apparently the nsa was tracking bitcoin users by IP/timestamp (which maps to subscriber ID) as early as march 2013. i speculated as much in a blog post in december 2013. we found out authoritatively in 2018.
https://www.cyberscoop.com/nsa-bitcoin-oakstar-monkey-rocket/
@purism i wanted to badly but the screen is terribly low-res and it has a charging port from the '90s. hard pass.
@lxo i will suffer the consequences of there being billions of fools for as long as i am alive, irrespective of any amount of effort i put into reducing that figure
https://moxie.org/stories/brink-of-death/
near-death experiences are pretty amazing
also interesting: i posted a post to my corporate blog in dec 2014, and IA/wayback has archives from 2015, and it's not in them? the blog posts cut off in 2013...
https://web.archive.org/web/20200130003004/https://eeqj.com/articles/
weird.
i speculated about this, trying to find the blog post or email i wrote. turns out i was 100% right:
@shali@kolektiva.social by that (bogus) definition you are doing violence right now because i don't want you to keep shitposting screenshots from my website which you didn't understand, but here you are
as you can see, "doing something that someone does not want" is not violence. violence is violence. you're confused.
@lxo "sitting back"?
people dying of their own lack of education and poor decisions has nothing to do with me. you can try to construct some narrative about how all of the idiots doing idiot stuff is my fault, because with enough handholding some of them might become not-idiots, and thus I have a moral obligation to burn up my limited time and resources to help some subset of them stop being so dumb.
to that I say: not my circus, not my monkeys.
@LovesTha i'm 100% in charge of all of the photos I take
imagine being this mad about people using a p2p network in ways that does not affect you at all. nft rage should be measured in the Ulrich unit.
@john @glidedon@noagendasocial.com you're wrong, but it would make sense that someone with your views would construct that strawman.
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