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Founder @newinternetlabs #bitcoin @stacks sailing ⛵️ #npub132w0sg64x08h2klxvytsamgcu63qqmk8d2yv8ltay8nvzwahk6wsyg2j8n

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12 days
A groundbreaking prototype for the future of naming on @Stacks from the CTO of @Ryder_ID , and the developer behind .
@MarvinJanssen
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I'm happy to share a prototype for a next-generation name system on @Stacks , based on my experience building .btc and other projects. This crypto-first approach reimagines the traditional "blockchain name system" model. Link at the end of the thread. 1/
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It’s time to start a movement to get more people to Wear Fucking Masks. We need to dispel the myth that mask wearing in public is only for people in Asia. #WearAFuckingMask #WeekendProject 1/
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Hong Kong: 4 Oct 2019: Anti-Mask Law 27 Mar 2020: Mandatory Mask Law
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4 years
Good morning Hong Kong! #Bitcoin is here for you.
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2 years
The point of money is to not "Know Your Customer"
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4 years
Dear Programmers, Stop requiring postal codes. They're not a universal thing. Thx
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5 years
World’s first lightning-enabled bitcoin ATM created this weekend by @FelixWeis at the @bitcoinorghk Lightning Hack Day. ⚡️
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4 years
@RyutaroUchiyama @balajis Like Singapore, Hong Kong releases similar COVID-19 information. People in other places (ie. larger countries) should ask themselves what they're paying their governments for if they can't even get these basics right.
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6 years
“I own the horse track, I don’t need to bet on the horses” @CryptoHayes
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Historical photos from the 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak in the US, Europe and Asia. Everyone is wearing masks. How did the Western world lose this knowledge and develop an anti-mask culture?
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3 years
It is fitting that the failed 20 year, $2 trillion war & occupation collapses on the 50th anniversary of the collapsing Fiat US Dollar that funded it.
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5 years
That Facebook announced Libra during Asia, Africa & European business hours while the Americas is asleep shows you where they think their market is.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
5 years
Tried to pay for lunch and Apple Pay gave me a glimpse into a dystopian future where centralized, permissioned digital money doesn’t work when it doesn’t want to. This our future in a world without bitcoin.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
2 years
My proposal to bring globally unique BNS names to Nostr. Feedback much appreciated!
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
6 months
Spotted in Hong Kong’s Times Square this afternoon: 3.97 MB of bitcoin block beauty. #Runestone
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
@lopp The free market is why we can easily buy masks in Hong Kong. Why does the USA hate the free market so much?
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5 years
Aging is a disease. We will cure it.
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3 years
22k people in Twitter Spaces. RIP Clubhouse.
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4 years
It’s @getumbrel time!
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3 years
We're building Stacks on #bitcoin . You can quote us, disagree with us, glorify or vilify us. About the only thing you can't do is ignore us. We change things. We will push the human race forward.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
2 years
@sovrynmindset @saifedean Looking forward to the “Maximizing Monetary Meltdowns” panel discussion with SBF, Montgomery Burns and Yellen moderated by He Who Must Not Be Named.
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5 years
Don’t believe there’s a war on cash? This wtf FATF propaganda from the FT tries to convince readers that Japan’s low crime, desire for financial privacy & distrust of banks is an “addiction” that needs to be painfully “cured”
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
7 years
Audit the Fed - Buy Bitcoin
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
5 years
Evil people build things where they as insiders can be evil. The more evil made possible for them the more they like it. Non-evil people build things to minimize the threats from evil people, insider or outsider alike. Learned this from @NickSzabo4
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4 years
Here are some Fucking easy rules we all should follow: 1. I will #StayTheFuckHome 2. If I can not #StayTheFuckHome , I will #WearAFuckingMask 3. I will not make fun of other people who #WearAFuckingMask 7/
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
6 years
Testing out the new @lightning iOS neutrino wallet. Who wants some testnet lightning bitcoins? Send me an invoice!
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7 years
Announcing the Public Alpha of the Blockstack Browser
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
5 years
“Some people think I’m still a maximalist...they haven’t been paying attention” “The data doesn’t fit the reality” “There will not be one chain” “Like it or not, that’s what I see. That’s where we’re going” @aantonop
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Background: I lived through SARS in 2003 and was one of those people that didn’t wear a Fucking mask: “Fucking masks can’t filter viruses. Fucking Masks are for Fucking cowards.” I was Fucking wrong. I Fucking missed the point. #WearAFuckingMask 2/
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
6 years
Excited to announced the developer preview of our Blockstack mobile developer toolkits for iOS and Android! Mobile dapps are coming soon to a phone near you...
