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Yaël
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deputy director @ consumer choice center fellow @ bitcoin policy institute québécois-american innocent abroad in Wien

An ideal situation is one followed by the other, but it depends on availability. Not everyone has a sauna near them, but everybody can douse themselves in an ice cold bath

Time to Clip Wings of Climate Protesters…by placing them on the no-fly list

https://www.newsmax.com/billwirtz/climate-protesters-no-fly/2023/07/20/id/1127844/

GERMANY: repeating the mistakes of „Energiewende“ in a new form, using political cronyism to enrich friends + make taxpayers subsidize lackluster innovation

Young European kids speaking YouTube English. Good trend or bad news bears?

“I did not send you to go-kart camp”

I’ve been looking for this Heavyweights clip for years. Achievement unlocked.

https://youtu.be/dn9fDNadv2U

How can you retain your privacy online? Why do VPNs matter for Bitcoin? We take a deep dive with IVPN COO nostr:npub1zgslsp25mx6fqunfyedg4e5g060qmh5hlcv6jkvygdlk9xrrj88sw9ldg4

https://www.fixthemoney.net/p/resist-online-surveillance

temporary RIP

No matter how long you’ve used an anon email strategy, you’ll always get some random update or notification to your doxxed email from some service you forgot about

Everyone needs a lake in their life

There are good billionaires and bad billionaires. Michael Bloomberg is definitely the latter. No vapes, no Big Gulps, no gas-powered cars. No fun.

clip from my interview on 🇨🇦 TV on the new law forcing tech firms to pay legacy media — another bad public policy that will cost news consumers the most https://nostr.build/av/1ffe29ecffcd2e11a66f142718e0743638ba1045841410abb0840c6dd2237d5c.mov

This week I learned more about the Indian financial system. Has some level of innovation, but absolutely closed off to incoming payments — high taxes, lots of tax scrutiny, and a lot of required reporting.

I’m not sure about Bitcoin adoption this far (few exchanges), but I’ve been trying with the few activists I know