GM. We're the first generation that can save money without trusting a single institution. That's a human rights upgrade. 🩷

GM. You can be into bitcoin without making it your entire personality (highly recommend it actually)

Sometimes you just need this

Some of you act like buying bitcoin makes you an elite philosopher. You literally just clicked buy on an app. Please be normal.

I liked one monkey video on X and now that's all I see. we really need to remind ourselves that the algorithm's version of the world is not real life.

Being into bitcoin is 10% stacking sats and 90% trying hard not to sound like a cult leader at dinner parties

GM. Checking the price every 5 minutes isn't low time preference it’s just anxiety. Put the phone down and go live the life Bitcoin is supposed to get you

separating - money from state - bitcoin from politics

Ghali, one of the most famous and beloved Italian singers, was censored yesterday at the Olympic ceremony, so I'll leave a picture of him here, on the one social platform that isn't corrupt.

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Surround yourself with beauty and your soul will heal

Coming soon… the Bitcoin & Freedom Tech hub in Italy 🥹

Bitcoin is the espresso of finance. Pure, strong, no sugar, no foam. Everything else is just a Pumpkin Spice Latte fraud that makes you fat

My Bitcoin strategy is called 'having a life'. I work, I save, I live. No stress, no staring at numbers, no fights on X. Try it.

Society is so addicted to 9-5 jobs that making money with bitcoin is considered a scam

El Salvador VS Europe What worries me isn’t an openly hostile state. It’s the smiling one. The one that calls surveillance and control ‘protection.’ Everything unfolding today was described in advance. Not by politicians, but by the Cypherpunks. It was all written in the Cypherpunk Manifesto. This is exactly how it was supposed to go. So I educate myself. I take initiative. I go peer-to-peer. I’d be more afraid if my government pretended to be my friend. I’d rather see the cage being built than be told I’m already free while it closes.

I received $20 in bitcoin on Nostr for telling what me and @rikki🏴‍☠️ have seen in the past 4 years about why content creators in El Salvador are corrupt (high engagement & access, and threats from the Bitcoin Office). Just a reminder that a world out there exists.

We traveled “in bitcoin” before it was a thing. Me and Rikki started “Bitcoin Explorers“ in El Salvador in 2021, then kept moving: Central America, Asia, the Middle East, Europe, Africa. And I’m not saying this to flex. I’m saying it because the timeline is the timeline. The content exist. The story speaks for itself. Now. El Salvador was an engagement cheat code (and everyone knows it). The uncomfortable truth: when we posted El Salvador content, everything grew faster. Like… four times as fast. My tweets got reposted by Bukele. I got 4000 followers in a day for this picture you see here. Our videos about El Salvador hit 10k views while being shot like amateurs (because we were amateurs). We weren’t filmmakers. We weren’t a production studio. We were just there, documenting what we were seeing with the tools we had in the most honest possible way. If we wanted, we could’ve turned that into a visibility machine. We didn’t. Because we didn’t want the easy path. We didn’t want to go where everyone goes just because it performs. We didn’t want to become a tourism brochure for an algorithm or even worse, a government. And eventually we had to admit something most people won’t say out loud: realistic reportage takes time, money, and resources. We didn’t have enough of them to keep doing it the way we wanted...properly. So we stepped back. I found other jobs I'm super happy with and my voice remained independent. Now let me ask you something. genuinely. Why do you think so many Bitcoin creators focus on El Salvador? Why do you think so many creators post about it like it’s the only place on Earth where Bitcoin exists? Because it’s simple: - Post a beach breakfast and you get quadruple the reposts of a normal post. - Post a critique? You risk getting dogpiled, losing followers, losing access, losing 'opportunities. That’s the part people don’t post. And yes: there are people in the space who will make it personal, who will lean on social pressure, who will remind you that stepping out of line has a cost. I’ve seen and heard enough to know the incentives are real even if nobody wants to say it clearly. The saddest part is who ends up paying for this illusion: not the insiders. Not the people doing the reposting. Not people who threaten you over tweets. It’s the people at home: - liking - retweeting - booking flights - buying tickets - chasing a “ Bitcoin paradise” that mostly exists in social media posts apart from a few exceptions and small communities A lot of content creators aren’t documenting reality. They’re documenting what the algorithm and their paycheck rewards. And at that point… what’s the difference between them and the journalists they love to hate? Same dynamic: - follow the narrative - repeat what powerful people want amplified - avoid the messy parts - monetize the attention Different ecosystem. Same playbook. We didn’t want to be that. We could’ve milked it. We didn’t. Not because we’re morally superior, spare me that story. Because it didn’t fit who we are, and it didn’t fit what we wanted to build long-term. If I’m going to talk about Bitcoin “in the world,” I want it to be real: - not just the pretty parts - not just the safe parts - not just the parts that get you reposted by the right accounts Reality is complicated. Adoption is uneven. People are people. Politics are politics. Incentives are incentives. And if your content never shows the trade-offs, the friction, the contradictions… then you’re not educating anyone. You’re doing marketing. ❤️ If you’re new here, read this twice: Bitcoin doesn’t need fairy tales. It needs adults. It needs people who can handle nuance without turning it into a loyalty test. So next time you see a creator post a perfect “Bitcoin country” shot, ask yourself: - What are they not showing? - What can’t they say without losing access? - What gets rewarded here. and what gets punished? The algorithm isn’t truth. It’s the incentive map. And most creators are just following it like obedient little tourists.

What if the problem isn’t Bitcoin… but that some people were deliberately left out? If the financial system wanted to include the excluded, it would have done it already. It’s not “broken.” It’s elitist. By design. And it will fight to stay that way.