Can Bitcoin help end wars and bring world peace? This investigation into the petrodollar system is the best evidence I've seen for why this might be the case Read this conclusion, at least, and start to think about what the world would look like if the reserve currency and currency needed to buy oil wasn't owned by one country but rather was an open, neutral, decentralized currency This would be good for the world and, critically, good for America as we would focus our incredible potential and resources on progress instead of blowing people up

Capital As Power

Noble, 'Follow the Money: The Political Economy of Petrodollar Accumulation and Recycling' – Capital As Power

Abstract This thesis makes two unique contributions to the International Political Economy literature. It presents the first comprehensive, empiric...

Something you can’t do on Nostr yet, dunk on central bankers THAT will be the day 😂

Iconic talk by Jaron Lanier Given in 2018, but you watch it and you realize he could be talking about the current moment and opportunity with nostr “We cannot have a society in which if two people wish to communicate the only way that can happen is if it’s financed by a third person who wishes to manipulate them” Amen “The alternative is to turn back the clock with great difficulty and remake that decision. Remaking it would mean two things. It would mean many people would actually pay for these things. You’d pay for search. You’d pay for social networking. How would you pay? Maybe with a subscription fee. Maybe with micropayments... If some of you are recoiling and saying: oh my god I would never pay for these things, how could you ever get anyone to pay? Well, companies like Netflix, Amazon, and HBO, said subscribe, and we’ll give you great TV. And it worked! Now we’re in peak TV. Sometimes when you pay for stuff things get better. We can imagine a hypothetical world of peak social media" Amen And, most powerfully: “We have to create a culture around technology that is so beautiful, so meaningful, so deep, so endlessly creative, so filled with infinite potential that it draws us away from committing mass suicide” Amen

How we need to remake the internet

In the early days of digital culture, Jaron Lanier helped craft a vision for the internet as public commons where humanity could share its knowledg...

Someone just sent me this as a DM Beautiful! And true. The others will find their way ✌️ “I use Primal as a #bitcoin wallet for my 10-year-old son. He’s too young to sign up for Strike (or any KYC platform). He’s too young to open a bank account. He’s not interested in paper money. He wants digital money so he can buy game stuff online. I pay him his allowance in bitcoin to his Primal account. He doesn’t have to send me an invoice, I just zap him $50 or whatever. Then if he wants to spend on a game, he can request a purchase through the apple App Store, i get a notification first from apple, then i get a notification from Strike saying that he zapped me $5 to cover the cost of the purchase. It’s perfect for someone his age. I couldn’t do this with cash app, PayPal, a credit card, a bank account. NOSTR + Bitcoin is the future. Some of us are living here now. The others will find their way.”

Folks you’re missing out on some big stuff on Farcaster 🤡

Someone I love wrote to me with a Kickstarter project, asking me to back it I wanted to, but then was hit with the permission wall: sign up, create an account, give us all your information, credit card info, all this stuff The current web is built in an infuriating way where you can only support those you like through permissioned walls built by rent-seekers posing as "connectors" So, I didn't proceed, and didn't back them, which sucks I hope they will join us on Nostr soon so I can back them effortlessly with sound money and no-rent seeking I think it's just a matter of time ⏳

Made a bet today with a skeptic that Nostr will have more than 1M weekly active users by Jan 31, 2026 We are at ~35k today That’s about 18 months from now LFG 🚀

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"

Incredible news

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“I discovered, to my amazement, that all through history there had been resistance... and bitter, exaggerated, last-stitch resistance... to every significant technological change that had taken place on earth” -Isaac Asimov We are going to win, it’s just going to take time ✌️

Q: Why are so many people clueless about Bitcoin? A: The media Here’s BBC coverage of Bitcoin since 2013 What a disaster

Proudly bringing this bag around Europe What is the design? Quite simple: people banding together, uniting to achieve better privacy and freedom for all A beautiful thing 🫶

We are going to win

Gm ☀️ 🇳🇴 A perfect summer day here in Oslo Can’t wait to host so many incredible freedom tech builders here soon 🫡

I recently learned that legislation has been drafted on Capitol Hill to classify *not re-using Bitcoin addresses* as "mixing" There are also efforts to force "unhosted wallet providers" to collect user info for taxes As well as to give power to Treasury to sanction any address (even Americans) And a whole lot more bad stuff IMO Coin Center does vital work to fight this and to protect privacy tech They are a compact team and do a lot with the resources they have They sue the OFAC and Treasury They consider the Bank Secrecy Act unconstitutional and act accordingly I just spent some time with their leadership team, asking questions, and came away impressed, I would strongly suggest a donation today coincenter.org

The Nigerian government has achieved Naira-Cent Parity Who’s next? 🇳🇬

If true, this would be a very welcome development MM is a non-KYC, self-custodial wallet that claims 30 million monthly active users https://www.theblock.co/post/296088/metamask-intends-to-add-bitcoin-support-report

Thank you @Rsync🦀

10 months ago, HRF launched its Bitcoin Bounty Challenge, based on features at-risk activists and dissidents wanted to see in Bitcoin, based on months of surveys and research We didn’t know what to expect but the results have really blown us away We have by this point awarded full or partial bounties in *7 of 11* categories Completed or partially completed? -Open-sourcing the design guide -Serverless Payjoin -E2E Encrypted Nostr Group Chats -Silent Payments -Self-custodial mobile LN addresses -Mobile Border Wallets -Cashu Still up for grabs? -Human Readable Bolt12 Offers -Easy Mobile Multisig -Frost Multisig Wallet -BIP47 Expansion 224 days left! hrfbounties.org