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“Dreams Do Come True” | Faggin Interview in the Works

Efrat Fenigson — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 12:08:57 GMT

“If we believe what is real is only what can be measured and repeated in a lab, we discount the experience of life, of emotions, of love, joy, happiness etc. You are consciousness. You are not a machine.” — Federico Faggin, Irreducible

Dreams do come true.

I have this habit of saying really grand ideas to myself (and others), thinking I’m crazy for even thinking them, let alone saying them, while really having zero clue how it would happen.

I say it anyway, and call it a “dream”.

Sometimes it takes years to see these dreams come true, and in recent years that time shortens. Think about the beauty of the words “come true”… to turn an idea, a wish, into a truth. Beautiful.

So the first time I said “dreams do come true” in recent years was when Prof. Mattias Desmet joined me in Israel for a conference I produced with 250 people in the audience. Bringing his voice to my platform felt like a fulfilling of my role here, my calling.

The second time I fulfilled a dream was when I said in 2022 I want to travel the world and speak for a living… look at me now, four years later. That’s my reality.

The third time I voiced a dream was 18 months ago, when I was first made aware to the brilliant scientist and great man: Federico Faggin. He touched me in such a deep way, leading me to read his books, binge on any content of his I could find, and spend lots of time thinking and expanding my horizons into the super complex and foreign subject of quantum physics. Even though I have no physics background, I have a strong background in spiritual awakening and great awareness to consciousness and free will, and Faggin spoke my language.

Today I understand the quantum physics is the field of science, or the “language” we have to reflect / describe the phenomena of “one”, as Faggin calls it, the universe, which has the properties of being holistic, dynamic, and wants to know itself, which are the properties of the field of consciousness. Learning from Faggin that we humans are divine creatures, with a physical body that is both classical and quantum, is no less than a fascinating point of view, validating my deep knowingness with a new realm of definitions and explanations to this knowingness.

“Living organisms are dynamic energy that is simultaneously transformed into its 3 objective dimensions of Matter information and energy supervised by the internal dimensions of consciousness and free will. Which are properties that only exist in the quantum reality” — Federico Faggin, Irreducible

OK - back to my point of dreams coming true:

Last year I asked if you’d like me to interview Faggin. Many around me said “hell yes” and I wrapped it as a dream and added it to the basket of future gifts I’d like the universe to gift me :)
18 months later, and we have an in-person interview scheduled! Dreams do come true.

How did it happen? thanks to my amazing community; following my post, an awesome community member - , stepped up and found a 2-steps connection to Faggin. With a good load of dedication and persistency, we made it happen, and I’m flying to interview Faggin very soon! Thank you Andre.

I think I’ve been preparing for this interview for the past year :) I’m very excited to spend time with this great thinker and special soul.

Ask your questions

I’d like to open the floor to questions from the community. If you’re like me, familiar with his body of work and ideas, and have questions to ask or topics you’d like him to opine on, please leave a comment below.

Catch up with Faggin's work

I recommend reading (or listening to) his books: Silicon and Irreducible. The latter especially is excellent, and although some of it is Chinese to me, it resonates very much. Another book Faggin co-authored is “Artificial Intelligence Versus Natural Intelligence” and I’ve downloaded the free PDF to read it later.

Also watch these great interviews:

This is a relatively new interview, and I liked it very much. I watched it this week:

Quotes from Faggin’s book: Irreducible

Here are some great quotes from his book - Irreducible. Enjoy.

I’m convinced that when our rationality is uniquely informed by the principles of materialism, reductionism and the survival of the fittest, it can only lead us to unbridle competition, racism and war. (Much of human history).

Life is perfectly aligned with the principles of physics, so it will continue to exist. The Earth will then rebuild a new ecosystem, as it has done many other times in the past when catastrophic events have dramatically upset the delicate balance of life, but it is not certain that there will be human beings in this new system. Quoting the Polish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer in Old Love: “The only hope of mankind is love in its various forms and manifestations, whose only source is love for life.”

A multicellular organism therefore contains many hierarchical levels of incredible complexity, which work cooperatively with a single purpose determined locally by the consciousness and free will of each cell, and globally by the consciousness and free will of the entire organism.

I believe it is impossible to explain life without the concepts of consciousness and free will, because the two are inextricably linked to the quantum-classical aspects of physical reality in ways that we have yet to investigate and fully understand. A living organism can act as a unit with free will, intention, purpose, and meaning, properties that cannot derive from a bag of unconscious atoms and molecules that interact probabilistically with each other. Consciousness is what gives perception and understanding to the organism, while free will allows it to act as a unified entity with its own intention, based on conscious comprehension. According to our physical theories, the fields emerge from the unified field, but they are inseparable from the whole and do not precede it. In a holographic and holistic universe, the parts that self-assemble must contain the essence of the whole, and therefore cannot be separated from it, because the whole must still be capable of influencing the parts. This is also the reason why elementary particles making up a living cell are inseparable from the fields of which they are states; thus they truly are open systems like living cells. In a reductionist view, each part is a statistical ensemble of closed systems that collectively behaves like another closed system. Thus the quantum correlations that maintain the unity of a whole cannot exist. This is the fundamental reason why our reductionistic classical machines, such as computers, cannot be conscious and cannot have free will.

Please drop me a comment with your thoughts, questions or just say hi.
It’s so great to know you’re with me on this journey.

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Worthless Money, Timeless Art

Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:35:59 GMT

MADEX sat across from me at Trezor’s studio, wearing the same quiet confidence he puts into everything he makes, the guy who built Bull Bitcoin’s brand and visual identity alongside Francis Pouliot, whose jewelry I was wearing while we talked. He calls his own work a freedom project. By the end of the hour, I understood exactly why. This short article presents some of the insights and takeaways that stayed with me, and by the end of it hopefully you’ll be intrigued enough to watch the whole interview, which can be found here:

Art as a Vehicle for Collectivist Ideas

Somewhere along the way, art became a delivery system for collectivist ideas, and any artist who wanted to eat learned to carry the message. MADEX is proving the delivery system runs in both directions. Change the money behind the art and you change what the art is allowed to say. He’s making the case that capital itself, real capital, is the root of excellence rather than its enemy.

