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Christian, Husband, Father, HODLer / Homeschool and Bitcoin. Stacks Sats and Raise Family.

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2026-03-23 16:40:43 UTC

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All Iranian officials are dead. That’s ironic.

2026-03-20 11:46:27 UTC

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I personally love how everybody on the internet, mostly from the US, is an expert on war and international affairs. They’re privileged to all the threat assessments and operational details at the top. They type comfortably from their homes under the auspice of security and freedom talking about how evil and depraved their government is. Few, it not any, of them have ever read the Quran or could give you a 3 min summary on Islam.
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."

2026-03-20 11:38:52 UTC

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That’s usually the childish, emotional response I get. So much for supporting Satoshi’s vision, huh?

2026-03-20 11:33:41 UTC

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Kaspa fixes this.

2026-03-19 13:29:13 UTC

FBI’s investigation into Joe Kent started long before his resignation per the AP News (FBI investigating departed counterterrorism official, AP source says | AP News https://apnews.com/article/fbi-counterterrorism-classified-documents-de5efb8bc0bdb59b45c247b6251ab6f6# -no friend of Trump). Listen to his interview from Shawn Ryan from a year ago and you decide if you think this guy as a conscious objection. Not a chance. People within government have had political opponents from within since forever. Do your homework.
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2026-03-19 09:43:11 UTC

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Your intent is to insult me. I am not offended by your words for, because I don’t have the slightest idea who you are.

2026-03-19 09:33:17 UTC

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Name calling is what children do. One day you’ll look back and realize this. I honestly feel bad for you.

2026-03-19 09:29:02 UTC

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I’m certainly not a fan. But I read both sides. This is how you learn to discern. Just trying to keep people from living in the echo chamber. You should try it.

2026-03-19 09:24:11 UTC

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Haha and I guess the prior 7 presidents did as well?

2026-03-19 09:23:31 UTC

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Never any specifics. Always insinuations and unexplained scenarios.

2026-03-19 09:21:44 UTC

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I’m with you. But unchecked antisemitism is pervasive on here. And if you say anything, their mental illness gets out of control and they start threatening to put a hoof to your head. Some people will believe anything.

2026-03-18 19:26:17 UTC

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#Kaspa. #Bitcoin.

2026-03-18 15:31:00 UTC

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Works both ways. It’s suicide.

2026-03-18 13:20:19 UTC

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I still think it’s lots on some people that Hamas, ISIS, Hezbollah, Taliban, etc don’t wear uniforms. They look like civilians.

2026-03-18 09:09:07 UTC

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*I think it’s

2026-03-18 09:08:26 UTC

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I thinks an excellent thought. Bitcoin mining is great for grid growth. This is, imho, why MARA just acquired major stake in EDF in France to the tune of $167 million. (https://x.com/coinbureau/status/2025111497480020441). It’s to allow for green grid growth. But Kaspa does that better… As you well know, Bitcoin loses some work to orphan blocks. The Internet also suggests that the on/off switch to miners would likely be used 4-5 times per day to regulate the flow of electricity. If Bitcoin is 8 min through a 10 min block and the power gets transferred, it’s lost. This isn’t the case with 10bps on Kaspa. Food for thought.
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2026-03-17 17:44:44 UTC

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This is the conspiracy world 1st world countries are afforded. They don't face any real and present danger, so they can draw whatever conclusions circumstances they find afford them. They have the same intelligence as the US Federal Gov and know better because... well, the internet. Nevermind that every president for the past 7 presidents have said that Iran won't be allowed a nuclear ordnance on threat assessment.

2026-03-17 15:56:15 UTC

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https://iranhr.net/en/articles/8529/
There primary concern also isn’t that Americans see what’s going on to me. When living under real oppression, you’re not getting your camera out to shove stuff online. You’re fighting. American journalists aren’t allowed in Iran except those that agree to comply with Regime regulation.

2026-03-17 15:53:09 UTC

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What are you looking for? You want pictures of bodies? Do you read Arabic?That doesn’t happen in places like Iran. This is why the women’s national team is hiding in Australia. You don’t get proof in countries like Iran. You get aligned with state run media or you’re removed. VDH said as much on the Signal yesterday morning I believe. It’s the same reason you don’t know anything about the inside of Russia and North Korea.
Internet blackout: https://mastodon.social/@netblocks/115863272994538971

2026-03-16 15:34:57 UTC

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😂

2026-03-14 09:52:22 UTC

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Haha sure sure

2026-03-14 09:43:10 UTC

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Ah yes, name calling. The preferred choice of a middle school boy.

2026-03-14 08:39:46 UTC

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Your channel just gets worse and worse. This is garbage.

2026-03-14 08:35:47 UTC

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That’s part of the problem. People think something other than a L1 is the solution. It’s antithetical to the entire protocol. Nobody in their right mind puts real money on the lightening network. Especially considering bad actors and Watchtowers. It doesn’t feed miners. And Lightning Sats aren’t Bitcoin until somebody allows you to make it so like Jack at Strike. That’s the opposite of permission-less.

