turns out bitcoiners are super sensitive and reactive

Being a farmer/doctor/artist/etc. that incorporates bitcoin into the business of your everyday life is more important than being the most hardcore "bitcoiner" on social media.

What the truckers proved is that governments will only allow large civil disobedience like protests when it's against a FOREIGN government/issue.

Never against local issues.

When the history books are written, when will the death of the rule of law and presumption of innocence be dated?

I’d be happy to contribute to and use my public platform to bring attention to legal defense funds for people who build open source privacy tools, or for legal attempts to push back on unconstitutional government financial surveillance.

I just need to know that they are credible from people I trust.

You cannot "own" #Bitcoin in the traditional sense of owning stuff.

No matter what governments, courts, chain-anal people, or anyone else tells you, there is no way of proving that someone DOESN'T know a string of information such as a private key.

From this perspective, satoshis aren't ever transferred but rather reorganized on the timechain for communication purposes.

The twelve magic words do not belong to anyone. They're just twelve words.

What Bitcoin makes so blatantly obvious is that money was never anything but information.

A ban on "self-hosted wallets" is as absurd as a ban on using your brain.

Such a ban would have severe consequences.

It would deny you the right to keep a secret while granting the government the right to claim that you do, making everyone a criminal.

YOU would have to prove that you DON'T know something, which is impossible.

You would be guilty until proven innocent, which cannot be proven.

Any law trying to stop or restrict Bitcoin usage is nothing less than a crime against humanity.

IMHO, the Bitcoin community should do everything in its power to prevent such laws. Your ability to use a communications network shouldn't depend on where you were born.

Do your part and educate as many people as you can as often as possible.

Speech is never free but always costly. It's high time to separate speech and state!

It's time to stop being defensive and start suing the government.

This is how gun rights have been successfully defended for decades.

Just so you know what they are going to try and go with:

If you upload a picture or video to a social media, do you expect geolocation and other metadata to be stripped?

#blossom

The web will die, native desktop apps will triumph.

Lightning nodes are for professionals.

He’s not one of us