If I recall correctly, there were efforts to unify Europe in the 18 aughts and 1930s. People seemed to prefer less unification after each of those.

Two classes of "bitcoin" emerge on the same blockchain.

1. Bitcoin.

2. Compliant bitcoin.

Which do you think the financial institutions and governments are going to buy, use, and promote?

Fixed! Thank you!

Bytes are not scarce. But bandwidth over time is scarce.

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I was visiting https://coracle.social/ using Tor Browser Bundle 14.0.6 (based on Mozilla Firefox 128.7.0esr)

It looks almost exactly the same on mine except the mf2 line is gray. Like there is space for it but no text there. Not in the source html either. I don't know the best pastebin else I'd post an image.

That is really weird. The image appears, the last line of hashtags appears, but not the text between. Huh? nostr:npub1jlrs53pkdfjnts29kveljul2sm0actt6n8dxrrzqcersttvcuv3qdjynqn

I hear this well-worn quote from Hayek about sly, roundabout, something in the context of bitcoin perhaps fulfilling Hayek's suggestion. First, it can go both ways. Do we really think that the only thing the powers will do against a competitor is show up at people's doors and shoot them in the face? Second, we are in a world where questions about virtual currencies appear on tax forms and Goldman Sachs is buying bitcoin.

The sly moment of bitcoin passed a while ago. The opposition's (well-organized and well-funded) slyness and roundaboutness is the thing to guard against.

I appreciate that you included the text of the meme right there in the nostr event. We need more of that so we can better decide whether to load the image.

SOMETHING ABOUT AI OR QUANTUM COMPUTING!

The last thing we want is government efficiency. To paraphrase Hoppe, competition and efficiency are a benefit when we talk about goods, but they are a disaster when we talk about bads.

Plausible deniability.

If it's the FCC saying these devices need to be seized that sounds more like blanket expropriation.

I don't know.

It is to be expected on a system that is not actively trying new techniques to keep our attention.

Does specialized hardware encourage specialized seizure?

"U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is seizing Bitcoin mining ASICs. The crackdown, as reported by Blockspace.Media, now includes machines from MicroBT and Canaan, following the initial stoppage of Bitmain’s Antminer S21 and T21 models last year." - https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/cbp-broadens-crackdown-on-asian-asics/

Perhaps an interesting civil forfeiture case: https://www.courtlistener.com/opinion/10277513/united-states-v-fifty-three-virtual-currency-accounts/

Maybe https://www.courtlistener.com is close.

Is there a sci-hub-like service for court documents?