Trump Coin is American state corruption at the highest level, just made more obvious and more garish because of the issuer. The Bidens and Albrights of the world prefer to operate in the "legalized" form of trading their political access for family wealth and hedge funds (this by the way, is how CCP mandarins accumulate their wealth). More obvious and garish is rather a step in the wrong direction, though perhaps it'll help people focus on the real oppressive force in their lives, rather than wrangling over "Red vs. Blue" mindfuck games.

It was great meeting you in Africa, @jack . Hope "Would Mao Hold Bitcoin" helps you understand why many, even in China (or maybe especially in China), find hope in Bitcoin and Nostr.

who were the greatest scientist/poets? My votes go to Oppenheimer, who read the Bhagavad Gita in its original Sanskrit, and opened the Atomic Age with deep poetic symbolism (Trinity from John Dunne's Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for example.) and Omar Khayyam who defined the Persian calendar for a millennium and linked algebra and geometry together in fundamental ways, while writing enough quatrains to form the Rubáiyát. Very open if others have suggestions!

Gave the Chinese/HK users of Damus a shoutout on What Bitcoin Did with @Danny Knowles . Keep on rocking. CC: @Sherry @jb55

sobh bekheir (صبح بخير) everybody

“This is the history of governments, - one man does something which is to bind another. A man who cannot be acquainted with me, taxes me; looking from afar at me, ordains that a part of my labour shall go to this or that whimsical end, not as I, but as he happens to fancy. Behold the consequence. Of all debts, men are least willing to pay the taxes. What a satire is this on government! Everywhere they think they get their money's worth, except for these. Hence, the less government we have, the better, - the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual; the appearance of the principal to supersede the proxy; the appearance of the wise man, of whom the existing government, is, it must be owned, but a shabby imitation. To educate the wise man, the State exists; and with the appearance of the wise man, the State expires." ― Ralph Waldo Emerson

i will tip some unlucky soul 2100 sats if they can provide me the best, coherent reply as to why Hegel seems to matter so much

"There are years, centuries, in which nothing happens, and there are days, like yesterday, into which a whole lifetime is compressed." - Adriaan Schade van Westrum The seizure and freezing of bank accounts belonging to Jewish patrons after the invasion of Austria by Nazi Germany took a day. It took about 5 months in the 1911 Revolution for the Chinese people to shake off 5,000 years of dynastic rule. There have been hundreds of coups, many of them successful within a day in terms of major changes. Some of the most recent are in Thailand, Sudan, Niger, Myanmar, Honduras, Guinea, Gabon, Egypt. Lest we think this something that won't hit the G7, France and Germany have had major coup attempts as well. Wars can take a day to start.

List of coups and coup attempts by country - Wikipedia

When history knocks, are you going to be holding paper promises, hard-to-transport gold or hard, portable money such as Bitcoin? Photo - Klimt's Woman in Gold, seized during the Anschluss.

Still amazed that Hal Finney continued coding with his eyes as he battled ALS. An inspiration to this day. @Fran Finney

WIRED

Bitcoin's Earliest Adopter Is Cryonically Freezing His Body to See the Future

"He’s always been optimistic about the future," says Hal Finney's wife, Fran. "Every new advance, he embraced it, every new technology. Hal relis...

I was quoted in this article by South China Morning Post, one of Hong Kong's papers of record - trying to get across my key message that Bitcoin restrictions were a key mistake by China. Writers choose the quotes and story they want to run with - however, it marks another shot across the bow from a writer from SCMP either questioning the CBDC e-CNY or Bitcoin bans. I really don't know what the Party elite think about this topic. And perhaps this doesn't move the needle. But in a Hong Kong media ecosystem that in some ways was collapsed by the National Security Law and the arrests of prominent editors and publishers, it stands out to me that this is a discussion worth having.

South China Morning Post

Decentralised kingdom: bitcoin’s Trump bump and how China lost its crypto crown

As the world’s factory, China cornered the market on bitcoin mining, leading to a flurry of crypto business activity before a harsh crackdown in ...

Broke: "China banned Bitcoin" Woke: Let's look at China's ten-year debt yield curve Bespoke: Xi's China is unable to foster an indigenous intellectual tradition, because that would require speaking truth to power, so it has to resort to a weird mix of broken contradictory threads from the past, Spartan ethics, and strands of Strauss, Marx, and Schmitt - leading to a spiritual void and a China defined in negative space and more clear on what it is against than what it is for.

China Books Review

Socialism with Socratic Characteristics | China Books Review

In attempting to justify Communist Party rule, Chinese academics have turned to an unlikely intellectual ally — classical Greek philosophy.

""I do not write to earn a living or to build a reputation. I write to battle enemies. "Who are they? Every outdated traditional notion, every irrational system that stands in the way of social progress and human development, and every instance of cruelty in the face of love. These are my great enemies." - Ba Jin/巴金

Ba Jin: From Rebellion to Endurance

The Kate Sharpley Library exists to preserve and promote anarchist history.

Watching @jack talk about Twitter and telling people it's better to post on Nostr gives some Oppenheimer vibes

Hanging out at the BTrust Dev Day. @jack emphasized the importance of scaled decentralization, sure roots behind supporting Bitcoin and Nostr.

Who is going to be in Nairobi for @Africa Bitcoin Conference? Ping me, I'll be coming in earlier!

hands up if you learned your economics through Neopets

"Grandpa how did you build the family fortune?" "Well it's a funny story Timmy. I once posted a photo of deez nuts on this network called Nostr, and a bunch of nyms including jimmytroll69 sent me these things called zap-"

I now can never unsee Lightning Network

People find bullish factors in Bitcoin's price but I always look at how many people and importantly who attends BitDevs as a proxy for how bullish I should feel

I just listed the "Would Mao Hold Bitcoin" copies I have left on @Shopstr Markets. Really jazzed to try it out - great work @calvadev⚡️ - it was easy to get a listing up. If you're in San Salvador or perhaps Berlin in the next three days (November 20th - November 23rd) - we can make it happen.

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