Just a couple of thoughts, because fuck you. The tradeoffs between custodial and self-custodial bitcoin are nothing new. A certain amount of concern over nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq ‘s decision to leave the US is understandable, and certainly US users would be wise to remove their funds asap and find alternatives. I’d even go so far as to say users everywhere should take this all as a clear reminder of what could happen when using custodial services, and evaluate the level of risk they’re taking with their sats. But there are a lot of people on here who clearly want very badly for WoS to be an evil villain, and are willing to twist definitions and circumstances in order to turn this situation into that. It only hurts your argument and your reputation to exaggerate the facts of the situation to the extent some have. WoS decision was a shock, and the timing sucked, but beyond recognizing that all anyone is doing is speculating. Custodians are clearly a risk. Use them only when necessary. But self-custodial lightning is not always the answer, and it certainly isn’t easy enough for just anyone to do. Understand the risks in your setup and choice of wallets, and proceed accordingly. And never stop learning and orange pilling others. 💜🤙
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Frédéric Bastiat:
“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.”
Camille Paglia:
“We cannot have a world where everyone is a victim. "I'm this way because my father made me this way. I'm this way because my husband made me this way." Yes, we are indeed formed by traumas that happen to us. But then you must take charge, you must take over, you are responsible.”
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn:
“Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.”
Ayn Rand:
“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Support the bitcoin circular economy and those who risk their coin and spend their time to build it: nostr:note1054pl4ud00pghdk6ykr7l9lz0497ua7ejvxp2nr8kqjlvdedt20qjsjyr8
Murray Rothbard:
“We must, therefore, emphasize that ‘we’ are not the government; the government is not ‘us.’ The government does not in any accurate sense ‘represent’ the majority of the people.”
“The great non sequitur committed by defenders of the State…is to leap from the necessity of society to the necessity of the State.”
Murray Rothbard:
“Since the State necessarily lives by the compulsory confiscation of private capital, and since its expansion necessarily involves ever-greater incursions on private individuals and private enterprise, we must assert that the state is profoundly and inherently anti-capitalist.”
Murray Rothbard:
“To go beyond one’s right of self-defense would be to aggress on the rights of others, a violation of one’s legal duty. And yet the State by its claimed monopoly forcibly imposes its jurisdiction on persons who may have done nothing wrong. By doing so it aggresses against the rights of its citizens, something which its rules say citizens may not do.”
Murray Rothbard:
“The essential activities of the State necessarily constitute criminal aggression and depredation of the just rights of private property of its subjects (including self-ownership).”
Murray Rothbard:
“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom.”
Milton Friedman:
“Whenever you try to do good with someone else's money, you are committed to using force. How can you do good with somebody else's money, unless you first take it away from them? The only way you can take it away from them is the threat of force: you have a policeman, tax collector, who comes and takes it from them.”
Milton Friedman:
“I am (in) favor of cutting taxes under any circumstances and for any excuse, for any reason, whenever it's possible.”
In his “Opinion on the Constitutionality of a National Bank (1791) Jefferson argued that the formation of such an entity would allow Congress to "take possession of a boundless field of power” which would give them the means “to do whatever evil they please”:
To lay taxes to provide for the general welfare of the United States, that is to say, “to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare.” For the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. They are not to lay taxes ad libitum for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts or provide for the welfare of the Union. In like manner, they are not to do anything they please to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose. To consider the latter phrase, not as describing the purpose of the first, but as giving a distinct and independent power to do any act they please, which might be for the good of the Union, would render all the preceding and subsequent enumerations of power completely useless.
Ludwig von Mises:
"The metamorphosis of taxes into weapons of destruction is the mark of present-day public finance."
"Taxes are paid because the taxpayers are afraid of offering resistance to the tax gatherers. They know that any disobedience or resistance is hopeless. As long as this is the state of affairs, the government is able to collect the money that it wants to spend."
Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
I paid full price, so it’s less than I paid 🤣Just good to support the circular economy. The more people can succeed with Bitcoin businesses in their market segment, the more likely more market segments will adopt.
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