happy Pi Day u weirdos
Yaël
yael@yael.at
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deputy director @ consumer choice center
fellow @ bitcoin policy institute
québécois-american innocent abroad in Wien
I’m long 2 things: Bitcoin and the Inverse Jim Cramer ETF


You can be bullish on *both* Nostr and Podcasting 2.0
Zaps 🤝 Value-for-Value
Now it’s Silicon Valley’s turn to plead for bailouts. They gorged for far too long on cheap Fed money and the 🐔🐔have finally come home to roost.
Having a centralized master manipulator setting the price of money’ll do that to you.
Regulatory response will just make it worse.
A third of USDC’s cash reserves ($3.3 billion) are in limbo at Silicon Valley bank.


There’s a full-feature Luther movie that’s just been released.
Best Idris Elba character. You’re welcome.
Upgrading apartments at the end of the month. What are your best moving tips?
The US Treasury is Pinched for Cash and Wants Bitcoin Miners and Traders to Pony Up


The US Treasury is Pinched for Cash and Wants Bitcoin Miners and Traders to Pony Up
Joe Biden's 2024 budget wants higher taxes on Bitcoin mining firms, more IRS surveillance, and wants to ax tax-loss harvesting for crypto traders.
Not only does my barber accept Bitcoin, but he’s got a fridge stocked with hard seltzers for the boys
European Catholic churches hiring lawyers to get people to pay the "church tax plus fees"
Fun stuff, everyone.
"This guy is cooked" — what we've said for the past 8 years. Maybe now it sticks. Trudeau is the epitome of elite governance and wokeism gone awry


Toronto Star
Justin Trudeau’s election-meddling defence is on shaky ground after another media leak
The latest allegation — that the prime minister was aware of Chinese funding and interference as early as 2019 — sparked a new uproar i...
Awesome look at all the sats sent over podcasting 2.0 value for value over time
V4V Stats
L'Etat, c'est la grande fiction par laquelle tout le monde s'efforce de vivre aux dépens de tout le monde.
What were YOU doing during the first bank runs?
In my first contribution to the Bitcoin Policy Institute as a visiting fellow, I examine the "silent march" of Bitcoin policies across U.S. states, and how they impact the people and entities that embrace Satoshi’s innovation.


The Silent March of Bitcoin Policies Across US States | Bitcoin Policy Institute
"The original promise of the Internet was that it might democratize the exchange of information globally. A free internet would overwhelm all attempts to control information flow, its very existence a threat to anti-democratic forms of government everywhere.
What we found in the Files was a sweeping effort to reverse that promise, and use machine learning and other tools to turn the internet into an instrument of censorship and social control. Unfortunately, our own government appears to be playing a lead role."
-- Matt Taibbi


My Statement to Congress
In testimony to the House Judiciary Committee about the Twitter Files, a few words about why state-funded "anti-disinformation" and free speech can...
w/ #[0] a fresh Fix The Money:
-Nostr brings the BTC goods
-US gov’t is *still* a Bitcoin whale
-ETFs + crypto banks on the brink
-Austria’s gold hoard
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The US Government is still a Bitcoin Whale - FTM11
Nostr grows by the day and Bitcoin is the engine. A latest rip of the Fix The Money podcast from Vienna.
hey we're watching u on-chain, US government
u secret whale


I can’t believe they got Steven Pinker to endorse some lame NFT project. Someone spin him up a BTCPay Server.


Reactionary on Twitter
Action-ary on Nostr