En mi charla sobre Silent Payments en LaBitcoinf, invite a los presentes a solidarizarse con el equipo de Samourai

I told my mother about bitcoin for years and she was like “yeah, cool, nah.” She’s in her 70s.

And then I was like “The HRF eg @gladstein is doing cool shit for human rights with bitcoin.”

And once I showed her some examples, she was like “holy shit” and joined their newsletter and is like 110% onboard with their mission. She reads their newsletters more than me now, and asks me questions about them, so I have to catch up on them to answer her stuff.

She still doesn’t own Bitcoin but is like, reading every HRF email and asking me about them and totally onboard.

We reject: kings, presidents, and voting.

We believe in: rough consensus and running code.

—David Clark,1992

101 on how gold was confiscated:

You had to turn it in for dollars by a deadline prior to dollar devaluation, and there were massive prison consequences for not turning it in, but little resources in terms of investigating who didn’t turn it in. That would be expensive. So it was fear based. Focusing on illegality and tail risks on edge cases more than enforcement on average.

Institutions had to comply immediately, since it’s all visible. So the government broke liquidity in the domestic gold market, which was enough for their purposes. Gold became a hard-to-trade illegal relic for those that held it.

If a small family hodled some extra bars for 40 years until it became legal again, they did okay.

But can the government track bitcoin in the 2020s better or worse than gold in 1930s for enforcement purposes? That’s the right question.

And don’t just think of confiscation. Think of 70% selective taxes and things like that. Far more within the current rule of law. That’s the sophisticated approach. Don’t take it. Selectively tax it by a lot.

Those are the politics to push against from a bitcoin perspective.

I don’t get it.

#Bitcoin price action is slight negative if people think Kamala Harris is going to win.

But wouldn’t you want Bitcoin if you think she’s an evil commie? Wouldn’t you want resistance money?

And if Trump wins, and you think he’s an evil fascist, wouldn’t you want resistance money?

I honestly feel so disconnect from these fiat games and politics with Bitcoin. Jesus, just buy Bitcoin not matter what! Stack it, hold it, save it, use it. It’s not rocket science. It will be good for you, no matter what your background or ideology is.

-Treat the arrest of the Telegram CEO as an emergency.

-Advocate for his freedom and for all freedom tech providers.

-Support and build things that function without a CEO, like some aspects of Nostr. When authoritarian Europe or the US arrests you, be able to say, “I literally can’t control it, it’s already out there, and we are legion.”

-Tell me and others, as capital providers, how to accelerate this.

The guy should be freed

No one should be using telegram

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