Decided to watch Trump's speech at Nashville. Normally I don't bother listening to long political speeches.

Overall it was a good speech, with several relevant and important points. His Bitcoin reserve ideas seem to be within the realm of the possible and not extremely outlandish.

Removing taxes on tips fits well with his pro-Bitcoin message.

As I heard him say that, I could almost hear him say: "You can play with your ZAPS on Nostr as much as you want and it will labeled tips and it will not be taxed or registered".

Perhaps I am jumping to conclusions here but I think that this interpretation is not a far stretch, if tips becomes tax excempt

A related matter is that if zaps are not taxed, then there is no reason for the state to monitor them. The reduction in surveillance would be a victory in itself. (We can still expect the EU and Laggarde to attempt maximizing surveillance and KYC/AML)

Trump's positivity to crypto was upsetting for many bitcoiners. Yet, a president is supposed to be inclusive and show support for individual liberties and property rights. Trump signaled that he is a defender of rights. He spoke out against "repression of Bitcoin and crypto". That is a powerful message to his voter base.

We can say as bitcoiners, well crypto is harmful. Yes, it is. But we say this with the conviction of experience and insight. Trump does not have this insight, yet. And even if he did, his job is to reassure voters that free markets is the standard that he is operating by. (If we for a moment ignore the fact that no nation is yet a true free market, technically, due to the presence of central banks)

The most important aspect for me is the opposition to CBDCs. We already knew from game theory that nations will have to stack Bitcoin. It was a matter of time.

I hope Trump will reward Vivek Ramaswamy with an influential position in his administration. Vivek dropped out of the election gracefully in order to not divide the votes, showing both strategic ability and integrity.

Avoiding a Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren government, with continued warfare in Ukraine, repression of private property rights, DEI policies, CBDCs and full speed on the UN Agenda 21 madness, avoiding these risks to liberty is vital. Climate alarmism and Agenda 21 is at the heart of the deep state and Trump's energy policies is akin to holding a crucifix, garlic, and a sloped roof against it. Vampires shall not pass

#Trump #Speech #Bitcoin #2024 #Nashville


Here's my theory.

People on Twitter adapt their message to fit within the constraints of the character limit.

As a result of the compacted and cryptic message with little space to express nuances, readers can be predicted to jump to wrong conclusions, which generate unnecessary side-debates.

Here on Nostr we have the *space* to include the nuances that we have in mind and it is far easier to avoid misreadings.


Here's my theory.

People on Twitter adapt their message to fit within the constrainsts of the character limit.

As a result of the compacted and cryptic message with little space to express nuances, readers can be predicted to jump to wrong conclusions, which generate unnecessary side-debates.

Here on Nostr we have the *space* to include the nuances that we have in mind and it is far easier to avoid misreadings.


Here's my theory.

People on Twitter adapt their message to fit within the constrainsts of the character limit.

As a result of the compacted and cryptic message with little space to express nuances, readers can be predicted jump to wrong conclusions, which generate unnecessary side-debates.

Here on Nostr we have the *space* to include the nuances that we have in mind and it is far easier to avoid misreadings.


BREAKING: U.S. National Debt surpasses $35 Trillion for the first time in history. 🚨 https://image.nostr.build/f49573a4c8c1f2fd8a8c72a5ea2ac6d6061798fccc1c7094fd480a377118fce9.jpg


I was considering the idea of "funded hashtags" that can be paid, with for example 1-10 sats. This would make it costly to spam such funded hashtags.

The funded hashtags would be a separate system vs regular hashtags.

The funding amount could go to the relays that transmit the funded hashtags.

This would not be a perfect system and spam would still happen, but it might be worth a thought.


Good point. There will be many options open. I am considering bad case scenarios in an attempt to understand a likely market response to regulations.


Absolutely.

Yet game theory predicts that governments will stack Bitcoin, regardless if we like it or not.

But certainly, I agree with the sentiment.


Thoughts on the game theory of tainted Bitcoin, part 2.

In my first note on the subject I described in short why I believe that tainted coins/sats cannot work over time.

A possible response from governments as their taint policies inevitably fail, is to introduce a "taint tax".

One aspect of the game theory of Bitcoin is that governments will want to accumulate as much Bitcoin as possible, it being the best and most secure and neutral store of value.

One aspect of this *value* is that Bitcoin is neutral. Bitcoin transactions cannot be stopped via sanctions or political intrigue. This adds real, practical value to Bitcoin both for individuals and for competing nation states.

Taint tax.

As I alluded to above, a taint tax might be a possible strategy attempted by certain governments.

In practice this would mean that a government, realizing that their AML/KYC taint system is not working, decides to *accept* tainted coins/sats for a fee -- a taint tax.

Let's say that the EU introduces a Bitcoin taint tax at 10% for buying a house. If you can't or don't want to disclose the history of your coins/sats, the EU basically says: fine, we don't want to lose billions of Euro in lost trades every year, so we accept your coins that we have labelled as tainted, provided you pay us this extra fee (tax).

However the game theory doesn't stop here. The proposed taint tax will have to be evaluated in relation to the market response.

The EU might have to lower the taint tax to 5%, 2% or whatever the market participants consider a reasonable theft vs the benefits.

As nations compete to stack Bitcoin, taint taxes will also compete. If another country sets the taint tax to 1%, the EU will have to consider lowering their taint tax.

Many jurisdictions will not care about the EU taint phantasmas at all and their free market policies will naturally impact the rates that the EU sets.

Liberty-oriented jurisdictions will prosper from the increased commerce that follows from a free market without taint regulations and such government overreach.

As I reflected in my first note, I don't see how taint regulations will survive on a competitive global market with sovereign jurisdictions.

At the end of the day, consumers will vote with their feets and sats/wallets. Market participants will have the final word.

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#Bitcoin #Taint #GameTheory #Game #Theory #TaintTax #FreeMarkets #Free #Markets #Liberty


Right.

Neither Trump nor JFK jr understand Bitcoin --- yet.

The important dimension is that they take a stand and have to be accountable to their voters once in office.

Public perception is vital for a president. Every broken promise can quickly build up dissent among the base of supporters.

Whoever wins will have to consider the implications of not following through on promises. This is the win.


BREAKING: The US national debt is about to hit the next milestone of $35 TRILLION and the total US debt has just surpassed $100 TRILLION. God bless the money printer.

It's a good day to stack #Bitcoin. Just like all the other 365 days of the year. 21M https://image.nostr.build/ca1fe4c5929676a6709f17d69c25606370442e7c0ac9f1070a8389e516b09c69.jpg


I remember when RFK jr wanted to jail people for opposing climate alarmism.

https://youtu.be/ztFykBJp0Uc


"Louisiana is a leader in bitcoin—banning CBDCs and protecting self-custody. We should continue to lead by having a strategic reserve of bitcoin"

-The governor of Louisiana, just now

I wonder what the average person thinks when they read that in the news

Wild times!


My final slide from my keynote today on the main stage in Nashville

Onwards! ✌
https://m.primal.net/JfXG.jpg


Red Rocks, 2024.
Quick painting in Rebelle 4. No AI.
 https://image.nostr.build/717125eb512a855332687ce04d86d305356ab3ea4e90bcb3e74f82d7d7bca106.jpg

#Art #Scifi #Rocks #Landscape #Desert #noAI #Rebelle

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/1N16vG


Red Rocks, 2024.
Quick painting in Rebelle 4. No AI.
 https://image.nostr.build/717125eb512a855332687ce04d86d305356ab3ea4e90bcb3e74f82d7d7bca106.jpg

#Art #Scifi #Rocks #Landscape #Desert #noAI #Rebelle


As far as I recall, Nostr existed for a year before the great Twitter-Nostr migration in 2023.

Buuut considering that I mixed up 2022 and 2023 I can't be certain that my memory is correct.😄


I like Nostr and have been here for 2.5 years. Nostr is the future.

However I disagree with the one-sided mentality of Nostr-only that are sometimes displayed.

There is a value in having critical voices both on Nostr and other social media. The deep state can only be pleased to see critics leaving platforms where the critics have some amount of reach, for alternatives that have very little reach.

When I receive most of my art commissions on Nostr I might consider the Nostr-only approach but that might take years.

[Edit] - My calculation was based on my memory and after I checked, my first Nostr message is from early 2023, so I have been here 1.5 years. I thought the great Twitter-->Nostr migration was in 2022, but it was more recent.


Nostr is over 3 years old, I was late to the party.😄

[Edit] After checking, my first post was from early 2023. I thought I started here in early 2022 so my calculation was incorrect. Nostr is probably 2.5+ years old.


Edit.

It seems you are correct. I thought I joined Nostr in early 2022 but now that I checked it was early 2023. So I have been here for 1.5 years and Nostr have existed for 2.5 years or something like that.


Nostr is over 3 years old, I was late to the party.😄


Compound “I am interested in you” nostr:note18s393t9s7cvtekdcv78wwmjt4h0yeu7fhn4se53fegjst7mswx2qtrjhsk


Great to hear!

I think we need a positive spirit on Nostr where we attract people to be themselves uncensored.

Nostr is for friends and foes.🌟⭐💫


One prediction from this finding is that AI models will be dependent on a correct classification of human vs generated art.

If an AI model uses more than a certain ratio of AI outputs for its training data, we can expect the model to gradually become corrupt.

The logical conclusion is that a proper categorization that separates human art from AI art will be necessary for AI models to not veer toward visual corruption.

We can expect the same principle to apply in regards to poetry, writing, programming and every other field of activity


One prediction from this finding is that AI models will be dependent on a correct classification of human vs generated art.

