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Yeah, those damn Democrats!
Since taking office in January 2025, the Trump administration has significantly reduced the size and changed the mission of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) as part of a broader federal workforce reduction.
Personnel and Leadership Changes
- Workforce Reductions: CISA has lost approximately one-third of its workforce (about 1,000 employees) since early 2025 through a combination of layoffs, buyouts, and voluntary departures
- Executive Purge: Nearly all top officials at CISA, including division leaders and regional directors, have left or were ousted. This includes the Chief Strategy Officer, Chief Financial Officer, and several regional heads.
- Budget Cuts: In May 2025, the administration proposed a 17% budget cut to CISA, targeting over $490 million in funding.
Shift in Agency Mission
- Election Security: The administration has halted many of CISA's election security activities, ending funding for systems that alert states to election threats. This was driven by the administration’s focus on moving away from monitoring social media for misinformation.
- Regulatory Rollback: Executive Order 14306 (June 2025) removed requirements for government contractors to submit "machine-readable attestations" of their software security, shifting toward voluntary compliance.
- AI and Automation: New directives have narrowed CISA’s focus to using AI specifically for automating cybersecurity functions and identifying vulnerabilities, rather than broader research.
- Resilience Strategy: A March 2025 Executive Order shifted more responsibility for cyber preparedness from the federal level to state and local governments.
First thing to have done was put authenticated voting results on the blockchain using Simpleproof. That would at least handle the chain of custody concern because you know the next move is for Trump minions to modify the voting results to "show" the fraud they could never prove. And even if they did uncover a problem, which they wouldn't, their claims can't be accepted because chain of custody and authenticity is now destroyed.
I understand the argument and the richness of 2A advocates, like Trump /s, condemning the guy for carrying legally but this video said the two things I pointed out. Words, words, words, Trump can be a pedophile and wipe his ass with the Constitution as long as he appoints judges that are 2A friendly, words, words, words, this guy died because he was dumb enough to legally carry at a protest that put him into direct contact with agent of the state.
This guy said he only cares or speaks about the gun part of the situation but then immediately lays down the reason Trump is all good in his book because reasons. The video doesn't deliver on the stated point of the video. Noise and equivocation.
So what's the claim here? Because people are converting their stablecoins to USD this is a bad sign for Bitcoin? And the mechanism that creates the peril is what exactly? Less liquidity in the stablecoin market? I don't get it.
That's a lot of words that can be summarized thusly:
Trump in power, regardless of any of the shit he does or says, is ok because he's better for 2A because of the judges he appoints and the guy brought it on himself for carrying at a protest and getting in an interaction with armed agents of the state.
The rest is just noise and equivocation.
Electricity use curtailment due to the massive winter storm. Should come back quickly: https://cointelegraph.com/news/foundry-usa-hashrate-down-60-deadly-storm
Excellent points related to solo mining (block template creation) and self-custodial lightning node operation!
"Staking" sounds like a carryover from shitcoinery. You can run a lightning node all you like regardless of funds. It would be pointless, but it is a fact. This is where you should probably read @DarthCoin primers on private vs public lightning nodes and understand the purpose of channel openings, inbound/outbound liquidity and routing (if public).
Ah, "moral" and "family". I think he left out the explicit references to Christ and how Bitcoin is actually holy money that's here to "save the family". Author should get in touch with Marty and the rest of the Ten31 evangelists...
Scoresby explains it as clearly as possible but I'd add that running a node isn't a charitable act. The incentives are aligned for you to run a node for purely selfish reasons. You point your wallet at your own node to verify your own transactions and broadcast your own transactions. Fuck everyone else. The network still benefits. "Bitcoin is for enemies."
Paid web search with no advertising and privacy respecting. I'm not just a fan, I'm also a customer.
Austin, Texas. I've paid a bar tab on Congress at Saturn Bar via lightning and I've purchased beer and snacks in the Bitcoin Commons multiple times with lightning. Kiosk set up and self serve. Slick.
I know that Medici Coffee locations around the city accept Bitcoin as well as Local Pastures for meat, eggs and dairy etc.
Or a raving lunatic conspiracy theorist...