Susie
Susie Violet Ward

This is a difficult moment for Bitcoin and above all, for the people who have lost their savings.
The failure of a wallet does not mean Bitcoin has failed. The reasons Bitcoin is important have not changed.
Traditional finance still lets people down through compliance rules, sanctions and third-party risks that can freeze, block or redirect funds.
Intermediaries can stop money reaching people even after it has been raised, leaving families stranded in crisis zones. These barriers remain real and ongoing.
It can still provide a vital alternative through direct wallet payments, financial access for the unbanked and a way to move money when the traditional system cannot reach those who need it.
Bitcoin remains an important lifeline, but the systems built around it must earn people’s trust through transparency, accountability and far stronger security.
@nprofile…3e0d @nprofile…npkw @nprofile…87ng
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2026-08-01 09:09:02 UTC

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Sending you so much love. I lost my dad 10 years ago, and before that I thought I understood what it would feel like to lose a parent. It was only when it happened to me that I truly understood the depth of that pain. I’m so incredibly sorry. 💕

2026-07-28 07:51:36 UTC

Lebanon showed what happens when banks and currency policy fail the public.
Although the worst of the hyperinflation may have eased, banking distrust, poverty and reconstruction needs remain.
So too does the need for self-custody, low friction remittances and money that cannot be arbitrarily devalued.
Published in early 2024, the lessons have not aged.
Read the full article here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/02/02/lebanons-economic-rebirth-through-bitcoin/

2026-07-23 07:31:27 UTC

If you’re unhappy with the Bitcoin price, stop looking at the chart and start reading the congressional trading disclosures.
Nancy Pelosi’s household portfolio has been beating the S&P 500 and the average hedge fund for years.
A $174,000 congressional salary and a fortune estimated at $250 million. *
Maybe the real alpha was public service all along.
The numbers: https://vertdata.com/blog/nancy-pelosi-stock-portfolio
Track the disclosed trades: https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy%20Pelosi-P000197/net-worth
* Estimates vary, with some placing the Pelosi fortune at more than $400 million.

2026-07-22 11:48:38 UTC

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Quantum mechanics keeps forcing me to question what 'reality' even is … and where consciousness fits into it.
I’ve tried to articulate some of my recent thoughts in this article.
What's your take on this?
#naddr1qp…kh30

2026-07-22 08:55:36 UTC

What is the best way to post an article on Nostr?

2026-07-21 11:33:31 UTC

Yikes ... we should all be worried!
The Trump team privately warned Andy Burnham against giving Ed Miliband a top economic or foreign policy role.
Steve Bannon said they called him a "red diaper baby and self-described socialist" who would damage the special relationship. Ouch!!
A senior Trump official also described Miliband as a major point of friction in the transatlantic alliance.
Steve Bannon then went on to say:
“Burnham could not care less – he appointed this twit anyway.”
Full article:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/21/white-house-deeply-concerned-miliband-foreign-secretary/

2026-07-20 07:03:20 UTC

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GoFundMe responded to my article after publication, despite multiple requests for comment before it went live.
I have now replied asking them what safeguards exist when funds raised for someone in a crisis zone are paid to a nominated beneficiary but do not reach the intended recipient.
Their statement referred to the need to protect donors' generosity.
I have asked how this applies when the person the money was raised for is left without it.
Full article with footnote added:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/07/16/when-the-financial-system-cant-reach-people-in-crisis-bitcoin-can/
@nprofile…730q @nprofile…juxm @npub18am…p424
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2026-07-19 08:00:01 UTC

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Exactly right ….it makes no difference to whether someone has the right to work.
The checks, documents and immigration records are already in place, and many are already digital.
This only centralises them through a new digital identity system.
Selling that as a solution to illegal migration was an utter load of bollocks.

2026-07-19 07:15:41 UTC

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This is the concern. 🙁

2026-07-19 06:49:13 UTC

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2026-07-19 06:45:37 UTC

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https://www.ft.com/content/8f5445ab-dacb-4908-909f-277853ad0f50?syn-25a6b1a6=1

2026-07-19 06:45:07 UTC

Andy Burnham is scrapping the Labour government’s digital ID scheme as one of his first acts as prime minister.
The policy was never included in Labour’s 2024 manifesto. Despite this, Keir Starmer announced it last September as a tool to combat illegal migration, following strong encouragement from Tony Blair and former Conservative leader William Hague.
Blair has been the persistent driving force behind this undemocratic push for two decades.
As prime minister he tried to introduce national ID cards through the Identity Cards Act 2006. Billions were spent before the scheme was abandoned in 2010. His Tony Blair Institute then continued lobbying heavily for digital ID, publishing reports and recommendations that helped shape the Starmer government’s plans.
The public response was overwhelming. Nearly three million people signed a petition opposing the scheme, while a four hour parliamentary debate saw MPs from across the political spectrum warn that it threatened privacy, civil liberties and the principle of public consent.
The government was eventually forced to drop the compulsory element for workers, but it continued trying to advance the broader digital ID infrastructure under a softer, rebranded model.
That disregard for manifesto commitments, parliamentary concern and enormous public resistance was deeply troubling.
Burnham is now ending the programme, with hundreds of millions of pounds in projected annual costs redirected towards cost-of-living support rather than another expensive, centralised state project.
That money will not solve the cost-of-living crisis, and whether families feel any meaningful benefit remains to be seen. Even so, choosing immediate help for ordinary people over a controversial national identity system is a major and very welcome decision.
Tony Blair has pushed this idea relentlessly for years, despite repeated rejection from the public.
This is a victory, but I would not assume the battle is over.
Why do I suspect digital ID will return under another name?
https://blossom.primal.net/847639ecca222991b1adb4cef2d5d38f1a8b9da0cb83db485d0b49fe2b61d44f.jpg

