BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU.

George Orwell

The irony in this picture is tragic...

Fuggem. Don't stop living your life. And never forget that fear is a liar.

#BitcoinIsForEnemies

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Many bitcoiners think establishment powers are now in the "and then they join you" phase of the struggle.

I don't. I think they're more entering the earlier "and then they fight you" phase.

Or more specifically, they are happy to join in on the price exposure side (i.e. ETFs), but they are fighting against privacy (especially) and self-custody (to some extent). The struggle for financial privacy, custody, and overall self-autonomy is just heating up.

The gradual shift of critics from "bitcoin is a useless speculative asset with no intrinsic value" to "bitcoin is so powerful that direct usage of it must be curtailed" can be dangerous.

THE NATION STATE IS DYING

The government doesn’t follow the rules they expect everyone else to follow.

Have you ever been so mad with how horrible a movie was that you were super excited about, that you spent two months writing 200 pages of an entirely different script and laying out casting ideas for it until you felt it was “fixed”?

I have 🤣

Guess the movie (don’t be greedy, repost so others can play 🤣) and I’ll zap 21,000 sats

Coinkite made a Tapsigner that looks like a metro card. Love it.

The fact that Bitcoin isn't yet accepted everywheree and for everything really underlines for me how few people have actually used Lightning. Whenever I show somebody how it works, there's always that "wow" moment. But why was it a surprise?

The problem is that normal people still understand BTC from the one half-remembered opinion piece they read in 2017, and are operating under the belief that transactions still take an hour to settle, rather than being instantaneous and irreversible — money transmission without the Paypal Problem. The public mind needs a cache refresh.