Hey bpg, love the consistency, man! We are doing our part on Bitcoin Walks every Sat. This year we clocked in 50 Bitcoin Walks in our location alone.

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Yesterday we did the final, 50th Bitcoin Walk of 2025 in Madeira.

Walk by walk, step by step we keep stacking healthy habits of walking, of being in nature, of forging our human connections, of strengthening the bonds of our cooperation, coordination and friendships.

Over these 50 walks we found solutions to our common problems.

We beta-tested multiple freedom tech apps finding great solutions for exchanging value on Layer 2's of Bitcoin.

We taught each other principles and techniques.

We've dived into and understood the importance of Privacy.

We've learned entrepreneurship by providing value to each other.

We've shared valuable connections, contacts and ideas, enriching each other.

We've met hundreds of unique individuals, inspiring them to join our tribes worldwide and to thrive despite the adversities of the burdensome fiat world.

We've also learned how insane the fiat world is. How every act of Sovereignty is being met with suspicion, with another regulation and with disregard to human rights and dignity. Yet, every time we encounter a pushback from the fiat system, we adapt faster and faster, creating better solutions on the outskirts of the system - out in the wilderness.

It's a game of Whack-a-Mole.

And as someone pointed out earlier this year - in the game of Whack-a-Mole the moles ALWAYS WIN. 😉

So here's to the next 50 walks in the year 2026!

Let's keep building the society in which we ourselves want to live.

Let's get stronger, smarter, better connected, better protected, agile, flexible and cheerful!

Let's stack consistency, coherence and collaboration!

And let's keep engaging in the revolutionary act of Walking the Talk!

🥂

Thank you to each one of you for joining our Bitcoin Walks this year, for sharing your stories and for bringing your being into the spotlight. I hope to meet you all again in 2026!

Tick-Tock, next block.

Every Sat we Walk!

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Yes, human connection, collaboration, coordination, cooperation. It's a conjunction of junctions!

Hey, we already have an app that disconnects people from the screens and connects them to each other.

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This is the type of memes that get replies but no Sats.

I've been thinking about it deeply since the beginning of this year. I agree, the regulatory capture is the biggest threat to Bitcoin. Or in the long run it's the main drag.

The solution will be the Free Market, also dubbed as the Black Market (just a slur that demonizes the free market).

All Bitcoin Layer 2's are the equivalent of Monero or close to it. We have to grow these networks as fast as possible. Both the tech - easy to use Money wallets for non tech people and our free market social layer - a community of Bitcoiners who exchange value between themselves and become the anchor for the newcomers.

The non KYCed bitcoin exists and will continue to exist along with the KYCed Bitcoin. It's like cash in a bank vs paper cash.

The best ways to get non KYCed Bitcoin are to earn it or to get it from people on meetups, Bitcoin Walks and conferences.

Another solution that is also popular in the fiat world is structuring.

Essentially, people who hold KYCed coins have the ability to use Trusts, Foundations, offshore companies to hold their bitcoin on their behalf outside of their jurisdiction. It is legal, it just costs money and time to establish such structures. That's how fully KYCed fiat is being hidden away as well.

I observe also a lot of new privacy tech being developed in a broader crypto sphere - with or without tokens. Tokens themselves don't matter much. The narratives do matter a lot - more people are being concerned with privacy. The consumers demand it, the devs build it and ship it. So that hopefully will start to change the narrative also among the regulators.

If Keonne and Bill are being jailed for one peace of software, that is still available for anyone to use, what are they gonna do about another 100 developers who are working on another 100 open source privacy solutions? Arrests will not stop demand or adoption. Even if they jail everyone, the tech is out there already.

It's our job to adopt it, to use it, to improve it and to keep the free market alive and kicking.

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I signed a petition yesterday.

I never signed petitions before, because I don't believe petitions often achieve their stated goals.

But I did it anyway, because I wanted to see the number on the signatory list to go up. I wanted the number of supporters of privacy to go up. So I signed it and the number went up by one. And then I sat there for half an hour watching the number go up every few seconds.

And then it dawned on me that petitions like that achieve a different goal. They show support to me and to us. It's me who is seeing the number of supporters of Privacy growing and it gives me comfort. It reminds me that I am not alone in this world. That I'm not the only sane person that thinks Privacy is a norm, not an exception.

I'm not the only sane person that sees Keonne and Bill are being unjustly jailed. They didn't break any existing law. There was no discovery of facts before jury. There were no victims presented to the court. There was no court of justice.

There was a system established in such a way, that no due process is needed anymore to put someone in jail.

Two people will be sitting in a cage, just because someone wanted them in a cage.

I think it's wrong.

I like that more people are saying out loud - "Hey, it's wrong!". I like this number go up.

