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Chief Strategy Officer: @HRF + @OsloFF / Author: / Nostr: npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu

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1Aug 6, '24The media, governments, and the establishment continue to say Bitcoin is useless Unfortunately for them, I packed my Nashville keynote with dozens of specific Bitcoin use cases fro20.7×844k4k1.1k3k
2Mar 24, '23Something that blew my mind when I first learned it: Bitcoin's mining difficulty is updated every 2,016 blocks... as in, 6102 backwards Also Satoshi chose as a birthday April 5, sa14.3×582k2.3k611234
3Apr 19, '24Today HRF launches the Finney Freedom Prize to honor Hal Finney, a champion of privacy, open-source software, and electronic cash The 1 BTC award celebrates those who do the most f13.4×549k2k526231
4Jan 24, '24Thrilled to share my new essay "Stranded: How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy and Expanding Financial Freedom in Africa" I was profoundly moved by what I saw on a trip to Kenya + M11.8×482k1.9k648637
5Jul 18, '25If you invested $10k into XRP on January 4, 2018, 7.5 years ago, you’d have… about $10k. Not even outpacing inflation. If you invested $10k in BTC on the same day, you’d have $75k 10.8×440k4.4k364252
6Nov 12, '25Wait, so even people without Bitcoin can pay in Bitcoin? Merchant adoption, preference, and eventually demand for Bitcoin is what will truly transcend Gresham’s Law and drive full-9.9×406k2.2k263195
7Jun 2, '23Still one of the greatest Bitcoin tweets of all time Ziya the 🐐6.8×279k3.7k49873
8Nov 20, '24Read each word very slowly: “Bhutan has mined over $1 billion worth of bitcoin using its previously stranded hydropower resources”6.4×260k3.1k502263
9Jan 15, '24“We’ve gradually gotten used to this environment where we can’t pay another person unless there is a corporation involved” Watch Rogan’s sinking realization when Andreas explains t6.3×259k3k802758
10Mar 4, '24Let's be honest A lot of people did not expect Bitcoin to get back to ATH territory with Fed Funds at 5.33% and the average mortgage rate at 7.27% It was a speculative, zero-intere5.1×210k3.8k377139
11Mar 4, '25I feel like the fact that the IMF is forcing El Salvador to stop its Bitcoin adoption should be bigger news Zero coverage in the mainstream economic media but think of the simple i4.8×197k3.3k554203
12Mar 5, '25And a new enemy of Bitcoin is born The “National Cryptocurrency Association”4.5×185k2.2k17851
13Jun 24, '20Why Bitcoin matters for human rights, in two minutes.3.8×04.2k2.1k652
14Jun 23, '211/ My essay "Fighting Monetary Colonialism with Open Source Code" is live. France controls 15 African nations and 180M+ people through the CFA franc currency. The details are shock3.8×04.2k1.7k807
15Jul 14, '25Who’s going to tell him that that’s the thesis?3.5×144k3.1k10366
16Sep 24, '21Tesla buys Bitcoin. El Salvador adopts Bitcoin. Twitter adds Bitcoin. Central banks attack Bitcoin. 200M users, growing faster than the internet. And yet, most people in finance an3.4×06.9k1.1k64
17Jun 26, '24Germany selling large amounts of Bitcoin for euros *that it can print* will go right up there with ditching nuclear power in exchange for relying on Putin for fuel as biggest self-3.2×131k2k27461
18Nov 23, '22Run a ponzi, steal billions, and then -- wait for it -- headline a NYT conference with the people who run Wall Street, Silicon Valley, and the global dollar system 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡3.1×05.2k1.2k140
19Jun 5, '21Historic moment. El Salvador on track to become the first country to accept Bitcoin as legal tender and to hold Bitcoin as a reserve asset. The future is wide open. @JackMallers is3.1×05.8k1.1k36
20Apr 23, '23Senator Warren: Emissions from open source incorruptible money available to billions worldwide: bad Emissions from private jets: totally fine 🤡3.0×124k2k27328
21Apr 5, '21Satoshi Nakamoto listed their birthday as April 5, 1975 If you are wondering what animated them to create Bitcoin: April 5 = FDR signed order 6102 making it illegal for Americans t3.0×05.5k1.1k237
22Jun 9, '21So many are just completely missing the historical importance of what is happening in El Salvador. The govt could have pushed a surveillance and control coin, a civil liberties-str2.9×06.1k87050
23Mar 4, '24It's increasingly likely that governments will protect and promote KYC'd Bitcoin, custodied BTC, and regulated Bitcoin securities While at the same time discouraging or even prosec2.9×117k2.1k28948
