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Russell Rukin

@russellrukin.bsky.social

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Artist, engineer, Bitcoiner, creative - mashing it all up to make a better planet for all who squirm on the blue orb.

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · Dec 19

Many western progressives need a 'financial privilege check up'. Don't leave it too late get checked out today!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=oh2H...

Check Your Financial Privilege: How the Financial System Fails 87% of People

YouTube video by Human Rights Foundation

www.youtube.com

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 6d

Onchain?... this is 2025 mate, we are not savages!

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 12d

We are entering into a world where we want to charge for electricity on micro second to micro second time frame.

Even this is too slow for computers and Ai. Bitcoin Lightning and newer layers built on Lightning and the base layer are built for this future.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xyB...

Cashu channel demo. Like Lightning, allowing tiny payments at high frequency in one direction

YouTube video by SatsAndSports

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Anita ⚡️🌈 @anita.link · 13d

I'm sharing the story of a farmer, because too many Bitcoin discussions stay theoretical. Critics dismiss it as speculation; maximalists oversell it as a panacea.

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 15d

Detractors like to try and throw shade that Bitcoin is just an investment... An investment in human rights might be far more accurate. Here is Bitcoin Policy UK's CEO finding out more www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6L...

From Hotel Rwanda to Bitcoin: Anise Kanimba on Freedom & Financial Justice | My Two Sats

YouTube video by Roxom TV Europe

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 15d

This is Susie on Roxom with look at how Bitcoin is 'vital' not just a transactional luxury www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6L...

From Hotel Rwanda to Bitcoin: Anise Kanimba on Freedom & Financial Justice | My Two Sats

YouTube video by Roxom TV Europe

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Anita ⚡️🌈 @anita.link · 15d

Just another milestone. How low can this guy go.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15d

Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 15d

Yep. Let us not forget the bleeding edge is also the Lightning network threaded into NOSTR.

Star of development might have to go to CASHU that prefers LN. So literally bringing David Chaum's 1982 vision for ecash to life finally! So important. Calle is a Trojan on this layers development.

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 15d

Maybe you'd like to join Bitcoin Policies CEO Susie Violet Ward on Roxom TV for a chat about Lightning and the bleeding edge developments? We could get Ben Arc or Ben de Waal (both in the UK) as they are at the coal (pun intended) face of Lightning transactional use?

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 15d

Yes it was a crime! Pure fraud.

I love this video by @joenakamoto.bsky.social where he gets Giacomo to detail the three levels of crypto scam youtu.be/i6rV5HlbPTM?... Onecoin is a third degree scam.

Crypto is a SCAM (Here’s Why)

YouTube video by Joe Nakamoto

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 15d

TGV/bullet train = stablecoin

Good analogy, so can be stopped and subject to the whim of who runs the network!

Bitcoin mainchain = Oxford Electric Bell or an atomic clock (unstoppable)

Bitcoin Lightning/layers = speed of light (why you so slow bullet train?). Made for the future not the past.

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 15d

Adam Back the utter legend and as I understand it @freddienew.bsky.social one of the largest investors and advisor to Bhodl which is a 'Lightning node' company.. So literally Adam is super interested in supporting day to day use.

Like any Bitcoinert is. bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jac...

How Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc Is Reinventing Finance With Bitcoin

How Block Inc.'s Bitcoin revolution under Jack Dorsey, with Square, Cash App, and Bitkey is ushering a new financial era

bitcoinmagazine.com

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 15d

Of course it is relevant.

Like each and every Bitcoiner I know I've done minimal on-chain transactions (maybe one in 2024, zero this year) but thousands of Lightning network transactions. No Bitcoiner would buy a coffee on-chain always Lightning. Maybe some Cashu.

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

P.s @katebaucherel.bsky.social were you on @moneybox.bsky.social and didn't know about the Lightning network? Very excited you've found out about it at last.

Shall we dig in to some papers on Bitcoin's energy mix?

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

Both are here. All trains are leaving the station and as Lyn Alden loves to say Kate... 'Nothing stops this train!'

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

Show me the store in the UK on a map using stablecoins directly? Show me the barrier to installing a LN app for the user? Show me the stablecoin apps and user counts

Explain the technicals of how stablecoin on slow blockchains are quicker than LN?

Stablecoins are coal!

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

You said they aren't proved?... so not 'actual' facts then?

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

Question do some of the largest firms on the planet put a punt on the horses? Do we see Larry Fink bingo card in hand?

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

Let us stick to facts for mercy's sake..

Otherwise I can quote the facts we know about shadow and offshore banking being used massively for crime and then add the bits we can't see.

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Freddie New @freddienew.bsky.social · 16d

Plenty of other examples here: bitcoinpolicy.uk/bitcoin-rights

Bitcoin Policy UK

We champion good policies that will benefit all those in the UK who hold, use and mine Bitcoin

bitcoinpolicy.uk

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

If you could pass this on to the expert you had on @moneybox.bsky.social . This is @freddienew.bsky.social sending members of the FCA at the Labour Party conference a bitcoin transaction, 'instantly' via Bitcoin's layer 2.0 Lightning network. Stephenson would have been proud. British innovation!

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

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Fools like @hrf.org ?... Save the Children?...

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · Oct 2

This is exactly what we talked about with MP's and delegates at the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social conference these last few days.

Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

Human rights never sleeps.

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

Surely you just have a duty to be accurate? Your 'expert' didn't know basic information about Bitcoin and how the Lightning network functions or why the difficulty adjustment keeps driving more miners to use wasted stranded and renewable energy... in 2025. Lightning started 2018, it isn't new..

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

I worry that others who do not understand the 'open' 'global' Bitcoin network will put of those in desperate need of such a vital network.

That keeps me awake.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KG0Q...

Why Bitcoin matters for human rights, in two minutes

YouTube video by Human Rights Foundation

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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16d

I have zero respect for any not supporting @savechildrenintl.bsky.social and human rights.

Each to his own I guess...

www.youtube.com/shorts/xYWXh...

Save The Children and Bitcoin🌎

YouTube video by Bitcoin Collective

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