It’s a tick. I use to get them all over my balls when playing under grassy trees.

I am fasting after a long break. My last fast was months ago and to be honest, my diet habits were bad these past months so I gained weight againg.

So I eventually got to a point that even my mind craved it hard.

That’s why I know it’s going to be easy. Currently aiming for two full days but we’ll see, maybe I’ll have the same attitude nearing the end and I will persevere longer.

Every time in the past, good fast was a great stating point to achieve great things in my life and diet, so I hope it will happen again.

Curently clocking ~ 20 hours, basically still a start.

#fasting #fast #diet #carnivore not so much the past months #grownostr #plebchain

My belly is full of Pho and chaos

Which "Don't Trust, Verify" #Bitcoin t-shirt artwork do you like the best?

1. Vertical

2. Horizontal

What I'm kind of confused about is I could've sworn they just recently decentralized coordinators. Did that never happen?

The entire developed world tax apparatus that was built in the 20th century and extends into the 21st century depends on ubiquitous financial surveillance.

They are not going to give that up without a fight. I have been saying at a number of conferences and podcasts that privacy is the main battleground for the next decade.

Back in the 19th century and before, money was mostly private. There were plenty of dictators but there was no major method of surveilling all transactions. Therefore things like broad income taxes were untenable to enforce.

But in the 20th century as money increasingly moved around at the speed of light, people needed bank accounts to keep up. It wasn’t all forced on them; they chose it. And those bank accounts were centralized, surveillable, and ruggable.

This allowed authorities to switch to income taxes, which require ubiquitous financial surveillance to work. And ultimately it allowed them to switch to fiat currency altogether.

Now in the 21st century, Bitcoin and its various layers allow people to hold and move around money globally without permissioned banks. They can do so peer to peer, or they can do so with custodians and open layers, etc. Unlike the base layer of fiat, the base layer of bitcoin is permissionless.

But this represents a threat to the entire current system of taxation and financial control. If bitcoin and particularly various private methods on top of it were to be adopted at massive scale, the entire tax structure and other things would need to reshape themselves around that reality. And so they won’t make it easy; they will try to criminalize financial privacy as much as possible while the network is still pretty small.

The only solutions are to 1) make privacy tech so ubiquitous that it can’t be isolated and can spread organically in a distributed way and 2) to apply legal pressure when possible so that governments sort of have to operate within the bounds of their own law, like the 1st and 4th amendments.

RIP Samourai Wallet

KYC #Bitcoin reporting will be done automagically. Exchanges will provide addresses, tx IDs and btc address, dates you took into self-custody, etc. Burden of proof will be on you DCA pleb! Fresh cohort of green IRS foot-soldiers will be knocking on doors when you ignore their letters. #6102 #boatingaccident nostr:note1c6rkhm7kqng5tjqle6zfh6y9c23wd9vu4tsd7pahdrpsd4uq3ccsm2fv8v

Answer this. If a better money than bitcoin was created, would you support it and toss btc to the wayside?

There is something curious, if you inquire about the percentage of taxes/tributes throughout history, whether in the feudal system, in rome, in the city states, etc, it is around 10%, it has been relatively stable (eye, it has not always been so, I am generalizing, for example in the Roman empire it was around 5% 😂). But since the foundation of modern states, this percentage tends to 100%, it just grows and grows and never reduces, simply because the current states are totally inefficient. The question we should ask ourselves is, where does this lead us to? Because it obviously leads to violence and destruction of society as we know it. The real question is, when will it happen?

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I am preparing to go to the jungle and I will be off grid there for 10 days including the halving.

I think sitting in ceremony will be the correct location for this one.

No cell signal. No screens.

Starting today I will take a break from nostr.

Love you all. See you in the next epoch 🧡💜💚