The Entrepreneur Is the Signal

You can measure the health of a society by the way it treats its entrepreneurs, he told me, because an entrepreneur is the closest thing we have to an honest signal from the market. In a world that relies on committees of experts, government subsidies or mandates – this can sounds like a strange idea. But in an open free market, the entreperneur’s endevours will receive an honest “live or die” signal rapidly, which will serve as a impactuful force to shape the market and society’s direction and behaviour.

The Truck Nobody Asked For

MADEX then shared an anacdote I wasn’t aware of: Pickup trucks in the US and Canada are now much larger that in the past. But nobody asked for larger vehicles… what happened? Regulators tied engine efficiency to vehicle size, and manufacturers worked out that inflating the truck with aluminum was cheaper than redesigning an engine from scratch. The rule produced the exact opposite of its intent, and everyone pays for it forever. That’s what happens when people with no connection to reality get to define what efficiency means. It’s a small example, but it’s everywhere once you start looking for it.

Quality Cannot Be Faked

Real leather and real cotton resists dilution. The price of beef tells you more about what’s happening to your money than any government number, and the feeling of something well made sitting in your hand has quietly become a form of evidence. MADEX is building a line of lighters right now designed to last generations, a small rebellion against everything disposable.

The Patron With No Opinion

Bitcoin is the first patron of the arts with number go up technology. Every patron before it arrived with an opinion about what should be made. Bitcoin has none. Hold it long enough and it becomes the blank check that artists have been dreaming about for five hundred years, moving the constraint on creation from money to vision. When 0.01 Bitcoin can finance a company for twenty years, we’re going to see an explosion of innovation nobody alive has witnessed. True capitalism has been dead for well over a century. We’ve just been living off its architectural remnants.

AI Is Not The Enemy

On AI, he wasn’t dismissive, just precise. AI cannot receive a vision in a dream, MADEX said. It recombines what already exists, useful and worth using. The creators black pilling on AI right now are being encouraged to quit their jobs by the people who benefit from them quitting.

Why He Won’t Use the ₿

MADEX refuses to put the Bitcoin symbol on his work. The symbol is a shortcut, cheap, fast, anyone can order it from China, he says. What actually costs something is converting dense economic and philosophical ideas into symbols that carry them, and people feel that difference even when they can’t articulate it. Wealth is in the details. The last two percent of effort is the entire distance between good and great.

Children: The Most Intimate Front

We closed on children, and he was ademant about that. The campaign against having children is the most intimate front of this whole war. It’s expensive, it’s bad for the planet, the world is ending anyway, and the targets are always the people who think for themselves. Children hand you a stake in the future (I loved that), and a stake in the future makes you fight for it. That’s why you’re being told to skip it.

Thought on Debt

About debt, MADEX is more nuanced: Fiat debt cripples fiat man and liberates Bitcoin man. Same instrument, opposite outcome, and the only variable is what you’re holding underneath it. One man is locked into a car payment for eternity. The other takes on debt with a smile, because time is quietly working for him.

This is one of the most creative conversations I’ve had on the show, with a super based, talented artist. If you make anything, or you’re raising kids, or you’re just trying to figure out what to hold onto while everything around you gets diluted, this one is for you.

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Urgent: Coldcard (Bitcoin Hardware Wallet) Users Need to Move Their Coins, Here’s What Happened

Efrat Fenigson — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 21:30:08 GMT

If you or anyone in your circle uses a Coldcard hardware wallet, please read & share this.

If you’re considering switching to Trezor

Trezor has a sale on till Aug. 6, of up to 20% off (which started before this shit show) and I got an extra 10% off, using this link.
The discount code is in this short video, yes, you’ll have to watch it:

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What happened

Coinkite, the maker of Coldcard, disclosed a critical flaw in how some of its devices generate wallet seeds. In simple terms: the device was supposed to pull true randomness from a dedicated hardware chip when creating your seed phrase, but due to a coding error, it was often pulling from a much weaker, predictable source instead.

Weak randomness means a smaller pool of possible seed phrases, small enough that an attacker can potentially guess or reconstruct one and steal the funds behind it. Your PIN, your air-gapped setup, your secure element, none of that helps once the seed itself was never truly random to begin with. Sadly, researchers have already tied roughly 594 BTC (about $38 million) swept from around 500 wallets to this exact issue.

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More technical explanations here:

Who is affected

Mk3 devices, seeds generated on firmware 4.0.1 through 5.0.3, are the most exposed. Coinkite estimates the effective randomness dropped to roughly 40 bits, far below what’s needed for real security.
Mk4, Mk5, and Q devices were also affected, though less severely (effective entropy around 72 bits), because some hardware-based randomness still got mixed in as a backup.
TAPSIGNER, OPENDIME, and SATSCARD are not affected, they run different code entirely.
If your seed used 50 or more independent, private dice rolls, or a strong BIP-39 passphrase, your risk is significantly lower, but migrating is still the safe move.
Coinkite’s full technical writeup is here if you want the details: Technical Deep Dive into the Entropy Issue

Coinkite’s response

Coinkite founder NVK posted a long, unusually direct apology and accountability statement. Worth reading in full:

What to do if you have a Coldcard

I’m not going to walk through the migration steps myself, this moves fast and the official guidance is the safest source to follow in real time. Go straight to Coinkite’s own instructions: blog.coinkite.com and firmware upgrade instructions. You can also follow @COLDCARDwallet and @Coinkite for real-time updates. If you’d rather be walked through it, see the video tutorial and the live support session below.