2026-07-18 10:36:40 UTC

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https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/01/07/new-eu-rules-threaten-your-security--what-you-need-to-know/

2026-07-18 10:36:17 UTC

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2026-07-18 10:35:24 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspc89ghncftg7qh56pyvf09rnxf2eqthuhpewya5g5r0xgejrd76s78h960

2026-07-18 10:34:47 UTC

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The Travel Rule is not about stopping crime.
It didn’t work in TradFi and now they’re forcing the same failed surveillance architecture onto Bitcoin.
Once they link every tx to real IDs, self custody and privacy are gone.
Efrat’s piece explains how this fits into the bigger 'Digital Cage' rolling out in 2026.
We either fight for financial privacy now or watch Bitcoin become another tool of control.
See links below for key excerpts from the article and relevant posts.
#nevent1q…mzss

2026-07-17 07:11:18 UTC

El Salvador’s government has the power to tap phones and read private messages without a warrant, while branding itself as the ultimate Bitcoin freedom project.
The reality is that self-censorship has become normal for anyone who dares question the government.
Chivo collected biometric data from millions of Salvadorans, creating a national honeypot. More than 80% of the population’s private information was later reportedly leaked onto the dark web, including facial images, addresses and dates of birth. Chivo denies that the leak came from its systems.
Top-down narratives sold as sovereign and decentralised can erode the very principles they claim to champion.
When a government wraps mass surveillance in the Bitcoin flag, it becomes more dangerous by borrowing the language of freedom to disguise control.
Joe’s latest video asks the questions much of the space refuses to confront.
Awesome work @nprofile…mtx5.
Full video here:
https://youtu.be/ebwdRjXWVKs?si=1242h9TaV2EEDBU_

2026-07-17 06:27:36 UTC

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🙌

2026-07-16 06:50:53 UTC

A GoFundMe campaign raised more than £55,000 for a Gazan family trying to escape the war.
Most of the money raised never reached them.
Banking rules and sanctions prevent direct payouts in Gaza, so the funds had to go through an intermediary. When that arrangement collapsed, the family was left without the support raised for them.
Bitcoin platforms like Agora and Geyser send funds directly to recipients’ own wallets, using community verification instead of giving control to a single intermediary.
Read how these tools are helping people in crisis.
My latest piece in Forbes featuring @nprofile…4f77 @nprofile…erlj @nprofile…485v @npub1zhq…h0dw @nprofile…4s58.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/07/16/when-the-financial-system-cant-reach-people-in-crisis-bitcoin-can/

2026-07-15 09:56:01 UTC

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2026-07-15 07:56:03 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs0pmavfhrtm3p07uu86hn0ky5f5zpg0mn8ls43pntthx7hvpck0cg9cs42p

2026-07-15 07:55:47 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvl6kgux7pckulsatt3eyg82g0jlc9kh28409c7svx4jj5s8qu3jswu3cvq

2026-07-15 07:54:23 UTC

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Privacy has become a dirty word, but it remains something profoundly normal.
Fraud is real and so are the risks created by linking identity, transaction history and bitcoin ownership.
Privacy is the reasonable expectation that your personal life, your movements and your finances are not automatically open for inspection.
FATF’s new fraud roadmap calls for more data to be collected on more people and shared across more agencies.
We already know where this can lead:
- exchange breaches
- doxxed customers
- wealth linked to home addresses
- physical attacks
All involving people whose details were sitting in compliance databases.
You cannot leak what was never collected. Bigger databases do not stop criminals and more data does not equal greater safety. They create larger honeypots, with ordinary users often becoming the easiest targets.
Data collection is now set to expand under the UK’s FATF Presidency. I wrote about where this roadmap could lead for Forbes.
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2026-07-14 11:03:57 UTC

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I can’t delete it.. you know the photo. ;-)

2026-07-14 11:03:23 UTC

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That screwed up… sorry!

