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https://hrf.org/programs/financial-freedom/

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2025-05-18 23:26:40 GMT

Can anyone think of something better that the US government could have spent $7 billion of taxpayer money on instead of bombing one of the world’s poorest countries?

2025-05-18 01:50:49 GMT

😂
Also - what city would nostr be?
https://image.nostr.build/d1db23145fd0bade9b5cd03165c99f07043e8d55d0b2101d312c7c4b578ad6e3.jpg

2025-05-16 20:57:41 GMT

Hard to fathom
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2025-05-11 14:43:41 GMT

This is the surface of Venus, captured by a Soviet probe in the 1970s
A piece of one of these missions just crash landed in the Indian Ocean
I didn’t even know the Soviets had landed crafts on Venus, took photos, recorded sounds, etc, until a few years ago
https://image.nostr.build/e14051dbbfd5ca7193eb84107948b54f0dd5b4f0216114dd5675f52e9580b895.jpg

2025-05-06 21:27:18 GMT

“Crypto” perfectly summarized
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2025-05-05 16:54:41 GMT

I hope this is not the case
https://image.nostr.build/16af5dc178cafe4085c46e0144024c5ffa9e529c71abdf6d4e3ac5049359e331.jpg

2025-05-02 19:59:35 GMT

Not sure if this is the way…
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2025-04-30 05:13:34 GMT

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@npub1yxp…399s seems to think so!

2025-04-28 20:55:14 GMT

Freedom Tech at the Oslo Freedom Forum this year is going to be 🔥
🇳🇴
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2025-04-26 04:14:23 GMT

Super energizing for me to see my work being used by educators and meetup organizers like this
Onwards! ✌️
#note1den…dy9t

2025-04-21 04:15:00 GMT

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Legend!
Thank you!

2025-04-16 03:10:55 GMT

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*Al Jazeera not BBC :)

2025-04-15 22:08:06 GMT

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Makes me feel a lot better 😅

2025-04-15 04:48:17 GMT

👎
https://image.nostr.build/6332968cc1f11be8397e59bb3e4aa48bed3358a403f8f421b3f919466fcbe1b3.jpg

2025-04-14 22:42:37 GMT

Well, it’s freedom everywhere, but especially in some places!
Killer profile of HRF’s programming at the MIT Bitcoin expo
https://berkeleybeacon.com/in-authoritarian-countries-bitcoin-is-freedom/
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2025-04-13 23:24:10 GMT

Welp
https://image.nostr.build/aea8798e94cd931995627a5662db1c69ef1f8e1fa4d31a3dc64b68343d9e8957.jpg

2025-04-13 10:02:26 GMT

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Full link:
https://www.bedfordindependent.co.uk/opinion-how-a-bitcoin-conference-in-bedford-changed-the-way-i-see-financial-freedom-and-human-rights/

2025-04-09 20:13:48 GMT

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Democrats, Clinton was the main architect here

2025-04-09 19:52:33 GMT

The “China was ripping us off” is such a gaslight
US policymakers intentionally designed a system where we could get cheap stuff and labor from China to reduce inflation and costs of living here in America
The CCP has happy to play its part but this was intentional
We aren’t a victim here, we got to buy unlimited stuff with debt issuance with China as the factory with lower wages that we could possibly have here
Take China away and we have crazy inflation after the Great Financial Crisis
Today the system is wobbling, and needs some kind of reset, but don’t let them fool you into thinking we were getting “ripped off”

2025-04-09 17:10:50 GMT

Amazing how many prominent people don’t understand this
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2025-04-07 18:22:29 GMT

This needed to be on nostr
https://m.primal.net/QHgy.mp4

2025-04-03 23:53:13 GMT

Pura Vida ☯️ 🤙
Osa is a magical place!
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2025-04-02 16:22:14 GMT

Pura Vida 🤙
https://image.nostr.build/d42753999b9c71e608f695463cdf236b8577d59f989e3133190480931fdfe40f.jpg

2025-03-29 17:37:40 GMT

That income / house ratio 😮‍💨
#note1xg8…gmsa

2025-03-28 23:34:50 GMT

Folks at my Hidden Repression book event in DC did a “reverse signing” for me —
Attendees all signed a copy of my book with notes (the notes keep going for several pages) and gave it to me as a gift
Big love back to these folks! 🧡
https://image.nostr.build/abb2115d7148a7ae4d7eb8b488a01772e12d4d68f2377c1ce170dd00c71bed10.jpg