24Oct 26, '21With Brazil now experiencing double-digit inflation, we're now at more than 1.4 billion people on earth living under double, triple, or quadruple digit inflation: -🇵🇰 226M -🇧🇷 2.8×04.5k1.1k192
25Apr 8, '22WATCH: Check Your Financial Privilege A new @HRF short animated film 🎥 Feat. @ireaderinokun @SudanHODL @KalKassa 🇳🇬 🇸🇩 🇪🇹 🌍 ⚡️2.8×03.2k1.4k423
26Jan 13, '22I agree with @Fidelity, of course, but still astonishing to read this on Bitcoin adoption game theory in such a mainstream financial report:2.8×04.8k1.1k198
27Sep 2, '21Flawless experience using @muun here in El Zonte to buy all sorts of things with Bitcoin 👌 If you visit, make sure to stop by for a coffee with Karla, an excellent barista. You ca2.8×04.9k806125
29May 5, '211/ It is *really important* to understand that Bitcoin is very different from Dogecoin. Some are making jokes comparing the two, especially as Doge has outperformed BTC + ETH this 2.5×03.2k850718
30Apr 30, '211/ While doing research for my essay on the negative externalities of the petrodollar, I learned a huge amount. Much of it was shocking or surprising. Here's a thread with a few of2.4×02.4k8561k
31Dec 5, '24BREAKING: 1 USD crashes below 1,000 sats2.1×87k2.5k26939
32Jun 20, '22Bitcoin: The People Strike Back2.1×04.3k63847
33Mar 12, '22This is an encyclopedic and must-read essay from @LynAldenContact about the nature and politics of money. Here are some highlights 🧵2.1×02.1k6091.2k
34Sep 4, '21Critics: "Bitcoin has no use case" Ok, here's me in a small village in Central America quickly transforming Bitcoin from my open-source, non-custodial, non-KYC mobile wallet into a1.9×03.2k724133
35Nov 30, '221/ My essay "Structural Adjustment: How the IMF and World Bank Repress Poor Countries and Funnel Their Resources to Rich Ones" is now live The Bank and Fund claim to help poor coun1.9×01.9k777598
36Sep 13, '21“The plan is for Ukraine to make Bitcoin legal tender by the start of 2023 and create a ‘duel-currency country’ where Bitcoin sits alongside the fiat hryvnia before potentially bei1.9×03.5k62561
37Sep 8, '21The Ukrainian parliament has passed a law to legalize Bitcoin 🇺🇦1.9×03.5k66634
38Sep 5, '21Apparently people in Brazil and all over the world are planning to convert $30 worth of their local fiat into BTC this Tuesday September 7th to commemorate El Salvador’s law making1.8×03.2k67135
39Mar 19, '21In case it wasn’t obvious to you yet, here’s the head of the Bank of International Settlements clarifying that the difference between cash and CBDCs is that the former provides pri1.8×02.1k738181
40May 23, '22Just visited Norwegian parliament to educate top government officials about the global human rights and humanitarian impact of Bitcoin. Was an easy job with this Avengers-level cre1.7×03.5k41848
41Mar 10, '221/ I'm thrilled to announce the publication of my new book: CHECK YOUR FINANCIAL PRIVILEGE It's a collection of two years of reporting on financial repression, monetary history, an1.7×02.8k463178
42Oct 9, '22Brilliant explanation of why Bitcoin is so revolutionary by Julian Assange in 2014 🎯1.7×02.2k742448
43Nov 15, '22The fact that the NYT protects and refuses to call SBF out as a scammer *even today* while they continue to attack Bitcoin as bad, criminal, destructive, etc tells you all you need1.7×03.4k52754
44Oct 20, '21At approximately $72,800, Bitcoin will surpass the total value of all the silver in the world. That's the next big milestone for Satoshi Nakamoto's remarkable invention, once just 1.7×03.4k55232
45Jul 20, '22“Bitcoin is the world’s first globally-accessible public money. It will be as significant for freedom, prosperity, and human flourishing as the birth of the internet.” Always great1.7×02.3k717342
46Apr 8, '21Bitcoin critics: The government will ban BTC SEC commissioner @HesterPeirce: "I don't see how you could ban it. It would be a foolish thing for the government to try. A bigger prob1.6×03k64067
47Mar 29, '21Important to keep in mind: Bitcoin's Proof-of-Work was invented to escape Proof-of-Stake financial systems, where the largest asset owners can unduly influence the rules of the gam1.6×02.8k586139
48Jan 27, '22Fidelity spot ETF rejected. Kind of amazing how worried the US government is about the population investing in Bitcoin at a wide scale. Hint: it’s not about consumer protection, bu1.6×03.3k42420
49Feb 14, '22It’s hard to believe this is real. The pride with which this politician announces emergency surveillance measures in a country like Canada would have been unthinkable 10 years ago.1.6×02.9k38294
