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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-25 00:40
RT GenXGirl (@GenXGirl1994)ADL is trying to get US taxpayers to pay $4 Billion to Israeli Oct. 7 victims thru the US Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism Act.Families of 9/11 victims who have fought for 24 years for compensation from countries like Saudi Arabia have failed because our gov protects the perps. In 2015, the US Victims of State Sponsored Terrorism was created to compensate Americans if they can’t pursue justice directly with the responsible country (in other words, our gov said, we’ll protect t ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-25 00:39
RT Jim Ferguson (@JimFergusonUK)🚨 WHY DID BIDEN NEED THREE AUTOPENS?Biden was using an autopen by Day 5 of his presidency.Not one — THREE different autopen signatures.And by 2022, the usage exploded.Why?Because investigators found:• Biden didn’t personally sign over half of his presidential pardons.• Some of the MOST controversial acts — including death-row commutations and pre-emptive pardons of his own family, Fauci, Milley & others — were auto-signed.• The White House used the autopen even while Biden wa ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-25 00:34
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Anarcho-capitalism is a wonderfully abstract ideal that can inspire innovation. It helped inspire me to help invent cryptocurrency.But real-world cryptocurrencies are not trustless -- they are trust-minimized. Each cryptocurrency has a legal attack surface, representing the kinds of ways governments and/or private entities can practically use law to disrupt their operations. The layer 1 of a good trust-minimized cryptocurrency like Bitcoin can withstand much more interference than ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-25 00:34
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@pfo360 @ddums81 Like the vast majority of non-blockchain services, social media platforms have the ability to selectively take down content that blockchain nodes generally do not. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-25 00:30
RT Not Jerome Powell (@alifarhat79)Profile pic: Location: https://t.co/vzGLt0jUeu ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-25 00:22
RT Clown World ™ 🤡 (@ClownWorld)They don’t care about Iryna.They don’t care about Charlie.They don’t care about Bethany.They DO care about George Floyd. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-25 00:21
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Judging by the amount of transactions they've diverted from L1, i.e. the vast majority of them, the various L2's (whether Lightning or centralized ones like exchanges) have been remarkably successful, without needing an OP_RETURN datacarriersize bigger than 83, or any other legible-sized data buckets, on L1. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-25 00:14
RT Bitcoinapolis: Bitcoin is hope ⚡️🤓 (@Bitcoinapolis55)@NickSzabo4 https://t.co/sTPdrUT8AJ ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-25 00:11
Policy & Regulation - The report suggests a need for legislative action regarding the "Patriot Act" and related laws [1] - The report highlights concerns about potential abuse of power by spy agencies [1] - The report advocates for amendments to laws that allow unaccountable surveillance of citizens [1]
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Nick Szabo· 2025-11-25 00:06
Network Effects & Valuation - The existing store-of-value network possesses substantial network effects [1] - Newer networks are comparatively small and less significant [1] - These smaller networks may negatively impact the functionality of the larger, valuable store-of-value network [1]