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Just finished reading "When Money Dies" by Adam Ferguson, and thought I'd share a tweet summary of it.
TL;DR: "Inflation is a form of expropriation of some classes of society during times of peace".
PS: Expect lots of 🖨💵
Thread 👇
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The craziest thing I've experienced in El Salvador:
Most people have no idea what Altcoins are. They just know Bitcoin. 🤯
Say what you will about Bitcoin as legal tender, but is protecting most people from the shitcoin casino.
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My wife is selling her shoes to buy bitcoin. Am I doing it right? 😁
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Trump might be against CBDCs, but the aim is issuing a “private” stable coin with the same Orwellian characteristics.
Thanks
@_whitneywebb
for your research. 💪
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🚫 BANNED!
Ever since launching this video:
- TikTok "banned" the Geyser account
- Google "expired" Geyser's SSL certificate without notice.
All of this for talking about how Bitcoin is empowering innocent civilian lives in Gaza.
Bitcoin is becoming hope and a lifeline for millions of innocent civilians around the world.
The story of
@Yusef_Mahmoud1
, from Gaza.
#bitcoin
#bitcoinishope
#hope
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NFTs going mainstream 🚀
And we're just getting started...
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I wrote about the EPIC story of
@Yusef_Mahmoud1
following an interview with him and
@FumbleBTC
.
Yusef was a taxi driver who has supported over 20,000 innocent families in the ongoing occupation.
This is all thanks to over 1,800 Bitcoiners from around the world sending 2.6
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Bitcoin has a branding problem. While we might not care this is largely reducing Bitcoin's accessibility to the masses.
And while
#Bitcoin
is an amazing technology in itself, I believe the missing link lies in leveraging its culture, the
#Hodlculture
.
Thread + article👇🐔
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Meet Herbert Spencer, 19th Century Bitcoiner.
One of the most misunderstood, misrepresented and neglected figures in the humanities today, he introduced the concept of society as an 'energetic system'. ⚡️
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The fact that Central Banks can do something (🖨💵) to abate crises means they will – sometimes, with little consideration on whether they actually should. The unintended consequences of their actions, as Germany's history shows, can be severe.
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There are many lessons we can draw from history📚. One of them is that inflationary policies go hand in hand with growing political extremism, led by those suffering from the corrosion of their savings as they watch the purchasing powers of their fixed wages decay.
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Bitcoin is the only way, in Gaza
Fumble explains that the Palestinian economy runs on the Israeli shekel and that Gaza’s financial system is almost completely dependent on Israel, which must approve the movement of cash into the area.
"The occupation is why payment processors
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The fabric of the nation crumbled as ethical values and morals were ravaged by inflation.
"Theft was preferable to starvation. Warmth was finer than honour. Clothing, more essential than democracy. Food, more needed than freedom."
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1914-24 Weimar Republic highlights:
Money printing (🖨💵) to finance WW1 → 🖨💵 to abate unemployment/ economic stagnation → Prices rise →🖨💵 to abate inflation → Inflation spirals → Speculation & corruption grows → Inequality, discontent, political extremism rises.
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The ugly story of Germany's hyperinflation starts in 1914, when Germany suspended the redemption of the mark to gold (1/3 backed by gold) & set up loan banks that would function by 🖨new money to fund war industries & war bond subsidies. (Sounds familiar?)
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There were immediate consequences to the unabated use of the 💵🖨. Factory owners were able to profit from subsidies & from access to cheap credit. Middle classes lost purchasing power. As a result, 2/3 of soldiers deserted the war to support their families.
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This inflationary cycle lasted a decade, with two years of hyperinflation, and many more of painful stabilisation. The 💵🖨 policy ravaged the economy and expropriated people's wealth. Also, in Ferguson's words, it "made him [Hitler] possible."
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By Sep 1920, the cost of living compared to before the war had increased among nations, but in Germany it grew disproportionally:
> 🇩🇪 x12
> 🇫🇷 x7
> 🇬🇧 x4
> 🇺🇸 x3
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... There was a steady and constant growth in inequality 📈. Those who understood that 'cash is trash' started storing their wealth elsewhere. Even stocks rose rapidly, as a means to escape the depreciating 💵. Germans protested for wage rises to offset rising living prices.
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There is nothing like meeting Bitcoiners in Bitcoin country.
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There were those who understood how to play the system: Some German corporations grew thanks to transport and coal subsidies, cheap labour, tax avoidance, and foreign currency holdings. Speculators profiteered from inflation by borrowing and repaying the depreciated loans.
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And there were those who were ravaged by inflation: pensioners, savers, and fixed-wage earners. Mostly the the low and middle classes.
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The
@HRF
has mis-reported the story of Yusef I published on
@BitcoinMagazine
.
