Smart phones, dumb people.
Free money for themselves, debt and taxes for you.
The monetary system you inherit becomes your reality.
Self-custody isn't paranoia. It's the default state of true ownership throughout human history. Trusting a third party with your wealth is the anomaly, not the norm. It's a new year, great time to start taking responsibility if you haven't yet.
Agreed on the O but the H looks like it’s a real mistake
Abusing the money printer isn’t a bug, it’s human nature: once people taste power, they always want just a little more.
If you can decide who gets the new money first and what it funds, you quietly shape society from the top down.
Weaponized counterfeiting shows how hostile states can quietly stoke inflation, wipe out savings, quell revolutions, and gut public trust in money itself—often without firing a shot.
During the American Revolution, British officials under Lord George Germain backed forgeries of Continental currency, accelerating its collapse and undermining confidence in the rebel government’s finances.
In the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic era, British-backed counterfeiters helped flood France with forged assignats and related paper, deepening inflation and discrediting revolutionary economic management.
In World War I, German authorities experimented with fake British pounds to strain London’s financial system, probing whether inflation and shaken confidence could weaken Britain from the inside.
In World War II, SS-Sturmbannführer Bernhard Krüger’s “Operation Bernhard” at Sachsenhausen used enslaved specialists to mass-produce forged Bank of England notes, funding spies like Elyesa Bazna (“Cicero”) and aiming at financial chaos in Britain.
During the Vietnam War, counterfeiting was a psychological and economic weapon, with the U.S. and South Vietnamese printing fake North Vietnamese currency (tín phiếu) to destabilize the communist economy, while the VC responded with their own notes and design changes, leading to low-quality, easily counterfeited bills that damaged trust and caused inflation.
After Iraq’s 1990 invasion of Kuwait, Saddam Hussein’s regime looted and forged Kuwaiti dinars, forcing Kuwait to replace its notes to prevent lasting damage to its monetary system and citizens’ savings.
Why would the bitcoin revolution be any different? They can’t fake bitcoin so they alt-coin, shit-coin, stable-coin, paper-coin.
We’re slaves to time alone.
Lyn gives him too much credit. He’s not a genius’s marketer memer, but rather just a state agent pretending not to be one. A tool. I’m willing to bet none of these failed ventures were even his idea. He is just the vessel for the propaganda the agencies want to put out, not an active player with a mind of his own. Which says a lot about his followers.
🌊 Huanchaco rode the wave of freedom
The Bitcoin Cup 2025 wasn’t just about surfing it was a wave of energy, unity, and hope that
swept through Huanchaco. ⚡♀️
Between waves and smiles, something powerful was born:
a community discovering that knowledge and Bitcoin
are tools for freedom. 💛
Every wave carries the same message:
dream, create, and move forward together. 🌅
#Bitcoin #MotivPeru #Huanchaco #CircularEconomies #FinancialSovereignty
#FreedomMoney #Surf #Community
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https://blossom.primal.net/8a6cc6ff0b9d7a33cd8d8cb9310ebd035a65e130496cac5e7359b3fdbe5c24ed.mp4
This project doesn’t get enough of your attention. Check it out.
Break it down it to separate windows organized by theme so you can pump those numbers up to 438.
I concur. Good design can help with this. No im not talking about rounder corners.
It’s about relentless testing and iteration.
Stage setup a before the show.
Open source hub at Bitcoin MENA: 2 intense days of listening to users of very different technical levels. Some are stuck in shitcoinery, others are using bitcoin to protect themselves. Some are curious, other believe they know everything.
Hands on the devices, scanning QR codes, testing NFCs, signing testnet transactions, downloading lighting wallets, talking about ecash, and onboarding on to nostr.
The types of people that approached our both looking to learn more about bitcoin left me happy and surprised. People are ready, the UX is not, but it’s getting there.
I support this solution
This is the best way for unpaid speakers to recoup some of the expanses of traveling to an event.
It also gives the audience, on site and from far away, a great opportunity to interact with the speaker and the rest of the audience.
