No idea how people succeed in taking firework photos

But anyways

Happy New Year everyone!

Name the shitcoin launch party.

About the #travelrule in Europe.

A rant to end the year.

Close to no one actually seems to care.

Three years ago, my podcast started because the first proposals for this law were being worked on in the EU Commission.

Since then, only a handful of people have reacted.

The rest just shrugged it off with some nonsense like, "I'll be outside the EU by then," or even worse: "Who cares? Some tech mumbo jumbo will solve it if you run 15 tools and use 15 compiled solutions that only 100 nerds really understand."

This is about our entire Bitcoin space being overrun by middlemen selling lies, bullshit, shitcoin casinos, credit cards backed by venture capitalist garbage, or even worse: untested solutions or toy-grade hardware wallets with buggy software or attached middleman services.

And now our main man, Jack Mallers, whose company rolls over to deliver the EU the Strike honeypot data by implementing the travel rule?

I remember

@Trezor

taking a huge shitstorm online a few years ago for unilaterally implementing the #travelrule, but now... hardly anyone reacts.

Yes, I get it—you can’t expect a bigger company to just ignore the law and continue without repercussions. But the Strike app is no longer an onboarding tool (we saw this coming, of course). Still, try onboarding someone to Bitcoin in Europe after January 1, 2025, and it’s either going to be:

KYC + criminalization + high taxes and a mountain of paperwork,

or

Just tell them, "Don’t bother with Bitcoin. It’s over. We live in the European Union—you should move elsewhere if you want freedom."

The fact that Europeans aren’t even organizing a single protest, a single act of defiance, or any resistance is telling of the sort of total patsies we’ve become. I see no end to this.

We now live in a totalitarian state as of January 1, 2025.

We should either resist or run.

But resistance at this point requires many brave people to stand up, instead of wasting time on Netflix or TikTok.

Unfortunately, for many of us, running is not an option or a desired outcome.

The travel rule is here, and for me personally, it feels like defeat—while the ones I should be fighting alongside in the trenches are rolling over like trained poodles.

Happy new year from 🇳🇱 🍾 no clock with me for a change so I hope this will do 😁

Happy New Year #bitcoin #freedomtech developers! 🧡🎄

all the best for you and your beloved!

Ukro-Nazi Sheldon Cooper thinks 2025 is gonna be their year.

After the US unpegged the dollar from gold in 1971, worker's compensation has not kept up with productivity.

Productivity has risen 80.9%, yet hourly pay has only risen 29.4%... a 2.7x difference.

Disconnecting money from physical reality has had dire consequences.

Bureaucracy visualized.

Insane.

MiCA and the FATF Travel Rule aren’t about protecting you—they’re about controlling you

Did you know you can have a swiss bank account in your pocket?

Just one lifetime ago in the United States, our grandfathers were able to buy a home, buy a car, have 3-4 children, keep their wife at home, take annual vacations, and then retire… all on one middle-class salary.

Belgians fleeing at the beginning of the Great War. Antwerp, 1914

The plan:

Get rich and leave EU