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Idk if folks are having this discussion, but I worry about the precedent of using seized funds for a reserve. I know that the BTC used here is largely from truly criminal enterprises (having previously worked in anti human trafficking ops and seen this for myself), but if all the state has to do to seize BTC is criminalize you, that creates incentive. The state is already way too eager to criminalize people, especially those who are historically excluded. View quoted note →

There’s a company called Justice Text that uses AI to parse evidence in order to empower public defenders, who normally have to settle for guilty please bc they’re so overwhelmed and have to settle something like 95% of cases. Tech can be used to oppress or empower depending on who’s using it and why! View quoted note →

The stranded methane burned brightly for 8 blocks…even though there was only enough for one. And lo, the pollution that was wasted became the energy that secured the bitcoin network.

For my 1st post on a decentralized and open social protocol, I thought I’d comment on how optimistic I am about humanity and share some wisdom from Carl Sagan. We have one home and one shot at getting this right. I believe that Bitcoin and decentralized tech offer a pathway to both energy equity, digital community, and financial inclusion. Together, they can help create infrastructure that sustains life and opportunity on this fragile dot in the vast cosmic dark. (For space nerds, I suggest reading the full book by Sagan!) “Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known. - Carl Sagan (1994)