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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 · 01/05/2026
facts.bitcoinbeyond66.com Evidence based. What evidence shows, 'not' what central bankers pay to FUD Bitcoin.
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The Bitcoin Evidence Base
Common claims about Bitcoin — and what peer-reviewed research actually shows.
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 11/02/2026
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands
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MS NOW @ms.now · 22/01/2026
Jack Smith on Jan 6 pardons: "I do not understand why you would mass-pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will." Watch our LIVE special coverage here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNnz...
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 10/01/2026
Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal ecoriates ICE, calling them “made-up fake law enforcement.” "No law enforcement professional wears a mask." She says she will arrest ICE agents who commit crimes in the city and warns, “You don’t want this smoke.”
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SHRED @tshred.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
ICE awarded Palantir a $30 million contract in April 2025 for ImmigrationOS, a platform delivering "near real-time visibility" on self-deportations and visa overstays. Stephen Miller owns about $200,000 worth of their stock. Expansion of ICE is a gold mine for him. truthout.org/articles/ste...
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Stephen Miller Owns Up to $250,000 in Palantir Stock, Report Finds
Palantir is reportedly building a mega-database of Americans’ personal information for the Trump administration.
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Free Speech Coalition @fsc.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
If you have not yet reported your banking discrimination story, do it now. Your voice has the power to shift the way the government (and the big banks) do business. www.freespeechcoalition.com/share-your-b...
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Share Your Banking Discrimination Story — Free Speech Coalition
Have you been treated unfairly by a bank simply because you've done work or own a business in the adult industry? Tell us your story!
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Anita ⚡️🌈 @anita.link · 21/10/2025
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 · 19/10/2025
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...
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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 · 19/10/2025
Just another milestone. How low can this guy go.
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Freddie New @freddienew.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
Plenty of other examples here: bitcoinpolicy.uk/bitcoin-rights
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Bitcoin Policy UK
We champion good policies that will benefit all those in the UK who hold, use and mine Bitcoin
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
As an East Anglian resident I feel the urge to respond to this article. I would like the opportunity to do this in long form @eastangliabylines.co.uk (will contact you via the website) as the Professor hits upon ‘some’ important information for the public but completely misses Bitcoin’s importance.
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L Break Into Program @breakintoprogram.co.uk · 14/10/2025
Today is Ada Lovelace Day.
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Ada Lovelace Day - Wikipedia
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Joe Nakamoto @joenakamoto.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
hello @felicityhannah.bsky.social please see this message from Freddie New regarding your Money Box episode this week
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 10/10/2025
HRF celebrates today’s announcement that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her decades-long commitment to freedom, democracy, and human dignity in Venezuela.
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ĐaꝞ①ꞧuꞩ.₿ 🟠 @dav1rus.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
The Nobel Peace Prize winner is a progressive Bitcoiner freedom fighter. Silently, Bitcoin keeps gaining ground because we need it to, because it's the main tool in the fight for liberty and equality.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
WOW María Corina Machado, Bitcoin opposition leader and Bitcoin advocate wins the Nobel peace prize! Never mind Trump! www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c1... hrf.org/.../hrf-inte...
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Nobel Peace Prize 2025 live updates: Venezuelan democracy activist María Corina Machado wins
Nominations closed in January but US President Donald Trump had led a public campaign to win the award.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Bitcoin is not 'crypto'. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIUv...
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Bitcoin is not crypto
YouTube video by Bitcoin Policy UK
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Save in Bitcoin. Join the people's network today.
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Andrew M. Bailey @resistance.money · 06/10/2025
I've been reading a bunch of AI skeptics lately, and I'm noticing how closely they resemble another kind of technology skeptic I know well — the bitcoin skeptic. Some patterns:
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Bitcoin Policy UK were at the @labouruk.bsky.social conference this week talking about the clear water between Bitcoin (the innovation) & 'crypto' (the 99.8% scams). We educated regulators, ministers and public on the fiscal, environmental & human rights benefits Bitcoin brings.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
This is exactly what we talked about with MP's and delegates at the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social conference these last few days.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
See you at the Labour Party conference @serauk.bsky.social B4 main hall. I have all those energy and environment papers with me let us dig and turn the tide on fossil fuels together!
