Cofounder & CEO @FoundationHQ. Building Human Authority Hardware. Mechanical engineer, MBA dropout. Also tweets about health.

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Would be hilarious if Trump wins the election because the dems pissed off the Amish by raiding a farm that sells raw milk.
Amish turn out for Pennsylvania vote in ‘unprecedented numbers’: source trib.al/oftlDgY
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We are witnessing Google’s real-time censorship of the term “mass formation psychosis” as mentioned by @RWMaloneMD on @joerogan podcast. Don’t let them get away with it! Listen to the episode for yourself.
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This is why KYC is useless. The criminals have our drivers license scans. They have AI tools that can generate fake images and videos. KYC puts our identities at risk, makes onboarding more difficult, and rewards criminals.
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Is @jack the only billionaire that actually wants to make the world better?
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Most important Reddit post of the day? Was the market really on the verge of collapse? teddit.net/r/wallstreetbets/…
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The “never sell” Bitcoin crowd is so cringe. Bitcoin is meant to be used as a currency. Back in mid 2022 I decided to sell some Bitcoin at $23k to put towards a down payment on a house with my then-fiancée, several months before our wedding. I desperately wanted to buy a house and move out of our rented apartment in Boston. I knew Bitcoin would go up, but I also wanted a home. I have no regrets because I understood the tradeoffs. It’s good to have a low time preference and to hold Bitcoin as your savings account. But it’s also good to spend it. Whether contributing to the circular economy, making other investments, or buying important things for your family – it’s okay to spend Bitcoin.
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In Ledger’s 2021 funding round, they brag about how much crypto is stored on Ledger devices. Stop to think: how do they know this? The only way to know is to collect extended public keys. So Ledger Live knows your XPUBs and IP address 🤯
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Apple should have instead withdrew from the entire UK market, shut down all services, and allowed the population to hound their elected officials until regulators withdraw their insane backdoor request. Huge missed opportunity, huge capitulation.
BREAKING: Apple is pulling its end-to-end encryption feature — Advanced Data Protection — in the UK, in a stunning development after the government ordered the company to build a backdoor to user data. Apple is not complying. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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I've been deeply troubled by the widespread support for COVID vaccine mandates. It can be difficult to present a comprehensive argument against mandates – so I decided to write one! We must educate our family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers. zherbert.com/dismantling-the…
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I’m so sick and tired of these Bitcoin reserve policy proposals. Just eliminate capital gains tax on Bitcoin and get out of our way.
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Now we just need to eliminate capital gains tax so buying a burger isn't a taxable event. How the hell do we get mass adoption of BTC as a currency if you have to track your gains when you buy a burger? The IRS considers any unreported Bitcoin payment a tax violation.
Congratulations @SteaknShake on a seamless bitcoin payments experience, and shoutout to @speed_LN for an excellent integration! I paid for my burger, beef tallow fries, and chocolate milkshake with USDT on LN, and @SteaknShake received BTC. Worked like magic. Now to eat…🤤😋
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Can someone explain to me why all these collateralized Bitcoin lending products are at ~12% rate when I can get a HELOC for ~7%? The loans are overcollateralized. There is no risk to the lender.
Announcing Strike Lending You shouldn’t have to sell the best-performing asset in human history to access cash. Now you don't have to. Access your bitcoin wealth without selling it. Build a better life on top of bitcoin with @Strike. Borrow fiat. HODL #bitcoin.
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My unpopular opinion is that there would be enormous onchain activity if capital gains taxes did not apply. No one wants to make a purchase with bitcoin if you have to calculate and file taxes. It’s a nightmare for retail businesses as well. Eliminate cap gains on bitcoin.
Onchain activity is dead. Looks like we'll have to actually work to make desirable use cases people want to use instead of relying on crypto slop to fill up blocks.
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“Indirect exposure to a mixing service” @BlockFi this is brutal
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Spotted this morning in downtown Boston. I feel so much better that Gisele is advising @FTX_Official on how to be ESG compliant. What a relief.
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Bitcoin is the natural enemy of the CCP. They cannot coexist.
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Lower your time preference. Find the right person.