Video walkthrough

If you’d rather watch someone do this step by step, Nathan from BTC Sessions put together a quick 15-minute tutorial: confirm your seed phrase backup, upgrade firmware, wipe seed, generate a new seed from the new firmware, then migrate to the new wallet using the temp seed.

There’s also a 2+ hours support session on their Youtube channel: COLDCARD Hack Support w/ Bitcoin Mentor Team
also released a comprehensive guide:

Watchman's Torch by Escape the Technocracy

Coldcard: The Devastation Begins

Episode 229 of The Watchman Privacy Podcast – Coldcard: The Devastation Begins…

Listen now

a month ago · 3 likes · Gabriel Custodiet

Don’t throw out your old device

One more thing: don’t throw out your old device once you’ve migrated. If you ever pursue a police report or your stolen coins are recovered, your original Coldcard may be needed to prove you owned the seed, tied to the hardware ID on the processor. Because the seeds are trivially brute forceable, having the seed alone is not enough to prove you’re the rightful owner.

If you’re on a Trezor

Trezor itself confirmed its own devices are safe, and not affected by this specific issue, since it’s a Coldcard codebase problem, not a shared industry flaw:

However, if you generated your seed on an affected Coldcard and later moved that same seed onto a Trezor, you are still affected, moving a weak seed to a different device doesn’t fix the weakness:

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Also:

Investigation update

Security researcher Clay Garrett shared new findings on how the attacker operated during the sweeps:

Act now

I’m so sorry for everyone who’s been hurt by this. Self custody means you’re not trusting a bank or an exchange and that you’re responsible. It doesn’t mean you’re not trusting anyone. You’re still trusting that the device’s engineering actually did what it claimed to do. Open-source firmware helped this get found fast, but it still took a live exploit for anyone to catch it.

If you have a Coldcard, don’t wait. Act now and migrate today. And if you know someone who has one and might not be following this closely, send them this article please.

P.s. Additional resources

released a good interview on the topic too:

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TFTC also put together a comprehensive guide:

And released a video guide too:

Checkonchain Bitcoin Newsletter

⚠️ PSA: Addressing The Coldcard Exploit

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Do You Have a Plan B?

Tue, 28 Jul 2026 12:22:07 GMT

Have you been giving thought to your Plan B? Second passport? Second residency?

I’ve been living a nomad life for a while now. Bali, El Salvador, Australia, Vietnam, Spain, Ireland and many more places.

I experience different currencies, I learn about tax systems, rules.

Now - it’s not easy knowing where to settle down. There’s no one perfect place, I personally believe your personal checklist is unique to you, and your shortlist will be set depending on what’s important to you.

But heres one thing I’ve learned which I want to share with you: the concept of freedom, on the physical geographical aspect - It’s a structure you build deliberately.

Because governments can freeze your bank account. Restrict your movement. Close their borders overnight. We saw it during Covid. Now during the recent Middle East wars I felt it again.

Also life in the “west” - is not becoming easier, let’s admit it.

That’s why I believe in having a Plan B. A second residency. A second passport. Somewhere else to go if and when things go sideways.

I’m glad to share I partnered with Expat Money, founded by Mikkel Thorup, who has lived in nine countries, visited over 100, and spent two decades helping people build exactly this kind of structure.

He put together a free report on Plan B residencies and instant citizenships. Places like Panama, with an interesting territorial tax system - for example if your income is earned outside the country, you owe nothing to the government.

Or Vanuatu, where you can get citizenship by investment in as little as three months, and pay in Bitcoin.

Or Bulgaria, where an investor visa requires no residency to keep it active, and can fast-track you to citizenship in as little as 18 months.

The report outlines various paths to a second passport. Dozens of country programs, and It’s free.

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Let me know in the comments if there are specific countries you want to learn more about, or specific tools like offshore banking, passports or tax residencies.

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New Film About Costa Rica - Hummingbird: The Bitcoin Jungle Story

Wed, 22 Jul 2026 12:03:39 GMT

I’ve had the honor of watching “Hummingbird: The Bitcoin Jungle Story” doco, before most people. I loved it. See trailer above, full film here:

When people experience hardship but choose to build out of their breakdowns, rather than hate or fight, it resonates. When they do it simply, humbly, connected to nature, it amplifies that resonance. I’ve been planning my visit to Costa Rica for a while. After watching the film, I can’t wait for that experience.

The film is directed by DirectorHodl & produced by Paul Keating, exploring the origins of an organic farmer’s market in Uvita, Costa Rica, in the Bitcoin Jungle community, weaving together themes of trust, spirituality, and an ancient myth known as the prophecy of the eagle and the condor. By diving into the profound impact of colonialism in Central America, the film examines how institutions like the IMF and World Bank have shaped the region over time, illuminating how Bitcoin has arisen within the community as a natural response to a systemic problem. If you wish, support the film and his independent creators here.

Watch my episode with Paul Keating, the producer and overall awesome guy:

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Agenda 21/2030, the Digital Panopticon & My Sovereignty Framework - on Simply Bitcoin

Tue, 21 Jul 2026 12:12:34 GMT

“They’re trying to control the rails to Bitcoin as much as they can, if they have control over that, they’ll ‘allow you to play with your Bitcoins’.”

I was hosted last night on Simply Bitcoin’s live show, discussing agenda 2030, the digital panopticon & my sovereignty framework, (ignore Saylor’s click bait), start at 49:50:

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The Digital Cage: 2026 Is the Year They Stopped Hiding It

Efrat Fenigson — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 21:25:46 GMT

“What is being built right now, across the EU, the UK, the United States, and their allies, is a comprehensive architecture of identification, communication surveillance, financial monitoring, and content control. Each piece connects to the others.”

