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Andre Leblanc
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Freedom and liberties advocate, bitcoiner. Austrian Economics, geopolitics and geoeconomics.

Your government NOT your best friend

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/israels-war-on-hospitals

Chris Hedges says the truth about Israel's campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. But he fails to explain why this happens. As usual, if one follows the money, then the true reasons become apparent. It is about old colonialism and the appropriation of precious natural resources and money. It is about energy, gas reserves and re-launching the 1967 Ben Gurion Canal project. Hundreds of billions are at stake, and Palestinians should not have any right to them.

1. In application of Mackinder´s Heartland geopolitics the US has drawn Russia into the Ukraine conflict to drive a wedge between the EU and Russia for energy supply integration, thereby reducing Eurasian integration. North Stream sabotage was next.

2. The US could finance that war thanks to the "exorbitant privilege" of an unlimited supply of fiat US$.

3. The EU supports Israel because the new deal will be to supply gas from the Gaza reserves to the energy starved EU. EU companies have been awarded contracts for exploration of the Levantine basin.

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/israel-awards-gas-exploration-licences-eni-bp-four-others-2023-10-29/

4. The US finances also the Israel war of appropriation of Palestine gas reserves and the development of the Ben Gurion Canal going through Gaza. This requires the deportation of all Palestinians from Gaza, one way or another.

5. The vested interest are so great that Israel can easily bribe the elites of the EU, US and other Arab states into either supporting Israel or simply turning the other side while Palestinians are ethnically cleansed. One way or another the payout will be massive and very country in the region has an interest from those deals. No one is interested in Palestinians being slaughtered.

The bottom line is: Can we change the money and the incentives to war?

Read here how #bitcoin can do that.

https://andreleblanc.substack.com/p/if-fiat-brings-war-can-bitcoin-bring

"The world's richest 1 percent emit about the same amount of carbon as the world's poorest two-thirds, according to an analysis from the nonprofit Oxfam International."

The Climate Change narrative serves to:

- transfer wealth from your pockets to theirs: EVs, ESG stocks, energy price speculation, etc

- control where you are going and limit your freedom to move: future personal carbon footprint limits in your Digital ID wallet part of the Social Credit system. EVs are just like mobile phones, they are surveillance tools except that they can be remotely shut off when you reach your limit allowance on carbon credits or your 15min City Limit.

- make you poorer

https://www.theepochtimes.com/science/tiny-fraction-of-global-elites-emit-as-much-carbon-as-bottom-66-percent-5533213

You can buy fully de-googled mobile phones running on /e/OS an open-source OS with no Google apps or Google services harvesting your data from Murena. They are also compatible with Graphene OS.

https://murena.com/smartphones/

open source/e/OS

https://e.foundation/e-os/

In the light of today´s problem with nostr:npub1hcwcj72tlyk7thtyc8nq763vwrq5p2avnyeyrrlwxrzuvdl7j3usj4h9rq that happened yesterday. I DRAW YOUR ATTENTION TO IT BECAUSE BITCOIN CENSORSHIP RESISTANCE IS FAR MORE IMPORTANT.

BUT NO ONE SEEMS CONCERNED RIGHT?

NO REACTIONS????

#bitcoin

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Soon coming to your city. The EU is doomed because it is in the grip of a totalitarian bureaucratic elite fully controlled and fed by dogmatic Oligarchs (mostly Jews like Soros) who think that open borders and mass immigration of unqualified people will finally reduce the risk of nationalization which was historically the biggest threat for Zionist Jews. You see, now Jews can feel safe because you have another enemy to fight with, the mainly Muslim immigrants, while the Jewish elite can freely pick your pockets while you look the other side and continue feeding the EU bureaucrats. Do what I did, get your #bitcoin and leave for good.

Here I tell you how I did it

https://andreleblanc.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-boiled-frog-the

Did you know that Jews hold on to the bodies of hundreds of Palestinians deceased during imprisonment just to torture the families of the deceased?

I have heard yesterday a Palestinian lawyer mentioning that on Aljazeera. Looks like it is true. Think about the perversion of that. Jews store dead Palestinians in refrigerated cells for years just to continue torturing their families even after their death. Jewish hatred for the Goyims can go a looooong way. WE ARE ALL GOYIM.

https://www.thenation.com/article/world/israel-postmortem-detention/

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Summarizing my thoughts on the Wallet of Satoshi incident today.

Wallet of Satoshi has been removed from App Store and Play Store in *some* regions, ie. in the US.

## Why shouldn't we be concerned?

Removal of app from appstore doesn't mean your funds are gone, WoS uses an account system so you can still log in to your account somewhere else, Android users also need not worry about auto updates deleting app, and can always install the app through other stores or even sideload using apk.

## Why should we be concerned?

What causes people to worry is not the inability to use the app, but what will happen to custodial lightning wallet providers like WoS.

Wallet of Satoshi is one of the largest Lightning service provider, a position only ousted by Alby in recent months, so it's (they're) an easy target(s).

Custodial Lightning wallets are easy to use, has many useful features like the ability to have a lighting address using lnurl and dns, but they are custodial. Unlicensed custodial services are illegal in many jurisdiction, and with recent legal actions against Binance, it feels like the walls are coming up around us and it's possible that 'those who do not play by the rules will need to pay the price' even if the rules are made by a bunch of frauds.

