Nostr notes by beautyon

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2026-01-29T23:07:58Z

Now you can buy bitcoin privately in Proton Wallet, thanks to a ...

2026-01-16T17:39:16Z

Now you can buy bitcoin privately in Proton Wallet, thanks to a new integration with one of the greatest privacy companies in the history of the internetz.

People who are for privacy, for bitcoin, and who want to see a future where people are more free don't just talk about it, they do something about it, and that's what Azteco and Proton do.

Proton has been offering private email since 2014, and they've been very effective at it.

They have 100,000,000 users. And that is a lot of users.

Their Proton Wallet is 100% software, and so it can scale dramatically, like WhatsApp and other software only tools have scaled. You do the math.

Their wallet is fantastically beautiful, consumer friendly and available world-wide, out of the box. They have everything right.

Proton is a very important integration for Azteco, partly because we're fans of that great company, and hold them up as one of the greatest examples of how to serve users. They're one of the very best. That's a fact.

Now that the dream of Azteco and Proton is a reality, great potential is unlocked in a way that only true disruptors can unlock great potential.

FULL THROTTLE, FOR GREAT JUSTICE.

Twitter users block others for various reasons, based on their ...

2025-09-29T10:12:56Z

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Twitter users block others for various reasons, based on their personal experiences, preferences, or interactions on the platform. Here’s a breakdown of common reasons, grounded in user behavior and insights from available data:
1 Harassment or Abuse: Users often block accounts that send harassing, threatening, or abusive messages. This includes personal attacks, trolling, or hate speech targeting their identity, beliefs, or appearance.
2 Spam or Bots: Accounts that flood timelines with spam, repetitive ads, or automated bot-like behavior (e.g., mass-following or posting irrelevant links) are frequently blocked to declutter feeds.
3 Unwanted Interactions: Some users block others for unwanted replies, mentions, or DMs, especially if they feel the interaction is intrusive, argumentative, or off-topic.
4 Differing Opinions: In polarized discussions, users may block those with opposing views to avoid heated debates or to curate a more agreeable timeline, especially during controversial events.
5 Privacy and Safety: Blocking is used to protect personal information or limit visibility from strangers, ex-partners, or accounts that seem suspicious or overly curious.
6 Content Overload: Users might block accounts posting excessive or irrelevant content, like constant self-promotion or low-quality posts, to keep their feed manageable.
7 Past Conflicts: Personal grudges or negative past interactions, even offline, can lead to blocking to prevent further contact or to maintain emotional distance.
8 Mass Blocking: Some users employ tools or lists to block accounts en masse, often based on shared followers of controversial figures or specific keywords, to preemptively avoid unwanted engagement.
From posts on X, users often mention blocking for “peace of mind,” to escape “toxic” interactions, or to stop seeing content they find annoying or irrelevant. For example, a user might block someone for repeatedly quote-tweeting them with snarky comments or for flooding their mentions with unsolicited advice. Data from web sources, like Reddit discussions, suggests blocking is also a way to enforce boundaries, especially for public figures or those with large followings who face constant scrutiny.
If you have a specific scenario or user in mind, I can analyze their X profile or posts for more context on why they might block others. Let me know!

All you have to be able to say is I can send you $50 worth of ...

2025-08-26T16:54:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…gjpa
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All you have to be able to say is I can send you $50 worth of bitcoin. That’s all that’s required nothing else is needed to make bitcoin super useful to everybody. The idea that everybody has to understand bitcoin in order to use it is just crazy and they don’t apply to thinking to anything else.

I’m happy I could help have a nice day !

Asking this question is the first step to find the answer. The ...

2025-08-26T13:02:50Z

In reply to nevent1q…tpr2
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Asking this question is the first step to find the answer. The next step is to say, “what can I do about this“?

Then you have to describe the problem correctly. That means describing the problem at the root, not at the symptom level.

If you do this, describing the problem at the root level, then you won’t make me steps by creating Heath Robinson answers that can be destroyed at the whim of a handful of people who have the ultimate power over you.

Part of this is not seeking validation or repentance for the bad things you’ve done to tens of millions of people. Everything you do must be not only efficacious but proven to be efficacious.

A necessary part of this is the ability to make decisions for yourself based only on logic and the facts and not outsource your thinking to people who are in every way inferior to you.

It also means being able to accept unsatisfactory answers like this.

“Important: Google is locking down Android. Starting Sept 2026, ...

2025-08-26T07:37:12Z

“Important: Google is locking down Android.

Starting Sept 2026, every app — even outside the Play Store — must come from a verified developer.

No more anonymous sideloads. No quick comebacks for malware gangs.

First up: Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore, Thailand.”

And no indefinite access for illegal and anonymous messaging apps, especially ones with the scary hacker chic graphic design.

Protocols have no utility without apps to leverage them.

You can bury your head in the sand all you want; the facts remain the same. You can’t have a global scale permissionless ecosystem without the explicit permission of Apple and Google.

And if your aim is to change the world, you need global scale adoption to do it. That means unfettered access to be able to have your tools installed on the phones of anyone who wants that tool.

This is true also of bitcoin.

Bitcoin can’t change the world unless easy access to it is made available to billions of users.

Running away from this fact doesn’t make it go away; this fact must be confronted head on and the problem solved.

The only question is this: are you contributing to the solution of the problem or not? Or are you acting as a safety valve giving encouragement to people who don’t really understand the problem, so that they feel good today and divert their energy to something which cannot possibly win in the end and, leave us in a better world.

https://thehackernews.com/2025/08/google-to-verify-all-android-developers.html

If the method of payment is not disconnected to the “handing ...

2025-08-25T11:30:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…kmf9
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If the method of payment is not disconnected to the “handing over” of the good or service, you are de anonymised, and as you’ve seen, the State is not averse to requesting mass dumps of records of completely innocent people.

100% CORRECT. And the question is begged, “How do people get ...

2025-08-25T07:38:20Z

In reply to nevent1q…s6nz
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100% CORRECT. And the question is begged, “How do people get Bitcoin anonymously?”, a key question left out of the equation. Leaving the distribution of bitcoin to exchanges is suicidal….do don’t do it!

I’m saying throwing away recognition won’t solve the problem. ...

2025-08-25T07:31:17Z

In reply to nevent1q…zats
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I’m saying throwing away recognition won’t solve the problem.

Software developers don’t do it for nebulous “recognition” they do it to solve problems. Hiding away won’t solve anything; it’s hiding, it’s running away from the problem, it’s being a coward and refusing to solve a problem head on.

What’s worse is having the means to help solve these problems and then refusing to act.

That’s why the world is teetering on tyranny.

You’re on the right path directionally.

2025-08-25T07:16:11Z

In reply to nevent1q…gc0m
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You’re on the right path directionally.

This is the “hoodie anon, hideaway culture”. People should ...

2025-08-25T07:14:30Z

In reply to nevent1q…t46e
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This is the “hoodie anon, hideaway culture”. People should not have to hide their identities in order to swipe software.

Human collaboration in person and in the open should not suffer because the State doesn’t like the code you write.

Having your name associated with the tools you write is not about “recognition” it’s about free association in a free country.

GM FRENZ.

2025-08-25T06:59:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…p6et
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GM FRENZ.

The Durov case and many other reasons are why companies avoid ...

2025-08-25T06:46:47Z

The Durov case and many other reasons are why companies avoid basing themselves in France. No Social Media platform will seek to headquarter in Paris. It’s unthinkable.

And the French government can’t go after Andrew Torba who runs GAB because he’s an American operating GAB in America. If GAB launches end to end encrypted chat or anything the Z French government doesn’t like, there’s nothing they can do about it.

The solution to “government overreach” is not building systems that can’t be cracked or stopped; they’re persecuting Durov without any proper cause. If your name is associated with a tool that the French government can’t stop or crack or track, they will come after you. This isn’t about right and wrong, following rules or logic.

This is not about technical capabilities or clever architecture, “frenz”; this is about computer illiterate tyrants who can’t understand detail or scale or ethics, and if they can, don’t care, because they want to sacrifice Durov to scare everyone.

The next iteration in this is to criminalise the authoring and distribution of unlicensed privacy software. The first part, distribution, will stop ordinary people from accessing Telegram or any tool that keeps messages private. This is easily done through Google Play and the Apple App Store. The second will totally dry up the developer pool of people working on privacy software, because none of them want any trouble. Oh, and GitHub will ban your repo, frenz.

Before you write “Hello World” in your new tool, you will need to have a Developer’s License before starting work, even in the conceptual stage. It will be illegal for you to share any design, algorithm or outline without both you and the idea recipient having a current Crypto Software Development License.

If you think this is completely impossible, please see Bernstein v. US Department of Justice https://medium.com/swlh/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794

The answer to this is not “build your way out of it”, obviously.

The answer is to first curb the power of the state to persecute software development and distribution before you write “Hello World”. You do that by making the State smaller. You make the state smaller by instantiating sound money. That means globalising Bitcoin.

And how do you “globalise Bitcoin?”

10,9,8,7,6,5,4,3,2,1…..

And in case you didn’t know, rote recitation of catchphrases and infantile feel good gibberish will not stop the persecution of Durov, remove KYC in Bitcoin or stop the emergence of Crypto Developer Licensing.

https://x.com/durov/status/1959676036507205649?s=61&t=eyjJ5IvKiAtPIDSBRekpmA

You are conflating terms and misusing English. You even do it in ...

2025-08-24T21:25:59Z

In reply to nevent1q…p4n5
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You are conflating terms and misusing English. You even do it in the question itself when you say “possession of the seed phrase”.

You can understand that if you steal a car, you don’t own that car; similarly knowing a secret doesn’t mean you own it.

The problem here is that if you start using the correct language, and accurately, your whole mental framework that’s been handed to you to contextualise bitcoin is destroyed.

No Bitcoin user owns UTXOs. UTXOs are database entries that your private key can be used on to make a signature using someone else’s public key. All UTXO’s are copied in tens of thousands of places; by no stretch of the imagination does anyone own them.

This is like saying because you have a copy of “The Godfather” on your hard drive that you own the copy. You have a copy, you don’t own the film. It’s exactly the same with Bitcoin. You control your private keys that are strings of characters. That string can be used in a mathematical function to produce a mathematical result. Information works differently to physical matter.

No one “owns” math or any string of characters; exclusive use of a secret string of characters is not “ownership”.

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/the-bitlicense-is-a-bad-idea-that-must-die-cb413c076d85

Bitcoin is special because it makes it trivially easy to conflate and superimpose ownership analogies on mathematically generated strings that have utility in a single context. Normal people need analogies to interface with almost everything in modern life, especially where software is concerned.

