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2026-01-29 23:07:58 UTC

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2026-01-16 17:39:16 UTC

Now you can buy bitcoin privately in Proton Wallet, thanks to a new integration with one of the greatest privacy companies in the history of the internetz.
People who are for privacy, for bitcoin, and who want to see a future where people are more free don't just talk about it, they do something about it, and that's what Azteco and Proton do.
Proton has been offering private email since 2014, and they've been very effective at it.
They have 100,000,000 users. And that is a lot of users.
Their Proton Wallet is 100% software, and so it can scale dramatically, like WhatsApp and other software only tools have scaled. You do the math.
Their wallet is fantastically beautiful, consumer friendly and available world-wide, out of the box. They have everything right.
Proton is a very important integration for Azteco, partly because we're fans of that great company, and hold them up as one of the greatest examples of how to serve users. They're one of the very best. That's a fact.
Now that the dream of Azteco and Proton is a reality, great potential is unlocked in a way that only true disruptors can unlock great potential.
FULL THROTTLE, FOR GREAT JUSTICE.
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2025-09-29 10:12:56 UTC

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Twitter users block others for various reasons, based on their personal experiences, preferences, or interactions on the platform. Here’s a breakdown of common reasons, grounded in user behavior and insights from available data:
1 Harassment or Abuse: Users often block accounts that send harassing, threatening, or abusive messages. This includes personal attacks, trolling, or hate speech targeting their identity, beliefs, or appearance.
2 Spam or Bots: Accounts that flood timelines with spam, repetitive ads, or automated bot-like behavior (e.g., mass-following or posting irrelevant links) are frequently blocked to declutter feeds.
3 Unwanted Interactions: Some users block others for unwanted replies, mentions, or DMs, especially if they feel the interaction is intrusive, argumentative, or off-topic.
4 Differing Opinions: In polarized discussions, users may block those with opposing views to avoid heated debates or to curate a more agreeable timeline, especially during controversial events.
5 Privacy and Safety: Blocking is used to protect personal information or limit visibility from strangers, ex-partners, or accounts that seem suspicious or overly curious.
6 Content Overload: Users might block accounts posting excessive or irrelevant content, like constant self-promotion or low-quality posts, to keep their feed manageable.
7 Past Conflicts: Personal grudges or negative past interactions, even offline, can lead to blocking to prevent further contact or to maintain emotional distance.
8 Mass Blocking: Some users employ tools or lists to block accounts en masse, often based on shared followers of controversial figures or specific keywords, to preemptively avoid unwanted engagement.
From posts on X, users often mention blocking for “peace of mind,” to escape “toxic” interactions, or to stop seeing content they find annoying or irrelevant. For example, a user might block someone for repeatedly quote-tweeting them with snarky comments or for flooding their mentions with unsolicited advice. Data from web sources, like Reddit discussions, suggests blocking is also a way to enforce boundaries, especially for public figures or those with large followings who face constant scrutiny.
If you have a specific scenario or user in mind, I can analyze their X profile or posts for more context on why they might block others. Let me know!

2025-08-26 16:54:58 UTC

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All you have to be able to say is I can send you $50 worth of bitcoin. That’s all that’s required nothing else is needed to make bitcoin super useful to everybody. The idea that everybody has to understand bitcoin in order to use it is just crazy and they don’t apply to thinking to anything else.
I’m happy I could help have a nice day !

2025-08-26 13:02:50 UTC

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Asking this question is the first step to find the answer. The next step is to say, “what can I do about this“?
Then you have to describe the problem correctly. That means describing the problem at the root, not at the symptom level.
If you do this, describing the problem at the root level, then you won’t make me steps by creating Heath Robinson answers that can be destroyed at the whim of a handful of people who have the ultimate power over you.
Part of this is not seeking validation or repentance for the bad things you’ve done to tens of millions of people. Everything you do must be not only efficacious but proven to be efficacious.
A necessary part of this is the ability to make decisions for yourself based only on logic and the facts and not outsource your thinking to people who are in every way inferior to you.
It also means being able to accept unsatisfactory answers like this.

2025-08-26 07:37:12 UTC

“Important: Google is locking down Android.
Starting Sept 2026, every app — even outside the Play Store — must come from a verified developer.
No more anonymous sideloads. No quick comebacks for malware gangs.
First up: Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand.”
And no indefinite access for illegal and anonymous messaging apps, especially ones with the scary hacker chic graphic design.
Protocols have no utility without apps to leverage them.
You can bury your head in the sand all you want; the facts remain the same. You can’t have a global scale permissionless ecosystem without the explicit permission of Apple and Google.
And if your aim is to change the world, you need global scale adoption to do it. That means unfettered access to be able to have your tools installed on the phones of anyone who wants that tool.
This is true also of bitcoin.
Bitcoin can’t change the world unless easy access to it is made available to billions of users.
Running away from this fact doesn’t make it go away; this fact must be confronted head on and the problem solved.
The only question is this: are you contributing to the solution of the problem or not? Or are you acting as a safety valve giving encouragement to people who don’t really understand the problem, so that they feel good today and divert their energy to something which cannot possibly win in the end and, leave us in a better world.
https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/google-to-verify-all-android-developers.html

2025-08-25 11:30:34 UTC

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If the method of payment is not disconnected to the “handing over” of the good or service, you are de anonymised, and as you’ve seen, the State is not averse to requesting mass dumps of records of completely innocent people.

2025-08-25 07:38:20 UTC

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100% CORRECT. And the question is begged, “How do people get Bitcoin anonymously?”, a key question left out of the equation. Leaving the distribution of bitcoin to exchanges is suicidal….do don’t do it!

2025-08-25 07:31:17 UTC

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I’m saying throwing away recognition won’t solve the problem.
Software developers don’t do it for nebulous “recognition” they do it to solve problems. Hiding away won’t solve anything; it’s hiding, it’s running away from the problem, it’s being a coward and refusing to solve a problem head on.
What’s worse is having the means to help solve these problems and then refusing to act.
That’s why the world is teetering on tyranny.

2025-08-25 07:16:11 UTC

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You’re on the right path directionally.

2025-08-25 07:14:30 UTC

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This is the “hoodie anon, hideaway culture”. People should not have to hide their identities in order to swipe software.
Human collaboration in person and in the open should not suffer because the State doesn’t like the code you write.
Having your name associated with the tools you write is not about “recognition” it’s about free association in a free country.

2025-08-25 06:59:28 UTC

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GM FRENZ.

2025-08-25 06:46:47 UTC

The Durov case and many other reasons are why companies avoid basing themselves in France. No Social Media platform will seek to headquarter in Paris. It’s unthinkable.
And the French government can’t go after Andrew Torba who runs GAB because he’s an American operating GAB in America. If GAB launches end to end encrypted chat or anything the Z French government doesn’t like, there’s nothing they can do about it.
The solution to “government overreach” is not building systems that can’t be cracked or stopped; they’re persecuting Durov without any proper cause. If your name is associated with a tool that the French government can’t stop or crack or track, they will come after you. This isn’t about right and wrong, following rules or logic.
This is not about technical capabilities or clever architecture, “frenz”; this is about computer illiterate tyrants who can’t understand detail or scale or ethics, and if they can, don’t care, because they want to sacrifice Durov to scare everyone.
The next iteration in this is to criminalise the authoring and distribution of unlicensed privacy software. The first part, distribution, will stop ordinary people from accessing Telegram or any tool that keeps messages private. This is easily done through Google Play and the Apple App Store. The second will totally dry up the developer pool of people working on privacy software, because none of them want any trouble. Oh, and GitHub will ban your repo, frenz.
Before you write “Hello World” in your new tool, you will need to have a Developer’s License before starting work, even in the conceptual stage. It will be illegal for you to share any design, algorithm or outline without both you and the idea recipient having a current Crypto Software Development License.
If you think this is completely impossible, please see Bernstein v. US Department of Justice https://medium.com/swlh/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794
The answer to this is not “build your way out of it”, obviously.
The answer is to first curb the power of the state to persecute software development and distribution before you write “Hello World”. You do that by making the State smaller. You make the state smaller by instantiating sound money. That means globalising Bitcoin.
And how do you “globalise Bitcoin?”
10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1…..
And in case you didn’t know, rote recitation of catchphrases and infantile feel good gibberish will not stop the persecution of Durov, remove KYC in Bitcoin or stop the emergence of Crypto Developer Licensing.
https://x.com/durov/status/1959676036507205649?s=61&t=eyjJ5IvKiAtPIDSBRekpmA