2026-03-14 01:40:51 UTC

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Lightening Network is the definition of broken.

2026-03-13 20:47:20 UTC

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Kaspa fixes this.

2026-03-13 20:46:35 UTC

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You have said the actual truth. Don’t forget that to belong, you’d can’t objectively assess anything. You must worship blindly.

2026-03-12 18:27:38 UTC

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Most people don’t realize there’s essentially two separate governances in Iran.

2026-03-08 20:20:37 UTC

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The "initial" reason he was detained was for crowding, obstructing, or incommoding as well as disrupting Congressional proceedings. Under federal law, it is illegal to stage a protest or disrupt the "peaceful conduct of government business" inside the Capitol or its office buildings. It had nothing to do with what he said. He could have stormed in and started yelling that Barney isn’t purple. He still would’ve been arrested. Flash is simply bias and dishonest. He doesn’t simply report. He editorializes. He’s done this over and over again.
U.S. Code § 5104 specifically governs "Unlawful Activities" on Capitol Grounds.
• Section (e)(2)(D) prohibits anyone from uttering "loud, threatening, or abusive language" or engaging in "disorderly or disruptive conduct" with the intent to "impede, disrupt, or disturb the orderly conduct of a session of Congress."
He got his arm broke because he didn’t comply with police and resisted arrest. Bad things happen when you don’t comply with law-enforcement. You would think that we would have learned this over the last several months given ICE incidents. But people still think they don’t have to explicitly listen to law-enforcement.

2026-03-08 18:49:52 UTC

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Haha yeah he was arrested for what he said, you nailed it. This is why @nprofile…umzy gets a shout out from @nprofile…7rv0 and @nprofile…zc47 and you don’t. You wrongly editorialize rather than actually reporting something objectively. What are the marine’s charges, hm? Did they cite him for wrongful speech? What about wrong opinion? Nope. And you’ve done this time and time again. I’m not even going to get into Israel because you lose your mind and start name calling and labeling rather than having a rational discourse like an adult.

2026-03-08 18:33:03 UTC

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What saddens me more than anything are the countless individuals online that chastise any action the government takes because they know everything. They read on the internet somewhere about this one thing that is non-plausible suspicion so they push some sensational headline. Emboldened by retweets and zaps said sensational headline is blasted all over the interwebs. But when met with the slightest bit of humility, semblance of an objective question, and an ounce of logical discourse, their fictional narrative evaporates. Of course, there’s no redaction and the only consequence is rot of sense of honor, duty, and integrity on a broad scale.
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
-George Orwell
Most Americans pervert that freedom. They trade their lot of a more perfect union’s offer of hard work, family, and integrity for drive-through food-stuffs, SSRIs, and hedonism of any and every pleasure. Yes, they should have the freedom to speak out against their country, but they ought to have the intellectual honesty to consider why something is just so.

2026-03-08 15:40:52 UTC

If you’re not entirely sure what’s going on from a strategic position in Iran, I would recommend reading here: https://open.substack.com/pub/coffeeandcovid/p/gentlemens-agreements-sunday-march?r=tm5cs&utm_medium=ios

2026-03-08 14:37:35 UTC

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I’ll also add that Trump doesn’t unilaterally make laws, much less campus hate speech laws. So I’m not even really sure what you’re referring to here. You can still say whatever you want to on campus aside from harassment, true threats, or incitement to imminent violence. You can also be trespassed as campus isn’t public property. I would encourage you to reconsider your position here.

2026-03-08 14:21:17 UTC

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1. Campus hate speech laws: It was geared towards non-citizens/VISAs sowing discord. It had little to do with what they said, but how they conducted themselves.
2. dismissive response to the Epstein files: I agree with you.
3. inability to stay true to America First when confronted by Israel and inability to end any wars while starting two more have been the final straws: Lots of issues with this claim. 1. You’ll need to define “start two wars”. Venezuela certainly isn’t that and you demonstrate your position as a first world citizen with internet access in claiming it is. 2. You’re not privileged, again, as a citizen of a first world country with internet access to every threat assessment. You can chose not to believe what you are told, that’s your prerogative, but you certainly don’t know what you aren’t told regarding threat assessments against Trump or the general public. I’ll provide an example of what we are told (https://www.cbsnews.com/news/man-accused-plot-assassinate-trump-testifies-iran-pressured-him/). There’s a sentiment on the internet that, because we have the internet, we know and understand all threats and enemies foreign and domestic. Truth is, you don’t. If you do claim to know and understand all threats, that’s incredibly native. So I’d encourage you to reconsider your #3. It’s just misguided.
There is evil in the world. If something terrible did happen (9/11), Americans ask why they weren’t protected or create an inside job narrative. If something terrible doesn’t happen because of protection, the general public rarely knows it. If something terrible doesn’t happen because of preemptive strikes, the general public knows best and it’s not in our interest. It’s only in countries with free speech does the general public reverberate calls like this. These claims get squashed in countries like Iran.
Don’t get me wrong, Trump has his faults, as do all men, but you should reconsider what you’re actually saying on point #3.

