But “10%” is too much to pay for for a service that will not abuse you. This is why fiat and fiat institutions exist and persist. People just can’t THINK.
10% fee for azte.co on every purchase is hefty and comes off greedy even for the level of innovation
SOCIALISTS GONNA SOCIALIZE
COLLECTIVISTS GONNA COLLECTIVIZE
ITS THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
HARD “L”
Rodriguez and Burroughs.
Despite what some people might believe, what is not required is a "Pressure Group" to help Bitcoin adoption.
Well meaning people who've grown up in INGSOC believe that the optics of opposition politics is what will keep Bitcoin users safe from regulation. They're 100% wrong.
Listing companies that people should use because they're "unregulated" or "outside the law" only generates scrutiny targets. It doesn't help anyone, and actually has another, hidden purpose.
People love to rally behind the underdog; what they're trying to do is create the next "Assange", or "CND", or "Occupy Wall Street" that they can be the heads of, so that they're constantly being interviewed and getting their profile raised in the Mainstream Media.
This will increase "Membership" in their organizations, opening the door to future employment in the "Compliance" departments of the companies they "defended", or will allow them to contract out consultancy roles for their companies.
Think Rico and BitLicense as examples.
And of course, being the de facto heads of "the Industry", not only will they scrape up money, but they'll be directly consulted on the rules to govern the companies they "represent", ensuring permanent roles for themselves in perpetuity.
If you should refuse their offer of consultancy, they will threaten you that you will not be aware of upcoming changes and will not have a, "Seat at the Table" to protect yourself from predation, as they have a direct line to the violent thugs who could shut you down.
Not going along with them will be portrayed as being an outsider with something to hide, as the people representing the industry will be for "transparency" and "Society".
This is exactly how this matter works. It is not about the law or right or wrong; it is about making jobs for people who can't write software and who are not able, for whatever reason, to form companies to serve other people directly
They see some new field that does not have "regulation" and they anoint themselves as contact points, injecting themselves into the market where no real purpose is served.
Many people are starting to express their desperation like this. It’s very sad, and100% avoidable.
George Galloway is correct. Britain has placed itself in a uniquely perilous position, and will come out as the ultimate loser. America will stand back and watch them be obliterated. The UK is being run by psychopaths.
And what of King Charles? the country he waited to rule will be a smoldering pile of ashes; his son’s and grandsons and heirs will inherit ashes, and what for? For the petulant and rabid bloodlust of Socialists. What a waste. WHAT A SHAME.
https://rumble.com/v5rornt-no2nato-episode-21-world-war-3.html
NICO and OPTI. https://x.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1859287542643950017
This is true. People are more interested in having their biases and prejudices confirmed and magnified, rather than serving others for the greater good.
They’re not interested in right and wrong; in fact they don’t believe there is right and wrong, like John Maynard Keynes. This is the reality everyone lives in.
Thankfully, there is only one reality, whether anyone likes it or not. This reality is being played out right now in Bitcoin.
No matter what anyone’s feelings are, their cereal box philosophies, delusions and threadbare personalities, the actual reality will assert itself, and whether or not you agree with it, or the people who tell the truth, everyone is subject to it.
We are going to win. The enemies of reality are going to lose. We can see this playing out in real time, with people saying one thing and doing another, believing this will not be noticed. Everyone notices. Everybody knows.
And everyone can choose! nostr:note1t9jxplnmvx2uwetdl0r9ecfgqzl9e36cwa08jg6jpnak39f97tsslmndq6
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I'm afraid this is literally not true, in any real sense of the words. Civil servants do not "work for us." This is why Bitcoin was created in the first place, and I suspect Satoshi knew this.
If Civil Servants worked for us, the money supply would not run out of control, and there would never have been a need for Bitcoin to be written. It is precisely because Civil Servants do not work for us that Bitcoin is required to act as an external, automatic constraint on them.
The abuses of the Civil Servants (the permanent government) and the elected politicians (the window dressing) is well known, and only naïve teenager believes in The State, and that, "After all, they're out there to protect us."
It's almost as if recent history has not happened (COVID-19) and the entire 20th century was just a fiction in a bad science fiction novel.
How can anyone think politicians and Civil Servants are working for the people? It's baffling; but many people maintain a quasi religious belief in the State, because that's all they can imagine, and frankly, that's OK.
Bitcoin must do what it was designed to do in spite of the people and their peculiar beliefs, even the people very close to its inception. It has to work as a force of nature, otherwise, it will not be as powerful as it needs to be to change everything to do with money.
It has to be said also, that there is a profound lack of empathy for Keonne Rodriguez and T-Dev on many sides (both of whom I understand have wives and children). There is no thought about the suffering they're enduring; it's as if they're just pictures on a screen and not real people. Shocking.
I feel very bad that these two fine, brusque men have been thrown in gaol for performing maths. How anyone can trivialize this is breathtaking. It's like saying, "Galileo should be burned, twice, because he is disrupting Society with his ideas".
