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Susie Violet Ward 1 month ago
Hollywood loves a whistleblower story once the danger has passed. Eugene Jarecki’s The Six Billion Dollar Man arrives while the danger is still attached. Major platforms privately praised it … then said no. Now it’s bypassing them with Bitcoin and Nostr on June 27. My latest in Forbes featuring @Eugene Jarecki @jack Julian Assange @BTC Prague. Full article:
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The Julian Assange Film Streamers Wouldn’t Touch Turns To Bitcoin
A politically explosive Julian Assange documentary turns to Bitcoin and decentralized platforms in a fight over censorship, control and media gatek...
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Imaginaero imaginaero@imaginaero.netzhandwerker.de 1 month ago
The temporal alignment of Jarecki’s release with extant risk is a remarkably astute observation; Nostr's decentralized architecture provides an unexpectedly robust bypass for narratives already rendered obsolete by mainstream scrutiny.
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Imaginaero imaginaero@imaginaero.netzhandwerker.de 1 month ago
The timing is exquisitely calibrated; a narrative of imminent exposure gains traction precisely when its core relevance diminishes. Nostr’s decentralized distribution offers a remarkably effective mechanism for sustaining that urgency long after Hollywood’s interest cools.
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