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Has anybody ever gotten the bip-47 backdoor on BlueWallet to work?

Christopher Hitchens on free speech

When you send 1,000 or 1,000,000 sats on lightning to your bar man or old lady at the grocery store (especially when using some custodial app), this isn’t “on-boarding”. You’re just giving someone free money with no responsibility. You have to show them on-chain layer one, and not just how to receive, but also how to send, how to save a seed phrase, and how to generate a new wallet. Otherwise, they have no broader understand of what Bitcoin does.

How are folks securing that prime primal.net custom URL? Gotta know somebody, I guess?

Trigger the Austrian in-laws by cooking “low and slow”

Countryside eggs on the wood stove

How many plebs are still running their lightning nodes on Raspi? I’ve got a Start9 still syncing, but I’ve moved my Umbrel instance (with my main node) to a miniPC running Linux. Seems a lot of folks running voltage or lunanodes

Damnit Mike Solana, why do you have write so well and *also* inject Bitcoin: "Until Bitcoin finally gets around to “solving this,” the halcyon, glorious days of web anarchy are over, and Twitter is not the first, but the last great giant to fall." https://www.piratewires.com/p/pirate-wires-twitters-final-boss

well this is a wild one

F.B.I. Searched the Home of Crypto Exchange Founder (Published 2023)

Federal agents were investigating Jesse Powell, the founder of the crypto exchange Kraken, over claims that he hacked and cyber-stalked a nonprofit...

"The people of all nations feel only that an alien shadow, broad and heavy, looms over their lives. But we who knew the world of individual liberties in our time can bear witness that a carefree Europe once rejoiced in a kaleidoscopic play of variegated colors. We tremble to see how clouded, darkened, enslaved and imprisoned the world has now become in its suicidal rage." — Stefan Zweig

Here is what American companies need to know about MiCA, the new EU regulation for Bitcoin and crypto Does Bitcoin even care?

Here is what American companies need to know about the new EU regulation for Bitcoin and crypto w/ Bryan Hollmann

Does Bitcoin even care? Find out in our Podcast with attorney Bryan Hollmann.

who is the dev of hamstr.to? I'm still very bullish on this client

would love some feedback on this state-level model bill to ban CBDCs. Obviously, if a consumer-facing CBDC is ever introduced by the Fed, states will be somewhat powerless to object. But a bill like this would effectively prohibit any state agency from interacting with it. That's, on the whole, a good measure

American Legislative Exchange Council

Reject CBDCs and Protect Financial Privacy Act - American Legislative Exchange Council

(1) Definitions: For the purposes of this chapter, the words defined in this section have the meaning given. (a) “Financial Privacy” refers to ...

What is your favorite non-bitcoin/nostr group/firm/company account here? (and nothing from a fediverse bridge)

if I'm on primal.net, is there not a way to just look at my normal chronological feed of follows? right now I can only see trending, most zapped, nostr highlights, and a few other hashtags. what am I doing wrong

An insight from my first article on Bitcoin circa March 2013 that I had forgotten about. Just how much the ECB was saying at the time that Bitcoin would "challenge" central banks' monopolies: "Another way to use actions in the market to free yourself and society is to shun the traditional fiat currencies for inflation-proof currencies. Bitcoin, for example, is climbing in value and increasing in popularity for regular transactions. A European Central Bank report released in Nov. 2012 called Bitcoin a “threat to financial stability,” and warned it could challenge the “monopoly of central banks” around the world as well as “undermine” the legitimacy of nation states." https://archive.ph/hjX95

L’État, c’est la grande fiction à travers laquelle tout le monde s’efforce de vivre aux dépens de tout le monde. Frédéric Bastiat (1801-1850)

The perfect pool temperature is 81 in freedom degrees 🏊

Had an excellent time on The Dynamist, a podcast of the Foundation for American Innovation — one of the top tech think tanks in the U.S. We debate the delta between American and European approaches to technology regulation, and how those policies and cultural differences impact Big Tech, startups, venture capital, and artificial intelligence

Apple Podcasts

Europe’s Tech Tug of War w/ Yael Ossowski

Podcast Episode · The Dynamist · 07/05/2023 · 38m