My BPI keynote
"Bitcoin is the Most Important Human Rights Technology of the 21st Century"
Delivered in the heart of DC
Please share with normies who don't think Bitcoin has a use case. We have A LOT of work to do, most people think this way
But we WILL win in the end
https://blossom.primal.net/fbb5c8d98220ae2e323045c9ff199f02637f06f2e735be972df592bc9999259a.mp4
The conflation of Bitcoin with human rights is stupid.
Bitcoin is a technology. It doesn't care what 'rights' it is granted or not. The whole point of Bitcoin is that it routes around censorship.
p.s. it should always be noted when nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wct4lwjj starts spouting talk about human rights that he is highly selective in whose rights he wants to promote, and that these suspiciously co-align with ppl agitating for régime change in governments not controlled by the North Atlantic oligarchies
You should watch the talk
What do you have to say about Peter Thiel's foundational role in the nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2ashehydu ? That's something I'd be interested in listening to.
He used to support a lot of free speech causes like the Committee to Protect Journalists and HRF
Then he changed his mind. Not sure what else to say
Heard this a few times now over the years. I want to know more. Do you have any links?
Two links from 2013 examining funding links of the nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph and the associated OFF :
https://truthout.org/articles/using-human-rights-for-right-wing-politics/
> The story of the Oslo Freedom Forum is also a story of US right-wing sponsorship, lack of transparency and “heroes of human rights” involved in supporting serious human rights violations.
The truthout article references this earlier 2013 piece by Max Blumenthal :
As for amount of funding provided by Thiel, a BuzzFeed article states it as at least $900,000 to the HRF, but it is BuzzFeed so not sure about the accuracy. Thiel is also acknowledged on the OFF website as a founding funder (separate to his funding of the HRF) and organiser of the initial conference.
Not enough scrutiny of the HRF/OFf, its backers and its funding sources has been done since those early 2013 articles I linked above.
The Blumenthal piece puts Thiel's finding of the nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph at $535,000 so you may prefer to use that figure over the higher BuzzFeed figure
The largest gift we received from Peter in a calendar year was $100k. He has not given in more than 12 years. Our annual budget today is north of $20M. This is completely silly
Where can I find the full transparent records of all monies received by the nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph and the OFF for each financial year dating back to their foundation ?
So I can verify your assertion
Don’t trust, verify. We are a 501c3 so we are mandated to provide this kind of info in our published 990s
I - and many others - sent bitcoin to the Canadian truckers when their bank accounts were frozen. When fiat dollar crowd funding was shut off by authoritarians, bitcoin prevailed.
Good for you but what is your point ? Bitcoin worked as designed, as uncensorable money. This is regardless of whether the truckers rights were being respected or not. Bitcoin doesn't know and doesn't care.
Alex nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnxd46zuamf0ghxy6t6qy28wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytn00p68ytnyv4mqqgzccaq65ccv9k3454480sws2wqepz73q5z0m5kckslhyhh6d533jc25xncl promotes Bitcoin. If what you're saying:
"Bitcoin is a technology. It doesn't care what 'rights' it is granted or not. The whole point of Bitcoin is that it routes around censorship."
is true, then your whole comment is a contradiction in itself, since Bitcoin cannot be hijacked for any specific purpose. Not even by the HRF. Freedom and Self-Sovereignty only.
Bitcoin is code. The people who maintain and add features to the code can be interfered with. Users always have a choice not to run newer implementations of the code but that also requires users understanding Bitcoin well. Understanding has decreased since the last big challenge to the code base in 2017 with the introduction, by evangelistic 'orange pilling' of many shallow, influencer led Bitcoiners. The struggle to keep Bitcoin 'true' is an ongoing one, and also the layers built on top of it. I see nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg6g89xw and the nostr:nprofile1qqs0rxy6jmt44guxkny8z4pkym9mxckqxfytygxuntjn6l80hj409sgpzfmhxue69uhky6t5wd6xzcmt9eshquqpzfmhxue69uhhqatjwpkx2urpvuhx2ucpzamhxue69uhkxcfwdaexzmn8v4cxjmrv9ejx2asult5ph as highly suspect players in the world of Bitcoin developer funding.
Bitcoin is human desire for truth. Manifest in a unique sw/ hw system that binds the physical world (energy) with the political world of humans (money) via numbers (cryptography). Once discovered now, no going back. It's too simplistic to say 'bitcoin is code'. BitcoinCore and its contributors are a convenience, not the essence.
