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keolamation

\*ahem\* here's the base source code contract but, I'll be adding a time-based vaulting so things can rethaw, and mint cap and a halvening script because frankly limited supply to begin with is always good. [https://codeshare.io/DAo0AZ](https://codeshare.io/DAo0AZ)

CFA_Nutso_Futso

They can partner with utilities to smooth demand and ultimately reduce peak load from an incremental perspective - more energy sold but less drastic peaks. I’m actually at a renewables conference right now in AZ and was talking to a company this morning about it. There’s no cookie cutter fit to this as all of us utilities have different generations mixes and load profiles but I think there are opportunities to get creative where all parties win with (1) more rate-based generation for utilities, (2) discounted power for miners, and (3) reduced rates for customers.

julius_sphincter

Selling crypto isn't income though. It is a taxable event as capital gains, which federally is 15% I believe for long term which this obviously would be. Fuck it, I'd happily pay 15% on 1000 bitcoin at $69420. Even if he lives in a state with their own capital gains tax I'd do it. Though if I lived in CA I'd probably move to Nevada or AZ first

supertrader80

2024: 123% 32s4f52EhTLXwH6AZ9gEUgkq79rGBdL2Tv

CryptoJumpman23

A couple years ago, I was flying to San Diego for my honeymoon and we had a layover in Phoenix, AZ. During the hour and a half layover, my wife and I grabbed coffee and a snack, and sat and waited for our plane to board. As they announced boarding was about to begin, some guy randomly sat down next to me and started asking me questions like where I was headed, how long I was going for, why was I going, etc. After becoming defensive by the personal questions the random man was asking me, he flashed a Phoenix police department badge at me and then proceeded to ask if I had cash on me and if he could search my bags. I look over and a lady, also not in uniform, was sitting on the other side of my wife questioning her as well. The whole thing was surreal. Long story short, I admitted to him I lied about having cash in my bag, at this point realizing these random people likely really were undercover officers, and he quietly asked me how much. Scared, I told him “$10,000”. He sorta laughed, and he said “ohh we’re looking for more like $100,000”. Searched my wife and I’s bags in front of everyone, didn’t find the amount of money he was looking for, and then let us on our way to board the plane. The ordeal was humiliating, I felt like my privacy had been invaded, and I couldn’t believe he could have just that easily taken my cash and called it a day. These days, I buy bitcoin.. and I haven’t bought a plane ticket since!!!

SPedigrees

There are actually BTC ATMs at 10 different locations in Flagstaff AZ. The one in your photo is one of 3 Bitcoin Depot machines in that same area. https://coinatmradar.com/bitcoin-atm-near-me/

2-bit-tipper

Practice with testnet. https://youtu.be/LfNE29AZ9I0

AvatarOfMomus

> Why are modern L1 nodes hosted in AWS , GCP and so on? Where are we heading with this? > Why are the most L1 mining, validators hijacked by powerful company instead of individuals running things on their PC or personal devices? > I also saw someone put GPU offering Blockchain by buying powerful enterprise scale NVDIA processors? > If things are getting so centralized, why not use Cloud services, High Availability, Multi-AZ, with DR? Because that last bit, "fairly scalable", isn't true. The best way to scale something is centralized compute, with distributed nodes only used to reduce latency and bandwidth usage. That's the whole reason L2s exist, and there are a dozen other workarounds to the scale problems faced by these systems. Most "Blockchain companies" aren't using public blockchain, they're hosting their own private or semi-private "Blockchain" which at that point is basically just a database and maybe a hashed record of the DB. This is because public blockchain is stupidly expensive compared to *anything else*, so of course it's not being used by these projects. That would just eat up funding and/or reduce the size of the bag they can run off with when everything fails.

Strochez

Interesting. How much more expensive is toilet-to-tap than building a pipeline? Not sure why AZ wouldn't want to go that route instead unless we're talking a difference in the hundreds of millions.

ajnsd619

It's reasonable to believe that. But if that were true, they would have pointed it out in the notices. Instead, they ship form notices; same ones to everyone. Consider: * [19 State Attorney Generals have complained about Chase freezing ](https://www.businessinsider.com/republican-states-accuse-jpmorgan-closing-accounts-religious-political-beliefs-2023-5)accounts * [Mesa, AZ couple](https://www.azfamily.com/2023/02/23/chase-bank-finally-returns-money-mesa-couple-after-freezing-accounts/) * [Lady in NY - Had to sell her car to make ends meet](https://abc7ny.com/7-on-your-side-frozen-bank-account-chase-savings/10563609/) * [Doctor's waiting for months to access his account; haven't told him why](https://piunikaweb.com/2023/08/02/chase-bank-allegedly-closing-accounts-without-a-valid-reason/) There's hundreds of stories, all the same pattern.

TurkeyBaconALGOcado

Solar farms in the desert (Blythe, CA, Phoenix, AZ, etc.) do not clean the panels. The closest thing to getting washed is during monsoon season when they get rained on. The difference in production from a clean to a dirty panel isn't wide enough to justify the time, effort, or cost of cleaning. At least in these areas.

milonuttigrain

Here is Zachary Testa aka @degenharambe aka @LordKekLol on TG from Phoenix, AZ. He infamously bought an $865k purple Lambo with his $pepe earnings, all while his team didn’t give a cent to original Pepe the Frog creator @Matt_Furie. Fuck this guy

steavus

Me to my mate wo invested in PEPE 

Fitzus1969

Hal lived in California before moving to Scottsdale AZ where he died in August of 2014. His body was immediately put into cryonic preservation at Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale. https://www.wired.com/2014/08/hal-finney/ You can read about him in the above link.

