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.

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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

If your DNA has not made it's way into a state database like the rapidly growing CODIS, AND you haven't ever sent your DNA to one of those stupid ancestry honeypots like 23&Me, then you need to hold on to your non compromised status for dear life. Do whatever you can to keep it from getting into these databases. DNA is the most dangerous information of all for a state to have, because you can never change it. You can technically alter your fingerprints, face, and even rip your own eyeballs out I suppose. But DNA? You're cooked. Who knows what the state will be doing with that kind of information in 10 years, 20 years? Keeping your DNA to yourself might be the difference between living and dying, or freedom and slavery. One way to do this is try to avoid felony arrests at all costs, because innocent until proven guilty isn't really a thing anymore and they can force you to give a DNA sample after any felony arrest in most states in the USA. Doesn't even matter if your alleged crime had a victim or not. And for the love of God don't send your DNA in to a tech start up. Happy Halloween! #privacy

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Every time you make a purchase or sale of goods or services with Monero, you are committing an act of nonviolent civil disobedience. By opting out and using your economic power within the second realm rather than using fiat currency within the servile society, your transaction becomes an act of resistance against slavery and surveillance. You can also opt out of the system with Bitcoin and other decentralized cryptocurrencies, but without the privacy that is baked into Monero's base layer, you aren't protecting yourself from surveillance when you do so. By buying and selling goods and services within our community using tools such as XMR Bazaar you are helping strengthen the entire community by keeping that economic power within our circular economy. The more we do this, we become more powerful as a group instead of wasting our economic power on feeding the fiat system and further enriching the ruling class.