nallyghee

#Bitcoin is an act of resistance. To use it at all requires assuming that the State's control is not inevitable. To continue holding forever it is to trust that the aggregate will of humanity to resist slavery is not yet priced in. This requires a leap of faith.

My favorite AI freakout meme is the whole "disinformation will be everywhere now". No, disinformation will be **democratized**. What only a few could do before, now everyone will be able to do. And as a result, everyone will get a very good sense of what is possible. And the tricks will stop working. The world didn't end when we could photoshop things that didn't happen. Adding motion won't change a thing. The only problem is the brief interval between the time when this sort of thing is possible and the time everyone knows it and has adjusted. There will be fraud and worse in that time window. So get busy spreading the news to everyone: Do Your Own Research.

@USConst_Amend_I Am I missing something? Freedom of: 1. Religion (establishment) 1.5. Religion again (free exercise) 2. Speech 2.5. Speech again (written) 3. Assembly 4. Petition I see either 4 or 6 freedoms, not 5.

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Without looking can you name the five rights I protect?

@Ayychley Is this guy like a Cash wannabe or something?

The dude is an embarrassment. 🙄

children are the scapegoat for our moral compunctions. Do you find something offensive, but you don't have any good arguments that it's harmful? Easy - children are an "innocent/good" population, and so just argue exposure to the thing must be inherently harmful to them!

KYC is the illicit activity

@necrospaia It takes a lot of courage to open up. You're doing great!

@piratebeachbum2 We're just expressing ourselves. Chill!

@dystopiabreaker This is not the defense of US credibility you think it is.

@AlexandertheBTC I wouldn't expect this kind of bias from you towards that type of content. Why not? At the very least it's not the bullshit implicit "because God disapproves" nonsense

“Content creators” lol ok This is peak fiat shit right here. If I take a picture of my anus and sell it to somebody for $500 am I also a content creator?

@giacomozucco @evoskuil @Ben_deWaal @headyweedman @belair6909 @BitcoinHornet @jb55 Opening a lightning channel requires paying a prohibitively expensive BTC block space fee, acquiring Litecoin does not (you could trade other goods for it, for example). Wouldn't that be the difference?

@evoskuil @Ben_deWaal @headyweedman @belair6909 @BitcoinHornet @jb55 You have to explain how are the very same people not priced out of Litecoin buying/selling as well maybe.

I wonder if this was the “expected” vision that sold #Bitcoin  peeps on the LN.

Whirlpool volumes are impressive, yes. But who is to say it isn't mostly innocuous stackers seeking privacy that aren't doing anything illegal. Because of the on chain footprint of Coinjoin, an effective one would have visibly illicit funds going in, with no associated arrests.

Every critique of Wasabi has held up. Every technical critique of Samourai has been technically flawed The only worry I have about Samourai is the usage litmus test. Sure, criminals are being jailed over Wasabi but they're at least using it. Can anyone show as much for Samourai?

.@JasonPLowery I think there are some people here who might like to hear a clear statement of your support for the unconditional release and celebration of Ross, Julian, and/or Edward. It might help us understand which side of this #Bitcoin war you are on.

@dystopiabreaker Regulators likely DO see the value prop for what it is (resisting censorship and inflation). They simply see those ends as crime, because in their eyes, censorship and seigniorage are good. There's no starting point for debate.

hopefully this is becoming more clear now

@gegelsmr4 As inconvenient and user hostile as Bitcoin is, it's less inconvenient than having one's saving devalued via the inflation tax.

@brian_trollz What if that private minority ends up being the majority of the actual monetary value of the network? Say 95% of coins are KYCd, but once it's obvious to the market that the whole value proposition is lost for such coins, the non-kycd ones are the only ones that matter.

So what happens? This: twitter.com/brian_trollz/s… You get tagged and tracked as the private minority, and eventually completely squeezed out of the network. It's literally no different an outcome than whiny protestors who think yelling at politicians will change something.

I really do empathize with the radical extreme no KYC attitude...but here's a reality check. You not using them won't stop them from existing. A minority of extremists who won't compromise won't stop them from being adopted.

@NighttimeBit Whirlpool is widely used, but I'd love to see evidence it's used by criminals LE considers worth arresting. If it's mostly privacy-craving users anonymizing their stacks, there's nothing illegal about that, so it isn't being tested against the most sophisticated CA adversaries.

@nallyghee I'm certain that this is the case, especially with Whirlpool's liquidity boos these past months, but u won't hear about them. It just happena that these known exchange hackers might be good at hacking, but bad enough at Bitcoin to risk their life for it

A #Coinjoin implementation's credibility is based on how many high-profile criminals have successfully moved money through it. They have the most skin in the game to choose wisely, and if they fuck up it will result in documented arrests.

@NighttimeBit Given Wasabi's abysmal history, I think it is worth asking why such criminals have not come to prefer Whirlpool or Joinmarket.

@nallyghee everything i've seen so far is known hackers moving thru wasabi, but they always end up exposed after the mix 🤷‍♂️