Hires.

Wasn't aware their original product got banned by the FDA in 1960 for safrole, which was banned because it's a carcinogen and even currently is illegal to possess in the USA because it's used to make Ecstacy... Weird.

Anyone been down the safrole rabbit hole? It was used by Native Americans as a medicinal...

#rootbeer

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GM ☀️☕️

Remain unperturbed.

GM! #nostr #Bitcoin

#coffeechain #plebchain

The entire developed world tax apparatus that was built in the 20th century and extends into the 21st century depends on ubiquitous financial surveillance.

They are not going to give that up without a fight. I have been saying at a number of conferences and podcasts that privacy is the main battleground for the next decade.

Back in the 19th century and before, money was mostly private. There were plenty of dictators but there was no major method of surveilling all transactions. Therefore things like broad income taxes were untenable to enforce.

But in the 20th century as money increasingly moved around at the speed of light, people needed bank accounts to keep up. It wasn’t all forced on them; they chose it. And those bank accounts were centralized, surveillable, and ruggable.

This allowed authorities to switch to income taxes, which require ubiquitous financial surveillance to work. And ultimately it allowed them to switch to fiat currency altogether.

Now in the 21st century, Bitcoin and its various layers allow people to hold and move around money globally without permissioned banks. They can do so peer to peer, or they can do so with custodians and open layers, etc. Unlike the base layer of fiat, the base layer of bitcoin is permissionless.

But this represents a threat to the entire current system of taxation and financial control. If bitcoin and particularly various private methods on top of it were to be adopted at massive scale, the entire tax structure and other things would need to reshape themselves around that reality. And so they won’t make it easy; they will try to criminalize financial privacy as much as possible while the network is still pretty small.

The only solutions are to 1) make privacy tech so ubiquitous that it can’t be isolated and can spread organically in a distributed way and 2) to apply legal pressure when possible so that governments sort of have to operate within the bounds of their own law, like the 1st and 4th amendments.

💯💯💯 facts

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After jamming to Blondie, apparently I'm now on an 80s kick. I don't hate it. #tunestr

Stop drinking sugar!

Gm #Nostr 🫂 remember get that hate out your blood .

You look corny 🤣

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Good morning!

Goodnight and wabi sabi, Nostr. 🫂💜🤙🏻

The weekly grind starts tomorrow. Sigh. I love all of you Nostriches.

My man utxo, I hope all is well. I still haven't found you in global. This is harder than expected.

Cleaning out my closet and found some Nostrica shirts and my bag. Damn I wish I could feel that high again.

Nope, just a billboard 😂

If voting had an impact, they wouldn't let us do it.