MERGED 🥳
You can finally use nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnsv9ex2ar09e6x7amwqyvhwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ycmgv43kktndv5hhyetvv9usqgzn9kpsmllqnsf7wh5tz3wgy4cclsftqqplv8tpayrhwgw8llunevk4p6dz (Android only for now) with nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7vf5xqhxvdm69e5k7tcpzamhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skctcqyzekx0aeuh3xerdwp2m49uclwhvznmy60tuuv23ajjdqsd27x2npxm586kc and nostr:nprofile1qyt8wumn8ghj7ct4w35zumn0wd68yvfwvdhk6tcpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qpqqf9pur8yz8e8w78ap6255fx9x6xrakm2jgmqyv063l9365p7sdcs7adyk5!!
This PR by nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7vf5xqhxvdm69e5k7tcpp4mhxue69uhkyunz9e5k7tcqyzxd958cxy8hqz0ffagzxxrsw4kt8xax3um4qczyjy8z7u2g9vtcsd8x2yl adds QR code scanning support for additional Nostr identifier types, enabling users to scan and navigate to notes and live streams.
https://github.com/PrimalHQ/primal-android-app/pull/647
LFG!
iOS PR awaiting review
Amazing to see more and more people involved in bitcoin events of all kinds. Follow nostr:nprofile1qy08wue69uhkummnw3exvmmcv3jkutnyv3h8xtnwv46r5dpcxsuqzxnhwden5te0dehhxarj9enhyet9denxjetvvsh8s7t6qqstxpg2asp22vqey99x8y3388pgxtst230l7kjqpnzagfmsjw7cenc3ky8dd to see how bitcoiners throw an event like this together!
#surf #peru
Which corner of your head are you getting these ideas from?
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Somebody gotta design these power grids.
https://blossom.primal.net/e5c8c9c2b148dd8fd13d7321404a33527fc66950040d4fde5d1eb8a676f36245.mp4
Cool software. Never seen anything like this before.
First actual day of the trial is over. The Government's first witness testified that she sent ~$200k to a shady trading platform via a guy she met on WhatsApp.
Tomorrow, they'll likely argue that somehow that is Roman's fault 👇
https://www.therage.co/tornado-cash-trial-scam-hack/
What's interesting about this is that in a hearing last June, the judge had asked the prosecution whether putting Storm on trial for building a software tool would be the same as prosecuting the developers of WhatsApp because criminals used it.
After today's witness statement, it sounds like there is rampant fraud on WhatsApp, WhatsApp developers did nothing to stop it, and they're the ones who should be charged for conspiring to defraud poor Katie Lin.
Pathetic, frankly.
Can’t zap
I'm incredibly excited to finally share something that's been in the works for months:
As some of you know, I've been working on a new show called Finding Home. The idea was to create the show I wanted to watch: a Bourdain-style exploration of food and travel, but through the eyes of Bitcoiners.
It draws a parallel between the immigrant's search for a physical home and the bitcoiner's search for a sovereign one. The pilot, directed by the brilliant nostr:nprofile1qqspe0vmhu7gct8vzp6wksuf8ry4j32jfxcqepjqdyzfs89f2j5j7csv0nqwc features the story of Shakib Farrah nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgqgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcqpqwvc8u63ek6mvuykz9jcw5eqquxvheetxms4ph2p43wwgensh06mqqxcpje , a fellow pleb who runs an amazing Somali restaurant, Safari, in Harlem.
Here's the trailer.
The full episode drops Friday on IndeeHub. This is a 100% self-funded project so far, so it'll be on lightning enabled PPV to help me make the next one.
https://blossom.primal.net/c3c865d476f37c9b4b80b58036f887032a2e04a660188c3b37db57c3335e62d8.mp4
@webworthy makes everything look like a million bucks (~851,970,181 sats)
Looks like a great series! Great job on the trailer.
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Thank you to all the supporters, particularly nostr:nprofile1qqspfrgnv6j7geetzvs6muqry9mclp4zxudyhklfjyel9r0sk0fjlggprpmhxue69uhhqun9d45h2mfwwpexjmtpdshxuet5qngdep who made a big contribution when I presented the project at nostr:nprofile1qqspe93c0rqxkfg6rn3jeepunt4fl28e0fxhrzsg22ce79akcfd0ewspz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzvuhszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7tqzf2p during nostr:nprofile1qqst6jckhsy8t7z6gr4pxjcrp4cutfc445xw5h6384fuutwkn82ymxqpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qgdwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkcj4z49d.
That’s what keeps me working!
We need space, but every time I try to put out some of my dad’s old documents, this is the kind of stuff that pops out.
Was supposed to take 2 mins to dispose of some boxes. 3 hours later…