HughHonee

And BTW you can verify who created BTC. It's whoever can sign (holds the private key) to this pgp pub key, belonging to the user who first posted & shared the Bitcoin whitepaper -----BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) mQGiBEkJ+qcRBADKDTcZlYDRtP1Q7/ShuzBJzUh9hoVVowogf2W07U6G9BqKW24r piOxYmErjMFfvNtozNk+33cd/sq3gi05O1IMmZzg2rbF4ne5t3iplXnNuzNh+j+6 VxxA16GPhBRprvnng8r9GYALLUpo9Xk17KE429YYKFgVvtTPtEGUlpO1EwCg7FmW dBbRp4mn5GfxQNT1hzp9WgkD/3pZ0cB5m4enzfylOHXmRfJKBMF02ZDnsY1GqeHv /LjkhCusTp2qz4thLycYOFKGmAddpVnMsE/TYZLgpsxjrJsrEPNSdoXk3IgEStow mXjTfr9xNOrB20Qk0ZOO1mipOWMgse4PmIu02X24OapWtyhdHsX3oBLcwDdke8aE gAh8A/sHlK7fL1Bi8rFzx6hb+2yIlD/fazMBVZUe0r2uo7ldqEz5+GeEiBFignd5 HHhqjJw8rUJkfeZBoTKYlDKo7XDrTRxfyzNuZZPxBLTj+keY8WgYhQ5MWsSC2MX7 FZHaJddYa0pzUmFZmQh0ydulVUQnLKzRSunsjGOnmxiWBZwb6bQjU2F0b3NoaSBO YWthbW90byA8c2F0b3NoaW5AZ214LmNvbT6IYAQTEQIAIAUCSQn6pwIbAwYLCQgH AwIEFQIIAwQWAgMBAh4BAheAAAoJEBjAnoZeyUihXGMAnjiWJ0fvmSgSM3o6Tu3q RME9GN7QAKCGrFw9SUD0e9/YDcqhX1aPMrYue7kCDQRJCfqnEAgA9OTCjLa6Sj7t dZcQxNufsDSCSB+yznIGzFGXXpJk7GgKmX3H9Zl4E6zJTQGXL2GAV4klkSfNtvgs SGJKqCnebuZVwutyq1vXRNVFPQFvLVVo2jJCBHWjb03fmXmavIUtRCHoc8xgVJMQ LrwvS943GgsqSbdoKZWdTnfnEq+UaGo+Qfv66NpT3Yl0CXUiNBITZOJcJdjHDTBO XRqomX2WSguv+btYdhQGGQiaEx73XMftXNCxbOpqwsODQns7xTcl2ENru9BNIQME I7L9FYBQUiKHm1k6RrBy1as8XElS2jEos7GAmlfF1wShFUX+NF1VOPdbN3ZdFoWq sUjKk+QbrwADBQgA9DiD4+uuRhwk2B1TmtrXnwwhcdkE7ZbLHjxBfCsLPAZiPh8c ICfV3S418i4H1YCz2ItcnC8KAPoS6mipyS28AU1B7zJYPODBn8E7aPSPzHJfudMK MqiCHljVJrE23xsKTC0sIhhSKcr2G+6ARoG5lwuoqJqEyDrblVQQFpVxBNPHSTqu O5PoLXQc7PKgC5SyQuZbEALEkItl2SL2yBRRGOlVJLnvZ6eaovkAlgsbGdlieOr0 UwWuJCwzZuBDruMYAfyQBvYfXZun3Zm84rW7Jclp18mXITwGCVHg/P5n7QMbBfZQ A25ymkuj636Nqh+c4zRnSINfyrDcID7AcqEb6IhJBBgRAgAJBQJJCfqnAhsMAAoJ EBjAnoZeyUihPrcAniVWl5M44RuGctJe+IMNX4eVkC08AJ9v7cXsp5uDdQNo8q3R 8RHwN4Gk8w== =3FTe -----END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK----- Otherwise known under the pseudonym 'Satoshi Nakamoto' Of course we can't verify the true identity of that handle, but one of the beauties of the internet is that we don't have to. Bitcoin is an extension of that fundamental core principle of internet network, permissionless interaction verifiable while anonymous. Ofc the government has created obstacles in the form of regulation, allowing companies & IPS to invade internet privacy, and under the guise of antiML/KYC regulations are counterattacking bitcoins anonymity feature.

Firefly-Clan

And not this past 4 weeks of Phoenix, AZ room temperature either!

Pentimento_NFT

I’ve got a couple plots of land in the desert in AZ and in CA, like 2 acres middle of nowhere, but I’d happily unload each of em for like .1 BTC. Now that’s definitely not what dreams are made of, but there’s some cheap land out there lol

Bandit_Quick

What was it last time? 60k votes...AZ, NV and GA were key. Just 2% would have mattered...I think it's important as I sometimes vote on 1 issue.

WineMakerBg

AZ would have made a good name, but brand is already taken ...

Sunryzen


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Kone7

If you live in a swIng state like PA, GA, FL, AZ, WI, NC, IA, MICH, OH, the Crypto community is counting on you to register to vote, set your political differences aside, and vote for either RFK (Dem) or DeSantis (rep) in the primary. It's important to at least get someone who isn't anti-crypto into the white house in 2024, and show Washington that the crypto community has political power.

kouteki

That's pretty much how the Mesa, AZ cop executed a civilian. And got an early pension for it.

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CheerfulSamurai

Damn mine fall into the ocean during a fishing trip in AZ

gandalfsgonads

As much as I’d expect, but I eagerly await it growing in AZ. No one really takes it as payment beyond select trades people(for example, I accept btc for massage as an LMT).

