Read_900 – A Flood of Censorship, Inflation & CBDCs, and an Ark [FFR 80-86]
Around the world, Bitcoin is colliding with power. Russia tracks miners, Pakistan builds a digital rupee, and activists quietly test new tools for freedom. In this episode I unpack the latest Financial Freedom Report, explore breakthroughs like Block’s modular “Proto Rig” and the ARK protocol, and ask: can these innovations keep Bitcoin uncensorable?
Check out the original articles over at HRF’s Financial Freedom Report blog page (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2v8d4kvt)
Links Mentioned
Chat_135 – Do One Thing and Do it Right with Mauricio Di Bartolomeo (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2xhvrk7d)
Block Unveils Proto Rig and Proto Fleet, Marking a New Era in Bitcoin Mining (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3kvj7swc)
Floresta full node implementation (Link: https://docs.getfloresta.sh/floresta/)
Eric 17192799 on X (developer behind Florista) (Link: https://x.com/Erik17192799)
Ginger Wallet with CoinJoin integration (Link: https://docs.gingerwallet.io/using-ginger/coinjoin/)
Everything Powered by Ark – Behind the Bitcoin Scenes at The Baltic Honey Badger 2025 (Link: https://tinyurl.com/bdeyxfzk)
ARK Labs Riga rewind Twitter thread (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yzh8fvr2)
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HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF’s Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter)
OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum is a global human rights event by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), uniting voices from activism, journalism, tech, and beyond. Through powerful stories and collaboration, OFF advances freedom and human potential worldwide. Join us next June. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/)
Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. Don’t forget to find me on my Pubky ID here: pk:5d7thwzkxx5mz6gk1f19wfyykr6nrwzaxri3io7ahejg1z74qngo. (Link: https://pubky.org)
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Read_899 – USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown
“Now that USDT and Bitcoin are natively interoperable on lightning, the circle has gained tangents. With USDT on lightning, each party to a payment, the payer and the recipient, can choose whether to use Bitcoin or Tether on their own end, and neither depends on the other’s decision. A customer can pay in Bitcoin and the merchant can receive USDT, or the customer can pay in USDT and the merchant can receive Bitcoin. Or they can both use the same asset, it doesn’t matter. Once both assets are native to lightning, they become automatically, frictionlessly, interchangeable.”~ Roy Sheinfeld
Tether on Lightning isn’t just another technical upgrade — it could reshape how billions of dollars move across the globe. I dive into Roy Sheinfeld’s piece exploring why this integration could supercharge adoption, how it threatens existing rails, and what regulatory and technical unknowns might stand in the way. The real question: does this make Bitcoin stronger, or more fragile?
Check out the original article: USDT on Lightning: the Good, the Bad, and the Unknown (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2uh9mzb6)
Links Mentioned
Misty Breez Wallet (Link: https://breez.technology/misty/)
Breez SDK (Link: https://breez.technology/sdk/)
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Ledn: Need fiat but don’t want to sell your Bitcoin? Ledn offers secure, Bitcoin-backed loans with no credit checks, flexible repayment, and fast turnaround—often within 24 hours. With $10B+ in loans across 100+ countries and transparent Proof of Reserves, Ledn is a trusted option for unlocking liquidity without giving up your Bitcoin. (Link: https://learn.ledn.io/audible)
HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF’s Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter)
OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum is a global human rights event by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), uniting voices from activism, journalism, tech, and beyond. Through powerful stories and collaboration, OFF advances freedom and human potential worldwide. Join us next June. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/)
Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. Don’t forget to find me on my Pubky ID here: pk:5d7thwzkxx5mz6gk1f19wfyykr6nrwzaxri3io7ahejg1z74qngo. (Link: https://pubky.org)
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Read_898 – How to Position for the Bitcoin Boom
The institutional era of Bitcoin has begun, and will make this likely one of the most significant and important bull runs in Bitcoin’s history. We are diving into the always excellent report from Adamant Research and Tuur Demeester, on the fundamentals of the bitcoin market, where things are likely to go, what major undercurrents can minimize or reinforce this cycle, and how to practically invest into the bitcoin boom in the coming years.
This one is not to be missed for those who want to step back and look at the big picture with a sober and honest look at our changing world and the financial and political realities in a time of great transition. How to protect yourself, and how to set yourself up for the investment opportunity of a lifetime.
