gladstein

https://hrf.org/programs/financial-freedom/

Public Key

npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu

NIP-05 Address

gladstein@primal.net

NIP-57 Address

gladstein@getalby.com

Profile Code

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Publishing to

nostr.fmt.wiz.biz

relay.highlighter.com

nostr.wine

Author Public Key

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2025-07-02 02:19:38

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Just submitted an 8k word piece for the first time in 18 months
Felt good!

2025-06-30 04:03:40

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Thanks!

2025-06-28 02:48:11

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🔥

2025-06-27 22:23:01

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Sure. But please don’t affinity scam into Bitcoin

2025-06-27 00:01:09

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I buy a lot of things with bitcoin
Maybe you can’t buy anything with it, but that’s on you

2025-06-26 21:51:37

Main reflection every time I go to DC:
It is astonishing how much damage the term “crypto” has done as a one size fits all category
The worst altcoin scam promoters are lumped in THE SAME meetings and treated with the same cordiality with Bitcoin miners and stablecoin issuers. All the time.
Congressmen and women scammed by SBF are weary of “crypto” - and they are right!
We need to be specific
“Crypto council” type constructs are silly. Why should Bitcoin miners have to share a table and discuss fart coin? Completely unrelated to what they do
Huge respect to BPI for pushing in this direction, their name alone means and does a lot
There should be Bitcoin meetings, legislation, working groups etc which exclude affinity scammers or anyone not working on Bitcoin

2025-06-25 11:27:37

What a city
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2025-06-24 01:05:17

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He absolutely did not make this point
He just said LN was cope and a failure which is laughable
Many times I argued that LN is far from perfect, won’t be digital cash for everyone, etc
What you miss is LN is an open global network

2025-06-22 01:31:53

A good hat for a night like tonight
Keep building 🫡
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2025-06-20 22:20:19

It is hard to believe people take this stuff seriously
https://image.nostr.build/26abb9fff853a450bce98eb606e4b46a9da6d24043d0a97e848833b23b1193fe.jpg

2025-06-20 21:23:34

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They just announced it
It’s a software update
All square readers will accept LN

2025-06-20 18:06:33

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Seasons 1-6 are my favorite TV show ever
There are some bright spots in 7 and 8 as well (s8 e3 was epic) but overall yeah the producers just ruined the clever and delicate plot development by rushing the last 2 seasons
Needed one or two more full seasons to do it justice

2025-06-20 17:09:35

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To be clear, they will accept Lightning and ecash speaks Lightning
You can pay out in LN from ecash wallets

2025-06-20 14:28:26

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You are free to use a privacy shitcoin instead if you’d like

2025-06-20 01:48:51

What a timeline
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2025-06-19 21:56:41

One great moment from my debate with Paul
https://blossom.primal.net/344d34c8e119b119ede087ea6a296893c3ffe9360d4420bb9acb8a711b885ee8.mp4

2025-06-19 21:35:03

I debated Paul, who maintains that Lightning is cope and doesn't work
In the end I invited him to join nostr so we can zap him as he shits all over Lightning 😂
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OPZ3q_8zHg

2025-06-19 15:48:42

Sharing this here too
X / Nostr comparison
I posted the same video yesterday on each platform
148 RT, 490 likes on X w/ 250k followers (comments mostly bots)
80 RT, 193 likes on nostr w/ ~50k followers… AND 95 BTC micropayments 😎
Freedom protocol FTW, love you guys

2025-06-19 00:38:30

Is there a German word for when you go to try and zap someone prominent and realize it’s a cross-post from the fediverse (thank you bridgers) and they don’t know there is something better over here where they can actually earn the most valuable currency in the world for their posts from their audience anywhere on the planet?
#nevent1q…943g

2025-06-18 22:55:33

Not sure what’s going on here (account seems to be off then on again) but clearly, regardless of how you feel about the VP, this is why we nostr
https://image.nostr.build/d4a7bc1199e0fb798bd390a549bec16ab414e01d02ac0b79315482dacab27269.jpg

2025-06-18 19:17:49

We made this video 3 years ago so haven't had a chance to post it here yet
But it still hits 👌
https://blossom.primal.net/7050fd702e0e43ffade3a3ed1902ab4280612283b62d6b3ed1c1474a26bd14dc.mp4

2025-06-17 19:48:29

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2025-06-17 03:02:26

One of the saddest / craziest things is people have more or less forgotten about this in the wider world, after 3 years of death and destruction
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2025-06-13 08:34:18

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2025-06-10 06:21:55

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Yep learned about it from @npub1rtl…jtfs I think on RHR and have been shilling it ever since

2025-06-06 20:22:45

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Appreciate the post. We must harness the tech for good 🫡

