BitcoinBelle
Bitcoin Belle

The difficulty in being out in front of the herd is mostly loneliness. But the views are unobstructed and huuuuge. For those following, the trail is easier but the stench of shit mixed with dust fills their nostrils. I'll take lonely anyday, thanks

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2025-03-08 22:22:58 UTC

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Not if you burn the garlic.

2025-03-08 18:32:52 UTC

How much gold would you offer Satoshi Nakamoto to dump a million bitcoin once this reserve is created?

2025-03-08 17:35:31 UTC

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Hope in one hand and shit in the other. See which fills up faster.
I always hated that as I was eternally optimistic. But then again, I sacrificed everything for p2p, private, permissionless speech packets that had plausible deniability built in and could be used as money, or many other uses, so clearly I'm an idiot.

2025-03-08 17:30:35 UTC

In 2014, I could buy and do anything I wanted to do paying directly with bitcoin without any ID, which was great since I was debanked in 2010 and had a $657K tax levy and a revoked passport. Today? I drive for hours to plead with people to sell me dollars so I can eat.

2025-03-08 17:14:01 UTC

Wow! Discussing my first book in my Cryptonautica Series with Derrick J in the summer of 2014, we imagined a screen adaption as a way to onboard ticket buyers. Me, The Bitcoin Storyteller since 2011 was banned, disappeared and imitated with imposters. But the idea remained. If that is not a beautiful picture of what Bitcoin does, Idk.

2025-03-08 17:06:56 UTC

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I was being sarcastic.

2025-03-08 17:06:10 UTC

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Trust but verify. You could ask Nick Szabo, Fran Finney or Adam Back who I am. Don't ask Bruce Fenton as he'll just say "Disruptive" and that is too vanilla these days.

2025-03-08 17:04:15 UTC

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I've been at this since 1979. Were you even born?

2025-03-08 17:01:54 UTC

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I've been a freedom fighter and civil disobedience activist since I was 12 in 1979. Yes, I've been successful. However the rate at which people become stupid, lazy and forgetful out paces me.

2025-01-21 16:46:28 UTC

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A closed loop film production studio

2025-01-21 16:43:39 UTC

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oh dear

2025-01-21 16:34:40 UTC

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Lol. See? I meant Bitcoin adoption generations.

2025-01-21 16:33:03 UTC

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So says the slave whose god is The State.

2025-01-21 06:20:44 UTC

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We are talking beyond each other.. Probably a generational thing. 🕊️

2025-01-21 04:44:27 UTC

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Idk David Sacks but Michael Saylor is not the hero he thinks or has convinced others he is. He's a product of "the value of bitcoin is it's price" with never even a nod to any of the four Ps.

2025-01-21 04:26:30 UTC

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When the dystopian fiction I write seems more plausible than reality, life is definitely weird. Glad I gots my faith and my dog.

2025-01-21 04:19:13 UTC

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@npub1jpm…rl75 just shared a screenshot of Elon Musk saying Ross will be freed too, as in during the next round of Executive Orders tonight. It's crazy how hard everyone wants to believe.

2025-01-21 04:13:15 UTC

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No zap needed. I gave you a wut fer.

2025-01-21 04:11:58 UTC

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As one who has not had hopes in politicians, or The State, since I was twelve, I'm a bit envious.
Pick yourself and brush yourself off and get a good night's sleep. Tomorrow, go to the bank and close all your accounts, then run up all your credit limits, taking what has been taken from you, and opt-out. If you pay one cent, henceforth, to The I Ruin Souls gang, with any part of the fruit of your labor, you are now culpable. Just as self-custody is required to own bitcoin, personal accountability is required to own oneself.

2025-01-21 03:51:56 UTC

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#2 is false

2025-01-21 03:49:20 UTC

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I remember the day I had my mind changed about the death penalty by a school peer who was also taking Dr. Diane Harvey's Ethics course at Menlo College. It was a big deal to change my mind about such a firmly held belief. He was not a libertarian but he appealed to my views about The State. When I tried to slide in "yeah, but they aren't innocent", he got me with, "You believe only Jesus was innocent.". He won me over by appealing to First Cause Principles as I applied them to my own life. Pretty powerful.