“Self Custody” is a multi layered analogy set, designed to help you understand how a Private Key works in the Bitcoin context without referring at any time to math or signing processes or the chain of blocks, or databases other people’s Public Keys or anything to do with the actual processes involved with who gets to sign messages and their in context meaning.

Bitcoin is never owned; it’s an entry in a massively replicated public database.

Bitcoin is never sent or received. It is reflected in the public database.

Bitcoin is not money. It is a database.

None of these absolute facts have any bearing on Bitcoin’s utility; analogies are used to help you understand and accept bitcoin as a full replacement for fiat currency and banking services.

Without this contextual help, no member of the public would accept Bitcoin, and in the end, if people can’t use Bitcoin without the need to understand it, it will never change the world at scale.

“Ownership” and “self custody” are analogies and not ...

2025-08-23T08:51:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…el2y
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“Ownership” and “self custody” are analogies and not descriptions of process, and should absolutely cannot be the basis of any real understanding and never the basis of legislation.

Mischaracterising Bitcoin by analogising is commonplace which is why, even this week, I had to spend an hour in front of a panel of compliance lawyers explaining that addresses in bitcoin wallets on iPhones are not at all like bank accounts.

The toxic analogising that’s mistaken for reality is everywhere, and it distorts the market, because the people who build businesses must contend with computer illiterates who have been grossly mislead by advertising copy.

Imagine building something that no one is using, and then ...

2025-08-21T21:52:41Z

In reply to nevent1q…r5ce
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Imagine building something that no one is using, and then building something on top of that even less people can use unless it's under the most strict conditions, that no ordinary person will tolerate under any circumstances... and then thinking.

"THIS IS GOING TO RAWK!"

No, it's not going to rawk. It's going to die a slow death after the initial excitement in a small number of people wears off, unless a radical change happens...whatever that may look like.

And even as it's launched, all people can think of saying in these place is, "GM FRENZ", when the world is on the brink of WW3 and events unimaginable are commonplace.

This is a picture of the failure of a generation with the greatests tools and frameworks in the history of mankind at their fingertips...and all they can come up with is, "GM FRENZ".

This is the generation that could kill the Federal Reserve and usher in a golden age of financial liberty, flexibility, and absolute monetary justice. They could still kill it...well...at least the ones who are awake.

Instead, they set up strawman problems to solve, the solution of which do not result in the world changing, solutions designed to completely avoid confrontation of any kind with any body.

And herein is the key. There are people with the super powers required to fix problems but who abhor confrontation so much, they are paralysed in the one area that is a prerequisite to making global change

The ability to make decisions themselves.

All the great technologists have one thing in common; they are so convinced of their principles and solutions that they have absolutely no hesitation to tell anyone about how and what they think about any subject; in fact, they fall over themselves to do so at every opportunity.

If you can't articulate what you believe, if you are paralysed by indecision, if you are a a disinterested and deluded coward, you can't help anyone, and the powers you have are nullified by your low character.

Meanwhile...

The tiny number of people who don't suffer from these character flaws, and who have the means, are able to do things that change the world. Even if after they do that, they turn to the Dark Side, if they've left something behind that is good, perhaps that is all they were born for; that one single good thing that changed everything...like Dr. Richard Daystrom, and the Duotronics breakthrough that profoundly changed computer science forever.

The time you're living through is without precedent. On many fronts, fundamental changes to how man interacts with man are at the fingertips of every person of every class. How could you shrink from this challenge? How could you not see yourself in the rôle of an active participant bound for glory (Excalibur final scene: Arthur kills Mordred).

How can you not...get this?

You've woken up on the shore of your subconscious. You don't know where you are, how you got there, why you're there, how to get back to the real world...but several levels up, the real world is there, and so is your real life, and everyone who is really alive.

PROTIP: That's where you want to be. Not in a dream world where you're deceiving yourself that you're living; the real world is where life is, not deep down there on that beach.

“Self Sovereignty”; dead giveaway.

2025-08-14T13:27:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…2ufc
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“Self Sovereignty”; dead giveaway.

Imagine someone telling you that you should “break” your ...

2025-08-14T12:16:36Z

In reply to nevent1q…drqr
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Imagine someone telling you that you should “break” your iPhone so you can run some “weird” software. You would instantly refuse, because you just paid $1,000 for a shiny new iPhone.

That was the exact proposition on offer. No normal person Jailbrake’d their iPhone it was for hackers, risk takers and tweeters not users who just wanted the best phone ever.

By doing this, you have first hand experience that “your” ...

2025-08-14T12:14:46Z

In reply to nevent1q…3vh6
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By doing this, you have first hand experience that “your” iPhone can actually become your iPhone.

Most people who use an iPhone have no idea about any of this, and will never understand it. They have to be accessed by a route that doesn’t require understanding.

This can be done, believe it or not. It’s how Public Key Cryptography reached billions of people without a single descriptive word being written about it; it simply works in the background keeping everyone safe.

This has to happen in bitcoin. Believing otherwise is foolishness, futile and time wasting.

You’re right about the terminology, and this is why I’ve been ...

2025-08-14T12:11:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…cc64
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You’re right about the terminology, and this is why I’ve been saying for years that no one should call bitcoin “money”.

Where you are wrong however, is to say that “ownership” changes, which is categorically not true, and also, there is no such thing as “self custody” in bitcoin either.

And there are no “Bitcoin Wallets” either [SPOON BOY IMAGE]

Nomenclature shapes people’s perception; it doesn’t change reality. Unfortunately, even intelligent people don’t understand this, and demonstrate surface thinking as their primary entry point in almost all matters.

For those of you alive in the early days of the iPhone, you may ...

2025-08-14T11:43:00Z

For those of you alive in the early days of the iPhone, you may remember a tool called "Cydia".

This tool was in fact the first "App Store" for iPhone.

Cydia was written by Jay Freeman (Saurik) in 2008 and was for jailbroken iPhones.

It allowed users to install apps, tweaks, and modifications not available on Apple's App Store, all from developers without Apple's approval.

Jailbreaking your iPhone meant that you had essentially full control over it, including being able to run a root shell on it, no restrictions whatsoever; it was just like a UNIX machine in your hand.

Knowing this (and I've said it before) anyone interested in having an iPhone and Android ecosystem where users are transformed into owners of their devices, requires a new class of App Store not owned by Google or Apple, and that is very popular.

There are App Stores for Android other than Google, but they're not as popular as the Google Play Store, and that's not surprising at all, because no normal person is interested in it leaving the fenced area.

That being said, it should be possible with the proper marketing to create an ecosystem that can compete with the "Two Party State" of Google and Apple.

This would solve many of the problems caused by large companies run by people unconcerned by Ethics and user's rights and lives. In this new ecosystem, for example, it would not be possible to have a bitcoin wallet banned, or removed.

If all of this is true (and it is) then the question becomes why has no one picked up on the threat of App Store removal of Bitcoin Wallets, and why have they not acted to either create a new default App Store ecosystem or boosted an existing Alternative App Store ecosystem with a large cash injection?

There are plenty to choose from:

- Amazon Appstore
- APKMirror
- APKPure
- Aptoide
- F-Droid
- Huawei AppGallery
- Samsung Galaxy Store
- GetJar
- Uptodown
- SlideME
- Aurora Store
- AppBrain
- Mobogenie
- QooApp
- 9Apps
- Xiaomi GetApps
- Tencent MyApp
- Itch.io
- ACMarket
- TapTap

Obviously Huawei, Xiaomi, all China based stores sand Amazon can be excluded as alternatives, but what they demonstrate by existing is that alternative App Stores that potentially serve billions of people are possible to create, so why bother whining to Google when you can just build your own and solve the problem forever?

And you're even more without excuse if you already have access to billions of people through existing business and user relationships to jump start a new ecosystem.

Upon launch of this ecosystem, it would mean that every developer of Bitcoin Wallets for Android would be delisted from Google only to re-appear on the new "Liberty App Store Library" where they are published with the features the developers desire and used on terms acceptable to both user and developer.

How hard can it be?

One thing is for sure; simply complaining about Google trying to kill Bitcoin Wallets is not going to change anything.

And obviously every Android app developer would flock to this new ecosystem to publish their apps so that more people would download them. It would grow almost by itself.

As for the Apple App Store, well...I guess if they go through with banning Bitcoin Apps, if you want to use Bitcoin your own way, you have to get a 'Droid.

Sigh..."The price of freedom!"

This is exactly like banning SSL for all applications where the ...

2025-08-14T09:12:43Z

This is exactly like banning SSL for all applications where the owner of the user's app isn't identified.

The French tried to impose this in the 1990s, but once SSL was everywhere, it was impossible for France to implement it, despite building a regulatory and storage framework to register all SSL private keys.

SSL keys can be generated at will almost instantly by anyone without any technical skill. It happens every time you install a browser or set up a server.

Sound familiar?

That's what happens when you download and open a Bitcoin Wallet. It's exactly the same in nature.

Now an absurd ban is proposed for Bitcoin wallets, and it's pretty obvious this would happen in the, "Then they fight you" stage.

This is why I've been harping on about spreading bitcoin everywhere as quickly as possible, so that it becomes a global default that cannot be revoked without killing the internets.

This is also why I've been working to re-contextualize bitcoin away from what people mistake it for to something more like what it actually is.

No one thinks SSL is "encryption"; they think it is "security". Similarly if people think bitcoin is money, then they will think about it as if it is money, as if you "receive" bitcoin, and all other money analogies.

If this false categorization by Google of Bitcoin wallets doesn't go through, the next attempt surely will. Unfortunately, people with power can't seem to understand long term strategic thinking in this area, despite the history of Public Key Encryption tool adoption being widely known.

A necessary prerequisite to bitcoin being everywhere is the distribution of it to billions of people. That's what we're doing at Azteco. When we succeed in doing this, bitcoin will be a common as SSL Certs in your browser.

And no, it will not be enough to simply build tools that use bitcoin; you can't use bitcoin without getting it, and that is the task many people simply run away from rather than confront head on.

Things that seem to be very large, very bad problems can be completely eliminated. Faketoshi is the most recent example, but there have been many others, like the RSA Munitions Export case. Bitcoin can win and come out unscathed.

It will take dedication to make it happen and people who can think for themselves and make up their own minds about what sort of future they want to be a part of building for mankind.

