Please explain what "existing debt monetization" is in plain English. How can one pay 69% interest and refinance only 61% of maturing debt without new borrowing and no currency emission?

Wow, 8% data center overhead sounds pretty low to me.

Only makes sense to pay in bitcoin if you bought the sats long ago and can avoid CGT this way. So it must be anonymous.

If I remember correctly my econ classes, the multiplier exists because of fractional reserves in banks. Your $100 on deposit creates $90 in loans, those are deposited to create $81 in loans, etc etc. So $100 of initial deposit becomes $1000 (x10) moving through the economy. 100 USDT locked $100 on deposits, and those can only be lended to the US government. So the multiplier is x1.

You can't shove freedom down people's throats. Those who deserve it use Bitcoin privately on L2 Lightning and Liquid networks. L1 is easily traced and only suitable as an aggregate settlement level for L2s. DEX trading volumes are also going up. BIS are locking themselves out from seeing our flows. They were never expected to do down without a fight.

Not really. One must ask permission to protest or express opinion publicly. And even if you stand alone in the square with a blank sheet of paper they will arrest you for violating Covid rules in 2025.

In Russia since 2013 it is illegal to "insult the feelings of believers". With the penalties including jail time. And if the believer is Muslim, one can be snatched in the street and taken to Chechnya to be tortured without due process.

Criminal intent of the developer or the user? I hope they mean the former. Because almost any product can be somehow used to break some law.

Crawling global privacy crackdown is enough FUD imho

only Americans?

Blue Wallet in particular used to run an LN node and made fees as a custodial. Then it was sunset. Some, like Blockstream, sell hardware wallets. Some do it, apparently, for fun, call of conscience or donations. Yet others are shitcoin casinos in disguise.

Nice short definition, if "property" also includes own life and personal information.

You don't need to run faster than a grizzly bear to survive. You just need to run faster than the next guy. My security model assumes that if my VPN provider leaks, it won't be my data. So I will have time to jump ship.

Horrendous news. EU is no better.

yes, sure. everything can be unraveled if there is a good reason. I rotate several vpns to make it harder, including my own hosted at aws free tier.

because I pay them with LN bitcoin and there is no KYC. all they see is tls traffic, no way to snoop.

because their upstream connections are optimized for high throughput and low latency. to be a good VPN one must run servers in all corners of the world. the best ones offer split tunneling and lan isolation, so their apps must run locally on your devices.

Not just my ISP, but the sites I am visiting to not know where I am from.

That was the whole idea behind Travel Rule: to shackle the uncontrollable Bitcoin transactions by a rigid centralized database. BIS et al will ban themselves from Bitcoin. ETF and paper bitcoin holders will remain tax slaves. Freedom is anon.

Bloody hell. Bitcoin was created pseudonymous for a reason! All you need to send your money anywhere you want is your private key. Period. No permission, or ID, or tax reporting. Stop playing their games. You are a naturally free man.

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