Traveller, student, feminist, and believer in change.
Reno, NV
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Got married today! Excited for our new life together, the best is yet to come!
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Having my silver coins seized at Chinese customs gave me a real world lesson about Bitcoin. For thousands of years, refugees and travelers had their gold and silver stolen by border agents, smugglers, and thieves.Β Seed words cannot be seized by a customs agent or get scanned by an X-ray machine, it is borderless, permissionless and decentralized. BITCOIN FIXES THIS
All my Chinese silver was seized at airport customs, can't take it out of the country. A climactic end to my journey around northeast china. At least they let me ship it to my grandpa's house.
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How depressing is it that shitcoin companies are creating groups funded by premined coins dumped on retail to lobby the government for more exit liquidity
Ripple is proud to support the launch of the National Cryptocurrency Association (@NatCryptoAssoc).
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The National Cryptocurrency Association β a chain-agnostic, non-political, non-profit β is here to help by educating and raising awareness of all the utility that crypto technologies are bringing to real people, everyday.
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Learn more below:
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As a kid in China I had to figure out how to get American apps on Chinese iPhones to install banned VPN software. As an adult I gotta login to the Mexican app store to download Bitcoin wallets in the US π
π§ͺ Phoenix now supports BIP-353 LN addresses
To create your address (must have a channel):
- android: Settings > Experimental features
- ios: soonβ’
- server: ./phoenix-cli getlnaddress
Phoenix (android/ios/server) can all send to both BIP-353 and LNURL addresses
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With $0.25 fees, sending >$62.5 on chain is cheaper than using lightning over @PhoenixWallet
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Was a pleasure to speak on the main stage about funding FOSS. Ross is free, we have to make sure the Samourai devs are free too! #freesamourai
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Imagine getting arrested for donating to an activist on @Patreon. Privacy preserving methods to donate money are essential to human rights work and activism, which is why @HRF is sponsoring tools like @BtcpayServer and better Lightning wallets
#BREAKING HK nat sec police arrested 2 men aged 29 and 68 and 2 women aged 55 and 59 on Wednesday over suspicion of βproviding financial support to activities that endanger national securityβ for donating to @nathanlawkc and @tedhuichifung between Dec 2020 and Nov 2023.
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I want to give a huge shoutout to @waithiraah for creating @tando_me, an app allowing anyone in Kenya to spend their Bitcoin. I'm so incredibly bullish on the future of Africa because builders like her will make FREEDOM GO UP!
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Bruh I tried to buy a 30 cent bottle of water from a smart fridge but my KYC credit score is too low so it won't let me open the refrigerator to buy a bottle of water π€£
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As the halving approaches, I'm remembering all the developers, early adopters, and activists who made this freedom money possible. @halfin, I wish you were still here to see the epic years ahead. Run, bitcoin, run!
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Checked out a @GridlessCompute Bitcoin mining site in rural Kenya. Bitcoin mining will help electrify rural Africa by harnessing stranded electricity, bullish!
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We are not bullish enough on ecash! It has the potential to destroy surveillance capitalism and restore our personal freedom. Thanks to @niftynei for hosting an amazing @btcplusplus ecash edition.
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I hate discussing number go up, freedom go up is way more important, but hitting another ATH of 84k on my birthday is still a sweet present from the gods
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As usual, the open source stage is where all the signal is amongst the noise at @TheBitcoinConf
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No, a digital euro would have none of the privacy benefits or covenience of cash while also enabling total surveillance and control of european finances by the government, in the meantime we will obsolete your fiat ponzie scheme
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I just found the GitHub repo for 99% of the Twitter Maxi's commenting about OP_Return and Bitcoin Core
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Flying to Oslo for @OsloFF, then flying to Vegas for @TheBitcoinConf, then flying to Seoul for @bitcoinseoulcon! Hit me up if you are around
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On my flight to Nashville for the @TheBitcoinConf. Look forward to seeing you all @HRF's booth! Hit me up if you are also going
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Welcome to @HRF!
