People are starting to understand…
there’s ’crypto.’
Then there’s #Bitcoin 
When you tell people about #bitcoin it’s like telling them the air they’ve been breathing their entire lives is killing them and now there is a cleaner, healthier choice.
But people tend to trust the polluted air they know rather than some better but unfamiliar alternative. 
Get your #bitcoin off exchanges and into self custody. Then organize your setup so your keys aren’t stored in your home. After that you can sleep like a baby without having to lock your doors.
Goodnight. 
FinCEN’s proposal to outlaw all crypto privacy is a huge overreach. They apply a section of the Patriot Act on a “class of transactions” in a new precedent. Doesn’t matter if it’s custodial or noncustodial- merely using certain type of code can be an illegal act.
People are caught by the potential spot ETF, meanwhile this is proposed. Now they fight you.
https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/fincen-wants-to-outlaw-certain-bitcoin-on-chain-transactions/
Is it even possible to comply if such a law was forced on us? Isn’t privacy by default already being built into layer 1 and 2?
When you have a solid foundation, you can grow and flourish.
#Bitcoin 
While inflation continues to bite and $500B is added to our national debt in a matter of weeks, here’s Fidelity Investments’ report on #Bitcoin outlining why this asset class (and new form of money) matters.
The world rages on.
In some places life has been upended. In most places people are living their lives and providing for their families.
#Mendocino 
Thanks to @orangepillapp for helping connect North Bay Area bitcoiners for tonight’s meetup.
At a #Bitcoin meetup you never know who you’re going to meet next. 
Trying to explain to people that there is a form of money that’s superior to the dollar is challenging.
It’s like explaining that there’s a new form of air you can breathe which improves health and wellbeing while reducing inequality and bolstering future prosperity.
#Bitcoin 
Gotttem. Thanks for the 537 sats. They popped into my wallet at the beach yesterday afternoon.
Right or Left, it all gets censored if the powers that be don't like it. There is no red, there is no blue. There is the state, and there is you.
Jon Stewart’s Apple TV Plus show ends, reportedly over coverage of AI and China
https://www.theverge.com/2023/10/19/23924549/jon-stewart-apple-ai-china-cancel
What would Steve have said about this?
#Bitcoin - coming to a town near you.
#Mendocino 
NEWS.
You may have heard of this week’s Cointelegraph Twitter disaster. They falsely claimed that U.S. regulators had approved BlackRock's proposed ETF pushing Bitcoin’s price to $30,000.
While Bitcion’s price retraced after the false alarm, it’s clear that markets will respond favorably if a spot ETF is approved.
Upcoming potential catalysts for Bitcoin:
1. BlackRock CEO, Larry Fink called Bitcoin’s recent price action a “flight to quality” signaling institutional acceptance
2.The Bitcoin Halving in April 2024
3. Many analysts expect the Fed will be forced to expand their balance sheet in 2024 which would be bullish for Bitcoin and other financial assets
4. Potential approval of a spot Bitcoin ETF
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TED TALK.
In this TED talk Harold Tan, partner at GoGreenSolar, describes the history of money up to modern times and why bitcoin is arguably the best money we’ve ever had.
And now for today’s WHAT IF:
WHAT IF #Bitcoin becomes so valuable that Bitcoin testnet starts to have value too?
The internet put everyone on the same footing as giant media corporations.
#Bitcoin puts everyone on the same footing as wealthy land owners. 
I ran into a friend, an ‘old timer’ the other day. He’s been here since 1980. He’s seen a lot of changes. “There used to be travelers coming through here, pilgrims from the city who were searching for meaning. Now we have tourists.”
#Mendocino
He cares about the environment. He saw the effects logging had up and down the coast. He lives simply on a piece of land a mile up the ridge. It’s a property where he knows the owner, meanwhile the price of rent goes up and up every year pricing out the old timers.
He cares about privacy and knows who Snowden is. It was Snowden’s influence that got him using Telegram. He uses cash like most old timers do. He wasn’t familiar with #bitcoin but a flicker of interest crossed his face.
Many old timers around here are techno-skeptics. There’s a feeling that technology is the problem, that if we could just get back to the land we’d return to a state of grace with Mother Earth.
After running into him in it crossed my mind that I’m becoming an old timer too, an old timer and bitcoiner. 
BREAKING NEWS…
The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) has not announced anything. 
I think I just orange pilled someone in Africa. Now it’s time to orange pill someone in #Mendocino .
Even though this video is 10 years old, it resonates even more today at a time of evident inflation and a national debt that will never be repaid.
It clearly walks us through how our current financial system steals from us without our noticing.
