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Russell Rukin
@russellrukin.bsky.social
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Artist, engineer, Bitcoiner, creative - mashing it all up to make a better planet for all who squirm on the blue orb.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · Dec 19
Many western progressives need a 'financial privilege check up'. Don't leave it too late get checked out today!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh2H...
Check Your Financial Privilege: How the Financial System Fails 87% of People
YouTube video by Human Rights Foundation
www.youtube.com
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anita.link
I'm sharing the story of a farmer, because too many Bitcoin discussions stay theoretical. Critics dismiss it as speculation; maximalists oversell it as a panacea.
October 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Detractors like to try and throw shade that Bitcoin is just an investment... An investment in human rights might be far more accurate. Here is Bitcoin Policy UK's CEO finding out more www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6L...
From Hotel Rwanda to Bitcoin: Anise Kanimba on Freedom & Financial Justice | My Two Sats
YouTube video by Roxom TV Europe
www.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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anita.link
Just another milestone. How low can this guy go.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · Oct 19
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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freddienew.bsky.social
Plenty of other examples here: bitcoinpolicy.uk/bitcoin-rights
Bitcoin Policy UK
We champion good policies that will benefit all those in the UK who hold, use and mine Bitcoin
bitcoinpolicy.uk
October 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
russellrukin.bsky.social
As an East Anglian resident I feel the urge to respond to this article. I would like the opportunity to do this in long form @eastangliabylines.co.uk (will contact you via the website) as the Professor hits upon ‘some’ important information for the public but completely misses Bitcoin’s importance.
eastangliabylines.co.uk East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · Oct 15
Cryptocurrency isn’t freedom, writes Prof Richard Murphy.

It’s deregulation dressed up as liberation.

Behind the rhetoric lies the same old story: profit for the few, risk for the many.
Cryptocurrency: lawlessness disguised as liberty
Cryptocurrency is sold as radical innovation and financial liberation. In reality, it’s an old familiar story: fraud
eastangliabylines.co.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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breakintoprogram.co.uk
Today is Ada Lovelace Day.
Ada Lovelace Day - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 14, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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joenakamoto.bsky.social
hello @felicityhannah.bsky.social

please see this message from Freddie New regarding your Money Box episode this week
September 25, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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hrf.org
HRF celebrates today’s announcement that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her decades-long commitment to freedom, democracy, and human dignity in Venezuela.
October 10, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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dav1rus.bsky.social
The Nobel Peace Prize winner is a progressive Bitcoiner freedom fighter.
Silently, Bitcoin keeps gaining ground because we need it to, because it's the main tool in the fight for liberty and equality.
October 10, 2025 at 11:43 AM
russellrukin.bsky.social
WOW
María Corina Machado, Bitcoin opposition leader and Bitcoin advocate wins the Nobel peace prize! Never mind Trump!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1...

hrf.org/.../hrf-inte...
Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins
Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.
www.bbc.com
October 10, 2025 at 11:19 AM
russellrukin.bsky.social
Bitcoin is not 'crypto'.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIUv...
Bitcoin is not crypto
YouTube video by Bitcoin Policy UK
www.youtube.com
October 10, 2025 at 8:35 AM
russellrukin.bsky.social
Save in Bitcoin. Join the people's network today.
October 10, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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resistance.money
I've been reading a bunch of AI skeptics lately, and I'm noticing how closely they resemble another kind of technology skeptic I know well — the bitcoin skeptic. Some patterns:
October 6, 2025 at 7:44 AM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
signal.org Signal @signal.org · Oct 3
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 6, 2025 at 6:46 AM
russellrukin.bsky.social
Bitcoin Policy UK were at the @labouruk.bsky.social conference this week talking about the clear water between Bitcoin (the innovation) & 'crypto' (the 99.8% scams). We educated regulators, ministers and public on the fiscal, environmental & human rights benefits Bitcoin brings.
October 3, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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This is exactly what we talked about with MP's and delegates at the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social conference these last few days.
October 2, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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See you at the Labour Party conference @serauk.bsky.social

B4 main hall. I have all those energy and environment papers with me let us dig and turn the tide on fossil fuels together!
September 26, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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@labourlewis.bsky.social @serauk.bsky.social @greenpartymolly.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i...

Alex Schoch (Octopus Energy) mentions Bitcoin mining specifically at the end of this pod for a very good reason. No other industry at scale is as flexible as Bitcoin mining. We eat methane!
Intelligent Demand: How Consumers Can Support The Grid with Alex Schoch (Octopus Energy)
Podcast Episode · Transmission · 16/09/2025 · 37m
podcasts.apple.com
September 17, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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anita.link
Let’s bring zaps to Bluesky and more mainstream content to Nostr!

Decentralize and democratize the internet!
rabble.nz Rabble @rabble.nz · Sep 11
Activist, Technologist, and Author @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy took time to talk to me about the future of social media, protocols, resisting enshitification, bluesky, the fediverse, and the world we're trying to build together.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=exvp...
Cory Doctorow on Escaping Big Tech, Privacy Battles & “Enshittification”
YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble
www.youtube.com
September 15, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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anita.link
An example why we need the right to stay pseudonymous on the internet!
jsweetli.bsky.social Jacqueline Sweet @jsweetli.bsky.social · Sep 13
Elon sharing the name of 66 random not-famous people to his many millions of followers because this person said they said things she didn’t like about Charlie Kirk.

I erased the names and employers from the screenshot but you can see their jobs. Nurses, teachers etc.
September 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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progressivebitcoiner.org
Bitcoin has been branded as libertarian.
But it doesn’t belong to any party, company, or elite.

It belongs to us—if we choose to show up.

Let’s reclaim the narrative. Let’s build a movement.

#crypto #bitcoin #bitcoinforgood #theprogressivebitcoiner
September 10, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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meredithmeredith.bsky.social
📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else!

www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security" To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility. Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app. Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.
September 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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hrf.org
On ABC News’s Sunday Extra, HRF Korea Desk Director Seongmin Lee shares how HRF’s Flash Drives for Freedom has reached 1.38M+ North Koreans with smuggled content that counters regime propaganda.

🎧 Listen now: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Smuggling USB drives into North Korea - ABC listen
Flash drives for Freedom is a long-running initiative by the Human Rights Foundation which has smuggled 140,000 donated USB drives, SD cards and micro SD cards into North Korea, filled with informatio...
www.abc.net.au
September 8, 2025 at 4:54 PM
russellrukin.bsky.social
The amount of computing power securing the Bitcoin network is on a parabolic growth curve... so you'd expect emissions to be also on the same growth curve right? Wrong. Bitcoin mining has no choice but to build out RE & use wasted & stranded energy. Trend is clear.

www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2025/cambrid...
Cambridge study: sustainable energy rising in Bitcoin mining - News & insight - Cambridge Judge Business School
The use of sustainable energy sources for Bitcoin mining has grown to 52.4% finds a new study by Cambridge Judge Business School.
www.jbs.cam.ac.uk
September 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
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On stage in Glasgow talking about stranded and wasted energy in Scotland and how Bitcoin mining can unlock that potential, over build RE and curtail methane emissions. All while being perfect demand response. #Scotland #Bitcoin #Methane #renewables
August 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM