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Yaël
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deputy director @ consumer choice center fellow @ bitcoin policy institute québécois-american innocent abroad in Wien

Kinda cool: I learned today that a model bill I wrote has been signed into law in 6 states. This one was on prohibiting state agencies from touching or requiring CBDCs

https://yael.ca/bitcoin-model-policies/

If you follow a subculture long enough, you’ll start to see the same patterns of behavior you see everywhere

I think apps like nostr:npub1yfg0d955c2jrj2080ew7pa4xrtj7x7s7umt28wh0zurwmxgpyj9shwv6vg are the future and I’m very bullish on both podcasting 2.0 and nostr.

I onboarded my friend’s band and they’ve done very well — just gotta get them posting new songs!

This is sausage making a bit, but the previous levels were meant to be the same as the foreign currency exemption. It’s obviously not the same thing, and deserves a *very high* threshold, if at all

a high-quality olive oil makes all the difference

Don’t pull some David Icke on me

I do not care if it’s black helicopters.

It’s people trying to kill me and my family

A national Bitcoin strategy is not just about a SBR. Users matter too.

That means updating tax law to ensure we can use Satoshi’s innovation as decentralized, peer-to-peer electronic cash without phoning an accountant

—> my post on Bitcoin Policy Institute on de minimis exemption

https://www.btcpolicy.org/articles/the-de-minimis-exemption-path-to-bitcoin-as-a-true-medium-of-exchange

This is actually pretty interesting.

for bitcoin, you'd expect that Square would allow anyone to use it to pay. or even cash app! Tons of merchants use these, but bitcoin still isn't an option.

obvs, we want them all using btcpayserver

but meeting the tech where it is also is a huge step

Sen. Lummis mentioned putting SBR “at the Fed”.

This is not a laudable goal. If anything (which is questionable) it’s something at Treasury.

Central banks do not empower people. They enforce the inflation tax and redistribute money from poor to rich

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Well I’m super bullish on nostr:npub1fpcd25q2zg09rp65fglxuhp0acws5qlphpg88un7mdcskygdvgyqfv4sld and nostr:npub12lzwey2hjc2ce0stwa3ldhg04h93wj263lvdhrf87qfzz9jsggeqwuntw2 to help!

It’s going to be hard, not gonna lie. But I think human rights, inflation, and resistance money for protestors/activists for causes Trump may go after are what we’re going to hit hard.

I think a big effort to reclaim the mantel of progressivism rests in removing the “regressive” Warren events and offering a counter-narrative that’s much more empowering than “new tech bad”