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Bên cạnh việc thúc đẩy tư duy tài chính cá nhân, vn78 còn xây dựng một môi trường quản lý thời gian đáng học hỏi. Một trong những thử thách lớn của người hiện đại là làm chủ thời gian – tài nguyên hữu hạn nhưng dễ bị lãng phí. Các tính năng chơi thông minh trên VN78 như giới hạn thời gian, nhắc nhở đặt cược có kiểm soát, hay bảng theo dõi lịch sử hoạt động, đều giúp người chơi hiểu rõ hơn về nhịp độ sử dụng thời gian của bản thân. Điều này tạo điều kiện để họ xây dựng thói quen kiểm soát thời lượng giải trí, không để ảnh hưởng đến công việc hay đời sống cá nhân. VN78 luôn truyền tải thông điệp rõ ràng: chơi là để giải trí, thư giãn và làm giàu tinh thần – nhưng mọi thứ phải nằm trong sự chủ động của người chơi. Bằng việc cung cấp công cụ theo dõi, cảnh báo và thống kê thời gian sử dụng, VN78 giúp người dùng rèn luyện tính kỷ luật và biết cân đối giữa vui chơi và trách nhiệm cuộc sống, từ đó định hình nên phong cách sống hiện đại, hiệu quả và lành mạnh hơn mỗi ngày.

Không dừng lại ở tư duy tài chính và quản lý thời gian, VN78 còn đồng hành cùng người dùng trong việc nâng cao ý thức về giá trị bền vững của trải nghiệm sống. Với các chương trình khuyến mãi thiết kế thông minh, chính sách thưởng linh hoạt theo hành vi chơi có trách nhiệm và chu kỳ nạp – rút rõ ràng, nền tảng này khuyến khích người dùng quay lại không phải vì cảm giác may rủi, mà vì sự ổn định, minh bạch và giá trị dài hạn mà họ nhận được. Việc xây dựng hệ sinh thái tích hợp nhiều tiện ích như ứng dụng di động, hỗ trợ trực tuyến 24/7, nạp rút qua ví điện tử và ngân hàng uy tín khiến VN78 trở thành một phần trong thói quen tiêu dùng số hiện đại. Đây không chỉ là nơi mang lại giải trí, mà còn là công cụ hỗ trợ người dùng học cách đánh giá giá trị của mỗi lựa chọn – từ thời gian, tiền bạc đến mức độ cam kết cá nhân. Khi tư duy bền vững và thái độ sống có trách nhiệm được khuyến khích từ những trải nghiệm nhỏ nhất như vậy, VN78 đã và đang góp phần hình thành một thế hệ người dùng mới – chủ động, tỉnh táo và thông minh hơn trong mọi quyết định cuộc sống.

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The Agama Lizard live in small social groups consisting of a dominant male and several subordinate males and females.

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CHAPTER THIRTY FIVE

“Ladies and gentlemen,” James began, his voice firm but serene, “we have reached a stage where the name JP Enterprises must stand not only for affluence and innovation but also for responsibility and reinvention.”

The team leaned in, captivated by his tone.

“I’ve given this much thought,” he continued, “and it’s time we invested not just in profitable ventures but in communities especially those that raised men like me.”

Whispers of approval circled the room. James unfolded a series of blueprints and documents, revealing a new initiative named The Phoenix Foundation, a massive philanthropic wing of JP Enterprises aimed at funding education, rebuilding impoverished neighborhoods, and providing mentorship for underprivileged youth.

“This isn’t charity,” James clarified. “This is legacy.”

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, Mark and Helen were dealing with the crushing weight of public disgrace. Their failed scheme had made headlines. Investors withdrew, associates distanced themselves, and even loyal allies now whispered behind their backs.

Helen slammed a newspaper onto the glass table in frustration. “They’ve blacklisted us from another tender. Mark, we’re becoming irrelevant!”

Mark, who had been pacing the room like a caged animal, finally stopped. “It’s not over. We still have leverage somewhere. James isn’t invincible.”

Helen scoffed. “Tell that to the world. They worship the ground he walks on. You think you can bring down a man who rose from being a street outcast to owning the city’s largest enterprise?”

Mark’s eyes darkened. “He bleeds, Helen. Everyone has a weak spot. We just haven’t found him yet.”

But even as their desperation festered, James was rising even higher. A televised interview had been scheduled where he would unveil The Phoenix Foundation. The nation watched eagerly. Sitting on a minimalist stage, flanked by banners of the foundation’s vision, James spoke from the heart.

“I know what it means to be invisible,” he said. “I know what hunger, shame, and rejection feel like. I’ve lived it. But I also know the power of one opportunity, one person who believes in you. Through this foundation, I want to be that person for thousands.”

The applause was thunderous, not only from the live audience but from homes, offices, and schools where people were inspired by his journey.

The days following the televised launch of The Phoenix Foundation brought waves of admiration and support from across the country. Letters of gratitude flooded JP Enterprises from parents whose children now had access to scholarships, to small business owners revitalized by community grants. James, once shunned and dismissed, was now a symbol of unshakable strength, resilience, and grace under fire.

But in the shadows, the remnants of Mark and Helen’s influence continued to decay.

With the media fixated on James’s rise and the overwhelming success of the foundation, Helen had become a recluse, seldom leaving her estate. The curtains were always drawn, the halls eerily quiet, and every incoming call was a potential threat to her already-battered reputation. Her once-prized social invitations had vanished, and even her closest acquaintances now found convenient excuses to avoid her.

One afternoon, as she sat on her leather chaise, surrounded by unopened letters and wilting orchids, her phone buzzed. It was Mark.

"We need to talk," his voice came through, rough and urgent.

"Unless you’ve figured out a way to reverse time or erase James from existence, I’m not interested," she replied dryly, her voice thick with exhaustion.

"I’ve been digging into his foundation. There might be something," he said, the faintest glimmer of his former arrogance returning.

Helen raised a skeptical brow. "You mean the only project that has made him a national hero overnight? Do enlighten me."

Mark hesitated for a moment, then spoke. "I have a contact. Someone who worked closely with James during his street days. She claims there's more to his story, something about a deal gone wrong before Ray Enterprises even noticed him."

Helen’s eyes narrowed. "You better not be chasing another ghost story, Mark. We’ve lost everything playing that game."

Meanwhile, back at JP Enterprises, James was unaware of the new whispers trailing behind him. His focus remained undivided, channeling his efforts into real progress. He visited schools sponsored by the foundation, shook hands with young entrepreneurs, and held intimate town hall meetings to listen to citizens’ concerns. His sincerity was unmistakable.

One evening, as he stood at the balcony of his high-rise office, looking over the city he once roamed as a stranger, his uncle Charles joined him.

"You’ve come a long way, James," Charles said, resting a firm hand on his shoulder. "Your father may have doubted you once, but now he sees what we always knew: you're more than capable of carrying this legacy."

James nodded slowly. "It’s not about the legacy anymore, Uncle. It’s about changing lives. If we succeed, JP Enterprises won’t just be remembered for profit margins, it'll be remembered for its heart."

And indeed, that heart had begun to beat in places once forgotten.

"Sir, there's something you might want to take a look at," James's personal assistant said as she stepped into his office, holding a manila folder with both hands.

James looked up from his tablet, where he had been reviewing the upcoming development plans for The Phoenix Foundation outreach program in rural districts. "Is it urgent?"

Tracy’s expression was uneasy. "I believe so. It slipped into the front reception without a name. Just labeled ‘To the President, Personal.’ We scanned the documents. They’re… sensitive."

James gestured for her to bring it over. He leaned back in his chair as she placed the folder before him and stepped away. Slowly, he opened it, revealing a series of photographs, transcripts, and one shocking email thread. His eyes narrowed as he scanned the contents. There it was detailed records of recent communications between Mark and a former government contractor, outlining a clandestine attempt to discredit The Phoenix Foundation by faking embezzlement allegations.

"So they haven’t learned their lesson," James muttered to himself, his jaw tightening.

Tracy, standing silently nearby, asked cautiously, "Should I inform legal?"

"Not yet," he replied, standing and pacing toward the window. "Let them think they still have the upper hand. We’ll collect more. I want this to be their final mistake, not just another slap on the wrist."

From the 39th floor, the skyline shimmered in the twilight. But beneath the golden hues of the sunset, darkness moved silently, calculating its next step.

Across town, in an upscale but dimly lit lounge, Mark and Helen sat across from each other, their faces drawn and wary. They were meeting a woman known only as "Seraphina," a discreet broker of information and, when needed, scandal.

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CHAPTER THIRTY FOUR

One evening, as the amber light of sunset poured through the massive windows of his penthouse, James sat quietly with a leather-bound journal in hand. It was filled with handwritten notes, sketches of business concepts, and scribbled affirmations from the years he spent in isolation.

Each page was a memory. A scar. A vow.

There, in solitude, his thoughts returned to the past not with bitterness, but with clarity. He remembered the cold nights behind Ray Enterprises, the condescending glares, the endless humiliation. Yet, in those moments of degradation, a fire had been lit within him a fire that now fueled empires.

Suddenly, his phone vibrated. A message from his father.

“Proud of you, son. Your mother and I would love to have dinner this weekend with just the three of us.”

James smiled faintly. The wound of abandonment hadn’t fully healed, but the gesture was a stitch in the fabric of reconciliation.

He replied simply, “I’ll be there.”

Downstairs in the JP lobby, a woman in her sixties entered hesitantly. Her clothes were modest but clean, and her eyes scanned the space with nervous curiosity. The receptionist greeted her with a polite smile.

“Good evening, ma’am. Do you have an appointment?”

“No,” she said softly, her hands wringing the strap of her purse. “I don’t. But… Can you tell Mr. James that Clara is here? He might remember that I used to give him leftover bread from my shop… when he had nowhere to go.”

The receptionist looked surprised but composed. “Please have a seat. Let me reach out to him.”

Moments later, James was informed. His heart caught for a second.

Clara.

He remembered her clearly as one of the few who had shown him kindness when the world turned its back. Without hesitation, he descended to the lobby.

As the elevator doors slid open, their eyes met. Clara gasped, tears already forming. “You’ve grown into such a fine man,” she whispered.

James walked up to her, gently took her hand, and with a voice rich in emotion said, “You fed me when I was invisible to the world. You gave me more than bread you gave me dignity. Thank you.”

He led her into his private lounge, offering tea and a warm meal, listening to her speak of her late husband, her children, and the small bakery she still ran despite her age.

Before she left, James handed her an envelope.

“I’d like to invest in your bakery,” he said. “Not for business just because every child in this city deserves to taste the kindness I received from you.”

Clara’s hands trembled as she opened the envelope, eyes widening at the check inside.

“Sir, there’s someone waiting in the executive lounge… says she knows you,” Rita informed James softly as she stepped into his office.

James, seated behind his grand mahogany desk, looked up with a faint furrow between his brows. “Who is it this time?” he asked, his voice calm but tired. It had been a long day of meetings, legal signings, and strategic calls.

“She gave her name as Olivia. Said she knew you... back when things were hard.”

James’s breath hitched momentarily. That name wasn't one he had heard in years. Slowly, he rose from his chair, buttoning his jacket with deliberate poise. “Send her in,” he said, his voice unreadable.

Moments later, the door opened and in walked Olivia slender, worn by time, but still carrying the same fiery glint in her eyes. She looked around the opulent office, her gaze settling on James.

