"He has lost his privilages..."

She sounds like she's talking to her kids. Like she is the Queen of the Nation and needs to control speech according to what she wants you to hear. You need my oversight.

This is stunning - a communist leader from the past could not have spoken better about Government control.

This is very difficult for younger people that have been educated in public education. They are NOT learning critical thinking skills. Emotions are an evolutionary process to keep us alive. So young people are more influenced by emotional arguments over logical arguements.

The point is this: RAISE your kids to think. Question EVERYTHING. We had our 5 kids read "Atlas Shrugged" by Ayn Rand. It's one of the best lessons in thinking you could give anyone. They are all killing.

My youngest gave me a cup last year, "Dad, No matter what life throws at you at least you don't have a liberal child"

That pretty much says it all. 4 engineers and 1 teacher turned property owner after only 1 year of teaching (could not handle the stupidity of the teachers/system).

Sadly for many, once you are an adult it's very difficult to learn to critically think. Not impossible, but very hard. So once your kids leave the house, if they don't know how to think critically they probably are lost for life in most cases.

We need school choice so bad it's insane. End Government education!

So I ask. If you can get the coins to a cold wallet at some point, does it matter?

Yes, they can track you buying #Bitcoin and then know a little about how much you have in cold storage - but they can't freeze it or get to it.

Of course, I agree with the idea there should be NO KYC. It's just a control mechanism.

Tough love. Don't do for them what you know they can do for themselves (which is most everything if they have to survive).

It's VERY easy to over parent. We do WAY too much for our kids!

If they do something RIGHT - reward that if you must. Don't bail them out.

Unfortunately in America today the STATE often bails them out making it all much worse.

Oh - remembered another one. If I asked them to do something, and they started whining, I would give them a second chore.

Each time they complained, add another chore!

Ha! That's great! I use to make our kids run around the house when they started whining! And hey - if it was winter and they did not have shoes on - leave the shoes in the house! lol

They still remember this BUT see it as funny now (they did NOT think it was funny at the time)!

I raised my kids this way.

I started out with this one LONG before they could drive.

If you get rear ended, who's fault is it?

The right answer is: Mine.

(but it can take a year or more to have them internalize that answer - not just tell me what I wanted to hear)

All very independent, 4 engineers, 1 teacher turned property owner. Proud they are all killing it.

Once you assume responsibility for your life you are on the right track to enjoy your life immensely.

If you thought in your head that if someone rear ends you and it's THERE fault - start working on yourself. It's the wrong answer....

If you think this is bad, the USA has done this to the world.

It's time to end the empires. #Bitcoin

(read "Hidden Repression" for details)

This is not easy for most people. When we say/do something others have a perception of what we are saying through THEIR experiences.

MOST times how we view what we say/do are NOT the same view/perception others have of EXACTLY statement or action!

So we have to try to understand how all these millions of other people are viewing OUR personal views/actions.

Ever explained something to someone and it seems like it went in one ear and out the other? We all have! It's frustrating!

Do you know that's YOU not being a good communicator - NOT THEM not getting you! OUCH.

Great post you made. Great point. Try to 'sense' how someone feels BEFORE you talk. Try to understand where they may be coming from - this all requires YEARS of practice.

I'm an engineer. I'm terrible at this! (laughing) Took me a lifetime to just understand it's NOT what you say, it's how you say it and how they hear it - all that matters. This requires your consciousness to grow a LOT and other than all out stupid (there I go again) you see FAR LESS fault in others. It's my fault if they don't understand!

I think you are spot on. Trump has the history of a shit coiner - he's masterfully used the fiat system to get fiat rich.

We should expect him to 'see' Crypto from his history.

He likely can't see any difference between #Bitcoin and Crypto (which is just digital fiat).

Either way - the more this Trojan Horse moves into the castle, the sooner we end this war between fiat and HARD Money (Bitcoin). We 100% know from history that the hardest money of the time ALWAYS won with the people - eventually.

