So your primary source of income - which from what I gather is as a state employed teacher - Ill assume is not paid in bitcoin. And you started this conversation trying to measure how people give back to the bitcoin ecosystem what they receive by what I pointed out as a complete nonsense metric when compared to people who live on bitcoin, like those creators you pointed out. Which lets you resort to „get a job at mcdonalds if you want regular payments“ - which you presumably typed on a computer funded with someone elses tax money, written from an apartment funded with someone elses tax money, bitching about bitcoin you bought with someone elses tax money. Mmh yeah I think Im done here lmao. Thanks Sven!

Then how is your podcast not your hobby?

So your podcast is your primary source of income?

The numbers this AI is citing seem to stem from IRS numbers, but iirc the convictions here are off; afaik convictions are not measured by that statistic tho so Im pretty sure that number is made up. In tax crime, the success rate of the BSA is ~0.03% for investigations iirc, in other crimes BSA has never been assessed in regard to convictions

They shall be judged by history 🏴

That's the neat part, we dont!

Unpopular opinion but no one should go to prison for AML violations bc it doesn't fucking work

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The mute button is the best button in the world bc it completely hides anyones replies to you but doesnt stop others from commenting on your notes so it still drives up your engagement, and every once in a while someone will come up to you and be like "did you see what that guy said about you?!" and you can just be like, oh yeah, thats Kevin, he has mental illness, and move on with your day ✌️

I actually replied to him… twice, but nice try bud :)

We just got a pretty major grant from a thing called Octant and the Ethereum Foundation to produce a documentary about the DOJ‘s case against Roman Storm. Probably gonna get lynched for this, but I think we need to talk. While we are grateful for every donation, over the past ~1.5 years we received noticably less donations in Bitcoin than we received in ETH, Zcash and Monero over the course of just a few months - while our main audience *are* bitcoiners. The only way I can explain this to myself is that there seems to be an issue with the general mentality of trying to keep your bitcoin to yourself, which results in a significant lack of support for others - and it makes me really sad. The way the Ethereum community is supporting the tornado cash developers is nothing short of extraordinary. Compare that to our support of Samourai, who collected a mere few 100k, while Roman Storm raised millions to fund his case. At the same time we end up wondering why most people in bitcoin are retarded orange tie maxis that treat BTC like just another stonk, and why its use as a tool for the people falls more and more behind in the global narrative. Its time we start taking better care of each other in this space, and I hope that next time one of us is criminally indicted, we support them with all that we have.

Over a long enough timeframe most Bitcoiners turn into a Karen

Delete Knots 🤘 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvxxdZpMFHg

Took the liberty to paste your npub into nostrband as well here, Sven. Going by these stats, you spent 86k sats in the ~one year of your nostr journey. Seeing how you equate zapping to supporting the ecosystem, I'll assume that this is the primary way for you to spend your bitcoin for things that you find valuable (please correct me if I'm wrong). To clear up any misconceptions, and not to brag but to maybe put things into perspective for you from the position of someone who lives off bitcoin, I've spent more than five times that amount of sats today alone supporting projects/services/people that are valuable to me, simply because bitcoin is what I use as a day-to-day currency. So Sven, please do get back to me when you can have a serious conversation about supporting other bitcoiners, and until then maybe try not to judge other people by how active they are in your favorite way of giving back, because that doesnt mean they dont.

Spent bitcoin is the best bitcoin 🤘