This is where bitcoin's poor privacy properties become problematic.

To renounce your US citizenship, you have to pay a tax on everything you own.

And because bitcoin is an open and transparent ledger, the gov't can more easily prove you owned BTC you failed to pay taxes on.

It’s crazy to think we have to worry about the government and how they react to what we build instead of being able to focus on building the future without fear of possibly being thrown in a cage. For building freedom technology that levels the playing field and brings about the equal opportunity politicians LARP about.

Decentralized tech is not for the marginal user.

To all the people who don’t think at least twice about the Roman Empire. Study history you bloody fools!

Tonight I cooked three salmon fillets with some potatoes and broccoli from Whole Foods for under $30, but you do you.

Went to the fiat “super” market (yet another linguistic attack) today. Wanted to get a Cesar dressing.. only requirement was one without engine lubricant (obviously).

Not a single one available without seed oils. Zero.

Every single fucking brand full of the stuff.

Came home and made my own and it was delicious. Winning

Hey Yall! This is my first post. I’m a woman rancher in East Texas with a small business I created from the ground up that employees many moms and women.

I saw a post about this app and thought I’d check it out.

You cannot "own" #Bitcoin in the traditional sense of owning stuff.

No matter what governments, courts, chain-anal people, or anyone else tells you, there is no way of proving that someone DOESN'T know a string of information such as a private key.

From this perspective, satoshis aren't ever transferred but rather reorganized on the timechain for communication purposes.

The twelve magic words do not belong to anyone. They're just twelve words.

What Bitcoin makes so blatantly obvious is that money was never anything but information.

A ban on "self-hosted wallets" is as absurd as a ban on using your brain.

Such a ban would have severe consequences.

It would deny you the right to keep a secret while granting the government the right to claim that you do, making everyone a criminal.

YOU would have to prove that you DON'T know something, which is impossible.

You would be guilty until proven innocent, which cannot be proven.

Any law trying to stop or restrict Bitcoin usage is nothing less than a crime against humanity.

IMHO, the Bitcoin community should do everything in its power to prevent such laws. Your ability to use a communications network shouldn't depend on where you were born.

Do your part and educate as many people as you can as often as possible.

Speech is never free but always costly. It's high time to separate speech and state!

I cannot believe how many bitcoin maxis I see asking what will we do if the government bans holding bitcoin in cold storage 🫣 have we not learned anything from history? Grow a pair already! It’s embarrassing.🙈

Is that mostly due to routing?

A common expression I’ve heard from boomers is “I want the last check I write to bounce”.

Meaning I am not planning on leaving anything for anyone, I’m going to spend it all on me and my temporary desires.

Many individual boomers are good people, but as a whole they were a bad generation, perhaps one the worst to yet exist in American life.

Coordinated attack