Calling self-custody "crypto-anarchism" oversimplifies what Bitcoin accomplishes.

It's about freedom—freedom of speech, property rights, and protecting your right to own what's yours.

We must not dismiss it because freedom isn't promised—it must be fought for and protected.

As I said at the end of the clip, I love Saylor. He's a friend. This is the only free market in the world being free.

In any free market, especially something as revolutionary as Bitcoin, people are going to have different views. That's not just normal, it's necessary.

It's all love from me. My goal is simply to defend the principles that I believe make Bitcoin powerful: freedom and the ability for anyone to engage with it however they see fit.

We will eventually reach a point where small, local #Bitcoin circular economies merge with each other and the #BTC circular economy will simply be the norm. The overall economy will simply be Bitcoin oriented, operating at scale as the only medium of exchange or alongside another fiat currency.

It's a question everyone should be asking, and then answer really depends on where you draw the line.

What if privacy comes to Bitcoin, but the Saylor'd community rejects it and it never gets adopted?

Listen to Robin Linus (BitVM), Liam Eagen (Alpen Labs) & Jonas Nick (Blockstream) answer this question on S15 E38 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast, during which they explain their Shielded Client Side Validation paper – a proposal that can help Bitcoin get 100 private transactions per second!

“Bitcoin’s lack of privacy is not an accident & it’s not the result of negligence.

It’s a deliberate choice, as cowardly devs & sellout community members deliberately ignore a decade of research & experimentation.”

Nothing says “world's reserve currency ” like research and experimentation....

Given that Zcash and Monero have all had multiple inflation exploits that could have killed them completely, I'm happy to be called a coward for ensuring that our best chance at a digital currency doesn't get killed by a simple exploit.

And yes, this choice is not due to negligence! Quite the opposite in fact.

Prof. Richard Werner is the author of “Princes of the Yen” and the mainstream economist who created quantitative easing.

Today, he is a fan of Bitcoin, hates CBDCs, and supports small community banks.

Find out more from S15 E56 of the Bitcoin Takeover podcast!

Important Announcement

We have made the decision to no longer list projects in sensitive conflict zones, including any project raising funds for, or located in such zones. This is effective today.

It wasn’t an easy decision, and it’s one that we know will bring some disappointment amongst you.

Geyser has always stood for providing access to crowdfunding to those that previously didn’t. We serve a global user-base that, through the power of Bitcoin and human connection, has and will continue to positively impact the world.

We have also gone through great lengths to preserve Bitcoin’s properties of being a sovereign medium of exchange, ensuring we never take custody of funds and do not require the submission of identification to raise funds.

Unfortunately, and as many of you know, the movement of funds is increasingly a point of scrutiny. Even more so when the destination of those funds is a conflict area where it is difficult to have any guarantee that funds won’t be used to finance war, resistance movements, scams and criminal activities.

We do not custody, administer, or control any funds contributed to the projects at any time. Additionally, we aim to avoid the possibility of these funds falling into the wrong hands. Accepting and listing such projects could necessitate implementing increasingly intrusive measures to verify the identities of creators, which we prefer to avoid.

Importantly, we have no reason to believe any funds raised on Geyser to this day have been used for criminal activities. But, after carefully considering the risks, we decided to no longer list projects in those high risk regions.

For these types of sensitive projects in conflict zones, protocols > platforms.

While this was a difficult decision, it is one that will allow us to give a greater focus on supporting the creators, educators and builders furthering Bitcoin adoption.

Our mission continues to be to enable powerful Bitcoin ideas around the world.

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