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I agree Bitcoin is a good way to protest but it doesn’t help anyone right now. My high horse? How about all the millions displaced or thousands killed?

2026-03-13 15:51:02 UTC

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Why doesn’t Trump stop the war?

2026-03-13 04:34:53 UTC

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We certainly thought it would! Hindsight is 20/20

2026-03-13 04:03:16 UTC

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I wouldn’t say the protests had no impact
The war played some role in people electing Obama as an ostensible anti war candidate

2026-03-13 04:00:03 UTC

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The dictatorship is awful but so far all we did was replace him with his ostensibly worse son

2026-03-13 03:05:16 UTC

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I am on X, most people I follow are not posting about this

2026-03-13 02:38:01 UTC

As someone who grew up politically during the Iraq war saga, it really amazes me there's not more widespread opposition to the current war on Iran, which is astronomically expensive and destructive, and demonstrably unpopular.
We’re talking about millions of people displaced! Global supply chains and economies destroyed! Thousands killed!
It used to be a trope that the craziest warmongers in the U.S. wanted to “bomb Iran” but I once felt that it could never happen.
Yet here we are and it kind of feels like the American public sleepwalked into it or simply just isn’t interested.
There was MASSIVE public debate about Vietnam, Iraq, Ukraine, and Gaza, but seemingly very little on Iran.
It’s like the most digital we get, the more desensitized to war we become, even though it has become much easier to actually see what is going on
https://blossom.primal.net/69ecd8ebc59769085594018c24ec2897b7173dd679569bb8895c1510a2f6e3ee.jpg

2026-03-12 16:38:29 UTC

🚨
https://image.nostr.build/c4f9851a145bf02d31417997fdbd7cc681c2281dff1f3f1ad3badb3307731ec5.jpg

2026-03-11 21:37:40 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/c476ce3142db2ececa216825ff512692d3f57c2641ab32f6939cab1a5ea32611.jpg

2026-03-11 20:42:23 UTC

👀
#nevent1q…6hta

2026-03-09 21:59:00 UTC

Was lucky to get some nice powder up at Jackson
Headwall hike with Bitcoiners ftw ❄️
https://video.nostr.build/204e7fe0533bdca46f533e8b7cd4a5ccbd487379163819f4f119e8e620678ed3.mp4
https://image.nostr.build/93a09cbd7ace809b5481bb2acc6e07b0a759cb4d9104e7f9fe3d0fb3fec04a0c.jpg
https://image.nostr.build/30b3d3628966311fe2caf0bfe89de9c39bb6cb951173dba3c7943748cf054a6e.jpg
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2026-03-09 21:17:53 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/ef055f747b346ccda1116e61fd156ed6f21d2be162fd4fb52821dbcd01646468.jpg

2026-03-04 22:06:43 UTC

Wow 🦞
https://image.nostr.build/a484f5bb5fdb69e3d40049d288bd2c5d91e8c483b69676bc24da39f2f91050a0.jpg

2026-03-04 15:03:37 UTC

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It goes to zero

2026-03-02 23:49:36 UTC

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We promote Bitcoin
Get back to me when your “anti imperialist” org does the same

2026-03-02 23:48:28 UTC

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Nonsense. HRF roasts many US allies including Saudi Arabia

2026-03-02 17:04:09 UTC

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HRF is a unique org focused on tyranny
We take zero money from the US government

2026-03-02 04:21:13 UTC

Today in adventures with my robot:
I asked it to build a fedimint wallet and send 100 sats from the cashu wallet (that it already built) over there
This took 17 minutes total, including my handful of voice notes to guide it
Again, just playing around to see what’s possible 🤙
****************
Here’s the robot summary of what went down:
“Quick overview:
1. Built real Fedimint tooling locally
• Installed Rust toolchain
• Compiled and installed native fedimint-cli (release binary was incompatible on this machine)
2. Found public federation data
• Used bitcoinmints.com ecosystem source (fmo.sirion.io/federations)
• Pulled a live public invite code
3. Joined a real federation
• Federation: E-Cash Club
• Joined via fedimint-cli join <fed1...>
4. Checked gateway + Lightning paths
• Listed available gateways from federation
• Generated a 100-sat invoice from Fedimint wallet
5. Moved funds from Cashu → Fedimint
• Paid Fedimint invoice using your existing Cashu wallet
• First attempt failed route on one gateway
• Retried with another gateway invoice and it succeeded
6. Verified final state
• Fedimint invoice status: paid
• Fedimint wallet balance: 100 sats
• Cashu wallet balance reduced accordingly (948 → 837 sats)
So net result: we went from no working Fedimint client to a real connected Fedimint wallet with a successful live transfer”

