What’s goin on I just drifted in

What’s goin on I just drifted in

Met a (very clever and committed) miner who believes the lightning network is stealing his fees

I don’t agree but I learned a lot from our conversation

Good reminder that there are many, many kinds of Bitcoiners and that we need a strong marketplace of competing ideas to push everything forward

If people ever debate or ask what your title is, just pick the funniest and most humble one.

The SBR discussion is complex

A) We should want American citizens, families, communities, and businesses to hold BTC, not the state

But…

B) It is unrealistic to expect that Bitcoin grows into a global currency without government adoption

Government interest (as opposed to ignorance or dismissal or attacks) is absolutely a signal that Bitcoin is evolving, growing, and succeeding

If Bitcoin was dying no one would be talking about an SBR (obviously)

SBR advocacy *will probably* hasten the transition to the Bitcoin standard

But such advocacy is also fraught with traps of centralization and government shitcoining (as we are watching play out)

IMO it’s ok to not have a black and white take on this

Probably more important than SBR advocacy (which will happen anyway if NGU continues) is civil liberties advocacy to ensure Americans can use Bitcoin privately, self-custodially, and p2p and to ensure American companies and developers can build tools that enable this reality

Good morning, friends!

This week's Financial Freedom Report #64 is now live on Nostr and features the following in global news:

-Nicaragua | Increases Financial Surveillance of NGOs

-El Salvador | IMF Approves 1.4 Billion Loan With Further Restrictions

-Iraq | Issuing CBDC to Replace Cash

In #Bitcoin and Freedom Tech News:

-Nostr Wallet Connect | Introduces Pull Request for On-Chain Send and Receive

-Bitcoin Safe | Adds Support for Burmese and Korean Languages

-Frostr | Turn Your Nostr Private Key into a Rotatable Multisig

Plus, a new discussion from 21st Capital, where Alex Gladstein, Chief Strategy Officer at HRF, joins Ziya Sadr, an Iranian activist and Bitcoin educator, to explore Bitcoin’s role in fighting financial repression and advancing global freedom.

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surely pools are running custom block construction software? or have blocks have been historically slightly less than full due to this and no one noticing?

what is that?