Thrilled that Alaa will be free. Heartbroken at the costs paid by his family and everyone that loves him: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Bitcoin often makes headlines when its price in $$$ rises. But the real power of Bitcoin lies in its use-case as freedom money. When your friends ask you “Why Bitcoin?” show them this: Cc @hrf.org @gladstein.bsky.social www.forbes.com/sites/digita...

Border patrol walking McArthur park here in LA

Bitcoin is freedom money Crypto is not Any questions?

⚠ Update: Live metrics show the internet blackout in the central and southern #Gaza has now passed 56 hours; the disruption continues to severely limit visibility into events on the ground 📉

I'm looking forward to talking about innovative ways funders can fund frontline organisations working in repressive environments at #oslofreedomforum @osloff.bsky.social today with @gladstein.bsky.social @hrf.org

BREAKING: The United Kingdom has overtaken China as second-largest foreign holder of US Treasury Securities

NEW: #Google's #Android 16 to feature optional high security mode. Cool! It's the 'turn this one thing on if you face elevated risk' that we've been asking for from Google. Bunch of requested features that address the kinds of threats we worry about. Let's dig in a bit 1/

BREAKING: For the first time in its history, Moodys has downgraded the credit rating of the United States from AAA to AA1.

Bitcoin is an extremely simple thesis If you think governments will stop debasing and debanking: number go down If you think they won’t stop debasing and debanking: number go up Now what’s more likely?

Gumbo

Government debt getting murdered. UK 30-year yields at highest level since 1998

Now that we have passed midnight, President Trump’s tariffs, the highest since 1909, are now in full effect.

60 Minutes could find no criminal records for 75% of the Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador. https://cbsn.ws/4clubLP

NYU canceled a planned speech by the former president of Doctors Without Borders because she planned to discuss the humanitarian crisis in Gaza and cuts to US AID. This is what actual campus censorship looks like.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

UW just released this video with me about the philosophy of bitcoin. “Bitcoin is there for anyone who feels like at some point they might need resistance money… If you think some day you may end up on the margins, you should know how to acquire and use bitcoin.” www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBum...

One of Bitcoin’s greatest assets is a fifteen-year-long stockpile of wild and empirically falsified predictions from deranged critics. What they don’t understand (clearly they haven’t seen my office door) is that critical pressure makes bitcoin stronger.

To the frustration of the great majority of Bluesky users, this Bitcoin thing refuses to go away Maybe it’s time to slow down and take a look at what is happening around the world carefully instead of dismissing it 😉

I don't want my appliances to be connected to the internet. I don't want them to have blinky lights or touch screen controls or be accessible by phone. All I want is for them to do the one thing they are supposed to do, and to beep less. Hear that, manufacturers? Less beeping.

Scoop: People involved in WH discussions about TikTok say Oracle and Microsoft having talks about taking control of TikTok’s global operation, with ByteDance retaining minority stake www.npr.org/2025/01/25/g...

BREAKING TikTok has shut down in the United States. CapCut, the editing software TikTok owns, has also shut down. They have also been removed from the App Store.

Governments stockpiling Bitcoin was always going to happen, if Bitcoin was going to be successful The “risk” would be Bitcoin failing, not being valuable, and governments not wanting to stockpile it

BREAKING President Biden has decided to grant his son Hunter Biden a pardon in his two federal criminal cases. This is a reversal from his previously publicly stated position on granting clemency to his son.

Bhutan has accumulated more than $1 billion worth of Bitcoin on the back of using its previously stranded hydropower resources to mine BTC How do folks here feel about that? Do we have another technology that can convert wasted/stranded energy in remote places into global liquid capital?

Fair point!

This is an excellent piece, entitled “How Dictators Use Financial Repression Against Their Opponents” by Félix Maradiaga. Echoes that put forward by @gladstein.bsky.social of HRF regarding Bitcoin as a tool to push back against authoritarianism. www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

Bitcoin and mining are still so widely misunderstood on Bluesky. “It’s for Drugs! Gambling! Destroying the climate!” Why is Bitcoin important? Who is it important to? What good is it doing for anyone? Alex Gladstein from The Human Rights Foundation sheds some light on that in this presentation:

This is what I am referring to btw in case someone is interested.

It really seems like 99% of the people using @bsky.app think that Bitcoin is useless or worse This is genuinely staggering and derives mostly from financial privilege Here’s a tiny tiny handful of the many use cases Bitcoin has worldwide: www.journalofdemocracy.org/online-exclu...

i really don’t get why people on this app hate bitcoin. LOL. Its money for people. thats all. Once they are forced to use cbdcs they might change tune

Alex’s @gladstein.bsky.social talk at BTC Miami this week shook the room in the best of ways. I can’t wait to read and listen to more of his work 🙏👀🌎

Speaking of bad ideas that will not die, the EARN IT Act is back. It's still bad and it still wants to scan all of your messages. https://act.eff.org/action/the-earn-it-act-is-back-seeking-to-scan-us-all

When you find out that your book, The People’s Republic of Amnesia has indeed been disappeared from HK library shelves. This should be no surprise, and yet the pace of the vanishing is accelerating

Twitter's impersonation problem is wild. I counted over 140 fakes of just one user: Alex Gladstein of the Human Rights Foundation. Silver lining? Persuaded him to join us here. Welcome @gladstein.bsky.social.