The US government just seized 127,000 BTC from a guy who operated forced labor crypto scam compounds in Cambodia.

This marks the largest seizure of any kind in history.

Stating the obvious here, but…

If filters work, and users don’t want Bitcoin Core 30, there’s no reason for an anti-OP_RETURN soft fork.

If government had it's way, ALL interactions between humans would be regulated.

The Argentine Central Bank again imposes a currency exchange rate restriction on banking and financial dollars. Not very liberal.

"This time is different" 💸💰 #Argentina #Milei

Crazy idea to fight spam (hear me out/critiques welcome):

The main ways to broadcast arbitrary data are op_returns, witness data, and fake addresses in bare multisig right?

What if we hard fork with the following changes:

- remove op codes that allow arbitrary data

- deprecate multisig in favor of musig

- change the witness discount to a 10x witness premium

- implement cross signature aggregation to incentivize efficient witness usage

Does CISA destroy the ability to add arbitrary data? I dunno, just spitballing here.

i would like to see bitcoin become global freedom money

this is the ideal outcome for my family

from that perspective, leveraged bitcoin stocks are at best a distraction and at worst a way to enrich insiders at the expense of retail

that said, i respect that people can focus their time on what they want

i'm really enjoying the lawn care rabbit hole

any other lawn enjoyoors here??

if you have been paying attention to my actions it should be obvious that i do not want “influence over bitcoin”

to the extent that i already have some influence, i am actively trying to reduce it

stay humble and stack sats

🗽🗽🗽🗽

Surely agorism will lead economy closer to mutualism than "anarcho"-capitalism

love that asmap is getting the attention it deserves

I doubt anyone outside of a very technically-minded circle of mostly developers would care at all about a relay policy update if it wasn’t blowing up in everyone’s X feed.

This "OP_RETURN war" reeks like manufactured drama, artificially boosted by an X-algorithm optimized for outrage.

Makes me wonder to what extent the block size wars were the same thing...

"Nobody's putting in the time to lie to you anymore…and you should worry about that." - Tim Dillon #TimDillonstr.

On the strange case of Alex Gladstein’s instance of hypocrisy.

I still like Gladstein overall, he knows Bitcoin extremely well and is the expert on global debt slavery, but he got Ukraine so massively wrong. The only reason I care about this is because he was a huge asshole to me once over it, even though I tried my best to maintain civility because his demeanor was wildly out of character, almost like someone hacked his account.

To offer an olive branch, I think he got too much flak for what were more valid than invalid criticisms of Bukele, even from me. Now, from that, what was hypocritical of him was how he went at Bukele and Putin…but NOT Zelensky. You know, the guy who shut down newspapers, indefinitely suspended elections aka democracy, enslaved citizens to fight against their will, and shut down an early peace deal so hundreds of thousands of people could die instead and Ukraine ends up in a worse negotiating position than when they started. Gladstein tried to gaslight me by saying that conscription is somehow okay if you’re on defense. When Russia conscripts: bad. When Ukraine conscripts: hey it’s their call, not for me to say how they defend their country. Where are the human rights of Ukrainian military slaves?

It’s a really strange incident, for Alex to be such a consistent freedom fighter on so many things, but be so catastrophically wrong and hypocritical on this one thing, Ukraine.

I see two possible reasons for why this happened:

1. The HRF at the time of our interaction was headed by Garry Kasparov, a huge anti-Putin activist, which is fair, that’s Garry’s prerogative. Maybe Garry set the policy that the HRF was unequivocally anti-Russia and therefore, had to be unequivocally pro-Ukraine. Maybe the HRF is somehow embedded with the neocon war party too, but who knows.

2. More likely, Alex doesn’t know the history, which is understandable. The full story is loaded with US propaganda and tensions that go back to WW2. Luckily, listening to a couple hours of Scott Horton can remedy this issue. A simple fix.

I’d have ultimate respect for him now if he admitted he was wrong for being so hypocritical with his defense of Ukraine/NATO/Zelensky and critiques of Russia/Putin. I’d lose respect for him if he memory holes it or downplays how rabid his Ukrainian propaganda was. I’ll never forget that one disturbing interaction and it’ll always give me pause when listening to him and the HRF.

Millions of bullshit jobs around the world, but the negative value of an Keynesian Economics PHD is too much for the job market to absorb.

If you could take veterans who died in the revolutionary war, the Indian war, the quasi war, the first Barbary war, the war of 1812, the second Barbary war, the first Seminole war, the Mexican American war, the Apache wars, the Utah war, the civil war, the Spanish American war, the Philippine-American war, the boxer rebellion, the banana wars, WW1, WW2, the Korean War, the Vietnam war, the invasion of Grenada, the invasion of Panama, the war in Afghanistan, Iraq, the global war on terror…

And show them the country as it is today, do you think they would feel their death was worth it?

Y'all should have seen my Canadian Homie's face when the waitress asked if he wanted his burger cooked medium-rare.

Apparently that's illegal in Canada 😬

lets play a game

guess the usd bitcoin price exactly a month from now

sep 26th 2025 - 0414 UTC

closest guess will be zapped 5555 sats

only guesses made within the next 24 hours qualify

(if i think you are a bot you are disqualified)

Here is a solution for re-districting shenanigans: pass a law where every district in the nation must have a convex shape.

i dont mean to state the obvious, but they support endless war because that is what backs their currency.💵

I hand-picked certain classical liberal/libertarian intellectuals and asked ChatGPT to describe briefly how they debunked Socialism.

Here's what it responded with:

1. Mises – Economic Calculation Problem: Without market-driven prices, socialist economies lack a mechanism for rational resource allocation, leading to inefficiency, waste, and economic collapse due to the impossibility of effective central planning.

2. Hayek – Knowledge Problem: Economic knowledge is decentralised and constantly changing; central planners cannot access or process this information effectively, making socialist planning inherently flawed and inferior to spontaneous order in free markets.

3. Rothbard – Ownership Problem: Socialism divorces ownership from responsibility, resulting in mismanagement, waste, and perverse incentives where resources are depleted rather than preserved, as no individual has direct accountability for their use.

4. Hoppe – Argumentation Ethics: Socialists deny self-ownership and property rights but rely on them when arguing, making socialism philosophically self-contradictory, as rational discourse presupposes individual control over one's body and actions.

5. Bastiat – Seen and Unseen: Socialists ignore unintended consequences, focusing only on immediate benefits while neglecting hidden economic costs, such as wealth destruction, inefficiency, and reduced innovation caused by government intervention.

6. Saifedean – Time Preference: Socialism raises societal time preference by discouraging savings and investment, leading to short-term consumption, economic stagnation, and deterioration of capital accumulation necessary for long-term prosperity and civilization-building.

7. Menger – Subjective Value Theory: Socialism fails because value is subjective, not intrinsic; only free markets can determine prices based on individual preferences, making socialist price-setting arbitrary, inefficient, and economically destructive.

8. Böhm-Bawerk – Capital and Interest: Socialism misunderstands capital structure and time preference, failing to account for how interest rates coordinate production over time, leading to resource misallocation and economic stagnation under central planning. have debunked Socialism.