2025-06-06 20:21:37

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Yes, most.
Some are great! And we hope to support more in this vein

2025-06-06 20:21:21

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No one cares about your silly crusade
HRF *never* misleads users about self-custody. It is the bedrock of our financial freedom training. Ecash is always explained as NOT self-custodial and that users make a tradeoff to gain privacy
But everyone here knows this and there is years of evidence so your whining must have to do with something else

2025-06-06 20:07:22

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HRF LOVES freedom for users
Ecash is fantastic because of the exceptional privacy it provides for small transactions
When used in conjunction with self custody it’s a potent combo
Keep doomering

2025-06-06 15:49:53

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Do you have any idea how much time of non profits and activists is spent on menial digital labor? — that time is about to be completely unlocked for actual productivity

2025-06-06 14:43:57

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Pencil and paper to keyboard my friend

2025-06-06 14:18:32

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I mean. Enabling anyone to code?

2025-06-06 14:18:21

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I’m good with it

2025-06-06 14:12:49

We have crossed the Rubicon
Excited to see how this tech will supercharge freedom fighters world wide!
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2025-06-04 19:37:12

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Lots

2025-06-04 15:22:04

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Great quote love that show

2025-06-04 14:06:50

For many years I had never seen the extraordinary fully zoomed out Tank Man photo
Today in China even the tiniest reference of Tiananmen Square or 6/4 (June 4) is live-censored by the CCP’s dynamic AI-powered surveillance system. Slowly erasing the event from people’s minds and family histories
Even imagery (for example a photo sent of 6 leaves and 4 flowers) is instablocked, with punishment sure to follow
THAT is the technological environment we must find ways for freedom to survive in
I absolutely believe it will happen. Life finds a way. Tyrants and empires always fall. But it won’t be easy or handed to us on a silver platter
https://image.nostr.build/0e939bd20b72e6e1111072d6ba4a01e7b7c8bbfefd9c9096f82286eca0892d59.jpg

2025-06-04 09:35:54

Today some of the most brilliant engineers are meeting up with some of the bravest dissidents to construct new ways to expand freedom in a world that desperately needs it
AI, nostr, and Bitcoin will supercharge their efforts
Never before has the power of the powerless been more powerful 💪

2025-06-03 17:08:08

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🔥

2025-05-31 20:51:24

Was a pleasure and honor to have Leonard join us at the Oslo Freedom Forum
What a hero 🫡
#note1uny…mfrh

2025-05-26 13:25:09

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https://www.youtube.com/live/F2RbjppeaKc?si=PhNXAay8QbDIWi9X

2025-05-26 13:23:31

Happy Oslo Freedom Forum day!
🇳🇴
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2025-05-25 06:06:57

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Will be nicer tomorrow!

2025-05-24 06:27:38

Weak move by French authorities
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2025-05-23 16:06:16

🔥
#note1ga6…fchz

2025-05-23 14:42:57

One of the best newsletters is Adam Tooze's "Chartbook"
adamtooze.substack.com
You always learn fascinating stuff
Here's something from today's edition:
20 Key Products China is Heavily Dependent on for Imports
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2025-05-23 00:24:40

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That’s gonna be tough for me. But I can do the fakie 180 frontside heel flip pretty reliably

2025-05-22 23:45:31

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Let’s play skate

2025-05-21 16:40:31

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How would a user actually execute this, assuming CTV was live and they got a 72 hour notice and were paying attention? Curious to hear this described in detail

2025-05-21 15:28:12

Lots of drama and bickering lately
Do NOT lose sight of what is happening
A leaderless decentralized cypherpunk open source software project that secures property rights and free speech for anyone and destroys central banking and financial censorship has just eclipsed the corporate behemoth Amazon in market cap
4 left to go…
This is without a doubt the best timeline ✌️
https://image.nostr.build/2f8cce8f4ce8279510172299426c36992234d6553280b44b0e86733bcd7ee8e4.jpg

2025-05-19 16:20:11

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Show is awesome but this episode can be watched as a stand alone

2025-05-19 13:55:09

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Have you seen the One Way Out episode of Andor?
It’s fucking amazing if you haven’t

2025-05-18 23:26:40

Can anyone think of something better that the US government could have spent $7 billion of taxpayer money on instead of bombing one of the world’s poorest countries?

2025-05-18 22:52:05

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And BSA thresholds tracked too 👌

2025-05-18 04:45:54

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🤝

2025-05-18 02:56:15

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I see you!