2025-01-21 03:40:12 UTC

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I laid on the floor and had a total breakdown 10 years ago when Ross was sentenced.. I was sad for him but I was broken by the loss of the Bitcoin Narrative. So we've lost all of the battles fought in pressed clothes and tailored toasts. Henceforth, it is either a race for dollars, or a nasty grudge match. I don't think "the Bitcoin Community" has the grit. Those with the grit are hiding, imprison, broken by attrition, or dead. Bitcoin cost some of us everything.

2025-01-21 03:28:31 UTC

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The Hidden Capital! I want to live there. #CantSeeMe

2025-01-21 03:27:24 UTC

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@npub1jpm…rl75 If Elon was the genius purported with libertarian ideals and a handle of First Cause Principles, this would not have happened. They do not understand self-ownership. We are not the same.
#note1qs6…h3s5

2025-01-21 03:20:58 UTC

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Yes, The Bitcoin' Community is definitely underperforming. Around and round we go. More pain needed!

2025-01-21 03:19:23 UTC

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The incredible use of power is an opportunity for innovation.

2025-01-21 03:18:06 UTC

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Thumb drives and paper are hard.

2025-01-21 01:22:19 UTC

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I read your comment just fine. I don't think you understood mine. I can explain it to you.

2025-01-21 01:21:15 UTC

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I thought I was immune. But then I learned that 90% of the heat from your body does not escape from your head. I used to let my kids play outside in tshirts in freezing temperatures, shouting from the kitchen, "Put on your hats!" smh

2025-01-21 01:17:15 UTC

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Stop paying for his incarceration withthe fruit of your labor. You all should stop that anyway.

2025-01-21 01:15:44 UTC

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Free. Hmm. You mean, no longer in prison.
Unless all potential charges related to Silk Road are pardoned along with the commutation of his sentence, Murder for Hire will be hanging above his head like a noose.

2025-01-21 01:13:32 UTC

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I'm 57. If the information that was released a few years ago was released when I was a kid, our parents would have demanded heads on a chopping block. Instead the news whispered out like the air from a deflated balloon.

2025-01-21 01:06:28 UTC

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I was being quite literal. You appear to have a strong ego. That's a good thing.

2025-01-21 01:02:29 UTC

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Commute sentence AND full pardon of all potential charges. Otherwise Murder for Hire hangs like a noose.

2025-01-21 00:51:39 UTC

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"Dropped" charges can be picked back up. No official charges nor indictment means it's open season.

2025-01-21 00:48:44 UTC

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Thank youuuuu!!!! I just belly laughed.

2025-01-21 00:47:44 UTC

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Yes.
It's what I would have done.

2025-01-21 00:46:43 UTC

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It was not dismissed. The charge in Maryland was dropped after his sentencing. The charge can still be brought.

2025-01-21 00:45:19 UTC

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If Jack Dorsey had not banned my account in late 2016, then zero it out, you'd have a firsthand account of Bitcoin from 2011 to 2016. He had to remove "The Bitcoin Storyteller" . . . who is a radical Capitalist. He is not.

2025-01-21 00:42:25 UTC

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There were several of us there who were all Bitcoin OGs who absolutely communicated that fact to Lyn. But she didn't grok. And she was excited about "the bombshell" that she was sure would endear the jury to Ross- Ross's admission that he created Silk Road and sold mushrooms on it, so therefore they MUST believe him that he no dealings with it for a long, long time, thus not guilty of deaths associated with drugs bought off it. It was a total shitshow.

2025-01-21 00:38:00 UTC

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. . . unless you are buying dollars, in which case, yes, privacy is imperative.

2025-01-21 00:34:49 UTC

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My "tax resistance" has been restricted to Income Tax which I fundamentally oppose by definition of my status as a Human. As for use tax, I don't have absolutes. The other tax I object to is inflation. Except when it comes to the number of dollars I'm able to buy because bankers have hijacked the narrative on the "value of bitcoin" obfuscating the intrinsic qualities of p2p, permissionless and private speech packets with plausible deniability as the chief cornerstone.

2025-01-21 00:29:11 UTC

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That begs the question why he didn't in the first place.

2025-01-21 00:26:53 UTC

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He was not promised a pardon but a commutation. And that still leaves Murder for Hire charge on the table.