If an AI model uses more than a certain ratio of AI outputs for its training data, we can expect the model to gradually become corrupt.

The logical conclusion is that a proper categorization that separates human art from AI art will be necessary for AI models to not veer toward visual corruption.

We can expect the same principle in regards to poetry, writing, programming and every other field of activity


A study finds that AI trained on its own outputs will become increasingly prone toward errors, until the model collapses.

As many artists and other observers have predicted, the use of non-realistic reference images as AI inputs will deteriorate the quality of reality-based AI art content over time.

When an AI model is fed with AI outputs instead of real world references, the breakdown or corruption becomes inevitable over time.

https://image.nostr.build/1837f07098f3c8f3a868cf9299f5c64e17c9c77a35de6c8d16e13a07d2377e29.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/e76392e5db82c83fc2c5df989da8783256242164a917fff73ece0c5bf05e31cf.jpg

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

#AI #Artificial #Study #Research #Art


I think a lot of Monero people are unrealistic.

They cannot sell Monero for fiat when cash is gone. They need Bitcoin as a store of value and an intermediary.

I don't accept Monero payments because I am not into barter. If others want to use Monero, I support that and their best bet is to find bitcoiners they can swap smaller amounts with. But who would need large sums of Monero? It is not a store of value.

The problems of KYC/AML is not an argument in favor of Monero.


I like Nostr and have been here for 2.5 years. Nostr is the future.

However I disagree with the one-sided mentality of Nostr-only that are sometimes displayed.

There is a value in having critical voices both on Nostr and other social media. The deep state can only be pleased to see critics leaving platforms where the critics have some amount of reach, for alternatives that have very little reach.

When I receive most of my art commissions on Nostr I might consider the Nostr-only approach but that might take years.


#Meme #Memes #Brand #Rebranding

https://image.nostr.build/0ca25eeff59cb045663793b248106a059310a82165f30ba02dc277c3758bbd38.jpg


Nuts.

History: registration => confiscation

https://m.primal.net/JccN.jpg


I think that sharing too much content in a short time often leads to people unfollowing, because their feed is full of content from one single person.


I would like to zap this note but I'm receiving a message that there is no lightning address.


BREAKING: A whistleblower leaked the full uncensored german RKI protocol files related to the Covid crisis. The files show that the "scientists" bowed to political preasure.

Download it here:
Main: https://mega.nz/file/AWdgSZxC#ZcnntY4tSxiuytZgVY7bVPlOr1iivYPu5b1Gj7UWlXw
Extra files:
https://mega.nz/file/dbc1zbyD#qhI5ls4RGyCf3A1wFpoz3y8BuMuex0TxdJoo1dVmYFY

This has to be heard, recognized and admitted by the mainstream!

Original tweet:
https://x.com/aya_velazquez/status/1815567564694515876


🎙All About CBDC

Listen to this podcast I recorded with nostr:npub1gcf9ltaeu42f4tr20z3avkas04dezlx3jaudqsuu87gvmh686xasrvqjg0 about CBDC and how to get prepared for it, meaning - solutions.

Tune in here: https://fountain.fm/episode/NwTIf1N3MTD9fBleNogR
https://m.primal.net/Jajt.jpg


The important part is verifying our notes without providing KYC. This is where Nostr excel.


I meant that you started to inform the public about inflation some 20 years ago, so you have planted the seeds for a long while even if you had a break. I only recently heard about you last year but I respect the long term commitment in exposing the moneyprinting scheme.


🙏 Thanks for your work over the past 20 years Rune.

I was curious about these results so I had to write a program! I decided to visualize all the years so that others can confirm or error-correct my results.


🙏 Thanks for your work ovee the past 20 years Rune.

I was curious about these results so I had to write a program! I decided to visualize all the years so that others can confirm or error-correct my results.


Well said Rune.

I wrote a short program recently that calculates the cumulative impact of inflation on savings over a 45 year career.

At 2% yearly inflation, with zero taxes, the loss of purchasing power is ~35% over a 45 year career.

This amounts to working for the government for free for 15+ years.

At 7% yearly inflation and a 30% tax pressure, the loss of purchasing power over a 45 year career is 80%.

Below are 4 examples where my charts visualize the cumulative impact of inflation year by year.

https://image.nostr.build/a4da36ecfe5d178864a921d4950aeaf2252975bf30140d58e6d476b915fda55b.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/59902a35101cd2efa5379d3849e829353d1fdfc8035e4922363d6302662a7bde.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/e6a6586c4436c86e357e907d704d5cb6172ee8d6da8de4d36e22f4a1834cddd7.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/84f92f67c73590e19d5e51a1d7d51000371ca411043b823ba5940130f513295a.jpg

#Inflation #Moneyprinting #GIMP


Monetary policy and its effect on distribution of wealth and power.

If you want to understand the policy of inflation, which only can result from someone having a monopoly on production of money, you must understand compound interest, both negative and positive compound interest.

Below I give you an example that makes you realize in no time how pronounced the effect is for the ruling class that understands and enjoys the monopoly vs. the rest of the society, us mere subjects, who are largely ignorant to the effect of the policy, but who pay the price for it.

Here we go:

Imagine that we have a nation called Clownesia, and that Mr. Pennywise has succeeded in becoming the nation's tyrannical ruler.

He has monopolized the production of money and declared the following:

1. Everyone must accept Clown Dollars (CDs) as payment (legal tender)

2. All taxes must be paid with CD

3. The total stock of CD shall increase at an average rate of 7% per year

4. Only Pennywise is allowed to own gold

5. Pennywise has the right to be the first user of the newly issued money

Rule No. 1 and 2 are in effect in almost all nation states today.

Rule No. 3 is the same as a typical rate of expansion of the stock of money in a western country today, for instance in Norway and USA in the 20 year period 2002-2022.

Rule No. 4 is the same as Executive Order 6102, signed on April 5, 1933, by US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, which forbid private ownership of gold.

Rule No. 5 is different from traditional monetary policy, where our governments in their wisdom have let private banks have the privilege of being the producers and first users of money.

In practical terms the difference is small, because banks and governments have probably been bedmates since long before the governments awarded them this profitable monopoly.

Now let's say that Pennywise  today shares the title "richest man in Clownesia" with one of his subjects, let's call him Blow Jiden.

Both of them own a fortune estimated at 1 trillion CD, which coincidentally equals the total money supply today in Clownesia.

Pennywise hates Jiden, especially because the latter earned much of his fortune when he was president of Clownesia (before Pennywise came to power) due to selling top secret information to foreign governments.

Jiden unfortunately for him now suffers from dementia, and has forgotten how inflation works.

As a consequence, he has parked all of his wealth in a checking account that yields zero interest.

Pennywise, who's only shortcoming is being extremely evil and who doesn't at all suffer from cognitive issues, keeps all of his wealth, as well as the proceeds he gets from issuing more CD, in solid gold.

(He has read economic history, and knows that gold for thousands of years has kept a stable value.)

Now, here comes the question I want you to ponder:

How fast will Pennywise's wealth outpace Jiden's wealth?

I gave you a hint when I previously mentioned that you must understand the effect of compound interest if you want to understand the effect of monetary policy.

At the rate of 7% increase of the money supply, Pennywise doubles the money supply in about 10 years.

Thererefore he also doubles his wealth.

(You can google "The Rule of 72" if you want to check my math.
This rule is an easy way to calculate how long it's going to take for your money to double.)

As you understand, Pennywise enjoys the benefit of POSITIVE compound interest.

But what about poor demented Jiden?

He sees his wealth being cut by 50% in this 10 year timeframe.

The reason is that the doubling of the money supply cuts the value of each CD he owns in half.

(Again, you can use The Rule of 72 if you want to check my calculation.)

This is the same effect that you get when you double the amount of water you mix into your lemonade.

Jiden's wealth loses value due the effect of NEGATIVE compound interest.

However, my precise question was:

"How fast will Pennywise's wealth outpace Jiden's wealth?"

And the answer, since over the course of 10 years the former doubles his wealth while the latter's wealth is cut in half, the pace is 4:1 in 10 years.

After 20 years, Pennywise's wealth is 8 times Jiden's wealth.

And after 30 years, it's 16 times larger, after 40 years the ratio is 32, and so forth.

I have resorted to simplification to drive home my point.

For instance, few people people have all of their money in zero interest checking accounts.

But I have also left out the effect inflation has on people's tax burdens.

As one example, when people pay capital gains tax, they don't get any deduction of stock price appreciation caused by expansion of the money supply (meaning - we pay tax on inflation) which amplifies the rulers' benefit from the monetary monopoly.

To conclude:

This example demonstrates why  the parasitical class is hellbent on keeping you in the dark about the potency of the monetary policy.

No other ordinary policy instruments come close to ensuring rapid centralization of wealth and power.

Therefore, I think you should support abolishing the current monetary monopoly.

You would also be well advised to learn more about the historical role of gold, as well as familiarizing yourself with #Bitcoin.

Thank you for reading.

If you enjoyed this thread, please hit the like, share and follow buttons and join me in the fight against abuse of political power.

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Well said Rune.

I wrote a short program recently that calculates the cumulative impact of inflation on savings over a 45 year career.

At 2% yearly inflation, with zero taxes, the loss of purchasing power is ~35% over a 45 year career.

This amounts to working for the government for free for 15+ years.

At 7% yearly inflation and a 30% tax pressure, the loss of purchasing power over a 45 year career is 80%.

