₿TC Can’t Be Stopped 💎👐🏼 ₿ ∞/21M

@PGoldschmeding If you eat it, they tax it.

Er komt een vleestaks aan. “D66-minister Van Essen van Landbouw, Visserij, Voedselzekerheid laat weten met plannen te komen om de consument te helpen bij een meer plantaardig eetpatroon, zoals prijsafspraken met supermarkten.” nos.nl/artikel/260967…

How to stack Bitcoin like a sovereign nation: 1. Mine Bitcoin - Bhutan 2. Buy Bitcoin - El Salvador 3. Confiscate Bitcoin - US 4. Steal Bitcoin - North Korea 5. Close the Strait of Hormuz and demand a toll in Bitcoin - Iran

So the CIA and NSA created Bitcoin, so that the enemies of the US can use it freely? #clowns

@mononautical @cymrucoiner

crazy that Bitcoin is now being used to *prevent* boating accidents

There’s really nothing to add to this article. That’s why you should read it. Time is up.

@Branzino165 @ewaldeng Waarom is iets waardevol in een democratie als het geheim wordt gehouden? Een vrij debat en een vrije uitwisseling van informatie lijkt mij veel waardevoller. Maar dat is een verschil van inzicht denk ik. Fijne avond.

@btc_cbs @ewaldeng Het gaat om het proces van uitwisseling. En omdat de inhoud geheim is, is dat zeer waardevol, want er kan over alles vrij worden gesproken. Eigenlijk net als in de NL-ministerraad, ook helemaal geheim, je erover uitlaten is zelfs strafbaar. Maar hier klaagt niemand daarover.

Vijf nederlanders

If @nytimes misidentifies Satoshi after an 18-month investigation that selectively attends to only confirmingevidence… What are the odds they get it right on bitcoin’s energy use, utility, value, security, etc.? Wrong on all of those too. What about everything else? The news?

@Branzino165 @ewaldeng Als die gedachten en ideeën uitwisseling zo nuttig zijn waarom dan geheim en niet openbaar?

@ewaldeng O.k., boeiend, maar wat zijn nu eigenlijk de bezwaren tegen die deelnemers? Elkaar treffen, ongestoord van gedachten wisselen en ideeën uitwisselen is altijd nuttig, toch?

Jaarlijks verplicht onder dwang je bezit moeten rapporteren aan de overheid zodat ze er vanaf kunnen snoepen. Vervolgens bij overlijden tot wel 40% van je bezit afstaan aan die overheid. Dat noemen mensen een vrij land.. 🇳🇱 Je bent gewoon eigendom van de staat.👮🏼

Hey @mempool remember we talked with @BdGBertdeGroot and @StijnBtc at Plan B Lugano in 2024 about our solo pool mining a block? You said this would never happen, if it did you would add our @NoderunnersNET logo😀 You can find it at github.com/artdesignbySF/…

Fiat clown world check: Central banks are printing trillions Governments can't stop spending And somehow YOU'RE supposed to trust THEM with your savings 21 million. That's the exit 🟠

@LukeDCA @ecb

@ecb Printing more EURO for foreign wars, climate hoax and imaginary viruses might help to keep prices stable. Try that!

Europe’s dependence on foreign energy makes it tougher for the ECB to keep prices stable, writes Executive Board member Frank Elderson. Meeting clean energy targets would help by reducing the impact of volatile global markets on domestic energy prices ecb.europa.eu/press/blog/dat…

Gebruik ₿TC als bescherming tegen inflatie van fiatgeld. Het is weer mogelijk om de vruchten van je arbeid te behouden. Maar eerst en vooral: bestudeer Bitcoin. 💪🏽

Fiat money is an illusion. Study ₿itcoin.

