Thread by @WalkerAmerica

₿eautiful place to talk about #Bitcoin

📍Lugano🇨🇭 twitter.com/i/web/status/1…

I'll be live-tweeting all things #Bitcoin from the @LuganoPlanB mainstage with my better half/MC @thecryptoc0up1e tomorrow.

Until then, enjoy some more scenes from beautiful Lugano 🇨🇭

“It’s about education here in Lugano… why it matters, why it was created, why it is empowering people around the world.” — @paoloardoino on @LuganoPlanB initiative & the importance of #Bitcoin

Panel moderated by @natbrunell

“Over 300 merchants in Lugano accepting #Bitcoin and @Tether_to sets a very strong example.” — @MicheleLugano (translated by Pietro Poretti) on @LuganoPlanB, moderated by @natbrunell

“We all believe in the free market, and the free market will judge.”
— @natbrunell on #Bitcoin vs “crypto” at @LuganoPlanB

“The trick is to start small. Start from the inside. Work with smart people. Build and grow the system. That’s what I’m seeing happen in Lugano and El Salvador.” — @paoloardoino on @LuganoPlanB #Bitcoin initiative

“In rural Africa, you’re too far away from any major city to connect to the grid… #Bitcoin mining can act as an anchor tenant… this isn’t just theory, this is happening now.”

— @obi at @LuganoPlanB

“Where your custody is where you interact, trade, buy… First-party self-custody is the best; that’s the #Bitcoin standard… Fedi is a form of custody where a community comes together to form multi-party custody.”

— @obi on @fedimint

“We focus first and foremost on the disadvantaged in the world. Not just the global south, but people living under authoritarianism.” — @obi on @fedimint & #Bitcoin

“When we get to hyperbitcoinization, the vast majority of people’s transactions will be in their local community.” — @obi on #Bitcoin & @fedimint

“The global south will empower #Bitcoin and help it achieve its ultimate objective: to be the best meritocratic money the world has ever seen.” — @obi at @LuganoPlanB

“Open source software is the closest thing we have to transferring thought to another person… If there’s one thing that’s worth fighting for, it’s freedom of speech. If there’s one other thing, it’s open source code.” — @ercwl

“Is speech still protected in the US?”
— @giacomozucco

“The reason the Tornado Cash founders haven’t been arrested is they weren’t in the US.” — @lawmaster

“The threshold is moving; before the developer was safe… Now, things have changed, because the laws have changed.” — @giacomozucco on the impact of regulation on open source software.

Panel moderated by @stephanlivera at @LuganoPlanB

“Never before have they ever put a contract on the OFAC sanctions; it’s always been people. There has to be a reaction… the US gov needs to understand that when they intrude on freedoms we’re supposed to have, they can’t get away with that.” — @ercwl on Tornado Cash

“If they’re going to put us in jail for contributing to a code base, that’s unprecedented.” — @ercwl

“There are countries around the world trying to ban encryption.”
— @peterktodd

“If it’s unclear how they’ll apply the OFAC rules, individuals are going to shy away from that [software development].” — @stephanlivera

“Satoshi Nakamoto added perfect protection to make #Bitcoin anonymous… People spending out of convenience got away from a lot of those protections.”
— @giacomozucco

“A developer can code it out and disappear a year later, like Satoshi did. A brand needs trust.”
— @giacomozucco on anonymity in software development

Screening of @thecryptoc0up1e Julian Assange video on the @LuganoPlanB main stage:

https://twitter.com/thecryptoc0up1e/status/1578461710419054592

“There was no due process involved… the Ecuadorian ambassador invited the UK police force into Ecuadorian territory…” — John Shipton, father of Julian Assange

The Attack of Julian Assange is an Attack on Free Speech, moderated by @PeterMcCormack

“Julian has dedicated his life to free speech. He has a technical background; he was a cypherpunk. Eventually he moved into journalism, and had the project @wikileaks, which uses cryptography to anonymize sources.” — @Stella_Assange

“This was a video from a U.S. gunship helicopter… you see people walking in the streets of Baghdad and they shoot this group of people just walking around, and kill them. Two of them were journalists…” — @Stella_Assange on Julian Assange & @wikileaks Iraq war publications

“Julian has been in a maximum security prison [Belmarsh] for the last three and a half years… He’s been psychologically tortured… He also had a mild stroke last October. This never-ending process has crushed him physically, but he still has a fire inside.” — @GabrielShipton

“@wikileaks started the decentralization of media… #Bitcoin grew from the same idea of how do we start decentralization in central banking?” — @GabrielShipton

“If Bitcoiners want to free Julian, then the attacks will start… They’re standing up to this hegemon that says “we can reach into any country where you are.” — @GabrielShipton

“Every aspect of due process has been abandoned in the case of Julian Assange.” — John Shipton, father of Julian Assange

“The Attack on Julian Assange is an Attack on Freedom of Speech” with @Stella_Assange, @GabrielShipton & @PeterMcCormack at @LuganoPlanB

“If they [the U.S.] feel you’ve offended them, they take you too out and throw you in a dungeon for 175 years…” — John Shipton, father of Julian Assange

“In #Bitcoin, we have the capacity to decentralize and have a peer-to-peer relationship so we can dive deeper and understand our connection to one another.” — John Shipton, father of Julian Assange

“What can we do to help?” — @PeterMcCormack

“There has to be a concerted effort to free Julian in every level of society—grassroots, legal, political—that’s why the #Bitcoin community is so important.” — @Stella_Assange

#FreeAssangeNOW

“The case against Julian is an attack not only on press freedom locally… it’s a collapse of legal safeguards that have an extremely pernicious effect on free speech and sovereignty… It’s urgent that Julian be freed.” — @Stella_Assange
#FreeAssangeNOW

“Talk to your friends. This #Bitcoin community has amazing minds and intelligent people. They’ve amassed this global network that has links everywhere; it’s an amazingly powerful community. Talk to each other.”
— @GabrielShipton @LuganoPlanB
#FreeAssangeNOW

If you want to get involved with the fight to free Julian Assange, follow @Stella_Assange and @GabrielShipton — their DMs are open.

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Screening at @LuganoPlanB until October 30th and open to the public.

#FreeAssangeNOW