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From Hotel Rwanda to Bitcoin: Anise Kanimba on Freedom & Financial Justice | My Two Sats

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 3h

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...

YouTube video by Roxom TV Europe

From Hotel Rwanda to Bitcoin: Anise Kanimba on Freedom & Financial Justice | My Two Sats

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 3h

This is Susie on Roxom with look at how Bitcoin is 'vital' not just a transactional luxury www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6L...

YouTube video by Roxom TV Europe

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Anita ⚡️🌈 @anita.link · 3h

Just another milestone. How low can this guy go.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10h

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 4h

Yep. Let us not forget the bleeding edge is also the Lightning network threaded into NOSTR.

Star of development might have to go to CASHU that prefers LN. So literally bringing David Chaum's 1982 vision for ecash to life finally! So important. Calle is a Trojan on this layers development.

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 4h

Maybe you'd like to join Bitcoin Policies CEO Susie Violet Ward on Roxom TV for a chat about Lightning and the bleeding edge developments? We could get Ben Arc or Ben de Waal (both in the UK) as they are at the coal (pun intended) face of Lightning transactional use?

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 5h

Yes it was a crime! Pure fraud.

I love this video by @joenakamoto.bsky.social where he gets Giacomo to detail the three levels of crypto scam youtu.be/i6rV5HlbPTM?... Onecoin is a third degree scam.

YouTube video by Joe Nakamoto

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 5h

TGV/bullet train = stablecoin

Good analogy, so can be stopped and subject to the whim of who runs the network!

Bitcoin mainchain = Oxford Electric Bell or an atomic clock (unstoppable)

Bitcoin Lightning/layers = speed of light (why you so slow bullet train?). Made for the future not the past.

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 5h

Adam Back the utter legend and as I understand it @freddienew.bsky.social one of the largest investors and advisor to Bhodl which is a 'Lightning node' company.. So literally Adam is super interested in supporting day to day use.

Like any Bitcoinert is. bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jac...

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 6h

Of course it is relevant.

Like each and every Bitcoiner I know I've done minimal on-chain transactions (maybe one in 2024, zero this year) but thousands of Lightning network transactions. No Bitcoiner would buy a coffee on-chain always Lightning. Maybe some Cashu.

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16h

P.s @katebaucherel.bsky.social were you on @moneybox.bsky.social and didn't know about the Lightning network? Very excited you've found out about it at last.

Shall we dig in to some papers on Bitcoin's energy mix?

We champion good policies that will benefit all those in the UK who hold, use and mine Bitcoin

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 17h

Both are here. All trains are leaving the station and as Lyn Alden loves to say Kate... 'Nothing stops this train!'

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 17h

Show me the store in the UK on a map using stablecoins directly? Show me the barrier to installing a LN app for the user? Show me the stablecoin apps and user counts

Explain the technicals of how stablecoin on slow blockchains are quicker than LN?

Stablecoins are coal!

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

You said they aren't proved?... so not 'actual' facts then?

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

Question do some of the largest firms on the planet put a punt on the horses? Do we see Larry Fink bingo card in hand?

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

Let us stick to facts for mercy's sake..

Otherwise I can quote the facts we know about shadow and offshore banking being used massively for crime and then add the bits we can't see.

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Freddie New @freddienew.bsky.social · 1d

Plenty of other examples here: bitcoinpolicy.uk/bitcoin-rights

Bitcoin Policy UK

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

If you could pass this on to the expert you had on @moneybox.bsky.social . This is @freddienew.bsky.social sending members of the FCA at the Labour Party conference a bitcoin transaction, 'instantly' via Bitcoin's layer 2.0 Lightning network. Stephenson would have been proud. British innovation!

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

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Fools like @hrf.org ?... Save the Children?...

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 17d

This is exactly what we talked about with MP's and delegates at the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social conference these last few days.

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

Human rights never sleeps.

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

Surely you just have a duty to be accurate? Your 'expert' didn't know basic information about Bitcoin and how the Lightning network functions or why the difficulty adjustment keeps driving more miners to use wasted stranded and renewable energy... in 2025. Lightning started 2018, it isn't new..

Why Bitcoin matters for human rights, in two minutes

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

I worry that others who do not understand the 'open' 'global' Bitcoin network will put of those in desperate need of such a vital network.

That keeps me awake.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG0Q...

YouTube video by Human Rights Foundation

Save The Children and Bitcoin🌎

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

I have zero respect for any not supporting @savechildrenintl.bsky.social and human rights.

Each to his own I guess...

www.youtube.com/shorts/xYWXh...

YouTube video by Bitcoin Collective

Arsh Molu - Human Rights Foundation - Bitcoin Development Fund Pitch (BTC Prague 2023 Keynote)

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

Sounds amazing. Gift it to @hrf.org so they can turn it into Bitcoin and protect human rights!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0DX...

YouTube video by BTCPrague

Bankless in Afghanistan: Bitcoin as a Lifeline for Afghan Women w/ Roya Mahboob | Bitcoin Politics

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZ5r...

Gift your bridge to Roya Mahboob so she can carry on giving Afghan Women education even after the US abandoned Afghanistan.

YouTube video by Bitcoin Magazine

Why Bitcoin Matters for Human Rights - Bernard Parah

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 1d

Ignore on the ground lived experience all you want..

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfFf...

YouTube video by Human Rights Foundation