If they are truly white hats than the #bitcoin wasn't "stolen". The headline should read "good Samaritans temporarily moved 4000 BTC to safety before blackhats could steal it." I would imagine if you discover that many BTC are just waiting to be stolen, you need to act immediately not wait and go through proper channels. Idk though, I'm not a hacker. If they are white hats though they are heroes. #liquid

Take a moment and think deeply about the inherent absurdity of statism. Statists believe that if you were born within some imaginary lines on a map, that some words on a piece of paper give a group of criminals, "the state", the right to kill, kidnap, incarcerate, extort, and enslave you. AND the criminals only apply the magic words to you and not themselves. Natural rights trump some pieces of paper with "laws" on them. Most people have convinced themselves that this is a good arrangement, because the criminals "protect" them and build roads. It is a mass delusion on an epic scale designed to max extract value from innocent people to benefit a ruling class. #agorism #voluntaryism #anarchy

Slavethink is when you sit around and wait patiently for the ruling class to punish the ruling class for violating the ruling class's own rules. It ain't ever going to happen.

Nice to see a ray of hope in dark times. #deflock

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At least when the state taxes someone, they are aware of it and might even be ok with "paying their fair share". However, when the state debases the currency through unrestrained money printing, it is robbing people without many of them even realizing it. Most people have no clue how the fiat monetary system works, or how it benefits the ruling class at their expense. The state takes full advantage of that ignorance. I think if people knew the truth they would revolt. Your time, your limited time on this planet, is being stolen from you. When you factor the hidden tax of inflation in with other taxes, a huge portion of your life is spent working for the state. The state does not use much of the value it extracts from you to do anything that actually benefits you. Most of it goes to waste, corruption, and the military industrial complex. We need to opt out of this system en masse, stop using the dollar, and build/use alternative systems and currencies that keep value in our pockets and out of theirs. #countereconomics #agorism #voluntaryism #taxationistheft

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Government's murdering their own citizens is the leading cause of unnatural death in the world. We do have cool roads though.

People have been predicting economic collapse every year since 2008. Since they have been wrong, people have become desensitized to such predictions. So that when it does happen, which it will, most people will be surprised. All those paper gains in retirement accounts from the uponly stock market can go away very quickly. And cashing out requires a functioning society, which isn't guaranteed. Reallocate to physical gold, crypto, hard liquor, and food. NFA I have no idea wtf I'm doing.

After years of waiting, #Monero is being added to #Thorchain tomorrow, alongside Zcash. Liquidity will be limited at first to work out any bugs. But it is finally happening, and not a moment too soon after Kraken, one of the last major exchanges supporting #XMR, limited withdrawals to a measly 5 XMR a month (~$2100). When the market is pumping, it is harder for money to flow into XMR because of the CEX delistings. Despite this, Monero has outperformed most of crypto throughout the bear market. DEXes like Thorchain adding Monero will change the game. One of the biggest factors in ZEC's success has been Near Intents allowing anyone to permissionlessly swap into ZEC from Ethereum, Ethereum L2s, and Solana. If Monero has outperformed despite the friction involved in onboarding, imagine what it can do once anyone can permissionlessly and instantly swap into it from other chains without having to trust swap providers.

What the fuck Georgia (and it's always Georgia, when its not Florida) In Georgia if you find $30 on the ground you are a serious criminal.

If you are a customer of Dish or AT&T be aware they are the main installers of Flock Cameras. Ditch them and tell them exactly why. #deflock

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If you tag Grok and mention #Monero, Grok ignores you. Apparently "XMR" is also blacklisted. If that alone doesn't tell you how fucking cool Monero is, idk what will. Plus, if you have been holding #XMR instead of 99% of cryptos, you wouldn't even know about the bear market.