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
@labourlewis.bsky.social @serauk.bsky.social @greenpartymolly.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/i... Alex Schoch (Octopus Energy) mentions Bitcoin mining specifically at the end of this pod for a very good reason. No other industry at scale is as flexible as Bitcoin mining. We eat methane!
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Intelligent Demand: How Consumers Can Support The Grid with Alex Schoch (Octopus Energy)
Podcast Episode · Transmission · 16/09/2025 · 37m
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Anita ⚡️🌈 @anita.link · 15/09/2025
Let’s bring zaps to Bluesky and more mainstream content to Nostr! Decentralize and democratize the internet!
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Anita ⚡️🌈 @anita.link · 14/09/2025
An example why we need the right to stay pseudonymous on the internet!
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The Progressive Bitcoiner, Inc. @progressivebitcoiner.org · 10/09/2025
Bitcoin has been branded as libertarian. But it doesn’t belong to any party, company, or elite. It belongs to us—if we choose to show up. Let’s reclaim the narrative. Let’s build a movement. #crypto #bitcoin #bitcoinforgood #theprogressivebitcoiner
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 09/09/2025
📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...
An illustration of me, and the headline: "AI agents are coming for your privacy, warns Meredith Whittaker
The Signal Foundation’s president worries they will also blunt competition and undermine cyber-security"To put it bluntly, the path currently being taken towards agentic AI leads to an elimination of privacy and security at the application layer. It will not be possible for apps like Signal—the messaging app whose foundation I run—to continue to provide strong privacy guarantees, built on robust and openly validated encryption, if device-makers and OS developers insist on puncturing the metaphoric blood-brain barrier between apps and the OS. Feeding your sensitive Signal messages into an undifferentiated data slurry connected to cloud servers in service of their AI-agent aspirations is a dangerous abdication of responsibility.Happily, it’s not too late. There is much that can still be done, particularly when it comes to protecting the sanctity of private data. What’s needed is a fundamental shift in how we approach the development and deployment of AI agents. First, privacy must be the default, and control must remain in the hands of application developers exercising agency on behalf of their users. Developers need the ability to designate applications as “sensitive” and mark them as off-limits to agents, at the OS level and otherwise. This cannot be a convoluted workaround buried in settings; it must be a straightforward, well-documented mechanism (similar to Global Privacy Control) that blocks an agent from accessing our data or taking actions within an app.

Second, radical transparency must be the norm. Vague assurances and marketing-speak are no longer acceptable. OS vendors have an obligation to be clear and precise about their architecture and what data their AI agents are accessing, how it is being used and the measures in place to protect it.
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 08/09/2025
On ABC News’s Sunday Extra, HRF Korea Desk Director Seongmin Lee shares how HRF’s Flash Drives for Freedom has reached 1.38M+ North Koreans with smuggled content that counters regime propaganda. 🎧 Listen now: www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Smuggling USB drives into North Korea - ABC listen
Flash drives for Freedom is a long-running initiative by the Human Rights Foundation which has smuggled 140,000 donated USB drives, SD cards and micro SD cards into North Korea, filled with informatio...
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
The amount of computing power securing the Bitcoin network is on a parabolic growth curve... so you'd expect emissions to be also on the same growth curve right? Wrong. Bitcoin mining has no choice but to build out RE & use wasted & stranded energy. Trend is clear. www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/2025/cambrid...
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Cambridge study: sustainable energy rising in Bitcoin mining - News & insight - Cambridge Judge Business School
The use of sustainable energy sources for Bitcoin mining has grown to 52.4% finds a new study by Cambridge Judge Business School.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 26/08/2025
On stage in Glasgow talking about stranded and wasted energy in Scotland and how Bitcoin mining can unlock that potential, over build RE and curtail methane emissions. All while being perfect demand response. #Scotland #Bitcoin #Methane #renewables
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 14/08/2025
Authoritarian regimes deliberately target heritage to erase histories, silence dissent, and consolidate power to control the future. HRF hopes to bring a panel to @sxsw.com this year to explore how preserving heritage fuels resistance and resilience.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
UK independent theatre in London the Cockpit hosts first of it's kind Bitcoin performance. bitcoinpolicyuk.substack.com/p/theatre-on...
