Remember, kids: anyone who supports the Bill of Rights is an extremist!
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Genius #bitcoin conference amenity, BitBlockBoom the Halving Event - April 11th - 14th!

It's a day than ends in 'y' so it's time for the government to trample on our rights some more. The authoritarians have deemed it prudent to continue their warrantless surveillance regime.

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Sign that we're still early:

Bitcoin is still considered a 'risk-on asset.'

Level the field:
Privacy for the weak.
Transparency for the powerful.

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Bitcoin miners don't 'solve complicated math problems.'
They make 100,000,000,000,000,000,000+ guesses per second.
Not complicated.
Not a math problem.
Just a lot of hard work.

'It's too risky to continue improving the Bitcoin protocol' is a paralyzing position taken out of unreasonable fear.

Risk is inherent to every endeavor. Risk is not only the product of action, but also the result of inaction.

Ossification is not panacea.

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I'm pleased to announce that Casa is now publishing notes and other stuff to the permissionless social protocol known as nostr.

blog.casa.io/hello-nostr/

You earn your Bitcoin PhD when you come up with a novel way of explaining Bitcoin that goes viral and becomes a lasting narrative.

'The Promise and Perils of Non-Deterministic Bitcoin Scripts' is a deep dive into more advanced scripting and why the use of time locks can actually be detrimental to wallet security if not implemented thoughtfully.

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#bitcoin just had its final difficulty adjustment (up 3.92%) before the halving, which should slow down block production a bit.

We're still coming in a bit hot though, so I'd suggest miners power off 1% of their hashrate to retarget a 4/20 halving. 🙃

At 5pm EST I will be having a conversation with Jameson Lopp Jameson Lopp about:

- Demonization of Privacy
- Regulatory hostility against bitcoin
- How to protect yourself
- What can you do?

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Practice safe CEX.
Use the pull out method.
It's proven to be 100% effective!

Tell us about how wealthy and influential users have amassed too much power in Bitcoin.

I'll remind you that we had no problem crucifying Bitcoin Jesus.

'Never meet your heroes' is terrible advice - it promotes ignorance.

The saying should be 'never idolize your heroes.'

It's good to respect people for specific heroic deeds. But understand that if you learn enough about someone, you'll eventually find something you dislike.

Why would anyone leave...

* Traditional finance for crypto?
* Urban life for rural life?
* X for nostr?

To do so is to sacrifice convenience and network effects!

The answer, of course, is the same: you leave for freedom and opportunity.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Bitcoin's CEO is pleased to report that the Inflation Reduction Algorithm, presciently codified in 2009, is on track to execute as intended at block height 840,000 next week.