Crypto and liberty lover. Journalist. Living unbanked off of crypto since 2016. Free State Project mover. Opinions are my own.
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Last Notes npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Every time I drive around New Hampshire I'm reminded of why I never want to leave. Best place on the planet. Nothing's quite the same. https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/654/811/955/084/957/original/b599ecb051417953.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 Yes, and thankfully we may age out of it too. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela The world you grew up in is never coming back. What are you going to do about it? npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Drafted soldiers are war slaves. If anyone can take you against your will and make you work, that's slavery. But if they make you die, and kill, also against your will, that's still slavery, but the absolute cruelest kind. Yes, the draft is worse than slavery. Any civilized country should abolish any vestiges of it immediately. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Today at 4pm EDT/8pm UTC the Dash Podcast is back with a recap of the Consensus 2024 conference in Austin Texas https://www.youtube.com/live/Rwy3_8FfcSU npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Today at 3pm EDT/7pm UTC Jeremy from the Bitcoin Cash Podcast and Lorenzo Rey conclude their debate trilogy on Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash! Join live and ask some hard questions https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jRXIV9_gNw npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela No taxation without representation. Do you feel particularly represented by your government? Maybe we can give up on the "representation" part and just take the "no taxation" part. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Live in 30 minutes, Scott Cunningham comes back on the Digital Cash Rundown to talk Roger Ver's release, Odysee moving to Arweave, and much more! https://www.youtube.com/live/lruFuS80vSc npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 Sadly he doesn't deserve this place, but he's been painted as the contrarian candidate. All the failures of the current regime he's seen as a solution to. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 lol npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Few narratives by authoritarians have been more effective in silencing dissent and disempowering detractors than convincing them that voting is entirely pointless. Same with disempowering people seeking privacy, using sovereign money, and so many more things. Ignore haters. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 Apparently they are a big enough group to care. At least, libertarians plus crypto people (similar and overlapping groups, but not the same). It's the deciding factor in a close, apathetic race. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 The court case definitely turned him into a sort of a folk hero. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela The whole planet will be bombed to rubble if the people who profit from it are allowed to continue. Don't allow it to continue. Vote them out, cut off their funding, make them lose the information war. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 Yeah, for me definitely my 20s. Combination of issues with work and relationships, as well as living somewhere I hated. The back hurts more every year, but life gets better. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Trump says he's super pro-crypto and will pardon Ross Ulbricht. I personally don't believe him. He'll say anything to get elected. But at least half of the US power equation knows it must cater to libertarians and crypto owners/businesses in order to win. That's a huge win. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela I spent much of my youth very depressed, some of it not wanting to be alive anymore. Thinking back on it makes me surprised I made it. But the past roughly 11 years I've been very happy, despite plenty of hard times along the way. Suffice it to say, I decided I was going to made it out. Every day since that decision, things got better and better as I climbed my way out of that hole. It can get better. Much better. Don't give up. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela NEW TIME! ⏲️ Today at 1030am EDT/230pm UTC Reuben Yap comes on the Digital Cash Rundown to talk about the Ethereum ETF, new US crypto regulatory framework, the war on privacy, and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrsqb6TL7D0 npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 David Goggins once said "Life isn't fair: it's fair enough." npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 Pretty good! Overworked this week, but other than that, I can't lodge any major complaints. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela You don't get what you deserve: you get what you negotiate. The sooner you understand this, the better. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela There's so much hope and potential, and people working hard at building an amazing future, that I find it hard to be pessimistic. The dark has always existed, but it's never been as easy to overthrow as it will be. Just watch. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela How are you holding up these days? npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela At this point, crypto's too big to kill. But it isn't too big to capture. These next few years will determine how much sovereignty we get out of the whole thing. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 And often they collect resources because of the freedom they will one day offer, but don't think about what they actually want to do with the freedom. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Money is just the potential to achieve things you personally find valuable: possessions, freedom, safety, health, opportunities, experiences, education, etc. If you sacrifice these things for money, you can actually end up losing money. In the same way you can become rich without a high net worth on paper. Number-go-up + freedom-go-down = number-go-down. Few understand this. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Anyone trying to convince you that you need to do absolutely nothing in order to secure your freedom is scamming you. You need to work for it. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Had the great pleasure of being on Sadek's show to talk about living on crypto in the Free State of New Hampshire. Merci beaucoup, c'était un plaisir!