2026-07-14 11:02:47 UTC

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This reminds me of our Mauritius talks. 🥰
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2026-07-14 10:56:45 UTC

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I didn’t realise how much I'd written until I pulled it all into one place.
150+ articles across bitcoin, energy, freedom and CBDCs!
Great suggestion @nprofile…6w6f!
https://blossom.primal.net/19df1e5241e5fea78474f5fc8f406390fb078e2ac44a495150480a88ec1685e9.jpg
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2026-07-14 07:50:58 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsrnzw332a27z866cpt257awgsjgpn9smn62wmx9902a9wewfnvkscd68zcz

2026-07-14 07:49:32 UTC

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https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs0pmavfhrtm3p07uu86hn0ky5f5zpg0mn8ls43pntthx7hvpck0cg9cs42p

2026-07-14 07:48:51 UTC

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Watch the full talk here:
https://youtu.be/ovRr9BKfPH0
@nprofile…wqgt @nprofile…h5tf @npub1mft…rkl3

2026-07-14 07:47:35 UTC

When governments shut down your communications or a platform debanks you, what’s your backup plan?
Listening to activists at the Oslo Freedom Forum describing surveillance, censorship and financial exclusion, one thing stood out. For nearly every problem they raised, builders were already working on solutions.
It became the opening to my talk at @npub167n…zu3r. In this clip, I explain why CBDCs may not arrive in the form people expect and why stablecoins can carry many of the same risks.
Full video, article and practical tools linked below.
Freedom depends on having money that no government, bank or platform can switch off.
Bitcoin gives us that option.
https://blossom.primal.net/02c7d702f5b8bc1ddd0728ebe6982af34b8e042ba4f9f63afc1c28991c8731f9.mov

2026-07-13 10:31:45 UTC

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Thanks, Gigi! I loved not having to use a template and being able to build whatever popped into my head.
It’s so nice having everything in one place and it’ll be fun adding more little sprinkles! 🤗

2026-07-13 10:26:46 UTC

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Thank you!!! The light and dark options are so cool! I actually prefer the black background, even though I know it’s probably better with the white. So clever!!

2026-07-13 09:00:15 UTC

What you can build in a week now is actually insane. I’ve prompt built a website and I’m blown away by what was possible.
Everything I’ve done across Bitcoin, policy and journalism is now in one place.
If you have time I would appreciate some feedback. What works? What doesn’t? What did I miss?
Constructive criticism very welcome!
Full website:
https://pressfiles.media
Link also in bio!
#ProofOfWork #Bitcoin
https://blossom.primal.net/5f4bff71233d3354ebc963bae8ae1cc698ee690b948327af8486bd90aec1fe6b.mov

2026-07-03 08:59:15 UTC

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💕💕💕💕

2026-07-03 06:37:33 UTC

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Exactly three years ago today I wrote this CityAM piece on why money must have a direct and transparent link to energy.
Bitcoin’s Proof of Work restores that principle.
Key excerpts:
“A currency with no production cost will always warp society and have environmental consequences.”
“Bitcoin’s uniqueness lies in its proof of work… creating a direct link between energy and currency.”
“In 1971, we divorced our money from energy… Luckily, in 2009, Bitcoin’s PoW reconnected money to energy.”
Full article, 3 July 2023:
https://www.cityam.com/why-money-should-have-a-direct-and-transparent-link-to-energy/
Still incredibly grateful to my editor Darren Parkin, who was the first in mainstream media to give Bitcoin and energy a serious platform when most outlets were just recycling FUD.
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2026-07-02 15:44:32 UTC

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😁

2026-07-02 12:30:12 UTC

If it’s not “for the children,” it’s “national security.”
FATF’s new roadmap calls for greater use of large datasets, real-time information sharing and closer cooperation between tech, telecoms and finance to tackle fraud.
Traditional finance already collects vast amounts of identity and transaction data and serious financial crime continues at scale.
The same approach is now being extended further, linking identity and financial activity across more systems.
This turns law-abiding citizens into targets for both increased surveillance and physical attacks.
My latest in Forbes.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/07/02/fatfs-fraud-roadmap-expands-data-risks-and-global-surveillance/

2026-07-01 06:32:04 UTC

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Surveillance architecture becomes reality in Australia today.
AUSTRAC’s Travel Rule is now live with *zero threshold*.
Even a $5 transfer through a centralised exchange can trigger Travel Rule checks, requiring firms to collect and share identifying information.
These honeypots turn law abiding citizens into targets for hackers, they do not stop financial crime.
Then there's the 'Cold Wallet Squeeze'. Exchanges are forcing users to declare or verify ownership of self custody wallet addresses before allowing withdrawals.
This links real world identity to self custody wallets, turning Bitcoin’s open ledger into a map of ownership tied to named individuals.
Best move? Avoid centralised exchanges where possible. Use non-custodial P2P options like @nprofile…87dl @nprofile…vnw9 @nprofile…cc8h.
Full article:
https://cointelegraph.com/news/australias-crypto-travel-rule-takes-effect-on-july-1-whats-changing
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2026-06-30 11:09:42 UTC

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🧡

2026-06-30 08:20:10 UTC

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This is the real world consequence of regulation driven data collection.
Once identity, transaction history and asset ownership are linked and stored, the risk no longer stays online.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/02/20/how-regulation-and-data-collection-are-creating-physical-security-risk/

