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thoughtcrimeboss
@thoughtcrimeboss #191648
Writer/ Crypto Idealist/ Privacy Ninja/
I like hard money and I dislike the state.
Blog: paragraph.xyz/@thoughtcrimetraphouse
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There is no reason why citizens shouldn't be allowed to have the same defense capabilities as the police. When the citizens are allowed to be armed to the same extent as the state's goons, it helps prevent such things as the police rounding up everyone of any particular political group, race, or religion and executing or imprisoning them. It happens, everyone always thinks it can't ever happen but it most definitely can, just ask history. The idea that preventing gun violence (this won't do that anyways), is a justification for disarming citizens is disturbing and we cannot prioritize imaginary safety over real freedom.
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/05/washington-state-supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-high-capacity-ammo.html
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2025/05/washington-state-supreme-court-upholds-ban-on-high-capacity-ammo.html
Monero's hashrate recently hit an all time high thanks to the launch of Tari's mainnet. Tari is merge mined with Monero. Tari's mining is decentralized using P2Pool so that mining pool centralization isn't an issue.
The Monero network is stronger than ever, but if you aren't mining yet you should start. Every CPU helps make Monero stronger, ensuring everyone has access to private digital cash, which is essential for protecting our freedom from state attacks.
The Monero network is stronger than ever, but if you aren't mining yet you should start. Every CPU helps make Monero stronger, ensuring everyone has access to private digital cash, which is essential for protecting our freedom from state attacks.
Scientists managed to turn lead into gold, temporarily at least.
At least with Bitcoin you are never going to be able to be able to create it in a lab or find it on an asteroid.
Alchemist's Dream Come True: Scientists Create Gold From Lead https://www.ndtv.com/science/alchemists-dream-come-true-scientists-create-gold-from-lead-8381252
At least with Bitcoin you are never going to be able to be able to create it in a lab or find it on an asteroid.
Alchemist's Dream Come True: Scientists Create Gold From Lead https://www.ndtv.com/science/alchemists-dream-come-true-scientists-create-gold-from-lead-8381252
Monero is my favorite high yield checking account. Actually, it's my only checking account.
https://x.com/DontTraceMeBruh/status/1920928735991062752
https://x.com/DontTraceMeBruh/status/1920928735991062752
If you were a degenerate and bought any dot sol domains like I did you may have an allocation of the SNS airdrop. In seperate news, if anyone wants to buy webcammodels.sol kingpins.sol or paytoclick.sol let me know.
I had them wrapped and listed on Tensor but when I tried to relist them at a different price the transaction won't go through. Anybody know why?
https://x.com/sns/status/1919771002919092231?t=483b3n6aqdWt3ZPmPu_syw&s=19
I had them wrapped and listed on Tensor but when I tried to relist them at a different price the transaction won't go through. Anybody know why?
https://x.com/sns/status/1919771002919092231?t=483b3n6aqdWt3ZPmPu_syw&s=19
The new budget is basically the same amount of spending just on different programs. Your kids and their kids will be paying the interest for this level of spending.
"But these trims are wrapped in a document that nevertheless sustains a bloated government. Even with the reductions, 2026 discretionary spending would remain essentially unchanged at $1.6 trillion. In some respects, the budget enshrines Biden-era spending.
Then there's defense. For all the "America First" rhetoric about maintaining a domestic focus, Trump's budget does nothing to rein in the Pentagon's fiscal free-for-all aimed at projecting power around the world."
https://reason.com/2025/05/08/trumps-new-budget-is-another-blueprint-for-big-spending/
"But these trims are wrapped in a document that nevertheless sustains a bloated government. Even with the reductions, 2026 discretionary spending would remain essentially unchanged at $1.6 trillion. In some respects, the budget enshrines Biden-era spending.
