Susie Violet Ward, Director & Co-Founder of Bitcoin Policy UK, argues that freedom tech tools like Bitchat, Cashu, and Agora are emerging as critical defenses against rising digital authoritarianism, enabling censorship-resistant communication, financial privacy, and unstoppable peer-to-peer funding for activists worldwide (Jun 4 | 6 min read).

Forbes

How Freedom Tech Is Pushing Back Against Digital Authoritarianism

Freedom tech is giving people tools to communicate, move money and organize when governments, platforms or banks cut them off.

LND, Lightning Labs' Lightning Network node software, releases version 0.21.0 with production Taproot channel support, onion message forwarding, performance improvements, and several critical bug fixes.

GitHub

lnd/docs/release-notes/release-notes-0.21.0.md at master · lightningnetwork/lnd

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"Bitcoin is dead." Said 472 times since 2010 by either a journalist, an economist or a billionaire. First one in October 2010 (Price: $0.11) and the most recent, this year. Every single one was wrong. You can't kill an open protocol. #bitcoin

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Naomi Brockwell, privacy advocate and host of NBTV, warns that surveillance creep, digital ID mandates, and engineered compliance are the same red flags activists from oppressive regimes wish someone had raised sooner, and that the West must fight back now before it's too late (Jun 6 | 10:19 min watch).

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One of these charts describes your savings account. The other is your way out. #bitcoin

Hodling #Bitcoin until the dollar reaches zero Few...

René Pickhardt, independent #Bitcoin researcher and #Lightning Network specialist, speaking at the Bitcoin++ conference, argues that Ark and Lightning should work together rather than compete, proposing Ark serve as a channel factory infrastructure layer to scale Bitcoin payments and resolve Lightning's payment infeasibility limitations (Jun 4 | 26:53 min watch).

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Funny how Bitcoin went from: “Nobody will ever buy it.” to “Too many people are buying it.” Bitcoin treasury companies aren’t printing Bitcoin. ETFs aren’t printing Bitcoin. Strategy isn’t printing Bitcoin. The supply is still 21 million. The protocol doesn’t care about your feelings. Own your keys if you want. Buy MSTR if you want. Buy an ETF if you want. But spending your time attacking Bitcoin adoption while central banks print trillions is a strange use of energy. The enemy was never the people buying Bitcoin. The enemy was the money printer. ₿ #bitcoin

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#Bitcoin has been declared dead 472 times. If you invested $100 each time, you'd have $63,326,768 today.

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When you stack sats, you put your faith in #Bitcoin.🙏