Bitcoin is money, and Bitcoin is medium of exchange.

My article on Forbes: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/09/16/the-rise-of-bitcoin-as-money-continues-becoming-a-medium-of-exchange/

If you prefer it without the paywall (though consider zapping here on Nostr): https://archive.is/led3c

After China's Cultural Revolution:

1- 20 members of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music lost their lives. There was not a single playable piano in Shanghai for violinist Issac Stern's concerts.

2- China's most famous French-Mandarin translator, Fu Lei ended his life. China's "Victor Hugo", Lao She, was either murdered or drowned himself after the Red Guards condemned him. Writer Ba Jin watched his wife die after she was denied medical treatment for cancer.

3- Millions died, and millions more were persecuted and forced to labour - including Ai Qing, Ai Weiwei's father and one of China's most famous poets.

On April 6th, 1994, the plane carrying Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi was shot down suddenly. Both died - and it became the spark of something horrible.

Only one day later, the killings began, and Hutu moderates as well as the Tutsi ethnic minority were hunted down by Hutu military forces and a militia known as the Interahamwe. In 3 months and a half, more than a million people would die - representing about 10,000 murders a day.

Even to this day, the conflict smolders on - with revenge and consolidation of power a constant theme, as a Rwanda ruled by the Tutsi rebel force that stopped the genocide, grown increasingly authoritarian, invades Congo. The events were described by UN commander, General Roméo Dallaire, in his book "Shake Hands with the Devil" - where he describes shaking hands with three Interahamwe leaders.

I feel like China is going all in on gold, because they want to hedge from the American-based system, and see gold is the only way. There's no way the central bank at least will touch Bitcoin as it stands, it's been the one org that has long-standing warned and moved the Chinese system against BTC as early as 2013.

Always love seeing "Would Mao Hold Bitcoin" out in the wild

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ranting about child porn to try to take down your digital enemies is essentially a fed tactic

i can't understand or post about this stuff on X for exactly this reason. Went from "maybe don't upgrade to v30 if you're not a fan of OP_RETURNs" to "child porn child porn child porn" real fast

we failed to bring Bitcoin to politics, instead we brought politics to Bitcoin

Fair enough

Congrats! Amazing stuff :)

Rest is local merchants 😇

Oh and Daniel. nostr:nprofile1qqspqnm00heu28y5jsqn2vzrgp4uwavzuhwdd36su9g5456hyg9lfxgppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezumrpdejz7nh6tjc. Don't think they mind me sharing lol

Would rather not dox everything, but can say the magnets came from Bitcoin Rodeo and the books came from Bitcoin is for Everyone and Learning Bitcoin (Yates, Deanna).

Thanks for the rec!

It's usually tough to get travel sorted with BTC. Salute to ya!

Awesome!

BTCMap.org

I'm always selling and buying hope

How can one even buy these repairs for sats

Things I've bought with sats recently:

Cocoa beans

Magnets

Ice cream

Books

Tea

Bitcoin is money

Age verification is the beginning of the government trying to understand and control everything you do online, just like taxation and the Bank Secrecy Act was the same for every time you spend something.