Something is happening across the Western world that doesn’t have a single headline, a single law, or a single villain. It’s a creep. Quiet, incremental, always justified by the most sympathetic rationale available: protect the children, stop the terrorists, fight misinformation, prevent financial crime. By the time any single measure becomes visible enough to generate public outrage, ten others have already passed into law. I must humbly admit: even though I have been monitoring this space for years, and have been aware of the UN’s Agenda 2030 and its sub-goals, I did not envision the implementation phase to accelerate and be so present and real already in 2026. I thought we had a few more years for that.

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But reality is slapping us all in the face these days, it’s the nature of this disillusionment phase we’re all living through. And it’s how digital control works: a slow accumulation of permissions that governments grant themselves while the public is distracted.

2026: The Year The Internet Closed In On Us

The open internet, the one that allowed anonymous speech, private communication, and pseudonymous identity, is being systematically dismantled. In its place, a new architecture is emerging: one where every user is identified, every transaction is logged, every communication is scannable, and every platform is legally responsible for what its users say.

The European Union has led the charge. The Digital Services Act requires large platforms to proactively police content, implement algorithmic transparency measures, and take down material flagged by government-approved “trusted flaggers,” entities designated by member states with the power to escalate content removal requests. The practical result is a privatised censorship infrastructure, where liability pressure does the work that state censorship would have been challenged in court.

Then there is Chat Control, perhaps the most ambitious surveillance proposal in EU history. Under the guise of combating child sexual abuse material, the European Commission proposed legislation that would require messaging platforms to scan all private communications, including end-to-end encrypted messages, for flagged content. The proposal has faced fierce resistance from cryptographers, privacy advocates, and some EU member states, but it has not been abandoned. It keeps returning in revised form because the goal has not changed. Breaking encryption, under any rationale, gives governments access to private communication at scale.

The EU’s approach to age verification follows the same pattern. Under the Digital Services Act and related frameworks, platforms must verify the ages of users accessing “harmful” content. The mechanism for doing this, in practice, requires users to submit government-issued identification or biometric data to third-party verification services. Age verification systems are honeypots for identity data, and the regulatory pressure to implement them is accelerating.

The UK & Australia’s Versions of Controlled Internet

Britain’s Online Safety Act, passed in 2023, imposed sweeping obligations on platforms to remove “legal but harmful” content, with the definition of harmful left deliberately broad and subject to future expansion. Ofcom, the regulator, was empowered to demand that platforms implement “accredited technology” to scan for illegal content, including within private messages. Like Chat Control in the EU, this creates backdoor pressure to break or circumvent encryption.

The Online Safety Act’s scope creates strong incentives for platforms to geoblock or limit functionality for users who appear to be circumventing content restrictions, putting effective pressure on VPN use without a formal ban.

Australia moved first on social media age restrictions, with its Online Safety Act empowering the eSafety Commissioner to issue removal notices for a wide range of content. The under-16 social media ban it introduced is now being cited as a model by other governments. As I discussed on Spectator TV Australia, when that ban started locking adult political writers out of platforms, it wasn’t a bug. It was a preview.

Identity Is the Infrastructure of Control

The EU’s digital identity framework, eIDAS 2.0, mandates that member states make available a European Digital Identity Wallet to every citizen who wants one. The wallet holds verified identity credentials, educational qualifications, medical records, payment information, and travel documents, all in a single state-issued digital container. EU countries are required to offer EUDI Wallets to their citizens by end of 2026, with businesses required to accept them by 2027. The Commission frames this as convenience. What it actually creates is a single point of identity that governments, employers, and service providers can require before granting access to services.

“The Commission frames this as convenience. What it actually creates is a single point of identity that governments, employers, and service providers can require before granting access to services.”

Ireland was selected as one of the earliest implementers, launching a pilot for its Government Digital Wallet in April 2026: a state-run app to store your ID, birth certificate, driving license, and more. The government’s pitch sounds reassuring: “You are in control of your data.” “Nothing is tracked or recorded.” They said the same things about every surveillance system before it became mandatory. Ireland is legally required under EU regulation to have the wallet operational for public services by end of 2026, extended to private services by end of 2027. “Voluntary” has an expiration date. They wrote it into law.

Ireland’s Communications Minister has already proposed requiring the wallet for social media access, meaning Irish people would need a state-issued digital ID just to log into Facebook, Instagram, or X (and any other big tech media platform). The Irish Council for Civil Liberties put it plainly: this would mean users can no longer browse the internet with any degree of anonymity. Every page visit, every platform login will be traceable back to a specific government ID.

CBDC Is The Weapon of Control

The Digital Euro sits alongside this architecture. The ECB’s rollout target is 2026-2027, the same window as the wallet rollout. While the retail digital euro gets most of the public attention, the ECB is simultaneously running two wholesale infrastructure projects that have received almost no coverage: Project Pontes, which establishes an interface between central bank money and tokenised digital assets, and Project Appia, which is designing the broader ecosystem and governance framework around those tokenised assets.

We’re essentially seeing a state-controlled digital ID wallet, plus a state-controlled digital currency with programmable rails, arriving together. I think people fail to understand that once their identity and their money live in the same government infrastructure, every transaction can be permissioned, tracked, and cut off. As I recently wrote, analysing Deutsche Bundesbank President Joachim Nagel’s pitch for the Digital Euro: central bankers are rebranding control as “critical payment infrastructure,” framing geopolitical tensions and declining cash use as the drivers for why we must embrace it.

“Digital ID is the authentication layer while CBDC is the currency that runs on top of it. Stop Digital ID and you prevent CBDC from being built at any scale that matters.” —

None of this should be a surprise. Back in December 2025, I laid out the three CBDC trends I expected to define 2026: accelerating rollout, the merging of digital currency with digital identity, and the Digital Euro setting the global template. Every one of them is now playing out, faster than even I expected.

