I’ve spent the last 30+ hours trying to process a few facts that I know or at least remember to be true:

1) I watched a global watch party of the Bitcoin conference 2026 for 3 days

2) This was held at the Venetian in LV

3) Julian Assange was tortured and had a surveillance op ran against him by the owner/security of the Venetian Las Vegas

4) responsible for (at least) the surveillance that Jackjack and that filmmaker highlight in the Julian Assange movie on thesixbilliondollarman dot com

5) last year when I tried to tell everyone, “protect your identity, put on a mask, etc etc” for months people openly satirized me (fair) - “avoid the villas”

6) when Jack and the film maker drop the idea, “you’re in the hotel responsible for the surveillance torture apparatus that ran ops against Julian Assange, the man who really proved one of the first global use cases for Bitcoin”, bootstrapping Assange freedom… the audience just… applauded

And the x posts kept rolling in and there was a bunch of clips of things Jack said… all just repeated phrases of things he has already said about bitcoin a million times, no viral mention of the most crucial, most contextual part of the talk… which was the irony of people walking into a surveillance trap and then publicly applauding it

It felt like watching a horror film…

Maybe no one gives a shit,
Maybe I’m from a different era…
I remember Wikileaks like it was yesterday

Recently someone told me I have a privacy kink, idk what that means but I do know this- if you’ve ever experienced being stalked or watched against your will, there’s nothing in the world you value as much as privacy when you fight to get that privacy back

The torture and torment of being (notably) watched against your will, changes a person

Bitcoin has never been more necessary,
The protection of privacy and other sacred rights has never been more necessary