@DirectorVibes
Today’s boss fight was finding a time that works..
🍰 asked to move things to later this week or early next week..
On the other hand, been doing a little shopping for the shop this week..
Talking to a few providers about more gift cards in more countries..
The calendar is getting more updates than the shop rn. i’ll share more when there’s something to report...View quoted post on X
Happy Diwali to everyone celebrating 🪔
May you have enough money to spoil the people you love, and enough privacy that nobody knows what you bought five minutes ago...
Visit Zcashier anytime you want gift cards for your ZEC or XMRView quoted post on X
We give governments the power to cut off access to our own money, then comfort ourselves with..
“They’d only do that to bad people.”
Bro. They also get to decide who the bad people are...
Sometimes it’s a criminal.
Sometimes it’s a protester.
Sometimes it’s a man in India who sold $3 worth of breakfast.
🇮🇳 Ismail and his wife made and sold a kind of flatbread in Kerala. A neighbour paid $3 digitally. The bank linked that payment to online fraud and froze an account containing around $4000.
He couldn’t pay the contractor building their home. Construction stopped. Access was restored roughly 6 and a half months later, after he took the matter to court.
Man was selling flatbread and accidentally subscribed to a legal drama.
Another Indian trader, Navas, discovered his account was frozen when he tried to pay his chicken supplier.
Reporting traced the problem through a transfer from his son-in-law, whose account had transacted with another account linked to fraud.
Navas said he had to mortgage his wife’s gold jewellery to keep the business running.
Apparently, you’re now expected to conduct a criminal background check on every rupee’s extended family.
🇳🇬 In Nigeria, a healthcare worker received donations for medical supplies during the #EndSARS protests against police brutality.
His account was blocked following a central-bank directive apparently...
His team couldn’t access money needed to help injured protesters. His personal savings were trapped too. He had to live off other people.
Think about that power.. the state you’re protesting can help determine whether you can afford to keep protesting. Or eat afterwards.
🇺🇸 In America, authorities seized nearly $33,000 from restaurant owner Carole Hinders’s business account over alleged evasion of cash-deposit reporting requirements.
She was never charged with a crime.
She borrowed from family, used credit cards, and begged suppliers for credit to keep operating. The government eventually dropped its case and agreed to return the money.
Congratulations on getting your money back. Unfortunately, the stress and debt don’t come with an undo button.
🇨🇦 During Canada’s 2022 convoy blockades, emergency rules required financial institutions to freeze accounts linked to prohibited participation without individual court orders.
At the public inquiry, a convoy lawyer described reports of people unable to buy groceries, fuel, or prescriptions.
The emergency freezes were temporary.
Unfortunately, hunger has terrible respect for administrative timelines.
These cases involve different laws and circumstances. But they expose the same dangerous dependency:
Someone else can make your money unusable while you fight to prove you should be allowed to use it.
And we’re supposed to feel reassured because we trust the people currently holding that power?
You’re giving the same button to every government that comes after them.
Including the one you hate..
Including the one that hates you..
Your rent, groceries, business, and children’s school fees should not depend on winning a bureaucratic argument before the bills arrive.
We spend months arguing about which politician deserves power.
Maybe spend five minutes asking why any of them should have this much power over our ability to survive.
We’ve somehow accepted a system where you earn the money, pay tax on the money, then need permission to spend the remaining money.
This is why sovereign money matters.
With crypto you hold yourself, you can send money without asking a bank to approve your existence.
They can still enforce laws. They can still investigate crimes. But freezing your bank account shouldn’t mean switching off your entire life..
Divided by race, religion, nationality, and language. United by surveillance, censorship, frozen savings, and the timeless govt promise.. "It’s for your own good.”View quoted post on X
Vitalik is absolutely right that you can’t focus on fees as the product. That’s absolutely meaningless. You need to pick a product, the thing that brings value to people, and do that really well.View quoted post on X
