Separate money and state, for all else is a distraction. Government-owned strategic Bitcoin reserves and (stolen) sovereign wealth funds are antithetical to freedom. Bitcoin treasury companies are mostly scams. I follow Diogenes, Epictetus, Rothbard, and Satoshi.
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Last Notes npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Do you believe the 18th century American Founders' belief in reason and individual freedom of conscience, outgrowths of the enlightenment, was net negative? Do you think 17th century Roger Williams founding of the first political jurisdiction to support total religious liberty (and the first Baptist church in America) was a bad development? Maybe you mean something else . . . but I'll take 19th/20th century Marxism/socialism, and the corresponding spread of central banking, as a bigger culprit any day. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Why did core do nothing to address porn/spam/data bloat when a patch was put forward a few years ago? Why did you blow open op return? Why is my node being bogged down with bullshit since 2023? npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ In this case, the voting record is all that really matters, and Massie is in a veritable league of his own (pro individual liberty, anti state). There is nobody even close since Ron Paul. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ With the dispensary itself being a near perfect manifestation of state-sanctioned totalitarianism. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ The NFL is a woke propaganda arm of the state, just like FIFA. Remember when they cancelled Hank Williams Jr.? npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ ^^ So true. MOE and privacy should be the roadmap, not shitcoining, data storage, strategery commie state theft reserves, rehypothecated paper treasury stawks, fiat "insurance" products, or scammy high rate fiat margin loans. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Spain was baller in 1980. Then, 🎶 "vienen los socialistas, y nos queren governar."🎶🎵 I still remember that little tune. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ https://njump.to/nevent1qqs8lx8hjdrw303t9rq527zuh634ayak9vwkkclcqfa9fgx76zcc3mqppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qgstxsjekl4d88lt05s92zsxgw9h97hzsrw3zpn76trh40wce53ln2grqsqqqqqp6yc6wr npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ What is this 'engagement' you speak of? npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Core would never advocate spam. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Nah, just to un-f*ck the money. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Shitcoiner data-storage-maxi hypocrisy is palpable. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ @nprofile…u090 is like if Socrates and von Mises were to conspire over time (and biology) to have a child . . . I am hard-bitten by more prior years toiling in the dirty fiat mines than most bitcoiners, and a "redneck maxi" for 13 years and counting. To be honest the spam tolerance since 2023 (and now this latest core fiasco) has, perhaps irrationally, made me more disillusioned and frankly pissed off than the block size war (higher stakes). npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ https://image.nostr.build/f739f7be63d4d422f2b5f84b160c69fcf690f24a88ba7a4af049bbbec45ddfc4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/f739f7be63d4d422f2b5f84b160c69fcf690f24a88ba7a4af049bbbec45ddfc4.jpg npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ No replies . . . I guess there's this - kinda confirms my own experience: npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Hypothesis: @nprofile…gsxr is the best mobile wallet for a lightning node runner: connects easily via local network, NWC, and Tor. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ I have been warning the plebs about this simpleton neocon for as long as she's been touring Bitcoin. Just look at her statist voting record. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Great list. Thanks. What about the millions of e-commerce sites that were killed overnight around 2012 for the "Panda" and "Penguin" search algorithm updates? Killed by google. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Insurance as it has evolved is now a captured fiat scam. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Fake financial "crimes" are now prosecuted more fiercely than treason or pedophelia. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Proof of torrezno (pork belly). https://image.nostr.build/3b4708e99bd08cf69775dbde9e46a397a5521fcb5538b5612278e99b18ea173d.jpg npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ In Spain for a week . . . been all over and not seen a single trace or evidence of Bitcoin life. No t-shirts, no stores accepting, no hats, no stickers. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Lost me at "taxes should be . . . " npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Now do Israel. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ They spread like wildfire so be careful if you have livestock (Lupine are poisonous to horses and cattle). npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Filters don't work, so we have to take away your option to filter. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Saylor is so full of shite . . . beware all your heros are becoming fiat bros in real time. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Jose Luis Perales, Un Velero Llamado Libertad npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Normie friends: hey, how's that "Bitcoin" thing going? npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Have fun in dream world. