"Louisiana is a leader in bitcoin—banning CBDCs and protecting self-custody. We should continue to lead by having a strategic reserve of bitcoin" -The governor of Louisiana, just now I wonder what the average person thinks when they read that in the news Wild times!

My final slide from my keynote today on the main stage in Nashville Onwards! ✌️

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I was surprised by this But glad that Bitcoin ownership has a wide ideological base in the USA 🇺🇸 Full study:

Bitcoin education for all. | The Nakamoto Project

As a nonprofit communication council, we help spread the word about the powerful potential of bitcoin.

Step 5 is wrong It’s Bitcoin, not bullets The collapse (or fading away) of dollar hegemony is inevitable but doesn’t mean chaos Ending the fiat currency caste system will usher in a new age of global peace and collaboration ✌️

Not having control of your money takes on new meaning in some places: it can be the difference between life and death In Gaza's "currency desert," people have to try and wait up to 15 days, dodging airstrikes, heatstrokes, and looters simply to withdraw their wages and remittances into cash There are only 3 working ATMs, and living costs have quadrupled since October 7th. Most people can't access their money anymore and live on handouts The craziest part: the paper currency that merchants most widely accept in Gaza are Israeli shekels. Meaning, the very notes issued by the state that is currently bombing Palestinians to smithereens Fiat currency is so irredeemably broken

The Christian Science Monitor

4 ATMs, 2 million people: Cash crunch compounds Gaza’s wartime woes

Food and transportation are expensive; shelter and humanitarian aid are scarce. For Palestinians trying to survive in wartime Gaza, cash is a preci...

Fun to see the “tip jar for activists” finally live and in production Here is HRF’s tip jar bolt12@hrf.org or QR :)

Human-readable BOLT 12 offers Probably the most asked-for feature from human rights activists What was once a dream is becoming reality Bullish!!!

There is something wonderfully strange about Bitcoin ATMs like these Hidden among a bunch of ads, typically for booze or grass or lotto tickets: a real way out Almost a bit like the Zoltar machine in Big Something magical hidden among the mundane A portal to another dimension

HRF's financial freedom team @Alex Li took the plunge as the first hire in Q1 2020 and we've been growing ever since Grateful for the opportunity to work with such a fantastic crew!

“Bitcoin is the instantiation of a revolutionary idea: a system that cannot discriminate; that does not wield violence; that does not have special rules for the rich; that does not require identification or a particular status or level of wealth or race or creed to use; and whose rules cannot be manipulated by governments. Satoshi arguably took the best ideas from Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and their colleagues and gifted them to people around the world… What if our monetary future does not continue down this 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… 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.” Taken from my essay, Bitcoin and the American Idea Happy 4th, Nostr fam! 🇺🇸 🎆

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.