I thought "Four more years, pause." would make a great t-shirt, but the White House outdid themselves with the transcript: "Four more years (inaudible)."

Gonna buy some non-KYC Bitcoin so hard

This is why governments are attacking financial privacy and Bitcoin. It's all about taxes (aka mafia protection fee).

Wtf, I love Joe Biden now?

Big nostr growth is going to come from teens, probably. With all the age verification being applied to sites (not just porn), nostr will be the path of least resistance.

Also, the whole experience was a reminder of how fucked the fiat system is. I had to jump through so many hoops and figure out all the tax stuff. Then got blocked for AML stuff, then encountered payment limits, then discovered you can't buy fractions of shares, then realised you can only buy when the market is open etc etc. Still have my tax assessment to look forward to 😪

I've been a real fiat maxi the last few days. Because of the UK's convoluted tax system I've needed to put extra money into a pension. Sold some Bitcoin, transferred the cash into a pension (and the government tops it up by 25%), and bought MSTR. I don't feel good about buying MSTR because I don't fully understand Saylor's financial engineering, but it's literally the only way to get Bitcoin price exposure in a UK pension. We're not allowed to buy US ETFs, and even when we get our own in ~May it won't be accessible to retail like me for "investor protection". Instead I have to buy some levered stock run by a guy who thinks Bitcoin is real estate. Theoretically this is a very tax efficient thing to do, and it also gives me more cash flow (due to UK childcare funding) to buy more real Bitcoin. But it hurts adding all these extra trust layers. Right now I can't access the pension till I'm 57, but that can go up and the government can change all the tax advantages. All I can do is 🤞

It was only 2 days ago when one of my friends told me I was being a conspiracy theorist. Of course this is going to happen. And then next step will be using the smart meter two-way capability to turn your power off.

Took an Uber in a Tesla Model 3. Driver absolutely hates it. He's been forced to buy an electric car by Transport for London. His previous vehicle was > 8 yrs old (lol, buying new cars for the environment 🙃) Main issues: - Expensive car - Spends 1.5 hrs of his day travelling to and waiting at a Tesla super charger - Used to cost him 28p per KWh, now 64p per KWh - almost more per mile than a petrol car - Always worrying about his range. When he had a petrol car he could just ask a customer to wait 5 min while he refuelled, but no way he can ask them to wait 45 min while he recharges. - Battery deteriorates by almost 5% range every year

Went to a bachelor party and didn't talk about Bitcoin once. Bull market barely started.

Top story in UK papers today to ensure we buy more snacks: Intermittent fasting is a cult celebrity diet and some observational study says it increases your risk of a heart attack. Journalists still not bothering to learn basic statistics that might hinder their ability to sell newspapers and advertising.

Why am I reading this _now_? Two stories in this morning's UK papers 1. Supposedly UK defence minister targeted by Russia for a potential missile strike (in Odessa) 2. Latvian foreign minister urging NATO countries to consider conscription A two-pronged approach to make us more scared of Russia and then further cede the conversation about escalating the war.

it still tickles me that for so many years the example all the Web3 people used to justify their scams was "imagine you could own your social network and take it with you to another platform" and yet here we are with NOSTR, doing exactly that (and more) with no scams, no tokens, no Web3 VC bullshit 😅🤷‍♂️👏✌️🤙🌅

yeah I think Saylor probably gets sacrificed this cycle

Not sure I've seen this analogy anywhere, but I've got a good explanation to friends of why it's so hard to copy or change Bitcoin: Bitcoin is like how modern society thinks of 24hr time 🕰️ (@npub1dergggklka99wwrs92yz8wdjs952h2ux2ha2ed598ngwu9w7a6fsh9xzpc alludes to this in "Bitcoin is time"): - We all agree on the protocal of 24 hours, minutes, seconds etc. - International Atomic Time is the main reference point that can be independently verified. - It's relatively easy to check whether other clocks are cheating because we all run our own time nodes (quartz or the sun, or even Bitcoin). - To change this protocal or shift it in some way would be so massively difficult, that it just doesn't happen. It's only possible if the vast majority of people who control devices agree. - Yes you can try and claim your own time standard as the real one, but really there is no second best.

cult

Rules for thee ..

Personally, I agree that women should have a right to an abortion (within clear limits), but it's just such a sad and terrible thing to have to do in any circumstance. So I find it strange to have a celebration for putting it in your constitution (it was already legal in France).

One of the arguments I hear most from my friends when I tell them to get some Bitcoin and self-custody: Yeah but the money will be gone forever if I lose it or it gets stolen. They think bank accounts protect them. Have a look at this Revolut situation where a customer had £165K stolen from his account, and Revolut won't pay him back. HSBC accounts involved too, of course. Keep it simple. Stack sats, keys offline. Don't trust, verify.

Which?

Which? issues Revolut bank account takeover fraud warning - Which?

Two Revolut business customers have been left reeling after criminals drained their accounts using near-identical tactics

Just discovered a small star magnolia in my garden 🎉 Not in the best shape, but has potential. Excited to start gardening again this spring 🌷