With what fiat!?! I have none left.

Instead of pumping our bags, Trump nuked them.

This is insane, corrupt, and illegal. It’s a privacy nightmare. Basically, Musk now knows *your* social security number. He’s going to know whether you received a tax refund or any other payment from the government, the amount, and where it was sent. This should anger every single one of you.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/us/politics/elon-musk-doge-federal-payments-system.html

I will be honest, in many ways, I agree with the liberals on Bluesky.

But also, this is hilarious:

As far as China having it, there was the OPM database breach awhile back. But that would *not* be up to date.

Give me a break. This would easily violate my company’s rules on data security and I don’t work for the government.

Honestly, my guess is this becomes normalized. If Trump wasn’t successfully convicted in the Senate for January 6th, this stuff won’t do it.

(I know we use impeached as shorthand for impeached in the House and convicted and removed from office in the Senate but technically impeachment is just what would be the indictment phase in a criminal trial and that’s just what happens in the House.

So Trump has been impeached twice. But never removed from office (and also barred from serving in office again).)

For context:

nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx was right. Musk just wants your information. Now he’ll take it directly from the federal government. Just wait until he does this shit at the IRS.

This dip is brought to you by Trump Tariffs. Trump Tariffs: when you really want the market to shit the bed on a Friday afternoon.

Why nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m?

I shall forever be referring to the Digital Asset Stockpile as the Shitcoinpile.

What’s the point of owning *literal* fuck you money if after owning it you’re still unwilling to say fuck you?

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*or later

Look, I’m no fan of Trump, but if he does it tomorrow, I’d say that counts. If it’s Wednesday and later, that’s clearly a lie.

It’s hilarious how bad the South got at college football 🏈 after they had to start paying players for their labor.

More proof that the South has real trouble keeping up with the North the minute they can’t exploit people with their long and storied history of legally enforced free labor.

(There’s a word for legally enforced free labor but I’m blanketing in it. Maybe you can remember.)

I was enjoying a snowy night out in Alexandria, VA a few hours ago.

Thank you all for celebrating me today! Merry Christmas! It’s a helluva a birthday party.

Also, Bitkey’s new inheritance feature is really important for non technical folks.

My 76 year old mother uses Bitkey. For a reason.

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I think you’re thinking of the legislation & I agree that would be huge if that happens. If it’s just the EO, it’s $21 billion to buy BTC. Meaningful, sure. But I don’t think that alone creates the situation we need to go to $1M.

I personally don’t think that’s enough. But I mostly agree with nostr:npub1y4agzkpc58xvqzwtjtjgd35a8c3wa92ty89u09h4g38hm6fvykksa9cg7c. I think at a *minimum* it requires three things. 1) The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve *legislation* is passed, 2) other sovereigns start stacking as a response, & 3) the mag 7 and other large cap comps w/ cash on their balance sheet who make FCF start allocating bitcoin.

You wake up a year from now. Bitcoin is $1,000,000.

What events over this year led to the price?

Also, I accidentally zapped his post *twice*. Those lost sats are gonna haunt me, forever Laura.

A prince believes in the inherent goodness of monarchy over democracy. I bet this inbred fucker also believes that God put him and his inbred family on earth to divinely rule over all other people. Do you know how narcissistic you have to be in order to believe such horseshit?

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Btw, one legal change we can and should lobby for that we can probably get through under a Trump admin is in-kind ETF redemptions without tax consequences. That would be *huge* in a fight to ensure we do not stop in the dual currency era.

In the US, we’re not going to a 1 currency BTC era without first going through a dual-currency era. Have faith and keep building. If we keep doing that, Bitcoin will do the rest.

FWIW, this is what my portfolio looks like.

I only trade in my retirement accounts and the only trading I do is between the bitcoin ETFs and Bitcoin equities.

At some point, I plan on taking some of the amounts in the retirement accounts fully off the table and rolling it into spot BTC in an IRA (likely with the Unchained). The amounts I will “take off the table” will come from the amounts in the ETFs.

I do *not* trade outside of my tax advantaged accounts.

These days, with my free cash flow, I basically only buy spot BTC outside of my retirement accounts.

I’ve stopped contributing to my retirement accounts altogether & the reason it’s such a large share of my portfolio in both BTC & USD terms is it’s 1) where I had a lot of starting capital when I decided to go all in to bitcoin and 2) I’ve successfully traded it into both more USD and more BTC via proxies.

(Note: for the call options, for the BTC calc, I’m treating it as if I sold them all and rolled them directly into BTC, not into MSTR. It would be smaller percentage if I treated as if I bought MSTR with it. In truth, I’ll probably split it between the two when I do sell them.)