In their newsletter, with a subtle twist of words, they seem to imply that Hamas is cutting off financially the people of Gaza.
To be clear, Yussef says "There is no other way [other than Bitcoin]",
I wrote about the EPIC story of
@Yusef_Mahmoud1
following an interview with him and
@FumbleBTC
.
Yusef was a taxi driver who has supported over 20,000 innocent families in the ongoing occupation.
This is all thanks to over 1,800 Bitcoiners from around the world sending 2.6
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Inflation hit the middle classes hardest, who were squeezed between big business & workers.
Middle class wages increased by 2-4 times, and working class wages by 8-10 times, to offset rising prices.
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📈 Short story:
When we launched
@geyserfund
we aimed for 30% growth month over month. We're at 63%!
Turns out, we weren't bullish enough!
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Geyser had a huge month in April, with hundreds of projects stacking a record 224,561,000 sats.
@geyserfund
also set a record of 2,000+ people funding projects last month.
⚡️
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The inflation furthered the urban-rural divide. Peasants couldn't keep track of depreciating 💵 and stopped delivering food to cities. Many from the cities raided peasants & confiscated food in response.
At this point, a kilo of 🥔 was worth more than family silver.
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Meanwhile, the Chancellor would accept no causal relation between 🖨💵 & 💵depreciation. In fact, 💵 depreciation called for more 🖨💵, to satisfy the perceived 'lack' of 💵, and abate growing fears of unemployment (and ensuing riots).
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Because the Weimar Republic funded WW1 by borrowing and 💵🖨(unlike 🇬🇧, that funded it largely on taxation), even if Germany had won, it would have suffered.
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For those whose life became more difficult, a deep resentment rose towards those whose lives appeared to continue as normal (or better, at their expense). Such as:
- "Selfish industrialists"
- Speculators
- Peasants, rarely seen in cities
- Jews
- "Greedy tourists"
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The emergency money (Notgeld) 🖨madness was brought to an end by Finance Minister Schact in 1923. Prices stabilized after only 1 week and food came back to the cities. Eventually, fiscal balance was restored. 🏙
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But the new paradigm of monetary discipline led to 150K gov employees being fired, higher & more disciplined taxation, higher interest rates (30-100%), and higher living prices, resulting in an exorbitant 70% unemployment rate and many bankruptcies.
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Moreover, the people became disillusioned in the government & institutions, which led to greater tax avoidance (which led to more 💵🖨), less voting, and the rise of political extremisms on both sides, as well as terrorist groups (such as nazi group Organization Consul).
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Bitcoin creators won! 🏆
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With soaring unemployment, economic stagnation, and reparation demands, the German government saw the need to print more 'emergency money' 💵(notgeld) to stimulate its economy.
But not without consequences...
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I will miss the days in which a relatively small group of nerds on the internet knew a public secret that would change humanity forever.
#bitcoin
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Having lost WW1, Germany had to pay war reparations, including:
> Giving hold of the Rhine Valley region to France (with 1/10 of Germany's population)
> Reducing army to 1/4
> Paying £100M/year for reparations
> Paying 26% of all exports to the UK & France
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The Hodl culture is also the 🔑 to falsifying mainstream notions of Bitcoin as 'speculation' and 'ponzi scheme'.
For God's sake, Hodlers suffer through years-long winters and constant tsunami-like volatility. They bleed, sweat and think long-term.
#Revolutionaries
@danheld
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Then on Jan 1923 came the French occupation of the Ruhr region, which was at the time the most resource-rich area of Germany and a valuable supplier of wealth for the country, with:
- 85% of coal mines
- 70% of iron ore
- 60% of steal
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Geyser is back up!
- Google didn't update our SSL certificate and didn't warn us about it.
- TikTok re-enabled our account, with no explaination of what we did wrong.
Coincidence? 🤷🏻
🚫 BANNED!
Ever since launching this video:
- TikTok "banned" the Geyser account
- Google "expired" Geyser's SSL certificate without notice.
All of this for talking about how Bitcoin is empowering innocent civilian lives in Gaza.
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The division was not just urban-rural, but class-based. For both employed and unemployed, rising prices meant the need to protest for higher wages. Protests became commonplace, then food riots. In Austria, where a similar situation ensued, the parliament was put on fire.
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The occupation of Ruhr, alongside the ongoing war reparation payments, were disastrous for Germany. The German government addressed this by printing more money (💵🖨). Inflation ensued.
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A big shoutout to the team that makes
@geyserfund
possible for thousands of creators. Without their dedication to go above and beyond Geyser wouldn't exist.