2026-03-08 14:07:35 UTC

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😂

2026-03-04 14:44:31 UTC

Friendly reminder that Obama dropped 26,000 ordnances in 2016 because of this regime.

2026-03-04 10:19:24 UTC

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Lemme see that nose!

2026-03-03 10:30:36 UTC

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As you should. This is why your opinion is highly regarded in this space.

2026-03-02 21:49:30 UTC

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They don’t even know what problems you’re talking about.

2026-02-26 11:34:11 UTC

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It’s never an objective argument. It’s always just vulgarities.
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2026-02-25 19:51:58 UTC

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https://x.com/hashdag/status/2026603263026516174

2026-02-25 19:50:45 UTC

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I've been begging ya man. Please sit down with him. Bitcoin maxis can't pretend like this isn't happening forever.
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2026-02-25 14:40:36 UTC

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It’s sad to me that you think the president just told the Supreme Court no. Quit getting your understanding of the world from headlines and read.

2026-02-21 13:46:49 UTC

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Story of the Internet:
-Somebody makes an unsubstantiated and highly speculative inflammatory claim/hot take without any substance.
-A counter perspective is made with credible objectivity.
-Individual initially making the inflammatory claim responds that they don’t the time or inclination to defend their outrageous claim.
-3rd party comes in whose bias is reinforced by the initial hot take/lack of objectivity and assigns a derogatory name to the individual providing a counter perspective.
-Counter perspective individual is muted for making a logical argument and the other two parties fist bump/zap because they’ve defeated another account who would provide evidence contrary to their bias.
#nevent1q…u7pe

2026-02-21 13:27:47 UTC

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A term you can’t actually provide a definition for nor one that I’ve used to describe myself. I look forward to you trying to define the language you use.

2026-02-21 13:26:52 UTC

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Thanks for making my point.

2026-02-21 10:26:59 UTC

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I would challenge you here. I generally agree with everything you post, but differ here. To say that protein consumption en mass damages your kidneys raises the question of reference to either epidemiological studies or mechanistic interaction. Which are you appealing to?

2026-02-21 10:23:29 UTC

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That’s most of what you get on here. It’s easy to say whatever you want and then when somebody asks you to substantiate it, call them names or tell them you don’t have the inclination to help them understand. That’s most of the internet-NOSTR especially. Sensationalized engagement farming without any desire for discourse or actual critique.

2026-02-21 02:54:07 UTC

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Whatever helps you sleep at night.

2026-02-21 02:45:56 UTC

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I wouldn’t look to this guy for Biblical history. You win the game on NOSTR by posting the craziest Jew stuffs. The term Jew is derived from the tribe of Judah (Yehudi). Of which, Jesus is most certainly of its lineage.

2026-02-20 22:43:22 UTC

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They didn’t block his global tariffs. There’s your first problem. You editorialize and have no idea what you’re talking about.

2026-02-19 16:05:14 UTC

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Doesn’t Kaspa fix this? Isn’t this the hard fork that addresses all of these issues where there is consensus?

2026-02-18 14:52:40 UTC

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🤣 leave it to a rep from Cali

2026-02-17 13:04:19 UTC

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Remember all the rollbacks that happened to take control of crypto that was stolen?

2026-02-17 10:40:10 UTC

I’ll just leave this here.
#bitcoin #kaspa
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2026-02-12 12:46:29 UTC

#kaspa
https://x.com/michaelsuttonil/status/2021618083694088258
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2026-02-12 11:20:19 UTC

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Like Kaspa?

2026-02-11 20:31:40 UTC

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Weird definition for instant.

2026-02-11 12:16:08 UTC

Just take a minute to learn.
https://kaspa.news/report/one-week-one-hard-fork-date-nonstop-deliveries-kaspa-is-building-like-nobodys-wa

2026-02-09 20:23:22 UTC

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Weird. That seems backwards.
#nevent1q…c5au

2026-02-09 12:04:33 UTC

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Again, you're objectively wrong. You're blindly worshipping at an altar you don't understand. And that's fine if that's how you want to live your life. There's a place for sheep. But you continue to make wrong arguments and know nothing about Kaspa, the thing you're arguing against. Bitcoin's network is nothing short of awe inspiring, but that doesn't negate the need for a settlement layer for a growing digital economy between humanoids, for stable coins, for companies to raise capital and issue tokenization, etc. I've posted a comparison of a 4-year-old project's transaction volume relative to a 17-year-old project's transaction volume. I can't agree that there's 6 people using it, even if you're remark was sarcastic.
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2026-02-09 11:19:21 UTC

#kaspa #bitcoin
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2026-02-08 23:35:15 UTC

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Do you understand all of those “next” coins either had an issue with scalability, security, or decentralization? Kaspa does not. Think about what you’re saying. You genuinely have zero idea what Kaspa is and yet you’re arguing against it. Your argument isn’t objective at all. It’s faith based. I can’t think of a more dangerous and naive position. You’re blindly worshipping and likely haven’t given 2 seconds of thought to problems Bitcoin might actually have. You probably think Lightning is a solution. The sad part is that 99% of Bitcoiners on here have the same issue.

