Secretive White House Surveillance Program Gives Cops Access to Trillions of US Phone Records
A WIRED analysis of leaked police documents verifies that a secretive government program is allowing federal, state, and local law enforcement to access phone records of Americans who are not suspected of a crime.
https://www.wired.com/story/hemisphere-das-white-house-surveillance-trillions-us-call-records/
"This is a long-running dragnet surveillance program in which the White House pays AT&T to provide all federal, state, local, and Tribal law enforcement agencies the ability to request often-warrantless searches of trillions of domestic phone records." -- Ron Wyden United States Senator
The Great Taking - Documentary https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk3AVceraTI
GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.
EVERYONE NEEDS AN UNCLE JIM
Whatever happened to Uncle Jim? Does he not care about lending a helping hand anymore?
Who do you trust more with your money: a giant faceless corporation subject to any arbitrary regulation with no feasible ability to dodge around it, or someone you have known personally for years such as a close friend or family member? Personally, I trust the giant faceless corporation more (just kidding).
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/everyone-needs-an-uncle-jim
Uncle Jim will step in and fill that hole.
DURABIT: INCENTIVIZING TORRENT SEEDING WITH BITCOIN
A recent anonymous proposal specifies a system using timelocked Bitcoin transactions and chaumian ecash mints to create an economic incentive for BitTorrent users to seed files.
https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/durabit-incentivizing-torrent-seeding-with-bitcoin
GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.
Bitcoin Is Digital Scarcity
"The difference between the Linden Dollar, World of Warcraft Gold, Fortnite V-Bucks, the Euro, and the U.S. dollar is in scale, not in nature. While V-Bucks are created and controlled by Epic Games (the company that created Fortnite), the U.S. dollar is created and controlled by the Fed. One impacts millions of people, the other billions. The mechanism that keeps these monies in check—the rules of the game, if you will—is the same in both cases: central decree."
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The new president-elect of Argentina is serious. Just issued a statement confirming he’s shutting down their Central Bank, and it is not a negotiable matter.
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GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.
Great morning read ☕
The recurring cycle of economic booms followed by inevitable busts has remained a puzzle for generations of observers. While mainstream Keynesian and monetarist theories propose monetary interventions to smooth these fluctuations, the Austrian School offers a compelling and alternative perspective. -- Michael Matulef
The Inevitable Bust: Why Economic Booms Contain the Seeds of Their Own Destruction
https://mises.org/wire/inevitable-bust-why-economic-booms-contain-seeds-their-own-destruction
My friend forgot his CC, and it was his turn to buy a round of drinks.
So he then continued to orange pill the owner to accept #bitcoin #LightningNetwork
Friends restaurant, Curaçao.
GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.
Sixty years ago, to get to the Moon, NASA built the most powerful rocket in the history of space exploration — Saturn V.
Starship Vs Saturn V
https://orbitaltoday.com/2022/09/05/starship-vs-saturn-v-choosing-a-winner/
Justin Sun-Owned Exchange Poloniex Hacked for At Least $126 Million
Poloniex owner Justin Sun stated that the exchange is collaborating with other crypto exchanges in a bid to recover the apporpriated
https://decrypt.co/205465/justin-sun-owned-crypto-exchange-poloniex-hacked-60m
When bull markets come, hackers come too. Criminals are less inclined to take on the risk of stealing an asset when its value is perceived to be going down. If you were putting off taking self-custody during the bear market and high fee markets, now's a good chance to claim your assets.
Fake BlackRock XRP Filing Referred to Delaware Department of Justice
A check of the process for registering a trust in the state apparently leaves a ready opening for bad actors.
Misinformation pops up in crypto from time to time. One perk of having assets in a multisig wallet is it can prevent you from overreacting to bad information or outright scams by giving more time to think and process. Even when it's good news, don't trust, verify.
"Be deaf to malicious gossip"--Marcus Aurelius
GM #plebchain, stay humble, stack bits/sats, and think for yourself.
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