Follow them 👇
- CTO & Co-founder:
@steliosrammos
- Core fullstack devs:
@sajald77
&
@Malik_aghiles
- Designer:
Launching Major Geyser Redesign 💥
A brand new experience of Geyser is here: enhanced updates, smarter navigation, better discovery and more.
🔍 Better Discovery & Navigation
New navigation menus and discovery page make it a breeze to find your way around, whether on desktop or
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Bitcoiners snap into action 💪
Bitcoiners embody the warrior ethos. We fight for wealth, prosperity, justice and truth!
Appreciate
@gladstein
for bringing up the critical story of
@Yusef_Mahmoud1
.
“In Palestine Bitcoiners have snapped into action, and this man in Gaza[
@Yusef_mahmoud1
] has helped 20,000 families. This is really amazing! Another profound thing you can do with Bitcoin.”
@gladstein
, sharing the Geyser fund of Yusef. Donate here:
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Thanks
@TheBitcoinConf
for another great conference! Got to meet so many inspiring Bitcoiners. Loved every minute of it!
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There are no coincidences. Epic tales tell foundational stories.
The temptation of power is strong, especially for those close to the spigot of power.
It's the humble plebs, the hobbits, that will change the course of history and destroy the ring of power.
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"If one feature of any truly revolutionary moment is the complete failure of conventional categories to describe what’s happening around us, then that’s a pretty good sign we’re living in revolutionary times."
#GiletsJaunes
@davidgraeber
oh look my
#giletsjaunes
pieces has come out in English! In the full version, not the edited one that appeared in the physical paper.
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This: "I humbly suggest you not waste time and sats on the politics circus, and work hard to stack sats instead."
It's nice that politicians are pandering to bitcoiners, but promises are cheap. There is a major insurmountable obstacle to the US govt buying bitcoin: The US govt does NOT own or control the US Federal Reserve, which is a cartel of private banks. The US President can't just tell
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It was a pleasure meeting
@PlebPiccoloJr
&
@SovereignSk8
who are building
@BOBSpace_BKK
, the first bitcoin residency program in Thailand!
After winning a Geyser Grant & securing an
@HRF
grant, they are focused on supporting bitcoin open source development
👇
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After 7 months of thinking, designing, building on weekends and late nights, I am happy to announce that
@geyserfund
🌊 is finally live! 🎉
It's been an absolute honor working alongside the talented
@steliosats
and
@sajald77
!
Hello, world! 🌍
Introducing Geyser 🌊
A social crowdfunding platform built on
#Bitcoin
to empower projects around the world.
Powered by lightning ⚡ and bitcoiners.
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What a way to celebrate the end of the 4th Epoch! 🇵🇱
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“Even the most radical social scientists are unable to think past fiat… to imagine social organisation outside the state that could be net positive for humanity”. Amazingly said
@NSmolenski
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When it comes to
#Bitcoin
conversations that focus exclusively on speculation risk totally missing their points. They need to consider the political and philosophical questions this community raises about money, privacy, self-sovereignty & memes.
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A big day for lightning crowdfunding: you can now send sats to a project by just using its lightning address.
thanks for making this possible
@fiatjaf
&
@andreneves
💥 New Geyser logo & features going live:
⚡️ New Geyser Logo by
@BitkoYinowsky
⚡️ Lightning address for every project
⚡️ Project Posters including LNURL QR code
⚡️ Updated interface
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Finally, Geyser is on Nostr!!
This is just the beginning.
It's going to get WILD!
🚀 Breaking News: Geyser migrates to Nostr! 🌌
Every Geyser project now gets a unique Nostr identity (NPUB) - a big leap for the Open Creator Economy!
🧵
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Thankful to
@itsTomekK
&
@bitcoinfilmfest
team for putting together an amazing show in Warsaw!
💰 "Geyser Grants Round 6: Bitcoin Film Fest 2024" has been deployed.
Some numbers:
- +180 individual contribution-votes
- 3.5M Sats worth of votes!
- 1.5M Sats of grant funds.
Powered by
@orangepillapp
&
@geyserfund
Made possible by
@bitcoinfilmfest
.
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The Hodl culture not only has a basic understanding of Bitcoin, but coded inside its DNA are philosophical beliefs of btc as hard money, self-sovereignty, safety & behavioural heuristics such as long-term investing & stick to bitcoin.
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Meeting anon bitcoiners IRL at
@BitcoinRetreat
was epic. The node-running plebs that keep Bitcoin going. 🙌
Thank you
@DragonBitcoin
for making it all happen.
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All this thanks to
@paulamagal1
, official copyeditor who made this thread flow seamlessly. 🌊💵
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If Bitcoin becomes just a SOV, it will lose.
That’s why we must fight for it to become Money, a medium of exchange.
