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Michael Saylor

2024: "double, double, double, double ..."



Leopold Kohr

1941: "how to put limits to growth"
(Boston convention of the American Economics Association)



 
 Book recommendation:

Leopold Kohr

"The breakdown of Nations"
(1957)
 
 "Imagine, you would have to flee a distance of only fiftenn or twenty miles to reach the safety of exile."
Lady from Siena 
 Is Anja Hirschel (Top candidate for the Piraten - Partei in the European election campaign) also a civil servant? As Patrick Breyer is ? Does she also return after her terms of office in Brussels to a bench as judge that has been kept open for her by the State all her terms in Brussels ? As it is the case for Patrick Breyer ?

 @Patrick Breyer

All I see here is a supply mentality on the part of these people involved.

How can a judge / civil servant even begin to question the state or even the EU?
Even in partial aspects ?

He doesn't do it and he can't do it.

"Niemand sägt den Ast ab, auf dem er sitzt."
=
"No one cuts the bough he is sitting on."

Instututionalized protest is harmless for the system.


How can it be that a wannabe fighter for digital freedom hangs around on mastodon, but has never mentioned nostr in his numerous articles, nor does he have an account here himself?


Piratenpartei - ngm 
 Frage an Leopold Kohr:

"Was schlagen Sie vor?

Nichts wäre leichter, als Europa in kleine Regionen zu unterteilen. Anders als bei dem Versuch, ein einheitliches Gebäude zu errichten, gäbe es dagegen kaum natürlichen Widerstand, da kleine Regionen bereits existieren. Im heutigen Europa finden wir nicht Deutschland, sondern Bayern und Sachsen; nicht Großbritannien, sondern Schottland und Irland; nicht Spanien, sondern Katalonien und das Baskenland; nicht Italien, sondern die Lombardei und Sizilien. Diese Regionen sind durch ihre Fusion zu einem modernen Nationalstaat nicht verschwunden. Sie bewahren den Reiz ihrer eigenständigen Dialekte, Gebräuche und Literatur.

Was ich mir für eine funktionstüchtige europäische Gemeinschaft vorstelle, ist eine Fülle von kleinen Regionalstaaten, die so interagieren, wie es Atome in der Natur tun. Ich halte mich an die Analyse des Physikers und Nobelpreisträgers Erwin Schrödinger, der begründet, warum Atome klein sein müssen.

Erstens sind sie sehr zahlreich. Zweitens sind sie unaufhörlich in Bewegung. Drittens werden sie niemals von einem anderen Atom gesteuert. Weil sie niemand dirigiert, stoßen sie ständig zusammen. Hätten sie Ähnlichkeit mit großen Panzern, würden sie sich dabei zerstören und damit das ganze System. Aber weil sie klein sind, sind die Myriaden von Zufallskollisionen kreativ."

"Wir brauchen keine einheitliche Verfassung für Europa, kein europäisches Geldsystem und keine gemeinsame Außenpolitik, um unseren eigenen Mond zu haben."

https://www.misesde.org/2017/08/%E2%80%9Enichts-ware-leichter-als-europa-in-kleine-regionen-zu-unterteilen%E2%80%9C/


 
 today  -  the first time that I was able to transfer a somewhat larger sats amount from an LN mobile wallet to the BTCPayServer / Breez / Greenlight plugin (Megalith Lightning Node LSP connected) in a completely relaxed manner via lightning-address. 

I could really enjoy it.

big shoutou to
 @btcpayserver
 @Breez
 @Blockstream
 @kukks 
 " it is, for all its cleverness, really nothing more sophisticated than a tech reinvention of the Ponzi scheme."

it's for sure a Ponzi scheme! 

hands off!

you dumbasses.

leave it to us, the freedom lovers

thxs 
 "Automaton conformity is an idea first described by Erich Fromm as one’s strategy to overcome the powerful feeling of insignificance in comparison to the perception of societal adequacy (1941). Automaton conformity requires the ability to sacrifice individuality while developing a personality through cultural patterns or norms. It is the hope to find worth through assimilating into what one understands to be the expectation of society. This construct inhibits self-determination, independent learning, critical thinking, autonomous reaction, personal virtue, and moral conviction. For example, a member of a sorority might have minimal confidence in her own dispositional autonomy. She may begin to conform her..."

https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1782-1 
 "
Where do I get the agenda?