2026-06-30 08:19:39 UTC

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The Travel Rule forces firms to collect, hold and transmit personal data about the people behind transactions.
This creates databases that link identity, transaction history and asset ownership, turning ordinary users into targets for hacks and physical attacks.
I wrote about the EU rollout in Forbes last year and how these rules threaten user security by forcing more personal financial data to be collected, stored and shared.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/01/07/new-eu-rules-threaten-your-security--what-you-need-to-know/

2026-06-30 08:18:58 UTC

Global regulators built the FATF Travel Rule for a banking system still full of illicit finance.
Now they are imposing the same surveillance architecture on Bitcoin.
The rule was created by G7 countries through an unelected body in France. It was sold as a way to stop money laundering by forcing information to travel with every transaction.
Decades later, the UN still estimates money laundering at 2 - 5% of global GDP. The model has failed in TradFi.
https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/money-laundering/overview.html
Regulators now want to apply that same framework to Bitcoin, which is an open, auditable ledger with a completely different risk profile.
Chainalysis’ 2026 Crypto Crime Report shows stablecoins accounted for 84% of illicit transaction volume in 2025, while Bitcoin is still being pulled into a surveillance regime designed for banks and centralised intermediaries and a financial system struggling to stop illicit finance at scale.
https://www.chainalysis.com/blog/2026-crypto-crime-report-introduction/
The Travel Rule forces firms to collect, hold and transmit personal information about the people behind transactions.
This creates databases that link identity, transaction history and asset ownership in ways that expose ordinary users to hacks, targeting and physical security risks.
FATF has updated it’s recommendations as part of a global push for payment transparency. As a result it is being expanded, embedded and normalised.
This solves nothing but creates unprecedented harm by forcing more personal financial data to be collected, stored and shared.
This clip is from the @nprofile…ur7h podcast with @nprofile…22x4 and Ben Samocha at Bitcoin Vegas last year.
The warning has only grown more urgent.
Bitcoin does not need TradFi’s failed surveillance architecture wrapped around it.
https://blossom.primal.net/1dd5ba868652a21aee8179e3fd4e0eaddcce2a66e6096e1524087822963f04e6.mov

2026-06-29 09:10:09 UTC

Jeremy Grantham’s latest CNBC comments are a perfect example of what happens when traditional finance tries to judge Bitcoin using an old framework.
Had these comments been about crypto, I would have nodded along. Much of that market has proved to be speculative and altcoin season is not coming back.
This was not a discussion about the crypto casino. He was speaking in front of a Bitcoin chart, while the segment drifted between 'crypto' and Bitcoin as though they were the same thing, which tells you how little precision sat behind the critique.
Bitcoin deserves a more serious discussion than recycled talking points about crooks, dividends and supermarket payments.
He called it a 'useless speculative mechanism' and said it would 'dwindle away' over decades, 'not with a bang but a whimper.'
He asked why people do not use it to buy dinner or pay at the supermarket.
Then came the line:
“What it does is allows crooks to move money around without leaving a trace.”
That is not dismissive… it’s wrong.
It is not a stock, a company, or a bond. It does not have earnings, dividends, cash flow, a management team, or a board of directors, because it was not designed to be valued like those things.
It is a decentralised monetary network with:
- no CEO
- no central bank
- no political control
- no bailouts
- no off switch
- a fixed 21 million supply that cannot be inflated on demand.
The 'without leaving a trace' claim really misunderstands the system.
Bitcoin is a public ledger and every base layer transaction is recorded. It is far more traceable than cash, which is why law enforcement, analytics firms and exchanges have spent years building tools around that transparency.
The 'people don’t buy dinner with it' argument is also wrong and lazy. Gold is not judged by how often it is used at the supermarket.
Bitcoin allows people to store and transfer value across borders, outside a system suffering from inflation, surveillance, debanking, capital controls and political discretion.
Then there is proof of work, which Grantham dismissed as 'proof of unnecessary work.'
That 'work' is what secures the network. It is what makes Bitcoin expensive to attack, impossible to rewrite and different from the thousands of tokens that can be changed, paused, printed or controlled by insiders.
That is a stock market framework being applied to an open monetary protocol.
Bitcoin has already survived bans, crashes, exchange failures, media attacks, regulatory assaults, energy panic, criminality narratives and repeated predictions of its death. That is not dwindling away.
Grantham is not watching Bitcoin disappear, he is watching the old framework fail to explain it.
So if the price worries you, remember what this actually is...
A 17 year old monetary network separating money from state and challenging some of the oldest assumptions in finance.
We are still early!
Full article:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/06/26/billionaire-investor-jeremy-grantham-says-bitcoin-will-dwindle-away-with-a-whimper.html
https://blossom.primal.net/95321a72122c19db37b2a189f1666a8c5fb6a4757e9be574985ca79a3fa8d1e5.mov

2026-06-28 07:24:19 UTC

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🔥

2026-06-28 05:32:00 UTC

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This was such a fascinating piece to write. I hope I can catch the movie on the next release.