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ChaoticNeutralNephew

She's pro crypto, but people in AZ hate her

koelebobes

Who would have expected when I joined Reddit 10 years ago while I was sitting in a train reading Askreddits to kill the time.. I would end up with a bunch of crazy degens, who I have lots of fun with and create a little crypto income on the side Guys and gals to 10 more years!  Positive vibes for all of you ❤️👑

CardanoCrusader

Here's the list of co-sponsors: [https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s686/cosponsors](https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/118/s686/cosponsors) Sponsor/Cosponsor Joined/Withdrawn On Referred Committees D Warner, Mark \[D-VA\] Primary Sponsor D Baldwin, Tammy \[D-WI\] Original Cosponsor Commerce, Science, and Transportation R Capito, Shelley \[R-WV\] Original Cosponsor Commerce, Science, and Transportation R Fischer, Deb \[R-NE\] Original Cosponsor Commerce, Science, and Transportation R Moran, Jerry \[R-KS\] Original Cosponsor Commerce, Science, and Transportation R Sullivan, Dan \[R-AK\] Original Cosponsor Commerce, Science, and Transportation R Thune, John \[R-SD\] Original Cosponsor Commerce, Science, and Transportation D Luján, Ben \[D-NM\] Mar 8, 2023 Commerce, Science, and Transportation D Hickenlooper, John \[D-CO\] Mar 21, 2023 Commerce, Science, and Transportation D Bennet, Michael \[D-CO\] Original Cosponsor R Collins, Susan \[R-ME\] Original Cosponsor D Gillibrand, Kirsten \[D-NY\] Original Cosponsor D Heinrich, Martin \[D-NM\] Original Cosponsor D Manchin, Joe \[D-WV\] Original Cosponsor R Romney, Mitt \[R-UT\] Original Cosponsor R Cramer, Kevin \[R-ND\] Mar 14, 2023 D Kaine, Timothy “Tim” \[D-VA\] Mar 14, 2023 D Blumenthal, Richard \[D-CT\] Mar 15, 2023 R Grassley, Charles “Chuck” \[R-IA\] Mar 15, 2023 R Tillis, Thom \[R-NC\] Mar 21, 2023 R Graham, Lindsey \[R-SC\] Mar 27, 2023 D Kelly, Mark \[D-AZ\] Mar 27, 2023

TooChilln

AZ isn't completely asleep... https://cointelegraph.com/news/state-senator-pushes-bill-to-make-bitcoin-legal-tender-in-arizona

BadBetty13

Buy some land and a home out by Tucson AZ

Dfranco123

They do have lending! If you are an eligible Coinbase customer, you can borrow up to 40% of your Bitcoin (BTC) balance on Coinbase, up to a maximum that varies by your state of residence: $100,000 in NE and VA $1,000,000 in all other states listed above The minimum amount you can borrow is $100 in most states, except as noted below: OH: Minimum of $1,001 AZ, CA: Minimum of $10,001 If the USD value of your BTC increases, you can make additional draws from your credit line, as long as the total borrowed is under 40% of your BTC, with the state maximum as set above. https://help.coinbase.com/en/coinbase/trading-and-funding/borrow/getting-started

ajnsd619

Yes, A very long time. 2010-2014. As you mentioned, I was hit during the Gox hack. Returned in 2017. Fortunate to start buying $ETH at $11 & $BTC at $6500. I don't consider myself tremendously wealthy, but crypto has taken care of me in spite of the challenges. The points you mentioned were all covered with them. In fact, what irritates me the most is I selected them precisely because they assured me that crypto-related transactions wouldn't be an issue. I mention in the post that the person I spoke to over the weekend demanded I submit to them 5 years worth of tax returns. My account wouldn't have been restored had I not furnished that to them. Everything was in order and I don't engage in anything shady. I don't need to. Def don't trade on leverage. It's the reason I've survived in the space so many years. I was never given an explanation by Chase for what they did. Nobody who has endured this has been given explanations. But it's all about the withdrawals. If you were in the space during that time, then you know how sharp the May 2021 crash was. I needed to make those withdrawals. So no, I didn't do anything sketchy. If you can't believe that a bank can act criminally, that's on you. But I share the same story with people from different walks of life who's only connection is that bank and that experience. [Retired Mesa, AZ couple](https://www.azfamily.com/2022/11/29/mesa-couple-turns-your-side-after-chase-bank-suddenly-closes-their-accounts/) [Lady from New York.](https://abc7ny.com/7-on-your-side-frozen-bank-account-chase-savings/10563609/)They froze all her accounts for months. When the local news became involved, her accounts were magically restored within days. [Washington Couple.](https://www.aarp.org/money/budgeting-saving/info-11-2011/bank-freezes-checking-savings-accounts-outrage.html) Received notice their accounts would close. Ordered to come into bank. They spoke to 8 bank reps who could not provide a single reason this was happening. They had to involve a Federal Regular. Read the comments section. All the same stories. If these banks don't want to deal with you as a customer, that's fine. But Chase had no right to appropriate my funds and threaten to send them to the state, despite having no reason and offering no reason. If it sounds unusual to you, imagine how it sounds to me and the people it's happened to.

