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Learning that Deutsche Telekom (partly owned by the German state and which owns T-Mobile US and Magenta) is actively running bitcoin lightning nodes and may soon mine as well has to be one of the most bullish news to come out of
@BTCPrague
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@Dennis_Porter_
got 'em
Learning that Deutsche Telekom (partly owned by the German state and which owns T-Mobile US and Magenta) is actively running bitcoin lightning nodes and may soon mine as well has to be one of the most bullish news to come out of
@BTCPrague
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@mattyglesias
and if I had the key from my grandfather’s house in East Prussia he was forced to give up to the Soviets and which is now occupied by Russia?
Irredentism is a romantic notion, but mostly means future injustices on behalf of past injustice
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@mattyglesias
Ending COVID restrictions that disproportionally hurt the working class is a bad cause?
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On a panel today, EU Commission VP
@VeraJourova
admits that proposed CSAM scanning /
#ChatControl
rule clarifies "that even encrypted messaging can be broken for sake of better protection of children"
Previously, EU officials stated no one would be forced to break encryption
...
@EU_Commission
admit on record that their CSAR proposal would break encryption. Complete 180° reversal from the repeated claim over the last 3 years from Home Affairs Commissioner
@YlvaJohansson
that the proposal does not break encryption.
#ChatControl
#EDPS20
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@ThierryBreton
@elonmusk
@DigitalEU
Are you implying that
@elonmusk
will have to fact-check LIVE his conversation with Donald Trump in order to follow the EU's DSA??
What does this have to do with the UK? or Trump?
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@PascaleStOnge_
@PierrePoilievre
Perhaps, just a suggestion, stop trying to regulate and decimate digital industries
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@ThierryBreton
@IoanDragosT
@brandobenifei
@DigitalEU
lobby = people building AI stuff who now are less likely to do it in the EU
losers = consumers who want cool tech in the EU
🤷♂️
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Many Bitcoin psychopaths gathered at the BTC Vienna meetup on the Donaukanal
@21bitcoinApp
@_einundzwanzig_
@NikoJilch
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Samourai offered noncustodial tools + code that empowered users to collaborate in a trust minimized way.
The charging + arrest of the Samourai team raise important questions about the DOJ’s broader aims, and whether our freedom to transact is intact
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NatCons: "West Virginia v. Barnette was wrongly decided"
Meaning: public school students can be forced to say the pledge of allegiance. More generally, the state can compel speech.
One of the most vital free speech cases for American liberty.
What happened to the right?
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Good on Reddit CEO Steve Huffman defending anonymity on the Internet, pushing back against questions hinting at repealing Section 230
#GameStopHearing
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@LVL58Designs
@SenBlumenthal
It definitely increases the surveillance these platforms are *required by law* to engage in.
This, precisely at a time when we need to decentralize online tech as much as possible
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@micsolana
“Our aim is to permanently remove carbon from the atmosphere”
as a carbon-based lifeform, I am concerned
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👉 in
@theragetech
I outline insights and convos I had with officials from IRS, OCC, and U.S. Treasury on protecting bitcoin privacy.
TL;DR not every gov’t official buys nor believes in Biden’s War on Privacy.
thanks to
@L0laL33tz
for publishing
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🍸North Carolina has a statewide liquor shortage. I'm sure it's in *no way* exacerbated by the state monopoly on spirit sales, the regulatory authority of the 167 individual alcohol control boards, and the single source of failure that is the ABC system.
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Is
@VivekGRamaswamy
the harm reduction and vaping champion we didn't know we needed?
Here he mentions how the FDA's onerous rules, beyond Congress' authority, have pushed many vaping devices and e-cigarettes to the illicit market, impacting consumers
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@brianlilley
There’s been a long campaign by green groups and environmentalists to halt prescribed burns and denigrate Canadian forestry…and it’s only made the problem worse
via
@the_firebreak
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Is vaping safer than smoking? Obviously YES.
Nicotine is not your enemy.
But watch me debate those who think differently: Stanton Glantz, Stanford + Sheila Duffy, ASH Scotland
Consumer Choice vs. Neoprohibitionism
who wins?
reppin'
@ConsumerChoiceC
on
@trtworld
Spirited debate advocating for nicotine alternatives against anti-science nanny staters
Made a point to shout-out
@SeismicPirate
and the vital role of vape store owners who’ve gotten tens of thousands of people to switch away from smoking.
Regulators should HELP not HINDER them
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That's right!
