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Today, June 4th, 2025, marks the 21st anniversary of the KILLDOZER — one of the most infamous acts of rebellion and defiance against government authorities.

Marvin Heemeyer owned a small muffler shop in his town. The local government approved the construction of a concrete plant directly in front of his business, effectively blocking access and causing severe financial harm. Marvin repeatedly sought solutions through legal means, appealing to the city council to halt construction or allow partial access. Every request was denied.

At one point, Marvin even offered to build an alternative access road at his own expense — he had purchased the necessary materials and machinery. Still, the city refused.

To make matters worse, the concrete plant disconnected Marvin's shop from the town’s sewage system. Instead of helping, the city fined him for having improper sewage. 🤡

With his business failing and his personal life in ruins, Marvin meticulously planned his revenge. Over the course of 1.5 years, he secretly modified a bulldozer he had originally purchased for the road project. He fortified it with steel armor, installed bulletproof glass, and equipped it with a sophisticated camera system — state-of-the-art for the time.

On June 4th, 2004, Marvin locked himself inside the armored bulldozer and began his mission, first demolishing the concrete plant that had devastated his livelihood. Over the next few hours, he drove through town, systematically destroying government buildings and the homes of public officials he held responsible for his plight.

The SWAT team was deployed, but their weapons, including rifles and explosives, proved useless against the heavily armored KILLDOZER.

Nothing seemed capable of stopping Marvin’s fury against the system — until the machine became trapped in the debris of one of the buildings he was demolishing. Surrounded and with no way out, Marvin took his own life — the only casualty of that day.

Today, we remember the day of the KILLDOZER and Marvin Heemeyer — the last great American anti-hero. A simple man who decided to fight back after his life was destroyed by an indifferent government.

Among his notes, one quote stood out:

“I was always a reasonable person until I had to be unreasonable. Sometimes reasonable men must do unreasonable things.”

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https://video.nostr.build/ed9cf091f40b976efcad1dd46087a3a11229e8dd579cd3faa862d89939d0381f.mp4

Thx for sharing! Too bad it ended with him taking his own life. Any word what happened to the bureaucrats that drove him to this course of action?

& Nuscale Power Corp went +71% in a month's time & you hear from them only in select channels. I'm still maybe having FTX PTSD, dunno; but it's slower this time around, so my guard gets up automatically.

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Judging by all the positive news (strategic reserves everywhere, mass ETF inflows, ...) & still not past 111k $ smells like fractional reserved coining going on...

#asknostr only positive #BTC news... Why is the price not budging? I fear games are actually being played here & we're not too far off a black swan.

Does anyone know why BCB Blue Collar Bitcoin seized to exist...? Did our favorite firefighters stay in a fire too long? Really curious and never seemed to have found the answer... #asknostr

The mimblewimble community of course... Oh wait...

Everyone involved with this conference is now put on notice in my book. You shall be ignored.

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How shitcoins almost destroyed my life and how Bitcoin saved it.

It was the end of 2017, just before the all-time high, when I bought my first satoshis. I had heard about it from a friend who had bought a few months earlier and was already making good profits.

Unfortunately, he was also addicted to shitcoins and so I was recommended ADA, XRP and ETH.

I bought a load of XVG and watched my initial $1000 turn into more than $3000 over the course of a few days. I felt absolutely invincible (I wasn't to feel that way for the next 7 years).

The crash after the all-time high came and I watched as the $3000 became less and less, I bought all kinds of shitcoins and lost more and more.

At some point I came across something on Telegram called Dapps and it ran on the Tron blockchain, it sounded interesting and revolutionary to me "decentralized apps" that must be something I thought.

I soon found myself in the first Tron casinos and I convinced myself that I was "mining" some casino coins by letting the slot machines glow from early in the morning until late at night. I didn't even realize that I was slipping deeper and deeper into gambling addiction.

It was January 2025 when I didn't know what to do next and I was close to the end because I no longer knew how to pay my bills when I finally found the courage to seek help.

I told my fiancée everything and she promised to support me and that we would manage together. With the certainty of your help behind me, the first week went by without me playing. I bought a pile of Bitcoin books and listened to podcasts all day to successfully distract myself and not think about my searches.

Bitcoin finally opened my eyes 7 years after my first encounter with it, I no longer see the world the way I did before.

Now 5 months have passed and I haven't wasted a single thought on starting to play again. I've even stopped smoking and spend more time in nature.

I stack sats every day and I feel even more fantastic than I did back then.

I thank my fiancée and I thank Bitcoin!

You were a bit late to discover you were not on the right track. Glad you kept it together after all.

Get a McDo burger. Think they were bigger & better back then.

No, deleted knots, attached new & bigger SSD & re-installing. Was pushing limits of previous disk. Syncing will probably take another 4-5 days. Keeping you updated.

#asknostr

I updated Bitcoin Knots to version 28.1-2

The thing died on me.

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