seems obvious.

i dont want topic x in my feed so i dont follow people who talk about x

choice and agency is the whole plot

fuck the jerks. let us know how we can help. 🫂

i usually view post only feeds so i miss out on the nonsense. perhaps its time to viee comments and posts to be more useful in spotting the nonsense.

"register as a company to protect yourself from liability" they said.....

https://www.fincen.gov/boi

ive never heard of this before. thanks for sharing

yessir

i'm also skeptical but will acknowledge EU was a great white whale for that outfit. i wouldn't say they were given a red carpet

now, what did they have to agree to get final approval?

whaaaaaat....?

trump is not, nor will he ever be, a bitcoiner. and he is not going to save the world.

neither will the other guy.

neither will the other country, and their guy/gal

whomever wants more power is an enemy of freedom

not even for a hop? really?

100% possible

how likely? depends on far too much to hazard a guess. someone with decision making power would have to give up on the inflation strategy and choose violent deflation

growing up i was taught monkeys at the zoo were originally caught using the "banana trick"

whereby a trapper would place banana in a small cage, large enough for a free, wild monkey to see the banana and put their hand in to grab its prize... but small enough the monkey can't pull it's hand out whole also holding the banana

the monkey could easily let go of the banana and leave free, but they had to let go and they didnt want to

so it would stand there trying every which way to get it's hand and the banana out, giving the trapper time and distraction enough to walk right up and grab the monkey for good

whether that's true or not, that's how bitcoin privacy feels, imo.

we spend all this time and energy hyper focused on getting onchain privacy using only bitcoin. we chain ourselves to axioms like BITCOIN ONLY EVER instead of letting go and using a multi chain approach to get what we want - freedom and a god damned banana.

i dont get it.

#Bitcoin

this checks out 👏

they confuse leverage for genius, every time

great book.

even if they dont play the hand, the cards are up their sleeves.

best.

few things are zero sum.

imo, her prize isnt the 1% tax its the reporting requirement

"The best lack all conviction. While the worst are full of passionate intensity" Father Paul Dure, The Fall of Hyperion

i like em

i stopped issuing a cell phone for a month and saw great benefits

ive since reinstated it, with far different habits. i dont do email, im getting people on signal and dropping texts,and generally making it less useful and less interesting.

following up from that i stopped using headphones for last few weeks. in spending more time thinking and playing and less time consuming ive recentered a few bad habits - like listening to too many nonfiction audiobooks.

imo life is all about habits and dropping the bad ones while keeping the good ones will be my focus this epoch

c

epoch 4 was incredible

it's my coming of age epoch. when i learned FOSS and freedom tech and nothing is perfect there ate always tradeoffs. when i went fully self sovereign, ran my own node, tor, firewall. when i stacked as hard as i wanted.

epoch 5 will be even better, no doubt thanks to you nostr.

enjoy your trip down the time chain 🌽👏🫡

#Bitcoin

#nostr