Pura Vida! Nostr and Bitcoin Inscriptions have ushered in a hopeful new era for free speech! Because the code for these projects enable anonymous speech, a deeply rooted constitutional right, they should be entitled to the highest levels of First Amendment protection. Cc: #[0] #[1] #[2] #[3] #[4] https://www.bitcoinbrief.io/p/nostr-bitcoin-inscriptions-and-the

"Founding Nostrich with Bill of Rights" #[0] #[1] #[2]

From the instant I saw Ordinals, my take was the same expressed by Casey Rodarmor to #[0] (around 2 hours in) that Ordinals make it very easy for a judge to understand that Bitcoin is communicative code protected by the first amendment. Not just commercial speech, but expressive and political speech entitled to scrict scrutiny (the highest level of 1A protection). Legal game changer.

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CD91: Ordinal Inscriptions with Casey Rodarmor

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🚨 Killer Nostr + FediMint Use case 🚨 p2p marketplace LocalBitcoins is shutting down. Speculation is that it has come under heightened scrutiny from FinCEN due to its use as a conduit for funds from Bitzlato and Hydra dark marketplace. Centralized solutions are not sustainable.

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Buy and sell bitcoins near you. Fast, easy and private.

Decentralized p2p marketplaces are desperately needed. Nostr relay modules for FediMint could transmit trade offers and facilitate trader chat, with escrow modules securing the trade amounts and deposits. Discussion is open on integrating Nostr with FediMint:

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Nostr Relay Service for Fedimints · fedimint/fedimint · Discussion #1604

Opening this discussion thread to consider use cases, need and possibility of Nostr relays as a way to move generic data across the Fedimint boundary

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Nostr relay fedimint module. Allowing communication across FediMint walls. Whose got use case ideas?

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Nostr Relay Service for Fedimints · fedimint/fedimint · Discussion #1604

Opening this discussion thread to consider use cases, need and possibility of Nostr relays as a way to move generic data across the Fedimint boundary

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This thread on how the U.S. banking system has utterly failed American Samoa is infuriating.

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Julie A. Hill (@ProfJulieHill) on X

American Samoa is the land that banks (and their regulators) forgot. For many years, American Samoa was served by @BankofHawaii and @ANZ_AU. But in...

Time for Bitcoin Beach: American Samoa! #[0] #[1] #[2] #[3] #[4] #[5] #[6] #[7] #[8] #[9]