2026-02-08 14:01:51 UTC

Stable coins growth has done nothing but accelerate over the past few years. Transfer volumes are incredible. There is no ideal, sovereign, fair network that can scale to support these, until Kaspa. Surely Jack Mallers won’t continue to use scammy POS to distribute stable coins abroad as soon as the moment arises.
Tokenized stocks are in their infancy. In the future, when companies want to raise capital, they’ll tokenize. An IPO on the S&P is incredibly prohibitive. Small companies (that accelerate with the help of AI and compete with large companies that have vast resources) will raise capital via the blockchain (blockDAG) that runs 24/7, 365 worldwide. There was no secure, fair, sovereign network to do this on until Kaspa.
Bitcoin aside, if you’re neglecting Kaspa, it’s because you’re blindly following a religion, not critically assessing the problems in front of us.
The Bitcoin network is nothing short of awe inspiring. But Bitcoin’s L1 use outlook is bleak with a heavy dependency on block rewards for miners to be paid. AI is has proven to be and will continue to be incredibly deflationary. At some point, miners will have to be paid with transaction fees. And it should go without saying that 1 block per 10 min just wont cut it for AI to transact from one humanoid to another. A new technology like Kaspa’s blockDAG (directed acyclic graph) that allows for 10 blocks per second, without orphans, and the ability to scale to more blocks per second, is quite literally revolutionary.
Bitcoin core is already making decisions for the protocol that many of us disagree with. It’s disingenuous for anybody to say that the Kaspa community doesn’t have control over the protocol like Bitcoin because of the anonymity of Satoshi. What Kaspa has is consensus. Something the Bitcoin community can Knot say today.
I get it. I’m a stranger online. But do some thinking for yourself. Don’t let other arrive at solutions for you.
#kaspa #bitcoin
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2026-02-08 13:33:10 UTC

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Just like every Bitcoin maxi I’ve talked to. Blindly worshipping at the Bitcoin alter without the slightest curiosity if there’s a future world that a new technology can service (like a fair-launched, open-sources, POW, directed acyclic graph) the world in a new or better way. And people wonder why Boomers don’t get it. Bitcoin is great, but don’t blindly follow. Learn for yourself. Quite literally, nothing compares to Kaspa at this point.

2026-02-08 13:15:33 UTC

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I see you’re not actually interested in learning.

2026-02-08 13:05:54 UTC

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Would highly encourage you to look into it.

2026-02-08 12:30:03 UTC

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2026-02-08 10:41:32 UTC

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Oh I’m sure it’s really hard to cover your family’s food when taxpayers cover housing, insurance, transportation, staff, etc.

2026-02-07 14:53:03 UTC

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https://x.com/realvijayk/status/2019874619780677866
Value falls the marginal cost of production in a free society. What’s the cost of production for value in Kaspa vs Bitcoin? Can you apply your profound truth to Kaspa vs Bitcoin? @nprofile…p9x6

2026-02-07 11:32:37 UTC

And so it begins. I tried to talk to @nprofile…se79 about this over a year ago.
There’s simply no reason to ignore Kaspa if you’re honest about wanting sovereign money.
Of course Bitcoin’s network is stronger now, it’s 4x older.
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2026-02-06 19:51:33 UTC

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Honduras and Norway are countries. Not cities. And both of them have governments.

2026-02-06 19:45:43 UTC

People that think it’s over is kinda sad at this point.
#bitcoin #kaspa
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2026-02-06 19:42:39 UTC

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I understand what you’re asking for. However, you’re asking for something that’s never existed in history and never will. Where there is no governance, war lords enforce upon you. I admire your optimistic outlook, but it’s a fantasy. Most young men do. Things will change for you I hope.

2026-02-06 19:28:29 UTC

Don’t miss it because you free complacent.
#kaspa #bitcoin
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2026-02-06 19:24:11 UTC

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I agree with you on Kaspa, but I’m afraid you’re woefully misguided in your argument. Or at the very least, how you articulated it.
The other guy is unhinged, but on merit, he has substance to his argument. Actual thought out flow of resources and organization.

2026-02-06 19:21:52 UTC

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This post right here is how I know you don’t have a family.

2026-02-06 19:17:03 UTC

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Do Yonatan Sompolinsky.

2026-02-06 18:43:46 UTC

I’ve tried to share as best I can, but some refuse to even try and see. Bitcoin has network limitations and Core is making it worse. But if you think AI is going to pay AI in a network that’s 1 block per 10 minutes, I have a bridge to sell ya. If you think AI is going to settle on Lightening, it can’t.
If you don’t want an open-sourced, fair launched, digital scarcity that can scale on the base layer, I don’t know what you’re even doing. We are approaching the era of change.
#Kaspa
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2026-02-06 14:46:15 UTC

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Kaspa. It’s the only thing that makes sense for scaling. Lightning and not transacting on the base layer ain’t it.