Check out the original article: How to Position for the Bitcoin Boom (Link: https://tinyurl.com/2uh9mzb6)
Links Mentioned
Bitcoin & MSTR COLLAPSING — Bull Run Already OVER? | Tuur Demeester, Guy Swann, Pete Evans (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1C5kqOsFkk)
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HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF’s Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter)
OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum is a global human rights event by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), uniting voices from activism, journalism, tech, and beyond. Through powerful stories and collaboration, OFF advances freedom and human potential worldwide. Join us next June. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/)
Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. Don’t forget to find me on my Pubky ID here: pk:5d7thwzkxx5mz6gk1f19wfyykr6nrwzaxri3io7ahejg1z74qngo. (Link: https://pubky.org)
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Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann)
Read_897 – The Great Vanishing of Information
“In my eyes, one of the most common playbooks used by the ruling class is to identify a life-essential resource everyone is using, introduce a new and quote, “better version” of it, and widely promote that new option until the old one is completely displaced.And then once a market monopoly is established, tighten the screws until the replacement is far worse than what preceded it. But there is no longer any real alternative to it. This has happened in agriculture, education, transportation, medicine, and most recently, social media.” — A Midwestern Docter
We grew up thinking “the internet is forever.” But what happens when links die, archives vanish, and yesterday’s truth is memory-holed? In this episode, I explore The Great Vanishing of Information and share my thoughts on why so much gets lost — and how Bitcoin, timestamps, and decentralized tools might be the only way to preserve history.
Check out the original article: The Great Vanishing of Information (Link: https://www.midwesterndoctor.com/p/the-great-vanishing-of-information)
Links Mentioned
Pay with Moon – for creating limited prepaid cards to test subscriptions (Link: https://paywithmoon.com/)
The Bitcoin Company – another option for prepaid cards and privacy purchases (Link: https://thebitcoincompany.com/)
OpenTimestamps.org – timestamping service using Bitcoin (Link: https://opentimestamps.org/)
Simple Proof – project for voting records and timestamp verification (Link: https://www.simpleproof.com/)
yt-dlp – command-line tool for downloading YouTube content (Link: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp)
DownloadHelper – for saving media (Link: https://www.downloadhelper.net/)
Nostr – decentralized social protocol (Link: https://nostr.how/)
Pears Peer-to-Peer stack (Link: https://pears.com/)
Wayback Machine – internet archive for deleted/old websites (Link: https://waybackmachine.it.com/)
Sci-Hub – access to scientific papers (Link: https://sci-hub.st/)
ResearchGate – for academic paper PDFs (Link: https://www.researchgate.net/)
whale.to (Link: http://whale.to/)
educate-yourself.org (Link: https://educate-yourself.org/)
rexresearch.com (Link: https://rexresearch.com/)
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Read_896 – Inalienable Property Rights
“Thanks to Bitcoin anyone can use the asymmetric defenses of cryptography to their economic advantage. A symmetry is at the heart of Bitcoin security. Hard to guess. Easy to verify. Cooperation is rewarded. Conflict is not. Your keys are private. The ledger is public. Defense is cheap. Disruption is incredibly costly.It is the asymmetry and cost that gives rise to the crypto economical game theory of Bitcoin. Peaceful and voluntary cooperation. Mutually assured preservation. Sovereignty through cryptography.”~ Dergigi
Bitcoin is more than software – it’s a living, endless game of words, math, and values. In this piece from Dergigi, we explore why free speech, property rights, and sound money are inseparable, and how Bitcoin uses one to create and enforce the others. If you missed this read when it first came out, don’t miss it this time around.
