All other ground is sinking sand.
WTAF? I wanted to zap a note not open a bank account. Feels dirty to even consider KYC in this context đ¤Ž
It's just that, at some point soon, we plebs will need a security entourage to get around. I used to get excited about front running nation states but now it makes me nervous. Since the state is the apex crime organisation and yet to be truly limited and reformed by bitcoin.
Also, the stakeholder adjacent to the state are the oligarchs. Billionaires got to where they are through networks and a fair bit of crime. No way the oligarchy step aside to make way for the citadel bois without a serious gunfight.
Definitely need to not be living in third world UK just waking up too late to the necessity of Bitcoin Reserve. Black mirror society, starts probing citizens for what it can confiscate. The state's equivalent of the $5 wrench probably involves taking houses, business and other assets in lieu... or worse kidnapping family and demanding sats ransom... or even long term prison but gulag style, to break you or make example of you to others. Didn't take much for last US regime to create chill effect on bitcoiners, how much more a desperate state at the tail end of the scramble.
Some coins will end up as donations to the network, as brave bitcoiners show their true resolve against leviathan gone rogue. But life is cheap to a government clinging to power, and eventually they'll collect enough through their reign of terror.
Just thinking out loud.
One day I hope to use bitcoin to acquire a stake in a business that earns and operates in bitcoin, so I can generate a bitcoin return on my bitcoin investment without touching fiat.
I keep having this difficult conversation at home.
My wife trusts my judgement but prefers to hold 'tangible' assets like real estate.
I keep reminding her that our claim to that real estate depends entirely on a 'register' kept by the people most likely to seize it... or worse to g rind us out of it and then claim forfeiture.
To assert our right without force, we depend entirely on rule of law persisting and that law being fairly written and fairly judged by independent judiciary and fairly enforced by a police force or military that acts without fear or favour.
That's a lot of ifs right there.
First reaction to your note was imagining the ocean receding silently ahead of a tsunami.
Supercycle 2025.
Bitcoin will yet humble Trump.
No zaps.
But to be fair, the npub has been around from the start, while it was still ghost town around here.
What's the beef?
The amount of guns that went south of the border all these years, would make any 2A enthusiast glow with pride.
I actually have EPUBs of my book and both my Fathers books. Iâm also publishing my grandfathers book (he joined the Royal Navy in 1898 as a gunner to fight in the Boer war and wrote his memoirs at the end of his life.
Itâs entitled âHoly Stones and Salt Junkâ
I publish on Amazon because it costs me nothing and I get approx 33% of the income from the book. None of the books are high volume, or ever will be, so itâs not worth finding an independent publisher.
When you use Kindle publishing you agree not to sell through any other publisher, including yourself. I can buy my own books at near cost price, about 33% of the sales price to sell face to face, but Iâm not allowed to sell via any other method.
Great insight, thanks.
Did you follow any particular guides on this or is it all now intuitive?
Yes, anything that isn't bitcoin is in the fiat category, even if it has a blockchain and other camouflage.
British submarine doing a 'surprise' surface close to the Russian ship, to show that Britain has been "covertly monitoring its every move" - that's a nice flex.
But yeah, otherwise sounds like playground kid saying "I saw you doing the bad stuff and I'm going to write it down"... rather than "touch me again and I'm breaking both arms".
That non-nuclear missile capable of obliterating cities probably changed the balance of power a bit.
Assuming it's not a supercycle.
Everything changes with a supercycle.
#Bitcoin will humble Donald J Trump.
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Go redeem your brethren from their degenerate ways.