I'm thrilled to announce that I've joined the Human Rights Foundation as the Director of Financial Freedom.
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Words cannot describe how lit the open source stage was @TheBitcoinConf. Pure signal, full of devs, not live streamed. Freedom Go Up personified.
The main stage was Fiat suits, politicians, and shitcoin scammers. The only talk I listened to there was Ross. Number Go Up disease
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All my Chinese silver was seized at airport customs, can't take it out of the country. A climactic end to my journey around northeast china. At least they let me ship it to my grandpa's house.
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Well said, but in Singapore you can be fined and arrested for hurting the government's feelings so no need to emulate that
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Happy 4th of July! Today we celebrate rebels who used unregistered military grade weapons to overthrow their tyrannical government!
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When @jack asked @Snowden about ways the public can help bring him home, Snowden wasn't optimistic about his chances but used the opportunity to speak about the importance of #freeassange.
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About to fly to Nairobi for the @AfroBitcoinOrg! Looking forward to visiting Kenya and Africa for the first time, looking forward to meeting many African builders for the first time!
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If you haven't had a chance to say hi to me, come check out @HRF's booth at Bitcoin Miami! We are next to the West Lobby entrance, booth #718!
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.@ck_SNARKs opening the open source stage at @TheBitcoinConf with a great announcement. @femilonge is joining @HRF! I'm super excited to work alongside him to push for financial freedom globally! Bullish for the years ahead!
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Visited the former KGB prison in downtown Riga where dissidents and free thinkers were imprisoned and executed. Sad to think how many lives were ruined so recently in a now free country, and even sadder how many lives are still being ruined around the world in dictatorships.
ALT KGB Prison Cell Block
ALT Luxurious communist housing in KGB Prison
ALT KBG Execution Chamber, dots on the walls represent bullet holes/bullet fragments
ALT KGB Prison Street Corner
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Do any of these organizations fund free and open source developers who keep #btc running?
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Sad, Trump's pledge to fire Gary Gensler got way more cheers than freeing Ross. That's what happens when the number go up crowd forgets about freedom go up.
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Leaving @BTCPrague feeling more bullish than ever on Bitcoin. Privacy, scalability, and decentralization are hard but free and open source will win!
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Forgot my pre flight selfie but I've just landed in Seoul for @bitcoinseoulcon, looking forward to speaking about Foss funding and Bitcoin and human rights!
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Amazing to meet members of the @BtcpayServer team! Bitcoin + BTCPay, just like @signalapp + VPNβs, will one day be in every activistβs tool kit in their battle against authoritarianism @NicolasDorier @pavlenex @MrKukks @woutersamaey
ALT BTCPay team photo + Alex Li from HRF
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Bitcoin is a lifeline for millions of people who donβt have the luxury of living in a rich democracy with a stable currency. Claiming it has no legitimate use or social benefit just means you need to take a year long vacation to Nigeria or Venezuela and check your privilege.
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Just paid for some drinks in Vancouver from my @ZeusLN wallet. I used @PhoenixWallet yesterday so I had to switch it up today π€£. Bullish on Bitcoin, bullish on freedom tech, and excited for the future of Lightning!
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Left: line for the noisy main stage @TheBitcoinConf
Right: no line for the pure signal from the open source stage
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The @AfroBitcoinOrg is amazing. There needs to be at least 10 Bitcoin conferences a year on the African continent. The bullish energy here is incredible. I'm tired of most of the conferences being in Europe and America.
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The people who report their steak n shake capital gains are the same people who drive the exact speed limit and wait for a green light to walk across an empty road
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Was a pleasure to speak about Bitcoin and human rights on the mainstage at @btcseoulcon!
Then @AlexLi98 from @HRF spelled out some 'freedom go up' cases of bitcoin in human rights defence, advocacy and journalism. As well as pointed out that hrf has contributed about 8.4M USD over 5 years.