No one today would say Galileo should be burned for heliocentrism, and this is exactly what is happening to Rodriguez and Burroughs. In hindsight, when it is not risky to go along with the crowd after people are vindicated is easy; it is hard to defend the rights of people who are being rounded up and hounded in real-time.
And for someone who just escaped the poison fangs of Faketoshi, I would hope there is sympathy for others facing unfair challenges to their liberty to write software.
It should be clear to everyone that giving $1,000,000 USD per year to CoinCenter did not work. It should also be clear that lobbying isn't working either. It has been tried and has failed. The Chambers of Commerce, Associations, Centers and other drivel have failed to protect Bitcoin users so following Einstein, doing the same thing over and over and hoping for a different outcome is literally I _ S _ N E.
Bitcoin is full of different characters with different approaches to the single realty everyone has to live in. We will see who is successful in addressing that reality. We know (slight diversion) that Apple is very good at addressing the market, and that other companies were not, with their utilitarian beige boxes that, "Get the job done".
Ultimately, Bitcoin will be exposed to this same dynamic. That's why the smart money is betting on Bitkey (for example) to change the world.
As for Samourai, I hope they take this to the highest court, sue their persecutors and win astronomic damages. I think they're victims in this, and by extension so could be the free use of Bitcoin. And whilst other people find them too abrasive, we now know for sure that the people with different, softer approaches have failed to midwife Bitcoin or even run wallets at a profit, unlike Samourai, who do.
Note the tense.
Is there a third option between these two opposite sides of the question? If there is, I hope someone brings it, because it would be useful.
The original Cypherpunks wrote very provocative essays that made people feel uneasy, and now they're held up as incredibly insightful heroes. You're in that today, even if you can't see it happening before your eyes.
When the story of all this is written, and it will be written, I want it said of me that I supported the rights of these bold and aggressive men, and was not a mere bystander, equivocator or someone who turned away.
But that's me. Other people do "other"!
https://x.com/beautyon_/status/1785048401656025305?s=61&t=eyjJ5IvKiAtPIDSBRekpmA
“Fairness”: Equal Slavery
One dramatic way of looking at our tax system in relation to the question of subsidy or fairness is to assume for a moment that this is 1850, and that the question arises in the North as to what should be done with slaves who had managed to escape from the South. Let us assume that both sides of a growing debate are ardently in favor of freedom and are opposed to slavery. Group A hails the slaves’ escape and advocates setting them free. But Group B argues as follows:
We are, of course, just as ardent a champion of slave freedom as the people of Group A. But we believe it is unfair for one group of slaves to escape, while the remainder of their brothers and sisters remain in slavery. Therefore, we hold that these escapees should be shipped back into slavery until such time as all the slaves can be freed together and simultaneously.
What would we think of such an argument? To call it specious would be a kindly understatement. But I submit that believers in the free market are arguing in precisely the same way when they say that all taxes must be uniform, and that all specific tax deductions or exemptions must be canceled until such time as everyone’s taxes can be reduced uniformly. In both cases, the egalitarians are arguing not for equal freedom but for equal slavery or equal robbery in the name of “fairness.” In both cases, the rebuttal holds that the enslavement or plunder of one group can in no way justify the enslavement or plunder of another, be it in the name of fairness, equity, or whatever.
President Elect Donald J. Trump has promised to eliminate the Income Tax and move government revenue on to Tariffs as Taft did.
The Federal Reserve Dollar is dying since it is being printed into oblivion (the definition of inflation). If Lummis was thinking correctly, the answer to several of these difficult problems at once is obvious.
When the Income Tax is abolished and Tariffs are the source of income, it should be mandated that those Tariffs be paid in Bitcoin.
This would have several immediate side effects.
1/ There would be a very large increase in demand for bitcoin globally
2/ The Federal Government would legitimately start to amass bitcoin
3/ No American Citizen would suffer theft to achieve this end
4/ The U.S. bitcoin ecosystem would be turbo kick started
On the final point, these “monies” coming in to the coffers would be spent inside America, creating multiple cascading opportunities for innovation and learning in bitcoin handling. The “Bitcoin Coffer” would be dispersing and disseminating bitcoin into the economy, triggering the de facto “Legal Tender” status of bitcoin, which I note with appropriate disdain, this bill of pure fail fails to address as part of the overall strategy.
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/pandering-as-policy-d125d002dcb3
THE HOUSE OF EL. 
We…
Can’t close your account
Don’t abuse you
Respect your rights
Don’t Treat you like Human Cattle
Don’t spy on you
Don’t measure, mistreat or meddle with you
Care. And we show it.
Execute without compromise
Protect you like family.
That’s how WE roll; that is OUR standard!
Very cool!
What are the average effective fees these days? Do you expect them to shrink as you scale?
What price do you put on privacy, especially with the price skyrocketing? That’s what you should ask yourself. In the mirror for extra gravitas.