2025-08-24 21:25:59 UTC

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You are conflating terms and misusing English. You even do it in the question itself when you say “possession of the seed phrase”.
You can understand that if you steal a car, you don’t own that car; similarly knowing a secret doesn’t mean you own it.
The problem here is that if you start using the correct language, and accurately, your whole mental framework that’s been handed to you to contextualise bitcoin is destroyed.
No Bitcoin user owns UTXOs. UTXOs are database entries that your private key can be used on to make a signature using someone else’s public key. All UTXO’s are copied in tens of thousands of places; by no stretch of the imagination does anyone own them.
This is like saying because you have a copy of “The Godfather” on your hard drive that you own the copy. You have a copy, you don’t own the film. It’s exactly the same with Bitcoin. You control your private keys that are strings of characters. That string can be used in a mathematical function to produce a mathematical result. Information works differently to physical matter.
No one “owns” math or any string of characters; exclusive use of a secret string of characters is not “ownership”.
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/the-bitlicense-is-a-bad-idea-that-must-die-cb413c076d85
Bitcoin is special because it makes it trivially easy to conflate and superimpose ownership analogies on mathematically generated strings that have utility in a single context. Normal people need analogies to interface with almost everything in modern life, especially where software is concerned.
“Self Custody” is a multi layered analogy set, designed to help you understand how a Private Key works in the Bitcoin context without referring at any time to math or signing processes or the chain of blocks, or databases other people’s Public Keys or anything to do with the actual processes involved with who gets to sign messages and their in context meaning.
Bitcoin is never owned; it’s an entry in a massively replicated public database.
Bitcoin is never sent or received. It is reflected in the public database.
Bitcoin is not money. It is a database.
None of these absolute facts have any bearing on Bitcoin’s utility; analogies are used to help you understand and accept bitcoin as a full replacement for fiat currency and banking services.
Without this contextual help, no member of the public would accept Bitcoin, and in the end, if people can’t use Bitcoin without the need to understand it, it will never change the world at scale.

2025-08-23 08:51:12 UTC

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“Ownership” and “self custody” are analogies and not descriptions of process, and should absolutely cannot be the basis of any real understanding and never the basis of legislation.
Mischaracterising Bitcoin by analogising is commonplace which is why, even this week, I had to spend an hour in front of a panel of compliance lawyers explaining that addresses in bitcoin wallets on iPhones are not at all like bank accounts.
The toxic analogising that’s mistaken for reality is everywhere, and it distorts the market, because the people who build businesses must contend with computer illiterates who have been grossly mislead by advertising copy.

2025-08-21 21:52:41 UTC

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Imagine building something that no one is using, and then building something on top of that even less people can use unless it's under the most strict conditions, that no ordinary person will tolerate under any circumstances... and then thinking.
"THIS IS GOING TO RAWK!"
No, it's not going to rawk. It's going to die a slow death after the initial excitement in a small number of people wears off, unless a radical change happens...whatever that may look like.
And even as it's launched, all people can think of saying in these place is, "GM FRENZ", when the world is on the brink of WW3 and events unimaginable are commonplace.
This is a picture of the failure of a generation with the greatests tools and frameworks in the history of mankind at their fingertips...and all they can come up with is, "GM FRENZ".
This is the generation that could kill the Federal Reserve and usher in a golden age of financial liberty, flexibility, and absolute monetary justice. They could still kill it...well...at least the ones who are awake.
Instead, they set up strawman problems to solve, the solution of which do not result in the world changing, solutions designed to completely avoid confrontation of any kind with any body.
And herein is the key. There are people with the super powers required to fix problems but who abhor confrontation so much, they are paralysed in the one area that is a prerequisite to making global change
The ability to make decisions themselves.
All the great technologists have one thing in common; they are so convinced of their principles and solutions that they have absolutely no hesitation to tell anyone about how and what they think about any subject; in fact, they fall over themselves to do so at every opportunity.
If you can't articulate what you believe, if you are paralysed by indecision, if you are a a disinterested and deluded coward, you can't help anyone, and the powers you have are nullified by your low character.
Meanwhile...
The tiny number of people who don't suffer from these character flaws, and who have the means, are able to do things that change the world. Even if after they do that, they turn to the Dark Side, if they've left something behind that is good, perhaps that is all they were born for; that one single good thing that changed everything...like Dr. Richard Daystrom, and the Duotronics breakthrough that profoundly changed computer science forever.
The time you're living through is without precedent. On many fronts, fundamental changes to how man interacts with man are at the fingertips of every person of every class. How could you shrink from this challenge? How could you not see yourself in the rôle of an active participant bound for glory (Excalibur final scene: Arthur kills Mordred).
How can you not...get this?
You've woken up on the shore of your subconscious. You don't know where you are, how you got there, why you're there, how to get back to the real world...but several levels up, the real world is there, and so is your real life, and everyone who is really alive.
PROTIP: That's where you want to be. Not in a dream world where you're deceiving yourself that you're living; the real world is where life is, not deep down there on that beach.
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2025-08-14 13:27:34 UTC

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“Self Sovereignty”; dead giveaway.

2025-08-14 12:16:36 UTC

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Imagine someone telling you that you should “break” your iPhone so you can run some “weird” software. You would instantly refuse, because you just paid $1,000 for a shiny new iPhone.
That was the exact proposition on offer. No normal person Jailbrake’d their iPhone it was for hackers, risk takers and tweeters not users who just wanted the best phone ever.

2025-08-14 12:14:46 UTC

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By doing this, you have first hand experience that “your” iPhone can actually become your iPhone.
Most people who use an iPhone have no idea about any of this, and will never understand it. They have to be accessed by a route that doesn’t require understanding.
This can be done, believe it or not. It’s how Public Key Cryptography reached billions of people without a single descriptive word being written about it; it simply works in the background keeping everyone safe.
This has to happen in bitcoin. Believing otherwise is foolishness, futile and time wasting.

2025-08-14 12:11:58 UTC

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You’re right about the terminology, and this is why I’ve been saying for years that no one should call bitcoin “money”.
Where you are wrong however, is to say that “ownership” changes, which is categorically not true, and also, there is no such thing as “self custody” in bitcoin either.
And there are no “Bitcoin Wallets” either [SPOON BOY IMAGE]
Nomenclature shapes people’s perception; it doesn’t change reality. Unfortunately, even intelligent people don’t understand this, and demonstrate surface thinking as their primary entry point in almost all matters.

2025-08-14 11:43:00 UTC

For those of you alive in the early days of the iPhone, you may remember a tool called "Cydia".
This tool was in fact the first "App Store" for iPhone.
Cydia was written by Jay Freeman (Saurik) in 2008 and was for jailbroken iPhones.
It allowed users to install apps, tweaks, and modifications not available on Apple's App Store, all from developers without Apple's approval.
Jailbreaking your iPhone meant that you had essentially full control over it, including being able to run a root shell on it, no restrictions whatsoever; it was just like a UNIX machine in your hand.
Knowing this (and I've said it before) anyone interested in having an iPhone and Android ecosystem where users are transformed into owners of their devices, requires a new class of App Store not owned by Google or Apple, and that is very popular.
There are App Stores for Android other than Google, but they're not as popular as the Google Play Store, and that's not surprising at all, because no normal person is interested in it leaving the fenced area.
That being said, it should be possible with the proper marketing to create an ecosystem that can compete with the "Two Party State" of Google and Apple.
This would solve many of the problems caused by large companies run by people unconcerned by Ethics and user's rights and lives. In this new ecosystem, for example, it would not be possible to have a bitcoin wallet banned, or removed.
If all of this is true (and it is) then the question becomes why has no one picked up on the threat of App Store removal of Bitcoin Wallets, and why have they not acted to either create a new default App Store ecosystem or boosted an existing Alternative App Store ecosystem with a large cash injection?
There are plenty to choose from:
- Amazon Appstore
- APKMirror
- APKPure
- Aptoide
- F-Droid
- Huawei AppGallery
- Samsung Galaxy Store
- GetJar
- Uptodown
- SlideME
- Aurora Store
- AppBrain
- Mobogenie
- QooApp
- 9Apps
- Xiaomi GetApps
- Tencent MyApp
- Itch.io
- ACMarket
- TapTap
Obviously Huawei, Xiaomi, all China based stores sand Amazon can be excluded as alternatives, but what they demonstrate by existing is that alternative App Stores that potentially serve billions of people are possible to create, so why bother whining to Google when you can just build your own and solve the problem forever?
And you're even more without excuse if you already have access to billions of people through existing business and user relationships to jump start a new ecosystem.
Upon launch of this ecosystem, it would mean that every developer of Bitcoin Wallets for Android would be delisted from Google only to re-appear on the new "Liberty App Store Library" where they are published with the features the developers desire and used on terms acceptable to both user and developer.
How hard can it be?
One thing is for sure; simply complaining about Google trying to kill Bitcoin Wallets is not going to change anything.
And obviously every Android app developer would flock to this new ecosystem to publish their apps so that more people would download them. It would grow almost by itself.
As for the Apple App Store, well...I guess if they go through with banning Bitcoin Apps, if you want to use Bitcoin your own way, you have to get a 'Droid.
Sigh..."The price of freedom!"
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2025-08-14 09:12:43 UTC

