The US bailing out Japan in an attempt to prevent them from dumping their US treasuries is a signal that you should be paying attention to.
https://www.tftc.io/us-bails-out-japan/
Here are the most important steps you can take to avoid social engineering attacks that attempt to separate you from your bitcoin.
https://t.co/tI19WMPpuY
The governance structure as laid out by the authors of the Constitution is a very good structure. It just needs the ability to operate smoothly again.
Bitcoin brings back that ability.
https://www.tftc.io/the-us-dollar-is-anti-america/
The bitcoin stack is built on layers of simple modular markets that enable more complex applications.
I walked through the bitcoin stack with Dhruv Bansal, @ryanthegentry and @allen.
Great rip to learn about bitcoin's incentive systems.
https://youtu.be/vXMl40of2-s?si=Y7AcNDZwrRAUes-P
This was the white pill conversation I needed to end the week. Carliño's story is inspiring and what he's doing with @DigitalWitness in collaboration with @simpleproof to mitigate election fraud is something to be bullish about.
Also a great episode if you want to learn about how inefficient and dangerous OFAC is to liberty. The story of how OFAC destroyed Carliños family business that had been around for 30+ years overnight will make your blood boil.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD0PI1MTots
The US government and many other governments around the world seem keen on making it as hard as possible for software developers to build tools that enable individuals to access the bitcoin network and control their wealth in a permissionless fashion.
https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-pgp-war/
History is repeating. Bitcoin is in the middle of its form of the PGP wars. The arguments against it and the untenable “solutions” put forth by the government are the exact same.
They wanted people to hold their PGP private keys with custodians. PGP won. Bitcoin can too.
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It’s crazy to think we have to worry about the government and how they react to what we build instead of being able to focus on building the future without fear of possibly being thrown in a cage. For building freedom technology that levels the playing field and brings about the equal opportunity politicians LARP about.
There are some people out there, very terrible people, who are operating a disgusting propaganda campaign trying to convince people that I’m not zapping.
This is fake news. Everyone knows I’m a very generous zapper. Some are saying the most prolific zapper. They are.
Don’t believe the fake news media as they attempt to tarnish my reputation.
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DEI, like ESG will die a natural death because - despite what Stacey Abrams would lead you to believe - it completely neglects reality and leads to terrible outcomes for businesses.
"The attack on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) is an attack on democracy. It's an attack on education. It's an attack on how our economy works."
https://m.primal.net/HykP.mov
Whenever politicians clutch pearls or attempt to brow beat bitcoiners about money laundering it is important to remind them that the US government is the biggest money launderer on the planet.
The Treasury issues debt out of thin air, the money gets handed to the Department of Defense and they overpay defense contractors 900x for commonplace nuts and bolts, among other things. This leads to obscene profits for the war industry and they shave off a small chunk of those profits to ensure the politicians that will vote for bigger defense budgets stay in power. Rinse and repeat.
This isn’t confined to the war industry either. It happens across the spectrum. Another example is Operation Warp Speed, which was an example of the Federal government directly funding and obscenely overpaying for a COVID vaccine that poisoned people.
What we’re witnessing is the largest “looting of the treasury” in human history. Politicians and the corporate interests that back them are robbing the American people blind. Taking their money directly via taxes, indirectly via inflation and at the same time running up the biggest government debt bill the world has ever seen.
The politicians who enable this and then clutch pearls about bitcoin’s potential to enable money laundering are the scum of the Earth.
We are all being robbed in broad daylight and the thieves are making you out to be the criminal. Truly diabolical
The government is not your friend. It exist to strip you of your wealth and your freedom.
https://m.primal.net/HyRl.mov
I sat down with @Whitney Webb
and Mark Goodwin to discuss the carbon credit coup that is being rolled out over the next few months.
The coup combines all of the nauseating buzzwords, carbon capture, smart contracts, and earth observation.
Must watch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_trBBunj2WI
I just paid a @Zaprite invoice using Sparrow Wallet to construct and broadcast a PSBT that I signed via the Coldcard Q QR scanner.
10x easier and 100x more fun than a bank wire.
The sovereign MONEY future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed.
Money and the state should be completely separate from each other because when they are not the state uses money as a tool to oppress. It's really that simple.
The War on Cash is heating up in the West. It's time to pay attention if you aren't already.
https://www.tftc.io/war-on-cash/
“Bitcoin is delightful.”
There is so much to look forward to when it comes to building on bitcoin. The profound impact that integrating bitcoin into our world can’t be understated.
Don’t get distracted by short term price volatility. Zoom out and think bigger.
"If you allow yourself to imagine, what could I accomplish if I took careful steps over three years, five years... and you integrate Bitcoin, what you can build on that foundation is absolutely remarkable."
- Andrew Hohns
https://m.primal.net/Htud.mov
Calls for tax revolts in the US are increasing.
“I am so sick of our government taking our money. They tax us on every hour we work. They tax us on gas, food, everything we buy. Property tax. Everything. It is f*cking ridiculous.”
https://m.primal.net/Hrwk.mov
The age of the West browbeating emerging countries from a perceived position of moral authority is officially over.
The tipping point has been reached and the con is being called out. This is a beautiful thing to see.
https://www.tftc.io/net-zero-called-out/
WEF Chief Advisor Yuval Harari:
“Covid is critical because this is what convinces people to accept/legitimatize TOTAL bio-metric surveillance... Exactly the same technology can be used to determine what you THINK about the Government.”
https://m.primal.net/HqVf.mov
"The average home buyer needs to make over $110,000 to afford the average home... you now need a six-figure salary to buy the average home in 23 states."
https://m.primal.net/HqVc.mov
Don’t get mad at Biden, these types of actions should be expected and are taken to trigger you.
Go to church tomorrow and have a blessed day with your family and friends.