2025-03-28 17:09:27 GMT

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2025-03-28 16:06:22 GMT

No, not ready
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2025-03-26 04:11:31 GMT

A fairly remarkable short BBC profile of Gridless's work using Bitcoin mining to convert stranded or wasted energy to value
As we move forward, you'll slowly see more and more of this until eventually it is "mainstream" that Bitcoin is pretty much good and healthy for everyone and the planet
Every new transformative technology encounters years or even decades of pessimism... Bitcoin will be no different
https://m.primal.net/PtOQ.mp4

2025-03-23 22:57:13 GMT

🤡
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2025-03-23 00:44:12 GMT

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Yep!
Sale of signed copies goes live Monday
https://scarce.city/sales/a-trojan-horse-for-freedom-collected-works-by-alex-gladstein

2025-03-21 19:08:51 GMT

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Sales start at 250k sats and go up in increments of 15k sats

2025-03-21 19:04:53 GMT

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https://scarce.city/sales/a-trojan-horse-for-freedom-collected-works-by-alex-gladstein

2025-03-21 19:03:32 GMT

**For collectors of cool Bitcoin things**
I am excited to announce the limited release of an anthology of my books and essays
I have been working for a year with @npub1330…2k82 on these
He did an incredible job making each book a true work of art
We produced 100 total copies, and 50 signed copies will go on sale at Scarce City on Monday at 12pm PT
All proceeds will go to support open source devs via HRF’s Bitcoin Development Fund
Link below :)
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2025-03-21 14:04:13 GMT

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Learn more:
HRF.org/CISA
cisaresearch.org

2025-03-21 14:03:42 GMT

Thrilled that we could help Fabian Jahr publish his research on Cross-Input Signature Aggregation
I definitely would like to live in a world where privacy-protecting, cost-saving collaborative transactions are the default on-chain
Where the answer to "why did you coinjoin" is - because I'm not an idiot, I don't want to waste money
The incentive alignment is 👌
https://m.primal.net/PnqD.png https://m.primal.net/PnqI.png

2025-03-17 22:49:55 GMT

Open source >>>
https://m.primal.net/PjbW.jpg

2025-03-15 22:51:17 GMT

Truly a master work
An incredibly detailed and well reasoned case for buying altcoins
Every Bitcoiner would do well to read this book
https://image.nostr.build/5ddecfd125a5da30568c0d3d2470de8a65dfd30eb32a0c1d34fb3879be184333.jpg

2025-03-13 16:06:32 GMT

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Keep the cope coming

2025-03-13 16:00:19 GMT

This timeline is unreal 😂
POTUS taking a sweet cut of the world’s biggest shitcoin casino https://image.nostr.build/2c52cd3197d63050fe525c9bd5a6585e8a61d0f4e9c85becb0d5b29ca2378467.jpg

2025-03-13 15:42:08 GMT

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Yes Bitcoin is crashing from $1 to $83k

2025-03-13 14:13:07 GMT

Totally predictable
Left-wing groups are now getting debanked under Trump and need Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/5869e45deb5beef2ff7b3487bb6c4e4411c110882fe18d1482ed7a89afe63372.jpg

2025-03-12 18:51:18 GMT

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2025-03-11 05:13:22 GMT

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😂
True story: I went to high school with Sam

2025-03-11 04:23:17 GMT

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2025-03-11 00:06:52 GMT

https://image.nostr.build/340571364449745474569eea968ff60274c2f8d277f5150fda0e658650d1aba7.jpg

2025-03-10 22:56:02 GMT

No bearish posts on bitaxe block days, I don’t make the rules

2025-03-10 20:09:33 GMT

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Hope I can keep it coming!

2025-03-09 22:24:09 GMT

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Jackson Hole and Teton Village

2025-03-09 21:34:15 GMT

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Jackson Hole 🎿

2025-03-09 21:33:57 GMT

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🤝

2025-03-09 21:33:50 GMT

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Will do!