🙏 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJ-bv9KKzos npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Government should have two options to pay: subscription package and à la carte. You either pay a certain amount every year for all public services, or you pay nothing, but every time you use a public service you get billed for that instance. You get a "bulk discount" for the subscription model. Implement this, and watch just how much friendlier government becomes when it has to actually compete for your money. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela In 90 minutes (same time 3pm EDT/7pm UTC, new day) Paul Puey joins the Digital Cash Rundown to talk about the US-wide crackdown on cryptocurrency! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFJkqAFi1ZQ npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13j5…79ec Yes. Definitely what we saw a few years ago. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela I've been involved in the liberty scene for 22 years, the crypto scene for 14. To see who is likely the US presidential frontrunner actively courting both the libertarian vote and the crypto vote is pretty amazing, actually. WAGMI, anon! 🤩 (WAGMI is "we're all going to make it") npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela AstraZeneca is pulling their vaccine because it causes deadly blood clotting. If you don't see the massive human cost paid at the behest of literal fascism (corporate-private merger) and see it as a bad thing, we can't really see eye-to-eye on anything Don't let them get away with this. Anyone who supported mandates and suppression of speech during the "uncertain times" is a criminal, full stop. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 It really depends on the individual and the point in time. Eventually there won't be anywhere to go to! But I do support more free-market choice in jurisdictions, which give a competitive effect. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub1frk…8t48 Such a scam npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 Not everyone has the choice to uproot their life and move to a strange new place. They shouldn't have to. We can't keep running forever. Eventually we need to put a stop to the madness. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela The thread in question: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1787437936931201468.html npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub148f…d0hp "works" for people who run their own infra (which is a giant pain in the ass, I've done it), but it's not feasible for any scale of regular people to use for payments. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 Yes, but doable. And the ones that do adapt are the ones who succeed. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela How do you opt out? -Stop holding and using fiat currency (remove the inflation tax) -Structure your finances to keep as much away from the tax man as possible -Get involved in local/state politics to start pushing separation from the federal government (eventually maybe becoming a territory instead of a state) If just one state became a territory and opted out of federal representation and taxation, it would instantly change the dynamic in Washington. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Reading things like this give me little hope for the US government to ever get better than the dystopia we find ourselves in today. It's not going to change without opting out. There's no incentive to change a system that's overwhelmingly working for the people who control it. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Things change. If you base your opinions on a certain set of facts, be ready to change your opinions if the facts change. To act otherwise would be silly. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela In 5 minutes Lorenzo Rey and Jeremy BCH go head-to-head again in the second round of the Bitcoin vs. Bitcoin Cash debate! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAsamaaaI2g npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela There's a lot of sick people in hospitals. That's why the liberty and crypto movements are over-represented by odd characters: those who seek freedom the most are those most incompatible with the current system. But they're just early adopters. Freedom is for everyone. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela A while back I interviewed many people about their journey living all on crypto, and my friend Lorenzo was one of them. He's actually living his principles instead of LARPing like so many Bitcoin maximalists (and let's face it, others too) do these days. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LwYIrWRU1lA npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela This was a very fascinating debate last week. Episode two on Friday, focused on governance! https://www.youtube.com/live/dX9YXIWnbz8 npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela I ran into yet another person I didn't know about who's been living on crypto for many years. Pays all his bills with Dash on Swapin, uses it for most other purchases as well. This stuff makes me really happy. There's an ever-growing underground army of the fiat-free! 🪖 npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Taxation is theft. I'll keep saying it until every one of you gets it. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Another friend of mine, Roger Ver, got arrested, joining Samourai Wallet, Mark Hopkins, and Ian Freeman as podcast guests of mine who got locked away for crypto-ing too hard. Make no mistake, the crackdown is here. We will win. But you, make sure you survive until it's over. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela In 3 hours (3pm EDT/7pm UTC) Crypto Lush comes on the Digital Cash Rundown to talk Samourai Wallet arrests, Phoenix Walletl leaving the US, and more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2IAyvKupNo npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela When government was slowly confiscating wealth, building a financial surveillance state, and throwing open-source software developers in jail, what were you doing? Just sitting there living on fiat like an animal awaiting slaughter? npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela What a perfect day to release this. 👀 Thanks Luke for this fantastic breakdown of what will be the newest "THORChild", cross-chain AMM DEX. Serai adding Monero to the ecosystem will be massive. Privacy is normal. DEX or die. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2cbNgpOgEY npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Tomorrow at 4pm EST/8pm Jeremy BCH and Lorenzo Rey debate big block vs. small block scaling in a special moderated debate. Bring your popcorn and your questions! 🍿 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX9YXIWnbz8 npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Epic chat with my longtime buddy Sterlin after we reconnected at ETHDam. Come to Porcfest, we're both speaking there too! