The term paranoid crypto anarchist is popular at the moment ever since Saylor showed his true colors (again), and made some very stupid remarks. So if you only have a vague idea of what cryptoanarchy actually is and want to learn more, or just want a refresher course, here is a really good podcast mini series by Smuggler and Frank Braun on it and related subjects.
#cypherpunk #cryptoanarchy #anarchy #bitcoin
Walz got on the daily show and claimed Liz and Dick Cheney's endorsement of Harris would give Libertarians "permission" to do the right thing. What a ridiculously bad take, he's talking about a political party that has opposed every war since it's inception.
Also, that language is incredibly patronizing, as if any Libertarian would need Dick fucking Cheney's endorsement before they did anything. If getting the Libertarian vote is part of the reason they are working with the warmonger, then they need to fire whoever came up with that idea.
#Harris #Trump #Election2024 #Libertarian
Who would help people in natural disasters if we didn't have FEMA? While FEMA's efforts haven't been insignificant, they have been horribly inefficient, disorganized, and have even made things worse in some situations. Meanwhile private citizens pick up the slack, without waiting for permission. People have come in from all over the country to fix roads (yes, shockingly you don't need the government to build roads), restore clean water, and distribute supplies without any help from the Government.
#FEMA #HELENE #HURRICANES
https://reason.com/2024/10/23/the-remarkable-redneck-air-force-of-north-carolina/
A fifth of the entire world couldn't KYC even if they wanted to. Don't lock them out. The tiny amount of crime prevented by KYC/AML is not worth locking out a fifth of the world from participating in Bitcoin.
What's more amazing is so many people have no idea they are slaves and when you try to tell them they usually start talking about how we all gotta pay our fair share, or who would help so and so or do such and such without taxes? When you try to explain that there are private market based solutions to almost anything, they are often incapable of even conceiving that the free market could do a better job than a system of coercion, violent extortion, and forced redistribution. How to best get people past the indoctrination, I do not know, but I will continue to try.
Even crony capitalism is better than socialism. Now imagine if we actually had truly free markets unadulterated by state regulatory intervention, central banking, and illegal taxation! The wealth would spread so far and wide it will explode people's minds.
I post on Farcaster sometimes and when I see people using a decentralized crypto platform like Farcaster to promote centralization of control and the theft and redistribution of wealth through socialism and socialist policies, it makes me feel that those of us in crypto who still actually understand why it's important have completely failed in educating newcomers to the space.
Maybe this is some of these people's first or second cycle and they don't know or appreciate the origin story. If it wasn't for libertarians, cypherpunks, and ancaps promoting bitcoin and actually using it back in the very beginning when everyone thought it was a scam, it would of never gained the adoption that it did.
The most important use cases of crypto is to create decentralized systems and markets outside of state control and to create property rights and scarcity in the digital realm. Socialism and crypto are antithetical to each other. I support your right to say anything you want but at least appreciate the irony.
He's just trying to reassure his cult members that they are on the right track. And in a number of decades sounds pretty open ended. Like are we talking 30 years or 80 years or what lol? Fucking morons.
Correct, neither of them are going to save a damn thing, they're just different flavors of tyrant.
They can kiss my ass. I want 32 babies so they can grow up and help me run my own mini
power plant to power all the energy consuming shit I want. I'll even straight waste some energy mining shitcoins, you know why? Because I feel like mining some shitcoins.
There is no excuse for funding war except in self defense.
The United States once again throwing fuel on a fire, paid for by taxpayers. We have a long history of making geopolitical tensions and conflicts worse by intervening instead of focusing on defense of our own borders. Russia isn't going to invade the United States whether they seize more of the Ukraine or not.
You also can't use the good ol' protecting freedom excuse because the Ukraine has become a very authoritarian place. In 2014 they instituted a state of emergency that limited the freedoms of expression and assembly, and they extended this endless "temporary" measure in 2021. Journalists have been fined, arrested, harassed, and fired for speaking out against the government.
Russia is worse of course but that's besides the point. We should not be trying to be the entire world's police while our own country goes to shit.
If you're wasting money on lotto scratcher tickets, stop buying them. Save the money you would of spent until you can afford an ASIC. If you solo mine bitcoin you are going to have better odds of winning a block and earning $200,000 than the odds of getting a significant lotto win. Plus it will help heat your home and you will be helping to decentralize the network. Don't let giant centralized corporate mining farms have all the fun!