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Texas has lots of liberal big cities, and will turn blue as a so called "electorate" fairly soon. This happened with formerly very conservative Colorado and New Mexico and is also now happening in in real time in Arizona. Sorry to burst your bubble. Not many truly safe haven states left. Maybe Wyoming, North Dakota, or Idaho but the socialist cancer grows there too. It is everywhere and growing, no state can save you. None. When people can simply vote themselves a share of the public purse ("democracy"), and the money is corrupt, freedom is doomed. The Republic has ended. Plan accordingly. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Without counterfeit central banking, the gobbmint would have to raise taxes or cut spending. Inflation amounts to a silent time theft and tax. It is evil - justified via inane arguments and brainwashing. No coincidence the income tax and Fed were enacted the same year. Central banking, one of the 10 tenets of Marxism, needs to be abolished. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Your economic overlords tell you money printing of 2% is a "reasonable level". They then average 3 or 4 times that. When it comes to counterfeiting, there simply is no reasonable level. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ That kid will grow up with the right values. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ As long as legal tender laws exist and are enforced, they can print (hence the laws). After the debt spiral goes into hyperinflation mode, eventually people will save/trade with something else, the gray market will thrive, and the criminal class (government) will be forced to try the same age old tricks again with a new or restructured monopoly currency. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Chancellor on the brink . . . npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ I got shellacked in the 2000 tech bust. Later, having thought I learned that lesson, sold some of the best network effect companies for no other reason than to take "profits"; and in so doing left life-changing millions on the table in subsequent runups (MSFT, AMZN). By the time the GFC rolled around, I had red-pilled myself on the unbelievable corruption of the world's fiat monetary system. Back then it wasn't as widely understood as it is today (thanks to Bitcoin). Started slowly stacking gold/silver and not worrying about price. I didn't get hurt in the GFC (other than real estate value decline by 40%) and won't get hurt in the coming monetary reset. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Yep. Multisig has a place, but generally not for the solo hodler. And still no response to my real question below: npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ State regulated counterparties (banks and their ilk) will rug you 100% of the time if asked to by the state. I knew this long before Bitcoin. If you don't hold it you are a fool. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ The father of Obamacare. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ "I have ever thought that the most calamitous of evils is a bad government, but I have been convinced that a worse one is a bad constitution, and that the worst of all is private folly." --Ben Franklin npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ 👍 March can be crazy here. New generation of Bitcoiners learning the old ways. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Sprin https://image.nostr.build/839a5ec1c9209da11096a8720262777fc9de1122a92ca59fc95220c00c562b1f.jpg gtime in the Northern Rockies. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Decent and balanced take, thanks . . . but all the nation state and SBR simping has me questioning whether our fellow bitcoin plebs (since 2012) really do share the ethos of SEPARATING money and state. Why do we want them bolstering their balance sheets? More war funding? I get the "Bitcoin is for enemies" and all, but the SBR bag pumping is making me fucking nauseous. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ OK "balanced state" Jon who can't name a balanced state. 👍 npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Never said I didn't engage with the state . . . am very involved in fighting the criminal element where I can on their turf, as well as mine (even though there is no balance as you put it). but you also didn't answer my question. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Just curious: please name a "balanced state" (not the American colonies or late 19th century US, or the Roman Republic, but today). npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ 4) Real bitcoiners who don't want the time-thieving state to be empowered any more than it already is. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Under socialism and fiat money, one of the 10 tenets of communism. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Non-strategoc Griftcoin Reserve npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Strategery Grift Reaerve npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ It is heartening to see legions of SBR maximalists black pilled . . . they will eventually learn to never, ever ask for gobmint to do anything rational - especially for bag pumping. Printing fiat to buy shitcoins is kinda like the opposite of SBR . . . just leave Bitcoin to the free market. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Chinese delicacy. Ji jiao. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Just tell him Bitcoin is "freedom money". On second thought . . . https://image.nostr.build/e43c97116bb331698e8a29249dd825dd92f68a2ee5254ef964c2debeba836a64.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e43c97116bb331698e8a29249dd825dd92f68a2ee5254ef964c2debeba836a64.jpg npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Mas al Norte . . . https://image.nostr.build/72cfab77a1e407e18b5e24915efe19737d723e3b7e8516e6c6e45c5bc3569ee0.jpg npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ These clips which pre-dated broad-based fascination with memes, were so amazing! Thanks for the walk down memory lane. