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Setup your LN address. So that you can receive and send sats.

I created a Wallet if Satoshi account and used the address it provided.

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At a small Princeton event last week, among other panels and speeches, Carole House spoke about censoring bitcoin.

She is the former director of cybersecurity for the White House National Security Council, and prior to that was at FinCEN focusing on cryptocurrencies, and prior to that was in the military.

Some of her main points:

-Energy-related regulation may push some hash rate outside of the U.S., whereas she would rather see more of it in the U.S. so that they can force miners to censor the network on the base layer. She also views international cooperation as a necessary component for successful censorship. She also wants stakers to be forced to censor their PoS networks.

-It's not just about telling miners not to mine certain transactions, but to not even build atop blocks that have non-compliant transactions, so that those transactions don't get anywhere in the chain. A 51% attack, in other words. Her main concern is censoring states like North Korea from being able to participate in the network.

The event was interesting because there were several very different perspectives. On one hand there was Roya Mahboob talking about using bitcoin in Afghanistan, followed by Troy Cross, Craig Warmke, and Natalie Smolenski talking about the importance of bitcoin from an ethical perspective. On the other hand, there were panels about Bored Apes and speeches about how to censor the networks.

Thanks for that thought and picture.

I often wonder why us (I include myself) Bitcoin maxis can be so instantaneously confrontational about any other Blockchain. It's really like comparing apples to tomatoes. They're both fruit but different things.

Ethereum to me is a technology using Blockchain that has smart contract functionality. And thereby could have many use cases for disruptive technology. Could replace the engine behind the stock exchanges for example. And so many other possibilities, too much to dive into. But at the end of the day, it's a technology/speculative play. I like a lot of technology. Loved the VOIP technology growth. Love the breakthrough of the iphone that created all smartphones. Love the technology use in Uber. Love how I can order on Amazon and get same day. And I think Ethereum technology could have tech that I love too.

But it's not sound money. Something that can change the rules/code at will. Absoleet all investment in the pow hardware for their network. Have no finite amount of total coins. Is not a sound store of value. And now some in the eth world call their token "ultra sound money" is ridiculous. They make that argument because there can be burning of eth. Sure it could lower the total supply and increase its usd price momentarily. But far from sound money. Something that constantly has rules changes and is a tech/speculative asset is not sound money. Maybe that argument about ultra sound money is what bitcoiners take exception to and shitcoin it daily.

Thanks to Nostr I now know what pura vida means.

So who's gonna be in Miami? Trying to figure out what I'm doing Friday evening!

#[0]​ fucking epic night. YT brother!!

How you do this hug thing?

We all get hugs today! PV💜🧡

Yes! For the evening.

If a small group of people could convince almost the entire world that inflation (theft in money) was good for them, can you imagine what a centralized version of AI could do.

#Bitcoin and #Nostr provide immunity.

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Have y'all seen this nakamotoX AI bot respond to on Nostr yet?

Kinda creepy and concerning