The bitcoin distribution problem is being effectively solved by Azteco, with 700m people being given access to bitcoin in a way that no real bitcoiner could possibly oppose.

It didn't take many people to solve the big problems; technical ones like Public Key Cryptography, PGP (Zimmerman), Bitcoin (Satoshi), BitTorrent (Bram Cohen) and many others. Your only question for yourself is this, "Am I a part of the solution or the problem?".

And if you think you can build a paralell society on App Store Apps that will help billions of people, you are completely delusional.

If App stores can ban Bitcoin wallets, they can ban your sneaky chat app, which, because it doesn't mediate bitcoin, can't change the world, and even if it could mediate bitcoin transactions, cant do so unless people can get bitcoin to use on it, and if they can, that will surely cause an App store ban, because it will be an "Unlicensed Bitcoin Wallet", however they want to define that.

At some point, as has been in the past, a problem must be solved directly. With SSL, it was the rapid proliferation of browsers and the browser as the default interface to all eCommerce.

The same thing needs to happen with Bitcoin; bitcoin must be the default way billions of people spend online, and the way to do that is to seed the global population with small amounts of bitcoin.

When commercial interests merge with the interests of billions of people, you get a platform that completely resists arbitrary change that doesn't serve the people's or commercial interests.

This is what must happen with bitcoin, and it can happen, and happen very rapidly.

STEP INSIDE https://share.google/aChsOfb6NKV8u8Zry

2025-08-06T18:44:25Z

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STEP INSIDE https://share.google/aChsOfb6NKV8u8Zry

QED.

2025-08-06T13:48:05Z

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QED.

There will always be people who are beyond help, and you must ...

2025-08-06T13:45:53Z

In reply to nevent1q…n86w
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There will always be people who are beyond help, and you must accept this.

These matters are very hard to understand for the layman, and so ...

2025-08-06T13:23:15Z

In reply to nevent1q…eujg
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These matters are very hard to understand for the layman, and so “thinking” like this which is entirely surface layer is expected and perfectly normal.

The hat that Matt Odell is wearing is from the VC company Ten31. ...

2025-08-06T13:09:47Z

The hat that Matt Odell is wearing is from the VC company Ten31. Unlike bitcoiner larpers, who whine about KYC and do nothing about it, like supporting businesses that don't KYC to supply you sats, Matt's company Ten31 invested in Samourai Wallet, showing that at least he puts his money where his mouth is, and it's not all LARPing.
If you want a world without Internet IDs and a bitcoin ecosystem that is KYC free from end to end, you should be like Matt, who invests in and promotes companies that are doing the hard work to make the world you want a reality.
What you do not do is sit on the sidelines and refuse to even speak about the brave people like William Burroughs and Keyonne Rodriguez who are building the systems that are provably what people want. I say, "provably" because hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bitcoin was mediated by Samourai wallet users and its beautiful tools.
At the end of the day, there needs to be a small, dedicated, stubborn number of people like Matt, William Burroughs and Keyonne Rodriguez who are willing to stick their necks out and do whatever they can to grow the Ethical Bitcoin Ecosystem. What is intolerable and inexcusable is burying your head in the sand...like an ostrich.
It is already proven that the small number of fanatical coders and capitalists have the power to change everything. This is why GPG exists, why GNU/LINUX exists, why WhatsApp and Signal exist and why bitcoin, Samourai and other tools exist. Someone has to do the work, someone has to promote the tools, someone has to rise to the challenge.
The perpetually giggling, unserious, threadbare, faddish, cowardly, distracted, unintelligent, eloiesque, "Main Character Syndrome" actors who are too frightened to even say the name "Samourai Wallet" are collaborators with the system they claim to despise and be against.
For all of this, bitcoin will succeed and usher in the world these people are too frightened to talk about and don't even know they need. They rejected fiat reluctantly (and this is not their fault; they're the victims of the State), but once seeing its fundamental flaw, should naturally have been radicalized, but were not.
Oh well...you can't have everything...
OR CAN YOU?
https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-surveillance-an-ahistoric-market-error-d3871f671c8c

https://x.com/primal_app/status/1952767736842531222

It’s within our reach. The major pieces are in place. All we ...

2025-07-22T17:38:26Z

In reply to nevent1q…t9sd
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It’s within our reach. The major pieces are in place. All we need is a small number of people who do what they say they’re going to do, who don’t outsource their thinking or opinions or break their promises and who are in it for the long haul, and it’s practically guaranteed that within the next three years Ethical Bitcoin will achieve global domination.

Nail biting excitement!

Just imagine this. Azteco distribution reaches 628,000,000 users, ...

2025-07-22T17:04:27Z

In reply to nevent1q…nawv
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Just imagine this. Azteco distribution reaches 628,000,000 users, 240,000,000 on Razer. A Nostr app does an integration with Azteco to ingest its vouchers; all those users are now potential users of those apps if promotion is done to pour those new users on to them.

It’s an interesting proposition. To make it happen, the apps have to be in the App Stores and an ingesting integration done with Azteco, similar to the one we did with Bitkey (for on-chain) and other wallets, some of which are out of the box and integration free if LNURL is deployed in the App.

This means that literally hundreds of millions of users RIGHT NOW could redeem Azteco vouchers into these apps, For Great Justice.

Isn’t that special?

This is just silly. The only thing that needs to be understood is ...

2025-07-22T16:53:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…f6rm
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This is just silly. The only thing that needs to be understood is the need for bitcoin, which everyone has. Saying that people have to understand the philosophy behind a tool before they can use a tool is part of “the problem”.

We’re totally open to it. Bitcoin can and should be used for ...

2025-07-22T16:51:52Z

In reply to nevent1q…cmju
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We’re totally open to it. Bitcoin can and should be used for anything and everything, no one is excluded; free to all who pay, pay pay it all back ( do you see what I did there?).

All they have to do is contact us, and we can do an integration with them where users can redeem our Lightning Vouchers or even buy them if they have a payment processor.

You should ignore me and carry on building. Building is the only ...

2025-07-22T15:53:24Z

In reply to nevent1q…f0g8
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You should ignore me and carry on building. Building is the only thing that matters; not what people say.

If you’re right, everything will change and everyone will benefit; that’s the only true measure when discussing supplanting the censorious and State restricted “app stores”.

You don’t need my or anyone else to approve of what you’re doing; your running software is vindication in itself, and your service being run by hundreds of millions of people, icing on the cake.

Don’t be dissuaded by anyone, don’t be discouraged, put off or made to doubt what you’re building. Plan carefully, address reality directly, comb your assumptions regularly.

Your work is needed, you are appreciated; you are the hero in the story. You chose to do the hard work, and that’s the act of a hero.

NEVER GIVE UP!

3 Bodies: Leninism, Maoism and Marxism. ...

2024-12-17T02:48:17Z

3 Bodies: Leninism, Maoism and Marxism. https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1868838975856681053

You are fundamentally and absolutely, categorically and ...

2024-12-07T17:58:34Z

In reply to nevent1q…24jh
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You are fundamentally and absolutely, categorically and completely, overwhelmingly and reassuringly, correct.

And now…

Here are the young men, the weight on their shoulders
Here are the young men, but where have they been?

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out ...

2024-12-07T14:36:19Z

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”

As bitcoin crosses $100,000 there are still people out there, who ...

2024-12-05T12:39:37Z

As bitcoin crosses $100,000 there are still people out there, who absolutely should know better, who are directing users to buy it from KYC Gulag Services.

Out of one side of their mouths, they complain about censorship, government overreach and tyranny, but out of the other they openly promote bad services that abuse users. Why?

Worst of all, they do this to people who are new to bitcoin, giving them a completely false impression that it is a requirement for you to identify yourself to use bitcoin.

What is wrong with these people?

What's wrong with them is that their thinking is incomplete, and they have a slave mentality, brought about by years of being in opposition.

Also, many of the services people recommend are USA only, which is yet another arbitrary restriction. Why is it so hard for people to think?

They simultaneously want bitcoin to change the world, but refuse to help it do that, by recommending inferior services that will not move that ball forward.

I'm sorry to report, dear reader, that it will always be like this; there is an upper limit to the imaginations of the majority of people, even very clever and expert ones, that prevents them from connecting the dots.

It's a tragedy that people who also have large platforms don't take that responsibility seriously. But there it is.

Not to worry; bitcoin is going to spread and dominate globally without them, just as it reached $100,000 without their aid.

President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on bitcoin: “Everyone ...

2024-12-04T14:52:14Z

President Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on bitcoin: “Everyone will strive to reduce costs and increase reliability"

And of course, "increase reliability" means not using western payment rails that are riddled with and plagued by fraud at every level (from the fact that fraudulent fiat currencies are what is being mediated, to the fact that impersonation is rampant, both of which are eliminated by bitcoin), but settling on bitcoin which eliminates both, and the systemic risk of having Uncle Sam being the controller of the currency and the payment rails, enabling him to both steal from your citizens, expose them to fraud and surveillance and weaponize the payment rais as "Sanctions" levers.

No.

Bitcoin is the answer to all of this, and it's incredible that it has taken Russia so long to understand this reality.

Now that they do, spurred on by GEPOTUS openly threatening them like a gangster, perhaps Russia and BRICS will go full retard for Bitcoin. If they do this, they cannot lose.

Just as the International Community rejected the CDMA mobile phone standard for GSM, and America grudgingly followed along, the entire world can settle on Bitcoin and American will join in.

BRICS winning does not mean America losing by the way.

BRICS winning means America wins.

Only America has the political system and the software engineering culture and genius to pull off becoming the world's centre for bitcoin.

They did it with Silicon Valley and will do it with bitcoin.

Other cultures cannot compete with American culture. Think about it; do you really believe that FRANCE can compete with America as a centre of software businesses? Or Britain? No one in their right mind is thinking about incorporating in INGSOC to establish offices in Shoreditch.

INGSOC in particular were warned about this:

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/b%C2%B3-boris-bitcoin-britain-3cbb57751aa7

again..

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/priti-patel-is-wrong-about-encryption-5bbfaab62cc1

and again...

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/written-evidence-submitted-to-her-majestys-treasury-committee-s-digital-currencies-inquiry-on-8162d4c299ab

and again...

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/our-submission-to-the-british-governments-digital-currencies-call-for-information-160fbf103bbc

and so they can't say they were not warned.

Russia is in a unique position to weaponize bitcoin and Americanism against Americans.

They can leverage BRICS to adopt bitcoin, and at the same time, obliquely encourage America to "FOMO" into unleashing American genius to protect itself from dedollarization by deregulating bitcoin businesses (which they are already obliged to do by law: https://medium.com/swlh/why-america-cant-regulate-bitcoin-8c77cee8d794) causing bitcoin to be the absolute winner.

