Bloody crap news.

My ESTA was unexpectedly rejected to the states.

The airline won’t check me in and the USA certainly won’t let me in ⛔️

I’m stuck in Lima, Peru 🇵🇪

I’m devastated. I can no longer speak at Pacific Bitcoin.

I’m now struggling to find a way home to Europe as most layovers pass through the States 🇺🇸

I’m really sorry to let everyone down, particularly Cory, P, Stephen and the Swan team.

I was really looking forward to Pacific and just soaking up the LA bitcoin vibe.

At some point over the past month, my ESTA status changed and I wasn’t notified. I checked it before flying to Peru in early September.

I keep a copy of my esta on my phone and didn’t think to log in to the esta dashboard before flying to the states for the third time this year.

Ive searched and the rejection is undoubtedly because of me being in Cuba for the bitcoin documentary I shot there.

Im surprised as @RunwithBitcoin flew to the states successfully yesterday and he was in Cuba as well.

Either way, gotta learn from this and move on.

Next steps.

- work out how to get home.

- find some work to cover the $3k expense of this monumental kerfuffle.

- book an appointment with the British embassy to explain that I am in fact not a Cuban collaborator for a new visa.

- be less of a moron.

I’m really sorry. Hope you’re having a better day than me.

And to those going to Pacific, please send it 🧡

What would you recommend?

Below from a younger cousin. By default already has a low time preference mind set.

But he's been burned with #crypto trading in the past and has some lingering PTSD on the matter as a result. I was trying to think of a #BTC trojan horse approach.

How would you reply?

I have said for a long time that govts are mafias hiding behind a religious structure, made more powerful by the fact that no one sees it as a religion. And they manufacture large external boogeymen in order to create the appearance of some problem that only govt can fight.

Terrorism to manipulate the right & climate alarmism to manipulate the left. And the climate stuff has strong orignial sin vibes. Not only is there a danger from the weather, but you caused it with your "greedy desires" for food & energy & other basic needs. So "good citizens" will deprive themselves or be happy to accept economic condictions that lead to deprivation.