We are stoked to be working with Voltage to make self-custodial Bitcoin and Lightning donations easier for non-profit organizations and dissident groups worldwide! They’ll help with liquidity and infrastructure support as HRF continues to work with BTCPay Server contributors to help NGOs become their own banks https://voltage.cloud/blog/voltage-announcements/voltage-partners-with-human-rights-foundation-btc-pay/

Surprisingly based report by KPMG (top 4 global consulting firm) on Bitcoin Even talks about the blocksize wars when discussing Bitcoin’s governance 👌

KPMG

Bitcoin’s role in the ESG imperative

Discover the ESG impact of bitcoin and the misconceptions it may pose in the market

Didn’t know the “serverless payjoin” bounty would cause such a stir 😂 Regardless, it’s probably good to spark more debate and discussion around “serverless” UX features and privacy tools and tactics for Bitcoin The ability of mobile phone users to use Bitcoin features non-interactively (meaning: just like the magic of plain old on-chain Bitcoin where you can send value regardless of whether the recipient is online etc) is probably one of the biggest challenges and areas of potential for the next few years

NEW: HRF announces the Bitcoin Bounty Challenge 20 BTC up for grabs for 10 UX improvements to Bitcoin (mainly focused on mobile wallets) requested by dissidents and human rights groups from across the world 🌍 Bounty #1: Open Sourcing the Design Guide 2 BTC to port the Bitcoin UI Kit from Figma to an open-source Penpot (@Penpotapp) project Currently, the Bitcoin UI Kit is only available in a proprietary Figma file format

Bitcoin UI Kit

Bitcoin UI Kit

This UI kit provides a design foundation for prototypes, concept explorations and open-source projects to kickstart the design process.

Bounty #2: Serverless Payjoin 2 BTC to deploy a production-ready version 2 payjoin protocol which may send and receive payjoin transactions without requiring a sender or recipient to operate a public server

Payjoin

Scale Bitcoin, save fees, and preserve privacy all at once.

Bounty #3: End-to-End Encrypted Nostr Group Chats 2 BTC for the creation of end-to-end encrypted group chats powered by any popular Nostr client that do not leak metadata to third parties Users must be able to chat with at least two other Nostr users Bounty #4: Silent Payments 2 BTC for a mobile Bitcoin wallet which can send and receive Silent Payments in a private manner without requiring the user to run a full node

Bitcoin Optech

Silent payments

Silent payments are a type of payment that can be made to a unique onchain address for every payment even though the receiver provided the spender ...

Bounty #5: Human Readable Offers 2 BTC for a human-readable BOLT 12 offer generator feature integrated into a popular iOS or android bitcoin wallet Bounty #6: Self-custodial Mobile Lightning Address 2 BTC for an easy-to-setup self-custodial mobile Lightning address generator integrated into a popular iOS or android bitcoin wallet

The Lightning Address

Like an email address, but for your Bitcoin. An Internet Identifier that allows anyone to send you Bitcoin instantly over the Lightning Network. No...

Bounty #7: Mobile Border Wallets 2 BTC for the integration of @BorderWallets optionality in addition to a seed phrase for a popular iOS or android wallet The user of the wallet should be easily able to choose to use border wallet functionality to create their seed Bounty #8: Easy Mobile Multisig 2 BTC for the implementation of a “tap or airdrop to create 2 of 3” multisig functionality for an open-source popular iOS or android wallet The wallet must be self-custodial, with a method for users to recover funds using open-source software Bounty #9: Frost Multisig Wallet 2 BTC to a FROST-powered dynamic mobile multisig that allows the user to modify the signer set without moving funds to a new address The wallet must be self-custodial Bounty #10: @CashuBTC 0.5 BTC for a fully-functional iOS Cashu app 0.5 BTC for a fully-functional Android Cashu app 0.5 BTC for an open-source Cashu web widget for anonymous paywalled content 0.5 BTC for Cashu-TS backup restore

Cashu - Open-source Ecash

***** We are launching with an initial set of 10 bounty challenges More bounties might be added as we go An individual or team who fully solves any of the ten challenges will be eligible to receive a bounty of 2 BTC For transparency: submissions will be shared with external industry experts to help us discern whether submissions meet bounty requirements HRF will be making decisions in a charitable way for bounty submissions that make a good faith effort to meet the requirements We will be leaning to the spirit, not the letter, of the law Individuals and teams are encouraged to contact bounty at hrf dot org with any questions during the bounty process HRF retains final approval on allocating prize funds The Bitcoin Bounty Challenge will run until December 31, 2024 Any unclaimed bounties will convert into general operating funding for the HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund on January 1, 2025 An individual or team may collect any amount of bounties If a leading wallet maker or for-profit corporation would like to compete, we would be delighted To claim a bounty submit proof to bounty at hrf dot org For full terms and conditions visit hrfbounties.org This project was born out of 6 months of field research where HRF staff met with + interviewed a) dissidents and human rights NGO leaders from around the world and b) Bitcoin developers The goal was to settle on a mix of desired upgrades to Bitcoin that seemed somewhat realistic We fully expect a handful of these bounties to be claimed by the end of next year We fully expect the bounties to spark debate, arguments, new ideas, criticism, and other stuff that may indirectly help Bitcoin and Bitcoin users We *do not expect* all of bounties to be claimed You all have 523 days left Good luck! And big thanks to @BitcoinMagazine for covering the news :)