You couldn't make it up if you tried...and you don't have to...it's REAL!

https://x.com/BitcoinNewsCom/status/1864313687244222859

Signal is not perfect, therefore, do not communicate or ...

2024-12-04T12:05:13Z

Signal is not perfect, therefore, do not communicate or coordinate with anyone. Stay in your silo, inert and neutralised, watching the world burn while you are “safe” from being meta data spied on.

Meanwhile other protocols that are fundamentally ill conceived or weak or flawed get a pass, “because purple”, “because e-commerce”, “because Orange”, “because there nothing better than democracy”, etc, etc.

There are now many developers and software entrepreneurs, and a few software developer entrepreneurs, and a few software developer entrepreneurs who are not cowards.

There are enough of the latter intersection to completely change the world for the better, and it doesn’t matter what anyone “thinks” about what they’re doing or whether or not it’s fit for any particular purpose.

Central to their power is the ability to grasp scale and properly assess threats. They don’t suffer from Mind Blindness; they understand that software is about serving people, and not about perfection. They also don’t make breathless impossible claims or promises either, or let weak minded fanboy imaginations run wild…

These are the people, the focussed, determined and most importantly, fearless people who get things done for people, who are…PROTIP: Real.

quoting note1qqq…yta3
"we kill people based on metadata"

"Signal is safe, all they have access to is your metadata"

Is “Socialist Nostr” a real phenomenon? I’m beginning to ...

2024-11-30T13:49:21Z

Is “Socialist Nostr” a real phenomenon? I’m beginning to suspect that it is. Tsk tsk tsk SHAMEFUL!

But “10%” is too much to pay for for a service that will not ...

2024-11-30T13:44:40Z

In reply to nevent1q…22ds
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But “10%” is too much to pay for for a service that will not abuse you. This is why fiat and fiat institutions exist and persist. People just can’t THINK.

Despite what some people might believe, what is not required is a ...

2024-11-25T16:17:15Z

Despite what some people might believe, what is not required is a "Pressure Group" to help Bitcoin adoption.

Well meaning people who've grown up in INGSOC believe that the optics of opposition politics is what will keep Bitcoin users safe from regulation. They're 100% wrong.

Listing companies that people should use because they're "unregulated" or "outside the law" only generates scrutiny targets. It doesn't help anyone, and actually has another, hidden purpose.

People love to rally behind the underdog; what they're trying to do is create the next "Assange", or "CND", or "Occupy Wall Street" that they can be the heads of, so that they're constantly being interviewed and getting their profile raised in the Mainstream Media.

This will increase "Membership" in their organizations, opening the door to future employment in the "Compliance" departments of the companies they "defended", or will allow them to contract out consultancy roles for their companies.

Think Rico and BitLicense as examples.

And of course, being the de facto heads of "the Industry", not only will they scrape up money, but they'll be directly consulted on the rules to govern the companies they "represent", ensuring permanent roles for themselves in perpetuity.

If you should refuse their offer of consultancy, they will threaten you that you will not be aware of upcoming changes and will not have a, "Seat at the Table" to protect yourself from predation, as they have a direct line to the violent thugs who could shut you down.

Not going along with them will be portrayed as being an outsider with something to hide, as the people representing the industry will be for "transparency" and "Society".

This is exactly how this matter works. It is not about the law or right or wrong; it is about making jobs for people who can't write software and who are not able, for whatever reason, to form companies to serve other people directly

They see some new field that does not have "regulation" and they anoint themselves as contact points, injecting themselves into the market where no real purpose is served.

https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1860988665406632274

NICO and OPTI. ...

2024-11-22T02:35:39Z

NICO and OPTI. https://x.com/SimplyBitcoinTV/status/1859287542643950017

“Fairness”: Equal Slavery One dramatic way of looking at our ...

2024-11-20T09:33:04Z

In reply to nevent1q…ehwm
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“Fairness”: Equal Slavery

One dramatic way of looking at our tax system in relation to the question of subsidy or fairness is to assume for a moment that this is 1850, and that the question arises in the North as to what should be done with slaves who had managed to escape from the South. Let us assume that both sides of a growing debate are ardently in favor of freedom and are opposed to slavery. Group A hails the slaves’ escape and advocates setting them free. But Group B argues as follows:

We are, of course, just as ardent a champion of slave freedom as the people of Group A. But we believe it is unfair for one group of slaves to escape, while the remainder of their brothers and sisters remain in slavery. Therefore, we hold that these escapees should be shipped back into slavery until such time as all the slaves can be freed together and simultaneously.

What would we think of such an argument? To call it specious would be a kindly understatement. But I submit that believers in the free market are arguing in precisely the same way when they say that all taxes must be uniform, and that all specific tax deductions or exemptions must be canceled until such time as everyone’s taxes can be reduced uniformly. In both cases, the egalitarians are arguing not for equal freedom but for equal slavery or equal robbery in the name of “fairness.” In both cases, the rebuttal holds that the enslavement or plunder of one group can in no way justify the enslavement or plunder of another, be it in the name of fairness, equity, or whatever.

https://www.google.com/search?q=rothbard+income+tax&rlz=1C9BKJA_enGB1010GB1011&oq=rothbard+income+tax&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUyBggAEEUYOTIHCAEQIRigATIHCAIQIRigATIHCAMQIRigATIHCAQQIRigAdIBCDc2MzZqMGo3qAIKsAIB4gMEGAEgXw&hl=en-US&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8

“Azteco is available globally; this is Bitcoin for everyone ...

2024-11-12T18:55:07Z

“Azteco is available globally; this is Bitcoin for everyone everywhere.”

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/azteco-and-bitkey-ushering-in-a-new-era-of-consumer-friendly-bitcoin-b3e5dde4ab88

EXPOSED: “OPERATION BITCOIN SEQUESTRATION” ...

2024-11-07T19:45:33Z

EXPOSED: “OPERATION BITCOIN SEQUESTRATION” https://x.com/beautyon_/status/1854597981372080253?s=46&t=LNe8MN2dQUj_88yB-puY1A

Imagine having the most wonderful Bitcoin wallet ever written but ...

2024-11-04T22:50:42Z

Imagine having the most wonderful Bitcoin wallet ever written but it is impossible to get Bitcoin without KYC. That would mean you have the most beautiful financial surveillance system, and something that is ant-Bitcoin.

In order for services to serve properly all of Ethical Bitcoin Principles must be fulfilled simultaneously. It is not a buffet of characteristics you can choose from, you either do it all or not at all.

A world where all money is under surveillance is a suboptimal world, and a choice.

Everyone involved in providing Bitcoin services must make a choice, freedom or enslavement, privacy or surveillance. These choices are not hard to make, and if everyone works together to make the right choices, then Bitcoin users will get the Bitcoin Ecosystem they deserve.

The biggest threat to Bitcoin now is the osmotic barrier between those with Bitcoin and those without, and the unwitting and ignorant gatekeepers who keep spreading superstitious lies about Bitcoin and what is required to serve it.

These people perpetuate lies about what Bitcoin is, what the law says, what laws may apply to Bitcoin, and whether there are even laws or not, and many people simply go along with their gibberish and irrational calls to apply anything, literally any law, so that you can pretend to be "Compliant".

If Bitcoiners cave in to the thinking of the lowest common denominator, the anti-American and the loser, then the proliferation of Ethical Bitcoin onramps, the prerequisite to Hyperbitcoinization, will not come to pass and bear fruit.

Bitcoiners must "hold the line", tell the truth, not cave in to the weak minded, the cowardly and the ignorant and apply the law as it is written. This is not asking for much, certainly for any American, and hopefully GEPOTUS will make this easier for the weaker amongst you to do without soiling their trousers.

If GEPOTUS is advised by the best Bitcoiners AND Ron Paul, then it is a sure thing that Bitcoin will be moved under the protection of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, and then the floodgates will be opened.

Fiat will flow into Bitcoin in amounts that Bitcoiners could not have even dreamed of previous to GEPOTUS, and once this happens, there will be no going back as the exits to the US Dollar close by virtue of it ceasing to exist.

America will become the number one country not only for the amount of Bitcoin in citizens hands' but for its expertise in the mediation of Bitcoin. When this happens, no country on earth will be able to catch up with it, and the financial centre preeminence of America will not be lost, but strengthened because one man, GEPOTUS decided that the law should be followed and American know how applied unbridled.

In the light of this future scenario, isn't it better to get ahead of the game and start laying down the thinking and tools to push Hyperbitcoinization?

I think so. Others, not so much it seems.

The allure of Virtue Signalling is very strong in many people. Their number one impulse is to look good in front of other people; they don't actually care about anything in particular, and will latch themselves to anything like Barnacles on a whale, irritating it, and slowing it down by de-streamlining its surface.

Their goals are set by other people, and are not original. They take "feedback" from Bitcoin's bitter enemies and then package it as being part of "the revolution".

It's fraud. It's fakery. There are no two ways about it.

Despite all of this, very very very big things are coming. Things so big, your jaw will hit the floor. And I'm not just saying that. I am not exaggerating.

The path to Hyperbitcoinization is every road, in all directions, all at once. This is possible if the people with their hands on the levers are the made of the right stuff.

The Trump campaign has shown everyone that a coalition of people who are normally on different sides of arguments can work together to overcome great evils.

This can happen in Bitcoin too. But in order for it to happen, people must disabuse themselves of the wrong things they've been let to believe, and cross the chasm to that place where Bitcoin is everywhere, everyplace, all the time, without restriction, arbitrary rules and anti human strictures.

I have absolutely no problem imagining this.

What about you?

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-adoption-and-conway-s-game-of-life-54ca71db7b88

OK, that explains everything. Thanks for the replies!

2024-10-30T15:18:16Z

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OK, that explains everything. Thanks for the replies!

Is English your mother tongue?

2024-10-30T14:45:54Z

In reply to nevent1q…l7et
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Is English your mother tongue?

Anti-Capitalist artists are the worst of the worst hypocrites. ...

2024-10-30T13:43:12Z

Anti-Capitalist artists are the worst of the worst hypocrites.

Out of one side of their mouths, they despise and decry "Capitalism", and simultaneously out of the other, are jealous guarders of their own money, and total understanders of their own economic needs and not being, "cheated" out of "their money".