2026-06-27 07:46:16 UTC

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😁

2026-06-27 06:14:49 UTC

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You can find details for the watch party here:
https://www.thesixbilliondollarman.com/

2026-06-25 09:31:52 UTC

Money detached from energy corrupts society.
That is exactly what we are living through right now as endless money printing eats away at wages, destroys savings, funds government waste and moves wealth upwards.
When money is broken the entire system built around it breaks too.
I love fairy lights and I think they are a beautiful use of energy because they bring joy, warmth and a little bit of magic.
Using energy to secure a global peer-to-peer money that anyone on Earth can use without needing government permission is one of the best uses of energy on the planet.
Bitcoin achieves this through Proof of Work by tying money back to energy with a real cost which is exactly what makes it sound, permissionless and decentralised.
When money has a cost it cannot be printed endlessly by governments or banks so it forces discipline back into the system, reduces waste and malinvestment and helps people plan for the long term instead of being pushed into debt, speculation, and short term consumption.
Securing sound money through energy is not waste.
It is one of the highest and most important uses of energy humanity can choose right now.
https://blossom.primal.net/d8155df029def7f46b4a997c05faeefd3cfd3f93b12ef33aa391e11cb59f87b0.mov

2026-06-24 14:06:43 UTC

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Behind the scenes with @nprofile…nwq6 in a Mercedes at @npub167n…zu3r.
We spoke about The Six Billion Dollar Man, Assange, censorship and the economics of truth.
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2026-06-24 14:01:26 UTC

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🙌

2026-06-24 13:35:05 UTC

Hollywood loves a whistleblower story once the danger has passed.
Eugene Jarecki’s The Six Billion Dollar Man arrives while the danger is still attached.
Major platforms privately praised it … then said no.
Now it’s bypassing them with Bitcoin and Nostr on June 27.
My latest in Forbes featuring @nprofile…nwq6 @nprofile…tzjn Julian Assange @npub167n…zu3r.
Full article:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/06/24/the-julian-assange-film-streamers-wouldnt-touch-turns-to-bitcoin/
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2026-06-23 13:36:17 UTC

The UK's revolving door of prime ministers highlights a structural problem of chronic policy inconsistency and short termism.
Persistent deficits, debt now around 95% of GDP and weak productivity have left successive governments with very little fiscal room.
Governments too often behave as if the Laffer Curve is irrelevant, reaching for higher taxes while ignoring the point at which the tax base starts to shrink as capital, talent and businesses leave.
Capital goes where it is treated best.
The harder and more important work is supply side reform, fiscal credibility and productivity growth, but that has repeatedly been undermined by short political horizons.
The speed of technological change, especially in finance and digital assets, only makes long term planning harder. Policy too often reflects well resourced lobbying rather than deep technical expertise.
Without credible rules and a commitment to growth over short term fixes, any new prime minister will inherit the same constraints.
https://www.ft.com/content/cd15556f-8f52-4b7a-8af9-578fdbbaa9c6?sharetype=blocked

2026-06-22 13:47:35 UTC

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Thanks Gigi!!
He went on to breed Bengal leopards… 😁

2026-06-22 13:42:25 UTC

Britain does not need another chapter of managed decline dressed up as stability.
I was quoted in @CCNCitizens on what Keir Starmer’s departure could mean for the UK:
“Keir Starmer’s resignation ends a chapter of broken promises, regulatory and authoritarian overreach and economic stagnation.
Britain needs a shift to sound money, innovation, and better rules on energy, tech, digital assets and Bitcoin to avoid another cycle of decline.
Stability comes from empowering individuals over failing institutions.”
Full article:
https://www.ccn.com/news/crypto/keir-starmer-resignation-uk-crypto-policy/
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2026-06-22 06:33:56 UTC

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You can find out more about Colossus here:
https://www.tnmoc.org/colossus

2026-06-22 06:32:59 UTC

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You can view his record here:
https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/roll-of-honour/9451/
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2026-06-22 06:30:47 UTC

My great uncle Geoff helped build Colossus, the codebreaking machine used at Bletchley Park during WW2.
Bletchley Park was also known as Station X and Colossus helped crack the Nazis’ highest level codes.
He couldn't tell anybody what he had done during the war.
For 50 years, he had to stay silent while his friends and family knew nothing about his work. Some even thought he was a coward because the work was so secret.
It was only in the mid 90s that he was finally able to talk about it.
When the secret came out, we were able to do a tour of Bletchley Park as a family while he told us of his work, and everyone was blown away by what he had done and kept quiet for five decades.
He was a GPO civilian who started at Bletchley Park in December 1942 and stayed until May 1945 working in Block F Newmanry.
He operated equipment including Colossus to decrypt German teleprinter ciphers the highest level Nazi Lorenz codes.
The Colossus was the world's first programmable electronic computer, and they gave the Allies a massive advantage.
That same world of codebreaking, computing and cryptography eventually led to the cypherpunk movement. Then to Bitcoin a money system built with maths computation and open networks rather than trust in governments or central banks.
At a time when so many people feel Britain has lost its nerve, Bletchley is a reminder of what this country can do when it backs intelligence, engineering, courage and hard problems.
We have done it before and we can do it again.
As Nolan says in the clip ... we can't let England go to the dogs!
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2026-06-21 07:49:46 UTC