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I've been hesitating to post something like this at the risk of being canceled, but whatever, here it goes: Back in the earlier Bitcoin days (2013 for me), we often thought of altcoins as a sort of testnet. Good ideas that were implemented in certain altcoins may, eventually, after many years, arrive to Bitcoin as protocol improvements. Most Bitcoiners were at some point in their journey interested in altcoins. Many still are. Toxic maximalism only arrived later. There's an element to this toxic maximalism today, as I observe from the Core vs Knots debate, that says Bitcoin is perfect as is, it should begin to ossify, and all non-financial transactions are spam. I think this is a dangerous point of view. First, Bitcoin is an Internet protocol, and obviously cannot ever ossify. The most obvious example is quantum computing – if or when that happens, Bitcoin will need a protocol upgrade. Hopefully this upgrade will happen before quantum computing is viable. Second, re altcoins: Bitcoin has already learned a lot and is continuing to learn from experiments on altcoins. Calling them "shitcoiners" is nice for your social engagement and stirring up an angry mob. But here's a list of some things that started in altcoins and is now on Bitcoin, or is useful to Bitcoin, or is being worked on in Bitcoin related projects: - Namecoin and colored coins inspired the creation of OP_RETURN. - SegWit was implemented on Litecoin before it came to Bitcoin. - Ring signatures and stealth addresses, pioneered by Monero, influenced Bitcoin privacy research and concepts like scriptless scripts and Silent Payments. - Zero-knowledge proofs (Zcash and beyond) accelerated exploration of zk-based verification and client proofs for Bitcoin. - MimbleWimble introduced new ways to aggregate and compress transactions – ideas that informed work on CoinJoin efficiency, CTV, and general scalability discussions. - Utreexo, which is promising tech and has been discussed at Bitdevs meetups, implemented on Siacoin this year. In my opinion, Bitcoin Core developers should be aware of all developments in the industry and looking to bring the best technology to Bitcoin, in a slow and methodical way. Third, what is spam? I genuinely do not know what spam is. I've heard Knots supporters say that spam is any kind of "non-financial transaction" – but this is a slippery slope. Let's talk about BIP47, for example, which enables reusable payment codes (like PayNym). BIP47 notification transactions include an OP_RETURN output. Does this mean payment codes are considered spam by Knots supporters? Knots supporters might say to that "no, of course not, they use tiny amounts of data anyway, so it's okay if we just restrict the maximum size of an OP_RETURN." So what stops a "scammer" from doing multiple smaller transactions then? And what if I develop a better privacy protocol that requires larger OP_RETURNs than allowed? Do I have to go beg the Core developers to change the defaults? Is it a "non-financial" transaction? To be even more controversial – back when I got into Bitcoin, I liked the idea of everything converging into Bitcoin. Bitcoin's proof of work will continue consuming more and more computing resources (as Saylor and many others rightfully say). The Bitcoin network and protocol will be the most secure, decentralized, resilient protocol in the world. Well then, you can't have it both ways – why are you averse to everyone coming and building on our open, decentralized protocol? I thought we cared about freedom and sovereignty. I thought we wanted a healthy fee market. I thought we are worried about what happens after the last block reward is mined. I thought we want full blocks. Now I hear Knots supporters saying "get away from our Bitcoin, our perfect money, go do your own thing, do your own blockchain." Why aren't we all saying "come build on Bitcoin?" As technology progresses, and as there is demand for more tech to be built on Bitcoin, Core devs have historically upgraded the protocol (slowly and carefully). Lightning, for example, was the culmination of years of Core protocol work: 2016: CSV, relative timelocks → channel mechanics 2017: SegWit → malleability fix & efficiency 2018: Bech32 → cleaner Lightning addresses 2021: Taproot → more private, advanced channels Lightning would have never happened if we had ossified the protocol. You want to scale Bitcoin to 10 billion users? Then you'd be insane to ossify the protocol. So I'm saying it, loud and clear. I want everything built on Bitcoin. I want the Bitcoin network to be the most important and resilient network on Earth, and I want all value to flow into Bitcoin. I want to enable everyone to permissionlessly build on Bitcoin. And I want the Core devs to continuously improve the protocol. Thanks for reading.
