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[Adjunct Researcher @AdjunctResearch]

@Cointelegraph Just say no to Omnibus bills...

[Adjunct Researcher @AdjunctResearch]

@MomsInBitcoin1 Gotta get that AI IPO exit liquidity first, could take a while...

[Pierre Rochard @BitcoinPierre]

@jdorman81 You’re in an echo chamber if you think this is about Saylor and not AI return-chasing flows

[Adjunct Researcher @AdjunctResearch]

@zerohedge Pretty easy when communists run it into the ground.

[BULLBITCOIN.COM @BULLBITCOIN_]

We've updated our logo to reflect current Bitcoin market conditions

[Adjunct Researcher @AdjunctResearch]

@BULLBITCOIN_ LOL

[Majorian / BIP-110 @MajorianBTC]

As BIP-110's momentum continues, it is very important that you are informed as to what this proposal actually does.

Do your own research, don't let someone else choose your opinions for you.

Here is a simple summary:

Credit: @kwsantiago

Link: https://t.co/QXNZWetWXZ

[Adjunct Researcher @AdjunctResearch]

@TheBTCTherapist The exit liquidity is so eager to be dumped on.

[Adjunct Researcher @AdjunctResearch]

@DrClownPhD What country are they driving/riding in. Interesting traffic pattern.

[Dries Van Langenhove @DVanLangenhove]

These two paragraphs of my verdict are crucial for everyone to read and understand.

"Even if all of the statements made by Van Langenhove are based on scientific evidence and statistics, it makes no difference to the criminal intent. Van Langenhove is not charged with spreading false information. He is charged with presenting facts in a way that incites hatred against persons on the grounds of one or more of the protected criteria in the Anti-Racism Law.” 1⃣

"For Van Langenhove to have committed a crime, it is not necessary for him to have incited concrete acts of hate or violence. It suffices that others are incited to take on a general attitude of intolerance or disapproval regarding a group protected under the criteria of the Anti-Racism Law." 2⃣

This means you can go to jail for "inciting hatred" even if your statements were 100% factual (see 1⃣) and even if you did NOT incite concrete acts of hate (see 2⃣).

The benchmark of "inciting hatred" , a crime punishable by prison, is thus "saying something that has the potential of inciting someone to have a general attitude of disapproval regarding a protected group". This means literally any criticism of mass migration is now a punishable offence. If you cite a statistic, and someone could potentially think less of a protected group (like migrants) because of it, you can be jailed.

The craziest part is that there is no defence possible against this. I brought the scientific studies that I cited to court, but the judge didn't care 1⃣. I also proved that the hundreds of students present at the lecture included students of all different political affiliations, and everyone was able to voice their opinion or ask questions. The lecture went very calmly, so obviously nobody was incited to hatred. But this too did not matter 2⃣, because if the judge says he believes there is the possibility that someone COULD be incited to "a general attitude of disapproval", this is enough for the judge to send me to jail, even without any evidence.

I'm telling you this to warn you that by the time these hate speech laws have come into place, it's already too late. You will NEVER be able to beat these laws in court. You have to stop them before they are implemented. Let my fate be your warning.

[Adjunct Researcher @AdjunctResearch]

@iamkennethchan Save your power, so they can sell to it others at a higher price.

[Adjunct Researcher @AdjunctResearch]

@Pirat_Nation When Plex lifetime subscriptions were on sale ($75 ish?) they were extremely under-priced for what you got. Figured eventually it would cause funding issues. Tripling the price is insane though, all that ad-based streaming must need some more backing...

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@BitcoinRachy "We reject Core30's proposed addition of data storage to Bitcoin"

[Adjunct Researcher @AdjunctResearch]

@ProtonPrivacy Your apps are on https://t.co/4aYuoWJw0m, but it would be nice to see you sign and release them officially with Proton's own Nostr key. It's a great upcoming app store for GrapheneOS that believes in freedom and ease of use for both users and devs.

[Captain Insight @CaptainInsightX]

The NSA spent billions trying to break encryption.
One German programmer beat them.
He earned only $25k a year. 🤯

Meet Werner Koch 🇩🇪

> German free software developer. Born 1961 in Düsseldorf.
> 1997 ~ Richard Stallman called for a free encryption tool.
> Only option then: closed-source, US-restricted PGP.
> Werner answered. He built GnuPG (GPG) alone ��� free software to encrypt files, sign software, and verify identity.
> 1999 ~ Released GPG 1.0. Fully open source. No restrictions.
> Today his code verifies every Linux server update, every Debian package, every Tor Browser download on Earth.
> Every signed Linux release depends on it.
> Used by activists, dissidents, and security pros worldwide to stay untracked.
> Edward Snowden used GPG in 2013 to leak NSA documents. It held up against the world’s most powerful spy agency. 🚀
> 2001 ~ Founded g10code with his brother to work full-time on GPG.
> Earned $25,000/year for 14 years while supporting his wife and daughter.
> 2012 ~ Funding ended. He had to let go of his only programmer.
> 2013 ~ He was the sole maintainer and nearly quit.
> 2015 ~ ProPublica story dropped. Internet donated $137k in 24 hours.
> Facebook + Stripe pledged $50k/year each. Linux Foundation gave $60k.
> Won FSF Award for the Advancement of Free Software.
> Today he still maintains GPG from his home in Erkrath, Germany.

One man kept the internet’s secrets, secret.
The world almost lost him in 2013.
His code still protects yours.

Privacy GOAT. 🐐

[JOEY @JoeyTweeets]

we will lose absolutely nothing and gain everything

no one believes this spin anymore

[The Rabbit Hole @TheRabbitHole]

Hating communism is okay

[₿en Wehrman @benwehrman]

Forbidden history fact of the day:

Germany invaded Danzig, Poland in 1939 because they were intentionally forced to do so, in order to save the ethnic Germans still living there from being slaughtered by the Bolsheviks (✡️) in the most horrific ways imaginable. (Raping German women then chopping their breasts off, nailing children to barn doors, all the classics from the Bolshevik Revolution/Holodomor)

Between August 10, 1939 and September 6, 1939, the Bolsheviks killed 56,000 German Nationals in the Danzig corridor.

Hitler had already done "the right thing" by protesting in writing to the League of Nations (literally dozens of times), to no avail.

He and the Germans were left with no choice but to go in and stop the massacres and persecutions on Danzig's ethnic Germans themselves.

TLDR: After WW1 and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany was split into two with Poland in between. Atrocities were happening in that small German area, so after numerous attempts to find a political solution, the National Socialists said "Fuck it" and went in to save their people with force.

[CryptoCloaks™ 🤘 @CryptoCloaks]

Been planning and building on doing something fun for the Bitcoin community for awhile now. The idea has finally came to life after a lot of back and forth and brainstorming how to do it.

Tomorrow I launch it.

Cool part, you beat the odds, you get one for free.

[Adjunct Researcher @AdjunctResearch]

@ProtonDrive Just go right to the source. Hate the users of big tech. They ultimately fund it.