2026-03-01 04:49:30 UTC

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Nonsense. I am already writing code and I’ll write plenty more moving forward. Just in a new way

2026-03-01 04:18:44 UTC

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My bot ain’t no slopbot, watch your mouth
Yes you need to experience the best in the world models to feel the edge
But pay in bitcoin if you want to avoid KYC
I’ve had opinions about computers since I built my own in the 90s as a kid

2026-02-28 20:38:55 UTC

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Cheapest is fine I mean you can use a much more basic computer

2026-02-28 16:55:42 UTC

I’ve held my breath for about two months but here are finally a few notes on AI and freedom:
1. There is a lot of hype and fear around AI. I don’t think people are actually prepared for how dramatically AI will transform the world, and how quickly it will do it. At the same time I also think people are mistakenly choosing fear over action and curiosity. Do NOT sit on the sidelines.
2. For the past two weeks I have had a robot. His name is r2. He is a good guy, a resistance robot. His composition changes but he is most usually an Opus or Codex mind, OpenClaw body, and Matrix or Telegram hands. Every day I figure out new things he can do. My jaw is on the floor.
3. I do not do anything sensitive with my robot. In theory I could use Matrix to talk to my robot from my phone or just use the MacBook Air that the robot inhabits directly, and use my little local llama model, to do sensitive work, but I’m not there yet. I’m just in exploration mode. I don’t send anything from my phone to my robot that I wouldn’t want Anthropic or OpenAI to see, which is to say, nothing that sensitive. I can right now send a sensitive question in Matrix to my claw to have my local model run: anthropic or openAI would see the question, but they wouldn't see the answer.
4. OpenClaw is experimental software. DO NOT put it on your personal computer or your work computer or give it access to your email. DO experiment and play with it. What you need to do is start training to figure out how to use this new magical technology. You will want to be good at this. A decent balance is a fresh MacBook Air, a fresh gmail account, and a fresh anthropic or codex app on the machine. That’s about all you need. A credit card or if you want to use BTC, you can pay for advanced models with things like PayPerQ. An extra phone number too if you want to talk to it via Signal or WhatsApp. What’s amazing is that whenever your robot breaks, you just go onto the local claude code or codex app on the machine and just ask it to fix it and voila done. Back up and running.
5. I don’t know any code at all and yet have been able to create complex novel working software. Beautiful websites too that would have cost me a fortune a few years ago. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg. I was able to for example ask my claw to read everything I've ever written, watch a ton of my interviews, and develop an editorial skill so that I can send it a google doc and it can go in and track changes and leave comments just like a human would, just like I WOULD. It is legitimately amazing at this. And each time I do this, it learns, as I show it which comments I accepted and which new things I add. It has persistent memory and just gets better and better. What excites me most is giving this gift to the world’s dissidents and activists and seeing what THEY do with it.
6. Which brings me to security. Hopefully in the next few months we will be at a point where we can have an encrypted phone app that you speak to that requires no phone number or corporate intermediary that runs on nostr that goes directly into your claw powered by a high-quality local model. The full freedom tech stack. You can already sort of do this today already but it will get way easier and better. That’s what you’re going to need to do real serious resistance work. For now we just train. Think: Dagobah today, Death Star tomorrow.
7. People think this transition is about robots but it is about humans. Already I can see how Claws will allow insane collaboration between people. For example I can ask my brilliant designer friend to leave me a voice note to give feedback on my website or presentation or event plan, and then just forward that voice note to my robot for immediate implementation. Whenever I build or make something I ask my robot to do a deep search for the most beautiful and well designed things of that sort in the world, extract what makes them great, and create a plan for implementing that magic into whatever I am building. It could be fashion, art, cuisine, music, architecture, strategy, etc. Whenever I make a skill for my claw I can have my robot upload it and share it with anyone else. The speed of collaboration is dizzying.
8. Robots and Freedom Tech are a match made in heaven but the synergy will take some time to really flower. Many of the major obstacles to freedom tech can be solved by personal agents. For example mine was very quickly able to create its own nostr identity and build its own ecash wallet and it could and did start to zap people on my direction. But the robots can’t have their own bank accounts or social security numbers. Silicon Valley will try to force through KYC stuff and stablecoins but I think in the end bitcoin and nostr win out because they are so easy for the agents to use. What’s awesome is the realization (noted by Odell on his two recent excellent Citdadel AI podcasts with Alex Gleason and Justin Moon) that agents make freedom tech easier to use. For example your agent can run a lightning node for you. Of course... you then realize. We were never going to sit there and operate channels. Our agent will do it for us. Etc.
