I wrote about the growth of Bitcoin and Nostr as essential tools for activists and dissidents making a difference around the world at the Financial Freedom Track in Oslo. I linked to everybody's Primal profile in the spirit of it all. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/06/11/oslo-freedom-forum-why-bitcoin-matters-more-than-its-price/ CC @jack @Lyn Alden @gladstein @Arsh Molu @ck @calle @craigraw @BTC Sessions @Frank Corva and @Susie Violet also have excellent articles on the topic on their Forbes profiles.

I'll be speaking at the Oslo Freedom Forum about whether the world's states will follow the China's push for Central Bank Digital Currencies or digital privacy/autonomy and self-custody. Thanks to the HRF Financial Freedom Team for organizing and giving me the opportunity: @Arsh Molu @Ayelen @ck

Chrome is having a good month

The Hacker News

Update Chrome Browser Now: 4th Zero-Day Exploit Discovered in May 2024

Attention Chrome users! Google has released fixes for a high-severity security flaw (CVE-2024-5274) that has been actively exploited in the wild.

I wrote about how the House just took an important step in preventing the United States from taking the Chinese state CBDC path https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/05/23/the-house-bans-the-fed-from-building-a-cbdc-like-the-digital-yuan/?sh=cd7a8e9591fe

Looks like I finally got my badge of honor on Twitter/"X", your free speech platform™

me, fleeing warzones with my life with my gold bar collection

I wrote about the threat that European policy-makers are making to end-to-end encryption and why it matters so much. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/05/07/european-threat-to-end-to-end-encryption-would-invade-phones/?sh=589342787a9d

yesterday's American libertarians/an-caps vs. European libertarians/an-socs debate is today's Nostr user vs. Mastodon user - but maybe not for much longer if the two can be bridged

With the Hong Kong Bitcoin spot ETFs having launched, what is actually going on with Hong Kong and Bitcoin?

Would Mao hold bitcoin?

What is happening with Hong Kong and Bitcoin ETFs? - Would Mao hold bitcoin?

With the recent approval of spot ETFs for both Ether and Bitcoin, there’s been a lot of interest in Hong Kong’s status regarding Bitcoi...

My latest on Forbes - about Samourai and the FBI/DOJ attack on Bitcoin. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/04/26/samourai-indictment--fbi-notice-are-an-assault-on-bitcoin-and-privacy/?sh=7aa7bb04c9ae

Elon Musk is this generation’s Henry Ford, obedience and love for a corpo-authoritarian foreign regime included.