I'm so lucky to have awesome friends, here's a video never before seen: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A568M2E4PDs A coffee shop purchase with bitcoin, no intermediaries (bitcoin pizza), a real bitcoin purchase on video with timestamps.

Hardcore bitcoiner friend arguing all day on the internet about sovereignty, they're flying into the U.S. this week and they use a Gmail email address... 2nd last international trip I made I paid +300k sats to connect through Turkey instead of the U.S., this week I paid +100k sats to avoid connecting through the U.S. on an international trip. If you're not running your own email server, you can't argue you understand sovereignty and privacy (best attempts we can make with the protocols we're given).

Can I interview both of you guys on this topic on a panel, a respectful conversation about sovereignty and privacy? I'd like to lose the rhetoric "giving up sovereignty for custodied privacy" and instead discuss trade offs and risks we all make, encouraging people to look into bitcoin, nostr, cashu, Damus, and coinos. The goal for me is just interviewing a couple of my most technically talented friends, secondary is mass market accessibility to these important topics.