đ«Ą, one store at a time.
love going out for a spin on my e-bike, I bought it in 2020, 4 months into my #bitcoin journey, due to my âon paperâ profits covering the expense. Fortunately I did not realise profits to pay for it. If I had, by the time the bike actually arrives 6 months later the #bitcoin I would have sold would have been worth around 4x what the bike was worth. I would also have had to pay capital gains on what I had sold, pushing the effective price of the bike up between 20-40%. đ
Donât get too far over ur skis, donât think youâre a genius when youâve made a little money this bullrun. Stay humble,donât sell your #Bitcoin & if you think that item you can now justify/afford will add value to your life,maybe borrow some money (cheaply, cycle to work scheme in the uk?!?) or save a little fiat. Also, donât get distracted by what you could buy, enjoy the beauty in the world. đ 
Since US law enforcement agencies have been able to identify a money laundering offence involving this particular wallet, then they are well equipped to detect such crimes, and there is no need to criminalise mixers or #bitcoin wallets as a technology and its developers in general.
This is exactly what we talk about in our meetings with regulators: we understand that US law enforcement has all the tools to track #Bitcoin transactions on the blockchain. That is why real criminals, and even more so oligarchs, use completely different schemes to launder dirty money.
Besides, Western intelligence services are diligently training dictatorial regimes how to recognise both traditional banking and crypto-assets transactions, so the oligarchs have this knowledge from the intelligence services under their control in non-democratic countries. They don't want and donât need to use such tools.
And to be precise, I definitely think it's very harmful to promote or ask oligarchs, criminals to use your privacy payment tools. It gives more opportunities to weaponise this kind of rhetoric by any kind of government.
Our 15 years of human rights practice shows that real oligarchs prefer other tools for laundering dirty money. For example, the daughter of dictator Nursultan #Nazarbayev, Dariga #Nazarbayeva - #UK law enforcement authorities failed in their attempts to hold her accountable for money laundering. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2020/apr/08/uk-agency-loses-case-against-ex-kazakh-president-family-aliyev-nazarbayev
Kazakhstani regime used political lobbyists, expensive Western law firms, and the Kazakhstani state apparatus to succeed in laundering her dirty money.
This scheme works for the oligarchs, people who have stolen billions from the budget of a country where their family members have been in power for decades, politically persecuting any dissent, torturing and killing.
They do not need mixers, they have perfectly mastered money laundering schemes through investments in expensive real estate and consultations with former higher officials, top Western law firms.
Mixers and self-hosted wallets, on the other hand, are used by activists who are financially excluded by authoritarian regimes and do not have the privilege to use banking services in general due to political repression.
Moreover, the knowledge of US intelligence agencies is used to financially exclude regime critics and their family members both domestically and transnationally. This is exactly what #Turkey, #Kazakhstan and other regimes do all the time, sharing knowledge gained from Western partners with #Russia, #Iran, #China to repress dissenters abroad.
In less than 5 minutes Kazakhstan blocks fundraising via bank account or @stripe for families of political prisoners, so bitcoin p2p transactions and mixers are currently the only instrument to protect human rights in such authoritarian countries. Regimes can trace such transactions, but they can't stop them and so far it has helped save lives.
Therefore, an effective fight against money laundering would begin not with the criminalisation of privacy payment tools and their developers, but with ending the impunity of authoritarian regimes and their oligarchs in using legal schemes to circumvent sanctions through the banking systems of third countries. 
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Maybe have a look at the dollar and gold before taking aim at #bitcoin.
Bearish, but so there isnât too much normie đ€Ż, logical.
Gm nostriches, sun is streaming through the window, #coffeechain was oh so creamy, fiat currencies are coughing up blood and independent, censorship resistance, non inflationary, energy secured money is a thing. What a time to be alive. Share the good word of Satoshi, stay humble, stack sats, be happy. #bitcoin #grownostr 
Stay vigilant out there, fight for your freedom to transaction and the right âto selectively reveal oneself to the worldâ (thank you Eric). The European Union appears to be working to actively remove these rights. Combined with their new rules of cash transactions, I am honestly concerned. nostr:note1et58xmrmh2ag8xmjc7r98crzn8fq0f97ngda90vq6d6hatfdsm3q7ew4yd
Great RHR last week, been waiting to post this pic for a while and this clip was just what I was waiting for. Economies and just like ice skating. Stay humble. https://fountain.fm/clip/Jxc75ECDyk14gOprdvy9 
GM freaks, Maximum pumpiness on a Tuesday morning with the legendary Tyler S. TA is basically horoscopes for nerds, no offence, but loving the notion that #bitcoin hasnât been able to âflip bullish on the RSIâ since MarchâŠâŠ.. whatever that might actually mean. Onwards and upwards nostriches. 
Gm nostriches. For all those Unit of Account maxis out there, looking back on this time last year, I have more #bitcoin now than I did back then. Things are moving in the right direction. All other metrics are just noise. Stay humble, stack sats, spend to support the ecosystem, increase your stack. #grownostr 
Wife: what you working on, is it due for tomorrow or something? Youâre very busy.
Me: errrr, Iâm just writing something to send to someone with a profile picture where he is made up of sandwiches and goes by the name of shinobi about ossification.
Wife: sorry I asked.
Nostr is the calm.
