My first article on Bitcoin in 2013 in L'AGEFI about MP Frank Schäffler’s inquiry to the Germany Finance Ministry that later legally declared Satoshi’s innovation as “private money”
11 years later, the former finance minister is lamenting not jumping onboard while the US is going wild…
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I believe nostr:npub126ntw5mnermmj0znhjhgdk8lh2af72sm8qfzq48umdlnhaj9kuns3le9ll has a side loadable mint but I’m not sure.
huge if true. I always get nutshell errors on my own system
How is there no umbrel or start9 app to host a cashu mint, or am I blind?
LNbits removed this feature, so we’re pretty dependent on you very good coders
Arnie’s new look 👀
In your opinion, what should we call cryptocurrencies that aren’t Bitcoin? (inb4 shitcoin)
In my own writing, I use “crypto-offspring”. It denotes that BTC was the origin of this phenomenon while remaining neutral on any other protocol or token.
I used to use “altcoin” but even that seems to elevate too many of the scam projects, while leaving objectively interesting and valuable projects like Monero in the same category.
Andreas Antonopoulos uses “open blockchains” which I kind of like too, but it’s fairly broad
Using nostr to name and shame nostr:npub1ath4je07y7py74nvu044fum3f8hz3exc3dtcv782qg94w5gaddusl74k6d until we get Part II of his excellent monetary history article!
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/markets/bitcoin-history-you-should-know
u shoulda seen the early days of /r/bitcoin -- it's just so trash
imo the preamble of a EO is only contact, it doesn’t write anything into law.
What should be in any version of a SBR, though, is a de minimus exemption that’s either super high or none at all.
nostr:note104ag2206d8qz6v46a3wzsasy6mahl5umfnp4ucepkjpjlcgl807se7gw63
a quick legislative change to make bitcoin or any crypto-offspring an ordinary medium of exchange is amending the Internal Revenue Code for a de minimus exemption — but make it $250,000 instead of $200 or $600. Or no tax at all.
Bitcoin transactions shouldn’t be taxable events. It’s just free market money.
A list of the open-source Bitcoin model bills I've written and succeeded in passing in 4 states and getting introduced in 3 others (with more to come)
One additional state will have another Bitcoin model legislation introduced by the end of this week, using elements of our previous language.
*breaking*, I guess
On my recent interview w/ nostr:npub1qw6e8meaj5gzk49alamh9qf35lpmml5sq7ctjtxhcjk55qppmcjs0j2v52 I annunciated thoughts on how the American model is the most accommodating to Bitcoin: private property rights and code as speech
you may very well say a state that rhymes with "polylahoma" and one that rhymes with "malicious-lippi", but I couldn't possibly comment
working on two pieces of state legislation for bitcoin reserve and repealing of money transmission licenses, as well as a repeal of state capital gains taxes on bitcoin.
Just so you know, this work is being done by *many* people in coordination with very smart state legislators, not one person or group that may (loudly) claim credit.
We can restore financial privacy now by nuking the Bank Secrecy Act.
Get a damn warrant and let builders build.
Bitcoin exchanges, e-cash, fedimints, lightning, Ark, liquidity providers, and HODLers. We all benefit.
There is a way. nostr:note14gv0z8lc58u7ke2ymxprtpjnxlgj7mj30vlpcfvxjmdp9hc4urqsyevfey