If you’re ever unlucky enough to find yourself wasting time in a conversation with a Communist, ask them this question:

Why do people always flee FROM communist countries, but no one ever flees TO communist countries?

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What is sp1qqf... ? Never saw such address format before.

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There is a common phrase: “he/she woke up today and chose violence”.

I like it. It is funny. But it is imperfect.

“Violence” is now a verbal defensive phrase that means too much. To “wake up and choose violence” in the modern parlance of people who know zero struggle means to choose public verbal opposition. Okay, sure. But not really.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. Not violence.

I spent years doing mixed martial arts competitively. I know violence. I am trained in a dozen ways to choke someone out, and have been choked out in’s dozen ways. I have had a 200 pound male fireman try to beat me unconscious and fail to do so. Even that wasn’t really violence, since it was controlled. Assholes on my trailer park bus stop in my teenage years were violent.

Verbosity isn’t violence. It is rhetoric.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. I woke up today and chose to defend noncustodial privacy tools with language and resources. Coordinating messages between entities shouldn’t be a crime per se.

Bitcoin is anti-fragile and will continue to be so, thanks to all the people who work hard for it. But it is not without a fight.

Privacy is necessary in a free society in the digital age. A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto made this clear three decades ago and is still true.

#Bitcoin is yours when, and ONLY when, you control the keys

Ipso facto, wallets controlled by others, whether or not they are wrapped in some level of shiny legal recognition, *cannot* hold YOUR bitcoin; they are custodians and you hold a (hopefully redeemable) IOU at best

Bitcoin's history, and the general crypto-scene more broadly, has a litany of failures, theft and outright exit-scam frauds that have driven this harsh lesson home over the last decade

The fantasy of regulated custodians for bitcoin is just that .. a fantasy. Prime Trust in the US is a classic example of a regulated custodian that imploded through .. let's call it .. mismanagement. This is important to understand as Bitcoin is absolutely scarce - so there can never be a backer-of-last-resort to bailout incompetence, fraud and outright theft

Others, by definition, cannot hold your #bitcoin for you

Reject the messaging that Bitcoin is safe with anyone else

#Bitcoin is yours when, and ONLY when, you control the keys

Elizabeth Warren is proposing legislation for mandatory reporting to the IRS for holdings of $1,000+ in crypto AND a 1% wealth tax on holdings of $500,000+ 😂