This child like and mind-blind inability to reason outside the fragile shaking matchbox of their world view is deeply troubling. The expectation...naïve expectation...is that anyone who can create fine art must have a broad intelligence and not a narrowly focussed one, is very childish and stupid.

What is the explanation for the ignorant double standards of these people? Who can say.

Some would certainly say that the "creative side" of the brain, being over emphasized, blots out the rational side...but I don't buy this.

All I can say is that it is deeply dissapointing that people who can think (apparently) and who have powerful imaginations cannot extend their powers to reality, simple arithmetic and economics.

The text below is the complete reason why Elon and the ID Card ...

2024-10-26T10:18:10Z

The text below is the complete reason why Elon and the ID Card fanatics are 100% wrong.

The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving license. It is in fact, a database backed control grid and the fulfilment of Orwells nightmare.

You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport and Driving License and an ID Card will be no different to that. What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and what it will mean to you personally.

The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register)., where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth will also obviously be stored there.

There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament.

By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you present it to 'prove who you are'.

Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy, and every Bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you withdraw more than £99 at your branch of Nat West, who now demand ID for these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR. Restaurants and off licenses will demand that your card is swiped so that each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution.

Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card,or a supermarket loyalty card, or a driving license you will have to present your ID Card for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account.

Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR,just as every other business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel, phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally or illegally. It will then be possible for a non governmental entity to create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique number in a central database.

This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name and face.

Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it.

The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that requires you to present your government issued ID Card.

The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen,and it will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money.

If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public. Together & Hand to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who receives this passes it on.

Frances Stonor Saunders

Have you seen the movie “Idiocracy”?

2024-10-24T00:23:33Z

In reply to nevent1q…x5er
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Have you seen the movie “Idiocracy”?

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2024-10-24T00:05:20Z

SHOCKING! https://x.com/bitcoinhealix/status/1849235208215679484?s=61&t=eyjJ5IvKiAtPIDSBRekpmA

Jürgen and Ulrich in their paper start with a fallacious ...

2024-10-19T13:11:48Z

Jürgen and Ulrich in their paper start with a fallacious premise; the Straw Man Fallacy.

The original promise of the Bitcoin Network was to replace the fraudulent Fiat Dollar (and by extension, all fiats, including the Euro) with an incorruptible money that was auditable by the user..

The means of payment part is a superimposition by followers on who saw Bitcoin (which is a form of money with all money's utilities, one of which is means of payment as well as saving) as one thing, whereas it is in fact not money at all, but a database.

Using the phrase "promoters" is a backhanded insult in a flagrant and pathetic attempt to smear Bitcoin users as sellers of a Ponzi Scheme. The authors are beneath contempt for this.

The Appeal to Authority rears its disheveled head when they invoke, "Most Economists believe..." as if that is a pretext for anything, given the woeful state of the global fiat economy running by their strictures. Completely ridiculous.

The price of Bitcoin cannot rise forever. Once fiat dies and all prices are measured in Bitcoin, it will have no price in US Dollars, imbeciles. It is like claiming Bitcoin has a price in Wermacht Marks or Zimbabwe Dollars. Surely, surely, no one can be this stupid. Apparently they are, and they're working in the ECB!

The purpose of money is not to increase the productive potential of the economy; innovation and work do that; and since money is half of all transactions there must therefore be a distribution of money to everyone so that economic activity can continue. There is more than enough Bitcoin to facilitate this.

What the authors expose in their fear that people are going to get rich in a system mediated by Bitcoin is their repugnant socialism, and a fear that it is not their anointed that will be the super rich in a world where Bitcoin is the only money.

Also bear in mind, that if their scenario this unjust accumulation takes place, Bitcoin will have become money just as we predict it will, and the fiat system will have died and Bitcoin will have won, as will have all of humanity.

Bitcoin holders do not become more wealthy at the expense of anyone, since no one is cheating in Bitcoin, unlike in the fiat system, where the first users of the money are ACTUALLY getting wealthy off of the creation of money and inflation.

Jürgen and Ulrich think you are stupid!

Bitcoin cannot impoverish anyone; what it actually does is accurately measure the work and the value of goods of all people in the economy. Such an accurate measure is anathema to Jürgen and Ulrich, who have appointed themselves as god over the economy.

Bitcoin does not redistribute wealth; it measures wealth accurately.

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/bitcoin-is-the-c-of-money-dce63ce8e37a

Jürgen and Ulrich are the scum of the earth with their ECB paid for lies and Keynesian nonsense. They will be proven absolutely wrong by Bitcoin absorbing all the fiats, leaving them and their paymasters exsanguinated and forgotten.

https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1847625816689041801

Man has never been “a part of nature”. Man was created by God ...

2024-10-15T22:45:31Z

Man has never been “a part of nature”. Man was created by God as described in Genesis, and the only laws he is governed by were written by God, and those laws are under God’s absolute control.

It is not true that distractions distance us from what is real; the problem with “modern man” is that he is extremely and willfully ignorant, and always eager to believe any lie that is told to him. He loves evil and lies rather than good, lies rather than the truth, and speed rather than punctuation.

The problem modern man faces is The State, just as the USSR suffered under Communism, modern man in the West suffers under Crony Capitalism, The State, and the Federal Reserve system. These are discrete problems all of which are completely soluble without resorting to cereal box philosophies, navel gazing and pointless dead end abstractions and avoidance of bitter hard truths.

The State as a “construct” in the modern era is almost totally evil, as described by Murray Rothbard in his “Anatomy of the State”:

https://mises.org/library/book/anatomy-state

Ignorant people who don’t know the fundamental basis of everything cannot begin to unpack the present situation man is in and identify the true source of the problem. They have to resort to hand waving, Fruit Loop Logic and nonsense, none of which provides a clean, practical way out based only on the truth.

And yes, there IS absolute truth; it is discoverable and communicable and not hard for ordinary people to understand. Refusing to face this fact is pure thumb sucking infantilism and cowardice, two of the basic plagues suffered by coddled, weak and ineffectual Western men.

People talk about things not being grounded in reality, but when that reality is exposed to them, they refuse to accept it, shrink away from it like worms that have had salt sprinkled on them, and not only that, they choose to go along with the evil and support it and the State that is the main distributor of it. They refuse even to tell anyone that the evil exists and that they hate it. To add insult to injury, they wax vaguely with half baked philosophies that are dead ends because they communicate nothing, show no way out, are habiutally non specific and greatly unhelpful.

Modern day financial systems are completley corrupted by the State, especially the Federal Reserve Dollar which is so pernicious and toxic, the destruction of it was in his own words the greatest triumph of Andrew Jackson who declared, “I killed the bank”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTPopNG6LRM&ab_channel=JackoTV

Today, the weak men can barely take their chubby, grubby fingers to clack out its name on their keyboards as they Virtue Signal to stupefied drug addle fans while collecting people’s government documents just so they can use “their own money”.

If the truth must be “handed down by a CEO” then let it be handed down by a CEO. This is infinitely preferable to a CEO who does not believe that there is such a thing as truth, and even worse, a CEO who knows the truth but goes along with evil for expedience and keeps his silence. And furthermore, the truth is not rooted in who man is; the truth exists outside of man, and is imposed upon him by his creator.

Bitcoin as money (it is not money, it is a database that can be used AS money) is a powerful tool precisely because it denies weak men the opportunity to corrupt it, just as they abuse consumers by forcing them to obey the evil and unethical rules laid down by the Fiat State. There is no getting around this, and “I was only following orders” will not cut it either when the records are examined.

Bitcoin spreading everywhere through Ethical Bitcoin companies and tools are what is going to change everything, and as everyone has seen, it only takes a handful of CEOs to make global unambiguous beneficial change happen for hundreds of millions of people. This work is in progress.

Believing in fantasy will not help anyone. Pouring hope onto tools that cannot work is infantilism and ignoring reality. It is ignoring the problem and running away and hiding from it, just as the Cereal Box philosophers ignore the nature of the State and refuse to put it in its place as the true source of of the fiat problem and the war machine problem and the distortions, perversions, poisoning and dumbing down of all mankind.

This refusal to face reality head on is why Bitcoin had to be written in the first place; generation after generation of weak, distracted infantilized men who refuse to think and solve problems made it necessary for machines to solve their problems for them. Bitcoin is one such machine, and you can be sure more are coming, because man would rather run away and hide from solving his problems rather than take his medicine and lead.

Bitcoin removes the power of the State to lie about money. Communication tools that allow anyone to say anything do not solve the problem of the character of man or solve the problem of The State; men of good character can facilitate free communication, so all that is needed are a few good men. Computer solutions can’t solve the problems caused by the character of man. In the case of Bitcoin, they can constrain man’s ability to cheat, but man is still a liar and cheater by nature. That will not change in this world.

A platform that is built to carry any lie to anywhere is not a solution that can fix the world’s problems. Of course people who think the back of a box of Frosted Flakes is the ultimate source of truth cannot understand this. And no one needs them to be able to either. Bitcoin was written to supersede these weak people and to constrain them and their “votes” and it will succeed. Just watch.

In the meantime, by all means waste your time on niche fad networks that will not move the needle, while men with huge platforms and guts liberate hundreds of millions of people to change the world. One man with guts and a vision can change everything; this has been proven again and again. Men who run and hide cannot change anything and never will. History will judge them accordingly, if they are even remembered.

No amount of fad citing and fashionable talk can substitute for real contributions to the problems faced by man. Only action can help, and refraining from evil. These are the unavoidable facts, and the way the world actually is. If you refuse to face this, you are part of the problem, and will be swept away with the Statists. That is your fate, and you will deserve it, because you were warned, and refused to rise to the challenge.

https://mises.org/library/book/new-liberty-libertarian-manifesto

That really is the point. Millions and millions of people have ...

2024-10-07T00:14:12Z

In reply to nevent1q…90fw
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That really is the point. Millions and millions of people have been lied to about the true history and nature of reality, and it was done deliberately.

The entire basis of the modern world is the cult of Scientism, which is not science at all, and which has nothing to do with The Scientific Method, which is both rational and useful when practiced correctly

https://archive.is/2014.10.22-191936/http://www.apologia.com/courses/1/01010.html

This relates directly to Bitcoin and free speech, which was the impetus for Nostr.

Bitcoin restores absolute truth to money; the fundamental piece in all commerce. The Statists and Scientism Cult hates the truth. Socialists hate the truth. Thats why they hate Bitcoin.

Real people, whether they’re ignorant or deceived, when exposed to the truth, embrace it. It’s not their fault they were lied to about the money or “Evolution” (both lies being spread in government schools of course); they are the victims.

