I work for a major government and a year ago I decided I didn't like what I was seeing and what I was doing in my job.
So I decided to speak up. Since then, I've been on the TFTC podcast, have spoken at adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador, and just now did a session with Stefan Livera.
I can't stress enough the importance of what is happening. Countries are losing the ability to be self-sovereign and to decide what happens to their citizens, which means less accountability for you and for me on the policies that actually impact our lives.
Have a listen if you want to know more
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great interview thank you for sharing your experience
Oh hey, thanks.
I'm new to this podcast thing.
welcome and yes I am sure it is nerve racking but its great to have someone so close to some of those institutions sharing their knowledge and experience. all the best
A must watch/listen. Thanks so much for this interview!
Thanks for doing that interview, OpnState. 🤝🏼
Just heard your interview with Livera.
Instant follow 🫡
Well met!
Aye was my pleasure!
Any other podcasts you think I should reach out to?
Well met!
@TFTC ,
@Guy Swann , Bitcoin infinity show,
@walker the list is long. Maybe try for Matt Taibbi, too?
Money is the base layer coordinating protocol of civilisation.
As long as it remains controlled by government it will be corrupted by money printing (theft).
Coercion and censorship have to increase in order to continue to obfuscate the theft.
I cannot see a pattern interrupt.
Bitcoin is incorruptible, censorship resistant decentralised money.
#Bitcoin is HOPE 🧡
Great interview
OpnState
I work for a major government and a year ago I decided I didn't like what I was seeing and what I was doing in my job.
So I decided to speak up. Since then, I've been on the TFTC podcast, have spoken at adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador, and just now did a session with Stefan Livera.
I can't stress enough the importance of what is happening. Countries are losing the ability to be self-sovereign and to decide what happens to their citizens, which means less accountability for you and for me on the policies that actually impact our lives.
Have a listen if you want to know more
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Just listened.
Was brought up to respect and to a certain extent trust authority, so this is a difficult listen.
must be a balance somewhere, to institutions that maintain order, but this doesn't sound like we are anywhere near close to that balance
@OpnState @Stephan Livera @npub1hrnt...jsctI would gladly speak on any of these, I already spoke to Marty @ TFTC.
excellent interview -- unsung hero!
You make me blish... Good thing I wear a mask!
Just couldn't sit idle any longer. Had to do something.
*blush
I understand. Trusting authority is your choice and I did go a bit hard on "compliant" individuals. I took that approach to make a point and mean no disrespect.
I do believe everyone should be free to act according to their own conscience.
In this instance however the compliance virus is eroding accountability and trust, and ultimately your own country's sovereignty.
openstate says use monero at 53:19
Heroic
Great episode. Give
@OpnState a follow. They sound like a real cypherpunk.
Don't give me that pronoun bullshit, I'm a proud "He" 🤣🤣
I think monero is great for its use cases, which is anonymous payments. As a store of value I'm not sold, but for payments its great.
Its even better because regulators are banning it. Must have something good going for it.
Well, I had no way of knowing that, using a voice changer and not indicating so, in your bio, leaves a lack of information, LOL.
There's no way I'm putting my pronouns in my bio!
🤣
It actually works well as a store of value because it has a lower inflation rate than every fiat currency on earth and even a lower inflation rate than gold. The little inflation that it does have is only to continue to incentivize miners to keep the transaction fees down and to replace lost coins from private key loss or destruction, etc. Since it is actually used in day-to-day transactions as well, that makes it a lot less volatile than other crypto. And so your store of value doesn't fluctuate by a crap ton quickly.
Is supply auditable?
Yes, you can issue a command in the client and it will audit the supply for you.
cant blame you. yhat whole era was nuts
Wow, really heartwarming to see all the reactions here on nostr. Makes this worth the effort. 👍
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Amazing episode, worth every second listening... Thank you for doing what is in your power to bring these issues to the light!
OpnState
I work for a major government and a year ago I decided I didn't like what I was seeing and what I was doing in my job.
So I decided to speak up. Since then, I've been on the TFTC podcast, have spoken at adopting Bitcoin in El Salvador, and just now did a session with Stefan Livera.
I can't stress enough the importance of what is happening. Countries are losing the ability to be self-sovereign and to decide what happens to their citizens, which means less accountability for you and for me on the policies that actually impact our lives.
Have a listen if you want to know more
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Making the world a better place necesitates action. I'm happy you found value in the message!
This podcast is an absolute must hear. I tried to warn about FATF and OECD centralized global rule making in my talk Financial surveillance and crypto utopias at HCPP a few years back, but OpnState's take is even better, because he has been closer to the lion's den.
Good job both
@OpnState and
@Stephan Livera with this one!
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Thanks for speaking out
Without real info, from real people, with primary evidence, it’s very hard to know what the hell is actually going on
🙏🏻
I think that's versus Bitcoin, and I don't look at Bitcoin.
Here is the transaction count graph averaged out over 90 days and as you can see before 2020 there really wasn't very many transactions and so the all-time high was done on very little volume which makes me not trust it. Seeing as how there were so few transactions back then, that seems more like speculation hype than actual usage. Where today, it has a much more broad base of users.
So it’s a good store of value as long as you don’t look at the best store of value? 🤣
I was just listening to your interview on
@Fountain while going to work.
FATFATASS.
I was so tempted to call the FATF "Fat-F", or "Fat Fuckers"
But that would be disrespectful to large folks.
Better just to call it what it truly is; International Den of Incompetent and Obnoxious Thieves, or IDIOT
Heard the bit at the end about testosterone…
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I have always said Fat-F, as in a Fat Fokoff, but the acronym IDIOT sounds spot on !
The IMF is holding all the developing countries captive
Aye including el Salvador apparently.
Great discussion! I met many compliance officials in my days, generally nice people. Alas, I haven't met anyone who has dared to speak up publicly...
Inspired by Ronald Pol and David Graeber(!) I wrote a provocative piece on FATF last year (a version of which I also managed to get published in local mainstream media in Sweden).
Keep it up!
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