Lead by example.
The “tokenization of assets” meme is going to get loud this cycle and it should be fought against as aggressively as possible. It would put the social credit system on steroids.
https://m.primal.net/Hptd.mov
The best way to rise above the cultural subversion that’s running rampant throughout our society is to quietly subvert the subverters.
Build a strong family.
Store your value in bitcoin.
Ridicule the hypocrisy.
https://m.primal.net/HptY.mov
US Tax Revenue Swallowed by Debt Interest
"Of the $120 billion collected from individual income taxes last month, a whopping $76 billion was earmarked solely for interest on the debt, a payment that does not even begin to reduce the principal amount."
Do you think your tax dollars are being allocated efficiently, anon?
https://www.tftc.io/us-debt-interest-eclipses-tax-revenue/
I wouldn't be surprised if the recent bitcoin run is being accelerated by a quiet liquidity crisis unfolding throughout the banking sector.
BTFP was a temporary band aid that was just ripped off and the structural problems still exist.
People may be fleeing for the exit.
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The excess and decadence enabled by a world run on broken easy money allows people to live in a detached reality that leads them to push objectively false narratives.
https://www.tftc.io/wealth-gap-money-printing/
I’m trying to zap but they won’t go through. The dark zap pool forces are trying to censor my zaps. They’re afraid of my generous zaps and how they make them look. The momentum is too strong though. It’s very strong. We won’t be stopped. We’re going to make zaps great again!
"Providing a second source of truth to verify a bitcoin address with this new feature materially improves the overall payment security and workflow, while preserving as much privacy as possible by shielding the full address on an invoice."
New Zaprite features just dropped.
https://www.tftc.io/feature-upgrades-to-zaprite-invoices/
Not ideal...
"The researchers demonstrated the capability to extract various cryptographic keys, including a 2048-bit RSA key within an hour and a 2048-bit Diffie-Hellman key in just over two hours."
GoFetch: a significant vulnerability in Apple's M-series.
https://www.tftc.io/apple-m-vulnerability-gofetch/
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We're going to win.
"Bitcoin is making everybody better. It is. Life is better, quantitatively and qualitatively better. And they don't realize it yet. They're playing our game now. They think we're in there with them. They're in here. They are on our meme sphere now." - @NVKhttps://www.tftc.io/open-source-ai-nvk/
Once you hit the end of the road and visualize the state of the American economy through a multi-generational lens you'll come to the conclusion that the American pensions are absolutely fucked.
Unless they begin allocating to bitcoin.
https://www.tftc.io/pensions-buying-bitcoin/
The rising bitcoin price alerts people that there is something wrong with their native currencies and the permissionless nature of bitcoin provides them with an avenue to escape the inferno.
Bitcoin is the alarm system and the lifeboat.
https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-alarm-system/
This was a special rip. An introduction to Bitcoin Urbanism with three men who deeply understand the problems that fiat has created within our Urban environments.
If we have patient capital operating on a Bitcoin Standard we will build beautiful things and strong communities.
https://youtu.be/F0GWX46WSCE?si=RvCQuuZLp6ddslXc
The incumbent power structure hates bitcoin and that makes me happy.
They've lost the first string of battles, but will now try to frame bitcoin a particular way to ensure most people don't harness its true power; censorship resistance and verifiability.
Hold your own keys.
"The Ten31 team, however, found many reasons for optimism this week in Austin, where our team participated in and led presentations at the PlebLab Startup Day and the SXSW Bitcoin Takeover at the Bitcoin Commons. The events were the latest reminder of how vibrant and robust the bitcoin ecosystem is, and it’s increasingly undeniable that the pace of development is accelerating across a variety of verticals from privacy software to payments technology to mining infrastructure. These technologies are all promising from an investment perspective, but more importantly, they will form a key pillar in preserving the liberties that we believe the vast majority of Americans regard as non-negotiable, and the founders behind them are not slowing down. Said another way: we’re going to win." - @JOHNARNOLDhttps://www.tftc.io/the-administrative-state-marches-on-ten31/
The Biden administration and its allies throughout the federal government do not actually care about the facts. They are intentionally ignoring them because they get in the way of the ultimate goal; suppress bitcoin and make it as hard as possible for American citizens to leverage the most liberating network humanity has ever come into contact with so that they can usher in a CBDC to usher people into a tightly controlled digital panopticon in the wake of the crumbling of the incumbent monetary and financial systems as well as the loss in confidence in the institution of the federal government itself.
https://www.tftc.io/biden-administration-30-percent-excise-tax-on-bitcoin-miners/
The government doesn’t want you to eat healthy food. They want you fat and unhealthy so they subsidize big agriculture and food, provide you with a food pyramid that recommends toxic sludge as health food, and create lifetime customers for big pharma.
🤡🌎
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While everyone was calling bitcoin a tulip bubble craze, the actual scam blowing up in front of everyone’s eyes was ESG.
A completely nonsensical investment strategy that made everyone believe they could make money by neglecting reliable energy and pushing diversity quotas.
https://m.primal.net/HjxV.jpg
As the regime loses control it reacts by cutting people who exhibit wrong think off from the financial system.
On a long enough timescale any ideas that don’t support the regime will be labeled wrong think.
Wrong thinkers need an alternative.
Hyperbitcoinization is inevitable.
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@bitcoinpierre was the first guest ever on TFTC. It’s crazy to think how far bitcoin has come since we first sat down at Barstool Sports HQ 2 in late 2017.
Yesterday we caught up to discuss AI, power grids, mining and Elizabeths Warren’s toothless attacks on the industry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAWTYuTgrPY
ecash mints had a market timing problem when Chaum launched DigiCash in 1989. The time for ecash mints is now.
Bitcoin + LN + ecash mints = economic freedom jet fuel
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