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Bayman11771
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Director of Government Affairs, Bitcoin Policy Institute

Tough to beat the feeling of relief when what you thought was the Sword of Damocles hanging over your head turns out to be one of those pool noodles.

GM🫡

WHEN YOU LOOK FOR THEM, THERE ARE SUBTLE WAYS OUT THERE TO ENHANCE PRIVACY AND START INSPIRING A LITTLE BIT OF BADGER IN YOURSELF.

A GOOD LIST OF PRIVACY RESOURCES HIGHLIGHTED BY A MEMBER OF OUR LOCAL BTC CLUB.

https://github.com/pluja/awesome-privacy/blob/main/README.md

I don't transact much onchain. But today I took advantage of low fees to do some housekeeping. I'll own it - I giggled like a little girl each time I broadcast a signed transaction....

A lot of the content soars high above my head, nevertheless I really enjoy following the discussions on delvingbitcoin. There's something there for everyone to learn.

GM🫡

AND IT'S NOT ALL ABOUT PRICE....BUT THIS MORNING'S PRICE IS KINDA NICE 👍

My daughter was able to spend time with her great grandmother before she passed. An enormous gift to both of them....and to me. My daughter has a sense of where she came from, so I feel really good about where she's going.

As much as a lot of Bitcoiners find it distasteful, we need to get the community engaged in

the policy fight. We all still live in communities, with friends and family. And Galt Gulch doesn't actually exist. We're going to organize and make out voices heard this year.

How does one caricature the collapse of a political system?

Every time I think I'm clear, there's another something who claims I owe this or that. It's exhausting, and I count myself among the fortunate. It really pains me to see how good people are struggling. There is a profound injustice to it.

I spent a lot of my professional life overseas, primarily in developing countries. One of the constants in these places was failing or unreliable institutions, subject to the whims of elites. Institutions are supposed to represent order and allow people to reliably inform their behavior. When they start to fail, the societal corrosion becomes exponential. Our "elites" seem to fail to understand the implications corrupting institutions out of parochialism, ideological motivations, or plain old greed. It's not as if humanity hasn't heard this song before on many occasions throughout history.

Even ETH's most ardent supporters acknowledge the centralizing tendencies that have emerged following the switch to PoS. ETH will pay the price for taking the climate change bait about PoW.

GM!

HOPING FOR A FUTURE THAT IS DECENTRALIZED, TRUSTLESS, AND VERIFIABLE. THE ULTIMATE DIVERSION FROM TODAY'S CENTRALIZED, OPAQUE WORLD.