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E-commerce - Accepting Bitcoin since 09/10/2014, block 324527. I turned to Bitcoin out of necessity, not to get to the moon. Fav motto: "This is lies, my trust in you is broken, I will make you obsolete." Instant Bitcoin and fiat swaps, my choice:

Regarding the MiCA, the Travel Rule, and other ongoing EU regulations, I see two immediate consequences. The first, related to users who will seek to circumvent these regulations, is the increased use of P2P platforms and the exponential emergence of new platforms. The second concerns companies in the EU that either do not want to or cannot comply with the regulations. We will witness an exodus of companies, a flight of human capital, and a migration of Bitcoin and bitcoiners to freer jurisdictions where they can innovate and conduct business without dealing with intrusive governmental actors who require them to provide all customer data and store it for five years at their own expense and time.

Europe, as it stands now, is lost, there is no way for it to regenerate from within. There simply aren’t enough people opposing the status quo—there are not enough voices, no leaders. It’s every person for themselves, we are responsible for our own survival.

Bitcoiners are inventive individuals, each will find their own solution to avoid the deeply corrupt and vile system. Some will bow down and conform, losing their backbone along with their anonymity and the rights they have relinquished.

#TravelRule #MiCA #DORA #Bitcoin

¡Maravilloso, Jona! ¡Muchas gracias!

Realmente es algo que me interesa, tal vez hablemos más sobre esto cuando nos veamos.

Oh là là!

The French Senate is proposing a tax that would mandate #Bitcoin hodlers to pay annual taxes, regardless of whether they sell their "unproductive" assets or not. 🤣🤣🤣

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This amendment aims to replace the "real estate" wealth tax (IFI) with a tax on "unproductive" wealth.

Indeed, the calculation base of the IFI, which includes real estate assets that are unused in the owner's professional activity, seems economically incoherent.

On one hand, "paper stones" and real estate investments are included in the scope of the IFI, while they constitute productive investments that contribute to growth and meet the needs of households and businesses. From this perspective, it is incorrect to consider real estate as unproductive investments.

On the other hand, the IFI excludes from its base assets that do not evidently contribute to the dynamism of the French economy. Limiting the current base of the IFI to real estate assets leads to the exemption of certain heritage elements, such as liquidities and consumer goods, which represented a significant part of the ISF base and are hard to consider "productive."

Paradoxically, an "anti-economic" strategy that consists of selling a currently rented apartment to leave the obtained sum in a current account or to buy a yacht currently allows for the avoidance of the IFI.

Through this amendment, the following would be included in the base of this reformed IFI:

Unbuilt land (e.g., buildable land) when not used for economic activity;

Liquidities and equivalent financial investments (current accounts, savings, money market funds, etc.);

Tangible movable assets (valuable items, cars, yachts, airplanes, furniture, etc.);

Digital assets (e.g., bitcoins);

Rights of literary, artistic, and industrial property when the taxpayer is not the author or inventor.

With this base, economic incentives would align with the original objective of encouraging productive investments. For example:

A person who decides to mobilize buildable land to make an investment in a rental property would be exempt from tax on that apartment, unlike the current situation under the IFI;

A taxpayer who decides to invest in a small or medium-sized enterprise (PME) would be treated more favorably for tax purposes than one who leaves savings in a current account, which is not the case under the current IFI.

Compared to the current IFI, the tax threshold would be raised to avoid taxing households that, without being considered wealthy, have become taxable due to accumulated inflation.

We remind that this amendment had already been adopted by the Senate, at the initiative of the former general rapporteur of the finance committee, Albéric de Montgolfier, during the examination of the budget bill for 2020, with a delayed application (January 1, 2021).

This amendment also provides for the replacement of the real estate wealth tax with a tax on unproductive wealth starting in 2025.

This amendment was adopted by the Senate during the examination of the budget bill (PLF) and the first rectifying budget bill (PLFR) for 2022, as well as within the PLF for 2023 and 2024.

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https://www.senat.fr/amendements/2024-2025/143/Amdt_I-128.html

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We don’t need corporations to adopt Bitcoin as a medium of exchange right away—we need people to adopt it first. Local groups, communities, and small producers trading and helping each other, rejecting dirty fiat not because it’s convenient but because they want freedom. Freedom from a system designed to exploit. The transition starts with individuals—holders who want to break free from fiat for good. Like, if you’re a Bitcoiner and you sell a product but you don’t accept payments in Bitcoin, you’re just larping.

But this movement also requires a shift from relying on centralized services to embracing decentralized servers. Twenty years ago, running your own server was expensive and impractical, which handed power to tech giants like Google, Facebook, and Apple. Now, running a server is cheaper and easier—and in another 20 years, it’ll likely be trivial. Imagine a future where every third house has a home server, used for running a Bitcoin node, hosting email, creating content, managing your own Nostr relay, storing files, hosting a personal website, and even operating an online store.

With a single device, all these corporate walled gardens crumble, just like legacy media has already. And the thread that ties it all together? Your Bitcoin wallet. This vision is achievable within our lifetimes—but it’s threatened by what I call the “normie effect.”

Saylor speaks to normies—offering them the language of convenience and security. And while he isn’t one of them, that’s the angle he plays. But Bitcoin doesn’t need more Saylor-style marketing. It needs more paranoid crypto-anarchists. People who run nodes. People willing to part with some of their Bitcoin to kickstart a peer-to-peer economy.

I’m optimistic—probably a bit naive—but I want the dangerous new, not the crappy but safe old. I don’t want property in cyberspace, digital art, or backed by energy commodities. I don’t want corporate suits defining Bitcoin’s purpose or government bureaucrats giving me permission to run a node or use a self-custody wallet.

I want money you can’t fuck with.

Thieves broke into the Drents Museum in Assen, Netherlands, stealing valuable items from the exhibition 'Dacia - Realm of Gold and Silver', which showcases treasures from the ancient kingdom of Dacia.

The theft happened just a day before the exhibition's closure.

https://nltimes.nl/2025/01/25/ancient-gold-artifacts-stolen-drents-museum-robbery

Proof of steak > ̶P̶r̶o̶o̶f̶ ̶o̶f̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶k̶e̶

Bonus: Fernet Cola

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It's mind-blowing to see people with 0.0001 BTC on Coinbase celebrating the concept of a governmental Bitcoin strategic reserve. 💥

Senator Cynthia Lummis will serve as the chair of the Senate Bank Digital Assets Committee.

It would be interesting to know how many kidnappings have happened precisely because of Ledger. That would be an interesting news story.

Ross Ulbricht Is Free! ✌️

How long do you think it will take until he comes to nostr?