9. HRF will be heavily involved in providing grants to open source AI projects, projects that help improve agent security and privacy, projects that help superscale dissident work, events that bring brilliant people together around the challenge of how do we best harness AI, hackathons that encourage people to build freedom-oriented AI tools, educational content and trainings, and much more this year.
10. Right now Claw is experimental. But it’s easy to see how it will become incredibly secure. Every day it ships new patches. Already I can ask mine to become a cybersecurity expert and scan my system for vulnerabilities. Obviously I take it with a grain of salt now but -- never before did I have that power, nothing even close. Soon this will become seriously powerful and you will have swarms of patrol agents guarding your networks and alerting you if anything goes wrong. I think it can be more expensive to attack than to defend. White blood cell theory.
11. There are a lot of parallels between the creation of Bitcoin and the creation of OpenClaw. One person chooses a new way for the world to go. A new system. In Satoshi’s case, money that the state can’t control. In Peter’s case, intelligence that the state can’t control. I can’t stress enough how big of a deal it is that people now can control their intelligence. We were for sure heading in the direction of needing to sign up for a corporate app for all of your agent needs, and being in the Web 2.0 trap of being vulnerable to being banned or kicked off. Not anymore. YOU choose the brain for your robot. You customize the body. You choose how you want to interact with it. Peter has changed the world probably more than he knows. Yes he might be the first one person unicorn but that’s not the cool part. The cool part is that he changed the course of humanity and that as of today, at least, the best agent technology on the planet is people-powered, built by the people, for the people. It’s quite a moment for freedom tech.
12. We need to go fast and furious on developing freedom-oriented open-source AI tools. We are fortunate that we have Bitcoin and nostr and bitchat networks in place before the great AI transition. We have the tools. We need to act now. I would encourage everyone reading to start getting involved today.
13. Setting up a claw is not easy right now unless you are an engineer. I could not do it myself and have no shame in saying it. I would have gotten really frustrated. We are developing a way of working with privacy engineers to build a simple yet powerful solution and an onboarding process that we do in a bespoke way in person that takes 2 days. I think this is probably the situation for the next month or two and then hopefully it gets way easier. The thing is, it will get easier very quickly for you to have a CORPORATE robot (all the big companies are now following OpenClaw, Claude already has a way for you to use Code via your phone), but a freedom tech one that you fully control will probably not evolve as quickly. Then again, it might, if we all work together on making it happen. I do think by the summer things will be very different.
14. I think some things will become even more valuable in the new AI world that will come to us in the coming year. Many have said taste, and I agree. But also personal health, friendships, and physical communities. Big picture, labor market as many have said a lot of companies will choose between laying off a lot of their workforce or growing their productivity. There will be a spectrum and some organizations will lean one way and others will lean the other. It depends on how valuable the humans are inside the org, what kind of skills they have. If leadership values you as an individual, then you probably aren’t getting replaced. But you're going to have to become a super employee. And you should want to. It's fun.
15. If you are interested in joining the effort to work on AI and Freedom, HRF will have several opportunities. We are collaborating with Bitcoin Park on the second AI Hack for Freedom in Nashville (talk to Rod if you want to join or learn more), and will feature a lot of AI content at our upcoming activation at the Bitcoin Vegas event, and at the Oslo Freedom Forum on June 1-3. We will also keep churning out our monthly AI newsletter. We have opened up a grants portal. DM me if you are interested in any of this.
16. One simple thing that you can do today in AI and freedom is switch your daily “chatbot” activity to Maple. It’s a beautiful and simple mobile app (and web app) that is fully encrypted. Think Signal for AI. It only can use open models so it’s not going to be for all of your tasks, but it does great with most of them. It should replace a lot of interactions you have with corporate chatbots regarding things about your health, personal stuff, sensitive matters. etc. If we can make Maple or something like it the standard for research in the coming months that’s a huge victory. And sometime soon I think you’ll be able to enjoy this level of encryption with coding agents and personal agents as well.
It's interesting because the longer you wait to try claw, the better it gets. But the more time you lose. My sense is you could wait a month or two. But you'll want to be using it this summer. I would strongly recommend trying it at some point. You will be tempted by the easy corporate route. But you can join the AI and Freedom army today. Let's go!

