How will Bitcoin Talk respond when governments try to ban self custody?

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Each stage has relevant actors and contributors. Bitcoin Talk just relegated itself to insignificance. #Nostr is the future.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5476162.300

I’m wondering why you even posted this. Clearly it’s all your fault. Duh.

Or, witness the level of intellectual depravity that passes for clear thinking in some corners.

Messing around with #primal. Kinda cool!

Posting on Nostr just feels….sweetly contrarian. Love it.

Credit Suisse cost the Swiss taxpayers roughly $10 billion. I guess the question is whether UBS is existential for the Swiss banking system? My money says yes.

The system is not going to allow ETF approval and significant institutional adoption without first trying to put this industry on a leash. Kudos to all everyone building to fortify Bitcoin’s walls against the coming waves. I don’t think they care at all about Ethereum et al. Bitcoin and stablecoins. But what does one do? Tether owns a lot of Treasuries…USDC is an aspiring cbdc…and Bitcoin is Bitcoin. So your advice is sound….become unruggable!

Regulation by enforcement is laziness, symptomatic of a system that is entering decadence. But the rest of the world continues moving forward with purpose. The US must do better.

https://www.ft.com/content/39f10121-29ac-4b66-b364-c15bf62e0be9

My dream is to become a one car family. Luckily I have managed to avoid tying the car I drive to my identity and sense of self worth. Nonetheless, I look at that second car and all I see are sats I don’t have, floating around out there just beyond my grasp. Still working on convincing the wife….

On Thanksgiving Day? Monstrously rude and uncool.

I had 2000 sats from my THNDRGAMES efforts. Can’t retire on it, but I wanted it! I was still able to withdraw to a Phoenix wallet.

So, I tried talking about Nostr at Thanksgiving dinner. I think everyone was relieved it wasn’t Bitcoin. I have some work to do on messaging….

Me too.

Interesting write up from CME Group, pumping institutional interest.

https://www.cmegroup.com/newsletters/excell-with-options-report-from-rich-excell/excell-with-options-report-from-rich-excell-2023-11-21.html?utm_source=marketing_cloud&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=excell_with_options&utm_kxconfid=vpwpdpbbo

Ah, what do you have planned??? 🤔

For the US to maintain global leadership, it needs to revert to its historically most potent soft power tool - liberty. But to do that will require an acknowledgment that the concept of liberty is no longer fixed in America’s popular imagination. One example of many, the discussion about the future of the financial system and Bitcoin’s role in it should not be left to regulators and bureaucrats to decide, as these are all temperamentally inclined to increase their influence at the expense of the rule of law.

China’s mercantilist approach toward the world and authoritarianism at home would not be able to compete with a United States that truly lived its historical purpose of protecting liberty and allowing its people to pursue their lives according to their own will. The US fundamentally lacks the tools to beat China in a race toward better economic and social planning. But a country that embraces liberty and encourages citizens to unleash the power of their ambitions will beat a five year plan every time. And what better tool to empower those citizens than Bitcoin.

“Eat the Rich” on Netflix about the GameStop pump was worth the 90 minutes.

Amazing to think that two US presidential candidates took the time to chat with a British guy about magic internet money. Fair to say that Bitcoin is winning. Congrats on snagging those interviews.

I think most Bitcoiners are too busy leading productive lives to engage in what counts nowadays for civil disobedience. Modern day civil disobedience is a farce, with practitioners comfortable that the system paradoxically supports their disruptions, such that this so-called disobedience brings with it no risk and thus, no moral impact.

“Laissez faire means: let the individual citizen, the much talked-about common man, choose and act and do not force him to yield to a dictator.” - von Mises. #truth