Ya’ll want Nostr Lyn to write a sci fi novel in whatever spare time she has, or get back to finance?

free assange!

My husband recently observed to me how important conditioning is for people to accept things as normal.

He said that when he first began reading my articles, he was like “Okay but I mean, fiat currency censorship isn’t really *that bad* as you describe”. But then in the years that followed, he was like “oh shit, it actually is. The fact that we have to ask permission to access significant amounts of our own money at banks and say what we will do with it is fucking insane. Why is this normal now?”

In Europe especially but also elsewhere, it’s increasingly common to make cash transactions illegal above a certain threshold value. Above that value, you have to go through centralized, surveilled, corporate/government systems, or you’re doing an illegal transaction.

That seems absolutely insane if introduced out of nowhere, but instead it has been introduced gradually through conditioning and so people are like, “well I don’t use cash anyway so that’s okay I guess, in fact I don’t even know that’s a law now”.

The same is generally true for social media. Filtering communications through centralized pipes is actually a radical position but it’s increasingly the new normal. In fact, the centralization of banking and communications in the hands of the state were two of their ten steps proposed in the Communist Manifesto.

Happy Halvening to those who celebrate.

Good morning nostr 👑

The trial has ended

We officially have a pup!

Arnie (King Arnie) is a rescue dog

Breed unknown

Fast learner, very smart

LOVES the snow and being outside

Welcome home Arnie ❤️

The past two years of bitcoin conferences I have been at have been bear market conferences.

And funnily, the energy was still really high at all of them. Pacific Bitcoin in 2022 occurred literally during the FTX dump to $16k and we were having an amazing time regardless.

Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira has been the closest thing to a conference in a bull market for a while.

My single favorite thing at conferences is meeting people from so many countries. Within one example hour I met a woman from Saudi Arabia, a whole group from Bulgaria, someone from Bolivia, someone from Columbia, someone from Spain, and someone from South Africa. A woman from Malaysia really stuck out too and it was a great conversation.

There is no other asset that brings out so much hope and unity from people with such different backgrounds and experiences.

Open source global money. 🫂

Gensler: "You trust it [Bitcoin] more than an Oracle database?" Oh boy 😂😂😂...

Back in 1969, my mother was 19 and she wrote a letter to William O Douglas, who was the longest sitting Supreme Court Justice in US history.

She wrote to inquire about a summer internship, but incorrectly addressed it to the Department of Justice rather than the Supreme Court.

Today when going through a 30-year old storage locker, we found his response. The Justice had taken the time to personally write back in order to dunk on her:

Haven't watched Andor. Way too many Star Wars spin offs IMO. Is it worth watching?