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English court tests Bitcoin payment for the first time.
I attended the hearing this week. The path began with Miliangos v George Frank. The House of Lords ruled courts could award judgments in foreign currency rather than forcing sterling conversion.
The Law Commission Digital Assets report discussed the possibility that courts could award damages or relief denominated in crypto-tokens themselves where that would better reflect the claimant’s loss.
That led to the Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025, which gave Bitcoin clear statutory recognition as property under English law.
This case tests the next step. Does the court have the power to order delivery of actual BTC?
This question will come up again as Bitcoin integrates further into business contracts and commerical agreements.
My full article below:
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2026-06-19 15:01:14 UTC

A claimed Bitcoin debt has reached an English court.
In Hussain v Fix a British businessman says he paid expenses in pounds and dollars on the understanding that his German business partner would reimburse half in Bitcoin. The claim is for BTC 7.806501396.
Miliangos v George Frank showed that English courts do not always have to convert claims back into sterling.
The Property (Digital Assets etc) Act 2025 gave Bitcoin property status under English law.
If parties agree to payment in Bitcoin, can a court order Bitcoin to be paid or will it end up back in pounds?
Bitcoin is now moving into normal business agreements, expenses and contracts. Courts will have to decide what happens when those agreements break down.
My latest article is live:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/06/19/english-court-asked-whether-a-debt-can-be-paid-in-bitcoin/

2026-06-18 11:36:18 UTC

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“Rather than solving the problem, the policy risks pushing children into less visible online spaces while expanding identity checks and surveillance for everyone else.”
Full article here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/06/17/uks-under-16-social-media-ban-risks-digital-id-expansion/
#nevent1q…gr65

2026-06-18 10:46:18 UTC

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😁

2026-06-18 06:28:57 UTC

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🫡💕

2026-06-18 06:28:31 UTC

“Blades are neither good nor evil. They are merely extensions of those who hold them.”
That one line explains Bitcoin, Tornado Cash, Samourai Wallet and privacy tech beautifully.
Tools do not launder money, steal funds or commit crimes ... people do.
Then he gets called a smartass and dismissed. 🤦‍♀️
This is the most accurate depiction of explaining Bitcoin to normies I’ve ever seen.
https://blossom.primal.net/a1ee6bce923bdd59a048cde780725585ad0037a6f39afc18979a19f9d94582a8.mov

2026-06-17 10:34:18 UTC

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Yes it is!!

2026-06-17 10:34:04 UTC

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😁

2026-06-17 10:33:46 UTC

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I don’t think the debate is government versus no government. It’s how we build systems that preserve accountability, consent and individual freedoms while preventing power from becoming self reinforcing.

2026-06-17 10:31:46 UTC

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💯

2026-06-17 10:31:16 UTC

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That’s quite a jump….
I think the issue here is less firearms and more whether a free society should need identity checks to access speech, information and public debate online.

2026-06-17 10:27:08 UTC

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The bit that worries me is the mission creep…. Child safety becomes age verification, age verification becomes digital ID and digital ID becomes infrastructure for control.

2026-06-17 10:25:45 UTC

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The VPN point is where this gets messier…. the pressure to close every workaround becomes inevitable.

2026-06-17 10:08:07 UTC

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Interesting, isn’t it!!! We keep being told this is about ‘protecting children’ but when serious failures involving children emerge, there often seems to be more focus on managing the narrative than pursuing accountability. 🤔

2026-06-17 08:03:02 UTC

The UK government claims its social media ban for under 16s is about protecting children.
Broadcaster Bev Turner described the policy as “the creaking of a digital cage door dressed up as a welcoming velvet rope.”
Ministers are using child safety to roll out age verification that could force facial scanning and digital identity checks on everyone ... not just kids.
This is how surveillance and control get sold as child protection while building systems that give the state and corporations unprecedented power over people’s lives.
My latest piece in Forbes.
@nprofile…knh6 @npub1kds…nsze
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/06/17/uks-under-16-social-media-ban-risks-digital-id-expansion/

2026-06-16 10:10:41 UTC

At @npub167n…zu3r I joined Gareth from The Starting Block to discuss UK policy, media misinformation and the hype around Bitcoin treasury companies.
We discussed how mainstream media has damaged Bitcoin’s reputation and public understanding of what it actually is, and how policymakers still lump Bitcoin in with crypto.
That means a protocol with a scarce asset is still being treated the same as meme coins. This is why Bitcoin only advocacy is so important.
@nprofile…sfsu has been fighting this for years on a shoestring budget. While dedicated groups struggle for funding, most corporate capital still seems to prefer generalised crypto lobby groups or more fashionable market narratives instead.
In the treasury companies space, the concept has seen a massive wave of copycats emerge over the last 18 months and we have not weathered a full cycle. Many are still experimental financial engineering often involving dilution, leverage and yield chasing.
The term is meaningless ... a coffee shop or dog groomer can now call themselves a treasury company just by holding some.
Holding bitcoin on the balance sheet alone does not make a company special. There still needs to be a real business underneath it, otherwise bitcoin is being used as the marketing.
B Hodl gets a special mention here as an example of a company holding bitcoin while actually building infrastructure and solving real problems.
We need education, sound policy and real examples like this instead of more blurred lines with crypto or untested fiat games.
Bitcoin benefits from corporate adoption, but not all adoption is equal.
@nprofile…26yw @nprofile…dq0h @nprofile…a5e7
Full interview below.
https://blossom.primal.net/bafa6b24f34c8d109c1fba7cfd66ffe4a6aaa7a8aadd5d5bc2167e5d535b7dd3.mov

