Trump just announced sanctions on Colombia, putting millions of US-Colombians at risk of having their bank accounts closed. Land of the free.

It's sunday and I wanted to say thank you to all the people that are sending me kind messages on here. I don't use nostr for messaging, but I see you and I appreciate you 🩷

TFTC says 98% of the govs digital asset stock pile is bitcoin. Just so we're clear, that's bitcoin stolen from the American people. Much of it likely still bitcoin that belongs to Ross. They should give it back. Just my 2 cents.

Hearing a lot of people in Bitcoin describe journalists in the space as „doom pillers“ lately. Its fine that there‘s things you‘d rather stay ignorant of and you prefer to stick to your pink little bubble in which everything in Bitcoin is made of unicorns and rainbows. But the people writing these stories are doing a very thankless and unlucrative job at great personal risk and expense, because they believe that the stories they are telling can make the world a better place. Stop trying to tear them down.

Now that Fold App is going public, let's remember that the company partnered with PokemonGo developer Niantic, which was recently revealed to appropriate user data to train a geospatial AI that might be sold to "governments and militaries". For context, Niantic was developed as an internal Google startup by John Hanke, who previously founded the CIA financed geospatial visualizer Keyhole, which would later turn into Google Earth and Google Maps. During his tenure at Google, Hanke was responsible for the largest data scandal in Google's history, called WiSpy – in which Google Street View cars stole WiFi credentials while scanning locations, illegally exporting the personal data to Google HQs, includng email addresses and passwords. Fold has not responded to a request for comment on whether it knew of Niantic's AI training. Fold execs previously stated that Fold's game did not use Niantic's Lightship SDK. I know a lot of you are friends with Will, but boy does this guy make bad decisions.

So the Trump's 'crypto* EO is out, and I'm seeing lots of weak bitches cry that its a shitcoin reserve. Given the fact that the proposed digital assets stockpile would possibly be built on *seized* coins, let me give you a quick introduction to forfeiture law, and why crying for daddy to please please make its pile of flying horseshit "bitcoin only" *literally* the most retarded thing you could be wishing for, ever. Forfeiture law – or civil asset forfeiture, to be precise – is this fun little game the government plays in which it does not have to accuse you of a crime to confiscate your property. Instead of accusing you of a crime, the Government claims that the asset itself has facilitated a crime, and can therefore be seized by the Government. In civil asset forfeiture, there is no innocent until proven guilty. To get your property back, *you* have to prove that the Government is wrong – which turns out pretty complicated seeing how its impossible to prove a negative. Civil asset forfeiture results in cases that are not filed against a person, but filed against the property itself. This results in fun little cases like US vs. Binance Account XYZ, or US vs. 123 Wilmington Drive. To extend this idea to Bitcoin, in a civil forfeiture case, the US Government is in theory able to seize *any bitcoin* that has *ever* come out of a criminal transaction. Made some bitcoin for selling a service? Bought some bitcoin on a P2P exchange? Unless you checked that the UTXO you received has never touched a criminal transaction in its entire history, your coins can be confiscated, and there's pretty much nothing you can do about it. As Cato Institute points out in its piece on civil forfeiture reform, forfeiture law is routinely misused to enrich the Government – Philadelphia, for example, has seized over 1000 homes, over 3000 vehicles, and over $44M in cash over an 11 year period. In 2010, the city tried to seize *an entire fucking house* because a woman's grandson sold less than $200 of weed out of the basement. If you think that taxes are bad, civil asset forfeiture is straight up evil. It doesn't matter whether you participated in a crime. It doesn't matter whether you know that someone else participated in a crime. If it involved your property, even if said property was fully legally acquired, the Government will come and take it. Civil asset forfeiture is the most insane Government funding technique that is out there, and you most definitely do not want this declared as a strategic means to pump the Government's bitcoin bags. You are *literally* asking the Government to steal your coins with a practice that *every* libertarian advocate wants to see abolished.