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Trump just pardoned Ross Ulbricht. He didn't commute his sentence, he gave him a full pardon! He has been in prison for more than a decade so coming home is going to be mental overload for him, I can't even imagine how him and his family are feeling right now. We have been fighting for this to happen for a long time, and when all appeals were exhausted and the only way out was a presidential pardon, his supporters continued to advocate for his release. His mother especially, she never gave up fighting to get him home. It seemed like an impossible task before the LP national convention, but they pulled it off!
👍🎉 🚀🎉😁🔥🔥
#FreeRoss
I'm calling it now, $100 $TRUMP is an eventual certainty. Everyone and their mom will be talking about this coin tomorrow after the most insane memecoin launch in history. The president has launched an official memecoin, take a moment to appreciate that. I can hear the BTC maxis screaming now.
Good to see so many Monero users on Nostr these days. We have private digital cash right now, today, and it's called Monero. It is the perfect compliment to Bitcoin. Together they can spread freedom far and wide.
#Monero
Free Ian Freeman, Roger Ver, Ross Ulbricht, the Samourai devs, and the Tornado Cash devs. Creating a free marketplace website is not a crime, selling Bitcoin is not a crime, coding software to protect privacy is not a crime. Crimes should require a victim. Take a second and think about how retarded having "crimes" with no victims is.
#FreeRoss #FreeSamourai #FreeIanFreeman #FreeVer #TornadoCash #Privacy #Bitcoin
The host of the "bitcoin and..." podcast, @DavidB84567 seems to think someone can just airdrop an NFT to your etheruem wallet and it will lock your entire wallet. That is not even possible. Some individual ERC-20 tokens CAN be frozen such as USDT and USDC. Others cannot such as ETH or many decentralized stablecoins. Your wallet address can be blacklisted by exchanges but that's true with Bitcoin wallets as well. What cannot happen is someone being able to freeze your entire wallet by sending you an NFT. I am not an ETH person although I do use it, but I just wanted to correct the misinformation.
#Ethereum #Bitcoin #USDT #Tether #NFT
Just a reminder, for God's sake people please turn your fucking location off. It's not worth the convenience of whatever apps are using it. Learn how to read a MAP, you don't always need GPS. You can always turn it back on temporarily if you get hopelessly lost or whatever. Especially if you're a bitcoiner do you really want these hackers knowing everywhere you go? Or anyone else?
https://www.404media.co/hackers-claim-massive-breach-of-location-data-giant-threaten-to-leak-data/
#privacy #hackers #hack
No more income tax in New Hampshire. Next thing to do is start cutting down their high property taxes. It's a good place to move to if you are a freedom minded crypto degen. Plus they have Porcfest 👍
https://x.com/singhdotin/status/1874514849205748088?t=pkSExrnxJrijD-2c_U1GGg&s=19
Police shot a 16 old in cold blood in the name of the war on drugs...again. He did have a gun, but the second Randall Adjessom realized the predawn intruders to his home were cops, he put his hands up. It wasn't enough for the cops and he was shot four times. They then left him to bleed out for four minutes before trying to administer any aid. It took 50 minutes for them to get him to a hospital that was 8 minutes away (He was still alive that entire time). Now the question you might be asking is why was the dead kid's home being raided? It was because his older brother, who didn't even live in the trailer, was suspected of .......selling cannabis.
Every single cop on that raid, and the judge who signed off on it, are all guilty. I don't give a FUCK if you weren't the cop that shot this kid, if you are willing to go kick in people's fucking doors in predawn no knock raids over some goddamn weed sales, then you are a special kind of evil. They aren't heroes, they aren't "just doing their job", they are thugs/tyrants/murderers/thieves. I'd love to see if these scumbags would grab their gun or not if they wake up to intruders in their house. I mean if they are incapable of detecting the immorality of invading someone's home violently over a plant, then they have some serious soul searching to do, if they even still have one.
#warondrugs #police #constitution #cannabis #420
Just a reminder that the first US Federal income tax was a temporary measure instituted during the Civil War in 1861 at a rate of 3% on incomes over $800. It was repealed a decade later. They tried to bring it back in 1894 but it was ruled unconstitutional the very next year.
Undeterred the Government ratified the 16th amendment in 1913 to allow for an income tax. The income tax that followed was also supposed to be temporary for war time funding like the civil war one, and was taxed at rates less than ten percent.
Never trust that a "temporary measure" from the Government will actually be temporary. So as hard as it is for people today to imagine a country without federal income taxes, it is not unprecedented.
#taxes #history
I hear the left talking a lot about the class struggle and how the system is designed to benefit the rich. Yeah no shit it is, probably because every 4 years Americans continue to vote for rich people to rule over them. Every Democratic and Republican candidate for my entire life has been rich. Kamala Harris didn't even know how to hold a shovel. But if you have the guts to vote for a third party candidate who isn't obscenely rich, then you get yelled at by the same people bitchin' about rich people.
