I added commenting powered by nostr, so now you can comment on my blog posts using nostr account. For me this is groundbreaking how easy it is, as well as scalable. #Nostr is rad! Next up #zaps ! You may check my blog at www.kokkomaki.com

I'm building a financial censorship monitor at https://nofunds.org/. It's not yet ready, and I'm still compiling a dataset. It's a monitor tracking cases of financial censorship, such as bank account freezes, payment blocks, and asset seizures used against journalists, activists, and civil society. It should be fully automatic, thought that might take some time to do.

I wrote my Master's thesis on this topic back in 2023. https://www.doria.fi/handle/10024/187407 Now with the power of Claude Code I can finally create an near-exhaustive dataset with code and AI. I have been working on this for a while, and it might still take few months as I am also starting my work. More on that soon. Claude Code is opening new frontiers for me.

#bitcoin#financialcensorship#censorship#journalism#data#monitor hashtag#AI#claude#code#activist#dashboard#thesis#banks

I built a Lightning Network paywall | Ville Kokkomäki
https://kokkomaki.com/posts/i-built-a-lightning-network-paywall/

I BUILT A LIGHTNING NETWORK PAYWALL ON MY BLOG. hashtag#Bitcoin stuff. Sorry for the caps-lock. I'm so stoked. It's a working proof of concept. Of course, you must pay 21 sats, which is is about 1 cent. I made it using Claude Code. It took me one day to make. But then the bug nation attacked. First came complexity and abstraction, and the following bugs and improvements, and bugs upon bugs and their friends. Sigh. Life of a (vibe) coder, huh?

https://stacker.news/items/1457157

https://kokkomaki.com/2025/11/28/bitcoin-is-not-freedom-tech-by-default/

Alex Gladstein tells the story of how Bitcoin is a trojan horse, which authoritarian regimes take inside their walls. He claims that Bitcoin is “freedom go up, price go up”, “freedom technology”. However, we generally mix up what Bitcoin the technology can afford for individuals with what it de facto does under messy, real life situations. We treat Bitcoin’s technical features as if they automatically lead to whatever, political or economic, freedom. But this only works if people understand and can safely use those features, which is often not the case. So the story is nuanced and that is not clear from the slogan.