“You’ve changed,” she said, almost in awe. “But those eyes… still the same.”

James didn’t speak for a moment. He merely gestured for her to sit, though he remained standing. “Why are you here, Olivia?”

She hesitated, then dropped her bag onto the seat and looked at him with measured defiance. “Because I wanted to see for myself. To see if it was true. That the man who once cleaned floors for my father now owns one of the most powerful corporations in the country.”

James chuckled softly, though there was no humor in it. “Funny how life works, isn’t it?”

She looked down, biting her lower lip. “I was young. Naive. Cruel, even. I regret what I said to you… how I treated you.”

“You don’t need to apologize,” James said, walking to the window and staring out at the golden cityscape. “Back then, your scorn was just one of many. It built me. Sharpened me.”

A long silence passed between them, heavy but not hostile.

“Are you happy?” she finally asked, voice softer now.

James turned to her slowly, his gaze steady. “Happiness is fleeting. But peace? I’ve found some. Purpose, too.”

She stood, eyes glossy. “I wanted to say I’m proud of you… and maybe, to ask if there’s a chance to start again. As friends. Nothing more.”

James studied her for a moment before nodding slightly. “Friendship... I can afford that now.”

They exchanged no handshake, no hug, just a mutual understanding. Olivia left quietly, and as the door closed, James sighed.

Outside his office, the world buzzed, phones rang, executives walked briskly past, deals were being sealed. But in that quiet moment, James returned to his desk, pulled out the photo of his younger self tucked into the drawer, and stared at it.

As the days passed, the wind of change blew steadily across the corridors of JP Enterprises. The company’s reputation had not only recovered from the smear campaign instigated by Mark and Helen but had soared beyond expectation. The public, once skeptical, now admired James even more for his composure under pressure and his resilience amidst controversy.

Within the elegantly marbled boardroom of JP Enterprises, James convened a confidential meeting with his top executives and legal team. The atmosphere was laced with anticipation and reverence.

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Custodial Lightning wallets allow users to transact without managing private keys or channel liquidity. The provider handles technical complexities, but this convenience comes with critical trade-offs:

• You don’t control your keys: The custodian holds your bitcoin.
• Centralized points of failure: Servers can be hacked or shut down.
• Surveillance risks: Providers track transaction metadata.

Key Risks of Custodial Lightning Wallets

*1. Hacks and Exit Scams*

Custodians centralize large amounts of bitcoin, attracting hackers:

• Nearly $2.2 billion worth of funds were stolen from hacks in 2024.
• Lightning custodians suffered breaches, losing user funds.

Unlike non-custodial wallets, victims have no recourse since they don’t hold keys.

*2. Censorship and Account Freezes*

Custodians comply with regulators, risking fund seizures:

• Strike (a custodial Lightning app) froze accounts of users in sanctioned regions.
• A U.K. court in 2020 ordered Bitfinex to freeze bitcoin worth $860,000 after the exchange and blockchain sleuthing firm Chainalysis traced the funds to a ransomware payment.

*3. Privacy Erosion*

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• Transaction amounts, receiver addresses, and IPs are recorded.

*4. Service Downtime*

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*5. Inflation of Lightning Network Centralization*

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• At the moment, 10% of the nodes on Lightning control 80% of the liquidity.
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• Breez Wallet : Non-custodial, POS integrations.
• Core Lightning : Advanced, for self-hosted node operators.

*2. Transfer Funds Securely*

• Withdraw funds from your custodial wallet to a bitcoin on-chain address.
• Send bitcoin to your non-custodial Lightning wallet.

*3. Set Up Channel Backups*

Use tools like Static Channel Backups (SCB) to recover channels if needed.

*4. Best Practices*

• Enable Tor: Mask your IP (e.g., Breez’s built-in Tor support).
• Verify Receiving Addresses: Avoid phishing scams.
• Regularly Rebalance Channels: Use tools like Lightning Pool for liquidity.

Why Self-Custodial Lightning Matters

• Self-custody: Control your keys and funds.
• Censorship resistance: No third party can block transactions.
• Network health: Decentralized liquidity strengthens Lightning.

Self-custodial wallets now rival custodial ease.

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3. Educate others on the risks of custodial control.

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Im Rahmen unseres Workshops möchte ich auf zwei inspirierende Beiträge von Frau Schütze hinweisen und dich einladen, deren Ansätze für die religionsbezogene Bildung weiterzudenken. Die beiden Ausgangspunkte sind:

1. Werkstattbericht: KI-Bilder im Ethik/Philosophie-Unterricht\ In diesem Beitrag beschreibt Frau Schütze, wie sie mithilfe verschiedener KI-Modelle (Midjourney, DALL·E, Ideogram.ai) Bilder generiert, um Schülerinnen und Schüler zum Nachdenken über philosophische und ethische Theorien anzuregen. So wurden zum Beispiel KI-Bilder erstellt, die eine Glückstheorie illustrieren, oder symbolische Darstellungen zum ontologischen und kosmologischen Gottesbeweis (etwa das „größte denkbare Wesen“ bzw. den Laplaceschen Dämon). Dabei erfahren die Lernenden nicht nur einen visuellen Zugang zu abstrakten Gedankenexperimenten, sondern reflektieren zugleich die Grenzen und Tücken von KI-gestützter Bildbeschreibung und -verarbeitung.\ https://frauschuetze.de/?p=7946

2. Rollenkarten Moralphilosophie / angewandte Ethik\ Hier stellt Frau Schütze Rollenkarten vor, die sie für den Oberstufenunterricht entwickelt hat, um Diskussionen zur angewandten Ethik zu strukturieren. Die Karten enthalten Porträts wichtiger Moralphilosophinnen (z. B. Diogenes, Spaemann) und weitere Rollen wie Hinterfragerinnen oder Zweifler*innen, die sich schnell in Fallanalysen, Fishbowl-Formate oder Philosophencafés einbringen lassen. Die Porträts wurden ebenfalls mit Midjourney erstellt, wobei die Prompts konkret beschreiben, wie die Figuren dargestellt werden sollen (z. B. „xxx as a character in a fantasy story, portrait“).\ https://frauschuetze.de/?p=7640

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Übertragung auf die religionsbezogene Bildung

Für religionsbezogene Bildungsszenarien eröffnen sich hier viele spannende Möglichkeiten. Im Folgenden findest du ein paar Ideenimpulse, wie du KI-Bilder und Rollenkarten gezielt einsetzen kannst, um religiöse Fragen, Traditionen und Identitäten in den Mittelpunkt zu rücken:

1. KI-Bilder zur Visualisierung religiöser Konzepte

2. Symbolik und Ikonographie erschließen\ Nutze KI-Modelle, um die Symbolwelten verschiedener Religionen (z. B. Christentum, Islam, Buddhismus, Hinduismus) visuell zu erkunden. Überlege: Wie lässt sich das Kreuz in unterschiedlichen Stilrichtungen (klassisch, modern, abstrakt) darstellen? Welche Bildwelten entstehen, wenn du nach einer fusionierten Ikonographie fragst, die christliche, buddhistische und indigene Symbole kombiniert? Durch den kreativen Prozess mit KI lernst du, welche Metaphern und Traditionen hinter religiösen Zeichen stehen und wie sie – bewusst oder unbewusst – von Algorithmen interpretiert werden. Dabei kannst du auch die Grenzen von KI thematisieren: Welche Vorurteile oder Fehldeutungen schleichen sich in die Bildgenerierung ein, wenn religiöse Themen verarbeitet werden?

3. Gedankenexperimente zu Gott und Transzendenz\ Analog zu den KI-Bildern für Gottesbeweise könntest du Aufgaben stellen wie:

   1. „Erstelle ein KI-Bild, das die Idee von Theodizee visuell darstellt.“

   2. „Lass die KI eine Szene generieren, in der gläubige und atheistische Perspektiven im Dialog stehen.“\ Anschließend diskutierst du mit der Gruppe, inwiefern die Bilder die jeweiligen Konzepte treffend abbilden oder eher stereotyp und eindimensional bleiben. Auf diese Weise vermittelst du nicht nur Content-Wissen, sondern entwickel auch die Medienkompetenz, indem du Fragen nach Intention, Deutungshoheit und algorithmischer Verzerrung aufwirfst.

4. Rollenkarten für religiöse Perspektiven und Diskussionsformate

5. Personen aus religiösen Traditionen als Rollen\ Statt ausschließlich Moralphilosophinnen zu berücksichtigen, kannst du Rollenkarten mit Porträts von Religionsstifterinnen (z. B. Jesus von Nazareth, Maria, Mohammed, Buddha, Krishna), Reformern (Martin Luther, Savonarola) oder zeitgenössischen Theolog*innen (z. B. Dorothee Sölle) gestalten. Die KI-gestützten Bilder können dabei in unterschiedlichen künstlerischen Stilrichtungen entstehen – von historischer Malerei bis hin zu zeitgenössischer Street-Art-Adaption. Jede Rolle enthält einen kurzen Steckbrief mit zentralen Glaubensvorstellungen, biografischen Eckpunkten und einem charakteristischen Argument oder Zitat. So kannst du die Lernenden in Rollendebatten schicken, etwa:

   • „Wie würde Luther heute auf die Klimakrise blicken?“

   • „Welche theologische Argumentation könnte Dorothee Sölle zum Thema Gewaltlosigkeit einbringen?“

6. Szenarien für kontroverse Debatten

   1. Religiöse Vielfalt versus Säkularismus\ Verteilt Karten, in denen Rollen wie „konservativer Christ“, „liberaler Muslim“, „selbstbewusste/r Konfessionslose/r“, „Theologieprofessor/in“ oder „politische/r Aktivist/in“ eingenommen werden. Die KI-Porträts unterstützen die Visualisierung, verleihen den Rollen ein Gesicht und erleichtern das Einfühlen in andere Perspektiven.

7. Interaktive Formate im Religionsunterricht

8. Glaubenscafé (analog zum Philosophencafé)\ In Kleingruppen diskutiert ihr verschiedene Glaubenspositionen. KI-Bilder dienen als Ausgangspunkt: Ein Bild, das etwa die Drei-Tage-Phase von Tod und Auferstehung Jesu künstlerisch darstellt, oder ein generiertes Motiv zu einem hinduistischen Fest (z. B. Holi), wird an die Wand projiziert. Anschließend reflektiert ihr gemeinsam: Welche Emotionen, Symbole, Bedeutungen nehmt ihr wahr? Danach schlüpft ihr in Rollenkarten (z. B. theologische/r Fachreferent/in, Religionskritiker/in, Gemeindemitglied) und erarbeitet Positionen, die ihr in einem moderierten Glaubenscafé präsentiert.

9. Fishbowl-Diskussionen\ Nutzt Rollenkarten zu religionsspezifischen Rollen (z. B. Rabbiner/in, Pfarrerin, Atheist/in, Kleriker/in einer traditionellen Religion, spirituelle/r Influencer/in) für eine Fishbowl-Diskussion zum Thema „Sinnsuche in der Postmoderne“. Die KI-Bilder dienen zu Beginn als visuelle Reize: „Welche Elemente im Bild sprechen für Spiritualität, welche eher für Skepsis?“ So wird die Distanz zwischen digitaler Darstellung und gelebter religiöser Erfahrung erlebbar.

