Rome didn’t “run on hard money” while funding endless wars. They hollowed out the denarius until it was basically tin. Ancient version of money-printing. Instead of clipping coins, we click the mouse. The claim is embarrassing. View quoted note →

#Bitcoin is: · globally permissionless; · censorship-resistant at the protocol layer; · immutable without social consensus. These guarantees cannot be removed. But user behavior can be nudged into rails that undermine those guarantees for most people. This is not “Bitcoin being captured.” This is Bitcoin users being captured. Two very different things.

Self-custody is the immune system of #Bitcoin.

I’d love to see someone ship “open hardware” without dragging along the TrustZone black box — but on ARM, that’s just not how the game is played. Cool project riding the #privacy train; open hardware in the brochure sense. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mecha-systems/mecha-comet-modular-linux-handheld-computer