My friend Osama, who is a Palestinian basketball star, is running a GoFundMe to help get his injured and homeless family out of Gaza. I previously sent him some BCH. If you want to send him crypto, I can help guide him through the process of setting up a wallet for your fave coin. Here is his GoFundMe: gofund.me/6997facd I bet someone like @ray_noOnes would love to amplify this message.

We still need agorist mutual defense. We can clearly see this in the cases of people such as Ian Freeman, Roger Ver, Alexey Pertsev, Tigran Gambaryan and so many others. If before we knew the state was coming for activists who were doing such harmless things as putting quarters in parking meters, taking video of government agents and handing out jury rights pamphlets, now we witness the state coming after us with greater sanctions still as we struggle to achieve more liberty now through cryptocurrency and Web3. Shield Mutual 1.0 The first version of @ShieldMutual was highly centralized and operated by myself. Clients paid an annual fee (usually in BTC) for protection. And, in a few cases, I believe I had a significant impact for clients in trouble. This included the case of Adam Kokesh possessing a firearm in Washington, DC. However, this model depended solely on me. It had a central point of failure. And the market of libertarian activists for it was quite small. Shield Mutual 2.0 The world has changed since I shut down Shield Mutual in 2016. We now have viable Web3 platforms where we can achieve significant decentralization. We also have a new potential target market for mutual defense services: cryptocurrency and Web3 developers and promoters. And this expands the reach of the demand for this kind of service to the entire globe. With that in mind, I am thinking the next iteration of Shield Mutual would benefit from these features: * Web3, i.e. a DAO. * Mutual defense clause (like NATO). * A marketplace of providers that can be assembled for campaigns on a moment's notice. * A governance token and/or NFTs. Creating a Web3 entity is critical IMHO to ensure the organization is unstoppable, owned by its beneficiaries and resilient to nation-state attacks. There should be no single point of failure. But I still think the primary way that we can help people is through public relations and public influence campaigns. When large numbers of people reach out to government officials, they are undoubtedly influenced. The benefit of this approach is that our methods are non-violent and can be deployed from anywhere to anywhere, leveraging social media and legacy media. Ideas Welcome I'm just starting to turn these ideas over in my mind and welcome your feedback. I'm not married to any particular approach.

5 years for free speech. This is ridiculous. Do we need @ShieldMutual back?

This is ridiculous. Pretty soon we're going to need @ShieldMutual back in action.

I wonder if a Web3 protocol to support and have solidarity with coders who get this unfair treatment would be helpful, like @ShieldMutual used to be, but decentralized.