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Susie Violet Ward
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Susie 3 months ago
CBDCs are financial surveillance with better branding. They are being be sold as innovation, convenient and inclusive. Once money becomes programmable, freedom becomes conditional. - Who decides what you can buy? - Who decides where you can spend? - Who decides when your access ends? The Czech Republic knows what centralised power looks like and @BTC Prague has always felt like the right place to talk about bitcoin, cypherpunks and financial freedom. I’ll be moderating a panel on how to defend against CBDCs and surveillance with @Efrat Fenigson , Lea Thompson, Viliam Klamarčík and Tony Yazbeck. Read the article here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/06/17/bitcoin-cypherpunks-and-financial-freedom-at-btc-prague/ See you in Prague.
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Susie 3 months ago
Hal Finney understood early that Bitcoin could serve two worlds. It could become ‘a reserve currency for banks’ while still remaining permissionless money anyone can hold and use without intermediaries. As Eric Balchunas said, Bitcoin has two major advantages. It is censorship resistant and a debasement hedge because of its scarcity. The important thing is preserving access to both uses, so it can integrate without surrender and scale without ceasing to be freedom money. This is the most elegant monetary achievement in history.
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Susie 3 months ago
Digital control is expanding through surveillance, debanking, KYC databases, internet shutdowns and financial repression. Builders and activists are creating an emerging freedom tech stack of private payments, resilient communication, spyware research, peer to peer funding and practical education. My latest article in Forbes featuring @npub17fzk...9yxv @The Citizen Lab @Hodl Hodl @npub17xvf...c9as Bitchat, Agora, Nostr and Bitcoin. With insights from @npub1etqx...klqn @calle @npub1vfh4...yej5 and @Anna Chekhovich. Read the full article: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/06/04/how-freedom-tech-is-pushing-back-against-digital-authoritarianism/
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Susie 3 months ago
Bitcoin is often called the best performing asset of the decade. So I created this 10 year chart to show how big the gap really is. Orange = Bitcoin Purple = S&P 500 Yellow = Gold image
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Susie 3 months ago
The old centralised model has officially run out of road. We are watching global institutions collapse under their own weight and the cracks are no longer possible to paper over. As the IMF said, "The 'muddling-through' approach ⁠that ​many countries have adopted so far is reaching its limits." The IMF has sounded the alarm on the European Union. Europe is facing catastrophic, compounding bills for defence, energy and ageing demographics. Without radical, structural overhauls, average public debt is projected to skyrocket to 130% of GDP by 2040. This is happening globally but playing out at different speeds. Even Tony Blair, the ultimate architect of the modern centrist, globalist establishment, published a scathing assessment of where the UK government finds itself. Blair is calling out Net Zero targets and the economic damage of restrictive employment and business regulations. He says tax receipts are drying up, welfare costs are exploding and governments are borrowing at a completely unsustainable rate. When the elite who built the current political consensus admit the math doesn't work anymore, you know the illusion is shattered. At this point, believing that more centralised intervention, more debt and more regulations will fix it is far more delusional than paying attention to cosmic cycles or historical turnings. Politics is disintegrating because the foundational architecture is obsolete. Politicians schooled in flawed economics, captured by corporate interests and trapped in ego still think the answer to every crisis is more statist control, more bureaucratic overreach and more debt. Somehow, the masses still look to these dying institutions for solutions. This entire news cycle, the breakdown of the EU, the panic of the political elite, the economic redlining is perfectly coinciding with our transition into the 'Age of Aquarius'. To the conditioned mind, explaining a sovereign debt crisis through this lens sounds insane... but right now a cosmic alignment of rebellion, decentralisation, community, technology, innovation and the unconventional makes a lot more sense than the mainstream narrative. What we are witnessing is a massive shift in collective consciousness. The existing top down systems are fighting a losing battle against a global elevation of vibrational frequency. When a collective vibration shifts, the old paradigm panics. It manifests as political turmoil, institutional breakdowns, the rise of authoritarianism, ideological extremism and polarisation. It is the death rattle of a control matrix trying to fight back against a spiritual evolution it cannot contain. So what is the answer? It’s not fixing a broken political party or voting in a new centralised 'saviour'. Everything in this matrix is mathematical and built on code... and code responds to the user. There is no such thing as an objective experience; you cannot separate your reality from your own conditional bias. What you can do is change the frequency you operate on. The ultimate rebellion against a collapsing, low vibrational system is to raise your own vibration. To see through the illusion of the chaos, recognise that it’s all a catalyst for awakening and anchor yourself back into the ultimate truth ... which is Love. The old world is on borrowed time, we need to stop looking to out of touch politicians for answers. Let's build decentralised systems and communities, step out of fear and raise the frequency. Full Reuters article: https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/eu-must-reform-consolidate-use-joint-debt-cope-with-spending-needs-imf-says-2026-05-23/ Full Independent article: image
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Susie 3 months ago
Bitcoin mining is going mainstream. ⚡️ The BitForge Nano Ghost Edition won Silver at the 2026 London Design Awards in both Product Design and Unexpected Design. This is the coolest piece of nerd kit I’ve ever seen. It’s a fantastic educational tool. A dedicated chip inside does trillions of cryptographic guesses every second to help secure the Bitcoin network through Proof of Work. A real lesson in decentralization, connecting money to energy and the power of open source hardware. It’s cool and educational. What’s not to love? Thanks Duncan @npub1pmw4...dgdc team! I’m solo mining, wish me luck!! Who else is running a home miner?
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Susie 3 months ago
Excessive KYC + Data Leaks = Kidnapping & Extortion Global Gart stats right now: - 340 reported attacks - across 59 countries - 26 fatalities - +84% YoY - correlating with Bitcoin price rallies Regulation and data collection are not protecting people. They're instead building target lists for violent criminals. Privacy & opsec are going to become survival skills. Thanks for the wake up call @npub1lr2z...dl6a.