This is exactly like banning SSL for all applications where the owner of the user's app isn't identified.
The French tried to impose this in the 1990s, but once SSL was everywhere, it was impossible for France to implement it, despite building a regulatory and storage framework to register all SSL private keys.
SSL keys can be generated at will almost instantly by anyone without any technical skill. It happens every time you install a browser or set up a server.
Sound familiar?
That's what happens when you download and open a Bitcoin Wallet. It's exactly the same in nature.
Now an absurd ban is proposed for Bitcoin wallets, and it's pretty obvious this would happen in the, "Then they fight you" stage.
This is why I've been harping on about spreading bitcoin everywhere as quickly as possible, so that it becomes a global default that cannot be revoked without killing the internets.
This is also why I've been working to re-contextualize bitcoin away from what people mistake it for to something more like what it actually is.
No one thinks SSL is "encryption"; they think it is "security". Similarly if people think bitcoin is money, then they will think about it as if it is money, as if you "receive" bitcoin, and all other money analogies.
If this false categorization by Google of Bitcoin wallets doesn't go through, the next attempt surely will. Unfortunately, people with power can't seem to understand long term strategic thinking in this area, despite the history of Public Key Encryption tool adoption being widely known.
A necessary prerequisite to bitcoin being everywhere is the distribution of it to billions of people. That's what we're doing at Azteco. When we succeed in doing this, bitcoin will be a common as SSL Certs in your browser.
And no, it will not be enough to simply build tools that use bitcoin; you can't use bitcoin without getting it, and that is the task many people simply run away from rather than confront head on.
Things that seem to be very large, very bad problems can be completely eliminated. Faketoshi is the most recent example, but there have been many others, like the RSA Munitions Export case. Bitcoin can win and come out unscathed.
It will take dedication to make it happen and people who can think for themselves and make up their own minds about what sort of future they want to be a part of building for mankind.
The bitcoin distribution problem is being effectively solved by Azteco, with 700m people being given access to bitcoin in a way that no real bitcoiner could possibly oppose.
It didn't take many people to solve the big problems; technical ones like Public Key Cryptography, PGP (Zimmerman), Bitcoin (Satoshi), BitTorrent (Bram Cohen) and many others. Your only question for yourself is this, "Am I a part of the solution or the problem?".
And if you think you can build a paralell society on App Store Apps that will help billions of people, you are completely delusional.
If App stores can ban Bitcoin wallets, they can ban your sneaky chat app, which, because it doesn't mediate bitcoin, can't change the world, and even if it could mediate bitcoin transactions, cant do so unless people can get bitcoin to use on it, and if they can, that will surely cause an App store ban, because it will be an "Unlicensed Bitcoin Wallet", however they want to define that.
At some point, as has been in the past, a problem must be solved directly. With SSL, it was the rapid proliferation of browsers and the browser as the default interface to all eCommerce.
The same thing needs to happen with Bitcoin; bitcoin must be the default way billions of people spend online, and the way to do that is to seed the global population with small amounts of bitcoin.
When commercial interests merge with the interests of billions of people, you get a platform that completely resists arbitrary change that doesn't serve the people's or commercial interests.
This is what must happen with bitcoin, and it can happen, and happen very rapidly.
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2025-08-06 18:44:25 UTC

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STEP INSIDE https://share.google/aChsOfb6NKV8u8Zry

2025-08-06 13:48:05 UTC

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QED.

2025-08-06 13:45:53 UTC

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There will always be people who are beyond help, and you must accept this.

2025-08-06 13:23:15 UTC

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These matters are very hard to understand for the layman, and so “thinking” like this which is entirely surface layer is expected and perfectly normal.

2025-08-06 13:09:47 UTC

The hat that Matt Odell is wearing is from the VC company Ten31. Unlike bitcoiner larpers, who whine about KYC and do nothing about it, like supporting businesses that don't KYC to supply you sats, Matt's company Ten31 invested in Samourai Wallet, showing that at least he puts his money where his mouth is, and it's not all LARPing.
If you want a world without Internet IDs and a bitcoin ecosystem that is KYC free from end to end, you should be like Matt, who invests in and promotes companies that are doing the hard work to make the world you want a reality.
What you do not do is sit on the sidelines and refuse to even speak about the brave people like William Burroughs and Keyonne Rodriguez who are building the systems that are provably what people want. I say, "provably" because hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin was mediated by Samourai wallet users and its beautiful tools.
At the end of the day, there needs to be a small, dedicated, stubborn number of people like Matt, William Burroughs and Keyonne Rodriguez who are willing to stick their necks out and do whatever they can to grow the Ethical Bitcoin Ecosystem. What is intolerable and inexcusable is burying your head in the sand...like an ostrich.
It is already proven that the small number of fanatical coders and capitalists have the power to change everything. This is why GPG exists, why GNU/LINUX exists, why WhatsApp and Signal exist and why bitcoin, Samourai and other tools exist. Someone has to do the work, someone has to promote the tools, someone has to rise to the challenge.
The perpetually giggling, unserious, threadbare, faddish, cowardly, distracted, unintelligent, eloiesque, "Main Character Syndrome" actors who are too frightened to even say the name "Samourai Wallet" are collaborators with the system they claim to despise and be against.
For all of this, bitcoin will succeed and usher in the world these people are too frightened to talk about and don't even know they need. They rejected fiat reluctantly (and this is not their fault; they're the victims of the State), but once seeing its fundamental flaw, should naturally have been radicalized, but were not.
Oh well...you can't have everything...
OR CAN YOU?
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-surveillance-an-ahistoric-market-error-d3871f671c8c
https://x.com/primal_app/status/1952767736842531222
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2025-07-22 17:38:26 UTC

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It’s within our reach. The major pieces are in place. All we need is a small number of people who do what they say they’re going to do, who don’t outsource their thinking or opinions or break their promises and who are in it for the long haul, and it’s practically guaranteed that within the next three years Ethical Bitcoin will achieve global domination.
Nail biting excitement!

2025-07-22 17:04:27 UTC

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Just imagine this. Azteco distribution reaches 628,000,000 users, 240,000,000 on Razer. A Nostr app does an integration with Azteco to ingest its vouchers; all those users are now potential users of those apps if promotion is done to pour those new users on to them.
It’s an interesting proposition. To make it happen, the apps have to be in the App Stores and an ingesting integration done with Azteco, similar to the one we did with Bitkey (for on-chain) and other wallets, some of which are out of the box and integration free if LNURL is deployed in the App.
This means that literally hundreds of millions of users RIGHT NOW could redeem Azteco vouchers into these apps, For Great Justice.
Isn’t that special?

2025-07-22 16:53:55 UTC

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This is just silly. The only thing that needs to be understood is the need for bitcoin, which everyone has. Saying that people have to understand the philosophy behind a tool before they can use a tool is part of “the problem”.

2025-07-22 16:51:52 UTC

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We’re totally open to it. Bitcoin can and should be used for anything and everything, no one is excluded; free to all who pay, pay pay it all back ( do you see what I did there?).
All they have to do is contact us, and we can do an integration with them where users can redeem our Lightning Vouchers or even buy them if they have a payment processor.

2025-07-22 15:53:24 UTC

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You should ignore me and carry on building. Building is the only thing that matters; not what people say.
If you’re right, everything will change and everyone will benefit; that’s the only true measure when discussing supplanting the censorious and State restricted “app stores”.
You don’t need my or anyone else to approve of what you’re doing; your running software is vindication in itself, and your service being run by hundreds of millions of people, icing on the cake.
Don’t be dissuaded by anyone, don’t be discouraged, put off or made to doubt what you’re building. Plan carefully, address reality directly, comb your assumptions regularly.
Your work is needed, you are appreciated; you are the hero in the story. You chose to do the hard work, and that’s the act of a hero.
NEVER GIVE UP!

2024-12-26 02:23:48 UTC

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“I’ve got one that can see!”