2025-03-09 19:16:18 GMT

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This image?
https://x.com/nopara73/status/1898375294890725479

2025-03-09 19:15:15 GMT

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Not bad, Sierras and East Coast can be way colder / windier

2025-03-09 19:03:54 GMT

What a place 🤠 https://image.nostr.build/cc0ef1f1e55ba7df3803d7bb779d95b1095116612f6be7493c8435b73c95905d.jpg

2025-03-08 18:10:30 GMT

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He didn’t talk about it

2025-03-08 17:57:29 GMT

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I tried to listen

2025-03-08 17:50:27 GMT

Met a (very clever and committed) miner who believes the lightning network is stealing his fees
I don’t agree but I learned a lot from our conversation
Good reminder that there are many, many kinds of Bitcoiners and that we need a strong marketplace of competing ideas to push everything forward

2025-03-06 20:58:49 GMT

🫡 #note1qxq…4vjv

2025-03-06 20:45:15 GMT

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🙏

2025-03-06 20:25:12 GMT

The SBR discussion is complex
A) We should want American citizens, families, communities, and businesses to hold BTC, not the state
But…
B) It is unrealistic to expect that Bitcoin grows into a global currency without government adoption
Government interest (as opposed to ignorance or dismissal or attacks) is absolutely a signal that Bitcoin is evolving, growing, and succeeding
If Bitcoin was dying no one would be talking about an SBR (obviously)
SBR advocacy *will probably* hasten the transition to the Bitcoin standard
But such advocacy is also fraught with traps of centralization and government shitcoining (as we are watching play out)
IMO it’s ok to not have a black and white take on this
Probably more important than SBR advocacy (which will happen anyway if NGU continues) is civil liberties advocacy to ensure Americans can use Bitcoin privately, self-custodially, and p2p and to ensure American companies and developers can build tools that enable this reality

2025-03-05 20:06:24 GMT

It just keeps getting more comical
Sadly this whitewashing of scams as “important technology” with an “official organization” will help the organizers rug millions of people and potentially all Americans through some kind of state-run scheme https://image.nostr.build/2cbcd257dfa21657292786683e9ef7511fd37a700caa12bb31a71c9ef8df203c.jpg

2025-03-05 19:37:40 GMT

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I mean. Are they really that different?
David attending is a plus

2025-03-05 19:36:28 GMT

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I think they also were massive investors in Solana before it 100x’d

2025-03-05 19:24:57 GMT

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Might lol

2025-03-05 19:13:13 GMT

🤮 https://image.nostr.build/2dd0084c6ab10d143204000e9b4a7f6890080dc1ff156fcf7dfd68f90764d190.jpg

2025-03-02 19:14:00 GMT

👍 https://image.nostr.build/cdc12e931e32801ae6654edcedab0fbf8b5f2316d0305ec208ce203c79efbe40.jpg

2025-03-02 15:30:40 GMT

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😂

2025-03-02 15:26:43 GMT

The creator of Solana, ladies and gentlemen https://image.nostr.build/3928e4aa8de66d8c914027270d31ff6b3db8468cba0e9dd72870f75b3e11011e.jpg

2025-02-28 23:04:38 GMT

The benevolent king quiets the unruly crowds https://image.nostr.build/4abae4d7251c2e08db1192b58f11e5ad85b025b7ba9236c49493eff08d855639.jpg

2025-02-28 21:39:53 GMT

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Presidio is nicely insulated from most of that

2025-02-28 18:50:45 GMT

SF is BACK
Was an honor and a privilege to help open up the magical Presidio Bitcoin space
You need to visit 👌 https://image.nostr.build/29c42d8f5936148cc6fc1f713910e6d17991a89d156335bae513653d70aef11f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/013ce19ad452f307962dd8d4049da2923cf638b2abb956368f88463156546635.jpg

2025-02-23 20:20:47 GMT

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Bitcoin is hope :)

2025-02-23 15:36:08 GMT

Would be interesting to compare the answers from different LLMs to this question
Deepseek for instance
Grok’s answer here I think in some part shows that the truth will eventually overcome fiat economist nonsense https://image.nostr.build/9787c67c0450e67d48134e21a4d42a8a0557fff39c6909050ccc618bfb831b05.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6a1bc0d68b0bb6ce886b6d587d717b541f965c395f540ebf9b77b8918647b586.jpg https://image.nostr.build/acc498fa4284fcb54adeec114fc019dfd7312c9377a014e77e82a89b7ff7201c.jpg

2025-02-22 04:03:48 GMT

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Radiohead is tops for me
Nine inch nails
My morning jacket
Wilco
Sigur Ros
M83
LCD Soundsystem
Probably my other favorite live acts
I also saw daft punk alive tour which was unreal

2025-02-22 02:19:36 GMT

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Probably hadn’t heard most of the album in 20+ years and I know all the songs 😂

2025-02-22 00:08:58 GMT

A classic
Pretty much every track is a banger https://image.nostr.build/892af5d558d83f36e2d4dd1ba537808a17e9b431f0828c22c2744dc158d91671.jpg

