Clown world

I know everybody is dunking on the random governor who decided that she could just wave her hand and unilaterally suspend any right she dislikes simply by hissing the word "emergency," but the problem is that she's only wrong if another political force — the courts, politics, disobedience, or Locke's old Appeal to Heaven — proves her wrong. Enforcing the limits of official power isn't some American $currentYear problem, it's a recurring issue throughout history.

The question is why we're suddenly seeing the authoritarian instinct activating so much more openly — and frequently. In prior decades, they had to be cute in how they went about it, often requiring laws and lies. Now they're remarkably comfortable simply stating "because of the 'emergency,' you can no longer {travel | donate | engage in commerce | read | communicate | carry}," and that's the whole of it.

The next question is what you're going to do about it.

Trust your gut.

And don’t apologize for it.

Polls on #nostr that use sats as votes: stupid, useful, revolutionary?

All the psychopaths out there made Broken Money the #40th best-selling book on Amazon today and the top seller in all three of its categories. It’s a great opening surge.

I appreciate you all so much. <3

It’s crazy how many people don’t know they can use Lightning Node Connect or Tailscale as an alternative to connecting remotely to their node over Tor

10x better UX

We want bitcoin to be hard to change but also flexible.

Another way to do this without drivechains would be simplicity. Yet another would be a general zkp verifier. They all have tradeoffs but they will all improve bitcoin.

Just a timelock with a counter and some space for a hash. Let's you lock your coins so that only 51% of the hashrate can move them. Just like liquid but instead of exchanges, coins arw custodied by miners.

For some reason influencers hate this lol

You mean like Taproot? Drivechain is a breeze of simplicity, and activating it could mean a nice and clean ossification for Bitcoin.

Maybe one of Jordan Petersons worst takes.

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The primary aim of govt schools isn't education, it's obedience training.

Damn I hate slack

Lmao talk about missing the entire point of Bitcoin.

"Feds please shut down our competition" is about the saddest response to a coming adversarial environment I can think of.

first elon started selling engagement to people willing to pay him $8 per month and do kyc, my feed is filled with blue checks

now I discover android users have not been able to participate in twitter spaces for the last week

twitter has become a complete shitcoin, nostr fixes this