Great discussion on the Tom Woods show about the Ross Ulbricht pardon and why the war on drugs is a complete failure. Trump seems to think if he just uses enough force against the cartels he can stop the flow of drugs, unfortunately all this will do is lead to even more death and the drugs will not stop. The only effect that going to war with the cartels is going to have is possibly a temporary increase in prices, which would just incentivize more production. Given that Trump broadcasted his intentions to lock the border down prior to the inauguration, I guarantee the cartels moved as much product across the border as they possibly could before he took office. There is probably enough cartel dope stashed within US borders to last them until Trump leaves office. So no, I don't think designating cartels as terrorists and trying to shoot your way out of widespread drug addiction is going to work Mr. President.

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Tom Woods (@ThomasEWoods) on X

We're still hearing from some quarters a bunch of claims about @RealRossU that are without foundation, so I devoted an episode to it https://t.co/n...

I was wondering how they put USDT onto the lightning network, this is a good explanation. I'd like to see other tokens launch on lightning as well, what we really need is a Bitcoin backed decentralized stablecoin on lightning that isn't controlled by a single company like tether.

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Michael Levin⚡️ (@MichaelLevin) on X

1/11: After yesterday’s announcement, I saw a flood of great questions about how Stablecoins work on Lightning via Twitter, chat groups, and DMs....

Fucking Christ, I managed to quit smoking cigarettes after many years which is amazing but doing it right before Trump coin and Deepseek was horrible timing🚬 #trump #deepseek

Are your bags outperforming Bitcoin? In crypto we have a tendency to get married to our bags, and become community members rather than ever selling a position you are down on. The best advice I've seen recently is to pretend you were buying your positions today, be honest with yourself, would you buy the same bags? If not, that means it's time to sell and buy something else. Instead of waiting and praying your bags go back up, reallocate that capital into something better. Even if you are down 90%, it's much better to take that remaining 10% and put it into a better performing coin. There are so many opportunities every day in crypto, so the opportunity cost of holding on to dying coins is very high. The tricky thing is even dead or dying projects will pump occasionally and give people false hope that their bags are back, but then they will continue down. Another important thing to consider is if you are outperforming Bitcoin or not by holding other assets. The USD price chart might look great, but if you can't outperform BTC there is no point in holding. The whole point is to stack as many sats as possible, after you pay your bills and shit, put your profits into BTC. This isn't financial advice I have no idea wtf I am talking about. #investing #trading #bitcoin

Fucking sexy as hell. Start mining BTC at home for $300. Who knows you might win a block, it's way better than wasting your money on scratch off lotto tickets or video poker. Be productive with your gambling and help secure the network. #mining #bitcoin #bitaxe

Solo Satoshi

Bitaxe Touch Unveiled: The First Touchscreen Bitcoin Miner

Bitaxe Touch unveiled, the world's first touch screen Bitcoin miner! Made in the USA and open source. This is the forefront of innovation.

Iran rugged the Iranian people by manipulating the official exchange rate in the equivalent to stealing 23 billion in US dollars from their pockets. Alex Gladstein was on a podcast the other day and he claims 5.7 billion people live under authoritarian regimes! Most of the worlds people do not have access to stable currencies, sometimes you wake up and your money is worth much less than it was when you went to sleep. We (me included) complain about inflation in the US dollar, but it's nothing compared to what much of the world experiences. This is why Bitcoin, Monero, and stablecoins are so important for the entire world. Crypto is so much more important than just memecoins. We have to spread this technology far and wide so that everyone has access to good money. Money is literally the embodiment of your time and energy, governments shouldn't be able to steal that from you. #bitcoin #monero

Iranian lawmaker accuses government of profiting from currency devaluation

A member of the Iranian parliament’s economic committee said on Wednesday that the administration has raised the official exchange rate of foreig...

Listen to this heart breaking recording and think about all the nonviolent drug offenders all over the world who are still sitting in cages. With Ross home we have won a battle but not the war, the fight for freedom continues. Governments have no right to tell us what substances we can put in our own bodies. They have no right to decide which plants or fungi are acceptable to grow. The very idea of a crime without a victim makes no sense ethically or logically. The war on drugs needs to end....now. #FreeRoss

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Brandon (@BranBTC) on X

At Bitcoin 2021 we recorded and played an interview with @Free_Ross. It was the first time many of us had ever heard his voice. I hope we will get...

Trump just pardoned Ross Ulbricht. He didn't commute his sentence, he gave him a full pardon! He has been in prison for more than a decade so coming home is going to be mental overload for him, I can't even imagine how him and his family are feeling right now. We have been fighting for this to happen for a long time, and when all appeals were exhausted and the only way out was a presidential pardon, his supporters continued to advocate for his release. His mother especially, she never gave up fighting to get him home. It seemed like an impossible task before the LP national convention, but they pulled it off! 👍🎉 🚀🎉😁🔥🔥 #FreeRoss

I'm calling it now, $100 $TRUMP is an eventual certainty. Everyone and their mom will be talking about this coin tomorrow after the most insane memecoin launch in history. The president has launched an official memecoin, take a moment to appreciate that. I can hear the BTC maxis screaming now.

Good to see so many Monero users on Nostr these days. We have private digital cash right now, today, and it's called Monero. It is the perfect compliment to Bitcoin. Together they can spread freedom far and wide. #Monero

Free Ian Freeman, Roger Ver, Ross Ulbricht, the Samourai devs, and the Tornado Cash devs. Creating a free marketplace website is not a crime, selling Bitcoin is not a crime, coding software to protect privacy is not a crime. Crimes should require a victim. Take a second and think about how retarded having "crimes" with no victims is. #FreeRoss #FreeSamourai #FreeIanFreeman #FreeVer #TornadoCash #Privacy #Bitcoin

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Free Staters Call on Trump To Free Ian Freeman of Keene From Prison

New Hampshire Free Staters who are supporters of the man they see as Bitcoin pioneer Ian Freeman, 44, of Keene, are calling on President-elect Dona...