#mining #bitcoin #solomining #ASIC
I agree that's why I said "It wouldn't violate the NAP to punish and stop the state actors who steal the money (via taxation and seizure) that funds the welfare because they themselves have already aggressed against everyone they have stolen from,"
Go read my first piece on Hackernoon!
TLDR: Reputation is important in a truly free society, and we need to experiment with permissionless, transparent, and cryptographically verifiable blockchain-based reputation systems like what @opt_aut is building.
https://hackernoon.com/the-role-of-universal-reputation-in-a-free-society
What to do with people who are solely dependent on welfare is one of the most interesting problems with a hypothetical Libertarian or Voluntaryist revolution. This would be a revolution in which the state is either dismantled completely or rebuilt from the ground up as a very limited night watchman style organization.
However, the very act of dismantling the welfare system could be seen as an act of aggression against those who are dependent on it for their survival, which would violate the non aggression principle (NAP) which is the entire basis of a voluntaryist society. It wouldn't violate the NAP to punish and stop the state actors who steal the money (via taxation and seizure) that funds the welfare because they themselves have already aggressed against everyone they have stolen from, but the legitimate welfare recipients haven't stolen anything, they have just been given stolen funds and were born into a system that made them dependent on welfare. Taking those funds away could mean they are going to potentially starve or die because of lack of medical care.
You can't start a voluntaryist society with an act of mass aggression against all welfare recipients, but you also can't have one in which the state is stealing money to redistribute. A potential solution to this would be to set up parallel systems first in which people can opt out into on an individual basis as we gradually try to reduce people's dependence on welfare.
If you opt out of the state's system and began to participate in a parallel economy rather than using fiat currency and paying taxes, to prevent any potential harm to welfare recipients that would result from you no longer paying taxes, you could donate the same percentage of your income that would of previously gone to welfare. If you donate it to non profits or even give it directly to people in need, you will end up helping welfare recipients more efficiently than the state ever could. People could gradually be convinced to opt out of welfare and instead accept charity from others who have opted out until which point they are self sufficient, if ever.
This would produce change from the ground up on a voluntary basis rather than a top down act of aggression.
Currently, people on disability welfare in the United States are incentivized to not find a way to earn money despite their disability even if they may want to and be capable of doing so. This is because once you make some money you are penalized in how much benefits you receive, so you would have to be earning a significant amount before it would be worth it to do so. This encourages disabled people to just give up and collect a check for the rest of their life's and is not a good system, especially in today's age of remote work in which it is easier than ever for disabled people to work. Disability is of course not the only form of welfare, all of them have their own issues. The main problem though, is it is funded with theft.
The choice between Democrats and Republicans isn't much of a choice at all, it is an illusion created by your enslavers so that you continue to accept your enslavement.
Both parties support the child killing Israeli government, central banking/unrestrained money printing, gun control, the war on drugs, mass deportations of migrants, the worthless Covid vaccines, mass surveillance, forced "education", putting our country in massive amounts of debt, and stealing your money to pay for all of it.
Neither one support free markets and the Federal Government has continued grown in size and power far beyond the limits of the Constitution under the rule of each party. Both parties are in bed with corporations and banks while destroying small businesses. If you think anything will change for the better by continuing to put Democrats or Republicans in the White House or Congress, you need to wake the fuck up. The lesser of two evils is still evil.
#democrats #republicans #election #election2024 #politics
Check on different clients for the check mark, in #Amethyst ( nostr:nprofile1qqs24yz8xftq8kkdf7q5yzf4v7tn2ek78v0zp2y427mj3sa7f34ggjcpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj703s8dt ) your NIP05 shows error, so does mine but that is not accurate, on other clients shows fine, so does yours.
Thank you!
FEMA spends 1 out of 10 dollars it gets on "administrative costs". They only care about their salaries and pensions and doing just enough on the ground work to appear like they are doing something and keep the money rolling in.
I'm using Amethyst, how do I tell if my NIP-05 verification worked? I hosted the nostr json file on my domain and according to the guide I was using it said to find the NIP-05 field in my client's profile settings and enter the name I chose. I see no such field in Amethyst, so what do I do next? Do I put my nostr name and domain in the "nostr address" field?
#asknostr