Your Face Is Now Your Passport

Airports are becoming the clearest working model of what global biometric infrastructure looks like once it’s actually built. The EU’s Entry/Exit System went fully operational across all 29 Schengen countries on April 10, 2026, replacing passport stamps with fingerprints and facial scans for every non-EU traveller, data stored for three years and used to automatically track how many of your permitted days you have left. Refuse to hand over your biometrics, and you are refused entry, full stop. But this is not an EU-only project: it mirrors the US Biometric Exit program, the UK’s Electronic Travel Authorisation, and a broader international push, coordinated through the International Civil Aviation Organization’s biometric passport standard, to make facial recognition the default credential for crossing any border, anywhere. What’s being sold as convenience, and what is supposed to speed up the line for people already enrolled (in reality it’s often causing huge delays across major airports), is quietly becoming the connective tissue of a single, interoperable global identity layer: enroll once, and your face becomes legible to every airport, every immigration system, and potentially every database it is ever linked to afterward.

New Crypto Regulation Enabling Surveillance

The EU’s MiCA (Markets in Crypto Assets) regulation, brought crypto assets under a comprehensive regulatory framework. Among its provisions are strict licensing requirements for crypto service providers, mandatory KYC for all transactions above certain thresholds, and, through DAC8, the automatic reporting of crypto asset holdings to tax authorities across member states. DAC8 requires crypto exchanges and wallet providers to collect and report detailed user information, including name, address, tax identification number, and the value of assets held and transacted, automatically shared between EU tax authorities.

That aggregation of financial data has not gone unchallenged. Bull Bitcoin, one of the world’s oldest Bitcoin-only exchange, has filed a legal challenge before France’s Conseil d’État, the country’s supreme administrative court, seeking to annul the decree implementing DAC8 domestically. CEO Francis Pouliot argues the directive creates a centralised honeypot of sensitive financial data, and the case arrives against a documented and worsening physical threat: French authorities have recorded 77 verified cases of kidnapping, extortion, or attempted extortion linked to crypto holders since the start of 2026 alone, already surpassing all of 2025, with France now accounting for an estimated 70% of such “wrench attacks” worldwide. “DAC8 has transformed the concept of Know Your Customer into Kill Your Customer,” Pouliot said. The case is being financed independently, and a favourable ruling could set a precedent for challenges across the EU.

The Travel Rule, now extended to crypto assets under MiCA, requires that the identity of both sender and receiver be attached to every transaction above a threshold. The pseudonymity that made Bitcoin usable as a parallel financial system is being regulated away. You see, if they tried to ban it, it would generate resistance. But making it regulated and compliant means it is now traceable and controllable.

KYC requirements have expanded in parallel across traditional finance. Under the EU’s Anti-Money Laundering Directives, banks must collect and verify detailed beneficial ownership information, monitor transaction patterns, and report suspicious activity to financial intelligence units. The threshold for what constitutes suspicious activity has been consistently lowered. Paying rent in cash, moving money between family members, operating a business with international clients: all of these can now trigger reporting obligations.

Your Car Is Watching You Too

The surveillance layer is not confined to phones, wallets, and bank accounts. It now extends to the vehicle in your driveway. A field known in the intelligence industry as CARINT, car intelligence, has emerged around the fact that modern cars are rolling computers, dependent on constant cellular and internet connectivity to function. Israeli firms are reported to be leading this space: one company has developed an “offensive” capability that can remotely tap into a car’s hands-free microphone and dashboard cameras, while others sell tools that track a vehicle’s location and movements in real time by exploiting its built-in SIM card, and even fingerprint individual vehicles using the unique identifier broadcast by their tire-pressure sensors. In the United States, agencies including the FBI and NSA request vehicle data from manufacturers much as they request data from phone and email providers, and firms like Palantir fuse license plate and registry data with other intelligence sources. The more digital a car becomes, the more it becomes another node in the same surveillance architecture as your phone, your wallet, and your identity.

The surveillance creep has now reached the dashboard by design, not just by hacking. As of July 7, 2026, every new passenger car and van registered in the EU must include an infrared, driver-facing camera as part of the bloc’s Advanced Driver Distraction Warning system, monitoring eye movement, blinking, and gaze direction whenever the vehicle exceeds 20 km/h. The European Commission frames it purely as a road-safety measure, and the system is described as closed-loop, with facial data processed on-device rather than transmitted. But researchers note that claim has no independent audit, and the same auto industry has a well-documented history of sharing or selling driver data to third parties. A camera trained on your face, built into your car by law, joins the SIM card, the tire sensor, and the microphone as one more sensor feeding a system you never consented to and cannot opt out of.

The Other Side: Freedom Tech Is Fighting Back

None of this is going unanswered. As covered by Susie Violet Ward on Forbes, a growing freedom tech movement is building the tools that let people communicate, transact, and organise even when governments, platforms, or banks try to cut them off. Activists in countries where governments impose internet and electricity blackouts turn to Bluetooth mesh-networking apps like Bitchat, which let nearby phones relay messages without internet or mobile service at all. On the financial side, developers are building bitcoin-based privacy tools like Cashu or Fedi for private digital money, and peer-to-peer donation protocols like Agora, which Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López built after watching his own country weaponise the banking system against dissidents, calling it “unstoppable funding.”

This resistance extends to the phones too. Hakeem Anwar, a software engineer and founder of Above Phone, argues that Big Tech phones are not just data-collection devices but control points, since Google and Apple hold the signing keys to every app on their stores and can remove any application without your consent. His answer is phones powered by GrapheneOS and equipped with alternative privacy-conscious applications, services and sim cards. As Anwar put it when I spoke with him: privacy is a stack, the protocol, the app, and the hardware all have to be trustworthy, or the weakest link defeats everything else.

For me the two most exciting freedom technologies are Nostr, a decentralised protocol where your identity lives in a private key you control rather than the state, and Bitcoin, which lets value move peer to peer without middlemen granting permission. It feels like the time is right to educate the public about privacy and digital technologies; Freedom fighters such as John Burnett had put together a free course for digital privacy, and Bitcoin Policy UK Co-founder Freddie New consolidated a free privacy toolkit.