Then there's defense. For all the "America First" rhetoric about maintaining a domestic focus, Trump's budget does nothing to rein in the Pentagon's fiscal free-for-all aimed at projecting power around the world."
https://reason.com/2025/05/08/trumps-new-budget-is-another-blueprint-for-big-spending/
If you haven't been payjng attention, Tari just went live on mainnet. It's nice to see an actual major new proof of work layer 1 with both privacy & programmability launch among a sea of Proof of Stake chains. Anyone can mine it, you just need a computer not an ASIC. Tari is merge mined with Monero so you can mine both at the same time. I'll be watching this one, it has been in development for like a century in crypto time. POW > POS
Strike now has native Bitcoin backed loans available..kinda. The minimum loan amount is 75,000 USD at an APR starting at 12%. Maximum LTV is 50% so you need a bare minimum of 150,000 USD worth of BTC to get one. They aren't available in every state either. And you wonder why people are wrapping their bitcoin to access some liquidity.
With Strike you have to KYC and send off your Bitcoin to a company. Is that any better than wrapping it and depositing into a smart contract on Ethereum to borrow USDT at 5% with no KYC? I guess with the no KYC loan you have to trust Bitgo, the smart contract itself, and Ethereum whereas with Strike you just have to trust Strike but you have to KYC and be richer than me. Interesting trade offs.
With Strike you have to KYC and send off your Bitcoin to a company. Is that any better than wrapping it and depositing into a smart contract on Ethereum to borrow USDT at 5% with no KYC? I guess with the no KYC loan you have to trust Bitgo, the smart contract itself, and Ethereum whereas with Strike you just have to trust Strike but you have to KYC and be richer than me. Interesting trade offs.
OFC New Hampshire, the state with more balls than square miles, is the first state to pass a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Bill. It is the most Libertarian state & the home of Porcfest where OGs were swapping BTC for tacos b4 anyone even knew wtf a bitcoin was. Live Free Or Die!
https://x.com/Dennis_Porter_/status/1919789205258916120
https://x.com/Dennis_Porter_/status/1919789205258916120
Warpcast rewards come in and the tips go out. Well until I get to > $600 and they try to get me to dox myself to continue earning rewards. Then no more rewards 😞
Thank you to some of my favorite farcasters @drai @francos.eth @javabu.eth @mazmhussain @kenny
Thank you to some of my favorite farcasters @drai @francos.eth @javabu.eth @mazmhussain @kenny
panic sold some of my $clanker. calmed down and bought it back for cheaper. I don't have that much anyways so the potential upside is much more than what I would lose if it went to zero. they do have, like, actual revenue and shit.
Does anyone remember when the news came out that the anon working with Danny Siesta on Wonderland was actually Sifu? Reminds me of today.
The solana creator whose name I can't spell posted this under Balaji's post and it made me laugh. So real though.
Time to leave the EU. This is disgusting authoritarianism. Anybody who supports this hates freedom itself.
https://cointelegraph.com/news/eu-crypto-ban-anonymous-privacy-tokens-2027
https://cointelegraph.com/news/eu-crypto-ban-anonymous-privacy-tokens-2027
Can anyone tell me what this dudes arms are? Is that a fork? Minted 3 of these guys today.
If you have a BNKR club NFT or are just a BNKR club member you will be on the whitelist for this NFT mint tomorrow at 11am PST.
https://x.com/bankrbot/status/1917604234331119730
https://x.com/bankrbot/status/1917604234331119730
I feel safer holding Bitcoin and Monero than I would ever feel holding USDC or USDT. I'd rather endure some volatility than know that my funds can be frozen at any time for any reason.
Bitcoin wants to break out here so badly, you can feel the stored energy building. The fact that BTC has performed this well in this kind of macro environment is being noticed. It is a safe haven international asset that trends up over time and is becoming uncorrelated to stocks.
While most alts have failed to match this outperformance, XMR continues to beat expectations as well despite being delisted from many exchanges. With the United States attempting to make regulated stablecoins into a de facto CBDC that can be frozen at any time for any arbitrary reason, I feel safer using BTC as my savings account and XMR as my checking account than I feel holding amy stablecoins or dollars in a bank. If you disagree with what the state is doing with its power, you can opt out today with Bitcoin and Monero.
Bitcoin wants to break out here so badly, you can feel the stored energy building. The fact that BTC has performed this well in this kind of macro environment is being noticed. It is a safe haven international asset that trends up over time and is becoming uncorrelated to stocks.
While most alts have failed to match this outperformance, XMR continues to beat expectations as well despite being delisted from many exchanges. With the United States attempting to make regulated stablecoins into a de facto CBDC that can be frozen at any time for any arbitrary reason, I feel safer using BTC as my savings account and XMR as my checking account than I feel holding amy stablecoins or dollars in a bank. If you disagree with what the state is doing with its power, you can opt out today with Bitcoin and Monero.
