The first Financial Freedom Report of 2025 is now live on Nostr and features the following in global news:

-Nicaragua | Financial Reforms Risk Enshrining Repression Into Law

-China | Regime Monitoring and Censoring Economists

-Iran | Shutters Onramps to Digital Asset Exchanges

In Bitcoin news:

-Live Wallet | Releases Transaction Privacy Analysis

-Bull Bitcoin Wallet | Implements Serverless Asynchronous Payjoin

-RaspiBlitz | Integrates Alby Hub

Plus, an interview with Bitcoin Dada founder Lorraine Marcel, where she discusses the empowering nature of Bitcoin for women facing systemic rights abuses and financial repression.

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Agreed - why we unschool our girls. They each have a quite different learning style & they follow their interests at their own pace

School had never suited my way of learning, and even today, that conditioning makes me feel like I don’t “study” enough. But I’ve come to understand that my way of learning is different. I process complex systems in my head, moving information around like Tom Cruise in Minority Report with his interactive screen.

My learning comes not from books but from doing—and then analyzing the patterns that emerge.

I share this to encourage others to find their own best way of learning. Don’t let archaic schooling systems, which prioritize rote memorization and secondhand learning, define you.

Beneath the conditioning, you are perfect. And together, we can learn how to dismantle those limiting programs.

According to the prerequisites on github. Is this application only for macos?

What is the official npub for this project, I want to keep tabs on it.

I am conceal carrying more often now . Shits getting more frantic

How were bitcoiners orange pilled before books and podcasts? The white paper, mostly.

I tried reading it in 2011, but found it too technical and boring. Yup.😂

So what worked?

A bitcoin-only auction site called Bitmit. A place where I could sell baklava in 2012 with minimal fees.

I had a website at the time, but I also had listings on eBay & Etsy for extra exposure. The listing + PayPal fees sucked, so I sold at a markup to make up the difference.

BitMit allowed me to sell my baklava at a discount while taking home higher profits. Not bad, but it didn't stop there!

I could then flip the bitcoin on LocalBitcoins at a slight markup, earning profit on my profit!

Profitception! 🤯

I was an idiot in hindsight, of course. Had I known then what I know now I would have HODLed every sat, but that's not the point.

These experiences taught me the true value of Bitcoin, and it had nothing to do with a fiat price.

People were willing to pay over spot for something permissionless, with low fee transactions, that entities like PayPal couldn't stop.

I never could have gleaned this from the white paper.

By mid-2012, I saw that this was something to hold on to. I decided to move off the fiat standard, and on to the Bitcoin standard. That's exactly what I did before the end of the year.

And it truly started 13 years ago today.

Thanks, Bitmit. ✌️

💡I notice that more and more people around me are becoming mentally unstable and ill. Both at work and among friends. Many of them no longer have any resilience. I assume it's mainly a social problem. The uncertain politics and the permanent loss of purchasing power and the associated hamster wheel are weakening people. Bitcoin gives you the ultimate ability to build resilience. Every fluctuation in the price builds more conviction and resilience against the sick current system. Bitcoin empowers you enormously in a crazy world.🧡

if i had the resources i'd be liberating these animals by euthanasia, most likely, or if i had even more resources, by giving them a doggy paradise to live in, which is of course way expensive because these poor animals have psychological trauma recovery process needed or it's gonna just be like a prison

nah, not always

i've seen them when they get locked up in cages, jumping and spinning around and constantly barking, this isn't a positive outcome of their obsessive, focused behaviour

but hey, it's not the nature of the dog that is the problem but the toxic humans who lock these beasts up and don't think for a minute about the impact they are having on either their animal or the people who live next door

dogs are autistic

Python is not even good enough to replace JavaScript.

Python is not even good enough to replace JavaScript.