Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡

Incredible to have the opposition leader and rightful president of Mozambique Venâncio Mondlane here at @OsloFF

He reminds us that the part of his country richest in natural resources is the poorest and most violent

A tragedy that he calls for our support to help him fix

Speechless after extraordinary @OsloFF talks by Kim Yumi, who fled N. Korea two years ago with her family in a daring ocean escape, and Azza Abo Rebieh, a Syrian artist who told the story of her country’s repression and revolution in vivid poetry

In awe of our fellow humans 🙏

Superb opening @OsloFF keynote by @MariaSTsehai

Exposing how the Tanzanian regime greenwashes its human rights violations

Standing up for free speech despite being abducted and harassed

What an inspiration 💪

Absolutely crazy

Hundreds of millions of people saw their wage and savings technology lose 15%, 30%, 50%, 75%, even 90% (!) of its value last year

Fiat is broken, time for a Plan ₿

A leaderless decentralized cypherpunk open source software project that secures property rights and free speech for anyone and destroys central banking and financial censorship has just eclipsed the corporate behemoth Amazon in market cap

4 left to go… ✌️

I know the amounts are relatively small in today’s terms but it is SO MUCH better to debate someone over on nostr where random folks just zap you real actual sats throughout the argument 😂 🙏

You think all the folks buying Steak n Shake are reporting cap gains stuff?

Not a chance

Law will follow custom 🫡

Pakistan's regime is trying to centralize control over Balochistan's mineral resources:

https://thediplomat.com/2025/04/why-the-balochistan-mines-and-minerals-act-was-enacted-swiftly-and-silently/

Two charts that explain a lot...

Thrilled to share the speakers for our "Freedom Tech" track taking place on May 28 at @OsloFF

We'll be focusing on how dictators are using technology to repress and censor and surveil... and how citizens are resisting and liberating each other with open-source tech ranging from VPNs to Bitcoin to nostr to ecash ✌️

WIRED not mincing words 😂

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Truly remarkable that a decentralized, leaderless, open-source, censorship-resistant, p2p, teleporting, programmable currency accessible to anyone (no paperwork required) is this high up on this list…

On its way to #1 ✌️

Two things:

1) This *was* true in 1944, when the country with the most analog sound money was able to forcibly implement its preferred monetary system

2) It isn’t necessarily true in a Bitcoin future, where having “the most” BTC doesn’t simply mean you can change the rules

Chart to ponder…

Interesting new Nature study on the economics of empire

The more unequal the empire, (predictably), the more social unrest and instability

The Aztecs were the most extractive, followed by the Han, the Romans, and then the Americans

Wild

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Beautiful new print edition of @BitcoinMagazine

Amazing to see a bitaxe on the cover and super grateful to have one of my essays included 🙏

It’s packed with great stuff

Grab a copy if you can!

"Activists love bitcoin"

"Money is the foundation of our struggle for freedom"

"We use bitcoin to counter the system that has kept us in bondage"

🔥 profile of @HRF's panel at @MIT's Bitcoin Expo