₿itcoin Jesus: “For God so loved the world, that he gave his [second] ₿egotten Son, that whosoever ₿elieveth in [Satoshi] should not perish, but have everlasting [sound money].” #₿lessed nostr:note1caqj7ravws2hg6xk5h78vncwjyd28cv2xnqd7rqg2hzvqplrsrnqcp4qn0

Mine would be too extensive for a photo. (I was a religious studies minor in college.)

These days, I’m mostly reading lots of Dietrich Bonhoeffer.

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So the iOS 18 update made the calculator app *much* better.

For bitcoiners one thing stands out. They added a conversion tool that includes currency *but* excludes bitcoin.

We should make our voices known that we want bitcoin to be included in the currency convert tool.

It’s a simple win but likely a very important one.

The calculator app has been my go to calculator app because it is built into the control center. I bet I’m far from alone.

nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m: can you help with pushing for this?

My multi billion dollar idea is “ADP but not shitty”. As bad as they are it makes me wonder just how bad their competitors are.

My other idea is “Buffalo Wild Wings but with decent service”. Has anyone ever been to one and actually been impressed with their service? It seems to be universally bad regardless of geographic location.

nostr:npub12qxvc5evxqt3rky25mfskywugalx5vnhppfl32cu903cnwpyu0uqkmq8u9 discussing the important of #Nostr in his new book.

I think Bitcoin, in the long term, will positively impact politics & shrink DC.

But until then politics matters.

It impacts your life & it impacts the lives of others often in ways that have lifelong consequences. Dismissing it completely is foolish.

Don’t believe me? I'll leave it to @RobertACaro who writes the following in chapter one of his new book "Working" (midway through I'll substitute "political power" w/ "politics” in brackets):

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People are always asking me why I chose Robert Moses and Lyndon Johnson to write about. Well, I must say I never thought of my books as stories of Moses or Johnson. I never had the slightest interest in writing the life of a great man. From the very start I thought of writing biographies as a means of illuminating the times of the men I was writing about and the great forces that molded those times-particularly the force that is political power.

Why political power? Because [politics] shapes all of our lives. It shapes your life in little ways that you might not even think about. For example, when you're driving up the Triborough (now Robert F. Kennedy) Bridge in Manhattan in New York, you may notice that the bridge comes down across the East River in Queens opposite 100th Street. So why do you have to drive all the way up to 125th Street to cross it, and then basically drive back, which adds almost three totally unnecessary miles to every Journey across the bridge?

Well, the reason is political power. In 1934, Robert Moses was trying to get the Triborough Bridge built, and he couldn't because there wasn't enough public or political support for the project. William Randolph Hurst, the publisher of three influential newspapers in New York, owned a block of tenements on 125th Street. Before the Depression, the tenements had been profitable, but now poor people didn't have jobs, and couldn't pay their rent. Hearst was losing money on the buildings and he wanted the city to take them off his hands by condemning them for some project. Robert Moses saw that the project could be the Triborough Bridge, and that's why the bridge entrance is at 125th Street. That's a small way in which [politics] affects your life. But there are large ways, too.

Every time a young man or woman goes to college on a federal education bill passed by Lyndon Johnson, that's [politics]. Every time an elderly man or woman, or an impoverished man or woman of any age, gets a doctor's bill or a hospital bill and sees that it's been paid by Medicare or Medicaid, that's [politics]. Every time a black man or woman is able to walk into a voting booth in the South because of Lyndon Johnson's Voting Rights Act, that's [politics]. And so, unfortunately, is a young man-58,000 young American men-dying a needless death in Vietnam. That's [politics]. It affects your life in all sorts of ways. My books are an attempt to analyze and explain that power.

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A case would be dope. Maybe nostr:npub1lrjgpa9m2dl6esdah5pq7m005ymwh4glq4aet76q2zlz2f83esfsa2zvrj can make a case for the #bitkey? And add a strap hole for it?

It hasn’t stopped me. I just say it. People are cool with it or not. This includes family, friends, coworkers, and strangers.

Honestly, most people don’t care one way or the other. A small percentage are either enthusiastic or yell at you. 🤷‍♂️

There’s a currency display setting in the settings. But I don’t think that changes how much you can use w/ mobile pay. I’m pretty sure the limit is a fiat limit. When I toggled between USD, EUR, and GBP, it was always 200 fiat units. I don’t see how to make it a bitcoin/sats specific limitation. (I’m on iOS. So maybe it’s different on android?)

I kinda wonder if it was built with the plan to just add lightning to it.

And yes, I’d like if it I could add a few more fingerprints. (5 would be great instead of 3.)

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Makes sense now. Thanks!