2024-12-17 03:36:25 UTC

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Capital “w” at beginning of sentence, no space between the question mark and last word.
Listen to my last words, anywhere!
Listen all you boards, governments, syndicates, nations of the world,
And you, powers behind what filth deals consummated in what lavatory…
To take what is not yours,
To sell out your sons forever.
To sell the ground from unborn feet
forever.
Are these the words of the all powerful boards, syndicates,
of the earth?
The great banking families, French, English, American,
squeezing the air.
You want Hassan Sabbah to explain that, to tidy that up.
You have the wrong name and the wrong number.
for this you have sold your sons forever?
the ground from unborn feet forever
And you want the name of Hassan Sabbah on your filth deals
To sell out the unborn?
I rub out all the formulaes and directives of the Elders of Minraud forever
I rub out the word “forever”.
What am I doing over here with the workers, the gooks, the apes, the
dogs, the errand boys, the human animals?
Why don’t I come over with the board, and drink coca-cola and make it?
Explain how the blood, and bones, and brains of a hundred million
more or less gooks went down the drain in green piss…so you on the boards could use bodies, and minds, and souls that were not yours, are not yours, and never will be yours.
You have the wrong name and the wrong number, Mr. Luce Getty Lee Rockefeller
Don’t let them see us, don’t tell them what we are doing.
Not the cancer deal with the Venusians, not the green deal - don’t let that out, disaster, unimaginable disaster.
These things take time, and that’s my business
Crab men, Tape-worms, Intestinal parasites… Like Burroughs, that proud American name?
Proud of what exactly?
Would you all like to see exactly what Burroughs has to be proud of?
The Mayan Caper, the Centipede Hype, the Short-time racket, the Heavy-metal gimmick?
All right, Mister Burroughs, who bears my name and my words bear it all the way for all to see,
in Times Square, in Piccadilly, Place de la Concorde
Play it all, play it all, play it all back.
Pay it all, pay it all, pay it alllll back.

2024-12-17 02:50:34 UTC

Unbelievable.
Two groups are now reinventing email, Elon and Nostr.
You’ve got to be kidding.

2024-12-17 02:48:17 UTC

3 Bodies: Leninism, Maoism and Marxism. https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1868838975856681053

2024-12-16 16:51:01 UTC

When most people got online through AOL or Compuserve, “The Internet” meant those services.
In 2024, people think Bitcoin is Coinbase. If you know your history, you know what’s coming next.
https://m.primal.net/Mxxr.jpg

2024-12-12 18:56:09 UTC

The Economist: Trash as usual.
The Economist is staffed by imbecile liars who can't face the truth. Bitcoin exists through the thought and work of the lofty idealists who wrote it and work with it, and liars at the Economist, who can't even put their names to their own words don't understand those ideals even in the abstract.
We know that they're wrong because we're working on Azteco, which will fulfill the lofty goals of b(B)itcoin. And the fact that they use the word "crypto" shows straight away that they're pig ignorant imbeciles.
There is no such thing as "crypto" or "digital assets" and there is less hyperbole now because the future predicted by me and others is coming to pass, and is just normal and not speculation. This has nothing to do with "investors" whose investments mean nothing without the complete fulfillment of our predictions; chiefly that bitcoin becomes money at every scale.
Bitcoiners don't wear Patagonia gilets either; its Barbour shooting jackets, lads. What a bunch of idiots they are. They're why Britain is FAILING and will continue to FAIL, and they will deserve everything they get; RELEGATION to HISTORY'S LOSERS and YESTERDAY'S MEN.
https://archive.is/LsNYN
P.S. Someone sent me this, and so you have to read it now, and my reply to them. Aren't you special?

2024-12-11 23:50:59 UTC

“This place is ours.“
https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1866989959447482529

2024-12-11 21:54:16 UTC

Bitcoin: "You are the bank now". Get it yet, Elon?
https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1866778082566340732

2024-12-09 18:26:43 UTC

"The browser wars teach us something crucial about business today: Innovation isn't just about technology."
This is a lesson that has yet to penetrate bitcoin. Innovation is not just about technology or threat modeling; it's about serving people.
Software and technology (two separate things) are there to serve people, not to exist in absentia of people.
Bitcoin's underlying innovations must be abstracted and humanized in the same way that Netscape humanized the World Wide Web, which previously was accessed by tools like the CERN browsers.
Thinking that bitcoin is "an asset" or "digital gold" is like believing the World Wide Web is "A Global Digital Library", and it's the same class of people making this miscategorization, in a field that has the same or greater potential to change everything.
Imagine trying to imagine Twitter, or Flickr or Signal or WhatsApp or the iPhone...or bitcoin in the early days of the web.
It's literally impossible, and for most, unthinkable.
So many innovations have been compounding on each other, where we are today would be literally incomprehensible to a man in the 1990s using a text based browser to search an HTML document.
The same thing is happening with bitcoin. The future of bitcoin is incomprehensible to the normal man, even people immersed in software as a service and "Tech", because bitcoin touches something fundamental to their lives:
Money.
And because a very large, very complex software and hardware infrastructure is now in place the rate of change of innovation is much faster than it was in the 1990s and the bottom of the column in the pillar of innovators is very wide, with many innovators working at every scale.
In a situation like this, innovations can emerge very rapidly, and if the conditions are right, spread globally at light speed.
Sadly, many people "in the space" are of limited imagination and threadbare in their knowledge of the history of the Internets, crippling their expectations and making it almost impossible to spot the next big thing before everyone else is talking about it and it's too embarrassing for them to admit they still, "don't get it".
Because the base of the pillar is so wide and powerful, these ignorant people cannot stop what's coming next, and key to this is the Open Source software movement and ecosystem, removing the licensing woes and barriers that used to plague software companies.
Did you know that an evil company had the "Patent" for, "The other person is typing"? If you wanted to use that feature in your software, having written it yourself, you could be sued by that company and it's evil founder.
I'll leave you to guess who it was...but I digress...
Bitcoin has a long way to go, and if you listen to the Wall Street Wonks to get your contextualization of it, you will be a loser.
And no one wants that...do they?
https://x.com/thefernandocz/status/1865704404781060365

2024-12-07 17:58:34 UTC

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You are fundamentally and absolutely, categorically and completely, overwhelmingly and reassuringly, correct.
And now…
Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders
Here are the young men, but where have they been?
https://m.primal.net/MpnE.jpg

2024-12-07 14:36:19 UTC

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

2024-12-06 09:22:56 UTC

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INGSOC: its smell can be smelled even over Internets. Skunk in profile…well, at least you’re warning everyone in advance.
BURN THE INCENSE, SPRAY THE PERFUMES, THE AIR IS BEFOULED.
But seriously…why bother?

2024-12-06 01:41:46 UTC

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“The easiest methods possible”.
https://m.primal.net/Moiv.jpg

2024-12-05 21:51:46 UTC

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It’s an opless fancy. And your assumptions (thankfully) don’t impinge on reality, Baz.

2024-12-05 20:02:35 UTC

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Wherever madam.

2024-12-05 17:28:59 UTC

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I knew you were from INGSOC when you used the word “fair”.
I recommend azte.co since you can buy it essentially instantly and it’s private. Most of the people on earth are not westerners with thousands to spend on bitcoin in the hopes that it will go up. There are billions of people who all use mobile phones and who need bitcoin just like Geordies do.
Very soon, buying bitcoin will not be controversial at all; just like buying a bottle of Guiness. This time can’t come too quickly, so that the constant withering service permuting and other guff that has plagued bitcoin since the early forums where people competed to see how many services they could chain together to buy bitcoin were “a thing”.
The best time to be in bitcoin is now. This has always been true, just like the best time to have money is always now. When people wake up to this and stop thinking about bitcoin like its a special thing, we will have all crossed the Rubicon with red capes on.
SPQR!

2024-12-05 16:17:12 UTC

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“Large” is not a number. “Large” to who? This is the problem with the Orange and Purple People; they’re parochial, insular and navel gazing.
It’s not a general problem; it’s a problem with them and contained in them, and so, it will be overcome very quickly once all the pieces are in place.
And it’s all coming together. Isn’t that special?

2024-12-05 16:12:22 UTC

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That three letter word “Buy” leaves out a multitude of sins. That’s the problem. It’s being worked on.

2024-12-05 12:39:37 UTC

As bitcoin crosses $100,000 there are still people out there, who absolutely should know better, who are directing users to buy it from KYC Gulag Services.
Out of one side of their mouths, they complain about censorship, government overreach and tyranny, but out of the other they openly promote bad services that abuse users. Why?
Worst of all, they do this to people who are new to bitcoin, giving them a completely false impression that it is a requirement for you to identify yourself to use bitcoin.
What is wrong with these people?
What's wrong with them is that their thinking is incomplete, and they have a slave mentality, brought about by years of being in opposition.
Also, many of the services people recommend are USA only, which is yet another arbitrary restriction. Why is it so hard for people to think?
They simultaneously want bitcoin to change the world, but refuse to help it do that, by recommending inferior services that will not move that ball forward.
I'm sorry to report, dear reader, that it will always be like this; there is an upper limit to the imaginations of the majority of people, even very clever and expert ones, that prevents them from connecting the dots.
It's a tragedy that people who also have large platforms don't take that responsibility seriously. But there it is.
Not to worry; bitcoin is going to spread and dominate globally without them, just as it reached $100,000 without their aid.
https://m.primal.net/MoMy.jpg

2024-12-05 01:05:50 UTC

As Bitcoin crosses $100,000USD read:
“Man From The Future Shares His Story” from June 29, 2011 By michaelsuede
https://web.archive.org/web/20110703081049/https://www.libertariannews.org/2011/06/29/man-from-the-future-shares-his-story/

2024-12-04 14:53:06 UTC

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It flew over your head, obviously.

