Stuck in Abu Dhabi until we can get a flight to Europe. For those who travel with an airline employee, you know the struggle. Hits hards with kids, though!

Sri Lanka 🇱🇰 was made to be a bitcoin country

End of an era

For those of us with families who’d like to buy a home or property, using our bitcoin wealth as collateral would make a world of difference. I found the key regulatory language to repeal that could lift the de facto ban on bitcoin mortgages, and wrote about it for Bitcoin Policy Institute:

The Powerful Fannie Mae Policy Change to Unlock Bitcoin-Based Mortgages | Bitcoin Policy Institute

How does one get on the Bitcoin podcast and conference “circuit”? asking for a friend @Rod Palmer 📯 Bugle News #40HPW🎧

Small snorkel in the Maldives

Having finished Milan Kundera's seminal works in English translated from Czech (The Joke and The Unbearable Lightness of Being), I was finally able to track down his French original writing starting with "La Lenteur" – yet more reading for my off-weeks in the Indian Ocean. Kundera hits so hard as an author because he writes about the human toll of socialism, and conformity, and every page is an ode to individualism and the need for artistic passion. Plus, his obvious allusions to Robert Musil and Stefan Zweig show just how well-read he is in the Austrian fictional narrative tradition too. His interviews with Paris Review and NY Times are also must-reads

The Paris Review

Milan Kundera, The Art of Fiction No. 81

“The great European novel started out as entertainment, and every true novelist is nostalgic for it. In fact, the themes of those great entertain...

People are flocking to encrypted messaging apps for their own privacy and security. And now it's becoming the consumer standard for all our information, as it well should. My interview w/ DCNewsNow on why users are right to demand end-to-end encryption

Vacation time

Getting this beautiful puppy delivered today before I depart for vacation -- BOOX Palma

are people still going wild on Olas

⚡️I'll be at the Bitcoin Policy Institute Summit June 25-26 in DC! Come join and let's continue to keep promoting smart policies that empower Bitcoin users and adopters and let us use it as we see fit, peer-to-peer http://btcpolicysummit.org

oh my

End of Ricky Gervais’ comedy set — great as always

Falco 🇦🇹

whoa. not hard to get in right now

The Austrian government is now following in the footsteps of the UK and France to try to break encryption on messaging apps. This is an absolutely outrageous plan that seeks to undermine and outlaw all encryption, and it should be opposed at every step https://www.servustv.com/aktuelles/v/aanrnnzrkq9pgs9rb6d3/

There is no political ideological monopoly on Bitcoin

Our 501c3 registered charity was debanked by Square in January, and now they're "holding" the money for 90+ days, not letting me withdraw it. "The future of finance"

Over the last year, I’ve earned 336,000 sats in lightning channel routing fees. That’s…actually pretty good?