For the same reason Signal is drawing users from WhatsApp, private money will outcompete surveillance money. In other words, there is a real economic cost to financial surveillance.

Thank God for #Bitcoin

“Surveillance capitalism unilaterally claims human experience as free raw material for translation into behavioural data.” ― Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism Your Privacy is a human right ✊ #Navcoin $NAV #PrivacyMatters #PrivacyWeek

There is a lot of current discussion about the types of severe sanctions that the US would place on Russia in the event of invasion, but not as much about how Russia can hit back at the US and European economies in response 🧵

You think having your bank account frozen is bad? Wait until they roll out CBDCs and link them to your digital ID. You can wave goodbye to what's left of your privacy and control over your life. You'll own nothing and your handlers will be happy.

Build a website that lets consenting adults buy recreational drugs = 2 life sentences + 15 years. Build a website that steals $10 billion from innocent people = hugs with politicians and celebrity endorsements.

Alexey, Tornado Cash Developer, is already more than 150 days jailed and will remain in custody until at least February 20, 2023.. In this longer article I recap the events and let the devs parazyd (DarkFi) and alex v (Navcoin) have their say! cr1337.substack.com/p/prifi-under-…

We do not need banks We do not need on/off-ramps Just start asking #bitcoin for your products & services Just start using products that can be bought with BTC Just stop using banks and fiat (USD, EUR etc)

I still can’t believe some Bitcoiners are statist authoritarians cheering regulatory actions against companies. #Bitcoin is aligned with human freedom and free markets. If you don’t like something don’t buy it & speak against it - don’t ask nanny state government to intervene.

Btw if you're feeling uncomfy, you may want to get comfy - *if* the market's spirit is broken, this could take some time. Not unnatural for us to have some months of consolidation after 6 months of up only, while a bullish long-term structure is held intact. Stack units, if so.

The Department of "Justice" has once again criminalized the developers of an app that restores financial privacy. The way to fix this it to make money private by default. Privacy must never be "exceptional," or they will make it criminal.

Call me crazy, but I truly believe crypto is on the front line of the war for individual liberty in the digital age. So many rights are at stake: free speech, association, financial privacy, property ownership, on and on. I'm grateful each day to fight alongside all of you 🙏

Jake Chervinsky It's an unpopular opinion with the crowd, but it's the correct take. Fixing the money is the first step toward fixing the state.

Approximate price epochs: Cypherpunks $1 Libertarians $10 Black markets $100 Retail investors $1k Institutional investors $10k Politicians $100k Sovereigns $1m End of nation states $10m

I owe everything to Ross Ulbricht. Crypto changed my life. Crypto became big because of him. He made the ultimate sacrifice. We all benefitted from his work. Yet he sits alone in prison forgotten. I think about him all the time. His time in prison must be hard. Getting through

FREEDOM!!!!

I would not have predicted a bunch of Bitcoiners becoming protectionists because a politician told them it would help the economy

Linus used to speak to engineers in 2012 the way I speak to LLMs now.

The keyboard was just a temporary interface between thoughts and machines.