Yes, I pay for what I believe in.

Correct, there is no free lunch.

My comment was sarcastic, hence the upside down smile. This entire thing was just about smoking weed vs stacking sats 😂

Cause electricity is free 🙃

How stack sats without dollars?

Great conversation Chris. Thanks for having me on.

I would ask is he the original owner though. Because if he's not the original owner it’s not that he cant keep it. It was never his. It may have been able to be passed to him but he is not the owner to begin with. So he didn't “lose” anything.

I guess in this example im thinking nothing was taken from him because it never became his in the first place until its legally inherited.

Like as much as I want my kids to inherit my properties, it wont ever be theirs if they dont pay the taxes on it so therefore they never lost anything if they dont get it. Now if they start paying and receive the property then stop paying taxes they forfeit the property actually. I really have a hard time seeing how a house/property could be taken from you unless you did something you agreed not to do. Like no one is stealing peoples homes. When we bought these homes we signed and agreed to the taxes. If we dont pay what do we think will happen? The exact thing we agreed to. House will be forfeited if taxes stopped payed.

All I know is legally when a house is “taken” because taxes were not paid the house is actually forfeited by the original owner. The documents arent going to say stolen house. Its going to say the owner did not keep the agreement they signed on the dotted line.

Now im not exactly sure the whole details of the show but it would totally suck to be able to inherit a huge property but not being able to because the tax is too high. I wonder if there is a way around those taxes like putting the property in the sons name before you die. Tough for sure.

Most definitely!🫂

Not letting people send or receive zaps!

I can live with this. I own it until I don’t. Come at me bro! I’m ready! 😂💪

Lightning address changed until WoS is sorted out. #Zap

I'm not asking for much from the incoming #Trump administration other than:

- #FreeRoss

- Abolish the IRS

- Abolish the Federal Reserve

- Abolish taxes on using #bitcoin to purchase goods and services

I didn’t mention the only paragraph that matters. I would choose the 4.5 bitcoin any and everyday. In 10 years I would borrow fiat from a bank and put down 1/2 btc as collateral. Bitcoin will be over a million easy by then.

I own Bitcoin. I use a lot of other stuff.

Think about it like this - my rent is $14,400 a year. If I bought a house in my state at the median price and paid the median tax rate (1.62% plus local taxes) I'd pay $8,190 a year.

Either way, if you don't pay those you're heading out on the street. Doesn't matter if you call yourself an "owner" or not. Doesn't matter if it was in the terms of the agreement beforehand. You know that people vote to increase taxes right? In 30 years I can guarantee you'll have a different agreement.

So I'd spend 4.5 Bitcoin to pay $6,000 less a year and have the same life, or I can keep 4.5 Bitcoin and "own nothing". This also doesn't even factor in the reality that 90% don't pay cash and probably owe interest to the bank, who are the real owners.

Ownership is about control. If I told you that you can have Bitcoin but if you don't give me 1% of it's value every year I'm coming to take it from you, would you call that owning it? Hard reality, but it's the reality.

I know .. I should run one. It's mostly about creating the ln channel. I don't really want to lock up a significant amount of sats in a channel to take my tiny payouts. U know if there are ways to open small channels .. sth like 100k Sats or smaller?

I own Bitcoin. I use a lot of other stuff.

Think about it like this - my rent is $14,400 a year. If I bought a house in my state at the median price and paid the median tax rate (1.62% plus local taxes) I'd pay $8,190 a year.

Either way, if you don't pay those you're heading out on the street. Doesn't matter if you call yourself an "owner" or not. Doesn't matter if it was in the terms of the agreement beforehand. You know that people vote to increase taxes right? In 30 years I can guarantee you'll have a different agreement.

So I'd spend 4.5 Bitcoin to pay $6,000 less a year and have the same life, or I can keep 4.5 Bitcoin and "own nothing". This also doesn't even factor in the reality that 90% don't pay cash and probably owe interest to the bank, who are the real owners.

Ownership is about control. If I told you that you can have Bitcoin but if you don't give me 1% of it's value every year I'm coming to take it from you, would you call that owning it? Hard reality, but it's the reality.

It's a good example though. We all "own" the roads because we all freely use them. And the people who actually pay for them are not the same group as the people who use them.

I'm a very outcome oriented thinker. I just want to produce good outcomes where we don't get robbed blind to keep the stuff we already earned.