That would be a way out of the looting for Oz HNWIs - to move to one state, ( as American Free State Project is trying in their New Hampshire) and then attempt #secession, or at least more favourable local state laws.

make the scam harder, not easier.

Learn more about OP_RETURN and why making standardness less restrictive isn’t just Bitcoin Core navel gazing, it’s actually very important for Bitcoin!

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This massive 12-foot tall statue was just erected in Times Square which “confronts preconceived notions of identity and representation”

⚡️🇧🇹 NEW - The Bhutanese government launches the world's first national crypto tourist payment system, in collaboration with Binance Pay and DK Bank.

The system allows Binance Pay users to use cryptos to pay for all expenses related to a trip to Bhutan (flights, visas, accommodation, guides and even products at 100 merchants).

"This initiative helps small businesses in remote areas to go digital, showing how crypto can foster both inclusion and innovation."

Knots people don't want to relay transactions they consider spam from their nodes. However having filters on their personal nodes can't actually stop it so it's mostly symbolic (they might disagree with this).

Core is removing the filters because it creates friction in the network. It gives large miners an advantage as they have the resources to build systems that accept spam transactions directly for higher fees, reducing the competitiveness of smaller miners and contributing to mining centralization. Also people that run filters will be at a disadvantage when calculating fees from their own mempools because they won't know about the spam transactions. Additionally removing filters disincentivizes other novel and potentially harmful ways of embedding data like custom addresses that contain the data in the address string.

People feel they are being forced into this change by core and don't want to give up the option to set local mempool policy on their nodes. Core is by far the most dominant implementation and having a small group of devs making these decisions is concerning. Questions have arisen about conflicts of interest that are totally valid, and resulted in bans on the GitHub discussion of those expressing those concerns. Censoring opposition is not a good look and turned many people against the core devs, and also caused the conflict to spill out across other social media.

That's about the gist of it. I've been following this as closely as a pleb like me can. I was against core at first, but I've come around to their arguments and think the stability and smooth functioning of the network is more important. Filtering spam at the node level is ineffective and creates unintended consequence that are harmful to the network. Also even though I call it spam, there is potential for useful L2 stuff to be created that furthers bitcoins mission as well.

Bears: “Don’t buy #Bitcoin at $16k, it will crash.”

*#Bitcoin dips from $108k to $79k.

Bears: “Look, I told you.”

*You can’t make this shit up.

What percentage of Americans do you think understand that you can self-custody bitcoin, or would even understand the notion of truly owning your own money without bank IOU’s?

Imma say 1%

That’s 3.3 million people out of 334,000,000

Yeah, we’re early

The Israeli company behind the modified Signal app used by the Trump administration has been hacked.

TeleMessage’s backend panel was accessed using credentials found in intercepted data. The hacker exposed archived messages and contact info for U.S. officials.

The hack reveals that archived chat logs are not end-to-end encrypted between the modified messaging app and the final archive destination controlled by the TeleMessage customer.

Commenting on the Israeli modification of Signal adopted by the US government, @signalapp told @404media that “We cannot guarantee the privacy or security properties of unofficial versions of Signal.”

Freedom of association is verboten

#🇩🇪

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i love umbrel and start9 for small scale operations, but they still cost over $400. running a dedicated bitcoin node for $400 is still too expensive for many people in different parts of the world. we need a third option that preferably costs less than $200. or maybe just a youtube video to explain how to do it for less than $200. 😂

TRUMP PLANS 100% TARIFF ON ALL MOVIES PRODUCED OVERSEAS

Phoenix is based in France?

⚡️🇫🇷 ALERT - It's official. In France, mixers and privacy coins are now considered by default as an indicator of suspicious activity. The law has been adopted.

The Rubicon has been crossed.

If you don't want to reveal your wallet holdings with every payment, you're guilty of money laundering by default.

396 votes against 68, with main opposition from the Parti de la France Insoumise ...

In other words, there are 396 people whose existence relies on the taxes of the French who have decided overnight that you're criminals by default if you use Lightning, ZKPs, and loads of other technologies that "enable the anonymization or opacification of crypto-asset transactions", even if that's not the intended use of their users.

The EU will ban anonymous crypto accounts by July 2027.

Every transaction above €1,000 will need your ID.

Privacy is becoming extinct.

Use your Bitcoin wise

Eight Rules for a better life:

1) Focus on effort, not results

2) Strict with yourself, forgiving with others

3) Seek out challenges

4) Stay a student

5) Focus on what you can control

6) Cut toxic people in your life

7) Wake up early

8) Read and stack #Bitcoin daily

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My friend added more solar panels to his house, doubling his energy production, but his energy bill went up10x

Such a scam

The universe operates under four fundamental forces created at its inception:

gravity

electromagnetism

the strong nuclear force

the weak nuclear force

So . . . where is Time?