The Pattern

Each of these measures has a sympathetic justification: child protection, financial crime, national security, extremism, misinformation. These are real problems, and no serious person disputes that. The question is whether the proposed solutions are proportionate, whether they are reversible, and whether the infrastructure being built to address them can be repurposed once the justification is no longer convenient.

History answers that question clearly: emergency powers are rarely temporary. Surveillance infrastructure built for one purpose is routinely expanded to others. Identity systems created for efficiency become mechanisms of exclusion. Financial monitoring tools designed for crime become tools for managing dissent.

What is being built right now, across the EU, the UK, the United States, and their allies, is a comprehensive architecture of identification, communication surveillance, financial monitoring, and content control. Each piece connects to the others. The digital wallet links to the digital euro, which links to KYC, which links to DAC8, which links to the Travel Rule. The age verification system links to the identity wallet. The biometric border layer links to the same digital identity infrastructure. Chat Control links to the encryption backdoor. The Online Safety Act links to content moderation liability, which links to trusted flaggers, which links to government-approved information.

The cage is assembled one regulation at a time, by unelected technocrats and bureaucrats who understand that populations accept constraints they cannot see arriving all at once. If you haven’t started preparing for this highly technocratic reality by learning about and embracing freedom tech, the time is now.

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Banks Said No. Bitcoin Said Yes. How "Born To Be Free" Was Financed Without Selling a Sat

Wed, 15 Jul 2026 12:25:03 GMT

At Camp Nakamoto, I sat down with John and Nadja of Born to Be Free, an all-natural, tallow-based skincare brand built from scratch on a Bitcoin standard. They shared how traditional banks turned them down for a loan despite an 800 credit score and a profitable business, and how Ledn’s Bitcoin-backed loans help them fund their business without selling a single sat. It’s a real-world look at how Bitcoiners are using tools like Ledn to access liquidity, grow their businesses, and stay true to their low-time-preference mindset, without giving up their stack.

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New World Disorder - Changes in The World's Monetary System

Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:36:33 GMT

I have a weird habit of monitoring central banks content and narratives. Therefore, I’m subscribed to the OMFIF newsletter, a “think tank” of central bankers & finance bro’s that would make 99% of normal people yawn.
In their last newsletter, I spotted a podcast about the Digital Euro, with Joachim Nagel, president of the Deutsche Bundesbank, and decided to analyze it through my critical lens, by creating the above video using AI (Notebook LLM).

Listening to central bankers like Joachim Nagel talk about “strategic autonomy” and “financial sovereignty” feels like a scripted response to a “New World Disorder” that has been brewing for years. They point to “geopolitical tensions” and the “declining use of cash” as the primary drivers for why we must embrace a digital euro, but I can’t help but wonder if they are just rebranding control as “critical payment infrastructure”. It is part of a much larger, unsettling picture where the old world order, what some experts are calling a “doom loop” of inequality and destabilization, is being replaced not by something better, but by a more digitized version of the same destructive feedback loops.

For me, this is not just about a more convenient way to pay; it is about who really holds the keys to our financial lives. While the “elite” discuss “hard power” and how to sustainably finance massive increases in defence spending, the rest of us are being nudged toward AI agents using CBDC/stablecoins digital wallets that could track every transaction (with bitcoin it’s a different picture btw). If central banks are accumulating gold at record paces as a hedge against “systemic risk,” we should be asking why they’ve made the system so risky in the first place. I’m not buying the “autonomy” narrative. To me, it feels like a manufactured transition into a new world disorder managed by the same old hands.

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How To Defend Against CBDCs & Surveillance - BTC Prague Panel

Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:08:08 GMT

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In this panel from last month in Prague, we cover one of today’s most urgent topics, or at least so I think - preparation against the digital prison. On the panel: Tony (The Bitcoin Way), Viliam (Vexl), Lea (Cake Wallet), and me, moderated by the awesome Susie Violet Ward. We explain why you need to prepare to protect your money, your privacy, and your freedom before the cage closes. We mention the boiling-frog trap of convenience, why “I have nothing to hide” is a dangerous myth, Worldcoin and the trade of your data for a few bucks, building your parallel network before the crisis hits, and how to reclaim sovereignty over your identity, money, and voice.

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On Eddie Hobbs Show in Ireland: "The Digital Trap Explained"

Efrat Fenigson — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 08:13:45 GMT

Hey friends,

I was interviewed recently in Ireland by on “Counterpoint”, about:

EU’s new Digital ID + Wallet pilot in Ireland
EU regulations as part of the larger Agenda 2030 and 2050
The Fiat monetary system
Are digital technologies all bad, or can we find rescue in freedom tech: Bitcoin, Nostr, open source, privacy tools

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Panel: Neutral, Censorship-Resistant Money vs. the Failures of Crypto, Gold, and CBDC

Efrat Fenigson — Sun, 31 May 2026 20:43:48 GMT

Hola from Barcelona,

Just finished another conference - with a good grassroots Spanish bitcoin community.

I wanted to share a panel I participated in Madrid a few weeks ago, enjoy and please drop a comment & like, yes it helps:

"Bitcoin Is the Answer: Neutral, Censorship-Resistant Money vs. the Failures of Crypto, Gold, and Central Bank Digital Currencies"

Moderator: Kristyna Mazankova – Master in Bitcoin Program Director at Universidad de las Hesperides.
Panelists:
• Efrat Fenigson – Host at ‘You’re the Voice’
• Knut Svanholm – Host at ‘Bitcoin infinity show’
• Remu Karhulah ti – CEO of BTC HEL.”

Next up on my tour - Prague, US, Lugano…
Stay cool, calm & collected, and don’t forget to stack sats.
♥️ Efrat

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Proof of Work: From Switzerland, to Spain, Portugal and Ireland

Efrat Fenigson — Wed, 20 May 2026 20:51:49 GMT

Hey friends,

I’m in the midst of my European spring roadshow, and it’s going well but quite challenging! I’m moving between cities every week, preparing presentation, recording and releasing podcasts on the go, meeting people, while ensuring my sleep, sun, food and spiritual habits are kept relatively in tact.

