If you are an operator in the bitcoin mining industry in the US it is imperative that you ignore this survey and tell the EIA, the Department of Energy, and the current administration to fuck off.

Here's what they have in store for you.

https://tftc.io/eia-bitcoin-mining-survey/


The industry should sue this department and the administration if possible. This is blatant discrimination and a clear attack on bitcoin. Sue whoever you can.


The Chevron Deference decision is becoming increasingly important if America is going to save itself from its parasite class.

I’m sure the Feds would love to know what exactly what mining is in Texas before they secede too.

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Fuck off is right.


Praying they all stay strong


I predicted Energy FUD coinciding with WW3 two years ago.
https://youtu.be/SjEQ2dJSKvo?si=Qod3gDMv7vu_ELS_


I love that bitcoin going from like 39k to 42k is allegedly the basis for this "emergency survey" 😂 such a load of crap

Great piece Marty. Thank you for fighting the good fight


Deploying some S9's in Europe as we speak 🫡


This is the right move, do not do this withouta damn fight ✊


Keep your S9 under the floorboards and build them into products like your water heater LFG


its probably more useful to promote it as an attack on  energy providers and grid stability


Tyrants


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They can fuck right off.


Why would anyone give up data that will only be used to attack them? Compliance never improves the situation.


Onward 🫡


How do they know who to send the survey to in the first place?


Some will be complicit. The schism will happen.


My brother in Christ they know when your girlfriend farts.


This is why everybody with any kind of computer sitting around that can spin up a mining algorithm, should do it. Let the Government run around like Chickens with their heads cut off trying to run down everybody doing it.


Thanks for shedding light on this. Bureaucrats sure know how to bureaucrat.


Yeah this is pretty crazy. They already have energy consumption data, why do they need all of this other specific data points except to use it against you in the future.


What would the consequences be for not complying?


GET BACK ON TWITTER, FREAK!


If you are an operator in the bitcoin mining industry in the US it is imperative that you ignore this survey and tell the EIA, the Department of Energy, and the current administration to fuck off.

Here's what they have in store for you.

https://tftc.io/eia-bitcoin-mining-survey/


fuck off, grfiter government
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"He who controls the spice..."


The industry immediately needs to secure some excellent constitutional lawyers. The first thing I would suggest looking at is "federal legislative jurisdiction".

Arbitrary federal "laws" like this cannot possibly apply to anyone or anything who is not literally physically present on or within Washington DC or other federal territory such as a military installation.😠😡🤬

Contact Steve Hemphling at the Free Enterprise Society in Fresno, CA for some good referrals.🙏🏻💜😆


Sounds like we all need to deploy more miners http://kabo.om/miners


The idea that this type of action isn't an attack is naive as you say Marty.

Reminds me of the old joke.

Officer, did you pull me over because I was speeding or because my license is expired. By the way, I've been drinking.

But in the case miners are actually doing a good thing and strengthening the grid. The problem is that miners/bitcoin are a threat to the state. They will frame miners as boiling the oceans. Its gonna be a fight for the hearts and minds of the masses. I wonder if the short term solution is for mining operators to just bribe these scumbags.


This is good for #Bitcoin


Last time I checked, I'm not a facility.


Most do not have sympathy for industries. So, the mining industry is comprised of large entities, funded by larger entities, close to the fiat fountain of cheaper currency. When you borrow cheap government currency, you must comply, or your funding will go away.

Private miners, on the other hand, do not need to comply with anything, and shouldn't worry at this moment in time. The mom and pop landlord who have a spare room running 6 miners are not going to have to worry any more that the person who uses whirlpool to hold sats in a private wallet.

Makes for great clickbait, but not a concern unless you own stock in a mining company.


Damn right.......


Onward 🫡


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" ... or stand in solidarity to fight for our inalienable right to not be discriminated against and engage in economic activity with other consenting, supposedly free, companies."

to me it seems worthwhile:

Supreme Court:

"Permitting Congress to divest its legislative power to the Executive Branch would “dash \[this\] whole scheme.” Department of Transportation v. Association of American Railroads, 575 U. S. 43, 61 (2015) (ALITO , J., concurring). Legislation would risk becoming nothing more than the will of the current President, or, worse yet, the will of unelected officials barely responsive to him. See S. Breyer, Making Our Democracy Work: A Judge’s View 110 (2010)"

get ready to fight the trolls


"First, courts must look to the legislative provisions on which the agency seeks to rely “ ‘with a view to their place in the overall statutory scheme.’ ” Brown & Williamson, 529 U. S., at 133. “\[O\]blique or elliptical language” will not supply a clear statement. Ante, at 18; see Spector v. Norwegian Cruise Line Ltd., 545 U. S. 119, 139 (2005) (plurality opinion) (cautioning against reliance on “broad or general language”). Nor may agencies seek to hide “elephants in mouseholes,” Whitman v. American Trucking Assns., Inc., 531 U. S. 457, 468 (2001)"

I like this one:
"Nor may agencies seek to hide “elephants in mouseholes"".


