If companies that record your phone calls are legally required to tell you...
When you visit someone who has an Alexa in their home, shouldn't they be required to gain your consent to be recorded too?
Sorry to hear - always sad to lose a good friend.
They say Bitcoin is for criminals.
And yet I have received at least five of these Class Action letters because the fiat banks have provably continually committed financial crimes (covering currency, metals, commodity and treasury markets).
But because the banks and lawyers control clown world for their own benefit, the plaintiffs (in this case traders, of which I was one) only get paid if they provide copies of all broker statements from 2005 to 2011. Statements required from 18 years ago! In the UK people only generally hold statements for seven years, because that is what is required by tax law.
Very convenient for the banks that it has it taken so many years after the crimes were known for the class actions to be brought. And imagine what proportion of the settlement will go to the lawyers for so many years of hard work.
Can any long term #nyms recommend a non-KYC bitcoin accepting domain registration and/or VPS hosting provider?
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It's impossible to be too #BullishOnBitcoin.
Just listened to Gladstein talking about accelerating adoption across the Global South (https://www.theinvestorspodcast.com/bitcoin-fundamentals/how-the-imf-and-world-bank-sell-exploitation-as-development-w-alex-gladstein/)
Followed by Obi talking about how Fedimint is going to enable it (https://www.whatbitcoindid.com/podcast/how-fedimint-scales-bitcoin) - look out for an annoucement in Miami ;)
(h/t to nostr:npub1s5yq6wadwrxde4lhfs56gn64hwzuhnfa6r9mj476r5s4hkunzgzqrs6q7z and nostr:npub14mcddvsjsflnhgw7vxykz0ndfqj0rq04v7cjq5nnc95ftld0pv3shcfrlx for the pods)
Everything in Bitcoin comes at just the right time.
Fedimint and Cashu arriving on the scene in 2023, just as it looks like some people may get priced out from opening their own Lightning channels.
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Electric vehicles are zero emission.
Bitcoin miners are too.
Pierre drops some education: https://twitter.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1653544090103869441
Why one on linear, one on log scale?
Or cider for those who prefer apples to hops.
For those in the west of England the Apple cider boat in Bristol (https://applecider.co.uk/) has just started accepting Lightning.
My podcast of the month is Bitcoin Audible podcast no 724 from nostr:npub1h8nk2346qezka5cpm8jjh3yl5j88pf4ly2ptu7s6uu55wcfqy0wq36rpev
One of those potentially life-changing pods with Objectivist Ethics from the genius Ayn Rand. Thanks to Guy for curating and to nostr:npub1az9xj85cmxv8e9j9y80lvqp97crsqdu2fpu3srwthd99qfu9qsgstam8y8 for giving him the poke to bring Rand's incredible thinking back to our attention.
Fiat money - the idea that we can and should create money from thin air - is simply saying, "I know better than the market how to allocate money", which is to say to know better than everyone else what is good and what is bad, what is valuable and what isn't, what is necessary and what is superfluous.
The question that the fiat system answers is the following: who is allowed to counterfeit currency, and how much? Further, who is allowed to have access to money, and who isn't?
#[0] getting to the root of things (again) in https://www.citadel21.com/bitcoins-meme-wars
Welcome #[0] - with all the best bitcoiners coming to Nostr the day is soon coming where Twitter can be deleted 😁
Does anyone else see an almost perfect inverse correlation between this graph from the Fed: 
, and this one regarding the well-being of a turkey: 
(Fed graph is from https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/fed-balance-sheet-surges-another-100bn-amid-bank-runs-foreign-repos-soar-record-and-cash)
The $2 trillion created overnight by the FED is $2,000,000,000,000.
That's $250 for every single human being on the planet. Created instantly by a few men in a room with no work done or anything of value created.
The truth is governments can produce unlimited money whenever they want. This costs us all later in the form of inflation, which makes us all poorer.
Since fiat money was created, taxes are no longer needed. In fact they are a charade, because even the highest taxes in history can no longer pay for the government's out of control spending. Taxes are retained simply as a means of controlling us.
Can you see yet, how much we are being played?
For people thinking their deposits are safe if they are below the #FDIC $250k limit...
You might get your money back, but are you prepared to wait for months or years before you have access to it again?
I had life savings in a bank in Europe in 2008 (IceSave) that was covered by the UK's version of FDIC, the FSCS. I felt safe. But when the bank ceased to function, I didn't get my money back from the FSCS for more than 2 years.
BTW, I also had to provide bank statements to prove to the FSCS that I had savings at the bank - good luck with that if it's a web based bank and their website "goes down". So I hope you're keeping records on your own computer and not just leaving them on your bank's website ;)
My family must have thought that bottle of orange pills I left on the side were sweets.
The lies in this statement are utterly shameless: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy1337
"no losses will be borne by the taxpayer"
(so who will they be born by?)
"the U.S. banking system remains resilient and on a solid foundation"
(which is why we had to have an emergency meeting on a Sunday to save it) 🤡
Another warning shot about the state of affairs at Binance
Hopefully no need to tell the smart folks on Nostr to get everything off Binance, but heads up that things may not be too rosy there: