Why are all the leftists ditching Twitter for Blue sky not moving to Nostr instead? Is it because they need a liberal safe space? Or is it because Nostr is missing something they need?


Who's looking forward to a free Ross speaking at the next Bitcoin conference?


Predicting a Kamala win tomorrow, it's going to be a long night


Machine guns and fireworks are a great combo https://video.nostr.build/9eb55e0ed2711ee7fb781c2e5ce09c277cf46a6913ee261deeae91ead295a750.mp4


The European mind cannot comprehend this, in America, there's always someone out there with a bigger gun than you. I'm at the machine gun shoot and my neighbors are driving in tanks and using them to tow their howitzer cannons in 🤣 https://video.nostr.build/27ab49d4118aa485c4b80003b103b849fd9af2eef523b527182502255e5cf59a.mp4


Note to self, listening to true crime murder mysteries while driving through buttfuck middle of nowhere Nevada is a really bad idea.


Excited for our next chapter in life together, the best is yet to come! https://image.nostr.build/b842d1f1f840dcca7ff39e78a0bdd7e440a00e3e74e1e7e79b2dba4f2a80d90c.jpg


20 years ago The Pirate Bay went hard
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I'm leaving Berlin after btc++ ecash edition. We are not bullish enough on ecash tech! It has the potential to restore power back to the people after decades of surveillance capitalism. Cypherpunks write code. https://image.nostr.build/a8a005feb8616fd0517b0be02f9c1e15cb501d0d49be24bda54bf2affb3a32b5.jpg


Does chaumian ecash have better privacy than monero? https://image.nostr.build/54116066cc476426d904ffd6efed6288d59ae5e227936279b00a1efa2b6bf543.jpg


our ecash edition in Berlin is now live on zap.stream! https://zap.stream/naddr1qqjrze3ex9snsvp595ekvcfh956x2vfn943rzefk95ervcenxvcngwt9x33kyqgewaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmp0qgsv73dxhgfk8tt76gf6q788zrfyz9dwwgwfk3aar6l5gk82a76v9fgrqsqqqan89pxa5d


Jetlag woke me up at 4am, walked over to Checkpoint Charlie, crazy how a wall cut Berlin in two, one side with capitalism, freedom and prosperity and the other with communism, secret police, and misery
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Pre flight selfie, heading to Berlin for btc++ ecash edition! https://image.nostr.build/bd6c3221a7d1764e9759f289e4219348a9e6d230b6a4c5d38029c3b843201150.jpg


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Here's a discord/slack Nostr client:
https://flotilla.coracle.social


I love how Kamala Harris owns a Glock handgun. As SF's District Attorney she supported a law to ban all handguns in SF. As California's Attorney General she supported a ban on all handguns invented after 2013. She's an anti gun anti freedom hypocrite. Trump is better on guns but he's a lunatic. Why do the two choices for president always suck. https://video.nostr.build/466a4d4ca126e2a8f59c94f4c775d23e509ef5fae8a0973c12e25c5ecc215249.mp4


Full auto Friday, first time shooting a P90 #gunstr  https://video.nostr.build/9d817bf6af7e4d65eca391a40ae65ef0155aaab2e2316620f4930af26c0a5853.mp4


The Californian mind cannot comprehend this, gas under $3 a gallon in Nashville ($0.79 a liter). https://image.nostr.build/befd579c1873fd6155defc591da480a17484a57c6a7bf35f4717e8b549f4e264.jpg


IVPN is now on Nostr.

Following a conversation at Baltic Honeybadger with  nostr:npub18ams6ewn5aj2n3wt2qawzglx9mr4nzksxhvrdc4gzrecw7n5tvjqctp424 regarding the pros and cons of 'company operated accounts on Nostr' + hearing talks on the future of free speech online, we are convinced that this is the right place (or rather, protocol) to be for us.

We've maintained a reserved, low-key presence on other social channels for many years. We as a team and as individuals prefer not to shout louder in a cacophony. While some companies thrive on oversharing for engagement and treating social communities as marketing funnels, such tactics don't align with our straightforward, no-bullshit approach.

For Nostr we are trying something different, without any compromise on these values. Expect more posts with direct opinions, in-depth analysis, privacy/VPN consultation and anything else that contributes to the community.

To anyone we've met at Bitcoin and other conferences over the years - hello! Nice to see you here. We are ready to continue the hundreds of conversations we had around trust, transparency, sovereignty, open-source ideals, LN merchant adoption, circular economy for Bitcoin and new radical ideas.

Reach out in public or private if you have any questions, ideas or suggestions. Let's do this!


Visiting San Francisco after Tokyo is quite jarring, went to a store and the underwear, socks, and T- shirts were locked up https://image.nostr.build/451cf117b714e1b7fa19af6d803bd5cc803140748097ab97da9017c461fdc174.jpg


I know I'm back in San Francisco when I see an Uber driver picking up passengers in a $80,000 electric vehicle, did his startup go bankrupt? 🤣 You wouldn't use an expensive and fat vehicle to drive Uber in unless you made some interesting life choices https://image.nostr.build/075cd810342f1cdcd91ba8cd7965e5b17110c8db3b79275b155778300c5468d3.jpg


Despite all the doom and gloom about America, I can't help but marvel at our freedoms. The 1st + 2nd amendment ensure that we can always tell tyrants to go fuck themselves. If they want to take away our freedom, they can come and take it!  https://image.nostr.build/1a34e02367c6b185368e43c9b62f8319f6de0b2fde15c0a88650dbf37dfeab5b.jpg


Leaving Tokyo for San Francisco, looking forward to homeless tent cities, open air drug markets, and poop everuwhere. At least the weather is good! https://image.nostr.build/1987191d7ebb80f0e32063a436328c1c532ed10155aeefcd9b85cdffcf21469e.jpg


First time seeing Mt. Fuji, gorgeous https://image.nostr.build/e415de55deaa25d58bfaa08bf3f5c1dcdd6478faa10e5fde954dadc53cdb5e22.jpg


Me at the Japanese cosmetics store trying to find the exact brand of sunscreen my fiance wants https://image.nostr.build/6ba9fe280b7de3c023877231abe5191eff065dd4fba7863f43c5956a88006e4b.gif


If I use 100% of my brain I can understand Olaoluwa when he speaks at conferences  https://image.nostr.build/db75a678d7b83dd04706b2a47bbc70d22d0f94e72c48115d9a9881541b9d0bb4.jpg


I love this energy from the sushi restaurant telling gluten free, vegetarians, and no raw fish people to fuck off https://image.nostr.build/e43a4f7ea5ac91e0fba715d1d1f39ffecc48871f4c197cd97de60b223ddc6bec.jpg


Lola is probably the best independent journalist in the Bitcoin space right now, sad news from geyser
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Freedom isn't free!


Checked out the Great Buddha in Kamakura today. Will be at the Tokyo conference tomorrow chatting with bitcoiners, hit me up if you are also there! https://image.nostr.build/d132407f890008fabe93e6fd3a6ce7060b20000d7cbe44c37d115f60bb7485d1.jpg


So many bitcoiners rely upon the state for personal protection, thats like storing all your coins on FTX, rugpull waiting to happen. If you are too lazy to take a 5 day class and pay $500 for a gun permit you are like your nocoiner friend who is too lazy to learn how to install a self custody wallet. I'll give you a pass if guns are illegal where you live.
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Locked in, on a flight to Japan, filing bullshit paperwork to transport machine guns from Nevada to Arizona to attend the world's largest machine gun shoot


Boarding my flight to Tokyo right now! Looking forward to getting fat on sushi, ramen, and udon! https://image.nostr.build/a7b9619fe1b7cfc17aeba2e6c1d9772906b04df3e0aecbb1ff7c37de9c8b54bd.jpg
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Unburdened by what has been, thanks to Chiang Mai and all the fresh coconuts I've been drinking https://image.nostr.build/6c884073305142cf25455c610088cf6832b2d501635e8987995ee8e23f28a059.jpg


Nostr changes everything, for the better! Great video with reason magazine and nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg6g89xw
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Freedom go up never stops!
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Loving the water bottles at the Bitcoin Chiang Mai learning center in Thailand https://image.nostr.build/7f8eec46174edd7f38b01042ccab44f190faba0f6738ad2956fb3087bf2fd318.jpg


The definition of LOCKED IN, bringing your own printer to do schoolwork at the Bangkok airport  https://image.nostr.build/e04bf4dca81175691a420aa2e11a83b31bbad1e22ab611c91cbf9e7b2be8ff56.jpg


With $0.25 fees, sending >$62.5 on chain is cheaper than using lightning on Phoenix Wallet
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Just used Bolt 12 to do a p2p sats -> Thai baht  swap over the lightning network, bullish on the future of lightning! https://image.nostr.build/25a26318624c2204b28291518664fb9128f0c6465070896feb68c3b067d1fe90.jpg