Vitalik already made a place for Spammers. It’s called Ethereum. I don’t think it’s wise to make more places for spammers on or adjacent to Bitcoin. If you know, you Knots. Filters up. ✊🏼🫡
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I've held off commenting on Core vs Knots, because my general position is that Bitcoiners should be allowed to do whatever they want – I'm in it for censorship resistant money and an open source, decentralized protocol. I have no interest in telling others what they should do, what software they should run, etc. I'm just focused on building good hardware (and software) to empower Bitcoiners to secure the keys to their coins and further stay safe and secure online. That being said...I've been a Bitcoiner for almost 12 years now and have some to realize that Luke has some kind of mental illness. Not the "on the spectrum" stuff, but actually some kind of mental illness. And I think he's convinced a lot of Bitcoiners that he is some kind of autistic genius. I think a lot of amazing Bitcoiners (so many of whom I follow) have been misled. I'm not technical enough at the protocol level to give an in depth opinion, but my general opinion is if you have to censor others' use of the protocol – because you don't like what they are doing – then you are in the wrong. It's a slippery slope from that to censoring transactions you don't agree with. Simple. These leaked messages are completely off the rails and are a major threat to Bitcoin. I thought the next big threat would be quantum (in many years from now), but it turns out the big threat is a potential network schism led by a mentally ill individual. The "loss" of Luke's personal coins and the corresponding "hack" of his server are weird. I'll post below a couple of my old tweets. Effectively, he was begging for money in 2021, implying that he was poor, before it later came out that he had over 200 coins (which were then later stolen...). The whole thing stinks. This guy should not be your hero. You've been misled. The Bitcoin Core project is not perfect. But the core developers have enabled Bitcoin to grow to one of the world's largest financial assets while remaining decentralized. Not a single other crypto project has done that. It's slow moving. It's contentious. It's imperfect. It's driven by numerous personalities. But it's worked so far. Better to get involved in Core than try to blow everything up that we've worked so hard on for so long. Thank you for your attention to this matter.
🚨LEAKED: LUKE DASHJR PLANS HARDFORK TO "SAVE BITCOIN" Text messages show the Knots maintainer is considering a hardfork to implement a trusted multisig committee that can retrospectively alter the blockchain to remove illicit content. Full story👇 therage.co/leaked-luke-dashj…
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Somehow the fiancée found out that I like Bitcoin
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As someone who has recommended @saifedean’s The Bitcoin Standard to many people over the years…what a disaster and embarrassment of an interview. Do not think I can recommend his work anymore
"Are you saying I believe that because my grandfather was Jewish?" @KonstantinKisin EXPOSES Deranged Pro-Palestine @saifedean
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Terrifying how our elites are so quick to cancel the Russian people as a whole. Deplatform an entire country from the global financial system, destroy their stock market, decimate their life savings. This can happen to your country at any moment.
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In ~24 hours: - Kazakhstan government shuts down country's internet, then resigns - Italy declares mandatory vax for age 50+ - France's Macron says unvaxed are not citizens - Canada's Trudeau blames unvaxed for lockdowns, missed surgeries, missed cancer screenings
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Feels like something out of House of Cards
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If you asked me a few years ago, I would not have expected almost $100k with such low fees
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Nuremberg Code: “The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essential…without the intervention of any element of force, fraud, deceit, duress, overreaching, or other ulterior form of constraint or coercion”
.@NYCMayor De Blasio defends vax mandates: “Human beings are pretty predictable. If you say, ‘Your paycheck depends on it, or your ability to enjoy life, and go do the things you want to do,’ people will make the practical decision … but we’re not pushing hard enough"
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Sat outside at a restaurant today. Was asked by 2 staff to confirm our dog was a service dog. Was asked if we were over 21. Was told we must order food by the time drinks arrive. Was told to remove water bottle from table. 250 years ago, Bostonians went to war over a tax on tea
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Yesterday I spoke at the @BOSCityCouncil hearing about Boston's ongoing state of emergency and the public COVID mandate (vax pass). While @MayorWu lifted the public mandate, she's still pursuing her city employee mandate. This is reprehensible and needs to be better publicized.
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I am in awe of my incredible wife for delivering our first child, my son, with an unmedicated birth. What a primal, beautiful, and overwhelmingly spiritual experience.
