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Svoboda
svoboda@primal.net
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Proud Sycamore alum, weightlifter, sports enthusiast, unapologetic pro wrestling fan, futurologist, and tech geek. All-Around Nerd. Bitcoin.
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Svoboda 3 weeks ago
At the Open Source stage. Always figured @ODELL was a top but he’s really showing it today. iykyk
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Svoboda 0 months ago
Big Jay Oakerson at Wiseguys. Checking another one off the list. image
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Svoboda 1 month ago
Posted this over on Twatter but I'm seeing a lot of the same shit here on Nostr, so may as well post it here, too: I've seen far too much of this smug, sanctimonious, virtue-signaling lately. I'm a Bitcoiner... specially a Vegas Bitcoiner. A nobody in Bitcoin. I stack sats, run a node, run a meetup, and I'm heading to the conference this year like thousands of others. That doesn't make me "shitcoiner" or "tradfi grifter." It doesn't make me inferior. And it certainly doesn't justify the endless mental gymnastics and gatekeeping that's infecting our community. Many of you have lost the plot. Bitcoin was never meant to be a purity test or a social hierarchy where the loudest twatter accounts decide who's "in" and who's "out." Satoshi gifted the world "money for everyone" regardless of geographic location, status, or identity. He promised us decentralization. He promised us permissionless access and censorship resistance. He promised us a strict adherence to a predictable monetary policy. He promised us that we could have direct, exclusive control over our wealth. But you'd think he promised some of you a superiority complex for simply buying the asset. The arrogant behavior, the dismissive attitudes, the need for control, the "always right" preaching... I have no doubt he'd be embarassed in how a lot of you act. The same cypherpunk energy that gave us Bitcoin is being replaced by clout-chasing and performative superiority. If your version of Bitcoin requires looking down on others who don't meet your arbitrary bar, that's a YOU problem. Bitcoin doesn't care about your beliefs and opinions, your follower count or Interwebs street cred, or how early you got in. It cares about sound money, individual freedom, and voluntary participation. Come on, come fucking all. As for those of you knocking Las Vegas. You can dislike the Strip, but it is a purpose-built entertainment and convention ecosystem that caters to damn near everyone. For us that live here, we've got zero state income or capital gains tax, world class dining and entertainment, endless activities, hour flights to most of the southwest for even more optionality, a relatively LCOL, and 300+ days of sunshine. I've read your moody posts and have seen pix of a lot of you... trust me, many of you could use the sun. Finally, the conference is what you make of it -- whether it is in Vegas, Prague, or whatever town it's in. It's about finding some signal in the noise. It's about finding some alpha that you can't find hiding behind your keyboard. It's about reconnecting and spending time with the friends you've made along the way. Maybe some of you never understood the plot. For those of you that do, I'll see you in Vegas at the happy hour I'm hosting, at Hotstyle Takeover, at the Club Orange party, at NOSVegas... be sure to say Hi!
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Svoboda 1 month ago
Jason Salmon at Wiseguys. Watched his special on YouTube and he is one to keep and eye on. Give him a look. image
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Svoboda 1 month ago
Been hearing from a lot of event runners that they are having issues selling through tix for Bitcoin Conference week happening next month. BSN cancelled their kickoff party, Bitcoin Treasury Network cancelled theirs as well. Between BTC plummeting since 10/10, the whole Core vs BIP-110 community fracture and treasury companies absolutely wrecking people that invested, especially Bailey's own Nakamoto, I guess one could expect it. If you're coming in for the conference, the side events are where its at. So support the meetups (I'm hosting a FREE one), #NOSVEGAS, @Club Orange events, etc. You can find out more about them at the event list I compiled below -- if you're on mobile, access it through Google Docs app so the links will work correctly. There is a map at the top of the doc that you can bookmark so your Uber driver doesn't lead you astray. EVENT LIST/MAP:
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Svoboda 1 month ago
If you've not been paying attention to Bitcoin twatter, ole DP is back. He has been making announcements of announcements all week and just dropped a "Less than 24 hours." twat. So what is it? Wrong answers only. image
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Svoboda 2 months ago
Cheeto Santino with the Vegas Bitcoiners crew. image
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Svoboda 2 months ago
What I Wore This Week: Vegas Heat Wave Edition Nishane Ege, Chanel Platinum Egoist, Lorenzo Pazzaglia Summer Hammer, YSL L'Homme Ultime, and Clandestine Laboratories The Boy (FKA Pool Boy) image #cologne #fragrance #smellywater
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Svoboda 2 months ago
The whole $XXI thing is getting pretty weird. So they held their annual meeting last week and re-elected seven directors only for six of them to immediately resign only leaving Jack? "Twenty One Capital, Inc. (NYSE:XXI) held its annual meeting of shareholders on Thursday, March 12, 2026. At the meeting, shareholders voted to re-elect seven directors—Jack Mallers, Paolo Ardoino, Zachary Lyons, Bo Hines, Raphael Zagury, Jared Roscoe, and Vikas J. Parekh—to serve until the next annual meeting or until a successor is elected, or upon earlier death, resignation, or removal. All 304,842,759 shares of the company’s Class B common stock entitled to vote were cast in favor of the proposal. In connection with the annual meeting, the company reported that, under its governance agreement with Tether Investments, S.A. de C.V., iFinex, Inc., and Stellar Beacon LLC (SoftBank), certain directors delivered letters of resignation. Specifically, Paolo Ardoino, Zachary Lyons, Bo Hines, and Raphael Zagury (the “Tether Affiliate Group Directors”), as well as Jared Roscoe and Vikas J. Parekh (the “SoftBank Directors”), submitted resignations from the board and applicable committees. These resignations become effective immediately upon request by Tether or SoftBank, as applicable." https://www.investing.com/news/sec-filings/twenty-one-capital-reelects-directors-and-updates-board-resignation-procedures-93CH-4564201
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Svoboda 2 months ago
Started moving assets away from Coinbase in preparations of closing the account after well over a decade on the platform. Taking Brian Armstrong's silence as admission. If what @MartyBent stated was false, Brian should have no problems unequivocally stating they aren't lobbying against Bitcoin.
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Svoboda 2 months ago
Had a chance to visit my alma mater Indiana State University over the weekend. Spent a lot of time in this building as a student and it is now arguably the nicest mid-major arena in the country. image
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Svoboda 3 months ago
There has been a lot of talk about how SaaS is going to die because of AI. The reality is some will but some are fighting fire with fire. First, if you've ever worked in large scale corporate or government IT, you know how entrenched it can get and how difficult it would be to switch. It can take months of enterprise review boards and change control meetings just to get a fucking field added to a form. Second, some SaaS providers are giving significant discounts in exchange for signing long term contracts. Some are bundling new shiny AI modules into existing licensing agreements and some are even providing hundreds of professional development hours to implement so they can sink their hooks in deeper which then goes back to my first point. They are not going down without a fight. Source: Me. I've seen two very large publicly traded companies do this within the last 6 months.