You need KYC to buy a subway card in Bangkok, ridiculous how the normalization of KYC has led to this. At least cash tickets are KYC free https://image.nostr.build/d09844ca4a8ef3d03d1bc6a7f8c617f9173a587ecbef736b3e5637105c51027c.jpg


"Live free or fucking die" - JStark
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Pre flight selfie for the nostr:nprofile1qqsvefl02swmsd5fgy7ewhz0dg67fmrnj9dzt9k8wpqjmy5xuuerzas49u935 Bitcoin Thailand conference and the nostr:nprofile1qqspgcwxxsu7380904g46jnswca32w32v3pqes6tk5cfz70q5s5llgqpydmhxue69uhkummnw3ez6un9d3shjtnswdnx7atwv3shg6t0dchxjmnxduq3yamnwvaz7tmsw4e8qmr9wpskwtn9wvq3vamnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwwpexjmtpdshxuet5ah6pd9 conference in Tokyo!
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She said yes ♥ https://image.nostr.build/2da3029a092b624b3b3480e74bdb7587eb307a453cf4abe27d1f909aba0926b9.jpg


So nice to be able to shower after burning man, gotta get some playa https://video.nostr.build/cd6b4b0a43b6995a7a3b4c169f3c7c9974861adfd2d29177eddfcb3f48278757.mp4 dust off before I enter my home


My humble burning man camp https://image.nostr.build/c1f596fd787ebd36a1109fc41318595defe5ff8089b3669c0c307db09fedd60d.jpg


Hal Finney passed away 10 years ago today. He was a true legend, a cypherpunk, and a visionary. You are dearly missed!  https://image.nostr.build/5055b88122fd38035af4550fd0a75d469071eb265c2b209dad10a8e24810a9a2.jpg


I have a starlink 😅 plan is to work hard play hard, it's too hot during the middle of the day to party anyways


Gotta get the emails sent out before burning man 😅


Airplane wifi doesn't work on my laptop, been sending emails nonstop for hours using my fingers, gotta love logistics. Here's a post conference plane selfie https://image.nostr.build/2981f7e96924de379e2d84bf4ef7f0e52c19756afd59ab1cb2f30dde509b37fd.jpg


France is 💩💩💩
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Proud that nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph is supporting nostr:nprofile1qqs22d4tralncqfnh2kmmarjkxk8449hwnk5xtqe3y5yry6hy7ytegqpzemhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejz7qgcwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxvmt59emkj73wvf5h5tcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsymkvl9 to promote freedom go up! https://image.nostr.build/eed3cbb85d05e33f6cd5ea610c07ccb8c9c602d9fb3516ef813bf32f1b65374d.jpg


Many client devs have gotten together to this week to discuss building out and implementing NIP-104. This will give Nostr a truly private and secure messaging alternative to Telegram. Based on recent news, the timing is perfect. It's going to take a lot of time, development, and funding, but I have faith in their drive and their passion. I also have faith in nostr:nprofile1qqspwwwexlwgcrrnwz4zwkze8rq3ncjug8mvgsd96dxx6wzs8ccndmcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtc9qeg9l 🤙🏻💜🫂


We have to make free speech the reality for the entire world. Nostr can't fix everything but I think it's one of the best shots we have at giving the world free speech. Bullish on freedom tech!


Encrypted messaging on Nostr is more relevant than ever
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We need Nostr more than ever! looking forward to a world where all my groups chats are on end to end encrypted Nostr groups instead of clear text telegram groups
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The beauty of FOSS is anyone can fork Amethyst and build whatever functionality they want into it.


NOSTRIGA: FUNDING NOSTR

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Glad that nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph is sponsoring the FOSS stage at Baltic Honeybadger! https://image.nostr.build/0b151e8a83a5f15b1b3e258acd8894c319726bf57d78f0424bf85f5fb42b17a9.jpg


How does Bitcoin fix this?


Stay humble, zap frens. #nostriga
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Update, I survived and made it to Nostriga! I'm super impressed with the BTCPay POS system to top up the cards for lunch, really slick!
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Lol my taxi driver just said fuck the police what a vibe


If I miss my talks in Riga it is because I died in a crazy eastern European taxi I forgot how insane some taxis are


Pre flight selfie before Baltic Honeybadger! Looking forward to another epic conference https://image.nostr.build/42d3cd75d84c350b3b945c7ace68fc251782e1ea72f80d819c0108895c93af46.jpg


Looking forward to seeing everyone at BTCPay Day in Riga!
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Shooting my type 24 Chinese maxim machine gun, short bursts to snipe distant targets #gunstr  https://video.nostr.build/1c180afcb02e4f54804218e216b5d59422208f8c4540d30744de49b66db6b561.mp4


Here's my profile for Reason on Nostr and why it could very well change the world

Pasting a few paragraphs here, you can find the rest at the link

Feel free to spread far and wide 😉

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Can Nostr Make Twitter's Dreams Come True?

Twitter's founder says Nostr is “100 percent what we wanted”—an open, ownerless network

Alex Gladstein | 8.13.2024

Virtually everyone agrees that social media is broken. On Facebook, X, Instagram, and TikTok, people fear out-of-control algorithms, fake news, state actor censorship, and propaganda. Google and Meta collect vast troves of personal information on their users and receive hundreds of thousands of requests every year from governments around the world to access that data. YouTube has become arguably "the most powerful media platform in the history of humanity," yet its algorithm is an ever-changing black box to the creators that populate the platform with videos. During the pandemic, federal officials were in contact with every major social media platform, coercing them to remove content.

The problem is centralized control. We can't trust companies to run our primary communications infrastructure. Government regulation only makes matters worse because it creates new legal barriers to entering the industry, which protects incumbent players and stifles innovation.

What if there were an alternative, not owned by Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, or the Chinese Communist Party? What if there were a way to control your own data to prevent companies from harvesting and monetizing it? What if you had granular control over what you see in your feed, with the freedom to choose your own algorithms? What if you owned your identity, which could be accessed seamlessly across different clients? That way, if you disapprove of the changes that Elon Musk brought to X, instead of closing your account you could take your handle and followers elsewhere.

That alternative exists. It's called "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays"—or Nostr.

The Decentralized Solution

Invented by a pseudonymous programmer and overwhelmingly funded by grants from non-profit foundations, this decentralized, free, and open-source protocol has been quietly evolving for the past three years. Like bitcoin, Nostr is a community-run digital network highly resistant to censorship and corruption. It has 40,000 weekly active users and a growing ecosystem of clients and applications ranging from social media to long-form publishing to payments.

Nostr is only necessary because our existing internet is so broken.

Fifteen years ago, social media seemed destined to decentralize the world and give power back to the people. In 2009, we watched as Arab Spring activists used Twitter and Facebook to organize, coordinate, and help topple several long-standing dictatorships. The promise was that these new social platforms, designed by Silicon Valley entrepreneurs, could help liberate the masses.

It was intoxicating—but turned out to be a mirage. The Arab revolutions stalled out when brutal military regimes cracked down. These platforms became tools for spying and censoring their users. X and Facebook have helped journalists and human rights activists reach bigger audiences, but they haven't fulfilled their revolutionary promise.

Jack Dorsey's Shift from Bluesky to Nostr

This was a major theme at the 2024 Oslo Freedom Forum, which is put on annually by the Human Rights Foundation, where I serve as chief strategy officer. At this conference for democracy and human rights, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey told the audience that the problem was, actually, guys like him: The very fact that Twitter, now X, has a CEO makes it a single point of failure. Governments routinely pressured Dorsey to censor content; once the company's offices in India were raided. Dorsey says that under the new Musk regime X complies with whatever governments want.

The X network is proprietary. Known as a "silo," this construct traps a user's identity, followers, and data. X also has the power to evict anyone from the platform and delete what they've written. Several years ago, when he was still running the company, Dorsey became convinced that Twitter should become an application instead, where users could post content to an open, ownerless network. This would make it similar to how bitcoin works, where you use an application called a wallet to interact with the network, but the network itself is neutral and open.

Building a non-proprietary architecture was Dorsey's original vision for Twitter, but over time the need to maximize revenue to build a business and serve shareholders undermined that goal.

Nevertheless, in 2021, Dorsey encouraged the creation of Bluesky—an initiative bootstrapped in-house to create that open neutral base layer. But after Musk bought the company, the managers of Bluesky were afraid they would run out of money and started raising funds from venture capitalists, which undermined the vision of building an open platform. Dorsey grew disenchanted and left the Bluesky board.