SconnieFella

While the headline mentions red states, the message from the referenced zoom conference is to get all states to adopt this, and 22 states have introduced the amendments so far (HI, CO, MT, ND, WA, SD, IN, AZ, KY, NH, NE, OK, MO, RI, NM, WV, TN, CA, MA, DC, ME) [https://www.uniformlaws.org/committees/community-home?communitykey=1457c422-ddb7-40b0-8c76-39a1991651ac#:\~:text=The%202022%20amendments%20to%20the,intelligence%2C%20and%20other%20technological%20developments](https://www.uniformlaws.org/committees/community-home?communitykey=1457c422-ddb7-40b0-8c76-39a1991651ac#:~:text=The%202022%20amendments%20to%20the,intelligence%2C%20and%20other%20technological%20developments). ​ The zoom call slide >"Money" is currently defined in the UCC as a medium of exchange authorized by a domestic or foreign government Given the adoption of Bitcoin as fiat currency by El Salvador and the Central African Republic, today Bitcoin is arguably "money" under the UCC definition, leading to unanticipated outcomes • Definition of "money" revised to exclude a medium of exchange in an electronic record (such as Bitcoin) that existed before it was authorized or adopted as a medium of exchange by a government

cranialnervous

The bill, titled the “CBDC Anti-Surveillance State Act” details that “Except as specifically authorized under this Act, a Federal Reserve bank may not offer products or services directly to an individual, or maintain an account on behalf of an individual, or issue a central bank digital currency directly to an individual.” It goes on to further detail specifically that “The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Open Market Committee may not use any central bank digital currency to implement monetary policy." Rep. Emmer explained in [his tweet](https://twitter.com/GOPMajorityWhip/status/1628397390024638466) announcing the bill that “Any digital version of the dollar must uphold our American values of privacy, individual sovereignty, and free market competitiveness. Anything less opens the door to the development of a dangerous surveillance tool.” The bill aims to stem the creation of a CBDC due to the various issues many see as potential results of the creation of an American CBDC. As detailed in various Bitcoin Magazine pieces like “[The Dangerous Implications Of Central Bank Digital Currencies,](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/the-dangerous-implications-of-cbdcs)”, “[Central Bank Digital Currencies: A Technocratic Fallacy](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/culture/central-bank-digital-currencies-bitcoin)” and “[The U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency Narrative Is A Fantasy](https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/us-cbdc-narrative-is-a-fantasy)”, the idea of a CBDC not only has moral and ideological opposition to it, but technical limitations present challenges that could make such a thing not possible in the first place. Several Representatives involved in the bill have also voiced their support. Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) released a [statement](https://twitter.com/RepLoudermilk/status/1628421013825376262) saying that he was “Proud to join forces with Rep. Emmer on legislation to keep the Fed from issuing a central bank digital currency. The Fed should be focused on its core mission of stable prices and max employment, not tracking our transactions indefinitely.” In addition, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) [reiterated this point](https://twitter.com/RepAndyBiggsAZ/status/1628413496969789440), explaining that “unelected bureaucrats are driving us to an authoritarian state. That can't happen.”

Impressive-Handle-69

In my area(AZ), houses of similar sizes are $300k starting. Over the past few years I've seen house prices triple or quadruple and in some cases way way more. Homes where I used to live that were around $100k are now $500k-$1mil, in a medium income area. Shitflation and Californication really hit us hard. I remember seeing houses sub $100k a couple years ago before the pandemic, boy oh boy, I wish I bought then. I've been looking at Georgia lately and been wondering why the hell I'm still here(other than lack of finances) My rent for a 3bed 2bth 1200 Sq ft corner lot house is nearly $3k/m and that's considered cheap in my neighborhood. I'd love to have you as a landlord at your rates. 😆 🤣

dajohns1420

I bought just about all of my bitcoin on local bitcoins back in the day. Very first time I bought some, I met a dude at a wal mart parking lot in Tempe AZ.

GnomerDomer

The bitcoin corporate building is beach front in AZ how did you not know that.

MaeronTargaryen

Didn’t pass the first time she tried, probably won’t the second either. If it does the Supreme Court might strike it down anyways. Also, she’s so crazy that she was censored by her own party, and AZ republicans are not the most stable ones

Cyber-Cafe

That's interesting. First AZ now NY. Can we get the states in between and around those? That'd be great. It's not something I will use, but I want the *ability* to do so.

_Zazu95_

I’m slowly moving to AZ…

68Corvette454

Smart move to bring in crypto business to the state of AZ

DukeThom

Nice PR stunt AZ but my man gotchu

smitty3257

You can do it AZ. We believe in you. Pave the way for the future

dh119

Didn’t know Bukele smuggled himself to AZ

baconcheeseburgarian

You gotta be really fucking insane to get censured by the AZ GOP which also include Paul Gosar.

Lillica_Golden_SHIB

It would be great to have BTC as legal tender in AZ, but this is ultimately just PR. Unless a big number of states starts to put pressure on federal government about it, nothing will happen in this sense, sadly.

Atheist-Paladin

So they can’t use the word “legal tender” and require debtors to accept BTC as currency. What they’re allowed to do is accept it themselves by allowing taxes, fines, and fees to be paid in BTC. What they could also do is levy ruinous taxes on every business (or just retailers) and then carve out an exception for those that accept BTC as payment. This would effectively make BTC a currency in AZ without violating the Constitution, because then it’s the businesses and not the government making that choice.

MaeronTargaryen

Wendy Rogers is absolutely batshit crazy, not really someone I like to be associated to tbh. She managed to get censored by her own party in the AZ senate, that’s how crazy she is, even Arizona republicans don’t want to be associated with her The bill is unlikely to pass anyways, and if it did the Arizona Supreme Court would probably strike it down since it conflicting with the Constitution

sirron811

AZ gonna need to make water official currency more than BTC. That's what they should worry about.

bingorunner

Granted it would be AZ only, but lots of policies start local (legalized weed for instance) and expand through the states. Hope this passes.

Lillica_Golden_SHIB

It seems to be a great place to live. Phoenix is a great city and AZ has amazing natural landscspes.