2024-12-04 14:52:14 UTC

President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on bitcoin: “Everyone will strive to reduce costs and increase reliability"
And of course, "increase reliability" means not using western payment rails that are riddled with and plagued by fraud at every level (from the fact that fraudulent fiat currencies are what is being mediated, to the fact that impersonation is rampant, both of which are eliminated by bitcoin), but settling on bitcoin which eliminates both, and the systemic risk of having Uncle Sam being the controller of the currency and the payment rails, enabling him to both steal from your citizens, expose them to fraud and surveillance and weaponize the payment rais as "Sanctions" levers.
No.
Bitcoin is the answer to all of this, and it's incredible that it has taken Russia so long to understand this reality.
Now that they do, spurred on by GEPOTUS openly threatening them like a gangster, perhaps Russia and BRICS will go full retard for Bitcoin. If they do this, they cannot lose.
Just as the International Community rejected the CDMA mobile phone standard for GSM, and America grudgingly followed along, the entire world can settle on Bitcoin and American will join in.
BRICS winning does not mean America losing by the way.
BRICS winning means America wins.
Only America has the political system and the software engineering culture and genius to pull off becoming the world's centre for bitcoin.
They did it with Silicon Valley and will do it with bitcoin.
Other cultures cannot compete with American culture. Think about it; do you really believe that FRANCE can compete with America as a centre of software businesses? Or Britain? No one in their right mind is thinking about incorporating in INGSOC to establish offices in Shoreditch.
INGSOC in particular were warned about this:
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/b%C2%B3-boris-bitcoin-britain-3cbb57751aa7
again..
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/priti-patel-is-wrong-about-encryption-5bbfaab62cc1
and again...
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/written-evidence-submitted-to-her-majestys-treasury-committee-s-digital-currencies-inquiry-on-8162d4c299ab
and again...
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/our-submission-to-the-british-governments-digital-currencies-call-for-information-160fbf103bbc
and so they can't say they were not warned.
Russia is in a unique position to weaponize bitcoin and Americanism against Americans.
They can leverage BRICS to adopt bitcoin, and at the same time, obliquely encourage America to "FOMO" into unleashing American genius to protect itself from dedollarization by deregulating bitcoin businesses (which they are already obliged to do by law: https://medium.com/swlh/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794) causing bitcoin to be the absolute winner.
You couldn't make it up if you tried...and you don't have to...it's REAL!
https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1864313687244222859

2024-12-04 12:05:13 UTC

Signal is not perfect, therefore, do not communicate or coordinate with anyone. Stay in your silo, inert and neutralised, watching the world burn while you are “safe” from being meta data spied on.
Meanwhile other protocols that are fundamentally ill conceived or weak or flawed get a pass, “because purple”, “because e-commerce”, “because Orange”, “because there nothing better than democracy”, etc, etc.
There are now many developers and software entrepreneurs, and a few software developer entrepreneurs, and a few software developer entrepreneurs who are not cowards.
There are enough of the latter intersection to completely change the world for the better, and it doesn’t matter what anyone “thinks” about what they’re doing or whether or not it’s fit for any particular purpose.
Central to their power is the ability to grasp scale and properly assess threats. They don’t suffer from Mind Blindness; they understand that software is about serving people, and not about perfection. They also don’t make breathless impossible claims or promises either, or let weak minded fanboy imaginations run wild…
These are the people, the focussed, determined and most importantly, fearless people who get things done for people, who are…PROTIP: Real. #note1qqq…yta3

2024-12-03 21:38:10 UTC

“If President Biden is pardoning his son, we are pardoning Ross on DAY ONE.”
Why wait? If you have this power, why not pardon him right now?
PROTIP: The people don't have the power of pardon; only GEPOTUS has that power in January.
And what happened to "simping for Trump"? Now you have to simp for Trump for Trump to Free Ross!
Oh dear, how things change!
Some people are so delusional it beggars belief. Why not start small, and do what you can do in your own small way, and stop exposing people to the threat of identity theft?
Start with the small things, then build up to storming the Bastille and freeing Ross with an army of Bitcoiners bearing pitchforks at the United States Penitentiary in Tucson, Genius.
https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1864059120355353015

2024-12-02 15:53:51 UTC

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“Therefore it must be true”…LOL!

2024-12-02 15:47:47 UTC

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You go first.

2024-12-02 00:53:06 UTC

https://m.primal.net/MlmT.jpg

2024-11-30 23:44:51 UTC

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Four thousand throats may be cut in one night by a running man.

2024-11-30 23:41:04 UTC

“But there is a problem.”
https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1863003534670578001

2024-11-30 17:14:09 UTC

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You can hear type? Fascinating!

2024-11-30 17:13:06 UTC

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Inarticulate people, etc etc…

2024-11-30 17:10:54 UTC

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Stop swearing. It makes you look unintelligent.

2024-11-30 16:50:19 UTC

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FALSE.

2024-11-30 15:53:55 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/d03917ba7079d59da1cb9818474f7319af267a14632fb35f47840827afe03c42.jpg

2024-11-30 13:53:12 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/815ba6fa11a9ea88f3b17b52616da4af452847b3ef2e7b9a644fd21f41a05544.jpg

2024-11-30 13:49:21 UTC

Is “Socialist Nostr” a real phenomenon? I’m beginning to suspect that it is. Tsk tsk tsk SHAMEFUL!

2024-11-30 13:44:40 UTC

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But “10%” is too much to pay for for a service that will not abuse you. This is why fiat and fiat institutions exist and persist. People just can’t THINK.

2024-11-30 13:28:19 UTC

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SOCIALISTS GONNA SOCIALIZE
COLLECTIVISTS GONNA COLLECTIVIZE
ITS THE WAY OF THE WORLD.
HARD “L”

2024-11-30 12:01:46 UTC

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https://m.primal.net/MkqZ.png

2024-11-30 11:52:33 UTC

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No problem, ROCK ON!

2024-11-30 11:49:30 UTC

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Are you a lawyer?

2024-11-30 10:33:51 UTC

https://m.primal.net/MkpE.jpg

2024-11-30 09:33:38 UTC

Rodriguez and Burroughs.

2024-11-26 18:15:37 UTC

“NO TO THUGS” https://youtu.be/xcmghtqf9mk?si=9Ov9xn3mPRKHvuIm&t=1012

2024-11-25 16:17:15 UTC

Despite what some people might believe, what is not required is a "Pressure Group" to help Bitcoin adoption.
Well meaning people who've grown up in INGSOC believe that the optics of opposition politics is what will keep Bitcoin users safe from regulation. They're 100% wrong.
Listing companies that people should use because they're "unregulated" or "outside the law" only generates scrutiny targets. It doesn't help anyone, and actually has another, hidden purpose.
People love to rally behind the underdog; what they're trying to do is create the next "Assange", or "CND", or "Occupy Wall Street" that they can be the heads of, so that they're constantly being interviewed and getting their profile raised in the Mainstream Media.
This will increase "Membership" in their organizations, opening the door to future employment in the "Compliance" departments of the companies they "defended", or will allow them to contract out consultancy roles for their companies.
Think Rico and BitLicense as examples.
And of course, being the de facto heads of "the Industry", not only will they scrape up money, but they'll be directly consulted on the rules to govern the companies they "represent", ensuring permanent roles for themselves in perpetuity.
If you should refuse their offer of consultancy, they will threaten you that you will not be aware of upcoming changes and will not have a, "Seat at the Table" to protect yourself from predation, as they have a direct line to the violent thugs who could shut you down.
Not going along with them will be portrayed as being an outsider with something to hide, as the people representing the industry will be for "transparency" and "Society".
This is exactly how this matter works. It is not about the law or right or wrong; it is about making jobs for people who can't write software and who are not able, for whatever reason, to form companies to serve other people directly
They see some new field that does not have "regulation" and they anoint themselves as contact points, injecting themselves into the market where no real purpose is served.
https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1860988665406632274

2024-11-23 19:29:02 UTC

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Many people are starting to express their desperation like this. It’s very sad, and100% avoidable.

