Indiana just made a big move. Governor Mike Braun signed HB 1042 into law, protecting the right of every Hoosier to hold their Bitcoin in their own wallet. No government agency can restrict it.

Missouri has HB 594, which eliminated state capital gains taxes on Bitcoin. That was a major win.

But Indiana just leapfrogged us on self-custody protections. Missouri must codifying self-custody rights, mining protections, and allowing the state to hold Bitcoin in public funds. It hasn't passed yet.

Meanwhile, the White House just brokered a tentative deal on stablecoin regulation, moving federal crypto legislation forward for the first time in months. Progress is happening at every level.

Indiana just proved that. Missouri needs to be next. If you're a Missourian who holds Bitcoin, speak up. Don't let Indiana be the only state that has our back.

In 1996, a mathematician named Daniel Bernstein sued the U.S. government for the right to publish his encryption code. He won. The court ruled that code is speech, protected by the First Amendment.

Nearly thirty years later, that precedent is more important than ever.

Every Bitcoin wallet, every Lightning implementation, every privacy tool, every node software, all of it is speech.

The developers who write these tools are not money transmitters. They are not criminals. They are the architects of financial sovereignty. And yet, globally, governments keep trying to criminalize the act of writing code that empowers individuals.

The EU's AMLR targets privacy tools. The old SEC tried to regulate developers out of existence. This is why state-level protections matter. In Missouri, we're pushing for a legal framework that recognizes what the courts established decades ago, that your right to write, run, and share open-source Bitcoin software is protected speech.

We need legislation that explicitly protects self-custody, mining, and node operation next. This is the infrastructure of freedom and we're building it.

The 4th Amendment protects you from unreasonable searches. That includes your financial transactions.

Chain surveillance of law-abiding Missourians is government overreach.

Privacy isn't secrecy, it's a right.

#ProtectYourBitcoin #BitcoinRights

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It's not much but we placed our first amount of donations into cold storage. We plan to hold at least 21% of every political contribution for four years before releasing back into our general revenue account.

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Bitcoin dipped below $70K this weekend. Geopolitical tensions. Bearish technicals. Rate hike fears. The usual noise.

Here's what didn't change when the price dropped:

Your right to self-custody your Bitcoin in Missouri. Your right to mine it on your own property. Your right to spend it without state capital gains taxes. Your right to run a node. Your right to write and deploy open-source Bitcoin software.

Rights are not correlated to price. That's the whole point. We don't fight for Bitcoin rights because the number goes up. We fight for them because they're rights, regardless of what the chart says.

When the price recovers (and it will), the states that protected Bitcoin rights during the dip will be the ones that attract builders, businesses, and Bitcoiners. Missouri must positioning itself to be that state.

Writing Bitcoin software is free speech.

The courts settled this decades ago in Bernstein v. DOJ. Developers who build wallets, nodes, and tools should never be treated like money transmitters. Missouri stands with builders.

#BitcoinRights #MissouriBitcoin