@billmaher
on
@NancyMace
's effort to reform cannabis laws
"I said years ago that the Republicans are going to steal this issue from the Democrats if the Democrats don't jump on it. She's the one introducing legislation to nationally make marijuana legal"
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@KevinRobertsTX
@PM_ViktorOrban
For those who actually have a clue about Hungary, Orban is terrible “conservative”. Not only for his bad economic policies: price caps, and controls, rampant inflation, but also huge subsidies to political allies while emptying coffers of the state
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@Dennis_Porter_
Boilerplate language we’ve seen in other state legislatures. It’s based on model policy from the association of banking supervisors, who have been able to collude with the Uniform Law Commission to make this suggestion.
It will have minimal teeth, but it’s still a threat to BTC
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It's 2022 and we're outlawing vape flavors, menthol cigs, and flavored cigars while pushing for legal cannabis because Prohibition was unjust.
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Yet another article from
@NoahCRothman
showcasing my claim that he’s one of the best political writers on the right — Washington tricks are played all the time by Dem leadership, and too often our media elites play along.
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And other win delivered by the Supreme Court, affirming the US' federalist system of banking regulations.
We are not One Nation Under the Fed
THE SUPREME COURT UNANIMOUSLY SUPPORTS the dual banking system in the US🔥. The Fed wants to kill it though -- the Fed doesn't respect state bank chartering authorities. Guess who's going to win.💪
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sad to think how many billions of dollars Michael Bloomberg spent to bribe the WHO to put a vape beside a cigarette in this graphic
the biggest misallocation of capital of all time
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When the FDA passed a rule to ban flavored tobacco, they claimed no police will ever stop individual “offenders”
However, when cities go to enforce these rules, their fallback will be on police confrontation, just like here for a guy *smoking outside*
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Here’s a lesson: governments aren’t that good at selling pot — Cannabis NB lost $11.7M in its first year of operation
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Kamala "Never Heard of a Ban I Don't Love" Harris is *all-in* on TRUMP's push to ban vaping flavors.
This represents an utter disregard for actual science on
#harmreduction
and the life-saving potentials of vaping.
Vote with your vape!
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The only time I've ever seen vape products "promoted" to kids is via prohibitionist groups that show literal kids with vape devices in their mouths + PR consultant slogans. Surely, there are psych experts who can weigh in on how these ANTIs are making it more appealing to youth..
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@FP_Champagne
@FoodProfessor
That’s a lot of bureaucracy. Why not just end supply management?
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@ernesturtasun
@Assita_Kanko
These additional elements are far beyond the travel rule recommendations. What exactly is being solved here? There is no proof of massive “money laundering” to necessitate extreme government surveillance. Rather, this will quash any chance of EU innovation. Bad move for consumers
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Bitcoin was created because of the flaws of the banking system. Using regulations and laws to strangle it down into Banking 2.0 not only misses the point, but it erases the opportunity for millions of Americans who want an alternative.
me in
@aier
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I've been trying to learn the best tips, tricks, and WHYs for
#Bitcoin
privacy. I've assembled them into a post on
@NikoJilch
's substack. take a look!
many shoutouts:
@BitcoinQ_A
@sethforprivacy
@ODELL
@Printer_Gobrrr
@dergigi
@adamcurry
@PodcastindexOrg
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—>The EU sets up central committees to designate micro USB as the “common phone charger”
—>Meanwhile, the latest and fastest standard hits the market: USB4
“WHY IS THERE NO EUROPEAN GOOGLE OR FACEBOOK?”
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Once your argument acknowledges this, there's no reason to favor vaping prohibition. But alas.
"with a flavor ban bringing increased regulation of e-cigarettes, adult nicotine users tend to shift their usage towards traditional combustible cigarettes"
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Back in the U.S. after 8 months away...and still blown away by the number of different string cheese options at the grocery store. And, of course, my lovely hard seltzers. What a beautiful country flooding with bountiful
#consumerchoice
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did just hear Trump say he's open to legalizing cannabis, so there's that
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@cancersociety
Absolute shameful mission creep.
Nicotine pouches allow for less harmful and less risky adult consumption of nicotine. If the Cancer Society is trying to outlaw or restrict a nicotine alternative used by adults to switch from smoking, this is not only wrong but immoral.
Shame.
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Money, Power, Encryption, Decentralization
Why Elites are Anxious About Cryptocurrencies
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Imagine banning vape devices — which contain no tobacco — and getting a “No Tobacco” award from the
@WHO
…while cigs remain readily available.
México deprives millions of former smokers and nicotine users of a less harmful option and get a prize 🤡
Muy merecido el Premio especial del Director General de la
@WHO
,
@DrTedros
, que hoy recibió el presidente
@lopezobrador_
de manos del doctor Miguel Malo Serrano, representante de la
@opsoms
en México. Felicidades por su trabajo decidido para controlar el tabaco en el país.
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@acoyne
Love you Mr. Coyne. But this is way off base. Impeachment and removal exist for a reason, especially as they’re constitutionally appropriate.
Actually reading the decision strikes me as more consistent with constitutionalist thinking than your response.
