🏴 is a symbol for freedom-seeking changemakers.  https://blackflagcollective.org/ to get involved.

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🏴 website

We are the Black Flag

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A naive reader might think "damn advertising ruined another thing", but that's the wrong takeaway.

The fight was over control, vs giving up control.

Taking control of a resource and drawing a strict boundary to access it allows us to extract from it, at the cost of ultimately limiting its growth/impact.

Using ads to extract from the resource is simply a symptom of the lack of imagination.

No matter the age, there has always been a subset of humanity which felt constrained by the status quo.

The promise of decentralization is not in creating a new cabal, but using technology to usher in a culture where no cabal can be in control.

Too many people get burned for caring too much and decide they’re gonna not care at all.

Care is a superpower when protected and directed in the right direction.

🏴 direct your care!

Many wish to steal your care or eliminate it completely.  But it is the basic human experience to transform your care into action.

It’s yours.  Use it!

We just distributed ~$268 USD to people who held IRL events in June!  https://basescan.org/tx/0x10a01e2347a71f92f70db1ff8d22e55bfcc4fe13fec6ae0891848c4cd6910f84

Did you host an IRL event in July?  Let me know so we can include you for retrofunding!

1 day left to vote on how we distribute ~266.69 USD for people who held IRL events in Jun 2025!

1 day left to vote on how we distribute ~266.69 USD for people who held IRL events in Jun 2025!

https://snapshot.box/#/s:black-flag.eth/proposal/0xf5a0e89868982dc5fe059478ae582ea5059683003d1f3e634aae578fc398bd03

Evangelism > Sugar Coating

I'm honestly not convinced we're going to bring the next bazillion people onchain by sugar coating crypto 

Yes we need to improve the UX 
Yes we need to make it safer 

But are we making users more free? 

What if the best way to onboard someone is to explain why you go into crypto? 

I worked in a customer service call center at a local bank for 4 years. One of our biggest sources of income? Fees. Users who didn't want their card charges declined could opt into a system that let them go into the negative by an amount determined by their risk factor. For some it would just be $500 because their deposits were low, for others it was $2000. Every time they went into the negative they paid the bank $35. 

This safety net became a crutch. People living on the poverty line would develop a pattern of getting a deposit, going into the negative, and then the next deposit would cover the the negative balance, and if their coverage algo would allow it they would go back into the negative for X amount. That was the big "if". I can't tell you the number of old widows and single mothers who would start crying because their coverage wasn't the same amount it had been for months, and now they had no idea how they would afford food or their electric bill. You can try to pass blame on personal responsibility or money management, but imo it was institutional and predatory for a bank to profit off that behavior. 

The truth of crypto is that it isn't "normal," it's revolutionary. Much like cryptography in the 90s it's radical. It's freedom. 

We still have a lot of work to do. While most crypto can make users more free it certainly isn't safe. I'm not at a point where I feel comfortable trying to convince a normie to get into crypto, but I will unabashedly tell them why I'm working in this space. I want people to understand that this space is more than just monkey pictures, scam tokens, and online casinos. We can do better. 

Make users more free
Make users more safe

Vote on which IRL events we should retrofund for June 2025!

Events from @cryptobaddie @reinislv and yours truly

Web3 security engineer, Biotech dev & NFT Connoisseur

Vote on which IRL events we should retrofund for June 2025!

Events from @cryptobaddie @reinislv and yours truly

https://snapshot.box/#/s:black-flag.eth/proposal/0xf5a0e89868982dc5fe059478ae582ea5059683003d1f3e634aae578fc398bd03

Here’s the group pic angle :)

@freeatnet.eth @tch @michelleh @links

🏴 meetup brought to you buy @michelleh

ex-b2b saas marketer • now helping entrepreneurs build soul-aligned businesses • foodie // health & wellness // grounded spirituality // lightworker ✨

Toronto

Impromptu FC Friday with the TO crew!

Come for the friends, stay for the soup

@freeatnet.eth @feeei @michelleh

My 🏴 event in June - Friday Patio Lunch!

« So we were cowards, so we were liars.
So we're not heroes, we're still survivors. »

Music

THAT MOMENT AND MY SPEECH ABOUT FARCASTER AND WHO WE ARE

Thx for the drinks 🏴 collective!

Set up for the Toronto FC Friday

249 years ago a bunch of upstart renegades signed a baller manifesto stating they were changing the MF-ing game.

They put aside their differences and chose freedom over money and even their own well-being.

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FC Friday meetup this month - doing a park hang!  https://lu.ma/dosxsv28

🏴  Farcaster Friday this evening in Toronto!

🏴  Farcaster Friday this evening in Toronto!  https://lu.ma/dosxsv28

10 years ago

🎥 https://youtu.be/oWwE3G09prw 🎥