10. Methodische Hinweise und Reflexion

11. Prompt-Kompetenz schulen\ Wie schon im Ethikunterricht festgestellt, erfordert das präzise Beschreiben von Bildwünschen viel Übung. Die Lernenden lernen, welche Schlüsselbegriffe notwendig sind und wie kulturelle Vorannahmen in Prompts stecken bleiben. Im religionspädagogischen Kontext könnt ihr dies gezielt thematisieren: Wie formuliert man z. B. den Prompt „Stelle eine friedvolle interreligiöse Konferenz zwischen Christentum, Islam und Judentum dar“ so, dass keine Stereotype reproduziert werden?

12. Ethik des Bilderzeugens\ Diskutiert gemeinsam, inwiefern KI-Bilder beim Umgang mit heiklen religiösen Themen (z. B. Darstellungen des Propheten Mohammed im Islam) kulturelle oder religiöse Grenzen überschreiten können. Legt zusammen ethische Leitlinien fest, bevor ihr KI zur Bildproduktion nutzt: Welche religiösen Bilder sind "sakrosankt", welche dürfen manipuliert werden und was bedeutet das für Religionsfreiheit und Respekt?

13. Reflexion über Urheberrecht und OER\ Wie Frau Schütze in den Rollenkarten-Anleitungen betont, sind ihre Materialien unter CC-BY-Lizenz verfügbar. Erörtert, was es bedeutet, religiöse Bild- und Textmaterialien unter Open-Content-Lizenzen zu verwenden und welche Implikationen das für Schule, Gemeinde und Zivilgesellschaft hat. Das sensibilisiert für Fragen von Teilhabe und Gemeineigentum im digitalen Raum.

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Einladung zum Weiterdenken

Ich lade dich herzlich ein, die vorgestellten Methoden und Materialien in eigenen Projekten auszuprobieren und weiterzuentwickeln. Diskutiere in Kleingruppen oder in einer offenen Runde:

• Welche religiösen Themen lassen sich besonders gut mit KI-Bildern visualisieren?\ Beispiele: Zehn Gebote, Fastenrituale, Schöpfungsmythen, Visionen von Heiligen oder Heiligenschauen. Welche Prompts würdest du verwenden, um diese Szenen zu erzeugen?

• Wie könnten Rollenkarten zu spezifischen religiösen Traditionen aussehen?\ Entwickle gemeinsam mit anderen kurze Steckbriefe und Bildprompts für Rollen wie „Sufi-Derwisch“, „Gottesleugner/in der Aufklärung“, „Ökumenische/r Pastor/in“, „Religionspädagog*in“, „Katholischer Laienbruder“ oder „Jüdische Rabbinerin“. Achte dabei auf unterschiedliche religiöse Sichtweisen und Geschlechterperspektiven.

• Welche Herausforderungen ergeben sich beim Einsatz von KI-Bildern im Religionsunterricht?\ Erörtert mögliche Missverständnisse, kulturelle Fehlinterpretationen oder ethische Konflikte (z. B. pietätslose Darstellungen von Figuren, die in bestimmten Glaubensgemeinschaften als heilig gelten). Entwickelt gemeinsam Kriterien oder einen Leitfaden, um solche Risiken zu minimieren.

• Wie lassen sich interreligiöse Dialoge durch digitale Methoden fördern?\ Gebt Impulse, wie man mit KI-Bildern und Rollenkarten einen „virtuellen Tempelraum“ gestalten kann, in dem Symbole unterschiedlicher Religionen nebeneinanderstehen und zu Dialog anregen. Welche Fragen stellen sich dabei hinsichtlich Toleranz, Respekt und theologischer Pluralität?

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Zusammenfassung und Ausblick

Die beiden Beiträge von Frau Schütze bieten hervorragende Grundlagen, um im religionsbezogenen Unterricht visuelle und interaktive Zugänge zu schaffen. Durch KI-Bilder gewinnen die Teilnehmenden neue Zugänge zu Symbolik, Theodizee und Gottesvorstellungen, während Rollenkarten Dialogkompetenz und Empathie für unterschiedliche religiöse Perspektiven stärken. Diese Ideenimpulse sollen dich ermutigen, die Methoden selbst zu erproben und weiterzuentwickeln. Im digitalen Zeitalter können wir so das gemeinsame Lernen und interkulturelle Verständnis gerade im sensiblen Feld der Religionsbildung bereichern.

Ich freue mich auf deine kreativen Umsetzungen und den Austausch über Erfahrungen, Herausforderungen und Fortschritte in diesem spannenden Feld!Antworte gerne auf diesen Beitrag und kommentiere mit deinen Gedanken und Assoziationen oder poste selbst etwas als Impuls, das andere anregt und weiterverwendet werden darf mit dem Hashtag #relilab.\ \ Template: Avery Re https://opengameart.org/content/trading-card-template unter der Lizenz CC-by https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/deed.de / Einige Texte und Bezeichnungen von Frank Schlegel https://digitaldurstig.de/rollenkarten/ unter der Lizenz CC-by-SA 4.0, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.de\ Lizenz: cc-by-sa 4.0 / frauschuetze.de / Juli 2023

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Qu'est-ce que le Cyber-Mawonaj ?

Le Cyber-Mawonaj, c'est l'auto-défense numérique enracinée dans nos cultures afro-caribéennes. C'est refuser la plantation numérique des GAFAM pour cultiver nos propres jardins numériques libres.

Comme nos ancêtres marrons ont fui l'esclavage pour créer des communautés autonomes dans les mornes, nous fuyons la surveillance et l'exploitation des géants du web pour bâtir nos propres espaces.

Pourquoi maintenant ?

Nos données sont le nouveau sucre. Nos vies numériques, les nouvelles plantations. Facebook nous surveille. Google nous profile. Amazon nous exploite.

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Nos valeurs

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Notre vision

Imaginez une Guadeloupe où : - Chaque association a son cloud souverain - Chaque jeune apprend à coder en créole - Chaque entreprise utilise des outils libres - Chaque citoyen contrôle ses données

Ce n'est pas une utopie. C'est un projet.

L'appel

Rejoignez le Cyber-Mawonaj si vous êtes : - Fatigués de nourrir les algorithmes des autres - Prêts à apprendre et partager - Déterminés à construire notre souveraineté numérique

Comment ?

1. Apprenez - Formations aux outils libres
2. Créez - Vos propres services et contenus
3. Partagez - Vos savoirs et ressources
4. Connectez - Via le Fediverse, pas Facebook

Premier pas

Arrêtez de scroller. Commencez à construire.

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"Nèg mawon ka kouri, men sé pou viv lib" (Le nègre marron court, mais c'est pour vivre libre)

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ย้อนกลับไปเมื่อปี 2015 ในเมืองเบิร์กลีย์ รัฐแคลิฟอร์เนีย มีนักชีววิทยาเชิงวิศวกรรมชื่อ Dr. Uma Valeti ผู้เป็นทั้งนักวิจัยโรคหัวใจและอดีตศัลยแพทย์หัวใจ เกิดแนวคิดที่ไม่ธรรมดาว่า "เขาจะสร้างเนื้อในห้องแล็บ เหมือนที่เราสร้างหัวใจเทียมในโรงพยาบาล" นั่นคือการสร้างเนื้อโดยไม่ต้องฆ่าสัตว์เลยแม้แต่ตัวเดียว เขาไม่ได้เพ้อฝันแบบลอยๆ เพราะเขาเองเป็นคนอินเดียที่เติบโตมาในครอบครัวมังสวิรัติ แต่กลับทำงานในวงการแพทย์ที่เกี่ยวข้องกับการปลูกถ่ายอวัยวะอยู่หลายปี และวันหนึ่ง เขาเห็นความเชื่อมโยงบางอย่างระหว่างเซลล์กล้ามเนื้อของหัวใจกับกล้ามเนื้อของเนื้อสัตว์

Valeti มองเห็นปัญหาจากอุตสาหกรรมปศุสัตว์ในแง่มลพิษ การใช้ทรัพยากร และความโหดร้ายของระบบผลิตอาหารในโลกยุคใหม่ แนวคิดนี้กลายเป็นจริงเมื่อเขาร่วมก่อตั้งบริษัท Memphis Meats ขึ้นในปีนั้น พร้อมกับเพื่อนร่วมอุดมการณ์อีกสองคน ได้แก่ Nicholas Genovese นักวิจัยด้านสเต็มเซลล์ และ Will Clem นักวิทยาศาสตร์ผู้เชี่ยวชาญด้านวิศวกรรมชีวภาพผู้เคยมีประสบการณ์จากการเปิดร้านบาร์บีคิวของตัวเอง ความฝันของพวกเขาคือการสร้าง "เนื้อแท้" ที่ไม่ต้องใช้ฟาร์ม ไม่ต้องฆ่าสัตว์ และไม่ต้องพึ่งทรัพยากรธรรมชาติอย่างมหาศาลแบบระบบปศุสัตว์ทั่วไป โดยนำเซลล์กล้ามเนื้อจากสัตว์มาเพาะเลี้ยงในห้องปฏิบัติการ แล้วกระตุ้นให้เติบโตด้วยสารอาหาร สารกระตุ้นการเจริญเติบโต และโครงสร้างที่เลียนแบบเนื้อเยื่อจริง ผลลัพธ์ที่ได้คือเนื้อไก่ เนื้อวัว และเนื้อหมู ที่หน้าตา กลิ่น และรสชาติเหมือนเนื้อที่ผู้คนคุ้นเคย แต่อยู่ในจานโดยไม่ต้องผ่านชีวิตสัตว์แม้แต่ชีวิตเดียว

เทคโนโลยีที่ Memphis Meats ใช้คือการเก็บเซลล์ต้นกำเนิดกล้ามเนื้อ (muscle stem cells) จากสัตว์ แล้วนำมาบ่มเพาะในห้องแล็บในสภาพแวดล้อมที่เหมาะสม ด้วยอาหารเหลวที่มีสารอาหารครบถ้วน เซลล์เหล่านั้นจะเจริญเติบโต แบ่งตัว และก่อตัวเป็นกล้ามเนื้อที่เหมือนกับเนื้อจริงทุกประการ การทดลองแรกประสบผลสำเร็จในปี 2016 เมื่อพวกเขาสร้างลูกชิ้นเนื้อวัวเพาะเลี้ยงได้เป็นครั้งแรกของโลก แม้ราคาจะสูงถึง 18,000 ดอลลาร์ต่อปอนด์ก็ตาม แต่สิ่งนี้คือการประกาศว่า "ของจริง" มาแล้ว

ความสำเร็จนี้ดึงดูดทั้งสายตาของโลก และเงินทุนจากบริษัทยักษ์ใหญ่ หนึ่งในผู้ลงทุนรายแรกคือ Tyson Foods บริษัทเนื้อสัตว์รายใหญ่ของอเมริกา ตามมาด้วย Bill Gates, Richard Branson และ Cargill ซึ่งต่างเห็นตรงกันว่านี่คือทิศทางใหม่ของอุตสาหกรรมอาหารโลก แต่การที่บริษัทเนื้อสัตว์ใหญ่ๆ เข้ามาร่วมลงทุน กลับสร้างคำถามถึงความจริงใจหรือการวางหมากล่วงหน้าเพื่อควบคุมอนาคตของอาหารในรูปแบบใหม่