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBuX5sMXNbI npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Some people live in a constant state of pessimism and negativity. I don't get it. Why are you still on this planet if that's what you think about life? npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub18k5…029x Yessir all of the above! npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub1pzt…dacm I live on mostly Dash since 2016, the user experience is the best. After that I would prefer something like Monero and Zcash because of extra privacy, although Nano does work well too. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub1pzt…dacm I have no idea, we'll have to see! It will be interesting to see what their new version ends up looking like. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Live in one hour, Sterlin Lujan joins the Digital Cash Rundown to talk Bitcoin's Lightning Network capitulation, and give a recap of the ETHDam conference! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBuX5sMXNbI npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela The largest and most-connected node in the entire Lightning Network frequently fails to send payments of around $100. Imagine if all the hard work, innovation, funding, etc. had gone into something that works for payments, rather than shoehorning an institutional settlement layer into a p2p cash use case. Lightning is not a scam. But it's definitely been used to scam you. https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/298/152/127/115/001/original/b9c4413a3d916438.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Tomorrow at 4pm EDT/8pm UTC Andreas Rud and Sven Rossbach of CrowdNode and the Dash Investment Foundation come on the Dash Podcast to recap ETHDam! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G36PSribJqg npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub1pzt…dacm LBRY was a project centralized around a single company. When the company couldn't operate, not much happened with the coin anymore. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub10pt…hjeu The LBRY app won't work, or wills till work but not for any new Odysee content. The whole thing is being open-sourced, so the idea is there will be many front-ends pointing to the same content. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Ok so I heard that Odysee, the current/former major LBRY front-end, will be open-source (it was a closed-source video site before) and part of a much larger content and social ecosystem. This was the original LBRY vision, but it ended up mostly being a blockchain to archive Odysee's content when it was basically a YouTube competitor. I hear they're considering building it on either Arweave or Cardano. Imagine if it's Cardano, then I'd finally have something other than academic papers. 🙃 npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Got good reviews from my ETHDam keynote on Friday. Heard it was better than last year, which is all I really care about. Afterwards, a dozen people or more came up to me over the weekend to ask about how to actually live on crypto. People are hungry for digital cash! ⚡️💵 https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/281/709/614/246/170/original/34d15d20b4f8273c.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub183y…cuv3 Not sure npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela I wrote my undergraduate thesis on Ludwig von Mises. Thought I was the only econ nerd who even knew who he was or his life's legacy. Now an athlete in one of the biggest sports in one of the biggest events of all time takes the mic to promote his work. We're. All. Going. To. Make. It. https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/268/677/105/345/614/original/a0996327cb41a07d.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Breaded fried food is the absolute pinnacle cuisine, yet the complete bottom of health. The duality of life. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Rumor has it that Odysee, the video platform that ran on the LBRY blockchain (that got screwed over by the SEC), is migrating to a different blockchain and is back in growth mode. 👀 It was one of the best actually-used blockchain use cases out there (especially when censorship elsewhere ramped up), and I got bummed when the SEC took the wind out of their sales. Really excited! Makes me glad I haven't stopped publishing or streaming to it. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub12xf…9ps4 Insane! npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Jack Dorsey censored the world at the behest of the US government, runs a fiat payments empire that still doesn't take crypto, and now runs a mining pool that censors Bitcoin transactions he doesn't like. Jack Mallers is a bankster who actively deceives customers into believing they're actually using Bitcoin. Luke Dashjr wants to censor the protocol (works for Dorsey) and literally eats cats. These are your heroes? 🤨 npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Michael Saylor is a fiat maxi who is actively blocking open-source Bitcoin development. Max Keiser is a serial scammer literally working for the government of a dictator as its mouthpiece. Adam Bank 🏦 is the CEO of a bankster company that led a mass psyop to break Bitcoin so he could sell you the "cure". https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/241/888/230/534/077/original/2658a12da9003db1.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela This is now about anything specific btw, it could apply to many things in my life and the lives of others. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Nothing quite like the feeling of peace knowing you made the hard decisions, did the hard work, suffered, are now through it, and life has rewarded you. 😌 npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub13yy…m882 Yeah absolutely. I have a company but not bank (just crypto and crypto services), which is a massive headache once per year in tax season, but the rest of it it's fine. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela I always love my chats with fellow digital cash warrior Esteban. One of the most live-your-principles, intellectually honest and fair people in the crypto world. Also a great sense of humor. Worth the watch! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETKBCveLh6c npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub100u…gkth Thank you! Yes, that was a bit of an interesting surprise. