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Luke Warmwater
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The Sauce is strong with this one.

Nah. Just a bunch of men after divorce.

Losing everything.

Getting ready to do it all again.

You know. Normal stuff.

Replying to Avatar L0la L33tz

Those of you who have paid close attention to Trump's speech at Bitcoin 2024 may have noticed that the former President – accidentally or intentionally – appears to have given away a lot more on his plans for the future of Bitcoin than meets the eye.

Despite his assurances to protect open source development and self-custody in the US, Trump is first and foremost a national security president, highlighted by his remarks on terrorism and immigration. A loosening of AML/CFT laws, which currently see several open-source developers under indictment, seems unlikely (though a democrat law enforcement officer in the White House may arguably not do us any better).

During Trump's past presidency, the US passed the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act, which increased penalties for AML/CFT offenses and established beneficial ownership requirements for LLCs to FinCEN.

While Trump vetoed the NDAA, it appears that he did not do so due to the AMLA2020, but rather because the NDAA kept Trump from his crusade to repeal Section 230 of the Communication Decency Act, which protects Internet Service Providers from liability for information hosted and transmitted.

According to Trump, Section 230 is a "national security risk" which "will make our intelligence virtually impossible to conduct".

If you had hoped that a Trump presidency would reduce the risks of developers being held liable for "illicit activity", you may do best in thinking again – "Broadcasting" 'illicit transactions' is precisely what Samourai Wallet currently stands accused of, which would hardly be arguable under the striking of Section 230.

Between incoherent ramblings on god, AI, and electric cars, Trump essentially used his 50-minute speaking slot to introduce The Bitcoin Dollar between the lines: a CBDC alternative to expand US hegemony beyond the petrodollar system directly into consumer wallets across the planet.

Don't forget that the vast space between your ears is intelligence's field of play. For Trump, Bitcoin is merely a tool to "extend the dominance of the US Dollar to new frontiers all around the world", and if his speech showed us anything, its that you are nothing more than another pawn at the end of the identity politics chessboard, where a banner hangs that reads: Congratulations, you’ve been played.

This Rage Weekly is out featuring a full opinion on the much anticipated Trump speech at Bitcoin 2024. Subscribe for free or read all issues online:

https://www.therage.co/strap-in-for-the-bitcoin-dollar/

"Never sell your bitcoin" means, "don't use it as a medium of exchange - or we'll fuck you up."

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'...so away, nostr works just like bitcoin. You have a private key, that's called nsec, and a public key, called npub. And you never share your nsec with anyone because...'

'I see, right. Great. ....can you just keep your eyes on...'

Great video. As for the description of the 400,000 euro tender indicating a revision downwards for the asset register threshold.

I believe that is not the case. Rather, the tender amount is the amount of money the gov is offering to pay the consultancy to do the policy analysis work. The tender is a tender to offer work.

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Back when I was much younger I was chilling in my apt. when 2 cops knocked on the door. I was a bit surprised and waited for them to say something.

ā€œSir, is so and so your car?ā€

I say - no it’s my girlfriend’s, why?

ā€œSir, it’s been totaledā€

I’m like … what do you mean? It’s been parked for over a week and hasn’t moved. Are you sure you got the right car?

ā€œSir, it’s hard to explain, you better come have a lookā€

At this point I’m really curious more than anything. How in the world would a parked car get totally destroyed?!

I go downstairs to the covered car lot to see that my wife’s - then girlfriend’s car is missing and the roof of the car lot is ripped to shreds with tire skid marks leading out of the back.

The cops wave me to a tree down the road where the car was half way wrapped around the tree.

I couldn’t believe it and started laughing my ass off in total surprise and shock.

I think you have an idea of the words that came out of my mouth next - they weren’t pretty.

I guess the person who did this had a seizure behind the wheel while backing out and stepped on the gas full force until they pushed the car through the parking spot and into the tree. They were ultimately ok so that’s good at least.

I had a tough call to make to my gf and try to explain that her parked car is no more. She couldn’t believe anything I told her and thought I was just trying to prank her. Then I sent pics. Her jaw dropped šŸ˜‚ 🤣

Yeah right. Look.

These are the facts:

1) Your name is Karnage.

2) And you drive like John Wick.

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Or, perhaps, invulnerable to abuse.

Religion is a big and complex topic. For starters, even defining the world religion is hard. So you have to start with a working definition and go from there.

One helpful way to understand religions (sorry, not enough time to define it), is that they typically start from an identification that life is unsatisfactory, and/or meaningless, and then identify some sort of solution, or salvation. Along the way they also try to answer fundamental questions of life like, who am I? Who are you? and What is this word?

For example, some Christians could be said to identify the suffering of life as being due to selfishness and disobedience to God, which results in suffering and ultimately, death. So the solution is having faith that Jesus fixed all that, resulting in an eternal life free of suffering.

Conversely, some Buddhists could be said to identify that eternal life is our problem, that is, we experience the samsara cycle of endless birth, life (of suffering, unsatisfactoriness, meaninglessness), death and rebirth. So salvation is in a sense achieved through escaping this eternal life through mediation and non attachment to your idea of the self - so you have to 'die' in a sense - so the complete opposite in some sense to Christianity! They start with the same problems but go off in completely different directions for solutions.

This is a very broad generalization and the main religions have enormous disagreements and divergent thinking amongst them. But I just try to give the jist of things.

And also, they are a great tool to oppress or liberate people depending on the personalities of adherents, especially the rulers (that German guy around the time of WW2 loved it, and cobbled together his own). This is why you can meet both really great and really awful people involved in all kinds of religion. Very powerful ideology. And if you're not careful, it's easy to hurt yourself and others. Beware!

*What is this World? (not word)

Or, perhaps, invulnerable to abuse.

Religion is a big and complex topic. For starters, even defining the world religion is hard. So you have to start with a working definition and go from there.

One helpful way to understand religions (sorry, not enough time to define it), is that they typically start from an identification that life is unsatisfactory, and/or meaningless, and then identify some sort of solution, or salvation. Along the way they also try to answer fundamental questions of life like, who am I? Who are you? and What is this word?

For example, some Christians could be said to identify the suffering of life as being due to selfishness and disobedience to God, which results in suffering and ultimately, death. So the solution is having faith that Jesus fixed all that, resulting in an eternal life free of suffering.

Conversely, some Buddhists could be said to identify that eternal life is our problem, that is, we experience the samsara cycle of endless birth, life (of suffering, unsatisfactoriness, meaninglessness), death and rebirth. So salvation is in a sense achieved through escaping this eternal life through mediation and non attachment to your idea of the self - so you have to 'die' in a sense - so the complete opposite in some sense to Christianity! They start with the same problems but go off in completely different directions for solutions.

This is a very broad generalization and the main religions have enormous disagreements and divergent thinking amongst them. But I just try to give the jist of things.

And also, they are a great tool to oppress or liberate people depending on the personalities of adherents, especially the rulers (that German guy around the time of WW2 loved it, and cobbled together his own). This is why you can meet both really great and really awful people involved in all kinds of religion. Very powerful ideology. And if you're not careful, it's easy to hurt yourself and others. Beware!

That's probably the worst joke I've ever seen.

Love it.