2025-01-21 00:25:08 UTC

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I was at Ross's trial the first day. I did not return at the request of Ross's mother who had received notice of a threat by Katherine Forrest to sequester the jury if the civil disobedience activists who were outside the court educating the public on Jury Nullification and declaring that owning a website is not a crime. Ross's defense threw him under the bus day 2 essentially doing The State's job by admitting to Ross's guilt. The Defense always should have presented "Bitcoin is speech packets and therefore protected under 1st and 4th Amendments" narrative. I believe Dratel was compromised.

2025-01-21 00:19:09 UTC

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War of Attrition is a game played by those with nothing to lose and everything to gain. I'd rather know than just think or hope.

2025-01-21 00:16:44 UTC

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prima Fauci!

2025-01-21 00:14:59 UTC

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One could argue that "if you haven't . . ." you are one of the Big Hands that receives wealth straight from the printer.
#DishonestScales

2025-01-21 00:12:32 UTC

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🥰🥰🥰

2025-01-21 00:09:13 UTC

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Well, I am a Bible believing Christian, and do not believe in swearing by anything as the Bible says not to and to "let your yes be yes, and your no be no. That said, I think it's"classier" to use a Bible that was meaningful to his Christ-devoted grandmother than a mass produced one bearing his own name.

2025-01-21 00:05:21 UTC

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Trump has not promised to pardon him, but rather to commute his sentence. So his sentence was: 2 consecutive life sentences for the 5 charges plus 2 Kingpin charges carrying 20 years each. So the commutation does not declare him Not Guilty but rather acknowledges his guilt but exercises mercy on the sentence.
Double Jeopardy precludes The State from retrying a case after a verdict, but it does not prevent The State from bringing new charges. Given the charge was dropped, not dismissed, and it was used in sentencing, I'd bet on The House to win.
It's all so fucking gross. I'm glad I've never put a cent toward any of it from the fruit of my labor. I am innocent.

2025-01-20 23:59:39 UTC

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Unless he is granted a full pardon for all potential charges related to past offense, it will hang over his head like a noose. The fact this is not on the forefront of everyone tweeting #FreeRoss with hopes Trump commutes sentence (NOT a pardon) tells me people have learned nothing from the pain of people whose names they've never heard of, but without whom, they'd never know of Bitcoin.

2025-01-20 23:55:15 UTC

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si!

2025-01-20 23:52:51 UTC

There is no statute of limitations for the crime of Murder for Hire. A charge can be reinstated.
There is zero chance, in my mind, that The State will allow Ross to live outside the walls of prison. The Murder for Hire charge in Maryland was dropped after Ross's sentencing in NYC. Unless it is included in a pardon, the commutation could be a set-up for the murdering of a spirit as the charge will undoubtedly be reinstated.

2025-01-20 23:38:09 UTC

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Keonne 💜

2025-01-20 23:29:00 UTC

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123

2025-01-20 23:27:55 UTC

#BitcoinLore.
In 2014, the cry by socialist Andreas Antonnopolus for more "women in Bitcoin" despite #FACTS, ushered in #HarpyShrews such as Blythe Masters, Kathryn Haun, and Katherine Forrest. Those 3 women did more harm than any three-cord strand of men you can think of from the same time.
Also, The State never charged #RossUlbricht with murder for hire. So that is still on the table. Considering Forrest used the accusation for sentencing despite Ross never having been indicted, much less convicted, I would suggest a pardon for any potential charges associated with past relationship to Silk Road to go along with the commuting of the sentence.

2025-01-20 20:48:10 UTC

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Though I'm not a fan of his, I think it's like when an Aspie kid said to me 40 years ago, "You're really pretty even though your teeth are orange." 😆

2025-01-20 20:38:22 UTC

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Lol So we have been calling it that since 2012. So you're using the wrong tense.

2025-01-20 19:54:29 UTC

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Bits have had an established meaning prior to bitcoin. And we needed a word for discussions rather than speaking in terms of millionths of a bitcoin and a H/T to the creator seemed appropriate. Are you okay with referring to 10 btc as a Finney?

2025-01-20 19:50:44 UTC

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LN or Cashu. 🤣

2025-01-20 19:47:37 UTC

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It is fun to see people using "sats" considering how hard I was affectionately laughed at in early 2011 when I suggested on Free Talk Live that satoshis be labeled the smallest increment of bitcoin. Nobody laughed thinking "bits" would be better as we all understood how stupid that thought was, but rather because nobody could conceive it being practical.

