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Freedom minded people have a much easier time getting Bitcoin.

Statists, naturally, have a much harder time.

The jaded have the hardest time. And sadly, there's a lot of those, especially in finance.

Get people to love freedom first. Bitcoin will make much more sense to them then.

Most people don't want/need freedom.

They are born to be sheeple/directed.

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Ken 🎋

CRAIG IS AN ARROGANT FRAUD.

CALVIN IS A PEDOPHILE CLOWN.

YOU WON'T CHANGE MY MIND 😊

#CSW #FAKETOSHI #SCAMMER #BITCOIN

Pedophile? Any source?

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ShiShi21m

Craig Wright was good for Bitcoin though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KtoWHNLw-o

In what sense a scammer trying to destroy Bitcoin could've helped it.

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BTC Sessions

I've just received a grant of $25,000 USD (in Bitcoin) to work alongside the Human Rights Foundation educating political dissidents around how to use BTC. I'm very humbled and excited.

Rather than focus on me for this post though, I want to take you on a journey regarding one of the stories I've witnessed at the Oslo Freedom Forum that has had the most impact on me.

In Oslo 2022, I watched a woman take the stage and talk about her activist husband who had been abducted and imprisoned in Nicaragua, leaving their daughter fatherless, as they had no contact with him at all.

I also met a wonderful woman learning about Bitcoin wallets for the first time, as a way to fundraise and get money into countries where dissident bank accounts would be shut down.

A year later I returned to Oslo and learned two things.

1. The woman I spoke with/coached and the woman onstage were the same person. Her name is Berta Maradiaga.

2. Due to the efforts of the HRF her husband Felix had been freed and returned to them for the first time in 3 years. They even showed a video of his daughter's tearful first reunion.

I encourage you to watch all 3 videos here. It is a harrowing story and it emotionally broke me watching it play out in real time. I got to spend a bunch of time with Berta recently at Bitcoin Park in Nashville, and she continues to learn about BTC and how it can be used to further their cause. She is wonderful.

Grab your tissues.

Felix In Oslo 2019 (Before being imprisoned)

Berta in Oslo 2022 (Pleading for help to release her husband)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AicUo9hVlI

Felix Returning To Oslo 2023 (after his release and reunion)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUnDCR5mgLg

Political dissidents can be a double edged sword.

So many government have been thrown out by the bad guys.

Watch out. Don't ever trust the official version. It's never true.

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https://jimmysong.substack.com/p/bitcoin-tech-talk-363

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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #363

Guatemala should've used testnet not mainnet.

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hodlonaut

I have joined a great team of bitcoiners at The Bitcoin Adviser.

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Get in touch if you or someone you know needs help buying, securing and managing #bitcoin

What about a Bitcoin inheritance self-custodial solution based on Bitcoin scripts?

I have developed one.

Want to hear about it?

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Lyn Alden

Had lunch near three weird piles of stones, and then went over to check them out.

What I pity we can't go up the pyramids anymore.

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ODELL

pretty sure nostr onboards billions of people to bitcoin

Maybe Bitcoin will onboard people to nostr.

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We cheer for Assange and Snowden, in part because we don't have the courage to do what they did.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdgghEZfg7g

Snoden is fake. A NASA actor (not NSA).

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mcshane

BREAKING: nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 has agreed to speak at #Nostrasia

join us here: https://tally.so/r/meM1yx

Snowden is fake. He was just a a NASA (not NSA) actor.

Look at this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdgghEZfg7g

And ask yourself: why is youtube not finding this video (I had to use bing).

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jack

Any good books on how Linus did what he did and how he makes it all work?

The amazing thing is that way before Linux there was Minix that was also a unix version. But it wasn't open source ( I think the word even existed at that time).

I run minix in my computer (I bought it. No torrent, not even internet back then).

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What's the End Game?

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My last post advocating for a Bitcoin chain split drew various reactions. Some labeled me as irresponsible, while others claimed I was undermining proof-of-work (I wasn't) or promoting a hard fork (again, I wasn't). The critics want more technical discussions to reach a consensus.

Here's the core issue: what's the endgame for drivechains? We've debated the technical aspects for seven years. Do we expect new information that will suddenly unite everyone?

The reality is, those in favor of a drivechains soft fork aren't going away. If anything, they will grow louder. So, what's the end result of endless discussions?

Prolonged debate without consensus not only wastes time but stall other valuable updates. I'll remind you that seven years of discussion have not resolved this issue.

A peaceful resolution now has a lot of benefits. We can put much of this debate to bed by engaging the market instead of claims made by marketers. We can see whether the things promised by the advocates actually come to pass and we'll learn a lot more about miner incentives.

Of course, there are other ways to resolve this conflict besides a chain split, such as creating a separate chain, using a different sidechain mechanism, or adding the needed op codes in an altcoin. Yet, these options have been available for seven years and haven't been pursued by the drivechain advocates. I think those are better resolutions than a chain split and a successful use case would be the best way to convince those of us that are skeptical of the drivechainers' claims. But that's not what they're doing and so we are at loggerheads.

In summary, the drivechain debate isn't resolving itself. A split will end this divisive conversation and allow us to focus on more productive projects like improving the Lightning Network or furthering Taproot features.

Your idea was a really bad idea.

The setting of parameters should be on the side of drivechainers. Don't you think?

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Lorenzo Rey

I am not pro Drivechains but I think this situation is different from 2017 as Drivechain proponents are not proposing a hardfork like bcashers were, BIP300 is a soft-fork, this means indifferent nodes would see the Drivechain chain as valid wouldn't they? You'd have to get people who disagree to actively update via UASF that rejects drive chains and you end up with 2 soft forks fighting each other, where indifferent nodes(not updated) see both chains as valid, therefore they will follow the one with the longest PoW, this means if miners are pro Drivechain they win because the Drivechain chain will have the longest PoW, Correct?

Exactly. Most people would do nothing so the pro-drivechain will win.

Jimmy, do it the other way around (or fuck the drivechainers if that's not possible).

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preston

nostr:note1348tkmvjgfny2jmllee4an3nyfk2rxwphqkp7fq2ptaejcr94vgs50lg6r

This is the recurring theme of people who are anti-bitcoin. They don’t even understand the gigantic problem it actually solves. And if you can’t even define the problem, how in the hell will you ever understand, let alone appreciate, the brilliant solution.