2026-02-05 15:56:50 UTC

Something is getting ready to break. BTC sniffing out some serious liquidity and insolvency issues.

2026-02-04 11:13:43 UTC

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People will believe anything they hear without evidence. Those kinds of people are all vaccinated for Covid.

2026-02-02 10:33:30 UTC

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Idk if I would say trying to be better, but AI agents won’t trade on a network that runs 1bpm. It’s going to trade on something much much faster.
Trading aside, if you want authenticity and legitimacy time stamped in a block from your AI agent, that’s going on Kaspa. Kaspa is the proverbial iPhone moment in crypto.

2026-02-02 00:36:18 UTC

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Just like Muslims and the Injeel. Trust me bro, it’s missing.

2026-02-01 23:08:25 UTC

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Where is Bitcoin’s security budget going to come from? Certainly not L1 txs and block rewards are diminishing pretty fast.

2026-01-31 22:43:15 UTC

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Just the tip.

2026-01-31 22:38:53 UTC

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Credit to Rhonda Patrick for first teaching me this.

2026-01-31 13:21:11 UTC

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Kaspa will be the network all stable coins adopt.

2026-01-27 18:48:27 UTC

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Been saying this for a while.

2026-01-27 16:26:11 UTC

Intentionally and physically impeding law enforcement (a felony) while carrying a weapon, legally owned or otherwise, won’t end well for you. I thought this was well understood.

2026-01-26 18:15:42 UTC

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It was rhetorical. It’s quite obvious.

2026-01-26 14:43:06 UTC

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Triggered much?

