Awesome presentation about Bitcoin as money and how many problems it solves for people on the continent to cross financial borders. Look it up on #abct26 YouTube channel. View quoted note →

Judy from @HRF explaining how Bitcoin is an important lifeline for people plagued by making payments across borders and resisting authoritarians peacefully. #abct26

In two hours I will be the opening speaker of @Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town talking about Building Agency with Bitcoin, Nostr, Bitchat and private AI. Livestream: https://www.youtube.com/live/SywqlHeAUDI #abct26

Lovely to see the name of my book out in the wild 😊😉

So what?? A „social“ network of bots?! 😂 View quoted note →

Just tested a solution that converts EUR from a bank account into sats to a Lightning address within 5 minutes. Once set up, it just works. #abct26 South Africa is an innovator in showing Bitcoin is money. #build

First Fedimint federation in South Africa running on Start9 machines presented at #abct26. Federated custody in your own community, region, country instead of centralized custody.

Awesome to witness your journey since the beginning @BitcoinEkasi View quoted note →

3rd conference, 3rd time speaking! Awesome to be back 💪 View quoted note →

WhatsApp never could be trusted in the first place. Telegram is even worse. No end-to-end encryption at all. Only if you use private chats and they break every time you switch the device. Signal, SimpleX and soon White Noise are the way to go if you want to protect your privacy. View quoted note →

@calle @jack Bitchat in Uganda: government is celebrating how they managed to contain bitchat. have you heard of this, anything true or just usual government speak?

Nilepost News

The IT taskforce behind the Bitchat block: Uganda’s homegrown cyber defense triumphs

The success of this approach was crucial in maintaining a stable digital environment during the elections, preventing the potential spread of false...

# Easy In, Impossible Out It's easy to fall into the trap of convenience. Signing up for a free online service, because it's much more convenient than setting up a self-hosted version and costs nothing compared to paid products. It's easy, but it's not simple to ever leave that service again. Over the years you added functionalities, expanded the use into even more interconnected free services, you even onboarded your small company or project. It's very practical. But you always know something is wrong. Things that offer so much can't be without costs. Even in economies of scale, where each user added comes at low cost. There is a price to pay. And you pay. With your soul, because you are the product. You gave up sovereignty over your data, over your deepest thoughts and habits. We don't see it, but every click, every scroll is being recorded. What you do, where you are, with whom you are. We have collectively lost power and the price is our dignity. It's hard to change. To disentangle all the services. Fighting against a system designed to make leaving impossible. The exit doors exist. Most of us just pretend we can't see them. #Dailyish

When as many LLMs as Altcoins?

Trump and Putin’s end goal is to split Europe between each other. Mark my words. After WWII Austria was split into 4 zones. The northeast where my family comes from was occupied by Russia, the northwest by US. South by the British and west by France. I wouldn’t want to live in a Russian zone after what my grandparents told me about this time. But it was better than the Nazis.

Nothing new in Uganda. Sadly the same tactics in all authoritarian regimes. Surveillance, brutality, lies, corruption.

the Guardian

Uganda’s president calls opponents

Yoweri Museveni wins seventh term but poll criticised by observers and rights groups over repression of opposition and internet blackout