Crypto humor: The personalities of BTC, XMR, and ZEC 1. The Concept of "Privacy" (Or lack thereof) -Bitcoin (BTC): The nudist at the beach. He thinks he's free, but everyone can see exactly what he has, where he came from, and where he's going. His idea of "anonymity" is putting on a pair of sunglasses and hoping the IRS doesn't recognize him. It is a glorified public ledger where your transactions are as private as a viral tweet. -Monero (XMR): The invisible man wearing latex gloves. He walks into the party, does his thing, and leaves without anyone noticing. He's like that neighbor nobody knows the name of, nobody knows what he does for a living, or when he leaves the house. If Bitcoin is an Instagram selfie, Monero is a conversation in a dark basement with no phones allowed. Its wallet is a black hole: what goes in there ceases to exist for the outside world. -Zcash (ZEC): The shy guy with glass curtains. He has the technology to be private, but by default, he leaves the curtains open because he has anxiety about offending the neighbors. It's "opt-in" privacy, which means almost nobody uses it because it requires extra effort that the average user is too lazy to make. 2. Relationship with Authority (The "Kissing the Ring") -Bitcoin (BTC): The ex-rebel who sold out to the system. Started out screaming "death to the banks" and is now having dinner with BlackRock and begging the SEC to approve an ETF. It has become the "digital gold" that millionaires keep in guarded vaults, exactly the opposite of what Satoshi wanted. -Monero (XMR): Public Enemy Number One. Exchanges are so afraid of it that they delist it just so regulators don't shut down their shop. It is the only currency that fulfills the promise of "unconfiscable money," and that's why the system treats it like it has the bubonic plague. -Zcash (ZEC): The corporate lawyer. Tries to convince the government that he's a "good guy" and that he has a "backdoor" (or viewing keys) in case the police need to take a look. He wants to be cyberpunk, but he also wants to be invited to Davos. 3. The Community (The Fandom) -Bitcoin (BTC): The "Laser Eyes." A cult that repeats "HODL" and "To The Moon" while watching transaction fees rise higher than the inflation of a banana republic. They'll tell you Bitcoin cures cancer and fixes climate change if you give them five minutes. -Monero (XMR): The bunker paranoids. People who use Linux, compile their own software, and probably have enough canned tuna to survive 10 years. If you ask them a simple question, they answer with a 40-page opsec tutorial. -Zcash (ZEC): The academics. Three guys with PhDs in cryptography arguing about zero-knowledge proofs (zk-SNARKs) in an empty room. They have the best technology on paper, but nobody invites them to dance. 4. Fungibility (Is your bill worth the same as mine?) -Bitcoin (BTC): The blood-stained bill. Because everything is traceable, if you receive a BTC that went through a hack 5 years ago, your account gets frozen. A "virgin" Bitcoin (freshly mined) is worth more than a used one. The exact opposite definition of real money. -Monero (XMR): Molten gold. Every unit is identical to the other. It doesn't matter if it was used to buy a coffee or an illegal tank; once it reaches your hand, it is simply Monero. Indistinguishable, as money should be. -Zcash (ZEC): The bipolar bill. It has two faces: a transparent one (t-addr) that is just as bad as Bitcoin, and a private one (z-addr) that is great but suspicious. If you use the private part, exchanges look at you funny, so you end up using the transparent one and defeating the purpose of the coin. 5. The Future (The Hypothesis) -Bitcoin (BTC): Will end up being a museum asset. It will move so slowly and be so expensive to use that only central banks will touch it. It will be the bronze statue in the town square: everyone respects it, but nobody interacts with it. -Monero (XMR): Will continue operating in the shadows. It will probably be illegal in 150 countries, and that will only make its price go up. It will be the official currency of the parallel economy when CBDCs control even the calories we eat. -Zcash (ZEC): Will keep updating its scientific roadmap. It will have the most elegant cryptography in the universe, but will die of irrelevance because they couldn't decide if they wanted to be rebels or employees of the month.

The Constitution has no inherent authority or obligation. It has no authority or obligation at all, unless as a contract between man and man. And it does not so much as even purport to be a contract between persons now existing. It purports, at most, to be only a contract between persons living eighty years ago. No Treason: The Constitution of No Authority, by Lysander Spooner

China has begun mass production of nuclear batteries and they’re smaller than a coin. They need no charging, no sunlight, no wires, and no maintenance. Just pure, continuous energy for up to five decades. Built by Betavolt, this battery converts nuclear decay into electricity. It’s completely sealed, emits zero external radiation, and is safe for daily environments. The current version produces 100 microwatts, enough for sensors, medical implants, or trackers. But a 1-watt version is already in development, capable of powering drones, industrial systems, and even smartphones.

Not all my followers are friendly. I know that. Some follow me just to hunt me down. It's the savannah I'm used to roaming.

Sometimes it is difficult to tell that an article has been paid for. Some media outlets have many paid articles. In this case it is easy to understand, since in addition to the fact that the content has no negative reviews (if you read it carefully, anything that could be negative is disguised as a “technical challenge that has already been overcome”), the article explicitly states that it is a commissioned piece. Inside Zcash: Encrypted Money at Planetary Scale

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#everydayprivacy Freedom is not asked for; it is built. Privacy is not a destination; it is a daily journey. A series of tips for you to practice. Tip #3 Secure trash: Never throw away papers with your full name, address, or bank details or other sensitive information; tear them into unrecognizable pieces, or better yet, burn them before they hit the trash can. liberlion.com/privacy

Evolving #Monero The developers of Monero are the real heroes!