เม็ดเงินจากภาคเอกชนไหลเข้ามาไม่ขาดสาย รวมถึงการสนับสนุนเชิงนโยบายจากหน่วยงานรัฐบาลสหรัฐฯ ที่เริ่มวางกรอบกำกับดูแลอาหารเพาะเลี้ยงอย่างจริงจัง ทว่าเบื้องหลังภาพฝันของเนื้ออนาคตนั้นก็มีมุมที่ต้องจับตามอง เพราะแม้จะใช้คำว่า “ปลอดภัย” และ “ยั่งยืน” เป็นหัวใจหลักในการสื่อสาร แต่องค์ประกอบหลายประการในกระบวนการผลิต เช่น เซรั่มจากเลือดวัว (FBS) ที่ยังใช้ในบางเฟสของการทดลอง หรือการเพาะเลี้ยงในสารอาหารสังเคราะห์ที่ต้องอาศัยเทคโนโลยีขั้นสูง ล้วนเป็นเรื่องที่ห่างไกลจากคำว่า "ธรรมชาติ" ไปมากโข

เมื่อเข้าสู่ปี 2021 บริษัท Memphis Meats ได้เปลี่ยนชื่อใหม่เป็น Upside Foods พร้อมกับการขยับสถานะจากสตาร์ตอัปมาเป็นผู้นำในตลาดเนื้อเพาะเลี้ยงอย่างเต็มตัว พร้อมกับเปลี่ยนโลโก้และทิศทางแบรนด์จากภาพลักษณ์นักวิทยาศาสตร์มาสู่แบรนด์ที่เข้าถึงผู้บริโภคมากขึ้น เน้นความยั่งยืน ความเป็นมิตรกับสัตว์ และวิธีการผลิตที่ "ชนะใจ" คนรุ่นใหม่ การเปลี่ยนชื่อครั้งนี้ไม่ใช่เพียงกลยุทธ์ด้านแบรนดิ้ง แต่สะท้อนถึงความทะเยอทะยานที่ต้องการให้ผู้บริโภคมองอาหารในมุมใหม่ ไม่ใช่สิ่งที่มาจากฟาร์ม แต่เป็นสิ่งที่มาจากการออกแบบ วิศวกรรม และนวัตกรรม

บริษัทเปิดโรงงานเชิงพาณิชย์แห่งแรกในปี 2022 ที่เมือง Emeryville แคลิฟอร์เนีย ชื่อว่า EPIC (Engineering, Production and Innovation Center) ซึ่งสามารถผลิตเนื้อไก่เพาะเลี้ยงในปริมาณมากได้จริง เพื่อรองรับการผลิตเชิงพาณิชย์ในอนาคต พร้อมกับสร้างความร่วมมือกับภาครัฐเพื่อเร่งให้ผลิตภัณฑ์ผ่านมาตรฐานความปลอดภัยของ FDA และ USDA

สิ่งที่น่าสนใจยิ่งกว่านั้นคือ ความร่วมมือระหว่าง Upside Foods กับหน่วยงานรัฐ เช่น FDA และ USDA เพื่อผลักดันให้ผลิตภัณฑ์เนื้อเพาะเลี้ยงได้รับอนุญาตวางขายในตลาดอเมริกา ซึ่งกลายเป็นจริงในกลางปี 2023 เมื่อ Upside Foods และ Good Meat ได้รับไฟเขียวอย่างเป็นทางการจาก FDA ให้สามารถวางจำหน่ายเนื้อไก่เพาะเลี้ยงแก่ผู้บริโภคได้

ความสัมพันธ์ระหว่าง Upside Foods กับรัฐบาลนั้นน่าสนใจไม่น้อย เพราะนี่คือครั้งแรกในประวัติศาสตร์ที่หน่วยงานรัฐของสหรัฐฯ อย่าง FDA อนุมัติการบริโภคเนื้อสัตว์เพาะเลี้ยงจากห้องแล็บเมื่อเดือนพฤศจิกายน 2022 โดยระบุว่า “ไม่มีข้อกังวลทางความปลอดภัย” แม้จะยังไม่มีข้อมูลเปิดเผยครบทุกขั้นตอนของกระบวนการผลิตอย่างโปร่งใสก็ตาม การอนุมัติครั้งนี้จึงเป็นได้ทั้งจุดเริ่มต้นของการปฏิวัติอาหาร หรือจุดเริ่มต้นของการสร้างอำนาจผูกขาดของบริษัทที่ครอบครองสิทธิบัตรเทคโนโลยีเพาะเลี้ยงเนื้อ เพราะในอนาคตอันใกล้ ถ้าอาหารทุกอย่างต้องผ่านระบบแล็บ ผ่านเทคโนโลยีเฉพาะ และผ่านลิขสิทธิ์เฉพาะ ประชาชนก็จะไม่มีวันเป็นเจ้าของอาหารได้อีกต่อไป

แต่มากกว่าความสำเร็จด้านเทคโนโลยีคือคำถามที่ลึกซึ้งยิ่งกว่า ว่าการผลิตอาหารในห้องแล็บเช่นนี้ ทำให้เกษตรกรรายย่อยหมดสิทธิ์ในการผลิตเนื้อหรือไม่? เพราะเทคโนโลยีระดับสูงนี้ต้องใช้เครื่องมือ ห้องปฏิบัติการ และต้นทุนที่เกษตรกรธรรมดาไม่สามารถเข้าถึงได้ และสุดท้ายแล้ว ผู้บริโภคต้องซื้อเนื้อจากบริษัทยักษ์ใหญ่เท่านั้น โลกใหม่ของอาหารกำลังผลักมนุษย์ให้เป็นเพียงผู้ซื้อ ไม่ใช่ผู้ผลิตอีกต่อไป

แน่นอนว่า Upside Foods อาจไม่ได้ตั้งใจผูกขาดตั้งแต่แรก แต่เมื่อเงินทุน เบื้องหลัง และการอนุญาตจากรัฐ เริ่มขับเคลื่อนไปในทิศทางเดียวกัน มันก็ไม่ต่างอะไรจากการร่างระบบเศรษฐกิจอาหารขึ้นใหม่ โดยมีศูนย์กลางอยู่ที่ห้องแล็บ ไม่ใช่ทุ่งหญ้า การเปลี่ยนแปลงนี้จึงไม่ใช่แค่เรื่องของนวัตกรรมเทคโนโลยี แต่คือการเปลี่ยนแปลงโครงสร้างความสัมพันธ์ระหว่างมนุษย์กับอาหารอย่างสิ้นเชิง และนั่นคือสิ่งที่เฮียอยากให้เพื่อนๆได้คิดก่อนกลืนคำแรกลงไป

สิ่งที่น่าคิดนั้นก็คือ ในโลกที่อาหารกลายเป็นสินทรัพย์ปัญญาแทนที่จะเป็นสิทธิพื้นฐาน การจะปลูก เลี้ยง หรือแลกเปลี่ยนอาหารอาจกลายเป็นเรื่องผิดกฎหมาย และเกษตรกรอาจเหลือบทบาทเพียงคนเฝ้าเครื่องจักรให้กับบริษัทข้ามชาติที่ถือสิทธิบัตรเนื้อ ความฝันที่สวยงามของเนื้อที่ปลอดการฆ่า จึงควรถูกตรวจสอบด้วยสายตาที่เปิดกว้างแต่ไม่ไร้เดียงสา เพราะอนาคตของอาหารนั้น ไม่ใช่แค่เรื่องบนโต๊ะอาหาร แต่เป็นเรื่องของอำนาจ ความเป็นเจ้าของ และสิทธิของประชาชนในฐานะมนุษย์ผู้มีชีวิตบนโลกใบนี้ #pirateketo #กูต้องรู้มั๊ย #ม้วนหางสิลูก #siamstr

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Adam O’Brien, Founder and CEO of Bitcoin Well, discovered Bitcoin in 2013 during its early days as what he describes as “hilarious internet money.”

Today, he leads a publicly traded Canadian company that’s redefining how people interact with this magic internet money, all while navigating a financial system that has personally debanked him and even his uninvolved loved ones.

“I had a terrible experience trying to buy bitcoin in 2013,” O’Brien explains. “Now of course today there are platforms like Bitcoin Well and many others that allow you to buy bitcoin with ease online, but in 2013 that wasn’t the case.”

This frustrating experience sparked the entrepreneurial question that would shape his future: “There must be a better way.”

With a background in restaurant management and customer service, O’Brien started small, meeting people locally in Edmonton, Canada to sell them bitcoin.

Soon after, he purchased and deployed Alberta’s first bitcoin ATM. The business grew organically, with a second machine following, then a third. Before long, Bitcoin Well had become one of Canada’s largest bitcoin ATM operators.

Today, Bitcoin Well operates approximately 160 bitcoin ATMs across Canada. While they’re no longer deploying new machines, these ATMs provide a crucial service that O’Brien is particularly proud of:

“In Canada, you can actually buy bitcoin up to $1,000 without giving your identity to Bitcoin Well. We’re the only platform in the country that is able to offer that service, which is fully legal, fully above board.”

Bitcoin Well has a fleet of over 170 bitcoin ATMs across Canada

The Pivot to Freedom

In 2020, O’Brien’s vision for the company evolved. What began as a mission for Bitcoin accessibility transformed into something deeper: a quest for financial freedom.

“I’m debanked across Canada. I don’t have my bank, even my wife has lost her bank accounts because of my work,” O’Brien revealed. “She’s not involved with the business at all. She’s a stay-at-home mother to our four kids, and she’s unbanked from the majority of the banks in Canada.”

This personal experience crystallized a troubling reality: “It became very clear to me that my money in the banking system was always going to be subject to how much I play by the rules.”

For someone self-described as “freedom-focused” and “freedom-minded,” this realization prompted a strategic shift. Bitcoin Well began developing its online platform, the Bitcoin portal, allowing users to buy, sell, and actually use bitcoin to replace traditional banking functions. O’Brien explains:

“The goal here is that we can be a conduit between the legacy financial system you know, and how you pay your bills, your rent, your power, credit card and phone bills and all that stuff  without having to have money in what I would call a captured fiat account.”

He summarizes the company’s North Star simply: “Allow people to replace their bank with bitcoin in self-custody.”

Living the Mission

O’Brien doesn’t just preach Bitcoin independence, he lives it. Debanked across Canada, he relies on Bitcoin Well’s services for his daily financial needs.

“I’ve got a normal American Express, but I pay that off with Bitcoin at the end of the month,” he shares. “In Canada, we’ve got the equivalent of Venmo, it’s called Interac e-Transfer. I can send an Interac e-Transfer to anyone in the country from bitcoin in self-custody.”

This allows him to navigate everyday situations where merchants don’t accept bitcoin directly.

“It’s spring right now. I’ve got a little property. The guy comes and picks up our rakes and trims the trees and all this stuff, and I pay him. He doesn’t want to accept bitcoin, but I’m able to pay in bitcoin, and he gets the money that he wants.”

In the U.S., Bitcoin Well customers can have their paychecks deposited with a designated portion automatically converted to sats and sent directly to self-custody, allowing clients to stack sats sovereignly without having to think much about it.

With Bitcoin Well you can set up automatic DCA

Building the Right Team

The journey hasn’t been without challenges. O’Brien candidly describes how rapid growth in 2021 led to hiring missteps.

“We scaled so fast I kind of lost control of hiring practice and culture, and we ended up with people that I felt like we had to almost convince of the mission,” he admits.

“Some of them weren’t convinced…they were just there because of the job, or they didn’t really understand the need for the freedom that I speak about every single day.”

