Is there any future for #Lightning in which the majority of people aren't using custodial wallets to access it? If not, than should it really be the main payments layer for a decentralized permissionless protocol like #Nostr ? These two systems seem to be in conflict, in my mind at least.

If you think this won't be used against citizens you are naive. Stop using GPS on your phone, learn how to read a map for fuck's sake. Can they still track your phone if you have location turned off? Yes, but it's harder to do. Don't make it any easier for these tyrants. #privacy https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/inside-ices-tool-to-monitor-phones-in-entire-neighborhoods

This is such a textbook buy the dip opportunity in Monero. Long term breakout to new all time highs followed by a pullback to previous all time highs. If you missed XMR's latest run, now could be your second chance. -NFA DYOR I have no idea what the fuck I am doing but.... The good thing about buying XMR dips is that even if you are wrong in the short term, if you just hold on eventually it goes up. In the mean time, your wealth is being protected by the privacy of Monero. You don't have to worry about the project dying or rug pulls, #Monero has already proven many times over that it is here to stay. It's the closest thing you can get in altcoins to buying Bitcoin. Despite what the BTC maxis want you to think, diversification is a good thing, even in crypto.

Storing your loot in centralized stablecoins such as #USDT or #USDC is about as safe as storing your loot in a bank account. And that's not at all safe. Holding money in a bank account or these #stablecoins opens you up to the risk of having your money frozen or seized at any time for any reason. They have full control, you have none. Take ownership of your own wealth with cash, precious metals, and decentralized cryptocurrencies like #Monero or #Bitcoin. Who do you trust more, yourself or your government? Think about it.

Unlike #Bitcoin, #Monero has managed to be both a scarce asset/store of value AND not have a ticking time bomb security budget problem. When Bitcoin's block reward runs out, transaction fees alone will have to sustain the miners. Given that the Bitcoin community has gone out of their way to ensure that fees will not be sustainable, this is a huge issue. Monero's perpetual tail emission ensures the Miners will always be incentivized to secure the network, but is still small enough to keep Monero's supply growth smaller than Gold. https://x.com/i/status/2012944357691723959

Check out the new episode of Freedom Tech Friday and Monero Monthly by the Ungovernable Misfits, this was a really good show with fluffypony. Some alpha from the show...more BTC maxis are becoming very interested in Monero in DMs even if they still won't admit it in public. How many closet #Monero bros are in the #Bitcoin maxi community? 🤔

The Department of Homeland Security is now advising its U.S. citizens to be prepared to present proof of citizenship at any time. Regardless of your thoughts on illegal immigration, any freedom minded person should be able to recognize how dangerous this is. A society in which you have to carry a permission slip just to walk around is a society of slaves. (It's almost like public schools where you need a pass to go take a piss have been training us to comply with this) The time for sign waving and chanting is over. It's time to defund these motherfuckers. Practice countereconomics. If we take control of the monetary system, they lose their power. You think they will be able to find fresh goons if no one accepts the dollar? If no one pays taxes? Support the grey market, buy your goods and services from unregulated and unlicensed businesses and individuals. Opt out of the banking system, take control over your own money. Use #BTC, #XMR, precious metals, etc. Use dollars as little as possible, but if you do use them use cash. Are you just going to sit there or are you going to do something? Imagine if countereconomics goes viral.... #countereconomics #agorism #privacy #DHS #ICE

Please understand how absurd the logic of the war on drugs is. It is the idea of harming people in order to protect them from harming themselves. The harm caused by the prohibition far exceeds the harm caused by the drugs themselves. There is also the issue of who owns your body. If you don't have the right to put whatever substance you want into your own body, then the state is saying they own your body and can make those decisions for you. How many more people need to die or get thrown in a cage before people stop putting up with this massive violation of their rights? The state's propaganda is so effective that even many illegal drug users themselves believe that drugs should be illegal. Progress is being made though, twenty years ago if you said drugs should be legal or even decriminalized, people thought you were crazy. Now cannabis is legal in many states, psychedelics are socially acceptable, and the idea of ending or scaling back drug prohibition has broken out of the fringe into the mainstream. I hope I live to see the day when no one is ever locked up for plants, mushrooms, or unapproved substances again. A day where overdose deaths are rare because drug users can buy labeled and tested drugs instead of playing russian roulette with street drugs. A day when someone can call 911 for an overdose without being afraid of going to prison. A day when violent drug cartels aren't making billions of dollars off of drug war inflated prices. Rest in peace to all those who have died because of drug prohibition. And fuck all the police, prosecutors, judges, and politicians who support and enforce what is probably the most harmful government policy of all time. Future generations will look back at those people and wonder how they slept at night. #drugs #politics #warondrugs