Urgent Call to the Maximalists 2.0! 📢 Let's drop all that nonsense about "financial freedom" and "decentralization." We have far more important things to achieve, like seeing $BTC hit $1 Million Fiat! Please, get on your knees and pray: 🙏 To Larry Fink and Michael Saylor: We need more of your infinite wisdom and your ETFs, gentlemen! Please, buy more. A LOT MORE. We want BlackRock to control at least 80% of the entire supply. Only then will we know it’s truly valuable! 👑 To Donald Trump/The Government (whoever is in charge): Mr. President, please regulate this with an iron fist! We want legislation so strict that only the major financial institutions and the U.S. Treasury can buy Bitcoin. We want access to the network to be as simple as passing a Wall Street background check and paying $250,000 for a verified account. Only when central banks and multi-trillion-dollar hedge funds are the main holders will we know Bitcoin has fulfilled its true destiny: To be the perfect store of value... for the people who already own all the value! #BitcoinForTheElite #DecentralizationIsAcceptingLarryFink #ThankYouForYourFiat

Monero is counter-economics. Monero is anti-politics. Monero is counterculture. Those who don't see this are just speculating on the value of XMR or buying it because of the crypto #privacy trend or the false hype of cypherpunk. #Monero #monerist #agorist

Agorism is the philosophy of the Sovereign Individual (see Samuel Edward Konkin III, SEK3). It is evading the corrupt system that oppresses natural freedoms (see Lysander Spooner's Natural Law). It will become increasingly evident. Technocracy is the state at its highest level of efficiency in control, surveillance, and centralized social engineering. HACK THE SYSTEM; FUCK THE SYSTEM #agorism

This Australian girl is smarter than most. Instead of crying, "Oh, give me back my connection! I have rights! ...she told the highest representative of the Australian state to his face.: "WE'RE GOING TO FIND AN ALTERNATIVE ANYWAYS". And no, it's not innocence, it's courage. Stop crying, sheeple, and find a way around it. HACK THE SYSTEM; FUCK THE SYSTEM #agorism

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Regulators and tech oligarchs only exploit your vulnerabilities. They are the wolves, and you are the tender lamb. Take charge of your weaknesses. Your comfort and your ego are the greatest enemies of your #privacy. Identify them. Master them, or you will not be free.

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#everydayprivacy Freedom is not asked for; it is built. Privacy is not a destination; it is a daily journey. A series of tips for you to practice. Tip #2 Right of admission: Before sharing anything that involves personal information, or worse, posting it on social media, ask yourself if it is essential or if it is just your ego running wild; when it involves information about you, choose silence by default. liberlion.com/privacy

#everydayprivacy Freedom is not asked for; it is built. Privacy is not a destination; it is a daily journey. A series of tips for you to practice. Tip #1 No receipt, please: If the purchase does not require a warranty, pay in cash or with cryptocurrency from your non-custodial wallet (preferably Monero) and do not provide your ID or email address for the invoice. liberlion.com/privacy

#Privacy is becoming the greatest illusion of our time; not a right granted to all, but a luxury secured by the few.

News: Canada and the EU signed an MoU (Dec 10, 2025) for interoperable digital identity wallets and credentials. It enables cross-border recognition, joint pilots, and standards-sharing, building on June 2025 commitments. My opinion: I have been saying this for a long time: digital identity will be implemented before 2030 in developed countries. Protesting and collecting millions of signatures on platforms against digital ID is all well and good, and necessary, but it will be useless; it will only delay implementation. ALL GOVERNMENTS WILL BE TECHNOCRATIC, with only differences in their structures. Digital tyranny will be carried out through centralized social engineering. So get ready, and educate yourself on how to face what is coming. Privacy will be the greatest illusion ever invented; it will not be a human right, it will be a luxury for the few who are prepared.

ROTHBARD VS. KONKIN: THE BALLOT OR THE BLACK MARKET While sharing the anarcho-capitalist horizon, Murray Rothbard and Samule Konkin III were irreconcilable tactical foes. Rothbard bet on political realism: founding parties, voting, and forging alliances to dismantle the system from within. Konkin, however, rejected the ballot box as a moral trap. His answer was Agorism: ignoring the State and starving it of resources through counter-economics. While Rothbard sought to temporarily seize the throne to destroy it, Konkin taught how to build a parallel market where the throne simply no longer mattered. It’s the timeless battle between political reform and direct action. Which philosophy of these two activists do you adhere to?

SPOONER AND KONKIN: FROM THEORY TO ACTION Despite the time gap, Lysander Spooner and Samuel Konkin III are inseparable links in the chain of American individualist anarchism. What binds them is non-negotiable: an absolute rejection of the State's moral legitimacy. In the 19th century, Spooner took charge of demolishing the legal fiction. With masterpieces like No Treason, he argued that the Constitution lacks authority because no one ever signed an explicit social contract. A century later, Konkin picked up that gauntlet to take it into the practical realm. As the father of Agorism, he proposed we stop asking for permission and achieve liberty through "counter-economics," operating within black and gray markets. Put simply: Spooner was the architect who exposed the system's legal lie, and Konkin was the strategist who gave us the market tools to dismantle it.

SEC Announces Agenda and Panelists for Roundtable on Financial Surveillance and Privacy: Zooko Wilcox is among the panelists. I'm going to apply my L3 analysis protocol Layer 1 (Surface): Zooko attends the SEC panel under the guise of "education," arguing that financial privacy is compatible with legal compliance. Layer 2 (Depth): Facing liquidity crises and exchange delistings, Zcash leverages its "optional privacy" and "view keys" to differentiate itself from strict privacy protocols like #Monero. Layer 3 (Hidden Structure): The goal is regulatory capture. Zooko is positioning Zcash as the sole compliant option in the "privacy cypto-space". By validating regulations that require "auditable privacy," he aims to eliminate competitors and secure Zcash's survival as the de facto corporate standard.