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.@SenWarren is a disgrace to Massachusetts, birthplace of the American Revolution. How did she start with “consumer protection” and end with protecting the banks? She will leave no political legacy. Not even a footnote in history.
this bill from @SenWarren massively expands the bank secrecy act, imposing bank-like KYC rules on non-custodial software products, including FOSS. and it’s gaining steam with 5 new co-sponsors 👀 this would be disastrous for #bitcoin and crypto in USA warren.senate.gov/newsroom/p…
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The more I think about it, the only way Bitcoin wins in the long-term is for every wallet to implement CoinJoin and PayJoin. You can't have a superior money without fungibility. Canada should be a wake up call for everyone in the Bitcoin space.
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Ledger knows your IP address, they know exactly how much crypto you have. They know your mailing address and your email address. And worse, they don't understand why it's wrong to collect this private data. They brag about it!
People should be terrified that @Ledger can claim for marketing how much crypto their users collectively have 🙈 Is your crypto/Bitcoin part of their 20% figure? If so, get it out now. 👇
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I feel bad for the awesome Tesla employees that contributed to @BtcpayServer
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No need to buy multiple hardware wallets, Yubikeys, encrypted flash drives. No need to figure out how to use Google Authenticator with cloud disabled. Secure your entire digital life. That’s why we made Passport Prime.
Introducing Passport Prime – Your Personal Security Platform! We’re thrilled to present Passport Prime, the world’s first personal security platform designed to secure your Bitcoin and your entire digital life. Think: A Swiss Army Knife for your online security.
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I don’t want my tax dollars (and printed money) to be used for any “reserve”; I want to see capital gains tax itself eliminated.
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Why Ledger is really killing the Nano S. Ledger had announced back in 2022 that they were phasing out the Nano S, and has now finally confirmed that 2025 is the last year the device will receive firmware and app updates. If you grab your Nano S out of a drawer in late 2026, it might not work with the apps you are using, or there may be an unpatched vulnerability. This means that, effectively, anyone who owns a Nano S must upgrade or risk loss of funds. There’s been rightful uproar on X, but also some defending Ledger. The defenders argue that: 1) The Nano S is old. It’s been on the market since 2016. 2) It’s prone to breaking or malfunctioning after owning for several years. 3) New Ledger devices, including the Nano S Plus and Stax + Flex, are much better in terms of memory and performance. While these arguments are true, they miss a few key points. First, Ledger sold the Nano S until Q1 2022. This means that many customers purchased in 2022, and have only owned their devices for just over three years. This is barely any time in the tech world. Apple, for example, is still updating 6-year-old devices to iOS 26 (iPhone 11). Second, this is a hardware wallet, and basic security updates are important. User expectations for hardware wallets should be higher than for a smartphone. Apple, for example, typically releases security updates for ~10 years, long after it stops updating iOS. There’s no technical reason why a 10-year-old Ledger Nano S should not be able to receive security updates. Third, apps on Ledger are open source and could be community-maintained. The Bitcoin app, Ethereum app, and so on are all open source. There’s no technical reason that Ledger can’t simply fork these apps and maintain a separate version for the Nano S that contains less frequent, more modest updates. Or, if Ledger does not want to maintain it themselves, they can still allow the community to maintain them. Unfortunately, the Ledger app platform is a walled garden – and only Ledger can approve apps that are listed in Ledger Live. Four, there is nothing fundamentally broken with the Nano S. It just has a lot less memory and can do less than the newer Ledger devices. Millions of crypto users own Nano S devices. It makes no sense to stop accepting “new application submissions, feature enhancements, or app updates” from developers. Ledger hasn’t clearly explained why they’re ending support – just vague references to memory constraints. In my opinion, Ledger is taking this dramatic action to push users to upgrade to their newer devices. If I had to guess (I have no insider information), Nano S represents at least half of their 7.5 million devices sold. I’d guess around 4 million Nano S devices are in the wild. Converting these customers to newer devices would represent well over half a billion dollars of potential revenue. Ledger is also using uncertain language in their announcement, potentially meant to spark user concern and confusion. Ledger instructs developers in yesterday’s update to tell their communities that “continued full support for your blockchain app/wallet/service on the Nano S may not be guaranteed.” This lack of clarity is clearly causing user concern and panic, as as evidenced by reactions on X. This is the danger of closed source hardware, running a closed source operating system, with a walled garden app platform. Developers have no control. They need permission from Ledger to do anything. They can’t review the firmware code and report or fix bugs. They can’t develop an app without going through the approval process. They can’t customize the UI of their app; they are stuck with severely limited capabilities offered by the OS. To Ledger users and developers: you are not stuck. A better way is coming soon. Our new @foundationhq Passport Prime is fully open source, assembled in the USA, and runs KeyOS – enabling an open, permissionless app platform. We are already partnered with @cakewallet for the first app, and we are onboarding new app partners as we speak. Passport Prime is shipping in the coming weeks to our Early Access users. We will soon be announcing an easy way for Ledger users to seamlessly switch to Passport Prime and maintain all functionality. Stay tuned!
