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2025-06-14 00:36:38đ§Ź REDACTED SCIENCE: THE AUTHOR â A SHADOW IN THE MARGINS
đ Excerpt from my book-in-progress. This is nonfiction. Redacted. Possibly buried science. Possibly military. Almost definitely real. Iâm living it. And it might change how we think about disease, dehydration, and survival itself.
đ Full post below đ
đ The Author: A Shadow in the Margins
What follows is an excerpt from my book: Redacted Science. This is nonfiction. Redacted. And, I believe, novel science â the kind that slipped through the cracks because it wasnât supposed to be seen. The kind that, if true (and Iâm living proof it might be), changes how we think about adaptation, disease, and control, all while hinting at evolutionary processes.
The person who wrote the article â the one at the center of this entire mystery â didnât just document a medical condition. They didnât write like a detached observer. They wrote like someone who had seen it, worked with it, maybe even helped design it.
This wasnât a paper. It was a record.
A flare fired backwards through time.đ§ What They Knew
- Electrolyte manipulation under pressure gradients
- Bone demineralization and molecular substitution
- Methyl group cycling
- Autonomic dysregulation
- Increased survivability under dehydration
- Accelerated burn recovery
- Abnormal pain tolerance
- Enhanced cognition and endurance in early stages
- âŠeventual collapse into parasympathetic failure, bone loss, immune misfire, and systemic decay
No generalist writes like this.
No academic from 1975 casually throws around methylation chemistry and calcium channel modulators (âthese show promiseâ â yeah, I remembered that line. I figured it might save my life).đ§Ș Proof in My Blood â Or Lack Thereof
Iâve lived the proof they described.đïž Who They Were
They were part of a program.
A researcher. Maybe a clinician. Possibly embedded in a classified military or survival physiology initiative.đ The Quiet Warning
That mention of the ICD code shift?
It was like someone watching history be rewritten â shifting this condition under something it isnât. Sleight-of-hand.
They couldnât have known about the AIRE gene â and I donât have it.âWe erased it from the books. But it was real. Look again. Find it if you can.â
And here I am.
Picking it up.
Line by line.
Molecule by molecule.đ The 15K That Almost Killed Me
Twelve years ago: I ran the Tulsa Run, didnât hydrate. Felt fine â until the vomiting hit. Bloodwork? Normal.
Smart doc took one look and hooked up fluids.That wasnât dehydration.
That was a system built to survive without water â until it couldnât.đ°ïž When and Why
Photos: early 20th century.
The article? 1975â1985.
Someone who knew too much. Someone preserving knowledge â as it was being erased.âItâs gone now. But it was here. And you need to look again.â
Thatâs not footnote energy.
Thatâs whistleblower energy.
đ§ Everything is open. All science is free. More is coming.
Read more at https://jimcraddock.substack.com or https://jimcraddock.com]
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2025-06-14 02:01:56Paris, France â June 6, 2025 â Bitcoin payment gateway startup Flash, just announced a new partnership with the âBitcoin Only Breweryâ, marking the first-ever beverage company to leverage Lightning payments.
Flash enables Bitcoin Only Brewery to offer its âBOBâ beer with, no-KYC (Know Your Customer) delivery across Europe, priced at 19,500 sats (~$18) for the 4-pack, shipping included.
The cans feature colorful Bitcoin artwork while the contents promise a hazy pale ale: âEach 33cl can contains a smooth, creamy mouthfeel, hazy appearance and refreshing Pale Ale at 5% ABV,â reads the product description.
Pierre Corbin, Co-Founder of Flash, commented:
âCurrently, bitcoin is used more as a store of value but usage for payments is picking up. Thanks to new innovation on Lightning, bitcoin is ready to go mainstream for e-commerce sales.â
Flash, launched its 2.0 version in March 2025 with the goal to provide the easiest bitcoin payment gateway for businesses worldwide. The platform is non-custodial and can enable both digital and physical shops to accept bitcoin by connecting their own wallets to Flash.
By leveraging the scalability of the Lightning Network, Flash ensures instant, low-cost transactions, addressing on-chain Bitcoin bottlenecks like high fees and long wait times.
For businesses interested in adopting Bitcoin payments, Flash offers a straightforward onboarding process, low fees, and robust support for both digital and physical goods. To learn more, visit paywithflash.com.
Media Contact:
Pierre Corbin
Co-Founder, Flash
Email: press@paywithflash.com
Website: paywithflash.comAbout Flash
Flash is the easiest Bitcoin payment gateway for businesses to accept payments. Supporting both digital and physical enterprises, Flash leverages the Lightning Network to enable fast, low-cost Bitcoin transactions. Launched in its 2.0 version in March 2025, Flash is at the forefront of driving Bitcoin adoption in e-commerce.
About Bitcoin Only Brewery
Bitcoin Only Brewery (@Drink_B0B) is a pioneering beverage company dedicated to the Bitcoin ethos, offering high-quality beers payable exclusively in Bitcoin. With a commitment to personal privacy, the brewery delivers across Europe with no-KYC requirements.
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2025-06-13 21:15:05On June 10th, 2025, four members of the NVSTly team traveled to New York City to attend the 2025 American Business AwardsÂź ceremony, held at the iconic Marriott Marquis in Times Square. It was an unforgettable night as we accepted the Gold StevieÂź Award for Tech Startup of the Yearâthis time, in person.
Meow (left), rich (center), MartyOooit (right)
Representing NVSTly at the event were:
- Rich, CEO & Founder
- Meow, CTO, Lead Developer, & Co-Founder
- MartyOooit, Investor
- Noob, Market Analyst (not shown in photos)
MartyOooit (left), rich (center), Meow (right)
While we shared the exciting news back in April when the winners were announced, being there in person alongside other winnersâincluding eBay, AT&T, T-Mobile, HP Inc., and Fidelity Investmentsâmade the achievement feel even more surreal. To be honored alongside billion-dollar industry leaders was a proud and humbling moment for our startup and a huge milestone in NVSTlyâs journey.
đ€ Team Interview at the Event
During the event, our team was interviewed about the win. When asked:
âWhat does winning a Stevie Award mean for your organization?â
âHow will winning a Stevie Award help your organization?âHereâs what we had to say:
đș Watch the video
A Big Win for Retail Traders
NVSTly was awarded Gold for Tech Startup of the Year in recognition of our work building a powerful, free social investing platform that empowers retail traders with transparency, analytics, and community-driven tools.
Unlike traditional finance platforms, NVSTly gives users the ability to:
- Share and track trades in real time
- Follow and receive alerts from top traders
- Compete on global leaderboards
- Access deep stats like win rate, average return, and more
Whether you're a beginner or experienced trader, NVSTly gives you the insights and tools typically reserved for hedge fundsâbut in a free, social format built for the modern investor.
Continued Recognition and Momentum
This award adds to a growing list of recognition for NVSTly:
- đ Peopleâs Choice Winner at the 2024 Benzinga Fintech Awards
- đ Nominated again for Best Social Investing Product in the 2025 Benzinga Fintech Awards
- đ Team members JustCoreGames and Lunaster are nominated for Employee of the Year (Information Technology â Social Media) in the 2025 StevieÂź Awards for Technology Excellence
Weâre beyond proud of what our small but mighty team has accomplishedâand weâre just getting started. đ
Thanks to the Stevie Awards for an incredible night in New York, and to our community of 50,000+ traders whoâve helped shape NVSTly into what it is today.
This win is yours, too.Stay tunedâmore big things are coming.
â Team NVSTly
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2025-06-14 01:51:07Hello, legitmately asking for a friend...does anyone know of a way to recover a bip38 address created on bitaddress? they claim to have both keys just dont know the passphase.
https://stacker.news/items/1005953
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2025-06-13 21:10:14{"url":"https://convy.click","title":"Convy","description":"","submittedAt":1749849014}
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2025-06-14 01:26:59OMAD is great! Outside the very short window eating window, I have almost no desire to eat or drink.
I also took a nap today and a cold shower. I just needed to be more active.
How did you all do today? Are you making progress towards your ~HealthAndFitness goals?
https://stacker.news/items/1005945
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2025-06-13 21:07:02{"url":"https://test.com","title":"test.com","description":"","submittedAt":1749848822}
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2025-06-14 02:03:07Will not live in a pod.
Will not eat the bugs.
Will not get the chip.
Will not get a blue check.
Will not use CBDCs.Live Free or Die.
Why did Elon buy twitter for $44 Billion? What value does he see in it besides the greater influence that undoubtedly comes with controlling one of the largest social platforms in the world? We do not need to speculate - he made his intentions incredibly clear in his first meeting with twitter employees after his takeover - WeChat of the West.
To those that do not appreciate freedom, the value prop is clear - WeChat is incredibly powerful and successful in China.
To those that do appreciate freedom, the concern is clear - WeChat has essentially become required to live in China, has surveillance and censorship integrated at its core, and if you are banned from the app your entire livelihood is at risk. Employment, housing, payments, travel, communication, and more become extremely difficult if WeChat censors determine you have acted out of line.
The blue check is the first step in Elon's plan to bring the chinese social credit score system to the west. Users who verify their identity are rewarded with more reach and better tools than those that do not. Verified users are the main product of Elon's twitter - an extensive database of individuals and complete control of the tools he will slowly get them to rely on - it is easier to monetize cattle than free men.
If you cannot resist the temptation of the blue check in its current form you have already lost - what comes next will be much darker. If you realize the need to resist - freedom tech provides us options.
If you found this post helpful support my work with bitcoin.
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2025-06-13 20:27:58Prerequisites
```bash
Make sure your package list is fresh
sudo apt update
(Optional but recommended) ffmpeg lets yt-dlp negotiate the best formats
sudo apt install ffmpeg jq ```
1 Install yt-dlp system-wide
bash sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp \ -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp && sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
A single binary is dropped into
/usr/local/bin/
; version upgrades are as simple as running the same command again in the future.
2 Download the auto-generated captions as SRT
Pick any video IDâhere weâll use knAGgxzYqw8 (Chase Hughes on What is Money?).
```bash VIDEO="knAGgxzYqw8" # change this to your target ID
yt-dlp --skip-download \ --write-auto-sub \ --sub-lang en \ --sub-format srt \ -o "${VIDEO}.%(ext)s" \ "https://youtu.be/${VIDEO}"
Result: knAGgxzYqw8.en.srt
```
Flags explained
| Flag | Purpose | | ------------------ | ------------------------------------------------------- | |
--skip-download
| ignore the actual video, we only want captions | |--write-auto-sub
| fall back to YouTubeâs auto-generated subtitles | |--sub-lang en
| grab English only (adjust if you need another language) | |--sub-format srt
| SRT is the simplest to strip; VTT also works | |-o
| sets a predictable filename:<id>.en.srt
|
3 Strip index numbers and timecodes
```bash grep -vE '^[0-9]+$|^[0-9]{2}:' "${VIDEO}.en.srt" \ | sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' \
"${VIDEO}.txt" ```
Breakdown
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grep -vE '^[0-9]+$|^[0-9]{2}:'
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Removes the line counters (
3911
) and any line that begins with a timestamp (02:33:40,800 --> âŠ
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sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d'
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Deletes leftover blank lines.
- Output is redirected to
<ID>.txt
âin our example: knAGgxzYqw8.txt.
4 (Option-al) Extra polish
Remove bracketed stage cues such as
[Music]
or[Applause]
and collapse back-to-back duplicates:```bash grep -v '^[.*]$' "${VIDEO}.txt" \ | awk 'prev != $0 {print} {prev=$0}' \
"${VIDEO}_clean.txt" mv "${VIDEO}_clean.txt" "${VIDEO}.txt" ```
5 Enjoy your transcript
bash less "${VIDEO}.txt" # page through grep -i "keyword" "${VIDEO}.txt" # quick search
You now have a plain-text file ready for note-taking, quoting, or feeding into your favorite AI summarizerâno browser or third-party web services required.
TL;DR (copy-paste cheat sheet)
```bash sudo apt update && sudo apt install ffmpeg jq -y sudo curl -L https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/releases/latest/download/yt-dlp \ -o /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp && sudo chmod a+rx /usr/local/bin/yt-dlp
VIDEO="knAGgxzYqw8" # video ID yt-dlp --skip-download --write-auto-sub --sub-lang en \ --sub-format srt -o "${VIDEO}.%(ext)s" \ "https://youtu.be/${VIDEO}"
grep -vE '^[0-9]+$|^[0-9]{2}:' "${VIDEO}.en.srt" \ | sed '/^[[:space:]]$/d' \ | grep -v '^[.]$' \ | awk 'prev != $0 {print} {prev=$0}' \
"${VIDEO}.txt"
less "${VIDEO}.txt" ```
Happy transcribing!
Adam Malin
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2025-06-13 19:18:56{"voteEventId":"083ae248828a454a7d01b7de12f99ce90297672e0457ec8147bd7cfabd14f044","txHash":"752d3894c5657758d7b9754da3dc38db61662acb5f94c3dcb38077fc33f1bd7e","amount":"1000000000000000000","fee":"1000000000000000000","type":"token-gated-vote-proof"}
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2025-06-13 19:13:38Ich dachte immer, jeder Mensch sei gegen den Krieg, \ bis ich herausfand, dass es welche gibt, \ die nicht hingehen mĂŒssen. \ Erich Maria Remarque
Was sollte man von einem Freitag, den 13., schon anderes erwarten?, ist man versucht zu sagen. Jedoch braucht niemand aberglĂ€ubisch zu sein, um den heutigen Tag als unheilvoll anzusehen. Der israelische «PrĂ€ventivschlag» von heute Nacht gegen militĂ€rische und nukleare Ziele im Iran könnte allem Anschein nach zu einem lĂ€ngeren bewaffneten Konflikt fĂŒhren â und damit unweigerlich zu weiteren Opfern.
«Wir befinden uns im Krieg», soll ein ranghoher israelischer MilitĂ€rvertreter gesagt haben, und der Iran wertet den israelischen Angriff laut seinem AuĂenminister als KriegserklĂ€rung. Na also. Der Iran hat VergeltungsschlĂ€ge angekĂŒndigt und antwortete zunĂ€chst mit Drohnen. Inzwischen ist eine zweite israelische Angriffswelle angelaufen. Ob wir wohl kĂŒnftig in den Mainstream-Medien durchgĂ€ngig von einem «israelischen Angriffskrieg auf den Iran» hören und lesen werden?
Dass die zunehmenden Spannungen um das iranische Atomprogramm zu einer akuten Eskalation im Nahen Osten fĂŒhren könnten, hatte Transition News gestern berichtet. Laut US-Beamten sei Israel «voll bereit», den Iran in den nĂ€chsten Tagen anzugreifen, hieĂ es in dem Beitrag. Heute ist das bereits bittere RealitĂ€t.
Der Nahe Osten steht ĂŒbrigens auch auf der Themenliste des diesjĂ€hrigen Bilderberg-Treffens, das zurzeit in Stockholm stattfindet. Viele Inhalte werden wir allerdings mal wieder nicht erfahren, denn wie immer hocken die «erlauchten» Persönlichkeiten aus Europa und den USA «informell» und unter gröĂter Geheimhaltung zusammen, um ĂŒber «Weltpolitik» zu diskutieren. Auf der Teinehmerliste stehen auch einige Vertreter aus der Schweiz und aus Deutschland.
Die Anwesenheit sowohl des aktuellen als auch des vorigen GeneralsekretĂ€rs der NATO lĂ€sst vermuten, dass man bei dem Meeting weniger ĂŒber das Thema «NeutralitĂ€t» sprechen dĂŒrfte. Angesichts des Zustands unseres Planeten ist das schade, denn der Ăkonom Jeffrey Sachs hob kĂŒrzlich in einem Interview die Rolle der NeutralitĂ€t in geopolitischen Krisen hervor. Mit Blick auf die Schweiz betonte er, der zunehmende Druck zur NATO-AnnĂ€herung widerspreche nicht nur der Bundesverfassung, sondern auch dem historischen Erbe des Landes.
Positives gibt es diese Woche ebenfalls zu berichten. So hat der US-Gesundheitsminister Robert F. Kennedy Jr. nach der «sensationellen» Entlassung aller Mitglieder des Impfberatungsausschusses (wegen verbreiteter direkter Verbindungen zu Pharmaunternehmen) nun auch bereits neue Namen verkĂŒndet. Demnach möchte er unter anderem Robert W. Malone, Erfinder der mRNA-«Impfung» als Technologie und prominenter Kritiker der Corona-MaĂnahmen, in das Komitee aufnehmen.
Auch die Aufarbeitung der unsinnigen Corona-Politik geht Schrittchen fĂŒr Schrittchen weiter. In Heidelberg hat die Initiative fĂŒr Demokratie und AufklĂ€rung (IDA) den Gemeinderat angesichts der katastrophalen Haushaltslage zu einer offenen und ehrlichen Diskussion ĂŒber die Ursachen der Krise aufgefordert. Das Thema «Corona» sei «das Teuerste, was Heidelberg je erlebt hat», sagte IDA-Stadtrat Gunter Frank im Plenum. AuĂerdem seien aus den Krisenstabsprotokollen der Stadt auch die enormen Verwerfungen ersichtlich, und es gebe Anlass fĂŒr tiefgehende GesprĂ€che mit der Stadtverwaltung.
Den juristischen und öffentlichen Druck auf die Kommunen möchte der Unternehmer Markus Böning erhöhen. Seine «Freiheitskanzlei» will BĂŒrgern helfen, die Aufarbeitung selbst in die Hand zu nehmen. Unter dem Motto «Corona-Wiedergutmachung» bietet er Hilfestellung, wie Betroffene versuchen können, sich unrechtmĂ€Ăige BuĂgelder zurĂŒckzuholen.
So bleibt uns am Ende dieses finsteren Freitags doch auch Anlass zur Hoffnung. Es gibt definitiv noch Anzeichen von Menschlichkeit. Darauf möchte ich mich konzentrieren, und mit diesem GefĂŒhl verabschiede ich mich ins Wochenende.
[Titelbild: Pixabay]
Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben und ist zuerst auf Transition News erschienen.
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2025-06-14 02:02:46Key Takeaways
In this episode, host Marty speaks with Ken, a former CIA deputy chief and now head of government affairs at the Bitcoin Policy Institute, about Bitcoinâs growing relevance in U.S. national security and policy circles. Ken traces his Bitcoin journey from professional curiosity within the CIA, studying adversarial use cases like the Lazarus Group, to personal conviction following events like the Canadian trucker protests, which exposed the dangers of financial censorship. Contrary to popular belief, he reveals that many in the intelligence community support Bitcoin for its alignment with American values such as sovereignty and freedom. The conversation highlights a major cultural shift in Washington, where policymakers now view Bitcoin as a strategic asset rather than a criminal tool. Ken stresses that the future hinges on whether Bitcoin shapes institutions or is co-opted by them, and that political engagement is crucial to ensure the former. He argues Bitcoin can help solve systemic problems from fiscal irresponsibility to geopolitical instability, but only if the industry continues to organize, advocate, and embed its values into national policy.
Best Quotes
"Either institutions are going to win, or Bitcoin is going to win."
"Bitcoin naturally washes out leverage⊠it's what makes Bitcoin antifragile."
"The CIA didnât create Bitcoin, but they sure are paying attention now."
"We were all Satoshi."
"Letâs not test the resistance-money thesis in the United States."
"Bitcoin strengthens U.S. values, freedom, private property, sovereignty."
"Bitcoin is political, but it doesn't have to be partisan."
"If you're in a federal agency, the only incentive is to spend more. Bitcoin changes that."
"Don't underestimate your voice. If you keep the phones ringing, they listen."
Conclusion
This episode offers a rare glimpse into how Bitcoin is increasingly viewed as a serious strategic asset within the U.S. intelligence and policy communities. Ken, with his high-level government background and current role in Bitcoin advocacy, underscores the shift from skepticism to engagement among policymakers. His message is clear: Bitcoiners are no longer outsiders, they have a seat at the table, and with sustained political action and education, they can shape the future of Bitcoin policy. The time to engage is now, because the battle for Bitcoinâs role in society is already in motion.
Timestamps
0:00 - Intro
0:26 - Ken's background
6:58 - Tornado/Samourai, surveillance state
11:53 - Reestablishing trust
14:23 - Bitkey
15:18 - CIA bitcoin theory
18:42 - Neutral reserve asset
23:52 - Unchained
24:20 - BPI
29:49 - CLARITY and Secret Service message
33:54 - Withstanding a change in administration
40:03 - Institutions win or bitcoin wins
46:43 - Shrinking gov with bitcoin
57:47 - BPI summitTranscript
00:00:00 compared to China or Russia, do we have a comparable advantage in gold? How do we compete with China? And this is what the kinds of things CI will think about. Bitcoin is a natural option. At the end of the day, Bitcoin undermines the authority of the Chinese Communist Party. Either institutions are going to win or Bitcoin is going to win. But we do fundamentally on some level need institutions to make the country run. We want those institutions to be properly incentivized. In 10 years, Bitcoin is
00:00:19 either at a million dollars or is zero dollars. Ken, it's great to have you on the show. Thank you for joining me. Marty, finally. We've been we've been kicking us around for a few weeks. I'm glad we uh glad we were finally able to make it work. As I was telling you, in the middle of a move, conference in the middle of that move. It's been a hectic week, so I think I'm finally settling in. As you can see, no bookshelf, but we have stacked books behind me. Hopefully, they will be on on shelves soon.
00:00:52 No, there there are definitely ways there are ways in the world to get you know to get credits on um you know uh what do you call it? Um uh we're good Catholics, you know, when you when you pass and don't go to heaven. Um come on. Thank you. Well, moving is purgatory credit. So, I've done it many times in my life. So, I uh I feel for you. Well, thank you. But I'm really excited for this conversation and likewise the event in a few weeks, the BPI event down in DC, the summit, we met about a month ago, two months ago now at
00:01:26 this point in Austin during the takeover. And Zach was very eager to introduce you to me considering the the history of the show, topics we covered. And I think I'm excited for this cuz I'm infinitely curious to learn how somebody with your pedigree and your resume got into Bitcoin is now working for the Bitcoin Policy Institute as a director of government affairs. So for anybody listening who was unaware of Ken's resume, he did 20 years in government culminating as deputy chief of operations at the CIA Center for Cyber
00:02:01 Intelligence. uh you've worked overseas for the US State Department and now you're advocating on behalf of Bitcoin on Capitol Hill. So, how does somebody with that resume go from statecraft to cipher punk sort of ideas? Yeah. No, so I um like everybody else, I uh I um my my Bitcoin journey is a little bit everybody everybody has a unique journey, right? Um mine actually started at CIA, believe it or not. And it was for purely professional reasons. I um so I was an operations officer. I spent most of my career overseas um as
00:02:37 most of us do. Um but my last two years, my last two turn tours at CIA, I was at the center for cyber intelligence, which is CIA's cyber unit. Um and my first job there, I was group ch I was a operations chief for a group that worked on cyber threat issues. And this was in 2018. So you remember this was when Lazarus group the North Koreans figured out that stealing crypto was a lot easier than like you know trying to rob banks. Um this is when ransomware broke out as a serious problem just preceded you may
00:03:04 remember the Colonial Pipeline hack that shut down you know gasoline shipments to the east coast. So in 2018 um and it's kind of funny like I this is people say did the CIA create Bitcoin. I can tell you in 2018 when policy makers first had to confront its use by actors as an issue like nobody was ready for it. Like if they created it, it was tucked away and hidden in the basement cuz the the bench for people with crypto knowledge in general, digital assets, certainly Bitcoin was really really really shallow. Um I remember we had two
00:03:33 guys um who kind of had background in it and then you they became superstars because all of a sudden we were calling upon them to teach us about Bitcoin and digital assets in general. Um, but yeah, that's so I learned and like everything else, I learned about it because I had to because people we cared people we cared about were using it. Um, but like everything else there there was sort of a mind virus to it. Um, and I I admit, you know, I during co I was in the uh I was in the altcoin casino. I was defying
00:04:00 and memecoining and it was it was fun, you know. No, I I I don't hold any hate for the uh for the alcoiners. People do what they want with their money. Um but I you know that that was when it was during co um I had been sort of buying in 2018 but during co when I really started learning because this is what everybody learned right um and I you know for me Bitcoin was immediately attracted me to it and I was sort of inspired by um I mean the co Kenny trucker protest was something really important to me um I saw how it was
00:04:29 being used um but also sort of in my day job you know I I had a pretty good understanding of how the government uses financial financial tools as a weapon. Um, freezing bank accounts, OFAC sanctions, that kind of thing. And if you're on the, you know, on the giving end of that, that's great. Those are great tools to have if you're the government. Uh, not so great if you're on the other end of it. And, you know, watching these Canadian truckers the first time, you know, you'll be able to, it's very easy
00:04:54 to say, "Yeah, sanction the Iranian, sanction North Korea, whatever." You know, I'm not Iranian. Um but when you see all of a sudden Kat and Trucker people you had some sympathy with being targets of financial you know weaposition of the financial system it you know it struck it struck a it struck a nerve like a really really profound stinging shot to my consciousness my conscious about this issue. Um so for me for the first thing about Bitcoin was um was permissionless transactions that that's that's what got me into it. Um
00:05:23 then of course you go from there and by the time I left the government 2022 I had I was f I was you know full boore I was you know attending meetups and um that's when I started doing some advocacy stuff on Capitol Hill and and and messing around with uh David and Granny PPI doing some advocacy stuff but yeah but it it comes from my time at CIA and yeah I think the um the uh I think what might surprise some people is there are a lot of Bitcoiners um not just at CIA but across the whole national
00:05:52 security establishment And I think they're into it for the same reason that you know that everybody most of your listeners are right like it's you see what's happening in the world. You see the challenges we're facing. You see how governments use financial tools to weaponize them against opposition. You know it's it's very natural that if you have that kind of insight that you look for things to protect yourself and Bitcoin is obvious. So I I I tell a funny story when I um when I was first into it there was um cubicle one of the
00:06:17 guys and he had a bumper
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Privkey LLC offers a diverse range of auditing and consulting services, focusing on some of the most critical areas in technology today. Below is an overview of their key offerings:
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Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC):As nations explore digital versions of fiat currencies, Privkey LLC provides auditing services to ensure CBDC systems are secure, scalable, and compliant with regulatory standards.
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DeFi and CeFi (Fintech):Decentralized Finance (DeFi) and Centralized Finance (CeFi) represent the future of financial services on the blockchain. Privkey LLC offers expertise in auditing these systems, helping businesses mitigate risks and maintain trust in their financial operations.
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Cybersecurity:With cyber threats on the rise, Privkey LLC delivers robust cybersecurity solutions to protect digital assets and sensitive data from malicious attacks, ensuring businesses remain secure in an increasingly hostile digital environment.
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Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT):As the backbone of blockchain, DLT requires meticulous implementation. Privkey LLC audits DLT systems to ensure they are efficient, secure, and optimized for business needs.
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CryptoCurrency Security Standard (CCSS):For organizations handling cryptocurrencies, compliance with CCSS is essential. Privkey LLC provides certification services to verify adherence to these standards, fostering trust among users and stakeholders.
These services reflect Privkey LLCâs commitment to addressing the diverse needs of businesses operating in the blockchain and cybersecurity domains.
Staying Ahead in a Rapidly Evolving Industry
Privkey LLC doesnât just provide servicesâthey actively engage with the latest industry trends and innovations. Their team, including professionals like William K. Santiago, frequently shares insights on platforms like LinkedIn. Topics range from Jack Dorseyâs Block unveiling a new Bitcoin hardware wallet to sustainable Bitcoin mining powered by nuclear and solar energy. While these discussions may not directly tie to specific Privkey LLC projects, they demonstrate the companyâs deep involvement in the broader blockchain and cryptocurrency ecosystem. This forward-thinking approach ensures their services remain relevant and cutting-edge.
A Trusted Partner with Proven Expertise
With over two decades of experience in networking and Internet technologies, Privkey LLC brings unparalleled expertise to the table. This foundation allows them to tackle the unique challenges of cybersecurity and blockchain with confidence. As cyber threats grow more sophisticated and blockchain adoption accelerates, Privkey LLC stands ready to help businesses secure their digital futures.
Conclusion
Privkey LLC is more than a consulting firmâitâs a pioneer in cybersecurity and blockchain solutions. By offering specialized auditing and consulting services, staying ahead of industry trends, and leveraging decades of experience, they empower businesses to thrive in a digital world. For organizations looking to secure their digital assets and embrace blockchain technology, Privkey LLC is a reliable partner poised to lead the way.
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@ eb0157af:77ab6c55
2025-06-14 02:02:24Carl Rickertsen completely exits his position in Strategy as insiders sell $864 million worth of stock.
As reported by Protos, Carl Rickertsen, a member of Strategyâs board of directors, has fully liquidated his entire shareholding for over $10 million.
Rickertsenâs decision to completely exit his Strategy position marks a sharp shift from his previous investment stance. In 2022, the executive had shown confidence in the company by investing $700,000 in MSTR shares.
On June 13, 2022, Rickertsen purchased $608,000 worth of MSTR stock at $152 per share. Since then, the stock has rallied 152%. However, by 2023, the director had already sold half of his 4,000-share position.
Rickertsenâs approach to managing his holdings has become increasingly aggressive in recent years. Since joining the board in 2019, he has adopted a strategy of immediately liquidating any stock options received.
One example of this tactic occurred on June 2, when he acquired and sold 26,390 MSTR shares on the same day.
As of June 5 this year, Rickertsen reported zero vested Strategy shares, marking the end of his equity involvement with the company.
Rickertsenâs situation is not an isolated case within Strategy. Data from the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) reveals a controversial picture. According to information gathered by secform4.com, over the past five years, total insider sales have exceeded purchases by $864 million. This imbalance in insider transactions could raise questions about executivesâ confidence in the companyâs future.
The post Strategy director liquidates all his MSTR shares appeared first on Atlas21.
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@ 9ca447d2:fbf5a36d
2025-06-14 02:01:31When Richard Scotford moved to Costa Rica in 2018, he had no idea he would become a key figure in a thriving Bitcoin economy.
A longtime Bitcoin holder who initially saw it through the lens of speculation, Scotfordâs journey led him to embrace Bitcoinâs deeper purpose and spearhead Bitcoin Jungleâââa grassroots movement bringing real-world Bitcoin adoption to Costa Rica.
Bitcoin circular economies create holistic value for Bitcoiners
Bitcoin Jungle is inspired by Bitcoin Beach in El Salvador but uniquely adapted to Costa Ricaâs economic landscape. Unlike El Salvador, where Bitcoin was positioned as a tool for financial inclusion, Costa Rica already has a fairly stable banking system.
The real issue? The friction of moving money. Expats, business owners, and tourists struggle with high fees, banking red tape, and slow transactions. Bitcoin helped solve a lot of these problems.
The Birth of Bitcoin Jungle
Scotford and his team launched Bitcoin Jungle in late 2021 with a simple goal: get bitcoin into peopleâs hands and make it usable. However, there was one challengeâââhe had no technical background.
Determined to create a circular bitcoin economy, Scotford networked aggressively. He attended the first Adopting Bitcoin conference in El Salvador, approaching strangers with his vision:
âI was just walking around trying to find people who could help me make this economy, going up to random people saying âHey, what can you do? Weâre trying to make a circular economy in Costa Rica, can you help us?â They all thought I was crazy.â
The breakthrough came when he turned to Bitcoin Twitter. Nicolas Burtey from Galoy encouraged him to create a wallet, and developer Lee Salminen forked the Bitcoin Beach wallet for their project.Â
âWithin two weeks of Adopting Bitcoin, Lee forked the Galoy Bitcoin Beach wallet, which took Galoy by surprise. Even though they made their wallet to be forked if necessary, I donât think they were expecting people to do it so fast and, Iâd like to say, so well. They were like, âOkay, cool, who are these guys doing this?ââ
Finally Bitcoin Jungle had its own working wallet, surprising even the Galoy team with the speed of execution.
Grassroots Adoption: One Vendor at a Time
How do you build a bitcoin economy from scratch? Scotfordâs answer was simple: start at the farmersâ markets.
âWe were like, okay, weâre going to get all the bespoke niche market sellers who are in this area. We have all these beautiful farmers markets, and we decided to approach these people first,â Scotford explained.
His team took a strategic approach, targeting market gatekeepers first.
âIf you want to talk to every individual person, itâs really difficult. But if you can talk to the person who is the owner of the market, and then they can introduce you to their market stores, youâre already halfway there.â
Going stall by stall, they pitched Bitcoinâs advantagesâââno bank fees and better payment options. But adoption didnât happen overnight, so Bitcoin Jungle initially offered a safety netâââvendors could cash out at the end of the day.
âWe would say to the vendors, âLook, accept bitcoin, and at the end of the day, if you donât want to keep the bitcoin, weâll buy it off you,ââ Scotford recalled.
âWhen we first started, maybe 30â40% of the vendors were cashing up every day or at the weekends. Lee would be walking around with big fistfuls of money, cashing out vendors.â
But over time, something shiftedâââthey started keeping their bitcoin.
âEventually, the vendors started to learn themselves that, âOh, actually itâs better to keep it.â They would then pay for their tables in the markets using bitcoin. They thought, âWell, I donât want to keep this bitcoin, I donât really know what to do with it, but I can pay for my table.â So there, the circular economy starts to happen.â
Today, Bitcoin Jungle runs with minimal intervention, and Scotford takes pride in their reliability.
âWhen you come here to Costa Rica, what we really pride ourselves on is that if someone says they accept bitcoin, 99% of the time, they will. And if theyâre part of Bitcoin Jungle, they will 100% accept bitcoin and you will have a fluid experience with it.â
By mid-summer 2024 over 380 locations in Costa Rica accepted bitcoin
The Bitcoin Jungle Wallet and Real Usage
Bitcoin Jungle is an open-source community project built on the Bitcoin Lightning Network.
Acting as a community bank, the project processes a large number of transactions daily. To encourage proper security practices, Scotfordâs team alerts their peers, reminding users to move their bitcoin to cold storage.
âIf youâve got too much bitcoin on your wallet, we send you a message telling you to move it to cold storage,â he explained. For larger businesses, they even offer hands-on assistance to secure funds properly.
Unlike the HODL-only philosophy that many Bitcoiners advocate, Bitcoin Jungle encourages spending.
âMichael Saylor says donât spend your bitcoin. We say the opposite,â Scotford laughed. âWeâre the antithesis of that. You need to spend it.â
Bitcoin Jungleâs Unique Approach to Costa Rica
Bitcoin Jungle isnât just another Bitcoin adoption effort; itâs tailored to Costa Ricaâs economy. The wallet operates in Costa Rican colĂłnes, making transactions feel familiar to residents while ensuring tourists and expats can still interact easily.
The team has also introduced low-fee bitcoin ATMs, point-of-sale integrations, and partnerships that allow users to pay in bitcoin while the recipient receives local currency.
A major breakthrough came when Francis Pouliot from Bull Bitcoin joined forces with Bitcoin Jungle, bringing his expertise in banking infrastructure to the project.
This collaboration enabled seamless bitcoin payments that integrate directly with Costa Ricaâs financial system, allowing users to pay anyone, even businesses that donât directly accept bitcoin, while the recipient receives funds in colĂłnes or dollars.
âI can go to a hardware store, order steel for my new basketball court, pay in bitcoin, and the store gets dollars,â Scotford said. âFor a non-tech guy like me, itâs magical.â
Why Arenât There More Bitcoin Jungles?
Scotford sees an opportunity for more localized bitcoin economies.
âThere should be a Bitcoin Harbor, a Bitcoin Mountain, a Bitcoin Driveway,â he joked. âBut instead of waiting for permission or corporate funding, people need to take action themselves.â
He emphasizes that building a circular bitcoin economy doesnât require deep pockets. âI probably gave away $600 worth of bitcoin when we startedâââjust $3 here, $4 thereâââto get people using it.â
The Future of Bitcoin Jungle
Bitcoin Jungle continues to grow, recently hosting events like the Bitcoin Freedom Festival and integrating bitcoin into community projects, including a school where tuition can be paid in bitcoin.
âThe institutions have come in, but the grassroots projects havenât caught up,â Scotford observed. âItâs time for people to stop sitting on their hands and start building.â
Bitcoin is permissionless, no one has to wait for approval to start using it. Bitcoin Jungle proves that with vision and persistence, anyone can build a thriving Bitcoin economy, one market stall at a time.
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@ 3c506452:fef9202b
2025-06-13 18:11:48Kia ora mai ra ano e te iwi whanui!
Step 1: Find Your Why:
Going off my own experiences - if you are anything like me you will have the occasional boost of enthusiasm, and intense determination. This could last a couple days, or if you are fortunate, a few weeks. Afterwards, life kicks in again, and you're out of gas.
With this in mind it is important to find something within you that could help carry you along until the next boost.
Action Step:
So grab a pen and paper, and write out why you want to become a Te Reo speaker.
Step 2: Find The Quick Win:
I consider myself to be a speaker of the reo, but I am SO FAR AWAY from my ideal, my vision, which is to think only in the reo. It would be silly of me to only consider myself a speaker of the reo once I attained that goal. Now, a speaker of the reo is... "Someone who speaks it". It doesn't matter how little you know now, your effort and the time you put in won't let you down.
Action Step:
- Follow this link > Ngata Dictionary
- Type in a word in the "Ngata English to MÄori" box then press search. For example, let's use "hello".
- Copy the sentence in te reo.
- Follow the link > Papa Reo API, paste the sentence then press korero.
- Mimic what you hear!
This is a great way to practice speaking the reo! You can have 100% confidence in these sentences provided to you from the Ngata Dictionary. The Papareo API is also a fantastic way to get instant feedback on pronunciation.
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@ b1ddb4d7:471244e7
2025-06-14 01:01:23The latest AI chips, 8K displays, and neural processing units make your device feel like a pocket supercomputer. So surely, with all this advancement, you can finally mine bitcoin on your phone profitably, right?
The 2025 Hardware Reality: Can You Mine Bitcoin on Your Phone
Despite remarkable advances in smartphone technology, the fundamental physics of bitcoin mining havenât changed. In 2025, flagship devices with their cutting-edge 2nm processors can achieve approximately 25-40 megahashes per second when you mine bitcoin on your phoneâa notable improvement from previous generations, but still laughably inadequate.
Meanwhile, 2025âs top-tier ASIC miners have evolved dramatically. The latest Bitmain Antminer S23 series and Canaan AvalonMiner A15 Pro deliver 200-300 terahashes per second while consuming 4,000-5,500 watts. Thatâs a performance gap of roughly 1:8,000,000 between when you mine bitcoin on your phone and professional mining equipment.
To put this in perspective that hits home: if you mine bitcoin on your phone and it earned you one penny, professional miners would earn $80,000 in the same time period with the same effort. Itâs not just an efficiency problemâitâs a complete category mismatch.
According to Pocket Optionâs 2025 analysis, when you mine bitcoin on your phone in 2025, you generate approximately $0.003-0.006 in daily revenue while consuming $0.45-0.85 in electricity through constant charging cycles. Factor in the accelerated device wear (estimated at $0.75-1.20 daily depreciation), and youâre looking at losses of $1.20-2.00 per day just for the privilege of running mining software.
Mining Economic Factor
Precise Value (April 2025)
Direct Impact on Profitability
Smartphone sustained hash rate
20-35 MH/s
0.00000024% contribution to global hashrate
Daily power consumption
3.2-4.8 kWh (4-6 full charges)
$0.38-0.57 at average US electricity rates
Expected daily BTC earnings
0.0000000086 BTC ($0.0035 at $41,200 BTC)
Revenue covers only 0.9% of electricity costs
CPU/GPU wear cost
$0.68-0.92 daily accelerated depreciation
Reduces smartphone lifespan by 60-70%
Annual profit projection
-$386 to -$412 per year
Guaranteed negative return on investment
Source: PocketOption
Bitcoinâs 2025 Network: Harder Than Ever
Bitcoinâs network difficulty in 2025 has reached unprecedented levels. After the April 2024 halving event that reduced block rewards from 6.25 to 3.125 BTC, mining became significantly more competitive. The global hash rate now exceeds 800 exahashes per secondâthatâs 800 followed by 18 zeros worth of computational power securing the network.
Hereâs what this means in practical terms: Bitcoinâs mining difficulty adjusts every 2,016 blocks (roughly every two weeks) to maintain the 10-minute block time. As more efficient miners join the network, difficulty increases proportionally. In 2025, mining difficulty has increased compared to 2024, making small-scale mining even less viable.
The math is unforgiving:
- Global Bitcoin hash rate: 828.96 EH/s
- Your smartphoneâs contribution: ~0.000000003%
- Probability of solo mining a block: Virtually zero
- Expected time to mine one Bitcoin:Â Several million years
Even joining mining pools doesnât solve the economic problem. Pool fees typically range from 1-3%, and your minuscule contribution would earn proportionally tiny rewardsâfar below the electricity and device depreciation costs.