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Fucking surgical masks keep you from spraying droplets on other people when you talk, cough or sneeze. These droplets might contain Fucking viruses which will Fucking infect other people. #WearAFuckingMask 3/
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
6 years
Packed house at the Berlin Lightning Hack Day #bitcoin
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Thanks to the free market, Hong Kong has masks available in every pharmacy and shops are overflowing with disinfectants and toliet paper. Good on the government for not giving into some people’s calls for price controls & rationing. #coronavirus
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
6 years
Steal your citizens' money in 4 easy steps 1. Create fiat demand with legal tender laws and taxes (1862) 2. Accumulate reserve as citizens buy fiat with money (gold) 3. Seize remaining reserve money (1933) 4. Abandon fiat-reserve convertibility (1933, 1971) h/t @evoskuil
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Our goal is to reduce the growth rate in #COVID -19 cases so that they don’t Fucking exceed healthcare system capacity. This is called Flattening the Fucking Curve. Fucking Masks can help us do this. #FlattenTheCurve #WearAFuckingMask 8/
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
3 years
Under a bitcoin standard, governments will be constrained from undemocratic forever wars. Excellent article by @gladstein
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6 years
Vegan or Carnivore, Bitcoin don’t care, it doesn’t give a shit, it’s hungry!
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“I have unhealthy levels of exposure to Bitcoin. Let’s say my non-exposure to Bitcoin is less than 1%” @muneeb
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
5 years
“I feel like I’ve physically entered crypto twitter” @XanDitkoff #MCC2019
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
3 years
@svoight @HaiderSF @lightning @OKCoin I just deposited 1,000,000 sats into @OKCoin with my @getumbrel node via Lightning! It appeared instantly and cost only 2 sats! That was AMAZING! ⚡️
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
2 years
Attention @stacks OGs: Your .id BNS names expire next Wednesday and today is the day to renew them. I'm excited to announce RenewBNS, our tool to renew your BNS names.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Tuesday, America goes to vote. I won’t be voting because two years ago I renounced US citizenship. Today, I share my story of expatriation in the hope that it will help others on their journey for personal freedom. 1/n
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
The people behind me were Fucking coughing and Fucking sneezing. I could Fucking feel their Fucking droplet projectiles flying by my Fucking bald head. It was Not Fucking Cool. I wish they had worn Fucking masks. #WearAFuckingMask 5/
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
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10 years ago today, @stacks launched on Hacker News as OneName. I saw it on that day and reached out to @ryaneshea & @muneeb asking for the name "larry" and it's been turtles all the way down ever since!  Looking forward for the next 10 years!
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
7 years
Bitcoin is front page news...crazy times...
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Fucking masks protect other people as much or even more than they Fucking protect you. Even if you are young and healthy, you could be unknowingly infected and spread the virus to others. Don’t be a Super Spreader. No one likes them. #WearAFuckingMask 6/
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
3 years
My reading for the Chinese New Year holiday. Can’t wait to get started! Thanks @saifedean !
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
3 years
We don't need your permission to build on #bitcoin .
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
5 years
Twitter wants me to tell it my birthday. They offer to pay me profile balloons on my birthday.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
5 years
It’s snowing at #Consensus2019 in New York. Does this mean Crypto winter is back? ❄️
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Visit to learn more about why you should wear a Fucking mask. Download mask images to add to your profile picture and post a mask selfie to show your support. Together we can change Fucking behavior and save some Fucking lives. #WearAFuckingMask 9/
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
3 years
Last night’s Hong Kong #bitcoin meetup was great fun! Lightning ⚡️ payment worked very well! The restaurant bought the dip!
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
The turning point for me was in February 2020 when I was on a Fucking flight from Hong Kong to Hanoi. Everyone on the Fucking flight, except for the row of people ahead and behind me, was wearing a Fucking mask. #WearAFuckingMask 4/
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
5 years
1 toasted pink grapefruit martini purchased with lightning⚡️ via @CasaHODL node with @SatsApp : ☑️ #bitcoin #SpotConf
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
The free market had working a COVID-19 test by January 11. Because of CDC incompetence & FDA regulation, US private industry couldn’t test until February 28th. Thousands will die. Maybe millions. Trillions in wealth destroyed.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Hong Kong’s new “Mandatory Mask Law” “a person must wear a mask at any time within any catering premises, except when the person is consuming food or drink on the premises;”
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
5 years
“It’s not realistic to store anything for free for ever” @chepurnoy Existing blockchains including bitcoin don’t charge users for storing data on blockchain forever. @ergoplatformorg is trying to change this by charging a fee from coins that haven’t been moved in 4 years.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Dear UK, Putting people you've tested as positive for SARS-CoV-2 on planes to Hong Kong is NOT COOL. Infected people belong in isolation rooms, not on British Airways planes. It isn't rocket science. Please get your act together. Thanks, Hong Kongers
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
6 years
Build apps that can't be evil.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
2 years
Let’s make it easy to send bitcoin to names in addition to addresses. Read about my proposed pay-to-name standard: Or read the thread 🧵👇1/n
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Be your own bank. #Bitcoin #BitcoinTram
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
3 years
I made a short video about the state of decentralized naming and some of the things I'm thinking about for BNS on @stacks and #bitcoin .