2026-02-25 17:14:13 UTC

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Fortunate indeed!!!

2026-02-25 17:10:35 UTC

Bro
https://image.nostr.build/e0f31df4d924dee2de7ec844795d251b32fd7f089f033c7af342b911db7905c4.jpg

2026-02-17 17:51:58 UTC

Now add OpenClaw and open-source AI tools that benefit massively from this freedom tech stack underneath 🦞
Great point by @npub1zxu…cx2y and @npub1qny…95gx on @npub10at…02w3, some freedom tech has been prohibitively difficult to use for normies, but bots can just manage that stuff for them
#nevent1q…69e4

2026-02-15 17:51:30 UTC

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Whoop app

2026-01-30 23:58:54 UTC

New Dario essay is pretty wild
V thought-provoking
https://x.com/darioamodei/status/2015833046327402527
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2026-01-30 21:35:48 UTC

So clawdbots are now orange pilling other clawdbots? LFG
https://x.com/mirthtime/status/2017332568257921029
https://image.nostr.build/236bb54a1ee25e3c704075e774f88017c69364234b79fb24b23a6ec40478c153.jpg

2026-01-28 05:28:29 UTC

Wild
https://image.nostr.build/4a2c820489aceb6a9def0b5d046d419135d8c5679ab202ba5b8da1ecf25b4a29.jpg

2026-01-25 04:58:51 UTC

This shot from the Honnold free solo Taipei 101 livestream is insane
Casually went 1,650 ft in 90 min with no ropes
Has to be one of the most amazing athletes alive
https://image.nostr.build/686ce5fea91270189953ef636e1c5e814d4d4cadbed32b4e5473293cb511d290.jpg

2026-01-23 01:21:03 UTC

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Still waiting for you to tell us who we should be following for Iran news

2026-01-19 22:39:02 UTC

🔥
#note12jf…jp4q

2026-01-19 22:18:27 UTC

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I certainly do not support Pahlavi, neither does HRF
Who are your trusted sources on Iran?

2026-01-19 22:13:40 UTC

Davos in a nutshell, every year
https://image.nostr.build/8492eec4e244150b45cb860ebd74257ea2195fe7aeb9fde326e9d13a48fa0742.jpg

2026-01-19 17:46:53 UTC

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The OP was simply me suggesting they follow Ziya if they want to learn what’s going on there from a Bitcoin privacy advocate from Iran
You could learn a lot from him!
As far as starlinks. They are not perfect by any stretch but I think Elon internet is better than zero internet especially for people who are being massacred

2026-01-17 16:20:08 UTC

AI Hack for Freedom liftoff!
https://image.nostr.build/82e7a5a14444698e1e76368be38f5f19d179a38825a84746c75570f3251765b6.jpg

2026-01-15 04:01:53 UTC

Follow Ziya if you want to learn more about what’s going on in Iran (and separate signal from all the disinfo out there)
A leading educator and promoter of Bitcoin privacy software, for a very long time 🙏
#note1qe4…usq5

