If politicians were like Pinocchio, there wouldn't be enough wood in the universe; the universe itself would collapse into a black hole due to the gravity exerted by the mass of wood.

I can't wait for the next elections to see stupid bitcoiners supporting politicians again, even financing them 😂.

Got my first traffic ticket in China, the endless AI cameras are all knowing and all seeing, you can’t dodge them. Was fined 100 RMB (~$14) for crossing a white line from the straight turn lane into the right turn lane. The local government was kind enough to text me about it

JUST IN: President Putin said the USA is interested in utilizing Europe’s largest nuclear facility, ZNPP, for #Bitcoin mining.

This is said to be an element in the peace talks with Ukraine.

Russian forces seized ZNPP, Europe’s largest nuclear facility in March 2022.

separation of church and state

separation of money and state

separation of education and state

what else?

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Ten years ago, we had the same conversation we are having today.

It basically follows the same line as nuclear fusion.

Possible? Yes.

Right now? No.

In 10 years? No.

Could it be in 40 years? Yes.

And could it be in 100 years? Also yes.

The thing is, now they're shoehorning it in to institutional investors.

In this case, I think Willy Woo is a bad actor.

I don't give a damn that the Samoruai guys have been thrown in jail. Screw them, they were selling crappy software that was anything but private. They were scammers, so I don't feel sorry for them.

I'm not going to donate a single satoshi to their cause. I do promote other honest privacy projects.

Privacy can't be a business, but a lot of idiots don't get that.

most people who want to develop protocols fail to realize that if nobody likes them their protocol is less likely to be adopted

Cypherpunks don't do things in plain sight because they know the government is waiting for the slightest opportunity to screw them over. This is what the idiots at Core do and allow.

It's very naive behavior, because allowing this shit is unnecessary 🤷‍♂️

After almost five years without Nick Szabo, we've wrecked Bitcoin. He had to come back to tell us we're idiots.

In short, he told us that:

- We have to end the segwit discount.

- If we allow things in op_return, we will have to be able to remove it from a complete node, which is not possible now, or continue to limit op_return.

If the police catch you with 100 gigabytes of child pornography, you go to jail even if it's encrypted. This is worse; the police don't need to decrypt it, it's visible to everyone with a simple program. Do you expect not to go to jail?

You're stupid. It's a full-blown state attack, as I've been saying for a long time, and you've fallen into the trap.

Bitcoin is not storage, Bitcoin is money. Anything that does not involve monetary transactions should be censored because it is spam.

By the way, knots filter both segwit discounts and op_return and many other types of spam. If 90% of the nodes were knots, we would not have this problem on the table.

Fedora silverblue 🤷‍♂️

Territory is the most decisive factor in determining the outcome of any battle (according to Sun Tzu). As Bitcoiners, the moral, intellectual, and philosophical high ground that we occupy is virtually unassailable.

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Floripa is honestly one of the most beautiful parts of the world.

Highly recommended in October & April.

Still low season, so no traffic or tourists.

Weather is perfect. People are attractive, food is fantastic, cost of living is unbeatable.

With blink you can also use a throwaway phone and then delete it and add an anonymous email.

Remember that in this life everything has a solution except death.

When you realize that no one really understands LN privacy and that they are also incapable of understanding network-level privacy, you realize that no one in this space really has a clue about privacy, except for nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcqyqsc8628tpyp6rcjf77e83tve2j9ulj5tnht34fgfrucy5l5j7uh2r2aejt

- LN is not a blockchain, and since it uses routing like Tor, in most cases it will always be more private than any blockchain, even Monero, simply because LN does not leave public records for later analysis and all information is encrypted, including the amount and routing fee, in the same way as Tor.

- For the recipient, simply use Blinded Paths or LNproxy. You can also combine them in case a client is not compatible with Blinded Paths.

- It's also useless if you use LN, Coinjoin, or Monero and don't protect your privacy at the network level. Your LN node must be behind Tor, and if you use services like LNProxy, do so behind Tor as well.

The future of Bitcoin is inclusive. Sorry to the steak bros with microphones 🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride Month.