Whether it was or not, it was broadly seen as, in part, his fault. Polling around the election seemed to indicate that Elon’s substantial engagement was counterproductive with many voters.

Nothing as *american* as making fun of politicians. So many people in the world don’t get to do that.

There’s nothing as universal as making fun of politicians. Left, right, or other, if you aren’t making fun of whoever’s in charge, you’re missing the best part of America.

After the judicial election, republicans viewed Elon as a massive political liability, but wanted to try to find a line where they could kick him out without pissing him off so much that he stopped donating money. That line was super unlikely to exist, so….

Elon v Trump lol

If you don’t recognize this as the fallout from the Wisconsin Judicial election, you aren’t paying attention.

The “save our wallets” campaign name was trying to capture that wallets are the things at risk (very specifically wallets, more specifically than developers or other groups). We could use the bill name but those things change (bills get included in larger bills, new versions come out with a new name, etc) so they’re sometimes hard to use as a brand.

Whether you love this administration or hate it (or, like most of us, are somewhere in between), what the next administration does we cannot predict. The only solution is a change to the laws that bind every administration!

We’ve got one shot at fixing the law or Americans simply won't have access to the best wallets available and US devs will be locked out of providing the best UX! It’s time for Bitcoiners to fight for our right to access our wallets, before it’s too late. As most of you know, under Biden, the DOJ decided that ancillary services to noncustodial wallets are MSBs, charging both Samurai Wallet and Tornado Cash with operating an unregistered Money Services Business (nevermind that no regulator would have accepted theirr registration!). The definition the DOJ used applies not just to privacy services, but also to lightning nodes, rollup sequencers, Ark, Spark, and more. Basically every technology anyone has come up with for providing better scalability, privacy, or user experience for cryptocurrencies requires some kind of ancillary service, the exact things that would be made illegal! While the Trump DOJ has (partially) walked that back, the next admin will be right back at it - the only solution is to get the law changed so that this isn't a risk in three years. Luckily, the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act was recently re-introduced by Reps Emmer and Torres to fix this issue, but they need our help! Please, please, pick up the phone and make a 5 minute call to congress, make clear that this is a simple straightforward amendment of the law to bring it in line with existing FinCEN rules. saveourwallets.org will give you the phone numbers to call for your zip code.

Hey, what you do after hours is on your time.

Sure they can, but the goal is to raise the cost. Why do we bother to encrypt anything? They can always get a court order and install a backdoor in your computer or bust down the door while things are unlocked - we do it to increase the cost - if they have to dedicate resources to monitoring they have to pick targets that (hopefully) actually have some reason behind them and cannot surveil everyone just for shits and giggles.

If you just hire them as actors dressed conservatively probably pretty well?

Just because you can draw an analogy to something physical doesn’t mean that people are going to learn the weird bitcoin-specific jargon and technologies. I’m sorry but you really need to spend more time talking to normies and newcoiners. And, to be clear, just because the tech happens to be a bit different doesn’t mean it can’t be used in a BIP (3)21. Even the thing demod here ends up in a QR code to provide a channel to send the token to.

Not your fingerprints, no they don’t. They also don’t know where you live until you give them a RealID…

If you’re in Bitcoin and you gave the Feds your fingerprints just for TSA PreCheck….🤦‍♂️

Every five years I go through old backups looking for wallets that might have money in them. And every five years I realize that was a total waste of time cause I’m looking through the same backups that were empty five years ago.

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You know you can have a single BIP (3)21 that supports receiving over lightning, Cashu, *and* on-chain, right? And that’s the sender wouldn’t have to know anything about the features their wallet supports or technical details of Bitcoin protocols?