I just heard the scariest story in a while. Someone told me that they had been traveling in China and, on the way out, the border police pulled up a tool that showed countless photos of this person taken by public surveillance cameras during their visit.

These are CCTV cameras in public. Faces classified with AI. All data gathered in a central location. Don't even think for a second this is never going to happen where you live.

That's a level of dystopia I didn't know we were already in.

He should not have gone to the Ethereum conference. By the way, I really get a gifter vibe from him for some reason.

Tesla sold 75% of its Bitcoin at $29k.

Lol peter is triggered

bitcoin-backed ecash is free banking by the people

I have it installed, but usually default to other apps. So can't really claim it as my goto. Minibits I think is interesting in how it integrates with nostr and can handle btc-ecash

The past two years of bitcoin conferences I have been at have been bear market conferences.

And funnily, the energy was still really high at all of them. Pacific Bitcoin in 2022 occurred literally during the FTX dump to $16k and we were having an amazing time regardless.

Bitcoin Atlantis in Madeira has been the closest thing to a conference in a bull market for a while.

My single favorite thing at conferences is meeting people from so many countries. Within one example hour I met a woman from Saudi Arabia, a whole group from Bulgaria, someone from Bolivia, someone from Columbia, someone from Spain, and someone from South Africa. A woman from Malaysia really stuck out too and it was a great conversation.

There is no other asset that brings out so much hope and unity from people with such different backgrounds and experiences.

Open source global money. 🫂