At the conference in Oslo, Dorsey explained what happened next:

I asked a question: What open source initiatives should I be funding that would be helpful to the public internet? And people kept tweeting at me that I should be looking at Nostr. I found the GitHub that described it and it was 100 percent what we wanted from Bluesky, but it wasn't developed from a company. It was completely independent. Its paper diagnosed every single problem we saw and had. But did it in a grassroots and dead simple way, that felt like the early Twitter where any developer could get on and really feel it.

Escaping the 'Golden Prisons'

Nostr was created in 2020 by the pseudonymous Brazilian programmer fiatjaf, who describes it as "the simplest open protocol that is able to create a censorship-resistant global 'social' network once and for all."

Though nobody is in charge, Nostr works as promised and is thriving. "It is the solution we've all been looking for," says Miljan Braticevic, founder of Primal, one of the two dozen plus clients now available for the Nostr protocol. "Nostr is not a Twitter competitor or a Mastodon competitor. This is the biggest misconception at the moment. That's just the tip of the iceberg. Nostr is nothing less than the foundation for the new internet. Meaning almost every conceivable app we have today will be built on Nostr."

Braticevic's prediction is echoed by at least a dozen other prominent developers. Martti Malmi, the first coder to work on bitcoin alongside Satoshi Nakamoto, is now a Nostr developer. In a recent talk, he said he had started to work on similar ideas around decentralized identity in 2019, only to come close to giving up. But then he found fiatjaf's invention, which he called a "godsend."

"Bitcoin is freedom of money, and Nostr is freedom of everything else," Malmi said. "I was there" in the earliest days of bitcoin, "and Nostr is even more intense."

For something that could be world-changing, Nostr is quite simple. To join, you sign up with a mobile or desktop client, which helps you to create a public and private key pair. The public key (or "npub") is used as your identifier, and you share it with clients and other users so that people can find your posts or pay you for your content. The private key ("nsec") is hidden by the user, stored safely (just like a bitcoin seed phrase), and is your way to log in to different services. Unlike platforms like X or Facebook, no other information is required to set up and use Nostr.

This gives users a powerful range of sovereignty. You can use a client, for example, that has strong hate speech controls. Or you can choose one that doesn't have any at all. You can use a client with aggressive algorithms, just like the ones X uses today. Or you can use one without any algorithm at all. Today, when you log in to an app like Primal, you can sort your feed by what's the latest, by what's most popular, by what's most zapped, or by customized keywords. It's up to you.

Last month, the macroeconomist Lyn Alden, author of one of the best books on bitcoin, published a long essay about Nostr's potential:

[Nostr] is a simple set of foundational building blocks that, if widely adopted, could gradually reshape "the Web" as we know it. Instead of a separate set of siloed social ecosystems, we could gravitate toward a more interoperable set of ecosystems, with more of the power dispersed to the content creators and to the audience, and away from the middlemen corporations.

The Nostr network is constructed like a spider web that can morph and regenerate, making it almost impossible to censor. When you set up a client on Nostr (perhaps, Primal or Damus on iOS; Amethyst on Android; or Coracle on the web), you choose from a variety of relays to connect to. This architecture ensures no single point of failure: If you are connected to seven or eight relays, and half of them choose to censor posts, your feed remains censorship-free, as your app will display the net sum of everything broadcast from each relay. If the Chinese government decides to attack your relays—as it did in 2023 when Damus launched on the Hong Kong and mainland app store—then more can be spun up. "The enemy," said Damus creator Will Casarin, "is too numerous."

Prominent bitcoin developer and educator Gigi—who switched to Nostr and deleted his X account—says that what helped it become so resilient is that it has zero exit cost. If the Chinese Communist Party bans YouTube, its domestic users lose everything. There's no way to get back their profiles and followers. The same is true if a user voluntarily closes an account.

Gigi calls these corporate silos "golden prisons" with no escape. Nostr's spider-like architecture makes escaping easy. If one client goes down, or you fail to connect to one relay, you just find another client or connect to another relay. You keep your posts, photos, preferences, contacts, and even algorithms of choice. If you use X, you are an X creator. But if you use Primal, you aren't a Primal creator, you are a Nostr creator.

https://reason.com/2024/08/13/can-nostr-make-twitters-dreams-come-true/


Powering it with the outlet in my jeep in the photo, bought a battery pack + USB C to DC cable to use for future outlets so I don't have to keep my jeep running


The new Starlink Mini is quite nice, super portable and it's just cool to have high speed satellite internet anywhere you go https://image.nostr.build/d2b256e769e4f791929838e4f36b8845dbbb777f367aff5a4dd56979e8e2c17b.jpg


Few things beat the smell of gasoline + classic cars, was fun to see the hot august nights car cruise in Reno
https://video.nostr.build/f2e6dcbf8a4b516687c7473577df87afd3191b19d3c29ef80c4d7d41e781b72e.mp4


I'm running graphene OS on a pixel 8 pro. It's very nice to have maximum privacy but remember the tradeoffs are not having lots of convenient features like tap to pay, kinda crappy UI/UX at times, and random bugs.


Beware of fake tokens! Wait for the real Trump token so we can pump and dump it on you and scam our supporters! Anyone who even discusses altcoins is a scammer who should be kicked out of Bitcoin but an exception will be made for daddy trump because NGU! https://image.nostr.build/6ab4ea38f23d79c703dedf10ad9b67265e34d51a7e78060d502e800c6f94b53f.jpg


I'm shocked that a serial scammer and conman would also delve into shitcoin scams. If your favorite maxi influencer who supports Trump because NGU doesn't call this out you really need to reevaluate who you follow.

https://x.com/EricTrump/status/1821606504061116542


In an attempt to get more Bitcoin-related content and CBDC to non-Bitcoin events (that usually avoid Bitcoin content because they're sponsored by alts), I have to give credit to  nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as for advancing panels on Nostr and CBDCs.

CBDC and human rights panel featuring me,  nostr:npub1n2m8jv38n27myhsrm36jvj94qmnh79qfwxt3lktnuq04s3dpk8kq2agflr, and  nostr:npub1tl8rspqy8karrzfwltql72c4rvz4mk2vt7d3jp6yxaxpchgdcx2s962v29: https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/155666

Nostr panel featuring  nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a,  nostr:npub1qny3tkh0acurzla8x3zy4nhrjz5zd8l9sy9jys09umwng00manysew95gx, and  nostr:npub12vkcxr0luzwp8e673v29eqjhrr7p9vqq8asav85swaepclllj09sylpugg: https://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/155651

Vote for them both and help us spread the orange and purple pill among one of the largest audiences on Earth. There's until August 18th to vote content in.

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No signal and pure noise coming from HRF's weekly financial freedom newsletter!
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That's why we also have the 2nd amendment to protect the 1st.


So in the UK they have "dedicated police officers who are scouring social media" for insulting or abusive material. Even retweeting is a potential offense. Thankfully in America we have the 1st amendment so we can tell wannabe bootlicking government officials and the thought police to get lost.
https://video.nostr.build/c10f9a293458dad3f69da9ad171236d72e0bcd88bb5aa974c16bf5caacf76b6f.mp4


So the wallet doesn't work over VPN, requires a phone number, and has 0.01% the users of altcoin products. Galaxy brain idea


Requiring a phone number just to use a wallet is baloney. https://image.nostr.build/e6ca975e7aaf5c02a243741d6744d2713dfa579a23d6ec2f068e9eff92481195.jpg


How does one vett Fedi communities? I'm comfortable trusting small amounts of sats to community custody, just need to find a reputable community to join.


A great talk filled with unrefutable examples of how Bitcoin is being used globally. 🚀🚀🚀
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Ecash is cool, will be interesting to see how we solve the issue of trust in custodians
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Breez wallet is a great alternative if you don't want to use Phoenix or Zeus


Embedded LND using the Olympus LSP


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Phoenix's 0.4% outbound payment fee means during low fee environments sending $100 on chain is actually cheaper than sending $100 using phoenix. The UI/UX is really good though.


Short term price moves are noise, governments taking advantage of crises to push total control via CBDC's are the signal we need to follow
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Even though our account on X was mistakenly suspended for a short while today, it was nice to see that our Nostr account remained ever-present. 💜


if you find yourself caring about Bitcoin's short-term price trajectory, remind yourself not to care about Bitcoin's short-term price trajectory


Went offroading to the middle of nowhere to shoot my Sten gun. Came back home to see social media ablaze with news about the price.  I'm still HODLing! #gunstr  https://video.nostr.build/47693302f88f0edb2abcf4ab9648e3e4d6e1852452f27d513b926b36f9abffa5.mp4


This week's Financial Freedom Report #34 covers stories of financial repression enforced by dictators. For example:

- Venezuela | Maduro Rigs Election to Prolong Regime
- Russia | Introduces New & Repressive Digital Asset Laws
- Ethiopia | Currency Devaluation to Secure IMF Loan

In Bitcoin news, we highlight:

- BitAxe | Mines First Solo Bitcoin Block
- Fedi | Announces Save the Children Collaboration
- Lightning Labs | Releases Taproot Assets on Lightning

All this and more in our latest newsletter here: https://hrf.org/category/financial-freedom/

Subscribe to the newsletter here: http://financialfreedomreport.org


Citadel Dispatch is always pure signal
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HRF's CBDC Tracker is one of the most underrated projects we have. It has immense amounts of data and displays it in an easy to understand way
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What are the best file hosts for uploading videos to Nostr?