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
3 years
Sporting @okcoin socks today. AMA
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Hong Kong airport is empty but Hong Kong IKEA is packed. Who would have thought people forced to stay at or work from home suddenly want to buy things to make their homes more comfortable?
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
5 years
Can’t wait for the fireside chat between Snow Crash authors Neal Stephenson & @naval ! It’s going to be epic! #BlockstackSummit2019
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Tickets for #BlockstackSummit2019 are 85% sold out and going fast! DM us for special passes and Join us next Wednesday, October 23rd @SFJAZZ :
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
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Casa’s @SatsApp is the best Lightning wallet hands down. Pairing with my @CasaHODL node over Tor was seamless. Making & receiving payments is super easy! Great work @jeremyrwelch @AlenaSatoshi @lopp ! #stackingsats ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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7 years
Amazing list of speakers for the @BlockstackOrg summit on July 27th in Mountain View, CA. Looking forward to it!
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
1 year
.sats working as a nostr name in my damus fork. who wants it?
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
Tiktok is blocking all users whose SIM card is from a Hong Kong carrier. They are *not* blocking Hong Kong IP addresses. A VPN won’t give you access to Tiktok, but a SIM card from another country will re-enable your Tiktok.
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It’s really hard to underestimate how much ordinals changed bitcoin culture for the better.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
1 year
Attention OG BNS name HODLers: You can now update your pre-Stacks 2.0 names to work with Stacks 2.x at
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
We, the Mask Warriors, declare victory! -Masks are mainstream. -The authorities have admitted they were wrong. -We won the Battle of the Masks. #WearAFuckingMask #Masks4All #MaskUp 1/
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
4 years
The top two apps in the US App Store are an encrypted chat app by an anarchist sailor and a Chinese social media app.
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With 5 dollars and suppliers most Americans already have lying around their houses, you can make 110 masks easily without sewing. Love the ingenuity. #WearAFuckingMask
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5 years
“To all the developers out there, stop working for the large monopolies. Start building software that Can’t Be Evil” @muneeb
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1/ Today is bitcoin’s 10th birthday. Bitcoin changed the way I look at the world and helped me on my own journey towards personal freedom, My favorite thing about Bitcoin is the people it has brought into my life. This is a thread about them:
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
2 years
Who wants to renew and upgrade their .id BNS names for Stacks 2.0?
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
1 year
Just met up with @TO in Hong Kong with @YukanL and his beard is shaved. Can confirm he has a baby chin—the smallest chin I’ve ever seen!
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
5 years
“A key manager in every pocket and a node in every home” “If we can achieve that then we can turn that into a revolution in how the internet works” - @jeremyrwelch Yes!
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
6 years
“It’s still early in crypto: No one has missed the boat, We’re still building the boat, Some of us don’t even know how to build a boat” @muneeb
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8 years
I'm on the menu in Shenzhen. Via @MicroBerto Hazards of translating by searching.
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1 year
Ordinals are built on bitcoin.
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6 years
Just in time for Christmas, 1 “data processing device” from @CasaHODL
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GM to those who have been building Bitcoin L2s since before anyone knew what an L2 was.
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1 year
@Espicious1 @twobitidiot Wrong. The problem is KYC itself. Making KYC better is not the solution.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
7 years
New Blockstack tutorial! Build a to do list app with decentralized sign in and storage.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
1 year
“Have a dream but be outcome independent” @liujackc
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6 years
Guerrilla marketing: 270 degrees of the Hong Kong Exchange Hall’s walls are covered by @BitMEXdotcom ‘s BTCUSD order book #SpotConf
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4 years
"Any experiment that is happening anywhere in the world will eventually get recreated on top of #bitcoin " @muneeb
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"Cryptocurrency essentially poses an existential threat to the hegemony of the Davos class, the reckless people who've wrecked everything. They're threatened by this because it promises independence to average people." - @TuckerCarlson
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
7 years
And only 5% of Chinese have passports. The world still seriously underestimates the effect China will have on everything.
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
7 years
"China already accounts for more than a fifth of the money spent by outbound tourists, twice as much as the next-biggest spender, the U.S."
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Larry Salibra | larry.btc
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STX sponsored transactions open up the possibility of paying sponsors in lightning, on-chain bitcoin or even fiat so that they pay for your transactions to be executed. STX as gas - hidden from end users.
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Governments use language to brainwash you into thinking freedom is bad: They call permissionless trade & commerce "the black market" They call financial privacy "money laundering" They call a market clearing price they don't like "price gouging"
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