2024-11-23 18:01:29 UTC

George Galloway is correct. Britain has placed itself in a uniquely perilous position, and will come out as the ultimate loser. America will stand back and watch them be obliterated. The UK is being run by psychopaths.
And what of King Charles? the country he waited to rule will be a smoldering pile of ashes; his son’s and grandsons and heirs will inherit ashes, and what for? For the petulant and rabid bloodlust of Socialists. What a waste. WHAT A SHAME.
https://rumble.com/v5rornt-no2nato-episode-21-world-war-3.html

2024-11-22 02:35:39 UTC

NICO and OPTI. https://x.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1859287542643950017

2024-11-21 21:19:23 UTC

This is true. People are more interested in having their biases and prejudices confirmed and magnified, rather than serving others for the greater good.
They’re not interested in right and wrong; in fact they don’t believe there is right and wrong, like John Maynard Keynes. This is the reality everyone lives in.
Thankfully, there is only one reality, whether anyone likes it or not. This reality is being played out right now in Bitcoin.
No matter what anyone’s feelings are, their cereal box philosophies, delusions and threadbare personalities, the actual reality will assert itself, and whether or not you agree with it, or the people who tell the truth, everyone is subject to it.
We are going to win. The enemies of reality are going to lose. We can see this playing out in real time, with people saying one thing and doing another, believing this will not be noticed. Everyone notices. Everybody knows.
And everyone can choose! #note1t9j…ndq6

2024-11-21 03:45:43 UTC

Get ahead of Elon by watching Praxgirl https://images.app.goo.gl/q9u59PtuwAneLQXR6

2024-11-21 03:39:52 UTC

I'm afraid this is literally not true, in any real sense of the words. Civil servants do not "work for us." This is why Bitcoin was created in the first place, and I suspect Satoshi knew this.
If Civil Servants worked for us, the money supply would not run out of control, and there would never have been a need for Bitcoin to be written. It is precisely because Civil Servants do not work for us that Bitcoin is required to act as an external, automatic constraint on them.
The abuses of the Civil Servants (the permanent government) and the elected politicians (the window dressing) is well known, and only naïve teenager believes in The State, and that, "After all, they're out there to protect us."
It's almost as if recent history has not happened (COVID-19) and the entire 20th century was just a fiction in a bad science fiction novel.
How can anyone think politicians and Civil Servants are working for the people? It's baffling; but many people maintain a quasi religious belief in the State, because that's all they can imagine, and frankly, that's OK.
Bitcoin must do what it was designed to do in spite of the people and their peculiar beliefs, even the people very close to its inception. It has to work as a force of nature, otherwise, it will not be as powerful as it needs to be to change everything to do with money.
It has to be said also, that there is a profound lack of empathy for Keonne Rodriguez and T-Dev on many sides (both of whom I understand have wives and children). There is no thought about the suffering they're enduring; it's as if they're just pictures on a screen and not real people. Shocking.
I feel very bad that these two fine, brusque men have been thrown in gaol for performing maths. How anyone can trivialize this is breathtaking. It's like saying, "Galileo should be burned, twice, because he is disrupting Society with his ideas".
No one today would say Galileo should be burned for heliocentrism, and this is exactly what is happening to Rodriguez and Burroughs. In hindsight, when it is not risky to go along with the crowd after people are vindicated is easy; it is hard to defend the rights of people who are being rounded up and hounded in real-time.
And for someone who just escaped the poison fangs of Faketoshi, I would hope there is sympathy for others facing unfair challenges to their liberty to write software.
It should be clear to everyone that giving $1,000,000 USD per year to CoinCenter did not work. It should also be clear that lobbying isn't working either. It has been tried and has failed. The Chambers of Commerce, Associations, Centers and other drivel have failed to protect Bitcoin users so following Einstein, doing the same thing over and over and hoping for a different outcome is literally I _ S _ N E.
Bitcoin is full of different characters with different approaches to the single realty everyone has to live in. We will see who is successful in addressing that reality. We know (slight diversion) that Apple is very good at addressing the market, and that other companies were not, with their utilitarian beige boxes that, "Get the job done".
Ultimately, Bitcoin will be exposed to this same dynamic. That's why the smart money is betting on Bitkey (for example) to change the world.
As for Samourai, I hope they take this to the highest court, sue their persecutors and win astronomic damages. I think they're victims in this, and by extension so could be the free use of Bitcoin. And whilst other people find them too abrasive, we now know for sure that the people with different, softer approaches have failed to midwife Bitcoin or even run wallets at a profit, unlike Samourai, who do.
Note the tense.
Is there a third option between these two opposite sides of the question? If there is, I hope someone brings it, because it would be useful.
The original Cypherpunks wrote very provocative essays that made people feel uneasy, and now they're held up as incredibly insightful heroes. You're in that today, even if you can't see it happening before your eyes.
When the story of all this is written, and it will be written, I want it said of me that I supported the rights of these bold and aggressive men, and was not a mere bystander, equivocator or someone who turned away.
But that's me. Other people do "other"!
https://x.com/beautyon_/status/1785048401656025305?s=61&t=eyjJ5IvKiAtPIDSBRekpmA

2024-11-20 09:33:04 UTC

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“Fairness”: Equal Slavery
One dramatic way of looking at our tax system in relation to the question of subsidy or fairness is to assume for a moment that this is 1850, and that the question arises in the North as to what should be done with slaves who had managed to escape from the South. Let us assume that both sides of a growing debate are ardently in favor of freedom and are opposed to slavery. Group A hails the slaves’ escape and advocates setting them free. But Group B argues as follows:
We are, of course, just as ardent a champion of slave freedom as the people of Group A. But we believe it is unfair for one group of slaves to escape, while the remainder of their brothers and sisters remain in slavery. Therefore, we hold that these escapees should be shipped back into slavery until such time as all the slaves can be freed together and simultaneously.
What would we think of such an argument? To call it specious would be a kindly understatement. But I submit that believers in the free market are arguing in precisely the same way when they say that all taxes must be uniform, and that all specific tax deductions or exemptions must be canceled until such time as everyone’s taxes can be reduced uniformly. In both cases, the egalitarians are arguing not for equal freedom but for equal slavery or equal robbery in the name of “fairness.” In both cases, the rebuttal holds that the enslavement or plunder of one group can in no way justify the enslavement or plunder of another, be it in the name of fairness, equity, or whatever.
https://www.google.com/search?q=rothbard+income+tax&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB1010GB1011&oq=rothbard+income+tax&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigAdIBCDc2MzZqMGo3qAIKsAIB4gMEGAEgXw&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

2024-11-20 02:41:44 UTC

President Elect Donald J. Trump has promised to eliminate the Income Tax and move government revenue on to Tariffs as Taft did.
The Federal Reserve Dollar is dying since it is being printed into oblivion (the definition of inflation). If Lummis was thinking correctly, the answer to several of these difficult problems at once is obvious.
When the Income Tax is abolished and Tariffs are the source of income, it should be mandated that those Tariffs be paid in Bitcoin.
This would have several immediate side effects.
1/ There would be a very large increase in demand for bitcoin globally
2/ The Federal Government would legitimately start to amass bitcoin
3/ No American Citizen would suffer theft to achieve this end
4/ The U.S. bitcoin ecosystem would be turbo kick started
On the final point, these “monies” coming in to the coffers would be spent inside America, creating multiple cascading opportunities for innovation and learning in bitcoin handling. The “Bitcoin Coffer” would be dispersing and disseminating bitcoin into the economy, triggering the de facto “Legal Tender” status of bitcoin, which I note with appropriate disdain, this bill of pure fail fails to address as part of the overall strategy.
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/pandering-as-policy-d125d002dcb3

2024-11-15 19:28:13 UTC

THE HOUSE OF EL. https://image.nostr.build/b78653c511f0557c7af4c2c2d0cf8fb37bb2b5a3fc2dc24fa7795aa2792d3a94.jpg

2024-11-12 19:41:17 UTC

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We…
Can’t close your account
Don’t abuse you
Respect your rights
Don’t Treat you like Human Cattle
Don’t spy on you
Don’t measure, mistreat or meddle with you
Care. And we show it.
Execute without compromise
Protect you like family.
That’s how WE roll; that is OUR standard!

2024-11-12 19:15:37 UTC

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What price do you put on privacy, especially with the price skyrocketing? That’s what you should ask yourself. In the mirror for extra gravitas.

2024-11-12 18:55:07 UTC

“Azteco is available globally; this is Bitcoin for everyone everywhere.”
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/azteco-and-bitkey-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-consumer-friendly-bitcoin-b3e5dde4ab88

2024-11-08 02:02:37 UTC

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Who is “we”?