***warning human generated content*** New Freedom Tech: Radar Chat - Signal fork from Cake Wallet that includes support for #lightning payments. Easily send #bitcoin to your contacts within chats. Basically a much more private venmo plus encrypted chat....now available in play store and apple store Buzz (buzz dot xyz) - Block's new project that sells itself as a decentralized #nostr based alternative to Github and Slack. Spin up your own instance to keep your team's communications private. Considering Github is owned by Microsoft, the more alternatives we have the better. freedom.tech - new site from btcqna of the Ungovernable Misfits podcast. It gives you an AI generated daily report on freedom tech releases. XMRpod - fork of the popular antennapod podcast player with #monero tipping enabled, from the highly based xmr_chat team. They just combined my daily driver podcast app with my favorite crypto. Fuck yeah. Find it on github dot com slash XMRChat slash XMRPod

What Texas did with Delta 8, taking a legal product and making it worse than cocaine legally overnight by decree with no vote, is a great reminder of how quickly the state can make anything it wants a crime arbitrarily. The only things that should be considered crimes are actions that have victims. Voluntary transactions between consenting adults have no victim, and should not be a crime.

Early bitcoiner Mark Edge of Free Talk Live has been doing a podcast with Sal the Agorist which is pretty good, if you skip all the ads lol, Sal is just getting every sponsor he can stuff into an episode. Other than that, they have some good freedom oriented content. Free Talk Live: Sal and Mark - EP15 Episode webpage:

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In Wisconsin, #Flock was used as a pretext to search a man's car for weed solely based on the fact that he had driven to Michigan multiple times. Wait a minute.... But I was told these Flock cameras were just for finding missing children, violent criminals, and car thieves! If you actually believed that, you don't understand how the government works. Everything in government starts small and reasonable. Such as the history of social security numbers. As time goes on though, all government programs expand and grow far beyond the original stated goals. Governments are kind of like thousands of different parasites joined together. Flock Cameras are one parasitic program among many, and it cannot stop growing or it dies. These cameras will continue to be updated to collect more and more different kinds of data, that data will be retained for longer and longer periods of time, and that data will be used for more and more things. They will be used to track down suspects and prosecute them for every victimless or minor crime you can think of. -cannabis or other drug "crimes" -minor traffic infractions -truancy -protest attendance -curfew violations -tracking down people who owe child support, back taxes, etc -a whole list of technical probation or parole violations that normally would of been hard to prove, but with Flock you better hope your PO likes you -Vandalism -Trespassing This opens a Pandora's Box. Imagine a police officer or city official doesn't like the political things you say on social media. They can type in your X username into Flock's dashboard and it will immediately bring up any vehicles associated with you. From your movements over the past 3 months, the Flock AI will be able to find SOMETHING to get you on. That's because no matter how perfect you think you are, no matter if you pay your taxes and have followed the rules your entire life, you are probably still guilty of a couple. crimes without even realizing it. And one by one, just like in Stalinist Russia, whoever has access to Flock can use it to get anyone they want arrested. It's a lot harder to vote if you are in jail. Cops will use it to get their numbers up and justify their inflated budgets. Politicians will use it to target their opponent's supporters. Courts will become clogged, jails will fill up, poor communities will be devastated. It's easy to see what's coming. It's a lot harder to stop it. It must be stopped, now, before they can use Flock to destroy the #deflock movement.

Toxic bitcoin maximalism has set the battle to get people to self custody back years. Toxic bitcoin maximalism has decimated the ranks of DCAers and hodlers who support the price during bear and bull. Toxic bitcoin maximalism has stifled innovation and held bitcoin back from achieving it's mission. Toxic bitcoin maximalists have rejected cypherpunk principles and gotten in bed with Wall Street and the government. Toxic #bitcoin maximalists have attacked countless people who dare to even discuss shitcoins for being "scammers" while simultaneously promoting #coldcard which scammed people into thinking they were highly secure. Thank God I only wanted hardware wallets that also supported shitcoins.

According to Dylan LeClair, "It should be said very clearly there is nothing wrong with white glove multisig solutions, collaborative custody, or *gasps* even ETFs." I disagree entirely. There actually is something wrong with ETFs. The west is no longer safe. Governments can and will seize funds for arbitrary reasons, western governments are rapidly becoming very authoritarian. ETFs and custodians might feel safe, but they are most definitely not safe. Any custody solution that involves using your real identity is not safe because of leaks and the criminals who take advantage of these leaks. There are risks and these risks are often withheld from new bitcoiners. I think some bitcoin maxis are more concerned with acquiring new converts for NGU than with being honest about the risks. Bitcoin is not easy, it is not fun, but do it right and it means freedom from slavery. #bitcoin #coldcard

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Isa, im sure many sympathize with your experience here. My general advice: there is no need to have to cosplay as a radical cypherpunk revolutionar...