Taking an SSD out of this this is nearly impossible. I got it out. Smashing into pieces. This pos can rot in hardware hell 🤣 nostr:note17l23eq9h95wxvqeyzsux2qur7cvn78sl9hwu5v9kxjyug9eqc5pqmwu5ul

This is Elon replying to himself on his alt account.

What a sad empty life.

All that money. All that power. All alone.

PROBABLY LESS THAN 400K SELF CUSTODY WHOLECOINERS GLOBALLY.

We need more Cashu mints run by businesses and other organizations.

#nostr should be much weirder

IT IS A BIT DIFFICULT TO HAVE NUANCED CONVERSATIONS IN CAPS BUT I AM AN ALL IN TYPE OF GUY.

David Bailey just posted the draft for an executive order for the Bitcoin Strategic Reserve under Trump – and it's an absolute nightmare for anyone using bitcoin as money.

First, the draft order defines Bitcoin as "a finite store-of-value asset, akin to digital gold."

As someone who has lived on Bitcoin for a fairly long time, I can say that Bitcoin is not merely a "store-of-value asset", but a money for payment and day to day purchases.

Defining Bitcoin as a "store-of-value asset" reinforces the ossification narrative (who needs to move a stonk several times in a day?) which may put developers at risk when prioritizing changes to btc to make it more usable as money (think scaling for example).

With this definition, a softfork to activate covenants may become an issue of US national security that goes against the US' definition of its primary goals - directly putting developers in the firing line of the United States Government.

The draft states that federal agencies, such as the US Marshall's Service, may not auction seized Bitcoin off, but must contribute them to the strategic reserve.

This not only reduces the Bitcoin in circulation available to the public, but additionally sets the incentive for the US to increase its seizing efforts – think increased AML/KYC.

While I'm no fan of the strategic reserve in general, this draft is an even bigger disappointment than Sen. Lummis' proposed Bitcoin Act.

To compare this to how El Salvador has implemented Bitcoin, which I admit I initially wasn't a fan of either, ES directly gives citizens rights to use Bitcoin as money - which is a huge upside to benefit the people, and not just the national security state.

No offense, but letting a couple of children that just graduated college and a guy who runs a magazine draft US policy is a scene straight out of idiocracy.

Next time, maybe try speaking to the people actually building and using bitcoin, not just to the boomers and national security goons that sit on the money like a fat kid at the cake buffet.

Incredibly unprofessional conduct here by BPI, a huge risk to anyone using Bitcoin for anything other than an investment, and a testament to the people involved being more interested in furthering their own importance than to empower people with a money without state.

Sincerely hope that this EO is drastically challenged on all levels and hopefully somehow deemed unconstitutional to protect btc and the people developing it.

Tech bros whining about getting debanked will never not be funny to me.

Welcome, say the Millions of Americans that can't get a bank account because they were born in the wrong country, have the wrong last name, the wrong political affiliations, or just straight up not enough money to cover the exorbitant costs imposed by banks due to an ever increasing compliance regime.

The problem isn't CFPB, Elizabeth Warren or "the left" as Marc Andreesen and Nic Carter like to suggest.

The problem is that we have built a financial system that can be weaponized at will against entire groups of people, sentencing you to economic death without so much as needing to accuse you of a crime.

The Bank Secrecy Act is the most powerful tool in the US Government's arsenal to stifle dissent, and complaining about its symptoms just because you happened to end up on the wrong end of it is not going to change a system that's entire reason for existence is to circumvent the rule of law to protect its own interests against the interests of the people.

Let's see if they'll still speak out on the "injustice of the banking system" once daddy Trump has come to their rescue. My best guess is no.