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela This is an absolute must-watch video for anyone who doesn't know the awful state of financial privacy today. KYC, withdrawal and transaction limits, reporting, all that should not be a thing for innocent people! It happened gradually, and is only going to get worse. But we're taking back financial freedom and privacy. Just you watch. Just. You. Watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0CyuDEuLsE npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela In 10 minutes Esteban Valdez comes back on the Digital Cash Rundown to talk about Roger Ver's return on to the crypto scene, and the Bitcoin maximalist capitulation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ETKBCveLh6c npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Proud to have been featured in this podcast documentary. Thanks Asri for the opportunity! https://open.spotify.com/show/5Mnw6tb6w9REzYyznrMn2T?si=ed67bd2b301f4fc0&nd=1&dlsi=a856848a79384431 npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Had the very great pleasure of talking with Roger Ver (one of the most unfairly maligned people in crypto) about his new book, Hijacking Bitcoin, as well as the current state of Bitcoin and crypto. Passionate but reasonable chat about digital cash, privacy, DeFi, tokens, and more. A must-watch from one of the industry greats who's still very much in the game. Respect! 🫡 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwOowwL8-_A npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Guess what: custodial Lightning wallet Strike doesn't work in Argentina anymore. Because it was always a bank LARPing as decentralized crypto. 🤦♂️ They lied to you that Lightning was going to fix everything, they lied to you that you were actually using Lightning so they could cover up awful user experiences. Ever wonder what else they're lying to you about? 😒 https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/201/958/974/147/241/original/2f11f5bd37cfbec4.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Great show with @npub1zss…hjfx on Friday with a surprise breakdown of prepaid crypto cards towards the end. That's one thing that Scott and I have in common: we love to not just talk about new crypto stuff, but actually get our hands on it and use it ourselves. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8shA-mSpeg npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Honored to be speaking at Porcfest this year! This is the year we start pushing early majority adoption for crypto. https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/190/746/086/055/659/original/425e75e44365df20.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Honored to be speaking at Porcfest this year! This is the year we start pushing early majority adoption for crypto. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Live in 5 minutes, Scott Cunningham joins the Digital Cash Rundown to talk about SBF's prison sentence, Ross Ulbricht's 40th birthday, Roger Ver's new book, and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8shA-mSpeg npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Decentralized digital identities with usernames/contact lists on the blockchain. Zero-knowledge usable privacy. Mass scale. Instantly-final payments. Cross-chain decentralized swaps. Yield, loans, and more with no centralized custodian. The future of crypto is so awesome! npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Go get tickets and come! It'll be a blast: https://www.ethdam.com/ npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Absolutely thrilled to be speaking at ETHDam in a couple weeks. 🤩 Check the speaker lineup. It feels like a reunion of most of the awesome, principled, and effective people in the space I know. And come on, Amsterdam in the spring... 🌷 https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/179/707/630/217/608/original/a04def8dc009b879.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela In-depth takedown of the "we need to scale on L2 for decentralization" argument by Justin Bons. If you have heard the term "layer-two scaling" and believe that this is a necessity, or something good, please give this a thorough watch. The crypto emperors have no clothes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9IJuxAml29E npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Crypto and decentralization innovator Ross Ulbricht just turned 40 today. He's spent over a decade in prison for building a website. Imagine losing your whole life for hurting no one, just building a website to facilitate free trade. It's time to #FreeRoss. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Really great short show on Friday with Paul. Come see us both at ETHDam next month in Amsterdam! It's going to be a good time, promise. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRXUDhaLELc npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela @npub14xq…eauq We have that in crypto-to-crypto already. We have that for fiat too, but the UX is much clunkier. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela On Wednesday I had an off day where I was feeling a little down (I'm allowed one of these per quarter 😅), then straight back to work the next day. Posts like this reinvigorate me. We're building the freedom money circular economy! Thanks Mark for the pick-me-up. https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/145/830/957/908/938/original/c634d565b9626455.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Default privacy in crypto. It's coming. By the end of 2029 I predict it'll become a norm. Here for it. npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Memecoins are freedom. Read the post on X, I'm too lazy to figure out how to correctly post it here: https://twitter.com/TheDesertLynx/status/1770864940955427012 https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/134/849/199/667/765/original/20badf9e06942899.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Really fun chat with Nicole on the whole BSV impending implosion (maybe?). Personalities having such an impact over supposedly decentralized projects are a fascinating thing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgDikhmZe4s npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Anyone who criticizes the crypto memecoin casino, but turns a blind eye to scammy posts like this, has zero integrity. "Only Bitcoin, everything else is a scam!" Yeah we see who the scammers really are. 🤦♂️ https://cdn.masto.host/liberdon/media_attachments/files/112/123/786/136/661/202/original/2dc94bb6249175a3.png npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela Are you all-in on Bitcoin? Yes? Then you need to spend it regularly. Otherwise you aren't all-in, you dirty fiat-lover 😆 npub1m4cpywegskadctr2w80zaa9kqxglk6lnt6ntucv7pr96h88e85qsc56ghf Joël Valenzuela If someone lies to you, don't believe anything else they say unless you can independently verify their claims. I can't believe this has to be said sometimes. But it does.