In 2014, I paid for a coffee with bitcoin using my blockchain dot info wallet here in London. I remember having to wait an hour before the transaction confirmed. The entire time, I sweat bullets.
Wow, the head of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the main national bank regulator in the US) says final settlement and custody solved by decentralized blockchains is actually GREAT. Just wish he said lightning. I asked him what he thought of lightning and he only smiled
okay, confirmed by Tor. Damn. Conflicted.
At the FT Crypto and Digital Assets Summit here in London. A lot of bankers talking about “tokenization”.
I’m here to talk self-custody, separation of money and state, and the decentralized open network of Bitcoin.
Haven’t made many friends yet 
is that confirmed that he was an “instigator”? Obviously he’s a former IRS guy, just haven’t read any reporting about his connection to Sterlingov
Nigeria is keeping an American Binance employee in jail – basically until the company pays a $150 million bribe, doxes all domestic users, and shuts off all trading with the naira (local currency).
I dislike KYC/AML processes more than anyone, but this is an outrage.
If they're willing to go this far in saving their failing fiat currency, it won't end well. Probably not a surprise that they were one of the first countries to introduce a CBDC.
I'll be the first to ask: when are we sending the Navy SEALS?
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/07/technology/binance-nigeria-tigran-gambaryan.html
Nigeria will go so far to protect its fiat currency that will imprison an innocent American Binance employee
checking out the Financial Times Crypto and Digital Assets Summit this week in London to advocate consumer-friendly principles to protect self-custody for bitcoin, safeguard financial and digital innovation, and facilitate the separation of money and state.
let's see if we make some friends
Now I see Free Madeira is closing its public fedimint instance, so Fedi is out of the question (which was basically required for Mutiny).
The market for workable lightning wallets is getting smaller by the minute.
Now just focusing on using nostr:npub1xnf02f60r9v0e5kty33a404dm79zr7z2eepyrk5gsq3m7pwvsz2sazlpr5 from my own node.
It's been fun.
i imported my mutiny wallet seed into my start9 instance, and it closed all my lightning channels. Just a fair warning. One only device, browser tab, at a time, it seems.
More questions about Signal
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Here comes some serious Signal FUD
https://www.city-journal.org/article/signals-katherine-maher-problem
sind die majorität mit proxmox ? Ich habe auch simplex mit start9
🥂Toasting all my fellow Canadians abroad. It seems we’re growing in numbers everyday (not a surprise).
Finally flying back for some family time to Montréal here soon. I haven’t been home in 6 years (merci Trudeau !)
A cartel you say!
Not many people know that Lebron had a huge influence on Satoshi and probably inspired him to develop bitcoin
Meet FATF: The Financial Bullies Memberclub Trying To KYC The Planet
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https://www.therage.co/meet-fatf-the-financial-bullies-memberclub/
I will happen to be back in my hometown in a few weeks (Montréal) at the same time as the Canadian Bitcoin Conference.
should I stop by? schedule looks great
these are becoming exceedingly rare.