Below are 4 examples where my charts visualize the cumulative impact of inflation year by year.

https://image.nostr.build/a4da36ecfe5d178864a921d4950aeaf2252975bf30140d58e6d476b915fda55b.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/59902a35101cd2efa5379d3849e829353d1fdfc8035e4922363d6302662a7bde.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/e6a6586c4436c86e357e907d704d5cb6172ee8d6da8de4d36e22f4a1834cddd7.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/84f92f67c73590e19d5e51a1d7d51000371ca411043b823ba5940130f513295a.jpg

#Inflation #Moneyprinting


Thanks! Without free speech we slip down toward feudalism and ancient priest-class proclamations that cannot be questioned. Great to connect!


🙏 You are doing a wonderful work for music, liberty and Bitcoin, my friend! I'd love to hear about your new project! Best wishes for your weekend, hope you and your wife are well!🌟⭐💫✨


🙏 Thanks Pleb Rebel.

Nostr is the place to be for long format content and debates.


That's cool! Jay is a great person and his music is evocative, pulling you into his melodic story. I hope you will have opportunity to continue with your music.🙂

I made another video with Jay's music plus my wife's art. She is nostr:nprofile1qqs8gfmlmdf7lm2jevwa7ynft85nmnvkl5y0k0kygmuu9vl4xnpadvcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhsycpxuh on here.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aaVlXVVF64o


Thanks!🙏

The video below is a meditative journey I created using the piano music of Nostr user and composer nostr:nprofile1qqsf8dgkhjtzdlpskceavdulqc35tu00gvcs0nk350rs62v2rvceskcpzfmhxue69uhkummnw3ezua3sdshxjmcpr9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezu7n9vfjkget99e3kcmm4vsq3jamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwdskuerhd93kstnxv9ex6g973jl together with my art.

I made the artwork during covid when borders were closed in Norway and I longed for a vacation from work and the authoritarian measures.

🌟⭐💫

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ptSmpBownz4


Taxes are imoral, and they set the tone for most of what's wrong in the world.


Well said. Eaerned a follow!


Gallery update.

Citadel Islands X, 2021.
No AI.

https://image.nostr.build/29cd040a21b80d337bec5f61db83f322f9fc60efa7a10d13517d1b6f3d0e24ec.jpg


Gallery update.

Citadel Islands IX, 2021.
No AI.

https://image.nostr.build/3bde82cd125a446ed07914eb34cefdf4f2c0be07d8cf1fa505f6ef3a702155e4.jpg


Citadel Islands IX - X, 2021.
Seasteading liberty art. No AI.

https://image.nostr.build/3bde82cd125a446ed07914eb34cefdf4f2c0be07d8cf1fa505f6ef3a702155e4.jpg

https://image.nostr.build/29cd040a21b80d337bec5f61db83f322f9fc60efa7a10d13517d1b6f3d0e24ec.jpg

My portfolio:

artstation.com/leofernevak

#Art #Citadel #Island #CitadelIsland #Scifi #ScifiArt #ScienceFiction #Ocean #Vacation #Architecture #noAI #HumanArt #Bitcoin #Fernevak #FernevakArt #BookCover #BookCoverArt #LibertyArt #Seasteading #Sea


Loving Craig’s website right now.

And it stays like this for 3 months.

https://craigwright.net/
https://m.primal.net/JSxk.jpg


💯

Me and my wife lived in Norway in 2020 and we saw how the social climate changed. I'm Swedish and she is Polish by the way.

When I talked to union representatives at my workplace, they showed no concerns about masking regulations or experimental vaccines. I was not a member of the union but they absolutely were not able to sell me the idea of joining them. Most colleagues would give me a skeptical look when they learned that I had not taken the mRNA injection.

One colleague was sent to hospital after he had heart arrhythmia, which culminated 2 weeks after his second Covid shot. He had never been sick from work in his life before this. At the hospital they restarted his heart and told him it was a normal procedure. He said to me afterward that he would not have any more injections.

I also learned that the Norwegian military had knocked on cabin houses (hytter) in the mountains and forced/coerced the residents to move back to the cities during Covid. This made zero sense and it was apparent that the authorities were not afraid of Covid at all. It was a spectacle with deeper, authoritarian motives.

Even worse, the authorities had abolished individual property rights with this pointless exercise. The authorities claimed that the local infrastructure in the mountains could not support people getting sick, while ignoring the rights of citizens to use their property as they deem fit when they needed it. They were voluntarily social distancing in the bloody mountains! Norwegians know very well how to fish, hunt and hike in the mountains.

If you can't access your own mountain cabin in a situation where you believe you and your family are in danger, then what is the point of calling it private property in the first place. Of course Covid was not particularly dangerous, but the citizens had all the right in the world to use their own damn cabins. It made me furious to debate this with colleagues at work who sheepishly supported the government overreach.

Then by autumn of 2021, several cities in Norway announced Corona Passports. My wife knew the spouse of a bus-driver and the drivers had been asked to demand corona passports on busses, but the bus-drivers had flatly rejected this suggestion, honorably. When Corona Passports were announced we were worried that we would be shut out of society as unvaccinated. I would rather lose my job than to inject the harmful spike protein. My wife's brother in Poland were told to either take the mRNA injection or lose his job. He took two shots iirc. Luckily he has been fine so far.

As soon as the Norwegian borders opened up, me and my wife left Norway, only to hear that Russia and Ukraine were suddenly at war just as we were leaving. Now there is a risk of Poland going to war in the coming years and we might end up with closed borders again.

When the war started my immediate reaction was that this was a continuation of the Covid authoritarianism, under a new excuse and banner. Several individuals in Poland who have questioned the war with Russia have been imprisoned. In Sweden, people working in critical infrastructure are disallowed from leaving Sweden or switching jobs, since last year, due to war preparedness plans. There have been motions from the EU to classify individuals as dangerous anti-European traitors based on their opinion of wanting to end the war with Russia.

Owning Bitcoin and having access to Nostr has been a great source of security during these times. I hope that Europe can recover over time and pull itself out of authoritarianism, yet the risks of war escalation are present. Borders can be shut at any time.


Yes, it certainly helps the process of free speech and error correction, which in turn help fixing misinformation!


💯

Me and my wife lived in Norway in 2020 and we saw how the social climate changed. I'm Swedish and she is Polish by the way.

When I talked to union representatives at my workplace, they showed no concerns about masking regulations or experimental vaccines. I was not a member of the union but they absolutely were not able to sell me the idea of joining them. Most colleagues would give me a skeptical look when they learned that I had not taken the mRNA injection.

One colleage was sent to hospital after he had heart arrhythmia, which culminated 2 weeks after his second Covid shot. He had never been sick from work in his life before this. At the hospital they restarted his heart and told him it was a normal procedure. He said to me afterward that he would not have any more injections.

I also learned that the Norwegian military had knocked on cabin houses (hytter) in the mountains and forced/coerced the residents to move back to the cities during Covid. This made zero sense and it was apparent that the authorities were not afraid of Covid at all. It was a spectacle with deeper, authoritarian motives.

Even worse, the authorities had abolished individual property rights with this pointless exercise. The authorities claimed that the local infrastructure in the mountains could not support people getting sick, while ignoring the rights of citizens to use their property as they deem fit when they needed it. They were voluntarily social distancing in the bloody mountains! Norwegians know very well how to fish, hunt and hike in the mountains.

If you can't access your own mountain cabin in a situation where you believe you and your family are in danger, then what is the point of calling it private property in the first place. Of course Covid was not particularly dangerous, but the citizens had all the right in the world to use their own damn cabins. It made me furious to debate this with colleagues at work who sheepishly supported the government overreach.

Then by autumn of 2021, several cities in Norway announced Corona Passports. My wife knew the spouse of a bus-driver and the drivers had been asked to demand corona passports on busses, but the bus-drivers had flatly rejected this suggestion, honorably. When Corona Passports were announced we were worried that we would be shut out of society as unvaccinated. I would rather lose my job than to inject the harmful spike protein. My wife's brother in Poland were told to either take the mRNA injection or lose his job. He took two shots iirc. Luckily he has been fine so far.

As soon as the Norwegian borders opened up, me and my wife left Norway, only to hear that Russia and Ukraine were suddenly at war just as we were leaving. Now there is a risk of Poland going to war in the coming years and we might end up with closed borders again.

When the war started my immediate reaction was that this was a continuation of the Covid authoritarianism, under a new excuse and banner. Several individuals in Poland who have questioned the war with Russia have been imprisoned. In Sweden, people working in critical infrastructure are disallowed from leaving Sweden or switching jobs, since last year, due to war preparedness plans. There have been motions from the EU to classify individuals as dangerous anti-European traitors based on their opinion of wanting to end the war with Russia.

Owning Bitcoin and having access to Nostr has been a great source of security during these times. I hope that Europe can recover over time and pull itself out of authoritarianism, yet the risks of war escalation are present. Borders can be shut at any time.


A lot of people are afraid of fascism, but we already lived through an extreme version of it just a few years ago. Many of the fascists are still in power. Imagine if, right now, the government locked you in your home, shut down your job, and forced a new pharmaceutical product injection on you with no testing, and if you don't abide, they will start to close you off from society.

Just because there was a virus going around back then doesn't mean that they had the right to do that. And since hindsight is 20/20, their actions actually made things a lot worse, so that further backs up the claim.


Interesting question.

Disinformation is most dangerous in the hands of political institutions, with a power motive as well as ideological motives, combined with the force of centralized power.

Totalitarian systems degenerate toward misinformation because the mechanisms of error-correction are hindered and even dismantled. If the chances for error-correction and the chances for control groups to exist are eliminated, we can expect group think and extremism (imbalance) in some direction or other.

