Old school leftists (anti-Iraq war, anti Washington consensus/IMF/WTO, anti-free trade agreements, pro Occupy Wall street), have tried for decades to end USAID, calling it a tool of imperialism. The fact it's Trump/Musk who are finally doing it, was not on my bingo card.

Which one of you just solo mined a block?~~~!!!!!!!!!

My backup node's SSD just died, so I replaced it and doing IBD again. Halfway through on block 468766, but only 20% done. Interesting. That means of the 16 years #Bitcoin has been in existence, the last 8 years account for an incredible 80% of the blockspace?

I will never forget sitting on my union's finance board meeting, listening to the president report they were forced to "invest" on a high return portfolio to make payroll, and that they found out, the reason the fund's returns were so high, was because they contained stocks of private prison companies. The union was profiting from mass incarceration. That's when it finally sunk in, how defeated workers were. The Fiat system, by controlling the money printer and manufacturing a persistent inflation, had forced labor unions to help bankers, their very own oppressors. The economic incentives that made this into a reality were so effective, the whole process was entirely voluntary. The union's choice was to die, or "invest." And when they invested, they handed over the accumulated blood and sweat of the workers back to their masters. Like giving away one's sword to the enemy in a duel. That day, it became clear that #Bitcoin is the only way out of the Fiat system.