Check out the original article: Inalienable Property Rights (Link: https://tinyurl.com/5ahjcv6x)
Links Mentioned
Cryptosovereignty by Erik Cason (Link: https://tinyurl.com/48ab5uzk)
CRYPTOECONOMICS by Eric Voskuil (Link: https://voskuil.org/cryptoeconomics/)
Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined by Friedrich A. Hayek (Link: https://tinyurl.com/59ra395s)
Proof of Work, a pictorial essay by Adam Gibson (Link: https://tinyurl.com/4p79e7wp)
THE LAW by Frédéric Bastiat (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3t565fk7)
Shelling Out by Nick Szabo (Link: https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/shelling-out/)
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HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF’s Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter)
OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum is a global human rights event by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), uniting voices from activism, journalism, tech, and beyond. Through powerful stories and collaboration, OFF advances freedom and human potential worldwide. Join us next June. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/)
Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. Don’t forget to find me on my Pubky ID here: pk:5d7thwzkxx5mz6gk1f19wfyykr6nrwzaxri3io7ahejg1z74qngo. (Link: https://pubky.org)
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Read_895 – And Then They Fight You [FFR82]
When authoritarian regimes double down on financial surveillance and criminalize basic crypto activity, can new freedom tech offer a lifeline—or is the deck still stacked against dissent, privacy, and financial autonomy? We dive into the latest Financial Freedom Report, unraveling Hungary’s draconian digital asset laws, El Salvador’s murky Bitcoin policies, and cutting-edge tools like Bitchat and Alby Hub. What happens when governments tighten the screws—can Bitcoin’s freedom stack keep pace?
Check out the original article: HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #82 (Link: https://hrf.org/latest/hrfs-weekly-financial-freedom-report-82/)
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HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF’s Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter)
OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum is a global human rights event by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), uniting voices from activism, journalism, tech, and beyond. Through powerful stories and collaboration, OFF advances freedom and human potential worldwide. Join us next June. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/)
Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. Don’t forget to find me on my Pubky ID here: pk:5d7thwzkxx5mz6gk1f19wfyykr6nrwzaxri3io7ahejg1z74qngo. (Link: https://pubky.org)
Chroma: Chroma is dedicated to advancing human performance and well-being through cutting-edge light therapy devices and performance eyewear. Their mission is to enhance physical and mental health, unlocking peak human health, cognitive function, and physical performance. Get 10% off your order with the code BITCOINAUDIBLE. (Link: https://getchroma.co/?ref=BitcoinAudible)
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Guy on X (Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann)
Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann)
Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann)
Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann)
Bitcoin Audible on X (Link: https://twitter.com/BitcoinAudible)
The Guy Swann Network Broadcast Room on Keet (Link: https://tinyurl.com/3na6v839)
Read_894 – The parental dead end of consent morality
“A myopic focus on personal freedom — the nights out, the “me time”, the money saved — is a spiritual mirage: You think you want the paradise of nothing ever being asked of you, but it turns out to be the hell of nobody ever needing you.”~ David Heinemeier Hansson
What if the relentless pursuit of personal freedom is leading us to a deeper kind of emptiness? Today we dive into David Heinemeier Hansson’s short but engaging essay on “consent morality” and the modern crisis of meaning, asking: Are we neglecting the richness of responsibility, family, and higher values in favor of allowing ourselves to accept the ridiculous notion that as long as we aren’t hurting anyone, all ways of living are equal. And worse, that to even suggest otherwise, that there is a “better” way to live, makes one a bigot. Instead of cowering from the challenge, let’s address it directly.
Check out the original article: The parental dead end of consent morality (Link: https://tinyurl.com/yfh5rxd9)
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HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF’s Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter)
OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum is a global human rights event by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF), uniting voices from activism, journalism, tech, and beyond. Through powerful stories and collaboration, OFF advances freedom and human potential worldwide. Join us next June. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/)
Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. Don’t forget to find me on my Pubky ID here: pk:5d7thwzkxx5mz6gk1f19wfyykr6nrwzaxri3io7ahejg1z74qngo. (Link: https://pubky.org)
Chroma: Chroma is dedicated to advancing human performance and well-being through cutting-edge light therapy devices and performance eyewear. Their mission is to enhance physical and mental health, unlocking peak human health, cognitive function, and physical performance. Get 10% off your order with the code BITCOINAUDIBLE. (Link: https://getchroma.co/?ref=BitcoinAudible)
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Guy on Nostr (Link: http://tinyurl.com/2xc96ney)
Guy on X (Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann)
Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann)
Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@theguyswann)
Guy on YouTube (Link: https://www.youtube.com/@theguyswann)
Read_893 – Building a Local Network with your Neighbors
“Privacy is not a bunker. It’s not cutting every wire, ghosting every friend, and hoping the grid forgets you exist. That’s fantasy. Romanticized exile for people who don’t understand surveillance capitalism. The truth is simpler and harder.”~ GHOST
What if privacy isn’t about isolation—but about trust? Today we dig into a short but powerful perspective by _Ghost_ that flips the script on the often imagined but false idea of a “romanticized exile.” Where sovereignty is somehow manifest by living isolated from society, trusting nothing and no one. Instead we explore why building small, local, high-trust networks—digital or physical—isn’t just practical, it’s essential. And how a handful of dedicated people can change the world, one shared tool at a time.
