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Ville Kokkomäki

I've also read the book "Living Buddha, Living Christ by Thich Nhat Hanh" once I got myself entangled not only in Buddha's and Jesus' teachings. It's a great book, and I'm still exploring. It motivates me to write a similar book, because I feel like I could extend his story, given I'm somewhat a "buddhist" and somewhat a "christian".
Thanks for writing the piece Gigi. Be well.

2026-06-02 20:38:43 UTC

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Oh nooo Xd

2026-05-25 20:07:57 UTC

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Corruption and privacy... Ehhh. (Sigh.) Suppose a hypothetical ledger is so private and anonymous that no transaction can be deciphered to whom it belongs to. That doesn't mean the parties involved wouldn't be obliged to keep records and be transparents regardless, by law and regulations. The technology itself then is the layer that either allows (standardised) options for all - meaning either all is publicly there or none is or something in between. I choose privacy. The matter is that which the edge cases, in our case, cypherpunks, fight for because "if privacy is outlawed, then only outlaws will have privacy". They fight for our digital rights. That's not going to be optimal if all is public. Again, corruption is a human flaw, not so much a technological bug. (Just some loosely-tied thoughts.)

2026-05-25 12:47:24 UTC

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Huge thanks for the Content team! Wouldn't have made it without ya.

2026-05-24 06:20:41 UTC

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That was not what I expected

2026-05-21 14:10:25 UTC

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Hey, the realities that @npub1wee…09xg just pointed out just now, are real. I get the satire, but don't mess around, even though you might find it funny. Take a breath, and come back and think about this straight. Be well.

2026-05-19 14:51:43 UTC

HRF just released Bitcoin for Nonprofits, A Guide To Help Your Movement Achieve Financial Freedom! See at https://hrf.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/BFN-Guide-Hyperlinked.pdf Lit🔥

2026-05-13 15:47:51 UTC

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Site is now live at https://debankd.org/ !

2026-05-13 15:45:28 UTC

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You might be interested in this @npub1trr…hdpu It's now ready.

2026-05-13 15:45:03 UTC

Hello world,
I finished building the financial censorship monitor at https://debankd.org/. The source code is visible at https://github.com/Kokkomaki/financial-censorship/ The site and the data may be the first to systematically collect financial censorship events. Do share it with others that may be interested in seeing it as visualised data. You can also contribute by submitting cases and correcting them. There's still some things left to do, but for now I am taking a pause and see where this is going.
Be well,
Ville
#bitcoin #financialcensorship #censorship #journalism #data #monitor #AI #claude #code #activism #dashboard #thesis #banks #debanked #funds
https://image.nostr.build/1b3150a7e1758809056c1ed5a9ffe3db12bf4b3225e74ba5510abb9e52e63920.png

2026-05-08 05:12:44 UTC

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Nice art!

2026-05-01 08:35:54 UTC

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Behaviour and merit reflect closely to the concept of karma or "you seap what you row".

2026-04-29 09:19:33 UTC

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The new site will be online at debankd.org instead of the nofunds.org .

2026-04-19 06:45:55 UTC

I added commenting powered by nostr, so now you can comment on my blog posts using nostr account. For me this is groundbreaking how easy it is, as well as scalable. #Nostr is rad! Next up #zaps ! You may check my blog at www.kokkomaki.com

2026-03-31 08:45:34 UTC

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@nprofile…xncl you might be interested in this!

2026-03-31 08:44:44 UTC

I'm building a financial censorship monitor at https://nofunds.org/. It's not yet ready, and I'm still compiling a dataset. It's a monitor tracking cases of financial censorship, such as bank account freezes, payment blocks, and asset seizures used against journalists, activists, and civil society. It should be fully automatic, thought that might take some time to do.
I wrote my Master's thesis on this topic back in 2023. https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/187407 Now with the power of Claude Code I can finally create an near-exhaustive dataset with code and AI. I have been working on this for a while, and it might still take few months as I am also starting my work. More on that soon. Claude Code is opening new frontiers for me.
#bitcoin#financialcensorship#censorship#journalism#data#monitor hashtag#AI#claude#code#activist#dashboard#thesis#banks

2026-03-19 17:28:42 UTC

I built a Lightning Network paywall | Ville Kokkomäki
https://kokkomaki.com/posts/i-built-a-lightning-network-paywall/
I BUILT A LIGHTNING NETWORK PAYWALL ON MY BLOG. hashtag#Bitcoin stuff. Sorry for the caps-lock. I'm so stoked. It's a working proof of concept. Of course, you must pay 21 sats, which is is about 1 cent. I made it using Claude Code. It took me one day to make. But then the bug nation attacked. First came complexity and abstraction, and the following bugs and improvements, and bugs upon bugs and their friends. Sigh. Life of a (vibe) coder, huh?
https://stacker.news/items/1457157

2025-12-01 11:36:04 UTC

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Can you elaborate?

2025-11-28 16:53:26 UTC

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@nprofile…xncl @nprofile…xstc

2025-11-28 16:52:10 UTC

https://kokkomaki.com/2025/11/28/bitcoin-is-not-freedom-tech-by-default/
Alex Gladstein tells the story of how Bitcoin is a trojan horse, which authoritarian regimes take inside their walls. He claims that Bitcoin is “freedom go up, price go up”, “freedom technology”. However, we generally mix up what Bitcoin the technology can afford for individuals with what it de facto does under messy, real life situations. We treat Bitcoin’s technical features as if they automatically lead to whatever, political or economic, freedom. But this only works if people understand and can safely use those features, which is often not the case. So the story is nuanced and that is not clear from the slogan.

2024-08-21 16:12:54 UTC

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Yeah, I checked today that I follow 191 accounts. So weird I thought - and indeed: no agency.