2026-01-26 13:09:04 UTC

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🚨 Why the Alex Pretti shooting leans toward justified force - barely 🚨
Here's my 24-hour-later analysis. I've listened to m the arguments. I've watched as much video as I can. I've reread case law.
I believe the shooting was technically justified legally (like 50.5%, just over 50-50), but barely, and there is enough there to rule it as such. But it's a very close call, and I see why people are upset about it. I don't like this shooting. This is a preliminary analysis.
It's an ugly, messy shooting. Anyone pretending that this is a clean, clear-cut and obviously justified shooting - including the Trump administration - is being extremely disingenuous, if not outright spinning you. The people on the other side, who claim this is a clear-cut execution, implying ill-intent, are also being very disingenuous, if not outright spinning you. This one falls somewhere in the middle, and the answer likely lies within the fog of war and inside a scrum that we can't all completely see.
I also stipulate that we don't know everything the system does; we don't even know what the officer's statement says. I reserve the right to change my opinion based on new information. Some (such as Minnesota Gun Owners Law Center president Rob Doar) argue Pretti’s gun may have accidentally discharged when the agent in the gray jacket took it. This is unproven. If ever proven true, that would make it clear-cut justified force. But that’s not proven.
The analysis
Let's start with the law. “The 'reasonableness' of a particular use of force must be judged from the perspective of a reasonable officer on the scene, rather than with the 20/20 vision of hindsight. ... The calculus of reasonableness must embody allowance for the fact that police officers are often forced to make split-second judgments—in circumstances that are tense, uncertain, and rapidly evolving—about the amount of force that is necessary in a particular situation."
— Graham v. Connor
Officers have a right to use deadly force if they reasonably believe they or another person is in imminent danger of great bodily harm or death. That's the standard. They don't have to be right; just reasonable (and that will be very important here.)
Start there. This officer did not have the benefit of analyzing every single angle in slow-motion. What we are seeing now is NOT what he saw. He had a split-second to react. That's important. We also can't see exactly what he saw, which is also important. We aren't seeing his POV. The people recording videos weren't. We are seeing the struggle from the side; he had a different view. And that matters, because it's what he saw - or thought he saw -- that is determinative here. That's the big black hole in all of these analyses. We haven't yet heard from him.
How it unfolded
Pretti was armed. That's not illegal. He had a permit, and he had a right to have the gun. The Trump administration's comments on the firearm, that possessing the handgun indicates Pretti was a threat to "massacre" people or whatever, etc., are extremely inappropriate. I am sick and tired of the Trump administration giving out information that doesn't quite match the truth. I think it is hurting their cause. Their over-the-top rhetoric implies this is obvious justified force. That's bulls*t, sorry.
They've done this too much. I get why. They are living in an exceptionally compressed news cycle. The "other side" (Walz, Frey, etc.) are just as quick to release insane and reckless statements in the other direction and have. They are dealing with a media that is predisposed against them and law enforcement. They are fighting for the narrative. They are trying to go very hard at the false narratives on the front end before they set. I get this, but I think they are rhetorically taking it too far.
I personally wouldn't bring a firearm to an agitated and tense scene, but I know others who would for that very reason (self-protection). Thus, so far, Pretti has done nothing wrong in this sequence of events.
I don't agree with WHY he was protesting. I personally wouldn't protest law enforcement agents who were trying to arrest an illegal immigrant wanted for assault (as they were that day). But I stipulate he had a right to protest. Let's not sanitize what they are protesting, though.
He started out peacefully. He was recording the agents with his cell phone. He had a right to do that. It's a free country.
Alex Pretti's poor decisions
Pretti's first poor decision, though, came when he entered the street as two women were trying to record an agent near his car. This behavior has been happening all over Minneapolis, and it's now led to two deaths. The Minneapolis police have failed to secure the streets and to protect the agents as they attempt to conduct law enforcement operations. He should have stayed on the sidewalk and out of their way. The women should have, also. He took a step here that helped escalate the situation. You don't have a right to "protest" in the middle of the street.
Totality of the circumstances
The Supreme Court ruled UNANIMOUSLY in May that the totality of circumstances must be considered. The case is Barnes v. Felix, and I believe it's important here.
"An excessive force claim under the Fourth Amendment must be evaluated based on the totality of the circumstances, not solely the moment an officer perceives a threat. Justice Elena Kagan authored the unanimous opinion of the Court, which vacated and remanded the Fifth Circuit’s ruling that had applied a narrower 'moment-of-threat' analysis."
"The Fourth Amendment’s objective reasonableness standard requires a fact-specific, contextual examination of all relevant circumstances leading up to a law enforcement officer’s use of force. While the moment the officer fires a weapon may often carry significant weight, events occurring before that instant, such as the initiation of a stop or earlier conduct by the parties, may affect how a reasonable officer would have perceived the situation. Prior actions by either the officer or suspect may clarify ambiguous behaviors or shift how threatening a situation reasonably appeared, making a strict focus on only the climactic moment inconsistent with established Fourth Amendment jurisprudence."
This decision helps the firing agent, in my opinion, and it's a key reason that I tilt (barely) toward justified force. There are elements that go against it; in the totality of the circumstances, up to this point, Alex Pretti was just recording (which was his right), he wasn't threatening anyone with the firearm (or even wielding it), and he didn't "attack" officers.
However, federal agents (and these were Border Patrol, not ICE) have been harassed, threatened, harangued, and attacked as a group day in and day out for weeks now. One was attacked by a shovel and broom.
Armchair quarterbacks have NO IDEA the extreme level of abuse these officers are facing all day every day. I am not saying that justifies lethal force in and of itself; I'm told that all cops know to guard against any such instinct.
However, it's relevant to the totality of the circumstances. The media are all painting Alex Pretti as a lovely man who worked as a kindly nurse and loved his dog; fine. But the officers didn't have any way to know that on the scene, and, at this point, they have to perceive that everyone could be a potential threat when it comes to these agitated scenes. I also think they are just done with people impeding their operations, getting in the middle of the street and blowing whistles in their faces, while they try to arrest illegal immigrant child molesters (and, in this case, one with an assault history). That leads me to the next actions.
Escalation by the agents
An agent did escalate things by pushing a woman back off the side of the street, and then when Pretti intervened, pepper-spraying and pushing him. I question whether the pushing was necessary, but I do judge it based on the above totality of the circumstances. I think that agent was trying to get them out of the street. But I think that was an escalating action that could have been avoided. That being said, pepper-spraying someone doesn't give them a right to struggle with cops; it's a de-escalation technique that is far down on the use-of-force continuum.
You have to consider that the agents were involved in other tense and agitated situations a short time before ON THE SAME DAY down the street and had already detained another person. They were trying to clear the street and push the protesters back and out of it before things got more chaotic and out of control. It's street control and crowd control basically. It looks ugly on video.
None of this would have happened if the Minneapolis police were protecting the agents and securing the streets when they do operations, as noted. That they have not done so is unconscionable. And it's leading to deaths. Both deaths have occurred when protesters essentially got in the way of law enforcement operations, leading to agitated and gray-area encounters. This is on Frey, O'Hara and Walz. Walz should have activated the National Guard much sooner.
These agents are left to fend for themselves against hostile crowds who are trying to impede their actions every step of the way. I think the push back and the pepper spray were an attempt to keep control of the scene before it spun out of control. It seems like a bit of a premature overreaction, though, as they weren't surrounded by hundreds of encroaching people or something. But you have to understand that instinct within the context of the abuse these officers have been taking, and the other scenes they've been in that have spun very quickly out of control, imperiling their safety.
Officers and citizens fighting in the streets - in the words of Frey - whatever could go wrong? Lots.
For people to say Pretti had a right to struggle with agents because he was pepper sprayed is an insane take. Pepper spray means back off.
If officers tell you to back off, back off.
But he didn't.
Was he "helping a woman"?
