That’s fantastic! Thanks! @BTC Sessions View quoted note →

Unchecked power and closed systems allow a few people to ruthlessly extract value from their population. In my talk I demonstrate how the fiat system is being rigged and the social cohesion gets lost on the example of Zimbabwe, where I lived for some time. Why Open Systems Matter for Human Freedom | Talk at Bitcoin++ Vienna 2026

Google Wallet checking your government ID across Ireland, Spain, France, Italy, Estonia, and soon Britain is an infrastructure play, dressed as child protection, that ends with a single advertising company sitting between you and the things you want to do online.

Reclaim The Net: Free Speech, Privacy, Digital Rights

Google Wants to Be the ID Checkpoint for Europe's Internet

Google is volunteering to broker your legal identity for every ordinary thing you do online.

At the Oslo Freedom Forum #OFF26 at the moment.

Next time I show you how to receive zaps @cosa

Telegram is not a secure messenger! It’s false marketing and a lie. View quoted note →

#OFF26

Live demo of purchasing airtime with Lightning on @bitrefill in Mozambique. View quoted note →

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MEN only?? View quoted note →

Blue Wallet does a pretty good job for an on-chain mobile wallet. Has coin control which most wallets lack. View quoted note →

Bitcoin is for anyone. It’s use by the Iranian government proves it’s censorship resistance and decentralization. Properties that are useful for individuals, civil society and resistance movements but can also be used by authoritarians and financial speculators. Same with AI, the internet and any other technology. It’s still fascinating to me how Bitcoin‘s playbook comes to life. A lot of people will fight it - it’s Bitcoin against a huge system - and it might take another decade or more until it is accepted as the neutral alternative technology that it is.

CoinCentral

Iran's 'Hormuz Safe' Platform Proposes Bitcoin Payments for Strait of Hormuz Ship Insurance - CoinCentral

Iran launched Hormuz Safe, a Bitcoin-based maritime insurance platform for Strait of Hormuz cargo transit, projecting over $10 billion in annual re...

Important upgrade on @Hodl Hodl coming in. Soon you will be able to exchange amounts non kyc under a value of 30 USD. Until know on-chain transactions only, now Lightning enabled! Watch out: @Bitcoin Famba @Bitcoin Zambia @Bitcoin Victoria Falls @npub1tuje...llxq View quoted note →

Great video about Humphrey, co-founder of @Bitcoin Victoria Falls, and developer of Bitzed, an app that lets you pay in bitcoin and the recipient receives mobile money in Zambia. Love to see the impact of our work @npub1fqqt...qzch. Thanks @Joe Nakamoto

Instead of governments stopping Apple and Google from engaging in egregiously anti-competitive behavior, they're directly participating in locking out competition via their own services. Requiring people to have an Apple device or Google-certified Android device is anti-competition, not security. View quoted note →

We @npub1fqqt...qzch did it again. Second BitDevs kick off after Zambia in 2025 - Mozambique 2026. View quoted note →

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Zambia is not a safe place for activists, opposition and minorities. We @npub1fqqt...qzch gave a small grant to @Bitcoin Zambia to exhibit and offer a Bitcoin workshop at the conference. Some @npub17xvf...c9as staff planned to attend too. Now all is cancelled.

the Guardian

Zambia cancels world’s largest human rights and tech summit days before start

Government blocks RightsCon 2026 conference saying it did not ‘align with national values’