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Don’t even know what to say. FinCEN guidance was clear. They did the right thing and had counsel give them a legal opinion that their CoinJoin service was not breaking the law. And then they were arrested and jailed anyway.
🚨NEW: Rodriguez was sentenced to 60 months in prison (the maximum statutory sentence), 3 years of supervision and a fine of $250k.
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Update: set for life.
Lower your time preference. Find the right person.
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I have a crazy idea for the X algo. What if it just showed me posts from the accounts I follow?
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A lot has been cooking over here in addition to our announcement of Passport Prime. Baby #1 arriving in April!
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Replying to @nunchuk_io
You should have a lawyer respond, be careful here.
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If anyone lives in Massachusetts just north of Boston and wants an Amish delivery hookup, DM me!
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Massively excited to soon show you all what we’ve been working on for the last 18 months. It’s not a hardware wallet. It’s an entirely new category of device.
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Over 9 years ago, I asked r/bitcoin how to learn to code for Bitcoin. Mike Hearn, NVK, and others kindly offered advice. @foundationhq now employs 20 Bitcoiners and makes some of the best Bitcoin hardware and software, all open source. I am humbled. teddit.net/r/Bitcoin/comment…
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What I wear as a hardware wallet cofounder casually taking the dog for a walk while thinking about Balland’s kidnapping
Confirmation that @Ledger co-founder David Balland was kidnapped and a cryptocurrency ransom was demanded. He was rescued by GIGN and multiple suspects are in custody. H/T @cryptocratie leparisien.fr/faits-divers/l…
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The original Ledger Nano did not have a screen. Ledger quickly realized that was a mistake. Imagine your phone is compromised and displays a fake address. Only a screen on your hardware wallet can stop this attack! Truly sad to see Bitkey, a decade later, repeat this mistake.
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This is the law that we should be lobbying for – 100x more important than Bitcoin reserves. Eliminate capital gains -> viability as a currency & medium of exchange.
Missouri moves to become the first U.S. state to eliminate capital gains tax on #Bitcoin with the passage of HB 594.
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I wrote this blog post almost three years ago. I decided not to publish it at the time because it seemed like NVK was backing down, and I don't do drama. Now though, with mainstream influencers weighing in, it's time to put this matter to rest. zherbert.com/an-open-letter-…
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Mayor of Boston calling her own residents “trolls” for expressing anger and frustration at the vaccine mandates and unending state of emergency. Over a quarter of Boston’s minorities are unvaxed and excluded from society, fired from their city jobs.
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Mayor of Boston, folks.
