Ruaha National Park, Tanzania 🇹🇿

Good morning everyone

#safari #Tanzania #vacation #zanzibar #tourism #ruaha #Bitcoin

Does anyone know of any freedom activists using #nostr?

#btc #bitcoin #nostr #freedom

I hope they actually free Ross though.

In the age of #surveillancecapitalism, the true cost of free services is not #data, but #freedom.

Encrypt — Protect — Resist

Amen! 🫂

"We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must

come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions

to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for

centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret

handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow

for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do."

- Eric Hughes.

A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 9 March 1993.

Do you know FOSS educational software you can recommend for my kids?

Geography, Geometry, programming,...

#asknostr

How many of you wondered why the abrupt sudden wave of ai almost a year ago and the hype about it? Why are the BRICS accelerating testing #BRICSPAY?

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READ the below shocking news.

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Imagine waking up one day to find your bank account frozen—not by accident, but by an algorithm. No warning, no human intervention, just a cold, calculated decision by an #AI system that flagged your transaction as “suspicious.” Because a family or a beloved one sent you a gift. Or because you were able to sell a creation or a service that you don’t usually do. Or whatever. You get the point.

Don’t wonder why you haven’t been hearing about this—it’s not something the Keynesian, #fiat-driven mainstream media wants you to know. They don’t want you to revolt. They’d rather keep you distracted, while Europe, as usual, snoozes through another wake-up call. But this isn’t a bad dream—it’s about to become reality with #SWIFT’s new AI-powered fraud detection system, set to launch in January 2025.

While hailed as a breakthrough in fighting financial crime, this system will permanently monitor and track every international transaction across 11,500 financial institutions. Your financial behavior will be scrutinized, profiled, and controlled—by a machine.

SWIFT’s AI promises to safeguard against #fraud, an issue that cost the global financial system $485 billion just last year. It’s cutting-edge technology that learns continuously, detects fraud in real-time, and blocks suspicious activities instantly. Pilot programs across Europe, North America, Asia, and the Middle East have shown that this system works. But at what cost?

This is no longer just about stopping fraud. It’s about the complete erosion of financial #privacy and #freedom. Every single transaction you make—no matter how small—will be analyzed. The AI builds a profile of your spending habits, your behaviors, your patterns. If something looks even slightly off to the algorithm, your transaction could be blocked without a second thought. No appeal, no oversight. Just a system deciding what you can and can’t do with your money.

And it doesn’t stop there. With this level of surveillance, governments will gain unparalleled control over financial systems. Last year alone, the U.S. Treasury recovered $375 million by leveraging existing financial monitoring systems. With SWIFT’s AI in place, that power will expand exponentially. What happens when governments use this system not just to stop fraud, but to control dissent, monitor political opponents, or track activists? This technology gives them the perfect tool to tighten their grip.

But there is a silver lining—Bitcoin. As SWIFT’s system brings financial surveillance to unprecedented levels, Bitcoin becomes more relevant than ever. While the traditional banking system moves toward complete control, Bitcoin stands apart as a decentralized, permissionless alternative. No AI will ever block your Bitcoin transaction, no algorithm will profile your financial behavior.

As SWIFT tightens its control, the world may start waking up to what’s really at stake: our financial freedom. January 2025 may well be remembered as the moment Bitcoin’s true value shone the brightest, not because of an ad campaign, but because at least some people will see the harsh contrast between a surveilled financial system and the freedom that #Bitcoin offers. The push for Bitcoin adoption might just explode as people realize the stakes: some will try to withdraw cash but with the European cash payment ceilings and in a world where AI watches your every financial move, only Bitcoin offers us a way out. This isn’t just about fraud prevention anymore—this is a battle for the future of money. Your money.

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Spread the word beyond #Nostr I got suspended on shitty X.

101 on how gold was confiscated:

You had to turn it in for dollars by a deadline prior to dollar devaluation, and there were massive prison consequences for not turning it in, but little resources in terms of investigating who didn’t turn it in. That would be expensive. So it was fear based. Focusing on illegality and tail risks on edge cases more than enforcement on average.

Institutions had to comply immediately, since it’s all visible. So the government broke liquidity in the domestic gold market, which was enough for their purposes. Gold became a hard-to-trade illegal relic for those that held it.

If a small family hodled some extra bars for 40 years until it became legal again, they did okay.

But can the government track bitcoin in the 2020s better or worse than gold in 1930s for enforcement purposes? That’s the right question.

And don’t just think of confiscation. Think of 70% selective taxes and things like that. Far more within the current rule of law. That’s the sophisticated approach. Don’t take it. Selectively tax it by a lot.

Those are the politics to push against from a bitcoin perspective.

Domesticated #bitcoin is captured bitcoin

Even though many of us here have transitioned our time to a paradigm change that unites 8 billion people on this planet, many of our friends and people we love…have not yet.

Their world view (and maybe partly ours too) is then still infected by a system that preys on them. Extracts from them. Keeps them stuck. If that is true, then it is hard to stay above the noise when the people we love, people they love, and so on, are “experiencing” a pain that is very real.

All around us, unbelievable tragedy and chaos with people taking sides, while believing that they’re or their side is justified in the stealing from, harming, or killing of other people for “their” cause. Our politics, our media, our institutions are all similarity captured by it - leading to further division and righteousness, while people become numb to it all - mostly unaware of how it is hurting them deeply. How could it not?

This is the lens of the world that the majority is looking through, reinforcing, and making stronger through everything they see and do.

Just as real to them….as the truth, hope, and abundance that #Bitcoin imposes on the world is for us.

Yes, we “try” to stay above it because we know that the system problem cannot be solved from within it, and our time is more valuable in bending reality to the new system.

But

it is worth a reminder as we go this chaotic transition that so few understand:

When someone we love hurts, we hurt too.

And there is still much hurt.

Much love to you all!

#Bitcoin

#Nostr

Do what you love, and you'll get good at it.

If you're into mountain biking you absolutely must go to a World Cup race at some point. Their skills are outrageous and you get to just hang out with the pros after their races.

Olympic gold medalist and world champion Jolanda Neff signed my Unchained hat 😅