My periodic reminder that the state is not your friend. Have a good night.

Finally, 100% synchronized Bitcoin Knots! 4 days, 2 1/2 hours later. Blockchain size: 758 GB. Going to need to switch out to a 2 TB SSD before long. Hey, Bitcoin Core! Hope you’re happy. Actions (and inaction) have real consequences!

Run #knots

There is no closing price for ₿ - ever! #Bitcoin

#bitcoin never has a closing price - ever. Let’s keep it that way.

There is no closing price for #bitcoin - ever

Reagan is still priceless.

So true. Self-custody of bitcoin is a first step to taking personal responsibility for our own safety and our freedom.

The government will not protect or save you. Don’t be fooled. We each much take personal responsibility to protect ourselves and our families. That is all.

Great advice

Therapeutic, just ahead of water

Van Valkenburgh is very under appreciated!

Yes. Coin Center does very good work, fighting the good fight on a shoestring budget most likely. Peter Van Valkenburgh in particular is a great legal mind.

Privacy is not a crime although it is quickly becoming unlawful.

Fire the miners!

Privacy is not a crime. It is a natural right.

They can make Bitcoin illegal but they can never kill it!

#Bitcoin

I wouldn’t know because I cannot even open or login to Primal

This is the day the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it. - Psalm 118:24

This is a must read for all #bitcoiners and #notriches!

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/tokenized-inc-blackrocks-plan-to-own-the-fractionalized-world-

The great Whitney Webb, founder of Unlimited Hangout, and her able colleague, Mark Goodwin, Editor in Chief of Bitcoin Magazine, together provide an excellent explanation of how Larry Fink and his Wall Street ilk, the WEF, and our other superiors plan to create a new global financial system that will use “blockchain technology” to connect climate finance with the tokenization of natural assets and infrastructure with the added bonus of [Webb and Goodwin] “neuter[ing] Bitcoin as a[n otherwise] viable currency capable of competing with the day-to day bargaining and settlement utility of the dollar.”

*And they tell us what they are going to do . . .*

∞ Fink claims that his BTC ETF makes BTC just another commodity no different from gold, corn, pork bellies, or sugar: [Webb and Goodwin] “transmuting the Bitcoin protocol into just another speculative commodity – all the efforts of miners and nodes across the world to decentralize trust in issuance and settlement reduced to a paper offering by their iShares division.” [Fink] “I don’t believe it’s [BTC is] ever going to be a currency. I believe it’s an asset class.”

∞ The goal of Fink, Jamie Dimon, and their fellow Wall Street elites, through “public-private partnerships” if necessary, is nothing short of the integration of Bitcoin fully into the legacy financial system as a stepping-stone along the way to the main prize - the ultimate commodification and tokenization of all natural assets and infrastructure.

∞ Of course, CBDCs and digital IDs are the foundation of Fink’s digital tokenization, new world order financial panopticon: [Webb and Goodwin] “Take a selfie and submit your social security number, alongside your date of birth, to unlock the now-tokenized old growth forest in your backyard. The new face of ‘economic freedom’ is your face, alongside select credentials, sent to a privately-owned database: One ledger to rule them all.” And the magic of “blockchain technology” will enable it all: [Microsoft] “[. . .] Microsoft, our partners in the ID2020 Alliance, and developers around the globe will collaborate on an open source, self-sovereign, blockchain-based identity system that allows people, products, apps and services to interoperate across blockchains, cloud providers and organizations. [. . .]”

In a worst-case, the feds could easily program CBDCs to legally prohibit or electronically block the sale of CBDCs for BTC. *It is everywhere and always about control.*

∞ And don’t forget Fink’s [Webb and Goodwin] “’stakeholder capitalism,’ the economic system championed by the WEF’s Klaus Schwab and built on an interlocking, global network of public-private partnerships.” It’s changed its color a bit with Fink altering his rhetoric around decarbonization and voluntary carbon markets, [Webb and Goodwin] “moving from claims that they are necessary to avoid planetary doom, to claims that they are the key to unlocking next generational wealth”, i.e., *tokenized everything assets*.

∞ Beware public-private partnerships. Beware “blockchain technology”. And beware Larry Fink.

yes!