Looking at money transmitter licenses is a good way for a state to embrace Bitcoin.
Orange Pill Pharmacy is a Bitcoin-centric pharmacy located in Metro Detroit, Michigan. This was founded to solve problems with the pharmaceutical industry, cutting out middlemen and use Bitcoin to pass savings back to customers.
Not sure that will matter as long as there is a market for Bitcoin entrepreneurs who can provide services with anonymity
At the grand opening of a pharmacy that accepts #Bitcoin in Troy, MI. First step toward defeating the Big Pharma cartel!
I think the genie is already well out of the bottle in regards to that.
“Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.” - Victor Hugo
Remember when I told you that under the Trump administration financial surveillance would go up, and you all called me a FUDster?
The IRS now plans on sharing confidential tax information with ICE and DHS to carry out deportations.
This practice is *not* unprecedented:
The systemic use of tax information and financial records is one of the practices majorly credited with enabling H*tler’s mass deportations of Jews beginning in 1938, enabling the 'industrialization' of the Holocaust.
If you think this is fine because you are legally in the US, remember that Trump is currently attempting to deport and revoke a student’s green card for organizing protests at Columbia University.
Last week, the administration deported at least two Venezuelan asylum seekers legally in the US to El Salvador’s terrorist detention center, known for torture and inmate deaths. Neither had a criminal record – the basis for their deportation were allegedly misidentified tattoos.
If you think this is fine because you are a US citizen, remember that last week, the Treasury announced that it would lower the currency reporting threshold in 30 counties along the Mexican border from $10,000 down to $200 in attempts to fight gang activity – affecting anyone living in the area.
Over the past weeks, we have additionally seen a drastic increase in using deportations to prosecute political speech. Four days ago, a French space researcher was denied entry to the US for messages critical of Trump, which the administration allegedly described as ‘terrorism’.
This is the *second* major increase in financial surveillance in the US in the last two weeks.
If history has taught us anything, it should be that fascism does not stop at the people you don’t like.
Please zap/share this post as wide and far as you can – It was shadow banned on the free speech LARP for using banned words.
https://www.therage.co/irs-shares-tax-data-with-ice-dhs-deportations/
Trump was elected to do mass deportations. This can’t in an intellectually honest way be called “financial surveillance.”
How long until $TRUMP is in the strategic crypto reserve?
The best Congressman since Ron Paul!
Is there a NOSTR specific news site that reports on all the developments with the technology? That site would be a must read
“make a case for nostr becoming the protocol for humans and agents to interact and transact, and then consider current blockers, critique, and alternatives.”
not bad:
https://grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_1edbcfd4-0ef3-4932-b3b6-ef3a130a00f4
NOSTR will win out in the end as our political crises inevitably worsen and no controlled platform will be able to resist draconian censorship.
Shows when you support nascent technologies that they will improve and be able to out compete the monoliths!
My first ever purchase with #Bitcoin, buying farm fresh eggs from nostr:nprofile1qqsy6q3ua80awknlxp6m368qssqghct6ra6scca4meepumhcswkuwegpzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezumn0dahx2uewvdhk6tcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtczkk7mv
Great presentation to the America First Hillsdale Republicans on #Bitcoin this evening. Operation Johnny Bitcoinseed is alive and well in Michigan!
Michigan State Senator Jonathan Lindsey enjoyed his time at the Sound Money Museum learning about the importance of #Bitcoin and why it is important for states to craft legislation with Bitcoin specifically in mind.
Hello,
My name is Shane Trejo, political activist and reporter. Very interested in supporting technology that makes the censorship of legitimate journalism and dissident speech untenable. VERY encouraged about the development of NOSTR and Primal. Look forward to helping build this community as the means to prevent the Orwellian Nightmare from manifesting completely. #introduction