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Japanese people trying to understand @roasbeef's 100 words per second conference speaking speed π€―π€―π€―
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Leaving Tokyo for San Francisco! Can't wait to reconnect with the open air drug markets and poop on the street, at least the weather is good.
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Using @muun to orange pill my taxi driver (and her cute dog). There's something magical about the lightning network, a borderless way to send money to anyone in the world.
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Why are building circular #bitcoin economies important?
I'm onboarding some activists to Bitcoin, the most common question is, "how I spend this Bitcoin for real money". For many people scam fiat is "real money". Everyday people need to be able to spend their Bitcoin for it to be useful to them. We have to push more merchant adoption for bitcoin to be truly seen as "real money.
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Bought this hat for 2876 sats ($3) in Kenya using @tando_me, I paid a lightning invoice and the store got kenyan schillings, really addicting when you can pay with Bitcoin everywhere in Kenya
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If your favorite Bitcoin influencer spends all day tweeting about price signals, charts, and number go up, but is silent on attacks on privacy tech, they will be the first to abandon freedom in exchange for a profit.
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Just paid for dinner using bolt 12 over lightning using @PhoenixWallet, 20 cent fee, with 1 sat/vbyte fees would have been cheaper to pay via on chain π€£ lightning is still way faster and more private thankfully
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Been in Taiwan for less than a day. The city feels like China in so many ways, yet, the difference could not be starker. I feel alive. Taiwan represents what the mainland could be, free and open. No political prisoners, with free speech + rule of law. Wow, its just amazing here.
ALT Taipei 101
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Using Bitcoin is more expensive than a domestic wire. Great for long term security, terrible for billions in the global south who need self custody. There's gonna be tons of educational and UI/UX hurdles for builders to solve, no point in whining, it's time for building!
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More freedom go up grants from @HRF!
NEW: @HRF's #Bitcoin Development Fund grants 700 million satoshis (7BTC) to 20 projects worldwide!
bitcoinmagazine.com/businessβ¦
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Bitcoiners who schill dictatorships like Dubai are like shitcoiners touting their shitcoins. There are tradeoffs worth discussing, but at the end of the day if you get thrown in a gulag for hurting the feelings of the ruling politicians that's really lame.
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It's good to be in Berlin for @btcplusplus ecash edition! Can someone please explain why there are so many German bitcoiners? The vibes are incredible
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Another pre flight selfie, about to fly to Tblisi, Georgia for LibertyCon Europe! Looking forward to discussing how Bitcoin can protect human rights.
Alex Li & Pavol LuptΓ‘k will speak at LibertyCon Europe!
Alex Li is the Bitcoin Development Lead at the Human Rights Foundation.
Pavol LuptΓ‘k is a crypto-anarchist and voluntaryist who is focused on technology and society hacking.
π Register here: libertycon.net/
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Talking to suits at whale night: price, ETF, Number Go Up blah blah
Talking to t-shirt devs: FOSS code, privacy, medium of exchange, Freedom Go Up!
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Thanks to @D_plus__plus @PresidioBitcoin and @BtcpayServer for hosting a great 50th birthday party for Satoshi!
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Flying out to Riga for Baltic Honeybadger! Conferences in the US are nice, but it's always refreshing to meet a different crowd in Europe. Looking forward to great talks and cool people!
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Was great to visit the Casa 21 @Vinteum_org house in San Paolo, Brazil! The bullish energy from shadowy super coders is everywhere inside :)
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I'm not biased at all, am excited to see @gladstein talk on the main stage about Bitcoin, utility, commerce and freedom!
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Had a blast at SF pride. It's crazy that being gay is illegal in 60+ countries. Whether pride events are legal is a litmus test for democracy, dictatorships don't tolerate dissent and authoritarians need to maintain absolute control and force conformity by attacking minorities.
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We need more Aaron Swartz's in the world, people who believe in a free and open society. I never met Aaron, but I really miss him right now.
