TLDR: "Bitcoin is a free speech" is a sound argument to protect it from the government.
By the way, your lightning address for zaps use ln tips, which is being decommissioned.
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It didn't work.
Fransis Pouliot, Bull Bitcoin's CEO wrote the following in blog post https://www.bullbitcoin.com/blog/bitcoin-drain-in-the-usa
> Some people in the Bitcoin space are making the case that no Bitcoin service provider can be interpreted to be a money transmitter because Bitcoin is “not money” but rather is “speech” or “software”.
> This argument is, pardon my French, fucking retarded. Of course, Bitcoin is money. Even if Bitcoin is not legally recognized as such by every government institution in many countries, anybody with half a brain recognizes that it acts as money in practice (particularly when it suits them). Governments refraining to consider Bitcoin as money for political reasons simply classify it as a virtual asset that act as a money equivalent/substitute and include companies dealing with Bitcoin within the same frameworks that cover money service businesses, or they create new frameworks for virtual asset providers entirely, usually similar, and often worse than those covering fiat money transmission.
I disagree with the assertion that labeling "Bitcoin as free speech" is an invalid argument. A similar argument supported the freedom to use cryptography (PGP) in the 20th century. While software source code is indeed software source code, it also embodies free speech and should not be targeted by the government. Similarly, a Bitcoin transaction is not solely a financial transaction but also an expression of free speech, thus warranting protection from government interference.
Consider a deeper perspective: Freedom of speech represents a fundamentally libertarian form of liberty, one of the three primary freedoms that, if upheld, undermine the existence of the state entirely: freedom of speech, assembly, and movement. The state encroaches upon these freedoms while denying its actions. It justifies limiting freedom of speech as "anti-money laundering," restricting assembly as "antitrust laws," and curtailing movement as "migration laws."
Let's call these actions what they are: taxation as theft, migration laws as violations of freedom of movement, antitrust laws as infringements on freedom of assembly, and anti-money laundering measures as infringements on freedom of speech. By acknowledging this reality, the state loses legitimacy and support within society. It faces the choice of either transitioning into an overt totalitarian dictatorship or scaling back its assaults on ordinary human activities such as Bitcoin transactions, assembly, and border crossings.
#bitcoin
Found a couple of programming languages with a concept of memory ownership. They manage memory in compile time.
Argentum - a new programming language that is safe, scalable, fast and tiny.
It is memory safe, type safe, null-safe, array-index safe and so on. It is safe.
It automates memory management, and object hierarchy management.
Unlike Rust and Swift it guarantees absence of memory leaks and doesn't force you to use unsafe hacks. It has no unsafe mode at all.
Unlike Java, Go, JS and Python, it doesn't use garbage collector, so no sudden pauses and overheads, and leaks.
It has precise predictable object disposal moments, so objects can control any resources, not just memory.
It compiles to machine code producing tiny executables with no extra dependencies.
It has multithreading without deadlocks and data races.
It is simple and expressive, crazy fast and memory-effective.
And its interop with C is mostly a pass-through.
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В NewLang реализовано автоматическое управление памятью без сборщика мусора.
За основу была взята модель “владения” из языка Rust, но она переработана под концепцию сильных и слабых указателей (аналоги shared_ptr и weak_ptr из С++), где каждое значение в памяти может иметь только одну переменную-владельца с сильным указателем.
И когда такая переменная-владелец уходит из области видимости, счетчик ссылок уменьшается и при достжении нуля память освобождается.
Фактически, это автоматическое управление памятью с помощью подсчёта ссылок на этапе компиляции и без использования сборщика мусора.
Существование ссылок на объекты предполагает и возможность одновременного доступа к данным из нескольких потоков выполнения. Из-за чего управление памятью включает в себя и элементы межпотокового взаимодействия, так как совместное владение ссылками по любому будет требовать каких либо механизмов синхронизации доступа к разеделяемой памяти объектов.
Поэтому, при определении объекта указывается, какие типы ссылок допускается создавать на него, а так-же какая используется модель совместного доступа к переменной.
Весь механизм подсчета ссылок и проверки их корректности реализован на уровне синтаксиса. В рантайме выполняется только контроль идентификатора потока для однопоточных ссылок, а все остальные проверки выполняются во время компиляции.
I confirm reproducible build of LND v0.17.5 on linux-amd64.
Go version: 1.21.0.
```
make release tag=v0.17.5-beta sys="linux-amd64"
c06d96222990ecb240affba44c92413c26481057d9448657b18b6f0ab6a56d47 lnd-linux-amd64-v0.17.5-beta.tar.gz
```
The binary with the same hash can be downloaded from https://github.com/lightningnetwork/lnd/releases/download/v0.17.5-beta/lnd-linux-amd64-v0.17.5-beta.tar.gz
I confirm reproducible build of #bitcoin core 27.0 on x86_64-linux-gnu.