2026-06-15 13:27:06 UTC

This is another great advert for bitcoin, Nostr and separating money and state.
Nobody serious thinks social media is creating a happy, healthy environment for children. The harms from addictive apps, algorithmic feeds, cyberbullying, adult content, predators, body image pressure, endless scrolling and destroyed attention spans are obvious.
The problem is that banning things rarely works, especially when technology is moving faster than the digitally illiterate policy class trying to control it.
This will push children onto VPNs, fake accounts, encrypted groups, offshore platforms, unregulated apps and darker corners of the internet where parents have even less visibility.
It risks turning a difficult parenting problem into a surveillance and identity checking regime for everyone, while giving families the false comfort that the state has 'solved' something it barely understands.
We have already seen this pattern with online age checks. The rules come in, VPN use surges, people route around the system, privacy gets weaker, and the children most at risk are driven further underground.
Australia’s under 16 ban has already shown enforcement problems, with children learning how to evade the controls rather than becoming meaningfully safer.
The really depressing part is how familiar this all feels. We have seen it in bitcoin policy for years.
The people with the worst incentives, the least technical understanding and the biggest lobbying budgets somehow end up with the ear of government, while people who actually understand the technology are ignored.
It is a total shit show.
The answer is not more state control over speech, money, identity and childhood. The answer is better parenting, better tools, better communities, better education, and less blind faith in governments with a proven track record of making problems worse.
Handing more power to the state every time society gets scared is how we sleepwalk into something far more dangerous.
Critics have already warned about enforcement, privacy and children moving to less regulated spaces.
Research on age verification and the UK Online Safety Act also points to VPN spikes and privacy concerns after age checks. At the same time, early analysis of Australia's ban suggests children often learn to evade controls rather than comply.
When governments use 'protecting children' as the justification for sweeping digital control, the question is no longer whether they mean well. It’s whether they are building the infrastructure for something far more dangerous.
#ForTheKids 🤔
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2026-06-15 10:04:40 UTC

Gatekeepers beware because Honey Badger don’t give a f*ck!
Hosted a panel on how to fight back against CBDCs and surveillance.
Interviewed @nprofile…grxp in a Mercedes about his Assange documentary, the $6 billion price of truth and the fight against state power and censorship.
Had a great chat with @nprofile…dq0h from The Block about the UK and the risks around bitcoin treasury companies.
Serious work is happening across culture, infrastructure, resistance, payments, media and privacy. BTC Prague was hopeful, serious, fun and full of energy.
Huge thanks to @npub137x…z69c, @nprofile…y4ca and the @npub167n…zu3r team ... You smashed it!! ⚡️
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2026-06-13 13:56:23 UTC

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It was super fun. I would love to do this with Sonic the Hedgehog too!!

2026-06-13 13:14:36 UTC

D++ is a genius.
She reverse engineered (hacked) Mario Kart, read the game’s memory in real time, and connected gameplay directly to Lightning payments.
As you race, sats stream to your wallet. The leaderboard updates live. Payments happen automatically. Every lap, overtake and position change can be reflected through Lightning in real time.
What makes this so clever is that it transforms Bitcoin from something people are told about into something they experience.
For many people, especially in places where scams have damaged trust, learning about Bitcoin through a game is far more powerful than listening to a presentation or reading a guide.
Projects like this also help stress test wallets, uncover bugs, improve UX and show developers what’s possible when money becomes native to the internet.
The most important thing… it’s fun… and fun is one of the most underrated drivers of adoption.
Automated micropayments plugged in live.
It’s designed to replace negative scam associations with nostalgia and fun.
Apply directly to your own games.⚡️
The building and innovation at @npub167n…zu3r is mind blowing!!
This will inspire a new generation of builders to create games, educational tools and entirely new experiences powered by Lightning. ⚡️⚡️⚡️
@npub1337…pkdt
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2026-06-12 10:15:28 UTC

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In early 2023 on @GBNews I warned that central bank digital currencies could become programmable money.
Money that can be limited, directed, monitored or linked to policy goals.
At the time, many people thought this sounded extreme.
The Bank of England’s Digital Pound Lab is now trialling use cases involving programmable payments and smart contracts.
Across the EU, the Digital Euro is moving forward, while member states are required to provide EU Digital Identity Wallets by the end of 2026.
In the UK, digital ID, age verification and the Online Safety Act are all expanding the infrastructure for digital authoritarianism.
Financial freedom depends on preserving the ability to transact without permission.
Bitcoin is a peaceful way to opt out.
Speaking about this on stage at @BTCPrague. Details below.
https://blossom.primal.net/ebe1c9c6b16e3d7d610994ab8168cd6530079381ec38d8e09b8bd7d8f43733bc.mov
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2026-06-10 10:00:15 UTC