Noobnoob99

Have you read the Bill? If not then we’ll have to see what it says. Not sure how AZ would tax an individual simply for holding property. Good luck getting folks to provide that info. Does AZ tax individuals for merely holding certain property in AZ? Seems super odd. We’ll have to see if the Bill mentions any deferral treatment regarding gains from xfrs/sales of crypto. This topic would be more aligned with how the taxation of property typically works. AB vs AR.

allyallcoin

Pro-tip: February is amazing in AZ

tendy_trux35

I am not a tax expert or anything of the sort but live in Arizona. It’s a HUGE tourism state, between the Grand Canyon, Phoenix, and Sedona there are a ton of annual visitors and it’s all in very expensive places. There’s a large community of ranchers and farmers that migrate to AZ from the north or Canada to continue working horses/livestock/etc and that’s all people paying into taxes and putting money into the economy. The overall roadways and infrastructure are pretty shit compared to other states. A lot of highways are overcrowded and there’s all the water issues as well. But it is a MASSIVE draw for businesses with large campuses. Apple, Lucid, Intel, etc are just some of the few businesses with multi-million dollar locations and factories for work. So the state isn’t broke at all, the flat tax is due to how well the state revenue is. There also isn’t the issue of long standing pensions like Illinois (Chicago) or New York May have.

Theoneandonlybigmoe

I believe that we are ALWAYS in the AZ. OP made a new word, so it needs its own acronym.

Ryuzaki_63

No idea what it is but a16z 1-6 = 5 AZ-5 The button that caused the Chernobyl reactor explosion sus

ajnsd619

No. I moved back home to CA around the time his pastor was harassing me. So I didn't have that pressure anymore. He was transferred to an AZ prison last year. I visited him this summer to go over everything. I was sorta shocked when I arrived. It was more like a college dorm. There was hardly any security and everyone was there for financial crimes. But still, his knowledge of crypto was gone. I mistakenly believed I could get him "up to speed" in one weekend. But I immediately noticed how frightened he is. Of everything. He surprised me when he said he wouldnt take immediate custody of his crypto. He doesn't trust his family and what if he ends up back inside. Ive never seen him that scared in general. Didn't know what to make of it. He found everything going on in crypto bewildering. I didn't realize how little information he had access to. Everything seems strange. Asked where all the Libertarians went? He asked about the Bitcoin Foundation? Apparently he was interested in doing work with them before he got in trouble. I told him I didn't know WTF he was talking about. Tried to encourage him. I mentioned how I used some of his money to spin up 10 Ethereum validators. Explained the income it produces and he's in a better spot than most. Nothing. No response. He was concerned only about regulations. He mistakenly believed crypto was being made illegal. Feel so bad for him. I told him to stay a few weeks with me after his release next month. I doubt he'll take me up on it. We'll see what happens.

ghqwertt

For the most part they've been unsuccessful so far. For example: * Republicans in Georgia [tried](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/24/new-georgia-legislation-would-curb-souls-polls/) to eliminate Sunday early voting. * Kari Lake supported a lawsuit to [end it in AZ](https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/legislature/2022/03/17/who-supports-opposes-arizona-republican-party-lawsuit-end-early-voting/7055208001/), and she plans to introduce a bill to eliminate it if she wins. The fact that they failed isn't relevant. And of course you ignored the totally illegitimate purging of voters rolls, which has been much more successful.

Modern_Orange

Markets like certainty. If we know who holds the two Congress chambers reasonably fast then we will be fine in the financial markets regardless who wins. Nightmare scenario would be something like Reps 50, Dems 48, one race going to a runoff (GA) and one race that is tight (within a couple thousand votes and no declared winner, I can see this easily happening in AZ or PA). We would wake up Wednesday with no idea who would hold the Senate and the markets would panic.

Arcc14

NFT Fomo VC’s like 3AZ were buying dick butts so are other lesser known ones but Bored Ape went the other direction and turned VC into a brand

Ok_Combination_7467

Isn’t this already happening in AZ?

Impressive-Handle-69

I've been seeing more "HODL" type license plates in AZ, Thought about doing it too, but then thought of the repercussions of doing so and didn't decide to paint a target on my back.

blackfuture8699

I used to fuel private jets at an FBO in AZ. We went through between 15-60 THOUSAND gallons of Jet A alone on private jets a day. Thats just one small airport of the 20 or so in AZ alone. You are an idiot who has no clue what you are talking about.

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s0urdeeeez

Unfortunate decisions you made as a teenager would have no effect on you as an adult. As a 16 year old kid I got an MIC and a class 4 felony for possession of marijuana (AZ blows) , and I’m an airline pilot today. So you’re just making excuses fam.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; The Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act would exempt reporting crypto transactions of less than $50, or trades in which a person earns less than that amount. The bill was introduced in the Senate today by Senators Patrick Toomey (R-PA) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ). Similar bills are also working their way through Congress. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.*

keeprollin420

TLDR: Introduced by senators Patrick Toomey (R-PA) and Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ), the Cryptocurrency Tax Fairness Act would exempt reporting crypto transactions of less than $50, or trades in which a person earns less than $50. “While digital currencies have the potential to become an ordinary part of Americans’ everyday lives, our current tax code stands in the way,” said Toomey. The goal is to expand the use of cryptocurrencies, according to a statement from Suzan DelBene (D-WA), who introduced the bill alongside David Schweikert (R-AZ).

