First they came for Tornado cash

and I said nothing

because they were shitcoiners

…

Unhosted speech

This samourai take down will be the begging of a million decentralized alternatives.

Information wants to be free, bitcoin is just information.

HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund has made several grants to JoinMarket projects and contributors

Now would be a *great* time to apply for funding to do this kind of work!

Feel free to DM me if you need the link to apply

Why? Would that graphic be better if you knew a human had created it?

Logged into Facebook today...

Me: [goes to Facebook]

Me: [enters email & password]

Facebook: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies stoplights]

Facebook: "We sent a code to your gmail account"

Me: [goes to gmail]

Me: [enters email & password]

Gmail: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies bridges]

Gmail: "We sent a code to your recovery email"

Me: [opens new gmail tab]

Me: [enters recovery email and password]

Gmail: "Confirm you are human"

Me: [identifies more stoplights]

Gmail: "Would you like to setup a recovery email?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Can we put cookies that track your entire web experience in your browser for your 'security' and 'convenience'?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Welcome to your email!"

Me: [finds security code for other gmail]

Me: [enters security code for other email login]

Gmail: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Can we put cookies that track your entire web experience in your browser for your 'security' and 'convenience'?"

Me: "No"

Gmail: "Welcome to your email!"

Me: [finds security code for facebook]

Me: [enters security code for facebook]

Facebook: "Would you like to give us more personal information and your phone number?"

Me: "No"

Facebook: "If you let us install this thing you'll conveniently be logged in every time you return to our website!"

Me: "No"

Facebook: "Welcome to Facebook! Also there's a much better experience if you let us install this thing and you'll conveniently be logged in every time you return to our website! Have you changed your mind from 6 seconds ago?"

Me: "No."

...

This is not an exaggeration. The internet is broken.

GM

#Bitcoin is Refreshing.

Whether the Bitcoin community decides to accept or to reject changes for the base layer, we're dedicated to building the best and most modern Chaumian Ecash infrastructure the world has ever seen.

To quote one of the most OG Bitcoiner I ever spoke to:

"It’s just kind of the first time i actually feel like there’s a real concrete path we can take with electronic payments the whole world could use rather than the we’ll just have to see how the current thing goes and what we can get to after it."