Check out the original article Building a Local Network with your Neighbors(WITHOUT BEING WEIRD ABOUT IT). (Link: https://untraceabledigitaldissident.com/building-a-local-network-with-your-neighbors/)
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HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF’s Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter)
OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is an international human rights conference series hosted and produced by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF). Bringing together the world’s most engaging human rights advocates, journalists, artists, tech entrepreneurs, and world leaders, we aim to share their stories and brainstorm ways to expand freedom and unleash human potential across the globe. Don’t miss this year’s Oslo Freedom Forum in May. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/event/oslo-freedom-forum-2025/)
Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. Don’t forget to find me on my Pubky ID here: pk:5d7thwzkxx5mz6gk1f19wfyykr6nrwzaxri3io7ahejg1z74qngo. (Link: https://pubky.org)
Chroma: Chroma is dedicated to advancing human performance and well-being through cutting-edge light therapy devices and performance eyewear. Their mission is to enhance physical and mental health, unlocking peak human health, cognitive function, and physical performance. Get 10% off your order with the code BITCOINAUDIBLE. (Link: https://getchroma.co/?ref=BitcoinAudible)
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Guy on X (Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann)
Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.in…
Read_892 – Not ECDSA. Not Schnorr. Meet DahLIAS.
Human innovation knows no limits, and our first assumptions regarding what is possible with the tools at our disposal, are almost invariably found to be wrong. Today we dive into Kiara Bickers’ piece on DahLIAS, a groundbreaking new signature scheme that could make massive gains in efficiency and privacy possible without changing Bitcoin’s core cryptographic curve. Is this the missing piece that finally aligns privacy with economic incentive? And if it is, what will it take to get it into Bitcoin?
Check out the original article Not ECDSA. Not Schnorr. Meet DahLIAS. (Link: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/not-ecdsa-not-schnorr-meet-dahlias)
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Read_887 – A Half Baked Thesis on Stablecoins by Alan Farrington – Highly recommended for further insight into Lightning and stablecoin intersection (Link: https://fountain.fm/episode/DsJfhL0gIuqJMeg4HSFc)
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HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF’s Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter)
OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is an international human rights conference series hosted and produced by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF). Bringing together the world’s most engaging human rights advocates, journalists, artists, tech entrepreneurs, and world leaders, we aim to share their stories and brainstorm ways to expand freedom and unleash human potential across the globe. Don’t miss this year’s Oslo Freedom Forum in May. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/event/oslo-freedom-forum-2025/)
Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. Don’t forget to find me on my Pubky ID here: pk:5d7thwzkxx5mz6gk1f19wfyykr6nrwzaxri3io7ahejg1z74qngo. (Link: https://pubky.org)
Chroma: Chroma is dedicated to advancing human performance and well-being through cutting-edge light therapy devices and performance eyewear. Their mission is to enhance physical and mental health, unlocking peak human health, cognitive function, and physical performance. Get 10% off your order with the code BITCOINAUDIBLE. (Link: https://getchroma.co/?ref=BitcoinAudible)
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Guy on X (Link: https://twitter.com/theguyswann)
Guy on Instagram (Link: https://www.instagram.com/theguyswann)
Guy on TikTok (Link: https://www.tiktok.com/@thegu…
Read_891 – The Rise of Bitcoin Stocks and Bonds
“In order for something to be used as ubiquitous money, the spender has to already have it, and the recipient has to want to hold it. Notably, people usually want to receive more of what they already have. After all, if a potential recipient wanted to hold it, they likely would have already bought some. So, if a new type of ubiquitous money were to arise, the majority of people would likely first encounter it as an investment.”~ Lyn Alden
If Bitcoin is freedom money, what happens when corporations and governments start buying it? Is it captured—or is that exactly what success looks like?