Delimma2112

wanna buy my house in AZ? haha

jamesarmour

Bull trap AZ fuck

rsa1

> Akash has persistent storage available and **as long as you trust the provider** you can use that too So in a system that was designed to be about trustlessness, we've gone back to needing to trust the provider. I'm not against that in principle because a certain amount of trust is required in any business. However I do want to call out the fact that we're now giving up one of the selling points of crypto. > This is common practice and AWS does also use erasure coding, so the latency to manage the file is as relevant as on most big platforms where they value privacy Not at all. In AWS and its competitors, I can ensure the storage and compute is within the same data center and yet do it in a way that I'm protected against scheduled (due to OS upgrades) and unscheduled outages (failures). The latency between compute and storage is thus minimized. In the decentralised model, the files must be brought back together from across the world and combined before they can be used in that compute. That latency is not remotely comparable to reading S3 from an EC2 instance in the same AZ, unless you think that Akash has found a way to exceed the speed of light and override physics. Whether there are 10 chunks of the file or 30 chunks is an implementation detail. You could bring it down to 3 chunks and the problem would still exist. Besides, none of what you've said would address data residency and licensing issues. Also in the model you just stated, I can't imagine how I'd create a private subnet walled off from the internet where the actual processing happens, and have a small subnet for web apps fronting it. This is a fairly standard requirement and I could implement it in AWS or Azure within a few hours. But a decentralised nature implies that all my VMs have to essentially connect to the internet to fetch the data they need to process or respond to user requests. > you have to put trust in the individual providers just like you trust AWS individually Just like a lot of people trusted Luna, Celsius, and Voyager probably. The crypto ecosystem hasn't given enough evidence it deserves that level of trust. The cloud providers have years of running the world's largest companies and start ups to have earned that trust. > AWS has less than 40 datacenters worldwide. Do you think it would be hard to arrange an attack on these data centers? I think AWS hires more top cybersecurity talent and understands cybersec better than random internet strangers who aren't even required by Sia to have a minimum OS version or level of security patching. Of course AWS can get it wrong too. But I fancy their chances better than those of a loose bunch of amateurs. If you think otherwise, please proceed to attack these DCs and let me know how it goes.

rsa1

> you’re confusing Akash as a storage network. Akash does compute, not storage. No, I just used S3 as an example. [AWS offers SLAs on EC2 as well](https://aws.amazon.com/compute/sla/) However, you've just introduced a new issue: latency. By their own admission, Sia splits up your file into 30 chunks which then have to be brought together when you retrieve them. Network latency becomes an issue here, and this is not a trivial problem: even within the same cloud provider with dedicated high bandwidth lines between their regions and data centers, latency is [significant enough](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/networking/azure-network-latency) for them to give you [architectural guidance](https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/architecture/what-to-consider-when-selecting-a-region-for-your-workloads/) on how to manage it. And there are other factors such as legalities (you often aren't allowed to store some data outside a country) or license limitations which require you to only install some software on server that you alone own. As you mentioned, Akash is compute while Sia is storage. This means you now have two different services but the problem is, storage needs to talk to compute. Data by itself achieves nothing until you can actually do something with it. Latency matters there too, so do access patterns. That's why the cloud providers offer you different types of storage like Blob, Block and File storage (Azure) or S3, EBS and EFS (AWS) for those different usage patterns. Again, intra-region is faster but on the other hand your compute in Akash is trying to fetch data from Sia's worldwide network to support your application. Maybe Sia has its own compute layer too, but it still needs to fetch these files to that compute and that has the same problem. A naive solution to this problem would be to co-locate the storage servers in one geo region to minimise latency. However that increases the probability of correlated failures (such as a snowstorm wiping out power supply in the whole state). > If one host misses to stay online, they will lose their collateral Yes, but as a customer, I really don't care what happens to that one host any more than I care about a particular rack in the *us-east-1c* AZ. You're dealing with a service here, and that assurance needs to be at the service level. Because distribution of data or compute for an application is not a trivial activity; just naively spreading it across the world has latency issues while spreading it in one area minimises latency while increasing correlated failures. So it's not a host-level assurance that's needed, but a service level one. > In the real world, we can’t achieve all of these nines in reliability. If you have concrete facts that show AWS doesn't achieve those nines in reliability, please share. I'd love to see those, because then I can ask my AWS account manager for a refund. > No matter what you do, companies come and go, disasters occur, and there are attacks that can happen. Yes, that's how probability works. That's why nobody gives you a 100% guarantee. Those data center failures, attacks etc are the factors these providers consider when giving those assurances. If they've underestimated the risks, then they'll have to pay up. > Amazon is a bad example, just ask Parler. As somebody who knows and loves some people that aren't white, I'm not particularly bothered that neo Nazis have one less place to ~~spew their hate~~ spread the word. They can always use [Truth Social](https://truthsocial.com/) though, and it was founded by their God Emperor too so I'm sure they'll never be booted from there. You could have chosen a better example like retail companies that avoid AWS for obvious reasons, but then again even they choose a [cloud](https://pulse.microsoft.com/en/transform-en/retail-en/fa2-the-power-of-prediction-how-aholddelhaize-is-using-data-and-ai-to-provide-more-personalised-shopping-experiences/) computing [competitor](https://corporate.walmart.com/newsroom/2018/07/17/walmart-establishes-strategic-partnership-with-microsoft-to-further-accelerate-digital-innovation-in-retail) of AWS

jewbagel10

AZ and a dollar slice till we eating again

agent_flounder

FWIW if you haven't, you should try some of the truly top shelf hard to find tequilas. A good friend of mine brings back some from Mexico that are mind blowing. On par with some $600 a bottle 50 year blended scotch I tried once. It was the best tequila by leaps and bounds that I've had. Failing that, if you ever visit southern AZ, and find the right stores you can find some great stuff that is probably not as common elsewhere, like here in Colorado.

Cautious_Audience225

I’m pretty sure it might be due to minimum balance laws they have to follow. Here in AZ, that minimum was $10k. Even when my loan dropped to 70% LTV, they couldn’t liquidate until it hit the lower tier. That’s what happened to me. I got liquidated when it hit the lower level. Happily, I xferred the btc I got back from the collateral that wasn’t sold. Nearly 6 million satoshis. I feel very lucky. Haha

NotRyanPoles

Arizona Ice Tea is a great example that companies don't need to squeeze every cent out of the customer in the name of covering cost. AZ Ice Tea pays for the increased demand for shipping labor. They take the hit on increased cost of gas as well as all the other things that play into rising cost. But they don't do it at the detriment of the consumer, because they're not abunch of greedy shit bags like these other companies.