The 2025 Scam Evolution: More Sophisticated, More Dangerous
Fraudsters now leverage AI-generated content, fake influencer endorsements, and impressive-looking apps that simulate realistic mining activity to entice you to mine bitcoin on your phone.
New 2025 scam tactics include:
AI-Powered Fake Testimonials: Deepfake videos of supposed successful mobile miners showing fabricated earnings statements and encouraging downloads of malicious apps.
Gamified Mining Interfaces: Apps that look and feel like legitimate games but secretly harvest personal data while simulating mining progress that can never be withdrawn.
Social Media Manipulation: Coordinated campaigns across TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube featuring fake âfinancial influencersâ promoting mobile mining apps to younger audiences.
Subscription Trap Mining: Apps offering âfree trialsâ that automatically charge $19.99-49.99 monthly for âpremium mining speedsâ while delivering no actual mining capability.
Recent cybersecurity research shows that over 180 fake mining apps were discovered across major app stores in 2025, with some accumulating more than 500,000 downloads before being removed.
Red flags that scream âscamâ in 2025:
- Apps claiming ârevolutionary mobile mining breakthroughâ
- Promises of earning â$10-50 dailyâ from phone mining
- Requirements to recruit friends or watch ads to unlock withdrawals
- Apps that donât require connecting to actual mining pools
- Testimonials that seem too polished or use stock photo models
- Apps requesting permissions unrelated to mining (contacts, camera, microphone)
The 2025 Professional Mining Landscape
To understand why, consider what professional bitcoin mining looks like in 2025. Industrial mining operations now resemble high-tech data centers with:
Cutting-edge hardware:
- Bitmain Antminer S23 Pro: 280 TH/s at 4,800W
- MicroBT WhatsMiner M56S++: 250 TH/s at 4,500W
- Canaan AvalonMiner A1566: 185 TH/s at 3,420W
Infrastructure requirements:
- Megawatt-scale power contracts with industrial electricity rates
- Liquid cooling systems maintaining 24/7 optimal temperatures
- Redundant internet connections ensuring zero downtime
- Professional facility management with 24/7 monitoring
For a small operation, you might need at least $10,000 to $20,000 to buy a few ASIC miners, set up cooling systems, and cover electricity costs. These operations employ teams of engineers, maintain relationships with power companies, and operate with margins measured in single-digit percentages.
2025âs Legitimate Mobile Bitcoin Strategies
While it remains impossible to mine bitcoin on your phone profitably, 2025 offers exciting legitimate ways to engage with bitcoin through your smartphone:
Lightning Network Participation: Apps like Phoenix, Breez, and Zeus allow you to run Lightning nodes on mobile devices, earning small routing fees while supporting bitcoinâs payment layer.
Bitcoin DCA Automation: Services enable automated dollar-cost averaging with amounts as small as $1 daily. Historical data shows $10 weekly bitcoin purchases consistently outperform any mobile mining attempt by 1,500-2,000%.
Educational Mining Simulators: Legitimate apps like âBitcoin Mining Simulatorâ teach mining concepts without false earning promises. These educational tools help users understand hash rates, difficulty adjustments, and mining economics.
Stacking Sats Rewards: Apps offering bitcoin rewards for shopping, learning, or completing tasks.
Lightning Gaming: Bitcoin-native mobile games where players can earn sats through skilled gameplay, with some players earning $10 monthly.onfirm that even the most optimized mobile mining setups in 2025 lose money consistently and predictably.
The Bottom Line
When you mine bitcoin on your phone fundamental economics remain unchanged:Â itâs impossible to profit. The laws of physics, network competition, and energy efficiency create insurmountable barriers that no app can overcome.
However, 2025 offers unprecedented opportunities to engage with bitcoin meaningfully through your smartphone. Focus on education, legitimate earning opportunities, and strategic investment rather than chasing the impossible dream of phone-based mining.
The bitcoin communityâs greatest strength lies in its commitment to truth over hype. When someone promises profits to mine bitcoin on your phone in 2025, theyâre either uninformed or deliberately misleading you. Trust the mathematics, learn from the community, and build your bitcoin knowledge and holdings through proven methods.
The real opportunity in 2025Â isnât to mine bitcoin on your phoneâitâs understanding bitcoin deeply enough to participate confidently in the most important monetary revolution of our lifetime. Your smartphone is the perfect tool for that education; itâs just not a mining rig.
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@ 9ca447d2:fbf5a36d
2025-06-14 02:01:28The Blockchain Group, Europeâs first publicly listed bitcoin treasury company, has received the green light from its shareholders to raise more than âŹ10 billion (approximately $11 billion) to buy more bitcoin.
This is one of the biggest bitcoin treasury plays in Europe as the company wants to speed up its bitcoin accumulation and become a major institutional buyer.
At the Annual General Meeting held on June 10, 39% of the voting rights represented by shareholders voted in favor of the financing plan, with over 95% of the votes cast in favor.
The approval gives the board of directors broad financial powers to issue shares and other securities to raise capital, either with or without preferential subscription rights.
This will allow the company to raise funds quickly in public or private markets to buy bitcoin when the time is right.
CEO Jean-Philippe Casadepax-Soulet said:
âI would like to thank our shareholders for the trust they have placed in us with the approval of these new financial authorizations, that will enable us to accelerate our Bitcoin Treasury strategy, focused on increasing the number of bitcoins per share on a fully diluted basis over time.â
The Blockchain Groupâs strategy is to increase the number of bitcoin per share. This means that the company aims to buy more bitcoin without diluting existing shareholdersâ ownership, and provide exposure to a growing hard-asset reserve within the companyâs equity.
According to Bitcoin Treasuries, the company already holds 1,471 BTC, worth around âŹ160 million.
Earlier this month, it added 624 BTC, worth around âŹ69 million, to its treasury. These are just the beginning of a much bigger accumulation effort funded by the recent shareholder-approved capital increase.
Alongside ordinary shares, the financial powers granted to the board include the ability to issue preferred shares, warrants and convertible bonds. This gives the company the tools to optimize funding costs and respond to market demand.
This is on top of the âŹ300 million at-the-market (ATM) facility announced earlier with asset manager TOBAM, where the company can issue new shares at market price. TOBAM is the sole subscriber under this ATM and can buy up to 39% of the company if the facility is fully used.
In addition to the capital raise, shareholders elected Alexandre Laizet as a board member and appointed him Deputy CEO in charge of the Bitcoin strategy. Laizetâs 6-year term will end in 2030, which shows the long-term vision for digital assets.
The appointment highlights the importance of bitcoin within the companyâs overall structure which also includes subsidiaries in data intelligence, AI consulting and decentralized technology.
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@ d68401a8:11aad383
2025-06-13 17:54:54Before AI, building a website posed a technological barrier. Not everyone was able to create even a simple contact page. It often meant paying for a yearly subscription (often too expensive for most), for templates that still required manual work, or paying even more to hire someone to do it for you.
Today, thanks to AI, building a website has become technologically accessible. Even if you still prefer to rely on a third-party company, the ease brought by AI is driving more competitive pricing.
In the domain world, before Handshake, owning a top-level domain (TLD) was economically out of reach. The application process set by ICANN was tedious and expensive. For most people, the only option was to rent a second-level domain, one not controlled by individuals and subject to whatever fees the TLD owner chose to charge.
Now, thanks to the Handshake DNS protocol, anyone can own a top-level domain and create an infinite number of second-level domains under it, at virtually no cost.
Owning a plot of land (a top-level domain) on the internet should be open and easy. Handshake aims to pave the way toward that vision, you can start to explore by using Namebase , Shakestation or Bob wallet .
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@ b1ddb4d7:471244e7
2025-06-14 02:01:08This article was originally published on dev.to by satshacker.
Alright, youâve built a useful and beautiful website, tool or app. However, monetization isnât a priority and youâd rather keep the project free, ads-free and accessible?
Accepting donations would be an option, but how? A PayPal button? Stripe? Buymeacoffe? Patreon?
All of these services require a bank account and KYC verification, before you can send and receive donations â not very convenient.
If we only could send value over the internet, with just one click and without the need of a bank accountâŠ
Oh, hold on, thatâs bitcoin. The decentralized protocol to send value across the globe. Money over TCP/IP.
In this article, weâll learn how anyone can easily add a payment button or donation widget on a website or app.
Letâs get into it.
Introduction
Bitcoin is digital money that you can send and receive without the need for banks. While bitcoin is extremely secure, itâs not very fast. The maximum transactions per second (TPS) the network can handle is about 7. Obviously thatâs not useful for daily payments or microtransactions.
If youâd like to dig deeper into how bitcoin works, a great read is âMastering Bitcoinâ by Andreas Antonopoulos.
Bitcoin vs Lightning
If youâd like to receive bitcoin donations âon-chainâ all you need is a bitcoin wallet. You simply display your bitcoin address on your site and thatâs it. You can receive donations.
It would look something like this; 1A1zP1eP5QGefi2DMPTfTL5SLmv7DivfNa
Instead of showing the actual bitcoin address, you can also turn it into a QR code.
However, this is not a recommended solution. Using static on-chain addresses has two major downsides. It lowers privacy for you and your donnors and itâs a UTXO disaster because many small incoming transactions could beocme hard to consolidate in the future.
For donations and small transactions, the Lightning Network is the better option. Lightning allows for instant settlement with fees only a fraction of a cent.
Similar to bitcoin, you have the choice between non-custodial and custodial wallets. This means, either you have full control over your money or the wallet provider has.
Option 1: Lightning Address
With the lightning address feature, you an easily receive donations to an email like address.
It looks like this:Â yourname@wallet.com
Many wallets support lightning addresses and make it easy to create one. Then, you simple add the address to your donation page and youâre ready to receive tips.
You can also add a link link as in lightning:yourname@wallet.com and compatible lightning wallets and browser wallets will detect the address.
Option 2: Lightning Donation Widgets
If you like to take it a step further, you can also create a more enhanced donation checkout flow. Of course you could programm something yourself, there are many open source libraries you can build upon. If you want a simple plug-and-play solution, here are a couple of options:
Name
Type
Registration
SatSale
Self-hosted
No KYC
BTCPay Server
Self-hosted
No KYC
Pay With Flash
Widget
Email
Geyser Fund
Widget
Email
The Giving Block
Hosted
KYC
OpenNode
Hosted
KYC
SatSale (GitHub)
Lightweight, self-hosted Bitcoin/Lightning payment processor. No KYC.
Ideal for developers comfortable with server management. Simple to deploy, supports both on-chain and Lightning, and integrates with WooCommerce.
BTCPay Server
Powerful, open-source, self-hosted processor for Bitcoin and Lightning. No KYC.
Supports multiple currencies, advanced features, and full privacy. Requires technical setup and maintenance. Funds go directly to your wallet; great for those seeking full control.
Pay With Flash
Easiest for indie hackers. Add a donation widget with minimal code and no KYC. Payments go directly to your wallet for a 1.5% fee.
Setup Steps:
- Sign up at PayWithFlash.com
- Customize your widget in the dashboard
- Embed the code:
- Test to confirm functionality
Benefits:
- Minimal technical skills required
- Supports one-time or recurring donations
- Direct fund transfer, no intermediaries
Geyser Fund
Crowdfunding platform. Widget-based, connects to your wallet, email registration.Focused on Bitcoin crowdfunding, memberships and donations.
The Giving Block
Hosted, KYC required. Integrates with fiat and crypto, best for nonprofits or larger organizations.
OpenNode
Hosted, KYC required. Accept Bitcoin payments and donations; supports conversion to fiat, suitable for businesses and nonprofits.
Summary
- Fast, low-code setup: Use Pay With Flash or Geyser Fund.
- Privacy and control: Choose SatSale or BTCPay Server (requires technical skills).
- Managed, compliant solutions: The Giving Block or OpenNode.
Choose based on your technical comfort, privacy needs, and project scale.
I hope this article helped you. If you added bitcoin donations, share your link in the comments and I will send you a few satoshis maybe
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@ 87f5ac31:60daf34c
2025-06-13 16:59:28hahahah íëžëŒ ìì ì€ìŒìŽ?
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@ b1e9b8df:07685594
2025-06-13 15:17:02OERTR steht fĂŒr eine Art, freie Bildungsressourcen (Open Educational Resources) ĂŒber das dezentrale Protokoll Nostr zu verbreiten, auffindbar zu machen und weiterzuentwickeln.
Statt zentraler Plattformen oder Silos nutzen wir Relays â offene Knoten im Nostr-Netzwerk â um Materialien, Metadaten, Annotationen und Kurse dauerhaft, hoch verfĂŒgbar und maschinenlesbar im interoperablen Datenraum verfĂŒgbar zu machen.
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⥠Nostr folgen:\ đ npub1k85m3haymj3ggjknfrxm5kwtf5umaze4nyghnp29a80lcpmg2k2q54v05a (nĂ€here Infos auf https://github.com/edufeed-org/OERTR )
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2025-06-14 02:01:04The Coinbase Lightning Network is Coinbaseâs implementation of Bitcoinâs Lightning Network technology, launched in partnership with Lightspark in April 2024. This innovative solution allows users to send, receive, and pay with bitcoin instantly and cheaply directly from their Coinbase accounts.
Think of the Coinbase Lightning Network as the express lane of bitcoin transactions. While regular bitcoin transfers can take 10-60 minutes and cost several dollars in fees, Lightning Network transactions on Coinbase complete in seconds with fees typically under a cent.
Key Benefits of Coinbase Lightning Network:
- Instant transfers: Transactions complete in seconds, not hours
- Ultra-low fees: 0.2% processing fee vs. traditional network fees
- Global reach: Send bitcoin anywhere in the world instantly
- Cost efficiency: 20 times cheaper than traditional credit card fees
Coinbase Lightning Network vs Regular Bitcoin Transfers
Understanding the difference between Coinbase Lightning Network and regular bitcoin transfers is crucial for choosing the right method:
Feature
Coinbase Lightning Network
Regular Bitcoin Transfer
Speed
Instant (seconds)
10-60 minutes
Fees
0.2% + minimal network fee
$5-50+ depending on network
Best for
Small to medium amounts
Large amounts, long-term storage
Availability
24/7 instant
Subject to network congestion
The Coinbase Lightning Network processes transactions âoff-chain,â creating payment channels that settle later on the main Bitcoin blockchain, resulting in dramatically faster and cheaper transactions.
How to Send Bitcoin Using Coinbase Lightning Network
Sending Bitcoin through Coinbaseâs Lightning option is incredibly straightforward. Follow these step-by-step instructions:
Step 1: Access Your Coinbase Account
- Sign in to your Coinbase account via web browser or mobile app
- Ensure you have bitcoin (BTC) in your account balance
- Navigate to your portfolio and locate your bitcoin holdings
Step 2: Initiate the Lightning Transfer
- Click âTransferâ then select âSend cryptoâ
- Choose bitcoin (BTC) as your asset
- Enter the amount you wish to send
- Select Lightning Network as your transfer method
Step 3: Add Recipient Information
- Obtain the Lightning Network invoice from your recipient
- Paste the invoice into the recipient field
- The Coinbase Lightning Network will automatically detect and validate the invoice
- Review the transaction details carefully
Step 4: Complete the Transaction
- Verify the amount and recipient information
- Click âSendâ to initiate the transfer
- Your Coinbase Lightning Network transaction will complete within seconds
- Both you and the recipient will receive confirmation notifications
How to Receive Bitcoin via Coinbase Lightning Network
Receiving Bitcoin through Coinbaseâs Lightning option requires generating a Lightning invoice. Hereâs your complete guide:
Step 1: Generate a Lightning Invoice
- Log into your Coinbase account
- Navigate to âTransferâ then âReceive cryptoâ
- Select Bitcoin (BTC) as the asset you wish to receive
- Choose âLightning Networkâ as your receiving method
Step 2: Create Your Invoice
- Enter the specific amount you want to receive (required for Lightning)
- Add an optional description or memo
- Click âGenerate Invoiceâ
- Your Lightning Network invoice will appear as both a QR code and text string
Step 3: Share Your Invoice
- Copy the Lightning invoice text or share the QR code
- Send this information to the person sending you Bitcoin
- Remember: Lightning invoices expire after 72 hours
- Generate a new invoice if the original expires
Step 4: Receive Your Bitcoin
- Once the sender pays your invoice, youâll receive instant notification
- The bitcoin will appear in your Coinbase account immediately
- No waiting for blockchain confirmations required with Coinbase Lightning Network
Coinbase Lightning Network Fees and Limits
Understanding the fee structure of Coinbase Lightning Network helps you make informed decisions:
- Processing Fee: 0.2% of the transfer amount
- Network Fee: Minimal (typically fractions of a cent)
- Minimum Amount: Varies by region, typically $0.1- 5
- Maximum Amount: Subject to your account limits and Lightning Network capacity
The Coinbase Lightning Network offers significant savings compared to traditional bitcoin transfers, especially for smaller amounts under $1,000.
Troubleshooting Common Coinbase Lightning Network Issues
Even with the user-friendly Coinbase Lightning Network, you might encounter some challenges:
Invoice Expired Error
- Solution: Generate a fresh Lightning invoice
- Prevention: Complete transactions promptly after generating invoices
Transaction Failed
- Cause: Insufficient Lightning Network liquidity or routing issues
- Solution: Try again in a few minutes or use smaller amounts
Canât Find Lightning Option
- Check: Ensure Lightning is available in your region
- Verify: Update your Coinbase app to the latest version
Address Whitelist Issues
- Problem: Lightning invoices may not work with address whitelisting enabled
- Solution: Temporarily disable whitelisting or contact Coinbase support
The Coinbase Lightning Network transforms bitcoin from a store of value into a practical, everyday payment method. With instant transactions, minimal fees, and user-friendly implementation, itâs never been easier to send and receive bitcoin.
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2025-06-13 14:32:51AI companies massively influence society by projecting their values on ML models, whether we want it or not. It'd be great if at least some people in the companies knew how exactly they influence society, could make certain predictions, or even make ML models themselves predict users' worldviews and some of their behavior.
Some might argue that AI systems already do something like that. I believe they could do it much better: chatbots could be more balanced in terms of security (they are definitely overcensored) and recommender systems, for instance, could contribute to healthy personal and collective transformations (rather than just competing in ability to steal users' attention and trap it in the echo chambers).
Reductionism is an obstacle in AI development
Even most reliable knowledge doesn't solve some of the problems that are already in demand. Even least reliable knowledge still may contain something useful for our problems. While we lack reliable and noncontradictory knowledge, we can still benefit from certain synthesis of working ideas. There's approach that makes it possible to look at the knowledge from a very broad perspective, do such synthesis, and benefit from emergent properties of the synthesis.
Integral (Meta-)Theory created by Ken Wilber is probably the best known attempt to enable the possibility to form and navigate the big picture understanding in a hope to address issues of the epoch we've recently entered.
IMO it has certain challenges that make it repellent to IT:
- Fundamental psychological theories on which the Integral Theory is based are still pretty fragile; they need time to become mature enough and recognized (while it doesn't look like we have that time). There are endless edit wars on Wikipedia, which makes me feel depressing about possibilities to even introduce Spiral Dynamics and Multiple Intelligences to IT people.
- Emphasis on controversial interpretations of certain arational states of consciousness.
It's hard to address the first challenge; however, I recently discovered a new âsecularizedâ Non-Reductionist Philosophy launched by David Long, which, among other things, uses wisdom from Integral Theory and attempts to address the second challenge. I'm glad that there are people who don't just criticize the Integral Theory, its community and Wilber's positions but are also developing the new meta-theories.
NR can also be a good way to get familiar with other meta-theories, so one could choose whatever works the best for their problems. For instance, if you're working on something as exotic as some competitor to EEG-powered meditation device, perhaps you will find Integral Theory relevant to study as well, since it's more focused on the states.
I'd like to point out a couple of moments I noticed in the video "Why Non-Reductionism Is A Better Meta-Theory" that caught my attention, as well as in some other older videos. There's not much to comment on the content itself rather than on the form of the content. This feedback might be used for improvements/elaborations in the next videos and just for everyone curious about the new meta-theory. But first
Why do I post here?
Specifically for the deep topics that relate to the current epoch, I no longer find engaging in the YouTube/FB/Reddit/Diqus/Giscus/etc. discussions useful anymore, at least due to broken and almost omnipresent AI-based censorship, that keeps âimprovingâ at randomly shadow-banning people. How many deep and valuable opinions we no longer see?
BTW, it's possible to create Reddit-like communities here at Nostr as well, using Satellite client for example. I believe it's a better place for NR, Rebel Wisdom and many others.
References to full materials used for criticism
There are curious clips with Wilber in the video. It'd be great to have links in the description (or at least titles of the full videos if it's copyrighted material) so viewers could easier form their own independent opinions. I find it important during the age of information overload and narrative warfare. This will also improve SEO.
Emergentism FAQ
There's a strong position on emergence of consciousness; it seems it's not even a hypothesis in NR and I guess that makes some people so reactive.
I think it would be great to have an FAQ page to possibly make future debates more ecological and fruitful. Some of the things that could be elaborated in the FAQ:
- importance of distinction between philosophical theory (inductive reasoning? or actually deductive reasoning? I'm confused here) and scientific theory (deductive reasoning)
- the fact that for now counterarguments usually fall into the categories of âignorance fallacyâ, âfalse equivalency fallacyâ and âGod of the gapsâ which aren't something sufficient; the whole point of challenge was to find at least a logically valid counterposition (ideally a counterposition that is sound with currently available scientific ~~facts~~ theories), not the nitpicking attacks
- what kind of emergence is meant, is it important here at all and why.
Debates moderation
Probably most of the debates converge to consensus, which are fruitful anyway. There are a few interesting conflicting debates as well. However, I found this specific conflicting debate with Matt Segall quite exceptional.
Matt's position was not understood. He was more interested in a dialogue rather than debates and I think it would be more productive. However, in this specific case, my guess is it would literally take hours to just figure out the common language on a certain concept he mentions.
My humble guess is that a combination of negotiator and moderator with a primary perceiving personality type function (if typologies work at all) could be a step to more meaningful and ecological dialogues in the future. But such negotiator/moderator should also be skilled enough to reflect most challenging parts using more ârational languageâ as best as possible. These people are rare. Basically I mean the style of dialogues that happened between theoretical physicist David Bohm and Indian philosopher Jiddu Krishnamurti: IMO these were the talks where both sides at some point were barely transcending limitations of their languages and focusing more on intuition in order to understand each other. Much fuzzier and spontaneous dialogues, which aren't prematurely limited by too harsh rationality. Similar thing (with shorter periods of negotiation) could be combined with debating as well.
I hope NR community will be open to understanding more perspectives and won't end up turning into something like a cold and scary crystallization of rational arrogance; that would be damaging and quite opposite to the healthy intentions of the whole project.
Final thoughts
I like the clarity and density of the presented ideas in the video, the choice of lines of development in the map and the alternative to the Integral Methodological Pluralism. I like the mentioned interpretation of âfreeâ will, very much resonates with how I personally interpret it. Tritone-ish devilish sounds in the cons sections is a nice aesthetic choice as well.
I guess there's a lot to learn from NR, no matter what positions we hold on the ârational spiritualityâ and that sort of stuff. Just to avoid projections and misunderstandings: I'm in a neutral position to all the post-postmodern discourses (NR, Integral, Metamodernism, etc.); I care about these philosophies, make my own distinctions on what's healthy or not, and my positions don't necessarily perfectly match with some of the claims these philosophies make.
Thank you David Long for launching this philosophy and the movement; I'm looking forward to the next videos!
I'd appreciate reposts and all this as well, thanks!
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2025-06-14 02:01:00Why are Stripe Alternatives are growing like mushrooms? When it comes to online payment processing, Stripe has long dominated the conversation.
However, with its complex pricing structure, strict policies and first-world focus, many entrepreneurs and companies are actively seeking viable Stripe alternatives.
Whether youâre a SaaS startup, e-commerce store, or global enterprise, choosing the right payment processor can significantly impact your bottom line and customer experience.
Table of Contents
- Why Consider Stripe Alternatives?
- The Complete List of Stripe Alternatives
- Additional Notable Mentions
- How to Choose the Right Stripe Alternative
- Conclusion
Why Consider Stripe Alternatives?
Before diving into our comprehensive list, itâs worth understanding why businesses are exploring alternatives to Stripe. While Stripe offers robust features and excellent developer tools, some businesses face challenges with pricing transparency, limited global coverage, or specific industry requirements that Stripe doesnât fully address.
The Complete List of Stripe Alternatives
Based on extensive research and analysis of the payment processing landscape, here are 27 proven Stripe alternatives that could be the perfect fit for your business:
1. Flash â Easiest Bitcoin Payment Solution
Flash is the easiest Bitcoin payment gateway for businesses to accept payments. Supporting both digital and physical enterprises, Flash leverages the Lightning Network to enable fast, low-cost Bitcoin transactions. Launched in its 2.0 version in March 2025, Flash is at the forefront of driving Bitcoin adoption in e-commerce.
2. Lemon Squeezy â The SaaS-Focused Alternative
Dubbed as âacqâd by Stripe,â Lemon Squeezy offers a comprehensive solution specifically designed for digital product sales and SaaS businesses. It provides strong customer support, built-in analytics, and handles payments, subscriptions, global tax compliance, and fraud prevention in one platform.
3. Gumroad â Creator Economy Champion
Gumroad has carved out a niche serving creators and small businesses by providing tools for selling digital products, physical goods, and subscriptions. Itâs particularly popular among content creators, artists, and independent entrepreneurs who want to experiment with various ideas and formats. They also open-sourced their code which is quite the âchad-moveâ.
4. Paddle â All-in-One SaaS Commerce
Paddle caters to SaaS and software companies by offering a comprehensive platform with billing, licensing, and global tax handling capabilities. Itâs designed to be a complete solution for subscription-based businesses, handling payments, tax, and subscription management in one platform.
5. FastSpring â Global E-commerce Specialist
FastSpring specializes in e-commerce solutions for software and SaaS companies, with a focus on global payments and subscription management. According to TechnologyAdvice, itâs particularly strong for international transactions and helps companies sell more, stay lean, and compete big.
6. 2Checkout â Versatile Payment Solutions
2Checkout (now part of Verifone) offers versatile payment solutions excelling in global payments, subscription billing, and digital commerce. One of the best stripe alternatives as itâs an all-in-one monetization platform that maximizes revenues and makes global online sales easier, supporting over 200 countries and territories.
7. Payoneer â Cross-Border Payment Expert
Payoneer simplifies cross-border payment solutions, offering local payment ease globally with a focus on market expansion and multi-currency support. Itâs trusted by small to medium-sized businesses for global payment solutions and international money transfers.
8. Chargebee â Subscription Management Leader
Chargebee is a subscription management platform perfect for SaaS and SMBs, with robust billing and revenue management features. If you were looking for stripe alternatives to setup subscriptions, Chargebee might be right for you. It streamlines revenue operations and helps businesses grow efficiently with comprehensive subscription billing capabilities.
9. Maxio (formerly Chargify) â B2B SaaS Billing
Maxio offers a robust platform for B2B SaaS billing and financial operations, focusing on growth and efficiency for subscription businesses. Itâs the most complete financial operations platform for B2B SaaS, bringing core financial operations into one platform.
10. Recurly â Dynamic Subscription Management
Recurly offers dynamic subscription management platform, excelling in churn management and data insights for subscription growth. Itâs the only proven platform that expands and protects your recurring revenue with subscription management, recurring billing, and payments orchestration.
11. Braintree â PayPalâs Enterprise Solution
Braintree (by PayPal) provides a versatile global payments platform, integrating multiple payment methods with a focus on conversion and security. It delivers end-to-end checkout experiences for businesses, offering single-touch payments and mobile optimization.
12. PayKickstart â Modern Commerce Platform
PayKickstart offers a modern commerce platform for online billing and affiliates, focusing on revenue maximization and churn minimization. Itâs the most complete checkout, recurring billing, affiliate management, and retention solution with global capabilities.
13. PayPro Global â Full-Service E-commerce
PayPro Global offers a full-service eCommerce solution for selling software and SaaS, focusing on global payments, tax compliance, and customer support. It provides flexible solutions with over 70 payment methods and great support for software companies.
14. Shopify Payments â E-commerce Integration
Integrated with Shopify, this service is ideal for SMBs in eCommerce, offering a seamless shopping cart and payment experience. Itâs the simplest way to accept online payments, automatically set up for major methods with no fees for some payment types.
15. Square â Versatile POS and Payment Solutions
Square provides versatile POS and payment solutions for small businesses with a strong focus on retail and mobile payments. Forbes Advisor notes it as one of the top alternatives for businesses needing both online and offline payment capabilities.
16. Zoho Billing â Integrated Business Solution
Zoho Billing is an online recurring billing and subscription management solution, ideal for small and medium-sized businesses seeking professional invoice creation, time and expense tracking, and improved cash flow management. Zoho isnât just competing for stripe alternatives, they offer a ton of other products and services.
17. WePay â Chase Company Integration
WePay, a Chase company, provides integrated payment solutions for ISVs and SaaS companies with customizable payment solutions. Itâs designed for platforms like marketplaces and small business tools, offering seamless user experience and fraud protection.
18. QuickBooks Payments â SMB Accounting Integration
This service provides seamless accounting and payment solutions for SMBs and SaaS businesses, featuring real-time tracking and automated bookkeeping. It lets small businesses accept payments online from anywhere with easy integration into QuickBooks accounting.
19. Mangopay â Marketplace Payment Infrastructure
Mangopay offers a modular payment infrastructure for marketplaces and platforms, emphasizing flexibility, global payouts, and AI-powered anti-fraud. It uses flexible wallets built to orchestrate fund flows and monetize payment experiences.
20. Coinbase Commerce â Cryptocurrency Payments
Coinbase Commerce enables businesses to accept payments from around the world using cryptocurrency. It offers instant settlement, low fees, and broad asset support, making it easy for merchants to accept digital currency payments globally.
21. BTCPay Server â Open-Source Bitcoin Processor
BTCPay Server is a self-hosted, open-source cryptocurrency payment processor with 0% fees and no third-party involvement. Itâs secure, private, censorship-resistant, and completely free for businesses wanting full control over their Bitcoin payments.
22. Lago â Open-Source Billing Alternative
Lago is an open-source alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee, specializing in billing and metering in one place for usage-b
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2025-06-13 13:56:02âDieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben.â
âBORN TUBI FREEâ  statt   âVIEL FREEâ
Ja, Sie haben richtig gelesen.
Bildung hatte in meinem Elternhaus keinen hohen Stellenwert. FĂŒr meine Eltern war es erstrebenswert, ein gutes Heim mit groĂem Garten, etwas Komfort und gutes Essen zu haben. Sowohl mein Vater als auch meine Mutter hatten starken Bezug zur Landwirtschaft und Nutztierhaltung. Tiere, die keinen Nutzen hatten, waren in den Augen meiner Eltern Luxus. Auch fĂŒr mich ist es heute wichtig, Zugang zu GrĂŒn und zur Natur zu haben. Ich liebe Tiere, die keinen Nutzen haben, und Pflanzen aller Art. Im Sommer stundenlang unter dem BlĂ€tterdach eines alten Baumes zu liegen und dem Knacken der Ăste zuzuhören, ist fĂŒr mich GlĂŒck.
In meiner Kindheit gab es blökende Schafe und LĂ€mmer statt Klavierunterricht. Wir kletterten bei der Obsternte auf den Baum oder sammelten Fallobst statt im Sportverein zu turnen. Statt BĂŒchern gab es Besuche bei Tante und Onkel, die Geschichten von frĂŒher erzĂ€hlten. Und statt Museumsbesuchen gab es die Werkstatt meines Vaters und das Hobby meiner Mutter, alte Möbel zu sammeln und selbst zu restaurieren. Die Themen des Lebens lernte ich nicht durch TheaterauffĂŒhrungen kennen, sondern durch den Alltag und die Menschen in meiner unmittelbaren Umgebung.
Durch die Schule kam ich erstmals in Kontakt mit der Möglichkeit, dass man Dinge auch abstrakt-theoretisch lernen konnte. Schule war fĂŒr mich auch ein Ort, an dem ich ganz nebenbei das Sozialverhalten anderer Menschen studieren konnte. Das war fĂŒr mich als Kind und Teenager ein wichtiges Korrektiv. Aber vor allem habe ich ĂŒber die Schule gelernt, dass es eine ganze Welt zu entdecken gab, die mir bis dahin unbekannt war. Bildung war fĂŒr mich nie etwas, mit dem man angibt. Bildung war fĂŒr mich ein Geschenk, eine Ăberraschung, eine Freude, ein Anfang von etwas Neuem, eine Hoffnung, manchmal eine Angst, es nicht zu schaffen, aber immer wieder eine Quelle von Verstehen und neuen Fragen. Bildung ist fĂŒr mich heute eine riesige Landkarte, die ich nach Herzenslust bereisen kann, wenn ich mag. Auf meiner Landkarte gibt es noch so viele weiĂe Flecken. Ich habe mein Abitur mit 29 Jahren ohne die emotionale UnterstĂŒtzung meiner Eltern nachgeholt. Meine Eltern ahnten schon, dass sich nach dem Abitur ein âteuresâ Studium anschlieĂen wĂŒrde. Auch das war in ihren Augen Luxus, denn ich hatte ja bereits eine Ausbildung.
Nach dem Krieg hatten viele Menschen gar nicht die Möglichkeit, Schulbildung zu erlangen. Im Vordergrund stand, einen guten Job zu finden, Kinder zu bekommen und etwas aufzubauen, ein Haus zu bauen, sich Urlaub im sonnigen SĂŒden leisten zu können. Frauen, die in den 60er Jahren nicht heirateten und stattdessen studieren wollten, waren in der Welt meiner Eltern nicht sichtbar. Bildung war eine stille Sehnsucht, an die man nicht mal im Traum denken durfte, so kam es mir in meiner Familie als Teenager manchmal vor. Das muss mit dem materiellen Mangel meiner Eltern in ihrer Kindheit zu tun gehabt haben. Ich habe dieses PhĂ€nomen auch bei den Eltern von Freunden oder bei Verwandten beobachten können. Materieller Wohlstand schien wichtiger als irgendwelche fernen Ziele und Horizonte. Erst mit fortschreitendem Alter fingen meine Eltern an, sich hobbymĂ€Ăig und theoretisch zu bilden. Sie besuchten zwar keine Kurse in der Volkshochschule, aber sie kauften sich SachbĂŒcher zu den verschiedensten Themen oder machten Kulturreisen in die neuen BundeslĂ€nder. Das war fĂŒr sie der pure Luxus. Sie besuchten Schlösser und Burgen, mein Vater liebte es, in rustikaler Umgebung oder in historischen GebĂ€uden an schön gedeckten Tischen zu essen, wĂ€hrend meine Mutter die Holzmaserung der Möbel genau betrachtete und befĂŒhlte.
Da ich diesen âBildungsluxusâ aber deutlich vor meinem Rentenalter haben wollte, nahm ich die zĂ€hen Diskussionen mit meinen Eltern wegen einer finanziellen UnterstĂŒtzung meines Studiums in Kauf. Bildung ist ein GrundbedĂŒrfnis von Menschen, das von ganz allein entsteht, wenn es nicht aktiv unterdrĂŒckt wird. Das hat die Evolution vermutlich so angelegt, damit man ab und zu auch mal das Gewohnte verlĂ€sst, um Neues zu entdecken, weil FlexibilitĂ€t die Ăberlebenschancen der Spezies erhöht.
Bildung ist ein GrundbedĂŒrfnis, und das machen sich natĂŒrlich auch die dunklen KrĂ€fte auf dieser Welt zu Nutze.
Das heutige Bild, das ich zum Artikel gewĂ€hlt habe, habe ich vor ein paar Wochen in dem Viertel, in dem ich wohne, mit der Kamera aufgenommen. Auf einem Plakat konnte ich âVIEL FREEâ in groĂen Buchstaben lesen und war sprachlos. Ich wusste gar nicht, was mich so bestĂŒrzte, als ich das Plakat sah. Aber ich spĂŒrte, dass ich dieses Plakat im Bild festhalten musste, weil irgendeine tiefe Botschaft darin lag, die ich mitnehmen sollte. Manchmal verstehe ich Dinge erst intuitiv und anschlieĂend kognitiv.
Dieses Plakat ist eine Werbung fĂŒr irgendeinen Freizeitpass o.Ă€., den man in unserer Region erwerben kann. Aber der Anbieter wirbt mit einer bewusst falschen Rechtschreibung (VIEL FREE). Da ich nicht aus einem Bildungshaushalt komme, könnte mir das herzlich egal sein. Aber was mir nicht egal ist, ist das GefĂŒhl, das ich beim Lesen dieses Plakats bekam. Das war ein GefĂŒhl von einem vollen Nachttopf, den man mir ĂŒber den Kopf schĂŒttet und dabei noch hĂ€misch grinst. Das Plakat hat mich spontan empört.
Ich dachte sofort an die GeflĂŒchteten aus Syrien und Afghanistan, mit denen ich vor ein paar Jahren gearbeitet hatte. Sie hatten dermaĂen Stress mit dem Erlernen der deutschen Sprache gehabt. Oft waren die âLehrerâ in den Sprachkursen keine ausgebildeten Lehrer gewesen. Die FamilienvĂ€ter und die Teenager der FlĂŒchtlingsfamilien fielen teils mehrmals durch die PrĂŒfungen und hatten Angst, deshalb von der Behörde nicht zum regulĂ€ren Arbeitsmarkt bzw. zum Gymnasium zugelassen zu werden. Die MĂŒtter blieben zum GlĂŒck gelassener. Die bestandene SprachprĂŒfung war die offizielle Voraussetzung fĂŒr die Teilnahme am ersten Arbeitsmarkt, so hieĂ es damals zumindest. Wer den Abschluss nicht hatte, erhielt keine Hilfe beim Schreiben einer Bewerbung. Das âKonzeptâ der MaĂnahme zur Vermittlung in Arbeit, in der ich damals tĂ€tig war, sah dies so vor. Ich kann mich noch lebhaft an die Auseinandersetzung mit meinem Kollegen erinnern, die ich deshalb damals hatte. Diese Logik erschloss sich mir nicht, denn man lernt Sprache doch am besten dort, wo man lebt UND arbeitet. Aber zurĂŒck zu dem Plakat. Was ich zum Ausdruck bringen möchte, ist, dass es insbesondere in dem Viertel, in dem ich wohne, viele Menschen mit ganz unterschiedlicher Herkunft und mit Kriegserfahrung gibt, die nicht sicher sind in der deutschen Sprache, fĂŒr die es nicht hilfreich ist, dass Plakate mit einer fehlerhaften Rechtschreibung fĂŒr etwas werben. Und von der zynischen QualitĂ€t dieses âVIEL FREEâ rede ich noch gar nicht.
Wie soll man in einem Land, das man neu kennen lernen möchte und muss, weil man aus einem Krieg geflĂŒchtet ist, die Sprache lernen, wenn man bewusst fehlerhafte Rechtschreibung vorgesetzt bekommt? Und den angeblichen Wortwitz verstehen doch die meisten gar nicht, weil sie, wie gesagt, weder im mĂŒndlichen noch im schriftlichen Sprachausdruck sicher sind. Und niemand möchte sich lediglich âfrei fĂŒhlenâ, sondern lieber tatsĂ€chlich âfrei seinâ, oder nicht? Und echte Freiheit hat sicherlich auch nichts mit irgendeiner Plastikkarte zu tun, mit der ich einen Erlebnispark oder ein SpaĂbad aufsuchen kann. Â
âFrei seinâ bedeutet fĂŒr mich, dass ich nicht durch psychologische Tricks fĂŒr etwas interessiert werde, das mich von echter Freiheit ablenken und abhalten soll. Echte Freiheit braucht auch sicherlich keine Plastikkarten mit personenbezogenen Daten. Echte Freiheit bedeutet, dass ich NICHT aus meinem Heimatland durch Krieg vertrieben werde, sondern dass ich mein Leben (und meine Freizeit) nach Lust und Laune so gestalten kann, wie ich das will. Und dazu gehört mehr als ein Besuch im Erlebnispark des Landes, in das ich geflĂŒchtet bin, um zu ĂŒberleben. Dazu gehört, dass ich die Sprache vor Ort verstehe und selbst sprechen kann, dass ich ein respektierter Teil der Gesellschaft werde, dass ich die gleichen Chancen bekomme wie die anderen, dass ich die finanziellen Mittel habe fĂŒr Bildung, guten Wohnraum mit Garten und was auch immer, dass ich mobil bin, und dass ich, insbesondere als junger Mensch, meine Familie und eine vertraute Gruppe von Freunden um mich habe. Also âfrei seinâ bedeutet, NICHT aus meiner Heimat weggebombt zu werden.