Pretti inserted himself into a situation where he didn't belong, helping escalate it. He should have stayed on the sidewalk, and there wouldn't have been a problem. To pretend these are just protests is ridiculous. Some people are peacefully protesting, but when you impede law enforcement, struggle with them, or generally commit crimes, you are, minimally, an agitator, not a protester.
Pretti then went over to the woman who fell, and there was another chaotic moment. The left is trying, as always, to read this moment as negatively for the agents as possible. They say Pretti was "trying to help the woman." Was he? Maybe.
But it's hard to tell what he was doing from the video. Some people think he was trying to get her water bottle due to the pepper spraying. On video, it looks like the beginning of a chaotic scrum. Whatever he was doing, he went physically hands-on the woman. And the agent, distracted by the need to control the rest of the scene, sees them on the ground chaotically struggling or rolling around. He sees Pretti making physical contact with her. He wasn't calmly helping her. They were stumbling or rolling around.
Pretti should have backed off. At this point, the agents appear to be pulling Pretti off the woman. They drag him away from her. I don't find this to be inappropriate behavior. They probably thought they were protecting the woman or, alternatively, just trying to restore order in the streets. You can't have people rolling around the streets. Remember again that they were there to arrest an illegal immigrant with an assaultive history. Every second people are rolling around with them in the streets, that person could be getting away.
The main struggle
That's when the struggle started. It's possible Pretti didn't have a chance to extricate himself from the struggle. I get that. But he also appears to have engaged in it. He is now struggling with agents while armed. This is an exceptionally dangerous decision.
More than an intentionally reckless choice, it appears to be the predictable result of a cascading scene of chaos that just kept getting more chaotic. And this all happened in seconds.
But he is struggling with the agents while armed.
Now comes the critical juncture. He had his cell phone in one hand. It doesn't appear he withdrew his gun. That hurts the agent's case.
Disarming Pretti
The officer in the gray jacket appears to have disarmed Pretti. He comes into the scrum and removes the g*n from Pretti's waistband. I think that's clear. So, yes, Pretti was unarmed when the officer fired. That hurts the agent's case. That makes this ugly and messy.
The agents seemed surprised. They were looking for the gun later. But that helps his case, because other agents weren't aware that gray jacket man got it either, apparently. Another agent also drew his firearm, indicating more than one perceived a threat.
The critical moment
At the critical moment, you can see the firing agent pause and then fire. That motion indicates he saw something, paused to make sure what he was seeing, and then was concerned enough to fire. What did he see? The gray jacket man had the gun.
That's unclear. We don't know HIS version of events. Always remember that the system has evidence and information (and possibly more video) that we haven't seen. That can change things.
Here's where the legal analysis comes in. The agent doesn't have to be right under the law. He just needs to be reasonable, as assessed by what other officers would perceive as reasonable, juxtaposed against the totality of the circumstances. It's worth repeating that here.
If he thought Pretti had a gun or was drawing a gun, that makes this a likely justified shooting. Because we can't see what he saw, there is no way to know that for sure. But screenshots make it look like Pretti either had something in his hand or something fell nearby (maybe a magazine, gear from an agent?) Some people online believe he was reaching for his holster, but others don't. People see what they want to see in the videos, but all that matters is what the officer saw, and he was at a different angle. I think it's likely that he thought Pretti had a gun or was reaching for a gun. I think it's likely that he believed that, if he waited, Pretti might use that gun on his partners.
I think this belief was wrong. But the law doesn't mandate that it be correct, just reasonable.
To me this is a very close call, but what gets me over the edge to the side of the agent is the totality of the circumstances of what they're dealing with overall and also one key piece of evidence. According to even CNN, an agent shouted, "he's got a gun" right before the agent fired. I suspect that this utterance combined by some movement by Pretti in the scrum led the officer to believe his partners were in imminent danger. It’s important to hear the agent’s side. It could change my stance, which is preliminary.
If you watch the video closely, I doubt that the agent knew that the gray jacket man had already disarmed Pretti. The disarming and firing happened very close together (we're talking a second), and the agent was not looking in that direction and appeared focused on drawing his own gun, tunnel vision, etc. I also think it's possible that PRETTI didn't realize that he had been disarmed. Did the officer think his cell phone was the gun? Did he see the gun being pulled from his waistband by the gray jacket officer and mistakenly think Pretti had drawn it? Did Pretti make a motion. This was a CHAOTIC scrum, and it happened in seconds. The number of shots is usually not legally relevant when they are so tightly bunched together due to adrenaline and muscle memory.
I am unclear what fell in the video.
That's fog of war stuff, and the law accounts for it, but it is NEVER pretty. Years ago, in Milwaukee, an officer shot a man who was holding a small black cassette tape. He mistakenly thought it was a gun. He was exonerated.
I don't like it, though. I question why he couldn't just grab Pretti from behind and pull him away. I question why that many officers couldn't get control of one struggling guy without taking his life. Alex Pretti doesn't get his life back. That is a really big deal.
I think this shooting is dicier than the Good case (she hit the officer with her car). I am concerned that the agents have taken so much abuse that they are now too quick to react or to escalate things themselves. They have been placed in an impossible situation, and, again, that is the fault of the Democratic and police leadership in Minneapolis, which is not protecting them or controlling the streets during their operations.
I think a truly independent investigation may be warranted.
It's a mess. Let's not pretend it isn't one.
When there's a tie in these cases, I give it to the person who was there to uphold the laws during endless scenes of agitation and lawbreaking.
These officers don't wake up in the morning wanting to take a life. That matters. They want to go home at night. They are working under incredible, almost combat-like circumstances, completely abandoned by the leadership and Police Department of the city they're operating in.
This officer didn't intend to "murder" Alex Pretti, and any rhetoric to that regard is extremely unfair and agitating. Politicians, including the Wisconsin gubernatorial Democratic candidates and the mayor of Milwaukee, have released inciting, unhelpful statements, rather than responsible analyses. Writing things like he was killed on his knees, he was "murdered," etc., is not a helpful response from leaders.
The law requires an assessment of the totality of the circumstances, and that is what I have tried to do here. These situations are ALL case specific.
Final conclusion
I don't like this shooting. I wish this had not happened. I think the officers escalated the situation in some ways. I think Alex Pretti made some bad decisions. I think Democratic and police leadership are not protecting officers OR protestors/agitators. I think this is a close call. I think it's a messy, ugly, gray-area, fog-of-war, shooting.
But that's where I come down. I lean toward there being enough there to not justify sending this officer to prison, basically. But it's a slim margin.
I am writing all of this because you won't get this take in many other places, and someone needs to say it. I recognize some reasonable people will come down on the other side, and I get how they get there. I just don't respect the people whose argumentation revolves around sending me death threats (we have gotten multiple), calling people N*zis, arguing that immigration laws should not be enforced even against criminals ("get out of Minnesota"), or smearing all law enforcement. Fundamentally, I believe what is happening in Minnesota is about preserving and upholding the rule of law, but these situations are not helping. And I am fairly shocked an officer would be this quick to shoot, knowing what would result. No officer wants to be in this position. Frankly, this situation is every officer's worst nightmare.
The way forward
I have also proposed a solution in a previous post, so I will end on that. I think BOTH sides should stop the incendiary rhetoric and sit down at a table. They should agree (Trump, Noem, Bovino, Walz, Ellison, and Frey) on a joint plan to focus on the illegal immigrants who committed crimes (felonies, misdemeanors and OWIS).
The state should agree to honor all detainers in jails and to allow ICE in courthouses and to help them identify such. Those are safer environments. For the operations on the street, the Minneapolis police and/or National Guard should protect the agents and control the streets. Worry about the rest later. Both sides should agree to stop the incendiary rhetoric.
Trump can't and shouldn't withdraw ICE completely. There is an organized element within these "protests" likely. Antifa took a microphone and said that Minneapolis will be the rock that breaks ICE, and they will replicate this strategy everywhere if it works. I don't think they care about the lives lost; they think it's helping their cause, and that cause is preventing the federal government from enforcing immigration laws at all. The government can not allow the tail to wag the dog. So they have to stay the course.
That's how I would do it.
But that won't happen. And I recognize that.