After scaling back from that hiring spree, the company refocused on building a team aligned with its core values, emphasizing “hiring Bitcoiners really.”

The result has been transformative: “It’s so much fun having a team that is mission-focused and aligned on our mission to enable independence. Having everyone aligned and kind of running towards that mission is pretty special.”

This alignment creates a powerful filter for decision-making: “When we have a decision to make, it’s like, well, which one enables more independence? And usually there’s a pretty obvious answer. So we’re able to make very fast decisions that help the business and help the mission.”

Raising the Next Generation

Beyond building Bitcoin Well, O’Brien and his wife are raising four children with intention. The family is transitioning to homeschooling next year, allowing them to travel to Bitcoin conferences together while teaching their children to question everything.

“If you don’t indoctrinate your kids, the state will do it for you,” O’Brien states firmly. It’s a fair point, as indoctrination usually comes with a negative connotation, but it should not, since everyone gets indoctrinated with something.

It’s up to parents to decide what their kids are going to be indoctrinated with, and as parents, the O’Briens have chosen to actively shape their children’s worldview rather than defaulting to institutional influences.

Their approach combines Bitcoin principles with biblical values, with a heavy emphasis on lowering time preference. Something O’Brien notes is “10, 20, 30, 50 times more important” with children, though admittedly “way harder.”

“I think Bitcoiners more than anyone understand the need for generational thinking,” he observes.

“I’m so bullish on the amount of Bitcoiners that have more kids or that want to have more kids and that are actually excited to have kids compared to some of my fiat friends that are like, ‘Oh, it’s too expensive and I want to party.’ It’s like, man, you’re just missing the point.”

A Call to Support Bitcoin-Only Businesses

One of O’Brien’s most passionate messages is a call to action for fellow Bitcoiners: support businesses that align with your values.

“I want to call people to support businesses that are actually making steps towards the change they want to see in the world,” he urges. “If I hear one more Bitcoin maxi tell me that they’re using Kraken or Coinbase because it’s cheaper — why do you support the casinos?”

He expresses concern about the future if Bitcoin-only companies struggle to survive: “It would be very sad if all the Bitcoin-only and non-custodial businesses went out of business. That would make it very hard for me to feel comfortable onboarding my no-coiner friends.”

His message to Bitcoiners is clear: “A call out to all my fellow Bitcoiners to support and use the platform that they want to see their kids use.”

Bitcoin Well (TSX.V: BTCW, OTCQB: BCNWF) continues to build infrastructure for those who want to use Bitcoin daily while maintaining self-custody. For O’Brien, the mission is simple but powerful: enable independence and give people the freedom to control their own financial destiny.

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Until the cookie I just ate, today was a pretty stellar day: slept well, ate well, fasted, did some physically demanding yard work in the hot Sun, walked the dog a few times.

How did the stackers do today on maintaining their ~HealthAndFitness?

https://stacker.news/items/994882

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For about three years, we had a bedtime routine that worked very well and a kid that slept clear through the night in her own room.

For the past two years, bedtime has been a struggle. We made various adjustments, but they were never more than short-term bandages. Nighttime almost always turned into a battle of wills.

So, we gave up. No more bedtime. We go to bed when we're tired, or when the kid asks us to read to her. She usually wants to sleep in our room, which we only let her do if she's being quiet and trying to sleep, otherwise it's off to her own room. Being loud and wild in our room late into the night had been our breaking point.

The results aren't ideal, but the struggles are much reduced and she's sleeping in her room more often, because it's where she can stay awake if she wants.

What are some standard parenting practices that you've just abandoned entirely?

https://stacker.news/items/994865

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@ 5d4b6c8d:8a1c1ee3

After @denlillaapan's post yesterday, I want to light a little fire under the stackers to step up their game.

So, I'm offering prizes for the top stackers in June (as judged by SN's "value" metric). At the end of the month, I'll award prizes as follows:

1st Place - 10k sats 2nd Place - 9k sats 3rd Place - 8k sats 4th Place - 7k sats 5th Place - 6k sats 6th Place - 5k sats 7th Place - 4k sats 8th Place - 3k sats 9th Place - 2k sats 10th Place - 1k sats

Winnings will be zapped to a post or comment of your choice.

Zap well!

@remindme in 1 month

https://stacker.news/items/994811

@ 9ca447d2:fbf5a36d

Adam O’Brien, Founder and CEO of Bitcoin Well, discovered Bitcoin in 2013 during its early days as what he describes as “hilarious internet money.”

Today, he leads a publicly traded Canadian company that’s redefining how people interact with this magic internet money, all while navigating a financial system that has personally debanked him and even his uninvolved loved ones.

“I had a terrible experience trying to buy bitcoin in 2013,” O’Brien explains. “Now of course today there are platforms like Bitcoin Well and many others that allow you to buy bitcoin with ease online, but in 2013 that wasn’t the case.”

This frustrating experience sparked the entrepreneurial question that would shape his future: “There must be a better way.”

With a background in restaurant management and customer service, O’Brien started small, meeting people locally in Edmonton, Canada to sell them bitcoin.

Soon after, he purchased and deployed Alberta’s first bitcoin ATM. The business grew organically, with a second machine following, then a third. Before long, Bitcoin Well had become one of Canada’s largest bitcoin ATM operators.

Today, Bitcoin Well operates approximately 160 bitcoin ATMs across Canada. While they’re no longer deploying new machines, these ATMs provide a crucial service that O’Brien is particularly proud of:

“In Canada, you can actually buy bitcoin up to $1,000 without giving your identity to Bitcoin Well. We’re the only platform in the country that is able to offer that service, which is fully legal, fully above board.”

Bitcoin Well has a fleet of over 170 bitcoin ATMs across Canada

The Pivot to Freedom

In 2020, O’Brien’s vision for the company evolved. What began as a mission for Bitcoin accessibility transformed into something deeper: a quest for financial freedom.

“I’m debanked across Canada. I don’t have my bank, even my wife has lost her bank accounts because of my work,” O’Brien revealed. “She’s not involved with the business at all. She’s a stay-at-home mother to our four kids, and she’s unbanked from the majority of the banks in Canada.”

This personal experience crystallized a troubling reality: “It became very clear to me that my money in the banking system was always going to be subject to how much I play by the rules.”

For someone self-described as “freedom-focused” and “freedom-minded,” this realization prompted a strategic shift. Bitcoin Well began developing its online platform, the Bitcoin portal, allowing users to buy, sell, and actually use bitcoin to replace traditional banking functions. O’Brien explains:

“The goal here is that we can be a conduit between the legacy financial system you know, and how you pay your bills, your rent, your power, credit card and phone bills and all that stuff  without having to have money in what I would call a captured fiat account.”

He summarizes the company’s North Star simply: “Allow people to replace their bank with bitcoin in self-custody.”

Living the Mission

O’Brien doesn’t just preach Bitcoin independence, he lives it. Debanked across Canada, he relies on Bitcoin Well’s services for his daily financial needs.

“I’ve got a normal American Express, but I pay that off with Bitcoin at the end of the month,” he shares. “In Canada, we’ve got the equivalent of Venmo, it’s called Interac e-Transfer. I can send an Interac e-Transfer to anyone in the country from bitcoin in self-custody.”

This allows him to navigate everyday situations where merchants don’t accept bitcoin directly.

“It’s spring right now. I’ve got a little property. The guy comes and picks up our rakes and trims the trees and all this stuff, and I pay him. He doesn’t want to accept bitcoin, but I’m able to pay in bitcoin, and he gets the money that he wants.”

In the U.S., Bitcoin Well customers can have their paychecks deposited with a designated portion automatically converted to sats and sent directly to self-custody, allowing clients to stack sats sovereignly without having to think much about it.

With Bitcoin Well you can set up automatic DCA

Building the Right Team

The journey hasn’t been without challenges. O’Brien candidly describes how rapid growth in 2021 led to hiring missteps.

“We scaled so fast I kind of lost control of hiring practice and culture, and we ended up with people that I felt like we had to almost convince of the mission,” he admits.

“Some of them weren’t convinced…they were just there because of the job, or they didn’t really understand the need for the freedom that I speak about every single day.”

After scaling back from that hiring spree, the company refocused on building a team aligned with its core values, emphasizing “hiring Bitcoiners really.”

The result has been transformative: “It’s so much fun having a team that is mission-focused and aligned on our mission to enable independence. Having everyone aligned and kind of running towards that mission is pretty special.”

This alignment creates a powerful filter for decision-making: “When we have a decision to make, it’s like, well, which one enables more independence? And usually there’s a pretty obvious answer. So we’re able to make very fast decisions that help the business and help the mission.”

Raising the Next Generation

Beyond building Bitcoin Well, O’Brien and his wife are raising four children with intention. The family is transitioning to homeschooling next year, allowing them to travel to Bitcoin conferences together while teaching their children to question everything.

“If you don’t indoctrinate your kids, the state will do it for you,” O’Brien states firmly. It’s a fair point, as indoctrination usually comes with a negative connotation, but it should not, since everyone gets indoctrinated with something.

It’s up to parents to decide what their kids are going to be indoctrinated with, and as parents, the O’Briens have chosen to actively shape their children’s worldview rather than defaulting to institutional influences.

Their approach combines Bitcoin principles with biblical values, with a heavy emphasis on lowering time preference. Something O’Brien notes is “10, 20, 30, 50 times more important” with children, though admittedly “way harder.”

“I think Bitcoiners more than anyone understand the need for generational thinking,” he observes.

“I’m so bullish on the amount of Bitcoiners that have more kids or that want to have more kids and that are actually excited to have kids compared to some of my fiat friends that are like, ‘Oh, it’s too expensive and I want to party.’ It’s like, man, you’re just missing the point.”

A Call to Support Bitcoin-Only Businesses

One of O’Brien’s most passionate messages is a call to action for fellow Bitcoiners: support businesses that align with your values.

“I want to call people to support businesses that are actually making steps towards the change they want to see in the world,” he urges. “If I hear one more Bitcoin maxi tell me that they’re using Kraken or Coinbase because it’s cheaper — why do you support the casinos?”

He expresses concern about the future if Bitcoin-only companies struggle to survive: “It would be very sad if all the Bitcoin-only and non-custodial businesses went out of business. That would make it very hard for me to feel comfortable onboarding my no-coiner friends.”

His message to Bitcoiners is clear: “A call out to all my fellow Bitcoiners to support and use the platform that they want to see their kids use.”

Bitcoin Well (TSX.V: BTCW, OTCQB: BCNWF) continues to build infrastructure for those who want to use Bitcoin daily while maintaining self-custody. For O’Brien, the mission is simple but powerful: enable independence and give people the freedom to control their own financial destiny.

@ 06639a38:655f8f71

Nostr-PHP

All commits on the main branch between 19-05 and 25-05: https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/commits/main/?since=2025-05-19&until=2025-05-25 

• Merged PR #95 finish implementing methods Relay and RelaySet
• Merged PR #90 implementing NIP-17 private direct messages

• Made some progress on the persistentConnection class for fetching messages from a relay in runtime (realtime)

New release: 1.8.0

What's Changed

• feat: Implement NIP-05 lookups by @dsbaars in https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/89
• NIP 44 implementation fix and test improvements by @dsbaars in https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/88
• remove CLI tool from library - https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-p… by @Sebastix in https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/93
• Add extra metadata fields for profile by @dsbaars in https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/94
• Finish implementing methods Relay and RelaySet by @dsbaars in https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/95
• Implement NIP-17 Private Direct Messages by @dsbaars in https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/pull/90

Full changelog: https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/compare/1.7.1...1.8.0 
Link: https://github.com/nostrver-se/nostr-php/releases/tag/1.8.0

@ bf47c19e:c3d2573b

U ovoj sekciji pratićemo cene raznih dobara i usluga, a pre svega nekretnina, prosečne srpske plate, goriva, deviznih i zlatnih rezervi Srbije u odnosu na Bitkoin. Iz priloženih grafikona može se videti da sve vremenom gubi vrednost, odnosno postaje jeftinije u odnosu na BTC.