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.@tando_me what have you done to me? π€£π€£π€£
nitter.app/i/grok/share/e40hDprVuβ¦
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Japanese stranger bought me a drink, @RunwithBitcoin onboarded him to #bitcoin so I could reimburse him. Happy Halloween!
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Just did a P2P bitcoin -> Thai baht trade. Disappointed that the receiver exchange wallet didn't support Lightning. Thankfully on chain fees are low now so it was still cheaper than using an ATM (ATM has a $6 fee). Much work needs to be done to increase Lightning adoption!
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Nothing beats lying flat on a bed after a back destroying international flight in economy class
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Pleasure to speak in India at the @Bitcoin4India conference on the dangers of surveillance capitalism, CBDCs, and overreaching government control.
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You can send the hardest money known to humankind anywhere in the world for 18 cents? Blockspace is way to cheap
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The AI for Individual Rights Program @HRF is the highest signal freedom oriented nonprofit AI program right now
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Flying out to Austin for @bitblockboom! Continuing my tradition of the pre flight selfie π€£
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When you launch a new lightning wallet in 2025 but it's
β’Custodial, so you can be rugpulled
β’Doesn't use ecash, so worse privacy than other custodial options like cashu
β’Charges a 0.5% fee for sending so it's more expensive than both custodial and self custody competitors
I've spent 100 hours studying every #bitcoin wallets out there and I believe we've built the ultimate Lighting Wallet β‘οΈ
Here are some design choices you might find surprising:
1. LIGHTING-ONLY
The Lightning Network is ready. We've run 10k test transactions with a 0% failure rateβit just works. Meanwhile, on-chain transactions are slow, require manual fee selection, and can take hours to confirm. From a UX perspective, on-chain is broken for everyday payments.
2. SATS ARE THE STANDARD
You wonβt find the word βBitcoinβ anywhere in our wallet. This is intentional, Apple & Google might change their guidelines at any point, and because 1,000 sats is intuitive, while 0.000001 BTC is not.
3. CUSTODIAL
Here's something that completely surprised me: 80% of @cluborange users have never made a Lightning transaction, let alone managed their own keys. By going custodial, we eliminate frictionβevery user gets a Lightning address that just works. No invoice expirations, no complex setup. A Bitcoin wallet should be as easy as Venmo or Apple Pay.
4. NO FIAT CONVERSION
We operate on a Bitcoin Standard. Your bank doesnβt show your USD balance in gold or Bitcoinβwhy should we? The world needs to start thinking in Sats.
5. GEO-ZAPPING
Soon we will introduce the ability to zap everyone in a Country or a City, something that no other wallet can do. This should unlock novel use cases for marketing and donations, think sending sats to everybody affected by a natural disaster with just one click.
Bitcoin wins when it's everywhere, as my frien once said "we don't need more lighting apps, we need more apps using lighting". We have now onboarded ~40k people to the LN overnight without them needing to download an extra app.
If you give it a try, I would love to hear your thoughts in the replies.
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On a plane leaving Thailand. Had a blast and learned so much! Will need some time to process it all. I knew this country was gonna be fun when I entered immigration and the officer was streaming a cooking show while stamping passports π€£
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Pre flight selfie, on the way to Bangkok for the @RightShift_to Bitcoin Thailand conference and to Tokyo for the @BTCTokyo2024 conference!
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Thankfully the nice team behind @Boltzhq was able to drop by at @BTCPrague and help me out. Love the energy of Bitcoiners at conferences!
Tried paying a @PhoenixWallet invoice with @AquaBitcoin and the payment failed. The @Boltzhq swap from LBTC -> LN is stuck, with me as the sender showing the LBTC being sent but the recipient not getting any sats. Any way to fix?
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About to fly to London for @advbitcoin! Happy to be taking bull market pre flight selfies again π€£
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Checked into my Moxy Tblisi hotel at 5:30 AM and got a key, there was a dude already in the room naked and asleep, he woke up and I ran out to the front desk to get a new room. Grateful my new room is empty. An exciting start to my first day in Georgia!
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