I missed it, but it sounds like a drama I can live without. Buona sera 👊🏻

I hope Italy leans in hard on this.

Your work is stunningly good 👌🏻

Stunning work!

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👊🏻 We saved the day 🫡🤣

I just stacked £4.99 in primal 🤣

Like handing your cash to a compulsive gambler on a losing streak and expecting a jackpot. Premium! 🎰🤡

I used to have Premium Bonds too (a long time ago)… then I realized I was basically giving the government an interest-free loan to fund wars, surveillance, and corruption.

Switched to Bitcoin. At least now my money isn’t being weaponized.

Haha I had to laugh, a friend said they “won” £150 on Premium Bonds last year after putting in over £5k. They felt lucky… but if they’d just bought Bitcoin instead, they’d be sitting on over £12,000 now.

One’s a lottery, the other is a monetary revolution.

UK gov now pumping “Premium Bonds” lottery-style debt onto retail savers as traditional savings collapse. Don’t fall for the spin. With systemic risk rising, Bitcoin isn’t just smarter—it’s safer.

#Bitcoin #PremiumBonds #FiatCrisis

Good recommendation, currently listening and love it 👍🏻

GM 🫡

This thread hits deep — not just for the symbolism, but for the undercurrent of something real shifting.

My mum is Italian and heading back soon. I’ve always dreamed of claiming my citizenship and planting roots in Italy too — returning to something older, truer. But lately I’ve been wondering… am I just trading one tightening system (UK) for another (EU)? The EU’s technocracy, digital ID push, and creeping speech codes aren’t exactly reassuring.

These images speak for millions who can feel something’s breaking — a cultural, economic, and generational fracture. What’s driving these protests on the ground? Is it mostly economic pain, youth disillusionment, or something deeper? A rejection of globalist control altogether?

I’m watching this closely — not just as a Bitcoin-minded dissident, but as someone who hopes there’s still a European path to sovereignty, not servitude. Appreciate you documenting this.

Cheers brother 🍻

There is no second best

I didn’t choose to become a Nostr maxi. The system made me one, though I knew deep down it was where it was going to end.

For a while, I was just starting to build a voice on X. Nothing huge — around 2,200 followers — but I was connecting with people, sharing thoughts, and gaining traction on some important topics. X currently is better for wider conversation and bringing people to the light.

One of those posts really took off. I was raising serious questions about the UK’s opaque central bank bailouts — secret rescues of unknown banks, pension funds, and insurers. It resonated.

And not long after…

I was locked out of my account.

No warning. No appeal.

Just two long DMs and a couple of uncomfortable truths — and suddenly I was cut off from everything I’d built.

That’s when it clicked: you don’t own your voice on these platforms. They do.

They give you a feed — but it’s not your feed.

They give you an audience — but only until it becomes inconvenient.

They give you speech — but only if it stays within the Overton window.

That’s not freedom. That’s conditional expression under constant surveillance.

Something changed for me recently.

After having my X account suspended for two weeks — simply for posting two long DMs — I saw something with fresh eyes:

Nostr isn’t just a protocol. It’s a lifeline.

It’s freedom, rebuilt from the ground up. No gatekeepers, no shadowbans, no arbitrary rules enforced by faceless mods doing the bidding of governments or advertisers.

That’s when it hit me:

I’m now a Nostr maxi.

There is no second best.

I used to appreciate Nostr. Now I understand it.

I’ve felt what censorship really is — and I’ve seen how fast it can happen to voices that refuse to conform.

You don’t realize how fragile your voice is until someone else has the power to mute it.

Nostr changes that.

Permanently.

So to all the OGs in this space — those who’ve been building, relaying, coding, writing, zapping, and defending freedom before I fully woke up —

thank you.

I might be relatively new here, but I’m all in now.

Because once you taste uncensorable speech, you never go back.

The protocol is the protest.

Nostr is home.

@DownWithBigBrother

The UK Can’t Stop Nostr — And That’s Exactly Why It Matters

by @DownWithBigBrother

The UK’s Online Safety Act is now in full swing — a sprawling piece of legislation marketed as protecting users from “harmful” content, but in reality serving as a blunt instrument for state-sanctioned speech control. Already, it’s reaching beyond UK borders. U.S.-based platform Gab was recently told to comply with UK law or face fines of up to £18 million. Their crime? Hosting speech the UK doesn’t like.

But here’s the thing the government hasn’t figured out yet:

What happens when they try this with Nostr?

The answer is simple.

They can’t.

Nostr isn’t a company. It has no CEO, no office, no government registry. It’s a protocol, not a platform — a set of open standards for communication, not a product with a support desk and legal department. And that makes it fundamentally ungovernable by the authoritarian creep of legacy institutions.

The UK can’t shut down Nostr any more than it can shut down math.

There’s no “off switch.” No central server to seize.

What it can do is panic — and it’s starting to.

Expect them to try the usual playbook:

• Pressure Apple and Google to remove Nostr apps like Damus or Primal from UK app stores

• Block relay domains at the ISP level

• Threaten UK-based developers or relay operators

• Criminalize use of “non-compliant” software in extreme cases

But none of it will work. Nostr is too decentralized, too adaptive, and too alive. Block one relay? Ten more spring up. Remove an app? Fork it and re-release. Criminalize access? People route around it with Tor and VPNs. You can’t erase a protocol without erasing the internet.

And let’s be very clear — this is not just about technology.

It’s about sovereignty.

Personal, digital, and national.

Nostr doesn’t just protect free speech.

It restores it — in a world that’s rapidly forgetting what it means.

It breaks the illusion that governments can regulate truth by committee.

So when the UK tries to apply the Online Safety Act to Nostr, it will expose not Nostr’s weakness, but the state’s desperation. Every failed attempt will awaken more people. Every blocked relay will remind us what we’re fighting for. And every note — like this one — will continue to be published, seen, and shared.

Because the protocol is the protest.

And the relay is the resistance.

Free speech doesn’t need permission anymore.

It just needs relays.

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@DownWithBigBrother

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My perspective is, Bitcoin not moving much on-chain typically suggests strong HODLing sentiment, meaning investors and users view Bitcoin as undervalued compared to its potential long-term value. When Bitcoin’s valuation reaches a level perceived by users as fair or appropriate—reflecting wider market acceptance or economic necessity—there will naturally be increased usage.

A low level of on-chain activity doesn’t mean irrelevance; it often indicates a mature base of holders waiting for the right conditions to use or move their coins. Additionally, with the growth of Layer 2 solutions like Lightning, more transactional activity moves off-chain, preserving the base layer primarily for security and high-value settlement. This combination is healthy for Bitcoin’s long-term adoption and stability.

Stealth Bailouts in Plain Sight.

The Bank of England is injecting massive liquidity — but few are watching.

Short-term repo operations have exploded, hitting over £60 billion in March 2025 — the highest on record. Meanwhile, long-term indexed repos have doubled, quietly propping up financial institutions behind the scenes.

This isn’t normal market ops. It’s emergency liquidity without the headlines.

They won’t call it QE. They won’t call it a bailout.

But the system is being patched behind closed doors.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin is rising — outside the fiat storm.

#Bitcoin #BoE #StealthBailout #LiquidityCrisis #FiatEndgame #Nostr

The world just blinked.

Stocks cratered. Yields plunged. The dollar trembled.

Tariffs triggered the spiral.

But Bitcoin stood still —

calm in the storm,

as if it knew.

#Bitcoin #Decoupling #FourthTurning