Greatest accomplishment: beating Dark Souls 3, and yeah I know it's not the hardest Dark Souls.
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Some day #Bitcoin will be the savings technology for the entire world. Join @Breedlove22 and I on an epic journey examining our monetary future through the prism of the classical gold standard (1870-1914).
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If you're freaking out over the AI doom fiction circulating tonight, I can suggest an antidote. Read Chapter 7 of Henry Hazlitt's Economics In One Lesson, published in 1946.
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Gold is out here trading like Fartcoin. I never want to hear from a gold bug again that "btc can't be money because it's too volatile." They've all lost their rights to say that to Bitcoiners.
I also never want to hear this nonsense again either: "It takes too much money to move the btc price now. Big moves are no longer possible." Bullsh*t. If a $36 trillion asset can move like a meme coin , a $1.5 trillion one can rocket more.
OK. Carry on and stack harder. You don't have enough bitcoin.
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Novak Djokovic: “My kids don't have phones and won’t until they’re mature enough. They complain everyone at school has a phone except them. When everyone follows the herd, conformity is expected but it doesn’t have to be that way. That’s where we differ.”
Novak gets it
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KYC/AML data collection requirements do significantly more harm than good.
Abolish the Bank Secrecy Act.
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President Trump must pardon this man! @potus. Please retweet to get trending.
American entrepreneur Keonne Rodriguez built a successful Bitcoin wallet app called @SamouraiWallet. He’s now being sent to prison for it.
In a few weeks, Keonne will begin his 5-year sentence behind bars, unless the Bitcoin community can save him by pressuring the US Administration to offer a pardon.
When I heard about this story, it sounded like fake news, so I went straight to the source. In this exclusive interview, @Keonne is descriptive, logical, and vulnerable.
His story is heartbreaking and terrifying.
By the end, it's evident he's sitting directly in the crossfire between freedom tech and surveillance states.
This is a critical moment in history—a moment for the Bitcoin community to stand up. Just as @RealRossU was pardoned, @Keonne must be forgiven, too. We cannot allow one of our own fellow Bitcoiners to spend time in jail for building a legitimate product that protects our Bitcoin and strengthens the network.
We must unify to ensure @Keonne is freed. Alone, he doesn’t stand a chance. But with support from faithful Bitcoiners, we can bring awareness to his cause.
Knowledge is power. Watch the interview and vocalize your support for @Keonne in the comments.
Show Summary:
In this gripping conversation, Keonne shares his harrowing experience of building Samourai Wallet, a non-custodial Bitcoin wallet focused on user privacy, and the subsequent FBI raid that led to his arrest.
He discusses the legal challenges he faced, including conspiracy charges and the pressure to plead guilty, despite his innocence. The conversation highlights the broader implications of privacy in the cryptocurrency space and the political motivations behind his prosecution.
Keonne’s story serves as a cautionary tale about the intersection of technology, law, and personal freedom. It is a moment in Bitcoin’s history that could define how we protect our freedom in the digital age.
Key Takeaways:
- Samourai Wallet prioritizes user privacy and control over funds.
- The FBI raid was a shocking and aggressive response to a tech startup.
- Keonne faced serious charges without any prior criminal history.
- The legal system pressured him into a plea deal despite his innocence.
- Public statements on social media were used against him in court.
- The indictment was based on misinterpretations of his actions and intent.
- Keonne’s case highlights the challenges of privacy in the cryptocurrency space.
- The financial burden of legal fees was overwhelming for Keonne and his family.
- Home confinement significantly impacted Keonne’s quality of life.
- The case raises important questions about free speech and innovation in technology.
Chapters:
00:00 Introduction to Free Speech and Innovation
02:41 Building Samurai Wallet: A Focus on Privacy
05:13 The FBI Raid: A Shocking Turn of Events
08:05 The Arrest: Confusion and Fear
10:45 Understanding the Charges: Conspiracy and Tweets
13:24 The Legal Battle: Navigating the System
16:04 The Impact of Social Media on Legal Proceedings
18:59 The Bail Conditions: A Million Dollar Bond
21:44 Life Under Home Confinement
24:33 The Ongoing Fight for Justice
29:03 The Burden of Legal Costs
31:11 Impacts of Home Confinement
33:31 The Decision to Take a Plea Deal
38:22 The Brady Violation and Its Implications
43:05 Sentencing and Aftermath
56:51 Community Support and Call to Action
This story is brought to you by @LABNetwork21.
