Quote from: JayJuanGee on December 14, 2023, 07:18:45 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on December 14, 2023, 05:22:11 PM

Quote from: FatFork on December 14, 2023, 01:31:24 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on December 14, 2023, 12:56:38 PM

Basically who here would picket the Kremlin with a sign that says "fuck you Putin end the war"

It's not a very good analogy because in the democracy of the "free world" we value and enjoy freedom of expression. So, you're pretty much allowed here to say things like "Fuck you Biden, stop the war!"

Quote from: philipma1957 on December 14, 2023, 12:56:38 PM

Not many of us, so why ask theymos to protest against multiple governments.

Not all protests against governments are inherently or universally negative. Especially when they advocate for human rights.

(Just to be clear, I'm talking in general. I'm not advocating that theymos should openly oppose laws or regulations in this case.)

yes I can march in front of the white house with a sign saying fuck you Biden end the war. ( And resonably feel safe to do so)

and I can’t march in front of the kremlin with a sign saying fuck you Putin end the war (with a reasonable expectation of being safe to do so)

Theymos actions here hint he feels that keeping the mixers up 🆙 will get the forum a Putin action not a Biden action in my analogy.

Do I like that this happened nope.

I am getting older and the work to run the mine is far harder than writing posts on bitcointalk.

I was looking to transition from mining and post for side money.

Most people that know my history since 2012 on bitcointalk know I usually do not sell my space.

But with age and miners getting physically bigger I am tiring out.

Hernia operation last year healed okay but I can feel the mesh strain on heavy lifts.

Hey I wish the mixer ban was not needed. But I do not want to see bitcointalk be closed down over it.

There should be ways not to work after getting into your mid to late 60s, and why should we want to be worrying about a few hundred bucks from signature campaigns.

Even my ideas of sustainable BTC withdrawal might allow for 21 BTC to serve as a decently income of a couple thousand extra per month to supplement any other cashflows that you might have (see my latest chart), and it seems to me that the amount of sustainable withdrawal should be continuing to go up... since the 200-week moving average continues to move up, and even in last year and a half, it had a bad year and a half, but it still went up at about an average of 20% per year (which is it's lowest increases in its recorded history) (see my entry-level fuck you status chart).

I am personally considering that in the coming years, 21 BTC should be able to provide $3k to $4k or more income per month, which would be 10x to 20x greater than the better paying signature campaigns.

Regarding the actual topic, it seems that several of the compromises theymos made over the last couple of weeks are enough to show that he is likely not wanting to be draconian in his various kinds of enforcement, so likely members would need to be somewhat blatant in their promotion of specific mixing services, and surely some members are more reliant on interactions in which they are able to obfuscate their transactions, which seems to be rights that we have, and surely many of us are likely concerned about various kinds of government overreach when it comes to monitoring us and also quelling our various kinds of speech, and we have rights to speak, but surely on a forum like this, the person running the forum (theymos in this case) might sometimes be under pressure if some kinds of safeguards are not taken.. even though there are also Section 230 protections.. yet I would imagine many forum operators, whether theymos or otherwise, would prefer to not have to make any court appearances to defend their section 230 protections... and then there sometimes are ambiguities between financial laws that might even conflict with section 203 protections, including some of the new legislative proposals that are likely vague and overreaches and abuses of governmental powers.

I got very well paid for my signature. Sinbad was paying me $225 a week.

Tumbler paid more than sinbad.

I did not need the signature money and gave away 0.01 of it to various projects here on bitcointalk.

was planning to give more. but the funds won’t be coming in for 2024.