Re-uploaded video should display properly on mobile clients now #gunstr https://video.nostr.build/377fe20548439e1f3dc50382f18f6364d7684fe70f1723063d8e960edceedd25.mp4
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Don't forget nostr:nprofile1qqsfnz2sqsflkatdssmeztxr90s8xrd7r07xkhfwaa6eu9zkcguljpgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyt8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kytcpzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7srn6f7x for providing us with free storage for our memes and videos 🤣


My favorite way to get cardio is running and gunning in the great outdoors. The MP5's firepower is quite weak, but it more than makes up for it by just being a fun and smooth gun. #gunstr https://video.nostr.build/050396368b197b783a27b31b1052c9c9cae50ce1c9788fd8de03627d97339d00.mp4


Just booked my flight to Riga for #Nostriga and Baltic Honeybadger! Who else is going? See you all soon! https://baltichoneybadger.com/


We are thrilled to announce our partnership with the Human Rights Foundation, who are generously sponsoring our conference - Baltic Honeybadger 2024! 🦡 🔥

To support the #Bitcoin open-source community, HRF is offering 50 free #BH2024 tickets to FOSS contributors.

https://m.primal.net/JjOw.png

Apply now to see if you are eligible for a pass!

https://tally.so/r/wkABad


Throwback to when I mag dumped a full auto AK 47 on my 23rd birthday #gunstr https://video.nostr.build/9088860b00d582e36b3f3309e38f558ea0fb48ff9a4ce4de24a07bc598945e86.mp4


AK platform sucks for customizability, you generally pay more for less options but the aesthetic appeal is hard to deny. Good luck getting a silencer to work with an AK, possible but it's a pain in the ass.

AR 10 is king for customizability. You got infinite options for every part of the gun.


Go on ammoseek.com , it is an ammo aggregator that shows the lowest prices in the US for any caliber you want. Just double check to make sure the ammo brand is good before buying


Meh their ammo is overpriced and their selection is garbage


3d printing a case for my bitaxe, looking forward to contributing to global Bitcoin hash rate! https://video.nostr.build/5c621578f284e9fb3cfd0a8ecf08336256dda85ba0563232c685868f6ddede47.mp4


Whether a front license plate is required depends on the state you live in. https://image.nostr.build/747fc67ca270a95a5d5fe4704f38f5bc70484844230fa8771b8802d026a060b6.jpg


I'm back in California, land of front license plates and toyota Priuses https://image.nostr.build/251867d9ac28766b088cba1d823af7c4ffe2b88e5fb17203b17f3d1d989c7484.jpg


Elon Musk often spews dumb bullshit but I'm glad he's right this time https://image.nostr.build/3a9c4f71409b2d0113a570d3ad861d35c2a3c281eb5d59c597b8fccd2783e01f.jpg


Woa! I just made the first atomic multinut payment on mainnet and it worked!

I paid a 10 sat Lightning invoice with ecash from two different Cashu mints at the same time, each making a (partial) multi-path payment of 5 sat to the destination.

Oh my god.
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SAD, Trump's pledge to fire Gary Gensler got way louder cheers than his pledge to free Ross. That's what happens when the number go up crowd forgets about whats more important, FREEDOM GO UP https://image.nostr.build/e7b85ef01f185c01fb0bab2fc3f83f098541e7ecb04712b7f2a43f1f54374a5c.jpg


I dislike Trump. He's a serial liar and conman. Still a historic moment https://image.nostr.build/2d80558ae7ae633a173ba8ef7b61caa596f9ea6d31321d77ce93f98fbe9b384b.jpg


Bullish to see so many people excited and standing in anticipation for nostr:nprofile1qqsr6tj32zrfn7v0pu4aheaytdnnc6rluepq73ndc2tdjzus34gat9qpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcfh4myw and his talk on the threats of Bitcoin centralization 😁 The best bitcoiners I know don't worship lying polticians https://image.nostr.build/962f456535b2f8228ae973b15ba8c7daa2586a15d5a1fd9b720e3999ea196a37.jpg


I'm not biased at all, super excited to see nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg6g89xw speak on the main stage about Bitcoin utility, commerce, and freedom! https://image.nostr.build/eb7b9dfdbb03e610e83431f081ceabe334e273d53f96943a47b96bb94cb17ebc.jpg


Jeremy Rubin is back! https://image.nostr.build/e88ac837472fe934340413773638c642d68e053e4e99e363bbda4c00ce3a5d93.jpg https://image.nostr.build/26acae2b406db3dce3d27a4b2605800eabbacd8a7c3a28ce187f39ae30572160.jpg


Periodic reminder for #damus users, here is how to activate the zap button on notes. GFY #Apple.

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Left: the hour long line for the live streamed main stage at the Bitcoin conference
Right: no line at the pure signal from the open source stage https://image.nostr.build/9f5cfd53c32615eefdef72605849376170fc1dd1984dfddebf449fbbfd73f313.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1fa2c79fee2d22296865667e582bec40bbee841ef30fe820507874a3d421bdd3.jpg


nostr:nprofile1qqsvyc3vj9kehy8pp2qm9wn8kxdal3wkhcnvy46k68uep5mctnsnvxcpz4mhxue69uhk2er9dchxummnw3ezumrpdejqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqzxrhwden5te0wfjkccte9eekummjwsh8xmmrd9skcfx8aqv opened the open source stage at Bitcoin 2024 with a bullish announcement, Femi Longe will be joining nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph as the Global Bitcoin Lead! I'm excited to work with Femi to advance financial freedom around the world! https://video.nostr.build/9b0fd970b08d326336ecb7df6eff6d06f05a8ba936413315741ad0a18ae3bb5d.mp4


Working on adding a Nostr address!


Read the HRF financial freedom report!
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If you are in Nashville come check out the nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph booth! https://image.nostr.build/3f4c68d406536a36ed152ef67058c7da8277f1dd5d3d87a56e77c5fcf439bd61.jpg


Such a pleasure to see nostr:nprofile1qqsyvrp9u6p0mfur9dfdru3d853tx9mdjuhkphxuxgfwmryja7zsvhqpzamhxue69uhhv6t5daezumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcscpyug and nostr:nprofile1qqsf03c2gsmx5ef4c9zmxvlew04gdh7u94afnknp33qvv3c94kvwxgspr3mhxue69uhksmmyd33x7epwvdhhyctrd3jjuar0dak8xtcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhszxnhwden5te0wpuhyctdd9jzuenfv96x5ctx9e3k7mf0ss9zgs again! Bullish on Nostr and bullish on client diversity! https://image.nostr.build/c6272be99751757c612f30588fd273c62ee2a86dacee5375b3968bc0ac1f6b1d.jpg


Bullish on protonmail, bullish on freedom tech!
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Didn't expect it to be so rainy, gray, and gloomy in Nashville https://image.nostr.build/7d1710d81217b1a56ab249b06bac4a81dcf9c3fa947103c86ff5d0124394d399.jpg


On my flight to Nashville for the Bitcoin Conference! I'll be nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph's booth https://image.nostr.build/4c1a5bdce1b1039516da5320e914091ce3c97423298c652d52ded4530c98f607.jpg , hit me up if you are also there!


He needs to get on Nostr
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Crowdstrike is a great reminder of why free and open source software without auto updates > closed source auto updating software that kills your device. Tick tok next block!


The European mind cannot comprehend this.

https://image.nostr.build/2e42b73cce6cf72c10d8a64ca88c4084049405aaab4d1d095e7beef1bff1ce77.jpg JD Vance's grandmother, who raised him, had 19 loaded handguns in her home when she passed away.


