My 39.

Enjoying the moments of my life:

❤️‍🔥 A moment of weakness: the hardest memories in my 15 years of human rights work are the meetings of families with released political prisoners.

I thought that after having had over 100 such meetings, I could be less emotional.

I can't. An image from my childhood of first losing hope from the lawlessness of the regime towards my family, and then the endless joy of being able to hug my brother, who was released after being kidnapped from the hospital, comes back to me every time.

But every time you feel a wave of joy at the happiness in the eyes of family members in hugs with their loved ones, your pain disappear. You witness the steely hurt in the eyes, the facial expressions from reliving the nightmares of the political prisoners who were released. You see the love that sustained them and helped them through this journey. That moments move you forward and stimulate your work when others disbelieve that it’s possible. Everything is possible.

🧡A moment of strength: I remember vividly the losses, the experienced ups full of love and the painful downs on the way to 39 years. Our love, our feelings and beliefs are getting stronger when we experienced ups and downs, when we fight for our beloved.

I remember the realisation of the moment, how life can be cut short in a matter of days. Everyone you love and everything you love can be shattered. What remains is the memory and the belief that you can overcome, you will love again. You used to say it to other politically repressed who had such experience, and than that moment came to you… you have to listen no matter how hard it was to say.

⚡️Importance of learning: You learn fast how important it is to live in the moment and how important it is to be able to first defeat your own consciousness and the minds of those around you, then the winning in the physical world is a matter of technique. Then comes the moment of power, not only yours but those who are with you in this struggle.

6 years later with this approach you can not only stop but defeat two of the three authoritarian regimes using the whole machinery of power against you and your family, your organisation.

🫶 How to fight back: Yep, it's possible. I have been able to walk this path because of my experience in defending the politically persecuted, friends, my brother who know how to share not only moments of joy but also how to hold a strike. Being all financially isolated, we were able to resist and defeat the attacks of the three regimes thanks to #bitcoin.

#SatoshiNakomoto is unlikely to read this post, but that doesn't mean I want to give him a huge thank you. For being able to stand up, to save the lives of those for whom human rights are not just a set of derring-do phrases and "fresh regret".

How do you feel at 39? Or how do you think you will feel at 39?

Paolo Ardoino is the Emmanuel Macron of the bitcoin industry

Of all the qualities of fiat money I hate, perhaps the most hated one is the permissioned nature of it. It's an artificial and unnecessary limitation on property rights.

Rest in peace, Toriyama Akira.

Thank you for everything 🥲

You have achieved immortality ❤️‍🔥

Speculative attack on YEN soon, Some say the YEN will devalue, Nikkei did ATH against YEN like BTCUSD, stay humble stack sats

Spanish € shitcoin series:

The brother of businessman Víctor de Aldama, Rubén de Aldama, who was an escort for former minister Ábalos, received transfers from Bizum (an Spanish payment system equivalent to Paypal) in his account with the concepts "the whore from the other day", "parties" or "blowjobs", according to the investigation of the ' Koldo case.

Europeans! This is what Spanish politicians do with your taxes!

Hey fucking woke retards, before you scream to me "socialism/communism is good" please play this game.

Let's see if in a harmless game you can win.

Then let's talk about communism. I will tell you how was real life in communism, I survived 20 years of my youth in such a nightmare regime.

I remember at the time of the Bitfinex hack arrests I said, no way those coins are going back to Bitfinex. At the minimum, *definitely* not for several years and prob never. I got some pushback on that.

Here we are a couple years later and I see breathless news reports about 'US govt moving the bitfinex hack seizure'. I think a lot of people are wondering about an auction... that's the usual playbook for 'profits from crime'.

Those coins belong to Bitfinex, very obviously, there is zero ethical grey area there.

I could still be wrong and some decency prevails, but let's see (even then, withholding such a large amount of money for years, from a victim, is disgraceful). I'm actually very curious.

Inviduals must remain conscious, whether they have access to technology or not !

When the phone was attached to a wire, the humans were free...

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If you want to be popular, Bitcoin is not for you.

If you want to be invited to the right parties, Bitcoin is not for you.

If you want to influence the hoity-toity, Bitcoin is not for you.

If you want to climb the status ladder, Bitcoin is not for you.

If you want respect from the establishment, Bitcoin is not for you.

But if you want self-sovereignty, Bitcoin is for you.

Good lord people I can't believe I have to spell this out.

In order to scale on L2 and above there first needs to be changes made on L1.

L2 cannot exist without L1, you cannot magically scale L2 forever without making serious changes to L1.