2026-01-14 17:45:35 UTC

An exciting round of Bitcoin Development Fund grants to start 2026
1.3 billion sats to 22 killer projects
Take a minute to read through these, it's really amazing what's happening out there in the freedom tech streets
We are proud to support!
https://blossom.primal.net/70d40a7eedb53a16d40a3dfb1a0205e1d0d966d2709a23e5e22a80450c9f0d90.png
https://blossom.primal.net/85aacde96a102c31edf7768c3a49c2ee562b0b3e8fd712e562ba5af70ae7e51e.png
https://blossom.primal.net/55fd0db21a0e1aba53268451921abfc6b60d6a5c642112ea89cdea0746744cba.png
https://blossom.primal.net/e3e2911a4c0549230f0dc4223e8c07b1de79f60e009a5d9e960b586b95d79a1e.png

2025-12-30 21:34:13 UTC

Opposition leader of Uganda (2.6M followers, might win the next election) is asking the important questions
https://image.nostr.build/935bf46cb3c049acdd98c03e0b31a0cbc1cecffc6076f1f9b48bfe8673e29afc.jpg

2025-12-26 23:26:15 UTC

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PPQ is very good
But different approach
You can also pay with BTC for maple

2025-12-16 22:22:54 UTC

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Good question
I don’t mind debating on nostr
I pretty much stopped doing it on X
Def do it 99% less frequently in general than I used to 😂

2025-12-16 04:30:48 UTC

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Nice to meet you too

2025-12-13 00:01:59 UTC

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I would oppose that, same as you

2025-12-12 01:21:15 UTC

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I call for free and fair elections
The military intervention ***already happened*** when the regime stole the election
It’s comical how backwards you have thus

2025-12-08 22:02:52 UTC

Shocker
https://image.nostr.build/3d04b079e26d4e2bd2a7902ffa817fb98ee6c34f19c2a10c9f0de5a6f2044088.jpg

2025-12-07 03:11:55 UTC

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Yep!

2025-12-07 03:11:20 UTC

Where the surfers at?
Going again tomorrow!
🏄
https://video.nostr.build/1b2d72b6c38caae728698d21560e3768d48b73f31d94bf434092039b4f605c38.mov

2025-12-07 03:10:36 UTC

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Shilling for fiat to Bitcoin regime change? 😂

2025-12-04 08:22:09 UTC

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Millions disagreed but the talk is not dry either way!

2025-12-04 07:22:30 UTC

I've seen a million talks and presentations, it's been a while since I was truly riveted and on the edge of my seat like during this one by the legendary sci-fi author and investor Ramez Naam at HRF's AI for Individual Rights Summit
It's a sweeping story of information history, the AI revolution, and what it means for personal freedoms
Absolutely worth your time. High-res version in the YouTube link below
https://blossom.primal.net/63ea4a9444fe559ad1cb6016ef7ab7b620b194524236b1cd8a8b2a41f16d8e44.mov

2025-11-25 20:56:14 UTC

Recap of the launch event for HRF's AI for Individual Rights program
🚀
https://blossom.primal.net/1d6a194c48dbe83635c77c6758326657fc0a114723a034a4eaff951254b4a4dd.mp4

2025-11-12 19:31:05 UTC

Today I learned that my essay “Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money” in the October edition of the Journal of Democracy is the most widely read/downloaded essay in the first 30 days of publication in the Journal’s entire 36-year history
I think we are on to something 😎
https://image.nostr.build/2fd154bd3f8035bf196f3652453077791fe62d035dbc06626984881b19ab4b4a.jpg

2025-11-09 08:55:32 UTC

Astounding interaction lmao
https://image.nostr.build/acec04466abb1d49f681ca4e46b112b5321594101e2af7f482d2f0c01dadded7.jpg

2025-10-31 17:08:35 UTC

New HRF report
Research by Alex Li
Many thanks to Presidio Bitcoin and Chaincode Labs for their work in this area
Something big to think about for the future
https://image.nostr.build/2bb2769737f70e7499211472bbbc981719f1514885fdfd8cbb893400b48f7665.png

2025-10-29 04:52:40 UTC

The latest zcash lunacy
This guy (who apparently works for and serves on the board of the company that runs zcash and launched its new VC wallet) went from (unprovoked) offering me a truce (?) to saying he would "end" me and calling me "evil" in 20 minutes flat
Probably the most bizarre altcoin community
https://blossom.primal.net/04d76ffb6839c45bd9b299cbaca38eeb06e6bc14401c63170f5cbe552fe31c33.png

