El Flaco

More bitcoin economies means less fiat economics

South Africa is preparing regulations hostile to bitcoin and self-custody that could serve as a blueprint for regulators elsewhere. Good breakdown on latest citadel dispatch open.spotify.com/episode/5FfGas…

bitcoiner rhetoric saying the samourai devs are in jail for developing opensource software is completely false. they are in jail because they PLEAD GUILTY on bs conspiracy charges.

The strongest case for homeschooling is that nobody loves your child more than you do, and nobody has more stake in their flourishing.

@bradmillscan Not a question of harness

For people using Hermes, does your agent balk at you and refuse when you ask it to solve a captcha or pirate an ebook?

THIS IS GENTLEMEN @Trezor getting Miniscript <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 github.com/trezor/trezor-…

I'm biased, but the summit was amazing 🤩 Thanks to everyone who came to push Bitcoin tech one step further 🙏❤️ Hats off to @FulgurVentures for hosting, and to everyone who showed up ready to engage ⚡🚀

Who said we need ATM ? Find a Bitcoiner wherever your’re travelling and trade in P2P way 🔥⛵️🏴‍☠️🧡 @blinkbtc @jp_moraga

New server location: Geneva, Switzerland 🇨🇭 For node runners who value privacy jurisdiction, Switzerland is a top-tier choice for your hybrid routing setup. Despite rising global infra costs, our pricing remains flat across all regions. We run a lean stack so we can absorb 🚀⚡️🧡

"From Trezor Academy to Building in Public" nice personal story of one of the Trezor Academy graduates! Wilfrid went from bitcoin 101 classes to building a bitcoin wallet for rural communities of Burundi. Check out the article by @blinkbtc: blink.sv/blog/building-…

@tando_me @JusperMachogu @HRF When their broader portfolio gets criticized, funded projects stepping in to defend them is exactly how reputation laundering works.

@_pretyflaco @JusperMachogu @HRF From our POV they are not the "most useless" as the OP expressed.

IMO, @HRF is the most useless org for Africans. They fund feminists, material translation and expensive conferences that only a chosen few attend. Isn't connecting needy families to the grid via BTC hrfy enough? Access to clean water & clean cooking? Those are Africa's problems.

@tando_me @JusperMachogu @HRF Why did you feel the need to point this out? Seems orthogonal to the point OP is making.

@JusperMachogu @HRF They helped us immensely in funding the building of Tando.

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I may have been a bit too optimistic with my prediction that the EU would ban or regulate VPNs within five years. It looks like they’ll do it within a year. It terrifies me how many relatively sane people who believe in the EU justify this totalitarian, dystopian practice and explain its necessity. Something that was considered a totalitarian practice in China or Russia 10 years ago is now seen as a political necessity in the EU as part of the fight against hybrid threats, Russia, child pornography, etc. Hello! Based on what it plans and does, the EU is actually showing signs of a dystopian society! I am currently in developed Japan, and there are no state-enforced cash limits here, no Age Control, no MiCA, DAC-8, or other dystopian EU regulations. Online anonymity is the norm here. EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push cyberinsider.com/eu-calls-vpns-…

Thailand is one of the first ag countries to enter a planting season since the Iran war. We went to document the impact of supply shocks to fuel/fertilizer — It was worse than I anticipated. Farmers are leaving huge tracts of land barren bc they can’t afford to plant.

Let's revisit this in a year or two when they'll have made fiat an even bigger PITA to use for payments

There are two types of countries. Carrots and sticks. Any misplaced?

Open source cheese cake by @FFmpeg A bakery sells you a cheese cake. At FOSS, we give you the cake and we give you the recipe to make the cake, and we tell you how to build the oven, and how to modify the recipe, and how to sell it to someone else. That's what makes a lot of people work together, building the best software together.

@Teknium Cool! Congrats. Been running hermes since 0.3 and every upgrade was an improvement. 🫶 Hope it stays that way 🤞

We just hit number one globally across all AI apps on OpenRouter. Super grateful to the nearly 1000 contributors who've helped make Hermes Agent great, thank you! What do you want to see next?

@arbadacarbaYK @Ghosth_nter @RomanReher @coinjoined @_einundzwanzig_ @btc_hans @der_Frie @AxelHamburch @AloisSchmalzl Danke, funktioniert jetzt einwandfrei 🧡

@Ghosth_nter @_pretyflaco @RomanReher @coinjoined @_einundzwanzig_ @btc_hans @der_Frie @AxelHamburch @AloisSchmalzl jajaja Nostrconnect und Bunker kannste jetzt auch nutzen, überredet 😂

Riddle me this .. warum ist die so starke deutsche Bitcoin Community zum grössten Teil nur auf GitHub statt git nostr ? Lasst uns das ändern! gittr.space @RomanReher @coinjoined @_einundzwanzig_ @btc_hans @der_Frie @AxelHamburch @AloisSchmalzl I miss you there 🤗👾