If I want a robust information system with a chance to self-correct, I would always opt for millions of sovereign individuals pursuing their own conclusions to the best of their ability, with a right to speak up and criticize injustices, problems or concerns.

They can individually be wrong but they have no power to force a bad idea upon other people.

Since we can't know the future or access all relevant data points, or even always agree on interpretation, the safest system to promote error-correction is via a free exchange of ideas.

Our conclusions are based on attempts at judging probability. Just as our probability assumptions can be incorrect, a fact checker is no less impacted by both ideological bias, funding bias and errors.

I think there is no alternative but to embrace individual liberties, both because it is morally wrong to prevent individuals from voicing concerns and also because we benefit from having all possibilities examined.

I view for example groups like the Amish as a valuable control group that we can compare ourselves with and evaluate how our lives differ from theirs, and from there attempt to consider and discern what the reasons may be. Control groups that follow beliefs that we don't share can end up being right on some matter that we have misunderstood.

In short, we can be wrong as human beings, even if we are appointed to be fact-checkers. And if we are wrong we don't want to force that error upon others, who knew better than us or just had a different process of thinking.


Interesting question.

Disinformation is most dangerous in the hands of political institutions, with a power motive as well as ideological motives, combined with the force of centralized power.

Totalitarian systems degenerate toward misinformation because the mechanisms of error-correction are hindered and even dismantled. If the chances for error-correction and the chances for control groups to exist are eliminated, we can expect group think and extremism (imbalance) in some direction or other.

If I want a robust information system with a chance to self-correct, I would always opt for millions of sovereign individuals pursuing their own conclusions to the best of their ability, with a right to speak up and criticize injustices, problems or concerns.

They can individually be wrong but they have no power to force a bad idea upon other people.

Since we can't know the future or access all relevant data points, or even always agree on interpretation, the safest system to promote error-correction is via a free exchange of ideas.

Our conclusions are based on attempts at judging probability. Just as our probability assumptions can be incorrect, a fact checker is no less impacted by both ideological bias, funding bias and errors.

I think there is no alternative but to embrace individual liberties, both because it is morally wrong to prevent individuals from voicing concerns and also because we benefit from having all possibilities examined.

I view for example groups like the Amish as a valuable control group that we can compare ourselves with and evaluate how our lives differ from theirs, and from there attempt to consider and discern what the reasons may be. Control groups that follow beliefs that we don't share can end up being right on some matter that we have misunderstood.


Interesting question.

Disinformation is most dangerous in the hands of political institutions, with a power motive as well as ideological motives, combined with the force of centralized power.

Totalitarian systems degenerate toward misinformation because the mechanisms of error-correction are hindered and even dismantled. If the chances for error-correction and the chances for control groups to exist are eliminated, we can expect group think and extremism (imbalance) in some direction or other.

If I want a robust information system with a chance to self-correct, I would always opt for millions of sovereign individuals pursuing their own conclusions to the best of their ability, with a right to speak up and criticize injustices, problems or concerns.

They can individually be wrong but they have no power to force a bad idea upon other people.

Since we can't know the future or access all relevant data points, or even always agree on interpretation, the safest system to promote error-correction is via a free exchange of ideas.

Our conclusions are based on attempts at judging probability. Just as our probability assumptions can be incorrect, a fact checker is no less impacted by both ideological bias, funding bias and errors.

I think there is no alternative but to embrace individual liberties, both because it is morally wrong to prevent individuals from voicing concerns and also because we benefit from having all possibilities examined.

I view for example groups like the Amish as a valuable control group that we can compare ourselves with and evaluate how our lives differ from theirs and from therr attempt to consider and discern what the reasons may be. Control groups that follow beliefs that we don't share can end up being right on some matter that we have misunderstood.


Interesting question.

Disinformation is most dangerous in the hands of political institutions, with a power motive as well as ideological motives, combined with the force of centralized power.

Totalitarian systems degenerate toward misinformation because the mechanisms of error-correction are hindered and even dismantled. If the chances for error-correction and the chances for control groups to exist are eliminated, we can expect group think and extremism (imbalance) in some direction or other.

If I want a robust information system with a chance to self-correct, I would always opt for millions of sovereign individuals pursuing their own conclusions to the best of their ability, with a right to speak up and criticize injustices, problems or concerns.

They can individually be wrong but they have no power to force a bad idea upon other people.

Since we can't know the future or access all relevant data points, or even always agree on interpretation, the safest system to promote error-correction is via a free exchange of ideas.

Our conclusions are based on attempts at judging probability. Just as our probability assumptions can be incorrect, a fact checker is no less impacted by both ideological bias, funding bias and errors.

I think there is no alternative but to embrace individual liberties, both because it is morally wrong to prevent individuals from voicing concerns and also because we benefit from having all possibilities examined.

I view for example groups like the Amish as a valuable control group that we can compare ourselves with and evaluate how our lives differ from theirs and what the reasons may be. Control groups that follow beliefs that we don't share can end up being right on some matter that we have misunderstood.


Interesting question.

Disinformation is most dangerous in the hands of political institutions, with a power motive as well as ideological motives, combined with the force of centralized power.

Totalitarian systems degenerate toward misinformation because the mechanisms of error-correction are hindered and even dismantled. If the chances for error-correction and control groups are eliminated, we can expect group think and extremism (imbalance) in some direction or other.

If I want a robust information system with a chance to self-correct, I would always opt for millions of sovereign individuals pursuing their own conclusions to the best of their ability, with a right to speak up and criticize injustices, problems or concerns.

They can individually be wrong but they have no power to force a bad idea upon other people.

Since we can't know the future or access all relevant data points, or even always agree on interpretation, the safest system to promote error-correction is via a free exchange of ideas.

Our conclusions are based on attempts at judging probability. Just as our probability assumptions can be incorrect, a fact checker is no less impacted by both ideological bias, funding bias and errors.

I think there is no alternative but to embrace individual liberties, both because it is morally wrong to prevent individuals from voicing concerns and also because we benefit from having all possibilities examined.

I view for example groups like the Amish as a valuable control group that we can compare ourselves with and evaluate how our lives differ from theirs and what the reasons may be. Control groups that follow beliefs that we don't share can end up being right on some matter that we have misunderstood.


Interesting question.

Disinformation is most dangerous in the hands of political institutions, with a power motive as well as ideological motives.

Totalitarian systems degenerate toward misinformation because the mechanisms of error-correction are hindered and even dismantled. If the chances for error-correction and control groups are eliminated, we can expect group think and extremism (imbalance) in some direction or other.

If I want a robust information system with a chance to self-correct, I would always opt for millions of sovereign individuals pursuing their own conclusions to the best of their ability, with a right to speak up and criticize injustices, problems or concerns.

They can individually be wrong but they have no power to force a bad idea upon other people.

Since we can't know the future or access all relevant data points, or even always agree on interpretation, the safest system to promote error-correction is via a free exchange of ideas.

Our conclusions are based on attempts at judging probability. Just as our probability assumptions can be incorrect, a fact checker is no less impacted by both ideological bias, funding bias and errors.

I think there is no alternative but to embrace individual liberties, both because it is morally wrong to prevent individuals from voicing concerns and also because we benefit from having all possibilities examined.

I view for example groups like the Amish as a valuable control group that we can compare ourselves with and evaluate how our lives differ from theirs and what the reasons may be. Control groups that follow beliefs that we don't share can end up being right on some matter that we have misunderstood.


I was following Vance but don't know much about the man. I found at least a couple of positive statements from him on Twitter, but didn't find much related to Bitcoin. At least he was/is against the vaccine mandates.

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I was following Vance but don't know much about the man. I found at least a couple of positive statements from him on Twitter, but didn't find much related to Bitcoin. At least he was/is against the vaccine mandates.

https://image.nostr.build/d8b4f917d3b5923c24f4a87cfe79c066d3de6e4f385c3bc3b28f9bc4a7a784a6.jpg
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Trump picks JD Vance. Pro bitcoin 👍

https://x.com/JDVance1/status/1423660954387197954


🙏 Twitter was helping against my verbosity for a while and now I am slipping back to longwinded posts.😄


Thank you, and fair enough. I will always welcome dark money solutions, both on Bitcoin L2-L3 and in other forms such as Monero. I don't use Monero personally but I oppose any government attacks against it.

In a free market everyone must be free to use dark money as their money of choice. Cash is historically dark money and I support people using any tools of preference in order to preserve their property rights.

Bitcoin functioning as a neutral, global store of value that cannot be controlled by nation states will benefit Monero indirectly, as Monero cannot be exchanged for digital fiat / CBDCs (or whatever the future establishment currency is called at a given time) but can be traded for Bitcoin. There is a potential for mutual benefit.

I wrote a text on the game theory of AML regulatioms + tainted coins, and why AML and taint regulations will fail.

Ironically, they will fail *quicker* the more coins are tainted, due to market dynamics:

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Thank you, and fair enough. I will always welcome dark money solutions, both on Bitcoin L2-L3 and in other forms such as Monero. I don't use Monero personally but I oppose any government attacks against it.

In a free market everyone must be free to use dark money as their money of choice. Cash is historically dark money and I support people using any tools of preference in order to preserve their property rights.

Bitcoin functioning as a neutral, global store of value that cannot be controlled by nation states will benefit Monero indirectly, as Monero cannot be exchanged for CBDCs but can be traded for Bitcoin. There is a potential for mutual benefit.

I wrote a text on the game theory of AML regulatioms + tainted coins, and why AML and taint regulations will fail.

