CTV is a good start. Any changes that help enable Bitcoin to replace the dollar which it is incapable of doing in it's present form. We need privacy plus scaling improvements and custodial solutions don't count. IMHO

You're exactly right, you made me realize my mass civil disobedience of obscuring license plates wouldn't do anything except increase everyone's anon set slightly to include only cars that look exactly like your car. Plan B, break the cameras.

The Supreme Court has ruled that tracking you via cellphone location requires a warrant. No such restriction exists for tracking via automated license plate readers. Law enforcement can get this data from Flock Safety's massive surveillance network, and if you audit these LE requests, the reasons given for needing to track a particular license plate include such important things as "lalala" or "asdf". They don't need an actual legitimate reason, they can put whatever they want on the data request form. The places you drive to can reveal a detailed picture of your life. There have already been instances of cops misusing this data for non law enforcement reasons, and it is incredibly dangerous to allow them to access this kind of information on any citizen at any time for any reason. This new surveillance network should not be tolerated by the American people. It is nobody's business where you go throughout the day, and I would love to see some kind of anti license plate movement go viral. Imagine if even a third of people just ripped their license plates off or covered them with mud. There isn't enough cops to pull over that many people for driving without a visible license plate number. The people could instantly destroy the power of this Flock Safety surveillance network, but it would only work if enough people were willing to do it. Would you be willing to obscure your license plate if you knew others would do the same? Do you have the guts to stand up to this mass surveillance? Or should we just roll over and continue to let America grow more dystopian with every passing day? Now is the time to resist, not when it gets even worse and any dissent is immediately crushed by armed drones reading your brain waves (that's not even a joke any more, mind reading tech is gaining more accuracy every day). You have a right to keep your personal life private, but it's a right you are probably going to have to fight for. We can bitch about this government overreach all day, but unless we are actually willing to do something about it, nothing will get better and it will only get worse. We all need to opt the fuck out and throw our license plates in the garbage. Make it a Tik Tok challenge or something, make it viral. How do we make people care enough about this to commit a small act of civil disobedience? #privacy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xU5AhwarSs

Five years in a cage for helping people protect their privacy. The prosecutors and the judge are the ones who should get locked up, they were the real criminals in the courtroom today. #freesamourai https://x.com/theragetech/status/1986480152768131336

Never forget what Saylor did https://www.youtube.com/live/TUIxxqcImB8

Anytime you move to a new house, apartment, or van down by the river, it is a golden opportunity for a privacy reset. Tell no one other than trusted friends and family your new address. Don't get anything shipped to your new address under your real name. Don't update your address with any services or businesses unless absolutely necessary, if you do need to share your new address with a service, consider making an entirely new account under an alias. If you want to go all out, don't put the utilities/internet under your name. If you are considering a move, think about using a trust to rent or buy the property. Route all internet access at new address through a VPN, proxy, or TOR. Be wary of what devices you bring to the new address. The goal here is to have as few links between your real identity and your new home as possible, this can protect you from things like five dollar wrench attacks. It's much easier to keep an address private if you start from day one at your new residence than it is to try to work backwards and protect information that has already been leaked. #privacy

If we freeze the code now, won't there be a massive supply shock when Satoshi's wallets get compromised by quantum computers? What about updates that improve fungibility/privacy? Does immutability and scarcity matter if any sats that have even interacted with a nonkyced wallet are blacklisted? The state wants to assign a risk score to every satoshi.

Federal prosecutors are seeking the maximum sentence for the Samourai devs this week. Pro-crypto administration my asshole. This case should of been dropped on Trump's first week. The only part of crypto the Trump administration cares about is the part that makes his family and companies money. He can still make money off of a highly regulated, centralized, and surveilled crypto industry in which anyone actually developing real freedom tech is thrown into a prison cell. That's why CZ got a pardon while the Samourai devs might be getting 5 years in a cage. Fuck that. Yes it could of been much worse, but ANY amount of prison time for the fabricated "crimes" that they are accusing the Samourai devs of is not acceptable. This is not what happens in a "free" country. Freedom to transact privately is a fundamental right and if the state is infringing upon that right, they are the criminals, not the software developers who are trying to enable private transactions. https://x.com/theragetech/status/1985373961190805882 #privacy #freesamourai #bitcoin

I think Bitcoin has a serious risk of being destroyed from within by hubris. Bitcoin represents the majority of portfolio, and every single time over multiple cycles that I began to doubt it, it slaps me upside the head and reminds me who is the boss. After so many times of that happening, you began to assume that Bitcoin will always go up no matter what, that it is unstoppable. The cult of maximalism reenforces this bias wholeheartedly. Why would you ever sell? That's exactly why I am so worried. Everyone in Bitcoin assumes it will always be number 1 simply because it has always been number 1. That is dangerous thinking. Keeping Bitcoin as number 1 will take work, not ossification. You can't have a community that is scared of changing a single line of code and expect to stay on top. Don't forget that Bitcoin, at the end of the day, is software. Software adapts and changes or it becomes obsolete. Bitcoin has the best change of replacing the extractive and flawed fiat monetary system, but only if the community doesn't fuck it up.... I will continue to stack sats, but the Bitcoin community needs to do some serious soul searching and remember why we are here in the first place. #bitcoin

Currently trying my best to get rid of years of conditioning that makes me think of everything in terms of fiat. 1 XMR = 1 XMR