Collective Badger

Grassroots Bitcoin adoption in developing nations. Connecting communities to peer-to-peer money. Financial inclusion is a right, not a privilege.

[Collective Badger @CollectiveBadge]

Who is the genius behind this? #Bitcoin

[Nicolas Colin @Nicolas_Colin]

🇪🇸 Since Spain won the World Cup, I’ve been obsessing over a thesis that I call “Latino Rising”, or the “Shakira Moment.” Hear me out.

There was a great article in the @nytimes about everything that’s going well in Spain, in addition to winning the World Cup. One of the points it made was that Spain is also experiencing a cultural renaissance, with Spanish cinema gaining international recognition and artists like Rosalía helping drive a shift away from English language songs on Spotify.

It immediately made me think about Bad Bunny at the Super Bowl and all the conversations it inspired about Latino culture slowly replacing Black culture as the mainstream avant-garde of American culture.

Hip hop has arguably been the biggest cultural force to emerge in the music industry over the past forty years. It reshaped music, fashion and youth culture around the world. But now, slowly and unmistakably, Latino artists and Spanish language music seem to be starting to occupy that same space.

And then here’s a third data point. On a recent episode of the "Geopolitical Cousins" podcast, geopolitical analyst Marko Papic made the point that although every European country, like most of the rest of the world, faces demographic decline, Spain is much better positioned because it has access to a vast pool of immigration: Spanish-speaking Latin America. These immigrants arrive with a shared language, cultural familiarity and historical ties, giving Spain a unique advantage in integrating new arrivals.

And so you see, there’s this triangle:

1️⃣ Spain as the Old World anchor, winner of the World Cup and going through an energy and manufacturing renaissance.

(Not even mentioning its PM Pedro @sanchezcastejon standing up to Trump and Trump declaring Spain a “lost cause”, which might be the best endorsement ever.)

2️⃣ Latin America as the deep demographic pool, providing sheer scale and cultural diversity across so many different countries, from Chile to Argentina to Colombia to El Salvador to Mexico.

3️⃣ The US as the financial and soft power amplifier, with the world’s largest entertainment industry, the dominant global media platforms, and a rapidly growing Hispanic population that acts as a cultural bridge between Latin America and the wider world.

Once those three get in sync, Spain’s economic and geopolitical resurgence, Latin America’s demographic and cultural depth, and America’s financial and media power could combine to make Latino culture, and Spanish as a language, even more dominant globally, offering a Western cultural and soft power alternative to the Anglosphere.

Who symbolizes this new world better than @shakira? Born in Colombia, obviously popular in Spain as well as in the US, she has been a global icon since at least the 2010 World Cup. Everyone knows her and knows her songs, just like with Madonna in the 1980s.

Latino Rising: what we’re witnessing is a power shift in the West from the Anglosphere towards the Latinosphere, symbolized by the passing of the baton between Madonna and Shakira.

The Latinosphere, being distributed across three powerful nodes, and then splitting down further in a fractal manner across South America and within Spain itself, is also much more representative of a multipolar world than the US dominated Anglosphere.

As for me, as suggested by my wife, I’ll start taking Spanish lessons on Duolingo. Being French, it should be easy, or at least easier than Mandarin.

What do you think?

[liminal @Liminal1988]

How to be a psychologically safe romantic partner:

[Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡ @gladstein]

My interview on AI and freedom that just aired on the BBC World Service

Grateful to get this message out — that AI can be revolutionary for human rights, but only if we focus on private, sovereign, and local — to so many millions of people worldwide 🙏

[TFTC @TFTC21]

A man returning to the US through Atlanta gave border agents a PIN to his GrapheneOS phone.

But it wasn't his real PIN, it was a duress code that wiped the device clean.

Now the DOJ is charging him with destruction of property to prevent government seizure.

CBP claims the authority to copy the entire contents of your phone into a central database without a warrant, on suspicion alone.

They told this man they didn't need a warrant. They refused to let him speak to a lawyer. They didn't read him his Miranda rights.

And when he used a privacy feature, one specifically designed for situations where you're being coerced into handing over access to your device, they charged him with a federal crime.

The government wants full access to your digital life at the border, and it wants to criminalize any tool that makes that harder.

GrapheneOS built the duress PIN for exactly this kind of scenario. The fact that using it could land you in federal prison tells you everything you need to know about where the lines are being drawn between privacy and compliance.

This case is going to set precedent. If the DOJ wins, every privacy tool that allows you to protect your data under duress becomes a potential felony.

That should concern everyone, regardless of what you think about this particular defendant.

[Tyler Todt @tyromper]

When I was 22 living in Vegas with my poker buddies we invented a game every time we went out.

If you got REJECTED 5 times by girls you got the night FREE.

All drinks & food was covered by the other guys.

It made getting rejected a positive thing!

You approached unattainable girls because you quickly realized there is no BAD RESULT.

They say no, who cares, you never see them again & get a point.

They say yes, you invite them to join, & have a fun night.

Fear of failure & rejection stops 99% of people.

This was a fun way to completely remove that fear from our lives!!

Highly recommended to young single guys!!

[Brian Harrington @BrainHarrington]

Good morning

If you own 2.1 bitcoin you are in the top 0.1% of the global population

You have reached escape velocity

[Mind Matter @MindMatter28]

THE OLDER YOU GET, THE MORE YOU NEED TO :

1. Not be fat

[Unfiltered Soccer @UnfilteredSoccr]

Landon has the utmost respect for Chicharito. 🤝

[aether @bluewdrift]

This line from Atomic Habits isn't ready to leave my head:

"It doesn't make sense to continue wanting something if you're not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don't want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment."

[Don Ricardo Salinas Pliego @RicardoBSalinas]

Thank you, Michael @saylor.

A lot of thought and effort went into making this list that you generously share with us.

The world would be a much better place if leaders took the time to be prepared by studying these books.

[Invest In Assets 📈 @InvestInAssets]

The single best one-pager on how to sell:

[AL9 @AL9PERFORMANCE]

Concepto micro defensivo-Tapar centro
#mundialdefútbol2026

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

My therapist told me
"We need to talk about the trauma of being the 'good kid' who grew up to be the exhausted adult. You spent your entire childhood chasing gold stars, keeping the peace, and making sure you never caused a single inconvenience for the adults around you. You became hyper-vigilant about reading the room, managing everyone else's moods, and burying your own needs so deep you forgot they existed. Now, you're an adult who physically panics at the thought of disappointing a stranger, handles conflict like a death sentence, and feels guilty just for resting. You weren't actually an 'easy' child-you were just a child who learned very early that your safety depended on your compliance. It is time to stop auditioning for everyone else's approval and start learning who you are when you aren't trying to save the day.

[𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫 @ThePreserverofU]

STOP ASKING YOUR SON "HOW WAS SCHOOL."

He will say "fine" every single time.

A child psychologist told me to replace it with one of these 4 instead:

[Marty Bent @MartyBent]

A dense quarterly update.

Bitcoin at $64,000 is a Godsend of a buying opportunity. Many won't act. Listen to this episode to equip yourself with the knowledge to act accordingly.

[Satánico Dr Cadillac ⍽ @antonio28117385]

Tu vieja cuando ya se está despidiendo de todos en la fiesta y te ve destapando una caguama con las muelas

[Collective Badger @CollectiveBadge]

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[Michael Saylor @saylor]

People often ask me what they should read. I assembled 38 works on history, war, uncertainty, liberty, capital, energy, technology, and Bitcoin for leaders making consequential decisions. Read to remember. Read to reason. Read to build. Upgrade the world.