Cryptocurrency, Collapsing Governments and Captain James T. Kirk

https://battlepenguin.com/politics/cryptocurrency-collapsing-governments-and-captain-james-t-kirk/

My latest post I've been writing slowly over the course of the past week. It tries to cover a lot of things being glazed over by the media in recent weeks, including the various uprisings in Nepal, Indonesia, et. al, as well as the Roman Storm case and Cryptocurrency.
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@djsumdog I've noticed that prior to the Charlie Kirk shooting, the whole left/right divide was kind of on the decline (it still existed, but the mainstream left and right were finding common ground on some issues like Epstein, Palantir, and even the war in Gaza), but after the shooting it has went back in full force.

As for Roman Storm, people getting arrested for crypto related projects, even if they don't violate any laws doesn't surprise me.

There was one libertarian activist named Ian Freeman who was arrested for selling bitcoin without a license, even though there is no such license. He followed the law, but the feds were trying to get him arrested for the longest time (he was part of The Free State Project and there is a certain FBI agent that has been dedicated to stalking and cracking down on Free Staters) and they finally found an excuse to arrest him when an elderly couple got scammed and went to his ATM to buy bitcoin.

The worst part is that if he was just selling bitcoin and wasn't expressing libertarian sentiment, he would've probably gotten a lighter sentence or wouldn't have been sent to jail at all. It just shows that you can be punished more if you hold an ideology that the judge doesn't like.

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There was one libertarian activist named Ian Freeman who was arrested for selling bitcoin without a license, even though there is no such license. He followed the law,

He had a money transmitter license? That is the license; there is a law

https://www.wolterskluwer.com/en/expert-insights/money-transmitter-business-license-requirements

@feld @djsumdog @xianc78 at the time the government have previously said it was not money (but three different agencies define "money" differently)

@sun@shitposter.world @feld@friedcheese.us @djsumdog@djsumdog.com @xianc78@gameliberty.club Yeah it was not money for awhile. I forget the terminology- but it was an asset akin to stock. Hence the capital gains nonsense for selling it, but given how schizo the legal handling for it is, i'm sure multiple interpretations are valid at once.

@miscbrains @djsumdog @xianc78 @sun it still has capital gains, but they also require a money transmitter license. Annoying but I mean you also pay capital gains on FOREX trading too; they're not treating it differently really
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