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Nobody watched Andreas’ video on this obviously. You can protect yourself with perfect privacy by simply creating, timestamping and securely storing the files showing your stack and how it’s held. You can set these files aside safely and delete them later if you want. You don’t have to give them to ANYONE unless YOU want to use it later to fight an audit. This is a GIFT from the IRS people. The safe harbor situation does NOT require you to file anything now. If you sell a bunch of bitcoin in an exchange next year or the next and subsequently get audited sometime in the future over it, you can just pull out your time stamped files and they can’t pursue you any longer after showing them that. Everyone seems to think the only way this works is to fill out the wallet info and send it in to the IRS before yesterday but THAT’S NOT HOW THIS WORKS! #tax #taxes #safeharbor #bitcoin
#nature #naturestr #photography #nostr GM nostr! Happy New Year 
0 for me. About to grill a steak- no regrets
Node Runner [OC] #bitcoin #memestr #memes 
NSA Releases 49 Cryptography Related Documents under the Freedom of Information Act
thanks go to John Young at the Cryptography Mailing List
https://www.metzdowd.com/pipermail/cryptography/2024-December/038608.html
#cryptography #cypherpunk 
thank you for that quip about the librarians of Alexandria. That was the last shot of motivation I needed to assemble and activate my first node 🙏
The #coffeechain can’t stop. It MUST keep going, into 2025 keep on brewing & flowing
yes! It is. Another huge cost involved with stored data that must be accessible anywhere by anyone online - not health records of course - is the redundancy it takes for the big players to provide quick access to said data from any geographic location. They accomplish this by leasing storage in data centers, or building their own, worldwide. this is one reason X has such a huge reach, a network of global redundant storage makes it possible for the app to work quickly anywhere and it must cost a fortune to provide. With social media, the nostr model lets us all distribute the load globally providing a similar kind of redundancy through the relays. The p2p, fediverse, whatever we call it, distributed data model is superior to the commercial solutions for too many reasons to list, one of them being the guaranteed, continuous availability of the ledger regardless of its size, because so many who do so are motivated by ideological reasons, not profit (thank you node runners) and in huge numbers this can’t be stopped by authorities or market crashes. I predict the ledger will be fine at a petabyte because by then, the hard drives we’ll be using will be 100 exabytes, and our internet connections will be measured in Tbps, and we’ll laugh at today’s standards the way we laugh about yesterday’s now.
GM! I have the same kind of love/hate for this as Swiss cheese
bitcoiner of the world, UNTIE!
I take photos with my smartphone lens pressed up against the binoculars & always get interesting results #photography #artstr #naturstr 
a drawing of one of our cats my daughter made #artstr #art #catstr #cats #gm #proudpapa 
a cicada on my house #wildlife #photography #animalstr #gm 
this head of lettuce I picked up from a local farm 🤩 #gm 