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Honest question: for an individual (as opposed to a business or group) why wouldn't carefully and competently executed single-sig cold storage be just as secure as multi-sig? (Or perhaps even better given the smaller number of variables to manage is less prone to error). It is a bit sacrilegious to say this . . . so if you are a multi-sig maxi, give me some reasoned arguments, please. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Mountain Man, by Vardis Fisher. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Yep, agreed and understood. The thing is, the existing non-custodial lightning wallets ALL still suck for one reason or another - otherwise I wouldn't have opted to use Strike. I run a lightning node and have yet to find a wallet that consistently just works. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Correct. And thanks - I was just bragging about how well Strike worked everywhere while in El Salvador . . . Then this after returning home and not using it for a few weeks. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Looks like the shotgun KYC is still there when initiating transactions (need to stress no changes in account usage - funds effectively locked pending selfie). See screenshot. Pathetic and very disappointing. https://image.nostr.build/f06f769fb06866d8450316ef1b92ac7a9eebd619d6fc1c15868450395431f73f.jpg npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Requiring a selfie and blocking use without any corresponding changes requested by existing customer. (Am an investor in Strike as an LP, so no axe to grind or conflict of interest for sure). After complaining with support - who just reiterated the need for a selfie, looks like now the block has been lifted. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ It blew my mind that Chainalysis was on a few panels at Plan B El Salvador (sponsored largely by Tether/Bitfinex). Such mixed signals . . . npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Political theater . . . npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Establishment of The Fed was (and still is) a conspiracy to fund war, welfare, and bank bailouts. Corollary: inflation is taxation by more nefarious means. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ I am mostly a lurker on both X and here (don't care about follower count), but I am finding that it won't be long before I never go back to see what's happening on the ad riddled and scammy X. BTW . . . great new book! npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ https://image.nostr.build/99cda7b15e41071c3dfc26030159b69063a6fd08c45dcfa640e1a79687493547.jpg npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Love ya Marty . . . But I would argue there is no such thing as a government surplus. Only over-taxation. Governments literally destroy everything they touch - why would a sovereign wealth fund be any different? npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Where was this agent for the last four years? Asking for a friend. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Most influencers have become statists. Fuck the SBR. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Good stuff. How many other entities do you sell my email address to after I register? npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Texas' is well written from a custody standpoint, if you believe the state has a right to build a 'reserve'. (Are they hedge funds now?). I looked at WY and OK for somebody who requested a review, and they both contained ETF nonsense. Scanned a few others but has been a while (would check Utah - likely to be on par with TX as they're a little more sovereign and smart than most, but not sure). I'm not a believer in empowering the state with stolen funds converted to Bitcoin, so that's about as far as I'll take it. Almost all state Treasurers are left bell curve fiat normies advised by criminals like JPM - lemmings. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ There are one or two well written bills requiring the state to self custody. The rest are fiat ETF trash hype anyway and pure theater. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ https://image.nostr.build/07225b9b1a08c6b317b4308fd655c5fa952e99704fc99a6ff0e5297b374be24e.jpg npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ On Insurance: Most insurance is a rent seeking scam today. Life insurance is in many ways a scam targeting poor people who don't save. Homeowners insurance is a complete scam, "required" if you have a mortgage (sadly, almost everybody). Rates increase ~12%/year even if you have 0 claims for 20 years. Car insurance (except liability and UM) is also a complete scam, unless you suck at driving or like to chase deer and fiat-financed your car at a stealersip (again, then required). Providing 'safety' feelz to the non savers in exchange for the monthly vig. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Curious what type of HW wallets do you provide in that environment? Am thinking of a similar project where I live. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ The Jefferson Bible helped me. While President, he redacted the entire New Testament to only include the teachings of Jesus, removing the mysticism that possibly found its way in long after his death. He literally cut the relevant passages out with a knife and pasted them into a volume that can now be ordered online and is easy to read. Jesus's life and teachings, that's it. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Now show which of those states allow IOU Bitcoin (ETF) versus the state responsibly custodying the actual asset. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Plan B Bitcoin Forum El Salvador https://image.nostr.build/bef9db8d728285f64ec2414734e0bb50b7ed154e313aefdd7052507a6afd36bb.jpg https://image.nostr.build/07225b9b1a08c6b317b4308fd655c5fa952e99704fc99a6ff0e5297b374be24e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/73eae6e3edcc38b359d47b6020e04332c0305dbce07b81ac94bc1501fea43cd4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d79a5c050c696c5a2659b36aeeb485cd0ff098fa3d3a02acceaf8e7d80129c7b.jpg drone show was fire!! npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Heros will always disappoint. Once you come to terms with this, you are more free, but less well known. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ The Remington 870 12ga shotgun is one of the most ubiquitous, low priced, and very good for home defense. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Couldn't agree more. Many former freedom tech influencers forgot about potential unintended consequences of encouraging the state to pump their bags. I have been ranting about this for a long time. It is clear that many on this thread don't have a clue how brutally the state enforces it's initiatives. "Give us your corn or we overwhelm you with force, then cage you for as long as it takes." npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ https://image.nostr.build/b806ccab48ba3697d94c6935a19a075f7b2edb1b26b78250679ccaf7d96588d8.jpg npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ That's just the Wyoming US Senators, Burasso and Lummis in a photo op. I highly doubt Burasso could even spell Bitcoin (and Lummis is pretty much another run of the mill RINO judging by her voting record). Of course, the NgU maxis love her because she wants government to gain even more power over us by owning Bitcoin: all moneys in support thereof will be derived from either taxation or inflation. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ We need more of this converaation. All the so-called influencers have been converted to bootlickers of the debt riddled state. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Agreed, zapped. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Reformed from the KYC rugpull days of bnktothefuture? If so, congrats. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ You talk a lot about rent seeking. Most insurance today qualifies as a rent seeking rug pull. Homeowners insurance will go up 10% per year on average even if you have 20 years without a single claim. It is NOT underwritten in the sense people think it is: an actuarial fraud. There is a reason most of the high rises are owned by banks and insurance companies. I decided to avoid the home ownership insurance scam 10 years ago and the money saved really adds up. Of course, you also have to escape the mortgage banksters to be able to do this . . . lie in bed with dogs (mortgage banks) and you're going to have to get fleas (ripped off by insurance). Not living in a fire/hurricane prone area helps. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Happy Birthday Bitcoin! https://image.nostr.build/79fc1c7c2e9c77dfc0aef4622dcfa6e84311bf840f064ca86042f226d1bf9158.jpg npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Google sheets, and you can have it auto fill when opened to keep a running table of daily prices. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Nothing makes me shake my head more than seeing people talk about the Fed's 2% inflation "target" as if there was some magic to any number above zero. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ You are one of my favorites in the space, and THE best when it comes to clearly communicating about the issues and your ideas. Thanks! npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Yes, for me it was an intense belief that our broken money was the root of most of society's many ills. Without that . . . Bitcoin would have meant nothing - like a normie with no conviction (except envy after ngu). npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Setting up a lightning channels (on an already running Umbrel Node for example), in a way that payments will consistently go through (both ways), for people who don't want to do 100 hours researching which channel counterparties to use and how best to set them up. If we don't figure out how to make lightning stupidly easy - even for node runners, MOE will never scale. And maybe add a little practical e-cash to the episode if possible. If this has already been done somewhere (and I've looked) I'm all ears. Love your content, BTW.🙏 npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Yeah, he already eviscerated one of the fiscal conservative dissenters from the business-as-usual pork spending CR last week . . . Wake me when there is tangible proof MAGA is not controlled opposition (economic/fiscal/monetary policy speaking). Oh, and Elon & Cos. are like the 18th largest recipient of Federal grift. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ 2, bit the kids must never know, until much later in their lives after they've been bloodied by their own experience, that they're inheriting a large stack. The knowledge of inheritance WILL ruin them in younger years. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ 🙏 I too am tired of influencers simping for government "strategic reserves". Don't they ever think about 2nd order effects? The utter cluelessness with which government defines Bitcoin is one of the early ones, followed by them trying to destroy it like they do literally everything they touch. They can't outright destroy Bitcoin fortunately, but they can sure mess with everything around it. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ https://image.nostr.build/3edf303b85a3e96d7779aa40870ced84311ea629a5eee9ccbf48ec3f5f7c3336.jpg npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ I hope all the former libertarian bitcoiners who are now shamelessly simping for nation/state "reserves" can follow Saif's simple Austrian logic: best thing government could do would be a hands off approach. Well said. npub1kdp9ndl26w07klfq259qvsutwtaw9qxazyr8a5k8027a3nfrlx5szsc3nr Edmond Dantes⚡ Nation state bitcoin reserve. This will not end well. Few.