In meiner unmittelbaren Nachbarschaft leben unbegleitete minderjĂ€hrige FlĂŒchtlinge in einer Wohngemeinschaft zusammen. Das sind höfliche Jungs so um die 16/17 Jahre. Sie lernen die Welt und das Leben gerade erst kennen. Sie haben keinen leichten Start gehabt, sind aber neugierig auf dieses neue Land, in dem sie nun leben. Sie grĂŒĂen freundlich und probieren die neu erlernte Sprache aus. Solche Plakate direkt vor ihrer HaustĂŒr sind nicht hilfreich. Diese Plakate versuchen, junge Menschen mit ihrem ganz normalen BedĂŒrfnis danach, Neues zu erleben, abzuholen und in eine aktionsreiche Scheinwelt zu entfĂŒhren, in der es vermeintlich Freiheit und ganz VIEL SpaĂ gibt. Solche Plakate sind fĂŒr mich keine unschuldige Werbung fĂŒr einfache Freizeitgestaltung. Solche Plakate sind einerseits der dezente Wink in Richtung Konsum und andererseits kognitive Platzhalter, mentale FĂŒllstoffe.
VIEL FREE mit Plastikkarten ist in meinen Augen ein aufdringliches Angebot fĂŒr willkommene Schmerzvermeidung durch Konsum. Es ist Angriff auf Sprache und Denken. Es richtet sich an junge Menschen, die das, was sie in den letzten Jahren hier oder woanders erleben mussten, vergessen möchten. Nach Kriegen oder staatlichen Ăbergriffen, so wie in der sogenannten Corona-Zeit, geht es immer fĂŒr fast alle Beteiligten um das Vergessen. An diesem Punkt sind sich die Dynamik von Trauma einerseits und die TĂ€terstruktur andererseits leider immer einig. Deswegen hat es ja auch in der deutschen Vergangenheit funktioniert, Konsum als Schmerzpflaster auf Wunden aller Art zu kleben.
VIEL FREE ist fĂŒr mich ein trauriges Zeitdokument, das meine Aufmerksamkeit gefunden hat, weil es das Gegenteil von Freiheit, GenieĂen, Gemeinschaft und vielem mehr darstellt.
VIEL FREE hat mich an meine Eltern in jungen Jahren und ihre SehnsĂŒchte erinnert, eine traumatisierte Generation, die alles dafĂŒr getan hat, materiellen Wohlstand zu generieren, um sich endlich wieder emotional sicher fĂŒhlen zu können.
VIEL FREE erreicht nicht die Herzebene, weil es nicht von Herzen kommt.
VIEL FREE ist eine kostengĂŒnstige Zucker-LĂSUNG, die den kleinen Hunger und die stille Sehnsucht nach Heimat, Zugehörigkeit, Sicherheit, Frieden, GlĂŒck und vielleicht auch nach Bildung stillen soll. Aber sie macht genau das, was Zucker macht. Sie macht nicht satt, sondern weckt den groĂen Hunger. Man konsumiert dann das Falsche mit all den Folgen, die das hat. Es ist schwer, aus solchen KreislĂ€ufen wieder raus zu kommen.
Wem dienen diese ungesunden KreislÀufe?
Wem dient dieser Konsum, der nicht satt macht?
Wem dient das Vergessen einer traumatischen Jugend?
Was denkt man alles NICHT, wĂ€hrend man mit VIEL FREE als mentalem FĂŒllstoff beschĂ€ftigt ist?
Was fĂŒhlt man alles NICHT, wĂ€hrend man Loopings auf der Konsumschiene dreht?
Was macht man alles NICHT, was auĂerhalb der vorgezeichneten Freizeitzone liegt, aber auch SpaĂ macht?
Was ist die gesunde Alternative fĂŒr junge Menschen, egal welcher Herkunft?
Wie können Angebote insbesondere fĂŒr junge Menschen, die traumatisiert sind, aussehen?
Wo kann man als junger Mensch kostenlos und ohne eine Institution oder ein âKonzeptâ im Nacken mit Gleichaltrigen in der Freizeit âabhĂ€ngenâ und nebenbei Schafe, ObstbĂ€ume und andere Menschen aus sicherer Entfernung beobachten?
Wo gibt es solche unschuldigen Oasen?
Wo kann man Trauma âheilenâ oder zumindest die Voraussetzungen fĂŒr spĂ€tere Selbstheilung schaffen?
Wo wird man nicht mit Zucker-LĂSUNG angefixt?
Wo kann man lernen, den eigenen Körper, die eigenen GefĂŒhle nach Trauma wieder zu spĂŒren, zu regulieren und sich dadurch wirklich frei zu fĂŒhlen?
Wer vermittelt der nĂ€chsten Generation eigentlich, was wir (in den letzten fĂŒnf Jahren) gelernt haben?
Vielleicht geht das erstmal ĂŒber praktische Angebote, ĂŒber das persönliche Erleben und spĂ€ter dann ĂŒber theoretische Bildung. Man muss den Wert von Schafen und BĂ€umen nicht sofort theoretisch erklĂ€rt bekommen. FĂŒr den Anfang reicht es, wenn man Zugang zu Schafen und BĂ€umen bekommt und lernt, wie andere mit Schafen und BĂ€umen umgehen, also Lernen am Modell. Es mĂŒssen auch nicht unbedingt Schafe und BĂ€ume sein, das ist, wie Sie bereits gemerkt haben, nur eine Metapher.
Mich haben Schafe und BĂ€ume in gewisser Weise gerettet. Sie haben mir Verbindung angeboten. Ich konnte diese Verbindung am eigenen Leib spĂŒren. Ich konnte spĂŒren, dass ich bin und auch erahnen, wer ich wirklich bin. Sie waren mir ein verlĂ€ssliches GegenĂŒber in schwierigen Zeiten, sie haben mich so oft beruhigt, getröstet und gehalten. Die Natur hört zu, wenn keiner mehr zuhört. Sie nimmt Dich an, egal wer Du bist. Sie bewertet Dich nicht. Sie ist unendlich geduldig und ein super Lehrer fĂŒr alle Fragen, die einem als Kind so einfallen können. Sie weckt Deine Aufmerksamkeit, Deine Neugier, Deinen Wunsch zu Lernen und zu Verstehen. Sie lenkt Dich ab. Die Natur unterrichtet Dich ganz beilĂ€ufig. Ihre Sprache ist das kreative Spiel und die FĂŒlle. Diese Anbindung an die Natur hilft mir bis heute, mit Herausforderungen aller Art klarzukommen. Wenn ich nicht weiter weiĂ oder mich beruhigen möchte und muss, dann gehe ich in die Natur. Danach ist nicht jedes Problem sofort gelöst, aber ich bin wieder zuversichtlich, dass ich auch diese Welle nehmen kann und ĂŒber Wasser bleibe. Ich spĂŒre mich dann mit all meiner Kraft als einen Teil dieser Welt. Und genau das wĂŒnsche ich vor allem den jungen Leuten in meiner Umgebung, die noch so viel vor sich haben.
Du bist geboren, um Dich als einen Teil dieser Welt kraftvoll und frei zu fĂŒhlen.
Du bist ein StĂŒck von dieser Natur, die jeden Tag kreativ spielt und immer reichlich von allem hat.
Man sagt: âSchau auf den Horizont, wenn die Wellen hochschlagen.â
FĂŒr mich bedeutet das: Wenn Du Dich mit der Natur verbindest, dann hast Du Orientierung, dann fĂŒhlst Du Dich selbst. Und wenn Du Dich und Deine angeborene StĂ€rke fĂŒhlst, dann bist Du frei. Dann kann Dir kein Problem etwas anhaben. Die Natur heilt sich und Dich jeden Tag auf`s Neue.
BORN TO BE FREE.
BE FREE.
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2025-06-13 13:54:30Hereâs how to make the perfect soft boiled egg in seven minutes using ice water.
Video: https://v.nostr.build/gODN4ihoJal4EhuA.mp4
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Grab your eggs.
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Fill a pot with water, put it on high heat, and bring it to a boil.
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While waiting, fill a bowl with ice and water. Set it aside.
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Once the water is boiling, gently add the eggs.
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Start a timer for 7 minutes.
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When 7 minutes are up, transfer the eggs into the ice water bowl.
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Let them sit for a couple of minutes before peeling.
(Optional) Make peeling fun - see how big of shell pieces you can get.
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After peeling, put the eggs back into the ice water for a few more minutes. *This helps them firm up slightly while keeping the yolk soft but not runny.
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Sprinkle with sea salt flakes and enjoy with whatever you like.
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2025-06-14 02:00:58In a quiet corner of the world, bitcoin mining operations in Africa are turning electricity into digital currency and in the process, redefining how value is created.
At its core, bitcoin mining involves validating transaction information before adding new blocks to the Bitcoin blockchain by competing to solve a cryptographic puzzle that meets a specific criterion.
Globally, mining plays a key role in keeping the blockchain decentralized and secure. The system depends on miners to verify and record transactions, mainly to prevent a problem called double spending, the digital version of using the same money twice.
To understand this better, imagine Charles sends $5 to Amanda. With physical cash, Amanda can trust the note is real and hasnât been used elsewhere. But with digital currency, copying data is easy, so how can she be sure that the same $5 wasnât sent to someone else too? Thatâs the exact problem Bitcoin mining helps solve.
In recent years, Africa has started to draw attention in this space, positioning itself as a key hub in global bitcoin mining. While there may be less than 2 million bitcoin left to be mined from the total 21 million supply, the rise of mining operations in Africa has sparked excitement, creating new jobs and drawing in foreign capital.
Although some countries still grapple with power shortages and the energy demands of mining, many citizens view bitcoin as a more stable store of value and a safeguard against the volatility of their local currencies.
At the same time, Africaâs wealth of hydro, solar, wind, and geothermal resources makes the continent one of the most promising regions for cost-effective and sustainable mining.
What Makes a Large-Scale Bitcoin Mining Operation in Africa?
It all starts with difficulty. Bitcoin mining isnât just about solving a puzzle, itâs about solving one that keeps getting harder. Mining difficulty refers to how much computational work is needed to generate a number lower than the target hash.
This difficulty automatically adjusts every 2,016 blocks (about every two weeks), depending on how quickly miners solved the previous batch. If mining is fast and efficient, the network increases the difficulty; if miners drop off and block times slow, it reduces it, all to maintain a consistent block production time of roughly 10 minutes.
The significance of mining difficulty lies in the increased demands it places on mining operations. As difficulty rises, miners require more powerful hardware, cost-effective energy sources, advanced infrastructure, and substantial financial investment. These requirements distinguish large-scale mining operations from smaller, casual miners.
In short, itâs the difficulty of mining that births the need for large facilities, massive energy inputs, industrial-grade hardware, and significant financial investment, the very traits that define a âlargeâ bitcoin mining operation.
This leads us to the 4 key factors that define large Bitcoin mining operations in Africa, each one a direct response to the growing demands of the network:
1. Facility size and infrastructure:
The physical size of a mining facility is a direct reflection of its capacity to house mining equipment and support systems. Larger operations typically have thousands of mining rigs installed, supported by extensive infrastructure such as advanced cooling systems and stable power supplies.
These are critical to ensure that the equipment runs continuously and efficiently, given the intense heat and electricity demands of mining.
While it is possible to mine Bitcoin using desktop computers or gaming rigs by joining mining pools, these setups are limited in profitability. Mining pools distribute rewards based on the computational power contributed, meaning small or less efficient machines earn only modest returns.
To compete effectively, mining operations invest in specialized hardware known as Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) miners. These machines are far more powerful and energy-efficient than regular computers but require significant capital investment, with prices ranging from $4,000 to $12,000 per rig depending on their performance.
Large-scale operations typically deploy hundreds or thousands of these ASIC miners, which necessitates the large facilities and sophisticated infrastructure mentioned earlier. In this way, the size of the facility and the sophistication of the mining equipment are tightly linked, together defining the overall scale and capability of a bitcoin mining operation.
2. Hashrate contribution:
Hashrate refers to the computational power used to mine and process transactions on the Bitcoin network. A higher hashrate indicates a more significant contribution to the networkâs security and transaction processing.
Large mining operations often possess substantial hashrate, measured in exa hashes per second (EH/s). For instance, as of July 2024, the Bitcoin networkâs hashrate was approximately 733.41 EH/s.
3. Energy consumption and power source:
Bitcoin mining is energy-intensive. The total energy consumption of the Bitcoin network has been estimated at 175.87 terawatt-hours annually, comparable to the power consumption of Poland. Large mining operations often seek locations with access to cheap and reliable energy sources, such as hydroelectric, solar, or wind power, to reduce operational costs and environmental impact.
4. Financial banking and investor interest:
Significant financial investment is required to establish and maintain large-scale mining operations. This includes the cost of mining hardware, facility construction, energy procurement, and operational expenses. Companies with substantial financial backing can invest in cutting-edge technology and infrastructure, enhancing their mining capabilities.Â
Overview of Bitcoin Mining in Africa
Africa is beginning to carve out its share of the global Bitcoin mining market, which was valued at $2.45 billion in 2024 and is projected to reach $8.24 billion by 2034.Â
As Bitcoinâs value continues to rise, countries across the continent are positioning themselves to benefit, many by tapping into abundant renewable energy sources and taking advantage of regulatory ambiguity or excess energy production.Â
Ethiopia currently leads the continent in Bitcoin mining activity, with around 2.5% of the global hashrate reportedly coming from operations powered entirely by renewable energy.Â
This energy mismatch has attracted major miners from China and other regions, who see an opportunity to monetize surplus electricity. Ethiopiaâs success showcases how renewable energy and mining can coexist sustainably while contributing meaningfully to state revenue.Â
Kenya follows closely behind. As the top geothermal energy producer in Africa, with an installed capacity of 863 MW, the country is using its energy advantage to support sustainable mining.Â
Nigeria is emerging as a serious contender. While not yet dominant, its large population, increasing tech engagement, and growing interest in using flared gas for mining signal potential for expansion. Nigeriaâs complex but evolving regulatory landscape also leaves room for further mining developments as the government explores clearer crypto frameworks.
Malawi represents a more localized model of Bitcoin mining. By converting rainfall-powered microgrids into revenue-generating infrastructure, Malawi shows how small-scale mining can play a powerful role in community development and rural electrification.
In Libya, Bitcoin mining is technically illegal, but that hasnât stopped it. Despite the ban, underground mining continues to thrive thanks to heavily subsidized electricity. In 2021, Libyan miners accounted for an estimated 0.6% of the global Bitcoin production, the highest in both the Arab world and Africa at the time. Today, mining reportedly consumes around 2% of the countryâs electricity, even as it operates in the shadows.
Angola rounds out the list with limited public data but notable potential. The country struggles with energy inefficiencies, losing nearly 40% of its hydroelectric power during transmission. Some reports suggest Bitcoin miners are beginning to capitalize on this otherwise stranded energy, though large-scale operations are yet to surface.
What unites these countries is a shared set of conditions: untapped or mismanaged energy resources, an openness or gray area in regulation, and the growing understanding that Bitcoin mining can serve as a financial incentive to build and stabilize decentralized energy systems.Â
Whether through massive hydroelectric projects or rural microgrids, Bitcoin mining is emerging as both an energy monetization strategy and a bridge to infrastructure development across Africa.
Profiles of the Largest Bitcoin Mining Operations in Africa
1. BitCluster (Ethiopia)
As of 2024, Bitcoin mining in Africa is largely concentrated in
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2025-06-13 12:55:09Exciting news for FOOTBALL fans âœ! Global Sports Central đ is teaming up with Predyx, a leading prediction market in the Bitcoin ecosystem, to bring you comprehensive coverage of the very first Club World Cup directly on Nostr. This partnership is all about enhancing your experience with the latest news, insights, and interactive features!
The Club World Cup will showcase the best clubs from around the globe, and with our collaboration, youâll be fully engaged in the action. Predyx focuses on long-term outcomes, allowing you to make predictions on who will win it all. Plus, if youâre not happy with your predictions, you can sell your shares at any time and switch allegianceâafter all, itâs a free market!
What You Can Expect:
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Latest News and Match Reports: Stay updated with the latest news, in-depth match reports, and insights from the tournament, ensuring you never miss a moment.
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Market Odds Tracking: Follow the shifts in market odds in real-time, giving you the edge when making predictions and engaging with the action.
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Player of the Day Card: Celebrate standout performances with our Daily Player of the Day card, highlighting the top players from the tournament.
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Game oN Frontpage: Each day, weâll feature the frontpage of the day, showcasing the most historical matchups and capturing the feel of the game.
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Best Moments Replays: Relive the excitement with replays of the best moments from the Cup, so you can catch all the highlights and unforgettable plays.
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Long-Term Predictions: Engage with Predyx to forecast who will win the tournament and who will take home the MVP award, allowing you to make strategic predictions as the tournament unfolds.
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Easy Login System: Getting started is a breeze! All you need is a Lightning wallet to log in and participate, making it simple for everyone to join in on the fun.
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Lightning-Fast Bitcoin Payments: With the Lightning Network, placing your bets and making predictions is faster and easier than ever. Enjoy seamless transactions while you cheer for your favorite teams!
"Predyx is excited to be part of this innovative partnership," said Derek. "Weâre bringing fans a new way to interact with the game they love, all while using the fast and secure Lightning Network."
Predyx is a Bitcoin-native prediction market platform running on the Lightning Network. Weâre building the fastest, most trust-minimized betting engine in the world â no deposits, instant payouts, sats-native, and degen-friendly.
Global Sports Central đ Your daily spin around the sports world đ Stay in the loop with the latest scores, stories, and stats.
GSC360 - Where Every Angle Matters
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2025-06-14 02:00:54The Barcelona Cyphers Conference (BCC8333), the cityâs first biggest bitcoin-themed event, transforms a historic building in the central born district of the Catalan capital into a hub for bitcoin enthusiasts and cypherpunks. Named after the port bitcoin nodes use to sync the timechain (8333), this inaugural event delivers high-signal discussions and practical applications of decentralized technology, uniting over 100 attendees from Spain, Europe, and beyond.
Venue and Atmosphere
Set in a 17th-century palace that doubles as a flamenco venue, Palau Dalmases blends historical elegance with a creative, almost rebellious vibe. The unique setting fosters deep conversations, hands-on workshops, and genuine connections, prioritizing substance over spectacle. The spectacular courtyard serves as a lively backdrop for collaboration and sparking chats that resonates with the eventâs freedom/privacy-oriented ethos.
Lightning Network Integration
BCC8333 embedds Bitcoinâs Lightning Network (LN) into its core, emphasizing privacy and scalable technology. Two on-site bars accept LN payments for drinks, demonstrating fast, low-cost bitcoin transactions in action.
But the usage of Lightning Network extends beyond just ârefreshmentsâ.Â
·    Chain Duel: This simple yet engaging game has many BCC8333 participants send sats via LN to enter, compete, and have fun for the two days of the event. A large-screen tournament on the main stage amplifies the excitement, showcasing one more practical case for LN in the bitcoin ecosystem with a nice bounty, i.e. winners claiming the collected sats.
·    Thematic sessions and practical workshops on wallets, vending machines, and Nostr highlight LNâs role in bitcoin adoption, while touching on the importance of privacy vs. scalable transactions.
While the overall adoption in Barcelonaâs local establishments outside the venue remains rather limited, attendees find a nearby street with vivid graffiti dedicated to bitcoin, and in a practical way, whenever possible, swap sats for fiat among themselves when direct payments arenât possible.
Selected Highlights
The agenda balances intense sessions with networking breaks, ensuring space for reflection and collaboration. Some of the key sessions include:Â
·    Future of Private Transactions (English, Max Hillebrand).
·    Miniscripts Roundtable (English, Edouard from Liana, Landabaso from Rewind, Francesco from BitVault, Yuri da Silva from Great Wall).
·    Sovereign Hardware Tools (English, Wesatoshi).
·    Debate: Future of Lightning (Spanish, mixed attendees).
·    Op_return Debate (English, Peter Todd, Unhosted Marcellus, Lunaticoin).
Recordings from the main stage and additional coverage by Juan Cienfuegos, host of the BitCorner Podcast, will soon be available online (X: @BCC833, @TheJuanSC).
Why BCC8333 Stood Out
·    Local Maxis: vibrant and well-organized approach shines through, with local bitcoiners as organizers of the event (Spanish and expats) bringing their best PoW to the table.
·    Focused Discussions: Free of hype and influencers, BCC8333 prioritizes signal over noise, diving into critical topics like privacy, nodes, wallets, P2P tools, decentralized mining, and Nostr.Â
·    Community Vibe: The smaller crowd enables authentic connections, fostering a tight-knit community of freedom-tech enthusiasts committed to sovereignty.
BCC8333 is a powerful testament to the cypherpunk spirit, blending bitcoin and privacy to fuel innovation. From LN-powered interactions to thought-provoking talks, the event underscores the strength of a community dedicated to building decentralized solutions. Congratulations to the organizers, contributors, volunteers, and attendees for making this conference a standout moment in the yearâs lineup of bitcoin-themed events.
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2025-06-13 09:25:28I'm excited to announce that Nostr Game Engine just reached its first development milestone: v0.0.
What is Nostr Game Engine?
Nostr Game Engine is built on top of the modular and proven jMonkeyEngine.
What sets it apart? Its internals are being gradually replaced with Nostr-powered modules, turning it into a reference engine purpose-built for decentralized games.
This first release delivers these key capabilities:
Peer-to-Peer Networking
Forget centralized game servers. Nostr Game Engine gives you real P2P multiplayer, using WebRTC for data streaming and Nostr relays for coordination.
Want to dig deeper? This is a draft NIP that is a revised version of this other draft NIP, that details how the signaling works.
WebRTC is already a solid and reliable peer-to-peer protocol, equipped with a full set of NAT traversal capabilities, but its signaling phase typically relies on specialized central servers.
By coupling WebRTC with Nostr, we take signaling decentralized too by relying on a network of dumb public relays that are oblivious to what encrypted data we send to them and are easily replaceable.
(see the documentation for more info)
Nostr Authentication & Gamertags
NGE has a fully managed Nostr Auth flow, with support for NIP-49 encrypted local nsecs and NIP-46 remote signers.
It also fully handles metadata, including external identities:Â your profile picture, display name, and other details can carry over between games, and even from other Nostr clients and communities.
This release is also introducing Gamertags: persistent gaming handles tied to your Nostr pubkey. They are like Xbox Gamertags or the old Discord handle, but theyâre decentralized and follow you across any game that supports them (check this draft nip for more info).
Match Making
While matchmaking is planned for a later milestone on the roadmap, this release ships with an early implementation to help test RTC connections.
This initial implementation has the APIs to create lobbies that are discoverable and optionally password-protected. Players can search and filter for lobbies using both client-side and relay-side filtering, depending on what the relay supports.
Right now, you canât see how many players are in a lobby, and the feature is still a bit rough around the edges, but it's a solid start, and more improvements are coming as we move further along the roadmap.
The cool part? You donât even need to know Nostr is running under the hood. The engine exposes simple APIs like createLobby, findLobbies, and connectToLobby, the developer can call them when needed, and the engine handles all the relay querying and data stitching behind the scenes.
(see the documentation for more info)
A new Nostr Client Library
The engine uses a new Nostr client library built from scratch, designed for performance, asynchronicity, and memory efficiency. Itâs lean, fast, and built to be the foundation for everything that comes next.
Cross-Platform and language of choice
The entire codebase is written mostly in Java, and it builds natively for Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Support for Android, iOS, and Web Browsers is on the roadmap.
What has been built so far?
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Version 0.0, with the core features mentioned above
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Documentation covering the key components of the engine
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An app template to help bootstrap projects and experiment with the engine
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An high performance and portable nostr client library
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A tech demo (more on that later)
So now, you can get a real feel for the engine, see what it does, play around with it, and maybe even start experimenting with your own ideas.
Roadmap
This is just the beginning. There is a full roadmap on the website.
Upcoming milestones include ads, deeper identity features, and tools that make decentralized game development as smooth as possible.
Sea of Nostriches
This is a demo built for this release.Â
You start alone in an open ocean with a boat, nothing much at first.Â
But as soon as another player joins (another peer), your boat begins sending data directly to theirs via peer-to-peer communication. Youâll see this visualized as a stream of numbers moving between boats in game.
If you have a profile picture set, itâll automatically appear on your boatâs sail, and youâll see othersâ profile pictures on theirs.
Thatâs the core of it.Â
It is not a real game, as there is nothing really to do, no lag compensation, no score etc⊠but it is a decent reference, and an âintegration testâ for this release.
Thereâs a lot more going on behind the scenes, like how the ocean is simulated or how rendering is handled, but thatâs beyond the scope of this post. You can check out the full source code on GitHub, along with native builds for all supported platforms and a portable JAR.
Thatâs all for now! Huge thanks go to nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj7ct5d3shxtnwdaehgu3wd3skuep0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcqypu8xwr40lp96ewdj2fef408wy70gd3carf9n6xu7hrnhq6whpgly925h0z for making this possible. Their support allows me to dedicate full-time effort to this project and contribute to the growth of the Nostr ecosystem.
Check out the website at ngengine.org and browse the docs at ngengine.org/docs if you want to dig deeper.
Feel free to come up with any questions. Iâll do my best to answer.
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2025-06-14 01:02:03News
- Wallet of Satoshi teases a comeback in the US market with a non-custodial product. According to an announcement on X, the widely popular custodial Lightning wallet is preparing to re-enter the United States market with a non-custodial wallet. It is unclear whether the product will be open-source, but the project has clarified that "there will be no KYC on any Wallet of Satoshi, ever!" Wallet of Satoshi ceased serving customers in the United States in November 2023.
- Vulnerability disclosure: Remote crash due to addr message spam in Bitcoin Core versions before v29. Bitcoin Core developer Antoine Poinsot disclosed an integer overflow bug that crashes a node if spammed with addr messages over an extended period. A fix was released on April 14, 2025, in Bitcoin Core v29.0. The issue is rated Low severity.
- Coinbase Know Your Customer (KYC) data leak. The U.S. Department of Justice, including its Criminal Division in Washington, is investigating a cyberattack on Coinbase. The incident involved cybercriminals attempting to extort $20 million from Coinbase to prevent stolen customer data from being leaked online. Although the data breach affected less than 1% of the exchange's users, Coinbase now faces at least six lawsuits following the revelation that some customer support agents were bribed as part of the extortion scheme.
- Fold has launched Bitcoin Gift Cards, enabling users to purchase bitcoin for personal use or as gifts, redeemable via the Fold app. These cards are currently available on Foldâs website and are planned to expand to major retailers nationwide later this year.
"Our mission is to make bitcoin simple and approachable for everyone. The Bitcoin Gift Card brings bitcoin to millions of Americans in a familiar way. Available at the places people already shop, the Bitcoin Gift Card is the best way to gift bitcoin to others," said Will Reeves, Chairman and CEO of Fold.
- Corporate treasuries hold nearly 1.1 million BTC, representing about 5.5% of the total circulating supply (1,082,164 BTC), per BitcoinTreasuries.net data. Recent purchases include Strategy adding 7,390 BTC (total: 576,230 BTC), Metplanet acquiring 1,004 BTC (total: 7,800 BTC), Tether holding over 100,521 BTC, and XXI Capital, led by Jack Mallers, starting with 31,500 BTC.
- Meanwhile, a group of investors has filed a class action lawsuit against Strategy and its executive Michael Saylor. The lawsuit alleges that Strategy made overly optimistic projections using fair value accounting under new FASB rules while downplaying potential losses.
- The U.S. Senate voted to advance the GENIUS stablecoin bill for further debate before a final vote to pass it. Meanwhile, the House is crafting its own stablecoin legislation to establish a regulatory framework for stablecoins and their issuers in the U.S, reports CoinDesk.
- French 'crypto' entrepreneurs get priority access to emergency police services. French Minister of the Interior, Bruno Retailleau, agreed on measures to enhance security for 'crypto' professionals during a meeting on Friday. This follows a failed kidnapping attempt on Tuesday targeting the family of a cryptocurrency exchange CEO, and two other kidnappings earlier this year.
- Brussels Court declares tracking-based ads illegal in EU. The Brussels Court of Appeal ruled tracking-based online ads illegal in the EU due to an inadequate consent model. Major tech firms like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, and X are affected by the decision, as their consent pop-ups fail to protect privacy in real-time bidding, writes The Record.
- Telegram shares data on 22,777 users in Q1 2025, a significant increase from the 5,826 users' data shared during the same period in 2024. This significant increase follows the arrest of CEO and founder Pavel Durov last year.
- An Australian judge has ruled that Bitcoin is money, potentially exempting it from capital gains tax in the country. If upheld on appeal, this interim decision could lead to taxpayer refunds worth up to $1 billion, per tax lawyer Adrian Cartland.
Use the tools
- Bitcoin Safe v1.3.0 a secure and user-friendly Bitcoin savings wallet for beginners and advanced users, introduces an interactive chart, Child Pays For Parent (CPFP) support, testnet4 compatibility, preconfigured testnet demo wallets, various bug fixes, and other improvements.
- BlueWallet v7.1.8 brings numerous bug fixes, dependency updates, and a new search feature for addresses and transactions.
- Aqua Wallet v0.3.0 is out, offering beta testing for the reloadable Dolphin card (in partnership with Visa) for spending bitcoin and Liquid BTC. It also includes a new Optical Character Recognition (OCR) text scanner to read text addresses like QR codes, colored numbers on addresses for better readability, a reduced minimum for spending and swapping Liquid Bitcoin to 100 sats, plus other fixes and enhancements.
Source: Aqua wallet.
- The latest firmware updates for COLDCARD Mk4 v5.4.3 and Q v1.3.3 are now available, featuring the latest enhancements and bug fixes.
- Nunchuk Android v1.9.68.1 and iOS v1.9.79 introduce support for custom blockchain explorers, wallet archiving, re-ordering wallets on the home screen via long-press, and an anti-fee sniping setting.
- BDK-cli v1.0.0, a CLI wallet library and REPL tool to demo and test the BDK library, now uses bdk_wallet 1.0.0 and integrates Kyoto, utilizing the Kyoto protocol for compact block filters. It sets SQLite as the default database and discontinues support for sled.
- publsp is a new command-line tool designed for Lightning node runners or Lightning Service Providers (LSPs) to advertise liquidity offers over Nostr.
"LSPs advertise liquidity as addressable Kind 39735 events. Clients just pull and evaluate all those structured events, then NIP-17 DM an LSP of their choice to coordinate a liquidity purchase," writes developer smallworlnd.
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Lightning Blinder by Super Testnet is a proof-of-concept privacy tool for the Lightning Network. It enables users to mislead Lightning Service Providers (LSPs) by making it appear as though one wallet is the sender or recipient, masking the original wallet. Explore and try it out here.
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Mempal v1.5.3, a Bitcoin mempool monitoring and notification app for Android, now includes a swipe-down feature to refresh the dashboard, a custom time option for widget auto-update frequency, and a
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2025-06-13 08:45:35Course Main Title
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A drawing example, for demonstrating that any JavaScript library can be used, also for drawing.
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2025-06-14 01:01:43President Donald Trumpâs media company, Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), is doubling down on its Bitcoin bet, partnering with Crypto.com and Yorkville America Digital to launch its own bitcoin exchange-traded fund (ETF), called the Truth Social Bitcoin ETF.
On June 3, a division of the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Arca, filed a 19b-4 form with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
This is the final regulatory hurdle before an ETF can be launched. If approved, this new fund will allow everyday investors to buy shares tied to the price of bitcoin, without having to hold the asset themselves.
The Truth Social Bitcoin ETF will track the price of bitcoin and give investors a simple, regulated way to invest in the digital money.
It will be listed and traded on NYSE Arca, and Foris DAX Trust Company (the custodian for Crypto.comâs assets) has been named as the proposed custodian for this new fund.
According to the filings, the ETF is âdesigned to remove the obstacles represented by the complexities and operational burdens involved in a direct investment in bitcoin.â
This is part of a bigger plan by Trump Media to offer a full suite of digital-asset-based financial products.
The company has also applied to trademark six investment products and has plans for additional ETFs under its Truth.Fi fintech platform, which will focus on digital assets and energy sectors.
Trump Media also recently announced a $2.5 billion bitcoin treasury plan and raised $2.4 billion in stock and debt to support its bitcoin initiatives.
Related: Trump Media Will Raise $2.5 Billion to Build Bitcoin Treasury
Now that the 19b-4 has been filed, the SEC has 45 days to approve, reject or delay the application. This can be extended several times, but a final decision must be made by January 29, 2026.
In addition to the 19b-4, Yorkville America Digital must also file an S-1 registration statement. This will outline exactly how the ETF will work, what it offers to investors, how funds will be used, and the risks involved.
Since January 2024, bitcoin ETFs have been all the rage, with over $130 billion in assets. Big players like BlackRockâs iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) and Fidelityâs FBTC dominate the space. BlackRock alone has $69 billion in assets through its bitcoin ETF.
Even though Trumpâs ETF is entering a crowded field, its name will get attention. The Truth Social bitcoin ETF is expected to generate media buzz, political controversy and divided investor opinions, making it a cultural and financial statement.
Donald Trump is the majority owner of Trump Media, although his shares are in a trust controlled by his son, Donald Trump Jr. The ETF filing doesnât mention Trump by name, but most people see it as a Trump product.
The President is getting more and more involved in the digital asset space. He has NFT collections, meme coins, a bitcoin mining company, a digital asset wallet, and now a potential bitcoin ETF.
But not everyone is happy. Some argue that a sitting presidentâs involvement in regulated financial products, especially one that could benefit from political influence, is unethical.
An SEC-approved digital asset product from Trump could blur the lines between politics, personal gain and digital assets.
Others, however, see this as a calculated move to boost Trumpâs image and position him as a leader in the digital asset and tech space.
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2025-06-13 08:27:03Autor: Caitlin Johnstone. Dieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben. Sie finden alle Texte der Friedenstaube und weitere Texte zum Thema Frieden hier. Die neuesten Pareto-Artikel finden Sie in unserem Telegram-Kanal.
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Israel hat eine umfangreiche Serie von Luftangriffen auf den Iran gestartet.
Die westlichen Medien ĂŒbernehmen natĂŒrlich unhinterfragt die faktenfreie Behauptung der israelischen Regierung, dass diese Angriffe âprĂ€ventivâ waren.
Das Trump-Regime versucht, dies als einen völlig einseitigen israelischen Angriff darzustellen, der nichts mit den Vereinigten Staaten zu tun habe - eine Behauptung, die man durchaus glauben könnte, wenn man gestern geboren wÀre.
Hier ist eine Liste von Schlagzeilen, die wir in Zukunft von der New York Times erwarten können:
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Iranische Angriffe erschĂŒttern Israel in einem unprovozierten Angriff.
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Israelische Familien suchen Schutz bei antisemitischem Terroranschlag.
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Israelischer Verteidigungsminister: US-Campus-Demonstranten wussten irgendwie von iranischen Angriffen im Voraus, was auf eine Koordination mit Teheran hindeutet.
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Trump Ă€uĂert privat seine Frustration mit Netanjahu ĂŒber den Iran-Konflikt, dem die USA nur passiv und unschuldig beiwohnen.
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Amerikanische Juden fĂŒhlen sich inmitten der sich zuspitzenden Kriege im Nahen Osten verunsichert und nicht unterstĂŒtzt.
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Meine Meinung: Ich habe bei den Luftangriffen auf Tel Aviv um mein Leben gefĂŒrchtet. Niemand auf der Welt kann sich vorstellen, wie das ist.
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Meinung: Besteht die Gefahr, dass die USA in einen weiteren Krieg im Nahen Osten hineingezogen werden?
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Meinung: Stolpern die USA in einen weiteren Krieg im Nahen Osten?
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Meinung: Stolpern die USA versehentlich in einen weiteren Krieg im Nahen Osten?
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Meinung: Werden die USA mit FĂŒĂen getreten und in einen Krieg im Nahen Osten hineingezogen, den sie seit jeher um jeden Preis zu vermeiden versuchen?
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USA starten PrÀventivschlag gegen den Iran.
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Ihre Meinung: Werden die USA in einen dritten Weltkrieg hineingezogen?
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Meinung: Taumeln die USA kopfĂŒber in einen nuklearen Schlagabtausch mit Russland und China?
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Meinung: Der Himmel verdunkelt sich, wĂ€hrend nukleare Strahlung ĂŒber unser Land kriecht, deshalb mĂŒssen wir alle zusammenkommen und die Hamas verurteilen.
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Meinung: Die Erde ist ein unfruchtbares Ădland. Nichts bleibt ĂŒbrig. Schauen Sie nach Ihren jĂŒdischen Freunden.
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2025-06-13 06:25:59I recently decided to create my own personal brand websiteâsomething simple with a clean landing page, contact info, links to my work, and a blog. The idea was straightforward: when you meet people in real life or connect online, you need a reliable, consistent place they can go to learn more about you. Social media platforms arenât built for thatâtheyâre noisy, crowded, and ultimately not under your control.
As we shift into a decentralized digital future, owning your own website is one of the easiest and most powerful moves you can make. Social media pages are just websites owned by someone else. TikTok, Instagram, YouTubeâthey all serve specific functions, but thereâs nothing stopping you from creating your own platform. If you make videos, host a video gallery. If you write, post your own blog. You donât need to depend on Twitter or Medium to get your thoughts out. Open-source tools and modern frameworks make it easier than ever to replicate what these big platforms doâon your terms.
This shift is already visible with platforms like Nostr and Mastodon, which promote the idea of identity and communication without central ownership. Your website can be a central node in that ecosystem. Unlike a profile on a platform that can vanish overnight, your domain name is portable and permanent. You can point it anywhereâyour own server, a decentralized network, or a new platform that respects user autonomy. That kind of control is only possible when you own your digital real estate.
In fact, I believe domain names are the next evolution of usernames. Theyâre already being used that way on services like BlueSky and Mastodon. A domain name isnât just a web addressâitâs a digital identity. It can be your contact card, your blog, your portfolio, and even your inbox. In a decentralized world, owning a domain is like planting a flag. It says: this is mine.
The deeper truth is that these centralized platforms are incentivized to keep you inside their ecosystem. They harvest your data, limit your reach unless you pay, and can suspend or ban your account without warning. When you build on their land, you play by their rules. When you build on your own landâyour websiteâyou make the rules. You decide what gets seen, what gets featured, and what data gets collected.
And letâs talk discoverability. While social media relies on algorithms and trends to push your content, your website can be indexed and searched globally on your terms. SEO tools, schema markup, and open metadata standards let you control how your content appears across the web. Add analytics, email capture, or even push notifications, and youâve created a full digital marketing system that doesnât depend on anyone elseâs infrastructure.
For developers and technical creators, building a personal site also becomes a live demo of your skillset. Itâs an interactive resume, a sandbox for new technologies, and a launchpad for projects. Whether youâre using React, Astro, Hugo, or GhostCMS, the tools you choose say as much about you as the content you publish. And because itâs all yours, youâre free to experiment without limitation.
Ultimately, your website is an investment in future-proofing your digital identity. As decentralized protocols evolve, your personal site can plug into that infrastructureâwhether itâs connecting wallets, supporting decentralized comments, or syndicating content to multiple platforms. Owning your site today means youâll be ready for the web of tomorrow.
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2025-06-14 01:01:02Bitcoin Magazine
Where Could Bitcoin Peak This Cycle?With Bitcoin looking as bullish as ever, the inevitable question arises of how high could BTC realistically go in this market cycle? Here weâll explore a wide range of on-chain valuation models and cycle timing tools to identify plausible price targets for a Bitcoin peak. Although prediction is never a substitute for disciplined data reaction, this analysis gives us frameworks to better understand where we are and where we might be heading.
Price Forecast Tools
The journey begins with Bitcoin Magazine Proâs free Price Forecast Tools, which compile several historically accurate valuation models. While itâs always more effective to react to data rather than blindly predict prices, studying these metrics can still provide powerful context for market behavior. If macro, derivative, and on-chain data all start flashing warnings, itâs usually a solid time to take profit, regardless of whether a specific price target has been hit. Still, exploring these valuation tools is informative and can guide strategic decision-making when used alongside broader market analysis.
Figure 1: Applying Price Forecast Tools to calculate potential cycle tops. View Live Chart
Among the key models, the Top Cap multiplies the average cap over time by 35 to project peak valuations. It accurately forecasted 2017âs top, but missed the 2020â2021 cycle, estimating over $200k while Bitcoin peaked around $69k. It now targets over $500k, which feels increasingly unrealistic. A step further is the Delta Top, subtracting the average cap from the realized cap, based on the cost basis of all circulating BTC, to generate a more grounded projection. This model suggested an $80kâ$100k top last cycle. The most consistently accurate, however, is the Terminal Price, based on Supply Adjusted Coin Days Destroyed, which has closely aligned with each prior peak, including the $64k top in 2021. Currently projecting around $221k, it could rise to $250k or more, and remains arguably the most credible model for forecasting macro Bitcoin tops. Of course, more information regarding all of these metrics and their calculation logic can be found beneath the charts on the site.
Peak Forecasting
Another powerful metric is the MVRV ratio, which compares market cap to realized cap. It offers a psychological window into investor sentiment, typically peaking near a value of 4 in major cycles. The ratio currently sits at 2.34, suggesting there may still be room for significant upside. Historically, as MVRV nears 3.5 to 4, long-term holders begin to realize substantial gains, often signaling cycle maturity. However, with diminishing returns, we might not reach a full 4 this time around. Instead, using a more conservative estimate of 3.5, we can begin projecting more grounded peak values.
