Jim Phillips

Entrepreneur, High Tech Red Neck, Crypto Evangelist, Anti-Authoritarian.

I often play devil's advocate in defense of the indefensible. I enjoy the challenge.

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👋 PTYcoin is back. We're relaunching as a bilingual crypto news + project-spotlight blog — LatAm-rooted, globally relevant. Founder Jim Phillips on the mission and what's ahead.
https://t.co/pf6FtTvHcz

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🔑 Self-Custody 101: our step-by-step guide to moving crypto off an exchange and into a hardware wallet you control — with the concrete checks that prevent the most common (and costly) mistakes.
https://t.co/nqpzqa4wIl

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🔒 Kustodia locks high-value P2P payments in audited smart contracts on Arbitrum until both sides confirm delivery — with SPEI fiat ramps. On-chain escrow for big-ticket LatAm trades like used cars, no wallet required.
https://t.co/0FgmOepJ2p

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🇧🇷 Brazil's Central Bank is forcing eFX providers to stop using stablecoins for cross-border remittances and FX, effective October. Licensed VASPs keep a supervised path. What it means for LatAm users sending money abroad.
https://t.co/rvuu9CYW0v

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📉 Bitcoin briefly dipped under $60K and Ether fell 9%+ after hot May jobs data lifted yields. US spot BTC ETFs snapped a 13-day outflow streak — but the LatAm angle is structural stablecoin demand that doesn't blink.
https://t.co/slomguOSXS

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🇲🇽 Aureo just launched Direct to Bank in Mexico: spin up a personal Lightning address, link your bank, and receive pesos in seconds when you're paid in Bitcoin. The self-custody on/off-ramp circle is complete.
https://t.co/aXDrSQjDUf

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Just picking nits here, but DEI stands for diversity, **equity**, and inclusion. Equity and equality are two very different things.

Equality focuses on equal treatment (same inputs or rules for everyone).

Equity focuses on equal outcomes (adjusting treatment to compensate for differences and achieve similar results).

Equity as it's being implemented by the left is inherently racist or otherwise bugoted in that it treats the protected group as fundamentally inferior to the dominant group and thus in need of extra support.

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Do you always drive your car with the pedal mashed to the floor? You're alive so I'm guessing the answer is no.

If the thrust on a fusion engine can be properly controlled, you can achieve a constant acceleration at 1G meaning astronauts on the first half of the trip feel like they're on earth. Then on the deceleration you can match Mars gravity so the astronauts are already adjusted to the difference by the time they arrive.

For unmanned supply runs you could get there faster by running at higher G forces.

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@ArtJazd @hipturn @Karl_Lagerbier Ahhh gopher. I once predicted that http would never become popular because it was just a more complicated gopher. Lol.

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@KariHolland_ @TeslaTopics True.. I hadn't considered that.

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@KariHolland_ @TeslaTopics It switched to speed profiles which is almost as good. I run it at sloth when it gets into my neighborhood and it'll slow down below the speed limit.

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@OldSubSailor63 @BrandiKruse If you're on a side you're on the wrong side. Politics always get in the way of rational discussion of the facts.

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@Thebackslash1 @AmplifyUrVoices @surabhi140 @MarioNawfal Adolf would have absolutely LOVED that law. Are we sure he didn't write it?

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@kaiser_doge @FischVogel @surabhi140 @MarioNawfal Ironically it was "trusting authority" that got them into so much trouble with the rest of the world. It's one thing to obey authority. It's another thing to obey a Nazi dictatorship's authority.

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@TheEXECUTlONER_ It's total BS that a CDL class will tell you to block the intersection. They will tell you the exact opposite.

It may be "the way" but it's not the safe or legal way. In many places you can actually be ticketed for doing what he advocates.

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@AmethystTheMage @ModernVintageG Yeah I got the notification too. Weird. But it took me about a half a second to recognize that key.

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@raphousetv7 The Duke boys are at it again!

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@TomislavSimich @elonmusk Hey retard. There are (or rather were) more straight white people in American movies because there are more straight white people in America. DEI propaganda would have you believe otherwise. They're gaslighting you. And you're letting them.

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@ravikiran_dev7 Ummm. "Windows". You need another?

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@tbmichael @thehoffather Texas respects some rights but not others. Sadly, real freedom no longer exists in this country (or anywhere else for that matter). The US government has grown so large and so oppressive, they can and will go after you anywhere in the world if they don't like what you're doing.