Run your own node. Verify for yourself.
Secure your own private keys.
Opt in to the future.
Opt out of the past.
Even old guys can do it.
You young bucks have no f-n excuse.
Don’t let the boomers get all the bitcoin.
Great take on security ⬇️
Responsively Resistant
Antifragile
System
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“What I know”
“What I’m able to communicate”
“What someone listening understands”
Any help finding this note/reply appreciated.
🙏
Waiting on omega/god candle
Information wants to be free.
Information that is broadly valuable to humans WILL BE FREE.
Not that worried about the latest *attacks* the honey badger is built for hostility.
Time is on our side.
A bit worried about staying healthy and lucid enough to remember my private key set up….
💯 key is expressiveness and 15-18 inches from your face - the baby *trains* the adults to hold them in the sweet spot of their immature eye’s focal zone. Enjoy every moment.
Opt Out
Work. Provide value to others. Spend less than you make. Relentlessly stack in bitcoin. Use a money outside the system. If enough people do this, we win.
Which is better money?
Bitcoin just has to be better than the next best money. Time will do the rest. Do they (US GOV) really think the USD will out compete Bitcoin? If so why all the attacks? Why not just tighten up their own fiscal house? They must see that they have no options. They have to fight to win.
Opting out peacefully and relentlessly.
ETFers on Xitter must be loosing it with this drawdown.
Staying humble
(NOSTR only)
Stacking SATs
So is the US GOV starting to see that Bitcoin is money?
Can you break “money transmission laws” using something that isn’t money?
Should those who use/hodl it be taxed if its purchasing power increases?
Keep calm and HODL #Bitcoin.
Everyone seems to be overreacting to the Samourai arrests, the FBI PSA, and Phoenix leaving the US. Here's my attempt to break it down.
Samourai
You have to unpack all of the different elements. Could this be a state attack on self-custody and privacy? Maybe. Probably not.
There are a few components here that need to be evaluated on their own.
1⃣ Samourai was a self-custodial wallet
2⃣ Samourai was a mixer
3⃣ Samourai was providing normal people with privacy
4⃣ Samourai were knowingly marketing the service to criminals and flaunting that fact
Reading the charges, it seems like #4 is pretty cut and dry for this case. Their getting arrested for #4, doesn't automatically mean #1, #2, #3 are under siege as well. If Samourai was a taco stand laundering money and bragging about it, I'm sure they would be taken down too.
They may be accused of running a money transmitter now, but that may or may not stick. We'll find out in the trial.
All that said, we should always be vigilant to attempts to erode privacy and the ability to self-custody. It just does not seem that this fight is *that* fight.
FBI PSA
Seems pretty normal that the FBI would advise people to use compliant services, and the entire announcement seems to revolve around potential disruptions due to Samourai being taken down, and potentially others in the future. Given they took action, they have to post some bulletin about it.
Remember that when people lose funds or have funds stolen from them, they do go to the FBI for help. From their point of view, the best thing for people to do is use compliant services where they can potentially help.
The announcement concludes saying that services that purposely break the law will be investigated - so again we go back to #4 above. This is nothing new, and self-custody is not being criminalized.
Phoenix Leaving
As nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said, it's feels completely unnecessary. Phoenix obviously is not a MSB and they are not doing anything illegal. In my view, their exit from the US app stores is a complete overreaction.
Keep Calm
Could "they" come after wallets, developers, mixers, nodes, LSPs, sidechains, eCash, VPNs, encryption, etc? It's totally possible. But if you're not breaking the law, you have nothing to worry about.
To my knowledge, there is still rule of law in the US, property rights are still protected, and privacy is enshrined in the Bill of Rights (nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu).
It would be very difficult to change the law or stretch it to incriminate these things because it's all just information and software, which is speech. Some will try. But as they are trying, #Bitcoin is becoming more and more mainstream and integral to the world's financial system.
#Bitcoin is freedom technology and it will continue on.
Go outside this weekend and think about why you're here.
Property rights
Privacy
Bitcoin
Stay positive. This will be a long fight. Support those who are putting their livelihood on the line.
The US has strong property rights and a still functioning Judicial branch.
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances”
“The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.”
Should Mutiny users only be running it the browser version, rather than the app?
Is there a problem with Phoenix?