Crypto Currency Gloom? There are a lot of interesting things happening, that you maybe need to look past the headlines from crony news networks to appreciate. Jack Maller moving Strike to El Salvador. Good Move. Bitcoin miners making tons of money with ordinals. Also Good! Miners will hopefully use profits to buy and move more miners to more diverse locations. Ordinals will pass, or someone will develop a better way to inscribe them onto the Bitcoin network without it jamming up the Mempool. Average Joe’s like me and you accumulating 1 bitcoin wallets. Forget the Whales. They and Wall Street are just here to manipulate for trading. Who needs them. Bitcoin doesn’t need them. Works fine without them. A stagnating USA maybe beginning to wake up and smell the roses, of past failures with old regimes. Out with the old, and in with the new. Bitcoin is a part of a free society. It does not threaten the Fiat Dollar, unless the Fiat dollar is being used as a weapon against others that don’t agree with these old timers that are running things, and only protecting their own wealth. Bitcoin is freedom to choose, and that is American. Yes, you have to learn how to handle Crypto Currencies. There are plenty of sources out there to help. Yes there are scammers that will attempt to take advantage of your lack of understanding. Believe me, the US government has already chumped you into believing what they want you to believe. Talking us into putting our life savings in the stock market, and then manipulating the hell out of it. Forced to put money into the Social Security, and Medicare programs, and then robbing the funds for pet projects. Oh, the government is going broke. Print some more money with nothing to back it. The hidden tax as all that money filters into the economy and the price of everything goes up. Get a lawyer if your feeling cheated. Then you will really be cheated.

Crypto Currency Gloom? There are a lot of interesting things happening, that you maybe need to look past the headlines from crony news networks to appreciate. Jack Maller moving Strike to El Salvador. Good Move. Bitcoin miners making tons of money with ordinals. Also Good! Miners will hopefully use profits to buy and move more miners to more diverse locations. Ordinals will pass, or someone will develop a better way to inscribe them onto the Bitcoin network without it jamming up the Mempool. Average Joe’s like me and you accumulating 1 bitcoin wallets. Forget the Whales. They and Wall Street are just here to manipulate for trading. Who needs them. Bitcoin doesn’t need them. Works fine without them. A stagnating USA maybe beginning to wake up and smell the roses, of past failures with old regimes. Out with the old, and in with the new. Bitcoin is a part of a free society. It does not threaten the Fiat Dollar, unless the Fiat dollar is being used as a weapon against others that don’t agree with these old timers that are running things, and only protecting their own wealth. Bitcoin is freedom to choose, and that is American. Yes, you have to learn how to handle Crypto Currencies. There are plenty of sources out there to help. Yes there are scammers that will attempt to take advantage of your lack of understanding. Believe me, the US government has already chumped you into believing what they want you to believe. Talking us into putting our life savings in the stock market, and then manipulating the hell out of it. Forced to put money into the Social Security, and Medicare programs, and then robbing the funds for pet projects. Oh, the government is going broke. Print some more money with nothing to back it. The hidden tax as all that money filters into the economy and the price of everything goes up. Get a lawyer if your feeling cheated. Then you will really be cheated.

Crypto Currency Gloom? There are a lot of interesting things happening, that you maybe need to look past the headlines from crony news networks to appreciate. Jack Maller moving Strike to El Salvador. Good Move. Bitcoin miners making tons of money with ordinals. Also Good! Miners will hopefully use profits to buy and move more miners to more diverse locations. Ordinals will pass, or someone will develop a better way to inscribe them onto the Bitcoin network without it jamming up the Mempool. Average Joe’s like me and you accumulating 1 bitcoin wallets. Forget the Whales. They and Wall Street are just here to manipulate for trading. Who needs them. Bitcoin doesn’t need them. Works fine without them. A stagnating USA maybe beginning to wake up and smell the roses, of past failures with old regimes. Out with the old, and in with the new. Bitcoin is a part of a free society. It does not threaten the Fiat Dollar, unless the Fiat dollar is being used as a weapon against others that don’t agree with these old timers that are running things, and only protecting their own wealth. Bitcoin is freedom to choose, and that is American. Yes, you have to learn how to handle Crypto Currencies. There are plenty of sources out there to help. Yes there are scammers that will attempt to take advantage of your lack of understanding. Believe me, the US government has already chumped you into believing what they want you to believe. Talking us into putting our life savings in the stock market, and then manipulating the hell out of it. Forced to put money into the Social Security, and Medicare programs, and then robbing the funds for pet projects. Oh, the government is going broke. Print some more money with nothing to back it. The hidden tax as all that money filters into the economy and the price of everything goes up. Get a lawyer if your feeling cheated. Then you will really be cheated.