Ironically, they will fail *quicker* the more coins are tainted, due to market dynamics:

nostr:nevent1qqsyp39g9ykyclhvg2xxq3m5e6speyjdumzwk2llp2q3r630jkxrj5spp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqzyq3afyu5vyjc2urvw2gg5h3eqnu4zal2ppasxtwmlnfgvgcyclvcxqcyqqqqqqg758s4n


💯

First we need to define what a free market means. John Locke laid the foundation in 1690 in his Two Treatises of Government, by deducing that every person is born free, own themselves and the fruits of their labor.

This effectively renders slavery impossible - when we agree that in order to protect our own property rights, we also cannot own another person and the fruits of their labor.

Following first principles, we can then deduce from Locke's groundwork that coercion is wrong, theft is a crime and that abuse and exploitation are abominable, since every person owns themselves and must be engaged with informed consent.

A few principles that would characterize a genuine free market:

1. No central banks
2. No government moneyprinting
3. Competition in money
4. Full property rights for all
5. Free speech
6. No AML/KYC regulations

A free market is the emergent process of adult free agency and voluntary exchange where the use of force and coercion is absent.

A free market is a process of decentralized decisionmaking, where free agents interact and must convince one another toward interactions that leave both parties better off. As Aristotle noted, a trade will only occur when both parties are in agreement. We can deduce from this that if there is no consent there is no free market.

Back to John Locke, who laid the philosophical foundation for the anti-slavery movement in 1690.

Since you own yourself, your mind, body and the fruits of your labor, you must also own the monetary reward for your work.

If you own the income from your work, then you must be free to spend and transact as you deem fit, without needing a permission. I.e. - a free market.

A third party permission can be withdrawn and render your money unusable, which is why it is incompatible with the principle of owning the fruits of your labor. We can deduce from this that AML regulations are, ipso facto, an abolition of property rights.

For a free market to work there must be competition in money, so that individuals can choose the form of money which is objectively best for them and ensure that their income cannot be stolen via moneyprinting/inflation. I.e. choice of money is required as a condition for property rights. As we have already established, theft is a violation of property rights which leaves us with the conclusion that moneyprinting is incompatible with a free market.

Since owning yourself also means the liberty to express yourself - without harming the individual rights of others - speech must be free. Boundaries to free speech involve for example incitement toward physically harming other individuals, i.e. abolishing their individual rights.

A free market also depends on free speech since consumers must be able to boycot bad products and services as well as report and warn the public of incompetence, lacking service or quality, harmful practices, poor management and mistreatment of staff. Only via free communication can a market be free and individual decisionmaking can be informed by facts of reality and the ethical judgement of individuals voting with their wallets and feet.

Without free speech there can be no error-correction. From a programming perspective this is a deep can of worms: when errors compound without fixing, a complex code will inevitably spiral out of hand.

Not only does this lead to harmful outcomes but it also leads to completely unpredictable results that will undermine any attempt to objectively analyze data and draw informed conclusions. As the effects of un-fixed errors snowball, a system becomes increasingly unstable and destructive, ripe for the risks of a deepening dictatorship.

Overview of the logical outcomes of central planning, central banks and moneyprinting:

1. Governments + central banks create money from nothing.

2. The newly created money enters the economy via government spending, as well as from fractional reserve lending, and flow into real estate, assets, commodities, etc causing bubbles exploited by insiders and cantillionaires.

3. Price inflation, costs of living and house prices continuously go up as a result of moneyprinting, taxes, regulations and subsidies, while government debt increase.

4. Workers need higher wages due to the increasing costs of living.

5. Small businesses can't afford to pay higher wages plus increased costs of rent and must either close down, sell their business or move further away from city centers, thus losing revenue and allowing large corporations to eat up their market share.

6. Large corporations are incentivized to merge with government and acclimatize their protocols toward government ideology in order to access subsidies, tax reductions and to escape costly regulations. The more the regulations, the more government and corporations can be expected to become entangled and merged. This is how the process of corporatism is worsened, year by year.

7. The government uses major corporations for surveillance and ideological indoctrination against its employees and may pressure corporations to demand unsolicited medical treatment and/or injections for its staff.

We saw this during Covid when, in many workplaces, an experimental mRNA injection was announced to be required in order to keep your job. This was an effect of government regulations and threats, both open and implied, of costs and fines imposed for non-compliance.

As the free market competition is strangled by the government rigging the markets, employees have increasing difficulties finding jobs that don't involve government surveillance, ideological conformity and mandatory medical procedures.

8. Workers are replaced by robots as inflation escalates and the costs of living drive up wages, while companies are incentivized to invest in machinery and robots rather than costly human staff. Unions threatening with strikes makes unionized employees less reliable and more risky for production and expanded regulations impose additonal costs for companies. The government can basically increase costly regulations to infinity in order to corporatise the market and centrally plan it via regulatory nudges.

9. As workers are replaced by robots, large segments of the population become dependent on government tax money redistribution + moneyprinting. We can expect that the conditions involved for receiving a UBI check will involve unpaid labor and/or compliance with government ideology.

As a result of ideological obedience, error-correction is undermined and without critical voices opposing the regulations the complex fabric of societal code spirals downward toward unrestricted central planning.

This is the 1984 dystopia we want to avoid, plagued by central planning tools such as CBDCs, carbon allowances, ESG, DEI, energy rationing, censorship, surveillance and social credit scores.

Bitcoin is necessary to empower individual liberties, property rights, competition, free speech and enable the process of free markets and decentralized decisionmaking (individual sovereign judgement) to restore liberties and counteract the increasing centralization of power.

Bitcoin is anti-1984 technology.


💯

First we need to define what a free market means. John Locke laid the foundation in 1690 in his Two Treatises of Government, by deducing that every person is born free, own themselves and the fruits of their labor.

This effectively renders slavery impossible - when we agree that in order to protect our own property rights, we also cannot own another person and the fruits of their labor.

Following first principles, we can then deduce from Locke's groundwork that coercion is wrong, theft is a crime and that abuse and exploitation are abominable, since every person owns themselves and must be engaged with informed consent.

A few principles that would characterize a genuine free market:

1. No central banks
2. No government moneyprinting
3. Competition in money
4. Full property rights for all
5. Free speech
6. No AML/KYC regulations

A free market is the emergent process of adult free agency and voluntary exchange where the use of force and coercion is absent.

A free market is a process of decentralized decisionmaking, where free agents interact and must convince one another toward interactions that leave both parties better off. As Aristotle noted, a trade will only occur when both parties are in agreement. We can deduce from this that if there is no consent there is no free market.

Back to John Locke, who laid the philosophical foundation for the anti-slavery movement in 1690.

Since you own yourself, your mind, body and the fruits of your labor, you must also own the monetary reward for your work.

If you own the income from your work, then you must be free to spend and transact as you deem fit, without needing a permission. I.e. - a free market.

A third party permission can be withdrawn and render your money unusable, which is why it is incompatible with the principle of owning the fruits of your labor. We can deduce from this that AML regulations are, ipso facto, an abolition of property rights.

For a free market to work there must be competition in money, so that individuals can choose the form of money which is objectively best for them and ensure that their income cannot be stolen via moneyprinting/inflation. I.e. choice of money is required as a condition for property rights. As we have already established, theft is a violation of property rights which leaves us with the conclusion that moneyprinting is incompatible with a free market.

Since owning yourself also means the liberty to express yourself - without harming the individual rights of others - speech must be free. Boundaries to free speech involve for example incitement toward physically harming other individuals, i.e. abolishing their individual rights.

A free market also depends on free speech since consumers must be able to boycot bad products and services as well as report and warn the public of incompetence, lacking service or quality, harmful practices, poor management and mistreatment of staff. Only via free communication can a market be free and individual decisionmaking can be informed by facts of reality and the ethical judgement of individuals voting with their wallets and feet.

Without free speech there can be no error-correction. From a programming perspective this is a deep can of worms: when errors compound without fixing, a complex code will inevitably spiral out of hand.

Not only does this lead to harmful outcomes but it also leads to completely unpredictable results that will undermine any attempt to objectively analyze data and draw informed conclusions. As the effects of un-fixed errors snowball, a system becomes increasingly unstable and destructive, ripe for the risks of a deepening dictatorship.

Overview of the logical outcomes of central planning, central banks and moneyprinting:

1. Governments + central banks create money from nothing.

2. The newly created money enters the economy via government spending, as well as from fractional reserve lending, and flow into real estate, assets, commodities, etc causing bubbles exploited by insiders and cantillionaires.

3. Price inflation, costs of living and house prices continuously go up as a result of moneyprinting, taxes, regulations and subsidies, while government debt increase.

4. Workers need higher wages due to the increasing costs of living.

5. Small businesses can't afford to pay higher wages plus increased costs of rent and must either close down, sell their business or move further away from city centers, thus losing revenue and allowing large corporations to eat up their market share.

6. Large corporations are incentivized to merge with government and acclimatize their protocols toward government ideology in order to access subsidies, tax reductions and to escape costly regulations. The more the regulations, the more government and corporations can be expected to become entangled and merged. This is how the process of corporatism is worsened, year by year.

7. The government uses major corporations for surveillance and ideological indoctrination against its employees and may pressure corporations to demand unsolicited medical treatment and/or injections for its staff.

We saw this during Covid when, in many workplaces, an experimental mRNA injection was announced to be required in order to keep your job. This was an effect of government regulations and threats, both open and implied, of costs and fines imposed for non-compliance.

As the free market competition is strangled by the government rigging the markets, employees have increasing difficulties finding jobs that don't involve government surveillance, ideological conformity and mandatory medical procedures.

