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Exactly: the choice to respond (in any way) is YOUR choice.
Harsh but fair Tony, harsh but fair 🤝 🧡
Lawfare
The written ruling today exposing CSW as a fraud and a liar over many years is no suprise to many, long overdue for those pursued and abused by the legal processes that Cregg&Enablers employed, and definitively formal ruling mainstream can refer to
Thank fuck for that!
The case highlights the absurdity of the level to which CSW&Enablers were able to use the legal system in many jurisdictions to run this abuse. All the while, CSW has outstanding obligations, rulings, judgements and payments in other jurisdictions that he's able to (effectively) ignore. Pretty sure CSW has frens at the ATO here in Australia that still want a bit of a chat with him
What CSW and his happy bunch of Enablers didn't perhaps think through is that bitcoiners, like the timechain itself, have long memories, and as NgU, that power-imbalance of being able to leverage the "legal system" is going pivot
Not advocating that strategy specifically, but like a lot of things in, around and orthogonal to Bitcoin, it's always important to:
- Learn the tools
- Use the tools
- Teach the tools
The "legal system" is a tool of the wealthy, and bitcoiners are coming
#Bitcoin is for enemies.
Beautifully and simply correct 🤝🧡
It starts and ends with you
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There is no truthful intersection between guilt and pleasure.
Be safe and secure ..
At the recent nostr:npub1fceadcz5zunfrxkv33437e27z86tehs95gtc4z7wjkeexel8llrq50sy0m I told the story of my friend who likens plebs holding bitcoin to sitting up in the high cheap seats way up the back of the stadium, with friends and beers and popcorn, watching the greatest game ever played unfold
We’ve got all sorts of smart people explaining what’s going on in politics, finance, economics, geopolitics, software, game theory and a hundred other orthogonal topics ..
.. and plebs can watch the game unfold as long as they’re holding their own keys and running their own node
This is the minimum
Find your tribe, connect with other bitcoiners, commit your skill and effort where you are able
Bitcoin is the longest lever upon which we can push for meaningful change in the world 🔥🧡
IMO don’t ever regret prior deeds done with a full heart and a clear helpful intent 🤝
Those choices and behaviour are on him, not on you, and that behaviour from him is just avoidance of him taking responsibility for his actions - not excusing it in any way
Don’t let this (shitty) episode sully the help and counsel you’ve given to many many people (more than 6.15 amiright!!) that now have them with a solid stack and life changing trajectory
🧡
We love the 🌽
They’re self selecting OUT .. eejits
don’t tell me what to do 🤣
You’ve probably seen GreenpeaceUSA's Bitcoin report by now, and my response (if you haven't been blocked).
Here’s six things that every environmentalist, Bitcoin advocate, regulator, policymaker and media representative should know about GreenpeaceUSA.
I've had this information for over a year, but have held back on going public with it until now because there were initially signs that GreenpeaceUSA would be open to engaging with environmentalists within the Bitcoin community.
With them now blocking me from commenting on their tweets, all hope of that has now ended. So here's what I can tell you about GreenpeaceUSA, and their campaign that have not been aired publicly until now, and which may surprise you.
Firstly, some context: I’m a former volunteer environmental campaigner with Greenpeace. I once risked arrest to stand up for causes I believed in, including an anti-GMO campaign against McDonalds which was successful within 6 weeks, and hailed as an example of how creative direct action can yield fast results. One of the differences: we talked to McDonalds (something no one at GreenpeaceUSA is currently doing with the Bitcoin community).
I know a number of people in the environmental movement, and I would like to thank them for their honesty in whistleblowing on a thoroughly misguided campaign from GreenpeaceUSA from start to finish.
1. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign does NOT have the backing of Greenpeace International. In fact, other branches have asked questions of GreenpeaceUSA’s tactics, and even said that their campaign is damaging the Greenpeace brand, and has resulted in the loss of subscriptions.
2. Within GreenpeaceUSA, there are a growing number of voices of discontent. There is a growing division between some of the younger crypto-neutral or crypto-friendly millennial in their base, and the directorship of GreenpeaceUSA
3. As we know, GreenpeaceUSA did receive a $5Million donation from Ripple’s chair Chris Larsen to run an anti-Bitcoin campaign. What you probably do not know is that within Greenpeace, several staff have questioned whether this is ethical, or in the spirit of an organization that says it relies only on grassroots funding in its sign-up pledge.
4. Some members of EWG and SierraClub, particularly younger members, were not enamoured with their organization’s collusion with GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign. EWG has not engaged in anti-Bitcoin rhetoric since 6 April ‘23.
5. The head of GreenpeaceUSA’s “Change the Code” campaign has stepped down and is no longer any part of GreenpeaceUSA. At the time of his stepping down he was reported by a source within GreenpeaceUSA to be questioning the wisdom of the campaign.
6. Within GreenpeaceUSA, we know from multiple inside sources that the Change the Code campaign has been widely acknowledged to have been “not particularly successful”. GreenpeaceUSA’s campaign got off on the wrong foot right from the start, by antagonising environmentalists within the Bitcoin community, such as me. Here’s its half-time report (TL;DR, the worst performing environmental campaign I’ve ever witnessed). https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/greenpeace-environment-attacks-help-bitcoin… Now, the campaign is in more disarray than ever, resorting to tenuous ad hominem attacks against Satoshi Action, based on the discover that one of their supporters is a climate denier. True. Well, guess what: one of their supporters is also a plant-based, tree-hugging, climate-activist & meditation teacher: me. That’s the beauty of Bitcoin: it pulls people in from across the political spectrum: we are as diverse as society itself, and that’s what makes us strong. As I wrote recently, “when the ship you’re standing on is sinking: it doesn’t matter if you’re on the left of right side of it.”
I hoped GreenpeaceUSA would end their anti-Bitcoin campaign before their credibility and relevance to the new generation of millennials they are currently disenfranchising is completely severed.
But it seems at the moment they are more intent on doubling down on misinformation. Their leadership must change for them to ever have hope of becoming a true voice for the environment again.
Thanks for your patient and pain-staking work here Daniel - look forward to hearing you this weekend at Bitcoin Alive in Sydney 🤝