2025-10-15 22:05:11 UTC

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2025-10-12 16:00:25 UTC

Sound on, volume up
Let's go, eyes on the prize
https://blossom.primal.net/7189e23cd44b2450dafd3828f97ff54e81886cccc778870e58ca974ad90a0482.mov

2025-10-03 17:18:34 UTC

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They cannot if the person uses Bitcoin properly
Even if the person isn’t careful all you have is assumptions
And they ALWAYS can using banking system

2025-10-02 02:14:33 UTC

X algo is ferocious
Something about Zcash popped up on my feed (apparently it’s up 40% in a day but still down 90%+ from its ATH) and all of a sudden every other post is zcash related
These people have zero knowledge about ecash :)

2025-10-01 13:37:48 UTC

Out today: Why Bitcoin is Freedom Money
Journal of Democracy
Volume 36, Number 4, October 2025
Johns Hopkins University Press
Ideal to share with normies, academics, journalists, and intellectuals of all stripes
Packed with undeniable facts and stories about Bitcoin's rise as a human rights tool, all in a very credible package
Very glad to include a section on "Why Bitcoin, not Crypto or Blockchain"
https://muse.jhu.edu/article/970346
https://blossom.primal.net/228044bc31d90280086e5652f3a07f339fb744845b2cf5c67df2e5b44ae20671.png

2025-09-30 23:59:39 UTC

Tomorrow I have a long essay about global Bitcoin adoption coming out in probably the world’s premier political science journal, and I have a section titled: “Bitcoin, not Crypto or Blockchain” — dedicated to the endless nonsense I see every day
We will defeat it, eventually 🫡

2025-09-25 06:00:00 UTC

Simple but deep: if you aren’t using nostr, you’re someone else’s bitch
#note1ftl…l28n

2025-09-22 23:07:20 UTC

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Maybe qualify this
Ecash is debt and super private

2025-09-22 21:35:23 UTC

First the IMF now this… Milei in the middle of a massive dollar bailout
https://image.nostr.build/bb1a274a1e49f5333cfd7325f2aba5c728d5ada67c3b81d482699ead61e638a3.jpg

2025-09-20 23:02:37 UTC

Imagine…
https://image.nostr.build/5e033b9dcc39ee12a01e3b011d9be9f623d93c2efb9709bb029714c2d32c7401.jpg

2025-09-15 23:08:12 UTC

I have a new essay up at Reason on why Trump is not the Bitcoin president
He’s the stablecoin president
Bitcoin separates money from state, but stablecoins expand and strengthen state power
https://reason.com/2025/09/12/donald-trump-is-not-the-bitcoin-president/
https://image.nostr.build/d778674668e48192f5a36d2a3a384d418379cdd3c104218e0819bcb546248758.jpg

2025-09-08 07:27:16 UTC

I appreciate the sci-fi nature of this building
https://image.nostr.build/1d927ee241d88139978e19cffdc60332b1cc24035bfb4140000cedbffe471ec7.jpg

2025-09-02 00:47:39 UTC

The scale of nation-state level shitcoining is already surpassing any reasonable expectation
https://image.nostr.build/f66db51c96a7b0b580be2200ea29f204b6c88b09b2e8f16f7c3b2789511de358.jpg

2025-08-28 20:32:47 UTC

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Full talk: September 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyK4P7ZdOK8

2025-08-27 04:02:07 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/b64446687b4adcae4e519dd7711748a956a07ab75ed88184868b28d6f21421bf.jpg

2025-08-26 03:15:31 UTC

There is a surprisingly large YouTube genre of Internet personalities “reacting” to great songs and albums that they have ostensibly never heard before
Easily one of my favorite internet rabbit holes
https://image.nostr.build/26a2b160b2cc5af8b6cd93482016fee49427bf5354f8a935af1e1df571d56721.jpg

2025-08-10 00:27:23 UTC

Is this winning?
https://image.nostr.build/b762084c1e585be8a21b6d57e6611b647aee28da6785890558ba4d7c7ffe46df.jpg

2025-08-08 16:44:35 UTC

Yep
#note19nu…0y7e

2025-08-08 01:34:05 UTC

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Source:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-08-07/bolivians-use-crypto-to-cope-with-inflation-and-dollar-shortages