“I’m getting used to dealing w problems that are expensive, disruptive & White”. -Boston Mayor Michelle Wu #Boston, @MayorWu has finally shown her true colors. This isn’t funny. This is disgusting. #ShameOnWu @CotterReporter @TuckerCarlson @HowieCarrShow @DoctorTurtleboy
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Coinkite's BBQr: A Troubling Development in Bitcoin Airgapped Wallet Standards When building one of the first airgapped hardware wallets over in 2020, we @foundationhq understood the importance of open source collaboration. Instead of inventing our own protocol for sending data via animated QRs, we supported @BlockchainComns nascent UR (Unified Resources) standard. github.com/BlockchainCommons… Blockchain Commons, an amazing nonprofit led by @ChristopherA and @WolfMcNally, was in the early stages of developing this standard – at the time UR1.0. We supported UR1.0 in our first generation Passport and urged other software and hardware wallets to support it. We ported UR to Python and currently maintain the Python library. github.com/Foundation-Device… We also began supporting Blockchain Commons with monthly donations and have encouraged them to develop industry standards for cross-wallet communication and compatibility. Now in its second iteration, UR2.0 has achieved widespread support, used by virtually every Bitcoin wallet that supports airgapped transactions. Hardware: @foundationhq Passport, @SeedSigner, @Blockstream Jade, @SpecterWallet DIY, Krux, @KeystoneWallet. Software: @foundationhq Envoy, @bluewalletio, @SpecterWallet, @nunchuk_io, @CasaHODL, @bitcoinKeeper_, @BtcpayServer, Simple Bitcoin Wallet. With such widespread adoption, UR2.0 has become the industry standard for airgapped data transmission in Bitcoin. But yesterday, Coinkite announced their own, competing standard for airgapped QRs called "BBQr" bbqr.org. Instead of collaborating with Blockchain Commons and the dozen+ wallets using UR2.0, Coinkite decided to just do their own thing. As usual. Coinkite touted BBQr as "simpler, low dependency & very compressed Bitcoin Static/Animated QRs." But that's because they aren't considering all the edge cases of supporting different hardware, screen sizes, and use cases for QRs. Yes, BBQr is somewhat simpler and slightly more efficient than UR2.0 – but at cost of reliability, since missing a single code means all codes must be displayed again! This is untenable especially for larger multisig transactions. As an industry standard, UR2.0 was designed to be more powerful and more general across numerous use cases. BBQr is just not very well thought out. So why didn't Coinkite embrace UR2.0? If they had ideas to make it better, why didn't they talk to Blockchain Commons and collaborate on improving UR? I think it's because Coinkite doesn't like some of the users. They don't like Foundation, they don't like Seedsigner. They probably hate that Foundation made the Python UR2.0 library (which would be very easy to integrate into Coldcard!). They don't understand open source. They relicensed Coldcard to source-available. Opendime, TapSigner, and Satscard are all fully closed source. They don't collaborate with competitors on setting industry standards. UR2.0 is available for any wallet to use, even beyond QRs. It could be perfect, for example, for transmitting data via NFC. There are several robust libraries for integrating UR2.0 into your wallet. And there's an amazing Blockchain Commons community to answer your questions. If you'd like to support @BlockchainComns, learn about their work here: blockchaincommons.com/
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- Biden says you must keep your kids away from unvaxed - NYC's DA to stop seeking prison sentences for armed robbery - Australia detains and deports Novak Djokovic ...but everything is okay, right?
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This is why we gave Passport rounded corners
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I think Boston is done. Will likely move to NH this year. "I think the public health emergency now is of such a nature that it outweighs the competing claims of harm ..." - Judge Jeffrey Locke Mass Formation; vax mandate is obviously not stopping COVID. bostonherald.com/2022/01/12/…
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The house stores the guns, Andrew. Dont worry.
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How to buy raw milk in Massachusetts
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I don’t think a strategic reserve should be #1 priority Top priority should be eliminating capital gains tax and refunding those taxes paid over the last decade This will also enable Bitcoin payments at scale, since there will no longer be any tax burden for users
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This is the worst thing @nvk has done. He actually sent a cease and desist letter to an open source developer who made an open Blockclock competitor (btcclock) AND sent a trademark claim to GitHub who took down the repo. NVK has harmed open source more than any other Bitcoiner.
Where @NVK and @theBLOCKCLOCK take down a FOSS competitors repos and websites using a vague trademark takedown request and legal cease-and-desist, instead of, you know, talking to them about changing their name. No one should touch the tools @NVK builds, as you're funding one of the worst, most anti-freedom, anti-open source individuals in the space. This is only one of MANY examples of this type of behavior where @NVK lashes out and uses legal attacks to shut down competition, personal relationships to lock competitors out of sponsoring or supporting events he is at, or abusing his platform to harass and intimidate FOSS projects like @foundationhq and @SeedSigner. P.S. -- this is the same guy who gets a say in what open source projects @OpenSats funds as he sits on the board of directors. Enough is enough.
