I can't believe it
The way you look sometimes
Like a trampled flag on a city street
And I don't want it
The things you're offering me
Symbolized barcode, quick I.D
'Cause I'm a twenty-first century digital boy
I don't know how to live but I got a lot of toys
My daddy's a lazy middle-class intellectual
My mommy's on Valium, so ineffectual
Ain't life a mystery, yeah?
I can't explain it
The things you're're saying to me
It's going yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Oh yeah
Tried to tell you about no control
But now I really don't know
And then you told me how bad you had to suffer
Is that really all you have to offer?
cats, sports, iron claw
neurosurgeon screams for more
innocents raped with napalm fire
everything I want, I really need
Ain't life a mystery, yeah?
Feel like technology/humans should have already reached the point of harnessing energy to a level that we have such an excess of energy abundance that reality of daily life fundamentally shifts.
There is no reason any "Bitcoin company" does enhanced KYC. The absolute minimum may be "required" in their perspective to "run a business". Strike had that thing where you hold up a piece of paper with your info and take a selfie with it. Ok why don't they print one hard copy and delete the original electronic version? All wearhouses have fire surpression sprinklers...so when the G comes to collect have a "fire". I never bought into swan cause (well of you are a thinking person you know why). The one thing I will say about swan is they are basically no different than a chat GPT based app that pretends there an AI company. Swan's only product is a podcast. Anyway, the issue I have with them is they came in with massive facial recognition from day one. Turn on your video camera and film your entire head.... HD level shit, the kind of thing advanced retina scan software can exploit even after the fact. P2P is the way, but the fact is your not buying significant non kyc corn P2P without a hookup with a miner... If you're a KYC Bitcoin company, you need to be doing the absolute minimum and have a plan to destroy all of that at a moments notice... Banks launder all the time and pay tiney fines...of your KYCing your customers for Bitcoin, fines for loosing kyc info for you're customers is a basic bitch cost of doing business. Make loosing KYC info the norm. Make nonkyc the standard!!!
#bitcoin #plebchain #gfy #KYV
So on a Bitcoin standard all us OG's gonna wear our balance? ;)
Tony Cross: "Had a shower thought about money thanks to an observation in @LynAldenContact’s excellent book. When shells were money they were proudly displayed on necklaces or sewn into clothing.
Why wear your money? Because the money is pretty? Sure, but more importantly, those shells literally represent favors done for others.
Many of these societies shared essential goods in common, but not these luxuries. To wear a heavy necklace of shells is to tout one’s social credit score, to say “hey I have done a lot for y’all.” One is paid interest, so to speak, on one’s shells in the recognition that one is a giver. And when you give someone else some shells, you are giving them some social credit while diminishing your own. That’s actually the currency, that respect and gratitude and recognition that you command with wealth.
We think of money in a forward-looking way: it’s power. But money has been worn, equally, because money literally was virtue in some societies, it was seen in a backward-looking way, the mark of someone who does the dishes, takes on a dangerous job, etc., someone who racked up many favors.
Our money is so divorced from virtue that to have a lot of it says almost nothing. It could mean you got lucky, served in congress, had insider info, exploited slave labor, etc. or built something cool and appreciated by millions (though perhaps you merely found the way to profit, rather than actually doing the grunt work.)
To flaunt wealth now is to flaunt power and connections, not goodness. And… not that we can restore this connection in our global economy, but that’s another way in which our money is broken. Wealth, in some settings, used to be simply and uncontroversial a good thing, because money itself was a record of goodness."
https://villains.fandom.com/wiki/Auric_Goldfinger
If his first name is "Auric", Fort Knox is screwed (Chinese nuke inbound).
https://www.thoreau-online.org/civil-disobedience.html
[Government]...must have the sanction and consent of the governed. It can have no pure right over my person and property but what I concede to it. The progress from an absolute to a limited monarchy, from a limited monarchy to a democracy, is a progress toward a true respect for the individual. Even the Chinese philosopher was wise enough to regard the individual as the basis of the empire. Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towards recognizing and organizing the rights of man? There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.
https://blog.ronindojo.io/most-whirlpool-users-run-dojo/
Good to see 85% of all mixes in whirlpool using their own nodes (if true)... On the other hand as long as you are using your own, it's excellent!
A line of economic related demotivational posters with a Bitcoin edge would be enjoyable.
"One way to secure power is to progressively narrow the field of possibility to 2 or 3 terrible outcomes and then demand that people choose between them.
Whenever someone pulls any version of the "trolley problem" on you, they're demonstrating that they can't be trusted."
N.Smolenski
My kid saw the van from a distance and asked "Why is the frog special?" I didn't even see Pepe till I looked closer. Didn't give a damn about the bull it was all about the frog, proud Dad moment.
#Pepe #Parenting
On wifi works for me with double VPN (on mobile) no issue. With just mobile data double VPN was an issue for me, but haven't experimented enough yet.
Big push with V2 at Lugano Plan B. Looks like some interesting stuff happening.
Please tell your father that his cadence, disposition and message was the highlight of day one at Plan B Lugano Conference. Thanks to all 3 of you for being here and bringing the reality to this community - we must keep focused.
The Satoshi Papers: Politics After Bitcoin with Natalie Smolenski - Pacific Bitcoin 2023
If you are in Lugano for Plan B, Do not miss this. Saturday at 5pm.
The nostr has at least one representative at Lugano Plan B conference.
Lugano
Hello Lugano!
#PlanB #Bitcoin