The agenda is made available only to confirmed attendees.
"

ngm 
 WW1 and WW2 were all about keeping Germany and Russia from being friends

The “great game” se... 
 this is unbelievable; there is no legal or moral justification for this behaviour on the international parquet flooring.

these are sovereign nations and economies.

FCK the USD - hegemony 
 We are wasting billions in Ukraine to defend democracy, when will they get their cancelled presid... 
 first win the war quickly 
 Sjors, is the (Tornado) judgment already available in a proper translation (EN)? 
 could any of you please pass on my best wishes and congratulations to https://twitter.com/SamuelBrianHill and http://twitter.com/oklahomabtc on this shitty X  for the bill ?!

https://www.oklahomabitcoin.org/


They should get off their asses and come to nostr.
 
 "The consequences of this approach"

"Die Konsequenzen dieser Denkweise"

We are talking about a national court that finds itself in the thicket not only of European AML- , KYC- and  terrorism-prevention-legislation, but in the swamp of whatever implementation of European standards in national law and, ... gets lost in the madness of standards and then - as Patrick writes in German - falls back or has to fall back on the “way of thinking”, i.e. a gut feeling. 

In addition, every judge at such a court is subject to pressure from within the authorities.

Then that's the result.

If the state did not have a monopoly on the use of force, and therefore the corresponding power structures, then I would laugh at this judgment. Smile at it with pity. 

That is not legal state law enforcement, that is an enforcement of beliefs. 
 It would be a good idea to for “Bitcoiners” to buy a map, and study what “Jurisdiction” m... 
 

“Proton does not require a recovery address, but in this case the terror suspect added one on their own. We cannot encrypt this data as we need to be able to send an email to that address if the terror suspect wishes to initiate the recovery process,” said Proton’s spokesperson in the email. “This information can in theory be requested by Swiss authorities in cases of terrorism, and this determination is generally made by the Swiss Federal Office of Justice. Proton provides privacy by default and not anonymity by default because anonymity requires certain user actions to ensure proper [operational security] such as not adding your Apple account as an optional recovery method, which it appears was done by the alleged terror suspect.”

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/08/encrypted-services-apple-proton-and-wire-helped-spanish-police-identify-activist/ 
 "... rather than trying to ensure people can meaningfully transact without the entire world learning what they’re doing."

to the point! 
 My favorite sentence in the year 2024 so far:

"Is that what they do?" 
 Bitcoin will not be the driving force for social change, it will be one tool among others to build sth new from ground. So, don't put your hops into bitcoin; instead be part of the societal change. Parliamentalism has its best days behind it. 
 Lawrence is imho a man with integrity and deep knowledge if economics.

What I don't get: how can he not be at nostr? Pls, ask him, Peter. 
 WTF !

once participated in a running event in a European city and dozens of photos of every single runner are recorded. People obviously like this. And everyone still has their own cell phone with them while running.

the link to the photos will be sent by the organizer to the e-mail address previously stored for the account.

Europe takes data protection very seriously.

really ! 
 it's not hatred,
it's wisdom and knowledge of history,
what this man is saying.

I would like to see the world levelling out the ground for a complete new discourse and narrative.

so hard and so easy

 
 "El Comercio reported that she had just posted a picture to Instagram of her food at the ceviche restaurant before she was shot." 
 POW !

great habit !


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 Whow !

https://m.youtube.com/@marcinvevo479

Meisterschaft

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jaLKx4dA_Oc

Polen hat sehr gute Talente in die Welt entlassen.

m.E. eine aufstrebende Nation. Nicht im Euro. 
 wtf do I need X-screen-shots in here ?

disturbing ... 
  @MartyBent

"The US government, at least this current administration, 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/?ref=martys-bent-newsletter

Marty, as they want total control, over us, over money, this attempt of "a chilling effect" is not surprising at all.
simple truth is: btc has convinced them, btc is fck convincing. They get scared. They want to take over.

nice, try harder ...

