🇹🇭 We has another great week here in Bangkok. The weather has been a bit cloudy and cooler, especially in the mornings. Apparently there was rain around but we did not see any and have not seen any since October. That's winter in Bangkok!

I had the regular Satoshi Square bitcoin meetup on Monday. I met quite a few interesting bitcoiners - some of whom shared my enthusiasm for scaling technology. We discussed how Liquid and the Aqua wallet are a great starter set - also Chaumian eCash and Cashu. I did a couple more demos and people are impressed. Remember you can try it yourself - details here - just let me know.

You likely do have a bitcoin meetup near you - just search on meetup.com. You meet people from countries all over the world and it is good to listen to, and learn from, their first-hand experiences of how people are waking up to the nonsense being perpetrated by the Empire.

V and I also enjoyed breakfast out in Bangkok during the week at one of her favourite cafes and we had a nice walkabout on the other side of the river - Wats Ratchasittaram, Moliokyaram and Arun. Later in the week I returned go go further to see Wat Khrua Wan, Wat Rakhang and to enjoy morning coffee at Supatra River House, returning via Tha Chang, Wat Ratchabophit, Wat Suthat and Giant Swing. This part of Bangkok feels completely different to the area around Siam and Sukhumvit.

There is quite a lot in this week's newsletter. I encourage you to listen to Richard's Thought for the Week. The interview that he refers to from the retired policeman follows it - watch that one if you dare. It might surprise you how deep the corruption goes in the UK.

On my projects - there is so much going on and I highlight a recent interesting developments with Nostr as well as a fascinating "brainstorm" meeting on bitcoin that took place back in October last year - I only found out about it now. Recommended - you will learn a lot.

Closing out this week I have a selection of "forbidden knowledge" that is apparently too dangerous for you to know: from two scientists who have had their TED Talks banned. You might wonder "to whom is this knowledge dangerous?" - watch and you will see.

On a lighter note: this coming weekend we have St Patrick's Day celebrations - even here in Bangkok! How about where you live?

Where to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in Bangkok

Top o’ the mornin to ya lads, we’re just out and about having some grand old time celebratin St Pat’s in Bangkok.

Lifestyle Asia BangkokVichayuth Chantan

Thought for the week

I do appreciate Richard's persistence in surfacing the lunacy and corruption that is ongoing. He does it in a way that may also be useful to help wake up others. Hopefully it does also inspire you to take action - or will you just bury your head in the sand?

The former policeman interview that Richard refers to is here below. Click to watch and for the comprehensive collection of all the evidence you can refer to Gary's Channel.

This corruption in UK Companies House does also have international implications - as will be well evident if you listen to the interview. Recall what Whitney Webb has been saying over the last few years.

More in this issue

• Photo memories - Wat Arun, Chatuchak Vintage, EmQuartier and Lumphini
• Project Updates - Nostr is hitting it out of the park
• Plenty of useful links - don't say nobody told you!
• Closing out - Premonitions and banned TED Talks

🛠️ Project Updates

The following are updates from some projects that I am following, supporting and collaborating with. What are you doing?

Nostr - Big news from Primal and others

Primal is one of the best Nostr clients and I will often suggest this for people who want to get started with Nostr - it's just so easy. Well they have improved it even more with the latest version and there is lots more in the pipeline.

Next I have got to highlight nsec.app (yes they need better naming and a bit more graphic design would be nice) but this is targeted for the more advanced user who is ready for multiple Nostr clients and Apps. This MVP gives you the ability to easily and securely secure your private keys so that they are safely accessible to multiple apps without needing to enter them directly in multiple places.

nsec.app: Use Nostr Apps Safely

Nsec.app is a Nostr application which lets you share access to your account and login to Nostr apps seamlessly with numerous devices.

For example - check out this video explainer:

During the week I also came across this great little explainer as to why Progressive Web Apps are so exciting and useful. Click below to learn. Indeed the big benefit is that this distribution removes you from the control of the Empire App stores which have been proven again and again to be untrustworthy and dishonest in their App Store policies and enforcement.

PWAs as Tools to Benefit Future Development of Nostr

Progressive Web Apps may be the way forward for the apps interacting with censorship resistant protocols. Check out this quick and light post of what PWAs are and what makes them so powerful.

Bitcoin Brainstorm

This will open your eyes to what is possible today and coming. ARK Invest is one of the larger investors in this field and they are well-known for supporting disruptive innovation. In this brainstorm you will appreciate how and where the traditional payment rails fail and how Nostr, Lightning and Chaumian eCash enable the replacement of obsolete and inefficient technology and vastly expand the addressable market.

• 00:02:39 Introductions
• 00:04:10 Cathie Wood explains the impact and importance of the convergence between and among technologies
• 00:12:32 Paul discusses how AI has revolutionised coding and computer engineering
• 00:19:40 Kody applies the coding revolution to Bitcoin and explores how Bitcoin and AI are converging
• 00:26:42 Cathie and Laolu discuss Lightning HTTP 402 Protocol (L402) and internet payment flow generally
• 00:30:24 Frank and Paul explain that Bitcoin could be useful as money because it cuts out traditional intermediaries in payment processing and could decrease counter-party risk
• 00:39:00 What are some of the use cases of micro-payments and how do they compare to larger payments like monthly subscriptions
• 00:51:27 Kody explains why the first rendition of L402 used special cookies know as macarons
• 00:53:16 Frank and Laolu discuss the constraints of ChatGPT and what the potential of AI agents can be outside the walls of a chat window, if given a budget and proper integration points
• 01:01:30 Through the example of a web development project, Paul describes how Bitcoin and generative artificial intelligence are converging today
• 01:06:55 What does the next generation of knowledge workers look like with micro-payments allowing for more efficient payment allocation?
• 01:14:48 Closing thoughts and remarks on Bitcoin’s unique impact on artificial intelligence today

🔗 Links for your edification

The following are links from my NetNewswire feeds - learn, enjoy and share.