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The 1970s did more than change money, it changed our relationship with consciousness and connection too.
With Nixon’s Controlled Substances Act in 1970, psychedelics were pushed into Schedule I and research was driven underground.
A movement that questioned authority, perception and inner freedom was treated as a threat.
The following year, the dollar was taken off the gold standard. People were severed from intuition and money was severed from energy.
These actions explain so much about where we are now.
A society drowning in debt, mental distress, disconnection and permanent war, while still pretending these things are separate problems.
Hunter S. Thompson captured the comedown in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. The great wave of the 1960s had broken and rolled back, leaving behind the sense that something alive had been interrupted before it could fully reveal what it was reaching for.
The response to this rupture has taken two different forms. One asks us to look inward and untangle the unconscious patterns running our lives. The other asks us to look outward and question the monetary system governing the world.
This demands that we stop outsourcing reality. Illusion, awakening, fear, resistance and the difficulty of seeing clearly in a world built on managed perception.
Maybe the decline did not begin when money lost its anchor. Maybe it began when society declared war on the tools that help people see the cage.
I wrote this Forbes piece in 2024 and the connection between psychedelic therapy, bitcoin and sovereignty feels even more relevant now.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/03/13/the-converging-interest-between-psychedelic-therapy-and-bitcoin/
@nprofile…78ut 💕
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2026-06-09 09:10:43 UTC

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Totally agree. Stablecoins are a CBDC via the back door. This will be part of the discussion. 🫡

2026-06-09 08:19:40 UTC

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Wicked!!

2026-06-09 08:11:09 UTC

CBDCs are financial surveillance with better branding. They are being be sold as innovation, convenient and inclusive.
Once money becomes programmable, freedom becomes conditional.
- Who decides what you can buy?
- Who decides where you can spend?
- Who decides when your access ends?
The Czech Republic knows what centralised power looks like and @npub167n…zu3r has always felt like the right place to talk about bitcoin, cypherpunks and financial freedom.
I’ll be moderating a panel on how to defend against CBDCs and surveillance with @nprofile…yd3x , Lea Thompson, Viliam Klamarčík and Tony Yazbeck.
Read the article here:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/06/17/bitcoin-cypherpunks-and-financial-freedom-at-btc-prague/
See you in Prague.
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2026-06-08 10:39:23 UTC

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Agreed. That’s why keeping the base layer decentralised is so important. Additional layers can involve trust and trade offs but if censorship resistance is preserved …. users will always be able to opt out.

2026-06-08 10:08:03 UTC

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As long as the base layer remains decentralised, solutions can be built on top, with trade-offs chosen by users and providers rather than imposed on the network ….

2026-06-08 09:57:44 UTC

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I share those concerns. It was one of the issues I touched on in my Strategic Bitcoin Reserve article.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2025/01/20/is-trumps-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-a-threat-to-freedom/

2026-06-08 09:15:34 UTC

Hal Finney understood early that Bitcoin could serve two worlds. It could become ‘a reserve currency for banks’ while still remaining permissionless money anyone can hold and use without intermediaries.
As Eric Balchunas said, Bitcoin has two major advantages. It is censorship resistant and a debasement hedge because of its scarcity.
The important thing is preserving access to both uses, so it can integrate without surrender and scale without ceasing to be freedom money.
This is the most elegant monetary achievement in history.
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2026-06-07 10:55:32 UTC

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That’s the risk….the UK is already seeing businesses, investors and entrepreneurs look elsewhere as taxes rise and the regulatory burden grows.
Wealth migration reports project a net loss of around 16,500 millionaires in 2025, the highest outflow globally. Whether the exact number proves accurate or not, the direction of travel should concern policymakers.
https://www.henleyglobal.com/publications/henley-private-wealth-migration-report-2025/what-driving-uks-millionaire-exodus

2026-06-07 08:13:03 UTC

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🧡

2026-06-07 08:12:05 UTC

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The IMF is disturbing, but at least we know what it is. The Tony Blair Institute is more unsettling because it operates in that grey zone between private influence, public policy and institutional capture.

2026-06-07 07:45:22 UTC

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Trust in centralised institutions is falling because they are failing to solve the very problems they were created to fix and often helped cause.
#nevent1q…0ktf

2026-06-06 05:19:24 UTC

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Me too!!

2026-06-05 13:39:03 UTC

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I feel very hopeful but I think it will get a lot worse before it gets better.

2026-06-05 13:37:37 UTC

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I think it is being diluted … but when people realise their ETF won’t save them and that their treasury company proxy carries significant risk, hopefully the importance of self custody, sovereignty and the original ethos will return…

2026-06-05 12:33:57 UTC

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🤣🤣🤣🤣

2026-06-05 12:17:56 UTC

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🧡

2026-06-05 10:14:01 UTC

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Yeeeesssssss!!

2026-06-05 10:13:45 UTC

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Always love hanging out with you, Ben!!