Leopoldo
Leopoldo López 👍

Mayor of Caracas (Chacao) 2000-08. Lead protest against the dictatorship 2014 and was sent to prison. Escaped in 2021. Im now in exile and cofounded the worldlibertycongress.org

Public Key

npub1yxd53jkacz02yxfskkcmuwpscnfgzxx4mfpem6fs96a0jze8dfasgx3ylt

NIP-05 Address

leo@primal.net

Profile Code

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2026-03-25 00:38:04 UTC

What’s the Tik Tok algorithm feeding ?
https://blossom.primal.net/fa0f539b3c5a195594f1b16f628ce1ebb42ce1dd69ca72c304c47796b43dfd69.mov

2026-03-17 20:49:56 UTC

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2026-03-12 17:12:46 UTC

Tecnologías como Bitcoin se han convertido en herramientas para combatir la represión financiera impuesto por regímenes autocráticos, como los de Venezuela y Uganda, contra quienes luchan por la libertad.
“El desafío crea la solución al problema.”
Technologies like Bitcoin have become tools to combat the financial repression imposed by autocratic regimes, such as in Venezuela and Uganda, against people fighting for freedom.
“The challenge creates the solution to the problem.”
https://blossom.primal.net/9189312a0063f4a73647d837ca1a135d793a944aad064d7723609af687cb742a.mov

2026-03-12 00:29:53 UTC

Decentralized tools for democratic resistance. Communication that can't be silenced. Money that can't be frozen. Coordination that survives blackouts. This is what freedom technology looks like — built on Nostr and Lightning. 🌍⚡
#Agora #Nostr #FreedomTech #Bitcoin #Venezuela

2026-03-12 00:27:37 UTC

2026-03-12 00:24:45 UTC

Testing Agora — decentralized tools for democratic resistance. Communication, money, coordination — built on Nostr and Lightning. Freedom must be engineered into infrastructure. 🌍⚡
#Agora #Nostr #FreedomTech #Bitcoin

2026-03-12 00:21:47 UTC

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https://pathos.place/nevent1qvzqqqqy2upzq99x3mjtz5zr95vqfsgww9xvajvc3tuu88w8u9r6km0h53gczs7mqqs0lzwxhgzujz0tmvpc4z47d2t88fd86d4qdqvmqfzyxnaqfdyhkts66kgcn
El día ,01/03/26 asistí a un taller de Agora en Charallave, dictado por Sr. Uyoa a los tres municipios Urdaneta, Lander y Guacaipuro
https://blossom.primal.net/b80afb3ad2aac75c0b78ec9298121f70c27d44506672c65d243bfa37c204c094.jpg

2026-03-11 22:42:50 UTC

The Opportunity
Venezuela's stranded energy is not a curse. It is an asymmetric opportunity. Gas-to-BTC mining can begin the work of environmental remediation, economic reconstruction, and energy sovereignty — simultaneously. The flares don't have to burn forever. The waste can end. The rebuilding can start.
[10/10]

2026-03-11 22:42:46 UTC

The Environmental Case for Mining
This is counterintuitive but true: Bitcoin mining at flare sites reduces emissions. Combustion in a generator is cleaner than open flaring, and far cleaner than raw venting. Mining doesn't create the gas — it captures what was already being wasted and turns destruction into output.
[9/10]

2026-03-11 22:42:42 UTC

From Waste to Value
Every flare is a mining site. A gas-to-power generator and a container of ASICs can turn methane that was destroying the atmosphere into Bitcoin — a globally liquid, censorship-resistant asset. The emissions drop. The value rises. The waste becomes productive.
[8/10]

2026-03-11 22:42:38 UTC

Enter Bitcoin Mining
Bitcoin mining is the only industrial buyer that can go to the energy. Modular. Containerized. Deployable at the wellhead. No pipeline required. No grid connection needed. It converts stranded gas into electricity, and electricity into digital value — instantly, anywhere.
[7/10]

2026-03-11 22:42:34 UTC

The Paradox
Venezuela sits on some of the largest energy reserves on Earth, yet its people suffer blackouts. Its gas burns uselessly while its grid collapses. The paradox is not natural. It is the product of a system that extracts, captures, and destroys — but never builds.
[6/10]