Essential Bangkok

If you have travelled or commuted around Bangkok you will certainly have got to appreciate the BTS and MRT that get you all over the city with minimal fuss and avoiding all the famous traffic. However, how to get from the nearest station to your destination? These folks here provide that solution and they do it superbly, 7-days a week from early morning till late at night.

Like Chris, I do not understand why so many girls prefer to go side saddle. It is indeed something amazing to see!

This is a new style for Chris' videos and he has done this one well. After watching this you will appreciate these Orange Shirts even more. I recommend Chris' channel - he has lots of interesting updates from here.

Peter shares his findings

For the Austrian Economists among you, you have likely have worked this out. For the rest, Peter has a very simple and clear explanation to help you understand.

And for those who prefer written analysis and helpful graphs - you can check his newsletter on this subject.

Why is Bitcoin Soaring?

A bit of housekeeping: You might get duplicates of the newsletter this week while we change to this new one. If you stop getting them, please re-subscribe at profstonge.substack.com. Unless you live under a rock you’ve heard Bitcoin’s price is soaring.

Peter St Onge, Ph.D.Peter St Onge

And Glassnode will give you the whole nine yards on the on-chain insights - this is what total transparency looks like:

A couple of things to remember. First: the more you know about Bitcoin, the least interesting thing is the price; secondly it's Bitcoin you need, not Crypto.

Following on from our discussion on The Great Taking

Some of you were sceptical about the Great Taking, not wanting to believe that the truth could be so far removed from what they are pretending. Chris Martenson has done quite some further research on this - including this interview with a former DTCC employee who confirms that the situation is even worse than David Webb explained.

We have known for years that Banks were manipulating the price of precious metals by selling silver and gold that they did not have, secure in the knowledge that the buyers would not take physical delivery. Here Susanne explains that this is also done for equity/share purchases where the buyer cannot take physical delivery due to everything being "dematerialised". Think about the implications of this… She does conclude with some risk reduction steps that you can take.

How about Boeing?

Neil does a deep dive on the recent plethora of incidents affecting Boeing planes. Not to mention John Barrett, the whistleblower who was found dead the day before he was due to testify in court. Can you see it yet?

And then it got even worse - as Coldfusion explains.

Something different - are you surprised?

Grace recently did some research for her mum who was intrigued by things in the UK that seemed not to make sense. As she dug deeper, the hole got very deep. So deep in fact that she decided to share her research for you to make up your own mind.

Needless to say the citizen internet researchers have forensically analysed the famous photograph and the truth seems very far from the official story. Watch here and decide yourself!

🤔 Closing Thoughts

This week I have got a couple of scientists who have both had their TED Talks banned as the Empire attempts to hide and suppress wisdom that they do not want you to have or know.

Presentiment - Rupert Sheldrake

Most people have had the experience of waking soon before an alarm clock goes off and some can even wake before a specified time without an alarm. The usual assumption is that this depends on an exquisitely sensitive time sense, but Rupert argues that it may be explained better in terms of presentiment, or ‘feeling the future’, or even in terms of an ‘extended present’.

We already know that our sense of the present is not a mathematical instant, but has width, and perhaps it widens over ranges of seconds to include portions of the near future, Presentiment is now a well-established phenomenon in laboratory experiments, carried out at the Institute of Noetic Sciences, Cornell University and elsewhere, and may be widely distributed among people and non-human animals.

Rupert Sheldrake discusses how this ability could potentially be trained, enabling airline pilots and racing drivers to be better prepared for potential accidents by using intuitive abilities that cannot be duplicated by computers.

An Experiment with Time by John William Dunne
https://archive.org/details/AnExperim...
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Listen to the Animals: Why did so many animals escape December's tsunami?
https://www.sheldrake.org/tsunami
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Predicting the unpredictable; evidence of pre-seismic anticipatory behaviour in the common toad
https://www.sheldrake.org/toads
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Dogs That Know When Their Owners Are Coming Home
https://www.sheldrake.org/dogs
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Unconscious Perception of Future Emotions: An Experiment in Presentiment
by Dean Radin, Journal of Scientific Exploration, Vol. 11, No. 2, pp. 163-180, 1997
https://www.sheldrake.org/RadinPresen...

We have heard Rupert before

Recall that Rupert's TED Talk was banned. You should appreciate that he likely is "over the target". Click below to refresh your memory.

72 - Marching season

🇬🇧 Here in Belfast this week it was time to put on your marching shoes and march to the field behind the band as part of the parade. July 12th, the “Twelfth” or “Orangemen’s Day” commemorates the victory of William of Orange over King James II at the Battle of the

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Yet another banned TED talk

Dr Jack Kruse is yet another scientist who not only had his TED Talk banned but the Empire has been hounding him ever since for 12 years with all manner of legal claims and threats.

It really is the case that there are some things they do not want you to know.

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