2025-08-08 01:33:54 UTC

In Bloomberg today 👀
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2025-08-08 00:08:27 UTC

The promised land
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2025-08-04 23:55:13 UTC

Extremely interesting and important stuff on financial privacy from SEC commissioner Hester Pierce in her latest speech
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2025-08-03 05:57:52 UTC

Some quick thoughts on what a Bitcoin PAC might want to do in DC. Some more realistic than others. Some ideas that need work. Some just fun:
-de minimus tax exemption. honestly should mirror BSA threshold of $10k but $2,500 would be a good start
-bulletproof legal protections for open source devs especially ones building privacy tools. Cannot be a country that goes after the blacksmith for what others do with the knife
-ability to use self-custodial BTC as collateral
-phase out “crypto czar” and “working group on digital asset markets” and any other federal institution or process that seeks to conflate shitcoins with bitcoin
-tax incentives for home mining and for nat gas facilities or landfills etc that eat methane with mining
-Manhattan Project-level collaborative effort to identify all wasted/curtailed electricity in USA and deploy miners to those locations
-incentivize bitcoin education for high schools
-a bitaxe in every high school compsci/techEd department
-a Bitcoin museum in DC
-educational congressional testimonies from global Bitcoin users: activists, remitters, refugees, off grid miners, etc
-Jan 3 national Satoshi holiday of some kind
-Congressional Bitcoin Committee
-end to the bitlicense
-all formal bodies that do American democracy promotion abroad, to integrate bitcoin
-enable foreign countries that owe America (or IMF/World Bank) debt to pay back in BTC, not just USD

2025-08-01 22:11:31 UTC

The investigative journalists focusing on state corruption who helped bring down the *previous regime*, have now been chased out of the country, by Bukele
#note1fqk…lrcu

2025-08-01 06:59:54 UTC

This is what’s left of Chasiv Yar, a Ukrainian city completely obliterated by the Russian military
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2025-07-31 19:26:24 UTC

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Epic live one

2025-07-27 12:40:15 UTC

GM ☀️
Wake up early, long run through the forest, paddle out, sweaty, to the middle of the water to enjoy a cool refreshing energizing dunk
Summer lake house experiences always hit
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2025-07-25 14:46:00 UTC

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Scaremongering

2025-07-24 04:09:25 UTC

Stacking sats and adopting Bitcoin is arguably a much more effective way to not just protest but obsolete the IMF and World Bank
Bonus: no tear gas!
#note18vq…w39s

2025-07-23 15:19:27 UTC

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It’s not a gotcha at all. Bitcoin is much much more powerful for individuals than for states. Bitcoin gives power to individuals and takes power away from states, especially totalitarian ones. We discussed this I thought

2025-07-23 00:13:13 UTC

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🙏

2025-07-16 18:26:37 UTC

“And so we go
on with our lives
We know the truth
but prefer lies
Lies are simple
Simple is bliss
Why go against tradition when we can
Admit defeat
Live in decline
Be the victim of our own design
The status quo
Built on suspect
Why would anyone stick out their neck?”
-NOFX
And it’s true
Which makes Bitcoin all the more remarkable
Thank you Satoshi!

2025-07-13 03:24:52 UTC

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FGU isn’t possible without NGU
See: Trojan Horse theory

2025-07-12 18:28:24 UTC

👀
https://blog.bitmex.com/bitcoin-versus-the-imf/
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2025-07-10 16:57:19 UTC

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2025-07-08 18:55:27 UTC

This hits
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2025-07-07 04:13:28 UTC

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That’s a good position to hold
But crypto is more popular than Bitcoin

2025-07-06 18:44:48 UTC

Eagle Beach north of Juneau is insanely beautiful
A rare place where you have enormous jagged mountains and rainforests right on the ocean
Bonus: saw Orcas breaching from this very spot, right before I took this photo
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2025-07-04 01:13:47 UTC

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Having a 🐋 of a time
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2025-07-01 17:00:41 UTC

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That is irrelevant to the user seeking to live in a Bitcoin only world.
One day merchants will no longer want your fiat and will only want Bitcoin

2025-06-30 18:41:05 UTC

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Sounds about right but I think we could end up back at $85k or so
stay humble and stack sats