Bitcoin Magazine

The Human Rights Foundation Announces 20 BTC Bounty Challenge For Bitcoin Development

The HRF Bitcoin Bounty Challenge, with a 20 BTC total reward pool, has officially launched, with a focus on transactional privacy and Bitcoin self-...

Here for all the “Bitcoin will be the currency of AIs” content

Someone has gamed the Twitter algo to make it recommend fake gladsteins to folks 😂

What if our monetary future does not continue down the path of centralization and debasement but, rather, follows a new path of decentralization and growing value? Today’s dollar hegemony was engineered by Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. Tomorrow, the currency of America could be based on the twin ideals of the Founding Fathers and Satoshi Nakamoto. Unlike America, which lost its first battle over centralization just a few years after its founding, Bitcoin won its first battle over centralization during the Blocksize War, where user control and personal freedom defeated business interests and the concentration of power. On July 4, 1821, Secretary of State John Quincy Adams warned of an America that would become a global imperium “in search of monsters to destroy.” An America where the “fundamental maxims of her policy” have “insensibly changed from liberty to force,” where we have become “the dictatress of the world.” Perhaps Bitcoin can help Americans reflect on our history and remember that our true glory, in Adams’s words, is “not dominion, but liberty,” and that our true march is “of the mind” and not the sword.

Bitcoin Magazine

Bitcoin And The American Idea

Has America strayed from its founding ideals? An activist and a refugee think Bitcoin can help it get back on track.

“When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in a society, over the course of time they create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it.” Bastiat on the IMF and World Bank

“Factoring in indirect deaths, the total death toll in post-9/11 war zones could be at least 4.5-4.6 million and counting” The Costs of War Project is a hugely sobering and important resource

Costs of War | Brown University

How Death Outlives War: The Reverberating Impact of the Post-9/11 Wars on Human Health

Anthropologist and Costs of War Director Stephanie Savell (Senior Fellow, Brown University) examines how war’s destruction of economies, public s...

This steak was legendary Wow!

Free Assange ✌️

Reminder: CZ has been trying to build CBDCs for dictatorships Yes, it’s true a lot of people rely on Binance in the developing world But they are not good actors

Ziya the 🐐

Spent 2+ hours with Nate Hagens covering human rights, the global monetary system, the petrodollar, energy and currency, debt imperialism, and finally, Bitcoin I love Nate’s work so was thrilled to join him for his show His thesis of a “great simplification” based on exhaustion of fossil fuels lines up with the belief of many Bitcoiners that we will eventually have a fiat credit collapse Nate is a Bitcoin skeptic but is very open minded, this was one of my favorite conversations, and I’d offer that it’s a good one to share with progressives or centrists or really anyone new to Bitcoin:

Stoked to be speaking at the Indonesia Bitcoin Conference on Oct 26-27 “A Bitcoin-only conference that aims to increase awareness and understanding about Bitcoin and to strengthen the Bitcoin community in Indonesia. Powered by Indonesia Bitcoin Community” Can’t really imagine a more important place to have such an event: -World’s largest Muslim country -Heart of Southeast Asia -Target of relentless IMF and World Bank exploitation -$10 billion inflow of annual remittances ✌️ 🇮🇩 🌏 https://indonesiabitcoinconference.com

Seeing a lot of this attitude on Blue Sky unfortunately

There’s no way I’d be where I am today without these two They’ve been such guiding lights for me on my Bitcoin journey 🫂 🙏 🧡✌️

It was such a privilege to meet so many readers of my books today Big gratitude to the Bitcoin Conf organizers for not only publishing my books but giving me a platform to share them and to meet my readers I signed books for an hour and wish I had recorded some of the things people said to me, it’s amazing what words organized into paragraphs on a page can do and it gives me fuel for the future One of the coolest stories was someone who had watched my talk yesterday next to someone from the World Bank The WB person had no idea what I was about to discuss but during my talk confirmed mostly everything I said as true Wild!

Miami friends, I’ll be on the main stage at 4:10 today exposing the IMF Should be a good livestream too!

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