I had the honor to interview María Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, about how fiat money was weaponized against the Venezuelan people by the Chávez and Maduro regimes
She says Bitcoin is a "lifeline" and "vital means of resistance" and said that a future democratic Venezuelan government will use Bitcoin to rebuild the national reserves that the Chávistas stole and put Venezuela back on a path to peace and prosperity
I've put out a lot of content in the past few years but I think this is the most important thing I've done -- the implications are vast considering a) Venezuela is one of the world's largest energy exporters with some of the world's largest oil reserves and b) María Corina Machado is not some rogue leader or dictator but a US ally
I hope you can watch 🇻🇪
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gladstein
I had the honor to interview María Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, about how fiat money was weaponized against the Venezuelan people by the Chávez and Maduro regimes
She says Bitcoin is a "lifeline" and "vital means of resistance" and said that a future democratic Venezuelan government will use Bitcoin to rebuild the national reserves that the Chávistas stole and put Venezuela back on a path to peace and prosperity
I've put out a lot of content in the past few years but I think this is the most important thing I've done -- the implications are vast considering a) Venezuela is one of the world's largest energy exporters with some of the world's largest oil reserves and b) María Corina Machado is not some rogue leader or dictator but a US ally
I hope you can watch 🇻🇪
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@Malos10 what’s your take on this?
Can you buy things with Bitcoin in Venezuela? Like how much is a loaf of bread?
Looking forward to seeing this posted on Youtube so we can share it with people outside Nostr! I know people from Venezuela who really need to know this context.
Awesome man!
If US demanded jail and death to whistleblowers who unveiled secret government docs and/or surveillance programs conducted by US all over the world, what should Venezuelan leaders do with someone who can literally handle the country (ant its huge natural re$erves) to foreign enemies? About ancaps and libertarians here, you guys are just plain naive or really ill-intentioned?
Even if you're purported by others to be a FED, you're a good one
Thank you for always pointing the Freedom side of this amazing software to the world Gladstein.
Without an armed population, there is no way to remove the dictator
"María Corina Machado is not some rogue leader or dictator but a US ally"
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While I have mixed feelings about this presentation, I'm quoting and sharing it for awareness of the struggles the people of Venezuela are going through and for awareness of the evils of government-fostered inflation.
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I believe there are better solutions to these problems than regime change. Please feel free to browse my libraries (below) to get the gist of what I have in mind.
PeakD
'The Kingdom of Jesus/God/The Heavens' - My Library Shelf | PeakD
A collection of articles challenging prevailing views of the relationship between the church and ersatz civil government... by creatr
PeakD
'The Curmudgeon's Bible' - My Library Shelf | PeakD
I have long been convinced that subtle corruption of scripture translation is one of satan
gladstein
I had the honor to interview María Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, about how fiat money was weaponized against the Venezuelan people by the Chávez and Maduro regimes
She says Bitcoin is a "lifeline" and "vital means of resistance" and said that a future democratic Venezuelan government will use Bitcoin to rebuild the national reserves that the Chávistas stole and put Venezuela back on a path to peace and prosperity
I've put out a lot of content in the past few years but I think this is the most important thing I've done -- the implications are vast considering a) Venezuela is one of the world's largest energy exporters with some of the world's largest oil reserves and b) María Corina Machado is not some rogue leader or dictator but a US ally
I hope you can watch 🇻🇪
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Great interview
@gladstein, now its time to invite Maria Corina to Nostr!
I was kind of surprised of the amount of shitcoinery that there is in Venezuela. But then I realised that any shitcoin is better than the bolivar.
Thanks for all your work
@gladstein. The humanitarian importance of bitcoin is a no-brainer, it’s astonishing to think about what good it can do (and does already) for people: Enabling the freedom of money and freedom of monetary/value transactions for everyone.
Amazing, well done! “No use case” camp in disbelief.
yasssss kween 🫡🤙🏼🤘🏽🤗😎💪🏼🫶🏼
Maria is ful of good itentions, but with dictatorships, the only thing that work is the use of brute force.
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OMG 14 0's. I didn't know it was that bad.
$1= 100,000,000,000,000
Uhhh that coffee will be 500 Trillion Bolivar. Please don't make me give you change as it would fill up a dumpster 😪
This is so fucking cool
Amazing
@gladstein.
Also there will be A LOT of vented gas potential for mining there.
If you can get just 10% of the productive population moving to Bitcoin and exchanging in Lightning (cheaper/faster path on Bitcoin network) you will remove central power control.
Get all in cold storage as soon as you can. Not sure how that would work to get hardware keys.
True
She said the truth
She said all what the world neeeds to know
She said the truth
She said all what the world neeeds to know
gladstein
I had the honor to interview María Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, about how fiat money was weaponized against the Venezuelan people by the Chávez and Maduro regimes
She says Bitcoin is a "lifeline" and "vital means of resistance" and said that a future democratic Venezuelan government will use Bitcoin to rebuild the national reserves that the Chávistas stole and put Venezuela back on a path to peace and prosperity
I've put out a lot of content in the past few years but I think this is the most important thing I've done -- the implications are vast considering a) Venezuela is one of the world's largest energy exporters with some of the world's largest oil reserves and b) María Corina Machado is not some rogue leader or dictator but a US ally
I hope you can watch 🇻🇪
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It's a politician's rant, but worth watching anyway. She may actually get #Bitcoin, which is highly unusual.
View quoted note →Machado is a bonafide grifter.
