Over the last year, I’ve earned 336,000 sats in lightning channel routing fees. That’s…actually pretty good?

On this week's Bitcoin Layer podcast, I highlight better ways to orient bitcoin policies for spending, saving, and actually using the network so that users can benefit

A stint in the Arabian desert

Dubai desert

The leftist abundance crowd — polemical “neoliberals” — are mostly consequentialists who favor centralizing and weaponizing government power for some preferred aim. We’re already over-regulated. Ideally, just let people live their lives and chill on the restrictions.

I'm subscribed to @Shawn 's excellent podcast project, and you should be too! https://podcast.trustrevolution.co/

The Trump Admin has UNLEASHED memecoins. As everyone goes full degen (👀 Javier Milei, Dave Portnoy) we know pump-and-dumps and crypto scams will thrive. Naturally, we ask how Bitcoin can fix this. Or, rather, how SMART Bitcoin policies can fix this. I explore for Bitcoin Policy Institute👇 ✴️First, we need enforcement agencies and investigators to update their technological stacks. We don't need new laws to chase down outright fraud, deception, and self-dealing, but better training. Train agencies with better tools, and apply existing laws to crack down on scammers and criminals. ✴️Second, smart rules on money transmission licenses (state reciprocity, lower surety bonds, etc.) would spur better exchanges and custodians to safely hold assets for those who don't want to hold their own keys. Make the rules clear and easy so everyone can start. ✴️Third, we must enshrine Bitcoin and its offspring as technological tools that empower consumers and foster innovation, rather then just a mechanism for taxing gains. Bitcoin is the ultimate financial inclusion technology. Self-custody is the ultimate advantage. ✴️And lastly, we must alleviate rules that make it more difficult to use bitcoin and alternative cryptocurrencies for ordinary payments w/o huge tax bills. De minimis tax rules should be as liberal as possible. Agencies should be restricted from trying to abridge self-custody. View quoted note →

Larry Fink drops the Net-Zero and ESG hustle, launches a Bitcoin ETF, manages a huge deal to buy up 44 ports including those on either side of the Panama Canal to heed President Trump's call to wrestle it away from CCP influence Quite the turnaround https://www.wsj.com/finance/blackrock-panama-canal-deal-trump-a0af7b7d

completed a month with @Obscura VPN -- outstanding product! Only using on a few of my devices, but I will renew for sure. lightning payment is key!

Kevin O'Leary at @PUBKEY eschews self-custody and pumps up Coinbase. Obviously, we can't forget how central he was to the FTX saga as well... After openly flirting with a Trump annexation of Canada and now this, my fellow Canadian Kevin O’Leary is 0-2 so far this year

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just installed a cloudflare tunnel as a workaround for super complicated port forwarding. Just wow. What a product

Wanted to upgrade one of my NAS devices for some time. One of my computers i use for this is overkill: a gaming computer with 32GB, modern GPU, and sucks up a lot of power. Had my eye on the LincPlus N1, and especially since Unraid is the base OS. Come to find out you can "kickstarter" back the LincPlus N2 for cheaper than you can buy the N2 today. Not bad! Should deliver in April https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/lincplus/redefining-nas-style-power-and-usability-with-lincplus

I’ve professed skepticism to a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve for philosophical reasons. Bitcoin is meant to be a decentralized network for the people. But the junior varsity arguments against any mainstreaming of bitcoin are just as juvenile as the NGU artists on X. Change my mind.

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Massey brings Ross to the State of the Union

I was asked by Steve Gruber, one of the top syndicated radio hosts in the US, why Trump was interested in Bitcoin. Here's my response

Very happy to work with Sen. Mike Lee to promote and endorse the "Saving Privacy Act" to better ensure financial privacy in the US. –Protects Bitcoin self-custody –Drastically reforms Bank Secrecy Act –Repeals Corporate Transparency Act –No CBDCs –Requires warrants for any bank data –Gives citizens rights to sue the government for illegal snooping –Restricts gov't ability to issue major financial rules more here:

Mike Lee US Senator for Utah

Lee Introduces the Saving Privacy Act for 119th Congress

Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) introduced the Saving Privacy Act, a bill to end government abuse of Americans’ financial information. For years, federal...

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