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Daily Reminder ✔


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It's about time multiple people envision a better People and Planet 🌎


We need to learn to be better guests to this planet 🌍 and its beings 🪬 #NoMoreFeesToExist

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Ser, we are ETH dummies converted into the Bitcoin cause and struggling to learn them Zaps and Alby wallets 🫠


Printer go Grrrr 😡


Pluto, being the smallest, slowest-moving, and farthest planet in our solar system, takes approximately 250 years to traverse all the zodiac signs. During its tenure in Capricorn, Pluto ushered in transformative changes, prompting us to scrutinize the traditions and structures we adhere to and encouraging us to find more efficient ways of navigating life. Now, as Pluto transitions into Aquarius, we are poised to embrace a wave of rebellious, innovative, and socially driven changes. This cosmic shift invites us to adapt and grow in ways that align with the progressive energy of Aquarius. Get ready for a celestial journey that promises to bring forth new dimensions of creativity and transformation.

November 19th 📆 ✔


🇸🇷 Suriname presidential candidate Maya Parbhoe pledges to make Bitcoin legal tender on day one 🙌 : Bitcoin

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🇸🇷 Suriname's presidential candidate, Maya Parbhoe (@MayaPar25), pledges to make #Bitcoin a legal currency in her country. #bullishbounty https://video.nostr.build/c9e909d7742b4b83c0981691161aaf78a769bd689d9e8a047ef981e3a46b7944.mp4
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Resistance is not futile, but essential.
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Who was this, that predicted the modern world so perfectly more than a century ago?

Who, and from which of his books?

First correct answer gets 421 Sats
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Perhaps they also want the price to go up because national treasures everywhere are stacking them. And will then start actively trading them.


Many bitcoiners think establishment powers are now in the "and then they join you" phase of the struggle.

I don't. I think they're more entering the earlier "and then they fight you" phase.

Or more specifically, they are happy to join in on the price exposure side (i.e. ETFs), but they are fighting against privacy (especially) and self-custody (to some extent). The struggle for financial privacy, custody, and overall self-autonomy is just heating up.

The gradual shift of critics from "bitcoin is a useless speculative asset with no intrinsic value" to "bitcoin is so powerful that direct usage of it must be curtailed" can be dangerous.

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We wonder if these proposed bills are just for fear mongering with no intention of ever getting actually passed. Great tactic either way.


The resistance is only just beginning..


We're a fan of the work you do. In Bitcoin, we Trust.


Do you know how printing money raises prices?

By wealthy bankers and corporations who get it for nothing buying up all of the critical resources and assets while they’re cheap.

It isn’t trickle down money, it’s trickle up ownership of everything.

#Bitcoin fixes this
#Fiat is slavery


We've officially deleted any X presence. It's time to move from censorship media 🫡


"cryptorefuge@iris.to"


A fledgling Network State for those seeking refuge from centralized systems, economies, tyrannies. We seek to gain independent sovereignty for our citizens in the long run.


Today, I had the pleasure of onboarding another shop to Bitcoin payments! This one is owned by a Somalia🇸🇴 entrepreneur married to Sarah, a South African🇿🇦.

Special thanks to nostr:npub1m7r9aayrqjtt2q0whkyrwlys75s5d828c5uewvqwyfd2kxefkfjqgeny2w and nostr:npub13ljnkd633c7maxatymv3y2fqq8vt3qk7j3tt0vytv90eztwgha9qmfcfhw for making the onboarding process smooth and easy!

Let’s all welcome Sarah to the Bitcoin community!

sarah1@blink.sv

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Make economic colonialism unaffordable.

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"PanaTheCryptoRefuge"


I'm really impressed with the new Satoshi Nakamoto statue in Lugano. I love how it celebrates privacy—disappearing from certain angles. We are all Satoshi. #Bitcoin is social consensus.

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At Pana, we've been curious about #UniversalBasicIncome projects, thesis and ideas for 5+years now.

Several encounters with folks in the academic, non-profit and crypto altruism circles have led us to add this as a State of its own in our Network State. IRL models are drawn from, pilots are conceptualized and might be enshrined in papers or the blockchain. The goal is to pay people a subsidized amount that is "never enough, always supplementary" to buying back a small piece of their own freedom.

Our crypto/financialistic team believes that tech and money are slaves to humanity and not the other way round. We attempt to proof models around the same.


The #SpiritualRefuge is for the curious, the awakened, the chasers of the truth. Astrology, spirituality, mindfulness, astronomy, and all walks of Spirituality for a Spirit/God/Divine/Universe/Cosmos/whatever-else-you-call-its's are welcome here. As always, citizens will be expected to be respectful or get unceremoniously kicked out.


The #TokenomicRefuge subsection is for Bitcoiners and others who believe in the power of the blockchain to find decentralized solutions to centralized problems with the World's Economy. Pilots, thoughts, papers and discussions around a potential flat-heirarchy token for the Refuge Network State will be held here.


#ClimateCrisis is the next small State we propose.

Climate migration will form the largest number of migratory refugees regardless of color, income group, geography and other socially stratifying factors. Here we aim to collect the data, the worriers and the warriors alike.