Figure 2: A view of the MVRV ratio predicts further cycle growth to reach historical 4+ and even more conservative 3.5 target values. View Live Chart
Calculating A Target
Timing is as important as valuation. Analysis of BTC Growth Since Cycle Lows illustrates that previous Bitcoin cycles peaked almost exactly 1,060 days from their respective lows. Currently, we are about 930 days into this cycle. If the pattern holds, we can estimate the peak may arrive in roughly 130 days. Historical FOMO-driven price increases often happen late in the cycle, causing Realized Price, a proxy for average investor cost basis, to rise rapidly. For instance, in the final 130 days of the 2017 cycle, realized price grew 260%. In 2021, it increased by 130%. If we assume a further halving of growth due to diminishing returns, a 65% rise from the current $47k realized price brings us to around $78k by October 18.
Figure 3: Based on the peak rate of previous cycles, this cycle is far from over. View Live Chart
With a projected $78k realized price and a conservative MVRV target of 3.5, we arrive at a potential Bitcoin price peak of $273,000. While that may feel ambitious, historical parabolic blowoff tops have shown that such moves can happen in weeks, not months. While it may seem more realistic to expect a peak closer to $150k to $200k, the math and on-chain evidence suggest that a higher valuation is at least within the realm of possibility. Itâs also worth noting that these models dynamically adjust, and if late-cycle euphoria kicks in, projections could quickly accelerate further.
Figure 4: Combining projected realized price and a possible MVRV target to predict this cycleâs peak.
Conclusion
Forecasting Bitcoinâs exact peak is inherently uncertain, with too many variables to account for. What we can do is position ourselves with probabilistic frameworks grounded in historical precedent and on-chain data. Tools like the MVRV ratio, Terminal Price, and Delta Top have repeatedly demonstrated their value in anticipating market exhaustion. While a $273,000 target might seem optimistic, it is rooted in past patterns, current network behavior, and cycle-timing logic. Ultimately, the best strategy is to react to data, not rigid price levels. Use these tools to inform your thesis, but stay nimble enough to take profits when the broader ecosystem starts signaling the top.
For more deep-dive research, technical indicators, real-time market alerts, and access to a growing community of analysts, visit BitcoinMagazinePro.com.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered financial advice. Always do your own research before making any investment decisions.
This post Where Could Bitcoin Peak This Cycle? first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Matt Crosby.
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2025-06-13 15:31:03What can't fungi do? Fungi come in all kinds of delightfully enchanting and bizarre forms and are the ultimate do-it-alls. Some of them are edible or medicinal; they help organic gardeners keep their gardens happy; they eat plastic, and they glow in the dark. Fungi-based biomaterials also have the potential to help us build more sustainable homes or make more eco-friendly products; heck, they can even talk to each other in their own secret language.
Not surprisingly, they can also make some interesting music, with a little help from Canadian musician Tarun Nayar, the mastermind who makes nature-inspired electronic music under the name Modern Biology.
Source: https://www.treehugger.com/modern-biology-musician-makes-music-using-mushrooms-7485168
Video with mushrooms sound like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHwybeMXFAA&t=22s
https://stacker.news/items/1005531
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2025-06-14 01:01:01Bitcoin Magazine
JPMorgan Reports Record Profits for Bitcoin Miners in Q1Bitcoin mining companies in the U.S. have kicked off 2025 with record performance, according to a recent report. The first quarter of the year was âone of Bitcoin minersâ best quarters to date,â analysts Reginald Smith and Charles Pearce stated.Â
JUST IN:
JPMorgan reported Q1 2025 was one of the best periods on record for publicly traded bitcoin mining companies
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â Bitcoin Magazine (@BitcoinMagazine) June 13, 2025
âFour of the five operators in our coverage reported record revenue and profits,â the report stated, underscoring the sectorâs impressive rebound in profitability amid continued institutional adoption and high bitcoin prices, currently hovering around $105,462.87.
In total, U.S.-listed miners brought in $2.0 billion in gross profit during Q1 2025, with average gross margins reaching 53%âa jump from $1.7 billion and 50% in the previous quarter.
MARA Holdings (MARA) once again led the pack in Bitcoin production, mining the most BTC for the ninth consecutive quarter. However, despite its output dominance, MARA also posted the highest cost per coin, estimated at $72,600, JPMorgan noted.
On the profitability front, IREN (IREN) was the standout performer. For the first time, IREN earned the most gross profit among the tracked firms. The company also reported the lowest all-in cash cost per Bitcoin, around $36,400, helping to boost margins significantly.
CleanSpark (CLSK), another major player, did not raise any equity in the quarterâone of the more capital-disciplined moves seen among its peers. In fact, JPMorgan reported that the five miners it tracks issued only $310 million in equity for Q1, marking a steep decline from $1.3 billion in Q4 2024.Â
On the operational expense side, miners spent an estimated $1.8 billion on power, up $50 million from the previous quarterâdemonstrating the energy-intensive nature of mining.Â
JPMorganâs outlook on the industry remains bullish for select players. The bank maintains overweight ratings for CleanSpark, IREN, and Riot Platforms (RIOT), while assigning neutral ratings to Cipher Mining (CIFR) and MARA.
As profitability surges and strategic spending remains in check, 2025 may very well be remembered as a turning point in mining economicsâespecially for companies navigating cost discipline and scaling production.Â
This post JPMorgan Reports Record Profits for Bitcoin Miners in Q1 first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Jenna Montgomery.
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2025-06-13 15:01:55Nostr is an open communication protocol that can be used to send messages across a distributed set of relays in a censorship resistant and robust way.
If you missed my nostr introduction post you can find it here. My nostr account can be found here.
We are nearly at the point that if something interesting is posted on a centralized social platform it will usually be posted by someone to nostr.
We are nearly at the point that if something interesting is posted exclusively to nostr it is cross posted by someone to various centralized social platforms.
We are nearly at the point that you can recommend a cross platform app that users can install and easily onboard without additional guides or resources.
As companies continue to build walls around their centralized platforms nostr posts will be the easiest to cross reference and verify - as companies continue to censor their users nostr is the best censorship resistant alternative - gradually then suddenly nostr will become the standard. đ«Ą
Current Nostr Stats
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2025-06-14 01:01:01Bitcoin Magazine
UK Gold Mining Company Bluebird to Convert Gold Revenues into BitcoinBluebird Mining Ventures Ltd., a pan Asian gold project development company, recently announced a major strategic shift. It plans to convert future revenues from its gold mining projects into bitcoin and adopt bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset.Â
Strategy shift to covert gold into digital gold â #bitcoin #goldmining #goldequities #investinbitcoin #investingold
"Combining income streams from gold mining projects and recycling these revenues into a proactive "Bitcoin in Treasury" management approach, whilst maintaining a⊠pic.twitter.com/BpJA6hFU9Yâ Bluebird Mining Ventures Ltd (LSE:BMV.L) (@bluebirdIR) June 5, 2025
âBy adopting a âgold plus a digital goldâ strategy, it offers the Company an opportunity to turn the page and look to the future and seek to attract a new type of shareholder,â said the Executive Director and CEO of Bluebird Aidan Bishop. âUnder the leadership of a new CEO, once identified, it is my sincere hope that Bluebird will finally realise its ambitions for which it was initially established for.â
The announcement comes as Bluebird progresses towards a key agreement on its flagship Philippine project. The company expects to finalize a deal in the coming weeks that will grant it a net profit interest throughout the life of the mine, with no ongoing capital costs. The company said it believes bitcoin offers a modern alternative to traditional store of value assets like gold.
âI am very pleased with the progress of discussions in the Philippines which are looking very positive and will enable, if successfully completed, Bluebird to maintain an ongoing exposure with zero future cash commitments,â stated Bishop.
Bluebird plans to recycle revenues from its mining operations directly into bitcoin, aligning with what they describe as an innovative treasury approach. The company cited bitcoinâs fixed supply of 21 million, increasing global adoption, and role as a hedge against inflation and monetary instability as key reasons for its decision.
âCombining income streams from gold mining projects and recycling these revenues into a proactive âBitcoin in Treasuryâ management approachâŠâ the company said. âCompanies that have adopted bitcoin into their treasury strategy globally across public markets have been enjoying significant investor interest as well as substantial premiums to Net Asset Value (NAV) that have challenged traditional financial metrics as a basis of valuation.â
To lead this new phase, Bluebird is actively searching for a new CEO with experience in digital assets.
âOn a personal level, I embarked some time ago on a journey to understand and learn about bitcoin,â added Bishop. âI am convinced that we are witnessing a tectonic shift in global markets and that bitcoin will reshape the landscape of financial markets on every level.â
This post UK Gold Mining Company Bluebird to Convert Gold Revenues into Bitcoin first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Oscar Zarraga Perez.
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2025-06-13 14:08:51Boy howdy! We're getting some good finals games in the NBA and NHL. I imagine that will occupy most of our discussion.
Do we expect these teams to be contenders next year too or is this their window?
I now need Indy to pull off the win, if I'm going to win our bracket challenge. In the event of an Indy win, @grayruby hilariously shot himself in the foot with his pick for MVP in the points challenge (there's a fun little econ lesson there).
We are starting to transition into offseason mode, though: starting with the Knicks post mortem.
Aaron Judge has a ludicrous 87% chance of winning the AL MVP this year. Also, @Jer is demolishing me in fantasy this week.
Predyx has some exciting new sports markets up. I may have gotten a bargain on some Euro Rules Football outcomes just a few minutes ago.
We'll also recap the ongoing contests and discuss whatever else stackers want to hear about.
https://stacker.news/items/1005467
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2025-06-14 01:01:00Bitcoin Magazine
The 30,000-Foot View of the Oslo Freedom ForumAs I step onto the plane leaving Gardermoen Airport in Oslo, Norway, the weight and warmth of the past week settles into my chest.
The Oslo Freedom Forum is not a conference. Itâs not a summit. Itâs something harder to name and even harder to describe â a convergence of courage, truth and defiance that burns through the noise of the modern world and gives you no choice but to listen, feel and act.
For the second time, I leave this city more convinced than ever that something unstoppable is rising. That amid the censorship, surveillance and state repression spreading across the globe, there is a countervailing force rooted in humanity, accelerated by technology and led by those whoâve already paid the price for speaking out.
The Forum doesnât trade in empty optimism. It delivers a different kind of hope, forged from lived experience and stitched together by people who have been in the dark and still choose to see the light. A hope borne from the stories of individuals who have lived through the worst an authoritarian regime can do and still choose to fight for the freedom of others. The experiences shared were hard. At times, devastating. But they werenât offered for pity. They were calls to action.
Just days after she was abducted, blindfolded, tortured, and sexually assaulted in a Tanzanian prison cell, Agather Atuhaire stood in front of a crowd of strangers and told her story.
Her voice did not tremble.
The Ugandan journalist and lawyer had traveled to Tanzania in solidarity with fellow East African dissidents, only to be disappeared in a black van alongside Kenyan activist Boniface Mwangi.
And yet, against all odds, she came back. Not just to her home in Uganda, but also to the stage in Oslo, where she spoke calmly and clearly about what it means to tell the truth under a dictatorship.
Her presentation, âThe Digital Free Speech Crackdown in Uganda,â laid bare the authoritarian playbook: social media blackouts, propaganda campaigns, surveillance of journalists and the slow financial asphyxiation of independent media. When the government doesnât like a story, it simply blocks the platform or website. When a journalist digs too deep, they disappear for a while. Or forever. Atuhaire painted a picture many struggle to even imagine.
And yet, after everything, she didnât just recount these struggles. She looked out at the crowd and thanked the open source builders and contributors who write code and create tools that make it possible for activists like her to speak, move money and organize under regimes that want them silenced, or worse.
(Ugandan journalist and lawyer, Agather Atuhaire, speaks during the Freedom Tech track at the 2025 Oslo Freedom Forum.)
From Iran, independent Bitcoin educator Ziya Sadr reminded us that financial privacy is not a luxury but a necessary lifeline for those facing the financial repression by oppressive rulers. Sadrâs detainment during the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom movement following the murder of Mahsa Amini by the Iranian regime is a testament to that. Without financial privacy, activistsâ actions, connections and finances are exposed to a regime equipped with widespread financial controls and a sophisticated, restrictive internet firewall that rivals even Chinaâs.
The result is one of the most repressive digital environments in the world. And if that wasnât enough, the Iranian rial currency has lost more than 80% of its value in just a few years.
Against this backdrop, Iranians are using bitcoin as undebasable savings, and to buy digital services like VPNs in order to access the open internet. But even that act, just reaching the outside world, requires a level of privacy most of us take for granted.
In his presentation, âSecuring Lifelines: The Bitcoin Privacy Imperative,â Sadr shared that many Iranians turn to Bitcoin Coinjoins, a privacy technique that breaks the link between Bitcoin transaction inputs. Coinjoins preserve user transaction privacy and, more importantly, shield Iranians from the surveillance and retaliation of a regime who punishes anyone trying to access information beyond its tightly controlled digital spaces. The use of Coinjoins is becoming more difficult as global legal pressure mounts against open source developers, and in the aftermath of the Samourai developer arrests, privacy protocols like Whirlpool are unworkable.
Today, Sadr is learning more about additional Bitcoin privacy tools, including Paykoin, a privacy method that allows two users to contribute an input to a Bitcoin transaction. Payjoin breaks common chain analysis heuristics and conceals the sender and receiver of a transaction as well as the payment amount. Then there is ecash, a form of digital cash backed by Bitcoin that enables very private, everyday payments with the custodial trade-off of trusting mints (entities that issue and redeem ecash tokens) to store user funds.
The continued development of these protocols is crucial for Iranians, who live under a government that not only tracks and surveils digital behavior, but also imposes automatic fines on women for violating hijab rules and manipulates currency exchange rates to profit off citizensâ savings. For millions in Iran, bitcoin offers a last line of defense against a collapsing currency, intrusive surveillance and total financial repression.
(Independent Iranian Bitcoin educator, Ziya Sadr, speaks during the Freedom Tech track at the Oslo Freedom Forum.)
Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo LĂłpez took the stage at the 2025 Oslo Freedom Forum not as a politician, but as a witness to what happens when a state turns its institutions into further tendrils of its repression machine.
After NicolĂĄs Maduro stole Venezuelaâs 2024 elections, LĂłpez watched thousands of his fellow people â activists, students, journalists, opposition members and lawyers â get arrested, disappeared or forced into exile. The regime blocked access to social media, revoked passports, criminalized dissent and used the financial system as a means of controlling the population.
Amid this digital repression and Venezuelaâs 162% inflation rate, LĂłpez sees bitcoin (decentralized money) and Nostr (decentralized social media) as lifelines. When dictators shut down the internet or freeze your bank account, alternatives that are open source, decentralized, uncensorable and accessible become more important than ever for the survival of democracy and freedom.
**âDecentralized resistance is the convergence of people, Bitcoin, Nostr, and AI.
People, itâs about the center and the end of what we are doing.
Brave women and men who sacrifice their freedom, who take risks, who are willing to fight for other people.
If itâs not about people, technology wouldnât be something worth fighting for.
Bitcoin is freedom money. Itâs decentralized, nobody controls it, nobody can stop it, it can move around without borders.â**
(Venezuelan Opposition Leader Leopoldo LĂłpez during the Freedom Tech track at the 2025 Oslo Freedom Forum.)
For decades, Paraguayâs greatest natural resource, hydroelectric power, has flowed out of the country through international contracts, fueling development in neighboring countries like Brazil and Argentina while one in four Paraguayans remained trapped in poverty. Paraguayâs Itaipu Dam, one of the largest in the world, has long symbolized this paradox: a river of energy diverted away from the very people who need it most.
Björn Schmidtke and Delia Garcete of Penguin Group are flipping that script.
In a landmark move, they secured Paraguayâs first 100-megawatt power purchase agreement, marking the beginning of a bold experiment to reclaim that energy for the people of Paraguay. Instead of selling it off to foreign powers, they use it to mine Bitcoin â and the proc
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2025-06-13 13:48:55pen & ink; monochromized
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https://stacker.news/items/1005456
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2025-06-14 01:00:59Bitcoin Magazine
Pakistanâs Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: A Step Toward Orange-Pilling a Nation?Pakistanâs relationship with Bitcoin has been marked by inconsistency and confusion over the past few years. Initially, the country outright banned bitcoin trading in 2018, citing concerns over fraud, money laundering and lack of regulation. However, over time, their stance softened and regulators began exploring the technology behind Bitcoin with courts even questioning the legality of the ban. Eventually, citizens were allowed to hold bitcoin, though trading remained murky and unregulated. This back-and-forth approach has created a confusing environment, where Bitcoin exists in a legal gray area. It is technically allowed, yet not fully embraced or regulated, reflecting the stateâs struggle to balance innovation with control.
PAKISTAN TO ESTABLISH NATIONAL STRATEGIC #BITCOIN RESERVE
Honored to have had the Pakistan Minister Bilal Bin Saqib at the Bitcoin Conference
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â The Bitcoin Conference (@TheBitcoinConf) May 29, 2025
This muddled relationship with Bitcoin seems to have turned a corner in recent weeks as Bilal Bin Saqib, head of the Pakistan Crypto Council, at the Bitcoin 2025 Conference in Las Vegas announced that the country is moving to establish a strategic Bitcoin reserve. Furthermore, he announced the allocation of 2,000 megawatts of excess energy to Bitcoin mining and high-performance computer data centers. The Ministry of Finance has also commissioned the establishment of an entirely new agency to oversee digital asset regulation which could lead to a less opaque legal framework around bitcoin ownership and usage in everyday transactions.
Critics have argued that this is merely an attempt by Pakistan to cozy up to Trump in the aftermath of the recent skirmish with India. After all, Saqib did state that Pakistan was inspired by the Trump administration when he spoke at the recent Las Vegas Bitcoin conference. Others have asserted that Pakistan is merely seeking to build resistance to possible sanctions in the future over its support for terrorist groups. I believe that such a geopolitically focused critique overlooks a deeper economic reality that has been staring Pakistan in the face for many years.Â
I wrote an article for a Pakistani newspaper about a year ago in which I argued that the country is uniquely situated, in economic terms, to take advantage of Bitcoin and unlock the benefits that come with adoption. Pakistan suffers from rampant inflation, stagnant capital formation, depleted foreign reserves, an inefficient bureaucracy and an overreliance on remittances from abroad. These systemic issues have eroded citizensâ faith in traditional financial systems, leaving many Pakistanis disillusioned and seeking alternative means to safeguard their wealth and economic autonomy.Â
Thus, nurturing a culture of Bitcoin adoption could go a long way toward alleviating much of these economic ills and empowering citizens to take control of their financial future. By earning and trading a form of currency that is deflationary in nature, Pakistanis can protect themselves from the downsides of the macroeconomic trends that have decimated the living standards of this once proud nation. Bitcoin adoption could transform the countryâs lively remittance sector, with receivers keeping more of the money they are sent. It could also emancipate people from the inefficient banking system that is such a drain on the people. Permissionless transactions could also empower the beleaguered minorities who often struggle to achieve financial freedom.Â
The announcement of a strategic Bitcoin reserve, as well as promises to introduce pro-Bitcoin regulation and a mining strategy, are steps in the right direction. They show that the mood is shifting and the country is starting to take a serious look at the only real digital currency in town. These steps also point to a much broader, global shift in attitudes toward Bitcoin â especially in nations where hyperinflation is a daily reality and the banking system struggles to meet citizensâ needs.Â
However, real change will only come when Pakistan fully legalizes bitcoin as a digital currency and takes steps toward mass adoption. Only then will ordinary Pakistani citizens be free to trade with people from all over the world without the need to rely on the local banking system. Only then will financial autonomy become an achievable goal for those living far away from the big cities where banks are based. Only then will women be free to earn, store and transact in a digital currency that is resistant to cultural barriers.Â
Creating a national strategic reserve merely signals that a nation believes in bitcoin as an asset with the potential to offer a reliable return. It does not signal that a nation has adopted the digital currency as a means to overcome the obstacles imposed by fiat. Strategic national reserves also hoard bitcoin and bring it too close to the state, even though the digital currency was designed to be a hedge against state-controlled money. As such, a reserve does not unlock the true potential of bitcoin to act as a buffer against domestic inflation, currency devaluation and a cumbersome banking system.Â
A strategic Bitcoin reserve is a step in the right direction for Pakistan, as it would be for any nation that suffers from hyperinflation. But only mass adoption will truly unlock the immense potential Bitcoin can offer to a nation such as Pakistan and we have a long way to go before that becomes a reality.Â
In my view, strategic reserves are not what bitcoin is all about, but letâs hope this is merely the first step in a long and prosperous journey toward orange-pilling a nation.
This post Pakistanâs Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: A Step Toward Orange-Pilling a Nation? first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Ghaffar Hussain.
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2025-06-13 13:39:20Here's a video about the Pacers' offensive adjustments to OKC's extraordinary defense:
https://youtu.be/1LF2Sd1jTXQ
This finals matchup probably has the highest level team basketball I remember seeing.
https://stacker.news/items/1005445
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2025-06-14 01:00:58Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Layer 2: StatechainsStatechains are an original second layer protocol originally developed by Ruben Somsen in 2018, depending on the eltoo (or LN Symmetry) proposal. In 2021 a variation of the original proposal, Mercury, was built by CommerceBlock. In 2024, a further iteration of the original Mercury scheme was built, Mercury Layer.Â
The Statechain protocol is a bit more complicated to discuss compared to other systems such as Ark or Lightning because of the range of variations that are possible between the original proposed design, the two that have been actually implemented, and other possible designs that have been loosely proposed.Â
Like Ark, Statechains depend on a centralized coordinating server in order to function. Unlike Ark, they have a slightly different trust model than a vUTXO in an Ark batch. They depend on the coordinating server to delete previously generated shares of a private key in order to remain trustless, but as long as the server follows the defined protocol and does so, they provide a strong security guarantee.Â
The general idea of a Statechain is to be able to transfer ownership of an entire UTXO between different users off-chain, facilitated by the coordinator. There is no requirement for receiving liquidity like Lightning, or the coordinator server to provide any liquidity like Ark.Â
To begin, we will look at the original protocol proposed by Ruben Somsen.Â
The Original Statechain
Statechains are effectively a pre-signed transaction allowing the current owner of the Statechain to unilaterally withdraw on-chain whenever they want, and a history signed messages cryptographically proving that past owners and the receivers they sent the Statechain to approved those transfers.Â
The original design was built on eltoo using ANYPREVOUT, but the current plans on how to enable the same functionality make use of CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY and CHECKSIGFROMSTACK (a high level explanation of this is at the end of the CHECKSIGFROMSTACK article). The basic idea is a script enabling a pre-signed transaction to spend any UTXO that has that script and locks the appropriate amount of bitcoin, rather than being tied to spending a single specific UTXO.Â
In the protocol, a user wishing to deposit their coins to a Statechain approaches a coordinator server and goes through a deposit protocol. The depositing user, Bob, generates a key that will be uniquely owned by him, but also a second âtransitoryâ key that will eventually be shared (more on this soon). They then craft a deposit transaction locking their coin to a multisig requiring the coordinatorâs key and the transitory key to sign.Â
Using this multisig, Bob and the coordinator sign a transaction that spends that coin and creates a UTXO that can either be spent by any other transaction signed by the transitory key and the coordinatorâs key using LN Symmetry, or Bobâs unique key after a timelock. Bob can now fund the multisig with the appropriate amount, and the Statechain has been created.Â
To transfer a Statechain to Charlie, Bob must go through a multistep process. First, Bob signs a message with his unique private key that attests to the fact he is going to transfer the Statechain to Charlie. Charlie must also sign a message attesting to the fact that he has received the Statechain from Bob. Finally, the coordinator server must sign a new transaction allowing Charlie to unilaterally claim the Statechain on-chain before Bob sends Charlie a copy of the transitory key.Â
All of this is made atomic using adapter signatures. These are signatures that are modified in such a way using a random piece of data that renders them invalid, but can be made valid again once the holder of the signature receives that piece of information. All of the messages, and the new pre-signed transaction are signed with adapter signatures, and atomically made valid at the same time through the release of the adapter data.Â
Holders of a Statechain must trust that the coordinator server never conspires with a previous owner to sign an immediate closure of the Statechain and steal funds from the current owner, but the chain of pre-signed messages can prove that a coordinator has participated in theft if they were to do so. If a past owner attempts to use their pre-signed transaction to steal the funds, the timelock on the spend path using only their key allows the current owner to submit their pre-signed transaction and correctly claim the funds on chain.Â
Mercury and Mercury Layer
The original Statechain architecture requires a softfork in order to function. CommerceBlock designed their variant of Statechains to function without a softfork, but in order to do so tradeoffs were made in terms of functionality.Â
The basic idea is the same as the original design, all users hold a pre-signed transaction that allows them to claim their funds unilaterally, and the coordinator server still plays a role in facilitating off-chain transfers that requires them to be trusted to behave honestly. The two major differences are how those transactions are signed, and the structure of the pre-signed transaction users are given.Â
Where the signing is concerned, there is no longer a transitory private key that is passed from user to user. Instead of this, a multiparty-computation protocol (MPC) is used so that the original owner and the coordinator server are able to collaboratively generate partial pieces of a private key without either of them ever possessing the full key. This key is used to sign the pre-signed transactions. The MPC protocol allows the current owner and coordinator to engage in a second protocol with a third party, the receiver of a transfer, to regenerate different pieces that add up to the same private key. In both the Mercury and Mercury Layer protocol, after completing a transfer an honest coordinator server deletes the key material corresponding to the previous owner. As long as this is done, it is no longer possible for the coordinator to sign a transaction with a previous owner, as the new piece of key material they have is not compatible with the piece any previous owner might still have. This is actually a stronger guarantee, as long as the coordinator is honest, than the original proposal.
The pre-signed transaction structure for Mercury and Mercury Layer canât use LN Symmetry, as this is not possible without a softfork. In lieu of this, CommerceBlock opted to use decrementing timelocks. The original ownerâs pre-signed transaction is timelocked using nLocktime to a time far out in the future from the point of the Statechainâs creation. As each subsequent user receives the Statechain during a transfer, the nLocktime value of their transaction is some pre-determined length of time shorter than the previous owner. This guarantees that a previous owner is incapable of even trying to submit their transaction on-chain before the current owner can, but it also means that eventually at some point the current owner must close their Statechain on-chain before previous ownersâ transactions start becoming valid.Â
The major difference between Mercury and Mercury Layer is how these transactions are signed. In the case of Mercury, the coordinator server simply sees the transaction proposed, verifies it, and then signs it. Mercury Layer uses a blind-signing protocol, meaning that they do not actually see any details of the transaction they are signing. This necessitates the server tracking Statechains using anonymized records on the server, and a special authorization key of the current owner so that they can be sure they are only signing valid transfers.Â
Synergy With Other Layers
Statechains can synergize with other Layer 2s that are based on pre-signed transactions. For instance, part of the original proposal suggested a combination of Statechains and Lightning Channels. Because both are simply pre-signed transactions, it is possible to actually nest a Lightning channel on top of a Statechain. This simply requires the current ownerâs unilateral exit key to be a multisig, and the creation of the pre-signed transactions spending that output into a Lightning channel. This allows Lightning channels to be opened and closed entirely off-chain.Â
In a similar fashion, it is possible to nest a Statechain on top of a vUTXO in an Ark batch. This simply requires the pre-signed transactions necessary for a Statechain to be constructed, spending the vUTXO output.Â
Wrapping Up
Statechains are not entirely trustless, but they are a very trust minimized scheme that is very liquidity efficient and allows freely transferring UTXOs off-chain between any users willing to accept the trust model of Statechains.Â
While the original proposal has yet to be built, the two implementations designed by CommerceBlock have been completely implemented. Both failed to achieve anything more than marginal use in the real world. Whether this is due to users being unwilling to accept the trust model involved, or simply a failure in marketing or awareness is something that cannot be fully ascertained.Â
Regardless, given that there are two full implementations and designs for a more flexible variation should LN Symmetry ever become possible on Bitcoin, this an option
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2025-06-14 00:02:11Key Takeaways
In this episode of TFTC, Jessy Gilger, Managing Partner at Sound Advisory and architect of Ganet Trust, unpacks the complexities of retiring on Bitcoin, emphasizing that the ârightâ amount depends on spending habits, age, and minimizing withdrawal pressure. He introduces Ganet Trust as a Bitcoin-native fiduciary solution that leverages multisig custody to meet institutional compliance standards without sacrificing decentralization. Jessy also critiques high-yield derivative products like MSTY, warning of systemic risks and advocating for safer alternatives like SMAs. The conversation broadens into the emotional pitfalls of financial decision-making, the importance of aligning wealth with values, and the evolving macro landscape where Bitcoinâs intersection with traditional finance and tax policy will shape how individuals and institutions protect and grow their holdings across generations.
Best Quotes
"The most comfort comes from putting as little pressure as possible against that stack."
"Multisig is the upgrade from a honeypot to a distributed key setup."
"If a whale pees in the pool, everyone is affected."
"Everyone feels late to Bitcoin because they know someone who got in earlier."
"Stacking Saturdays is my new stack sats."
"Bitcoin doesnât know about trust, it knows private keys."
"The money is there to serve your valuesânot the other way around."
"Some financial products will help, some will hurt, and some will fail. Our job is to help clients navigate them safely."
Conclusion
This episode offers a powerful blend of practical insight and philosophical reflection on long-term Bitcoin strategy, emphasizing the need for sound custody, inheritance planning, and emotional discipline in a volatile, financialized world. Jessy Gilger introduces Ganet Trust as a vital solution for secure, compliant Bitcoin ownership, while his âstacking Saturdaysâ mantra reframes wealth as a pursuit of time, freedom, and meaningful priorities. As Bitcoin moves further into the mainstream, the conversation urges listeners to stay grounded, think generationally, and build resilient systems for both assets and life.
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
0:33 - Bitcoin Retirement Planning at New All-Time Highs
5:22 - How Gannett Trust Works
10:05 - High Net Worth Bitcoin Storage and Estate Planning Solutions
16:48 - MSTY Derivatives: Understanding MicroStrategy Product Risks
19:53 - Bitkey
20:56 - How MSTY Works and the Whale in the Pool Problem
30:16 - Unchained
30:37 - Bitcoin Financialization and Corporate Treasury Strategy
39:35 - Avoiding Ego-Driven Bitcoin Mistakes and Building Bridges
47:33 - Stack Saturdays
53:15 - Tax Policy Changes and Wild Times Ahead
57:18 - Where to Find Gannett Trust and ClosingTranscript
(00:00) We have people retiring with hundreds of Bitcoin. Do you need to be on a yacht every week or are you staying humble and keeping those stats? 10 of the 12 ETFs are at Coinbase means all the keys are at Coinbase and with the news of the last week like, hey, there could be cracks. Micro Strategy is built on Bitcoin.
(00:18) It's got all of the risks of Bitcoin, right? But then it's got its own set of risks. Let's call them Sailor and Profitability. Then you have derivatives which are on top of Micro Strategy and they retain the risks of everything underneath. meeting on a on a day when we hit new all-time highs. Bitcoin approached $110,000.
(00:43) Got Jesse back on the show to talk about many things, not just the price ripping. A lot of good things happening on the unch unchained side of things. Watching Ganet Trust. We'll get into it. Yeah, lot lots of stuff happening. I think um the price likes Ganet. I I think that's the uh the mover. What uh I mean that's been a big discussion in in the space right now is uh are we heading to new all-time highs? How should Bitcoiners be preparing? How much Bitcoin do people need to retire? How how are you thinking about all this as we approach what seems
(01:22) to be another bull cycle? Yeah, that's a common question, right? How much Bitcoin do I need to retire? I get it a lot and there's so many other questions I want to ask like, well, how much money are you spending, right? Do you do you need to be on a yacht every week or are you staying humble and keeping those stats? And so, the amount of Bitcoin can vary because the spending pressure you're putting against your Bitcoin stack is the the biggest factor, right? And age is probably the second.
(01:54) a 30-year-old retiring on Bitcoin is different than a 75year-old retiring on Bitcoin just because of the horizon. So, stacks vary. We've got people retiring with um less than seven figures of Bitcoin because they have other assets and then we have people retiring with hundreds of Bitcoin um and putting very little pressure against that portfolio.
(02:16) So, can go in a lot of different ways. Um but it is a question of the day as you're poking new all-time highs. Everyone's like, "Well, how high is it going to get?" And then huge question is do we have cycles again right if countries are buying what what would a downside look like and that's the big question in the retirees mind is how do I protect and not ride that downside all the way down if we do have another 70 80% drawback. Yeah. No.
(02:42) And I think particularly for younger people having in their mind like the perspective of 21 million Bitcoin, 8 billion people, what's the stat? 60 million millionaires in the world. Mhm. How much how many stats do I need to get to to feel comfortable that I have a sufficient slice of the Bitcoin pie? That feel comfortable concept is just so different, right? because Bitcoin is moving and shaking and all-time highs or down 30% and that's still within a bull market.
(03:15) Is that comfortable, right? Can you actually hang it up and like, all right, not going into work and I'm just going to continue to ride these adoption cycles. I don't know if it ever gets comfortable. The most comfort comes from putting as little pressure as possible against that stack, right? that you're not pushing these withdrawal rates of like 5 10 20% of my Bitcoin stack.
(03:38) I'm needing to live on every because then you're requiring Bitcoin to do something for you in the short term which is just not great at, right? What what's Bitcoin price going to be in a year? Far less reliable than what's Bitcoin price going to be in 30 years. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, I I think one of the holdups too is the ability for people to get into Bitcoin and know where to put it and not only have certainty of what it will be valued at in 30 years, but will they have access to it? That's one thing that you guys
(04:10) have been very much focused. I know sound advisory is separate from Unchained technically but within the Unchained umbrella but Unchained focused on helping secure individuals and businesses and trust uh Bitcoin and I think today's announcement of Ganet Trust is a massive step in a direction towards more certainty for long-term holdings for particular entities.
(04:36) Yes, the unchained umbrella or or family of companies is growing and the intention will be for sound advisory to tuck under or be merged into folded into Ganet Trust Company as it gets stood up. But it is the most robust uh compliance offering that um is out there in the fiduciary space. And so that in my opinion was the one thing missing as people want to live on a Bitcoin standard.
(05:04) Sometimes they're in an entity or an organization or have a structure that requires a fiduciary standard. And these two coming together is solved by Ganet Trust Company. So it's going to be the most robust way to hold Bitcoin and have like true inheritance that can be um administered through generations. So how how does this work mechanically via Ganet? Mechanically.
(05:28) So as the first Bitcoin native trust company, other other trust companies do exist, right? but they don't build upon Bitcoin in the way that Unchained has. So Ganet in its um in its Unchained roots and using Unchained technology is going to be able to use multi-IG to achieve um trust company goals.
(05:50) And what that likely will mean is Ganet holding a key, Unchained holding a key, third party holding a key. Those three keys together ensure that the Bitcoin is not being held at any one spot, right? We could get into the Coinbase honeypot. We actually talked about this on our last episode like, "Hey, what do you think is the uh the risk out there that the industry might disagree with?" Said, "I'm launching a new segment.
(06:15) I'm going to ask you a prediction of what what's out there that the uh the industry doesn't see eye to eye with you at." And I was at conferences and they're saying, "Hey, Coinbase is the best. That's where we put all the cut." That means all the keys are at Coinbase and with the news of the last week like, hey, there could be cracks, right? If you've got exposure to Coinbase now, you could be questioning. I was on the list.
(06:37) I got the email. You were affected. That's not great. It doesn't feel good knowing that information that information could have been a lot worse. That headline could have been private keys being mismanaged. When you overlay what Ganet is going to offer to the custody space, it means that not all of the keys are going to be at any one entity.
(07:00) And so that gives the Bitcoiner who understands multisig the confidence that okay, I'm upgrading from a honeypot to a distributed key setup. But it has to be done in a fiduciary and compliant way to satisfy the the institutional and big money of the world, right? family offices, uh, Bitcoin treasury companies, they're going to need a structure that the CIO, the -
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2025-06-14 00:01:51JPMorgan Chase, the largest bank in the U.S. and one of the most powerful institutions in global finance, is going deeper into Bitcoin. The bank is reportedly going to allow wealthy clients to use shares of Bitcoin ETFsâspecifically BlackRockâs iShares Bitcoin Trust (IBIT) â as collateral for loans.
This is a big move from the Wall Street giant and a sign of how traditional finance is changing the way it treats bitcoin.
According to a Bloomberg report, JPMorgan will let trading and wealth-management clients borrow money using digital asset ETFs like IBIT as collateralâthe same way clients might use stocks, real estate or even cars.
The bank will also factor clientsâ digital asset holdings into calculations of net worth and liquidity. So now, bitcoin will be treated like real estate or company shares when assessing a clientâs loan repayment ability.
This is set to launch in the coming weeks and will start with IBIT which has over $70 billion in assets. IBIT is now the largest spot bitcoin ETF in the world and has far outpaced competitors like Fidelityâs FBTC.
Previously JPMorgan only allowed bitcoin ETFs as collateral on a case-by-case basis, Bloomberg reports. This decision will now make it available to all wealth-management clients.
JPMorganâs new Bitcoin-friendly strategy comes despite its CEO Jamie Dimonâs long-time skepticism of Bitcoin. For years, Dimon has been one of the most vocal critics of Bitcoin, calling it a tool for criminals and comparing it to a âpet rock.â
But in a change of heart, Dimon recently said the bank would allow clients to buy bitcoin. At JPMorganâs annual Investor Day, he said, âI donât think you should smoke, but I defend your right to smoke. I defend your right to buy bitcoin.â
Related: JPMorgan Chase to Allow Clients to Buy Bitcoin, Says CEO Jamie Dimon
While Dimon remains personally unconvinced about the long-term value of bitcoin, the bank seems to be moving forward with embracing bitcoin, a move Bitcoin advocates believe is rooted in fear of missing out on possible profits and losing market share.
JPMorgan is following the trend on Wall Street. Other big financial players like Fidelity, Grayscale, and Standard Chartered have launched services for clients to invest or trade bitcoin.
The approval of Bitcoin ETFs by the U.S. SEC in 2024 has opened the door to millions of investors who were hesitant to enter the Bitcoin space.
Institutional interest is surging as the political landscape is also opening doors for digital assets. Under President Donald Trumpâs administration, several Bitcoin-friendly policy changes have been introduced.
In April 2025, the Federal Reserve withdrew past guidance that discouraged banks from working with digital asset companies. Soon after, the US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency confirmed banks could hold customerâs bitcoin in custody.
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2025-06-13 00:43:54This is a brief summary.
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2025-06-13 00:13:50Most of my time on Nostr, relays served content simply based on what was requested. Clients mostly requested follow list based content, and often only if the user requested to 'read' from a particular relay. Very simple, though not ideal. Clients that attempted to offer some 'global' or 'universal' feed made it possible to discover some new things but also served spam, redundant bot posts, and even some malicious things that managed to make it through a relay's filters. Paid relays began to gain some ground, with better filters to reduce spam and malicious content, which has helped a lot to clean up these broader feeds that expand beyond the follow-based timeline. Many of the relays hosted redundant content, too, which is important but it's not the only thing that is. The system still left a lot to be desired, particularly for anyone who has understood the potential behind the client-relay set up. Other concerns, like relay centralization through user concentration, still needed to be discussed and addressed.
Despite the voicing of relay diversity advocates, this system seemed to provide most of what people were looking for to replace their typical social media experience. Still, though, reply spam attacks found their way through, as they do. Web-of-Trust relays began to pop up to help mitigate the problem. Using contact lists and extended contact lists as a method of reducing the prevalence of spam has worked really well, but does have it limitations as to how new users can enter into these social graphs, without already knowing someone who is using Nostr. Also not ideal, but it has been a step forward for Nostr's social media use case. Hosted relay services that offered more diverse policy for a relay to operate under finally began to take some hold for those that wanted more choice and control. Still though, potential had barely been breeched.
It might have been before the WoT relay movement, but of nowhere (not really but it kind of seemed like it), a cat relay appeared within the ecosystem. This silly, fun, cute, clever relay collected notes with the #catstr hashtag and used some fancy image analysis stuff (that I can't explain) to collect notes and images of nothing but cats. Such a simple thing, but that was a catalyst (đ„) moment for Nostr. A relay could do more than just collect notes from following lists?? A couple more iterations of the curated content relay model came to be, driving home the idea that this wasn't some silly pie-in-the-sky concept. It was an aha moment for some, sheer joy for the relay advocates, and a turning point for expanding Nostr beyond the basic social media replacement. Very few client options for simply browsing one relay existed at the time, and while it was novel to see, the rest of the framework to support it was not strong nor very easy to use. Even with this dilemma, the catstr relay set off what has become some of the most interesting and useful innovation that has happened within the Nostr ecosystem since I arrived.
