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Tom Adair
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NOSTR NOOB Artist | Bitcoin | Runner 🛸Melbourne, Australia

/imagine(Cowboys) opens next week, 31 July, 2025.

Here’s one of the paintings.

“Awkward Newness”, 2025

Airbrush Offset Painting, CMYK polymer on aluminium panel,

113x170cm

Bitcoin price currently $118k

#bitcoin #bitcoinartist #bitcoinart #cowboy #btcart

Airbrush Offset Painting, CMYK polymer on aluminium panel.

113x170cm

Bitcoin price currently $95.7k

#bitcoin #artist

I’m starting to think the real divide isn’t Left vs. Right—it’s between those who support institution-controlled democracy and those who believe in democracy by the people.

Defending institutions that have repeatedly destroyed public trust just doesn’t make sense.

This is my list of artists so far:

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I hope I haven't forgotten anyone 🙏🫂🎨

Followed all artists! Thanks for sharing this list!!! Anyone coming to Melbourne in RL HMU.

I Need these in actual running shoe! Awesome!! 🧡

Replying to Avatar DeWe

I asked DeepSeek

**Can Tether technically censor USDT on lightning?**

**Yes, Tether could technically censor USDT transactions on the Lightning Network**, depending on how they structure the Taproot Asset integration. Here's the breakdown:

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### **How Censorship Could Work**

1. **Centralized Issuer Control**:

- Tether, as the issuer, retains authority over USDT. If they design the Taproot Asset with freeze/blacklist functions (e.g., via multisig controls or whitelisting), they could invalidate transactions from specific addresses.

2. **On-Chain Settlement**:

- Lightning transactions ultimately settle on Bitcoin’s base layer. If Tether flags certain Taproot Asset UTXOs (e.g., linked to "blacklisted" addresses), they could refuse to honor redemptions or freeze funds at the base layer.

3. **Node-Level Censorship**:

- If Tether or compliant nodes (e.g., regulated exchanges) dominate liquidity hubs, they could refuse to route USDT payments to/from sanctioned addresses.

4. **KYC/AML Integration**:

- Tether might require wallets/services using USDT on Lightning to enforce identity checks, creating chokepoints for censorship.

---

### **Limitations to Censorship**

1. **Bitcoin’s Decentralized Base Layer**:

- Once USDT is in a non-custodial Lightning wallet, Tether cannot directly seize funds *if* the Taproot Asset design lacks backdoor controls.

2. **Peer-to-Peer Lightning Transactions**:

- Off-chain payments between private channels are harder to monitor/censor unless Tether controls routing nodes or surveillance is mandated.

3. **Permissionless Innovation**:

- Developers could create forks or alternative implementations of Taproot Assets that strip Tether’s control, but this might fracture liquidity.

---

### **Key Risks**

- **Trust Assumption**: Using USDT on Bitcoin reintroduces centralization risk, contradicting Bitcoin’s ethos of censorship resistance.

- **Regulatory Capture**: Governments could pressure Tether to surveil/censor transactions, leveraging its centralized design.

---

### **Conclusion**

Tether *can* censor USDT on Lightning **if** they bake centralized controls into the Taproot Asset protocol. This would mirror their ability to freeze ERC-20 USDT on Ethereum. However, Bitcoin’s base layer and permissionless Lightning Network make censorship harder to enforce *if* users hold funds in non-custodial wallets and avoid regulated intermediaries.

For true censorship resistance, Bitcoin itself remains superior. Stablecoins like USDT on Bitcoin inevitably inherit the issuer’s centralized vulnerabilities.

Boss

Latest painting in progress.

Offset Painting, CMYK polymer

133x200cm

Bitcoin currently @ $104k

#panting #artist #art #contemporaryart #cowboy #bitcoin

No, that was just the BTC price at the time I painted it. This work is approx .08 BTC

Second cowboy painting.

130x180cm // CMYK by hand

Aluminium // Tasmanian Oak

Bitcoin @ $105k

#artist #bitcoinart #bitcoinartist #artstr #btc #australia #aussiebitcoin #aussie #grownostr #bitcoin #art #freeross #freedom

New panels to paint.

Aluminium / Tasmanian Oak

Bitcoin @ $96k

#artist #bitcoinart #bitcoinartist #artstr #btc #australia #aussiebitcoin #aussie #grownostr #bitcoin #art

I paint the dots freehand with an airbrush no, masking or stencils. Like an offset print technique by hand.

Thank you for your interest, where are you located?

First Cowboy painting of 2025 finished. Solo exhibition booked for July in Melbourne. All welcome.

#bitcoin @ $102k

#nostrart #artstr #bitcoinartist #bitcoinart #aussienostr #audbtc #cowboy #painting