50Feb 11, '22Here’s an IMF paper recommending that governments consider “financial repression” (i.e. looting public savings by pinning interest rates below inflation) as a tool for reducing nat1.6×02k641256
51Jul 31, '21Grateful for those trying to convince the govt to not pass restrictive legislation but ultimately Bitcoin is the product of activists who thought we should seize — not beg for — ou1.6×02.5k662139
52Jun 7, '22Today I join 20 rights advocates from 20 countries in asking Congress to consider Bitcoin’s humanitarian impact. Western technologists may ignore Bitcoin's role in helping tens of 1.5×02.7k56568
53Jun 9, '21Zero to nation-state adoption in 12 years. Not bad for an open-source competitor to central banking. Satoshi Nakamoto 👑1.5×03.4k40226
54Jul 22, '221/ Update: there are now more than *2 billion people* living under the extreme time theft of double or triple digit inflation worldwide 🚨 -🇵🇰 229M -🇳🇬 216M -🇧🇷 214M -🇷🇺 141.5×02.4k590190
55Jun 11, '211/ Bitcoin is a powerful tool for human rights. What is happening in El Salvador will have a huge impact on the lives of people there and across the world. A nation adopting Bitcoi1.5×02.2k485204
56Oct 23, '21Those shocked by this tweet live in a bubble of financial privilege. *1.3 billion* live under double, triple, or quadruple-digit inflation: Turkey, Nigeria, Ethiopia, Iran, Lebanon1.5×02.7k55768
57Oct 9, '221/ Thread on Ziya Sadr, the Iranian Bitcoin educator detained by the regime amid #MahsaAmini protests I've followed Ziya's work for years: he is an incredibly brave person who has 1.5×02k86766
58Dec 10, '22The @Strike send globally feature is amazing I just sent $5 from my US dollar balance to @bernard_parah in Lagos, and in under 2 minutes he received the value as naira in his Niger1.5×02.5k368190
59Apr 12, '221/ Secretary Yellen’s latest public remarks are nothing short of remarkable. Here, the top US govt official in charge of the financial system talks about Satoshi Nakamoto's innovat1.4×02.1k522226
60Mar 19, '22A leading Ethereum engineer with some thoughts worth reflecting on1.4×02.6k374145
61Jan 19, '22Shocker1.4×03k31930
62Jun 11, '21In 1944, the world monetary system was fixed by elites at Bretton Woods. In 1971, it was rigged up by Nixon + Kissinger at the White House. In 2021, after a decade of online public1.4×02.8k44461
63Nov 20, '21We are bullish on freedom ⚡️ ✌️1.4×03.4k1312
64Dec 28, '18My @TIME column on why bitcoin matters for freedom. For billions living under authoritarianism, it can be an alternative money system and an escape from economic control. And for a1.4×02.1k65244
65Aug 29, '211/ This post from the IMF is worth reading. They are hugely concerned about more countries taking a “shortcut” by making Bitcoin a national currency, as they predict this will hamp1.4×02k534228
66May 1, '22Astonishing @nytimes chart of home equity wealth by generation. Over the past 2 years US home owners gained more than *$6 trillion* in housing wealth. These gains have almost entir1.3×02k442190
67Jun 20, '21Some think “Bitcoin fixes this” is a joke. It’s not. A very partial list of things BTC fixes: -Extortionate remittances -Financial censorship -Elites having special abilities in a 1.3×02.3k522108
68Dec 6, '22The scale of Bitcoin adoption in Africa is absolutely staggering Today I met people running growing Bitcoin businesses or communities in Somalia, Cameroon, Togo, Nigeria, Ghana, Iv1.3×02.5k38629
69Feb 26, '22We’ve officially crossed the Rubicon in terms of the “does Bitcoin have any value” discussion If people still refuse to see the value after mass financial deplatforming in Canada, 1.3×02.6k42538
70Nov 27, '21Bitcoin users: be prepared to be labeled “fascist” for choosing to opt into an inherently anti-fascist and open currency by the mainstream economic orthodoxy which ironically views1.3×02.5k37255
71Nov 1, '21Say what you want about the Elon thing but if he bought $6 billion of Bitcoin today and then in 10 years distributed it evenly among the world's poorest billion — ~10,000 sats per 1.3×02.8k23014
72Jul 25, '22Oct 31, 1517: Martin Luther nails 95 theses to a church door in Germany, sparking the Protestant Reformation Oct 31, 2008: Satoshi Nakamoto posts the Bitcoin white paper to the Cry1.3×02.1k440126
73Jun 25, '21The government of El Salvador is planning to airdrop ~3,000 BTC into the hands of its citizens. And they can’t even print money to buy the Bitcoin. This will be really crazy to thi1.2×02.7k25927