Once we see Bitcoin, we probably think it will/should happen faster than it will - human nature. This will take some time....

I would start with reading "The Great Taking" for the background.

www.thegreattaking.com

Question everything.

You can look up all the other stuff with Grok or other GPT Chat AI.

There is not enough money in #Bitcoin to justify the confiscation.

Read the book, "The Great Taking" www.thegreattaking.com

The biggest asset pool to go after the general population wealth is retirement plans. No one believes it, but the legal framework has been worked on to take over a % of retirement plans for the last 25 years across the USA and EU.

History.

Argentina nationalized all retirement plans in 2008. Took all the money!

Hungary gave citizens choice between their version of social security OR give up all their retirement money, 2008.

Poland, 2013, stole half of all retirement accounts.

Cyprus, 2013, if you had more than 100,000 Euros in your account, you woke up one day and the Government took 10%.

There is $35 trillion in USA 401k/IRAs - debt just passed $35 trillion. If they took 50% of all private retirement money they could hang on to power.

Will/does the electorate fall for this? Usually they do because the alternate is presented as FAR worse - so most people feel blessed to just lose half their money.

I admit these are not G7 nations. But look at the debt of the nations above compared to the G7 nations today. Then put 2 and 2 together and get VERY conservative.

Until we know for SURE what Government will do about spending/printing/borrowing we have no idea what we will wake up to from day to day right now. Could collapse tomorrow, could be a decade - but it has ALWAYS collapsed when it gets this bad. No way to know exactly when.

Physical Gold, Silver, and #Bitcoin ONLY in self custody. << The answer.

WHEN Elon comes under intense pressure to give up user data, could this happen?

I don't think Elon will give in - so the question is how does he secure user data without giving up the house? IF X takes on Nostr base layer, Elon truly would not have access to our private data anymore.

Turn it into a distributed network. This also assumes there is no back doors (which would be a big assumption if the code were not open sourced).

We shall see...

So this would suggest Democrats or those on the Left would embrace #Bitcoin, right?

Some have, no doubt. But why not the masses?

No - she makes the information understandable to all. Not your typical history/economics read! Easier and better!

I don't think Trump is offering 'deals' -

He never has, and likely never will. This is why everyone hates him. He's not for sale, and he's not trying to buy anyone else.

You nailed it. But keep it simple. #Bitcoin is your energy/work STORED as energy/work by the system using math, so you can use your stored energy/work at ANY future time YOU want.

In Bitcoin terms - no one controls your efforts in life but YOU if you save/store/use Bitcoin.

It's so simple it's illusive. It's what humans have been trying to discover for thousands of years since the time of bartering for goods/services started.

These nation states are showing where you actually would want to live to be free.

Of course stealing electricity is obviously wrong, so is seizing the 693 miners. How about a fine, and being required to pay back/compensate for stollen electric?

How each state/country/authority handle #Bitcoin is a freedom test!

There has NEVER been a better time/opportunity for the AVERAGE person to get filthy rich. I'm not talking about just money rich, I'm talking about true wealth and security - allow you to get your time back and do good/GREAT things with your life.

Is #Bitcoin guaranteed? Of course it's not - nothing is 100%.

But ANYONE right now can cut expenses to the basics and SAVE in Bitcoin and change their life in a decade. NOTHING has ever been as good an opportunity as Bitcoin is right now.

In a decade it will be mainstream - the opportunity to own and use Bitcoin will still be there, but the growth will fall in line with economic growth at some point.

What's amazing to me is why more average people are not even curious about the best performing asset the last 15 or so years.

Like your handle. Atlas Shrugged (Satoshi Shrugged).

I required all 5 of our kids to read Atlas Shrugged.

They all have hinted that #Bitcoin is John Galt.

I think it should be required class in all schools at every age K-12.

The world would be a MUCH better place if it was a class!