2025-01-20 19:43:03 UTC

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Oh! Sort of like Change Tip booze buying back in the day. I hop on here occasionally to see how things are evolving. I still cannot get over needing to pay $ to claim BTC zaps.
2 more things since I have you here: how do I remove from my feed the profile of the self-descrining cum guzzler whose great contribution is public disgrace; and two, is style of the threading of convos specific to clients, and if so, is there one winning? I've been finding replies to me merely by accident as the @ wasn't included so I received no notification. I'd also like to be able to read entire conversations without having to jump. Thanks!

2025-01-20 19:35:36 UTC

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It's nice to be remembered.

2025-01-20 19:32:01 UTC

I'm surprised Biden didn't pardon Mark Force and Shaun Bridges. #SilkRoad What a tragedy that Dratel did not argue #bitcoin (speech packets) are protected under 1st and 4th Amendments. *sigh*

2025-01-20 17:43:45 UTC

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His name was Thomas Barnum and he settled in Connecticut. My maternal grandparents assured through their coming together that I be born of adventurers, tricksters, pioneers and smugglers. I am such an AmeriCAN. 😜

2025-01-20 17:32:47 UTC

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Good morning. I was cleaning out old photos and screenshots and came across a request by you to Elon Musk to have my Bitcoin Belle account reinstated. It was not. But I had already received a view of the account. The heading was marked by 0s. 0 followers, following, Tweets and Replies. That is a tremendous loss to the historical narrative of Bitcoin. But yeah DOGE! *sigh*

2025-01-20 17:27:35 UTC

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It takes a strong ego to publicly admit to such a hole in your education.

2025-01-20 17:26:38 UTC

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Huh. How interesting to see this declaration 9 years after Bitcoin Belle was banned from Twitter.

2025-01-20 17:24:28 UTC

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Pain is a great teacher, especially for those of us with a high pain tolerance. 😩

2025-01-20 17:22:21 UTC

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Oooh! Mine 1640. He was 15 and sailed here alone from England. Knowing the testimony of my family's journey convinced me the bar must be raised on entry. I am so sick of hearing from people, and most crushingly from East Indians, "It must be made easier for us . . . ". The comparisons between American onboarding and Bitcoin onboarding are amazing: the easier we make it, the weaker the pool becomes to the point the users bear no resemblance to the creators and pioneers. Make Bitcoin Hard Again!

2025-01-20 17:17:13 UTC

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I'm glad to hear that! Where are you living/hanging out? Obviously NH was an ideal place where bitcoin was grokked and launched. Once KYC became the norm, and adopters of cryptocurrency payment processing started getting visits by The FBI, I witnessed a drastic decline in use. Point me to the Promised Land!

2025-01-20 17:10:36 UTC

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Today is the close of my travel season. It's -7° here in Glacier Park, MT which is still warmer than the cold felt by those in Malibu. 😢

2025-01-20 17:05:59 UTC

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Oh and given I was the first bitcoiner who was debanked and removed from the intellectual and creative pool, with children who did not bear the mark of a SSN, yeah, it was an original opinion. 😜

2025-01-20 17:04:17 UTC

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Again, you mean. Bitcoin was money. And as a 13th Generation American whose ancestor brought and bought with gold here,, I can see clearly how The United States of America has handicapped Bitcoin much like it has America.

2025-01-20 16:59:11 UTC

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Congratulations to you all!

2025-01-20 16:57:14 UTC

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I'm not sure how people spend it now but between 2011 and 2016, I earned or paid bitcoin by hosting guests at my home, buying food, taking dance classes, flying about to Bitcoin conferences and to visit my children, acquiring furniture and supplies for the Tiny Home I built, buying domains, paying for web design, paying my book cover artist, selling copies of my series Cryptonautica. Now? Now I gotta buy dollars to do those things. "Price" is up while purpose is down.

2025-01-20 16:42:59 UTC

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The value of bitcoin is that it is p2p, private, permissionless with plausible deniability as the chief cornerstone and not it's price in fiat. You're welcome.

2025-01-20 16:39:30 UTC

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Does Stella have a sibling yet?

2025-01-20 16:36:04 UTC

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If you ride with the club, you're along for the pendulum swing regardless of the arc.

2025-01-20 16:34:12 UTC

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Sheesh. And to think he was apologizing for rage with an excuse of bipolar shared with "Bitcoin billionaires" less than a year ago.