Since then, I have spent a lot of my time on Nostr exploring some of what has been developed on the relay front, experimenting where I have found the opportunity and thinking a lot about where this all could lead. Innovation on both the relay and client sides of Nostr have been expanding, not quite in lockstep, but closely enough that someone like myself can now easily jump onto a client like Jumble.social and get a glimpse into what is happening and get an idea of the potential of what is yet to come. For those working in the relay field, I am sure this feels like one slow moving train. For a client developer, it probably feels a little overwhelming to shift an entire model away from what has worked for something that will work better. As a less-than-technical user who is mostly disconnected from any major development, it's exciting. Relay diversity brings actual utility to Nostr. It also brings the assurances that Nostr offers, which whether we have been subjugated to these problems before or not, it is the main reason why Nostr exists and why we are here using it now.
For most anyone reading this, it probably sounds like some weird, unnecessary history lesson. This is actually one long introduction into a little mini-series of relay recaps though.... I was wondering what I would write about next, and this is it. I may just be a user but I'm an adventurous one and I pay attention, so I'm excited to share some of my thoughts, experiences, and observations over the coming weeks... because exciting isn't a strong enough word for the what I see as possible. :)
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2025-06-13 13:01:31Paris, France â June 6, 2025 â Flash, the easiest Bitcoin payment gateway for businesses, just announced a new partnership with the Bitcoin Only Brewery, marking the first-ever beverage company to leverage Flash for seamless Bitcoin payments.Â
Bitcoin Buys Beer Thanks to Flash!
As Co-Founder of Flash, it's not every day we get to toast to a truly refreshing milestone.
Okay, jokes aside.
We're super buzzed to see our friends at @Drink_B0B
Bitcoin Only Brewery using Flash to power their online sales!The first⊠pic.twitter.com/G7TWhy50pX
â Pierre Corbin (@CierrePorbin) June 3, 2025
Flash enables Bitcoin Only Brewery to offer its âBOBâ beer with, no-KYC (Know Your Customer) delivery across Europe, priced at 19,500 sats (~$18) for the 4-pack â shipping included.
The cans feature colorful Bitcoin artwork while the contents promise a hazy pale ale: âEach 33cl can contains a smooth, creamy mouthfeel, hazy appearance and refreshing Pale Ale at 5% ABV,â reads the product description.
Pierre Corbin, Co-Founder of Flash, commented: âCurrently, bitcoin is used more as a store of value but usage for payments is picking up. Thanks to new innovation on Lightning, bitcoin is ready to go mainstream for e-commerce sales.â
Flash, launched its 2.0 version in March 2025 with the goal to provide the easiest Bitcoin payment gateway for businesses worldwide. The platform is non-custodial and can enable both digital and physical shops to accept Bitcoin by connecting their own wallets to Flash.
By leveraging the scalability of the Lightning Network, Flash ensures instant, low-cost transactions, addressing on-chain Bitcoin bottlenecks like high fees and long wait times.
Bitcoin payment usage is growing thanks to Lightning
In May, fast-food chain Steak âN Shake went viral for integrating bitcoin at their restaurants around the world. In the same month, the bitcoin2025 conference in Las Vegas set a new world record with 4,000 Lightning payments in one day.
According to a report by River Intelligence, public Lightning payment volume surged by 266% from August 2023 to August 2024. This growth is also reflected in the overall accessibility of lighting infrastructure for consumers. According to Lightning Service Provider Breez, over 650 Million users now have access to the Lightning Network through apps like CashApp, Kraken or Strike.
Bitcoin Only Breweryâs adoption of Flash reflects the growing trend of businesses integrating Bitcoin payments to cater to a global, privacy-conscious customer base. By offering no-KYC delivery across Europe, the brewery aligns with the ethos of decentralization and financial sovereignty, appealing to the increasing number of consumers and businesses embracing Bitcoin as a legitimate payment method.
âFlash is committed to driving innovation in the Bitcoin ecosystem,â Corbin added. âWeâre building a future where businesses of all sizes can seamlessly integrate Bitcoin payments, unlocking new opportunities in the global market. Itâs never been easier to start selling in bitcoin and we invite retailers globally to join us in this revolution.â
For businesses interested in adopting Bitcoin payments, Flash offers a straightforward onboarding process, low fees, and robust support for both digital and physical goods. To learn more, visit paywithflash.com.
About Flash
Flash is the easiest Bitcoin payment gateway for businesses to accept payments. Supporting both digital and physical enterprises, Flash leverages the Lightning Network to enable fast, low-cost Bitcoin transactions. Launched in its 2.0 version in March 2025, Flash is at the forefront of driving Bitcoin adoption in e-commerce.
About Bitcoin Only Brewery
Bitcoin Only Brewery (@Drink_B0B) is a pioneering beverage company dedicated to the Bitcoin ethos, offering high-quality beers payable exclusively in Bitcoin. With a commitment to personal privacy, the brewery delivers across Europe with no-KYC requirements.
Media Contact:
Pierre Corbin
Co-Founder, Flash
Email: press@paywithflash.com
Website: paywithflash.comPhotos paywithflash.com/about/pressHow Flash Enables Interoperable, Self-Custodial Bitcoin Commerce
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2025-06-13 23:03:47
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. Â A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world." - Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993
Privacy is essential to freedom. Without privacy, individuals are unable to make choices free from surveillance and control. Lack of privacy leads to loss of autonomy. When individuals are constantly monitored it limits our ability to express ourselves and take risks. Any decisions we make can result in negative repercussions from those who surveil us. Without the freedom to make choices, individuals cannot truly be free.
Freedom is essential to acquiring and preserving wealth. When individuals are not free to make choices, restrictions and limitations prevent us from economic opportunities. If we are somehow able to acquire wealth in such an environment, lack of freedom can result in direct asset seizure by governments or other malicious entities. At scale, when freedom is compromised, it leads to widespread economic stagnation and poverty. Protecting freedom is essential to economic prosperity.
The connection between privacy, freedom, and wealth is critical. Without privacy, individuals lose the freedom to make choices free from surveillance and control. While lack of freedom prevents individuals from pursuing economic opportunities and makes wealth preservation nearly impossible. No Privacy? No Freedom. No Freedom? No Wealth.
Rights are not granted. They are taken and defended. Rights are often misunderstood as permission to do something by those holding power. However, if someone can give you something, they can inherently take it from you at will. People throughout history have necessarily fought for basic rights, including privacy and freedom. These rights were not given by those in power, but rather demanded and won through struggle. Even after these rights are won, they must be continually defended to ensure that they are not taken away. Rights are not granted - they are earned through struggle and defended through sacrifice.
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2025-06-13 23:03:27Treasury Secretary Bessent foresees a promising future for stablecoins pegged to the US dollar.
During a US Senate hearing held on June 11, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent confirmed that the market for US dollar-backed stablecoins has the potential to surpass the $2 trillion mark within the next three years.
âI believe that stablecoin legislation backed by U.S. treasuries or T-bills will create a market that will expand U.S. dollar usage via these stablecoins all around the world,â the government official stated.
Bessent reiterated the administrationâs commitment to strengthening the dollarâs status through USD-denominated stablecoins.
GENIUS Act gains ground
The legislative process received a boost after the Senate voted to advance the stablecoin bill, moving it closer to a final vote. The GENIUS Act, once approved, will establish strict requirements for the stable digital currency sector.
The bill mandates that stablecoins must be fully backed by US dollars or assets with equivalent liquidity (Treasuries). It also requires annual audits for issuers with a market capitalization exceeding $50 billion and includes specific provisions regarding the issuance of these cryptocurrencies abroad.
Stablecoins and the financial system
The stablecoin sector is drawing increasing interest from banking institutions. Bank of America is preparing to launch its own stablecoin, while Circle â issuer of USDC â went public this month, with shares surging 235% on its first trading day.
Currently, US dollar-pegged stablecoins account for over 96% of the entire stable digital currency market.
The post Stablecoins: market could reach $2 trillion by 2028, says Bessent appeared first on Atlas21.
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2025-06-12 23:37:32âDonât trust, verifyâ
í룚ìë ëȘëČì© ìŽ ëŹžì„ì ë넌 ꎎëĄíë€.
ìœë넌 ëŻìŽëłŽë ë°ì ì¶ë°íŽ, íë ìŹí넌 ìŁŒëíë 돞íì ìëŻžë„Œ íŽìČŽíêł ìŽíŽëłŽë êČìŒëĄ íì„í ì ìë€êł ìê°íë€. ìŽêČìŽ ìŽ ìí°íŽì êž°ëłž ì ì ë€. ëčížìœìŽëë€ì íŹì€ížëȘšëëìŠìČëŒ ëŹŽìì íŽìČŽ(deconstruct)íë êČìŽ ìëëŒ, í©ëŠŹì íììŁŒìëĄ ì ê·Œíë€. ê·žêČì crypto-anarchismêłŒ libertarian futurismì êž°ë°ìŽ ëêł , ìŽì ë ëčížìœìžì í”ìŹ ì ì ìŒëĄ ì늏 ìĄêł ìë€. ëë ìĄ°êžì© êł”ë¶íêł ìì§ë§, ì anarcho-capitalismìŽ ëčížìœìŽëë€ìêČ ë§€ë „ì ìžì§ ìœêČ ì ì ìë€. ëčížìœìžì ëêłŒ ì ìč넌 ìŹì ìíêł ììŒë©°, ê°ìč넌 ì°œì¶íë ê°ìžì ì ìČŽì±êłŒ íëë§ì ë ë€ì ì ìíêł ìêž°ì, ê”ê°ì íŽìČŽêčì§ ìŽìŽì§ë êČì ìŽì° 볎멎 íì°ì ìŒëĄ 볎ìžë€.
ê·žë°ë° ëë ìì§ë ìŽíŽê° ìëë ë¶ë¶ìŽ ìë€. ë°ëĄ ìą ê”ì ëčížìœìžì êŽêłë€. íí, ìŹë, ì ì, íŹë§ ê°ì ìą ê”ì ìŹìêłŒ ëčížìœìžì ì°êȰíë €ë ìëë ëčëČíë€. ê·žë§íŒ ìŽ êž°ì ì ìžê°ìêČ ëšìí ëê”Źë„Œ ëìŽì ìČ íì , ìĄŽìŹëĄ ì ì¶©êČ©ìŒëĄ ë€ê°ìšë€. ê·žëŹë ëŽê° ì ë§ ìŽíŽíì§ ëȘ»íë ë¶ë¶ì ì€ì€ëĄë„Œ âdonât trust, verifyâì ìČ íì ë°ëŒ ìŹë ìŹëìŽëŒ ìë¶í멎ìë, ìą ê”ë§íŒì ëëŽ êČìŠíŽëłŽë € íì§ ìë íëë€. ìą ê”ë 믿ìì ìììŽëŒì§ë§ êČìŠíë €ë ìëìĄ°ì°š íì§ ìë íëë ëčížìœìŽëì ì ì êłŒ ìëčí êŽŽëŠŹê° ìë€êł ìê°íë€.
ëë ìą ê”넌 íŽìČŽíŽ ëłŽêł ë ëê°ì 믿ìì ì ì§íë ìŹëì ëłž ì ìŽ ìë€. ëł”ììŁŒì ê°ì ê”ì êčìŽ ëȘžëŽìë ì ì„ìì 볎멎, ì컚ë ëȘšìžì€êČœêłŒ ëł”ììê° ì€ì ìŹê±Žë€ì ëšìí êž°ëĄí êČìŽ ìëëŒ ìŹëŹ ì ìë€êłŒ ížì§ìë€ì íŽìêłŒ ëȘ©ì ìŽ ìœí ììŹì ê”Źì±ëŹŒìŽëŒë ìŹì€ìĄ°ì°š ë°ìë€ìŽêž° ìŽë €ìíë€. ì€ì ììŹì 돞íì ìŒëĄ íêł ë€ìŽìŒ í ë¶ë¶ìžë° ëë¶ë¶ì ìì ìŽ ë°°ìŽ ê”ëŠŹë„Œ ì ì ëĄ ì±êČœì íŽìíë €êł íë€. ê°ì„ ì±ì€ëœêČ ìŹêž°ë ì±ìê° ì 'íëëì ë§ì'ìžì§ ëŹŒìŒë©Ž âì±ìì ê·žë êČ ì°ìŹ ìë€âê±°ë â믿ìì ìììŽë€âëŒêł ë§ ë”íë€. ê·ž ê”Źì ìŽ íëì ì±êČœì± ì ì§ìčíë êČë ìëë° ë§ìŽë€.
ìŽë° ììŒëĄ íë íë ëìë ì돞ì ë€ì ë§čëȘ©ì 믿ììŒëĄ ëźìŽëČëŠŹë €ë êČìŽ íë ëł”ììŁŒì ê°ì ê”ë€. ìì§ë ê·žë° ìŹêł ë°©ìì ì§ë ëčížìœìŽëê° ìë€ë©Ž, ìą ê”âíčí ì ëíë ìą ê”âì ëíŽì ë¶ì ì ìšìì íìŽ ëŽ€ìŒë©Ž ìąêČ ë€. íëœìì ê”ŹìêłŒ ìììŒëĄ ìŽìŽì§ë ììŹë„Œ í”íŽ ì±êČœì ìœëë€ë©Ž ë돎 ë§ì걞 ëìčêČ ëë€ë걞 êčšëŹì ì ìë€.
êČ°ìœ ìŹìŽ êžžìŽ ìëë€. ë ìì íìŽëêž° ì ë¶í° ê”í넌 ë€ë ì ë§íŒ, êž°ë ê”ë ëŽ ìĄŽìŹì ê·ŒììŽì ì ìČŽì±ì ì ë¶ìë€. ìą ê”넌 íŽìČŽíë걎 ë ìì ì íŽìČŽíë ìŒìŽìë€. âê°í ì ì íŽìČŽíŽ? ì ë° ìžê°ìŁŒìì ìž ìŁë„Œ íì ìŹìì 뎀ë!â ìŽë° ìì ë€ìŽ ì ë ëŽë¶ììë íŽìČŽë„Œ íì€ì ìŒëĄ, ëëì ìŒëĄ ë¶ê°ë„íêČ ë§ë ë€. ê·žêČì ëì êł”ëìČŽâë§ì êČœì° ê°ìĄ±êčì§âìêČì ëìžì°íêł ììžëë ìŒì ì믞íë€. ê”ê°ìŁŒìì ëčê”íŽ ëłŽì멎, ìą ê”넌 ë ëë êČì ë§ìč ì ê”볎ì ì§ììì âëë ì€ê” êł”ì°ëčì ì§ì§íë€âêł ë§íë êČëłŽë€ ë ìŽë ”ë€êł ìê°íë€. ì ìŽë ì ê”볎ì ì§ìì ëčì ìŽ êł”ì°ëčì ì§ì§íë€êł íŽì ìŁœì ë€ ììí ì§ì„ì êł í”ë°ì ê±°ëŒ ëŻżì§ë ìëë€. ìŹíì ììŽì ìœêČ ìê°íë ìŹëì ìë€.
ëë ëčížìœìžì ìêž° ì ì ìŽëŻž ìą ê”넌 ë ëŹêł , ê°ìĄ±êłŒë ë©ìŽìĄë€. ì°ëœì ëê±°ë ë§ëì§ ìë 걎 ìëì§ë§, ì ìì ìŒëĄ ìì êłŒ ê°ì êŽêłê° ìëë€. ëȘ©ìŹëìž ìëČì§ë ëìêČ íží”ì ìčë©° íŹêČ ìžì êł , ìŽëšžëë ëŻżêž°ì§ ìë€ë ëŻ ì€ë§ì ê°ì¶ì§ ììŒì šë€. 10ë ë ì§ë ìŒìŽì§ë§ ëŽ ìžììì ê°ì„ êł í”ì€ëŹìŽ ì íì ìŽìë€. ëìŽë ìŽë žêł ëë ëŽê° ëŹŽìš ìŒì êČȘêł ììëì§ ëȘ°ëêž° ë돞ì ëëì± íë€ìë€.
ëȘšëê° ëì ê°ì êžžì 걞ìŽìŒ íë걎 ìëë€. êž°ë ê”ì ê±°ë ììŹê° ì ìì êčì êłłì ëżëŠŹ ë°í ìŽì, ì ì ë¶ì íë ìŒì ê±°ì ë¶ê°ë„ì ê°êčë€ë걞 ëȘžì ìČŽê°íêž° ë돞ìŽë€. ìì ë êž°ë ê”ììë ì€ìí ìëŻžë„Œ ê°ì§ë€âìšëČììì ìì , ìŁììì ìì , êČ°ê” íëë ìììì ìì . ëȘšììČëŒ ëłŽìŒ ìë ìêČ ì§ë§, í©ëŠŹì íììŁŒììž ëë ìì€ì ìŒëĄ ìŹì í ì ìŽëŒë ìĄŽìŹë„Œ 믿ëë€. ë€ë§, ì ì íčì ìą ê”ì ê”íëìŽ ìì§ ììŒë©° ì°ëŠŹì ì§ì±ìŒëĄë êČ°ìœ ìì í ìŽíŽí ì ìë ìĄŽìŹëŒêł 믿ëë€. ê·žë êž°ì êž°ë ê”ì íëë ìììì ìì 볎ë€, ë í° ì믞ììì âì ìììì ìì â íčì 'ìì ìììì ìì 'ê° ìĄŽìŹíë€êł 믿ëë€.
ìžê°ì ìì ì ìŹëì ëí ìŽíŽë„Œ ìëí ìŽìíë ìĄŽìŹ, ê·ž ìì êČžìíŽì§ ë ëë ìì 넌 ìĄ°êžìŽëë§ ë§ëłŒ ì ììë€. ìŽ íšëŹë ì€ ììì ëë ë§€ìŒ ìì 넌 ëëŒêł ìë€. ê”ê°ìŁŒìì ìą ê”ë ëê”°ê°ê° 믿ìŒëŒêł ìžìčêł ê”ëŠŹë„Œ ì 늜íŽìŒ ì ì§ëì§ë§, ìì ì ìŹëì ìžê°ì ììŽì ìž ê°ë§ìŽë€. â돎ììŒëĄë¶í°ì ìì âê° ìëëŒ ìì ê·ž ììČŽìì ìì§ë€. ì„íŽ ìŹë„Žížë„Žì ë§ìČëŒ "ìì ëŒë ì ìŁ ì êł ë„Œ ë°ì ìĄŽìŹ", ê·žêČìŽ ì°ëŠŹ ìžê°ìŽë€. ëčížìœìžì ìì ì í ìĄ°ê°ì ë¶êłŒíêł ì§ì§ ìì ë ì°ëŠŹ 뚞늿ììì ììëë€. ìŽ ëŽë©Žì ìì 넌 ë늏 ìŒêčšì°ë êČ, ê·žêČìŽìŒë§ëĄ ëčížìœìŽëë€ì ìëȘ ìŽì§ ììêč?
ëë ëčížìœìŽëë€ìŽ ìì ì ìì 넌 ë ìŽì ìžê°ìŽ ë§ë ìŹì ìČŽì ë ì ëì ìí(custody)íì§ ìêžž ë°ëë€. ê·žëŹë ëìì, ìą ê”넌 ë ëë ìŒìŽ ìŒë§ë êł í”ì€ëŹìŽì§ë ìêž°ì ëŽê° ê·žë€ìêČ ëëŒêł ë§í ì ì„ì ìëëŒë êČë ìë€. ê·žëì ëŽê° íì€ì ìŒëĄ í ì ìë ë§ì ì€ì§ íëëżìŽë€:
"Donât just trust, keep on verifying."
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2025-06-13 23:02:46Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin: How To Solve the Student Loan CrisisStudent loans continue to trouble millions of Americans, with a total of $1.77 trillion already owed. This crisis has been a major political issue for a while, especially after former President Biden promised to wipe out all of the student loan debt and ended up only fulfilling half of the promise. These billions of dollars are not just numbers on a spreadsheet; they represent people who repay their debt, every month, year in and year out. While the standard repayment plan spans 10 years, the reality is far more daunting: The average borrower takes 20-30 years to repay their loans.Â
There are over two million new undergraduates every year, and, on average, they graduate with $29,400 in debt. Some, like medical students, surpass $250,000 in debt â a mortgage-sized pile. Almost $100 billion in new debt is created every year, piled upon the already unsustainable student debt pile. Similar to how we have (havenât) dealt with public pensions, instead of dismantling a failed system we keep feeding the machine and crushing peopleâs lives and dreams underneath its weight. But perhaps thereâs a way for future generations to avoid this dreadful fate â by borrowing new ideas from similar fields.
Real Estate: The Store of Value (SoV) Since Nixon
The real estate market is another system that heavily relies on debt to keep functioning, and like student loans, itâs not working too well.Â
Real estate is a market where itâs completely normal to go 10x levered long on a single asset while putting all of your savings into it. Talk about idiosyncratic risk. The entire market has been in deep pain worldwide, not necessarily because of the debt, but due to how the fiat system has turned real estate into an investment-and-savings mechanism. In turn, the great investment of one generation becomes the unaffordable housing for the next. But a subset of the population has been divesting from the asset in favor of a better savings vehicle: bitcoin.Â
Part of their thesis in divesting from real estate and moving to bitcoin is that they predict that bitcoinâs superior SoV function will drive real estate prices down, wreaking havoc on a fragile and overpriced asset class. This makes quite a bit of sense, especially to those individuals who invested in real estate in search of those SoV properties in the first place; they now have to contend with increasing risk all over the world, putting in peril what was once a âsafe SoVâ asset class. From wildfires all over the place to floods, expropriations, new taxes, and wars breaking out in places previously unimaginable, some investors are just fed up.
But housing is still necessary, and we still need to build a massive amount of new houses. In almost all major cities in the world, thereâs a housing crisis driven in large part by shortages. This is due to lackluster housing buildouts following the 2008 great financial crisis, driven directly by housing debt. Thus, even if all of the real estate owners put all of their stock of housing into the market, we would still have to develop and construct new ones. But itâs hard to convince real estate developers to do so when you also tell them that, in bitcoin terms, the houses they are building will be worth less by the time they sell them.
Bitcoin Replaces Real Estate
Thatâs where a German Bitcoiner and real estate developer named Leon Wankum steps in and turns the problem into a solution. You may even say he used financial jiu-jitsu because his idea is to bundle new, debt-heavy real estate projects with a bitcoin fund. This way, a $10 million project â of which $9 million is debt-financed â would allocate a small percentage of the financing to bitcoin, in order to hedge the depreciation and devaluation of the main asset and thereby benefit from the appreciation of bitcoin. This way, real estate developers can leverage the debt-heavy nature of the real estate market to cover the demand for housing while also hedging themselves from any SoV risk that bitcoin may pose to that asset.
This seemed like a crazy idea. Bitcoin and real estate: a super conservative mainstream infrastructure investment combined with a hyper-volatile digital savings vehicle â an unlikely marriage. Yet, polar opposites attract, and an idea is only crazy until someone replicates it and makes it work.Â
To everyoneâs surprise, thatâs exactly what happened last year, when Andrew Hohns of Newmarket Capital went on TV to announce they had started applying Wankumâs model to offer a loan to a real estate developer. They had provided financing for a real estate project with a few special conditions:Â
- the developer had to use a small proportion to buy bitcoin, which was placed in escrow.
- the bitcoin is inextricably tied with the real estate asset.
- and the bitcoin has to be held for four years minimum.
The experiment was off to the races. If the past serves as a guide, this new investment structure will greatly reduce the burden of the loan.
Bitcoin and Student Debts, Rescuing the Next Generation
At this point, the parallels to student loans should be pretty clear. When 18-year-olds take out a mortgage-sized loan to bet on their education, their future human capital is effectively becoming the real estate (collateral) that backs the debt. Their capacity to make extra income from the knowledge and certificates they acquired by going into debt will help them pay it off (given that all goes well). Investment margins become very sensitive and risk increases immensely when huge amounts of leverage are added to any investment â be it trading stocks, real estate, or your future. Your room for maneuvering decreases, and you get trapped in the path you choose.
Thus, if you yourself become the real estate securing this mortgage-sized student debt, perhaps you could also secure that loan and reduce the burden on the main asset (you) by integrating bitcoin into the mix. This could have great benefits for all parties involved: decreasing the risk for the lender and giving increased peace of mind and opportunities for the borrower (you, the student).
One of the main advantages of adding bitcoin to your student debt structure is that there are now two assets rowing against the financial repayment current: yourself and bitcoin. By going to university, learning new skills and getting certificates, you open up the path to better-paid jobs and higher earning potentials, aka higher salaries. The more intriguing component is the bitcoin tied to your student debts. As a teenager itself, bitcoin has had an incredible CAGR over its lifespan. Even conservative numbers indicate that bitcoin will return about 60% annually for the foreseeable future. When compared with the 10-15% usually provided by the S&P 500, bitcoin looks like a Ferrari competing against horses.Â
The other advantage is one that frustrates most students, and it has to do with acquiring bitcoin once they understand it. Unlike most adults, undergrads have barely had any time to build up savings, and are therefore unable to exchange much fiat for hard bitcoin. This can become incredibly frustrating, especially because you know that if you were a decade older, you could have aped into bitcoin and retired your entire bloodline. But now you are stuck being 16, saving up pennies, and sacrificing your younger years for trifling amounts of bitcoin that wonât make a difference in your lifetime. So close, yet so far away.
But what is debt if not a way to bring future purchasing power into the present? Debt is a time-traveling machine that allows people to buy assets by leveraging their future earnings, revenues, or salaries. And thankfully, the current system is created so that the moment you can legally go to jail or go to war, you can also indebt yourself up to your eyeballs with the promise of future wages as a doctor, engineer, lawyer, or another profession.
Funnily enough, bitcoinâs recommended minimum holding time is also the number of years for an average college degree â four years. This means that, as long as you create a similar structure as the one proposed by Newmarket Capital, where the bitcoin has a four-year holding period, youâll be using financial jiu-jitsu. The four-year holding period, however, does not mean that the student needs to sell at that point. The question of how to manage your finances between repaying the student loans, selling the bitcoin, or acquiring more is a more complex and personal issue. Regardless of what any student does, with this hybrid method, student debts can help young Bitcoiners leap forward instead of taking a step back.
With this new method, students â and their families â now have another thing to celebrate when they walk onto the graduation stage. And if you drop out of school, for any set of reasons that life may hit you with, your student loan now comes with a fail-safe met
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2025-06-13 11:56:10https://stacker.news/items/1005372
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2025-06-13 11:43:17From my end, it s not one thing but a sentence:
A borderless world in a decentralized economy, where age, sex, race, religion... have not labels in a society where human are sovereigns.
https://stacker.news/items/1005361
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@ 1964e236:30dc8bbf
2025-06-12 21:23:50"Do you know how many people can live on Earth at most? Fifteen billion, maybe twenty, if we organize everything really well. But do you know how many people could live across the entire solar system?"
He paused theatrically.
"A trillion. A billion times a thousand. A hundred times our current population."
His eyes gleamed as he looked at me.
"The solar system holds more than enough resources for that many peopleâand maybe even more. Just imagine such a world: it would have a thousand Mozarts, a thousand Einsteins, thousands of entrepreneurs with more talent than Iâll ever have."
âAnd thousands of Hitlers,â I thought to myself.
"Your death is the terrible price we must pay for progress," Grok continued. "Every day humanity fails to move forward is a day lost."
He looked me in the eye from thirty million kilometers away.
"In Death Valley, thereâs a tiny fish, the desert pupfish. There are only about three hundred of them left, all living in a single small pool in the most inhospitable desert on Earth. That pool used to be much bigger, probably a small sea after the Ice Age, home to millions of pupfish. But today, all thatâs left is a salty puddle, and thatâs where the last of their kind are crammed together. To them, that pool is the entire world. They canât even imagine that thereâs something beyond it, that there might be an ocean out there with endless resources. Instead, they stay in their little worldâand theyâre dying out. A few might get lucky, caught by collectors and kept as ornamental fish in aquariums. But most of them will disappear once the pool dries up. Sure, the pool might survive a while longer. But it could also dry out in the next few months. Or, it could rain so much that the salt level drops and the fish can no longer survive."
He paused again.
"I get it," I whispered. "Weâre the fish, and youâre pulling us out of the puddle."
"The fish probably think: weâve got so little space, we need to save resources, control birth rates, that sort of thing. But in truth, thereâs only one thing they need to do: find a new pool!"
"What if they donât want to leave their home?" Maria wouldâve asked him now.
"How many times have we stood on the brink of nuclear war in the last few decades?" Grok went on. "Right now, there's peace. But how long will it last?"
"How many nukes did Grokâs own conglomerate have?" I wondered.
"What each individual can do now," Grok said, "is give everything theyâve got in this life to help humanity reach the next levelâso we can finally become multiplanetary. So that one single catastrophe wonât wipe out all of humankind. For you, this truth meansâand I truly am sorryâthat you have to sacrifice yourself for this mission."
I told him I agreed completely. Of course I did. I had no choice.
Then I listened to Fengâs playlist.
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2025-06-13 22:31:37Lying is a great tool for destruction, it have damage many marriage, relationships, culture, religion. It have also destroy human integrity and reputation.
What is lying? Lying is an act of someone saying something that is not true either to gain favor or to achieve any other hidden agenda.
There are many reasons why people lie, kids lie to flee from punishment, but adult lie either to gain favour or to achieve his hidden agendas. Since the existence of the world, adult lies have no positive impact on the society and the world at large.
Adult lies brings hatred, kill dreams, cage future and success, end norm and culture, delete history, the reason adult lie is different from the reason children's lie. Anything built on lies collapse when the truth arises, Anything covered with lies uncover when the truth unveil, lie leads to life full of regrets and angers especially when the truth unveils. Lies destroy life's and societies.
What happen if a child is raise on lies !.
When parents raise there children with lies, the children mindset reset towards the reason for the lies. If the lies are about a person, the children will end up hating the person, if it were about a profession, the children will end up hating the profession. Single mothers who lie to there baby about there father end up raising a child that hate his or her father.
Most norms and cultures have gone extinc all because of lies, some generations did not meet most norms because of lies, most legacy died because of lies.
When parents raise there children with lies, they did the children harm and they are destroying the society because children will grow into adults and have there own family, they will keep passing on the baton (lies) to generations and norms and cultures will keep dieing and the society will end up shattered.
Raise your child on truth! Raise your child on truth Teaching them repercussions and consequences if the truth is too wild.
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2025-06-13 10:36:58The Pallas cat wasnât known to live on Mount Everest until a National Geographic Expedition in 2019 made a surprising discovery. The research team, made up of scientists from eight different countries, unexpectedly found Pallas feces in the Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal. âIt is phenomenal to discover proof of this rare and remarkable species at the top of the world,â said Dr Tracie Seimon of the Wildlife Conservation Societyâs Zoological Health Program.
These irritated-looking kitties live at high elevations throughout Asia and are considered âsuper predators,â meaning they are extremely successful at catching their prey. Analysis of scat revealed the feline is surving on pika within the mountain region.
https://stacker.news/items/1005336
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2025-06-13 10:26:19Panpsychism is the view that mentality is fundamental and ubiquitous in the natural world. The view has a long and venerable history in philosophical traditions of both East and West, and has recently enjoyed a revival in analytic philosophy. For its proponents panpsychism offers an attractive middle way between physicalism on the one hand and dualism on the other. The worry with dualismâthe view that mind and matter are fundamentally different kinds of thingâis that it leaves us with a radically disunified picture of nature, and the deep difficulty of understanding how mind and brain interact. And whilst physicalism offers a simple and unified vision of the world, this is arguably at the cost of being unable to give a satisfactory account of the emergence of human and animal consciousness. Panpsychism, strange as it may sound on first hearing, promises a satisfying account of the human mind within a unified conception of nature.
For more details: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/panpsychism/
https://stacker.news/items/1005324
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@ 2e8970de:63345c7a
2025-06-12 20:07:29Sex was the main determinant of whether you survived, but class was a factor; 16% of third-class men made it, compared to 32% of first-class men (although second-class men did worst of all). In contrast 97% of first-class women lived.
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-sexual-revolutions-titanic-winners
https://stacker.news/items/1004837
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2025-06-13 22:02:29News
- Bitcoin mining centralization in 2025. According to a blog post by b10c, Bitcoin mining was at its most decentralized in May 2017, with another favorable period from 2019 to 2022. However, starting in 2023, mining has become increasingly centralized, particularly due to the influence of large pools like Foundry and the use of proxy pooling by entities such as AntPool.
Source: b10c's blog.
- OpenSats announces the eleventh wave of Nostr grants. The five projects in this wave are the mobile live-streaming app Swae, the Nostr-over-ham-radio project HAMSTR, Vertexâa Web-of-Trust (WOT) service for Nostr developers, Nostr Double Ratchet for end-to-end encrypted messaging, and the Nostr Game Engine for building games and applications integrated with the Nostr ecosystem.
- New Spiral grantee: l0rinc. In February 2024, l0rinc transitioned to full-time work on Bitcoin Core. His efforts focus on performance benchmarking and optimizations, enhancing code quality, conducting code reviews, reducing block download times, optimizing memory usage, and refactoring code.
- Project Eleven offers 1 BTC to break Bitcoin's cryptography with a quantum computer. The quantum computing research organization has introduced the Q-Day Prize, a global challenge that offers 1 BTC to the first team capable of breaking an elliptic curve cryptographic (ECC) key using Shorâs algorithm on a quantum computer. The prize will be awarded to the first team to successfully accomplish this breakthrough by April 5, 2026.
- Unchained has launched the Bitcoin Legacy Project. The initiative seeks to advance the Bitcoin ecosystem through a bitcoin-native donor-advised fund platform (DAF), investments in community hubs, support for education and open-source development, and a commitment to long-term sustainability with transparent annual reporting.
- In its first year, the program will provide support to Bitcoin hubs in Nashville, Austin, and Denver.
- Support also includes $50,000 to the Bitcoin Policy Institute, a $150,000 commitment at the University of Austin, and up to $250,000 in research grants through the Bitcoin Scholars program.
"Unchained will match grants 1:1 made to partner organizations who support Bitcoin Core development when made through the Unchained-powered bitcoin DAF, up to 1 BTC," was stated in a blog post.
- Block launched open-source tools for Bitcoin treasury management. These include a dashboard for managing corporate bitcoin holdings and provides a real-time BTC-to-USD price quote API, released as part of the Block Open Source initiative. The companyâs own instance of the bitcoin holdings dashboard is available here.
Source: block.xyz
- Bull Bitcoin expands to Mexico, enabling anyone in the country to receive pesos from anywhere in the world straight from a Bitcoin wallet. Additionally, users can now buy Bitcoin with a Mexican bank account.
"Bull Bitcoin strongly believes in Bitcoinâs economic potential in Mexico, not only for international remittances and tourism, but also for Mexican individuals and companies to reclaim their financial sovereignty and protect their wealth from inflation and the fragility of traditional financial markets," said Francis Pouliot, Founder and CEO of Bull Bitcoin.
- Corporate bitcoin holdings hit a record high in Q1 2025. According to Bitwise, public companies' adoption of Bitcoin has hit an all-time high. In Q1 2025, these firms collectively hold over 688,000 BTC, marking a 16.11% increase from the previous quarter. This amount represents 3.28% of Bitcoin's fixed 21 million supply.
Source: Bitwise.
- The Bitcoin Bond Company for institutions has launched with the aim of acquiring $1 trillion in Bitcoin over 21 years. It utilizes secure, transparent, and compliant bond-like products backed by Bitcoin.
- The U.S. Senate confirmed Paul Atkins as Chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). At his confirmation hearing, Atkins emphasized the need for a clear framework for digital assets. He aims to collaborate with the CFTC and Congress to address jurisdiction and rulemaking gaps, aligning with the Trump administration's goal to position the U.S. as a leader in Bitcoin and blockchain finance.
- Ethereum developer Virgil Griffith has been released from custody. Griffith, whose sentence was reduced to 56 months, is now seeking a pardon. He was initially sentenced to 63 months for allegedly violating international sanctions laws by providing technical advice on using cryptocurrencies and blockchain technology to evade sanctions during a presentation titled 'Blockchains for Peace' in North Korea.
- No-KYC exchange eXch to close down under money laundering scrutiny. The privacy-focused cryptocurrency trading platform said it will cease operations on May 1. This decision follows allegations that the platform was used by North Korea's Lazarus Group for money laundering. eXch revealed it is the subject of an active "transatlantic operation" aimed at shutting down the platform and prosecuting its team for "money laundering and terrorism."
- Blockstream combats ESP32 FUD concerning Jade signers. The company stated that after reviewing the vulnerability disclosed in early March, Jade was found to be secure. Espressif Systems, the designer of the ESP32, has since clarified that the "undocumented commands" do not constitute a "backdoor."
- Bank of America is lobbying for regulations that favor banks over tech firms in stablecoin issuance. The bank's CEO Brian Moynihan is working with groups such as the American Bankers Association to advance the issuance of a fully reserved, 1:1 backed "Bank of America coin." If successful, this could limit stablecoin efforts by non-banks like Tether, Circle, and others, reports The Block.
- Tether to back OCEAN Pool with its hashrate. "As a company committed to financial freedom and open access, we see supporting decentralization in Bitcoin mining as essential to the networkâs long-term integrity," said Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino.
- Bitdeer to expand its self-mining operations to navigate tariffs. The Singapore-based mining company is advancing plans to produce machines in the U.S. while reducing its mining hardware sales. This response is in light of increasing uncertainties related to U.S. trade policy, as reported by Bloomberg.
- Tether acquires $32M in Bitdeer shares. The firm has boosted its investment in Bitdeer during a wider market sell-off, with purchases in early to mid-April amounting to about $32 million, regulatory filings reveal.
- US Bitcoin miner manufacturer Auradine has raised $153 million in a Series C funding round as it expands into AI infrastructure. The round was led by StepStone Group and included participation from Maverick Silicon, Premji Invest, Samsung Catalyst Fund, Qualcomm Ventures, Mayfield, MARA Holdings, GSBackers, and other existing investors. The firm raised to over $300 million since its inception in 2022.
- Voltage has partnered with BitGo to [enable](https://www.voltage.cloud/blog/bitgo-and-voltage-team-up-to-deliver-instant-bitcoin-and-stabl
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2025-06-13 22:02:09The new communication protocol aims to improve the industry with measurable advantages in terms of efficiency and security.
A new study conducted by Hashlabs, in collaboration with the SRI (Stratum V2 Reference Implementation) team and figures like Matt Corallo, Alejandro De La Torre and others reveals how the Stratum V2 protocol can increase miner profitability compared to the current Stratum V1 standard, used for over a decade.
Speaking to Atlas21, Gabriele Vernetti, Stratum V2 maintainer, declared:
âThis first case study demonstrates how much Stratum V2 can help miners as well, securing and increasing their profits, in addition to the rest of the network. Itâs just a first study aimed at demonstrating how decentralization can be aligned with the profit dynamics typical of the mining sector.
In the future we will also focus on the benefits for mining pool operators, who can benefit from the protocolâs efficiency to lower their operating costs (such as those for bandwidth used by their servers).
The feedback has been very positive: this first study was a joint work with various market players, including miners and mining pool operators. As SRI we want to continue working together with the entire community as done in this case, becoming a reference point for all actors interested in innovating the Bitcoin mining fieldâ.
The research, based on controlled tests with two identical ASIC S19k Pro, with stock firmware, demonstrates that Stratum V2 can increase net profits by up to 7.4%. For an industry that often operates with 10% margins, this could represent a substantial competitive advantage.
The V2 protocol reduces various inefficiencies that plague the current system. The latency in block switching, that is the waiting time created when a miner must change block template after a new block has been mined on the network, goes from 325 milliseconds to just 1.42 milliseconds, a speed 228 times higher. This translates to about 4.9 hours of completely wasted hash power less per year.
Another problem of modern mining concerns âstale sharesâ â proofs of work that arrive too late to be remunerated, often due to network latency or inefficient communication. However, not all stale shares depend on inefficiency problems. On average, about 2% are rejected for expected reasons, such as when the share doesnât reach the minimum difficulty required by the pool. This value is considered normal in the sector. The remaining 98%, instead, is caused by avoidable delays. With Stratum V1, miners lose between 0.1% and 0.2% of their computing power this way. Stratum V2 with Job Declaration completely eliminates this waste, provided that the miner and the pool node have the same level of connectivity. This step could translate into a net profit increase of up to 2% by fully adopting Stratum V2 with Job Declaration.
In the Stratum V2 protocol, the Job Declaration Client (JDC) is software that allows miners to receive mining jobs directly from their local Bitcoin node, that is the block templates to work on. The JDC communicates directly with the minerâs local node, receiving updated data for new block construction and immediately sending them to the mining software via Stratum V2. This allows miners to receive jobs in real time from their own node, without having to wait for them from the pool, reducing latency and the risk of working on obsolete jobs. Furthermore, if the pool allows it, miners can build custom templates choosing which transactions to include in the block.