2025-05-18 02:55:38

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Def not El Salvador or any of its cities
That’s an authoritarian regime

2025-05-18 01:50:49

😂
Also - what city would nostr be?
https://image.nostr.build/d1db23145fd0bade9b5cd03165c99f07043e8d55d0b2101d312c7c4b578ad6e3.jpg

2025-05-17 20:53:18

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HRF is helping Russia. That’s a new one 😂
I should put that in my Twitter bio
As far as whether I am a “good person”
We can let others be the judge of that
I rest easy knowing I am anti-Putin, pro-Ukraine, and also anti starving and bombing hundreds of thousands of innocent women and children in Gaza
You rest easy wanting more death and destruction and starvation
What a world!
Maybe we can hope in a small irony your work for Bitcoin will make your dreams of catastrophic state imposed violence less possible

2025-05-17 20:23:44

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History is one long laundry list of how you can’t kill ideas with brute force.
What you can do is introduce better ideas. Appreciate your work on making Bitcoin a more widespread global idea.
HRF doesn’t support violence and we don’t get involved in warfare.
Sorry to disappoint!

2025-05-17 17:05:11

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Ok. Glad to hear that you don’t think all Russians need to be killed.
I don’t mean to show any disregard for Ukrainians. They are the victims. And I have appreciated how you stand up for them unlike the rest of the Bitcoin community. We just disagree on how best to help.
I would like us to protect innocent civilians. In my view that means a) Putin ending his war and retreating and b) an end to the IDF bombing and starving of Gaza and the end of Hamas
I understand that you think the only way to defeat Russian imperialism and Islamic terror is brute force violence, but I don’t agree. Can’t kill an idea. Far more long-term effective (not to mention more peaceful) if Russians or Palestinians can be mobilized to rise up and change their own governments. Germans run Germany peacefully today same with Japan, I see no reason why there can’t be a peaceful democratic Russia and Gaza in the future.

2025-05-17 16:39:48

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I dislike Hamas as much as anyone. I just don’t think it’s the right thing to do to starve and expel 2 million people (half of them under 18 years old) to fight them. IMO we should be supporting anti-Hamas movements in Gaza.
You are correct about the long history of Russian imperialism. But you can’t seriously think the solution is to kill and eradicate 100M people? How about helping other people come to power who don’t want to invade their neighbors? Worked in Germany and Japan, who both had horrible Fascist empires, why not Russia?

2025-05-17 16:18:09

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Members of the Israeli government regularly and publicly boast that their goal is to flatten Gaza, seize it, and expel Palestinians and take their land. You can see this in Israeli newspapers and TV every single day. Look up Ministers Ben Gvir and Smotrich in particular. Bev Gvir even said he wants to move there!
As for Navalny, we’ll just have to disagree. IMO the only way to defuse Russian fascism and imperialism is to end the Putin regime, not to kill all the Russians.

2025-05-17 15:51:43

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Where did I do that? I don’t think any religious fundamentalists are good, but I didn’t compare the two in my post. You’re arguing against a strawman

2025-05-17 15:42:07

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What’s a single lie I have mentioned about Israel?
Please elaborate.
As for Ukraine, HRF has been supporting Ukraine since it was created. With funds, support, prizes, assistance. We literally just ran a campaign to keep power on for people during the winter to prevent them from freezing. I am proud of our support for Ukrainians. We ALSO support Anti-Putin Russians. Some Ukrainians don’t like that.

2025-05-17 14:41:00

Nostr is ALIVE

2025-05-17 14:39:26

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I don’t see what Peter’s views on the Middle East have to do with his ability to help with the Bitcoin protocol or with open source software

2025-05-17 06:49:48

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Let’s not conflate. I am against the current policies of the crazy Netanyahu government, not against “Israel” or the Israeli people or “Jews” (I am partly Jewish myself and have relatives who survived the Holocaust)
Judaism is a multi-thousand year old anti-fragile religion, and Netanyahu’s crazy war is only two years old. Judaism will outlive this madness. And neither Netanyahu nor the ultra religious crazies that are part of his government have a claim to Judaism.
I am also pro Palestine, but anti Hamas and anti Islamic extremism. Maybe these don’t square for you but they square for me and plenty of others.

2025-05-17 03:54:47

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50% of Gazans were not alive to vote in the 2006 elections. Current polling has Hamas with a very small minority support. There are currently large street protests against Hamas, people risking their lives to rise up. The IDF has killed tens of thousands of women and children non-combatants. These are all facts…

2025-05-16 23:56:20

A “Mandibles then Bitcoin Standard” @npub1qny…95gx special
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2025-05-16 23:19:02

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What’s the math on what the IDF owes Gazan people who don’t support Hamas?

2025-05-16 21:31:56

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To Libya?