State #8 is loosely named #LegalRefuge for now to house those struggling with telling the truth due to legalized tyranny, demonization and prosecution are invited to share their stories, problems and form a community here.


State #7 is for #RefugeesOfWar:

Perhaps the most bastardized usage of the word 'Refugee' has got to be reserved for the most dehumanized portions of society. Those entrenched in the throes of hot war through direct and indirect genocide from the countries that attack them, and those that support the attackers.


State #6 is looking at #LinguisticRefuge - With the hot and cold wars around us, a large part of the richness of culture is getting depleted, forgotten, wiped out and prosecuted. This etymological and linguistic refuge invites you to bring your languages, dialects, phoneme and everything associated for its preservation.


State #5 is for those seeking #FuturisticRefuge

What does the future hold? Alien invasion, quantum leaping through solar flares, a mass awakening through the Metaverse or a return to the older ways, come speculate about topics you feel restricted to discuss on mainstream social media.


State #4 of #ScientificRefuge invites folks into the fold of scientific advancement that's free from political and economic opinions; in chase of the academic, regardless of its applications (unless determined genocidal), discussions around the dark and unsexy sides of science are all welcome.


State #2 in the #CBDCRefuge has discussions around fiat, real-world currencies - past, present, future. Myths, democratic discussions, speculation and proposed pilots are all welcome here.


State #1: The #journalisticrefuge is a channel where you can freely post your news without needing the mainstream media to approve of you. Speak your truth and dial back the extremism. Let people make informed, well-informed decisions. Come join our Discord today: https://discord.gg/nsbXWnpfrT


In the Pana sovereign, we've attempted to create spaces for those seeking Refuge to find home. In keeping, we'll use the new posts to introduce you to some of them. We live on Discord, Telegram and Nostr today, but we aren't wedded to a software or platform. Whatever works for the majority of our citizens, that's where you'll find us.


In Lugano, Switzerland, there is now a statue dedicated to Satoshi Nakamoto. From the front, it is almost invisible. #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/b70cde672c35e307124a04aa1f824b43c080420563fdddb2e34f37384efd9373.jpg


Anonymous eSIMs were there missing piece for a digital life with dignity.

Without Bitcoin, we wouldn't have those either (imaging having to pay for one with a credit card).

It's all starting to come together, piece by piece.


"We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must
come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions
to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for
centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret
handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow
for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do."

- Eric Hughes.

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 9 March 1993.


The kind of stuff we live for at The Refuge Network State...

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I like paranoid crypto anarchists. Good folks doing good work. Big fan.


101 on how gold was confiscated:

You had to turn it in for dollars by a deadline prior to dollar devaluation, and there were massive prison consequences for not turning it in, but little resources in terms of investigating who didn’t turn it in. That would be expensive. So it was fear based. Focusing on illegality and tail risks on edge cases more than enforcement on average.

Institutions had to comply immediately, since it’s all visible. So the government broke liquidity in the domestic gold market, which was enough for their purposes. Gold became a hard-to-trade illegal relic for those that held it.

If a small family hodled some extra bars for 40 years until it became legal again, they did okay.

But can the government track bitcoin in the 2020s better or worse than gold in 1930s for enforcement purposes? That’s the right question.

And don’t just think of confiscation. Think of 70% selective taxes and things like that. Far more within the current rule of law. That’s the sophisticated approach. Don’t take it. Selectively tax it by a lot.

Those are the politics to push against from a bitcoin perspective.


It has become so weird that the US Right supports Israel’s war on Palestine while the US Left supports Ukraine’s defense against Russia.

Political sides dig in. The wars become associated with culture.

There is so little voice today from those who oppose aggression. Those who support Jews but are not onboard with Israel’s actions against Palestinians. Those who support Ukrainian independence but don’t want to commit unlimited troops for border regions that literally speak Russian amid a complicated history.

More people die in Sudan and Cambodia than Israel/Palestine, but we are all focused on Israel/Palestine because it’s a conflict of cultures. Religious cultures but also western imperialism vs the global south. The focus of it all. That occupies our attention even as bigger massacres occur elsewhere that aren’t directly across these massive fault lines.

I refuse to engage in attention whoring. I support peace in most instances globally, other than total war against someone’s existence where it becomes right to fight back. People have a right to self-defense. And those who have power over others have a responsibility to hold back on using it fully.

Keep in mind that at any moment, tons of violence is occurring globally. The media directs you to a subset of it that is geographically, economically, or culturally relevant for their purposes. You ignore or are unaware of the rest, and get emotional about what is fed to you. That’s how most people act, anyway.


Just had an exciting moment that my normie friends will never appreciate.

I bought a couple beers.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers with Bitcoin.

...But it was more than that. I bought a couple beers in Lugano Switzerland with lightning, through Zeus wallet with my own lightning channel, connected to Alby Hub, running on my Start9 node, on my shelf in my office back home in Canada.

So yes, I just bought a couple beers. But it was fucking exciting.

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Gm, I'm not here to support nostr, I'm here because a place like this is my natural habitat.