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Theatre on Brink of Second Production of World-First Bitcoin Treasure Hunt
LONDON, UK, August 2025 - In a global first, a new theatre production is embedding Bitcoin within its live performance.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
www.urbanartstore.co.uk/news/banksy-... Banksy and Bitcoin come to Norwich @labourlewis.bsky.social
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Urban Art Store - Banksy to Bitcoin
Explore the intersection of fine art and cryptocurrency. Buy and sell art for emerging artists, and discover global art finder services and charity prints.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
progressivebitcoiner.org/anti-bitcoin... When progressives attack progressive technology.
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Anti-Bitcoin Activism is Cool, But At What Cost to the Rest of the World?
A giant blind spot for people from elite backgrounds is mixing up their political ideology and missing a human rights technology.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
The estimated tonnage mass of all coal and gas-fired power plants globally is ~50.55 billion tons, compared to ~687 million tons for solar panels and wind turbines. Coal and gas plants are roughly 73 times heavier in total mass! 73 times more materials for only 3.8 times greater energy generation.
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Human Rights Foundation (HRF) @hrf.org · 24/07/2025
Join HRF as our Director of Compliance! We’re looking for a sharp, principled leader to uphold legal integrity across our operations. Help protect human rights and our mission. Apply here: hrf.org/career/direc...
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
I will be representing on Bitcoin Policy UK's stand at the 2025 Labour party conference in Liverpool. bitcoinpolicy.uk/blog-1/f/bit... Stop by for a chat @labourlewis.bsky.social about how the UK can leverage the £5billion of Bitcoin it holds or how we can both supercharge & green our energy grid!
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Bitcoin Policy UK at Labour Party Annual Conference 2025
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - 21st July 2025
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Bitcoin is going about it's 4yr metronomic cycle as usual. Hitting new highs because Bitcoin is programmed to supply cut itself in a known schedule. Will @moneybox.bsky.social, @paullewismoney.bsky.social‬, @felicityhannah.bsky.social‬ talk to BitcoinpolicyUK to give good information to the public?
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Getting out paper and pencil.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
I find it troubling that my fellow progressives on the left cannot seem to grasp just how damaging inflation is at gouging the poorest in society whilst leaving the rich unaffected. They also seem blind to the root causes of that inflation and have no practical working solutions. Broken money
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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
A big humble thank you to ‪@time.com ‬and @billyperrigo.bsky.social for featuring Signal and me in your roundup of 2025’s most influential companies. An honor to serve alongside an incredible group of people backed by a rad movement ❤️ time.com/collections/...
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How Signal President Meredith Whittaker Took on Signal-Gate
Whittaker was forced to respond to a political firestorm after a White House blunder turned private chats into a national crisis
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
New art dropped in Norwich. 'Satoshi has a Posse' They sure do!
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Anita ⚡️🌈 @anita.link · 29/06/2025
The global surveillance apparatus is endangering people! It is absurd, that using a VPN, which protects me from attacks described in the article, blocks me from accessing same article. www.reuters.com/world/americ...
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 28/06/2025
Seen in Norwich. The revolution is grass roots!
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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
🌞 NEW RECORD.: Solar is on track to break all previous records in the UK in 2025. From a low base solar is now booming in the UK.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
As long as they’re hiding their faces, badges and names we should stop calling them “federal agents.” Call them masked goons or unidentified thugs or whatever, unless and until they provide proper ID.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Bitcoin Mining -
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This will be of interest to Bitcoiners I would imagine.
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Russell Rukin @russellrukin.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
For those thinking Bitcoin transactions can 'ever' be turned off.
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