cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/17455858
Had dinner with some boomer-age family friends tonight who shared stories about their grandparents and other relatives who survived (or didn’t survive) the holocaust.
One family, posing as Christians, managed to escape Poland to the US in 1939. They had to travel through Nazi Germany and Italy on their journey.
This family invested much of their life savings into expensive camera equipment to not raise suspicion, as they were traveling under the pretense of going on holiday.
The conversation developed into all the ways people attempted to conceal and travel with wealth as they fled their homeland. Apparently, sewing diamonds into clothing was a common tactic.
These close friends were struck to hear how Bitcoin enables the storage and transfer of wealth by simply knowing a secret number. I told them of the work @gladstein and others are doing to get Bitcoin knowledge and tools into the hands of political activists and refugees.
“Fuck You Money” is a world changing technology. Let us not lose site of what really matters here 🫡 🤙
