I recently learned that legislation has been drafted on Capitol Hill to classify *not re-using Bitcoin addresses* as "mixing"

There are also efforts to force "unhosted wallet providers" to collect user info for taxes

As well as to give power to Treasury to sanction any address (even Americans)

And a whole lot more bad stuff

IMO Coin Center does vital work to fight this and to protect privacy tech

They are a compact team and do a lot with the resources they have

They sue the OFAC and Treasury

They consider the Bank Secrecy Act unconstitutional and act accordingly

I just spent some time with their leadership team, asking questions, and came away impressed, I would strongly suggest a donation today

coincenter.org

higher highs and higher lows - still like the corn price action

Every once in a while if I feel down about something, I practice gratitude by reminding myself that at least I'm not a bond investor.

GN

Is it true that your phone pings various Bluetooth trackers even in retail locations - thus revealing your movement to data brokers?

I'm not trying to make you guys wrap yourself in tinfoil— almost nobody needs to be as paranoid as I am, and even I am tremendously lazy about opsec these days. The key is *awareness*: to simply be cognizant of what kind of records you're generating as you go about your life, so you can make informed, reasoned judgments about how much of it you can leave hanging out, and what parts of it you'd rather pay an effort-tax to shield from appearing in somebody's (or everybody's) database.

faraday bags 🤝

Get a mechanical watch, carry a wad of cash. Leave your phone at home. Head out into the world like this at least once a week and enjoy life without any digital bullshit. Thank me later.

People really don't realize how utterly dependent modern surveillance is on the idea that everybody is carrying a phone — which is always tracked. Their car has a cellular modem in it — which is always tracked. 99% of investigation is one guy and a search box. If you're not low-hanging fruit, you aren't gonna merit the Eye of Sauron of manual, well-resourced, focused team attention—and if you did, you probably planned ahead for it, right? Because it's not a mystery what would get you on Santa's Naughty List.

Anyway, the point is that even in a big city, the phoneless guy in a "covid" mask is going to be invisible to anything less than that exhaustive manual investigation — at least for a few more years. That may go away once they start networking all the cameras and having AI start trying to match up clothing sets moving from camera to camera, butthat capability is hard to hide, so it'll be in the news. And it won't work that well in places with less camera density and, perhaps, for people who wear the most-common outfits (the visual equivalent of a "shared fingerprint").

Remember: Phones are useful, but dangerous. And the people who will still wear covid masks to the beach are helping to normalize facial obscurity—regardless of their intention. Don't be mean to them. Encourage them to wear them everywhere. For passport photos. In police booking photos. At the customs desk. Family portraits! The sky is the limit—let them push the boundaries so that you don't have to.

nostr:note1dufu3sutqcu4er2pj9k7zmxdf7k23qxn3eskwdr8tp3ffvg7g9qqsv4lrc

We are bitcoiners and freedom lovers, but the truth is that tomorrow 99,99% of us here will get up to work and support our worst enemy, the state.

One way or another you are going to pay taxes.

If anyone knows how to get out of the system completely I'm all ears.

We are bitcoiners and freedom lovers, but the truth is that tomorrow 99,99% of us here will get up to work and support our worst enemy, the state.

One way or another you are going to pay taxes.

If anyone knows how to get out of the system completely I'm all ears.

Unexpected Application Error!

WebAssembly.instantiate(): expected magic word 00 61 73 6d, found 3c 21 64 6f @+0

CompileError: WebAssembly.instantiate():

I've been on a crappy mobile connection while traveling and have been more mindful of bandwidth usage. I've noticed the following:

Nostr seems to use an order of magnitude more bandwidth than X, despite me spending far more screen time on X.

I suspect this is because X controls the delivery of multimedia content and thus ensures it's downsampled and optimally compressed for mobile app rendering.

Whereas nostr media is hosted and delivered at the original raw file size at which it was uploaded.

May the Lord be with you.

Open a channel to the ⚡ Lightning Goats ⚡ node:

02ce7abb5e625990f7898520bca721b7ae316165eef81133dcfe4068fcfbe37ac6@70.34.209.79:9736

02ce7abb5e625990f7898520bca721b7ae316165eef81133dcfe4068fcfbe37ac6@[2a05:f480:2000:2278:5400:4ff:fe4a:6e98]:9736

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