Been doing a lot of “save in bitcoin and focus on your craft” lately but hoping to go back to “focus on bitcoin and save your craft for later” soon enough.

Venmo has the same article with 3 different titles

Where’s the NIP for posting government issued ID and a signed permission slip? View quoted note →

An Internet connected door cam with microphone can be legally used against you? Shocking! Who could’ve predicted that?

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance

Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach ...

I’m long overdue for my once-every-other-decade physical. Just going to assume I’ve got all the chronic illnesses and need all the pills.

The government playbook: approve and encourage bitcoin ETFs, tell people they’ll have their fingers chopped off and they’ll lose their keys, praise “bitcoin treasury companies”, let banks custody and lend/borrow against it for fiat, and make the taxes complicated for direct usage. You’ll unsurprisingly reduce adoption. Throw in plenty of collaborative custody solutions so you can keep tabs on the ones who stay outside the system and suddenly bitcoin doesn’t seem so scary!