My heart goes out to #Venezuela, here's to hoping the dictatorship will be overthrown soon so they can prosper! Peace and harmony ✌️🌏
View quoted note →How does the main opposition leader "being a US ally" help the people of Venezuela?
You literally wrote a book about how latin leaders under western influence wholesale their country to the West under IMF and World Bank. Or is it different this time ??
a suggestion:
include the donation link that only pops up for a small duration in the video in your post in the future for easier access. Or something like "any zaps to this post will directly transferred and donated to strengthen the efforts of the Venezuelan opposition cause"? (or even link the zaps to their bitcoin address if that is possible)
My butthole produces a lot of vented gas
Wow...just wow...incredible work, powerful worldwide message, in under 7 minutes.
good question, thought the same ...
share the note with normies instead
Bitcoin is freedom 💪
Looking forward to listening to this! Thanks for all you do
@gladstein 🙌
Well done
Machado is a member of an opposition, with the aid of the US State department committed nationwide violence and assisted in attempted coups in order to create instability and take back control of Venezuelan resources to enrich global elite and multinational corporations. Chàves' major crime was taking control of the oil of Venezuela for the benefit of the people of Venezuela instead of a few connected elites. Machado represents these elites. Chavistas stole nothing but the US and UK stole gold and other assets worth billions from Venezuela. She is just Juan Guaido 2.0... who is such a patriotic Venezuelan he lives in Miami and Maduro is such a dictator that he was allowed to walk the streets free in Venezuela after taking part in an attempted coup and taking control of Citgo assets in the US. don't be fooled into pushing CIA propaganda just because somebody talks favorably about Bitcoin. you need to be smarter than that
if she had good intentions she wouldn't ally herself with violent thugs that burned cars and murdered scores of Chavistas....
Maduro is a horrible horrible murderous corrupt socialist criminal who has helped destroy Venezuela
did you know that the once-proud country is the cause the world’s largest refugee crisis?
Certainly, some of us used Bitcoin as a monetary lifeline to the ill-fated hyperinflation of years ago. Unfortunately, not everyone entered this world. The smoke that chavismo sold with its cryptocurrency somewhat tarnished the term. Coupled with poor electric power services and stable internet access, this complicates things for the most novice user.
The fact that it will be used at some point by the State, as she suggests, may encourage curiosity. And to think that with the amount of energy dammed under the ground (oil) would be an incentive for a large mining industry, has been very interesting for many. But all that for now are dreams as long as the Chavista scum are in power.
For now few of us can use Bitcoin as an anti-State tool and not have the risk of inflation (which these days is becoming high again). Besides having out of Venezuelan banks our Money. And that this is blocked for thinking differently by these banks that may be an appendix of the state.
View quoted note →I think the main error of Maria was allow the disarming of the citizen. Good people with firearms, as the americans with the second ammendment, is not easy to defeat.
It is weirdtohat someone who writes about how IMF & World Bank are tools of volonial world order supports US regime change operation in Venezuela or Nato's proxy war in Ukraine. Anyway, I guess deep state has Gladstein by the balls.
U.S. sanctions had nothing to with that? I don’t know the full story of what’s going on there, but if I see the U.S. against the government of a country that just coincidentally happens to have the world’s largest oil reserves, I’m not going to fall in line against any opposition without a lot more evidence.
Those links only work within Nostr, though. Unless I'm mistaken.
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gladstein
I had the honor to interview María Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, about how fiat money was weaponized against the Venezuelan people by the Chávez and Maduro regimes
She says Bitcoin is a "lifeline" and "vital means of resistance" and said that a future democratic Venezuelan government will use Bitcoin to rebuild the national reserves that the Chávistas stole and put Venezuela back on a path to peace and prosperity
I've put out a lot of content in the past few years but I think this is the most important thing I've done -- the implications are vast considering a) Venezuela is one of the world's largest energy exporters with some of the world's largest oil reserves and b) María Corina Machado is not some rogue leader or dictator but a US ally
I hope you can watch 🇻🇪
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spoken like a true NPC, even thought I was playing world of warcraft for a moment
Great work Alex
I dom't see how ancap can work in the real world. even anarchism is gonna be hard to pull if you can't find a way to protect a region bigger than your backyard from outside threats. Anarchism embodies a sort of individualism but some stuff you can only overcome with collective action. I find Nostr and Linux working more because of that collective spirit. Venezuela couldn't have resisted so many attempts without it.
Corina Machado no inspira confianza, atentti q esconde otros intereses
Sure, brilliant career. Now watch Vice, a 2018 political satire.
lol
njump - the nostr static gateway
On amethyst when I copy/paste a link to a note, it uses njump. I text the link to my non-yet on nostr contacts and they can easily view the note without an npub
Who is this woman?
Maria Corina Machado
#asknostr
gladstein
I had the honor to interview María Corina Machado, the leader of the Venezuelan opposition, about how fiat money was weaponized against the Venezuelan people by the Chávez and Maduro regimes
She says Bitcoin is a "lifeline" and "vital means of resistance" and said that a future democratic Venezuelan government will use Bitcoin to rebuild the national reserves that the Chávistas stole and put Venezuela back on a path to peace and prosperity
I've put out a lot of content in the past few years but I think this is the most important thing I've done -- the implications are vast considering a) Venezuela is one of the world's largest energy exporters with some of the world's largest oil reserves and b) María Corina Machado is not some rogue leader or dictator but a US ally
I hope you can watch 🇻🇪
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