One of the many things I do not miss about Twitter: 'Ratios'
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You're racist if you don't see colour
You're also racist is you see colour
Is that what it's like?
Yeah, pub-priv parterships are just cronyism with a garb of 'intellectual nuance and balance'.
Fully private internet with no state involvement is the way.
Internet bans are way too common around the world.
A legal system with strong and well-defined property rights is necessary for a truly free internet (and a truly free society)
Without it, we're heading towards an Orwellian world of chaotic tyranny.
I'm not at all mad about stereotypes as well
As an Indian, if I have to be extra hygienic, extra honest, extra articulate, and extra gentlemanly and decent to not be called a stinking scamming street shitter with a terrible accent who hits on anything that moves, I'm not complaining
Just pushes me to be an even better person overall, because I know that I don't fit the description of the sterotype and I'm not responsible for the actions of those who look and speak like me
I love the idea of freedom tech. But why don't people who advocate for it also advocate for removing government involvement in spectrum allocation and telecom licensing and regulation?
Surely, a 'free' internet wouldn't involve getting permission from a bunch of bureaucrats to access. (Free as in freedom, not free beer.)
Seems to me that the most critical layers of the internet stack all over the world is run by various crony-bureaucrat alliances, rather than sound free market principles like property rights, contractual exchanges and homesteading.
More libertarianism
More austrian economics
More books
More advocacy for property rights
More sats flow generating companies
More podcasts
More tutorials
More grassroots initiatives
More circular economies
More local language content
More capitalism
More self-custody
More lightning wallets
More Nostr users
More hardware wallets
Less statism
Less trust in politicians and bureaucrats
Less paper bitcoin
Less custodial wallets
As an outsider, I appreciate the first and second amendments and the rest of the bill of rights. A lot. I like that the constitution is small, difficult to change and inspired by natural law ethics.
But if you cannot peacefully protect, use, acquire and transfer your property without restriction and regulation and such things are not the law of the land, it is not the land of the free anymore.
Fiat money, central banking, eminent domain, positive law, taxation, public debt, central banking, mass surveillance, endless war, etc. somewhat follow from such a situation.
š Cheeky Rothbard quote from Ethics of Liberty:
"Furthermore, all the various forms of statism have now been tried, and have failed. At the turn of the twentieth century, businessmen, politicians, and intellectuals throughout the Western world began to turn to a ānewā system of mixed economy of State rule, to replace the relative laissez faire of the previous century. Such new and seemingly exciting panaceas as socialism, the corporate state, the Welfare-Warfare State, etc., have all been tried and have manifestly failed. The call for socialism or state planning is now a call for an old, tired, and failed system. What is there left to try but freedom?"
Vro I mean look at all the options vro
You get to pick and choose how much you're stolen from between a worldwide mafia network of territorial monopolies that cover every inch of land on the planet, all in cahoots with each other, surveilling your every move, evey habit, every transaction and every word you say
All you have to do is uproot your entire life, sell all your property and belongings, leave your family, get strip searched, questioned and treated like a potential criminal
Freedom to choose ā
Yeah, and apparently,
those who call this out are armchair theorising and philosophising utopians who are tyrants, bigots, kooks, racists, sexists, casteists, bourgeoisies.
We must all be okay with having the same say in who makes the rules as people who genuinely believe that there is no such thing as right and wrong, that justice is anything they themselves or the majority think it is, that there is no such thing as property rights or any natural rights whatsoever
Because you are bound by a contract with these people which you never signed up for, based on a promise that might or might not have been made by your ancestors
Apparently,
Price controls, interest rate controls, taking of property in the name of public good, progressively stealing and redisributing more and more of people's income, consistent increases in money supply, fleecing of people's savings, monopoly-causing regulation of businesses, trade barriers in importing and exporting, restrictions on natural rights or complete outlawry of them, imprisoning those who resist theft and aggression, funding mass murder and displacement of innocent people living thousands of miles away,
are all fine, as long as they are forced down the throats of people by leaders who win popularity contests, using a group of people who didn't win anything as instruments to execute these policies, citing the written laws which these popularity contest winners can change much as they like as the legal basis for these actions, which are promptly upheld by scrutinizers who are paid by those whose actions they are scrutinising.
So a lot of people seem to have the hope that Trump will pardon the Samourai Wallet developers.
While waiting for the Storm verdict, I took some time to read through the White House Digital Asset Report to see what this administration thinks of financial privacy, and my guys - if you still believe that the Trump WH is in *any* capacity friendly to these undertakings, you are in for a very rude awakening.
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Effectively, the White House urges FinCEN to deem *all* privacy measures in digital assets a āprimary money laundering concernā under the PATRIOT Act.
This includes:
-> single use addresses, wallets and accounts
-> swapping between networks & chains
-> mixers, obviously
-> āpoolingā or āaggregatingā cryptocurrencies from multiple wallets
Many will now say: oh, but thereās so much good language in the report as well, like the protection of self-custody.
Thatās true, but the protection of self-custody is contingent on the *lawful exchange* of assets between users.
Thatās why the White House additionally urges Congress to *expand the PATRIOT Act* and *amend the BSA to cover āDeFiā services*.
To ensure compliance in āDeFi,ā the White House suggests the implementation of digital identities, that would tie all of your transaction history to your name, so that āDeFiā services have the power to approve transactions.
Even when implemented with ZKProofs, as the White House suggests, this would effectively turn a permissionless system into a permissioned one.
I know we live in the age of celebrating all the Bitcoin wins, but sometimes things that glitter are just a massive pile of shit, my dudes.
The great taking
Of everyone
In the ass
By the State
Nothing a few orange pills can't fix
Big pharma in the mud
Oh my god I'm getting PTSD
Something something mommy milkers something
That's all I know
Ahh my bad you already reposted it damn