Column: Pieter Cobelens: vertrouw de overheid, niet de burger. Max von Kreyfelt (met dank aan Marianne Zwagerman) Het is een geruststellende gedachte dat er mensen zijn die precies denken te weten hoe de wereld werkt. Mensen die risico’s zien op plekken waar anderen nog geloven dat ze vrij zijn en die dat geloof met zichtbare overtuiging corrigeren. Neem Pieter Cobelens. Voormalig directeur van de Militaire Inlichtingen- en Veiligheidsdienst. Jarenlang verantwoordelijk voor het analyseren van dreigingen. Een man die beroepsmatig is getraind om overal risico’s te zien en die vaardigheid blijkbaar nooit meer heeft uitgezet. Want één ding is duidelijk: vertrouwen is in zijn wereld geen uitgangspunt, maar een foutmarge. Vertrouwen is geen deugd, maar een zwakte die je je beter niet kunt veroorloven. Althans, niet richting burgers. Wel binnen zijn eigen omgeving. De gemiddelde burger staat op, zet koffie en denkt dat hij vrij is. Dat hij verantwoordelijke keuzes maakt. Dat hij zelf richting geeft aan zijn leven. Dat idee is een onstuitbare misvatting. Vanuit een inlichtingenlogica is de burger géén client van de overheid, maar een onzeker element. Een gevaar. Iets wat kan afwijken, ontsporen of verkeerd geïnformeerd kan raken. Iets wat dus gevaarlijk is en per definitie gevolgd moet worden. Vrijheid is prima, zolang die binnen de grenzen blijft die door anderen, zoals Pieter Cobelens, zijn vastgesteld. Maar het interessante is niet alleen dat de burger wordt gewantrouwd. Het meest interessante is wat de bron is van dat wantrouwen. Want een overheid die zelf afspraken breekt, regels voortdurend aanpast en verantwoordelijkheid ontwijkt, verliest toch zelf het vertrouwen? En wie onbetrouwbaar is, verwacht dat ook van anderen: vanuit projectie. Het mooiste detail blijft dat dit hele systeem wordt betaald door dezelfde burger, die eigenlijk cliënt is binnen het systeem, maar daarin wordt geplaatst. Hij betaalt, netjes voor de inrichting van zijn eigen digitale “enkelband”. Wat hier ontstaat, is een volledig ontspoorde reactie van een inherent, onbetrouwbare overheid . Een overheid die haar grip verliest, probeert die terug te winnen met meer controle. Een overheid die haar geloofwaardigheid kwijt is, zoekt zekerheid in toezicht. En een overheid die haar eigen positie niet meer vertrouwt, wordt uiteindelijk bang voor haar eigen bevolking. Dat wordt ons vervolgens verkocht als veiligheid. Wordt het niet eens tijd om die overheid, waar mensen als Cobelens zoveel vertrouwen in hebben, zelf eens te wantrouwen, controleren en aandachtig te volgen? Wellicht dat de burger daar vanzelf minder “gevaarlijk” door wordt? (En, ben ik nu met deze column ook het gevaar of was ik het al?) 📌 Steunt u mij ook? max1909.backme.org

@WalkerAmerica Wish you all the best with Carla and your children. Stay strong.

