Oddbean

2009 IRS levied my bank and trading accounts 2010 State Department revoked my passport, and I became debanked. 2012 I used Bitcoin for purchases at Porcfest and to pay for weed delivered by a drone. 2013 I sent 2 bitcoin to a woman in who took her entire village out of poverty. Also, Ross Ulbricht was arrested and The State seized control of a large amount of bitcoin, and bitcoiners allowed it . . . because they loved things more than freedom. 2014 I could do anything I wanted with bitcoin. 10 years later, I drive anywhere from an hour to twelve to buy dollahs. Don't tell me you all have made progress and are more free than you were.

yeah, in my experience of it the only improvement has been this xapo bank that actually works and has been almost glitch free for me to use to enable me to save in bitcoin and spend with low friction, but it feels like at any moment it could be rugged, i really fucking hate that

Many of my Bitcoin friends are dead or in prison, or like me, have a very small life with very little in person contact with others. Isn't that somethin? The less connected to The State I am, the more isolated and out of the intellectual and creative pool I am. Pivots keep appearing and bitcoiners keep turning in the wrong direction.

i spent a year in prison in 2014 because i made a bad choice in product for my SR/BMR vendor account... a rare and dangerous and very potent psychedelic called bromo dragonfly spent much of the following 4 years homeless and got lucky after starting to mine bitcoin in mid 2017, some dude, friend of a friend, wanted a programmer, and i got an opening to get to work learning to write code, and i was building a fork for a shitcoin called parallelcoin that didn't quite make it to completion, it was mostly done but after the covid lockdowns started my friend who was covering my living costs and letting me work in his computer lab lost his marbles, then fell in with some stupid shit after burning all of the crypto he had stashed on old hard drives on something i warned him he would get rekt on, and this gypsy piece of shit gangsta boi was funding it and pulled the plug, and left me literally homeless fortunately i had acquired a lot of skills and confidence and got into some shitcoin jobs with dusk.network and energy.world and those both went to shit for different reasons but mostly related to the megalomanaiacal mindset of these crypto project founder guys who literally are cult leaders, and create a toxic company culture as a result then after that, i got a job with a subcontractor, who failed to find me any work, because the whole shitcoin business had fallen out of love with Go, the language i spent 3 years mastering, and after that broke down i found a year of sponsorship to build a source routed lighting TLV inspired tor-like network protocol, and that landed me in Madeira with the governor of this island appearing in bitcoin blogs and hyping this place and now i have been working for 9 months on shitcoin projects related to nostr i'm doing ok but the rigmerole of trying to save in bitcoin while being poor and not having a big enough stack to be able to get by with less than once a month selling my coins to pay costs is grinding and xapo has really been a godsend for me at this time i hoped that madeira would be a proper bitcoin enclave but turns out i can't stand living in a noisy city, at all, i developed some minor early stage kidney failure and diabetes problems and i have hyperacuity with sound, the irritation of noises of machines and yapping dogs and yelling people really grates my nerves i want to live out in the middle of nowhere but unless this bitcoin price move happens decently and soon i'm gonna be stuck in this place and i really don't like where the EU is going... literally right now i have to use my xapo card to draw cash to pay my rent because the bank of my landlady is refusing to allow the payment unless i doxx her and they are asking for details that i don't have and they really have no right to ask me, it's like >_< urrrggggg

You were definitely an early Pioneer in the space belle. Things have changed a lot more since then which is inevitable, nobody could have foreseen back then where we are to day. From my perspective I could say that we have gone forward in some aspects but have rescinded ground in a lot of others. But I still do not believe that everything is all doom and gloom the world is coming to an end. Things can be getting worse so they can get better simultaneously.

Indeed. Which is why Jack Dorsey banned me from Twatter in 2016 and removed me from the conversation. I was The Bitcoin Storyteller. I was removed and Jack became the hero . . . and one of the single points of failure to those who rely on his permissioned platform.

I think you mean "as she". But no. I'm Michelle Seven aka Michele Seven, Seven, M7, Chellie, Bitcoin Belle. I've been at this for over four decades and I have no idea who you are. Care to introduce yourself or should I just call you "Ride Girl"?