People are not bullish enough on freedom tech


The European mind cannot comprehend this https://image.nostr.build/25951e808d3de14626f4e4875ec924db5eb733edc5659fd807eaa6d5565ab5d7.jpg .

alt Vice Presidential Candidate JD Vance holding an AR-15 staring at the sky


Always bullish to see proof of work! Can't wait to test out Damus on my android phone
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One nice thing about Nevada is having endless miles of public land for practice. Way better than paying $30 to shoot from 0-25 yards and having a bunch of randos with guns next to you. https://image.nostr.build/b4a0fe75c588d59fa089e63fed835af39b43161f482eeb47d5211b480ae7f6a5.jpg


Went on a hike along the California coast today. It's always nice to get off scrolling on screens to enjoy the great outdoors. https://image.nostr.build/83d0e734102ae1b7423fc7ad86feb4162f318fd395804d2185806e1b2c0576c5.jpg


Political violence of any kind is unacceptable, fucking crazy times we are in

https://www.politico.com/news/2024/07/13/trump-rushed-off-stage-at-pennsylvania-rally-after-possible-gunfire-00167977


Any BOLT 12 donation issues to nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph should be fixed now. I went to sleep and my spare android phone running Phoenix also went to sleep. Plugged it into a charger and have an app keeping the display on, should work 24/7 now
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Should be working now, have to keep the android phone running phoenix awake 😅


I suddenly realized I have more Bitcoin than the German government. HFSP Germany! https://image.nostr.build/a1315a8e7cea366a3417c90c571a9863332e7f1880f07985068b72f2ca61411e.gif


Alex Li

Copwatcher and activist, promoting freedom at HRF


Have to say that Phoenix wallet is probably the best lightning wallet right now due to BOLT 12 support and splicing, but I can't wait to see what nostr:nprofile1qqsrf5h4ya83jk8u6t9jgc76h6kalz3plp9vusjpm2ygqgalqhxgp9gpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt4w35ku7thv9kxcet59e3k7mgpzemhxue69uhkkmr0vd4k2mn8vyh8xmmrd9skcqguwaehxw309ahx7um5wghxy6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctylktc and MuunWallet are cooking up


The financial reports are literally uploaded on a big tab on the HRF website............ https://hrf.org/about/annual-reports/


nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph is accepting donations via BOLT 12! You can scan the offer or pay bolt12@hrf.org https://image.nostr.build/a31d8da9724ca22b6f224fd0dbdc5908a5334fb7ba34541f7094f754af8e8783.jpg


Human-readable BOLT 12 offers

Probably the most asked-for feature from human rights activists

What was once a dream is becoming reality

Bullish!!!


Phoenix Wallet now supports lightning address receives via bolt 12!

https://x.com/PhoenixWallet/status/1811442125801705638?t=36Urd0RpzUN3pgpwbVCP6Q&s=19


Reminder: if you use Damus and want to send zaps on individual notes, you need to use this simple website to proceed. Otherwise you'll be limited to just profile zaps.

https://zap.army

If you're new to Damus, check out this tip #introductions Enjoy!


Who are the best people to follow on Nostr?


The beauty of America is the freedom to openly mock and shit on politicians

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The key is the Zojirushi rice cooker. Yes it's $200 but it's worth every penny to make perfect rice every time


👇
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Amazing story well worth a read! Bullish on Nostr in China!


God bless America and the 2nd amendment! We gotta learn how to protect our sats after we stack them 😂 https://image.nostr.build/850ba5991e1a3f6e803516a52756ff6554de2627c2259e749ea25128baa0c8b9.jpg


I agree with every word you said and that is what makes the "the European mind cannot comprehend this" meme so good. It's so funny


The European mind cannot comprehend this. In Nevada, I can bike around with a legally registered machine gun and silencer. I will concede that I am jealous of the rest of the world enjoying the newest Phoenix Wallet release with bolt 12.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1070445764045705307/1258929608796012684/81a76b6d-c5e2-48ad-8fa7-a70a79bc347c.jpg?ex=6689d510&is=66888390&hm=22d7a0bb38e620f0d3832eddc3e4c110e3d9edc5ccb9566886d12f52dbf61f32&


I just installed the Nostr plugin for BTCPay server so zaps are signed now!


HRF is a proud supporter of free and open source Nostr development and we are happy to be here!


nostr:npub17xvf49kht23cddxgw92rvfktkd3vqvjgkgsdexh9847wl0927tqsrhc9as is on Nostr now! All zaps go directly to our self custodial nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg!


📣 HRF gifted 1 billion sats from our Bitcoin Development Fund for our Q2 grant cycle

These focus on education, privacy, decentralized communications, and financial freedom tools for those in authoritarian regimes 🌐 🎉

🧵 on the projects 👇

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/hrf-grants-10-btc-to-worldwide-projects-advancing-bitcoin

🇰🇪 The Core promotes Bitcoin education in Kenya. Funding will facilitate meetups, course creation, and student rewards, fostering financial freedom in East Africa.

💻 Terry Yiu works on three Nostr-related projects: the Nostr SDK, Comingle, a conference app; and Damus, a decentralized social platform. All aim to strengthen freedom of speech and communication. This grant supports his work across these Nostr-related initiatives

🤖 Robo Sats—a Tor-only platform enabling peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange, especially helpful under authoritarian regimes, via the Lightning Network. Funding will enhance development, performance, and building an Android app

🇮🇳Bitshala’s Internship Program, empowering aspiring Bitcoin devs in India. Funding will support these internships and help Bitshala establish a hackerspace and community center in Bangalore

🌉Building Bridges to Bitcoin by Ideas Beyond Borders, empowering youth in the Middle East & North Africa with Bitcoin education in Arabic. Funds will support translation, publishing, and operational costs 💡

🤲 Open Sats supports open-source projects, education, and research in the Bitcoin ecosystem. HRF will support the Open Sats’ day-to-day operations budget 🌐

⚡ Flash aims to connect Caribbean economies with Bitcoin. Funding will bolster its development, educational efforts, and adoption campaigns, bringing financial inclusion to historically marginalized regions. 🏝

🇰🇷 Bitcoin Seoul, a conference that took place in May in Korea. Funds supported open-source initiatives and collaboration with North Korean defectors on human rights work

⛏ Margot Paez’s research explores Bitcoin mining's impact on human rights and sovereignty. This funding will support her study on energy efficiency, decentralization, and civil liberties 📊

🔒⚡ Validating Lightning Signer (VLS) enhances Lightning Network security by separating private keys. Funds will be used to hire a Rust developer to ensure user protection and accessibility

🇧🇷 Paulo Sacramento studies Brazil's digital payment systems for insights into Bitcoin adoption. This grant supports his research on open-source options for financial inclusion

🔐 Blockchain Commons develops FROST, improving private key security. Funding will support the organization of two FROST roundtable meetings among members of the FROST ecosystem ❄

🌞 Summer of Bitcoin offers internships for students in Bitcoin development. This grant supports stipends, mentorship, and operations, empowering builders from over 50 countries, with a strong emphasis on authoritarian regimes 🌐

With these grants, HRF continues to push the boundaries of financial freedom, education, and human rights through Bitcoin. Stay tuned for more updates on these exciting initiatives.
Hopeful applicants can find the BDF application here:

hrf.org/devfund


My face when my partner tells me bitcoin is down 20% after I DCA'd my entire net worth into it https://image.nostr.build/984f9f05f77ca9a90b2f2a1fcb299a2c54b1de62c25350a6dbe1dc72ae172946.jpg


My face when my partner sees the credit card statement full of gun and ammo purchases https://image.nostr.build/4f99ef9e513f86d81c07d110a73a545de68c40aa015783c039d70e801bbe55b0.jpg


Someone here has to Nostr pill Assange. Maybe nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m or nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 can do it?


You can donate to Assange via nostr:npub155m2k8ml8sqn8w4dhh689vdv0t2twa8dgvkpnzfggxf4wfughjsq2cdcvg here! https://btcpay0.voltageapp.io/apps/3sEmBheBrxi3NCzSwguMeSVJtZ5y/pos

Source: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/06/25/julian-assanges-family-is-raising-funds-for-him-with-bitcoin/


Piece of history: Julian Assange's 2010 Oslo Freedom Forum talk, delivered the last time he was a free man

It's a remarkable talk, I suggest watching it

He gave it right after releasing Collateral Murder, before his ability to travel was frozen

Six months before the banking blockade, one year before the Bitcoin fundraiser began

But most of the points remain fundamental

"The greater the power, the more need there is for transparency"

https://m.primal.net/IyCg.mp4


Assange is free!
https://x.com/wikileaks/status/1805388007475732646?s=46&t=cCLYoCFGvjptdK_Vxfe6Vg


Bullish on Joe's journalism and freedom go up! Thanks for the kind words!


I attribute nostr:npub1yaul8k059377u9lsu67de7y637w4jtgeuwcmh5n7788l6xnlnrgs3tvjmf increased productivity thanks to nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td hrf funding of Terry.