Keep voting for the rich folks and they will keep using the power you give them to benefit themselves while simultaneously pretending to be "for the people". The only time a rich major party politician is going to actually help the working class is if it benefits themselves somehow. They are just buying votes, they don't care about you.
I also have six rescue cats, and I wouldn't trade them for anything. Each one is unique, irreplaceable, and wonderful company. Well except for when they want to get on top of my keyboard, often during extreme market volatility.
The FBI has had no reason to exist ever since they ended the X Files 😆 They are so useless they have to create half the crimes and terror plots that they then "stop". When given information about actual criminals and scammers they just ignore it and go after people for selling BTC instead. They make up fake domestic terror threats to scare people into thinking they are a valuable organization. I can go on all day.
What in the fuck? Did some intern in the Biden administration just market sell all the silk road BTC at once as a fuck you to Trump? It liquidated my long BTC trade so hard while my 20 shitcoin trades didn't get liquidated. Funding is reset at least. That wick got bought up quick too. That'll teach me not to walk away from my computer for a few hours ever again.
#trading #bitcoin #btc 
We haven't won until everyone locked in prison or facing prison for selling Bitcoin or coding freedom tech is free. We haven't won until you can buy something with Bitcoin with triggering a capital gains tax liability. We haven't won until on ramps and off ramps to Bitcoin don't require KYC. We haven't won until we have privacy in Bitcoin. People are in defense mode because regardless of the glory of "number go up", all it takes to set everything back is a an anti Bitcoin administration taking back over in 4 years. I am "grown up" enough to realize we have only won the battle not the war, and Bitcoin's main adversary remains the nation state regardless of who is temporarily occupying the White House. Use the lull to strengthen Bitcoin and Bitcoin circular economies so that when the assault on freedom continues we are ready for it.
I was using Grammarly for the first time to try it out and I noticed it always wants me to refer to the Government as "it" rather than "they". The importance of language cannot be understated, the Government is not an it, they are just regular people.
PEOPLE who think they have the right to control your life and body, to destroy your purchasing power, to spy on you, to extort you, and to kill or imprison you. They have also convinced most people that they are somehow special and that basic morality shouldn't apply to them.
Remember the importance of words and call the "Government" what it actually is, a group of immoral gangmembers who use violence and coercion to enslave you while simultaneously brainwashing you into believing in their false authority. They have no authority other than what they gain through their monopoly on violence. There is nothing special about what the Government does, they are simply criminals who offer their "protection" in exchange for a cut of your money, just like the mob.
#politics #anarchy #libertarianism #voluntaryism #language #freedom
I see a lot of otherwise smart and freedom minded people in the Bitcoin community talking about Texas and Florida as some kind of refuge from tyranny. This is absolutely ridiculous and here is yet another example of why. Sure, they may be good on some issues, but a big part of being free is being able to consume or grow a fucking plant if I want to. Texas and Florida, among other states, still think they should have the option to lock you in a cage for having unapproved plants. I don't need daddy Government telling me what I can and can't do with my own body as long as I am not harming anyone else. With cannabis you can't even argue that I am harming myself in any significant way when I consume it. There is zero logical arguments in favor of cannabis being illegal. Not a single motherfucking one.
#cannabis #bitcoin #texas #420
https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/21/texas-cities-marijuana-ken-paxton-lawsuits/
Sound like a creepy sci-fi movie?
Your phone number and home address are visible to strangers as you walk by on the street.
It's actually Meta's new Camera Glasses with AI facial recognition. These new glasses appear to be regular sunglasses, but... under the surface, they record video, and allow that to be hooked up to AI. [1]
A few Harvard students, with practically no budget, hooked this data up to a people finder database. This was used to instantly doxx people walking around the campus in real time. Further, using People Finder databases, it can display to the person wearing the glasses, someone's home address and phone number, as they walk by in public. [2]
Once again, I encourage our readers to consider VoIP, keep the number out of databases, and trying to minimize what real information is public. You have to assume it will be abused.
Sources:
[1] https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260262/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-doxxing-privacy
Countermeasures must be developed and used. At least it's socially acceptable to wear a mask now.
Probably thanks to the Institute of Justice's (a group of libertarian leaning badass lawyers) ongoing lawsuit, the US Deputy AG has suspended the DEA's organized crime operation at the nation's airports. When I say organized crime operation, I don't mean the DEA was investigating crime, they were doing the crime and stealing cash from travelers with no due process.
Something as stupid as if you bought your ticket within 48 hours of boarding would make you a target for warrantless searches and the seizing of your cash with no charges filed. Civil asset forfeiture is not only unconstitutional but incredibly immoral.
They really do run it like the mob would too...everyone gets their cut, from the confidential source airline employee who calls them when you buy a ticket too close to departure (has the DEA ever heard of a family emergency?), to the county/city, the state, and the feds at the top collect the most.
#DEA #constitution #freedom