacy and convenience, since Signal's network effects exceed the 'rest of the privacy pack' (threema, session, etc).

This blog isn't about that update, it's from the archives, and gives a good overview of the main arguments.

Are your private communications being read before they get encrypted? That's the main difference between WhatsApp (reads them for the benefit of the wider Meta ecosystem) and Signal (which doesn't).

#privacy

#surveillance

#onlinesafetybill

https://www.signal.org/blog/uk-online-safety-bill/

The first one bothers me most.

The other two are easier to understand in current geopolitical malaise.

I used to imagine my resilience in the face of societal collapse as follows

1. Pack up and go to another country

2. Get online and activate a signing device using my memorised seed phrase

3. Use bitcoin stashes, either directly with people who accept bitcoin, or indirectly by selling for local currency on either a dex or worst case a centralised exchange

4. Get on with rebuilding life in other areas, like finding new work, normalising papers, and connecting with neighbourhood.

5. Tell grandchildren tales of my amazing survival.

In reality, I expect something more fiat...

1. In order to get into that country I need to demonstrate access to funds, so need to reveal at least part of my stash

2. Getting online makes me visible and tax target in new country, which I'm less familiar with so likely to trip.

3. Use bitcoin

4. Get on with rebuilding life

5. Be ashamed that bitcoin inheritance was bled out by survival needs and tax, so the best I have is stories... no satoshis.

Sigh.

Such a nihilistic mood today.

I blame the taxman.

Sigh