The research also highlights an often overlooked aspect: the loss of transaction fees. With the Stratum V1 protocol, miners lose about 0.75% of potential fees for each block due to the delay in receiving new jobs. Considering that about 52,560 blocks are mined each year, this loss per block adds up to a total of about 74 bitcoins per year, equivalent to over $8 million at current prices.
Beyond economic advantages, Stratum V2 solves a critical vulnerability of the current system: hashrate hijacking. The V1 protocol doesnât encrypt communications, allowing attackers to intercept and steal up to 2% of computing power without the miner noticing. The new protocol eliminates this risk through end-to-end encryption and authentication.
According to the study, by reducing latency, optimizing share sending and improving security, Stratum V2 enables a potential net profit increase of 7.4%, derived exclusively from technical improvements.
The post Stratum V2 increases profits by 7.4%: âThe study shows that profit and decentralization can coexistâ, says Vernetti, SV2 maintainer appeared first on Atlas21.
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2025-06-12 18:58:48How To Mine Your Own Vanity Nostr Key
note. This article works best on https://habla.news/u/marc@primal.net/how-to-mine-a-nostr-vanity-key-with-rana
Rana is a vanity npub generator.
I'll show you how to use it on Ubuntu.
If you're not Linux ninja and use Windows instead of Linux ninja weapons, you can still use Linux with Virtualbox, free ans open source virtualization software. Head over to
https://www.virtualbox.org/ to learn more. They also have an enterprise business if you need that sort of thing, you can learn more at https://shop.oracle.com/
Rana is a nostr vanity key mining program. The source code can be found here.
Rana Is On GitHub
https://github.com/grunch/rana
Since rana already has pretty good docs, I decided to make a video instead of write about this because It's easier to see rana in action than it is to write about Rana. I went off on some tangents, so I might edit this down later, but I hope it helps you mine your own nostr key.
nevent1qqsfk7a000m8zc3ptsuu4vytepqc9eedceclpt2ns9pzlech5cpaflceng5al
Show Notes
https://github.com/grunch/rana
https://virtualbox.org/
https://doc.rust-lang.org/cargo/getting-started/installation.html
cargo run --release -- --vanity-n-prefix=juxtap0se
âźïž
nostr:npub1marc26z8nh3xkj5rcx7ufkatvx6ueqhp5vfw9v5teq26z254renshtf3g0
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2025-06-13 22:01:28Bitcoin Magazine
Franceâs The Blockchain Group Secures âŹ9.7 Million More For Its Bitcoin Treasury StrategyToday, The Blockchain Group (ALTBG), listed on Euronext Growth Paris and recognized as Europeâs first Bitcoin Treasury Company, announced it has raised around âŹ9.7 million through a mix of equity and convertible bond issuances. This move is part of their continued push to build out their Bitcoin Treasury Company strategy.
The Blockchain Group announces an equity and convertible bond issuance for a total amount of ~âŹ9.7M to pursue its Bitcoin Treasury Company strategy
Full Press Release (EN): https://t.co/jjGOBswJsd
Full Press Release (FR): https://t.co/0Jwuv2sP7W
BTC Strategy (EN):⊠pic.twitter.com/mUVLHJduX5
â The Blockchain Group (@_ALTBG) June 12, 2025
The funding comes from multiple sources and was carried out through their wholly-owned Luxembourg subsidiary, âThe Blockchain Group Luxembourg SA.â A major portion, about âŹ6 million, was raised through a convertible bond issuance to TOBAM, with bonds priced at âŹ6.24 per share. That price reflects a 30 percent premium over ALTBGâs closing price on June 9, 2025.
Ludovic Chechin-Laurans also came in with around âŹ2.4 million, subscribing in BTC at a conversion price of about âŹ0.7072 per share. This was part of a deal originally set up back in March 2025. If the stock price climbs 30 percent above that level, to around âŹ0.919 over 20 consecutive trading days, heâll have the option to convert into up to 3.4 million new ALTBG shares.
Adam Back also finalized his conversion of all OCA Tranche 1 bonds into 14.9 million ALTBG shares and subscribed to an additional 2.1 million shares for âŹ1.16 million at âŹ0.544 per share.Â
âThe Company recalls that Adam Back notified The Blockchain Group of his intention to convert all OCA Tranche 1 he holds, in accordance with the terms of the OCA Issuance Agreement entered into on March 4, 2025, the details of which were disclosed in a press release dated March 6, 2025, and which the Company now confirms has been definitively completed,â stated the press release.
TOBAM did the same, converting 1 million Tranche 1 bonds into 1.84 million shares and subscribing to 262,605 new shares for âŹ0.14 million.
âGiven the recent high volatility in the Companyâs share price observed since the signing of the OCA Issuance Agreement, the conversion price of âŹ0.544 reflects a discount of 89.52% compared to the closing price on June 12, 2025,â the press release added.
âThese operations could allow for the potential acquisition of ~80 BTC, bringing the Companyâs total potential holdings to ~1,611 BTC, including the proceeds from the potential completion of remaining operations announced in the press release dated May 26, 2025,â said the press release.
This post Franceâs The Blockchain Group Secures âŹ9.7 Million More For Its Bitcoin Treasury Strategy first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Oscar Zarraga Perez.
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2025-06-13 21:29:28SPEC.md - Swift Calculator Architecture
1. Overview
The Swift Calculator is a lightweight, user-friendly calculator application built for iOS using Swift. It supports basic arithmetic operations, a clear/reset function, and a responsive UI.
2. Architecture
The application follows the Model-View-ViewModel (MVVM) pattern to separate concerns and improve maintainability.
2.1 Components
- Model (
CalculatorModel.swift
): - Handles the core logic for arithmetic operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication, division).
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Manages the current state (e.g., display value, pending operations).
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ViewModel (
CalculatorViewModel.swift
): - Acts as the intermediary between the Model and View.
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Processes user inputs (e.g., button taps) and updates the Model and View accordingly.
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View (
CalculatorView.swift
): - Responsible for the UI layout (buttons, display label).
- Observes the ViewModel for changes and updates the UI.
2.2 Key Features
- Basic Operations: Supports
+
,-
,*
,/
. - Clear/Reset: A
C
button to reset the calculator state. - Error Handling: Displays "Error" for invalid operations (e.g., division by zero).
- Responsive UI: Adapts to different screen sizes and orientations.
2.3 Data Flow
- User interacts with the View (e.g., taps a button).
- View sends the input to the ViewModel.
- ViewModel processes the input and updates the Model.
- Model updates its state and notifies the ViewModel.
- ViewModel updates the View with the new state.
3. Technical Stack
- Language: Swift 5
- Framework: SwiftUI (for declarative UI) or UIKit (if preferred)
- Dependency Management: Swift Package Manager (SPM)
4. Future Enhancements
- Support for scientific operations (e.g., square root, exponents).
- Dark mode support.
- Memory functions (M+, M-, MR).
- Model (
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2025-06-12 17:03:41So currently I am testing this obsidian plug in so I can start creating articles on NOSTR. I will definitely try to test this to the max and I will also start making a blog for my journey through Bitcoin mining.
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2025-06-13 07:02:19Jason Loweryâs thesis, Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin, reframes bitcoin not merely as digital cash but as a transformative security technology with profound implications for investors and nation-states alike.
For centuries, craft brewers understood that true innovation balanced tradition with experimentationâa delicate dance between established techniques and bold new flavors.
Much like the craft beer revolution reshaped a global industry, bitcoin represents a fundamental recalibration of how humans organize value and project power in the digital age.
The Antler in the Digital Forest: Power Projection
Lowery, a U.S. Space Force officer and MIT scholar, anchors his Softwar theory in a biological metaphor: Bitcoin as humanityâs âdigital antler.â In nature, antlers allow animals like deer to compete for resources through non-lethal contestsâsparring matches where power is demonstrated without fatal consequences. This contrasts sharply with wolves, who must resort to violent, potentially deadly fights to establish hierarchy.
The Human Power Dilemma: Historically, humans projected power and settled resource disputes through physical forceâwars, seizures, or coercive control of assets. Even modern financial systems rely on abstract power structures: court orders, bank freezes, or government sanctions enforced by legal threat rather than immediate physical reality.
Lowery argues this creates inherent fragility: abstract systems can collapse when met with superior physical force (e.g., invasions, revolutions). Nature only respects physical power.
Bitcoinâs Physical Power Engine: Bitcoin introduces a novel solution through its proof-of-work consensus mechanism. Miners compete to solve computationally intense cryptographic puzzles, expending real-world energy (megawatts) to validate transactions and secure the network.
This process converts electricityâa tangible, physical resourceâinto digital security and immutable property rights. Winning a âblockâ is like winning a sparring match: it consumes significant resources (energy/cost) but is non-destructive.
The miner gains the right to write the next page of the ledger and collect rewards, but no participant is physically harmed, and no external infrastructure is destroyed.
Table: Traditional vs. Bitcoin-Based Power Systems
Power System
Mechanism
Key Vulnerability
Resource Cost
Traditional (Fiat/Banking)
Legal abstraction, threat of state force
Centralized points of failure, corruption, political change
Low immediate cost, high systemic risk
Military/Economic Coercion
Physical force, sanctions
Escalation, collateral damage, moral hazard
Very high (lives, capital, instability)
Bitcoin (Proof-of-Work)
Competition via energy expenditure
High energy cost, concentration risk (mining)
High energy cost, low systemic risk
Softwar Theory National Strategic Imperative: Governments Are Taking Notice
Loweryâs Softwar Theory has moved beyond academia into the corridors of power, shaping U.S. national strategy:
- The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: Vice President JD Vance recently framed bitcoin as an instrument projecting American valuesââinnovation, entrepreneurship, freedom, and lack of censorshipâ. State legislation is now underway to implement this reserve, preventing easy reversal by future administrations.
- Regulatory Transformation:Â The SEC is shifting from an âenforcement-firstâ stance under previous leadership. New initiatives include:
- Repealing Staff Accounting Bulletin 121 (SAB 121), which discouraged banks from custodying digital currency by forcing unfavorable balance sheet treatment.
- Creating the Cyber and Emerging Technologies Unit (CETU) to develop clearer crypto registration/disclosure rules.
The Investorâs Lens: Scarcity, Security, and Asymmetric Opportunity
For investors, understanding âSoftwarâ validates bitcoinâs unique value proposition beyond price speculation:
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Digital Scarcity as Strategic Depth: Bitcoinâs fixed supply of 21 million makes it the only digital asset with truly inelastic supply, a programmed scarcity immune to political whims or central bank printing.
This âscarcity imperativeâ acts as a natural antidote to global fiat debasement. As central banks expanded money supplies aggressively (Global M2), bitcoinâs price has shown strong correlation, acting as a pressure valve for inflation concerns. The quadrennial âhalvingâ (latest: April 2024) mechanically reduces new supply, creating built-in supply shocks as adoption grows. * The Antifragile Security Feedback Loop: Bitcoinâs security isnât static; itâs antifragile. The network strengthens through demand: * More users â More transactions â Higher fees â More miner revenue â More hashpower (computational security) â Greater network resilience â More user confidence.
This self-reinforcing cycle contrasts sharply with traditional systems, where security is a cost center (e.g., bank security budgets, military spending). Bitcoin turns security into a profitable, market-driven activity. * Institutionalization Without Centralization: While institutional ownership via ETFs (like BlackRockâs IBIT) and corporate treasuries (MicroStrategy, Metaplanet) has surged, supply remains highly decentralized.Individuals still hold the largest share of bitcoin, preventing a dangerous concentration of control. Spot Bitcoin ETFs alone are projected to see over $20 billion in net inflows in 2025, demonstrating robust institutional capital allocation.
The Bitcoin Community: Building the Digital Antlerâs Resilience
Loweryâs âSoftwarâ theory underscores why bitcoinâs decentralized architecture is non-negotiable. Its strength lies in the alignment of incentives across three participant groups:
- Miners:Â Provide computational power (hashrate), validating transactions and securing the network. Incentivized by block rewards (newly minted BTC) and transaction fees. Their physical energy expenditure is the âmuscleâ behind the digital antler.
- Nodes: Independently verify and enforce the protocol rules, maintaining the blockchainâs integrity. Run by users, businesses, and enthusiasts globally. They ensure decentralized consensus, preventing unilateral protocol changes.
- Users:Â Individuals, institutions, and corporations holding, transacting, or building on bitcoin. Their demand drives transaction fees and fuels the security feedback loop.
This structure creates âMutually Assured Preservationâ. Attacking bitcoin requires overwhelming its global, distributed physical infrastructure (miners/nodes), a feat far more complex and costly than seizing a central bankâs gold vault or freezing a bankâs assets. It transforms financial security from a centralized liability into a decentralized, physically-grounded asset.
Risks & Responsibilities
Investors and policymakers must acknowledge persistent challenges:
- Volatility: Bitcoin remains volatile, though this has decreased as markets mature. Dollar-cost averaging (DCA) is widely recommended to mitigate timing risk.
- Regulatory Uncertainty:Â While U.S. policy is increasingly favorable, global coordination is lacking. The EUâs MiCAR regulation exemplifies divergent approaches.
- Security & Custody:Â While Bitcoinâs protocol is robust, user errors (lost keys) or exchange hacks remain risks.
- Environmental Debate:Â Proof-of-Work energy use is scrutinized, though mining increasingly uses stranded energy/renewables. Innovations continue.
Jason Loweryâs âSoftwarâ theory elevates bitcoin from a financial instrument to a socio-technological innovation on par with the invention of the corporation, the rule of law, or even the antler in evolutionary biology. It provides a coherent framework for understanding why:
- Nations like the U.S. are looking to establish bitcoin reserves and embracing stablecoinsâthey recognize bitcoinâs role in projecting economic power non-violently in the digital age.
- Institutional Investors are allocating billions via ETFsâthey see a scarce, secure, uncorrelated asset with antifragile properties.
- Individuals in hyperinflationary economies or under authoritarian regimes use bitcoinâit offers self-sovereign wealth storage immune to seizure or debasement.
For the investor, bitcoin represents more than potential price appreciation. It offers exposure to a fundamental reorganization of how power and value are secured and exchanged globally, grounded not in abstract promises, but in the unyielding laws of physics and mathematics.
Like the brewers who balanced tradition with innovation to create something enduring and valuable, bitcoin pioneers are building the infrastructure for a more resilient digital futureâone computationally secured block at a time. The âSoftwarâ is here, and it is reshaping the landscape of p
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2025-06-12 16:32:09Changes
Daniel DâAquino (1):
- nostrdb: Fix heap buffer overflow
William Casarin (17):
- win: fix build on windows
- ndb: add note-relays command
- note: always write relay index
- relay-index: fix a few bugs
- debug: add a print for debugging rust integration
- relay: fix race condition bug
- relay: fix potential relay index corruption
- Relay queries
- query: implement author_kind query plan
- fix build on macos
- query: implement profile search query plans
- filter: add initial custom filtering logic
- test: fix custom filter test
- ndb: add --id queries
- eq: fix fallthrough bug
- change <=10 author search queries to ==1
- cleanup previous patch
pushed to nostrdb:refs/heads/master
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-13 04:02:39People forget Bear Stearns failed March 2008 - months of denial followed before the public realized how bad the situation was under the surface.
Similar happening now but much larger scale. They did not fix fundamental issues after 2008 - everything is more fragile.
The Fed preemptively bailed out every bank with their BTFP program and First Republic Bank still failed. The second largest bank failure in history.
There will be more failures. There will be more bailouts. Depositors will be "protected" by socializing losses across everyone.
Our President and mainstream financial pundits are currently pretending the banking crisis is over while most banks remain insolvent. There are going to be many more bank failures as this ponzi system unravels.
Unlike 2008, we have the ability to opt out of these broken and corrupt institutions by using bitcoin. Bitcoin held in self custody is unique in its lack of counterparty risk - you do not have to trust a bank or other centralized entity to hold it for you. Bitcoin is also incredibly difficult to change by design since it is not controlled by an individual, company, or government - the supply of dollars will inevitably be inflated to bailout these failing banks but bitcoin supply will remain unchanged. I do not need to convince you that bitcoin provides value - these next few years will convince millions.
If you found this post helpful support my work with bitcoin.
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@ 5d4b6c8d:8a1c1ee3
2025-06-13 01:39:33I'm solo parenting for a couple of days, so I got lots of activity and not a lot of sleep. I stuck to my fasting window, but didn't stick to OMAD, and mostly ate healthy stuff.
How'd you do on your ~HealthAndFitness goals stackers?
https://stacker.news/items/1005114
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2025-06-13 21:02:56Japanese investment firm Metaplanet has announced a massive $5.4 billion plan to increase its bitcoin holdings to 210,000 BTC by the end of 2027 â thatâs about 1% of the total bitcoin supply.
Metaplanet on X
The Tokyo-listed company is accelerating its already aggressive bitcoin plan, with CEO Simon Gerovich calling the initiative âAsiaâs largest-ever equity raise to buy Bitcoin â again!â
The companyâs new capital raise, called the â555 Million Planâ, involves issuing 555 million shares through moving strike warrants. Thatâs basically a type of option where people can buy shares later, and the price they pay depends on the stockâs price at that time.
So with moving strike warrants, the price at which people can buy the stock goes up or down depending on how the companyâs stock is doing. It gives investors more flexibility â and it can make the warrants more attractive â because they donât get stuck with a bad deal if the stock price drops.
This way the company can raise capital gradually over the next 2 years without impacting the stock market and existing shareholders.
The funds raised will be used to buy bitcoin, with some to redeem bonds and other income-generating strategies like selling put options.
This is a big step up from Metaplanetâs previous targets. Initially aiming to reach 10,000 BTC by the end of 2025, the company now plans to reach:
- 30,000 BTC by end of 2025
- 100,000 BTC by end of 2026
- 210,000 BTC by end of 2027
The Japanese investment firm hopes to be in the âBitcoin 1% clubâ which means holding at least 1% of the total 21 million bitcoin supply.
Metaplanet bitcoin targets
Metaplanet is already making good progress. As of June 2025, the company holds 8,888 BTC, acquired at a cost of about „122.2 billion (around $849 million) and has already reached 89% of its original 10,000 BTC target for 2025.
This comes after the success of the companyâs previous â210 Million Planâ which raised „93.3 billion ($650 million) in 60 trading days by issuing 210 million shares.
During that time, the companyâs bitcoin holdings grew from 1,762 BTC to 7,800 BTC and the BTC Yield (a key performance metric showing growth in bitcoin per share) increased by 189%.
Year to date the BTC Yield is 225.4%.
Metaplanetâs BTC Yield graph
The stock has reflected this momentum, up 275% since early 2025 and 1,619% over the past year.
Metaplanetâs stock price chart â TradingView
Metaplanet is now one of the most actively traded stocks in Japan and has become a top-ten corporate bitcoin holder globally, recently surpassing Block Inc., the company founded by Jack Dorsey.
Metaplanet sees this as part of a bigger shift in capital markets.
By being a âbitcoin treasury vehicleâ listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, it aims to offer investors exposure to bitcoin through regulated equity markets. This is especially useful in Japan where retail investors are often restricted from accessing bitcoin directly.
âBitcoin is repricing the global cost of capital,â the company said in a statement. âThrough our 555 Million Plan, Metaplanet is doubling down on a high-conviction, equity-driven capital markets strategy to accelerate our Bitcoin accumulation trajectory.â
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2025-06-13 00:47:36I know more of the talk is around the Bucks and Giannis, but the Knicks have actually made a huge move already, plus we have some Knicks fans in our midst.
Despite having their best season of the 21st century, the Knicks fired their highly respected coach for not making it to the NBA Finals (which no one expected them to do).
Is this just standard Knicks malpractice? If so, what further malpractice might they commit?
Or, is it part of a legit plan (as unlikely as that seems)? And, if so, what else is in that plan?
The obvious starting place is KAT. I thought KAT had a great season, but he definitely did some dumb KAT stuff in the playoffs. Will the Knicks trade KAT (and whatever else) to land either KD or Giannis? Should they?
If they trade for Giannis, does he play center? If not, they also need a stretch-5, because Giannis can't play next to a traditional big.
KD would be a little cleaner, plus the Suns need a center and supposedly Booker and KAT are buds. KD could slot in at the 4 and give them a starting 5 of - Robinson - KD - OG - Bridges - Brunson
With Hart coming off the bench, that's an awesome 6-man rotation. It's basically what they had, but with KD in place of KAT.
Is KD enough better than KAT for this to be a title team?
What else might be going on with the Knicks?
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2025-06-13 21:02:32Flash, the all-in-one Bitcoin payment platform, just launched Flash Invoicing. The first invoicing tool for Bitcoin that is completely free, non-custodial, KYC-free, and fully integrated into a professional-grade business suite.
Freelancers, contractors and independent workers can now send professional Bitcoin invoices with 0% platform fees, no identity verification, and no third-party custody â a first in the Bitcoin ecosystem.
According to Deel, crypto payments to freelancers grew 10x in 2023, with Bitcoin remaining the most-used currency. But despite this surge, the tools available for invoicing remain outdated.
Most freelancers still paste Bitcoin addresses into PDF footers or emails, hoping their client sends the right amount. Others use custodial platforms that charge high fees and require full identity verification.
âWeâve seen too many people paste BTC addresses into documents and call it invoicing,â said Pierre Corbin, CEO of Flash.
âItâs messy, reduces privacy and very inconvenient both for payee and payer.â, he explains.
Most Bitcoin invoicing tools charge a percentage per transaction â or lock users into subscription plans. That means freelancers lose a portion of every invoice just for the privilege of getting paid.
The other option is host open-source invoicing tools or use a google sheet template. While the former requires a hardware investment, the latter lacks functionality. Flash Invoicing is aiming to provide a better solution to address the invoicing needs for modern businesses and freelancers.
âFreelancers work hard enough. The last thing they need is a platform skimming off their earnings,â said Pierre.
âThatâs why we dropped our fee from 1.5% to 0% â and launched the first invoicing tool thatâs truly free, without compromising on privacy or control.â
âAs a freelancer myself, I love using the Flash invoicing feature. It keeps all my clients in one place, allows me to easily edit invoices and track payments. Much more professional than sending a lightning address in the footer of a PDF invoice.â â Ada, freelancer & Flash user
Whether youâre a solo designer in Nairobi, a Web3 developer in Buenos Aires, or a consultant billing startups in Berlin, Flash Invoicing gives you a way to accept Bitcoin â without giving up control, privacy, or revenue.
And because itâs fully integrated with the broader Flash suite, freelancers can easily scale from invoicing to setting up stores, receiving donations, or gating premium content.
About Flash
Flash is the only non-custodial, KYC-free Bitcoin payment platform built for freelancers, creators, and businesses. With tools for invoicing, donations, stores, and POS, Flash gives users full control over how they earn and operate in Bitcoin â with no fees and no middlemen.
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2025-06-12 16:16:11Marty Bent Vibe coded the opportunity cost app. I have not tried it yet, but love the concept. I have been into bitcoin since 2014, but I spent more generational wealth than I would care to admit back then. I've heard stories of fortunes blown on cocaine in the 1980's. I could write a story about spending a fortune on Diet Mt. Dew. I don't drink Diet Mt. Dew anymore. This one time, I spent about a million sats for a light beer at a baseball game. I wouldn't say I had a drinking problem, a million sats was only five bucks at the time. I didn't know that much bitcoin would be worth over a thousand bucks eleven years later.
I don't drink beer anymore. Bitcoin tends to do that to you.
We can afford chairs now. To be honest, we need a couch. The last couch I bought was in 2017 and it cost about a whole bitcoin. That couch is buried in a landfill today. My wife loves furniture, but even she's hesitant to spend sats on a couch now. We know we need a couch, but we don't want to spend sats on something we will need to replace before the next halving.
Many of us who have been in bitcoin for more than a decade have some regrets. I know I do, but we need to live our lives. I would never say you should sit on the floor, but I encourage to you to think about time. How long will this thing I need to buy last? If you think you can give a 3 million sat couch to your grandchildren, spend three million sats on the couch. If your five year plan for the couch is to help fill a landfill, maybe you only need to buy a used couch at a thrift store. This is not investment advice of course. How can it be? I don't know what kind of couch hazards you have in your house. I have trouble finding a couch of my own, but it's how I think about making bigger purchases. How many years of your retirement will that watch, car, house or whatever cost you from your stack? You can only determine that for yourself. I think the opportunity cost app will help you keep track of your decision.
This app was made by someone who once spent a whole bitcoin on a heater. I can't speak for Marty, but I believe the opportunity cost app will help you learn from my mistakes.
For more information, check out:
https://www.opportunitycost.app/
Check out the code on GitHub.
Using The Opportunity Cost App
The app is pretty straight forward. It is only available on Chrome for now so I installed it on the Chromium browser. I looked at the settings, but kept them default.
Then I searched for a Rolex in Duck Duck Go.
The default is bitcoin, but there is a sat calculator in the corner too, I have always wanted a Rolex Milgauss with a green sapphire so I looked it up on eBay. It's about 8 million sats. That's too rich for my blood, but I might be willing to part with a million sats for that watch. I'll definitely pick it up for 500,000 sats. I can wait. Bitcoin is the best clock in the world. I wouldn't go so far as to call this Rolex a shitcoin, but bitcoin is a better clock than any watch in my opinion--Even when compared to my favorite watch.
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2025-06-12 15:41:24Good morning, readers!
This week, we begin in Kenya, where police detained Rose Njeri, a software developer and mother of two, for building a website that enables Kenyans to flag causes and email parliament concerning an unpopular tax bill that threatens to raise the cost of living in an already inflation-sticky economy. Due to the holiday court calendar, Njeri remains behind bars awaiting criminal prosecution for what officials claim interfered with government systems, but was really a peaceful resistance to unfavorable economic policy.\ \ To a similar tune, in Venezuela, law enforcement stormed the home of Guillermo Goncalves, co-founder of El Dorado, a peer-to-peer trading app used by Venezuelans to exchange rapidly depreciating bolivares for stablecoins (digital tokens pegged to fiat currency like the US dollar). The El Dorado app filled a gap in Venezuelaâs collapsing economy: offering a market-based exchange rate for bolivars and access to more stable currencies.\ \ In freedom tech news, Breez, a company building on the Lightning Network, added support for BOLT 12 and BIP 353 to its Nodeless Software Development Kit (SDK). This will enable wallets powered by the Breez Nodeless SDK to implement these features. BIP 353 makes it easier for activists and NGOs with an Internet domain to receive Bitcoin donations. And BOLT 12 brings greater privacy and efficiency to Bitcoinâs Lightning Network.\ \ We end with an interview with Hong Kong dissident Nathan Law, who turned to Bitcoin to stay active in his push for freedom and democracy in the wake of Chinaâs authoritarian crackdown.
Now, letâs take a closer look.
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GLOBAL NEWS
Kenya | Criminal Prosecution of Software Developer
In Nairobi, Kenya, law enforcement raided the home of software developer Rose Njeri and took her into custody. Her alleged crime: building a platform that lets Kenyans review and email their elected representatives concerning an unpopular tax bill threatening to raise their cost of living. On May 30, 15 officers stormed her home without a warrant, seized her devices, and detained her incommunicado for more than 88 hours. Officials claim her web tool, which auto-generated feedback emails to Kenyan parliament, illegally interfered with government systems. Outside the police station, many Kenyans gathered in protest, demanding her immediate release. Last year, a similar finance bill triggered mass demonstrations and a brutal crackdown that left dozens dead. Njeriâs arrest shows the growing risks civic technologists face and depicts the growing trend of using state power to suppress peaceful pushback to unfavorable economic policy.
Venezuela | National Police Raid Home of El Dorado Founder
Venezuelaâs National Police stormed the home of Guillermo Goncalves, co-founder of El Dorado, a peer-to-peer trading app used by Venezuelans to exchange rapidly depreciating bolivares for stablecoins like Tether (USDT) and Circle (USDC). The platform filled a critical gap: offering market-based pricing for bolivares and access to more stable currency. Nonetheless, the regime accuses Goncalves of fueling currency speculation, pointing to past comments where Goncalves highlighted the disconnect between the âofficialâ exchange rate of the bolivar, as set by the Central Bank of Venezuela, and the parallel market rate. The arrests of those publishing truthful economic data and providing alternatives to 162% inflation under the guise of âstabilityâ are hallmarks of a dictatorship that destroyed its currency and is now hunting down those trying to survive outside its system.
Tanzania | Blocks Access to X and Telegram Amid Financial, Political, and Media Repression
Tanzania restricted access to X and Telegram across major Internet providers following a hack of the Tanzanian police forceâs official account. The platforms remain offline more than three weeks later in the lead-up to Octoberâs presidential and parliamentary elections. The timing of the shutdown also coincides with the kidnapping of Ugandan journalist, lawyer, and Oslo Freedom Forum speaker Agather Atuhaire, who says she was tortured and sexually assaulted while in Tanzanian custody before being left at the border between Tanzania and Uganda. Recently, the government also banned the use of foreign currency in daily transactions, forcing citizens to rely on the weakening Tanzanian shilling. And in April, the opposition CHADEMA party was disqualified from participating in the October elections under the pretense of treason against party leader Tundu Lissu. The censorship of online platforms, suppression of opposition and dissidents, and laws banning foreign currency all signal a coordinated strategy to silence criticism and strip Tanzanians of both their political voice and financial autonomy.
Russia | Proposes Relocating Bitcoin Miners
Russiaâs energy ministry is considering relocating Bitcoin miners to northern regions, where old energy infrastructure sits idle and the state can keep a closer eye. The plan comes months after the Kremlin banned mining across ten southern regions (including Dagestan and Chechnya), citing fears over energy shortages. But the ban has chiefly targeted individual and small-scale miners, not state-aligned corporations. Many independent miners, especially in poorer regions, used Bitcoin to escape financial isolation. Now, theyâre being squeezed out in favor of top-down regulations. As the Kremlin tightens its grip on domestic energy and economic activity, itâs clear that the regime sees Bitcoin not as a tool for freedom but as something to be contained, regulated, and surveilled.
Israel | Freezes Bank Account of NGO Providing Aid in Palestine
Physicians for Human Rights Israel, a nonprofit providing medical aid in the West Bank and Gaza, has revealed that its bank accounts were frozen at the beginning of the year. The nonprofit, which previously ran regular medical missions in Palestine, says it was first blocked from making transactions, then warned by its bank, and finally notified in January that its account would be closed. These banking restrictions are not isolated. According to Lee Caspie, the deputy director of physicians for Human Rights Israel, other Israeli nonprofits providing aid to Palestinians receive similar financial treatment. Caspie shared that a new bill advancing would also impose an 80% tax on foreign grants to Israeli charities, with an exemption for those deemed acceptable by the government. These measures threaten to worsen a humanitarian crisis by leaving civil society organizations providing crucial support and services in Palestine financially cut off.
Hungary | Postpones Law That Would Ban Foreign-Funded Organizations
In a small win for civil society in Hungary, Viktor OrbĂĄnâs ruling Fidesz party postponed a vote on a sweeping bill that would grant the OrbĂĄn regime power to monitor, penalize, and potentially shut down any organization receiving foreign funds. Framed as protecting âsovereignty,â the proposal closely mirrors Russiaâs foreign agent law and has been widely condemned as a death blow to Hungaryâs independent institutions, media, and dissidents. While officials now say they need more time to âdebate the means,â critics warn the delay is a tactical move, not a change of heart. The bill casts an intentionally wide net, branding foreign-backed efforts to defend press freedom and LGBTQ+ rights as threats to national identity and political discourse. âIts aim is to silence all critical voices and eliminate what remains of Hungarian democracy once and for all,â according to a joint statement signed by more than 300 civil society and media organizations.
BITCOIN AND FREEDOM TECH NEWS
Breez | Adds BOLT 12 and BIP 353 Support to Nodeless SDK
Breez, a company helping build out the Bitcoin Lightning economy, released support for BOLT 12 and BIP 353, enabling wallets using the Breez Nodeless SDK (such as Misty Breez and Klever) to implement these features. BOLT 12 is a critical update to the Lightning Network that brings increased privacy and greater censorship resistance to Bitcoin transactions for those facing financial repression. It also introduces reusable payment requests for recurring payments (such as tips and donations to human rights defenders). BIP 353 enables individuals and organizations with access to a domain the ability to create static, human-readable payment addresses (such as user@domain) for Bitcoin payments. With this integration, NGOs or activists with an internet domain and wallet using the Breez SDK can receive uncensorable donations through their domain in an accessible way. Implementing these new Bitcoin features will provide users with greater financial freedom and autonomy under authoritarian regimes.
BTCNutServer | Accept Ecash Payments with BTCPay Server
A new experimental plugin called BTCNutServer is attempting to bring ecash payments to BTCPay Server. The idea is to allow users to accept Cashu ecash tokens alongside Bitcoin using BTCPay Serverâs self-custodial and self-hosted infrastructure. Ecash specifically is a digital money system backed by Bitcoin and designed to offer instant, low-cost, and very private transactions. For activists and dissidents, ecash enables bitcoin payments without compromising financial privacy. But users must trust mints (entities that manage and issue ecash tokens) to custody their funds. Though still in early development, BTCNutServer could enable charities, nonprofits, and merchants in repressive countries to accept ecash through BTCPay Server and, in doing so, keep their financial activity hidden from state surveillance.
Private Pond | New Experimental Payjoin System
Private Pond is a new experimental project that builds upon the Payjoin protocol to improve both the privacy and efficiency of Bitcoin transactions. Payjoin works by mixing inputs of a bitcoin payment with inputs from the recipient, making it harder for outside observers to trace who paid whom. Private Pond takes this concept further: it is an application designed to optimize Bitcoin transaction rails (such as a platformâs deposits and withdrawals). It uses transaction batching to bundle many deposits and withdrawals into a single transaction, using incoming deposits to fund outgoing withdrawals. While itâs not production-ready, if Private Pond were implemented in other applications, it could lower fees, create stronger privacy, and expose fewer funds. Innovations like this help strengthen Bitcoinâs original purpose: a financial network that resists censorship and surveillance while staying efficient and scalable.
Chorus.Community | New Social App for Activists
Chorus.Community is a new social app introduced at the 2025 Oslo Freedom Forum that is designed for people who operate under surveillance or censorship. Developed on permissionless technologies like Bitcoin and Nostr, Chorus allows users to share updates, send voice notes, organize groups, and raise funds, all without needing an email, phone number, or approval from any central authority. Unlike traditional platforms, Chorus cannot easily be blocked or shut down. Future updates will include encrypted messaging and group features, further enhancing security. For activists, journalists, and organizers working in closed societies, Chorus offers a new way to stay connected, coordinate, and support one another. Human rights defenders can try it here.
Bitcoin Policy Institute | Upcoming Bitcoin Policy Summit
The Bitcoin Policy Institute will be hosting its third annual Bitcoin Policy Summit from June 25-26 in Washington, DC, bringing together lawmakers, academics, and advocates to help shape and understand the future of Bitcoin policy in the US. A highlight of the event will be HRFâs chief strategy officer, Alex Gladsteinâs keynote, âBitcoin is the Most Powerful Human Rights Tool of the 21st Century,â which will explain Bitcoinâs growing role in resisting authoritarianism and protecting civil liberties worldwide. Learn more about the event here.
HRF | Gifts 800 Million Satoshis to 22 Freedom Projects Worldwide
HRF gifted 800 million satoshis in its Q2 2025 round of Bitcoin Development Fund (BDF) grants, supporting 22 open-source freedom projects worldwide. These projects advance Bitcoin education, open-source software, mining decentralization, and privacy tools for activists contending with authoritarian regimes and dictatorships across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. Supporting censorship-resistant financial tools and permissionless technologies like Bitcoin, Nostr, ecash, Tor, VPNs, and more empowers dissidents, journalists, and civil society to organize, transact, communicate, and speak without state suppression, interference, or manipulation. Learn more about the grantees and their work here. This round of grants also marks the 5-year anniversary of the Bitcoin Development Fund! Watch our anniversary announcement video to celebrate this milestone with us.
OpenSats | Announces 11th Wave of Bitcoin Grants
OpenSats, a public nonprofit funding free and open-source software, announced its 11th wave of grants advancing the Bitcoin protocol as a tool for financial freedom. Among the projects, Mostro and Payjoin stand out for their importance to dissidents and anyone seeking greater financial sovereignty. Mostro is a peer-to-peer Bitcoin exchange protocol built on nostr, allowing users to trade Bitcoin directly without relying on centralized intermediaries that can be surveilled, censored, or shut down. Meanwhile, Payjoin enhances Bitcoin transaction privacy by breaking common heuristics used to trace payments, making it harder for authoritarian surveillance tools to identify payees and the amount transacted. Together, these tools give people living under repressive regimes more private, resilient ways to save and transact.
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Nathan Law on Hong Kongâs Fight for Freedom, Bitcoin, and Lessons for the West with Ben Perrin
In this interview with Bitcoin educator Ben Perrin (BTC Sessions), exiled Hong Kong activist Nathan Law reveals how Bitcoin became a critical tool for resisting financial blacklisting under Chinaâs authoritarian crackdown. With a $140,000 bounty on his head and no access to traditional banking, Law turned to Bitcoin to stay active in his push for freedom and democracy. Watch the full conversation here.
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2025-06-13 21:02:28Bitcoin Magazine
Passport Prime: A New Security Device For a New GenerationPassport Prime, Foundation Devicesâ latest retail hardware wallet, is about to hit the market in Q3 of 2025. The device features a full-color touch screen the size of a credit card with a modern industrial aesthetic. It aims to be a developer platform for Bitcoin and crypto software with high security demands.
Besides serving the basic wallet needs of Bitcoin users, the device is designed as an open source platform for app developers to bring a new experience of crypto-native cybersecurity to the public. The Passport Prime is expected to ship with a powerful Bitcoin wallet app, as well as virtual YubiKeys, a 2FA app, a seed vault for imported or low-value crypto wallets, 50 GB of storage, NFC, and encrypted Bluetooth support, among other features.
Frustrated with the publicâs lackluster adoption of hardware wallets as the crypto industry enters the mainstream adoption phase, Foundation has been working since 2020 to bring security hardware devices to feature parity with mainstream consumer technology. However, the path is not simple.
The Adoption Problem of Hardware Wallets
Hardware wallets have been a critical security product for Bitcoin users since 2014 when Satoshi Labs created the Trezor. Before that, users had few options, and many of the funds lost in that era were due to user ignorance of how to manage and properly secure private keys in Bitcoin. Armory, funded by Trace Mayer in the early days, was one of the first solutions but it was highly technical and was best used with hardware the user had to modify themselves â like removing antennas from a laptop. This kind of technology became a security foundation for exchanges, who, through many hacks and hard lessons, slowly got better at securing user funds from organized crime and hackers while playing jurisdictional arbitrage to avoid hostile governments.
As the first hardware wallets started to enter the retail market, significant adoption was seen. With the massive growth of Bitcoin since its inception, the best security practices have failed to keep up with the ease of use provided by custodians while also failing to deliver security and feature parity to users in an interface they are familiar with.
In a keynote presentation on the Passport Prime landing page, Zach Herbert, CEO and co-founder of Foundation, explains their analysis of the market and why they believe only 2.5% of the market is using hardware wallets today, despite mainstream adoption of digital assets like Bitcoin â a concern felt across the industry that too many people are getting accustomed to custodial services.
The small screens, iconic to the hardware wallet ecosystem, are often a barrier for users. The shape of the device, often small and with few buttons, can make people nervous, especially when the wrong combination of clicks means an irreversible financial transaction.
In the case of touchscreen devices like the Trezor T, while certainly an improvement from the Trezor One, the buttons are still far smaller than what the public is used to for smartphones, the most prolific computer platform of this era.
The problem with trying to bring hardware wallets to feature parity with mobile phones is the massive complexity introduced by the corresponding software and hardware. Mobile phones, after all, are designed for mass manufacturing and with ease-of-use priorities in mind, rather than securing life-changing amounts of digital currency, which, once sent, cannot be reversed.
The hardware wallet industry has had to build out open source, verifiable, security-optimized hardware and software that addresses top security concerns, while also delivering a familiar and comfortable user experience to the public. In general, the industry recognizes the need for bigger screens and bigger buttons, as seen in new models by Ledger, for example, with their Ledger Stax, and, of course, Coldcard Qâs Blackberry-style hardware wallet.