Bitcoiners are focused on the distraction that is "store of value."
The corporate state - a public/private abomination - is working on medium of exchange (which becomes unit of account and store of value).
Control the currency, control the people.
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The West has lost the moral war.
This means no wars can be justified on moral grounds, such as "Oh, X has bombed a school", "Y has killed children", "Z is a bad guy".
Because the West, led by the USA, has committed all possible war crimes on the books: from torture and
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Bitcoin is hope.
Bitcoin is becoming hope and a lifeline for millions of innocent civilians around the world.
The story of
@Yusef_Mahmoud1
, from Gaza.
#bitcoin
#bitcoinishope
#hope
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This story will be told and retold for centuries
Bitcoin is the only way, in Gaza
Fumble explains that the Palestinian economy runs on the Israeli shekel and that Gaza’s financial system is almost completely dependent on Israel, which must approve the movement of cash into the area.
"The occupation is why payment processors
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Trump winning elections might be slightly better for Bitcoin but won’t really matter overall.
This election is just a fun sideshow at the end of the American empire. Your vote won’t matter.
What will matter is continuing to build on top of the cypherpunk manifesto.
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So inspiring to meet
@bitcoinboss21
and
@bulebitcoin
from
@btchousebali
- and feel their passion and ambition!
Check out their project 👇
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And we won the 🏆 pitch competition! 🥳. Congrats to the entire
@geyserfund
team, who work tirelessly on the dream:
@steliosats
@sajald77
@_jfrader
@rg_auwal
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OK, let's give this a try. 🙌
Who wants to send some micro-transactions to
@BitcoinBlackSea
, a Bitcoin Beach project happening in Turkey? 🌊
1. scan QR with lightning wallet
2. send sats
3. drop payment confirmation below
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Mainstream economists are renowned for bashing on
#Bitcoin
. Anthropologists, on the other hand, are becoming more and more interested in it. Why?
TL;DR: they take different views of the truth of what is money.
🧵
Why Anthropologists Are More Interested In Bitcoin Than Economists.
"Anthropologists recognize the important role that Bitcoin is playing in leading us to rethink what money is, which in turn has many consequences for social life"
Written by
@metamick14
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Want to know who is leading the peaceful revolution?
👇
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@landxr33
@xavierfiechter
Thanks for proving my point.
And, no, that's not what's implied in the meme.
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🤯 mind-blown. it's all thanks to you guys that this is happening!
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It arrived!!
@HeroOfBitcoin
's GameBoy game and it even came with a game holder!
What an awesome achievement. A great idea executed to perfection ⚡️
Can't wait to play it and get the nostalgia kicking in! You can get your own 👇
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Most importantly, the Hodl culture has the memes! It's humorous in the midst of Bitcoin's tumultuous volatility.
Shine or Rain, Lambos or Rekt, Bitcoin hodlers are emotionally resilient because of the community, and surely the memes help.
Thanks 2
@BitcoinMemeHub
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I wrote this article to begin describing the Hodl culture of Bitcoin.
I offer the Balinese Cockfight example as a comparison that points for the need to move beyond one-glance-views, in favour of an empirical look of where meaning lies.
Quotes👇
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So, apparently, cosmic meteors caused the cooling period of the Younger Drias around 12k years ago. This may have led to the destruction of all evidence of previous civilizations that existed before then, which we have very little knowledge of.
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🎁 A curated list of 15 bitcoin gifts to orange-pill your family for Christmas!
Product prices range from $11 to $799. So far, they raised over 0.7BTC.
🧵 👇
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🙏 Thanks to all of you who have and continue to contribute.
Support on Geyser:
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Last week
@geyserfund
broke its record:
In just one week, 500 plebs funded 42 projects by contributing 0.95 Bitcoin 🔥
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The more complex society becomes, the more autonomous and independent it becomes from centralised power.
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Clarification:
While Google’s SSL certificate did expire without notice, this was not a deliberate act of censorship, it was a technical glitch on our end and compounded with no default SSL alerts by Google which took Geyser down without notice.
Oddly enough, TikTok banned us
🚫 BANNED!
Ever since launching this video:
- TikTok "banned" the Geyser account
- Google "expired" Geyser's SSL certificate without notice.
All of this for talking about how Bitcoin is empowering innocent civilian lives in Gaza.
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The journey towards understanding Bitcoin is plagued with inadequate mental models & egos.
So we built a survey to understand outsider's perceptions towards Bitcoin, aiming to learn how we can make things a little easier for them.
Share 👇with nocoiners
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Financing Bitcoin projects from crowdfunding to grants to VCs.
Loved participating in this panel with
@louishliu
@AlecJRoss
@subnetmask
&
@BOBSpace_BKK
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