NY gubernatorial candidate Bruce Blakeman tells @PUBKEY crowd he’ll end the #BitLicense if elected governor and says New York will no longer be the financial capital of the world if it doesn’t embrace #Bitcoin and crypto. More in my latest for Forbes Digital Assets cc: @River @npub139nl...kwf4 @npub1xy6e...hgpl

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New York Gubernatorial Candidate Blakeman Wants To End The BitLicense

Bruce Blakeman stops by NYC Bitcoin bar PubKey to discuss how he would make it easier for Bitcoin and crypto companies to operate and serve custome...

Akhona Mabuto Livingstone, better known as @The Orange Rocket🚀 in Mossel Bay, South Africa 🇿🇦, has his sights set on competing in an Ironman World Championship race. The @BitcoinEkasi community leader and instructor in the Surfer Kids project is looking to set an example for what someone who comes from a disadvantaged background can accomplish if they put their mind to it. But Akhona also knows that he can't do it alone. Thus far, the Bitcoin Ekasi and broader South African Bitcoin community has supported him, but it's time for the global #Bitcoin and #triathlon communities to get behind him, as well. So, in this interview, not only will you learn Akhona's story as well as the details of the efforts he's making to become a world-class athlete, but you'll also learn about the small but important things you can do to support him. Enjoy the interview, and please help be the wind at Akhona's back as he takes on this heroic endeavor!

I crunched some numbers to get a sense of what a minimum wage income and the median family income in the U.S. would look like if they'd increased as much as the the price of gold has increased since the U.S. left the gold standard in 1971. The results were both quite sobering and highly indicative of why the U.S. is facing such staggering wealth inequality today. View article →

Many thanks to @npub17xvf...c9as for sharing a link to my recent newsletter on Freedom Tech in Southeast Asia! In the newsletter, I wrote in detail about India's 🇮🇳 crackdown on Bitchat (as well as other private communication platforms) and shared a link to a recent piece I wrote for @fedibtc about the incredible work that Fai and @Jimmy Kostro are doing with the Bitcoin Learning Center in Thailand 🇹🇭. Link to the newsletter and to subscribe to the Financial Freedom Report in the comments. @npub1ycue...s9jh @npub1rscu...peqk @Harrison Friedes

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TIL that Brazil 🇧🇷 will soon become the third country in the world to implement “split payments,” which are digital payments in which taxes are automatically deducted the moment a payment is made to a merchant. Quite a scary level of control.

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My father was committed to small business development and Main Street culture. In advocating for Bitcoin, I hope to help fulfill his vision. View article →

Yes, agreed. I’m familiar with the dynamics as I’ve written about this. I, too, have hope for StratumV2 and DATUM.

I’ve recently opened my mind to BIP 110 for the sake of trying to hear where supporters for it are coming from, as I believe many of them care about Bitcoin as much as I do. I get some of the arguments, but what I can’t wrap my head around are notions like the one below. Are BIP 110 supporters okay with getting rid of Bitcoin’s PoW algorithm? I’m asking this out of genuine curiosity, not trolling.

YIL that Illinois governor J. B. Pritzker, who just signed a bill that mandates a 0.2% tax on companies transacting with or storing crypto, once had five toilets removed from his second mansion as part of a tax fraud scheme. He had the mansion rendered “uninhabitable” so to pay significantly less in property taxes. He ended up not paying over $500k he otherwise would have had to have paid (until he got caught and had to pay some of that money back). The point is that the person who wants to make it more costly for reputable Illinois-based Bitcoin companies like @npub1ex7m...vyt9 to do business is also the person who isn’t a fan of paying taxes himself. https://www.npr.org/2018/10/03/654201077/illinois-gov-candidate-removed-mansions-toilets-to-dodge-taxes-report-finds

Sometimes I take a break from hanging out with cypherpunks to hang out with regular punks.