Yesterday was the worst day of my life and then the best day of my life… Worst because I thought I might lose my pregnant wife. Best because Carla and the baby survived and are stable. Thank you to everyone who sent their thoughts and prayers for Carla. It’s been an insane 24 hours… Carla is stable now and both she and the baby are okay, but it got really fucking bad really fast… Scariest day/night of my life… Carla is an absolute badass and at the beginning of the slow road to recovery, and I am so damn thankful. Posting this here for those who’ve been asking what happened: Carla started feeling weird yesterday afternoon after a nap. We were up all night with our son and had to take him to urgent care in the morning, so we were all resting before going to meet up with the family for Easter Sunday. When Carla woke up she had some back pain and was very clammy. She was a bit disoriented but still totally coherent. Within 10 minutes she was almost completely unresponsive. Barely conscious. Crazy disoriented. Hardly able to respond even with single words. Zero control of her body. Totally limp in my arms. Vomited. I called 911 immediately. Paramedics arrived and she was still barely responding and could barely open her eyes. When she did open her eyes she said she couldn’t see, her vision was black. They got her in an ambulance to the hospital. Her BP was insanely low in initial readings, like 55/38… got her to the hospital and BP remained dangerously low. About an hour she appeared to improve a little after multiple rounds of fluids. BP still super low but higher than before. She became lucid and ER staff thought she was stabilizing. She was shivering from the IV and had a bit of back and abdominal pain but it was manageable. They said we’d have to stay the night for monitoring but would be fine to go home tomorrow. But then she started having severe abdominal and back pain around her shoulder blades. Pain got to the point where she was screaming like crazy. “Worst pain of my life” (and she has an extremely high baseline pain tolerance). I’ve never seen her in such unrelenting agony like that… The pain kept getting worse and they did additional scans. The ultrasound showed a lot of fluid in her abdomen, likely blood. They started giving her massive blood transfusions and shortly said she needed surgery immediately. They thought it might be a ruptured ovarian cyst but wouldn’t know for sure until they opened her up. Got her into the OR about an hour after that. Doctor said surgery would take an hour… 2.5 hours in the OR the later the doctor finally came out and said Carla and baby were both OK, thank god… longest 2.5 hours of my life... It turns out they had to do a giant incision down her entire abdomen from too to bottom to find the source of the bleeding (because it was NOT her ovaries or uterus) and bring in a third surgeon who was on call. They removed **2+ liters** of blood from her abdominal cavity. For context, the average adult woman has about 4.5 liters of blood in their entire body… They had to remove her spleen because it had ruptured and was the source of the bleeding… the doctors described it as “battlefield medicine” because of the amount of blood in and out and how dicey things got… but thank god both she and the baby are ok. The doctor’s still don’t know why the spleen ruptured… it was a “non-traumatic” rupture, meaning there was no physical injury to the spleen which caused the rupture (~1 cm). It was a “spontaneous” rupture, which is quite rare apparently. They did note that the spleen was slightly enlarged but also not sure why yet. Waiting for pathology to see if that provides any answers. May have been contributing physiological/mechanical factors from pregnancy but we just don’t know yet. The reason her shoulder blades were in such intense pain was because blood from the spleen was pooling under her diaphragm, blood is an irritant, and apparently that triggers the phrenic nerve which the brain interprets as pain between and around the shoulder blades. Multiple surgeons said she was “this close”…thank god we didn’t waste any time. When one of the surgeons checked in on her today, he said she would have been “dead by midnight” without the emergency surgery and splenectomy… The doctors also all said this combination of circumstances is very rare. Spleens obviously burst all the time, but usually it’s directly related to intense trauma, which was absent here. They said this case is probably going to be in medical journals because it’s so strange. Carla is still in a lot of pain (we’re not even 24 hours out from the end of the surgery yet), but she’s handling it like an absolute champ. She was sedated and intubated with a ventilator until about 5AM this morning. This afternoon she was already able to get up and go walking multiple times. The pain is really bad, but should hopefully start lessening with each passing day. It’s going to be a long road to recovery, especially with pregnancy on top of it, but she and the baby are both OK and right now that’s all that matters. One step at a time. In typical @carlabitcoin fashion, she’s already been cracking jokes and trying to bribe the nurses. She even fired off a tweet while still a bit loopy from the sedatives but now she’s just trying to manage the pain. Thankful for the great doctors, nurses, and paramedics who saved her life and our baby. Thanks again to everyone who has reached out and sent their thoughts and prayers. I’m passing along your messages to Carla and they’re very much appreciated. This still doesn’t seem real. A normal day turned into a nightmare so damn fast… Hug your loved ones tight. Life is a gift. Don’t take it for granted.

Tether on bitcoin is not good for bitcoin. It's the opposite of bitcoin. It's the opposite of Satoshi's vision for bitcoin. Newsflash: Any other non-bitcoin asset on bitcoin isn't good for bitcoin either. The fiat complex implanting their hooks directly into bitcoin's soul has been insidious (subtle but harmful). And no, that's not grandiose embellishment. I've been following bitcoin closely ... daily for almost six years since mid-2020. And I wasn't aware that Tether had been working on bringing their fiat shitcoin/stablecoin to bitcoin since 2014. They actually did it for a while, then abandoned it for Ethereum and other blockchains. Now they're back with a vengeance. They're using SegWit, Taproot and Taproot Asset because it's made it "cost effective" to use the most resilient network in the world to do fiat stuff. Don't get me wrong, there are many good aspects of SegWit and Taproot, particularly for Lightning moving bitcoin assets. But other aspects have opened Pandora's Box. It now enables gobs of outright spam via stuff like Ordinal Inscriptions. And even worse, imo, extremely well-funded entities like Tether are hijacking the Bitcoin network to support their global, centralized, tokenized fiat endeavors ... all at the expense of bitcoin maxis just trying to preserve their family's work and financial health. Taproot Asset's entire purpose is to bring other assets to bitcoin. Bitcoin (the network) is for bitcoin (the money), nothing else. Anything else degrades the value of bitcoin. Not good. Wake up folks. Run bitcoin software that prioritizes trustless, decentralized immutable money ... not software that enables all this other stuff.