2025-05-16 20:57:41

Hard to fathom
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2025-05-15 05:25:31

Crazy
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2025-05-12 12:50:12

The first time Bitcoin hit dollar parity
Next stop: sat-cent parity!
H/T @npub1pu5…pn0a
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2025-05-11 14:43:41

This is the surface of Venus, captured by a Soviet probe in the 1970s
A piece of one of these missions just crash landed in the Indian Ocean
I didn’t even know the Soviets had landed crafts on Venus, took photos, recorded sounds, etc, until a few years ago
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2025-05-10 19:04:19

NYC folks - I will be at @npub1key…lt3h this Monday evening chatting with @npub1xy6…hgpl about Bitcoin, Trojan Horse adoption theory, the Oslo Freedom Forum, and whatever else you wanna jam on
Knicks game 4 right after!
https://www.meetup.com/pubkey-meetups/events/307120693

2025-05-09 20:29:08

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They can make it illegal to own, this will just make it more valuable. This has already happened in numerous countries. How do you ban an idea? Math? Tyrants will try but this is unlikely to happen long term in democracies as being anti Bitcoin will be political suicide.
Tracking is much more difficult than you imply especially for small amounts. The number of mobile apps these days that conduct non KYC swaps is growing.
But I’ll give a practical example of how much harder it is to track Bitcoin than fiat. If we make a grant to someone in Egypt with fiat, the regime immediately knows. If we make same grant using BTC, the regime is clueless

2025-05-09 19:01:48

Which way, anon?
https://image.nostr.build/3f6ce4848cbc3c6d6995479960629cd60ed1b201de104a95a850fad7147331ba.jpg

2025-05-09 18:21:43

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Agreed
I think they could achieve a pseudo kind of CBDC indirectly controlled by the state with stables but only if the tokens are tracked to ID

2025-05-09 17:59:47

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I don’t understand. Governments can’t devalue Bitcoin. They can imperfectly track but it all they have is assumptions as for ownership / identity.
Tether already censors, that doesn’t make it a CBDC

2025-05-09 17:57:46

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I am not making a value judgement on Tether I am just pointing out a definitional/technological difference

2025-05-09 17:43:29

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If it adds KYC it becomes a completely different product with a completely different user base and IMO tons of its value prop is destroyed

2025-05-09 17:28:10

Legacy US dollars are NOT CBDCs
The Fed does not directly issue digital cash to the population right now
It issues cash (not a CBDC) and otherwise private corporations issue dollars
Tether is not a CBDC for many reasons but primary amount them is that it does not require ID to use
The central purpose of a CBDC is to surveil and track and control and this isn’t possible to do if you don’t know who is using the money
If Tether starts requiring KYC then maybe it can morph into a CBDC but then it loses most of its global value proposition
#note19ze…sqjx

2025-05-06 23:33:56

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🙏

2025-05-06 21:27:18

“Crypto” perfectly summarized
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2025-05-05 16:54:41

I hope this is not the case
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2025-05-03 22:15:10

Obviously right now we live in a fiat world where Bitcoin is a small but growing part of the global financial system
I think it’s possible we could live briefly in a fiat world actually “backed” by Bitcoin in the way BW system was dollars “backed” by gold
But not for long. Don’t forget BW only really lasted about 15 years
I think BTC obsoletes / replaces USD but this is still a wild chart (from ZH today)
Crazy to think how much of this has already happened or is in the works
https://image.nostr.build/cba025bff72be2f9fc3e5a7a1f3547951acc247e141291ef6d6337bffead5889.jpg

2025-05-02 23:36:56

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Don’t forget $43B to DHS!

2025-05-02 22:34:57

Crazy
#nevent1q…36us

2025-05-02 21:24:42

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13% jump in military spending is hardly “cherry picked”

2025-05-02 19:59:35

Not sure if this is the way…
https://image.nostr.build/8e332faa539eff56c9e8affe9dcaa5ddb7f42809eac6d9a4c90ad52c7815e1ca.jpg

2025-05-01 17:32:32

Oil economies in the Gulf propping up a new dollar market
Where have we seen this before?
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https://image.nostr.build/6994abd77c319a7970a204b0d408810bb3c06bd3eb3cd6af73450eef757f2ea8.jpg

2025-04-30 16:39:00

Epic thread 🧵
#note1vdy…acp8

2025-04-30 05:13:34

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@npub1yxp…399s seems to think so!

2025-04-30 05:08:34

Welcome Monero folks to nostr
💜 😂
#note100d…pvxx

2025-04-30 04:36:37

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Stoked Monero folks are here on nostr!

2025-04-28 20:55:14

Freedom Tech at the Oslo Freedom Forum this year is going to be 🔥
🇳🇴
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2025-04-27 23:52:38

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Awesome, so glad you got it!

2025-04-27 00:04:53

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Awesome, so glad you got it safe and sound!