Anytime you give a third party such as a bank control over your wealth, you are taking a risk. "Oh but FDIC insures my bank account" Let me ask you, do you trust the government? In Cyprus in 2013, the government decided to freeze bank accounts and seize deposits to recapitalize failing banks. If you had over 100k in Euros sitting in a bank account, you had almost half of your money stolen from you. In the United States in 1933, the government made non jewelry gold such as coins or gold bars illegal. Those citizens who complied were forced to sell their gold to the Federal Reserve at $20.67 an ounce. After the seizures, they revalued the gold to $35 an ounce, stealing a massive amount of wealth from citizens to fund the New Deal. In Canada in 2022, the government invoked the Emergencies Act during the trucker protests in order to freeze the bank accounts of anyone who supported the protests without any need for a court order. This included both active protesters and those who had just donated to the protesters crowdfunding campaign. The Canadian government was sending a message, comply or good luck feeding yourself or your family without access to your own money. In Argentina in 2008, the government nationalized 30 billion in private pension funds to pay off debt while telling citizens it was to protect them from the Global Financial Crisis. (Pro tip: Anytime the government says it's doing something to protect you, it's usually lying) In Poland in 2014, the Government paid down the national debt by stealing half of the assets from private pensions, money that the citizens had worked hard to save. Money in a bank, brokerage account, retirement fund, or centralized crypto exchange is money at risk for seizure by the state. Build your wealth outside of the system. Stockpile Monero, non kyced #Bitcoin, other cryptocurrencies, gold, silver, cash, and bartering items (anything that retains value). I gave up my bank account more than a decade ago, but you can keep yours if you feel you need to, just start moving at least some of your money to sovereign assets that you have full custody of. #Monero is an ideal asset for this because it is private by default. It's much easier to keep your loot if no one knows it exists in the first place. You can also use Monero to acquire other assets privately, so that noone knows you bought them except the seller. If you are trying to keep your money secure outside of the system, you need to take steps to protect your privacy. Don't be buying #gold bars with a debit card under your name, or stacking Bitcoin on a KYCed exchange. Doing things like that in our data leak prone world can put you at risk to be targetted by criminals. Taking control and custody of your own money is a big responsibility, for example nobody is going to be able to help you if you lose your seed phrase. The trade offs are worth it though, especially in 2026 when the world is becoming increasingly volatile. You can't predict the future but you can certainly prepare for potentialities. Follow me and subscribe to my free newsletter, the Thought Crime Trap House if you want to learn more about protecting your privacy and building and protecting wealth outside of the system. Link is in my bio. #privacy #optout #thoughtcrimetraphouse

If you don't opt the fuck out soon you might not be able to. Start building a life and network outside of the system now, so that when biometric linked digital IDs and CBDCs become the norm you can survive without them. #privacy

So if the state gets serious about stacking #Bitcoin, maybe they take over MSTR for "national security", then wouldn't Bitcoin increasing in price also increase the power of the state? That's the problem with DATs and ETFs, that Bitcoin is ready for the state to seize at any moment. If you think the state has any respect for property rights, you are delusional or uninformed. This is why on chain privacy is essential for freedom money. If the state can't see it, they can't steal it. Monero also doesn't have a large portion of it's supply locked in regulated custodians waiting for the state to decide it needs it. It's time to start paying attention if you haven't been. #monero

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Check out the the Jan.9th edition of my newsletter, the Thought Crime Trap House! Remember to subscribe and share please and thank you Lots of good stuff in this issue: -Avoiding online age verification -Do any of the no kyc crypto debit cards work? -#Monero on Hyperliquid? -Monero block size limit consensus -latest in #privacy news #thoughtcrimetraphouse https://paragraph.com/@thoughtcrimetraphouse/thought-crime-trap-house-5-january-9-2026

A new issue of the Thought Crime Trap House comes out tomorrow, in issue #5 I cover: -Age verification and how to avoid it -Testing the new Hyperliquid/Monero bridge -No KYC crypto debit cards, do they work? -And much more Link in bio, subscribe today and opt the fuck out of the system with me.