Respectfully.
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Félicitations à
@seltzer_c
et
@GLthinktank
!
Un homme de grâce et intelligence qui défendra bien les idées de la liberté en France
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My article detailing the bizarre and Orwellian culture of the World Health Organization’s FCTC, where global vaping and smoking restrictions are born via
@spikedonline
#COP8FCTC
#vaping
#ecigs
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Got my own paynym now to enjoy all the fruits of BIP47 private Bitcoin payments!
absolutely love to see the developments at
@SamouraiWallet
and now included in
@SparrowWallet
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Politicians justify sin taxes (alcohol, soda, vaping, tobacco, vaping, etc.) by stating they will help fund health programs and deter consumers.
Instead, they add to the general slush fund on the backs of low-income people while not investing in any health programs at all.
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the simultaneous “war on cash” and peer-to-peer bitcoin transactions is not an accident.
EU Parliament Committee Vote:
🚨Anonymous cash payments >€3,000 banned in commercial transactions
🚨Cash payments >€10,000 illegal.
🚨Anonymous bitcoin/crypto payments via custodial wallets banned outright
h/t
@echo_pbreyer
for voting AGAINST
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@FoodProfessor
What regulatory and cost hurdles are being put in your way that are leading to higher food costs?
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Back on a plane to the USA tomorrow, after many months. From a locked down Austria to a wide-open North Carolina. Naturally, I’ll spend most of my time at Trader Joe’s
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Outrage. I confiscated these from staff here at the
@ConsumerChoiceC
office. Apparently, they were all empty.
This has been rectified with a fresh supply of disponibles, a few open tanks, and liquids that I've distributed to everyone's cubicle.
Nicotine is not the enemy.
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Always great to read
@ConradMBlack
in
@nationalpost
to give some perspective on Canadian history. His words here ring more true than ever.
#cdnpoli
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–Samourai Wallet developers arrested and accused of conspiracy to commit money laundering and operating w/o money transmission license (1)
–Roger Ver arrested and accused of tax fraud (2)
–Binance's CZ will do a 4-month jail stint for a lax AML program (3)
–Tornado Cash
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When political progressives like Sen. Warren address inflation, taxes, or corporate wrongdoing, they claim to speak for the people.
But when they turn their focus to innovative technologies like Bitcoin, they prefer the steamroller to the helping hand
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@TheBitcoinConf
@nayibbukele
He’s got the country under martial law and he’s dropping the hammer, let’s call it what it is
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How did Blackrock go from the ultimate Bitcoin hater company to now the (most) probable first-time US firm issuing a BTC spot ETF?
that's
@NikoJilch
w/ more
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Expatriate taxation is cool for Americans abroad, but bad for Eritreans abroad –
where is the logic there?
#taxfairness
#FATCA
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Wow
@TPPF
making major positive waves! Effective + articulate advocates for sound energy policy. Absolutely right to promote US energy (could use some here in Europe).
They outshine the NYT degrowther worldview 1000x
Will add Texas Public Policy Foundation to my annual giving!
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@Wildman_AZ
Denigrating freedom-loving Hong Kongers as Chinese Reds is culturally and politically wrong.
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Love this story: Biden is a penny pincher who bunks w/ buddies and Trudeau’s entourage gets the 6K suite w/ a butler
FIRST READING: Joe Biden stayed in London for free. Why did it cost Canada $400,000?
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@BitcoinIsSaving
I did not think my prediction would come true so quickly. Regulatory capture (and a billion dollars to Dems) is a hell of a drug.
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A national law to fire all smokers? What about vapers, doctor? Or the occasional beer drinker? Keep the government out of our consumer choices.
Oz is a throwback Prohibition-Era, anti-consumer choice candidate. He’s out in my book.
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@VeraJourova
@IoanDragosT
@brandobenifei
@EU_Commission
@EUCouncil
@eu2023es
@Europarl_EN
@ThierryBreton
And there, by the whooshing sound, Europe’s AI dreams were swept away, doomed by bureaucratic forces all too confident in their self-adulation.
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So the Canadian
@cancersociety
DUPED British Columbia into restricting availability of a nicotine alternative product that… saves people dying from cancer
No age-gating, as should be done, but making it harder for adults to purchase
It’s villainous. A disgrace. Science denial
A day after we announced stricter rules for nicotine pouch products, I’m pleased to hear Imperial Tobacco will no longer sell Zonnic online in BC. Products like these are addictive and appeal to kids. Schools are already reporting problems.
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Is EU Commissioner Thierry Breton implying that
@elonmusk
has to fact-check LIVE his conversation with Donald Trump in order to follow the EU's DSA??
What does this have to do with the UK? or Trump?
Gov't authorities do not write you "in context"
This is beyond concerning
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