74Oct 2, '21Bitcoin network back to full strength (without central planning) just months after the CCP knocked out half its power. Unbelievably resilient decentralized architecture.1.2×02.4k43523
75Jan 3, '22On this day 13 years ago, Satoshi Nakamoto launched Bitcoin. Why? Hidden in the genesis block—mined on January 3, 2009—is a clue. This wasn’t a reaction to a surveillance scandal, 1.2×02k51167
76Feb 1, '22Some thoughts on the @saylor / @jack fireside: On Bitcoin's global impact, Jack says it's important for there to be a world currency where "decisions in Washington don't impact peo1.2×02.3k302141
77Mar 5, '22If not Bitcoin or cryptocurrency: How else can one send $100 to a Ukrainian who has fled into Poland? How else can one send $100 to a Russian stuck in Moscow? This can be done inst1.2×02.4k35249
78Jan 8, '22Bitcoin is anti-fascist technology Bitcoin is anti-imperial technology Bitcoin is anti-ruling class technology Bitcoin is anti-communist technology Bitcoin is anti-forever war tech1.2×02.1k44746
79Feb 24, '22Photo of Ukrainians fleeing Kiev, heading closer to Poland and NATO troops. What if you had to escape your home because of an invasion today?1.2×02.2k35243
80Sep 20, '21Always has been.1.2×02.6k28624
81Feb 5, '22Reminder: Bitcoin has done more for people of color and vulnerable populations worldwide in a few short years than this warmongering, elitist magazine has ever done in its 175-year1.2×02.3k40335
82Nov 14, '21Bitcoin just activated a major upgrade, increasing privacy, flexibility, and efficiency for global digital sound money… with no major opposition and—you have to think—basically all1.2×02.5k31021
83Oct 16, '21Satoshi was a human rights activist Igniting the biggest and most effective peaceful protest of all time Planting a seed of liberty at the root of exploitation and tyranny With not1.2×02.2k41843
84Jan 8, '22At the end of the 50BTC block subsidy era, there was 50% of Bitcoin left to be mined. At the end of today’s 6.25BTC block subsidy era, there will be 6.25% of Bitcoin left to be min1.2×02.3k25980
85Jan 26, '22Stage 1: Bitcoin too small to react to Fed policy Stage 2: Bitcoin big enough to react to Fed policy (you are here) Stage 3: Bitcoin too big to react to Fed policy1.1×02.5k26140
86May 5, '21View post on X1.1×02.4k29422
87Dec 1, '21You have to wonder if Satoshi thought this day would actually come, where the issuer of the world reserve currency would get visibly nervous.1.1×02.2k32735
88Dec 20, '21Humans can do incredible things. The Pyramids. Flight. Going to the moon. Nuclear power. But creating a money system that no one can corrupt might be our most impressive and improb1.1×02.3k28025
89Feb 17, '22Advertisement in Kenya, coming after a decade where the shilling lost almost half its purchasing power against the dollar and where the Central Bank is now mulling a CBDC 🇰🇪 🌍1.1×02.2k30120
90Feb 28, '22No, Bitcoin *undermines* Putin’s plans to isolate, repress, and plunder the Russian people. It gives them a way out. Do not allow confused, pro-surveillance and control politicians1.0×02.1k33232
91Jun 7, '21Me: Wow, a country seems to be adopting Bitcoin at the national level. Media and experts: It’s not a big deal. And probably won’t work. Trust us. And please look right here:1.0×02.2k28314
92Mar 18, '22Theory as good as any: Satoshi Nakamoto was sent back in time from the dystopic future with a blueprint for something that would kill the otherwise inevitable Skynet of money — Cen1.0×02.1k19546
93May 21, '22Bitcoin was $8k two years ago $2k five years ago $5 ten years ago Today, in the early innings of some of the worst macroeconomic conditions in 50 years, it’s at $30k Could it go do1.0×02k31438
94Sep 11This is my third reflection on AI and freedom. My goal is to post once every three months. So far, the quarterly progress is blowing my mind. I've never seen a field evolve so blaz1.0×41k25640142
95Oct 25, '21Many make the mistake of thinking Bitcoiners are doomers hoping for social collapse. On the contrary. Bitcoiners are some of the most hopeful people I have ever met. They believe i1.0×02.1k26222
96Oct 24, '21People skeptical that Bitcoin can still work if all hell breaks loose are apparently completely unaware that it is keeping millions of people afloat right now where all hell *alrea1.0×02k29528
97Mar 24, '22Some Bitcoiners don’t like how Bukele imposed BTC on 🇸🇻 Some Bitcoiners don’t like how 🇺🇦 is fundraising in BTC to defend itself from Putin Some Bitcoiners don’t like Terra buy0.9×02.1k16613

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