Natalie Smolenski
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Strategic Partnerships @Hyland / Executive Director @txbitcoinfound / Senior Fellow @btcpolicyorg / Anthropologist
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http://www.nataliesmolenski.com 04-01-2012 02:52:50
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“Lowering the costs of self-custody is the most important macro objective right now in the Bitcoin universe. Getting those costs down both in terms of material costs and technical complexity are a critical evolution of the project of human liberty.” -Natalie Smolenski (👉 @seedsigner )
According to Gov. Abbott’s own post, he is violating the First Amendment. A governor can’t lawfully arrest people for protesting or for “hate speech.” If he’s arresting them for other reasons, then he should say so. If he’s arresting them for their speech, then he’s violating the…
“The state has to be aware that if they push, society will push back, and that creates the opportunity, the opening, for freedom.”
-Natalie Smolenski WBD804
Amazing that a chip bricked in 46-yr-old Voyager I, preventing it from sending data, and NASA figured out how to split up and reallocate its functions to other hardware, sending code 15 billion miles away (45 hours round trip!)--and Voyager's back online. blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/0…
My colleague Deirdre Nansen McCloskey concludes that, contra his own perception, it's the likes of Joe Stiglitz who are fundamentalists on economics. Her review of his new book.
archive.ph/2024.04.15-190…
Peace, Bruv What'sApp uses the Signal Protocol to protect the contents of comms--what you say. But it doesn't protect things like your contact list, profile name, who's in a group chat, who's messaging whom, etc. Signal protects all of these. This is a very important differentiator.