Now, however, it is possible for everyone to know the truth, and with Bitcoin, interact with it directly.

Decades ago it was not known that T-Rex flesh was findable; nor the atomic dating methods these have only just happened. Had the discovery been made in the 1970s it would have been buried, now it can go “viral” and the offensive lie of Darwinism purged from the minds of millions and millions of people.

This is the era you live in. It is a historic era. And the repulsive liars are openly voicing their fear of losing control over how everyone thinks.

Isn’t it exciting?

Carbon dating of dinosaurs has been100% falsified. The Earth is ...

2024-10-06T22:00:20Z

Carbon dating of dinosaurs has been100% falsified.

The Earth is not “billions of years old”.

The account of the creation of the world as found in Genesis is true.

Abandon fiat education, Darwinism, Keynesianism and Scientism, “Bitcoiner”.

https://youtu.be/khMSaAyZSBU

The world doesn't need to know who Satoshi was. Bitcoin ...

2024-10-04T22:12:47Z

The world doesn't need to know who Satoshi was.

Bitcoin isn't a commodity, it never was, and "The Bitcoin Community" must become irrelevant, like the old Home Brew Computing clubs did.

Bitcoin is not an asset class, and it never was. What it is will be made clear to many, very soon.

The trajectory of Bitcoin will follow the trajectory of the other world-changing innovations, and so will the reaction to it and management of the public’s access to it.

The web, Smart Phones, Internets, LCDs, GSM…all of these and more will coalesce into a single world-changing event, in effect superficially different but similar to events centuries ago when sound money was everywhere.

Even the most trained people, historians, economists and people as close to Bitcoin as it is possible to be cannot see what is coming.

And that is a good thing.

It is a good thing because people don’t want the world to change, especially if they are very comfortable. If the world goes on as it is for another 40 years, why should they care?

In a phrase, the attitude is, “NO URGENCY”. And it’s completely understandable.

Nevertheless, it’s going to happen. Bitcoin dominance is coming, whether anyone likes it or not.

And that’s a good thing!

Seeing into the future, something like... Elon visits Bukele Elon ...

2024-09-21T09:41:00Z

Seeing into the future, something like...

Elon visits Bukele
Elon finally accepts Bitcoin's proposition
Elon advises Trump government
Bukele advises Elon
Elon brings Bukelism to USA
Bitcoin is adopted as Legal Tender in America

In all seriousness though, this is potentially highly significant. Elon will have seen in his travels in San Salvador, that even McDonald's accepts Bitcoin as payment, including the hotel he was staying at.

Seeing Bitcoin everywhere as a method of payment will not have gone unnoticed (surely) by Elon. He will have been induced to install Wallet of Satoshi, and then paid for a Coca-Cola with Bitcoin with Wallet of Satoshi, instantly.

And no one will have batted an eyelid.

Once you experience this yourself, Bitcoin being used as money for everyday spending and treated as totally normal, you can never un-see it.

Elon's mind would have been reeling at the potential to integrate Bitcoin into any economy, and the tools that will need to be built to make it happen. Tools built by his private army of mad software scientists.

Finally he must, surely, be disabused of his completely wrong ideas about Bitcoin.

If this is the case, the post Bukele Elon will be a much better Elon.

He will stop joking about Bitcoin, and start acting like an adult about the most fundamental problem faced by man today: THE MONEY PROBLEM.

Before man can get to mars
He must fix the money

Before man can solve poverty
He must fix the money

Before man can eliminate inflation
He must fix the money

Before man can prevent war
He must fix the money

Bitcoiners understand all of this, but Elon has not grasped it yet. Other global level execs have.

Michael Saylor, Sundar Pichai, Jack Dorsey, Cathie Wood, Larry Fink, Marc Benioff, Tim Cook, Dan Schulman and Satya Nadella have all accept the truth.

Now, finally, it is Elon's turn.

And he will be ahead of some of these because he has been to El Salvador, and has met with President Nayib Bukele.

We can only hope, amirite?

https://x.com/nayibbukele/status/1837305436329922571

The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple ...

2024-09-09T21:53:05Z

The UK ID card is not what you think it is. It is not a simple identity document like your passport or driving licese. It is in fact, a database backed control grid and the fulfilment of Orwells nightmare.

You may have heard that legislation creating compulsory ID Cards passed a crucial stage in the House of Commons. You may feel that ID cards are not something to worry about, since we already have Photo ID for our Passport and Driving License and an ID Card will be no different to that. What you have not been told is the full scope of this proposed ID Card, and what it will mean to you personally.

The proposed ID Card will be different from any card you now hold. It will be connected to a database called the NIR, (National Identity Register)., where all of your personal details will be stored. This will include the unique number that will be issued to you, your fingerprints, a scan of the back of your eye, and your photograph. Your name, address and date of birth will also obviously be stored there.

There will be spaces on this database for your religion, residence status, and many other private and personal facts about you. There is unlimited space for every other details of your life on the NIR database, which can be expanded by the Government with or without further Acts of Parliament.

By itself, you might think that this register is harmless, but you would be wrong to come to this conclusion. This new card will be used to check your identity against your entry in the register in real time, whenever you present it to 'prove who you are'.

Every place that sells alcohol or cigarettes, every post office, every pharmacy, and every Bank will have an NIR Card Terminal, (very much like the Chip and Pin Readers that are everywhere now) into which your card can be 'swiped' to check your identity. Each time this happens, a record is made at the NIR of the time and place that the Card was presented. This means for example, that there will be a government record of every time you withdraw more than £99 at your branch of Nat West, who now demand ID for these transactions. Every time you have to prove that you are over 18, your card will be swiped, and a record made at the NIR. Restaurants and off licenses will demand that your card is swiped so that each receipt shows that they sold alcohol to someone over 18, and that this was proved by the access to the NIR, indemnifying them from prosecution.

Private businesses are going to be given access to the NIR Database. If you want to apply for a job, you will have to present your card for a swipe. If you want to apply for a London Underground Oyster Card,or a supermarket loyalty card, or a driving license you will have to present your ID Card for a swipe. The same goes for getting a telephone line or a mobile phone or an internet account.

Oyster, DVLA, BT and Nectar (for example) all run very detailed databases of their own. They will be allowed access to the NIR,just as every other business will be. This means that each of these entities will be able to store your unique number in their database, and place all your travel, phone records, driving activities and detailed shopping habits under your unique NIR number. These databases, which can easily fit on a storage device the size of your hand, will be sold to third parties either legally or illegally. It will then be possible for a non governmental entity to create a detailed dossier of all your activities. Certainly, the government will have clandestine access to all of them, meaning that they will have a complete record of all your movements, from how much and when you withdraw from your bank account to what medications you are taking, down to the level of what sort of bread you eat - all accessible via a single unique number in a central database.

This is quite a significant leap from a simple ID Card that shows your name and face.

Most people do not know that this is the true character and scope of the proposed ID Card. Whenever the details of how it will work are explained to them, they quickly change from being ambivalent towards it.

The Government is going to COMPEL you to enter your details into the NIR and to carry this card. If you and your children want to obtain or renew your passports, you will be forced to have your fingerprints taken and your eyes scanned for the NIR, and an ID Card will be issued to you whether you want one or not. If you refuse to be fingerprinted and eye scanned, you will not be able to get a passport. Your ID Card will, just like your passport, not be your property. The Home Secretary will have the right to revoke or suspend your ID at any time, meaning that you will not be able to withdraw money from your Bank Account, for example, or do anything that requires you to present your government issued ID Card.

The arguments that have been put forwarded in favour of ID Cards can be easily disproved. ID Cards WILL NOT stop terrorists; every Spaniard has a compulsory ID Card as did the Madrid Bombers. ID Cards will not 'eliminate benefit fraud', which in comparison, is small compared to the astronomical cost of this proposal, which will be measured in billions according to the LSE (London School of Economics). This scheme exists solely to exert total surveillance and control over the ordinary free British Citizen,and it will line the pockets of the companies that will create the computer systems at the expense of your freedom, privacy and money.

If you did not know the full scope of the proposed ID Card Scheme before and you are as unsettled as I am at what it really means to you, to this country and its way of life, I urge you to email or photocopy this and give it to your friends and colleagues and everyone else you think should know and who cares. The Bill has proceeded to this stage due to the lack of accurate and complete information on this proposal being made public. Together & Hand to hand, we can inform the entire nation if everyone who receives this passes it on.

Frances Stonor Saunders

https://bigbrotherwatch.org.uk/campaigns/no2digitalid/#emailGovt

The American Founding Fathers knew that the ability to publish ...

2024-08-31T10:33:55Z

The American Founding Fathers knew that the ability to publish freely and anonymously was key to having robust dialogue.

If it is the case that there is a price for speeking your mind, no one will risk spoiling their reputation, free speech is supressed, and groupthink grows like cancer.

The people who think groupthink and consensus are good things are invariably the milquetoast class who have nothing to say about anything; they are bland, uncreative basement dwelling Duvet Ducking, insipid losers who are no fun.

These people use terms like "Ragebait" because they can’t stand the fact that psychologically normal people are outraged by evil. They would rather not hear about the bad things going on in the world, and this marries perfectly with the Nostr mentality of running away and hiding from the world, rather than trying to fix it by direct action.

People who tell uncomfortable truths like Alex Jones have hundreds of billions of views precisely because he is telling the truth and perfectly expressing and reflecting people's outrage. This is a good thing, and the world would be a much worse thing had Alex Jones not been publishing and broadcasting.

The most valuable part in Social Media is not "credibility" in the sense that people like you; it is that you tell the truth consistently and accurately. To believe that "positive" (read non aggressive, "smooth things" that don't upset anyone), anodyne platitudes and empty slogans and generic inoffensive undefined "content" is extreme infantilism. And it’s BORING.

On Nostr, your reputation is tied to long term keys. This is a terrible thing. It is no different to the totalitarians wanting everyone on the internet to be required to have a government ID, so that speech can be policed.

The exact same arguments against anonymity being made by Noster fanatics about "Ragebait" are what the EU and anti free speech fascists make; that requiring ID will "tone things down". Great company youre in there, Nostr fan.

Here is one example of the bad company Nostr people are keeping:

"UK government ministers and MPs have floated the idea of requiring social media users to verify their identity in an effort to curb online abuse and promote more polite interactions. For instance, Siobhan Baillie, a Conservative MP, introduced a Private Members’ Bill in 2021, which proposed that social media platforms should offer a user identity verification process. This would allow users to choose whether to verify their identities and give them the option to interact only with verified accounts. The goal was to address the issue of anonymous trolling and abuse that has become prevalent online.