Thank you to @Puncher522 ,@bobvankirk, @BTCsessions, @EricVStacks and countless other bitcoiners for already stepping up.
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Introducing Nunchuk 2.0: Autonomous Inheritance.
The first assisted Bitcoin inheritance solution with an on‑chain failsafe. Designed to outlive the company that created it.
Enforced by the Bitcoin network, not by us. 🧵
This quote is about the treacherous path one takes when first beginning the study of economics. It's from from "The Promises Men Live By" by Harry Scherman:
"Obviously there can be other avenues of approach to the subject; and the approach is all-important. The first few steps inevitably determine how far one shall get in understanding. The mere approach may lead one quickly to a bog, in which one wanders, weighted down, forever after."
It reminds me of many of my friends whose first and only exposure to economics is a movie about Wall Street, a perfunctory conversation with an advisor at a retail investment bank, or worst of all a college lecture course which takes for granted the very concept of money itself.
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Pay attention guys.
Vietnam just froze 86m bank accounts because account holders didn't comply with new biometrics laws that require a face scan or fingerprint for account verification.
If users don't comply by the 30th they'll lose their money. This is why we bitcoin.
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Some of the people campaigning against Core 30 are giving me Paul Sztorc vibes, the guy who claimed that Bitcoin would totally die if BIP 300 didn't get merged.
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I'm siding with Justine here. I feel like the "Core is malware" crowd and the "but you'll be distributing illicit materials" crowd have become entirely too melodramatic for me to take seriously.
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Bitcoin's design does necessitate that the messages passed on Bitcoin's network be used as money. I learned this lesson from Andreas Antonopoulos years ago. Personally, however, I don't think it makes sense to use Bitcoin for any purposes other than money. If other people want to spend their sats to send non-monetary messages which don't break consensus, then I have decided to be at peace with that, provided I can still run my nodes.
When ordinals first launched I must admit I was in a state of personal crisis. I wrestled with the implications for days, then weeks. It was perhaps the most intense period of analysis, introspection, and reevaluation of the entire Bitcoin project that I'd done since the blocksize wars. Today I am not interested in ordinals and frankly don't know what's in their ecosystem. I just ignore ordinals. But practically speaking I have made peace with them, and still I continued to run my nodes.
With the upcoming release of Core I've seen the debate resurface, but I don't have any of the attendant stress that I had when ordinals first launched. I think the Core position as articulated here (bitcoincore.org/en/2025/06/0…) is sound. I think the Knots position, as articulated by Luke in all of his X posts, while extreme in its orthodoxy, is also sound. Yes I realize the above is likely a paradox, but deep down I think this dual impression is not an inherent contradiction, but rather a real world instantiation of second and third order effects of Bitcoin AS MONEY.
Getting back to my first point, Bitcoin is not inherently money. It's merely that Bitcoin doesn't work very well for anything BESIDES money. The second order effect of this, however is that Bitcoin's design has imbued it with moneyness and that moneyness itself creates an envelope of value which other message types can, by association, effectively stow away inside of. In other words, if a message is contained in the Bitcoin database it may be perceived to have a kind of value and be tradeable. But more importantly, it is Bitcoin's moneyness which has incentivized the kind of infrastructure buildout which provides for an implacable digital immortality heretofore unseen by mankind. No doubt there will be those who wish to etch small engrams of their existence onto the face of this impregnable, steadfast wall.
I think Knots is a better expression of my Bitcoin values, and the temptation to run Knots finally gave me an excuse to buy a Start9. However my primary wallet is Ashigaru which requires Dojo, (another GREAT REASON to buy a Start9) which currently requires core. So at the moment I'm running core and I have no issues with that.
Congrats to the Nunchuk team on this epic release!