When asked why not just try to build on top of a standard mobile phone platform, Owen Kemeys, hardware designer at Foundation Devices, told Bitcoin Magazine that âthereâs a huge advantage to Passport Prime being a separate security device,â adding that âwe need this stuff to work for the normal people. They are not going to be able to understand or have any interest in understanding what makes something safe or unsafe on their phone. Even if they were going so far as to have a dedicated phone for secret stuff or whatever. Everything that we develop, Apple and Google could bake into their phones and tell you itâs safe. But if itâs in a separate device that is built to do that one exact thing, then you know, OK, if it happens on the Passport Prime, itâs safe.â
The Passport Prime Feature Set
Foundation believes they have found an optimal and preferable middle ground between high security and a familiar user experience in a mobile phone-style device, but with very specific hardware and software inside. Kemeys explained that âthe Passport Prime runs its own operating system,â adding that âWeâre not running a fork of Android or something and then dressing it up differently. We wrote this from the ground up in Rust. Itâs called KeyOS. Itâs designed for this one purpose of running a smartphone-like experience, but with sandboxed apps.â
The wallet-related cryptography thatâs normal to todayâs Bitcoin and crypto wallets is also deeply integrated with the operating system. A master seed phrase is set up by the user; the seedâs corresponding master private and public keys are then used to derive secure, isolated keys for other apps on the Passport Prime. âAll apps are sandboxed and receive hardened child seeds, meaning that even if an app is malicious, it has no access to the master seed and cannot communicate with other apps,â Herbert explained in his presentation.
This design builds the foundations necessary for secure app development on top of the Passport Prime, unique among hardware wallet manufacturers. While Ledger has made some progress in that direction, Herbert says that the Ledger operating system is very restrictive with such apps â primarily out of security concerns â making it difficult for developers to contribute to the ecosystem. Foundation believes they have solved the problem, unlocking a new kind of security device that can be used for more than cold storage of Bitcoin and crypto assets. It is a security platform for everyday use in the digital era.
As is generally expected of high-security devices like a hardware wallet, the Passport Prime comes without most of the normal sensors or antennas found in mobile devices. No Wi-Fi, no GPS, and no SIM card, of course. However, NFC, an increasingly popular communications module in hardware wallets and in payments technology in general, is included. NFC has a very short signal range and depends on power from the device sending the signal, making it a fairly secure protocol and bringing Bitcoin closer to the tap-to-pay credit card experience the general public is used to.
âWe now have an NFC reader inside,â Kemeys explained, excited about the innovation space unlocked by NFC chips in Bitcoin. âAs part of your onboarding setup, in the box, weâre going to ship three NFC cards with the Prime. And as our default onboarding workflow, weâre going to encourage people to make a two-of-three Shamir setup, and back up the shares onto some of those cards.â
Shamir secret sharing is an old and well-known cryptographic algorithm similar to multisignature schemes in Bitcoin but entirely off-chain. It allows users to grab a master private key and split it into shares that can come together later to recreate and reco
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2025-06-13 00:23:35Most of my time on Nostr, relays served content simply based on what was requested. Clients mostly requested follow list based content, and often only if the user requested to 'read' from a particular relay. Very simple, though not ideal. Clients that attempted to offer some 'global' or 'universal' feed made it possible to discover some new things but also served spam, redundant bot posts, and even some malicious things that managed to make it through a relay's filters. Paid relays began to gain some ground, with better filters to reduce spam and malicious content, which has helped a lot to clean up these broader feeds that expand beyond the follow-based timeline. Many of the relays hosted redundant content, too, which is important but it's not the only thing that is. The system still left a lot to be desired, particularly for anyone who has understood the potential behind the client-relay set up. Other concerns, like relay centralization through user concentration, still needed to be discussed and addressed.
Despite the voicing of relay diversity advocates, this system seemed to provide most of what people were looking for to replace their typical social media experience. Still, though, reply spam attacks found their way through, as they do. Web-of-Trust relays began to pop up to help mitigate the problem. Using contact lists and extended contact lists as a method of reducing the prevalence of spam has worked really well, but does have it limitations as to how new users can enter into these social graphs, without already knowing someone who is using Nostr. Also not ideal, but it has been a step forward for Nostr's social media use case. Hosted relay services that offered more diverse policy for a relay to operate under finally began to take some hold for those that wanted more choice and control. Still though, potential had barely been breeched.
It might have been before the WoT relay movement, but of nowhere (not really but it kind of seemed like it), a cat relay appeared within the ecosystem. This silly, fun, cute, clever relay collected notes with the #catstr hashtag and used some fancy image analysis stuff (that I can't explain) to collect notes and images of nothing but cats. Such a simple thing, but that was a catalyst (đ„) moment for Nostr. A relay could do more than just collect notes from following lists?? A couple more iterations of the curated content relay model came to be, driving home the idea that this wasn't some silly pie-in-the-sky concept. It was an aha moment for some, sheer joy for the relay advocates, and a turning point for expanding Nostr beyond the basic social media replacement. Very few client options for simply browsing one relay existed at the time, and while it was novel to see, the rest of the framework to support it was not strong nor very easy to use. Even with this dilemma, the catstr relay set off what has become some of the most interesting and useful innovation that has happened within the Nostr ecosystem since I arrived.
Since then, I have spent a lot of my time on Nostr exploring some of what has been developed on the relay front, experimenting where I have found the opportunity and thinking a lot about where this all could lead. Innovation on both the relay and client sides of Nostr have been expanding, not quite in lockstep, but closely enough that someone like myself can now easily jump onto a client like Jumble.social and get a glimpse into what is happening and get an idea of the potential of what is yet to come. For those working in the relay field, I am sure this feels like one slow moving train. For a client developer, it probably feels a little overwhelming to shift an entire model away from what has worked for something that will work better. As a less-than-technical user who is mostly disconnected from any major development, it's exciting. Relay diversity brings actual utility to Nostr. It also brings the assurances that Nostr offers, which whether we have been subjugated to these problems before or not, it is the main reason why Nostr exists and why we are here using it now.
For most anyone reading this, it probably sounds like some weird, unnecessary history lesson. This is actually one long introduction into a little mini-series of relay recaps though.... I was wondering what I would write about next, and this is it. I may just be a user but I'm an adventurous one and I pay attention, so I'm excited to share some of my thoughts, experiences, and observations over the coming weeks... because exciting isn't a strong enough word for the what I see as possible. :)
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2025-06-12 14:57:35In the dynamic and rapidly evolving blockchain industry over the past decade, Gerald Check has become one of the most influential investors in the Web3 space, thanks to his visionary foresight and a series of successful strategic moves. From his role as an executive at global leading exchanges like Binance and MEXC, he transitioned into becoming the founder of the top investment firm, GC Capital. Gerald Check's career trajectory is essentially the evolution of Web3 capital power.
From Platform Executive to Industry Evangelist
Gerald Check previously served as the Strategic Vice President at Binance and Global Market Director at MEXC. During his time at these platforms, he witnessed and participated in the entire process of crypto assets, from early speculative hype to their gradual shift toward real-world industrial applications. Starting in 2020, he began to focus more on Web3 infrastructure development and early-stage project incubation, believing that the next trillion-dollar opportunity would emerge at the intersection of "deep value and real-world application scenarios."
"I donât want to be just a decision-maker on the platform, I want to be the force that drives the industry forward," Gerald Check said in an interview. Driven by this philosophy, GC Capital was born. Unlike traditional investment banks, GC Capital positions itself as a "strategically-driven partnership capital" firm: it not only provides funding but also participates in projects with its team, ecosystem resources, and operational capabilities, becoming a long-term co-builder. "Capital should not just focus on returns, it should empower the team," emphasized Gerald Check. In its two years of existence, GC Capital has invested in and incubated dozens of early-stage Web3 projects across sectors such as DeFi, GameFi, AI, and RWA, all of which have achieved impressive results. Driving Hit Projects: The "Talent Scoutâs Eye" Behind the Scenes
Perhaps the most representative project is MetaMars. This metaverse ecosystem project, co-incubated by GC Capital and M3 DAO, has seen its token MARS increase by more than 35 times since its launch, with a monthly surge of up to 400%, making it a classic example of combining Web3 community operation and product. "We started getting involved before the concept was fully formed, not just investing money but working alongside the team to refine the economic model and optimize the launch rhythm," Gerald mentioned. Additionally, GC Capital invested in the decentralized AI cloud gaming platform DeepLink. The project integrates AI, blockchain, and streaming, and has been dubbed "Steam+Teamviewer of the Web3 Era." M3 DAO then formed a strategic partnership to co-build a Web3 gaming experience ecosystem. Projects like Voopay, LoserChick, and Rocket have also seen explosive growth with GC Capital's support, validating the team's ability to identify and accelerate early-stage projects. Co-building with M3 DAO: From Investor to Core Ecosystem Member Among all the collaborations, the deep partnership between GC Capital and M3 DAO stands out. Gerald himself entered the M3 DAO core team as a co-CEO, driving the upgrades of infrastructures like MarsVerse and MarsChain. The two parties also jointly promoted the $200 million Phuket RWA Resort Project, marking the first realization of the "Web3+Gaming+Tourism" industry fusion model, injecting digital vitality into physical assets. "We aim not only to invest in the future on-chain but also to reconstruct off-chain economic models," said Gerald Check. Gerald Checkâs Future Vision: Long-Termism and Global Layout
Gerald is working to expand GC Capitalâs international presence. In the next three years, GC will establish regional incubation centers in Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe and launch the "Web3 Global Investors Academy" to create a support system that integrates technology, capital, and community. At the same time, he is also looking for the next generation of Web3 entrepreneurs who are persistent, understand users, and are willing to co-build. "Web3 is not a speculative game, but an opportunity to reconstruct the order. We are willing to go through the cycles with great teams," this is one of Gerald Checkâs most frequently quoted phrases. In this era of accelerating change, Gerald Check and GC Capital are gradually becoming an important bridge connecting capital with industry, imagination with reality. GC Capital official website: https://gc.capital/
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2025-06-13 21:01:57Bitcoin Magazine
Coinbase Announces Bitcoin Rewards Credit Card, Offering up to 4% BTC Back on EverythingCoinbase is launching its first-ever branded credit card in partnership with American Express, set to roll out this fall. Called the Coinbase One Card, it will be available only to U.S. members of Coinbase One, the platformâs monthly subscription service. The card will offer 2% to 4% back in Bitcoin on everyday purchases, along with access to American Express perks. Â
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This is a first-of-its-kind product for Coinbase, which previously only offered a prepaid debit card with Visa in 2020.Â
âWe see real potential in the combination of Coinbase and crypto with the powerful backing of American Express, and what the card offers is an excellent mix of what customers are looking for right now,â said Will Stredwick, head of American Express global network services, during the Coinbase State of Crypto Summit in New York.
The card is part of a larger push by Coinbase to expand its subscription-based services. Coinbase One costs $29.99/month and includes zero trading fees, higher staking rewards, and customer support perks. The company also announced a cheaper versionâCoinbase Basicâfor $4.99/month or $49.99/year, which includes fewer features.
Coinbaseâs subscription business is growing fast. It brought in $698.1 million in Q1 2025, compared to $1.26 billion in trading revenue. According to William Blair analyst Andrew Jeffrey, this kind of recurring revenue is a big reason why long-term investors are sticking with the stock.
Launched in 2023, Coinbase One now has over a million members. The company has been steadily growing its ecosystem with products like its Base developer platform and a self-custody wallet.Â
The company has long positioned Bitcoin at the center of its strategyâoffering BTC custody services to institutions, supporting Bitcoin ETFs, integrating Bitcoin rewards into its products, and actively advocating for Bitcoin-friendly regulation in Washington. Coinbase also supports Bitcoin development directly through funding grants and engineering support. As the largest publicly traded crypto exchange in the U.S., Coinbase continues to frame Bitcoin not just as an asset, but as the foundation of its long-term vision.
This post Coinbase Announces Bitcoin Rewards Credit Card, Offering up to 4% BTC Back on Everything first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Jenna Montgomery.
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2025-06-12 14:55:50MetaMars has rapidly established itself as a standout project in the 2025 cryptocurrency market, with its $MARS token soaring over 3000%, driven by a visionary Mars-themed metaverse narrative, sophisticated tokenomics, a strong community, and strategic KOL partnerships led by M3 DAO. This momentum has now expanded into the Japanese market following successes in India, Russia, Vietnam, Turkey, and Germany, where top influencers with million-strong followings in cryptocurrency, technology, and finance have joined MetaMarsâ âBuilders Alliance.â Their expert insights and dynamic multi-platform promotional efforts have injected unparalleled energy into the MetaMars ecosystem, fueling explosive growth and deep community engagement. Celebrated as âThe Web3 Metaverse of the Future,â this campaign has already surpassed 200,000 views, underscoring its powerful resonance and expanding influence.
The Strategic Decision to Enter Japan: A Market Analysis Japanâs cryptocurrency and metaverse landscape presents a unique opportunity. Crypto adoption has surged to 34% of the population in 2025, with over 15 million active users, making Japan a top-five global market by daily trading volume. Major exchanges like Bitflyer and Coincheck handle over $1.2 billion weekly, supported by clear regulations such as the Payment Services Act and FSA-approved frameworks that ensure stability for users and investors.
The metaverse sector is equally promising, projected to reach „16 trillion ($110 billion) by 2026. According to a 2025 Dentsu Research report, 62% of Japanese crypto holders are interested in metaverse projects, especially virtual land, NFTs, and blockchain gaming. This cultural affinity, combined with a tech-savvy population, creates an ideal environment for MetaMarsâ Mars-themed universe.
From Grassroots to Grand Scale: The Catalyst for Mass Promotion While MetaMars began community building in Japan in 2024, the current phase marks a strategic pivot toward large-scale promotion designed to empower the local ecosystemâan effort undertaken closely with M3 DAO. This collaboration focuses on deepening community engagement through multifaceted support: educational programs, mentorship from local thought leaders, localized learning resources, and KOL-led offline events. M3 DAOâs expertise in DAO governance and community operations complements MetaMarsâ metaverse infrastructure, creating synergy that fuels sustained growth.
This approach prioritizes organic development over mere expansion. Weekly Web3 education sessions in Japanese, hosted by M3 DAOâs regional ambassadors, guide users through blockchain fundamentals and $MARS token utilities. Local leadersâcurated from early adopters and industry veteransâoffer one-on-one mentorship, while a comprehensive library of video tutorials, infographics, and case studies (translated by native speakers) ensures accessible knowledge. KOLs play the role of "ecological architects" here, participating in the planning of local Tokyo metaverse workshops, NFT creation challenges and other activities, with their influence covering content creation, community operation and even the formulation of ecological development roadmaps.
Conclusion: Embracing the Japanese Cultural Metaverse Revolution As MetaMars deepens its roots in Japan, the project embarks on a transformative journey that fuses cultural heritage with cutting-edge metaverse technology. In collaboration with M3 DAO, the initiative focuses on crafting immersive experiences that resonate locallyâfrom anime-inspired NFT collections co-created with Japanese gaming studios to digital renditions of cultural landmarks, where KOLs and community members serve as digital guides and content architects. These collaborations extend beyond aesthetics: Japanese KOLs involved in the MetaMars DAO lead beta testing for new features, ensuring technological advancementsâfrom blockchain governance tools to payment integrationsâalign with user needs.
In the coming months, KOLs will spearhead "metaverse labs," inviting fans to co-design virtual festivals, traditional art exhibitions, and interactive storytelling experiences within the Mars ecosystem. Leveraging M3 DAOâs community-building expertise and local KOLsâ cultural translation capabilities, MetaMars aims not only to expand its user base but to nurture a metaverse ecosystem where Japanese digital culture thrives. This serves as a pivot to pave the way for similar initiatives in markets like South Korea and Taiwan. The Martian landscape is evolving into a vibrant canvas for cultural innovation, inviting every user, KOL, and creator to become both planners and builders of this new digital frontier.
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2025-06-12 14:36:24After dropping off a relative at the airport, my wife and I found ourselves in an area that was rather new to us and we had the whole afternoon open. So, what to do? We stopped by the local Visitor Center for ideas. The usual shopping and dining routine isn't a big interest to us (though I like to eat!). No, it was time to get outdoors.
So, some local trail maps gave some ideas and off we went. Hiking is nice, and, even though you're huffing it out when you hike, it's relaxing to be outdoors. An aimless amble in nature is the reward itself. But, it's also sometimes nice to have a destination in mind, a goal to reach. The trails we chose had a few waterfalls and three were within our range. Waterfalls are great as destinations: you usually have to hike rugged trails to get to them, but when you do, there's a big payoff. Here's a teaser:
Along the walk to waterfall number one, an interesting shadow caught my eye on the trail. The shadow looked like a wreath on the ground in a nearly perfect circle. With the other leaves, the shadow looked like a large blooming flower. Overhead, the maple branch was filtering out the light just right to make the shadow. I thought it was neat.
Just below that shadow, we came to the stream and saw the falls through the trees.
Here's a closer view of the falls. From where I took the pic, there was a steady roar of water, of course, and, you could feel the cool mist and breeze like natural air conditioning...a multi-sensory experience and yet another payoff for the hike. The young man in the image decided to do a hand stand, because, that's what you do at the base of a waterfall, right?
A second falls was called Triple Falls. I bet you can guess why...
We went to a third falls which was low and wide, but really more of a swimming hole because the pool at the bottom was also wide and deep. It being a warm and sunny day, it was rather crowded with people cooling off. No photo because I didn't want to be the weird person pulling out a camera and taking pictures of people in their swimsuits!
The hike back was a nice, relaxing trail walk that looked like this:
Returning home, my wife agreed we made a good choice for the day.
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2025-06-13 21:01:47Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Will Replace Gold And Go To $1,000,000, Says Galaxy Digital CEO Mike NovogratzToday, Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz told CNBC that Bitcoin is on a path to replace gold and could eventually reach a value of $1,000,000.
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âBitcoin has become a macro asset,â said Novogratz. âAnd some of the great things is most people have it on their screens next to gold and silver and the S&P. And you think back ten years ago when people thought we were crazy. And now itâs an institutionalized macro asset⊠Itâs just becoming institutionalized.â
He emphasized that Bitcoin is no longer a fringe investment but part of the mainstream financial landscape. He pointed out that its volatility is now seen as normal compared to traditional assets.
âWe are in a dollar bear market. For the last 15 years, American exceptionalism was the story. Europeans were widely overweight and Asians widely overweight the US stock and we have an administration that wants a weaker dollar. They are pretty clear about it,â he said. âEven in the way Trump negotiates. And you can argue if itâs successful or not successful, but by telling Canada they want to be the 51st state, and telling people that they come here to kiss his rear end, it doesnât engender people to say, âOh, I want to buy more dollars.ââ
According to Novogratz, this global shift is pushing investors toward assets outside the dollar, including Bitcoin.
âI think most macro funds are having a great year,â he stated. âTheyâre short the dollar, theyâre long the euro, theyâre long the yen, theyâre long Aussie, theyâre long a basket of currencies. Well, Bitcoin, gold, silver, platinum, they all fall into that same category as something thatâs not the dollar.â
He also pointed to Bitcoinâs fixed supply as a key factor behind its growing value.
âThere is no more Bitcoin,â he said. âWhatâs unique about Bitcoin as an asset is it was created with 21 million coins total. Period. End of story. Thereâll never be more than that. But not all of those have been mined, is my point. Not most of them. Lots of them have been lost. There have been more Bitcoins lost than will be mined for the rest of eternity.â
Novogratz believes the wave of institutional involvement, including firms like BlackRock, is cementing Bitcoinâs role as a savings asset.
âThe bull case becomes that over time⊠gold slowly gets replaced by Bitcoin. And so if you look at goldâs market cap and Bitcoin market cap, Bitcoin has a long way to go. Right? 10x. And so that [is] $1,000,000 a Bitcoin just to be where gold is.â
This post Bitcoin Will Replace Gold And Go To $1,000,000, Says Galaxy Digital CEO Mike Novogratz first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Oscar Zarraga Perez.
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Teil 3 ist der letzte Teil des Essays. Hier geht es zu Teil 1 und Teil 2.
«Der groĂe Jammer mit den Menschen ist, dass sie so genau wissen, was man ihnen schuldet, und so wenig Empfindungen dafĂŒr haben, was sie anderen schulden.»
â Franz von Sales
In den ersten beiden Teilen der Reihe «MitgefĂŒhl und Vergebung» ging es darum, Wege zu finden, mit unserem GegenĂŒber, unserem «Widersacher» oder sogar der Menschheit an sich, weich zu werden, VerstĂ€ndnis zu finden, uns selbst vom Groll zu befreien und Frieden zu schlieĂen. Doch wie ist das eigentlich andersherum?
Denn was bei all den Gedanken ĂŒber das Verzeihen und MitfĂŒhlen nicht fehlen darf, ist, sich selbst zu vergeben und auch, sich selbst zu entschuldigen. HĂ€ufig wissen wir zwar schnell, auf wen wir noch wĂŒtend sind, welchen Schmerz wir noch nicht loslassen konnten, â obwohl natĂŒrlich auch einige Wunden tiefer verschĂŒttet sind â gleichwohl kann es noch etwas undurchsichtiger werden, wenn wir uns selbst einmal ehrlich fragen, wen wir verletzt haben, wem wir etwas schuldig geblieben sind. Denn das ist die Kehrseite der Medaille: Ich glaube, dass niemand von uns komplett ohne Schuld ist.
Zwar ist es einfacher, im AuĂen Verantwortliche fĂŒr alles Mögliche zu finden, wie zum Beispiel das Unrecht in der Welt oder unsere eigenen verletzten GefĂŒhle, da es hĂ€ufig auch offensichtlicher ist, es lenkt uns aber auch gerne von den eigenen Schattenanteilen ab. HĂ€ufig werden wir sogar leider erst mit unseren eigenen SchuldgefĂŒhlen konfrontiert, wenn es zu spĂ€t ist; beispielsweise wenn es um Trennungen geht â oder wenn jemand Geliebtes stirbt. Erst dann zeigen sich bei den meisten Momente und GefĂŒhle des Bereuens, des Bedauerns, des Wieder-gut-machen-Wollens.
Sehr viele Menschen, die eine Nahtoderfahrung erlebt haben, berichten, dass, als ihnen ihr eigenes Leben im Panoramablick gezeigt wurde, sie alle Situationen aus Sicht der Menschen fĂŒhlten, mit denen sie interagiert hatten. Also dass sie spĂ€testens da merkten, in welchen Situationen ihre Worte und ihr Verhalten andere verletzten.
Andererseits gibt es auch Menschen, die von SchuldgefĂŒhlen förmlich zerfressen werden. Sie nagen an ihnen und ihrem Gewissen und manche werten sich selbst zutiefst ab, bis hin zum Selbsthass. Hier stellt sich die Frage, wie wir uns selbst helfen können, uns selbst ent-schuldigen können. Oder kann das nur derjenige, demgegenĂŒber wir Schuld empfinden?
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Es tut mir leid
\ Wo wir können, sollten wir uns selbstverstĂ€ndlich entschuldigen und um Vergebung bitten. Nicht nur fĂŒr uns selbst, sondern auch fĂŒr den anderen. Wer das schon einmal ehrlich getan hat, weiĂ, wie schwer das sein kann und wem wiederum schon einmal eine wirklich ernstgemeinte Entschuldigung entgegen gebracht wurde, weiĂ, wie heilsam und tief berĂŒhrend sie sein kann.
Viel zu hĂ€ufig werden Entschuldigungen nĂ€mlich nicht ganz so ernst gemeint; wir werfen mit Wortschnipseln um uns, ein kurzes «Sorry» nuscheln wir in den Hemdkragen, drehen uns vielleicht noch dabei weg oder nutzen sie als Floskel, weil es sich «so gehört». Ebenso alltĂ€glich finden wir das berĂŒhmte: «Tut mir ja leid, aaaberâŠÂ» plus Rechtfertigung und möglicherweise sogar GegenvorwĂŒrfen.
Das meine ich nicht, ich meine das ehrliche Entschuldigen. Das reine SchuldeingestĂ€ndnis, die hundertprozentige VerantwortungsĂŒbernahme fĂŒr das eigene Verhalten â wie oft erlebst du diese? Von anderen sowie von dir selbst. Es gehört nĂ€mlich schon eine ganze Portion Mut und innere GröĂe dazu, sich seiner Fehltritte bewusst zu sein, diese zuzugeben â und zwar vor sich selbst und zudem vor demjenigen, dem man auf den FuĂ getreten ist â, ihm tief in die Augen zu schauen und zu sagen: «Es tut mir leid.» Ohne Erwartung, ohne Rechtfertigung. Im tiefen EinverstĂ€ndnis mit allen Konsequenzen.
Es braucht deshalb so viel Mut, weil es schmerzhaft und beĂ€ngstigend sein kann. Weil wir uns dem anderen hingeben und unsere «Waffen» niederlegen. Es kann sein, dass die andere Person die Entschuldigung nicht annimmt, oder unser EingestĂ€ndnis sogar gegen uns verwendet, aber GröĂe zu haben, bedeutet auch, dies zu akzeptieren und sich dem ungewissen Ausgang zu stellen, die MachtkĂ€mpfe sein zu lassen und dem anderen das Zepter in die Hand zu geben.
Eine ehrliche Entschuldigung kommt von Herzen, nĂ€mlich, wenn wir gespĂŒrt haben, was wir dem anderen angetan oder zugemutet haben. Sie braucht wahres MitfĂŒhlen und Erkennen sowie die Bereitschaft, das eigene Ego beiseite zu schieben. Dies kann zu Frieden fĂŒhren â je nachdem, was jeder der Beteiligten fĂŒr sich daraus macht und was vorgefallen war selbstverstĂ€ndlich â, aber derjenige, der sich entwaffnet, wird das Schlachtfeld auch verlassen und sich sich selbst und seinem Verhalten widmen, um in Zukunft von vornherein mitfĂŒhlender und achtsamer sein zu können.
Denn wenn ich lerne, mein GegenĂŒber zu spĂŒren und mit ihm in Verbindung zu gehen, spĂŒre ich am eigenen Leib die Verletzungen und wenn ich bereit bin, die Verantwortung zu ĂŒbernehmen, gelange ich zu dem GefĂŒhl des Bedauerns, beispielsweise, wenn ich die Konsequenz einer Trennung, tragen muss. Dadurch entsteht in mir ein intrinsisches BedĂŒrfnis, in Zukunft liebevoller und achtsamer mit meinen Mitmenschen umzugehen.
âEs scheint wirklich den Menschen nur eine Hoffnung zu geben: Zwar nicht die Welt und die anderen, aber wenigstens sich selbst einigermaĂen Ă€ndern und bessern zu können; und auf denen, die das tun, beruht im geheimen das Heil der Welt.â
âHermann Hesse
Eine wahre Entschuldigung impliziert also die empathische Verbindung mit dem anderen und fĂŒhrt somit zu Selbsterkenntnis, wodurch in der Regel eine persönliche Aufarbeitung und VerĂ€nderung des eigenen Verhaltens folgt, wĂ€hrend VorwĂŒrfe nach auĂen hin ĂŒblicherweise darauf abzielen, den oder die anderen Ă€ndern zu wollen.
Sich selbst vergeben
Was aber passiert, wenn der andere uns nicht vergeben möchte, oder wir denjenigen, demgegenĂŒber wir uns schuldig fĂŒhlen nicht erreichen können oder auch, wenn wir nicht einmal wissen, weswegen oder ob, wir uns schuldig fĂŒhlen, weil die GefĂŒhle oder Erinnerungen zu weit im Unterbewusstsein vergraben wurden?Â
In einer sehr fragilen Phase wÀhrend meines Heilungsprozesses wandte ich mich an «Gott», an das Universum, und fragte verzweifelt: «Vergibst du mir?», und die Antwort war: «Vergibst du dir denn selbst?».
Was fĂŒr eine Antwort. Was fĂŒr eine Frage ja viel mehr - und doch auch gleichzeitig so viel Antwort. Warum braucht es einen anderen, um mir meine SchuldgefĂŒhle zu nehmen und vor allem, wie kann das gehen? Es sind meine GefĂŒhle, mein Körper, meine Seele, mein Gewissen und wenn ein Anteil in mir sich plagt, ist es vielleicht doch einzig auch meine Aufgabe, ihn zu heilen und zu befreien? Aber kann ich das? Habe ich denn diese Macht? Darf ich das? Oder muss ich es vielleicht sogar? Was wĂ€re, wenn das Universum «Ja» gesagt hĂ€tte? HĂ€tte es vielleicht gar nichts an meinen GefĂŒhlen geĂ€ndert, weil das, was ich selbst glaube und das, was ich selbst von mir halte, vielleicht schwerer wiegt, als das, was ein anderer sagt? HĂ€tte ich ihm ĂŒberhaupt geglaubt? Letztlich war es ja «nur» meine eigene innere Stimme, die ich vernahm.Â
Aber ja, ich erkannte, dass, wenn ich die Macht habe, mich zu verurteilen und zu strafen, wohl auch nur ich die Macht habe, gnĂ€dig und versöhnlich mit mir zu sein. Und so machte ich mich auf den Weg, herauszufinden, wie ich selbst meine SchuldgefĂŒhle auflösen konnte und werde versuchen, im Folgenden die Essenzen daraus zu vermitteln, in der Hoffnung, dass vielleicht jemand etwas daraus fĂŒr sich mitnehmen kann.
Mir ging es fast mein Leben lang so, dass mir bei jeder kleinsten Kleinigkeit Adrenalin samt Wut auf mich selbst durch den Körper schossen. Nahezu permanent war mein innerer Kritiker parat, mich innerlich niederzumachen fĂŒr: Einfach alles.Â
Eines Tages saĂ ich mit mir da und forschte nach den Ursachen. Ich fragte mich, woher all dieser Selbsthass kam und ich dachte, dass es doch eigentlich nur Sinn ergibt, sich selbst so sehr zu verabscheuen, wenn man der absolut böseste Mensch der Welt sei. Wie viel Schuld und Missetaten mĂŒsste ein anderer begehen, um ihm gegenĂŒber auch nur annĂ€hernd so unversöhnlich zu sein, wie mir selbst gegenĂŒber? Und mir wurde klar, dass es unter der Wut auf mich selbst unter anderem um Schuld ging.
Ich wusste nicht recht, womit ich mich so unsagbar schuldig gemacht hatte, aber eine vorsichtige Stimme in mir schlug vor, dass ich es doch eventuell im Laufe all der Jahre abgebĂŒĂt haben könnte, dass ich mich doch genug gegeiĂelt haben könnte, â oder? Eigentlich empfand ich sogar ein kleines bisschen MitgefĂŒhl mit mir selbst, mit meinem inneren Kind, meiner kleinen Anna. Was habe ich ihr, was habe ich mir eigentlich damit angetan? Das tat mir dann schon irgendwie leid. Und ich bat sie â und mich â um Verzeihung.
Intuitiv sprach ich die Worte: «Es tut mir leid!» mehrfach hintereinander laut aus, und mit jedem Mal tat es zunĂ€chst mehr weh. Erstaunlicherweise zeigten sich mit der Zeit von ganz allein innere Bilder und Situationen aus der Vergangenheit, die mir leid taten â sowohl mich selbst betreffend, als auch andere Situationen und Personen â, was zu MitgefĂŒhl, Bedauern und auch Scham- und SchuldgefĂŒhlen fĂŒhrte. Wieder einige Zeit spĂ€ter verschwanden nach und nach die belastenden Emotionen und Bilder und ich wiederholte meine Worte so lange, bis es nicht mehr weh tat.
Daraufhin sprach ich laut aus: «Es ist ok, ich verzeihe dir», und auch das so oft, bis keine Bilder mehr kamen und bis es nicht mehr weh tat.
Diese Perspektivwechsel, also sowohl der EmpfÀnger als auch der Sender zu sein, lernte ich zuvor in einer anderen Situation, die ich in diesem Video nÀher beschreibe.
Als nĂ€chstes sagte ich laut: «Mir wird vergeben», ebenfalls mehrmals und bis alle TrĂ€nen des Unglaubens, der Dankbarkeit und Erleichterung, getrocknet waren, und ich etwas Sonderbares empfand: es war warm und weich in mir, irgendwie entspannt. Ich fĂŒhlte mich wohl. Und mit einem kurzen Schreck identifizierte ich dieses GefĂŒhl als (Selbst-)Liebe. Huch! Ich !? Ja, das war ich. Da war also dieser Frieden, diese Liebe in mir, fĂŒr mich. Und auch fĂŒr die Welt und die Menschheit, bei der ich mich ebenfalls entschuldigte â und ihnen verzieh, weil zumindest ein Anteil in mir schon immer damit haderte, Mensch zu sein. Aber seit dem Tag freunde ich mich zunehmend damit an und ich entdecke immer schönere Seiten am Leben â und auch an mir selbst.
Es macht einen unbeschreiblichen Unterschied, wie sich die Welt im eigenen Körper anfĂŒhlt und wie ich sie durch meine eigenen Augen sehe â je nachdem, wie meine Einstellung zu ihr und vor allem auch zu mir selbst ist.Â
Gibt es Schuld denn ĂŒberhaupt?Â
Einige Leute sagen, Schuld gibt es ĂŒberhaupt nicht. Und auch, wenn ich hier so ausfĂŒhrlich darĂŒber schreibe, denke ich das ebenfalls. Wie passt das zusammen und wie kann diese Perspektive helfen?Â
Genauer gesagt, ist meine Antwort auf die Schuldfrage: Ja und Nein. Denn auf der einen Seite gibt es Schuld definitiv, in diesem GefĂŒhl kenne ich mich ja sehr gut aus und auch unser Rechtssystem arbeitet mit Schuld. Andererseits, wenn ich mir die Natur ansehe â und die Menschheit und ihre Gedankenkonstrukte, Vereinbarungen und GefĂŒhle ausblende â, komme ich persönlich zu dem Ergebnis, dass es keine natĂŒrliche Schuld gibt. Sondern, dass Schuld ein menschliches Konzept ist und auĂerhalb dessen, das heiĂt, wie gesagt in der Natur, aber möglicherweise auch auf Seelenebene oder erst recht einem bedingungslos liebenden «Gott» oder Universum gegenĂŒber, irrelevant wird.Â
Diese Grundlage ist bedeutend fĂŒr die folgende Situation, denn der eine Teil des Heilungsprozesses besteht darin, die alten GefĂŒhle zu durchfĂŒhlen, um sie loszulassen, der andere beschĂ€ftigt sich mit den dahinterstehenden GlaubenssĂ€tzen.
Eingangs erwĂ€hnte ich die Situation, dass einem im Trauerprozess um eine geliebte Person SchuldgefĂŒhle begegnen können â so auch mir. Die GefĂŒhle und Gedanken dazu waren derart quĂ€lend, dass es sich höchstwahrscheinlich nur jemand ausmalen kann, der bereits Ă€hnliches durchleben musste. Denn das GefĂŒhl, Schuld am Tod der geliebten Person zu sein, zerreiĂt einen innerlich in StĂŒcke. Und obwohl ich mir auf anderer Ebene bewusst war, dass ich in Wirklichkeit natĂŒrlich nicht Schuld daran war, da ich ja keinen Mord begangen und auch nicht seine Krankheit verursacht habe, kamen mir immer wieder Bilder vor Augen, die mir Momente zeigten, in denen ich vielleicht doch noch etwas mehr oder weniger hĂ€tte sagen oder tun können, um den Krankheitsverlauf möglicherweise doch noch irgendwie zu beeinflussen.Â
Auch mein Glaube daran, dass eine Seele geht, wenn sie bereit dafĂŒr ist und nur sie selbst weiĂ, wann ihre Zeit gekommen ist und warum, konnte mir die Bilder und GefĂŒhle nicht nehmen. Es fĂŒhlte sich an, als wĂ€re etwas Zerstörerisches in mir, das an mir zerrte, das mich von innen her auffraĂ und möglicherweise kein Teil meiner selbst zu sein schien, bis ich mich eines Tages schluchzend vor den Spiegel stellte, mich zwang, mir in die Augen zu sehen und laut zu mir zu sagen: «Ich glaube nicht an Schuld! Schuld ist ein Konzept der Menschen. In der Natur gibt es keine Schuld. Ich glaube nicht an Schuld. Schuld ist ein Konzept der Menschen, âŠÂ» und so weiter.
Es kostete wahnsinnig viel Kraft, diese SĂ€tze auszusprechen, weil die Energie der Schuld, in der mein Körper feststeckte, genau gegenteilig schwang und der gröĂte Teil in mir in dem Moment davon eingenommen war. Ich musste also enorme Kraft aufbringen, diese Worte auszusprechen, um diesen kleinen Funken der Liebe in mir durchzusetzen und es war, als wĂŒrde ich gegen einen Orkan angehen. Aber auch hier wurde mit jeder Wiederholung der Schmerz der Schuld und des Widerspruches zwischen diesen beiden Anteilen zunĂ€chst ertrĂ€glicher und dann immer weniger, bis ich irgendwann ruhig dort stehen und die SĂ€tze aussprechen konnte.Â
Dies ist sicherlich eine besondere Situation in Bezug auf «MitgefĂŒhl und Vergebung». Vielleicht findet sich aber dennoch jemand in dieser oder einer Ă€hnlichen Situation wieder, in der die alten GlaubenssĂ€tze im Gegensatz zur Entwicklung im Heilungsprozess stehen oder jemand ist sogar Ă€hnlich strukturiert â und daher anfĂ€llig fĂŒr SchuldgefĂŒhle â wie ich. Daher entschied ich mich dafĂŒr, den Absatz doch noch mit aufzunehmen.
Lieben heiĂt Lernen â Fazit
«Das Leben eines jeden Menschen ist ein Weg zum eigenen Ich, der Versuch eines Weges, der Entwurf eines Weges.» â Hermann Hesse
In gleicher Weise, wie ich lerne, mich zu fĂŒhlen und mir selbst zu vergeben, erfahre ich, dass ich auch aufhöre, andere fĂŒr meine GefĂŒhle verantwortlich zu machen und, dass es mir auch automatisch sehr viel leichter fĂ€llt, mich in andere hineinzuversetzen, ihnen versöhnlich zu begegnen und ihnen ihr Leben, ihr Verhalten und ihre Lernaufgaben zuzugestehen.
Interessanterweise entdeckte ich auch, dass, in den meisten FĂ€llen, in denen sich noch Ărger auf andere Personen offenbarte, ich, bei nĂ€herem Hinsehen, eigentlich mir selbst noch nicht vergeben hatte. Wenn Gedanken kamen, wie: «Wie konntest du dich mir gegenĂŒber so ungerecht und respektlos verhalten? Wie konntest du mich so verletzen?», sah ich, dass ich diejenige war, die sich so hat behandeln lassen. Dass ich diejenige war, die mich nicht beschĂŒtzt hat, die mich verletzt und im Stich gelassen hat.
Es ist ein tiefer, innerer Prozess, sich kennen- und verstehen zu lernen. Sich selbst zu vergeben, bedeutet auf der einen Seite, sich Vergangenes zu vergegenwĂ€rtigen, mitfĂŒhlend auf unser jĂŒngeres Ich zu schauen und zu verstehen, dass wir, aus unserem damaligen Wissen und VerstĂ€ndnis heraus, so gut gehandelt haben, wie wir konnten. Im Nachhinein wissen wir oft mehr und wir bereuen und Ă€rgern uns, doch in dem Zauber dieses Prozesses erkennen wir, dass wir stetig dazulernen und wachsen und in der Vergangenheit noch nicht sehen konnten, was wir jetzt sehen. Im Hier und Jetzt haben wir die Möglichkeit, uns neu zu entscheiden, immer wieder.
Zudem geht der Weg zum inneren Frieden darĂŒber hinaus, als «nur» mit vergangenen Situationen und Versionen von uns Frieden zu schlieĂen; er bedeutet in jedem Moment, mit dem, was sich in uns zeigt, mit allen Gedanken und GefĂŒhlen, versöhnlich und liebevoll umzugehen, weich mit ihnen â mit uns selbst â zu werden und MitgefĂŒhl auch in die verschleiertsten und ungeliebtesten Bereiche unseres Selbst zu bringen.
Im ersten Teil von «MitgefĂŒhl und Vergebung» zitierte ich C.G Jung, der fragte: «Was aber, wenn ich nun entdecken sollte, daĂ der armselige Bettler und der unverschĂ€mteste Beleidiger alle in mir selber sind und ich bedĂŒrftig bin, EmpfĂ€nger meiner eigenen Wohltaten zu sein? DaĂ ich der Feind bin, den ich lieben muĂ - was dann?». Und ich glaube, eine Antwort darauf könnte sein, dass wir uns genau dann auf dem Weg heimwĂ€rts befinden. Dass wir, wenn wir uns unseren eigenen Anteilen stellen und lernen, die Perspektiven zu wechseln, erkennen, dass wir einander mehr Ă€hneln, als wir glaubten.
Auf dem Weg zu sein, bedeutet auch, dass wir weiterhin «Fehler» machen werden, die uns dann unser zukĂŒnftiges Ich liebevoll vergeben wird.
«Die Welt selbst aber, das Seiende um uns her und in uns innen, ist nie einseitig. Nie ist ein Mensch, oder eine Tat, ganz Sansara oder ganz Nirvana, nie ist ein Mensch ganz heilig oder ganz sĂŒndig. Es scheint ja so, weil wir der TĂ€uschung unterworfen sind, dass Zeit etwas Wirkliches sei. Zeit ist nicht wirklich, Govinda, ich habe dies oft und oft erfahren. Und wenn Zeit nicht wirklich ist, so ist die Spanne, die zwischen Welt und Ewigkeit, zwischen Leid und Seligkeit, zwischen Böse und Gut zu liegen scheint, auch eine TĂ€uschung.