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Cene nekretnina u Republici Srbiji izražene kroz Bitkoin (kompletni grafikoni)

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Visina prosečne zarade u Republici Srbiji, cene goriva, dinarska i devizna štednja stanovništva, devizne i zlatne rezerve Srbije - izraženo kroz Bitkoin (kompletni grafikoni)

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Prosečna cena m2 stana u Gradu Beogradu izražena kroz BTC

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Prosečna cena m2 stana u "Beogradu na vodi" izražena kroz BTC

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Prosečna cena m2 stana u Novom Sadu izražena kroz BTC

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Prosečna cena m2 stana u Nišu izražena kroz BTC

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Prosečna cena m2 stana u Kragujevcu izražena kroz BTC

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Prosečna zarada u Republici Srbiji izražena kroz BTC

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Cena goriva 'Evro Premium BMB 95' izražena kroz BTC

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Cena goriva 'Evro Dizel' izražena kroz BTC

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Javni dug Republike Srbije izražen kroz BTC & EUR

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Dinarska štednja stanovništva kod banaka izražena kroz BTC

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Devizna štednja stanovništva kod banaka izražena kroz BTC

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Devizne rezerve Republike Srbije izražene kroz BTC

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Zlatne rezerve Republike Srbije izražene kroz BTC

@ 91117f2b:111207d6

Anime, a style of Japanese animation, has become a global phenomenon, captivating audiences with its vibrant visuals, engaging storylines, and relatable characters. But beyond its entertainment value, anime often explores complex themes and issues that resonate deeply with real life.

Exploring Real-Life Issues

1. Mental Health: Anime like "Your Lie in April" and "A Silent Voice" tackle mental health struggles, promoting empathy and understanding.

2. Social Commentary: Shows like "Attack on Titan" and "Psycho-Pass" critique societal norms, politics, and technology, encouraging viewers to think critically.

3. Relationships and Identity: Anime like "Clannad" and "My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU" explore complex relationships, identity, and self-discovery.

Inspiring Personal Growth

1. Perseverance and Determination: Anime like "Naruto" and "Dragon Ball" showcase characters overcoming adversity, inspiring viewers to stay motivated

2. Friendship and Camaraderie: Shows like "Haikyuu!!" and "K-On!" highlight the importance of supportive relationships and teamwork.

3. Self-Reflection and Introspection: Anime like "A Silent Voice" and "The Pet Girl of Sakurasou" encourage viewers to reflect on their actions and emotions.

Cultural Exchange and Understanding

1. Japanese Culture: Anime provides a window into Japanese culture, traditions, and values, promoting cross-cultural understanding.
2. Global Community: Anime conventions and online forums foster a sense of community among fans worldwide.

The Power of Storytelling

1. Emotional Resonance: Anime's storytelling capabilities evoke strong emotions, creating a deep connection with viewers.
2. Social Commentary: Anime often uses metaphor and allegory to comment on real-world issues, encouraging viewers to think critically.

Anime's impact extends beyond entertainment, offering insights into the human experience, cultural exchange, and personal growth. Its themes and stories resonate deeply with real life, making it a powerful medium for connection and reflection.

In conclusion, every anime has its own lesson to teach its audience. And also, anime isn't just an anime, it's creators didn't just make it up, it is made from life experience of someone we don't know.

stay tuned

@ 58537364:705b4b85

ความสุขทางโลก ลัทธิสุขนิยมยกย่อง แต่ลัทธิทรมานตนประณาม หากไม่มองว่ากามสุขเป็นพรจากพระผู้เป็นเจ้า คนก็มักมองว่ากามสุขเป็นเครื่องลวงล่อของซาตาน ในเรื่องนี้พระพุทธศาสนาเลือกเดินสายกลาง โดยสอนว่าเราควรทำความเข้าใจกามสุขให้แจ่มแจ้ง ทั้งในแง่เสน่ห์เย้ายวน ข้อจำกัดและข้อบกพร่องทั้งหลาย

เพื่อให้เข้าใจกามสุขอย่างแจ่มแจ้ง เราอาจตั้งคำถามดังนี้: กามสุขสนองตอบความต้องการทางจิตใจแบบใดได้บ้าง และไม่อาจตอบสนองความต้องการแบบใดได้ เพราะเหตุใด

ความต้องการในส่วนที่กามสุขไม่อาจตอบสนองได้ เราควรปฏิบัติอย่างไร

เราหลงเพลิดเพลินและยึดติดในกามสุขมากเพียงใด และกามสุขมีอิทธิพลเหนือจิตใจเราเพียงใด

เราเคยทำหรือพูดสิ่งที่ไม่ถูกต้องเนื่องด้วยปรารถนาในกามสุขหรือไม่

เราเคยเบียดเบียนผู้อื่นเนื่องด้วยปรารถนาในกามสุขหรือไม่

บ่อยครั้งเพียงใดที่สุขทางโลกสร้างความผิดหวังให้เรา

ความคาดหวังมีผลกระทบอย่างไรต่อความสุขทางโลก การทำอะไรซ้ำๆ และความเคยชินส่งผลต่อความสุขทางโลกอย่างไร

เรารู้สึกอย่างไร ยามไม่ได้กามสุขที่เราปรารถนา

กามสุขมีความเกี่ยวข้องกับความซึมเศร้าหรือไม่ กับความวิตกกังวลด้วยหรือไม่

เรารู้สึกอย่างไร เมื่อนึกถึงอนาคตว่า จะต้องพลัดพรากจากสุขทางโลก เนื่องด้วยความเจ็บไข้ ความแก่ และความตาย

การพลัดพรากจากความสุขทางโลกรู้สึกอย่างไรบ้าง

เราตั้งคำถามได้มากมาย และยังตั้งคำถามได้มากไปกว่านี้
หลักสำคัญ คือ ยิ่งเห็นชัดแจ้งในกามสุข เราจะยิ่งเกิดปัญญาและเข้าถึงความสงบมากขึ้น

ธรรมะคำสอน โดย พระอาจารย์ชยสาโร แปลถอดความ โดย ปิยสีโลภิกขุ

@ 5d4b6c8d:8a1c1ee3

We have our finalists: - Indiana (4) @ OKC (1)

Pick one team to win the finals and one player to win Finals MVP.

Scoring this round is 8 points + seed value for picking a winner and 8 points for picking the Finals MVP. The maximum points this round are 20.

Current Scores | Stacker | Points | |----------|-------| | @Undisciplined | 44| | @gnilma | 40| | @grayruby | 32 | | @Carresan | 30| | @fishious | 25| | @WeAreAllSatoshi | 24| | @BlokchainB | 19 | | @Coinsreporter | 19 | | @Car | 14 |@Slestak_Jack| 0 |

SGA and Siakam were the Conference Finals MVPs

Most of the stackers can still catch me, but only if something unexpected happens. Good luck!

I believe I said the prize is 10k. I'll double check that in the event I don't win.

https://stacker.news/items/994522

@ 5fbec235:ff265c2a

Safety as a Community Creation

I quickly learned that Japan is known for being one of the safest countries in the world—yes, I didn't even realize that until I arrived there. But understanding safety as a statistic is different from witnessing it as a lived reality.

One of the most striking signals of this safety was watching first graders take themselves to school on public transportation in Tokyo. These tiny humans, navigating one of the world's largest cities completely independently. In contrast, my Chicago suburban hometown requires parents to wait at the bus stop for children of that same age, even if their house is just across the street.

I witnessed nearly everyone glued to their phones while out in public. Literally dozens of heads planted facedown into their palms while crossing major intersections. While that's not a trait I admire, it reflects the absolute safety every citizen must feel to be able to walk around like that. Similarly, Tokyo is definitely the place where you can show off designer fashion trends if you can afford to do so. While the style is far more modest and homogenous than here in the USA, expensive fashion statements are still blatantly made in the many high-trafficked districts of the mega city.

The contrast hit me viscerally when I remembered my friend's experience in São Paulo a few years ago. During a short three-mile run, while he was checking Google Maps, he was nearly mugged by a thief on a motorbike. The difference was unmistakable. Take heed of all warnings to not use a smart phone in the streets of Sào Paulo. Tokyo however - accidentally leave your phone at the Izakaya? Don't be surprised if it is personally returned to you by the owner of the Izakaya with a note thanking you once again for your earlier patronage.

Community M and the Dissolution of Transactional Relationships

While in Japan, I was invited to spend the weekend in an exclusive, members-only community nestled along a river flowing down from the mountains—remarkably, all still within Tokyo Prefecture. It felt like a hidden gem: only 5% of the prefecture consists of this kind of natural landscape, and I never would have discovered it without that special invitation.

There, I participated in a unique Bonsai class led by a woman who has been cultivating Bonsai her entire career. I also shared meals, nature walks, and sauna sessions with other community members. It was an eventful weekend, meeting and integrating with an entirely unique culture. The weekend felt truly memorable, special, everlasting—essentially boiled down to a priceless experience.

It's an experience I will remember and appreciate more than the time I've spent in several corporate luxury hotels. Don't get me wrong, corporate luxury hotels are very nice. Their amenities are much more comfortable than anything Community M could offer me. They feel safe, and they make me feel just a little bit entitled—in the sense that "I'm spending A LOT of money with the company that keeps you employed... so are you working for me to the maximum of our mutual expectations?" That's certainly okay. The hotel is offering a service and I am paying for it. Ultimately, it is indeed a mutually valuable transaction everyone is happy with.

But that time spent with Community M was something different. The amount of money I could have spent with them didn't matter. Friendships were formed over shared interests and probably genuine interest and curiosity in each other's cultures. Those values get washed away when the power dynamic shifts too much toward a monetary transaction—service in exchange for cash.

This experience crystallized something I'd been feeling but couldn't articulate: the difference between being served and being welcomed. In transactional relationships, your value is determined by your purchasing power. In genuine community, your value comes from your participation, your curiosity, your willingness to share and receive.

What Online Communities Could Become

What should online communities of the future look like? I think an amazing community could pull some of the best traits of American and Japanese culture. Reliance on oneself and personal responsibility is incredibly important. But as communities grow, it becomes so much harder to exercise personal interests without feeling like I'm "barging in" or something. I've never felt compelled to become the center of attention. What gets me excited is seeing people come together and being their best selves naturally and organically around one another, without any single person being too much "the center."

The way I see a lot of online communities advertised today is less desirable to me. It often looks like there's an influencer selling something and inviting all their followers to join "the community." This replicates the same extractive, transactional dynamics I experienced in luxury hotels, just digitally.

I left Japan with a sense of respect for what's possible when people come together under a shared understanding of a few basic human principles. The most obvious one being a sense of shared responsibility to look out for one another, thereby providing safety for all—a large, functional neighborhood watch, so to say. In Japan, I got the sense that the means to provide general well-being through shared responsibility is far greater than the more exclusive reliance on oneself and distrust of others that often appears in large American cities.

