DAN JOHNSON

Longtime aviation journalist investigating estate planning using Bitcoin as programmable money. Cancel the middleman! Stack into the future!

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

You can do it! Anyone can do it! No one -has- to do it! 🔸So, go ahead… Be an undebankable you.

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@bitcoinwell Thanks, I have enjoyed Lysander, an early proponent of common sense.

[TFTC @TFTC21]

Apple is about to kill Sparrow Wallet on macOS. The deadline is June 30.

Since 2023, more than a dozen fake "Sparrow" apps have appeared on Apple's App Store. Users have lost their savings, in some cases their life savings, to these impersonators. Craig Raw, Sparrow's developer, holds the registered US trademarks for both the name and logo. He's been publicly warning Apple about the scam apps since early 2024. They keep showing up.

Craig created a placeholder app, never published, to warn users that Sparrow is desktop-only and the App Store copycats aren't real. Apple's response? They flagged his developer account for "dishonest activity" and scheduled it for termination.

The developer fighting scammers got flagged. The scammers who stole life savings kept operating on Apple's platform.

If Apple follows through, every new Sparrow install on macOS fails after June 30. macOS development ends entirely.

This matters because Sparrow is the best desktop Bitcoin wallet available, full stop. Multisig. Coin control. Hardware wallet integration. Tor support. UTXO management that most wallets don't even attempt. Free. Open source. Built by one developer who cares more about his users than his revenue.

And one automated decision by a trillion-dollar company could end it on an entire operating system.

This is why platform gatekeeping is a systemic risk for freedom tech. If your tools need a gatekeeper's blessing to exist, they aren't freedom tools. We have to build on open platforms.

Download Sparrow now from https://t.co/IXV1QMNKx6 before the deadline. And repost Craig's announcement to help get Apple's attention before it's too late.

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@Handre An excellent post @Handre, devastating actually but well told.

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@MartyBent @TFTC21 CBDCs = Slavecoins. So, are stablecoins also slavecoins?

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

Inflation = Growth in the money supply LESS increase in productivity BUT ADD excessive regulatory burden* LESS technological advancement. What inflation is NOT = CPI (or any other of the derivatives to mask one or another problem). *especially for small businesses

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@gladstein Agreed, @gladstein. Inflation is like hearing loss; it's all cumulative, and you're never getting it back.

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@bitcoinwell Good post, @bitcoinwell! Keep it up! 👍🏻

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@gladstein "Modern markets" (WTM) are not necessarily FREE markets. Because many markets are highly regulated, an enormous bureaucracy is required to keep everyone in line and extract its share of private earnings. …Indeed, I think it's time for some "Relearning."

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@bitcoinwell Good piece. Thanks! In a perverse sort of way, Nixon did us a favor by closing the gold window. Now anyone can see the emperor has no clothes.

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@Jethroe111 Excellent message, @Jethroe111, yet striving for this without bitcoin to assist is much more difficult. OOPS — Opt Out; Purchase Sats!

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@leamuirleyn @gofreesamourai @keonne The treatment of @keonne, Bill, and others who did nothing but write code is outrageous and this transfer center treatment heaps more scorn upon that system. LET THESE MEN GO!

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@Electroversenet Anyone who believes in "settled science" doesn't truly understand science.

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@theswansjr I've studied economics for 60 years, overwhelmingly Austrian economics after I realized they found the handle. I'm pleased to be alive while this monetary technology transformation unfolds. Bravo, Satoshi! …and thank you, thank you!

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@SimplyBitcoin Jeff's message is clear and simple. Anyone can understand IF they can grasp beyond what they were taught. ▫️ He also displayed a very stylish slide deck. Bravo, @JeffBooth❗️

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@ODELLXYZ @gofreesamourai @keonne @realDonaldTrump, LET THESE MEN GO HOME! They only wrote code. Code is speech. Until further notice, we still have free speech in America.

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@keonne @gofreesamourai Bummer!

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@gladstein @BitcoinPierre Yet, really… is anyone listening to Romney?

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@Handre I have studies Mises, Hoppe, Menger and all the Austrians, but nobody writes as succinctly as Rothbard — edgy, clear, and devastating to Keynesian mumblers.

[DAN JOHNSON @BitcoinPilotGuy]

@IIICapital Short post; high signal. 👍🏻