2026-01-26 12:59:47 UTC

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2026-01-25 21:44:34 UTC

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Tennessee vs Garner. Go read.

2026-01-25 20:17:10 UTC

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You saying the questions don’t matter, doesn’t change the court adjudicated fact that they do.
The court of law disagrees with you. If you sit before a judge with a case where an officer of the law took somebody else’s life because they did not comply with a lawful order and in not complying with that lawful order, the detainee tried to reach for a weapon or run their car into the officer of the law, deadly force is justified.
Your emotions around what you believe happened don’t matter. And hurling insults such as beta male at a stranger through a screen doesn’t change the rule of law either. Just makes you feel better inside (I guess). I see this is hard for you. And I’m sorry. But most of our society today think their emotions are the rule of law. Hopefully you can cope with this reality in a healthy way.

2026-01-25 18:26:55 UTC

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Examples of questions you don’t know the answer to:
-How many weapons did he have on his person?
-How many weapons did he reach for during resisting (his or another officer’s)?
-What took place 30 min prior to the detention?
There’s a litany of questions that you don’t have the answers to, but this isn’t something a civilian thinks about. They just see a video (or a headline) and make assumptions that fit their narrative. Just like the Good case. But thankfully, in America, you have every right to say whatever ignorant things you want to online. What you can’t do is impede law enforcement and then resist being detained in an ongoing investigation. Especially with a handgun or other weapon. Bad things happen. As you see here… again. People think it’s a game. Play stupid games. Win stupid prizes.

2026-01-25 12:09:59 UTC

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He shouldn’t stay ignorant forever. Guess so.

2026-01-25 03:51:56 UTC

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All of which you don’t know to be true. Just like the Good lady was only doing a 3 point turn. Contracts. You’re a part of the problem.

2026-01-22 17:50:44 UTC

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Bitcoin maximalists will begin to understand soon enough.