Hydrofoil surfboards, like taking flight
📹 benjaminortega (Benjamin Ortega)
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Why just ride a wave when you can ride the swell that creates the waves? Thanks Laird Hamilton
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Migrating to the actual .com domain after it has been registered for a month and I can transfer it, but here’s the first draft of the site.
This is why I stopped trying to pill my friends and family. If you don’t get it, I don’t have time to make you get it.
⚡️ or 🤙🏽 if you immediately recognized Bitcoin’s value proposition and started a couple of exchange accounts the day you read Saif’s book
Announcing their next bullshit false flag and the regulation to follow.
Just another bitcoin dev’s home server “rack” nostr:npub1ta5sstxzpk7aykejp6cv8eul80m2rjfwvp3rgjw0xgjtp7s3ak5s0c96f7 . See nostr:npub1h50pnxqw9jg7dhr906fvy4mze2yzawf895jhnc3p7qmljdugm6gsrurqev mine isn’t that bad 😂. Yes those are laptop server nodes. This is what peak performance looks like. 
Cable management is vanity
Yeah I just about lost my house over that shit. But I’m glad we held the line. My wife works at a hospital and is now seeing fucking infants and toddlers getting heart monitors ordered at the lab because their mouth breathing parents didn’t have two brain cells to rub together
The oppression will continue until a few people start trading their lives to make a point.
Proof of steak 🥩
I only had a Twitter account for 3 months and I could feel that it was making me sick. It was like a giant weight being lifted from me when I ignored my final account expiry notification. It’s the same feeling I had when I killed my FakeBook account in 2003. I know that I have denied myself countless business, networking and value sharing opportunities by rejecting social media for the last 20 years. And I’m really wondering how a person exits the fiat mines 100% without capitalizing on it in some way in this day and age. But then I look at my garden, water system, pantry, armoury, backup power system, Tor server, Bitcoin stack and vax free family, and think about the hours I spent on those things instead of doom scrolling social media.
PS The best part of Nostr for me has been finally finding The Survival Podcast. I can’t believe you’ve been at it for 16 years and I’m only finding you now lol. You’re doing God’s work man. #tsp
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.
But the FBI and the DOJ can still……SUCK IT
When Money Dies - The Nightmare of the Weimar Collapse by Adam Fergusson
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aQ_oHKH_ga-MZb43noY6RO-DZtiGGcQO/view?usp=drivesdk