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Fuckoff feds, they're called the first, fourth and fifth ammendments 🖕

DOGE clearly the best savings vehicle over the past year!

She could have kept a copy of the private key. Pilot should move the coins to his own wallet before considering payment successful.

There goes censorship resistance...

That's why I included the marriage part. Let's say yes you want to buy a home in the country where your family and your spouses family live.

This is not me FWIW, I tear out my roots, but I know many people who think this way.

One really has to think this through.

Let's suppose this law passes. Then you buy 10EUR of NO-KYC BTC and decide not to pay this bullshit unrealized cap gains theft levy.

10 years later you meet the girl of your dreams and want to use your BTC for a deposit on your first home and start a family. BTC is not legal tender in France yet.

I assume you would need to pay some kind of fine for those outstanding taxes

What a fuckuop

People are full of shit. I couldn't give two shits if someone calls me ma'am. In fact random people have mistaken my son for a girl a handful of times and I don't bother correcting them... IT DOESN'T FUCKING MATTER

Nice! We need more btc merchants in that area. Was pretty fiat heavy when I was there.

To be fair it does seem like a rabbit hole especially if you read the court transcripts. I hope we get to the bottom of it over the coming years to officially settle it once and for all.

Personally I'm not comfortable staying anything on this with 100% conviction given the details I've read e.g. https://www.wired.com/2015/02/read-transcript-silk-roads-boss-ordering-5-assassinations/

Replying to Avatar Jeff Booth

If #bitcoin stays decentralized and secure, it is imposing the first global free market the world has ever seen.

Productivity gains flow to broadly to society in free markets through deflation.

Everyone gets richer every year and competition to provide value increases driving a cycle of unprecedented prosperity.

But, if you are pricing #Bitcoin in USD, you are still in the system of extraction and centralization which must centralize faster through the extraction of the productivity gains that should flow to society in the form of lower prices.

The two systems are incompatible!!

And…It is a confusing topic because we have no reference for what a global free market looks like……so many people will get rug pulled (eventually) by not choosing self custody and running nodes. Instead trusting institutions and a paper derivative of their #bitcoin.

Why: because it will appear they are getting wealthy (in USD) Protecting the decentralization and security by running nodes and being constantly vigilant for new attack vectors will seem like a stretch! For most people pressing the easy button in an ETF or other centralized entity will seem like the right thing to do which ensures faster centralizing.

That centralized system of extraction MUST eventually attack Bitcoin or fail.

This may be a long time out. Ie - if I was on the other side of the fight - I would make my system as easy to integrate to bitcoin as possible and use the natural biases of humans against them. Ease of use, trust in institutions, time, etc so they didn’t “need” to worry about self custody and understanding how the protocol works.

Those on building on #Nostr, Bitcoin, Lightning, Ecash and spending their time contributing on this open protocol and teaching others are on the front edge of the greatest change the world has ever seen. From extraction to cooperation.

Stay vigilant, stay focused, run a node, and tune out the madness of the system of extraction trying to drag you back into its centralized structure.

For the opportunity to exist, It had to be this way!

We are so early.

This is the adversarial mindset that we need.

Also: running a node doesn't help the network in any way. The node needs to be financially active.

https://stacker.news/items/842044

GM. Stay tough today.

$TRUMP is fantastic. It's a clear indicator of accelerating fiat collapse IMO. Not much longer now.

Don't try to put words in my mouth. I'm not justifying shit.

I said that the national security angle seems plausible. The US likes tracking its own citizens, but doesn't approve when other countries do it. It's in its own self interest. China bans way more shit for way less - why are you not outraged about that? Countries ban shit. It's what they do.

It's why we are on nostr.

I have hundreds of apps on my phone but tiktok just isn't one of them. Would love to know what the kids are thinking and saying now (mine are too young for tiktok)