May I present, 6 ways you can peacefully resist the state's war against #Bitcoin (or #Monero, everything I say below works for Monero as well) 1. Buy your bitcoin without KYC from plebs p2p, not exchanges. Every time you buy BTC from a centralized exchange, it is a wasted opportunity. If you are actively stacking sats, whether you are dollar cost averaging regularly, or just buying now and then when you can, then you need to be viewing every purchase as an opportunity to help support the Bitcoin circular economy. If you are buying your bitcoin on a KYCed exchange or service, then you are basically helping the bad guys win. Yes, it can be more inconvenient to buy BTC without KYC, but if you truly believe in the freedom that Bitcoin represents, that's what you should be doing. I can understand if you want to have a KYC stack and a non-KYC stack, especially if you are public about your involvement with Bitcoin, but at least make some of your purchases off the books. This is not legal or tax advice, but as far as I know, it is not illegal to simply buy bitcoin and not report the purchase. It's only when you sell it that you are required to report any capital gains. If you already have any KYCed bitcoin that you have an unrealized loss on, you might want to consider selling it immediately for cash, realizing the loss for your taxes, and then taking that cash and buying non-kyced bitcoin with it. You don't want to wait until you're sitting on a huge gain and it would require a large tax bill to do this, also this wash trading loophole for crypto might not be around forever. You can't do that with stocks, if you sell a stock at a loss and then buy it back within a certain amount of time, it is considered "wash trading", and you are unable to write the loss off your taxes. This is not currently the case for cryptocurrencies, so you might want to take advantage of it. 2.Spread the word. Normies need to know about the assault on their freedoms, this goes beyond just Bitcoin. You may think you are just one voice, and maybe you don't have thousands of followers on social media, so can you even make a difference in this battle? Absolutely you can, anyone you manage to wake up to this is one more person on our side. It's important that we all use what reach we do have to spread the word about the assault on our rights by governments around the world. I doubt the average person, even if they might own a little bitcoin, even knows what's going on. If they do have an idea, they probably don't realize the full extent of it. You need to tell everyone who will listen to you that governments are attacking our rights and that we are so close to living in a completely dystopian nightmare if we don't do something to stop it now. Explain to your friends and family the truth about what inflation is and what causes it. We must inform people about how the state's assault on financial privacy and freedom affects them personally whether they use Bitcoin or not. We need the support of the average Joe who doesn't necessarily care about Bitcoin but still doesn't like the idea of the Government tracking everything they do. It should creep people out when they are told about these things, because not only is it creepy it just plain wrong. Education is also important because currently many people aren't even aware of what fiat currency is, that the gold standard is gone, or that price inflation isn't just a result of corporate greed. The Federal Reserve means nothing to many people and neither does the advantages of having a decentralized permission-less store of value. This has to change. The Government is getting away with acts of tyranny, like locking up people for writing code, partly because many people outside of our community have no idea this is going on or its implications. We have to try to get the public angry about this! It might be uncomfortable talking about these kinds of issues with normie friends and family (if you still have any normie friends), and many hesitate because they don't want to come across as some kind of radical anti-government conspiracy theorist type. Get over that hesitation though, because this is that important and they need to know the truth. If your community doesn't have a meet up group yet, seriously consider starting one. The more meet up groups we have around the world, the stronger we become. One more thing, if you are onboarding someone to Bitcoin, the time to have a discussion about KYC is before they buy their first bitcoin, not after. The best way to protect them going forward is to convince them not to KYC at all, ever. You can even just sell them their first sats yourself to make it easy for them so they aren't tempted to just buy some on a KYCed exchange for the convenience. 3. Use your wealth and purchasing power. Use services and products that accept bitcoin payments, and offer your own services and products in return for bitcoin. Donate to pro-bitcoin candidates, open source developers, and legal defense funds. Every time you can, spend bitcoin on products and services. Offer your own products and services in exchange for bitcoin. List items on bitcoin marketplaces. Donate to organizations and campaigns that are fighting for Bitcoin, or developers that are working on it. Bitcoin has generated a lot of wealth for a lot of people, and if it has benefited you, now is the time to give some back to support this fight. If a dev gets arrested, they should know the community is going to rally around them and they are going to have good lawyers. 4. Help normalize #privacy by using tools to protect it and encourage family and friends to do the same, a larger herd is a safer herd for everyone. Otherwise the very act of using a privacy tool makes you stand out, negating some of the benefits. We need the protection of the crowd, if everyone is using privacy tools, then it won't be a weird thing to be doing. Just because you may have nothing to hide doesn't mean you shouldn't protect your privacy regardless. For example, a lot of services and websites are blocking VPN users these days, but if the majority of people were all using VPNs, they would be losing a lot of potential users by blocking VPNs and might change their policy. It's also crucial to support open-source software developers who are working on privacy tools. Many people who bought KYCed bitcoin on centralized platforms and then wanted to gain some forward privacy relied on tools such as Samourai Wallet, but if the Government isn't going to allow such tools to operate, it's more important than ever to protect your privacy in other ways. The easiest way to ensure BTC privacy is to stop buying bitcoin on centralized exchanges and services, if you buy bitcoin directly from other plebs and especially home miners, and that bitcoin is never deposited into a KYCed account, you don't even have to worry about trying to use mixers. Another way is to use Monero to attempt to break the link between your bitcoin and you. Monero as a tool for spending bitcoin is more valuable than ever before, I believe that Monero has become the de facto privacy layer of Bitcoin. It may be a good strategy to save in bitcoin but also swap some regularly into monero that just sits in a wallet ready to go when you do want to spend, like a private checking account. Having monero ready to go when you do need it protects your privacy more than swapping into it right before you want to spend it. 5. Work together and join forces, bitcoiners and altcoiners have to work together against the assault on our freedoms. As I mentioned in the beginning, almost everything I have said in this article also applies to Monero (not a shitcoin, thank you) and without default privacy on the Bitcoin layer one, developing Monero's circular economy is equally important. Crypto is a very tribal community, you got your Bitcoin maxis, you got your ETH maxis, and you've got random communities who think their coin is the best coin or whatever. That's all fine and good, but it is past time to work together to stop attacks on crypto, what's bad for crypto overall is usually also bad for Bitcoin. For a long time, many Bitcoin maximalists espoused the opinion that what was bad for altcoins was good for Bitcoin. They would cheer on the SEC when it went after altcoin projects. Some of them thought that because bitcoin wasn't considered a security it was "safe" and money would just flow out of targeted altcoins into bitcoin. Cheering on tyrannical government intervention because it might have the side effect of making your bags go up is antithetical to everything Bitcoin stands for. Many people tried to warn them, that Bitcoin wasn't by any means "safe" just because it wasn't a security, and that the government would find other ways to attack Bitcoin outside of securities laws. Now that scenario has played out with Samourai Wallet and it's time for maximalists to hold their nose and ally themselves with the rest of crypto against the government's war on crypto. There is no more time for infighting and pseudo-religious maximalism. If you hate shitcoins, repeat after me, "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". I don't care if you are a complete ponzi-shilling ugly NFT bag-holding pump and dumper, if you are going to actually help stop this madness then I will work with you all day long. 6. Mine bitcoin and run your own node. You don't have to have a bunch of fancy hardware to start helping secure and decentralize the network by mining and running a node. Anyone can start mining with a $200 investment and you can run a node on most computers as long as you have a 24/7 internet connection. The importance of plebs mining cannot be understated, mining centralization is a huge problem in Bitcoin, with most of the hashpower located in huge corporate mining farms that can easily be co opted or shut down by governments. It's much harder to stop tens of thousands of small miners than one big mining farm. You can solo mine and it is like having a machine that prints lotto tickets for you every 10 minutes, except the lotto tickets have decent odds. If you win a block you will earn more than 3 bitcoin from the block reward and transaction fees. Or if you prefer you can mine in a pool and split the rewards with every other miner in the pool if the pool wins a block. By running your own node and connecting to it whenever you use Bitcoin, you can verify your own transactions and ensure your IP address isn't captured whenever you send a transaction. Every node that people start up also helps make the Bitcoin network more decentralized and harder to stop. It's not enough to just "hodl", we need everyone who cares to actively participate in securing the network. -This was pulled from an article I wrote awhile back which can be found here: https://paragraph.com/@thoughtcrimetraphouse/fight-for-your-right-to-use-bitcoin-as-it-was-intended-to-be-used

