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William ₿ Travis
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Been buying bitcoin since 2018. I particularly like http://river.com. The Bitcoin White Paper http://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf Christ is Lord.

and philosopher Jacques Ellul in "The Techbological Bluff."

after 30 years of marriage, I am pretty good with who God made her.

this will be fun. she should start by giving every one of the senators who voted against her one free random patdown and bag search at the airport. and then maybe leak the video. perfectly harmless fun.

then she and Kristi Noem need to remove the TSA from all airports. MFGA.

how do you know? i think something to look at is how many hardware wallets have been sold. if the hardware wallet companies are staying in business, that's a clue re where the bitcoin is.

i understand that some people use hw to store shitcoins, but i suspect that number is low since in general they don't know what they're doing.

in 2024, the hw wallet market was estimated at $474m. if the avg prive of a hw is $150, that comes to 3.1m devices sold. that's just for 2024.

even if you assume everyone has 3 devices or people are upgrading to better devices each year, the market is projected to grow to a $2.4b industry.

this does not suggest that 50% of bitcoin is on exchanges. this suggests people value self- or shared- custody solutions.

what percent of the 70% have their bitcoin on exchanges?

I think the main privacy concern has to do with control. the privacy people don't want to govt in their business. KYC will be impossible to enforce if the govt cannot afford to enforce it. people don't really understand how things are going to change once the fed is eliminated.

i will definately be applying for an extension (that's the game they created). that delays things legally until October. we'll see what happens then.

in my view, this is what the privacy people don't get. permissionless is greater than privacy.

the permissionless nature of bitcoin will strip away the ability of govts to enforce their rules. they won't have the resources left to track purchases, let alone enforce any consequence. privacy will be the defacto result.

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