This Friday at @PUBKEY: I’ll be sitting down with David Z. Morris of @The Rage to discuss the sentencing of the #Samourai devs. Please RSVP below if you can make it.

Samourai Wallet Developers Face Sentencing: A Fireside with The Rage's David Z. Morris and Bitcoin Journalist Frank Corva · Luma

The sentencing hearings for Samourai Wallet developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill are scheduled for Thursday, Nov. 6, and Friday, N...

Let us please stop referring to New York City as a hub for capitalism. It isn’t. Instead, it’s a center for crony capitalism, a form of socialism for the rich. It’s also a jurisdiction laden with red tape and high taxes that’s largely unaffordable for the poor, middle and working classes. It’s also home to Wall Street, which has been bailed out time and time again at the expense of the U.S. taxpayer and the value of the U.S. dollar itself. What is more, NYC is subject to the BitLicense, which makes it hard for Bitcoin companies to serve New Yorkers, creating more friction for those who want to break free from the crony capitalistic system via Bitcoin. If more people held and understood Bitcoin, they wouldn’t have voted for Zohran Mamdani. But the traditional financial system doesn’t want people to understand it, because it would make that system irrelevant. So, in essence, I blame Wall Street and the other benefactors of the Cantillon Effect (look it up) as well as the bureaucratic hellhole that is NYC (and New York State more broadly) for Mamdani being elected mayor. Until we confront on a larger level how Wall Street/bank bailouts, infinite money printing, and red tape hurts the most financially vulnerable among us and acknowledge that Bitcoin is an answer to this, expect many more Mamdani types to be elected.

If you’ll be attending Bitcoin Amsterdam, please join Bitcoin Core developer Sjors Provoost and me as we discuss what we can learn from the Tornado Cash and Samourai trials/cases. We’ll be on the Orange Stage at 15:00 on Thursday, November 13.

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Frederick C. Robie House in Chicago, built in 1910

“There is no path to truth… You will come upon it when the mind is free of all the things it has put together. That majestic peak is also the miracle of life.” -J. Krishnamurti

It's with a heavy heart that I share I will be moving on from my position at Bitcoin Magazine as of next Friday, 10/31. I am deeply grateful for the opportunities that working at BM has afforded me. It's been an absolute honor and a privilege to be a part such an special team.

Super excited to share that I’ll be speaking at Bitcoin Medellín in January! Hope to see some of you there!

“Bitcoin was magic because, with one click, we could pass all of the barriers that we faced. We used it for survival.” -Roya Mahboob @npub1wlkf...qwhy @HRF