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

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“HEXAGONAL”.

“We’re going to have the gavel put own on them”.

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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!

On the hypocrisy of Yacarino: https://x.com/Beautyon_/status/1829820753987903809

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.

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We willl begin publishing the long list of @Alexandre’s crimes, along with the specific Brazilian laws that he broke tomorrow. Obviously, he do...

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

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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

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.

The founder of Telegram has been kidnapped. Why don't they (the EU States) in this case, arrest the CEO of Apple and Samsung or Google, for people using browsers and phones in the commission of crimes? Or ISPs or anyone else transmitting data? No one can answer this, because Ambulance Chasers are Computer Illiterates. This question touches Bitcoin of course, and will have profound effects if the people who make these bad decisions are not re-educated and their ignorance neutralized. The CEOs of Bitcoin companies must assert the truth of how things work at all times to defend not only their businesses but their hundreds of millions of users.

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 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.

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. ↴

If people who ran the platforms in the west did what they knew was right there would be no problem. The actual problem is the people who own platforms do what is wrong, even when they know it is wrong. “Multipolarity” will not solve the problem of western men who shy away from boldness or taking direct correct decisions for their users and companies. Asking for other people to do the job you should be doing is the same as pushing the problem into the technical sphere through “decentralisation”; it’s failing to live up to your responsibilities. Leaders of properly run companies are exactly that; LEADERS. They don’t do things by consensus, or defer to every opinion or allow themselves to be distracted or diverted. They have strict hierarchy where the CEO has final, absolute say on everything important. And history shows this is correct, from Trump, Walt Disney, Henry Ford, to Steve Jobs; companies led by LEADERS succeed in serving the public through strength. And this is all about serving the public. If you fail to do that, you’ve failed. Thankfully in Free Market Capitalism, Natural Law is the rule, not theory: LAW. And make no mistake; all cultures at every scale are not equal. Some work better than others. Failing to accept this is suicidal. But “You do you”!

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: 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, 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.

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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. ************* I WANT YOUR BITCOIN! *************

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.

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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.