Lyn Alden’s new piece lays out the full arc of Bitcoin’s monetization path, and I dig into her framing of situational vs. ubiquitous money. We talk leverage, ETFs, treasury strategies, and how Bitcoin is infiltrating the legacy financial system not despite its cypherpunk roots—but because of them.
Check out the original article The Rise of Bitcoin Stocks and Bonds (Link: https://www.lynalden.com/bitcoin-stocks-and-bonds/)
Mentioned Links and Resources:
Read_471 – The Speculative Attack [Pierre Rochard] (Link: https://tinyurl.com/479skb4c)
Reboot – Wittgenstein’s Money [Allen Farrington] (Link: https://tinyurl.com/34h7d7x9)
Read_626 – Digital Alchemy, A Post-Mortem of the Crypto Crash [Lyn Alden] (Link: https://tinyurl.com/463z4j3r)
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HRF: The Human Rights Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that promotes and protects human rights globally, with a focus on closed societies. Subscribe to HRF’s Financial Freedom Newsletter today. (Link: https://mailchi.mp/hrf.org/financial-freedom-newsletter)
OFF: The Oslo Freedom Forum (OFF) is an international human rights conference series hosted and produced by the Human Rights Foundation (HRF). Bringing together the world’s most engaging human rights advocates, journalists, artists, tech entrepreneurs, and world leaders, we aim to share their stories and brainstorm ways to expand freedom and unleash human potential across the globe. Don’t miss this year’s Oslo Freedom Forum in May. (Link: https://oslofreedomforum.com/event/oslo-freedom-forum-2025/)
Pubky: Pubky is building the next web, a decentralized system designed to put control back in your hands. Escape censorship, algorithmic manipulation, and walled gardens by owning your identity and data. Explore the Pubky web and become the algorithm today. Don’t forget to find me on my Pubky ID here: pk:5d7thwzkxx5mz6gk1f19wfyykr6nrwzaxri3io7ahejg1z74qngo. (Link: https://pubky.org)
Chroma: Chroma is dedicated to advancing human performance and well-being through cutting-edge light therapy devices and performance eyewear. Their mission is to enhance physical and mental health, unlocking peak human health, cognitive function, and physical performance. Get 10% off your order with the code BITCOINAUDIBLE. (Link: https://getchroma.co/?ref=BitcoinAudible)
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Read_890 – Executed For a Twitter Post… [FFR77]
Everyday the world is becoming more connected, but there are consequences to this at every level of society, and its been made perfectly clear, that the powers that be will not relinquish control of the narrative without a fight. Today we are diving into the HRF’s Financial Freedom Report #77, exploring crackdowns on speech from El Salvador to Saudi Arabia, digital repression in Cuba and Iran, and the pivotal role that decentralized technologies like Bitcoin, Nostr, Pubky, the Pear stack, and others can play in the fight for liberty, in a world where you can be executed for what you posted on Twitter. For many people, the problem is far more real than just having an account suspended or losing followers. So let’s take a look…
Check out the original article in HRF’s Weekly Financial Freedom Report #77 (Link: https://hrf.org/latest/hrfs-weekly-financial-freedom-report-77/)
Mentioned Links and Resources:
The Signal & HRF Joint Publication – Out of Control (Link: https://hrf.org/latest/introducing-out-of-control/)
Why is Bitcoin Mining Even a Thing? (Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngp5tNxX22k)
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Read_889 – Bitcoin for Engineers – Solving Real, Not Theoretical Problems
Today we dive into a piece by Brunswick that makes it crystal clear why characteristics even claimed to be major defects or Bitcoin’s design – from its “ossification” to its limited throughput – aren’t defects as often claimed, but deliberate and essential characteristics for building the world’s monetary foundation. Can a protocol that prioritizes integrity over speed truly solve the fundamental problems of global finance that have plagued nations for centuries? And why do so many engineers miss the crucial difference between building applications and building the base layer that everything else depends on?
Check out the original article: Bitcoin for Engineers: Why Bitcoin’s Design Solves Real Problems, Not Just Theoretical Ones (Link: https://tinyurl.com/mrbzjums)
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“Why is Bitcoin Mining Even a Thing?” – Rumble (Link: https://tinyurl.com/ymj882p8) YouTube (Link: https://tinyurl.com/5n7b3tmw)
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