8. Workers are replaced by robots as inflation escalates and the costs of living drive up wages, while companies are incentivized to invest in machinery and robots rather than costly human staff. Unions threatening with strikes makes unionized employees less reliable and more risky for production and expanded regulations impose additonal costs for workers. The government can basically increase costly regulations to infinity in order to corporatise the market and centrally plan it via regulatory nudges.

9. As workers are replaced by robots, large segments of the population become dependent on government tax money redistribution + moneyprinting. We can expect that the conditions involved for receiving a UBI check will involve unpaid labor and/or compliance with government ideology.

As a result of ideological obedience, error-correction is undermined and without critical voices opposing the regulations the complex fabric of societal code spirals downward toward unrestricted central planning.

This is the 1984 dystopia we want to avoid, plagued by central planning tools such as CBDCs, carbon allowances, ESG, DEI, energy rationing, censorship, surveillance and social credit scores.

Bitcoin is necessary to empower individual liberties, property rights, competition, free speech and enable the process of free markets and decentralized decisionmaking (individual sovereign judgement) to restore liberties and counteract the increasing centralization of power.

Bitcoin is anti-1984 technology.


I think the main risk of authoritarianism in Trump is in considering the result of 8 years of demonization of him as well as the false litigations.

I hope that he will be able to overcome the totalitarianism of the political left and not stoop down to their bottomless pit.

He needs a strong libertarian VP that forces him to focus on liberty for all, justice, property rights and individual liberties. With the right VP, who is willing to critique Trump when he is in the wrong, I think we can avoid worst case scenarios.


I think the main risk of authoritarianism in Trump is in considering the result of 8 years of demonization of him as well as the false litigations.

I hope that he will be able to overcome the totalitarianism of the political left and not stoop down to their bottomless pit.

He needs a strong libertarian VP that forces him to focus on liberty for all, justice, property rights and individual liberties. With the right VP, who is willing to critique Trump when he is in the wrong, I thjnk we can avoid worst case scenarios.


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First we need to define what a free market means. John Locke laid the foundation in 1690 in his Two Treatises of Government, by deducing that every person is born free, own themselves and the fruits of their labor.

This effectively renders slavery impossible - when we agree that in order to protect our own property rights, we also cannot own another person and the fruits of their labor.

Following first principles, we can then deduce from Locke's groundwork that coercion is wrong, theft is a crime and that abuse and exploitation are abominable, since every person owns themselves and must be engaged with informed consent.

A few principles that would characterize a genuine free market:

1. No central banks
2. No government moneyprinting
3. Competition in money
4. Full property rights for all
5. Free speech
6. No AML/KYC regulations

A free market is the emergent process of adult free agency and voluntary exchange where the use of force and coercion is absent.

A free market is a process of decentralized decisionmaking, where free agents interact and must convince one another toward interactions that leave both parties better off. As Aristotle noted, a trade will only occur when both parties are in agreement. We can deduce from this that if there is no consent there is no free market.

Back to John Locke, who laid the philosophical foundation for the anti-slavery movement in 1690.

Since you own yourself, your mind, body and the fruits of your labor, you must also own the monetary reward for your work.

If you own the income from your work, then you must be free to spend and transact as you deem fit, without needing a permission. I.e. - a free market.

A third party permission can be withdrawn and render your money unusable, which is why it is incompatible with the principle of owning the fruits of your labor. We can deduce from this that AML regulations are, ipso facto, an abolition of property rights.

For a free market to work there must be competition in money, so that individuals can choose the form of money which is objectively best for them and ensure that their income cannot be stolen via moneyprinting/inflation. I.e. choice of money is required as a condition for property rights. As we have already established, theft is a violation of property rights which leaves us with the conclusion that moneyprinting is incompatible with a free market.

Since owning yourself also means the liberty to express yourself - without harming the individual rights of others - speech must be free. Boundaries to free speech involve for example incitement toward physically harming other individuals, i.e. abolishing their individual rights.

A free market also depends on free speech since consumers must be able to boycot bad products and services as well as report and warn the public of incompetence, lacking service or quality, harmful practices, poor management and mistreatment of staff. Only via free communication can a market be free and individual decisionmaking can be informed by facts of reality and the ethical judgement of individuals voting with their wallets and feet.

Without free speech there can be no error-correction. From a programming perspective this is a deep can of worms: when errors compound without fixing, a complex code will inevitably spiral out of hand.

Not only does this lead to harmful outcomes but it also leads to completely unpredictable results that will undermine any attempt to objectively analyze data and draw informed conclusions. As the effects of un-fixed errors snowball, a system becomes increasingly unstable and destructive, ripe for the risks of a deepening dictatorship.

Overview of the logical outcomes of central planning, central banks and moneyprinting:

1. Governments + central banks create money from nothing.

2. The newly created money enters the economy via government spending, as well as from fractional reserve lending, and flow into real estate, assets, commodities, etc causing bubbles exploited by insiders and cantillionaires.

3. Price inflation, costs of living and house prices continuously go up as a result of moneyprinting, taxes, regulations and subsidies, while government debt increase.

4. Workers need higher wages due to the increasing costs of living.

5. Small businesses can't afford to pay higher wages plus increased costs of rent and must either close down, sell their business or move further away from city centers, thus losing revenue and allowing large corporations to eat up their market share.

6. Large corporations are incentivized to merge with government and acclimatize their protocols toward government ideology in order to access subsidies, tax reductions and to escape costly regulations. The more the regulations, the more government and corporations can be expected to become entangled and merged. This is how the process of corporatism is worsened, year by year.

7. The government uses major corporations for surveillance and ideological indoctrination against its employees and may pressure corporations to demand unsolicited medical treatment and/or injections for its staff.

We saw this during Covid when, in many workplaces, an experimental mRNA was announced to be required in order to keep your job. This was an effect of government regulations and threats of costs and fines imposed for non-compliance.

As the free market competition is strangled by the government rigging the markets, employees have increasing difficulties finding jobs that don't involve government surveillance, ideological conformity and mandatory medical procedures.

8. Workers are replaced by robots as inflation escalates and the costs of living drive up wages, while companies are incentivized to invest in machinery and robots rather than costly human staff. Unions threatening with strikes makes unionized employees less reliable and more risky for production and expanded regulations impose additonal costs for workers. The government can basically increase costly regulations to infinity in order to corporatise the market and centrally plan it via regulatory nudges.

9. As workers are replaced by robots, large segments of the population become dependent on government tax money redistribution + moneyprinting. We can expect that the conditions involved for receiving a UBI check will involve unpaid labor and/or compliance with government ideology.

As a result of ideological obedience, error-correction is undermined and without critical voices opposing the regulations the complex fabric of societal code spirals downward toward unrestricted central planning.

This is the 1984 dystopia we want to avoid, plagued by central planning tools such as CBDCs, carbon allowances, ESG, DEI, energy rationing, censorship, surveillance and social credit scores.

Bitcoin is necessary to empower individual liberties, property rights, competition, free speech and enable the process of free markets and decentralized decisionmaking (individual sovereign judgement) to restore liberties and counteract the increasing centralization of power.

Bitcoin is anti-1984 technology.


💯

First we need to define what a free market means. John Locke laid the foundation in 1690 in his Two Treatises of Government, by deducing that every person is born free, own themselves and the fruits of their labor.

This effectively renders slavery impossible - when we agree that in order to protect our own property rights, we also cannot own another person and the fruits of their labor.

Following first principles, we can then deduce from Locke's groundwork that coercion is wrong, theft is a crime and that abuse and exploitation are abominable, since every person owns themselves and must be engaged with informed consent.

A few principles that would characterize a genuine free market:

1. No central banks
2. No government moneyprinting
3. Competition in money
4. Full property rights for all
5. Free speech
6. No AML/KYC regulations

A free market is the emergent process of adult free agency and voluntary exchange where the use of force and coercion is absent.

A free market is a process of decentralized decisionmaking, where free agents interact and must convince one another toward interactions that leave both parties better off. As Aristotle noted, a trade will only occur when both parties are in agreement. We can deduce from this that if there is no consent there is no free market.

Back to John Locke, who laid the philosophical foundation for the anti-slavery movement in 1690.

Since you own yourself, your mind, body and the fruits of your labor, you must also own the monetary reward for your work.

If you own the income from your work, then you must be free to spend and transact as you deem fit, without needing a permission. I.e. - a free market.

A third party permission can be withdrawn and render your money unusable, which is why it is incompatible with the principle of owning the fruits of your labor. We can deduce from this that AML regulations are, ipso facto, an abolition of property rights.

For a free market to work there must be competition in money, so that individuals can choose the form of money which is objectively best for them and ensure that their income cannot be stolen via moneyprinting/inflation. I.e. choice of money is required as a condition for property rights. As we have already established, theft is a violation of property rights which leaves us with the conclusion that moneyprinting is incompatible with a free market.

Since owning yourself also means the liberty to express yourself - without harming the individual rights of others - speech must be free. Boundaries to free speech involve for example incitement toward physically harming other individuals, i.e. abolishing their individual rights.

A free market also depends on free speech since consumers must be able to boycot bad products and services as well as report and warn the public of incompetence, lacking service or quality, harmful practices, poor management and mistreatment of staff. Only via free communication can a market be free and individual decisionmaking can be informed by facts of reality and the ethical judgement of individuals voting with their wallets and feet.

Without free speech there can be no error-correction. From a programming perspective this is a deep can of worms: when errors compound without fixing, a complex code will inevitably spiral out of hand.

Not only does this lead to harmful outcomes but it also leads to completely unpredictable results that will undermine any attempt to objectively analyze data and draw informed conclusions. As the effects of un-fixed errors snowball, a system becomes increasingly unstable and destructive, ripe for the risks of a deepening dictatorship.