The Internet as Unsafe Territory

When thinking of safety and shared responsibility, the internet today is more like New York City than Tokyo. It's not safe for children, and outsourcing our own responsibility for maintaining safety to centralized, profit-seeking organizations makes no sense. These platforms have the undisputed goal of extracting value from the very communities they attempt to serve.

Current online communities are built backwards. Instead of communities creating tools for themselves, external platforms create tools to extract value from communities. The power dynamic is fundamentally extractive rather than generative.

Communities Building for Themselves

Eve will allow us to build intranets that are safer than anything YouTube, Facebook, TikTok, or any other platform could ever provide because they'll be built by communities, not for-profit organizations seeking to extract value. All applications will be open source, therefore all algorithms will be open source, thereby empowering everyone to exercise their shared responsibilities for maintaining safe, prosperous communities.

Communities will be enabled to create applications that deliver unique experiences specific to their rules and guidelines. Compare it to my Bonsai class. Someday there may be a Japan-oriented community where Bonsai masterclasses and other Bonsai-related services and products are offered. Communities won't be as dependent on platforms. Because of the open-source standard, more tradespeople will be enabled to quickly build whatever the community deems necessary. Communities will be in full control and not reliant on any one platform, nor any one person to maintain the community.

What I experienced in that members-only community by the river was a space where relationships form around shared interests and genuine curiosity - where the community itself determines its needs and builds its tools, where safety emerges from collective responsibility rather than external enforcement. In our digital age of abundance - I see a very real future where communities are enabled to free themselves from irrelevant distractions and build what they need to achieve both individual and collective prosperity.

@ c1e9ab3a:9cb56b43

1. Introduction

Over the last 250 years the world’s appetite for energy has soared along an unmistakably exponential trajectory, transforming societies and economies alike. After a half‑century of relative deceleration, a new mix of technological, demographic and political forces now hints at an impending catch‑up phase that could push demand back onto its centuries‑long growth curve. This post knits together the history, the numbers and the newest policy signals to explore what that rebound might look like—and how Gen‑4 nuclear power could meet it.

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2. The Long Exponential: 1750 – 1975

Early industrialisation replaced muscle, wood and water with coal‑fired steam, pushing global primary energy use from a few exajoules per year in 1750 to roughly 60 EJ by 1900 and 250 EJ by 1975. Over that span aggregate consumption doubled roughly every 25–35 years, equivalent to a long‑run compound growth rate of ~3 % yr‑¹. Per‑capita use climbed even faster in industrialised economies as factories, railways and electric lighting spread.

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3. 1975 – 2025: The Great Slowdown

3.1 Efficiency & Structural Change

• Oil shocks (1973, 1979) and volatile prices pushed OECD economies to squeeze more GDP from each joule.
• Services displaced heavy industry in rich countries, trimming energy intensity.
• Refrigerators, motors and vehicles became dramatically more efficient.

3.2 Policy & Technology

• The Inflation Reduction Act (U.S.) now layers zero‑emission production credits and technology‑neutral tax incentives on top of existing nuclear PTCs citeturn1search0turn1search2.
• The EU’s Net‑Zero Industry Act aims to streamline siting and finance for “net‑zero technologies”, explicitly naming advanced nuclear citeturn0search1.

3.3 Result

Global primary energy in 2024 stands near 600 EJ (≈ 167 000 TWh)—still growing, but the line has flattened versus the pre‑1975 exponential.

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4. Population & Per‑Capita Demand

World population tripled between 1950 and today, yet total energy use grew roughly six‑fold. The imbalance reflects rising living standards and electrification. Looking ahead, the UN projects population to plateau near 10.4 billion in the 2080s, but per‑capita demand is poised to climb as the Global South industrialises.

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5. The Policy Pivot of 2023‑2025

| Region | Signal | Year | Implication | |--------|--------|------|-------------| | COP 28 Declaration | 20+ nations pledge to triple nuclear capacity by 2050 | 2023 | High‑level political cover for rapid nuclear build‑out citeturn0search2 | | Europe | Post‑crisis sentiment shifts; blackout in Iberia re‑opens nuclear debate | 2025 | Spain, Germany, Switzerland and others revisit phase‑outs citeturn0news63 | | United States | TVA submits first SMR construction permit; NRC advances BWRX‑300 review | 2025 | Regulatory pathway for fleet deployment citeturn1search9turn1search1 | | Global Strategy Report | “Six Dimensions for Success” playbook for new nuclear entrants | 2025 | Practical roadmap for emerging economies citeturn0search0 | | U.S. Congress | Proposed cuts to DOE loan office threaten build‑out pace | 2025 | Finance bottleneck remains a risk citeturn1news28 |

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6. The Catch‑Up Scenario

Suppose the recent 50‑year pause ends in 2025, and total energy demand returns to a midpoint historical doubling period of 12.5 years (the average of the 10–15 year rebound window).

6.1 Consumption Trajectory

| Year | Doublings since 2024 | Demand (TWh) | |------|----------------------|--------------| | 2024 | 0 | 167 000 | | 2037 | 1 | 334 000 | | 2050 | 2 | 668 000 | | 2062 | 3 | 1 336 000 |

(Table ignores efficiency gains from electrification for a conservative, supply‑side sizing.)

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7. Nuclear‑Only Supply Model

7.1 Reactor Math

• 1 GWᵉ Gen‑4 reactor → 8.76 TWh yr‑¹ at 100 % capacity factor.
• 2062 requirement: 1 336 000 TWh yr‑¹ → ≈ 152 500 reactors in steady state.
• Build rate (2025‑2062, linear deployment):
  152 500 ÷ 38 years ≈ 4 000 reactors per year globally.

(Down from the earlier 5 000 yr‑¹ estimate because the deployment window now stretches 38 years instead of 30.)

7.2 Policy Benchmarks

• COP 28 triple target translates to +780 GW (if baseline 2020 ≈ 390 GW). That is <100 1 GW units per year—two orders of magnitude lower than the theoretical catch‑up requirement, highlighting just how aggressive our thought experiment is.

7.3 Distributed vs Grid‑Centric

Small Modular Reactors (300 MW class) can be sited on retiring coal plants, using existing grid interconnects and cooling, vastly reducing new transmission needs. Ultra‑large “gigawatt corridors” become optional rather than mandatory, though meshed regional grids still improve resilience and market liquidity.

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8. Challenges & Unknowns

1. Finance: Even with IRA‑style credits, first‑of‑a‑kind Gen‑4 builds carry high cost of capital.
2. Supply Chain: 4 000 reactors a year means a reactor‑grade steel output roughly 20× today’s level.
3. Waste & Public Trust: Advanced reactors can burn actinides, but geologic repositories remain essential.
4. Workforce: Nuclear engineers, welders and regulators are already in short supply.
5. Competing Technologies: Cheap renewables + storage and prospective fusion could displace part of the projected load.

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9. Conclusions

Recent policy shifts—from Europe’s Net‑Zero Industry Act to the COP 28 nuclear declaration—signal that governments once again see nuclear energy as indispensable to deep decarbonisation. Yet meeting an exponential catch‑up in demand would require deployment rates an order of magnitude beyond today’s commitments, testing manufacturing capacity, finance and political resolve.

Whether the future follows the modest path now embedded in policy or the steeper curve sketched here, two convictions stand out:

• Electrification will dominate new energy demand.
• Scalable, dispatchable low‑carbon generation—likely including large fleets of Gen‑4 fission plants—must fill much of that gap if net‑zero targets are to remain credible.

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Last updated 1 June 2025.

@ 4fe4a528:3ff6bf06

Last month I wrote about how bitcoin is decoupling from stocks. So a lot of you finally had the courage to save more in bitcoin. My mission, to explain bitcoin/computers, is coming to end a new on-slot of financial advisors flogging bitcoin is on the horizon.

“the poor you will always have with you” —Jesus. Not everyone has the courage to save seed for next year or to sow plentifully in the spring. Now that bitcoin has decoupled you will see more financial type people trying to show you why bitcoin’s purchasing power grew 20% CAGR in the last decade.

Just like people don’t understand the value of bitcoin, a lot of people don’t understand the value in Artificial Intelligence (AI). This spring I started using Home Assistant (HA) to monitor the house and garden. Most people use automation to save time, but HA provide a lot more benefits to me. Having local data enhances my decision making abilities. I can now tell you how much energy I have stored and how much energy I normally use and when I use it. It answers the question. “Was getting solar really worth the cost?” To me AI is a lot like a calculator, but can answer more than just math questions.

The noun “Google” became a verb because a lot of people started using google search to enhance there understanding. Even Google is embracing the use of AI in their web search capabilities. In 2025, it is weird that any internet user can ask AI about health or wealth and get a smart reply without having to make an appointment with a doctor or a financial planner. To get the courage to act you still might need a mentor, but at least now you kind of know what you should do. Are you willing to let AI plan your day yet?

@ bf95e1a4:ebdcc848

This is a part of the Bitcoin Infinity Academy course on Knut Svanholm's book Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics. For more information, check out our Geyser page!

A New Form of Life

It’s not easy to define the properties that would deem an entity a new form of life. There’s no consensus among scientists or nations regarding the definition of what a life form is. This is one of the main hurdles when it comes to defining artificial or synthetic life. How does one know when life has been created if there’s no clear definition of what life actually is? One popular definition of life is that a living organism is an open system that maintains homeostasis, is composed of cells, has a life cycle, undergoes metabolism, can grow, adapt to its environment, respond to stimuli, reproduce, and evolve. Could Bitcoin fit into this description? In order to find out, we need to dissect both this definition of life and the basic properties of the Bitcoin network.

Bitcoin is quite clearly an open system, but what does it mean for an organism to maintain homeostasis? Homeostasis is the tendency towards a relatively stable equilibrium between interdependent elements, especially (but not limited to) as maintained by physiological processes. The first part of that sentence perfectly describes what Bitcoin does. The equilibrium is the consensus between the nodes, which act as interdependent elements. One could even argue that they actually are maintained by physiological processes since each node’s decisions are ultimately made by human brains and not software, but for now, we’ll examine Bitcoin as a life form from a non-meta-argument perspective. The next part of the definition is that life is made up of cells, which the Bitcoin network also arguably is, especially if you count nodes as cells.

A life cycle is defined as a “series of changes in form that an organism undergoes, returning to the starting state,” according to Wikipedia. The life cycle of the Bitcoin network is still unclear, but it seems unlikely that it will ever return to its starting state. What is more likely is that while we have witnessed its birth, it is highly unlikely that any human alive today will outlive the network, so we won’t have any way of knowing. This is not unheard of in nature either however. A species of fungi called Armillaria Ostoyae, or the Humongous Fungus, in the Blue Mountains of Oregon, is one of the largest and oldest organisms ever known to man. This mushroom network is estimated to be between 2500 and 8500 years old based on its current growth rate. No one knows what its life cycle looks like in perfect detail.

The three main purposes of metabolism in a living body are the conversion of food to energy to run cellular processes, the conversion of food into bodily building blocks, and the elimination of nitrogenous wastes. Bitcoin’s metabolism works in a similar manner. Bitcoin feeds on electricity, and its cellular processes are its transactions. Its body has its own building blocks, literal blocks, that are added to its body, the blockchain, roughly every ten minutes. Malicious blocks are considered waste and are thus eliminated by the system. Bitcoin grows and adapts to its environment organically, exemplified lately by the development of the Lightning Network and other Layer 2 scaling solutions. It responds to external stimuli by showing a more and more ironclad resistance to change while still responding well to sufficiently clever improvement proposals. Like the Armillaria Ostoyae, Bitcoin grows rather than reproduces, and it evolves over time by adopting good ideas and rejecting bad ones.