Let me share experiences from 4 places:

1) Block with Mir / Lugano Switzerland

Mir interviewed me when we were in Lugano last year, here’s the fun result
We discussed ”PROFESSIONAL PROOF OF WORK …titles and credentials matter less than your ability to demonstrate value through action, integrity, communication, and authenticity. In Bitcoin, your real résumé is your proof of work.”

2) MAD Bitcoin, Madrid, Spain

Last week in Madrid was really great, here’s my little summary video:

And here’s my rant about why bitcoin is really important. Not as another digital investment asset, but as a freedom enabler. And no, government surveillance is not ok. Click to read the whole rant…

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3) With Eddie Hobbs, Dublin, Ireland

I was interviewed by on his show Counterpoint, at the Dublin studio. We talked about Ireland’s Digital ID / CBDC / Internet control, EU’s plans, a bit of Trump, Israel, bitcoin and more. Stay tuned till next week!

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4) Porto, Lisbon, Portugal

In between I also visited Porto in Portugal - where I attended a great local meetup with some amazing bitcoiners - lots of educational content was shared:

I also attended the “Free Energy Summit” in Lisbon, organized by my friend Andre Loja from Free Madeira:

And some photos:

Wish me luck in Ireland, Barcelona, Prague etc… drop a comment.
♥️ Efrat

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The Sound of Silence Is Killing Us

Efrat Fenigson — Sun, 17 May 2026 11:39:54 GMT

There is a particular kind of cowardice dressed up in respectable clothes. It wears the face of politeness. Of staying in your lane. Of not wanting to cause trouble, not wanting to lose friends, not wanting to be the one who makes things awkward at the dinner table.

And it’s destroying us.

I’ve watched people witness fraud and say nothing. I’ve watched professionals nod along to policies they knew were wrong. I’ve watched entire communities look away while their neighbors were being crushed, by corrupt systems, by captured institutions, by outright lies dressed up as public health, public safety, public good. The machinery of control doesn’t just rely on enforcers. It relies on bystanders. It needs your silence. It counts on it.

Simon & Garfunkel wrote about this in 1964. “Silence like a cancer grows” - four words that have aged into prophecy. They were writing about a society so seduced by comfort and spectacle that it had forgotten how to speak. How to really speak. Not perform, not signal, not post, but stand up, tell the truth, and accept the consequences.

That was sixty years ago. Look around.

We are living through a period of coordinated, institutionalized deception on a scale most people still can’t bring themselves to name out loud. The financial system is built on debt that can never be repaid. The health system spent years prioritizing compliance over care and turning sickness into a business model. Governments surveil their own populations and call it safety. Platforms silence doctors, journalists, and ordinary people and call it moderation and safety. And most people, educated, decent, well-meaning people, said nothing. Some because they are scared. Some because they genuinely don’t know. And some because knowing is uncomfortable, and comfort is addictive.

Silence is never neutral. Every time a person who knows the truth chooses not to say it, they hand a little more power to the people who are lying. Every time someone watches something wrong happen and looks away, they make it easier for it to happen again. The absence of resistance is a form of consent, whether we intend it that way or not.

What we need right now, urgently, are people willing to be inconvenient. Willing to be unpopular. Willing to lose something. Whistleblowers. Truth-tellers. The colleague who won’t sign off on the report they know is falsified. The doctor who won’t prescribe what they know is harmful. The journalist who won’t kill the story. The ordinary person who refuses to pretend they didn’t see what they saw, who won’t turn a blind eye to violence, war crimes, and the extortion of fellow human beings.

This is a call for courage, the specific, unglamorous kind that shows up in small moments: the email you send anyway, the question you ask in the meeting, the post you publish knowing half your audience will push back.

Freedom and dignity are preserved by people. By individuals who decide that their integrity is worth more than their comfort, and that the future they want to live in is worth building, even when building it is hard.

Silence is a choice. And every day it continues, it compounds.

In the song (below) Paul Simon warns the crowd and tries to reach them, but his words fall like silent raindrops into empty wells. That image has stayed with me. Because that’s what it feels like to speak when most people are afraid to join, or aren’t ready to hear. And yet the speaking still matters. It plants something.

“Fools” said I, “You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

Every generation gets a moment where silence becomes a verdict. This is ours.

Listen to this remake by Disturbed.

“The Sound of Silence”

Paul Simon, Simon & Garfunkel, 1964.

Hello darkness, my old friend
I’ve come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone
‘Neath the halo of a street lamp
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
No one dared
Disturb the sound of silence

“Fools” said I, “You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you”
But my words like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence

And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming

And the sign said, “The words of the prophets
Are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls
And whispered in the sounds of silence”

Source: LyricFind

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And... It’s a Wrap! Summary Clip from Vegas Conference.

Sun, 03 May 2026 16:46:07 GMT

And... It’s a wrap! Check out the clip above!
Vegas 2026: 2 stages, 10 interviews, lots of events.
But the best part? my favorite friends.

Susie’s post echos with me, give it a quick read:

I recommend watching these talks:

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My Most Significant Panel EVER, From the World's Largest Bitcoin Event

Efrat Fenigson — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 17:37:17 GMT

Hey friends,

I’m still recovering from a super busy week in Vegas, at the world’s largest Bitcoin conference.