The proposal was part of a broader discussion about online safety, particularly in relation to the UK’s Online Safety Bill. The debate highlighted concerns over anonymous online behavior, which often leads to increased levels of harassment, disinformation, and other harmful activities. While the idea of mandatory ID verification was not fully endorsed by the government, it has sparked significant discussion about how to balance online anonymity with accountability"

The more you look into it, Nostr in its current form, within a section of its current crop of users is a festering nest of censorship loving people who want “Identity to post” through the back door, so they can have a Telletubbies Twitter where no one can say bad things or NO ZAPS FOR TOMMY.

These people are probably for World Government, ID Cards, and all the other totalitarian garbage imaginable.

Yes yes, "Not all Nostr users..." BLAH BLAH BLAH.

Have a nice day, NostrTubbies!

Elon is correct in the ent in his Tweet. Brazilians are under no ...

2024-08-31T09:28:15Z

Elon is correct in the ent in his Tweet.

Brazilians are under no obligation to obey foreign laws, just as Americans are not obligated to obey foreign laws. Andrew Torba is way ahead of Elon in this.

Elon is also at liberty to publish secret documents about Brazilian government corruption; that is his right.

Is Elon about to become the next Julian Assange? I doubt it.

Having said all of this, Elon doesn't seem to be able to make the connection between government censorship and Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is "Censorship Resistant Money". If you look at Bitcoin through this lens, it is obvious that adding Bitcoin to X would have been a genius move.

Not only would Bitcoin solve the problem of Starlink having its accounts frozen but would have many beneficial effects on a global scale.

The ability of any government anywhere to sanction or block payments to and from X and Starlink users would be eliminated.

Overnight, X would become the most important (and largest) financial institution the world has ever seen, and it would be a tremendous force for good.

The billions of unbanked people would suddenly be able to save, send and spend money; an unprecedented event with multiple order effects that no one can fully grasp.

In the long and short term, Bitcoin is good for Elon and good for everyone on Earth who believes in Democracy.

Why then, does Elon shun this manifestly obvious checkmate move?

Andrew Torba of Gab has partially embraced Bitcoin.
Jack Dorsey has gone 100% Bitcoin with Bitkey.
David Marcus has gone 100% Bitcoin.

How is it that Elon cannot see this? How is it that he thinks Bitcoin is a joke?

Your guess is as good as mine.

https://x.com/elonmusk/status/1829772614614536537

Look at the "crimes" Durov is charged with. Providing ...

2024-08-26T18:33:05Z

Look at the "crimes" Durov is charged with.

Providing cryptology tools not solely for ensuring authentication without prior declaration (a license)

Complicity in...

Complicity inWeb-mastering an online platform
Complicity in Carrying messages for others.

Criminal association and conspiracy to commit crimes.

These charges capture every platform imaginable, fron Gmail, to every Apple device and service, all of which are end-to-end encrypted.

These charges are completely insane, and every CEO of every web based tool is guilty of them, because encryption is ubiquitous.

As I said https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1827886987933524347 every CEO of a software company is threatened by this, and they should ALL immediately call for the unconditional dropping of the charges and release of Durov in 24hrs or face an immediate blockade of France.

Literally ANY CEO CAN BE THREATENED IN THE EU.

https://x.com/tom_dobbels/status/1828127518429454744

They're openly threatening all CEOs. If you don't take ...

2024-08-26T13:51:27Z

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They're openly threatening all CEOs. If you don't take this seriously, you are completely stupid.

CEOs of the world should be very concerned with the arrest of ...

2024-08-26T01:45:46Z

CEOs of the world should be very concerned with the arrest of Pavel Durov.

If Durov can be snatched off of his private jet, all CEOs are at risk of arbitrary arrest when they travel.

It should be clear, even to the democracy loving sycophant CEOs, that the current situation is intolerable, and that something must be done.

There isn't a precise, universally agreed-upon number of CEOs worldwide, as this can vary based on how "CEO" is defined and the types of organizations considered (public companies, private companies, non-profits, etc.). However, some estimates can be made based on the number of businesses globally.

According to the World Bank and other sources, there are over 300 million companies globally. While not all of these companies will have a traditional CEO (especially very small businesses), it gives a rough idea of the scale. Many medium to large enterprises will have a CEO or equivalent position.

Therefore, it is reasonable to estimate that there are tens of millions of individuals holding the title of CEO or an equivalent leadership role across the world. The exact number would be difficult to pinpoint due to the wide variety of organizations and titles used in different regions and industries.

The arrest of Pavel Durov is a direct threat to every CEO on earth.

It is obvious that there are more CEOs than there are government ministers, and since these CEOs control all industries on earth, they have the actual power, not the State.

It is clear that a world-wide strike and withholding of services from all governments as a warning to stop the rise of totalitarianism is the minimum that should be launched in response to the arrest of Pavel Durov. Perhaps if this is done once, what I propose next may not be needed.

Governments can do nothing without the CEOs facilitating their measures. The ID Cards, websites and every other service the State provides are actually done by companies under contract, each with CEOs, not by governments themselves.

If all CEOs decide as one that enough is enough, it’s over for the totalitarians, because they can’t even make a phone call without a CEO facilitating it.

A new "Chief Executives Alliance for Global Equity and Stability" (CEASE) made up of the CEOs of the world should, as its first act, work to outlaw arbitrary arrest of any citizen, so that another Durov outrage cannot happen.

CEASE will have no legislative power, but that doesn’t matter; what matters is that they can withhold services to entire nations to ensure democratically elected leaders do not violate the rights of citizens, starting with CEOs.

Does this sound like WEF 2.0? Sadly, it does, but CEASE, working in the open to protect the rights of people would be quite different to the sinister and secretive WEF. Its aims are explicitly for freedom; freedom of speech, freedom to travel legally without fear of arbitrary arrest, and the freedom to trade with others in goods and services on the basis of voluntarism.

Julian Assange would not have suffered as he did had CEASE existed when he leaked the secret criminal shenanigans of the State.

CEASE, having no legislative power, has only one means of action at its disposal; withdrawal of services. This might not seem like much, but it is in fact an extremely powerful sanction.

Imagine if the CEOs of Facebook, X, Google and Apple all decided to go dark until Durov is released. Billions of people would be affected. No government on earth has ever had that much power.

Arresting a CEO for running their business where people can speak freely could never result in an arrest in a world where CEASE existed. The price to the State would be too high; and of course, in this case, it would be France that is shut down and crippled as the very fabric of their modern world is rug pulled from under them. They would rightly calculate that it’s just not worth it.

Arresting a CEO would only be done when it is actually justified like cases of; murder, theft, and other such crimes where there is a clear victim.

Obviously this is a sketch outline of a very big idea, and if the part of your brain that powers your imagination is working and exercised, it should make you go, “hmmmmmmm!”.

One thing is for sure; sitting by watching people be hauled off to the camps should not be tolerable for anyone, CEO or not.

And lest you believe that something like this would end up creating a “Rollerball” style dystopia, remember, the consumer is more powerful as a constituency than all the CEOs and their companies combined. Ask Harley Davidson, or the owners of Bud Light, Ratner’s, and others…

1. Lehman Brothers (financial crisis and public backlash)
2. Barings Bank (collapsed after a rogue trader scandal, followed by public loss of confidence)
3. Ratners Group (renamed to Signet Group after the CEO's derogatory comments about its products led to a massive boycott)
4. Pan American World Airways (Pan Am) (decline due to a combination of factors including boycotts after the Lockerbie bombing)
5. Arthur Andersen (collapsed after the Enron scandal, leading to a boycott and loss of clients)

One of the problems this idea faces that immediately comes to mind is the diversity of CEOs. Some of them are not liberty minded. This is where boycotts by the public may help exert some measure of balance.

Either way, Durov being arrested is unacceptable, intolerable and unjustifiable, and unless you want to have your own “oh how we burned in the camps”moment, you had better consider this idea very carefully.

Go to Rumble. Keep it simple. The Bitcoin Cult decentralisation ...

2024-08-26T01:38:43Z

In reply to nevent1q…lk70
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Go to Rumble. Keep it simple. The Bitcoin Cult decentralisation mantra will kill your business.

The great and the good are waking up. I’ve had it admitted to ...

2024-08-24T00:07:46Z

The great and the good are waking up.

I’ve had it admitted to me today in private that, “The Laser Eye movement is a dead end.”

This is significant.

It has always been true that the death of the Bitcoin Cult was inevitable.

The Cult was like a, “Universal Basic Income of software”; unsustainable, uneconomic, irrational, hyperbolic and infantile.

This doesn’t mean that Bitcoin is dead, obviously; the contrary is the case.

Bitcoin is about to experience a multi front boom of the kind very few people have the capacity to conceive of.

Wallet download numbers are going to explode.

Ubiquitous non Exchange retail Bitcoin delivery is about to appear.

The “Consumer Bitcoin” era is upon you.

It’s going to be…EMOTIONAL.

An entire generation of potentially capable people have been ...

2024-08-23T20:26:08Z

An entire generation of potentially capable people have been brainwashed into accepting feelings as a substitute for substance.

These people can’t solve problems and are “Great Masturbators”, that can’t solve problems, interact with consumers or measure their own performance.

These people are breaking off into a parallel society where people don’t measure their the value of their workers or themselves.

Complaining about something is not the same as doing something ...

2024-08-23T20:19:07Z

Complaining about something is not the same as doing something about something.

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2024-08-03T14:10:28Z

In reply to nevent1q…4j0k
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It’s hangman time. Winner gets an ZAP from ME. You get one ...

2024-08-03T13:34:55Z

It’s hangman time. Winner gets an ZAP from ME. You get one clue, “NOT SINGULAR”.

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

This contest lasts 24 hours. The judges decision is final!

REPLY WITH YOUR GUESS RITE NAO. ↴

This statement is untrue.

2024-07-31T14:02:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…w0m7
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This statement is untrue.

In the end, if Bitcoin is the money everyone is using, the State ...

2024-07-31T12:42:39Z

In the end, if Bitcoin is the money everyone is using, the State will have to start accepting it for the payment of taxes.

This will have many advantages for the state, as they can "Micro Tax" activities; something that is beyond the ability of the Geriatrics to conceive.

There will be an interim stage however, where the State demands that you pay it in its money, meaning you have to convert Bitcoin to fraudulent fiat. They will see, as they need to change the exchange rate twice per day, that the situation is untenable, and this will spur them on to switching to Bitcoin.

