Another day is nearly over
I’ve just been reading more Nostr stuff. Looking forward to learning more 😎
Well nobody mentioned The Man who knew Infinity. A story about a genius mathematician from India
Don’t let them hijack you right to choose what’s best for your child. Consider home schooling seriously
Two Elephant standing on hind legs holding a baby Elephant
thats so true : history repeats over and over again
Taking time out
Kiwi meet Nostrige
Just watched The Man who knew Infinity : about Srinivasa Ramanujan
This is where I come to dream about bitcoin : a short walk from my home.
Hope you all having a relaxing Sunday too
In the late 1960s, my mother went to Woodstock since she knew a doctor and pretended to be a nurse in his medical tent.
In the early 1970s, she went to travel Europe as a backpacker for over a year. And then, she traveled to Morocco through Gibraltar, and Morocco had a coup. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1971_Moroccan_coup_attempt
So my mom got stuck there with little money and few exits. There was a government agent named Mohamed that courted her for a while and would pay her daily; he wanted to marry her and leave. She eventually managed to escape that situation, by befriending a Canadian pot dealer. He was chill, and gave her funds and said to pay him back once she gets home. So she stabilized and was able to get a flight home.
My mother and I are opposite personalities. She mostly didn’t raise me; my father did. And yet in every picture, her right ear is visible but never her left. To this day, I get jokes online about never showing my left ear. Every picture. People say it might not exist.
It’s fun how that works. Maybe I’ll show my left ear only for Nostr.
You certainly inherited the adventurous spirit though like your mother. The hippy movement was The beginning of a massive social paradigm shift in thinking following the Vietnam war and the Second World War.
Bitcoin is also a paradigm shift like movement but will have a more positive impact on society
Yes it is good to keep this in mind : but for me there is no alternative as fiet does a slow death dragging billions down with it. Even a blind man can see it
Looking forward to learning more about Nostr
Here's my full main-stage keynote from Nashville
It was spread across two days, so that's why I change halfway through 😂
51 minutes but I worked hard to carefully consider each minute
The talk is packed with lessons and examples that I have learned and seen across my entire career of people using Bitcoin to change the world in the most unlikely of places
I walk through how Bitcoin is a revolution for commerce, freedom, and electric power, citing dozens of examples in each case
This one is for every single person who has ever said Bitcoin is useless, just as much is as it's for every person who is curious about Bitcoin and wants to know more
Most people know that Bitcoin is a great savings technology, which is of course its primary use case, but I don't dwell on that
Here we get into everything else it does
No price talk, all utility
Hope this helps
So grateful for the nostr:npub1t8a7uumfmam38kal4xaakzyjccht4y5jxfs4cmlj0p768pxtwu8skh56yu team for giving me this opportunity
Onwards!
I’m very new to Bitcoin but after reading a couple of books, in particular “the Bitcoin Standard and Lyn’s book “Broken Money, it convinced me completely that this is what is needed for everyone. Was very happy to send Sats directly to friends in Africa where hyper inflation is plunging millions into more poverty 😐
This was a stunning video of the true value of Bitcoin to the world
It is indeed exciting being part of the new wave not just for the financial benefits. Seeing bitcoin reach areas in need like poor countries in Africa and provide hope
🚨 For the first time, a government is being overthrown by 3D-printed weapons 🔫
The longest-lasting civil war today took an unexpected turn... when the resistance adopted plastic weapons and cryptocurrencies.
You NEED to know what's happening in Myanmar 👇
Myanmar has never had political stability since gaining independence 76 years ago.
The latest coup was in 2021, banks were drained, and the local currency lost 60% of its value in the following months.
Rebels have since been using CRYPTO to finance themselves.
They declared TETHER as the official currency 🏅
They launched a stablecoin and a crypto bank on the Polygon network that accesses Uniswap pools for buying and selling currencies.
They even created a digital lottery and boycotted the national Myanmar lottery, which saw its revenue drop by 80% 📉
The rebels have raised about $100 million in recent years.
They even auctioned "revolutionary bonds": buyers could receive a share of a deposed general's mansion, for example.
But this $100 million is nothing compared to the nearly $1 billion that the junta has invested in the war since the coup.
This ASYMMETRY of resources suggests a protracted conflict with no end in sight.
The junta is unable to eliminate all the decentralized insurgency hotspots... but it can exhaust them financially.
However, the asymmetry is decreasing, thanks to DISSIDENT TECHNOLOGIES...
JStark would be proud.
In recent months, there have been reports of FGC9s in use in Myanmar.
FGC9 is one of the most popular models of self-made firearms.
FGC = Fuck Gun Control
No one conquers a city with FGC9s.
But it is certainly possible to...
... defend a mountain pass or a village surrounded by forest with them.
Moreover, the resistance has mastered the art of producing and piloting homemade patrol drones.
Check it out 👇
https://video.nostr.build/6455e3665450014e51e9c7ca96424c463741751239bfa6b8f059c90ac27fb6a8.mp4
The insurgents have already liberated ~50% of the territory.
The military junta controls the most populous and economically significant areas.
China supported the last coup in 2021. The West never had enough incentive to confront Beijing 🇨🇳
But in 2024, everything starts to change.
China's interest is economic.
They need to be on the side of the "winner" to ensure access to Myanmar's strategic pipelines and ports.
But in March of this year, Beijing lost its patience.
Hold on to this:
😳 44,000 CHINESE were in Myanmar as "slaves"...
...and they were finally discovered and "returned."
They were working in "ONLINE SCAM CENTERS" operating in the northern part of the country. They were lured with fake job advertisements.
This is a scam center on the border with Thailand, packed with Chinese workers, scamming people worldwide 👇
Think about this 👇
You’ve probably been targeted by some online profile trying to scam you, operated by one of the THOUSANDS of trafficked Chinese people working in centers like this.
What year are we living in, folks?! 😳
The fight against tyranny still seems far from over. But the end appears to have already begun.
The balance of power is shifting.
Great research. We also know what the Buddhist Monks influence is, how they caused the Rohingya people to flee