If you also like seeing this number go up, then you can make it go up by at least one:

https://c.org/qms8nYRsX8

I signed a petition yesterday.

I never signed petitions before, because I don't believe petitions often achieve their stated goals.

But I did it anyway, because I wanted to see the number on the signatory list to go up. I wanted the number of supporters of privacy to go up.

So I signed it and the number went up by one. And then I sat there for half an hour watching the number go up every few seconds.

And then it dawned on me that petitions like that achieve a different goal. They show support to me and to us. It's me who is seeing the number of supporters of Privacy growing and it gives me comfort. It reminds me that I am not alone in this world. That I'm not the only sane person that thinks Privacy is a norm, not an exception.

I'm not the only sane person that sees Keonne and Bill are being unjustly jailed. They didn't break any existing law. There was no discovery of facts before jury. There were no victims presented to the court. There was no court of justice.

There was a system established in such a way, that no due process is needed anymore to put someone in jail.

Two people will be sitting in a cage, just because someone wanted them in a cage.

I think it's wrong.

I like that more people are saying out loud - "Hey, it's wrong!". I like this number go up.

If you also like seeing this number go up, then you can make it go up by at least one:

https://c.org/qms8nYRsX8

You must be a very influential person... 😄

The amount of negative comments in this thread with GFY and blaming for "shitcoining" is a sign of deep brain rot.

It's one thing to caution newbies about buying alts.

It's a completely different thing to believe that only btc is money, while denying reality of alts being used as money, including in donations/investments in our own social layer - journalists, lobbyists, human rights activists.

The former is wise, the later is idiotic.

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Absolute dope of an edit!

Oh. Tell us more about it!

True story!

Let's not become the worshipers of symbols.

Let's be the symbols of freedom every day of our lives!

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Awesome article! It provided me with a good conceptual framework of how to think about ecash as indeed all familiar cash, and not as some kind of novel blockchain innovation.

Indeed very useful! Thanks.

Do you know if Alby Hub that runs on a PC is a full, self custodial node? I can't figure out is it a node or is it a wallet and if there is really any difference between these two concepts.

Yeah, that's where I took this number from. Hayes is quite good at seeing Macro and how Bitcoin reacts to it.

I love these Alien series! MOAR please!

There are a few arguments against the ultimate success of Bitcoin.

1. It can fail on the Social Layer just like the ideals of Freedom fail on the Social Layer in communism, collectivism or totalitarianism. Despite Bitcoin existence, North Korea and China became only more powerful and more tyrannical in the recent years. The western countries are marching rapidly towards totalitarianism where private property and privacy may be gradually outlawed, along with Bitcoin. It may continue to exist in the underground, but choked off in the majority of the countries still operating under old fiat regimes. The Bitcoiners might be stuck between the tyrannical governments and the criminals hunting Bitcoiners down and robbing them of their Bitcoin. No place to hide.

2. Bitcoin transfers can be KYCed to death. It may split the network into the Compliant market coins, circulating only with tx kyc records approved by some compliance department and the Free market coins which may never touch any company or individual interacting with the Fiat world. You can hold your kyc free coins, but you can't purchase anything still attached to the fiat world. No house, no land, no air ticket. Just like cash is being gradually outlawed and limited to small purchases only. There are some ways around it, but it may be difficult for a few decades.

3. The 2nd or 3rd layer solutions are not easy to use in a self custodial manner, while base layer is extremely expensive. So only a small minority of people can afford to transact truly permisionlessly, while all the rest have to rely on custodial solutions. This will essentially mirror and recreate the current system - the small corrupt elite controlling majority of the supply and the powerless plebs controlling nothing. We may be stuck again in the same social/political structure as we are living in today. The nature of money may change, but the human nature stays the same.

Bitcoin is technology and yes, technologies have a tendency to improve the world, but that's not a guarantee. Despite wonderful technologies existing already for decades, they might not be adopted in some countries or regions, just because the local governments will prefer to starve the population to death rather than losing control over that population. Nikola Tesla's technologies haven't been adopted. More efficient hydrogen and electrical car motors invented a century ago haven't been adopted. Many technologies have been patented away and suppressed. Half of the world still doesn't have access to electricity, although it was invented 2 centuries ago.

The arguments against Bitcoin success that concern me the most are related to our Social Layer, because it cannot be fixed with code. Our Social Layer is our weakness as peoples minds are easier to corrupt than the distributed piece of tech code.

Don't know if these arguments have been already discussed, but I'll be happy to hear your responses and counter arguments.

And here I am, trying to buzz with Albi... installed Albi Hub, opened a channel, connected with Albi Extension, connected with Primal, transferred some Sats to my Albi Hub wallet. Now I'm trying to Zap your post... and it doesn't work! 😳

I have a Love-Hate relationship with everything Lightning.