Paid crypto shills have polluted the public discourse around bitcoin so badly that most of retail dont know what securities are, how nearly all of crypto thoroughly meets that criteria, and how bitcoin is different.

I'll buy the UFO whistleblower story when the GAE starts treating him like they treated Assange.

I love being able to work on open source software (Bitcoin) and simply ping my awesome network of other Bitcoin builders for advice, tips, debugging help, technical questions, etc. It is a force multiplier in many cases. It's especially helpful when you are working on a project alone, as it can feel isolating at times. It's much different than working in a corporate environment where you would be interacting with peers daily. Sometimes simply in the act of attempting to explain a problem to someone else you will discover the answer. Sometimes you won't even need to spend the message, simply articulating it can be enough.

On the topic of the SEC suing binance... Not all laws are inherently bad or immoral and for the record I strongly believe that US securities laws are being enforced justly here. Far too many "crypto" people taking the rug out from underneath the unsophisticated retail investor. Bitcoin is decentralized for a reason. The people that pushback on this narrative are either so anti-statist they believe it's impossible for the state to enforce just laws (it's not)...or they have a bag of illegitimate securities to shill... I can find common ground with the former but the latter is despicable. Securities disclosures exist for a reason. And for what it's worth, I've been warning people that state enforcement against unregistered securities (all of 'crypto') was a matter of when not if...and I've been singing this tune for a number of years now. Be logically consistent.

I have the following miniscript descriptor wsh(thresh(2,pk({A}),s:pk({B}),s:pk({C}),s:pk({D}),s:pk({E}),s:pk({F}),s:pk({G}),sun:after({unix_time}))) The expected behavior is for it to function as a 2 of 7 and decays down to a 1 of 7 after the unix time in the abs timelock is met. However, even if I put in a unix time that has already passed, for example, 168546671...it still requires me to provide 2 signatures to meet the spending threshold. What am I doing wrong?

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