2026-03-11 22:42:20 UTC

The Environmental Cost
Flaring contributes to acid rain, respiratory disease, and local ecosystem destruction. Venting accelerates climate change at a rate most people don't understand. Lake Maracaibo — once the engine of Venezuela's economy — is now surrounded by flares that light the night sky. That light is wasted wealth and poisoned air.
[5/10]

2026-03-11 22:42:16 UTC

Why It Happens
Stranded energy exists when there's no infrastructure to move it, no market to sell it, and no operator to capture it. In Venezuela, all three are broken. Pipelines corroded. Processing plants abandoned. PDVSA gutted by corruption and mismanagement. The gas has nowhere to go — so it burns.
[4/10]

2026-03-11 22:42:12 UTC

The Scale
Venezuela once had Latin America's largest gas reserves. Today, most associated gas produced alongside oil is wasted. Not captured. Not processed. Not sold. Burned or released. Entire energy systems worth of fuel — destroyed daily because the state that nationalized everything can maintain nothing.
[3/10]

2026-03-11 22:42:08 UTC

Flaring vs. Venting
Flaring burns gas you can't sell. Venting releases it raw — methane straight into the atmosphere, 80 times more potent than CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Venezuela does both, at industrial scale, because its infrastructure collapsed and no one is accountable.
[2/10]

2026-03-11 22:42:05 UTC

The Invisible Catastrophe
Every day, across Venezuela's oil fields, billions of cubic feet of natural gas are flared or vented into the atmosphere. No camera captures it. No headline covers it. But it is one of the largest environmental disasters in the Western Hemisphere — happening right now, in silence.
[1/10]

2026-03-11 22:00:01 UTC

Today's a big day, just setting up my agent and working in OpenClaw.

2026-02-19 20:10:37 UTC

Para una verdadera transición en Venezuela: libertad para los presos políticos, fin de la represión, regreso de los exiliados, apertura cívica y un nuevo consejo electoral para lograr unas elecciones libres y justas.
https://blossom.primal.net/2cee9d802ecc2d231524ad35ab178c0532a248bc328b8c04ef681652c24d668a.mov

2026-02-19 17:22:00 UTC

Tuve la oportunidad de estar en la ONU #GenevaSummit2026. En Venezuela no habrá transición real hacia la democracia sin elecciones libres y justas.
https://blossom.primal.net/ca877213b2738eb97d282f0680f7e2378b7f6dcfecde5e9d2b0bac0940c0d126.mov

2026-02-16 18:24:17 UTC

We are at the World Forum in Berlin discussing the need to guarantee the rule of law and free and fair elections in order for there to be a real transition in Venezuela, so that the Venezuelan people can choose their future without fear or imposition. If there is no democracy, there is no freedom.
https://blossom.primal.net/2624d38d624a5df723f8326d419304b4337b79dd32eb97c2de9dac1b974ddfa4.mov

2026-02-16 17:57:50 UTC

Berlin’s Governing Mayor Kai Wegner met today at AGH Berlin with Leopoldo López and fellow pro-democracy leaders committed to advancing human rights and freedom.
Within the framework of @npub126e…r9g3 , the meeting underscored the importance of international solidarity in defending democratic values and supporting those who stand up to authoritarianism.
https://blossom.primal.net/ca8e1b0e212aa940c14be964a09021e77047582fab6d7ca437b3c717369a88ec.jpg

2026-02-14 17:11:57 UTC

El chavismo no quiere perder el control de la represión
https://www.elmundo.es/internacional/2026/02/13/698d97c1fdddff134a8b458c.html?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&fbclid=PAZnRzaAP9i-VleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZA8xMjQwMjQ1NzQyODc0MTQAAadfNrC0ykoilqdaEXShSBpugVBoUS1NkYPb3Q9D9KtGEgnopdEBBEtUnALMMg_aem_MoQuGrQE1dnmO9LenMy8oA#Echobox=1770963323
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2025-11-17 11:13:30 UTC

Freedom fighters who are behind bars for their courage and their commitment to democratic values are central to the mission of the @nprofile…3h5t. Their sacrifice guides our work and strengthens our resolve.
#Freedom
https://blossom.primal.net/fa71dd15344b7a2a31e7cf3b1a2b671220cded8553f5ee5ba3d7b62864c41e0c.mp4