2024-11-07 19:45:33 UTC

EXPOSED: “OPERATION BITCOIN SEQUESTRATION” https://x.com/beautyon_/status/1854597981372080253?s=46&t=LNe8MN2dQUj_88yB-puY1A

2024-11-04 22:50:42 UTC

Imagine having the most wonderful Bitcoin wallet ever written but it is impossible to get Bitcoin without KYC. That would mean you have the most beautiful financial surveillance system, and something that is ant-Bitcoin.
In order for services to serve properly all of Ethical Bitcoin Principles must be fulfilled simultaneously. It is not a buffet of characteristics you can choose from, you either do it all or not at all.
A world where all money is under surveillance is a suboptimal world, and a choice.
Everyone involved in providing Bitcoin services must make a choice, freedom or enslavement, privacy or surveillance. These choices are not hard to make, and if everyone works together to make the right choices, then Bitcoin users will get the Bitcoin Ecosystem they deserve.
The biggest threat to Bitcoin now is the osmotic barrier between those with Bitcoin and those without, and the unwitting and ignorant gatekeepers who keep spreading superstitious lies about Bitcoin and what is required to serve it.
These people perpetuate lies about what Bitcoin is, what the law says, what laws may apply to Bitcoin, and whether there are even laws or not, and many people simply go along with their gibberish and irrational calls to apply anything, literally any law, so that you can pretend to be "Compliant".
If Bitcoiners cave in to the thinking of the lowest common denominator, the anti-American and the loser, then the proliferation of Ethical Bitcoin onramps, the prerequisite to Hyperbitcoinization, will not come to pass and bear fruit.
Bitcoiners must "hold the line", tell the truth, not cave in to the weak minded, the cowardly and the ignorant and apply the law as it is written. This is not asking for much, certainly for any American, and hopefully GEPOTUS will make this easier for the weaker amongst you to do without soiling their trousers.
If GEPOTUS is advised by the best Bitcoiners AND Ron Paul, then it is a sure thing that Bitcoin will be moved under the protection of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, and then the floodgates will be opened.
Fiat will flow into Bitcoin in amounts that Bitcoiners could not have even dreamed of previous to GEPOTUS, and once this happens, there will be no going back as the exits to the US Dollar close by virtue of it ceasing to exist.
America will become the number one country not only for the amount of Bitcoin in citizens hands' but for its expertise in the mediation of Bitcoin. When this happens, no country on earth will be able to catch up with it, and the financial centre preeminence of America will not be lost, but strengthened because one man, GEPOTUS decided that the law should be followed and American know how applied unbridled.
In the light of this future scenario, isn't it better to get ahead of the game and start laying down the thinking and tools to push Hyperbitcoinization?
I think so. Others, not so much it seems.
The allure of Virtue Signalling is very strong in many people. Their number one impulse is to look good in front of other people; they don't actually care about anything in particular, and will latch themselves to anything like Barnacles on a whale, irritating it, and slowing it down by de-streamlining its surface.
Their goals are set by other people, and are not original. They take "feedback" from Bitcoin's bitter enemies and then package it as being part of "the revolution".
It's fraud. It's fakery. There are no two ways about it.
Despite all of this, very very very big things are coming. Things so big, your jaw will hit the floor. And I'm not just saying that. I am not exaggerating.
The path to Hyperbitcoinization is every road, in all directions, all at once. This is possible if the people with their hands on the levers are the made of the right stuff.
The Trump campaign has shown everyone that a coalition of people who are normally on different sides of arguments can work together to overcome great evils.
This can happen in Bitcoin too. But in order for it to happen, people must disabuse themselves of the wrong things they've been let to believe, and cross the chasm to that place where Bitcoin is everywhere, everyplace, all the time, without restriction, arbitrary rules and anti human strictures.
I have absolutely no problem imagining this.
What about you?
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-adoption-and-conway-s-game-of-life-54ca71db7b88

2024-11-02 16:53:43 UTC

Legal Opinion Against Regulation of Bitcoin Transactions
1. Bitcoin as Pure Speech Protected by the First Amendment
Bitcoin, at its core, is code—a sequence of alphanumeric text that users transmit over a network. Under Bernstein v. DOJ and subsequent interpretations of code as speech, Bitcoin is a form of expression. Transactions are merely messages that confirm ownership within a public ledger, making them expressive acts. Like an encrypted message, each Bitcoin transaction conveys information rather than performing a traditional financial function (such as transferring a physical asset). Because Bitcoin transactions inherently communicate information about ownership on a public ledger, they constitute protected speech.
2. Legal and Historical Precedent on Code as Speech
In Bernstein and Bernstein II, the Ninth Circuit held that code is a form of speech entitled to full First Amendment protections. Bitcoin’s reliance on cryptographic processes and public key signatures mirrors the types of expressive content protected in these cases. Just as PGP software was ultimately protected as a form of free expression, Bitcoin should similarly be recognized as protected speech. Any attempt to regulate Bitcoin on the grounds of financial control directly contradicts established legal protections for software that facilitates expression.
3. Bitcoin’s Distinction from Financial Instruments or Commodities
Bitcoin does not fit the legal definitions of currency, commodity, or security because it is decentralized, lacks intrinsic value, and functions outside of traditional financial systems. Unlike conventional currencies, Bitcoin’s primary purpose is to store and communicate a ledger of transactions, not to represent a universally accepted unit of account or medium of exchange. Courts have also ruled that Bitcoin is not a currency in cases like SEC v. Shavers. This precedent reinforces Bitcoin’s unique legal status, positioning it closer to a publication tool than a financial asset.
4. Bitcoin Transactions as Protected Publications on a Public Ledger
Every Bitcoin transaction becomes part of a publicly accessible ledger, akin to publishing content on the internet. Like other forms of publishing, Bitcoin transactions are immutable and visible to anyone with access to the network, and thus are fundamentally acts of public communication. Regulations targeting these transactions would, therefore, infringe upon First Amendment rights, limiting individuals’ ability to publish entries to this ledger. Allowing regulation of Bitcoin’s public ledger would set a precedent allowing the government to restrict any publication using digital tools.
5. Regulating Bitcoin as a Slippery Slope for Digital Expression
Regulating Bitcoin based on its use in exchanges would create a broad precedent enabling government control over all manner of digital expression that resembles a transaction. For instance, social media platforms could be subject to regulation if they included features that resembled economic exchange, such as micropayments. This overreach would undermine First Amendment protections, opening the door for government oversight of any expression that can be monetized or tracked as a digital ledger entry.
6. Inability to Differentiate between Transactional and Expressive Functions of Bitcoin
Regulation would necessitate drawing arbitrary distinctions between Bitcoin as code and Bitcoin as a financial tool, an impractical and legally unsound approach. Bitcoin’s entire value proposition is tied to its function as both a record of ownership and an immutable, decentralized ledger. Separating these two aspects would undermine its design and purpose, essentially nullifying the expressive and publishing elements that courts have previously protected.
7. First Amendment as an Absolute Protection for Bitcoin’s Expressive Nature
As an expressive medium, Bitcoin qualifies for full First Amendment protection from government regulation. The First Amendment explicitly prohibits prior restraint and content-based restrictions on publishing. Given Bitcoin’s status as text and a form of digital publication, any effort to control or license its use directly contravenes the Constitution. If the state is permitted to regulate Bitcoin, it sets a dangerous precedent for censoring other forms of expressive software and digital content, infringing upon core constitutional rights.
Conclusion
Bitcoin’s expressive nature as code and as a tool for publishing transactions to a public ledger is constitutionally protected under the First Amendment. Regulatory efforts would not only infringe on individual rights to communicate ownership and verify transactions through a public ledger, but they would also set a damaging precedent for the regulation of digital expression and software. Therefore, any regulation of Bitcoin as a financial tool should be viewed as unconstitutional, and attempts to enforce such regulation would face significant, well-founded legal challenges under the First Amendment.
To further reinforce the opposition to regulating Bitcoin, a human rights-based argument underscores Bitcoin’s role in enabling financial autonomy, freedom of association, and protection against economic surveillance. This perspective emphasizes that regulation would not only infringe upon constitutional protections but also violate international human rights principles, which recognize financial privacy and freedom of economic expression as essential to personal liberty and autonomy.
Human Rights-Based Legal Opinion Against Regulation of Bitcoin
1. Financial Autonomy as a Fundamental Human Right
The right to financial autonomy and self-determination is an implicit aspect of human rights, rooted in the principles of personal freedom and dignity enshrined in international human rights frameworks, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Article 12 of the UDHR explicitly prohibits arbitrary interference with privacy, which includes financial privacy. Bitcoin’s decentralized structure enables individuals to hold and transact without relying on centralized entities that can restrict, surveil, or exploit their financial activities. Regulating Bitcoin would undermine individuals’ right to control their own economic activities, making them subject to intrusive oversight that infringes upon their autonomy and privacy.
2. Bitcoin as a Tool for Economic Freedom in Oppressive Environments
Bitcoin provides a crucial financial tool for individuals in countries with authoritarian governments or unstable economies, where citizens often face restricted access to banking and are subject to currency manipulation, censorship, or asset seizure. By offering a decentralized, censorship-resistant means of storing and transferring value, Bitcoin supports individuals’ right to freedom from economic oppression. Regulating or restricting Bitcoin access in the U.S. would limit an important financial refuge for people living under repressive regimes, effectively diminishing their right to economic freedom and the security Bitcoin can provide as an independent, transnational asset.
3. Right to Privacy and Economic Security under International Law
Financial privacy is an essential component of individual privacy, closely tied to personal security and autonomy. The European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) in Article 8 guarantees respect for private and family life, which includes the protection of personal data, encompassing financial data. Bitcoin’s pseudonymous structure safeguards user privacy by allowing individuals to transact without disclosing sensitive information, which helps protect against identity theft, fraud, and economic surveillance. Regulations that would require tracking or monitoring Bitcoin transactions conflict with these privacy rights, as they would mandate disclosures and records that risk undermining individuals’ right to secure, private transactions.
4. Freedom of Association and Economic Expression
The right to free association, articulated in Article 20 of the UDHR, includes the right to form and participate in voluntary economic associations, such as decentralized networks like Bitcoin. Bitcoin facilitates peer-to-peer economic association without centralized oversight, supporting the free association of users worldwide in a borderless economic system. Any attempt to regulate Bitcoin, particularly by imposing licensing or monitoring requirements, would hinder individuals’ ability to freely associate and conduct economic transactions on their terms, contravening their right to economic expression and association.
5. Precedent for Human Rights-Centric Financial Protections
International law has consistently protected individual rights to economic resources, particularly where governments might infringe on these rights under the guise of regulation. For instance, the right to property and economic resources is protected by the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (ICESCR), which calls for safeguarding individuals’ ability to access, control, and benefit from their resources. Regulation of Bitcoin, especially if it involves confiscatory or restrictive measures, would effectively deny individuals these rights by imposing undue interference on their economic choices.
6. Human Rights Implications of Surveillance in Financial Transactions
Regulation that subjects Bitcoin transactions to strict Know Your Customer (KYC) and Anti-Money Laundering (AML) requirements effectively imposes a surveillance system over individuals’ economic actions. This infringes on the right to privacy and creates an environment of constant surveillance, where individuals are monitored in their financial activities, chilling their freedom to transact. Such regulation would disproportionately impact marginalized communities and those seeking financial privacy for legitimate reasons, conflicting with the principles of equality and non-discrimination upheld in human rights law.
Conclusion
Human rights law provides robust protections for individual autonomy, financial privacy, and freedom from undue interference. Regulating Bitcoin as a financial instrument would infringe upon these rights by compromising users’ financial privacy, limiting their economic autonomy, and restricting their freedom of association and expression within decentralized networks. Given Bitcoin’s unique role in empowering financial independence and protecting privacy, regulation would contradict both U.S. constitutional rights and internationally recognized human rights principles. Consequently, any regulatory efforts targeting Bitcoin should be recognized as impermissible under human rights law and as fundamentally at odds with the principles of freedom and autonomy.

