Spotted in Bansko, ₿ulgaria 🙌

I had this one for sure. Remember having his Leaf rookie card as well, it was a great day when that pack was opened.

Are your preferences or needs for privacy “legitimate”? Someone from the government will get back to you that.

“We’re going to make privacy illegal but just for two years, just a little test run” lol

https://www.therage.co/congressmen-introduce-blockchain-integrity-act-suggest-two-year-mixer-ban/

The principle that value is not necessarily a financial thing can’t be elevated enough. Time can be (and most often is) more valuable than money. An experience, a moment, a connection. Rich people spend ungodly amounts to find shit like that and can’t buy it.

They enjoying knowing that you know that they know

Greetings friend 👋

Less rare than I’d like. Thankfully it passes 🙌

My ways of life are under heavy assault this week 😂

🎯🎯

I feel seen 🤣

We are all the punching bags rn 😂

#bitcoin #nostr #plebchain

They are not going to stop. Lightning, liquid, federations, hardware wallets, non-custodial wallets. They want it all gone.

The coordination is escalating. All the entities buying up hundreds of thousands of coins lately are cheering this on.

What model are those? My Xero sandals are on their last treads

I do wish I had more optimism on that front. At least in the short term.

Zero-sum ideologies are so embedded at an institutional level (and so easily exploited for profit) that for a large and growing number of people, the ends more than justify the means… from surveillance to censorship to imprisonment. Or worse.

A big chunk of society is going to have to be okay with occasionally piping up for the rights and interests of people they have been conditioned to hate. It feels a long way off, I’m afraid.

There is a long track record of big business and big government working hand-in-hand to support each other’s interests.

Wall Street moving aggressively into the Bitcoin space while law enforcement goes after companies like Samourai should not be thought of as coincidental.

It is about control. If this new form of money can’t be banned, it can be regulated, tracked, and swallowed up the by the same entities it was designed to avoid. It’s the history of the pursuit of power.

Bankers in suits didn’t suddenly read the white paper and get inspired by freedom money. They are doing what they do.

Just watch your six, everyone.

Awesome + informative, thank you 🙏

Going to ask what I suspect is not a great question, but doing it anyway… Coldcard does USB and air-gapped. Is there conventional wisdom on how much security the SD gives you above and beyond USB?

Never being connected is obviously preferable. But I’m sure the devs wouldn’t do it if it was an outsized liability.

Just learning and curious 🙏