🫡


Happy to announce that I, along with nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qythwumn8ghj7anfw3hhytnwdaehgu339e3k7mf0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qpqgcxzte5zlkncx26j68ez60fzkvtkm9e0vrwdcvsjakxf9mu9qewq0yufff  and nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq32amnwvaz7tmjv4kxz7fwv3sk6atn9e5k7tcqyp7tz0x7qecwty8s9jlfag8u78s9ak79ej9yp9e3lf2rv3qps8836wkpz4u , have been jointly awarded a 1 BTC bounty from the HRF for our work on NIP 17 DMs.

From hrfbounties.org:

> Update: 1 BTC of this bounty has been claimed by Martti Malmi for his work incorporating this functionality into Iris. The remaining 1 BTC has been awarded to Vitor Pamplona, hodlbod, and Paul Miller for their work on NIP-17. Paul Miller redirected his bounty to opensats in order to have his open-source libraries audited.

I'm still figuring out what I want to do with this money — it's too little to allow me to really hire someone for Coracle, but enough to maybe get some work done. So if you have a strong background in nostr and/or web development and would like to do some contracting, please get in touch.

For now, I've gone ahead and donated 5MM sats each to coincenter.org and p2prights.org to help them fight the criminalization of financial privacy in the courts. Appealing to the state is not really a solution to its overreach, but I think it's still an important place to advocate in a visible way for our rights.


An amazing feeling when you come back home and see that your machine gun + mortar paperwork got approved https://image.nostr.build/f0f1c1df6adad942f2c0253227f999dcf7b7a525b249662910a20bf67473bc4b.jpg


MOST OPENSATS GRANTS ARE ONE AND TWO YEAR TERMS, PAID MONTHLY.

EVERY MONTH OUR BITCOIN DISTRIBUTION GROWS IN SIZE. PRETTY AMAZING TO WITNESS.

GOOD MORNING. 🫡


Leaving nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r more bullish than ever on Bitcoin. Yes, there are challenges with scalability, privacy, and decentralization but FOSS developers and builders can overcome them! https://image.nostr.build/7eca77fb68efe48741911a436865caf47bd88d8dd1831b2f74130d3f1a666cba.jpg


Come check out the HRF booth nostr:npub167n5w6cj2wseqtmk26zllc7n28uv9c4vw28k2kht206vnghe5a7stgzu3r ! https://image.nostr.build/506a432df5e9367f233aeea97a1aaf677a34cee99cf8f2bb380edb67a2d1ae76.jpg


I'm at the ZkSnacks office in Budapest. Glad to see that cypherpunks are still coding to keep the dream of bitcoin privacy alive despite all the attacks. https://image.nostr.build/ab1d219f33d8eeba96fe4457623ad3ba9eeb751d63fa1548c0129ee5f3ae1a4e.jpg


Incredibly thankful to the HRF crew, nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu , nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td , nostr:npub1cf3zeytdnwgwzz5pk2ax0vvmmlzad03xcft4d50ejrfhsh8pxcdsefx7gk , nostr:npub1wlkfvm7dvnusz9fv44wuwucu0jp3lc3wqt36ax0lz33hukjga7wq6hqwhy  and everybody else; this was a very enlightening experience that will shape how and what I work on.

Looking forward to next year’s, and building to make a larger impact based on what I’ve learned here.

Thank you.

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Watch the Oslo Freedom Forum financial freedom track livestream to see our stellar lineup of 25 sessions representing 20+ countries! https://www.youtube.com/embed/LMeNe1tBsr4


Watch the Oslo Freedom Forum livestream on YouTube! https://www.youtube.com/live/beLNpJ8CpBk?si=EnhzmYnaKMy7IKor


Freedom Go Up art for auction, proceeds benefit HRF! https://scarce.city/auctions/coin-join-art-by-kanuto


Trump says he will commute the sentence of Ross Ulbricht on day one if elected
https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1070445764045705307/1244096802102181899/GlNl8QTGER3AZCQQ.mp4?ex=6653deef&is=66528d6f&hm=083177ce25b7e81cb46d4346b0f4157494671e5f7f610a4a5a7c99bc87d46e57&


A legal defense fund for non-custodial tools. Very cool:
https://p2prights.org/


Number Go Up Bitcoiners who care about every chart movement and government vote but who stay silent on Freedom Go Up  FOSS developers being attacked are a threat to freedom. https://image.nostr.build/d2ab5e6f4221875e4996c5d44e5ba74d55569800d2ce9f707554aa5653b09840.jpg


Who’s also in Hong Kong for BTC Asia? Hit me up if you are there! https://image.nostr.build/0874be0019d50b954bd56e5bde3250675c497b9453e5e71de9ccf4488701000e.jpg


Looking forward to LibertyCon Europe in Tblisi! https://image.nostr.build/6237b617a212e5ba8a28ec64cfb982f0562319c3ebf37f1c9d5de2f7463fac98.jpg


If true, this is highly concerning. This is what happens when number go up ideology corrupts your brain and you miss the bigger goal, FREEDOM GO UP nostr:note1jag3u6rajn5qwgle8x97cuxu6ykrn8764nmjqe4hzgfmmqhjf4tsh6dyqq


HRF has announced a free quarterly webinar to teach nonprofits and activists on how to integrate Bitcoin into their work to challenge authoritarianism.

I'm glad to be working on this initiative alongside HRF colleagues and nostr:npub1rxysxnjkhrmqd3ey73dp9n5y5yvyzcs64acc9g0k2epcpwwyya4spvhnp8 to make Freedom Go Up!

Learn more and sign up here: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/hrf-fountainhead-announce-resident-artists-290687?e=fe905d4797


While others are distracted by the price and number go up, HRF is laser focused on making freedom go up by supporting FOSS

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About to fly to London for Advancing Bitcoin! Looking forward to meeting developers and enjoying a bull market conference. https://image.nostr.build/4dd09369c7197a1630cad9ce79729f33e308d61bd42465c73920db92f641d6db.jpg


Let's never forget the mission.
Freedom Go Up > Number Go Up


CONGRATULATIONS
FUCK CSW


My lawyers have just confirmed that Craig Wright has had his final appeal denied by the Supreme Court.

It is over, I won, welcome to law Motherfucker!


The #Nostr and new #nostriches on the wild, born at nostr:npub14f26g7dddy6dpltc70da3pg4e5w2p4apzzqjuugnsr2ema6e3y6s2xv7lu Freedom Festival ☀

Glad We had the opportunity to make even more friends 😁

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The idea of freedom flows everywhere here ✨

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Nostrica 2.0. The vibe is right

Tag them if you know them 💜
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I just landed in Costa Rica for the Bitcoin Freedom Festival and paid for my airport van to Bitcoin Jungle over lightning! Let me know if you are also attending and let's meet up! https://image.nostr.build/41f0c606f77ed8ad9f988e1b2fce20bb7ac4948ed2121d04e6b25cc0b7c5133f.jpg


Always important to remember that freedom go up > number go up


New Bitcoin optech just dropped covering 2023 in review. Excellent read.

https://bitcoinops.org/en/newsletters/2023/12/20/


HRF is hosting an X Spaces tomorrow with Q4 grant recipients to discuss their projects! https://x.com/ck_snarks/status/1737617603613647022?s=46&t=cCLYoCFGvjptdK_Vxfe6Vg


HRF is always proud to support freedom go up technology! nostr:note17tx740zgsn2lhskq4y0jpa8gvflsaae6sqwrl3vyy8zqg90g02cq7s5gmr


Good stuff on your third wave of grants nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f!

https://opensats.org/blog/bitcoin-grants-december-2023


High on-chain fees will be a fact of life, and that's good for bitcoin's security! Now it's more important than ever to build better scaling solutions so everyone can use bitcoin and self custody it!

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1070445764045705307/1185626928221278338/IMG_5054.png?ex=65904c1f&is=657dd71f&hm=9698600835680cad759852268ffaba8cfc5b5402eb61735a4b7b1c5bf72283c5&


Freedom go up is always more important than number go up. There are so many ways to make fiat gains, but few that can compete with #bitcoin on improving human rights and helping the oppressed worldwide


nostr:npub1szpa7cypmyd59083qs3pte9lez22lzfu6pl2guhgqx7q09x68y6qquh3td spotted with the Vancouver plebs 👀

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#plebchain https://i.nostr.build/vxm6.jpg


Taking a shot in Vancouver to celebrate right now.


Drinking in Vancouver!


