It was such a privilege to meet so many readers of my books today
Big gratitude to the Bitcoin Conf organizers for not only publishing my books but giving me a platform to share them and to meet my readers
I signed books for an hour and wish I had recorded some of the things people said to me, it’s amazing what words organized into paragraphs on a page can do and it gives me fuel for the future
One of the coolest stories was someone who had watched my talk yesterday next to someone from the World Bank
The WB person had no idea what I was about to discuss but during my talk confirmed mostly everything I said as true
Wild! 
Miami friends, I’ll be on the main stage at 4:10 today exposing the IMF
Should be a good livestream too! 
Nostr but I have not given blue sky a fair shake yet
Checking out Bluesky
Good to see some friends and sharp folks
But sad to see the reaction to #[0] posting an interview between RFK Jr and Assange’s father
The knee-jerk ad-hominem group hate that blinds and prevents people from talking about real issues is intense on there
It’s bigotry of low expectations to think that people can’t learn how to self-custody Bitcoin and achieve financial freedom
Prayers for friends in Myanmar and Bangladesh
If there’s one group of people that didn’t need to be devastated by a historic cyclone with a 20-foot storm surge, it’s the Rohingya
https://twitter.com/ferragamowx/status/1657568915264765954?s=46&t=n7crMAWVvpABU4HOlO19Lg
Good point
We’d love to do more with smaller grants
Summer of Bitcoin received more than 10,000 applications (!) from more than 74 countries (!!)
This gives you a sense of how truly global Bitcoin is
HRF is very proud to support!
This is great! As always! Thank you Alex and the team.
Does HRF have a dedicated lightning address?
I'm asking because I'd like to set up zapplanner (it does cool LN wallet integration over Nostr) to send scheduled regular zaps to HRF:
https://blog.getalby.com/zapplanner-periodic-payments-in-bitcoin/
Or do I just send to your ln address?
Hi! You can donate via LN here:
Fair. We’ll likely do more Nostr stuff next round :)
NEW:
HRF gifts 16.5 BTC (~$455,000) via its Bitcoin Development Fund to support 12 projects worldwide
Targeting:
🎁 Scaling and privacy
🎁 Censorship-resistant comms
🎁 Education inside authoritarian regimes
🎁 Core development
🎁 Community building
Grant #1: $100,000 to Calvin Kim for his work on Utreexo, a Bitcoin scaling solution for faster verification and synchronization of Bitcoin full nodes
HRF’s funding allows Kim to prepare Utreexo for a main net launch 🚀
Grant #2: $50,000 to 0xB10C for their work on Bitcoin Core tracepoints, P2P monitoring, fork observer, mining pool observer, and Bitcoin data
Funding supports 0xB10C's efforts to monitor the Bitcoin network for anomalies, improving network security and resiliency 🦾
Grant #3: $50,000 to Calle for Cashu, a free and open source protocol that enables Chaumian ecash on top of Bitcoin
The Cashu protocol conceals user balances and transaction history, offering near-perfect privacy for users of custodial Bitcoin wallets 🥜
Grant #4: $50,000 to Meron Estefanos for the creation of Bitcoin Innovation Hub Uganda
The space will host local meetups and serve as a Bitcoin awareness and learning center, equipping local youth with practical skills to become sovereign individuals 🇺🇬
Grant #5: $50,000 to Kieran for Snort.Social, a web client of Nostr, a decentralized, censorship-resistant, open-source, social networking protocol
Snort allows users to access Nostr on web browsers, reducing reliance on app stores and centralized services 📡
Grant #6: $50,000 to Rootzoll for Raspiblitz, a do-it-yourself lightning node that can be run on a Raspberry Pi
RaspiBlitz is mainly targeted for learning how to run your own node decentralized from home - because: Not your Node, Not your Rules 🗽
Grant #7: $25,000 to BOB Space BKK for their Thailand residency program
BOB Space BKK is a Bitcoin-only hatchery, incubator, and co-working space in Bangkok. Funding will help accelerate promising FOSS projects in Bitcoin, Lightning, and eCash protocols 🇹🇭
Grant #8: $25,000 to World Liberty Congress for the Freedom Academy, a program that equips activists with the tools, resources, and support needed in the struggle against authoritarianism
This grant supported recent financial freedom training in Zambia 🇿🇲
Grant #9: $25,000 to Hampus Sjöberg for Blixt Wallet, a non-custodial open-source Bitcoin and lightning wallet
Funding will support Sjöberg’s efforts to improve the user experience and performance of the Blixt Wallet on iOS and Android⚡
Grant #10: $10,000 to Nourou for Bitcoin Sénégal, a group that hosts meetups, creates educational content, and onboards local merchants to Bitcoin
Working in French and Wolof, Nourou helps people learn resist French monetary colonialism 🇸🇳
Grant #11: $10,000 to Charlene Fadirepo for the Bitcoin in Africa Show, which provides education, insights, and thoughtful conversations to deepen the understanding of Bitcoin across the African continent and beyond
Grant #12: $10,000 to Lorraine Marcel for Bitcoin DADA, a women-centric organization with contributors based in Kenya and beyond that educates African women in the Bitcoin space 🇰🇪
HRF is proud to support a diverse range of projects to help make Bitcoin a better global tool for human rights
Since early 2020 we’ve supported 80+ projects globally with more than $2.7M
Submit proposals at devfund @ hrf dot org
Donate and learn more at hrf.org/devfund
You could stare at this chart for a very long time
The documentary “Why We Fight” is based on this (epic) speech and is well worth watching 👌
As folks have pointed out, maybe not history — see blocks below — but definitely still notable
409008
470189
500521
In block 788695, 51.7% of the block reward was fees
A strange way to make history, but history nonetheless
And a glimpse into a future, much more robust fee market