Stop scrolling for the next 90 seconds.
Just close your eyes and listen to your surroundings.
Notice how the sounds come and go. You are not in control of what consciousness receives. You cannot prevent your ear drum from picking up the sound. You cannot extend the sound for longer than it occurs. It just comes and goes.
You cannot *stop* listening, but you are not *doing* listening, either.
You are simply the condition in which all of these sounds appear.
The same is true for your thoughts and emotions.
#meditate
I want to be left alone: 
Meanwhile, on Twitter, things seem to be going well: 
Somebody’s getting desperate:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/trump-advisers-discuss-penalties-nations-213042538.html
In interviews with more than a dozen residents of Gaza, people said they resent Hamas for the attacks in Israel and — war-weary and desperate to fulfill their basic needs — just want to see peace as soon as possible.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/04/27/gaza-hamas-public-support-israel/
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Right, but since they have the XPUBs, it’s possible that in the future they will require merchants and exchanges (and perhaps services like nostr:npub1casacasahesdrpu6npfth2t0ae37a2cdwwg3c4fkt30v7gzffx3q7wtzdc) to trace history and block funds that were previously involved in a CJ implementation. It seems it has always been their goal — to reduce fungibility by inventing a pretext like “taint.” They don’t have to seize funds if they make them unacceptable.
Nah. That book is good for adolescent minds who don’t know better, not mature adults who should.
I don’t know who needs to hear this, but if you have something like this in your signature, it says a lot about you: 
I agree it’s not as great as it’s made out to be. But, as a beach read? Sure, it was sufficiently entertaining.
What are your favorites for near-future fiction?
No matter how hard Odell tried to orange-pill her.
“You grant us and our subsidiaries, affiliates, and successors a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, fully-paid, transferable, irrevocable, perpetual, and sub-licensable right to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, prepare derivative works of, distribute, publicly perform, and publicly display your Content throughout the world in any media for any reason…”
This language has now been normalized in most Terms of Service, and we all just click “I agree.”
For your consideration:
If you have funds that were in SW that you’ve now moved to Sparrow, it’s best to set up a new seed and move the funds there.
HOWEVER, if you move all the funds over together, you’ve now consolidated all the UTXOs which lets *the party* who now has your XPUBs know that you also control the new address that you sent to.
So, what’s the best strategy here, nostr:npub15c88nc8d44gsp4658dnfu5fahswzzu8gaxm5lkuwjud068swdqfspxssvx? Wait for a low fee environment and move the funds in randomized, non-whole number amounts, at different times of the day over the course of the next few months?
I wonder what local business owners think about this sentiment. The hotels. And restaurants. And cafes. And museums. And car/bike/scooter rental agencies. And tour guides. And all the people who earn a living, employed in those jobs. And all the sales taxes, property taxes, and income taxes that go towards maintaining Barcelona, or any other tourist destination. Tourism, in mainly popular destinations makes a significant contribution to a country’s finances.
Look, I hate crowds, too, and have certainly cringed at tourists behaving badly but, saying a tourists are an invading occupier who should be killed is a violently demented thing to spray paint on a wall.
Have people lost their damn minds??
People need privacy for different reasons. Some people need to hide their transactions from an oppressive government. Others need a way to transact in politically disfavored industries or jurisdictions. Others desire to simply not link their KYC identity (from an exchange like nostr:npub1tftc33ttam85wraffce62cgtvvjrmttquqlv6a0agtfm5nl4vues82xar5)
with future purchases at a legitimate retailer. Personally, I fall into that latter category. Using #Bitcoin primarily as a savings technology and Store of Value with nostr:npub1s0vtkgej33n7ec4d7ycxmwt78up8hpfa30d0yfksrshq7t82mchqynpq6j, I have been reluctant to spend any of it on things like coffee. When I have spent it, I wanted a cash-like instrument that kept my purchases private. That was the whole point of using it for privacy-enhancing technologies like nostr:npub168euw93e4cam59llcmydav0akwjk2p4nfy3p85pn22xv9y2jxuzq4s9uaw and nostr:npub1vr2nva0s0hhfulthjy8053rg9kruk5erzwaxdw85gjwkfytj994sgudzvx etc., or supporting non-profits, as nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu points out.
Since the DOJ now has the whirlpooled XPUBs, they can probably link my UTXOs to those transactions… if they really wanted to. Will they? I never bought illegal drugs or laundered illicit activities or supported child pornography. Should I personally be worried that my only “crime” here was using #Samourai to break the link between a KYC exchange so that data brokers and advertisers would not be able to track and monetize my purchase history? Probably not. But what about other people around the world whose privacy requirements are greater than mine? There are people for whom this event may cause life-altering consequences.
I’ll be okay though. But, perhaps I’m just attempting to cope with the fact that the privacy I spent *considerable* time, effort, and Sats for is now for naught.
#Privacy is not a crime. It is a fundamental human right that must be defended, globally, and the only reason I’m hopeful is because people like nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx , nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg, nostr:npub1s05p3ha7en49dv8429tkk07nnfa9pcwczkf5x5qrdraqshxdje9sq6eyhe, nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g and nostr:npub15c88nc8d44gsp4658dnfu5fahswzzu8gaxm5lkuwjud068swdqfspxssvx are working on projects that will help.
Agreed. This is a fair point. But it still seems like you’re giving Wasabi a pass for cooperating with Chainalysis and censoring addresses.
Anyways, the OP from nostr:npub1rtlqca8r6auyaw5n5h3l5422dm4sry5dzfee4696fqe8s6qgudks7djtfs was simply noting that while acknowledging Samourai’s mostly dick-ish behavior, it hasn’t stopped the community from supporting them against these charges brought by the government.
Oh, I’m sorry. Did you not just say that Wasabi was better than Samourai in the same way that Graphene was better than Calyx?
1. I’m not a samourai shill
2. this isn’t a misdirection/distraction
3. I’m not simping
Settle the F down, Snowflake.
I haven’t read through your notes, in case you’ve already covered this, but you seem to be holding Wasabi in a very favorable light. Are you not concerned that Wasabi is expressly sharing data with Chainalysis and actively censoring addresses?