I like to chill

once again; great work, Marty. 
 "They want to stop it from happening."

". ..disempower them. That's why we are here."

Big Ben

great episode.

as always: great inspiration. 
 MSB Hadrian

sold out

money comes in

money goes out

registered ?

https://therealleathercompany.com/products/the-hadrian 
 👀
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 with this kind of democratic government ...

hell, yes. they are. 
 Yes, this is the way! We have it running on the Sovran Pro!
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 you are shipping to ....          ? 
 one falls, a hundred stand up

"Bitcoin for the streets"

hell, yes, EU.  
 " Instead of trusting another person’s infrastructure, you could run your own node and interact directly with the chain. Running your own node becomes more important if you run more complex Bitcoin transactions like Lightning or committing CoinJoins."

https://thebitcoinmanual.com/articles/nix-bitcoin/

that´s the way 
 o.k., so, they are making Bitcoin a Robin Hood - Money?! 

Well, be it. Only this time they will be utterly destroyed. Not Bitcoin will be the victim of an insidious abbess for bloodletting. Why? Because they have overdone it this time.

Their bloodletting will be the death of Fiat. 
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 @Blockstream

Breez / Greenlight in BTCPayServer

after sending shows

"Sending did not indicate success"

although it went through.


Not good for the payer under normal conditions, as he will try to pay again in case of doubt, right?
 
 I’ve been using Coldcard for sometime now, switched over to Jade. 
 Jade is awesome - if we want there to be new users worldwide, then Jade is the right product.

Coldcard has it´s market, yes, but it´s not suitable for mass adoption. 
 "definitive answer to the fundamental (already answered) question, “What is the true nature of all cryptographic operations taking place in computers?”.
"

if the question has already been answered, then it's not the question to the point, right?

the right question is then: do we really let them do whatever they want?

This is a blatant abuse of power before our very eyes. 
 a company is nothing more, than a legal entity.

a human being is nothing more, than a natural entity.

all are participants in legal affairs.

They would like to come for every moving part in society.

It's time we make it clear who is the master of the house.

Indignez-vous ! 
 WTF



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 "They have kissed the ring and are currently drinking poison from the chalice.
These pools have put themselves and the bitcoin network at large in a very precarious situation because we now find ourselves in a situation where almost 50% of the network hashrate is controlled by one entity, which significantly increases the risk of transaction censorship at the protocol level. 
"

https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-mining-pool-centralization/?ref=martys-bent-newsletter

 @MartyBent

as so often: addressing painful subjects !

keep going, Marty. 
 Ich möchte einen möglichst objektiven kritischen Podcast zu Blockstream machen.

Welche Persone... 
 Our anthem. Thank you Christian ♥️
Every nostr meetup must play this at least 3 times. 

nost... 
 epic str 
 i can't find any differences between 

this idea: IRS Reporting Requirement
https://www.tftc.io/irs-bitcoin-transaction-reporting/

and

this one:
Norway Tightens Grip on Bitcoin Miners by Raising Bar for Data Centers
https://bitcoinnews.com/legal/terje-aasland-norway-bitcoin-miners/


one huge
orchestrated shit-show

 
 I get drunk for halving? 
 or sober up by then 
 https://www.faz.net/aktuell/politik/thema/iran

Why do we need states if destruction is what they are best at! 
 Grabbed some surprise cheap sats at $62.7k 
 not cheap.

massively underperforming. 
Event not found
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 "Germany is once again living up to its reputation as a technology-hostile and bureaucratic tech hub. This time it has hit Mastodon gGmbH, a project that is the driving force behind new and community-oriented social networks in the Fediverse. This non-profit GmbH has been stripped of its non-profit status by the tax office - whereupon the project has now founded a non-profit organization in the USA in order to continue collecting tax-exempt donations. Apparently, this is easier in the USA if obstacles are placed in the way of the project despite its success over the last two years."

Translated with DeepL.com (free version)

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