Good morning!

I do wonder… Even if CBDCs are rolled out, and the state goes into full “empire strikes back” mode, how many policemen, military men, and National guardsmen would follow orders to seize people’s assets at gun point?

Most men in uniform are good people who want the best for their fellow countrymen. There is a limit to what orders they would be willing to follow. What is that limit?

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The "performance" of European Banks the past month.

For the second week in a row, the injection of liquidity is brutal, they will not tell you about it in the media, but I will tell you.

You can see it in the two images I attach.

The economy is like a locomotive, it takes a long time to start and a long time to stop, just as the macroeconomic effects of actions taken by central banks take a long time to show. In 2020 when they started injecting liquidity I told my close ones, in two years we will suffer what they are doing now.

I say the same to you now, your savings are bleeding out as if a hair dryer heats up an ice cube.

In 2008 we did not have bitcoin to defend ourselves, in 2023 we have Bitcoin, please spread the word of Satoshi, we can not allow them to scam us again.

Protect yourself and your loved ones.

Yellen just requested $14B for the IRS…

OK, all you "it's just for small payments" custodial Lightning apologists.

I would love to hear nuanced arguments that refute these claims:

1. Adopting custodial wallets now "for small amounts" will lead to slower growth and adoption for proper, approachable self-sovereign setups, both now and in the future

2. Using custodial wallets provide zero privacy from the custodian, w/ zaps tying your nostr identity directly to any other payments you make as a result

3. Once better options are out there for self-sovereign LN, people won't switch because they'll be fully entrenched in the convenience of custodial wallets

4. Often, using custodial LN wallets isn't even using LN at all, as it's just shifting around numbers in a database (Strike>Strike, WoS>WoS, etc.)

5. If the majority of users are adopting custodial LN wallets, there will be far less funding and social pressure for better self-sovereign setups, proper privacy tools (BOLT 12, alias SCIDs, route blinding, etc.) due to so few actual potential users

Asked my two year old how he would onboard people to #Bitcoin in a self-sovereign, non-custodial, and privacy-preserving way and...

He called me a nut 😂 Seems I have some parental work yet to do.

10.4% inflation in the UK. Rough.

GM. Is the central banking system still alive?

Which is why the small banks are currently being killed?

Well, things are worse than we thought 😂

I think it's key to buildup a clean nokyc stack and from there on do disciplined utxo management. Make sure to never combine kyc'ed with nokyc'ed outputs. I absolutely love how sparrow wallet allows to label/document transactions and utxos. In the last release sparrow added an export/import for those labels.

How do you know if efforts you're making to improve your BTC privacy are actually effective (especially given the numerous foot guns that exist)?

I feel the best way is to surveil yourself, but how? Any suggestions for tools or techniques other than oxt.me and standard bitcoin explorers?

Ouch 😅

4GB Mint plan looking a little small with Nostr picking up steam...

My friends,

I have good news. Last night, I became a dad. My heart is full