Live with Zooko!
Joël Valenzuela
thedesertlynx@iris.to
npub1lvav...fuw6
Business development and marketing for Dash. Crypto and liberty lover. Living on crypto since 2015. FreeState Project mover, content creator for Digital Cash Network.
Live with Nate!
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!
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.
Tomorrow at 4pm EDT/8pm UTC Zooko Wilcox comes on the Zcash Podcast! Watch live and post any questions you have ahead of time
https://www.youtube.com/live/VZeM7bvWWPg
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 😆
Couldn't resist the lame crypto puns
https://twitter.com/TheDesertLynx/status/1660788733807931392
Travel is the perfect excuse to booze in the middle of a Monday
https://twitter.com/TheDesertLynx/status/1660640102740029442
fren2fren electric monies
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Spreading the message of escaping fiat scam one day at a time
https://twitter.com/TheDesertLynx/status/1659818607616880640
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.
Nothing quite like experiencing another country's silly laws to remind you that you've gotten too used to your own country's nonsense.
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 😵💫
Pretty insane that a New Hampshire-made, ranked-#1,000+ by market cap, attacked-by-the-SEC crypto project still manages to have more users than most of the decentralized social media space combined! 🤯


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Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 (@jeremykauffman) on X
it blows my mind that a team of under 20 people, that's now down to basically no one, built and operated the largest web3 social network despite be...
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.
This is why it blows my mind that some paranoid privacy advocates won't use crypto but still use banks. It's insane! 😵💫


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Naomi Brockwell priv/acc (@naomibrockwell) on X
Banking is entirely controlled & surveilled. The govt kills entire industries that they don't like by choking off access to financial services....
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.
Everyone download Signal and turn on auto-deleting messages. It's the first step in safeguarding your privacy.
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.