A throwback to when Charlie Munger called #bitcoin rat poison at $150. I'm sad Munger couldn't live to see bitcoin hit $100,000.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1070445764045705307/1179171207904509992/Munger_Bitcoin_copy_2.mov?ex=6578cfc3&is=65665ac3&hm=6a19a291a2b77f43f4a38a2f007c6a9304af0a5940cec6df722b54067b04b480&


Subscribe to HRF's new weekly financial freedom newsletter for stories about #Bitcoin and its real world impact.

https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter nostr:note1tydle8s4xywxgtdu6wfyhv6ucwelm999c6f3xdlwdr7u6dj3rf7q24etgv


With my new role at HRF, I look forward to exploring the various ways people living under authoritarian regimes are reclaiming their #financialfreedom with new technologies. That’s why I’m excited to announce the launch of our newsletter, the Financial Freedom Report. 📰

The Financial Freedom Report will arrive in your inbox each Thursday morning and will focus on:
- the role money and banking play in the civil liberties and human rights struggles of those living under authoritarian regimes
- highlight how new monetary inventions like #Bitcoin can help secure more personal freedom for people even in the darkest dictatorship
- showcase real use cases from around the world
- and feature new tools and applications that can protect our financial freedom.

To my understanding, this is the first newsletter to explore the intersection between #humanrights and #financialfreedom, which means you have an opportunity to be at the forefront of this conversation. 🔥

Highly encourage you to subscribe here: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter


The lines at the ski resort are even more congested than the mempool 😩 (Mammoth Mountain) https://image.nostr.build/734fbed98380a157ed3402e89f35c5077f6518bb4848d95c4a76ee5d3c4ec5f5.jpg


A broad coalition of Tibetan, Hong Kong, Taiwanese, Uyghur, and Mainland Chinese activists are protesting Chairman Xi JinPing and Chinese Communist Party human rights abuses in San Francisco. https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1070445764045705307/1174451839849214002/IMG_4058.jpg?ex=6567a482&is=65552f82&hm=be6cde9983a5b52d0d15554475167a28e5e70932243eb26ef13d0f24a1b0451a&


HRF CBDC Fellow Nick Anthony goes over CBDC's and the CBDC Tracker https://cbdctracker.hrf.org/ https://image.nostr.build/b1463b527b73b2e5477afd93ea0c9f834d7d0b0fde969238b500f4b189aa86e2.jpg


nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu and nostr:npub1je7kh6yalvxp64lw5aztczx2ey5273mvn0gl023wmq7cc3wsjtas87p556introducing HRF's CBDC Tracker which is now live at https://cbdctracker.hrf.org/ https://image.nostr.build/1a0eaa0bd734166e4e2ce7930e6879c87c3297ede579cd67d8d1cb75e5315834.jpg


I have Samourai wallet on my android phone. UI/UX could use a refresh but it's definitely a powerful wallet.


Why are building circular #bitcoin  economies important?

I'm onboarding some activists to Bitcoin, the most common question is, "how I spend this Bitcoin for real money". For many people scam fiat is "real money". Everyday people need to be able to spend their Bitcoin for it to be useful to them. We have to push more merchant adoption for bitcoin to be truly seen as "real money. https://image.nostr.build/51e16c20c5a6d42ff34c796dbbaadb9a40710ca82dda9b64300c2cd72559ebf1.jpg


What is your favorite mobile #bitcoin wallet and why? What wallets am I missing that I should test out? https://image.nostr.build/4d95f0b4a45054c8d26169ca3179246f52ce8a52897d225386f33ca85108de92.jpg https://image.nostr.build/495f19ca247616566fe617eabd649ef601ea69ef55c8283e0a648b5a310baea8.jpg


Thank you for the kind words! Have to give credit to my GF for making me comfortable with my natural hair curls and longer hair. If you missed my talk you can watch it here!

https://youtu.be/8dsW8FH9HF8?si=4FJt56vfFIQh1jfU


I love Europe but I miss the dynamism and affordability of Asia. Let's be real, Asian food is also way better 😂


Was sad to leave Tokyo and everyone at nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l. Just hit country #30 on my travels! Doing a 7 hour layover in Finland before I arrive in Vilnius, will enjoy the freezing cold weather, nothing being open at 4AM, and getting the capital city to myself 🤣

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1070445764045705307/1170907185467891762/IMG_3543.jpg?ex=655abf4b&is=65484a4b&hm=53577c79108c8b9851f64f872dc1ad825a902bad7d7add3260abcfdb27fab0a6&


In São Paulo for #satsconf where I met a group of hackers who are building a news platform on Nostr to help journalists reporting out of authoritarian regimes

Bullish on Brazil 🇧🇷 https://image.nostr.build/c0e3029dd5864a26052187058dfbc6fadac362ba06505d6b67fb895b9b12c814.jpg https://image.nostr.build/679f068eb14a986b37d2a4ab56209d58bc403b868386a815136c08d16572d5a0.jpg


Great to be at the #BTCPay day in Tokyo! Bullish on freedom tech, bullish on #bitcoin! https://image.nostr.build/05bcd12b1b7430067926439af01f4fba93ff022e246c5b208dc15060c21e3313.jpg


Full talk available on https://youtu.be/hDQRxgWIt6Q?si=IM-eMFtkq96gqTOn


A short excerpt from Alex nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu's talk  "The Currency Caste System".

The TLDR: 150+ fiat currencies allows for massive exploitation via endless wage devaluation. Billions get squeezed

#Bitcoin threatens to obsolete this system with one neutral, open, global currency
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I will be inactive for several days. Met many brilliant people who are much better developers than I am. Getting to know their work is overwhelming.

I need to organize my thoughts. My vision doesn’t change but the execution needs to be adjusted.


There's a great little shrine next to the nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l venue. So peaceful, you feel the serenity and your worries disappear. Zen.(Konno Hachimangu Shrine)
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HRF is launching our CBDC tracker on November 14! This new online tool tracks the development of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs) around the world, with a focus on their rollout in authoritarian regimes and their threat to civil liberties.

URL will be cbdchumanrights.org


SBF found guilty, a great day for justice!

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/02/sam-bankman-fried-found-guilty-on-all-seven-criminal-fraud-counts.html


When nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m  asked nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 about ways the public can help bring him home, Snowden wasn't optimistic about his chances but used the opportunity to speak about the importance of #freeassange.
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nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 sending you a hug from Tokyo!


nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 just mentioned that most Nostr users are using custodial Lightning wallets to receive zaps. Users don't want to run their own server to receive offline donations. We need better non custodial Lightning wallets. Looking forward to a world where I can visit a conference in the global south and see everyone using a self custodial wallet! https://image.nostr.build/414b106e2c11d7aca064d8201661b7775acbfae163ab4f16201bac126139e725.jpg


Less than three months to go until nostr:npub1p0xmesqhftf7ga2v2hzdzz44ua059e70z7d9htur240p24y3a5xsn0deeh!!!

Really excited for this!

Our mission is to get large privately-run non-governmental organizations, that are building parallel institutions, to adopt #Bitcoin and get thousands of their members onboard too.

The Executive Directors / CEO's of three of the largest such organizations in the country, Sakeliga, AfriForum and the Institute For Race Relations, will be speaking at the conference, addressing the need for #Bitcoin adoption and hopefully learning. From you. From Bitcoiners. From all over the world.

Please join us.

Ticket are available here:
 https://adoptingbitcoin.org/capetown-2024

And if you've got any questions, jump on the telegram group:

https://t.me/AB24CPT


Livestream link https://www.youtube.com/live/MvIOT9cYS3s?si=BLQk6pmfLTOp1X-x


nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m and nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 speaking at nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l https://image.nostr.build/46d6e7103a9d8c556aeaab68c5cdd6c07ac65a87addbfddd26be5fade7e31187.jpg


The tuna at the nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l afterparty is insanely delicious https://video.nostr.build/4d4394973285522ae1b24f3d46fe7e8943673e381fea0d09753878f685424069.mp4


Thank u HRF
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Pleasure to speak at nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l about human rights, the importance of free speech, and why HRF is supporting Nostr! https://image.nostr.build/b9b823bbe1c7f55fd74741d69e4fcbe1dbf8b9485529ab36334b8a1b9486dce4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/fcb89509cffde8c31f7bdccfe9b2dcfd78de6522f90fc8736009c6c554d69a75.jpg


Japanese stranger bought me a drink, nostr:npub1v67clmf4jrezn8hsz28434nc0y5fu65e5esws04djnl2kasxl5tskjmjjk onboarded him to #bitcoin so I could reimburse him. Happy Halloween!

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First time getting Ramen in Japan, was amazing! Only $11 for a bowl + a side, rich broth, tasty veggies, free tap water. It was a much needed break from paying $25 to eat some bland meat and potatoes in Switzerland + $3 for tap water. https://image.nostr.build/eaeff69f9f8dc4065866fdfa4530a8e48aef9ab158e37563bf7a44f0982493eb.jpg


See you tomorrow!


⭐.::IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT::.⭐

#Nostrasia Tokyo Side Events

Please feel free to share other events that you know will be happening during the conference. Make sure to share date, time, location, and if available a link to the event!