The panel I moderated is now released, please watch it, like, comment and please please SHARE it. It is SO important to keep the pressure on, and get Keonne & Bill pardoned, and support the legacy of the legendary John McAfee. Lyn, Ross Ulbricht mother, inspires everyone to never give up. Watch and share:

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Watch my interview with Keonne Rodriguez before he went to prison:

Check out the 8 interviews I recorded for the podcast, stay tuned they’ll be released soon! Click this Twitter thread to see all 8 guests:

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What do you think about the panel?
Please comment, like and share. In this case it matters so much.
I’m so grateful to be given this opportunity to raise awareness to these cases and topics.
♥️ Efrat

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Freedom Go Up

Efrat Fenigson — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 16:09:40 GMT

Hey friends,

Two pieces of content for your early morning coffee ☕:

“Freedom Go Up” - a name I gave the twitter space I spoke in this morning, prior to Bitcoin 2026 in Vegas: I spoke about Pardoning Samourai, and the US potential of being a beacon of light and preserving freedom and privacy - as the American forefathers intended. Also touched on CBDCs, agenda 2030, digital ID, the controlled demolition of the old world order and ushering in a new one.
Listen to the recording here:

“They Control Your Money” - A live conversation I had on the “Daily Stack”, about passive investments via bitcoin mining, AI, global agendas, free speech, CBDCs vs Bitcoin, and more.
Follow The Daily Stack, now on Nostr too.

Clips:

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Join me in Vegas for these sessions!
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Have a great day and go touch grass,
♥️ Efrat

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Escaping the Algorithm in the New Financial World Order - on Geopolitics & Empire (Guest Podcast)

Efrat Fenigson — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 16:11:53 GMT

I had the pleasure of being hosted on the podcast this week.

Watch on BitChute / Brighteon / Rumble / Substack or YouTube above.

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Have You Ever Been to a Bitcoin Mine Site?

Mon, 20 Apr 2026 05:49:03 GMT

After a 30+ hours journey from Vietnam, I arrived to Oregon, USA.

I’ve visited Abundant Mines site, and I’m working, resting & hiking!

More content from the mine tour and interviews with Beau Turner - in the pipeline!

In the meantime, find more info about mining bitcoin with Abundant Mines here:

Take care!
♥️ Efrat

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I Left the Future and Arrived at Home

Efrat Fenigson — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 20:14:01 GMT

“You’re almost home,” said my Uber driver, as I stepped into his car.

I smiled and said “yes”, but in my heart, I quietly disagreed. I am home. Right now. After long journeys like the one I just completed from Asia to the US, without having a geographic “base” to call home, the knowingness that “I am always home” is slippery.

Listen to this article (read by AI):

That’s the thing about being a digital nomad. My suitcase is a running joke, it’s my portable life. But the truth is deeper than that. I carry my home with me not in luggage, but in myself. In my body, my heart, my sense of presence. Like a turtle. Wherever I go, I’m already there.

The driver meant well. He was being kind. And without knowing it, he gave me a gift — a reminder of how fortunate I am to feel at home everywhere. No countdown. No “almost.” Just here, now, home.

We tend to think of home as a place. A matter of space — somewhere you travel to, somewhere you’re not quite at yet. But what if home is less a location and more a moment? What if being home is a time inquiry, not a space one? You are home right now. Always, right now.

That reframe opened something up in me. And then, layered right on top of it, came the time puzzle.

Time Is Wonkey

I’d just crossed more than 24 hours of travel. Around the world. I left Vietnam on April 12th in the afternoon, and landed in Oregon on April 12th in the afternoon. Same date. Same general time of day. Different hemisphere, different continent, different everything - except the clock.

I left from the future. Vietnam is 14 hours ahead. I crossed datelines, time zones, and hemispheres, and somehow arrived at the same moment I departed. Different coordinates, same clock.

Vietnam is in the “tomorrow” of Portland :)

That made me ponder.

Time, as we relate to it , the way we read clocks, measure hours, structure our days, is a human construct. Yes, it’s anchored in physics. Yes, it follows the laws of this 3D reality we inhabit, synced to circadian rhythms and the rotation of the earth. But the way we symbolize and communicate time? We built that. We agreed on it. And nothing makes that clearer than flying around the globe, watching the hours pass, and landing exactly where you started on the calendar.

Time is weirder than we let ourselves acknowledge.

We take it as fixed. As objective. As fact. But if you’ve ever spent time in a deeply imaginative state: daydreaming, meditating, or disconnecting from 3D reality, you’ve probably felt how elastic it can be. Those who’ve experienced psilocybin know this intimately. Time stretches, collapses, folds. You can feel like you’re in several places at once, and it may feel like a glitch. Quantum physics has been pointing at this for decades. A particle can exist in multiple states simultaneously. “What the Bleep Do We Know?” - that film from the early 2000s, brought this into mainstream conversation before most people were ready for it. Itzhak Bentov talked about it in his work, and Federico Faggin keeps opening my head to it.

We live as if time is a straight line. But maybe it’s more of a field.

Adopt A Different Lens on Time

Travel is one of the best tools I know for noticing the invisible structures you live inside, and time is one of them. When you’re constantly crossing time zones, adjusting your sleep, resetting your rhythm, you stop relating to the clock as something fixed and start relating to it as something you negotiate with. The structure becomes visible precisely because you keep disrupting it.

And that structure does have real value. Linear time: calendars, schedules, shared reference points, is genuinely useful. It helps us coordinate, plan, show up for each other. Being a good timekeeper isn’t something to dismiss. When you’re in tune with time, life flows more easily. That’s real.

But being in tune with something is different from being imprisoned by it. Questioning a system means understanding it well enough to use it consciously, despite the initial urge to abandon it. The same way I think about money, identity, and every other structure we’ve inherited: know the rules, know who made them, and decide for yourself how much authority they have over you. Time deserves the same scrutiny. Try experiencing it differently; through stillness, through travel, through whatever loosens the grip of the default setting.

And You?

Lately, my experience of time has been genuinely strange. Over the last few years, I feel everything accelerating... so much happening in a single day that time just flies. And then I look back at the last six years and it feels like two decades. One year feels like ten. The compression and the expansion seem to be happening simultaneously, and I don’t think I’m alone in that.

I’m curious where you are with this. How do you experience time right now, and has that changed?

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