Overview of the logical outcomes of central planning, central banks and moneyprinting:

1. Governments + central banks create money from nothing.

2. The newly created money enters the economy via government spending, as well as from fractional reserve lending, and flow into real estate, assets, commodities, etc causing bubbles exploited by insiders and cantillionaires.

3. Price inflation, costs of living and house prices continuously go up as a result of moneyprintin, taxes, regulatioms and subsidies, while government debt increase.

4. Workers need higher wages due to the increasing costs of living.

5. Small businesses can't afford to pay higher wages plus increased costs of rent and must either close down, sell their business or move further away from city centers, thus losing revenue and allowing large corporations to eat up their market share.

6. Large corporations are incentivized to merge with government and acclimatize their protocols toward government ideology in order to access subsidies, tax reductions and to escape costly regulations. The more the regulations, the more government and corporations can be expected to become entangled and merged. This is how the process of corporatism is worsened, year by year.

7. The government uses major corporations for surveillance and ideological indoctrination against its employees and may pressure corporations to demand unsolicited medical treatment and/or injections for its staff.

We saw this during Covid when, in many workplaces, an experimental mRNA was announced to be required in order to keep your job. This was an effect of government regulations and threats of costs and fines imposed for non-compliance.

As the free market competition is strangled by the government rigging the markets, employees have increasing difficulties finding jobs that don't involve government surveillance, ideological conformity and mandatory medical procedures.

8. Workers are replaced by robots as inflation escalates and the costs of living drive up wages, while companies are incentivized to invest in machinery and robots rather than costly human staff. Unions threatening with strikes makes unionized employees less reliable and more risky for production and expanded regulations impose additonal costs for workers. The government can basically increase costly regulations to infinity in order to corporatise the market and centrally plan it via regulatory nudges.

9. As workers are replaced by robots, large segments of the population become dependent on government tax money redistribution + moneyprinting. We can expect that the conditions involved for receiving a UBI check will involve unpaid labor and/or compliance with government ideology.

As a result of ideological obedience, error-correction is undermined and without critical voices opposing the regulations the complex fabric of societal code spirals downward toward unrestricted central planning.

This is the 1984 dystopia we want to avoid, plagued by central planning tools such as CBDCs, carbon allowances, ESG, DEI, energy rationing, censorship, surveillance and social credit scores.

Bitcoin is necessary to empower individual liberties, property rights, competition, free speech and enable the process of free markets and decentralized decisionmaking (individual sovereign judgement) to restore liberties and counteract the increasing centralization of power.

Bitcoin is anti-1984 technology.


💯

First we need to define what a free market means. John Locke laid the foundation in 1690 in his Two Treatises of Government, by deducing that every person is born free, own themselves and the fruits of their labor.

This effectively renders slavery impossible - when we agree that in order to protect our own property rights, we also cannot own another person and the fruits of their labor.

Following first principles, we can then deduce from Locke's groundwork that coercion is wrong, theft is a crime and that abuse and exploitation are abominable, since every person owns themselves and must be engaged with informed consent.

A few principles that would characterize a genuine free market:

1. No central banks
2. No government moneyprinting
3. Competition in money
4. Full property rights for all
5. Free speech
6. No AML/KYC regulations

A free market is the emergent process of adult free agency and voluntary exchange where the use of force and coercion is absent.

A free market is a process of decentralized decisionmaking, where free agents interact and must convince one another toward interactions that leave both parties better off. As Aristotle noted, a trade will only occur when both parties are in agreement. We can deduce from this that if there is no consent there is no free market.

Back to John Locke, who laid the philosophical foundation for the anti-slavery movement in 1690.

Since you own yourself, your mind, body and the fruits of your labor, you must also own the monetary reward for your work.

If you own the income from your work, then you must be free to spend and transact as you deem fit, without needing a permission. I.e. - a free market.

A third party permission can be withdrawn and render your money unusable, which is why it is incompatible with the principle of owning the fruits of your labor. We can deduce from this that AML regulations are, ipso facto, an abolition of property rights.

For a free market to work there must be competition in money, so that individuals can choose the form of money and ensure that their income cannot be stolen via moneyprinting/inflation. As we have already established, theft is a violation of property rights which leaves us with the conclusion that moneyprinting is incompatible with a free market.

Since owning yourself also means the liberty to express yourself - without harming the individual rights of others - speech must be free. Boundaries to free speech involve for example incitement toward physically harming other individuals, i.e. abolishing their individual rights.

A free market also depends on free speech since consumers must be able to boycot bad products and services as well as report and warn the public of incompetence, lacking service or quality, harmful practices, poor management and mistreatment of staff. Only via free communication can a market be free and individual decisionmaking can be informed by facts of reality and the ethical judgement of individuals voting with their wallets and feet.

Without free speech there can be no error-correction. From a programming perspective this is a deep can of worms: when errors compound without fixing, a complex code will inevitably spiral out of hand.

Not only does this lead to harmful outcomes but it also leads to completely unpredictable results that will undermine any attempt to objectively analyze data and draw informed conclusions. As the effects of un-fixed errors snowball, a system becomes increasingly unstable and destructive, ripe for the risks of a deepening dictatorship.

Overview of the logical outcomes of central planning, central banks and moneyprinting:

1. Governments + central banks create money from nothing.

2. The newly created money enters the economy via government spending, as well as from fractional reserve lending, and flow into real estate, assets, commodities, etc causing bubbles exploited by insiders and cantillionaires.

3. Price inflation, costs of living and house prices continuously go up as a result of moneyprintin, taxes, regulatioms and subsidies, while government debt increase.

4. Workers need higher wages due to the increasing costs of living.

5. Small businesses can't afford to pay higher wages plus increased costs of rent and must either close down, sell their business or move further away from city centers, thus losing revenue and allowing large corporations to eat up their market share.

6. Large corporations are incentivized to merge with government and acclimatize their protocols toward government ideology in order to access subsidies, tax reductions and to escape costly regulations. The more the regulations, the more government and corporations can be expected to become entangled and merged. This is how the process of corporatism is worsened, year by year.

7. The government uses major corporations for surveillance and ideological indoctrination against its employees and may pressure corporations to demand unsolicited medical treatment and/or injections for its staff.

We saw this during Covid when, in many workplaces, an experimental mRNA was announced to be required in order to keep your job. This was an effect of government regulations and threats of costs and fines imposed for non-compliance.

As the free market competition is strangled by the government rigging the markets, employees have increasing difficulties finding jobs that don't involve government surveillance, ideological conformity and mandatory medical procedures.

8. Workers are replaced by robots as inflation escalates and the costs of living drive up wages, while companies are incentivized to invest in machinery and robots rather than costly human staff. Unions threatening with strikes makes unionized employees less reliable and more risky for production and expanded regulations impose additonal costs for workers. The government can basically increase costly regulations to infinity in order to corporatise the market and centrally plan it via regulatory nudges.

9. As workers are replaced by robots, large segments of the population become dependent on government tax money redistribution + moneyprinting. We can expect that the conditions involved for receiving a UBI check will involve unpaid labor and/or compliance with government ideology.

As a result of ideological obedience, error-correction is undermined and without critical voices opposing the regulations the complex fabric of societal code spirals downward toward unrestricted central planning.

This is the 1984 dystopia we want to avoid, plagued by central planning tools such as CBDCs, carbon allowances, ESG, DEI, energy rationing, censorship, surveillance and social credit scores.

Bitcoin is necessary to empower individual liberties, property rights, competition, free speech and enable the process of free markets and decentralized decisionmaking (individual sovereign judgement) to restore liberties and counteract the increasing centralization of power.

Bitcoin is anti-1984 technology.


💯

First we need to define what a free market means. John Locke laid the foundation in 1690 in his Two Treatises of Government, by deducing that every person is born free, own themselves and the fruits of their labor.

This effectively renders slavery impossible - when we agree that in order to protect our own property rights, we also cannot own another person and the fruits of their labor.

Following first principles, we can then deduce from Locke's groundwork that coercion is wrong, theft is a crime and that abuse and exploitation are abominable, since every person owns themselves and must be engaged with informed consent.

A few principles that would characterize a genuine free market:

1. No central banks
2. No government moneyprinting
3. Competition in money
4. Full property rights for all
5. Free speech
6. No AML/KYC regulations

A free market is the emergent process of adult free agency and voluntary exchange where the use of force and coercion is absent.

A free market is a process of decentralized decisionmaking, where free agents interact and must convince one another toward interactions that leave both parties better off. As Aristotle noted, a trade will only occur when both parties are in agreement. We can deduce from this that if there is no consent there is no free market.

Back to John Locke, who laid the philosophical foundation for the anti-slavery movement in 1690.

Since you own yourself, your mind, body and the fruits of your labor, you must also own the monetary reward for your work.

If you own the income from your work, then you must be free to spend and transact as you deem fit, without needing a permission. I.e. - a free market.

A third party permission can be withdrawn and render your money unusable, which is why it is incompatible with the principle of owning the fruits of your labor. We can deduce from this that AML regulations are, ipso facto, an abolition of property rights.

For a free market to work there must be competition in money, so that individuals can choose the form of money and that their income cannot be stolen via moneyprinting/inflation. As we have already established, theft is a violation of property rights which leaves us with the conclusion that moneyprinting is incompatible with a free market.

Since owning yourself also means the liberty to express yourself - without harming the individual rights of others - speech must be free. Boundaries to free speech involve for example incitement toward physically harming other individuals, i.e. abolishing their individual rights.

