Back in the arena

👀@virtuallylaw at the @philadelphiafed Fintech Conference yesterday discussing PoW vs PoS economics alongside @kwerb (Wharton), @AKirilenko_True (University of Cambridge) and @JagtianiJulapa (FRB of Philadelphia)

Our Founder, @virtuallylaw, and our Product Lead, @twhirty_ , land in Buenos Aires today 🇦🇷! First stop: LabWeek - a decentralized conference hosted by our client, @protocollabs. Then DevConnect @EFDevcon . @Surus_io provides custody and tokenization infrastructure for builders

Censorship resistance, resiliency, and trust minimization are the purposes of crypto. Decentralization is the worst technique to achieve that, except for all others.

🚨This month's Policy Roundtable episode just dropped! @virtuallylaw + @xethalis (General Counsel, Multicoin Capital) and @KarenUbell (Partner, Goodwin) discuss Key Policy Developments: 🎯Mike Selig nominated to chair CFTC 📜Binance leaked listing terms 🏁SEC recognizes state

The "bad actors" aren't the folks openly using Bitcoin in ways you dislike. The "bad actors" are the ones wasting months rehashing the same fruitless arguments, holding secret meetings about consensus changes, using fear of lawfare to coerce compliance with their desires.

Got kicked out of BIP444Forker Telegram for asking: "Assume we stripped Bitcoin of nearly all OP codes, leaving only basic send/recieve with public keys and hashes. Spam would still be easy to embed, while Bitcoin would be hobbled, so what's the measure for net success/failure?"

i consider myself a bitcoin maximalist. but not a reactive ignorant one, so i'm not identifying with some of this agro nonsense. focus on bitcoin long-term prospects, defending bitcoin for future generations. and live and let live, we don't have to agree about subjective topics.

The fact @SpeakerJohnson is doing everything possible to keep the names in those files from coming out tells you how rich and powerful the implicated men are. https://t.co/L9qT0Y9hPF

When leaders of my own party protect sex traffickers, spend our grandkids into oblivion, fund endless wars, lockdown our citizens, bailout corporations, bow to other countries, and hurt small farmers… …it’s true that I won’t be their yes man.

Them: Bitcoin is not a database! Hal: It's a decentralized database!

Reminder. The Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse was an attack by your government that almost succeeded in outlawing your access to crypto. We fought that war so future generations would have crypto freedom and monetary freedom. Sad to see the techniques of the state to

I'm not even sure BSV was this stupid, and that is saying a lot.

We have completed upgrading @CasaHODL's fleet of nodes to Bitcoin Core 30.0. Anyone who wishes to send us legal threats may direct them to the following address:

Discussing threats in an adversarial network that requires threat modelling, or even doing things others disagree but is allowed by the protocol does not make you a bad actor. @lopp @peterktodd aren’t bad actors. They are discussing facts about open networks and what is and

"As finance moves onchain, the market needs digitally native infrastructure that is flexible enough to support tokenized assets of all kinds within bankruptcy-remote structures." - @virtuallylaw 🔗 Learn more about how Surus is building for the onchain economy:

The same people telling me for years the Covenants are rushed, now want to rush a soft-fork due to... And hear me out clearly here... LEGAL REASONS! 🤣

If you actually used Bitcoin as money and cared about people using Bitcoin as money, you would understand that arbitrary data onchain has little effect on your ability to send payments through Lightning. But the filterors are just deploying smoke and mirrors, acting as if they

People you disagree with being able to use Bitcoin in ways you disapprove of is a feature not a bug. You know what? It's not just a feature, it's the whole reason for the system to exist.

Our Founder & CEO @virtuallylaw is heading to @money2020. If you are exploring stablecoin issuance, tokenizing RWAs or adding digital assets to your treasury holdings, let's talk. Learn more at https://t.co/ymdqGArl8s

It's not about CSAM. It was always about control. The filterors are no different than the big blockers.