So there are risks involved, but it is unclear how this will play out and it could all be a nothingburger.

## What should we do if we're using WoS?

The good thing is, we have options, my recommendation right now is to at least temporarily move your sats to a non custodial wallet. If you are reading this then you probably not a routing node operator, so your best bets are the non custodial LN wallets. These include, but are not limited to,

- Phoenix wallet (and Eclaire if you're a masochist)

- Mutiny wallet

- Breez Wallet

- Blixt (ok this is as hard as Eclaire)

There are some options I haven't tried yet like Zeus.

But be aware that in order to use these non custodial wallet, you will need to open your own Lightning channel. Of course you'll still be using their node and liquidity services, but there will be fees associated with opening up a new channel which requires an on-chain transaction.

With the current ongoing attack on chain by the big blockers orditards the fees are pretty high, around 14-20k sats to open or modify a channel.

These wallet will open a channel with your initial deposit, so you'll want to have a large enough channel opened to receive all of your sats, this is done by sending all of your sats at once to avoid multiple fees, it can be quite scary, if you wanted to be safe, be prepared to pay the fees at least twice. All in all, just think it through carefully as the fees are quite expensive at the moment.

If all of this is still over your head, you can try moving your funds to another custodial wallet like Blink or Alby, but they also face the same risk.

I will try to keep you guys updated on the situation.

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Yesterday F2Pool mining co-founder Chun Wang said that. He is right. Is bitcoin´s censorship resistance about to go down the toilet? Yes, if we don not take immediate steps to ensure that UTXOs are mixed by default at protocol level. Any developers copy that?????????????

What if, instead of a direct ban on Bitcoin, the State employed subtle and indirect strategies to manipulate or even co-opt it, ultimately achieving the same goal of rendering it ineffective or worse, a tool for State control?

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/state-adoption-a-trojan-horse-challenging-core-tenets-of-personal-liberty

What happens to the price of bitcoin in the short term after the launching of the ETF no one can predict (100k or more, anything can happen).

HOWEVER WHAT WILL CERTAINLY HAPPEN is the following, because bitcoin financialization means:

1. Diluted demand for the real bitcoin, the non-custodial, bearer, decentralized, censorship resistant asset. Money will rather flow into the black hole of fiat financial custodians. Anyone FTX & Co.? 2. Discourages self-custody and financial responsibility. You are not your own bank. You are not financially independent. In the long term this means they will be able to control the price like they did with gold. Paper gold claims are estimated at 1000times more than physical ounces. See how this has successfully capped the gold price.

3. Discourages learning about Bitcoin and becoming financially literate.

4. It is very risky. You will buy nothing else than counterparty risk. You will own nothing but a claim on a claim. Blackrock holds its bitcoin in a non-custodial wallet held by Coinbase. Therefore you have 2 counterparty risks and NO bitcoins: shares of the Blackrock ETF and IOU on the Coinbase account.

5. Censorship resistance is gone and the intermediaries can easily enforce third party claims or government/judicial dictats on your "paper" bitcoin claim via the intermediaries.

6. It encourages speculation, manipulation and discourages true adoption (i.e bitcoin real time monetization).

You can advocate for the long term benefit of financialization only if you are (i) stupid or (ii) a speculator who wants to cash in on the price spike and forget about Bitcoin or (iii) if you are extremely naive and do not understand what are the powers and massive forces at play against Bitcoin and their need to control it because they cannot suppress it or own it. Which I explain very clearly in the articles below which one should read before believing in "Santa Blackrock".

PART I

https://andreleblanc.substack.com/p/will-bitcoin-win-and-foster-a-new

PART II

https://andreleblanc.substack.com/p/will-bitcoin-win-and-foster-a-new-a13

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The path of least resistance for bitcoin might well be a total ban so that a black market with circular economies can quickly develop. The reason is that the adoption of bitcoin is not simply a function of its technological superiority as money. Adoption is a function of how easy it is for the masses to get bitcoin. And Fincen reg is only the first obstacle. Just wait until a disproportionate taxation is introduced globally via the OECD, just like they did with the CRS for bank accounts offshore. Now that will discourage adoption.

https://andreleblanc.substack.com/p/will-bitcoin-win-and-foster-a-new-a13

On the other topic that non-bitcoiners will be always better off with falling prices in a bitcoin economy rather than with inflation (and loss of purchasing power) in a fiat system that subsidizes them, well good luck explaining that to the masses. That's all good for us, but think for instance of Argentinian people who were still willing to vote for the very same corrupt politicians because they promised them some sort of subsidy. It took 40 years of hyperinflation to finally change their mind with the last elections.

Another critical point is bitcoin's limited fungibility. This is an issue to be addressed by developers because, as the Fincen Reg shows, this is a weakness they will attack. Can we have a default mixing for every UTXO at protocol level or at least in a coordinated manner in every wallet like Wasabi?

You know the story of the boiled frog. Well, in Europe you are the frog being boiled.

Luckily, I jumped out of the pot and left for good in time. You can also democratically vote with your feet and give them the middle finger. All you need to leave and take your wealth with you is #bitcoin. This is what I have done to prepare.

https://andreleblanc.substack.com/p/the-story-of-the-boiled-frog-the