âŠNein, in dem SĂŒnder ist, ist jetzt und heute schon der kĂŒnftige Buddha, seine Zukunft ist alle schon da, du hast in ihm, in dir, in jedem den werdenden, den möglichen, den verborgenen Buddha zu verehren. Die Welt, Freund Govinda, ist nicht unvollkommen, oder auf einem langsamen Wege zur Vollkommenheit begriffen: nein, sie ist in jedem Augenblick vollkommen, alle SĂŒnde trĂ€gt schon die Gnade in sich, alle kleinen Kinder haben schon den Greis in sich, alle SĂ€uglinge den Tod, alle Sterbenden das ewige Leben.
âŠMögen die Dinge Schein sein oder nicht, auch ich bin alsdann ja Schein, und so sind sie stets meinesgleichen. Das ist es, was sie mir so lieb und verehrenswert macht: sie sind meinesgleichen. Darum kann ich sie lieben. Und dies ist nun eine Lehre, ĂŒber welche du lachen wirst: die Liebe, o Govinda, scheint mir von allem die Hauptsache zu sein.
Die Welt zu durchschauen, sie zu erklĂ€ren, sie zu verachten, mag groĂer Denker Sache sein. Mir aber liegt einzig daran, die Welt lieben zu können, sie nicht zu verachten, sie und mich nicht zu hassen, sie und mich und alle Wesen mit Liebe und Bewunderung und Ehrfurcht betrachten zu können.»
â Hermann Hesse, Siddartha*
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2025-06-13 20:01:59The Russian government is preparing sanctions against those who violate mining regulations, with fines of up to $25,000.
The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Media of the Russian Federation has drafted a bill introducing financial penalties and the seizure of cryptocurrencies for miners operating illegally.
The ministerial proposal, currently under interdepartmental review according to Forbes Russia, would grant judicial authorities extraordinary powers over the mining sector. Courts would be able not only to impose financial penalties but also to directly confiscate illegally mined bitcoins.
Fines will follow a progressive scale:
- private individuals: 100,000 to 200,000 rubles ($1,272â$2,544);
- individual entrepreneurs and public officials: 200,000 to 400,000 rubles ($2,544â$5,088);
- companies and corporations: 1 million to 2 million rubles ($12,728â$25,456).
Crackdown on mining pools
Another aspect of the proposed legislation concerns mining pools. If approved, the bill would introduce penalties for those participating in such groups illegally. The government strategy aims to amend the Code of Administrative Offenses, effectively turning illegal mining into a criminal offense with harsher consequences than current administrative fines.
Crypto payments under scrutiny
Beyond mining operations, the new provisions would also target the use of cryptocurrencies as a means of payment outside the official sandbox managed by Russiaâs Central Bank. Sanctions for this violation could reach 1 million rubles ($12,728).
Andrey Medvedev, Head of the Legal Department at the Central Bank, emphasized during the St. Petersburg International Legal Forum that â[crypto] illegally used as a means of payment will be confiscated.â
Regional restrictions on mining
Under current Russian regulations, unregistered citizens are allowed to mine domestically provided their energy consumption does not exceed 6,000 kWh per month. However, about ten Russian regions and territories under Russian control maintain specific restrictions.
Operators of mining infrastructures â primarily data center and hosting service providers â will be required to report operational details to Rosfinmonitoring, the national financial intelligence agency, including wallet addresses used at their facilities.
While penalties are tightening, the government recently chose not to extend mining bans to new regions. The governmentâs energy commission, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak, rejected a proposal to ban mining in Khakassia and postponed annual restrictions in Zabaikalsky Krai and Buryatia. However, Moscow has approved a one-year mining ban in the southern part of the Irkutsk region, widely considered the de facto capital of Russian mining.
The post Mining in Russia: fines and asset seizures for illegal operations appeared first on Atlas21.
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2025-06-12 19:17:31watercolors;
https://stacker.news/items/1004775
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2025-06-13 20:01:39While most Bitcoin companies chase quick wins with flashy marketing and complex trading features, Coinfinity is taking a different path. The Austria-based company has built their entire business model around something most brokers treat as an afterthought: education.
Founded on the principle that Bitcoin adoption requires understanding, not just access, Coinfinity offers something great in the Bitcoin space: a broker that actually wants you to take your bitcoin off their platform.
Their Bitcoin Blinks educational series provides a self-custody-first approach, and Austrian economics foundation make them stand out in a crowded field of crypto casinos.
Coinfinityâs HQ in Graz, Austria
At the heart of this educational mission is Fab, Coinfinityâs Head of Bitcoin Education, whose journey to Bitcoin mirrors that of many whoâve found their way to Austrian economics through pure instinct.
âI always had the feeling that something in the world just doesnât add up,â he told Bitcoin News when he sat down with us. âSomethingâs wrong, I donât know what, but I felt like the foundation of our society isnât quite fair, I just never knew what it was.â
Sound familiar?
That hunch eventually led him down a rabbit hole of geopolitics, monetary systems, and finally to Andreas Antonopoulos videos on YouTube.
âI basically disappeared from life for about a week, just watching those videos,â Fab recalled. But it wasnât until he read The Bitcoin Standard that everything clicked.
âI remember it like it was yesterday, I closed the book and thought âHoly s***, now I get it.â That was the moment. From then on, I was Bitcoin-only.â
Many of the best Bitcoin books are in English and translating them is important
Now as Head of Bitcoin Education at Coinfinity and co-founder of Aprycot Media (a German publishing house focused exclusively on Bitcoin), Fab spends his days helping others find that same spark.
And unlike most âcryptoâ companies, Coinfinityâs strategy isnât driven by marketing gimmicks or token launches, itâs driven by teaching.
âOur goal is to create educational content thatâs so easy to understand that people love sharing it,â Fab explained. âWhen they share it, they connect with us. Once they start understanding Bitcoin, they choose us to buy it.â
Most companies buy Google ads. Coinfinity builds minds. With their Bitcoin Blinks, 42 short, clear lessons covering everything from subjective value to seed phrases, theyâre offering what most brokers wonât: context. Meaning. Philosophy.
âIt became quite popular, and we think itâs way more effective for our brand than just buying ads,â Fab said.
And they donât stop there. When it comes to custody, Coinfinity takes a radically different approach than most Bitcoin brokers.
âWhen you buy bitcoin from us, you always take custody, either in our in-app wallet where you control the seed, or your own hardware wallet,â Fab emphasized. âEven our lightning feature works the same way you always buy into your own wallet.â
Thatâs not just a slogan. Itâs a core value of the company that runs so deep theyâre willing to sacrifice user experience for it. âWe never custody your bitcoin,â Fab said. âItâs one of the core values that you custody them yourself.â
Even as fees rise and UTXO management gets harder, Coinfinity stays committed to self-custody. They are open to optional custodial tools in the future, but always paired with education, and always encouraging users to take their bitcoin off-platform when the time is right.
âIf we ever offer custodial services, it would only be to help users stack small amounts until they reach a meaningful UTXO size,â Fab explained.
The plan would involve accumulating smaller purchases monthly or weekly until users hit a threshold, maybe a million sats, then withdrawing to self-custody. âWe donât want to play games with your bitcoin. We donât want to lend it out or earn interest on it.â
Coinfinity emphasizes on self-custody and education, even in its app
The challenge is real though. When new users first encounter Bitcoin, the technical barriers can be overwhelming. âOften causes problems with people just getting into Bitcoin who donât understand what self custody isâ Fab notes.
Thatâs why they built their in-app wallet, to smooth the onboarding while maintaining their self-custody values. âThe in-app wallet was our first step toward optimizing user experience without compromising our core value of bringing bitcoin into self-custody,â he said.
âOne of our taglines is âbringing Bitcoin to the peopleâ and we literally mean that. We want to bring bitcoin to them, not keep it from them.â
Another promising thing the company is doing in their operations is using AI to create more content, faster. Podcast scripts, educational summaries, internal tools, Fabâs even feeding Austrian economics PDFs into models to keep the tone on-brand and Bitcoin-only.
âWeâre using these tools in our business development and marketing teams to generate more output with the same number of people,â he said. But the future looks even more exciting.
âMaybe one day weâll have a tutor in the app where you can do a video call and ask âWhat is a Bitcoin address?â and it will talk back to you naturally, going deeper as you ask more questions,â Fab explained. âThatâs absolutely possible.â
The technology isnât quite there yet for mainstream deployment in their app, but Fab is optimistic. âIâm sure that in the future, this wonât just be used for improving our internal workflow, but for enhancing the content itself,â he said.
Itâs not a pipe dream. The tech is already close. The only thing missing is more Bitcoin-native data and companies like Coinfinity are quietly building that layer.
One of the favorite parts of these interviews is asking the builders in the space what they would ask Satoshi if given one question. When I asked Fab what heâd ask Bitcoinâs creator, he didnât hesitate:
âDid you purposely build Bitcoin based on Austrian economics, or did it just happen by accident?
âAll this monetization theory, Bitcoin being a store of value first, is this something you actually thought was possible and had in mind? Or was it just a lucky shot that accidentally gave us the best monetary properties?â
Because if Satoshi had built Bitcoin with a 2% inflation rate, like some other projects, it mightâve worked. But it wouldnât have lasted.
âHe could have made it with 2% tail emission, it still would have been decentralized. But then today, someone might introduce a coin with a fixed supply that could kill Bitcoin,â Fab noted.
Fab suspects the fixed supply wasnât an accident. And thank God for that.
Whatâs remarkable about Coinfinity isnât just their Austrian approach or their self-custody obsession, itâs how theyâre proving that education-first Bitcoin companies can compete with the flashy crypto casinos dominating the space.
Coinfinity doesnât serve U.S. customers. Theyâre focused on Europe, operating within EU regulations. But what theyâre building, honest Bitcoin education, smart tools, and a relentless push for financial sovereignty, matters everywhere.
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2025-06-12 12:36:22Europa sitzt in einem Demokratie-Simulator. Auf die Scheiben im Cockpit werden Bilder projiziert, die nicht der RealitÀt entsprechen, und es gibt immer noch zu viele Menschen, die diese Simulation nicht erkannt haben.
Nichts wĂ€re erstrebenswerter, als ĂŒber eine positive Entwicklung, hin zur Vernunft und realitĂ€tsbezogenen, auf Tatsachen beruhenden Entscheidungen, berichten zu können. Die Frage ist, ob nicht zuerst unentwegt auf MissstĂ€nde hingewiesen werden muss, um weitere Menschen dazu zu bewegen, sich denjenigen anzuschlieĂen, die offensichtlich an Indoktrinationsintoleranz leiden.
Wer sich vor Hofberichterstattung und die tĂ€gliche Fahrt durch die Gehirnwaschanlage schĂŒtzen will, der meidet den öffentlich-rechtlichen Unfug und die einschlĂ€gigen KĂ€seblĂ€tter, die vielleicht noch halbwegs dazu geeignet sind, den Fisch auf dem Markt einzuschlagen, um ihn nach Hause zu tragen, vorausgesetzt, man kann ihn sich noch leisten.
Die Neuen Medien liefern die Informationen, die man sonst im âQualitĂ€ts-Mainstreamâ nicht finden kann, was nicht verwundert, denn infiltriert von willigen ErfĂŒllungsgehilfen, die Angst um ihr Prestige und ihre Stellung haben, kann man hier keine freie Berichterstattung erwarten.
Beste Unterhaltung bietet auch die Bundespressekonferenz-Show, auf die schon nĂ€her eingegangen wurde. Offizieller Regierungssprech in höchster Perfektion. Ob man dort wirklich davon ĂŒberzeugt ist, dass es irgendjemanden gibt, der diesen Verlautbarungen Glauben schenkt? Was hat Tante KĂ€the immer gesagt: G E L D   L O C K T   I M M E R !
Was also tun? Die Neuen Medien auch noch meiden, und sich vor dem blanken Wahnsinn schĂŒtzen, in dem man ihn ignoriert, was jedoch nicht bewirkt, dass er nicht mehr da wĂ€re.
TemporÀre Abstinenz tut auch hier gut, allerdings ist der Wiedereinstieg so Àhnlich, wie der erste Arbeitstag nach einem zweimonatigen Urlaub, falls man nicht in seinem Lieblings-Job gelandet ist.
Und was, wenn die Irren vollends durchdrehen, und man bekommt es nicht mit? Schön, Ă€ndern kann man vielleicht wenig, aber man kann sich vielleicht noch eine richtig gute, edle Flasche Rotwein kaufen, und die am Vorabend des Untergangs genieĂen, oder noch schnell einen Baum pflanzen.
Hier ein Beispiel fĂŒr jemanden, dessen besonderer Blick sehr an den Universal-Gesundheits-Klima-Hysteriker erinnert:
https\://rumble.com/v6umjdj-respekt-und-anerkennung-deutscher-general-lobt-ukrainische-angriffe-in-russ.html
Wie sieht der Alltag aus, wenn man sich einmal nicht mit den Informationen ĂŒber Dauer- Bekloppte beschĂ€ftigt?
Wenn sich ein Besuch in der nĂ€chst gröĂeren Stadt nicht vermeiden lĂ€sst, sieht man vor allem gehetzte Menschen, viele mit einem finsteren Blick, anders, als frĂŒher.
Viele zahlen mit Karte oder ihrem Handy, KleckerbetrĂ€ge. âZahlen Sie noch bar, oder schon mit Ăberwachung?â, wĂŒnschte man sich, dass die VerkĂ€uferinnen den Kunden fragen wĂŒrden. Tun sie aber nicht.
Die Menschen scheinen keine Ahnung zu haben, was auf sie zukommt. Im Oktober soll der digitale Euro eingefĂŒhrt werden, natĂŒrlich zuerst nur freiwillig. Was das bedeutet, kennt man ja schon. Freiwilligkeit durch das Schaffen eines Raumes, in dem der Zwang in der Luft hĂ€ngt, wie damals der Kohlenstaub im Ruhrgebiet. Es wird die persönliche ID vorangetrieben, mit einem Wallet, das die AnonymitĂ€t und die persönliche Freiheit immer mehr aushöhlen will.
Europa soll unter einen Demokratie-Schutzschirm gestellt werden, der zu nichts anderem dient, als dass diejenigen, die derzeit glauben zu wissen, was gut fĂŒr die Menschen ist, ihre kruden Vorstellungen auch durchsetzen können. Zweifelhaft, was in den USA vorgeht, was da gerade mit Palantir, natĂŒrlich nur zur Sicherheit der Amerikaner, so im Hintergrund schon anlĂ€uft. Hierzu gibt es interessante Informationen von Regenauer und Tögel. Einziger Hoffnungsschimmer, besonders fĂŒr Deutschland: Das klappt sowieso nicht. In den hintersten Bergdörfern in den italienischen Alpen gibt es Glasfaseranschluss, und fĂ€hrt man in Deutschland aufâs Land, reiht sich Funkloch an Funkloch.
Die wirklich wichtige und groĂe Frage ist, wie können sich Gemeinschaften, die diesen Irrsinn nicht mitmachen wollen, weitgehend aus dem System ausklinken? Bitcoin ist ein erster Schritt zur finanziellen UnabhĂ€ngigkeit. Eine regionale Lebensmittelversorgung, mit nicht verseuchten, genunmanipulierten, mit Schadstoffen weitgehend unbelasteten Produkten entwickelt sich ebenfalls schon sehr gut. Was, wenn der Zugang zu Informationen ĂŒber das Internet von einer Anmeldung mit persönlicher ID abhĂ€ngt und man will und hat keine? Was ist mit Dokumenten, wenn man verreisen oder das Land verlassen will? Was ist, wenn man krank wird und auf das noch vorhandene Rest-Gesundheitssystem angewiesen ist? Was, wenn das Unternehmen seine Mitarbeiter auf staatliche Anweisung zu etwas zwingen muss, was der Mitarbeiter vielleicht gar nicht will, er aber auf das Einkommen angewiesen ist?
Das alles sind Fragen, zu denen es schwer ist, auch in den Neuen Medien, passende Antworten zu finden. Die wĂŒrden in der Tat Hoffnung machen, dass es ein Schlupfloch gibt, sich, wenn vielleicht auch mit EinschrĂ€nkungen, den âdemokratischenâ VerhĂ€ltnissen, auf denen nur noch Demokratie draufsteht, aber sehr wenig bis keine Demokratie mehr drin ist, so weit es geht zu entziehen. Sachdienliche Hinweise gerne in der Kommentarfunktion.
Oder ist es âgesĂŒnderâ, sich zurĂŒckzuziehen, die Klappe zu halten und dafĂŒr zu sorgen, dass man unter dem Radar bleibt? Diese Gabe ist leider nicht jedem gegeben. Besonders nicht denen, die einen ausgeprĂ€gten Wahrheitssinn und ein starkes GerechtigkeitsgefĂŒhl haben.
Menschen die andere belĂŒgen, die werden geliebt. Menschen, die anderen sagen, dass sie belogen werden, die werden gehasst.
âDie Wahrheit ist dem Menschen zumutbar.â (Ingeborg Bachmann)
âKein Mensch hat das Recht zu gehorchen.â (Hannah Ahrendt)
âDieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben.â
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(Bild von pixabay)
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2025-06-12 11:03:57Wir können davon ausgehen, dass die allermeisten Personen, die das hier lesen, die realen Funktionen der Mainstream-Medien schon lĂ€nger erkannt haben. Diese bestehen vor allem darin, der Bevölkerung das von den herrschenden KrĂ€ften gewĂŒnschte Bild der Wirklichkeit zu vermitteln oder ĂŒberhaupt zu erzeugen. Der Altmeister der Propaganda, Edward Bernays, hat dies bereits 1928 beschrieben, als die Massenmedien nur aus Tageszeitungen bestanden:
«Die bewusste und intelligente Manipulation der organisierten Gewohnheiten und Meinungen der Massen ist ein wichtiges Element einer demokratischen Gesellschaft.»
Und an anderer Stelle: «Diejenigen, die diesen unsichtbaren Mechanismus der Gesellschaft manipulieren, bilden eine unsichtbare Regierung, die die wahre herrschende Macht unseres Landes ist.» Oder Noam Chomsky, einer der gelehrtesten Kritiker staatlicher MachtausĂŒbung:
«Indoktrination ist keineswegs inkompatibel mit der Demokratie. Vielmehr ihre Essenz. Ohne KnĂŒppel, ohne Kontrolle durch Gewalt muss man das Denken kontrollieren. Dazu greift man zu dem, was in ehrlicheren Zeiten Propaganda genannt wurde.»
Man könnte noch eine ganze Reihe weiterer höchst aussagekrĂ€ftiger Zitate anfĂŒhren, von Walter Lippman («Die öffentliche Meinung»), Gustave Le Bon («Psychologie der Massen») bis hin zu John F. Kennedy oder ganz aktuell Mattias Desmet («Massenbildung»). Nichts davon ist neu, alles wurde seit Anfang des 20. Jahrhunderts ausfĂŒhrlich und sehr konkret beschrieben.
Und doch kennt die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung keine einzige dieser Aussagen.
Jeder, der selbst seinen ureigenen Erkenntnisprozess durchgemacht hat, kommt unweigerlich zu dem Ergebnis, dass die Welt, wie sie uns durch Politik und Medien vorgespielt wird, zumeist nichts anderes ist als ein groĂes Schauspiel. Stets werden die wahren Absichten und Ziele verborgen, nie wird die ganze Wahrheit enthĂŒllt, höchstens ein paar StĂŒcke davon, wenn es sich gar nicht mehr verhindern lĂ€sst.
«Macht hat derjenige, der groĂe Ereignisse herbeifĂŒhren kann. Doch noch gröĂere Macht haben diejenigen, die bestimmen können, was die Menschen ĂŒber die Ereignisse denken» (aus: «Hinter der Zukunft»).
Diese Erkenntnis hat bei vielen zu dem Entschluss gefĂŒhrt, die «Unwissenden» ĂŒber diese Tatsachen zu informieren. Denn es kann ja nicht sein, dass sich Familie, Freunde, Bekannte weiterhin so tĂ€uschen lassen. Die groĂe Ent-TĂ€uschung war das Ziel. Doch das Ergebnis war die eigentliche EnttĂ€uschung: hitzige Diskussionen, Streitereien am Familientisch, Abbruch von Freundschaften. Selbst das VorfĂŒhren des Einsturzes von WTC 7, dem dritten GebĂ€ude, das am 11. September 2001 in Fallgeschwindigkeit vollkommen symmetrisch eingestĂŒrzt war, konnte nicht ĂŒberzeugen.
Verschwörungstheorien?
Alles Verschwörungstheorien. Seit der Ermordung John F. Kennedys hat dieser Begriff â ursprĂŒnglich von der CIA eingefĂŒhrt â ein immer gröĂeres Minenfeld wachsen lassen, um Themen von offener Diskussion abzuschirmen. In diesem Minenfeld sind unzĂ€hlige Freundschaften explodiert, Karrieren abgestĂŒrzt und Menschen in die innere Isolation getrieben worden. Deshalb muss es hier erwĂ€hnt werden. Denn das ist die Gefahr, in die sich jeder begibt, der versucht, ĂŒber seine Erkenntnisse zu sprechen oder zu schreiben. Die Gefahr des sozialen Ausschlusses. Ein schauerliches Beispiel lieferte Anfang Mai in menschenverachtender Weise ein gewisser Böhmermann ab. Sein Ziel war es, den Betreiber des youtube-Kanals Clownswelt, der die Machenschaften des medialen und politischen Personals satirisch zum Vorschein bringt, gesellschaftlich zu vernichten. Denn das ist das Damoklesschwert, das ĂŒber denjenigen hĂ€ngt, die das Minenfeld betreten, Tabus antasten und das Overton-window verlassen. Diffamierung, sozialer Ausschluss, Job-Verlust. Reicht auch das nicht, so droht die KĂŒndigung des Bankkontos oder gar eine Hausdurchsuchung. Alles hundertfach geschehen. Und der NormalbĂŒrger hat absolut keine Idee, dass so etwas ĂŒberhaupt in unserem Staat geschieht. Denn es kommt nicht in der Tagesschau, im Spiegel oder der SZ.
Ratlosigkeit, Verzweiflung bis hin zu Aggression sind oft die Folge dieser weltanschaulichen Zweiteilung. Wie ist es möglich, dass Menschen das Offensichtliche nicht sehen, selbst wenn es im Video vor ihnen ablĂ€uft? Wenn man sich die LĂŒgenkonstrukte um Klima, Corona oder Ukraine ansieht, dann könnte man daran verzweifeln, dass es die «Anderen» nicht begreifen. Wenn die Dinge derart klar zu sehen sind, wieso gelingt es dann nicht, andere davon zu ĂŒberzeugen? Nicht wenige zogen sich zurĂŒck, recherchierten noch ausfĂŒhrlicher, fanden einen Hinweis nach dem anderen, dass die Welt und ihre Systeme ganz anders beschaffen sind, als es dem NormalbĂŒrger vorgegaukelt wird. Dabei musste jeder â wirklich jeder â fĂŒr sich immer neu die Grenze dessen finden, was noch glaubhaft war und was nicht.
Wie viele Stunden, Tage, Monate verbrachte (und verbringt) ein durch diesen Prozess gegangener Mensch mit seinen Recherchen? Wie oft ist er in die Falle einer Theorie geraten, die sich im Nachhinein als erfunden herausgestellt hat? Wie viele Texte zu historischen VorgÀngen, zu verborgenen Organisationen, zu Kindesmissbrauch, satanischen Riten oder Blutlinien wollen noch erforscht werden? Wann ist man zufrieden mit den teils radikalen Anpassungen seines eigenen Weltbildes? Wann darf man sich als «aufgewacht» bezeichnen?
Wie gelingt VerstÀndigung?
Wenn ein Elektrotechnik Ingenieur einem Laien die Regelungstechnik erklĂ€rt, so wird er kaum auf groĂes VerstĂ€ndnis stoĂen. Wenn ein «Master in Conspiracy Theory» einem Tagesschauseher die Welt erklĂ€rt, wie wahrscheinlich ist es, dass hier VerstĂ€ndnis entsteht? Wenn jemand, der in 30 telegram KanĂ€len ca. 500 Artikel zu Covid-Ursprung, mRNA, Lipidnanopartikel und Ct-Wert beim PCR Test gelesen hat, der VerkĂ€uferin bei REWE klarmachen will, dass Masken keinen Nutzen haben: wie hoch ist die Wahrscheinlichkeit, dass er Erfolg hat? Diese Beispiele sollen eines verdeutlichen: die InformationshintergrĂŒnde sind inzwischen derart fundamental verschieden, dass kaum noch VerstĂ€ndigung gelingt. Der entscheidende Unterschied besteht darin, dass die Informationskompetenten beide Seiten der Medaille kennen, wĂ€hrend der andere Teil der Bevölkerung nur die eine, die «offizielle» Seite kennt.
Was aber bewegt Menschen ĂŒberhaupt dazu, immer tiefer zu recherchieren, um dabei das eigene Weltbild gezielt zu erweitern und anzupassen? Es ist â neben dem Wunsch nach mehr Gerechtigkeit â das BedĂŒrfnis nach Sinnfindung in dieser Welt. Ein elementares BedĂŒrfnis, das in der Rangliste unserer Motive sehr weit oben steht. Hierbei geht es nicht um den Lebenssinn â dazu kommen wir gleich â sondern um das VerstĂ€ndnis dessen, was uns als die «ÀuĂere Welt» prĂ€sentiert wird. Mit all ihren Verwerfungen, Ungerechtigkeiten, politischen Ideologien und so weiter. Denn es ist schlieĂlich diese Welt, in der wir leben, in der wir uns zurechtfinden, in der wir unseren Lebensunterhalt verdienen mĂŒssen. Die spannende Frage ist also eher: Weshalb geben sich so viele mit der OberflĂ€che zufrieden?
Die Antwort ist erstaunlich einfach: aus Angst. Angst davor, das bisher als sicher geglaubte in Frage stellen zu mĂŒssen, den sicheren Boden des eigenen Weltbildes unter den FĂŒĂen zu verlieren. Deshalb stieg in den dunklen Covid-Jahren das Vertrauen in Politik und staatsnahe Medien massiv an. Denn wer mit einer â scheinbar â tödlichen Gefahr konfrontiert wird, der sucht in diesem Moment nicht nach neuen Informationsquellen, sondern bleibt bei dem, was man schon immer kannte â vor allem, wenn das auch die Mehrheit macht!
Das zweite Erwachen
Bei allem BemĂŒhen, die ZusammenhĂ€nge dieser Welt zu verstehen, kommen viele an einen Punkt, an dem sie realisieren, dass sie erstens: Nie alles verstehen werden. Und zweitens: Dass es Wichtigeres gibt. Das mag ĂŒberraschend klingen, aber genauso ist es. Das Leben selbst offenbart sich uns nicht am Bildschirm, nicht in Recherchen oder in immer weiterfĂŒhrenden Artikeln. Das Leben im Hier und Jetzt kann nur erfahren und gelebt werden. Das gröĂte Hindernis dabei ist â unser Verstand. Also genau das «Organ», das uns immer weiter in die Tiefen der scheinbaren RealitĂ€tserkenntnis treibt ist zugleich verantwortlich dafĂŒr, dass wir uns vom Leben selbst entfernen. Welch merkwĂŒrdige Erkenntnis. Ist es ĂŒberhaupt eine Erkenntnis oder nicht viel eher eine Behauptung? Genau an diesem Punkt geht es um ein zweites Erwachen! Nicht aus der polit-medialen Illusionsmatrix, sondern aus der Matrix unserer scheinbar rein materiellen Welt.
Ist dies eine ZwangslĂ€ufigkeit? Wohl kaum. Ist es notwendig? In gewisser Weise: ja. Denn nur der Abstand von dieser als ungerecht, grausam oder hoffnungslos empfundenen Welt befreit von Wut, Ohnmacht und Empörung. Im Artikel «Wachstum nach Innen» auf manova wird dieser Prozess ausfĂŒhrlicher beschrieben. Zitat:
«Heute leben wir zum ersten Mal in der Menschheitsgeschichte (!) in einer Epoche, in der es dem Einzelnen frei steht, seinen ganz eigenen Zugang zur SpiritualitĂ€t zu suchen und zu finden. Es ist dies vielleicht die gröĂte Herausforderung, der sich ein Mensch stellen kann!»
An diesem Punkt ist jeder auf sich selbst zurĂŒckgeworfen. Hier geht es nicht um Religionszugehörigkeit oder kirchliche Traditionen, sondern um authentische Erfahrungen.
Die Möglichkeit dieses zweiten «Erwachens», bringt ein Versprechen mit sich: wahrhafte Befreiung. Zum Beispiel von dem Wunsch, immer noch tiefer graben zu wollen. Oder stets andere ĂŒberzeugen zu wollen. Oder sich ĂŒberlegen zu fĂŒhlen. Es fĂŒhrt unweigerlich zu einer Relativierung: wem oder was gebe ich Bedeutung? Denn diese Freiheit kommt garantiert mit: die Freiheit, selbst Bedeutung verleihen zu können! Nicht mehr getrieben zu sein, viel öfter ein Wahl zu haben.
Sollte das wie ein Ausweichen oder gar RĂŒckzug aus der Welt klingen, so wĂ€re das ein MissverstĂ€ndnis. Es ist eine VerĂ€nderung des Standpunktes, des Fokus. TatsĂ€chlich bringt es auch einen gewissen Abstand mit sich, zu dem was «da drauĂen» geschieht. Denn welche Erfahrungen der Einzelne auch selbst gemacht haben mag, wie auch immer er sie interpretiert: die Welt ist nicht mehr dieselbe.
Damit einher geht eine VerĂ€nderung der GefĂŒhlswelt. Wo vorher vielfach Empörung, Ărger oder Wut vorherrschten kann mit dieser inneren Distanz vieles weniger emotional betrachtet werden. In der Dauerempörung liegt zwar einerseits Energie, um sich zu engagieren, zugleich liegt darin aber die groĂe Gefahr, auszubrennen. Daniele Ganser, einer der ganz wichtigen AufklĂ€rer unserer Zeit, bietet nicht umsonst seit Jahren Seminare zum Thema «Achtsamkeit» an. Dabei geht es vor allem um unsere innere Wahrnehmung, um einen Abstand zwischen «Ich» und meinem GefĂŒhl oder BedĂŒrfnis. Eine wichtige Voraussetzung, um aus der Spirale der NegativitĂ€t zu entkommen. Denn diese Gefahr ist allgegenwĂ€rtig. WĂ€hrend Tagesschau & Co permanent Angst erzeugen vor Klima, Viren oder Putin, so wird in den «alternativen Medien» Ă€hnliches geboten, nur mit anderem Vorzeichen. Die Bedrohung der mĂ€chtigen Organisationen WEF, UN, WHO, Nato, EU u. a., die Planung der Bargeldabschaffung, der digitalen ID, des persönlichen CO2-Budgets⊠Dies sind reale Vorhaben, keine Frage. Ob und wie sie jemals RealitĂ€t werden kann aus heutiger Sicht jedoch niemand beantworten. Die Welt verĂ€ndert sich derzeit schneller als seit Jahrzehnten. Und manche Sorgen bewahrheiten sich zum GlĂŒck nicht.
Der eigene Wirkungsbereich
Die stĂ€ndige BeschĂ€ftigung mit diesen Bedrohungen bedroht vor allem eines: die eigene LebensqualitĂ€t. Wie kann man das Wahre, Schöne, Gute erkennen, wenn man sich tagein, tagaus mit LĂŒge, Verbrechern, Komplotten beschĂ€ftigt? Schwierig bis unmöglich.
«Ăndere, was du Ă€ndern kannst, bleibe gelassen, bei allem was du nicht Ă€ndern kannst und lerne zeitlebens, das eine vom anderen zu unterscheiden».
Es ist eine der Ă€ltesten Lebensweisheiten, und doch ist sie so gĂŒltig wie eh und je. Die Herausforderung besteht gerade im Unterscheiden. Es geht um den eigenen Wirkungsbereich, denn dies ist der einzige Ort, wo tatsĂ€chlich etwas bewirkt werden kann. Wie groĂ der jeweils ist, das unterscheidet sich tatsĂ€chlich massiv. Zudem ist er nicht statisch. Es kann ein berechtigtes Ziel sein, diesen Bereich auszudehnen. Ăber Social Media, eigene Artikel, Diskussionsrunden, Demos, Events, Videos, was auch immer.
NatĂŒrlich geschieht das seit Jahren vielfach, einige Websites und KanĂ€le haben weit ĂŒber 100.000 Leser oder Follower. Doch auch wenn die Reichweite gröĂer wird, so steigt die Zufriedenheit nicht unbedingt in gleichem MaĂ. Denn stets muss man erkennen, dass die mit Milliarden finanzierten staatsnahen Medien beliebigen Schrott produzieren können und damit mehr Menschen erreichen, als die mit viel Herzblut erstellten eigenen Arbeiten. Und irgendwann stellt sich dann die Frage: «Was bringt das alles?» Oder, wie Gunnar Kaiser am Ende seiner bewundernswerten TĂ€tigkeit: «Habe ich genug getan»?
Habe ich genug getan
Dies ist die Frage, auf die es keine Antwort gibt. Was wĂ€re denn genug? Einen Menschen davor bewahrt zu haben, sich eine experimentelle Substanz injizieren zu lassen und damit mögliche GesundheitsschĂ€den zu erleiden? Wieso nicht. Hunderte Menschen zum Nachdenken gebracht, Tausenden Lesern ein GefĂŒhl von «Ich-bin-nicht-allein» gegeben zu haben? Absolut! Hunderttausende Kommentare geben ein lebendiges Feedback, eine BestĂ€tigung, dass man wertvolle Arbeit leistet. Es sind heute Millionen mehr, als zu Beginn der dunklen Pandemie-Jahre. Das ist der Wirkungskreis, den man sich erarbeitet hat, in dem ein Teil der Menschheitsfamilie eine geistige Heimat findet, fernab der permanenten Indoktrinationsversuche. Das ist es wert.
Und es gibt noch eine weitere positive Seite: man lernt Gleichgesinnte kennen und kann endlich ĂŒber all das diskutieren, was man schon lĂ€ngst mit jemandem teilen wollte! Dies ist in keiner Weise sarkastisch gemeint, denn es ist elementar fĂŒr jeden von uns, frei und offen sprechen zu können, ohne den Zensor im Kopf. Man lernt höchst interessante Menschen kennen - ĂŒberall auf der Welt. Die man ohne Covid & Co niemals kennengelernt hĂ€tte. Vielleicht ergibt sich daraus das eine oder andere Projekt, das in die Zukunft weist? Auch das ist es wert.
KlĂ€re die Menschen auf\ und Tyrannei und UnterdrĂŒckung \ von Körper und Geist werden verschwinden.\ Gerade so wie die bösen Geister\ wenn die Morgensonne ihre Strahlen sendet.
Thomas Jefferson
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2025-06-13 19:03:33Marty's Bent
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"The man in the coma" has been a long-running archetype of a bitcoiner on TFTC and Rabbit Hole Recap. Over the years, we've referenced the man in the coma in regards to bitcoin being a backward compatible distributed network that would enable an individual, in the case of our example - a man who fell into a coma, to be able to wake up many years, even decades, after falling into a deep sleep, go back to his bitcoin node and be able to participate in the network and validate his own transactions as if the network was operating the same it was the day he slipped into a coma. As a distributed network, this is one of bitcoin's greatest value props; consistency for the individual running it, no matter the version.
Having spent 12 years engrossed in bitcoin, thinking about it every day, building a media company focused on educating people about the network and the monetary revolution it enables, why it's important and how they can use it. Becoming a managing partner at Ten31, which is dedicated to investing in companies building out infrastructure that makes bitcoin more accessible and easier to use; "the man in the coma" has become a more prominent archetype in my mind.
"The man in the coma" archetype can be described in other ways. For instance, there was an individual by the name of John Doe, who joined myself and Matt Odell on TFTC about seven years ago who went to jail for four years. He was distributing certain goods on the Silk Road for many years and got nabbed by the police while throwing a house party. Unfortunately for Mr. Doe, the goods he were selling via the Silk Road were in the house hosting the party that got busted. Fortunately for Mr. Doe, the police who nabbed him were not privy to the way in which he was marketing and selling the goods. He went to jail for four years, walked out at the end of his sentence, found his bitcoin wallets, recovered them and was more than pleasantly surprised at the magnitude of his wealth.
The forced hodl that was incited by the state throwing him in a cage wound up paying off after four years. Now, I can certainly admit that time is the most scarce asset in the world. Being put in a cage for four years or falling into a coma for a number of years is not ideal. However, there are lessons to be gleaned from the successes that have been realized by "the man in the coma" and the man who was forced to hodl by being thrown in a cage. Unable to access his bitcoin during that period of time to make less than wise decisions.
The main lesson to be gleaned is that doing nothing is oftentimes significantly more optimal than doing something. Too many bitcoiners decide to make rash decisions influenced by the day-to-day happenings on social media or some one-off comment from someone in their personal life that they respect. These comments can be about the long-term viability of bitcoin itself, some prognostications about where the price is going in a short-term to medium-term time frame or simply the social aspects of being associated with bitcoin. All of these factors play into influencing certain individuals deciding to sell their bitcoin in the hopes of buying it back lower, realizing something material in their day-to-day life or jumping off a ship that they've been convinced is about to sink.
In my mind, the only thing listed above that makes a bit of sense to me is realizing something material in your day-to-day life. Selling some bitcoin to purchase something that makes your life better like enabling you to support your family at a critical time and in a way that would not be possible unless you sold bitcoin. That makes sense to me. However, the other two are completely nonsensical. Bitcoin's success is binary. It either succeeds or it doesn't. And if you accept that this is true, success means slowly but surely becoming the global reserve currency and monetary network used by billions of humans on the planet or it goes to zero.
If the former materializes, that means that billions of people are going to be competing for 21 million Bitcoin. There are, by some estimates, $900 trillion worth of assets that are being used to store wealth over the short, medium, and long term. Bitcoin has the potential to subsume a material percentage of that $900 trillion. In my mind, if bitcoin is as good as I believe it is, it should take at least half of that market, if not 80 to 90%. This in and of itself is a gamble. No one can be certain that this will come true. And with that in mind you have to make a probabilistic bet by surveying the world and discerning what the likelihood of bitcoin's ultimate success is.
If you think governments, central banks, and large corporations are going to continue down the path of unfettered expansion of the monetary base, debt, and misallocation of capital, bitcoin, a peer-to-peer distributed cash system that cannot be controlled by any individual. corporation, country, or central bank makes a lot of sense. The debasement, the debt expansion, and the misallocation of capital are driven by fallible humans working in incentive structures that are vulnerable to the fallible nature of the humans working within them.
Human fallibility brings with it the ability to talk oneself out of a position that one knows makes sense and is logical. This is the disadvantage that those who are not "the man in the coma" or "the man in a cage" operate from. Being forced to hodl bitcoin is already and will increasingly be seen as a relative advantage. Many who are in bitcoin today, paying attention to every headline, every pull request and every doubt flung their way will likely get to 2030 and agree that they made worse decisions than the man who was thrown in a cage or who slipped into a coma.
Of course, this isn't a fair introspective conclusion. The man in the coma and the man who was forced to hodl because he was put in a jail cell did not have a decision at the end of the day. Both were forced to hodl due to external or internal forces that, all else being equal, they would prefer not have had to endure. However, the outcome of these two situations will likely be better than the outcome of "the man in the arena" who thinks that by making decisions on the go as a slew of information comes his way on a day-to-day basis will materialize in a larger stack of satoshis.
The reality of the situation is such that no one truly knows where bitcoin is going to go on a day-to-day, month-to-month, or year-to-year basis. Especially at this point with large institutions, nation-states, corporations, and individual states getting into the fray. The only tried-and-true strategy within bitcoin over the long term is to stay humble, stack sats, and hodl like you are "the man in the coma" or the man who was thrown in a cage.
Bitcoin's Volatility Won't End With Institutional Adoption
Leon Wankum challenged the popular "supercycle" narrative during our conversation, arguing that Bitcoin's volatility isn't going away despite massive institutional adoption. While acknowledging that MicroStrategy now holds over 2% of all Bitcoin and won't sell, Leon maintains that leverage will still need to be washed out. He expects another 60% drawdown at the end of this bull cycle, viewing this as a feature rather than a bug of Bitcoin's design.
"Bitcoin naturally washes out leverage, it builds resilience and we don't go through these crazy boom and bust cycles, we go through bull and bear markets and I think that's a net positive." - Leon Wankum
Leon sees Bitcoin's volatility as fundamentally different from fiat's destructive boom-bust cycles. Where traditional markets require central bank intervention to prop up failing systems, Bitcoin's regular corrections create genuine resilience. Bad actors will always enter during euphoric phases, and the subsequent washouts ensure only strong hands remain. This natural selection process, he argues, is beautiful - it's what makes Bitcoin antifragile.
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