2025-01-20 16:28:45 UTC

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Not possible.

2025-01-20 16:27:31 UTC

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Watching the slaves throw roses and celebrate the victory of their team not realizing the stems have been dipped in poison and they're actually building their funeral pure with petals.

2025-01-20 16:24:40 UTC

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Or, first you earn bitcoin after being debanked in 2009, then you switch to Nostr after being banned in 2016. We're not the same.

2025-01-20 16:23:08 UTC

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Someone earned $s and you are celebrating that why? What is the "circular economy" to which you refer? (Btw, circular looks like "closed loop" but they are not the same.)

2025-01-20 16:10:15 UTC

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And yet people have been conned to believe it is simply a store of value, not money, so that people like me, who've depended upon it as money find ourselves needing to buy dollars ten years after creating pathways for p2p, permissionless, and private transactions. But cute poster.

2025-01-20 16:07:17 UTC

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Christians praising a well-known adulterer while condemning others displaying sexual immorality is clear evidence The State is in control of The Church.

2025-01-20 16:03:48 UTC

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And yet you people keep bowing and paying. There is nothing quite like observing from the Overwatch the slaves you gave keys to unshackle sit with their chains still locked complaining about the conditions of the plantation conditions.

2025-01-20 16:00:36 UTC

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The meddling of mothers, even well-intentioned, when accompanied by the impotence of a weak father often has tragic results. Those of us who've been in the game long before Ross's trial knew he was cooked the second Lyn mentioned Dratel having a "bomb to drop" on Day 2 just after she relayed the message he gave on behalf of Judge Katherine Forrest that all Free Speech activists needed to leave and that any mention of Jury Nullification could result in arrest. But yes, #FreeRoss sounds great and grants you a badge of courage.

2025-01-19 16:04:57 UTC

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@npub123l…hkcn This is new to me. I just tried to post 2 photos. What am I not doing correctly?

2025-01-19 16:01:03 UTC

It is 11° outside in Glacier Park and here in the woods, I get almost no sun which is rough for me. But just as I was missing Malibu, my neighbor from there sent me these. My intended meaning of "Burn it down" was very different from The State's meaning. It's kinda like #bitcoin. To me, it meant "free speech packets" and The State says it's "crypto" though it is anything but as they propose.
https://m.primal.net/Nnyk.bin
https://m.primal.net/NfCc.bin

2025-01-18 19:24:07 UTC

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Wow. Sassy! I like it.

2025-01-18 19:22:10 UTC

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The king is dead. Long live the king!

2025-01-18 18:13:02 UTC

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Further, as the guinea pig of many, many, many first, second and third generation businesses, I can categorically say that the choke hold at onboarding and use by alphabet gangs killed entrepreneurial innovation. The Boys of Bitcoin got sidetracked by squirrels: Lambos and size and were caught unaware of the social engineering. As designed, Bitcoin is not fulfilling its promise because people are weak and unprincipled. Pain will fix that. #MorePainNeeded

2025-01-18 17:54:52 UTC

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More pain needed! And bigger blocks. (Aaaaahhhhh, she said it!!!!)

2025-01-18 17:53:21 UTC

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Sure, if you believe the value of btc is its price in fiat. I have lived on bitcoin income only since 2011. I disagree with your premise.

2025-01-13 21:31:20 UTC

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More pain needed! Bring the pain!

2025-01-13 21:30:17 UTC

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The State acquires it through seizing it. For those who shouted "Moon" and "Lambo" in 2013 instead of "Freedom", and to those who praised people like Andreas for helping the government to understand value of bitcoin as the debate over whether it's money or a commodity INSTEAD of "It's speech packets and therefore protected fuckwits", this is all on YOU!

2025-01-13 19:02:34 UTC

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Oh!!! Congratulations on no longer being a slave to The State and bowing as you would tithe to the I Ruin Souls gang. It's a very small club but the best Humans are in it. Way to unshackle!

2025-01-13 18:56:49 UTC

It cracks me up that bitcoiners chat as if bitcoin is a foregone conclusion whilst having NEVER lived on it, collecting satoshis (you're welcome) as though they are Beanie Babies and Pokemon cards, sure the "value" will go up as if you can increase p2p, private, permissionless from perfect. Nope.