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Talking around the campfire at the lake about Bitcoin, freedom, and geopolitics.

Finger pressing a blockchain block with the text transaction, a bitcoin symbol and security sha256 algorithm hach. Composite between a hand photography and a 3D background

On the way to Camp Nakamoto to talk Bitcoin.

Created in Google Gemini, aka, "Nano Banana."

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Ben Askren Grappling at Pacific Bitcoin 2023

Created in Google Gemini, aka, "Nano Banana."

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Created in Google Gemini AI, aka, "Nano Banana."

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buy $100 worth of Bitcoin at an ATM with these fees:

15% transaction fee
$3 flat fee
10% exchange rate spread
Here’s what you’d actually receive: $100 - $24.25 fees = $72.75

27% fees according to the website

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A shirtless man bound to a chair; his head is bandaged and his torso is covered in wounds. Standing beside him, a hand on his shoulder, is a desperate, suited man brandishing a hot poker. The background is an out-of-focus giant bitcoin logo.

Paste-up street art in London, England by Slow Shrug. It says "Satoshi Nakamoto stopped being poor. Is this the new normal?! Yes. (And it's so valid)" Satoshi Nakamoto is the name used by the presumed pseudonymous person or persons who developed bitcoin, authored the bitcoin white paper, and created and deployed bitcoin's original reference implementation. As part of the implementation, Nakamoto also devised the first blockchain database.

"The Bank will not ask for crypto. The Sheriff's office will not ask for crypto. Microsoft will not ask for crypto. Don't get SCAMMED!!"

At Ed's Deli on Larpenteur in Lauderdale, Minnesota.