American_Top

Fed hadn’t. Yet… Some states like CO take btc for tax payments. States like AZ proposed BTC laws. How much more obvious does it need to get

NiceDoctorBeam

*I found one at a flea market near Tucson AZ; it was inside a worn leather bowling ball bag, black, white, and red... in a box with some other stuff from the 1950s. I don't even bowl. I just had this strange impulse to bend down, pick up the bag, and open it.* *A very old-looking woman was sitting there, in a lawn chair, watching me from under her large straw hat, behind her big, dark plastic sunglasses.* *As I was unzipping the bag, I could feel the burst of unearthly spiritual power from within, even before I could see the ball. I was thinking, "Damn! A magic bowling ball?" But it turned out to be, not plastic, not glass, but crystal. It was magnificent in the morning sunlight.* *I returned the ball to the bag. I held it up between me and the woman, "How much?"* *She made it very clear I could only possess the crystal and it's glorious power so long as I kept the specifics about it's predictions to myself, and so long as I never let anybody know that I owned such an object.* *Now that I've told you, I am doomed.* *The ball, still in its bag, will go to the highest bidder for the contents of my storage unit. It will end up at another flea market...* *Good bye.*

EasternPrint8

It's not a joke, it's the real thing. Everytime you need more, make more AZ ICED TEA

pcvcolin

My two satoshis: 1. This was basically a well written letter by Fidelity - there are some other things that could have been said, but I think they tailored and limited it considering the limited worldview of the intended recipient. 2. Apart from this, there is a Congressperson, Byron Donalds, who introduced a bill which is intended to protect the use of bitcoin (and various cryptocurrencies) in retirement accounts - [the initial bill's text as released (not yet numbered) is here](https://donalds.house.gov/uploadedfiles/financial_freedom_act_bill_text.pdf). According to a page which describes this bill, "Original co-sponsors of this legislation include: Representatives Warren Davidson (OH-08), Young Kim (CA-39), David Schweikert (AZ-06), and Tom Emmer (MN-06)." It appears the bill has been titled "The Financial Freedom Act" and it "is in response to March 10th regulatory guidance released by the Employee Benefits Security Administration, an agency inside of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). The guidance attempts to bar 401(k) investors from investing in cryptocurrency and undermines the ability of 401(k) plans to offer brokerage windows, which give retirement plan participants the ability to personally control how their assets are invested. The guidance threatened that employers and investment firms could be subject to a DOL investigation and enforcement actions should they allow individuals using brokerage windows to invest in cryptocurrency. This legislation would empower retirement savers to invest as they see fit and ensure that plan sponsors and financial firms are not punished for allowing investors to exercise financial freedom. On May 5, 2022, Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) introduced identical legislation in the United States Senate." 3. O.K, three satoshis. Here's my third satoshi on this subject: It's worth noting that people have been using bitcoin (and other crypto systems for that matter) as / in lieu of ordinary retirement systems for years. I personally know very few people who no longer know anything about bitcoin and the number who don't own some are dwinding (although there are still plenty who don't own any). My own father owns some. When your parents and / or grandparents own it, and banks and institutions have gotten into it, I'd say it's fairly mainstream. People have it in their hardware wallets, there are some people who have 401k operating agreements or IRA LLCs they use to set up business accounts on exchanges and handle it themselves (this has been going on for I don't know how many years), and there is nothing illegal about it. It's just people managing their own assets. And there are various organizations that have specialized services such as iTrustCapital, BitcoinIRA (these two are IRA service related, and have been operating for a long time), or [Forusall](https://www.forusall.com/pricing) (an example of a crypto 401k service in development), and of course Fidelity (which now is offering the ability to have bitcoin in 401k, but **has been accepting bitcoin since 2015!**); this latest development is probably triggering the administration because it instantly means adoption for all employers as Fidelity Investments is in fact the largest 401(k) custodian in the United States. But the U.S. government is in denial if they think they can stop Fidelity (or anyone else for that matter) from keeping bitcoin in custody (in any form - self custody or any other sort of custody) for whatever end - be it retirement or any other matter. Rep. Byron Donalds was right, stating that with respect to the Department of Labor's reaction, that **“This administration, as well as any other government entity, lacks the authority to direct the financial future of America’s investors."**

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Post is by: NoirValley and the url/text [ ](https://goo.gl/GP6ppk)is: /r/CryptoCurrency/comments/uax0hv/list_bipartisan_list_of_procrypto_political_2022/ I don’t personally endorse any of these candidates (I’m still conducting my research for November) but I’m posting this as a courtesy for others who just want a list of “crypto-friendly” reps to explore. You will have to DYOR to see if these individuals actually support a full list of policies that are beneficial to the 90% (poor / working class / small business, etc.). **Politicians are learning:** “*Opposition to crypto risks an onslaught from the industry, and support of crypto invites a tsunami of supportive spending..*” **Aarika Rhodes** (D) CA [https://www.aarikaforcongress.com/policies](https://www.aarikaforcongress.com/policies) **Blake Masters** (R) AZ [https://www.blakemasters.com/](https://www.blakemasters.com/) **Carrick Flynn** (D) OR [https://www.carrickflynnfororegon.com/issues](https://www.carrickflynnfororegon.com/issues) **Cody Reynolds** (D) OR [https://codyfororegon.com/en/issues/](https://codyfororegon.com/en/issues/) **Cynthia Lummi**s (R) WY [https://www.lummis.senate.gov/issues/](https://www.lummis.senate.gov/issues/) **Jasmine Crockett** (D) TX [https://www.jasmineforus.com/issues/](https://www.jasmineforus.com/issues/) **JD Vance** (R) OH [https://jdvance.com/issues/](https://jdvance.com/issues/) **Josh Mandel** (R) OH [https://www.joshmandel.com/issues](https://www.joshmandel.com/issues) **Kyrsten Sinema** (D) AZ [https://www.sinema.senate.gov/priorities](https://www.sinema.senate.gov/priorities) **Lucy McBath** (D) GA [https://mcbath.house.gov/issues](https://mcbath.house.gov/issues) **Matt West** (D) OR [https://www.mattwestforcongress.com/en/home](https://www.mattwestforcongress.com/en/home) **Nikki Budzinski** (D) IL [https://nikkiforcongress.com/issues/](https://nikkiforcongress.com/issues/) **Ron Wyden** (D) OR [https://www.wyden.senate.gov/issues](https://www.wyden.senate.gov/issues) **Ro Khanna** (D) CA [https://www.rokhanna.com/issues](https://www.rokhanna.com/issues) **Shontel Brown** (D) OH [https://shontelbrown.com/priorities/](https://shontelbrown.com/priorities/) **Shrina Kurani** (D) CA [https://www.shrinakurani.com/priorities](https://www.shrinakurani.com/priorities) **Ted Cruz** (R) TX [https://www.cruz.senate.gov/about/issues](https://www.cruz.senate.gov/about/issues) **Thomas Massie** (R) KY [https://massie.house.gov/](https://massie.house.gov/) **Tom Emmer** (R) MN [https://emmer.house.gov/issues](https://emmer.house.gov/issues) **Warren Davidson** (R) OH [https://davidson.house.gov/issues](https://davidson.house.gov/issues) Also worth noting - Members of the bipartisan Blockchain Congressional Caucus who endorse a “light touch” to crypto regulation: [https://congressionalblockchaincaucus-schweikert.house.gov/members](https://congressionalblockchaincaucus-schweikert.house.gov/members) **Sources for this post:** [https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/16/bitcoin-crashes-the-midterms-527126](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/16/bitcoin-crashes-the-midterms-527126) [https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2022/04/06/crypto-traders-bet-big-jasmine-crocketts-congress](https://www.axios.com/local/dallas/2022/04/06/crypto-traders-bet-big-jasmine-crocketts-congress) [https://theintercept.com/2022/04/15/crypto-campaign-donations/](https://theintercept.com/2022/04/15/crypto-campaign-donations/) \----- If this post was helpful, please upvote and share. If you know of other pro-crypto 2022 candidates not included on this list, please let me know and I’ll update the OP. *I am a bot, and this action was performed automatically. Please [contact the moderators of this subreddit](/message/compose/?to=/r/CryptoCurrency) if you have any questions or concerns.*

Is-that-babaganoosh

Very cool, I can appreciate the sentiment. So I’ve been holding since 2016… id like mine Bitcoin just to try it. I live in AZ outskirts with solar panels on my house. The question is what if I actually sold for passive income, could it bring in extra money? Is it worth it? The other idea is yes hold for the long term. Very intriguing. What do you fits think?

after_Andrew

Almost like a city with empathetic policy towards homeless people would attract other cities to unload their homeless onto them. Shout out NV and AZ as well as Berkeley, El Cerrito, San Mateo, San Bruno, etc.

NotRyanPoles

Same can be said about where I live here in AZ, but nobody talks about it because we can't blame Democrats.

SeSuSo

Yea you can tell all these conservative finance bros saw a chance to shit on California so they all took the opportunity to mention how shitty California is yet probably never go there. I live in AZ and every time I've ever been to LA or San Francisco I've never had issues.

Krypto_Dick_V2

Oh most absolutely will. My mother in laws just became residents of AZ and still without question will vote blue no matter what. We talk on the phone and they acknowledge how terrible CA is getting and all the different ways it is. Now they have fled to another state and will do all that they can to do it again.

Almost_a_Noob

The US govt getting bitcoin probably won’t happen as soon as some think. Shit I have to mail my damn taxes in to the state since AZ won’t accept my e file. They are multiple decades behind.

Odlavso


Difficult_Cap9933

California, TX, NV, AZ and FL👏🏽😎

TheGreatMuffin

I'm not the OP, just sharing the article from the author's Twitter: https://twitter.com/AZ_HODL/status/1504185860161355782 According to the website linked in the OP, they also can be found on Telegram and Sphinx chat, if you want to reach out: https://azhodl.com/connect/

Morning_Star_Ritual

The best way for someone who doesn’t live here to understand is that we are really 10 or so countries. Someone living in Flagstaff, AZ might as well be on a different planet then someone living in a high rise condo in Miami. A moke crushing heads on Maui doesn’t live the same life that a theater director in Ashland, Oregon lives…..stop looking at America as one country and think of it as a bunch of countries that pretends to be one country.

Bitcoin__Hodler

starts with RU21EHh9ME3kU7AZ3rUxBCyKR5FhME3kU

jewbagel10

Pretty much how ever bullrun begins. Crypto declared dead and then like Phoenix, AZ it rises from the Ashes

richtex512

Live in NY, born in AZ, raised in TX.

Monkeyinchief

Does he has a white cat? Is Bond somewhere? Seriously.. Can the producers of Bond just stop with the woke crap and hire Klaus AZ SE Had of ze global terror forz? And let's say.. Brad Pit or Keanu Reeves as Bond? Would be awesome!

BL4CKN166464N6

> I kreated zee Global Schapers az a kommunity, AZ A FORS Notice how he puts emphasis on the word “force”. He is a very bad man

irishjihad

If you're willing to relocate periodically. She's been all over the States in the last 2 years. From ME to GA, AZ to WA, IL to MA. She had previously done it a few times in years past, so knew the ins and outs already.