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Is it possible to have a substantive conversation about hardware wallet pros & cons without inviting anger and attacks from all sides? Here’s my attempt at a non-biased thread!
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I just published my thoughts on @wutrain's upcoming Boston COVID vaccine mandate – but my thoughts are likely applicable to any city implementing mandates. Most concerning, the mandate will disproportionately impact minorities. Details in this thread👇 zherbert.com/boston-vaccine-…
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So, from what I can tell: 1. Hospital is hit by some kind of projectile 2. Hamas immediately says it was Israel 3. All major media runs story saying it was Israel 4. Israel takes some time to investigate, says it was a terrorist rocket fallen short 5. Major media doesn't update their headlines. 6. Israel releases video evidence that it was a terrorist rocket exploding midair and falling into the hospital parking lot 7. Major media tweaks their headlines a bit 8. More crowdsourced evidence that a terrorist rocket broke up midair and fell on hospital (nitter.app/GeoConfirmed/sta…) 9. Entire Arab world blames Israel 10. Massive escalation occurring Really sad day for the world.
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Let’s be clear. Free and open source software (and hardware) is important. “Open source” has a widely recognized definition. If you are not FOSS, you are “source available” – not “open source.” Challenging the definition for business reasons dilutes the open source movement.
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First time the X algo really nailed it
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Replying to @100trillionUSD
How would you do that without a tax event?
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Big @SiaTechHQ milestone today – the network just reached 600 TB in used storage! That’s over 20% growth in the last 30 days and over 250% growth so far in 2019.
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The problem with running a single Bitaxe is that I keep checking every 10 minutes to see if I solo-mined a block.
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I love this reframing. You hold BTC as more USD is printed. USD devalues over time compared to your Bitcoin holdings. You then want to convert some BTC into USD and are hit with what they call a Capital Gains Tax. But it's not cap gains – it's a mandatory Fiat Devaluation Tax!
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3/ here’s how we do it: public addresses are sent by Ledger Live to our $BTC and $ETH nodes. Our data team then analyzes public information available on-chain to estimate the total value linked to these addresses.
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Not free until the cases against Samourai wallet and Tornado Cash are dropped.
This is the week where decades happened. Crypto is now legal. AI is now free. The entire blue empire is being shut down by executive order. And after the postwar order, we enter the post-Internet order.
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I don’t think we’ll ever achieve medium of exchange until capital gains taxes are eliminated
Now we just need to eliminate capital gains tax so buying a burger isn't a taxable event. How the hell do we get mass adoption of BTC as a currency if you have to track your gains when you buy a burger? The IRS considers any unreported Bitcoin payment a tax violation.
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Do your part to support the Amish, buy their raw dairy products, and consume raw milk daily!
I’ve been perfecting the at home cortado. Today is a triumphant day. Raw milk of course.
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This is nonsense because all we have to do is receive natural gas from surrounding states and Canada. Massachusetts inexplicably exports our natural gas instead from third world countries on LNG ships. We could slash our electric and gas costs by 2/3 with proper policies.
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Agreed. RIP Peanut.
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Too much drama. Too much focus on treasury companies and government adoption. Same podcast guests, same topics. Drifting away from cypherpunk roots and values. AI slop everywhere. Better to just build instead of wading into the public debates.
I’m convinced that many Bitcoiners have less BTC now than they did last bull market. There’s no enthusiasm anymore and seems like many have gone quiet/inactive.
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Should we send NVK a Cease & Desist for the nonsense claims on the new coldcard.com?
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First @foundationhq Passport Prime off the line today! Dialing in the manufacturing process. Come see it in Vegas next week for the first time! Hoping to start shipping in the weeks after the conference.
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Insane that we have to jump through so many hoops just to get Apple to approve our updates, but they let these malicious scam apps into the store.
Replying to @SatsScholar
The malicious app that everyone should stay away from is sparrow wallet in the iOS App Store. There is no mobile app for the real sparrow wallet. Be careful out there everyone.
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Boston has been pushed to its limits in the last 2 years. Where I live, in the Financial District, around half the retail stores are closed. Office employees are now working remotely, and tourists are no longer able to travel. Downtown is desolate.