```
sudo apt-get install guix
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
cd bitcoin/
git checkout -b my v27.0
git log # must show commit d82283950f5ff3b2116e705f931c6e89e5fdd0be
env HOSTS='x86_64-linux-gnu' ./contrib/guix/guix-build
```
... wait for a while ...
```
$ sha256sum guix-build-27.0/output/x86_64-linux-gnu/bitcoin-27.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
2a6974c5486f528793c79d42694b5987401e4a43c97f62b1383abf35bcee44a8
```
The binary with the same hash can be downloaded from https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-27.0/bitcoin-27.0-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
Interesting. Tested. It works!
Prices now rise in dollars, not only in pesos. Also I don't like that the government interferes with Bitcoin exchange.
I confirm reproducible build of #bitcoin core 26.1 on x86_64-linux-gnu.
```
sudo apt-get install guix
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
cd bitcoin/
git checkout -b my v26.1
git log # must show commit 0b4aa31c34b239ec7da36760a2670792184c3ba8
env HOSTS='x86_64-linux-gnu' ./contrib/guix/guix-build
```
... wait for a while ...
```
$ sha256sum guix-build-26.1/output/x86_64-linux-gnu/bitcoin-26.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
a5b7d206384a8100058d3f2e2f02123a8e49e83f523499e70e86e121a4897d5b
```
The binary with the same hash can be downloaded from https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-26.1/bitcoin-26.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
I'm not rushing to update to this version. First, I want to understand the changes they made to combat spam in the blocks. They look suspicious to me.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29412 p2p: Don't process mutated blocks
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29524 p2p: Don't consider blocks mutated if they don't connect to known prev block
Git clone command was broken. It should be:
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
I confirm reproducible build of #bitcoin core 26.1 on x86_64-linux-gnu.
```
sudo apt-get install guix
git clone https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin
cd bitcoin/
git checkout -b my v26.1
git log # must show commit 0b4aa31c34b239ec7da36760a2670792184c3ba8
env HOSTS='x86_64-linux-gnu' ./contrib/guix/guix-build
```
... wait for a while ...
```
$ sha256sum guix-build-26.1/output/x86_64-linux-gnu/bitcoin-26.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
a5b7d206384a8100058d3f2e2f02123a8e49e83f523499e70e86e121a4897d5b
```
The binary with the same hash can be downloaded from https://bitcoincore.org/bin/bitcoin-core-26.1/bitcoin-26.1-x86_64-linux-gnu.tar.gz
I'm not rushing to update to this version. First, I want to understand the changes they made to combat spam in the blocks. They look suspicious to me.
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29412 p2p: Don't process mutated blocks
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/29524 p2p: Don't consider blocks mutated if they don't connect to known prev block
¿Como se crea el dinero? Los bancos toman tus depósitos y los prestan. Luego, el prestamista al invertirlos o pagarlos, genera un depósito que es tomado contablemente como nuevo dinero.
Ahora el mismo depósito está en la, contabilidad de dos bancos distintos 😳
#BTC solucionó el problema de doble gasto y evita que se pueda crear dinero a través de la reserva fraccionaria. Like y hacemos post profundizando este tema 🙌
¡Protégete!
#HODL #Bitcoin
https://video.nostr.build/1b876ca98f31f3a9325f0525a4c5879ed7d7795b1cee5f7fa4a74865e5b1038e.mp4
I believe crypto exchanges are no different from fiat banks in that they engage in fractional reserve practices.
It’s hard to tell if Roger Ver is a scammer, or a victim of many scams. Perhaps he is the most malicious liar in Bitcoin history.
I don’t really care. He says everyone should hold their own keys, privacy is important, and Bitcoin can destroy the central banks.
This is the message of Bitcoin. If Roger is using this message to scam shitcoiners, I don’t care. The message is far more important than the messenger.
Michael Saylor does not like this message. His message is that Bitcoin needs to separate itself from the cypherpunks.
The big blockers were right about one thing. Big blocks are far less centralizing than KYC custodial lightning.
Listen to nostr:npub12qz56plzehejkyp4waaannmnny4y4c30j8q55a3wlk49haslga2snypdx8 interview Roger and decide for yourself. Maybe you hate cypherpunks too. Whatever, Bitcoin is for enemies. When we have drivechains, everyone will come back to the real Bitcoin anyway.
https://www.youtube.com/live/DMxx6O9_9nQ?si=PkpxnyDQmiwP9we9
Big blocks are more centralizing in the long run and they are inevitable if enabled. Everyone would have to download them to be self sovereign. Lightning can be used in a self custodian way, many people just don't want self custody. They used exchanges to store BTC even at times when Blockchain was small in size.
LND in neutrino mode if you are concerned about privacy. Electrum if not.
