PSSST...the @open_relay team and the @R_I_V_E_T team are the same people! 🤫😉🥂

Now is a pivotal moment—Julian is just one of the people whose life hangs in the balance for having the integrity to fight the arrogation of power from the people to the elite—by writing and publishing open source software that nullifies and dissipates that power by rendering toothless the threats that enforce the keeping of its secrets The cypherpunks’ earliest victory established the fact that code written and published for this purpose is the kind of political speech that the US Constitution’s First Amendment was created to defend as a sacred value That original victory now hangs in the balance vis-à-vis the actions of the unconstitutional US Imperial Megastate and her co-conspiring vassal States that have risen to power in the intervening years—putting the right to publish liberatory open source code squarely back in the crosshairs of “whole of government” aggression The video below was made by Roman Storm—whose persecution is the result of the same inchoate SCAD—striking at the heart of the OG cypherpunks’ foundational victory by attempting to sanction deployed code as if it were a person OFAC can blacklist Watch and read the below and spread the word We have a choice—and our actions (or inaction) are how we must make it More to follow—follow me for more 🏴‍☠️ coincenter.org/tornado-cash-…

Night and day difference

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Building on decentralized infrastructure protocols is the modus of the web3 movement Because the natural human right to freedom of speech would be forever secured if the medium itself precluded the possibility of censorship The web3 project is to nullify the authority to do so

I’m literally suing the Treasury Department over the @TornadoCash OFAC designation… but I’m also a LARP because I pay my landlord and the IRS with my bank account

Magic of sufficient simplicity is indistinguishable from technology

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How many iterations is your ideal?

Steve Jobs emails Adobe's CEO May 26, 2005

I respect all the real builders in the crypto space, you are the reason why I believe crypto should have a bright future 💪💪💪

Hey @elonmusk are you guys blocking IPFS links intentionally? If so, can we get that ability back please? Unable to post, reply or even DM IPFS links—hoping this isn’t an actively-hostile-to-decentralized-storage policy 🤞 @TwitterBlue @TwitterSupport @IPFS

Weird how the powerful elite today promoting mass censorship and surveillance are so aptly characterized by JFK’s description of the threat of communism at the height of the Cold War. Read the following if you don’t believe me—imo it’s impossible not to see a resemblance: “…we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence--on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed.” How did we get here? And how do we cure this sickness at the heart of what used to be a beacon of liberty in the darkness—before its darkness snuffs out the last of liberty’s light? #independenceday2023 🇺🇸✌️❤️ Source: presidency.ucsb.edu/document…

Stop me if you’ve heard this one: An ancap, a socialist, and a centrist walk into a bar They all agree on decentralized infrastructure (Credit to @dis7ant for this one)

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Offsetting capital gains with capital losses is not a “loophole” exploited by “tax cheats and crypto traders”—it’s the only thing that makes capital gains taxes fair 🤨 Without it—the cost of taking any risks at all (and thus seeking any opportunity) will be made impossibly high

The summary that @zherbert asked for.

Yes. Everyone needs to be paying attention to the Tornado OFAC case. Could have massive implications for all of crypto. Even Bitcoin. It’s a battle over a narrative. We need to own it.

“By eschewing all formal, prospective processes, the SEC has also largely disabled the federal courts from reviewing the extremely contestable legal arguments underlying its expansive claimed authority.“ uschamber.com/assets/documen… Nailed it 🔥🔥🔥