Or save yourself some time and read the transcript - https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/4220489/posts
Excellent. Now go forth and create zappable content!
Yeah, Len Sassaman at one point was 67% now languishing at 4%. Hilarious!
My first reaction to your question was - āhow is that any of your concern? Satoshi obviously wants anonymity and thatās all that matters.ā You talk of him not having done anything illegal, so instead I invite you to read the transcript of Julian Assangeās testimony to PACE last week. In it you will find a first hand account of how the US and UK governments trampled over laws designed to protect journalists and whistleblowers (including the United States Constitution, no less) to pursue a vendetta against a journalist who showed them for the murderers and thieves they are.
The state does not like its power to be challenged. Satoshi knew this and kept his identity secret for this reason. In fact you may recall him practically begging Assange in 2010 not to accept #bitcoin donations, given the heat it would bring down on the network which was at that point still in its infancy.
He chose wisely and we should respect that.
GM, plebs. Another beautiful day to stay humble and stack sats. Eventually, everyone will be dancing to the tune of unstoppable sound money.
#bitcoin
First day and first time in New Zealand and I already exchanged BTC to cash with a complete stranger. Bitcoin is the peopleās network.
Thanks for connecting nostr:npub1hrctsg2qwu5gsp65gvj29968z460g0th755jq92c8uaz620lewmq6qk525
Nice work - what brings you to NZ? FYI there is a local Discord called Cryptocurrency NZ, effectively a bulletin board that connects bitcoiners (and shitcoiners š¶) who are looking to buy/sell. Iāve done a number of F2F trades this way! Youāll find thereās a very active community here. Also thereās a Bitkiwi event taking place in Wellington on 26 October - usually a good place to connect.
#bitcoin #nz
Sorry didnāt mean to hijack this thread to be a conversation about NZ. But there were a bunch of liberal economic reforms that took place in the mid-eighties, the so called āRogernomicsā after the then Labour Minister of Finance, Roger Douglas. Devaluation of the NZ$, deregulation of state-owned enterprises, tax cuts, removals of tariffs and subsidies, etc. It worked really well for a while, but much of the populace want to keep their snouts in the trough and for the rich to pay for it all. The last (Labour) government bumped up the top income tax rate to 39% (GST, the sales tax equivalent, sits at 15%) and now the (liberal) media is full of articles about how we need wealth taxes and capital gains taxes. They see it as a revenue problem, not a spending problem. When I asked Adrian Orr (current Governor of the Reserve Bank) if they had plans to hold bitcoin as a treasury asset, his answer was a derisive ānoā. Disappointing.
I enabled it and have left it that way.
Is it just me showing my age or is anyone else holding out for block #867530?
#IYKYK #tommytutone
There are scripts that workaround
this issue, you just need to look for them. Zapplepay is one (https://www.zapplepay.com/) as well as https://nostrscript.suhailsaqan.com/. Iām using Damus on iOS and have just zapped your post some satsā¦ š
Excellent, well-reasoned article. I read it and couldnāt help but draw parallels with the feckless political class here in NZ. The problem persists in most modern liberal democracies, it seems - team red vs team blue mentality, voter apathy combined with (often blind) trust in our leaders / institutions etc. It needed to be said, so thanks for using your platform to address the many elephants in the room. Hope to see you in Sydney.
Au contraire, douchebag. We *love* greatness - Satoshi deserves all accolade and credit (and probably a Nobel Prize for peace/economics) for everything he has done to foster a return to sound money. You, however, do not.
Risky business! Good to see you navigated it wellā¦