Margot Paez

Too much of our effort on climate change is spent mourning the death of our future. We can still have a future and we should still dream of what it can be. If we accept doom, then that’s what we’ll get. Yes, we need transformative change to get there, but first we need vision.

The biggest thing on my mind these days wrt bitcoin is the involvement of so-called bitcoiners in getting the GENIUS act passed and all the things that can possibly go wrong with mainstreaming stablecoins. I think the free banking era is really interesting and fascinating but we…

Bush and Cheney next, right?

* U.S. spent nearly $1 trillion on climate damages last year * Another heat dome broils the US + corn sweat * Congressional Dems push to classify extreme heat as a disaster, to free up federal funding * Oregon grapples with mega-fire New @GreenNewsReport: bradblog.com/?p=15448

Please watch this. If you're American or British, you're paying for the mass famine Israel has been imposing and continues to impose on Gaza. Alex de Waal is a leading famine scholar who has worked on most recent famines. Listen to what he says here about starvation in Gaza:

People who stepped up to represent the orange coin interests have willingly separated privacy from censorship resistant for the sake of legislative expediency and compromise and will eventually abandon censorship resistance because ultimately it is about NGU.

Bitcoiners embracing stablecoins is quite revealing.

My good friend, Mark Goodwin, explains the problem with stablecoins in this interview. Must watch.

I've been at a loss for words for how disingenuous the Government's arguments against Roman Storm have been for a long while now, but this one really takes the cake. In pretrial proceedings, the court clearly ruled that the terms AML and KYC had no place in the trial against…

Literally me right now.

The Government is trying to sneak in KYC testimony against Roman Storm – despite Judge Failla ruling that the terms KYC and AML had no place at his trial. Full story👇

This week, @PresidioBitcoin hosted the Bitcoin Quantum Summit (pbquantum.com). I was thrilled to be invited to attend, and wanted to write up a thread about what I learned this week. I’ll save my commentary for the end, and start with where we are, the challenges we…

13/n recent fights and knots movement is really unfortunate. Suspicions about financial motives corrupting devs is IMO ridiculous, and could make them conservative enough that BlackRock and the Trump Admin end up writing the economically dominant code.

Captures my paper bitcoin summer mood.

The mayor keeps posting 'before & after' pics of cleared tents but never any follow ups on the ppl who used to live there. Did they get housing/rehab/medical help? How did they end up there? Do we only care about hiding homelessness, not solving it? I think the answer is clear 😟

CBS doesn't believe in free speech. politico.com/news/2025/07/1…

Snow Crash was a warning, not a blueprint.

Also looking forward to Amazon tracking all my transactions across all companies that now accept Amazon coin. I bet that's going to really personalize my ads!

Looking forward to Amazon Coin (TM) now that the GENIUS Act has passed. I wonder if Amazon will take the coins from your wallet if you don't spend them within a certain time frame?

OK, so the GENIUS Act makes stablecoin issuance legal. But there's the CBDC-Anti Surveillance State Act, which prohibits the Fed from issuing its own digital currency. This seems like a bad combination. Not allowing the government to compete with the private sector seems, to me,…

Destruction of culture is pretty fascist.