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Baba Malaika ⚡
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#FreedomTech #PovertyAllevation

Do the right thing. Drop your shitcoin bags, whether they are "crypto" or fiat-denominated. Start small.

Take responsibility.

Learn how to self-custody.

Produce value,

spend less than you make,

and start saving in bitcoin.

Start counting your wealth in sats.

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remember this: you could've known better. You could've held your own keys. You could've run your own node. You could've stayed humble. You could've stacked sats. You could've listened to the toxic maximalists. You could've read a book or two. You could've stayed away from the shitcoins, and the Ponzis, and the central points of failure. But you didn't. And you have no one to blame but yourself.

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https://dergigi.com/2022/11/19/dear-crypto-fiat-bros/

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It is all about privileges and instruments you have in your hands to defend your life, close to your people, or your peaceful environment, home where do you live. If you don’t defend them, but enjoy your freedoms - it means someone did this job for you.

My 15 years of experience in human rights gave me painful lessons that all freedoms have to be defended or better to be preserved from abuse, and reality doesn’t care if you admit it or not.

In democracies you have more chances to defend/preserve your freedoms in easier and safe way. In case of political prisoners or victims of torture of dictatorships - political pressure of democratic institutions is the only chance to save imprisoned activist’s lives.

In dictatorships even like of the post in social media can cost you a life. Same can happen with bitcoin, especially if democracies label it in the regulations with criminal activities.

#bitcoin as a technology doesn’t need me or you. But it was created by freedom fighter Satoshi #Nakamoto to support freedom fighters. In solidarity I don’t want to allow to some lazy privileged individuals in democratic countries to ban/label #bitcoin or #PoW with any illicit activities/threat to security at the early stage of its existence.

In democracies I can safely explain to regulators that it is an enormous mistake of privileged people, who don’t know what is financial exclusion in practice and forget that technology is always should be evaluated as a neutral tool. It can be used by bad and good actors. But it doesn’t mean that legitimate actors should suffer.

And those whom I met from regulators agreed with me and our recommendations, both in US and EU. That is why I want to continue my work in defense of neutral language to bitcoin and PoW as technology in democracies.

I cannot do this in authoritarian states.

I experienced what does it mean being financially excluded due to coordinated attacks of three dictators in the very heart of EU, in Brussels. Also just as my colleagues activists in dictatorships - we need both bitcoin as the only financial tool we have rights now and both political support of democratic governments who help us to release political prisoners.

https://www.sec.gov/news/statement/gensler-statement-spot-bitcoin-011023

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Tanzania, nchi yetu 💚

Napenda sana picha ya Mount Kibo 🏔️

Usimalize kupost pichas zingine

Ubarikiwe

What makes us go from one order to the next? Is it just time? Or also the people around us (physically or virtually) with whom we can discuss ₿?

Welcome to the family my dear! 🍓

Very excited to have you.

Start9 does NOT recommend to directly connect an ssd usb drive without separate power supply to run Bitcoin core on. 🧡

Any experience by anyone?

Do I really need a powered usb hub in between?

Thanks #Nostr friends 💜

#start9embassy #BitcoinNode

Replying to Avatar Lyn Alden

Most posts I make on Nostr feel to some extent like a challenge. And I post them anyway. I enjoy that challenge. I write them in part *because* they are challenging.

I'm putting uncomfortable thoughts into the decentralized Nostr void to anyone who wants to host what I say on their relay.

That's why I'm here. I'm adding my thoughts to this medium to help advance it. I write here the things I wouldn't post to the normies on Twitter/X. Only on Nostr do I embrace my weirdness and inappropriateness. I analyzed this ecosystem, and decided that you, and only you, yes you reading this who took the time to be here, deserved to see my real or "based" thoughts to the extent that you care about them. And that includes my weaknesses. I've shown those in some of my recent posts, and I'll continue to show you my weaknesses here. I wrote about the times I got rekt in a fight and cried. I'll type that kind of thing out here, and only here, on Nostr, again and again.

If I post something intellectually polarizing I start to think, "what would my followers think?" But then I'm immediately like, "I don't know. Who cares. If they hate my truths here then were they even real my followers to begin with? Maybe they need to be challenged."

Meanwhile, I *do* care what you all think in aggregate, am willing to disagree with you individually on certain topics, but want to hear your thoughts. And I'm willing to change my views based on you. In fact, many of my Twitter/X posts are there over the past years because I want to see what people comment with before I write my full-on reports. The same is likely true for Nostr. This is raw ground. I want your thoughts. I won't bend my truths toward you, and I'll challenge you, as I expect you to challenge me.

So, if someone takes the effort to be on Nostr and some how reads this, I want them in my ecosystem. I want their criticisms as much as their praise. Criticize me here. I'll enjoy it. Let's go. You're awesome.

And then I'm like "What about my business contacts?" I have like these various billionaire institutional close contacts that are richer than me but have to wear ties to work. But I mean, if they are reading this right now, they are fucking awesome. I think, any of my serious existing business contacts who are cool enough to be here, are likely people I want to continue to work with. If they don't like what I say, they can bring it up with me. Otherwise they can appreciate my rawness here, and recognize that Nostr is where I post my random thoughts or my deep thoughts, and either of which are my raw thoughts.

My goal is to be real, and to advanced this protocol.

The day that far more people are on Nostr, is the day I will practice more public moderation. Until then, and that's probably far away, it's the medium where I will drop f-bombs and describe weird situations and thoughts. Let's go.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akPbu6TOx2E&ab_channel=JerisJohnson

Thanks nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a for your openness and insight into your raw thoughts. I like the idea of challenging each other in a respectful way in order to gain more understanding of a topic. Keep up posting. I am reading. 👍

https://youtu.be/g0nnM5_Z90E?feature=shared

I hope that many more countries rigged by power abuse start to embrace this model by Guatemala 🇬🇹