So in that case you will just be taxed for it all.

That's true.

But if the exchange knows about the Sats, then so does the govermant. And that is a problem. 😞

‚Bitcoin is not secured by blockchains, hash power, validation, decentralization, cryptography, open source or game theory - it is secured by people.‘

There is a common phrase: “he/she woke up today and chose violence”.

I like it. It is funny. But it is imperfect.

“Violence” is now a verbal defensive phrase that means too much. To “wake up and choose violence” in the modern parlance of people who know zero struggle means to choose public verbal opposition. Okay, sure. But not really.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. Not violence.

I spent years doing mixed martial arts competitively. I know violence. I am trained in a dozen ways to choke someone out, and have been choked out in’s dozen ways. I have had a 200 pound male fireman try to beat me unconscious and fail to do so. Even that wasn’t really violence, since it was controlled. Assholes on my trailer park bus stop in my teenage years were violent.

Verbosity isn’t violence. It is rhetoric.

I woke up today and chose rhetoric. I woke up today and chose to defend noncustodial privacy tools with language and resources. Coordinating messages between entities shouldn’t be a crime per se.

Bitcoin is anti-fragile and will continue to be so, thanks to all the people who work hard for it. But it is not without a fight.

Privacy is necessary in a free society in the digital age. A Cypherpunk’s Manifesto made this clear three decades ago and is still true.

What the info LSPs have on users when they use their platform?

SAYLOR'S LITTLE CHAT IS BASICALLY CORPO CUSTODIAL KYC ORANGE CHECK WITH B2B STRIKE & ECASH

ORANGE CHECK + KYC = CBDC

Robosats just went federated.

Use Bisq, Bisq2, and Robosats. This is the way.

Even if all our server code was open source, how would you even verify we weren’t running something additional?

Most of it. You’ll be able to sell channels yourself.

First they came for the people who harm bitcoin with their objectively bad ideas, and I said HAR HAR because I use my fucking brain and avoid people who are bad for bitcoin

Despite the chaos of the last few days and the uncertainty that lies ahead, we have to move forward and keep building.

We’re in the middle of testing out our new LSP service with multiple wallet provider. We hope that it will be used by many, many users.

We can’t wait for you all to get your hands on it.

I guess I'm trying to figure out what I'm needing to specify. The idea is that ETF institutions represent a big voice. I'm trying to figure out what the leverage point is for them to want to advocate for privacy rights on Bitcoin.

They have to have an incentive. Maybe it would help them to shield their Bitcoin purchases in the future as the asset gets more scarce?

They are competing with one another after all.