Any time the government tries to fix anything they either make the problem worse or create entirely new problems that are worse than the orginal problem.
https://reason.com/2025/04/30/the-governments-wars-on-poverty-and-drugs-had-good-intentions-but-bad-results/
https://reason.com/2025/04/30/the-governments-wars-on-poverty-and-drugs-had-good-intentions-but-bad-results/
Don't take a wrong turn without ze papers or you'll end up locked in a windowless room with your sick children with no food, diapers, or medicine or access to a lawyer. If you want to detain immigrants can you at least make it a little less Kafkaesque please. Take your worthless badge wearing jackboot statist asses down to the store and buy some fucking diapers and medicine for the human beings you are imprisoning against their will because they crossed an imaginary line in search of a better life. Use the stolen tax money that funds your paychecks. If your facilities aren't equipped to detain children, maybe you just shouldn't?
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5374937/immigrant-arrests-detroit-canada-border-bridge-detention
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/24/nx-s1-5374937/immigrant-arrests-detroit-canada-border-bridge-detention
One's home is a sacred place, it has always had the most protections legally for good reason. The DOJ is now claiming they don't need a warrant to search your home if you are a suspected gang member. That's bad by itself, what's worse is the criteria is entirely vague and arbitrary. You may think, "that's ok because they are just gangbangers", but often when our freedoms get taken away it starts out as a tool to fight to crime and eventually becomes something they can use on anyone they don't like. These powers carry over from administration to administration so both parties could both use them against their enemies if they choose to. It's not like there is a vote on what can get you on the list, it's 100% up to some bureaucrats. They could use MAGA hats or rainbow flags as criteria if they wanted to, so don't think this isn't a problem for every American. Slippery slopes.
https://reason.com/2025/04/25/justice-department-memo-claims-alien-enemies-act-allows-warrantless-home-searches-and-no-judicial-review/
https://reason.com/2025/04/25/justice-department-memo-claims-alien-enemies-act-allows-warrantless-home-searches-and-no-judicial-review/
Maybe people will start to care about decentralization now.
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Today on April 28, 2025 I appreciate:
1)cold wallets: have you ever just sat and thought about how fucking cool it is that you can generate a brand new bitcoin wallet entirely offline and know that nobody else is going to have the same seed? So cool. So secure.
2) grocery gift cards paid for with XMR, with no KYC required: no matter what if you have XMR and a functioning email address, you can at least eat and eating is good.
3) air purifiers: because I like clean air in my room. Clean air is also good.
1)cold wallets: have you ever just sat and thought about how fucking cool it is that you can generate a brand new bitcoin wallet entirely offline and know that nobody else is going to have the same seed? So cool. So secure.
2) grocery gift cards paid for with XMR, with no KYC required: no matter what if you have XMR and a functioning email address, you can at least eat and eating is good.
3) air purifiers: because I like clean air in my room. Clean air is also good.
$BNKR feels like one of those opportunities that I am going to regret not going all in on. So I just bought some more. I like projects like $BNKR and $CLANKER that
A) Don't stop building
B) Build shit that actually works
C) People actually use the shit they build
D) Makes decent revenue
E) Were fair launched
The fair launch aspect is especially important to me, it means there are no VCs dumping coins that they bought before the plebs could. The risk to reward ratio of a fair launch coin is so much better than you are going to get trying to invest in some high FDV low float VC coin. Bankr is trading for such a ridiculously cheap price right now compared to coins with absolutely nothing going on, it is only a matter of time for this to 10x. IMHO NFA LFG
A) Don't stop building
B) Build shit that actually works
C) People actually use the shit they build
D) Makes decent revenue
E) Were fair launched
The fair launch aspect is especially important to me, it means there are no VCs dumping coins that they bought before the plebs could. The risk to reward ratio of a fair launch coin is so much better than you are going to get trying to invest in some high FDV low float VC coin. Bankr is trading for such a ridiculously cheap price right now compared to coins with absolutely nothing going on, it is only a matter of time for this to 10x. IMHO NFA LFG