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NVK might have an aneurysm when we announce what we've been building
✨Beyond the Hardware Wallet Stay ahead of the curve - something new is coming. 12.16.24
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New blog post! @SiaTechHQ will be the first non-financial application of blockchain tech to scale to tens of thousands of users and beyond. Our industry deserves to see useful, scalable, and realistic applications. blog.sia.tech/meet-sia-the-m…
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Another major loss for Boston’s @MayorWu. If she can’t mandate a vax for her own employees, then mandating a vax on the entire city seems even more ludicrous. What a horrible first several weeks in office. What a waste of time and energy.
The appeals court has sided with the city's public-safety unions, throwing out a lower-court judge's ruling and installing an injunction preventing Mayor Michelle Wu from enforcing the employee vaccine mandate. trib.al/xW7WWu7
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Fight for fungibility. Otherwise Bitcoin fails in the long term. Without fungibility there is ultimately no privacy. Without privacy there is ultimately no freedom, no sovereignty.
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In the wake of the Ledger Recover controversy, I've been thinking more about wallet security architecture. So many are looking forward to @blocks "hardware wallet" – but I think Bitkey is dangerous for sovereign Bitcoin use. Summary 🧵 below. zherbert.com/bitkey/
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After being a father for 6 weeks, the most surprising thing I’ve observed is that young women won’t even look at our baby when we’re out and about. I don’t remember it being this way when I was younger. What does it say about modern society?
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Replying to @freemarketghost
Important nuance and I largely agree
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I am struggling to imagine a future where everyone is carrying around always-listening, always-watching AI devices that send all our data to OpenAI servers. It still feels incredibly dystopian, right out of Black Mirror.
WSJ on Jony Ive and Sam Altman’s OpenAI device: • The product will be capable of being fully aware of a user's surroundings and life, will be unobtrusive, able to rest in one's pocket or on one's desk, and will be a third core device a person would put on a desk after a MacBook Pro and an iPhone. • The Journal earlier reported that the device won't be a phone, and that Ive and Altman's intent is to help wean users from screens. • Altman said that the device isn't a pair of glasses, and that Ive had been skeptical about building something to wear on the body. via: wsj.com/tech/ai/what-sam-alt…
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This thread is completely insane. I didn’t know any of this was taking place. Directed energy weapons against peaceful protestors?
1. Short Thread on LRAD / DEW Directed Energy Weapons against Aus Peaceful Protestors
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Knots supporters would likely be against any privacy on Bitcoin because they would not be able to see or control what other people do on the network. They would likely create huge amounts of FUD, saying things like “Core is putting a target on our backs” “Core is shitcoining like Monero” “now the government is going to ban Bitcoin”
I assume bitcoiners realize that a well functioning layer1 privacy mechanism would typically make anti-spam filtering information-theoretically impossible. Even the committed transactions proposal from 2013 would have this effect.
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Replying to @lyfscraft
Brick or stone masonry Energy recovery ventilators for fresh air Water softening / whole home filtration / UV filter / Reverse Osmosis with remineralization Whole home humidifier and dehumidifier Plumbed-in espresso machine Gym / sauna Wired ethernet to every room
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Downtown Boston covered with trash. @MayorWu it would be nice if you could walk around the city and take care of basic services, like snow removal and garbage cleanup. Instead of spending all your energy on mandates.
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Our @foundationhq Passport Prime runs KeyOS, a new Rust-based microkernel operating system that is designed for maximum security without compromising on usability or performance. We've been building KeyOS for 2 years. I'm excited to share the first walkthrough video!
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I did politely ask to be removed from his site before I said anything publicly.
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Replying to @SnazzyLabs
Agreed. It demonstrates a failure of product vision at Apple. You don’t spend years cultivating a MagSafe ecosystem to just rip it out of a $600 phone. Less than $1 in parts. A better compromise would have been MagSafe with slower charging speeds.
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Replying to @singingbirth
interesting, is this similar in principle to the work of Dr Sarno? Ie most conditions caused by emotional repression, chiefly anxiety and anger.
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It really does feel like a big push for WWIII. Constant rhetoric like "NATO should establish a no fly zone" actually means "NATO should shoot down Russian planes" – this is how you start a world war.
The war propaganda coming from the Ukrainian government is out of control. Out of freaking control. The politicians in place there are trying to start WWIII.
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