don’t have a Canadian address anymore, unfortunately — very curious to see how their additional countries in the future will unfold!

e-bikes are a humanity upgrade

On next week’s Fix the Money podcast, nostr:npub1st4elxz4dphx2qxpuaklvs855zetnkglu8dvszdxamgqn5q3pk5svflv5p and I interview an EU/American securities lawyer to ask the simple question: does Bitcoin have to care about regulations like MiCA and the SEC? What will both of these mean for future Bitcoin adoption?

coming soon

https://podverse.fm/podcast/n6yJJcrVZO

There will certainly be geo-fencing on a global level, much how the financial system is growing. But Bitcoin-only brokerages won’t be as subject to MiCA or even SEC dictates, so there will a larger rift between cryptoworld and Bitcoin-only, aided by the natural evolution of the p2p economy

yeah we’ve been talking about this for a while. 100% Trudeau’s fault

https://youtu.be/P9kJHrZrPAE

Agree — we’re merely the modern beta testers for the future of money

Tried to spin up another Nostr relay yesterday, but kept getting VM errors. Just how beefy do relays have to be these days?

The increasing number of services that allow us to stack sats on lightning (especially p2p) are very helpful for privacy.

I’d wonder, in the long term, how folks are swapping back on-chain in a way that also guards privacy too. Either through loop, bolt exchange, wallets like Phoenix, or something else. Or just forget keep on lightning for future spending?

I know NASCAR Nostr doesn’t yet exist, but I’m legit stoked AF for the Chicago street race

my debut in the Orange County Register on EU’s Digital Services Act:

“With no First Amendment-like protections, we know the censorious demands of European officials will soon swallow entire budgets of US tech firms to comply, money that’d otherwise be used to deliver value for users…

We know that each platform has the ability to moderate or censor as they see fit, but this is usually done by internal policies and codes that users voluntarily accept, not reaction to a policeman holding the regulatory baton.”

https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/30/the-eus-regulate-first-innovate-later-mantra-will-sink-u-s-tech-firms/

My latest article in the Orange County Register:

"The EU's Digital Services Act enforces a litany of expansive restrictions and rules that go far beyond any US regulation: severe limits on targeted advertising, more diligent content moderation to remove what the EU deems “illegal” content, protocols for weeding out “disinformation”, and more.

Considering how much Big Tech has been forced to censor users to appease regulators in the free speech haven of the US, it will only get worse overseas."

https://www.ocregister.com/2023/06/30/the-eus-regulate-first-innovate-later-mantra-will-sink-u-s-tech-firms/

Apple's wallet garden versus Nostr and the open #Bitcoin protocol

In restricting lightning network payments on Damus app for Nostr, Apple chooses its own in-app financial system over Bitcoin

cc nostr:npub1xtscya34g58tk0z605fvr788k263gsu6cy9x0mhnm87echrgufzsevkk5s

https://www.fixthemoney.net/p/apples-wallet-garden-versus-nostr

primal.net gives you that unfollow notification. harsh!

Hello have you checked your Nostr DMs lately

Should have an oped out this weekend out in California on this (to reach Silicon Valley)

Love to see the Carolinas finally get our due

Tonight in Vienna, we went to a “live vinyl recording” by the German-Australian-Italian band Amistat — just off stage, there’s a large needle attached to the soundboard that etches the music into a master record. Awesome analog tech in action

new US state-level model policy just dropped:

The Reject CBDCs and Protect Financial Privacy Act

https://alec.org/model-policy/reject-cbdcs-and-protect-financial-privacy-act/

Quand j’ai l’occasion de m’exprimer dans ma langue maternelle, avec des québécois, je peux sortir une partie de mon âme qu’il n’existe que dans mes pensées et mon cœur

btw, they reminded me that I was rambling about Bitcoin in 2013, but they never nibbled. Feel very bad about it now.