⁃ Tokyo Meet Up: Oct 27th 9PM https://www.meetup.com/tokyo-citadel-meetup-group/events/296733337/
 ⁃ Diamond Hands Bitcoin Night: Nov 3rd 7PM https://diamondhands.connpass.com/event/298885/
 ⁃ Diamond Hands Learn Nostr: Nov 2nd 7PM https://diamondhands.connpass.com/event/298884/
 ⁃ Welcome Party: Nov 1st 6PM At Conference Venue
 ⁃ BTCPay Day: Nov 4th 2PM https://day.btcpayserver.org/


Are there any #nostrasia Halloween parties?


Getting electronics ready for nostrasia Tokyo workshops 🚀
Building zap-lamps, NSD (Nostr-signing-device), and LNPoS (offline bitcoin points of sale).
Free to attend 😘⚡

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About to head out to Tokyo for nostr:npub1nstrcu63lzpjkz94djajuz2evrgu2psd66cwgc0gz0c0qazezx0q9urg5l! Looking forward to speaking and meeting new people https://image.nostr.build/0abbc9c4e066f6bfc52935fc04cc27964cc14652cf4163b4e04b6f2e12ac1952.jpg


What are your thoughts on Matt Morallo's criticisms of Zaplocker regarding lightning network reliability?


Costs money to drink, costs money to shit, if Switzerland could get away with charging money to breath the clean air they would do it. $3.3 for TAP WATER? On the bright side Switzerland is clean and beautiful, and the Plan B conference was a blast! https://image.nostr.build/cb053acbe0fdf9076addd5a6958ab30f465d7f79144f774903faaef21da661b9.jpg


Pleasure to speak at the Bitcoin4India conference at Bengaluru on the dangers of CBDC's, cashless societies, and how Bitcoin can be a tool to fight back against overreaching governments. https://image.nostr.build/509497fc2d88dcb30564cb06c0fea7ea804d37190d66da8f1533d666da42a223.jpg


Going to Ukraine was an epic adventure, glad to be back under NATO protection. Flying to India for the Bitcoin4India conference tomorrow morning! https://image.nostr.build/540e4098c2b5f79b163c7c313e30cf4ab0a223e7b35ef66f4948bd904d661562.jpg


Got to visit the Marx-Engels Plaza in Berlin during the Festival of Lights. I had to pay tribute to the beauty of communism.

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Taking off for Berlin for Bitcoin Plus Plus. Looking forward to having a great time with German Bitcoiners! https://image.nostr.build/249d1bfb9169440e2acd281e5d4074251889fd0239441f3179ddad16aa13d9fb.jpg


I've just received a grant of $25,000 USD (in Bitcoin) to work alongside the Human Rights Foundation educating political dissidents around how to use BTC. I'm very humbled and excited.

Rather than focus on me for this post though, I want to take you on a journey regarding one of the stories I've witnessed at the Oslo Freedom Forum that has had the most impact on me.

In Oslo 2022, I watched a woman take the stage and talk about her activist husband who had been abducted and imprisoned in Nicaragua, leaving their daughter fatherless, as they had no contact with him at all.

I also met a wonderful woman learning about Bitcoin wallets for the first time, as a way to fundraise and get money into countries where dissident bank accounts would be shut down.

A year later I returned to Oslo and learned two things.
1. The woman I spoke with/coached and the woman onstage were the same person. Her name is Berta Maradiaga.
2. Due to the efforts of the HRF her husband Felix had been freed and returned to them for the first time in 3 years. They even showed a video of his daughter's tearful first reunion.

I encourage you to watch all 3 videos here. It is a harrowing story and it emotionally broke me watching it play out in real time. I got to spend a bunch of time with Berta recently at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, and she continues to learn about BTC and how it can be used to further their cause. She is wonderful.

Grab your tissues.

Felix In Oslo 2019 (Before being imprisoned)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KtoWHNLw-o

Berta in Oslo 2022 (Pleading for help to release her husband)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AicUo9hVlI

Felix Returning To Oslo 2023 (after his release and reunion)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUnDCR5mgLg


NEW: HRF gifts ~19 BTC ($505,000) via its Bitcoin Development Fund to support 15 projects worldwide 🌍

Targeting:

🎁 Global education
🎁 Bitcoin Core
🎁 DLCs on lightning
🎁 E-cash
🎁 Scholarships

You can learn more in this exclusive from Bitcoin Magazine: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/human-rights-foundation-donates-over-500000-to-15-global-bitcoin-projects

Grant #1: $50,000 to Furszy for his work on Bitcoin Core, where he is a top 10 contributor.

Funding will support his essential contributions to enhancing Bitcoin Core’s software stability, performance and security by reviewing PRs, and fixing bugs 🚀

https://github.com/furszy

Grant #2: $50,000 to summer of bitcoin to support their incredible summer fellowship program
The 2023 program featured more than 10,000 applicants from more than 70 countries

Grant #3: $50,000 to Jarol for his work on Bitcoin Core
Jarol will use funding to review PRs and fix bugs in Bitcoin Core; expand developer education; improve the Bitcoin Core App; and help bring full nodes to mobile phones

Grant #4: $50,000 to Vinteum for their work on expanding open source Bitcoin work in Latin America and Brazil.

Funding will support Bitcoin Core developers, foster Bitcoin communities, and build a Bitcoin Core developer pipeline education program in Latin America.

Grant #5: $50,000 to Gee Deer for his work on lightning native stablecoins and Bitcoin Core.
Gee’s proposed stablecoin will use Discreet Log Contracts to reduce counterparty risk and maximize decentralization ⚡
https://github.com/D33r-Gee

 Grant #6: $50,000 to the Kawaakibi Foundation to build a MENA Bitcoin Hub.

The MENA Bitcoin HUB will educate activists, journalists, and nonprofits on using Bitcoin to transact freely and receive international donations and hold their money securely and privately.

Grant #7: $50,000 to Justin Moeller for his work on Fedimint
Justin will focus on implementing a database migration mechanism to allow guardians to upgrade their Fedimint servers seamlessly.

Grant #8: $25,000 to D++ for her international educational initiatives and work on FOSS projects.

D++ will use funds to do international education, running a free Bitcoin bootcamp, and maintenance of Bitcoin Core and FOSS Projects.

Grant #9: $25,000 to Bitcoin Ekasi for their efforts to build a circular Bitcoin economy in South Africa.

Funds will support the onboarding of new local businesses to Bitcoin and the operation of a center to teach practical skills and Bitcoin knowledge to the local community 🇿🇦

Grant #10: $25,000 to Amiti for her work on Bitcoin mentorship, ADDRMAN, and Bitcoin Bytes.
Funds will support Amiti as she mentors Bitcoin Core contributors, improves ADDRMAN to increase the security and privacy of Bitcoin nodes, and builds Bitcoin Bytes.

Grant #11: $25,000 to Ben Perrin for international Bitcoin education.

Funding will allow Ben to create educational materials and conduct in-person and virtual workshops to teach dissidents and NGOs how to use Bitcoin safely and securely 🔏

Grant #12: $25,000 to La Librería de Satoshi to make technical education accessible to as many Spanish-speakers as possible.

Funding will be used to create Bitcoin and lightning courses, enabling Spanish developers to become Bitcoin Core Contributors.

Grant #13: $10,000 in travel grants to TabConf, a technical Bitcoin conference that took place in Atlanta, Georgia on September 6-9.

Grant #14: $10,000 in travel grants to Satsconf, the largest Bitcoin conference in Brazil taking place in Sao Paulo, Brazil from November 2-5 🇧🇷

Grant #15: $10,000 in travel grants to btc plus plus, a Bitcoin developer conference focused on Nix and software reproducibility taking place in Berlin, Germany from October 6-7 🇩🇪

HRF is proud to support a diverse range of projects to make Bitcoin a better global tool for human rights.
Since early 2020 we’ve supported more than 95 projects globally with more than $3.2M in USD and BTC gifts.

Submit proposals at dev dot fund @ hrf dot org
Donate and learn more at https://hrf.org/devfund


Welcome to HRF!

https://damus.io/note17l6wtz9uk2qpp7ggfpgwy8np5dc670lt7aj6a2pldruyc9zdd8us3xjywn https://image.nostr.build/faa91e3c5d2ba92ff2b299237f6d890e664fe97f7f0181ee933921e8dfd80e73.jpg


I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined the Human Rights Foundation as the Director of Financial Freedom.

I feel incredibly honored to have the chance to advance financial freedom globally by supporting open source Bitcoin development. 🌍

A huge thank you to HRF Leadership for entrusting me with this role. I'm humbled to contribute to HRF's noble mission. 🙏

I'm excited to collaborate closely with Alex Gladstein, Arsh Molu, and Alex Li. Be sure to follow them as we strive to create a significant impact through Bitcoin.

Now, it's time to roll up our sleeves and get to work! 💪