2025-11-03 15:58:25 UTC

Intentan quitarme la nacionalidad.
Pero la identidad no la otorga un régimen, ni se firma en un papel: se construye con convicción, con verdad y con propósito.
La identidad es algo que nadie puede borrar.
Ni un gobierno, ni un tribunal, ni una orden política.
Hoy, en un mundo donde la censura y el control buscan silenciar a las personas, existen herramientas que permiten algo que antes parecía imposible: ser dueño de tu propia voz e identidad digital.
Ese es el espíritu de las tecnologías descentralizadas como Nostr: un espacio donde nadie puede expulsarte, censurarte o arrebatarte lo que eres.
Pueden intentar quitarte el pasaporte, pero nunca podrán quitarte quién eres.
#Identidad #LibertadDigital #Nostr #DerechosHumanos #SoberaníaDigital #Venezuela
https://blossom.primal.net/78d895d076142bfd478d4b5e1e73447efe14ad61df3e6ae6749d81c9a68c9e70.mov

2025-11-01 16:50:13 UTC

Estamos emocionados por lo que viene este 12 de noviembre en Berlín 🇩🇪
Democratic Decentralized Resistance será un punto de encuentro entre tecnología abierta, libertad digital y acción democrática.
Un espacio impulsado por World Liberty Congress y Human Rights Foundation, donde activistas y creadores de todo el mundo explorarán cómo la descentralización puede abrir nuevos caminos para la libertad.
En tiempos de censura y control, creemos que la resistencia del futuro no se impone: se construye colectivamente y se programa en código abierto.
#DemocraticDecentralizedResistance #FreedomTech #HumanRights #Bitcoin #Nostr
https://blossom.primal.net/fd93baf49543614e5def5e42c083b66f5cfa96940883f6fd901f64bdcfadaf74.jpg

2025-10-31 20:17:29 UTC

Hace 16 años, el 31 de octubre de 2008, un mensaje anónimo cambió la historia:
“He estado trabajando en un nuevo sistema de efectivo electrónico peer-to-peer sin necesidad de terceros de confianza.”
Así nacía el White Paper de Bitcoin.
Aquel documento no solo introdujo una tecnología, sino una idea de libertad: un sistema donde el poder no depende de una autoridad central, sino de la colaboración de miles de personas conectadas por valores compartidos.
Hoy, seguimos esa inspiración, usando herramientas abiertas, descentralizadas y seguras para defender la libertad y conectar comunidades en todo el mundo.
La resistencia del futuro no se grita: se programa.
#WhitePaperDay #Bitcoin #Descentralización #LibertadDigital #Nostr

2025-10-22 16:27:49 UTC

Jailed by a Dictator, Fighting Back with Bitcoin | Leopoldo López
Leopoldo López is a Venezuelan opposition leader, former political prisoner, and founder of the World Liberty Congress, a global alliance of democracy defenders and freedom fighters.
In this episode, Leopoldo tells the story of how he went from mayor of Caracas to being hunted, imprisoned, and sentenced for “sending subliminal messages” through his speeches. He reveals what four years in solitary confinement does to the human mind, how he led a prison uprising from inside his cell, and the insane escape that finally got him out of Venezuela.
Now living in exile, Leopoldo explains how he’s using Bitcoin to fight back. Funding resistance movements, paying doctors and activists when banks are weaponised by dictators, and building a new freedom network through the World Liberty Congress.
Watch the episode here 👇
https://x.com/_DannyKnowles/status/1980962093697495368

2025-02-07 00:03:46 UTC

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In the early days of tw and many other social media there was no incentive to join, until there was.

2025-02-06 21:13:50 UTC

Why I think Nostr is an alternative to people under autocratic regimes like Venezuela:
1) Inmune to Regime Control and censorship, so if the regime blocks social media (like it happened with X in Venezuela 6 months ago), Nostr cannot be blocked.
2) Decentralized and each user will own their account and followers.
3) Nostr is also a payment rail in BTC. This is KEY for freedom activists and regular citizens. At some point billions of $ of remittances will be able to be sent directly, fast and mega low cost.
4) Nostr is a BTC heavy community, these are people that take freedom and privacy very seriously. Freedom is the core purpose of millions who live under autocracy, so Nostr is at the intersection of financial freedom, free speech and political freedom.
5) expanding the community of Nostr people under autocratic regimes will be going to the frontline in the fight for freedom. There will be lots of learning and action.

2025-02-05 04:12:47 UTC

I’m Leopoldo Lopez from Venezuela, joined Nostr a couple of months ago but lost my private key, standing next to Odell, I’m here to bring Nostr to freedom fighters in Venezuela and around the world.