Midwest Bitcoin Summit 2026 — Columbus, OH · Sept 23–24, 2026 · Up to 10,000 Bitcoiners expected
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Insider Reveals UK's Secret Plan to Freeze Your Savings & Censor You! | Miljan Braticevic
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Marty Bent and Miljan Braticevic explore how open protocols like Nostr are becoming essential tools for digital sovereignty as censorship pressures escalate globally. They discuss Nostr's unique advantages over closed platforms like BlueSky and X, examining how 3,000 active relays create censorship-resistant infrastructure that users actually control. Braticevic shares Primal's roadmap for competing with YouTube through long-form video content, AI integration, and Bitcoin-powered creator monetization. The conversation covers practical applications like BitChat's mesh networking, AI vibe-coding tools, and how content creators are earning meaningful revenue through Nostr's zap system. They analyze why Nostr's open architecture enables innovation impossible on walled platforms, the role of Bitcoin payments in creator economies, and how decentralized networks provide alternatives as governments target VPNs and speech. Key topics include relay infrastructure, web of trust systems, the intersection of AI and open protocols, and building sustainable businesses on permissionless networks. STACK SATS hat: https://tftcmerch.io/ Our newsletter: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ TFTC Elite (Ad-free & Discord): https://www.tftc.io/#/portal/signup/ Discord: https://discord.gg/VJ2dABShBz Opportunity Cost Extension: https://www.opportunitycost.app/ Miljan on Nostr: https://primal.net/miljan Bitkey https://bit.ly/TFTCBitkey20 Unchained https://unchained.com/tftc/ Obscura VPN https://obscura.net/ 0:00 - Intro 0:31 - Creating freedom apps 12:29 - Who runs the relays? Not comparable to Bluesky 17:53 - Bitkey & Unchained 19:34 - Boostrapped by bitcoiners 24:47 - Primal features tease 33:52 - Obscura & Opportunity Cost 35:17 - UK going full Orwell 42:00 - AI - open source models and open data 54:23 - Nostr as marketplace - also the Great Intersection 59:49 - Looking forward over the next year 1:04:32 - Fountain 1:14:45 - Primal publisher Join the TFTC Movement: Main YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/TFTC21/videos Clips YT Channel https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCUQcW3jxfQfEUS8kqR5pJtQ Website https://tftc.io/ Twitter https://twitter.com/tftc21 Instagram https://www.instagram.com/tftc.io/ Nostr https://primal.net/tftc Follow Marty Bent: Twitter https://twitter.com/martybent Nostr https://primal.net/martybent Newsletter https://tftc.io/martys-bent/ Podcast https://www.tftc.io/tag/podcasts/