2024-11-02 15:07:00 UTC

The idea that machines are required to conduct elections is incorrect, and is not accepted in all civilized nations.
Paper ballots and invigilation are all that is required to run a fair and fully auditable election, and the introduction of computers to the methods and execution of elections is nothing more than tech / futurist cultism.
Fully invigilated and hand counted paper ballot run elections are what is required. The only reasonable addition to this is, perhaps, a system like Ron Rivest's "ThreeBallot" System that does not require computer tabulation, remains paper based and also introduces a level of verifiability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreeBallot
1/ Its implementation is familiarly looking and simple for voters to understand, compared to other encryption systems (arguably, the most important advantage of all).
2/ The ballots can be counted directly, without decryption. This is because they have the property that the sum of the marks is the sum of the votes for the candidate, even though any individual ballot section cannot reveal the candidate preference of the voter.
3/ There is no key that requires protection or secrecy in order to maintain security (the "Achilles' heel" of many proposed systems).
4/ While it requires a machine to validate the ballots before depositing them, afterwards the ballot record is entirely on paper and requires no additional security process beyond that afforded traditional ballots.
5/ Each voter's vote is secret, preventing vote-selling and coercion.
6/ Each voter can verify that his vote was not discarded and was correctly used and not altered in the computation of the election result. (And if not, the voter is in a position to prove that the vote counters cheated.)
7/ Everybody can verify that the election result was computed correctly.
8/ The method is designed for use with paper ballots and requires primarily low-tech devices, but is compatible with more advanced technologies.
The motivating animus of trying to arbitrarily mechanize processes comes from the psychological need of some people to hand everything in their lives over to machines, since they are incapable of handling real life themselves.
Machine are tools, not ends in themselves, and subjecting everything to them is not rational nor is it a proper application of technology.
Bitcoin was required because the money cannot be invigilated. Voting however, is not like that. It can be successfully audited by hand, and is done this way world-wide.
Invigilated voting systems do not require trust; in fact this is the only aspect in which it is similar to Bitcoin: "Don't Trust, Verify". Machines are not trusted and cannot be trusted to count votes, and neither are the human vote counters in an invigilated system; every vote is seen and verified by multiple people who are adversaries. It works. No one is trusted.
To a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. To a Bitcoiner, every problem looks like...what exactly?
The purpose of conducting a verifiably fair election is not the implementation and application of technology; the election itself is the purpose.

2024-10-30 18:31:55 UTC

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I was confused by what he was saying, and so I had to ask, since it didn’t appear that I was” getting through”. Everyone from everywhere is on here and “The Other Place” and so I don’t assume that people come from my culture or speak my language. You’d be surprised how many times I’ve run into this problem. It’s stupid to assume everyone speaks good English just because they speak SOME English, and so it’s best to account for that. Why waste time arguing? It’s POINTLESS.

2024-10-30 18:29:23 UTC

This is how Europeans and South Africans think, not how Americans think.
America is a Republic, not a Democracy. The Founding Fathers knew that the mob was dangerous and stupid and that charismatic leaders could emerge and persuade star eyed innocents to sell their own children.
Just because people vote for something it doesn't follow that it is legitimate. There are ways to secure elections without voter ID, which, if implemented, will bring in a European style ID Card nightmare that no real American could ever want.
The argument will no doubt be mounted that X and Y Americans are for Voter ID, and so "not all Americans". That is a FALLACIOUS ARGUMENT, and Americans don't roll like that.
Part of the problem America is facing is that foreigners who are not real Americans are distorting the governance and culture.
This does not mean that people cannot come to America and become Americans; it means that when people come to America, they should become Americans.
Take your Apartheid Era "Pass Law" thinking and go back to where you came from with it Elon!
And no,, "It will only be used for this one thing" is not true. The effect is called "Feature Creep"... do you know what that is? Google it.
In any case, Americans are responsible for America. They are responsible for defending it, preserving it's laws and rights, and responsible for rebuking impudent Johnny (Clegg) Come Lately invaders who are desperate to re-create their "home" countries on American soil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pass_law
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https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1851660278452379780
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2024-10-30 15:18:16 UTC

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OK, that explains everything. Thanks for the replies!

2024-10-30 14:45:54 UTC

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Is English your mother tongue?

2024-10-30 14:00:14 UTC

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This is not a smart “take”, I’m afraid. Unless you think eating is “egotistical”. But keep up with the Laser Eyes. It’s working. "We’ll” soon reach $100,000!

2024-10-30 13:43:12 UTC

Anti-Capitalist artists are the worst of the worst hypocrites.
Out of one side of their mouths, they despise and decry "Capitalism", and simultaneously out of the other, are jealous guarders of their own money, and total understanders of their own economic needs and not being, "cheated" out of "their money".
This child like and mind-blind inability to reason outside the fragile shaking matchbox of their world view is deeply troubling. The expectation...naïve expectation...is that anyone who can create fine art must have a broad intelligence and not a narrowly focussed one, is very childish and stupid.
What is the explanation for the ignorant double standards of these people? Who can say.
Some would certainly say that the "creative side" of the brain, being over emphasized, blots out the rational side...but I don't buy this.
All I can say is that it is deeply dissapointing that people who can think (apparently) and who have powerful imaginations cannot extend their powers to reality, simple arithmetic and economics.
https://m.primal.net/LnAv.jpg