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But are very penetrating farts

Gm, what Elon did with Open AI was a perfect chess move.

At a small Princeton event last week, among other panels and speeches, Carole House spoke about censoring bitcoin.

She is the former director of cybersecurity for the White House National Security Council, and prior to that was at FinCEN focusing on cryptocurrencies, and prior to that was in the military.

Some of her main points:

-Energy-related regulation may push some hash rate outside of the U.S., whereas she would rather see more of it in the U.S. so that they can force miners to censor the network on the base layer. She also views international cooperation as a necessary component for successful censorship. She also wants stakers to be forced to censor their PoS networks.

-It's not just about telling miners not to mine certain transactions, but to not even build atop blocks that have non-compliant transactions, so that those transactions don't get anywhere in the chain. A 51% attack, in other words. Her main concern is censoring states like North Korea from being able to participate in the network.

The event was interesting because there were several very different perspectives. On one hand there was Roya Mahboob talking about using bitcoin in Afghanistan, followed by Troy Cross, Craig Warmke, and Natalie Smolenski talking about the importance of bitcoin from an ethical perspective. On the other hand, there were panels about Bored Apes and speeches about how to censor the networks.

The stuff of carnivore nightmares.

I’m watching very closely

I think my last straw before I consider greener pastures would be a complete cut off of Bitcoin rails federally

Hopefully this doesn’t happen with states like Florida and Texas putting their foot down but at the end of the day the fed and gov could make those irrelevant if they choose to use muscle

Why did the confrontation between Russia, China and the United States cause your privacy to decline? I don’t quite understand.Can you tell me what you understand?

Agree with all of this but would love to see some balance. Twitter obviously still has the network and zeitgeist….and is the place to be when anything happens in the world. It is the most important host for the public conversation at the moment. And nearly 2 decades to work out many issues (and create more).

Twitter will never have many of the freedoms nostr enables. Doesn’t matter who runs it. It’s the single point of failure of an organization/company versus a protocol. Don’t trust me on this. It will continue to play out over the years.

nostr will be the slow and steady one to win the race…just like bitcoin. Either you build for and upon both, or you become increasingly irrelevant and disconnected (which is a reasonable, yet severe, decision to make).

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thought experiment:

imagine if you never wanted anything else. imagine if you were perfectly content with what you had

-how long could you be happy?

-would you soon be envious of someone else?

Just got a waitress/worker at the place I get food all the time onto Wallet of Satoshi and explained some basic elements. Welcome her to Bitcoin!! #Tipchain

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