2025-02-21 21:54:07 GMT

So grateful that humans all over the world find value in my work and wish to translate it to so many different languages 🙏 https://image.nostr.build/5a75169195565272ddcca9b602df06bf0e765e302126cfc3cd72345a54eefded.jpg

2025-02-21 04:54:50 GMT

Awesome to see Nostr spread in Iran, a place where an unstoppable human communication and coordination protocol is especially needed #note1dwy…2y6l

2025-02-18 20:25:20 GMT

Saw this in a newsletter that I occasionally read
This is the part where cope melts to acceptance https://image.nostr.build/685d886b836d2a291761968cadbc1e2b1db8623756e31f0261d297ac9f9c8fb4.jpg

2025-02-18 07:23:54 GMT

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Any but I love winter

2025-02-18 06:52:30 GMT

The Eastern Sierras are just one of the most spectacular places in the world
You can drive for hours on the 395 from Mono Lake down into the Mojave Desert and your jaw drops the entire time https://image.nostr.build/9fd8ac1f7f145afe3620df37b75976d5a34a6fd423d5dc99d65467f80f23815f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/035239c55f052118635a93a925acec440c9fee6b296205e36d563b688aed9d5a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6bbf930ef6c7aaac5e1c03b7a631b9fc0484176bba17ccbdd4dc84942caf1603.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b5077065ac4c8836b3d98570cdb5eee4277f7673e6184eb2aef417dd65fa79da.jpg

2025-02-15 21:21:15 GMT

I met Milei’s chief advisor a few months ago when I visited Buenos Aires, it turns out he was a long-time friend of one of my dear friends
He boasted about being a former central banker and a fiat economist, was incredibly arrogant, and despised Bitcoin
For the sake of Argentina I hope Milei finds a new inner circle

2025-02-15 15:26:30 GMT

gm ☀️ https://image.nostr.build/52b36ff0c48672738863765ef039210e98fdeada22d1a57b0d56c8361f838f89.jpg

2025-02-15 15:06:33 GMT

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https://x.com/krugermacro/status/1890707625932664986

2025-02-15 15:06:02 GMT

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https://x.com/krugermacro/status/1890707625932664986

2025-02-15 02:40:41 GMT

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Never

2025-02-15 01:12:43 GMT

Becoming pretty clear that the Milei memecoin is not a hack…
Brutal

2025-02-14 15:36:10 GMT

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It’s not a narrative
Socialism is bad
So is colonialism

2025-02-14 15:07:39 GMT

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So fun, thank you!

2025-02-14 06:00:42 GMT

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Everything is an uphill battle
But we’re in it to win it ⚔️

2025-02-14 05:59:37 GMT

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I like global majority countries

2025-02-14 05:59:20 GMT

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It’s an authoritarian city state… hardly something most countries can copy

2025-02-13 22:23:40 GMT

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I think Bitcoin plays a role
One currency standard as opposed to a caste system with 180 kinds reduces the ability to squeeze and trap people
The debt trap only works because you have global dollar standard but people in poorer countries earning a far worse currency
Also ability to convert energy reserves directly and permissionlessly to reserve currency instead of only being able to obtain it via borrowing or trade or investment is huge

2025-02-13 22:21:42 GMT

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Why do you think they lack free markets

2025-02-13 20:18:21 GMT

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My sense is if the global economy is more open and united and collaborative, a lot of this is healed
Bitcoin will play a role here ✌️

2025-02-13 20:16:34 GMT

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What do you think my house is? I am an American

2025-02-13 18:35:31 GMT

One of the biggest questions of our time:
Can we help fix this? https://video.nostr.build/99ccdf9d88390ea582c8f74470c0a9aa1018344ac22a7e9bb815d9a3432fe948.mp4

2025-02-12 17:11:38 GMT

How wild is it that most people on earth just take for granted that money is political and can be turned on and off at the whims of a politician
Imagine the collateral damage here for people just trying to support their families
Make no mistake, advancing open neutral money for the world is one of the most important things we can do https://image.nostr.build/0a4df54472522a5ed994c8fede9a1587299179141f9aecfc73c05a593e58b21b.jpg

2025-02-12 05:22:18 GMT

This recent letter from the World Bank President to POTUS helps clarify why “development” is a business and why the goal isn’t to help poor countries, but to help ourselves https://image.nostr.build/c17881f5c3d8773c7dc4b64c8ea5f3c019a3202d6e7ae1bbe5c4c77a168ef42d.jpg

2025-02-11 22:39:09 GMT

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Primal