Bear in mind that once they have collected their own money as taxes, no one in the real economy will accept their money for goods and services, requiring them to buy Bitcoin just to pay salaries and live.

There is another scenario however, that indicates that the life of coerced money forms can persist indefinetly if properly managed:

THE TALLY STICK.

The Tally Stick was literally a piece of wood sawed along its length with a random zig zag that the British Crown would accept as a payment method for settling tax bills.

The power to enforce payment methods backed by violence is how this worked so well:

https://youtu.be/WVJHCiD_Ukg?si=GN9BUsKyz_q1I4Jc

It's hard to describe the great depth of genius behind the concept of the Tally Stick. By doing this, the crown managed to create money out of nothing, and build a sound economy on it, whilst remaining at its centre as the essential manager.

Bitcoin with its jagged edged keys made of text is very much like a Tally Stick, but without an issuer or the need for saws or supervision. All of this is missed by the vast majority of Bitcoiners because they're ignorant.

Nevertheless, it is possible to build different kinds of economies on Bitcoin, and if used by the replacement central banks, can be the fundamental base layer like the Tally Stick.

FASCINATING!

You can’t “Stack Sats”, to use the Bitcoin Cult lingo, ...

2024-07-31T09:52:34Z

You can’t “Stack Sats”, to use the Bitcoin Cult lingo, without there being a means to distribute Sats to Stackers, and no, not everyone is an US American with a bank account, genius.

Also, the entire rest of the world switching to Bitcoin, and not just Americans, will cause a sea change in the dynamics of many problems. Think GSM vs CDMA. America can lose international standards wars. That’s proven.

The fundamental layers of Bitcoin are powerful enough to make the dream of hyperbitcoinization come true, if the people who maintain the tools and businesses eschew infantilism like Ordinals and “Assets on the Blockchain” and “Stablecoins”; perhaps the most egregious affront to Bitcoiner sensibilities and ethics.

The inventor of Ordinals has now “moved on to other things” having left behind a literally indelible legacy of shame, with his acolytes continuing to pollute and burden maintainers of the public record. He’s the personification of one of the great remaining problems facing Bitcoin: Infantilism.

"Dollars on Bitcoin” is the direct result of slave mentality and infantilism. The Austrians understand the dynamics of the problem of the Federal Reserve, but amongst them Saifedean is almost unique in correctly applying Austrianism to Bitcoin.

The Bitcoin Cult on the other hand have proven not up to the challenge with their distractions, infantile absurdities and nonsense. They refuse to accept the basic argument implied by Bitcoin; the Federal Reserve Dollar is a corrupt criminal enterprise that is irredeemable.

Thankfully many other countries are waking up to how they’ve been enslaved by Keynesian thinking and turned into Cargo Cults with their Central Bank funny money printed abroad and delivered in Security Theatre stocking rituals. These countries now have the means to free themselves from fiat prostitution, and it’s now highly probable that they’ll do it, thanks to the constant streams of provocations and humiliations doled out by Uncle Sam.

Victory for America means allowing Bitcoin to be used as money and accepting it for the payment of taxes, not geriatric gibberish like “Strategic Reserves”, which as Saifedean correctly asserts, will not be permitted by the owners of the Federal Reserve System, who are the actual owners of America.

https://x.com/saifedean/status/1818274910772306297

FASCINATING!

People swooning over RFK's pledge to make the US Government ...

2024-07-27T19:37:55Z

People swooning over RFK's pledge to make the US Government horde Bitcoin are completely wrong to think it is a clever move. It isn't.

What it does is prove that RFK has been brainwashed into the Bitcoin Cult "Hodl" mindset, which is an unfortunate, but short term aberration.

What the correct policy is is that Uncle Sam should begin to take Bitcoin as a method of payment for all US Taxes.

By doing this, Uncle Sam will begin to build up a Fort Knox level hoard of Bitcoin, collected through the normal process of government, which everyone must accept.

The people saying that the US Government should have a strategic Bitcoin Reserve are making the claim that Uncle Sam should make a bet against the Federal Reserve. That's crazy.

Niy of course, Bitcoiners know that the Federal Reserve isn't Federal at all, and is a private consortium created to steal from the American people. But we're not talking about that today.

The correct strategy is to allow Americans to pay taxes in Bitcoin. To incentivise this, a 1% discount should be offered to all taxpayers paying in Bitcoin.

If this were the policy, Uncle Sam would very quickly develop a large hoard of Bitcoin, through the normal process of government.

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The Bitcoin cultists think that Nostr could prevent Biden's ...

2024-07-22T15:25:01Z

The Bitcoin cultists think that Nostr could prevent Biden's handlers from making statements on his behalf. They're totally delusional, obviously.

Let's say that Biden needed to use a fingerprint to Tweet. All someone would need to do is take his finger, whether attached to him or not, to make a Tweet "as Biden". And all the delusional drones who think, "signing proves identity." are just that; completely delusional and unaware of how anything actually works:

https://medium.com/@beautyon_/beach-boy-bitcoin-64f62bed4c7e

Noster can't fix everything, and neither can Bitcoin; and there is a class of Bitcoiner that has shifted this narrative from "Bitcoin fixes this" to "Nostr Fixes this". It's the same Bitcoin Cult under a different name.

People who think software services like X, Bitcoin and Nostr are "technologies" betray their complete lack of understanding of what a technology is. Services are not technologies; they are made out of technologies.

And if you think a "signing key" will protect the launch procedure from being hijacked, you really don't understand how signing keys work, probably never used GPG, and are ignorant of the history of Cryptography.

Which is fine. No one can be expected to know everything.

These things are being said because it is important for people who prefer not to be ignorant hear them to reign in the drooling fanboyism that masquerades for insight. They throw around words like "Open Source" and "Centralized" not knowing what these things mean or whether or not practical use can be made of them. They also don't like it when "Open Source" is used against them as intended, when their work is forked and someone makes a copy of it for profit.

Publishers of books are the worst offenders in this, breathlessly talking about "Open Source" whilst protecting their books with copyright.

One of the rare exceptions is Boldrin and Levine's "Against Intellectual Monopoly" that you can download for free AND buy on Amazon. Not so clever people think they're being smart by finger pointing Boldrin and Levine for selling their books thinking they're not available for free, only to be silenced by pointing to the URL where they are. How pathetic.

http://dklevine.com/general/intellectual/against.htm

Thankfully, Bitcoin can't suffer from the delusions of these people, who are toxic and retarding of the expansion of Bitcoin's use. Once again, if Bitcoiners can't overcome the voices of these people then it was always doomed to fail.

So far. It is THEM that are failing, not YOU.

Take my green Crayola.

2024-07-16T21:56:02Z

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Take my green Crayola.

Craig "Faketoshi" Wright, compelled to admit he is a liar ...

2024-07-16T18:54:02Z

Craig "Faketoshi" Wright, compelled to admit he is a liar and fraudster https://craigwright.net

And this is not the end of the end of Faketoshi, because he perjured himself, and has to be brought to justice for that.

Now that the very real and serious threat of Faketoshi has been destroyed, the difficult business of untangling other lies about Bitcoin can commence, and the biggest and most deeply entrenched lie is that Bitcoin is money.

Judge Mellor in his judgement on page 41 says, "Although Dr Wright has gone quiet...he clearly has a number of disciples who will not accept that he is not Satoshi."

The same thinking that compels idiots to believe Craig Wright is Satoshi is also at work in the many people who think Bitcoin is money and who compel KYC/AML on its use.

To destroy this dangerous and stupid idea, a concerted effort will need to be made by people with the correct narratives and contexts to finally free Bitcoiners from this last impediment to it going viral.

To do this, someone with the means and the software is going to have to release and combine tools and services that utterly destroy any idea that Bitcoin is money simply by those tools being used.

Those tools may or may not exist, but when they do, you can expect them to not only "Free the Bitcoin" but to also become the default way people interact with it, because by freeing the Bitcoin from the distorted, perverted, anti-human and base thinking of Ambulance Chasers, they will flash into the market in an unprecedented viral event faster than the spread of Hotmail in its early days.

The only question is how long is this going to take, and who is going to do it.

Unfortunately the first generation of Bitcoiners cannot make this argument. In their enthusiast's mindset, desperate to wake people up to the power of Bitcoin, they used convenient analogies to persuade and explain what Bitcoin is. Many of them were not technical or computer literate, and so the field was salted and poisoned.

These dangerous analogies have now been taken as fact, in fact, they're almost held as sacraments of the Bitcoin Cult. Thankfully it is not them that need to be the target of the recontextualizing and cleansing of the narrative.

And it will most probably be a years long cleansing rain and plowing under of the soil that's required, so that crops of new Bitcoiners can grow who are free from the poison Bitcoin Cult.

When this happens, it will be worth it for all the people who opted to tell the truth and not lie about Bitcoin. And worth it means gaining hundreds of millions of users and transacting many many Bitcoin.

There is also the humanitarian element to consider.

Anyone mischaracterizing Bitcoin is participating in the restricting of Bitcoin to western hands. Without going hyperbolic about the true nature of this thinking and its results, let's just say there is a bad word that describes these people and their thinking.

There are literally billions of people who have a strong need of Bitcoin, and they can only be reached by treating Bitcoin by its nature, just as Skype and WhatsApp reached billions by not categorising their services as telephony.

Bear in mind also; all the employees making decisions about not serving people all come from the demographic that is served by default.

They have an inbuilt bias against the people who cannot be served by reason of their twisted, parochial and false assumptions, many of which are completely provably irrational.

In conclusion, make no mistake. Paradigm shifting events are coming that will change the face of Bitcoin. The mask must come off it is to succeed, and dedicated, logical and fearless people are ripping that mask off.

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2024-07-15T20:09:59Z

COINSPIRACY THEORY

Bitcoin wasn't written for Bitcoiners. It was written for ...

2024-07-01T17:17:52Z

Bitcoin wasn't written for Bitcoiners. It was written for everyone.

Sadly, ZH is a contra indicator. They blocked me in 2013 when I ...

2023-02-16T21:40:55Z

In reply to nevent1q…g5wl
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Sadly, ZH is a contra indicator. They blocked me in 2013 when I tried to explain Bitcoin to them when they called it, “a Ponzi”. It’s easy for them to pretend that they’re prescient and have inside baseball now that it’s obvious, but the fact is that they’re goldbugs and silver stackers who know nothing about anything other than that. They’re pathetic and part of the problem that three or four companies on earth are going to solve. And you know who and which ones I’m talking about!