Perfect example of anarcho-tyranny. Impose life sentences for non-crimes, while leaving all sorts of real property and violent crimes unpunished. Many such cases.

Persist default zap amount. For some reason, it occasionally deletes what I set.

Hi, in IRL I’m a senior exec in the fiat financial sector. My only acts of defiance in this rigged system are putting all my savings in bitcoin and keeping my mind free, and trying to instil same to my family. Always been a lurker, not a poster or even a reply guy, until I discovered nostr.

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I think I see what you did there… heterodox maths & atheism?

You are the outlier, while she is staying true to her roots. The Fed was the lynchpin of the Progressive Era.

WE HaD a rOAdMaP

Semantics. The need to regulate is the excuse to surveil. "Think of the children!!!"

"Stablecoin" is a propaganda term. USDC, USDT, etc. are traditional fiat shitcoins built on modern shitcoin tech, inheriting the tradeoffs of both. Just because some people are forced to use them, doesn't mean we should give them the time of day. Some people unfortunately have to burn cow shit to heat their homes and cook their food, and nobody wastes their time talking about how useful cow shit is.

nostr:npub1t289s8ck5qfwynf2vsq49t2kypvvkpj7rhegayrur0ag9s2sezaqgunkzs, honest question from a loyal customer: are you not concerned about the privacy implications of offering your exchange users a mobile wallet? Seems like this could enable tying kyc identities to lightning payments, including knowing the destinations and even labels.

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LOL. I'm calm. This could be me rn:

Nation-states prefer subjecting themselves to dollar hegemony because then they can inflate away at the same rate as the US. This explains why Russia and China keep bluffing about going to a gold standard without actually doing it, even when the US regime gets more and more reckless with sanctions.

Bottom line is that no state with a functioning central bank will willingly go on a Bitcoin Standard. This is a good thing, we want separation of money and state, not Bitcoin as Gold 2.0.

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It is totally reasonable to hold the regime responsible when someone inconvenient to them dies in their custody, even without a smoking gun. This is true for Muyshondt in El Salvador, Navalny in Russia. Same standard needs to be applied at home.

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There is no such thing as fuck you money. The more you have, the higher your responsibility to fund the systems that safeguard your wealth. Your taxes do the opposite of safeguarding your wealth, so go to nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f and do your part.

UNPOPULAR OPINION: Real estate is a shitcoin but that doesn't mean you shouldn't strive to buy a house. Having your kids grow up in a series of generic rental houses will allow you to stack more. But, there is more to life than stacking sats. The satisfaction of having a piece of land that you can call your own, even if the government presumes to charge you rent for it (property tax), is real. Getting to know your neighbours, building community, keeping an eye out for each others' kids, is real.

Putin is ruthless and I have no doubt he would kill me and my family if that was what he needed to do to advance his political aims. Yet, he does not command the regime that will try to confiscate my bitcoin, or that steals more than half of my income, or that seeks to indoctrinate my children, or who would enable their chemical castration, or take them away from me if I stood in their way.

So, I will not join today's 5 minutes of hate, thank you very much. If that means I will be called a Putin simp, then so be it. I've been called worse (Saddam apologist, anti vaxxer, etc.) for not going along with other psyops.

Bitcoiners who hold on to mainstream political beliefs, such as democracy and republican constitutionalism, need to think harder about the second order effects of our victory. The modern state is an impossibility without control of the money.

Reasonable friend/enemy distinction. I wish all the lolberts clustering in the green quadrant would see it that way. They tend to spend most of their time clutching their pearls and attacking those in the yellow quadrant instead of focusing on the real enemies of liberty.

Fair enough! I guess I'm being too autistic since Rand explicitly denounced libertianism and Chomsky uses the term in a way that is not relevant to the modern American libertarian movement. My central conceit is that us libertarians do not fall under the left/right dichotomy, though its true that some of us are traditionalists and some are libertines.