CODE IS SPEECH: The 9th Circuit's Bernstein v. DOJ (1999) shields source code as First Amendment expression; language that conveys ideas. Jailing Samourai Wallet developers for open-source privacy tools is DOJ overreach.
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Check out this episode with Andrew Tilmann, CEO of The Bitcoin Scholarship Foundation, time-locked hope for the next generation, and why honest charity only works on Bitcoin. A powerful conversation about building the world we want to live in…
, for the Mises Caucus.
Questions include:
-How do you feel about the current administration’s embrace of digital assets and its approach to regulating them?
-What are your thoughts on “crypto” as a whole compared to Bitcoin specifically?
-What is your opinion about the U.S. dollar and its long-term stability as a global reserve currency?
-When and how were you first introduced to Bitcoin?
-What role do you believe Bitcoin should play in the future of money and personal freedom in America?
ChatGPT, how does Illinois compare to other states with governors in prison?
Here’s how Illinois compares to other states in terms of governors who have gone to prison — Illinois is #1.
🥇 Illinois: 4 governors in prison
No other state has as many former governors incarcerated.
🥈 States tied for second place (each with 2 governors who went to prison)
•Louisiana
•Tennessee
•Maryland
•Arkansas
•North Dakota
•West Virginia
•Arizona
Most other states have zero or one governor who has ever been imprisoned.
Why Illinois stands out
Illinois’ political machine history (Chicago + Springfield) produced:
•Patronage systems
•Pay-to-play corruption
•Long periods of single-party control
•Weak early ethics laws
This created an environment where corruption was easier and enforcement later became aggressive.
If you’d like, I can rank all states, or explain what each of those states’ governors went to prison for.
This is the correct way to understand #Bitcoin...
"Some fundamental currencies... are physics-based. So energy is the real currency; this is why I said Bitcoin is based on energy. You can't legislate energy; you just pass a law and suddenly have a lot of energy. It's very difficult to generate energy or especially harness energy in any useful way to do useful work. So I think that probably we won't have money and will just have energy, power generation as the de facto currency." ~ Elon Musk