Checking out Bluesky Good to see some friends and sharp folks But sad to see the reaction to #[0]​ posting an interview between RFK Jr and Assange’s father The knee-jerk ad-hominem group hate that blinds and prevents people from talking about real issues is intense on there

It’s bigotry of low expectations to think that people can’t learn how to self-custody Bitcoin and achieve financial freedom

Prayers for friends in Myanmar and Bangladesh If there’s one group of people that didn’t need to be devastated by a historic cyclone with a 20-foot storm surge, it’s the Rohingya

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Cyclone #Mocha is now a Category 5 hurricane with winds of 160 mph and pressure of 919 mb. Parts of northern #Myanmar should be bracing for catast...

Summer of Bitcoin received more than 10,000 applications (!) from more than 74 countries (!!) This gives you a sense of how truly global Bitcoin is HRF is very proud to support! https://t.co/Mt1SMyk9Yb

NEW: HRF gifts 16.5 BTC (~$455,000) via its Bitcoin Development Fund to support 12 projects worldwide Targeting: 🎁 Scaling and privacy 🎁 Censorship-resistant comms 🎁 Education inside authoritarian regimes 🎁 Core development 🎁 Community building Grant #1: $100,000 to Calvin Kim for his work on Utreexo, a Bitcoin scaling solution for faster verification and synchronization of Bitcoin full nodes HRF’s funding allows Kim to prepare Utreexo for a main net launch 🚀 Grant #2: $50,000 to 0xB10C for their work on Bitcoin Core tracepoints, P2P monitoring, fork observer, mining pool observer, and Bitcoin data Funding supports 0xB10C's efforts to monitor the Bitcoin network for anomalies, improving network security and resiliency 🦾 Grant #3: $50,000 to Calle for Cashu, a free and open source protocol that enables Chaumian ecash on top of Bitcoin The Cashu protocol conceals user balances and transaction history, offering near-perfect privacy for users of custodial Bitcoin wallets 🥜 Grant #4: $50,000 to Meron Estefanos for the creation of Bitcoin Innovation Hub Uganda The space will host local meetups and serve as a Bitcoin awareness and learning center, equipping local youth with practical skills to become sovereign individuals 🇺🇬 Grant #5: $50,000 to Kieran for Snort.Social, a web client of Nostr, a decentralized, censorship-resistant, open-source, social networking protocol Snort allows users to access Nostr on web browsers, reducing reliance on app stores and centralized services 📡 Grant #6: $50,000 to Rootzoll for Raspiblitz, a do-it-yourself lightning node that can be run on a Raspberry Pi RaspiBlitz is mainly targeted for learning how to run your own node decentralized from home - because: Not your Node, Not your Rules 🗽 Grant #7: $25,000 to BOB Space BKK for their Thailand residency program BOB Space BKK is a Bitcoin-only hatchery, incubator, and co-working space in Bangkok. Funding will help accelerate promising FOSS projects in Bitcoin, Lightning, and eCash protocols 🇹🇭 Grant #8: $25,000 to World Liberty Congress for the Freedom Academy, a program that equips activists with the tools, resources, and support needed in the struggle against authoritarianism This grant supported recent financial freedom training in Zambia 🇿🇲 Grant #9: $25,000 to Hampus Sjöberg for Blixt Wallet, a non-custodial open-source Bitcoin and lightning wallet Funding will support Sjöberg’s efforts to improve the user experience and performance of the Blixt Wallet on iOS and Android⚡ Grant #10: $10,000 to Nourou for Bitcoin Sénégal, a group that hosts meetups, creates educational content, and onboards local merchants to Bitcoin Working in French and Wolof, Nourou helps people learn resist French monetary colonialism 🇸🇳 Grant #11: $10,000 to Charlene Fadirepo for the Bitcoin in Africa Show, which provides education, insights, and thoughtful conversations to deepen the understanding of Bitcoin across the African continent and beyond Grant #12: $10,000 to Lorraine Marcel for Bitcoin DADA, a women-centric organization with contributors based in Kenya and beyond that educates African women in the Bitcoin space 🇰🇪 HRF is proud to support a diverse range of projects to help make Bitcoin a better global tool for human rights Since early 2020 we’ve supported 80+ projects globally with more than $2.7M Submit proposals at devfund @ hrf dot org Donate and learn more at hrf.org/devfund

You could stare at this chart for a very long time

In block 788695, 51.7% of the block reward was fees A strange way to make history, but history nonetheless And a glimpse into a future, much more robust fee market

Oatmilk, certainly a shitcoin

Hidden Repression’s dedication page No one will ever go to prison for imposing structural adjustment and killing millions And so the victims of development will unfortunately not get the justice that they deserve But through Bitcoin, they have a tool their predecessors did not have, and have a way out moving forward ✌️

It arrived :)

New book dropped today Last year I started digging into the IMF and World Bank a little bit and was surprised that there were so few approachable books on the topic This led me to keep digging, which led to a massive rabbit hole of archived essays and reports, interviews, and discontinued books going back 70 years all the way to the creation of the institutions at the end of WWII What I started to realize as I learned — which became the thesis of the book — is that the IMF and World Bank actually exploit poor countries, they do not help them This has mostly been achieved by working with dictators and corrupt officials to plunge emerging market countries into debt they can never pay back Western lenders get paid back plus interest, and benefit from a massive economic engineering where entire societies are re-architected to suit the needs of rich nations instead of achieving industry and sovereignty The Bank and Fund are known as charitable or maybe as flawed but necessary In reality their operations are straightforwardly neocolonial, and they help subsidize the way of life in the West by depressing wages and looting resources in the global south The book was a huge wake up call for me, I hope you can find it useful too ✌️

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Hope to see some of you in Miami Working on a big talk 😎 ✌️

The Bitcoin Revolution We’ve never seen anything like this before No weapons, only shields Tens of millions participating It grows bigger every day So quiet most authorities don’t even know it’s happening Until it’s too late ✌️

Proud to have this piece at home Lucho Poletti is a legend 🔥

As #[0]​ has pointed out, every 10 minutes the Bitcoin network tells the world: Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not steal He continues to riff on Bitcoin’s ethics (summed up in a number: 21 million) here:

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Bitcoin's Meme Wars — Citadel21

Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is when, not if

Gradually then suddenly is coming We don’t know when, but it’s coming Prepare accordingly and try to think of yourself on the other side What would you most regret not doing?