A free market also depends on free speech since consumers must be able to boycot bad products and services as well as report and warn the public of incompetence, lacking service or quality, harmful practices, poor management and mistreatment of staff. Only via free communication can a market be free and individual decisionmaking can be informed by facts of reality and the ethical judgement of individuals voting with their wallets and feet.

Without free speech there can be no error-correction. From a programming perspective this is a deep can of worms: when errors compound without fixing, a complex code will inevitably spiral out of hand.

Not only does this lead to harmful outcomes but it also leads to completely unpredictable results that will undermine any attempt to objectively analyze data and draw informed conclusions. As the effects of un-fixed errors snowball, a system becomes increasingly unstable and destructive, ripe for the risks of a deepening dictatorship.

Overview of the logical outcomes of central planning, central banks and moneyprinting:

1. Governments + central banks create money from nothing.

2. The newly created money enters the economy via government spending, as well as from fractional reserve lending, and flow into real estate, assets, commodities, etc causing bubbles exploited by insiders and cantillionaires.

3. Price inflation, costs of living and house prices continuously go up as a result of moneyprintin, taxes, regulatioms and subsidies, while government debt increase.

4. Workers need higher wages due to the increasing costs of living.

5. Small businesses can't afford to pay higher wages plus increased costs of rent and must either close down, sell their business or move further away from city centers, thus losing revenue and allowing large corporations to eat up their market share.

6. Large corporations are incentivized to merge with government and acclimatize their protocols toward government ideology in order to access subsidies, tax reductions and to escape costly regulations. The more the regulations, the more government and corporations can be expected to become entangled and merged. This is how the process of corporatism is worsened, year by year.

7. The government uses major corporations for surveillance and ideological indoctrination against its employees and may pressure corporations to demand unsolicited medical treatment and/or injections for its staff.

We saw this during Covid when, in many workplaces, an experimental mRNA was announced to be required in order to keep your job. This was an effect of government regulations and threats of costs and fines imposed for non-compliance.

As the free market competition is strangled by the government rigging the markets, employees have increasing difficulties finding jobs that don't involve government surveillance, ideological conformity and mandatory medical procedures.

8. Workers are replaced by robots as inflation escalates and the costs of living drive up wages, while companies are incentivized to invest in machinery and robots rather than costly human staff. Unions threatening with strikes makes unionized employees less reliable and more risky for production and expanded regulations impose additonal costs for workers. The government can basically increase costly regulations to infinity in order to corporatise the market and centrally plan it via regulatory nudges.

9. As workers are replaced by robots, large segments of the population become dependent on government tax money redistribution + moneyprinting. We can expect that the conditions involved for receiving a UBI check will involve unpaid labor and/or compliance with government ideology.

As a result of ideological obedience, error-correction is undermined and without critical voices opposing the regulations the complex fabric of societal code spirals downward toward unrestricted central planning.

This is the 1984 dystopia we want to avoid, plagued by central planning tools such as CBDCs, carbon allowances, ESG, DEI, energy rationing, censorship, surveillance and social credit scores.

Bitcoin is necessary to empower individual liberties, property rights, competition, free speech and enable the process of free markets and decentralized decisionmaking (individual sovereign judgement) to restore liberties and counteract the increasing centralization of power.

Bitcoin is anti-1984 technology.


Yup.

I've been saying for some time that Trump needs a libertarian, anti-globalist VP.

If his vice president is *more* libertarian than he is, then the deep state has nothing to win by assassinating him.

Any politician who takes a stand against CBDCs will be a target for the deep state.


It usually takes a few weeks until the information emerges so I tend to keep that in mind.

There is always the risk of deep state misinformation to spread false leads.

Might be him, might not be him.


So you are a sexual predator?
If I can type it, it must be true in your book.

Don't let a lack of legal proceedings hinder your personal verdict based on ideology and ressentiment.

The attempted assassination on Trump was fueled by just the kind of lies, propaganda and demonization that you engage in.


So you are a sexual predator?
If I can type it, it must be true in your book.

Don't let a lack of legal proceedings hinder your personal verdict based on ideology and ressentiment.


So you are a sexual predator?
If I can type it, it must be true in your book.


The old Left vs the modern Left.

#Meme #Memes

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Fight tyranny.
Liberty for all.

CBDCs belong in Hell.

UN Agenda 21 is an operative system for tyranny.

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Trump has been vocal about abolishing CBDCs and recently even turning around to support Bitcoin.

The deep state in most western countries are 100% against Trump since 8 years back, which has been demonstrated by the constant demonization, lies and gaslighting. Having observed this propaganda in Swedish and Norwegian media has demonstrated how global and coordinated this deep state operation has been.

CBDCs are essential for the totalitarian UN Agenda 21 and its next milestone Agenda 2030.

ESG, DEI, carbon allowances, Net Zero, energy rationing and social credit scores will all be easier to implement when CBDCs are in place.

Tyranny requires CBDCs, which is why tyrants hate Bitcoin. The deep state is in absolute conflict with any candidate that opposes CBDCs.


They have no rational capacity whatsoever.

The idea of intentionally grazing the ear of a person with a bullet, when that person is turning his head every now and then, just to improve the ratings of the leading candidate who is competing against a tragically demented candidate who can't formulate coherent sentences, is absurd.

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They have no rational capacity whatsiever.

The idea of intentionally grazing the ear of a person with a bullet, when that person is turning his head every now and then, just to improve the ratings of the leading candidate who is competing against a tragically demented candidate who can't formulate coherent sentences, is absurd.

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This man is going to win in a landslide.
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This man isn't just fighting for America, he's fighting against the evil worldwide. https://image.nostr.build/4ac2fe82a16aac8aa04679dcf401b3164ba5c1e97a5a8543daed6a4234b4f905.jpg


This Elon’s tweet about the illegal European Commission secret deal proposal got 46 million views so far.

How many TV channels and daily papers does it take to match that audience?

Hehe censors rekt https://image.nostr.build/57e5473c02bdf5a2718420dd989580c300ac7ea2a1e9359f3d36991ff2645a26.jpg


Well, we know that totalitarians are in charge of Western nations.

If we want to predict the direction of our societies we have to analyse the program code of policies that our nations run by.

The UN Agenda 21 + its next goal post Agenda 2030 reveals how deep the totalitarianism runs, what its aims are and what the program code looks like.

This is why Bitcoin matters. If we lived in a free society we wouldn't need to seek out a liberty solution. Now we have no choice but to avoid a 1984 society or suffer the consequences of central planning.


Weird is absolutely fine.

If a person supports individual rights and property rights then there is a chance for bridgebuilding through common values.

I think it is important to debate the problems of central planning, because nobody can know who will be in charge of a centrally planned system, let's say 10 years ahead.

Whatever interests a person have, those interests may be harmed by a central planning bureaucrat at some point.

Decentralization and free markets allows for competing visions to exist.


Don't get too pumped about Trump speaking at this year's nostr:npub1rwh33t5x8n7czknhts5fg0v0fml8mkl7neaarksumkkf8d679qrqcz7avv, there are forces in motion that could severely impact the bitcoin industry if people don't begin to make noise.

Earlier today there was a Senate Agriculture Committee hearing on Oversight of Digital Commodities with the head of the CFTC that everyone should watch.

If the legislation that is inevitably going to come out of this hearing gets passed it won't matter if Trump gets into office. The industry will be hindered for years. There is bi-partisan support at the moment as Democrats are moving quickly to react to the buzz Republicans have received due to their embrace of bitcoin.

Long story short, this committee is pushing to give the CFTC regulatory oversight over spot bitcoin markets, which is an unprecedented expansion of CFTC authority into retail commodities trades whereas in the past they have exclusively had jurisdiction over only commodities derivatives markets.

If the CFTC is granted this expansion of authority it would mean that they are likely going to require any bitcoin company to register with the federal government and have enhanced KYC/AML requirements. To be clear, this won't only affect exchanges, but any company that touches spot bitcoin.

These efforts are being spearheaded on the crypto side via lobbying efforts by Kraken, Coinbase and Ripple. Not shocking because this would likely enable them to trivially erect regulatory moats.

It looks like the bi-partisan effort will be looking to pass something through the House and into law rather quickly. Likely before the election.

It is imperative that you speak out against this as it would increase the regulatory and compliance burdens on US bitcoin companies considerably. The best move right now is no action. We need less regulation, not more. As we've seen time and time again throughout the first 15-years of bitcoin, these regulations but users in harm's way and make it unreasonably difficult for companies to operate cheaply and effectively.

Call you Representative and tell them to reject any bill that would give the CFTC oversight over spot bitcoin markets. This is a full on attack.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F3i0pxWvyPc


This means hope https://video.nostr.build/9ea8b25d9b3f6a051a7601cc9333e3a99e30ae912109dc2f80dd186c9cb44f6c.mp4


Weekend at Bernie's.

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Thank you for sharing Rune.

My apology would have to go to my previous boss in Norway because I spent too much time at work talking to colleagues about Bitcoin, the risks of the mRNA vaccines and my criticism of the U.N. Agenda 21 + 2030. I should have kept those subjects for the breaks only. Still I was efficient and saved the company a lot of $. When we were busy I kept the pedal to the metal and only talked when there was little work.

Several times I adviced a Norwegian colleague that he shouldn't take the mRNA vaccine. He did take it anyway and after his second shot he ended up in hospital and had to stay away from work for 2 weeks with heart problems; "hjertflimmer", i.e. heart arrhythmia. He also said that the hospital staff restarted his heart and they claimed that this was normal. He was the kind of tall, strong farmer guy that had never been sick from work in his life before. Very positive and skilled worker. After that he told me that he agreed with me and would never take the third shot. I hope he is doing ok. Luckily his adult sons had declined the vaccines.