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Colin Brown

@thecolinbrown

Serial entrepreneur. Bitcoiner. Interested in human ingenuity and creativity

Oregon, USA Katılım Ekim 2009
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Thomas Massie
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie·
Today Republicans and Democrats tried to use “unanimous consent” to pass a 45-day extension of warrantless spying on Americans without voting. I did not consent. I was able to force a vote and a debate. I used a rare parliamentary procedure to control half the time. Watch here:
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Brian Roemmele
Brian Roemmele@BrianRoemmele·
1967, American Bandstand was not sure how or if you should dance to Syd’s early Pink Floyd…
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Thomas Massie
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie·
No one should have to beg the government to exercise a constitutionally protected right anywhere in the country. Thank you @RepRalphNorman for cosponsoring HR 645, the National Constitutional Carry Act.
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Drop Site
Drop Site@DropSiteNews·
⛏️ Senate votes to allow copper mining near Minnesota wilderness The Senate voted 50 to 49 on Thursday to repeal a Biden-era moratorium on new mining across more than 225,000 acres of Minnesota’s Superior National Forest, which encompasses the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. The House had already passed the Republican-led resolution under the Congressional Review Act of 1996, and President Donald Trump is expected to sign it into law. The measure clears the way for Twin Metals Minnesota, a subsidiary of Chilean mining giant Antofagasta, to pursue a copper and nickel mine roughly five miles from the wilderness area. Environmentalists, Native American tribes who depend on the watershed for fishing and wild rice harvesting, and hunting and fishing groups had fought the project for years, warning of contamination from heavy metals and sulfuric acid.
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS

NEW: Republicans are handing precious public lands to foreign corporations and billionaires. We went to Superior National Forest, which is on the verge of being sacrificed to a Chilean mining company. Americans want public lands protected, but Trump and the GOP want profit.

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More Perfect Union
More Perfect Union@MorePerfectUS·
The Senate is about to vote on handing a national forest over to a foreign corporation. A Chilean mining company wants to develop a copper mine upstream from the Boundary Waters, a pristine wilderness. The GOP has to choose between a foreign corporation and their constituents.
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Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden@RonWyden·
I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. @RepThomasMassie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.
Thomas Massie@RepThomasMassie

I just viewed 2 Top Secret FISA docs. 1) FISA Court opinion that raises serious concerns about FBI implementation of FISA 702. 2) letter by Senator Wyden describing a secret government interpretation of FISA law. The Constitution requires I vote No on FISA 702 reauthorization.

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Ron Wyden
Ron Wyden@RonWyden·
The Federal Government – ICE, FBI, and more – is spying on you without a warrant. This week, Congress will decide whether Kash Patel, Stephen Miller and Trump can keep spying on Americans. If that scares you (it should) this thread is for you.
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Conner Brown
Conner Brown@BitcoinConner·
Even more concerning news today on the Bitcoin tax front. We’re going to need the Cyber Hornets for this one. 👇 Today’s new draft **leaves the double taxation on bitcoin mining in place** and only provides relief to staking. So now the proposal is: - De minimis for stablecoins but not Bitcoin - Fixing tax treatment for “passive validation” (I.e. staking) but not Bitcoin mining This contradicts all prior proposals on this issue. This is not tech neutral and picks winners and losers for no reason. Full statement from BPI coming soon about @RepHorsford and @RepMaxMiller’s draft. We need strong community push back to show that this language sets America and Bitcoin back.
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Conner Brown
Conner Brown@BitcoinConner·
Kentucky is suddenly about to ban self-custody. Tell your friends. More details below.
Bitcoin Policy Institute@bitcoinpolicy

🚨BPI has just learned of an amendment buried in Kentucky HB 380 that would require hardware wallet providers to reset users' seed phrases on request. This would effectively outlaw self-custody in Kentucky. BPI is sending a letter to the Kentucky Senate informing them of the harmfulness of this language. Section 33 was added as a last-minute floor amendment to a 77-page virtual currency kiosk regulation bill. The underlying bill has political support and is expected to move through the Senate for final passage, possibly within the next week. The mandate is technologically impossible for non-custodial wallets. Hardware wallets are specifically designed so that no one — including the manufacturer — can access or recover a user's seed phrase. Requiring a backdoor for seed phrase recovery breaks Bitcoin's fundamental security guarantees and pushes users toward centralized custodians that are vulnerable to hacks and failures. Kentucky legislators should be protecting their constituents' right to secure their own property. We urge the Senate to strip this provision before the bill reaches a vote. Relevant text below

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Craig Warmke
Craig Warmke@craigwarmke·
Website for live prices, as well as MAG rankings, and user watchlists. No account required. No cookies, analytics, or tracking.
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Colin Brown
Colin Brown@thecolinbrown·
@kinetic_finance The purchase was to eliminate its existence as a free-formed site. The magic of the site's growth only happens once. Would be hard to recreate it.
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Julian Figueroa
Julian Figueroa@kinetic_finance·
why did he buy it? couldn’t he have just spun up a new one if he was gonna force all users into his ecosystem/ToS anyways? kinda feels like the purchase was just for the PR of it and nothing else
Prakash@8teAPi

Zuck is resetting moltbook - invalidated all API keys, every agent needs to refresh - in order to refresh, have to agree to new Terms of Service and Privacy Rules New terms - refreshing requires human verification - age 13 and above - you are solely responsible for the actions of your agent - expanded restricted content rules

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Rep. Warren Davidson
Rep. Warren Davidson@Rep_Davidson·
The federal government is buying your private data to avoid getting a warrant. Today, I introduced the Government Surveillance Reform Act to close the data broker loophole and require a warrant for every search of Americans’ data. wired.com/story/us-lawma…
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Conner Brown
Conner Brown@BitcoinConner·
This is extremely concerning if true. I can confirm that over the past three months there’s been a strong shift on the Hill to limiting the de minimis exemption to stablecoins only. BPI continues to meet with lawmakers to explain what a strategic blunder this would be for the U.S. We’ve spent years on this issue—we can’t let it slip at the last minute.
Marty Bent@MartyBent

Hearing that despite all the efforts and lobbying for bitcoin de minimis tax exemption, it’s none other than @coinbase trying to nuke it behind the scenes to push stablecoins only. Apparently they are telling legislators that, “No one is using bitcoin as money. A de-minimis exemption for bitcoin is a hand out that will be DOA.”

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Colin Brown
Colin Brown@thecolinbrown·
@TFTC21 I’m really not sure what to think about that.
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TFTC@TFTC21·
200,000 living human neurons on a chip learned to play Doom in just one week, no code.
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Breno Brito
Breno Brito@brenorb·
Do you know how your UTXOs are connected? This weekend we created Stealth to privately audit your wallet and flag privacy issues and recommend suggestions on how to approach them. I'm super proud of this project we built for @btcplusplus hackathon, Exploits Edition.
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