The host of the "bitcoin and..." podcast, @DavidB84567 seems to think someone can just airdrop an NFT to your etheruem wallet and it will lock your entire wallet. That is not even possible. Some individual ERC-20 tokens CAN be frozen such as USDT and USDC. Others cannot such as ETH or many decentralized stablecoins. Your wallet address can be blacklisted by exchanges but that's true with Bitcoin wallets as well. What cannot happen is someone being able to freeze your entire wallet by sending you an NFT. I am not an ETH person although I do use it, but I just wanted to correct the misinformation. #Ethereum #Bitcoin #USDT #Tether #NFT

Just a reminder, for God's sake people please turn your fucking location off. It's not worth the convenience of whatever apps are using it. Learn how to read a MAP, you don't always need GPS. You can always turn it back on temporarily if you get hopelessly lost or whatever. Especially if you're a bitcoiner do you really want these hackers knowing everywhere you go? Or anyone else?

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Hackers Claim Massive Breach of Location Data Giant, Threaten to Leak Data

Gravy Analytics has been one of the most important companies in the location data industry for years, collating smartphone location data from aroun...

#privacy #hackers #hack

No more income tax in New Hampshire. Next thing to do is start cutting down their high property taxes. It's a good place to move to if you are a freedom minded crypto degen. Plus they have Porcfest 👍 https://x.com/singhdotin/status/1874514849205748088?t=pkSExrnxJrijD-2c_U1GGg&s=19

Police shot a 16 old in cold blood in the name of the war on drugs...again. He did have a gun, but the second Randall Adjessom realized the predawn intruders to his home were cops, he put his hands up. It wasn't enough for the cops and he was shot four times. They then left him to bleed out for four minutes before trying to administer any aid. It took 50 minutes for them to get him to a hospital that was 8 minutes away (He was still alive that entire time). Now the question you might be asking is why was the dead kid's home being raided? It was because his older brother, who didn't even live in the trailer, was suspected of .......selling cannabis. Every single cop on that raid, and the judge who signed off on it, are all guilty. I don't give a FUCK if you weren't the cop that shot this kid, if you are willing to go kick in people's fucking doors in predawn no knock raids over some goddamn weed sales, then you are a special kind of evil. They aren't heroes, they aren't "just doing their job", they are thugs/tyrants/murderers/thieves. I'd love to see if these scumbags would grab their gun or not if they wake up to intruders in their house. I mean if they are incapable of detecting the immorality of invading someone's home violently over a plant, then they have some serious soul searching to do, if they even still have one. #warondrugs #police #constitution #cannabis #420

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Alabama teen killed during 'no-knock' drug raid had his hands raised, lawsuit says

The wrongful death lawsuit says Randall Adjessom came out of his bedroom with a gun when Mobile police broke down his family's door in a preda...

Just a reminder that the first US Federal income tax was a temporary measure instituted during the Civil War in 1861 at a rate of 3% on incomes over $800. It was repealed a decade later. They tried to bring it back in 1894 but it was ruled unconstitutional the very next year. Undeterred the Government ratified the 16th amendment in 1913 to allow for an income tax. The income tax that followed was also supposed to be temporary for war time funding like the civil war one, and was taxed at rates less than ten percent. Never trust that a "temporary measure" from the Government will actually be temporary. So as hard as it is for people today to imagine a country without federal income taxes, it is not unprecedented. #taxes #history

I hear the left talking a lot about the class struggle and how the system is designed to benefit the rich. Yeah no shit it is, probably because every 4 years Americans continue to vote for rich people to rule over them. Every Democratic and Republican candidate for my entire life has been rich. Kamala Harris didn't even know how to hold a shovel. But if you have the guts to vote for a third party candidate who isn't obscenely rich, then you get yelled at by the same people bitchin' about rich people. Keep voting for the rich folks and they will keep using the power you give them to benefit themselves while simultaneously pretending to be "for the people". The only time a rich major party politician is going to actually help the working class is if it benefits themselves somehow. They are just buying votes, they don't care about you.

The FBI has had no reason to exist ever since they ended the X Files 😆 They are so useless they have to create half the crimes and terror plots that they then "stop". When given information about actual criminals and scammers they just ignore it and go after people for selling BTC instead. They make up fake domestic terror threats to scare people into thinking they are a valuable organization. I can go on all day.

What in the fuck? Did some intern in the Biden administration just market sell all the silk road BTC at once as a fuck you to Trump? It liquidated my long BTC trade so hard while my 20 shitcoin trades didn't get liquidated. Funding is reset at least. That wick got bought up quick too. That'll teach me not to walk away from my computer for a few hours ever again. #trading #bitcoin #btc

I was using Grammarly for the first time to try it out and I noticed it always wants me to refer to the Government as "it" rather than "they". The importance of language cannot be understated, the Government is not an it, they are just regular people. PEOPLE who think they have the right to control your life and body, to destroy your purchasing power, to spy on you, to extort you, and to kill or imprison you. They have also convinced most people that they are somehow special and that basic morality shouldn't apply to them. Remember the importance of words and call the "Government" what it actually is, a group of immoral gangmembers who use violence and coercion to enslave you while simultaneously brainwashing you into believing in their false authority. They have no authority other than what they gain through their monopoly on violence. There is nothing special about what the Government does, they are simply criminals who offer their "protection" in exchange for a cut of your money, just like the mob. #politics #anarchy #libertarianism #voluntaryism #language #freedom