The EPA has quite a long history. So one approach could be to see if the EPA has ever covered another industry with such data collection before.

concurring - Gorsuch:

"Third, courts may examine the agency’s past interpretations of the relevant statute. See ante, at 20–21. A “contemporaneous” and long-held Executive Branch interpretation of a statute is entitled to some weight as evidence of the statute’s original charge to an agency. United States v. Philbrick, 120 U. S. 52, 59 (1887). Conversely, in NFIB v. OSHA, the Court found it “telling that OSHA, in its half century of existence, ha\[d\] never before adopted a broad public health regulation” under the statute that the agency sought to invoke as authority for a nationwide vaccine mandate. 595 U. S., at \_\_\_ (slip op., at 8); ante, at 18;"


I think we need to unpack some of the ways this could play out if miners do comply.   I'm not an expert at all here so definitely looking for feedback from the fam.

once they've identified all the miners, they wouldn't have to seize them to say you are all required to mine for cuck-pool (TM). only process OFAC compliant blocks. And basically operate at a loss relative to other miners.   right?  how does that play out?  do miners relocate to other jurisdictions?  do they lock down the border too?

After that turns into a hot pile of shit, then phase two would be okay that didn't work so now we need to seize them.

What happens if you mix in a fork, where they require all miners to point their hash to cuck-fork, declare any transactions on the main chain illegal.

I think there are lots of ways this gets really dark, before they cross the Rubicon of seizure.


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With all due respect.


### Miner "Compliance"

Do you believe in #freedom ?

### NOTE Well:

All the " #laws " penned by the "Good Ol' Boys Club" (#Congress) in DC are *very* cleverly worded, so be sure to read this one about #bitcoin #mining *very* carefully before you #comply:

https://image.nostr.build/701776e3ebc78f153b92a7dd49941632bca107b1385bfe42b7a88944d1fbca04.jpg#m=image%2Fjpeg&dim=1000x391&blurhash=ZEPjfND%25xuofxut7xukCt7-lt7t7kCRjWBflj%5BWC%3FwWBRjofRjoejZa%7BRj%25Ls%3AofWBRjkCayj%5BWB&x=259f181dacf999f5b153a74c4a64132485d255a6ea149d9d28caf15d3f02decd

Like the serpent in the garden of Eden, this craftily worded BS is *not* intended to do you good, but to deceive you into "complying" with tyranny. Look over this #statute :

https://www.congress.gov/93/statute/STATUTE-88/STATUTE-88-Pg96.pdf

Note well the purpose of the Act:
"To reorganize and consolidate certain functions of the Federal Government in a new Federal Energy Administration in order to promote more efficient management of such functions."

Now ask yourself some simple questions:

Are YOU or your enterprise "certain functions of the Federal Government?"
What *exactly* is the legal definition of "mandatory?"
Who is the "you" in "YOUR RESPONSE IS REQUIRED BY LAW?"
Why would you believe that YOU are required to do this?
What does "Public Law 93-275" *actually say?*
Does Public Law 93-275 specify any penalties for non-compliance?
Does Public Law 93-275 apply to *you* and *your operation*?

Note what "Title 18 USC 1001 makes it a criminal offense" to do:

It is a criminal offense to make "false, fictitious, or fraudulent statements" on said report.
BUT note well: It is NOT a criminal offense to *not* fill out a report, is it? If you don't fill it out, you can't be penalized for doing it wrong.

Frens, they are *playing* you. Wake up!

They write these "laws" to be as obscure and opaque as possible, and quite deliberately to deceive you into "voluntarily complying" with matters that do not at all apply to you!

Even if you have been socialized to the point where you believe that the Constitution itself applies to you (search for and read Lysander Spooner's "Constitution of No Authority") you might find it interesting to learn that the United States Federal Government can't just "make up" laws that do apply to you UNLESS they are strictly "constitutional." This supposed "law" absolutely falls outside of any jurisdiction that Congress has to restrict or regulate your private enterprise. Search the topic of "Federal Legislative Jurisdiction," maybe try an #asknostr - you might not find much until you go rather deep down the rabbit hole. See if you can find more information about this from the Free Enterprise Society in Fresno, CA.

As an aside, we *really* need a nostr-based, distributed, *unbiased* search engine to make it possible to find and learn these things... Props to devs working toward that end!

I'm riffing off of information gleaned from the following note by Marty Bent.
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DO NOT COMPLY.

RESIST! REVOLT!


It’s not as if there are any other countries that could use the hashrate…


Unbiased search engine you say?

Respectfully, Congress.gov allows search by keywords etc. Where is the inherent bias in that?

If you want to say someone should create a copy (spoof?) of everything so government isn’t watching what you are … I get that.

Lastly, I’m not in tech so forgive me if I used wrong terminology. Appreciate all feedback. 💜


Another terrible law birthed during a crisis.  Thanks for the info.   Need to sue the government. https://image.nostr.build/79df60cdbf1f7346f95448aa7c6b3931078cc9566fbf45e460227e5e53bfaf3d.jpg


You appear to have confused my reference to "search engine" with a request for a simple index into statutory laws and regulations. You are absolutely correct that the statutes and  regulations, though ominously massive, are thoroughly indexed and readily searchable.

What I am talking about are entities like Google and Bing that pretend to be general, but in reality suppress the discovery of resources not aligned with their deeply ingrained biases. For example, they premptorily offer search results strongly favoring allopathic medicine over naturopathic, and statutory law over common. Their political, statist bias is almost impenetrable.

This is easily and indisputably demonstrable. Furthermore, these existing major search engines blatantly and disingenuously announce "millions of results in but a few seconds," but when you try to go beyond a handful of pages, you discover that to be an arrogant lie.


Absolutely understand now and agree. Well stated. 🙏


If you are an operator in the bitcoin mining industry in the US it is imperative that you ignore this survey and tell the EIA, the Department of Energy, and the current administration to fuck off.

Here's what they have in store for you.

https://tftc.io/eia-bitcoin-mining-survey/