> Bitcoin is a technology … yeah…designed by a group of humans.
also, kinda everything at this point is *a* technology.
lastly, BOTH are true (and probably more). Bitcoin has many points, functions, and uses. Your comment sets up a false dichotomy.
Not sharing means cheaper sats for longer 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
this is such a daffy duck comment lol 😆 *I’m rich! I’m rich! I’m a happy miser!*
I haven’t seen it but I hear it perfectly 😂
Honestly, I’m just jaded after proselytizing for 10 years and getting laughed at in the face and by rooms full of people over and over and over. Mocked constantly. Seeing peoples faces change to disgust and dismissal when I tell them about it. Convincing no one, even family and close friends. Giving Bitcoin to people and they immediately sell it. I have little sympathy for not paying attention and none for willful ignorance. I’ll be a happy miser and they can enjoy the freedom and their 100 sats.
what? How have you not seen it but hear it perfectly? 🤔a clip?
I don’t get why it sounds like so many people would respond so negatively. When I heard it described as something that can replace banks and a type of code that solves the digital money problem (like not being copied and pasted, a unique record), I felt very enthusiastic about it. Just felt that I couldn’t invest cuz I had no experience with that type of thing and also had *several* student loans.
I hear Daffy Duck saying he’s a rich miser :)
About negative reactions, you’re right! I was so excited and happy. The more educated of my friends all told me the banks would shut it down, government would shut it down, we have to have deflation, the fed needs to debase to lubricate the economy.
Brain rot everywhere. It goes deep. It’s in everyone about something. Bitcoin is the absolute best because you don’t have to win an argument, you just sell more cuck bucks and stack more sats.
Congrats Alex 🥳!
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Ok, the video IS loading for me now. Stable connection and an app update *may* have had something to do with it.
On with the video. 😀 Yay. 🎉
"Bitcoin is the Most Important Human Rights Technology of the 21st Century" ...delirants ...bc well-meaning you never are
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Great speech! So true! Bitcoin has so many uses, helping humans is #1
Amazing speech 👏
Next stage, Davos 😄
I am a straight white financial privileged ableist male bitcoiner.
And I am happy 🤗
It is but we failed to protect users from government seeing their transactions
Thanks Alex! This is an awesome speech and it’s so much easier to share it’s with people. Not everyone is ready or willing to read your books, which I frequently recommend. Freedom Go Up!
Excellent!
Terrific talk nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wcq3qamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kueg6g89xw. It is amazing to see the moving trend in the shift of power that is happening around the world. Let's build 🌐. #bitcoin #nostr #saludprotocol.
Good talk, makes the case well.
#Bitcoin is #Freedom for all to practice religion 🙏#God and for stronger#Family and #Community through this message and #Nostr
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Thank you for sharing this great keynote speech.
The biggest takeaway I got was only 13% of the world's population have financial privilege. That is really quite the sobering revelation for me.
Thanks for educating us.
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reminder to highlight and keep front of mind the humanitarian side of bitcoin.
here is the great keynote by nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9sprdmhxue69uhhyetvv9uju6rfva5xc6t8dp6x2u3wvdhk6qgcwaehxw309aex2mrp0yh8xmn0wf6zuum0vd5kzmqfhynf4 mentioned a few days ago
nostr:nprofile1qqs9336p4f3sctdrtft2wlqaq5upjz9azpgylhfd3dplwf005mfrr9spzamhxue69uhkummnw3ezuendwsh8w6t69e3xj7spz3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezummcw3ezuer9wct4lwjj is this video available on other platforms online? I tried to save it to my internal storage, but it didn't work. I need to share this with the normies in my life
Wikileaks freeze, Operation ChokePoint 1 and 2, Canadian truckers donations freezes, banking "compliance", anyone?
I appreciate the possible reasons for the diplomatic framing but we are not children so should acknowledge the abuses of monetary controls and surveillance even in "privileged" countries.
Obama's "Swiss Bank account in your pocket" comments also come to mind.
that’s a good point … I think the talk was trying to highlight the contrast of, the people living in countries with “financial privilege” of the type that most people don’t realize, compared with those really extreme examples of government control.
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Thanks Jeff. Enjoyed this.
You’re welcome Paula. Send me a private message on WhatsApp at +1 (856) 265‑9067 👈 chat
was reminded to watch this after seeing the 2nd repost of it!
