Tribe Vibe - The Censorship Edition

Aug 14, 2024

Hello Tribe Vibers!
This week we take a look at the happenings in a “not so great” Britain and the increasing trend towards censorship by rattled Western governments. We explore technologies that you can use to protect yourself and your business, and explore the latest around censorship money (CBDCs) with Israeli journalist Efrat Fenigson.

Editorial Note

Welcome to another exciting week in Bitcoin! Coming up:

👩‍🎓 Bitcoin 101: My First Bitcoin
🗞News: The latest Bitcoin News
👩‍💼Women in Business: Where the action is happening
🚀 Founders: The must-have tool for your Bitcoin-powered business
🐣Moms: Tips on how to teach your kids about Bitcoin
🎧 & 🎥Vibe of the Week: Our content recommendations

🎓 Bitcoin 101: My First Bitcoin

We were delighted to bump into John Dennehy the founder of My First Bitcoin (Mi Primer Bitcoin) at the recent Bitcoin Nashville conference. Mi Primer Bitcoin has created an open-source Bitcoin curriculum accessible to anyone. The curriculum is already being used across schools and universities globally.

Download your FREE copy here.

📈 Trending Topics in the News

1. Think before you post!

The Scoop🕵️‍♂️: An 18 year old UK citizen, son of Rwandan parents, Axel Rudakubana, recently attacked 13 young girls in a dance class in Stockport UK. 3 of the girls died and the others are either severely traumatised or fighting for their lives in hospital.

Over several decades the indigenous population of the UK has been overwhelmed by unchecked waves of inward migration. Each successive administration has refused to address the issue, despite the many promises they continue to make on the campaign trail and a clear mandate from the electorate.

This most recent incident was the spark that lit a gas tank of simmering tensions, leading to full scale riots across a dozen or so British cities.

In a truly Orwellian move, the current administration, led by Keir Starmer, a staunch globalist and adherent of WEF policies, immediately leveraged the tragedy to demand an increase in surveillance and the digital censorship of UK citizens. Both Gov UK and the Crown Prosecution Service put out posts threatening the arrest UK residents and extradition of foreign nationals, if they shared riot related content.
Why you should care🚨: The increase in social unrest you are witnessing is by design. It divides and conquers the citizens of a given country and provides an excellent pretext for Western governments to herd their freedom and democracy-loving citizens into digital panopticons, where they can more easily be controlled.
So what should you do about this?: There are many privacy-preserving and censorship resistant technologies that you can use, both personally and professionally:
- Money: Study how to store your wealth in an asset that cannot be seized or censored (that would be bitcoin).
- Chat: Chat app “Signal” recently put out a tweet showing users how to amend their settings and circumvent censorship if you happen to live in an impacted region.
- VPN: Make sure to use a VPN (Virtual Private Network) when browsing the web in order to keep your online activity private. There are several services that you can select from with both free and paid options: Proton, Brave, Express VPN.
- Social Media: Consider using decentralised, censorship resistant social media protocols such as NOSTR.

2. The EU Attempts to Censor US Political Discussion…in the US

The Scoop🕵️‍♂️: Not to be left out of the censorship party, Thierry Breton, a literal EU “Kommissar” sent a threatening letter to X owner Elon Musk ahead of his interview with former US President Donald Trump.
Why you should care🚨: This is just a further example of extreme overreach by a frightened class of parasitic bureaucrats who are unhappy at their inability to fully control what global citizens can or can’t know. The response from X CEO Linda Yaccarino was swift and brutal:
👉 You may also want to watch British comedian, Rowan Atkinson’s heartfelt presentation about the importance of free speech here.

🚀 Founders - Holding Bitcoin in your Company Treasury

“Bitcoin is increasingly becoming a part of business treasuries nationwide. But how much bitcoin should a business hold?”

🎓 Learn why and how with this excellent piece by the team at River.com: https://river.com/learn/how-much-bitcoin-should-a-business-hold/

A chart outlining recommended Bitcoin allocation sizes for businesses based on their financial characteristics, ranging from no allocation to using Bitcoin as a primary reserve asset.

💼 Women in Bitcoin

Australian, female-founded online store “The Bitcoin Diaries” has launched a long-awaited homeware collection. Shop the incredible selection of products here.

👩‍👧‍👦 Bitcoin for Kids

In just 15 years, bitcoin has built up a lot of history and lore. If you’d like to teach your kids about it, or just geek out yourself, you can access bitcoin’s historical timeline and players on this incredible FIGMA design by Igor Stepahin of The Grand Timeline.

🎧 & 🎥 Vibe of the Week - Efrat Fenigson on the Free Cities Podcast - Must-Listen Podcast: 🎧

Israeli journalist, Efrat Fenigson recently appeared on the Free Cities Podcast to talk about the creeping totalitarianism of Central Bank Digital Currencies (CBDCs). You can catch her at the upcoming Bitcoin Amsterdam conference, and read an article she wrote about CBDCs last year here.