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Joël Valenzuela
thedesertlynx@iris.to
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Business development and marketing for Dash. Crypto and liberty lover. Living on crypto since 2015. FreeState Project mover, content creator for Digital Cash Network.
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
Live in about 90 minutes (3pm EDT/7pm UTC) Nate from Eat Sleep Crypto joins the Digital Cash rundown to talk the Tornado Cash exploit, the Dash chain halt, and an ETHDam recap!
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
So much work went into making our money and payments system run as smoothly as it does. Rebuilding it newer and freer isn't going to be easy.
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
Finally catching up after a week-long trip to Europe for ETHDam. Over the weekend Tornado Cash got rekt and the Dash blockchain halted during an upgrade, but everything was fine after I woke up in my own bed the next morning. Definite "What did I miss?" vibes 😆
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
fren2fren electric monies 🧑‍🦱➡️🧑‍🦰⚡️💰
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
I've seen so many liberty activists burn out over the years. It's a brutal and unforgiving pursuit, and the liberty movement often eats itself. At the end of the day though, it's absolutely worth it.
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
Nothing quite like experiencing another country's silly laws to remind you that you've gotten too used to your own country's nonsense.
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
As the great Kenn Bosak once said, "We're the beta testers of money. It sucks." 😅 I'm reminded of this as I go to test out crypto payment solutions in 5 countries in the space of a week 😵‍💫
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
Econ 101: Having more choices means providers compete provide the best services possible in order to win over customers. It's clear the US doesn't feel like it needs to compete. National divorce definitely reduces tyranny. To argue against it argues for central planning.
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
Really great and extensive conversation with Lorenzo about Bitcoin's congesting these past couple of weeks. Highly recommended if you have two hours to burn.
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
Everyone download Signal and turn on auto-deleting messages. It's the first step in safeguarding your privacy.
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TheDesertLynx 2 years ago
Everything I do is for one simple goal: freedom. I believe in making people's lives around the world as free and self-directed as possible. I believe in this for its own sake, but also because I believe freedom produces the best objectively-measurable outcomes like wealth. Whether it's crypto, the Free State Project, privacy, open-source tech, and generally libertarianism, all these are to maximize freedom as effectively as possible.