Heard today that Texas wants to issue it’s own CBDC, backed by precious metals. It is total befuddlement to me that anybody would suggest that, in these times. Don’t they realize the infrastructure that would be required to do such a thing. The vaults that would need to be built, guarded, and protected. The humans that would be entrusted to keep proper ledgers to insure those that own these CBDCs are entitled to the commodities stored in these facilities. The how to protect the public of whom holds these CBDC’s can actually redeem these for the correct weight, purity, and value that the CBDC claims it is worth. Can these CBDC’s be forged, hacked, or stolen, that a person could claim the commodities without actual true ownership. You cannot possibly trust an organization of humans with such a responsibility as this. Trust the Code. Bitcoin already is handling the job that these Texan’s feel that they can tackle. My experience with government agencies, is they can screw things up trying to fix things worse than the things they are trying to fix.

Can anybody answer why bitcoin block time cannot be reduced gradually as the internet and computers become faster

Here’s an interesting conversation I had with a 94 year old today. Watching the news, and the news was talking about a Russian Missile attack in Ukraine, that killed several woman and children. The 94 year old was appalled of such an atrocity. I looked at that person, and asked: what about the 2 nuclear bombs the USA dropped on Japan. Do you think woman and children were killed in that attack. The answer I received was: I didn’t hear about any!

Fed Seeks Stronger Bank Rules While Detailing Oversight Lapses — Bloomberg

The Federal Reserve’s bank-supervision chief called for an extensive reevaluation of requirements for US financial firms as regulators said the f...

Fed Seeks Broad Changes to Bank Rules in Aftermath of SVB Failure. What kind of shit show is this. It’s become way to complicated for our broke, and broken government to handle. All they can really hope for is somebody in a government job throwing darts at a dart board hoping for the best result. Then at last when it all goes wrong hanging the blame on that person and hiring the next dummy to line up against the firing squad.

What is right about the US government selling Bitcoin seized in Silk Road to the public, and then creating policy to restrict it’s use. Others would be sued for such action. If the government truly believes Bitcoin is evil, they should destroy the private keys.

How possible is it that Steve Jobs was Satoshi Nakamoto. Satoshi disappeared in April 2011, and Steve died in Oct. 2011.

Just used hodlhodl.com to make a small bitcoin purchase. Went very smoothly. Will continue to use with small transactions to buy bitcoin. Just wanted to see if I can buy from a source that the government will find very difficult to shut down.

Buy Bitcoin in the US! P2P-Hodl Hodl. Go ahead, try and stop me. They will need to take down all person to person payment systems to stop it. I’ll send cash in an envelope, or mail a pre-paid debit card if I need to.

Bitcoin vs. the government. “Push it down, it comes out sideways”.

Banks and Brokerage Accounts FDIC, and SPIC insurances are so vague, I wonder how anybody with any larger amount of money deals with it. Unless you open up multiple accounts with multiple companies, and hope they don’t merge, it can leave you short of insurance coverage on your accounts. Buy Bitcoin, and Self custody. No insurance needed. Just educate yourself in how to do it properly.

The Federal Reserve is going to sell their snake oil fix to the public. They will blame Crypto for the disease. The medicine mans snake oil will later be found not to work, and the public will turn back to Bitcoin for the cure.

What’s a good argument for staying with Twitter, after discovering Nostr?

I was ejected from my spacecraft in deep space. As I looked out I could see in the distance a small blue planet. As I watched, a dark plume rose from the surface that engulfed the entire planet in a dark cloud. I had just come from another place that this had happened. As my life support diminished, and I contemplated the uselessness of attempting to find a better place in the universe, I could only hope that in death there may be another dimension better than here.

A perfect World! Why are politicians, for the most part very wealthy? Why does it cost so much to run for office? Do Fund raising for political campaign create favoritism’s for special interest or corporations? Fix this; What if there was a social media sight dedicated to political campaigns. A person desiring to run for office would register on the sight. They would need to provide all necessary information to prove That they are qualified to run in a specific race. All Campaigning must be conducted thru this social sight. Free to all, who qualify and want to run for a given office. It should be deemed illegal for any news media sight to report on any activities regarding any political campaigns. No influencing the public other than by the persons running a campaign of there own on the sight. All persons registered to vote, may comment on any activity on the sight In there registered jurisdiction. At some designated time frame, all registered voters shall be allowed to Vote for a candidate in their jurisdiction. There can be several Eliminations, until it comes down to the final winner in the race. I don’t know how to fix that some candidates will spend big money to create professional campaigns. Somehow this should be discouraged. Would like to see that the average person, that even without a big bankroll has an opportunity to win an election.

The Biden administration thinks the creation of a CBDC will crowd out the Crypto ecosystem. Everybody will become more used to using digital currency. The fact that all Fiat currencies will continue to lose value due to each country endless printing of new coins to support their economy, then everybody will see the non-sense of it. Bitcoin will be the easy to use Savior. With Bitcoin there will be no Currency wars between countries, and no weaponizing of currencies

Just getting pretty familiar with this. But, are we all moving to Blue Sky soon?

Trying to figure out how to use wallet of Satoshi to receive zaps on damus