A tax revolt should be bipartisan, no matter which party you support you are still getting fucked by the state. The "social contract", if it ever even existed, has been broken. #taxrevolt

As the latest #Ledger leak demonstrates, good opsec when purchasing hardware wallets is essential. Yet Ledger doesn't even bother to mention this during it's checkout process. There should be big fat red warnings about not shipping to your home address or using your real name. Why don't they do this? Probably because it would add friction and might cost them some sales. So what you have is yet another crypto company (#Coinbase is another) that puts profits above protecting customers. #Privacy is no longer optional.

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The friction caused by capital gains taxation on crypto transactions is one of the biggest factors slowing crypto adoption as a medium of exchange. If you buy Bitcoin for 90k, and buy anything with it a day later when Bitcoin is at 91k, the slave masters expect you to pay tax on that transaction. Using Bitcoin or any crypto as money quickly turns into a tax accounting nightmare. It is in the state's interest to keep it this way so that Bitcoin is just an "investment" instead of a currency. #bitcoin #taxrevolt

A tax revolt is a revolt against rebranded slavery. You are forced to work a significant portion of your limited lifespan to help pay for murder, fraud, extortion, and mass surveillance. That's time you could of spent with your family or building a future for them and yourself. #taxrevolt

A tax revolt become much easier if people exit the system entirely and create circular untaxed grey economies using alternative currencies such as #Monero and #Bitcoin. Hire, work, buy, sell, and build outside of the banking system. If you still have a normie job, say fuck direct deposit and automatic withholdings, cancel that shit. Then start looking for employment in the second realm. Tax revolters need to hire other tax revolters. The entire tax system relies on employers snitching on employees or the self employed snitching on themselves. Stop snitching. In Minecraft. #taxrevolt #taxrevolt2026 #agorism