Shout out to nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu for his work on exposing financial colonialism. When I saw this article I immediately thought "this is not new to me thanks to Alex Gladstein". I also heard about the chocolate slavery and human trafficking in West Africa from Jordan Harbinger's podcast - and now only eat chocolate if I know it's from Central or S America. None of this is okay.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/modern-slavery-report-1.6854587
Agreed. I don't see it as a problem per se when a politician likes Bitcoin on a personal level. When they use liking it as part of their platform, we should view this with intense skepticism.
Without spoiling for those that haven't voted, I'm not surprised by the results, but that was not a terribly easy choice. Very evil poll, I love it!
Gross. Time to completely abandon Twitter if that's the case.
We Really Need More Self Custody in #Bitcoin!
We need to educate a lot more on this topic,
Put your #BTC in Cold Storage,
No paper #Bitcoin,
The financial institutions (Banks) find themselves submerged in insolvency. 🏦
#Bitcoin fixes this.
Save in #BTC, put it in cold storage, not a drill! 🌪️
#Bitcoin is an exciting technology that, if embraced, has the potential to revolutionize our socio-economic landscape.
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No paper Bitcoin, except *maybe* a paper wallet (though there are better solutions for self custody obviously) 🙂
Shoot, really sorry to hear that. Sats are the best real estate in cyberspace, but that doesn't mean you don't need meatspace real estate. I hope you find another one you love.
The article I’ve been working on is finished!
50 pages of deep diving into the problems with the banking system, debt money and markets.
Am I a real thinkboi now?
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/the-banking-crisis-threatens-your-money
Well written and thorough. I really enjoyed it.
Fellow Canadians, the BoC is seeking public consultations via survey on a Canadian CBDC. Please have your say on why you oppose this.
100%. And that's why so many Bitcoiners say "everyone buys Bitcoin at the price they deserve".
I like that idea. With some of the platforms I use I've taken to logging out after every use, and then logging back in later requires my Yubikey for 2FA. This bit of effort cost is generally enough to prevent me from mindlessly checking.
Is this the beginning of the "then you win phase"?
I can't comment on this one (I don't live in Italy), but the ones I've used are all non-KYC. Cash in, BTC sent to mobile wallet via QR.
As a Canadian, I believe this law is just plain wrong. While I think it might be a stretch to say it's "censorship", this law will be bad for consumers as it will inevitably increase the streaming costs for Canadian consumers. More accurately I think it's the simply the government using the law as a shield to ask for handouts for Canadian content producers from independent companies. As well, I've always viewed the CRTC's requirement of a minimum percentage of Canadian content on media to be, at best, misguided. I've always firmly believed that if Canadian culture needed legal protection to exist (it doesn't), then it doesn't deserve to exist. Though I have no evidence per se for this, given the size and power of the CRTC I believe they have likely been captured by established media outlets (eg CBC, Global, Telus, Shaw, etc).
Fundamentally, Canadians can produce good content that ends up on streaming... and we have - Schitt's Creek, Kim's Convenience, Orphan Black all come to mind. Point is, we don't need legal protection to make good content. In fact, all this law will accomplish is it will dilute the good stuff because streamers will treat it as a box-checking activity and will produce whatever garbage they must to meet the regulatory requirement.
https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/netflix-streamer-regulations.html
I don't know a lot about Bitcoin adoption in Africa, but having followed Bitcoin for years I think I've been rather naive to assume adoption would happen in the developed world first. In hindsight it seems why it's obvious I should be so wrong, and I'm really excited to see how places like Africa and Central America take this and run with it.
Very well written article. In principle I think Elon has some decent ideas, it just seems so many of them thus far have been poorly thought out and/or poorly implemented.
For a long time I've felt that Twitter is the most underrated social media platform (besides this one of course) for the reasons you outline at the end of your article.
And I know I'm making a mountain out of a molehill here.