The notion of Bitcoin as a life form may sound far-fetched and even a bit silly, even though a lot of its properties fit the bill. What we do know about it is that it is very unlikely to go away or stop functioning in the foreseeable future. Whether or not Bitcoin is alive is up for debate, but it can’t be killed, and that ought to mean something. We should study it carefully and try to be as unbiased and humble as possible when drawing conclusions about it.

Speaking of fungi, one of the most important aspects of money is its fungibility. Fungibility goes hand-in-hand with privacy and censorship resistance. If certain Bitcoin addresses were to end up on a government's blacklist, they’d end up becoming less valuable than their not yet blacklisted neighbors. Look at what happened to the Indian Rupee bills that were banned overnight by the Indian government in late 2017 in order to “fight corruption.” They’re still in use, but only worth about 70% of the value they held when they were considered “legal tender”. If Bitcoin transactions can’t be private, they won’t be fungible. This would reduce Bitcoin’s monetary capability. We’re at a point in history where Bitcoin transactions can be completely private, but only a select few people know how to ensure that they really are. This is arguably Bitcoin’s greatest flaw and a very real hurdle on the way to mainstream adoption.

So, how many privacy measures does the average user need to take? Just as when it comes to storage, it depends on the user’s knowledge level. Most users should probably be more careful than they are right now, but there’s little reason to be paranoid. It’s still very hard to prove that a specific transaction was made by a specific user. The whole ordeal is somewhat akin to the fight against the BitTorrent network ten years ago. The copyright lobby found different means of scaring off users in different parts of the world, banning websites, prosecuting providers, and so on, but the network itself is still thriving, and torrent files are as accessible as they ever were. A lot of heads will probably have to roll before Bitcoin is accepted everywhere, but just like they couldn’t fight filesharing, governments won’t be able to fight Bitcoin. Even the policymakers will understand the advantages of Bitcoin usage sooner or later. The word later is key here. If you want to be absolutely sure that what you do with your Bitcoin is legal, private, or worthwhile, just wait. Wait out the storm, and don’t use them until they’re fully acceptable everywhere. They’ll be worth a lot more, and you’ll have a lot more options in general. Remember, HODLing is using.

One of the greatest hidden perks of Bitcoin adoption is that it forces people to think for themselves. First, it forces the user to think about computer security. In order to store your Bitcoins safely, you have to know what you’re doing, what software and hardware you can trust, etc. It is virtually impossible to do anything online without trusting any third party. Every piece of hardware and software inside and in between each of the two computers communicating could potentially be corrupt. In Bitcoin, the cautious user will be rewarded, and the reckless user will be punished eventually. This is also true for Bitcoin’s on- and off-ramps, and the less cautious user is always more likely to end up in legal trouble. The coming tsunami that is hyperbitcoinization is scary, but a skilled surfer can expect the ride of his lifetime.

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🧠Quote(s) of the week:

Fred Krueger: 'Generally, people overanalyze too much. Bitcoin is amazing tech. It works. It has been the top-performing asset in 13 of the last 15 years. Stop with the analysis. Buy it. Don't trade it. Don't look for "entry points". And don't do a 1% allocation either. Grow a pair.'

🧡Bitcoin news🧡

Money. Time. Energy. You only get to pick two… Unless you’re a Bitcoiner. https://i.ibb.co/1Gw9BJdB/Gqspxqd-Xg-AAw03e.jpg

On the 19th of May.

➡️ El Salvador is $357 million in profit on Bitcoin holdings.

➡️Metaplanet ended Monday as Japan's 9th most traded stock, with ¥61.69B ( $425M) daily volume, surpassing Toyota, SoftBank, and Nintendo.

➡️Circle $USDC in "informal talks" to sell itself to Coinbase or Ripple, Fortune reports. WhalePanda: "Imagine running a $60 billion stablecoin in such an incompetent way you can't even turn a decent profit and desperately have to sell."

➡️Panama introduces a bill to allow citizens to buy, sell, and accept Bitcoin freely anywhere in the country.

On the 20th of May:

➡️https://i.ibb.co/v61tLVTc/Grk-OL6x-Ws-AAIGum.jpg

Tick Tock next block, but it seems like we are right on schedule. Bitcoin is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

➡️BTC just hit a new ATH in Argentina Weak currencies first. Then all of them.

➡️ThumzUp Media officially files to raise $500m to buy Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset.

➡️Indonesian fintech DigiAsia's stock surges over 90% after announcing plans to raise $100M for a Bitcoin treasury.

➡️River: America’s story began with sound money. Hard-working Americans saved their wealth in gold-backed money. Today, Bitcoin carries that torch forward.

https://i.ibb.co/zTFLqMjC/Grpd4lm-WAAAq-W7m.png

Insane stat! Bitcoin is now the people's money. Imagine the price when nation-states get on board.

The US government is outpacing global rivals like China by embracing Bitcoin. The federal government's Bitcoin holdings now represent twice its global market share of gold reserves.

Worth the read: https://blog.river.com/american-bitcoin-advantage/

'In this report, you'll learn about: - Why Bitcoin is an underestimated pillar of American dominance. - America’s lead in Bitcoin businesses, institutions, development, and policy. - Bitcoin's emergence as America’s reserve asset.'

Ergo: America is the dominant Bitcoin player in just about every dimension: investment, government reserves, development, institutional embrace, supportive policy, and mining.

➡️Texas Bitcoin Reserve bill SB 21 will be considered on the second reading in the House this morning. Note: the Texas Constitution requires that second and third readings be conducted on separate days. If it passes today, then the final vote could be tomorrow

➡️Bitcoin accumulation trends signal bullishness with smallholders (<1 BTC) accelerating accumulation (score ~0.55), and whales (100-10K BTC) aggressively buying. Source: Glassnode

➡️French company The Blockchain Group raises €8.6 million to buy more Bitcoin. Press release

➡️Chinese printer manufacturer Procolored unknowingly distributed Bitcoin-stealing malware through its official device drivers, resulting in 9.3 BTC ($950K) stolen from users.

https://x.com/MistTrack_io/status/1924411803540590728

➡️Bitmine launches its Bitcoin Treasury Advisory Practice with a $4M deal, including $3.2M for leasing 3K Bitcoin miners and an $800K consulting agreement

➡️Bitcoin's correlation to gold is at its lowest since February 2025, per Glassnode data.

➡️UK-listed Smarter Web Company adds 16.42 BTC to its treasury at an average price of $104,202. Total Holdings: 35.62 BTC The Smarter Web Company is stacking with conviction—building a treasury designed for the long term.

On the 21st of May:

➡️Vivek's Strive Asset Management looking to buy up to 75,000 Bitcoin from Mt. Gox claims at a discount to build a Bitcoin treasury.

➡️Bitcoin is $1k from an all-time high and the Google Trends chart looks like this. https://i.ibb.co/qYLb7j6C/Gra6-BSd-Xo-AATN2-A.jpg

On the 22nd of May:

Happy Pizza Day! 15 years ago today Laszlo Hanyecz bought 2 pizzas for 10,000 Bitcoin. That Bitcoin is now worth $1.2 BILLION.

Will Baxter: "But how did he get that much bitcoin? Well, there’s a lot more to Laszlo's story than those pizzas. Here are four facts about him most people don’t know (the last one blew my mind): 1. Laszlo, a Mac developer, discovered bitcoin in 2010. After realizing that Bitcoin only ran on Windows, he took it upon himself to port it to Mac OS. He built and released the first bitcoin client for Mac making it accessible to more users. 2. In its earliest days, bitcoin could be mined with just a CPU, something that every computer has. But Laszlo had other plans. In mid-2010, he released a solution that would allow users to mine with their GPUs. Laszlo is single-handedly responsible for ushering in the era of GPU mining which massively increased Bitcoin’s total hashrate. 3. By being one of the early adopters of GPU mining, Laszlo enjoyed a massive jump in mining efficiency and hashrate, which meant that he was able to mine a lot of blocks. In total, Laszlo’s Bitcoin wallets received more than 80,000 BTC over the first few months of the GPU mining era. It’s estimated that Laszlo mined well over 100,000 BTC in Bitcoin’s early days. 4. Laszlo has single-handedly mined more Bitcoin than any publicly listed Bitcoin mining company. As an example, MARA, the largest publicly traded Bitcoin miner by market capitalization, has mined an estimated 48,000 BTC since 2018. Laszlo and his GPUs managed to mine more than twice that amount! Incredible.

➡️Pizza slice inscribed on the Bitcoin blockchain forever! Block #897813

➡️Strategy: 'Bitcoin Pizza Day at Strategy. Paid for with USD.'

Kinda disgusting. The largest Bitcoin Treasury Company is not even able to pay for pizza in Bitcoin on Bitcoin Pizza Day? Why did they even bother to buy pizza today? They show zero understanding of the meaning of Pizza Day and Bitcoin history.

Plebs all around the world are celebrating Pizza Day by "spend and replace" Bitcoin for some lovely pizzas. What is Saylor doing? He decides to use his giant megaphone to stomp all over it. "Pay with Dollars. Eat the Pizza. Keep the Bitcoin." That post rubbed me the wrong way. That’s because they are not bullish on the payment use case of Bitcoin. I have been saying all the time: that he has an agenda against the medium of exchange. This is plausible as Saylor never minced words as far as I know. His model is HODL. Spending would contradict.

Not sure if I am overreacting because of store of value for several more years will eventually lead to a Medium of Exchange Bitcoin world.

As you might already know I am not particularly a fan of the whole Bitcoin treasury - public companies.

Read the following thread why, an excellent thread on the risks of Bitcoin treasury companies by a bitcoiner.

https://x.com/lowstrife/status/1925717037915005357

➡️For the first time in history, Bitcoin is now trading above $111,000 and just surpassed $2.2 TRILLION in market cap for the first time in history. $3 Billion worth of Bitcoin shorts to be liquidated at $120,000 Small, tiny reminder. In 2021 dollars, Bitcoin hasn’t broken $100K yet. We need to hit $118K to meet that milestone. Celebrating $1 million (eventually) might not be as much fun as you think.

➡️H100 Group buys 4.39 BTC and becomes Sweden's first publicly listed #Bitcoin treasury company. After announcing its first Bitcoin purchase shares surged 37%. A small stack, big signal.

➡️Bitcoin has now surpassed both Amazon and Google to become the 5th largest asset in the world, and Bitcoin just surpassed the Taiwan Dollar and is now the 8 largest currency in the world. Nothing stops this train. https://i.ibb.co/Jj11QjkL/Grk-Ume-KXs-AAm-Xp6.jpg

➡️Michael Saylor's 'Strategy' now has a $23.8 billion unrealized profit on its Bitcoin portfolio. Meanwhile, Strategy is to sell up to $2.1 billion of 10% preferred stock.

➡️'Traditional finance consensus: "What's the use case for BTC?" Allowing Millennials to afford a home despite Boomer policymakers actively pursuing policies to prevent them from doing so Median US home price, price in BTC, 2020-today IMO, this chart is going <1 in coming yrs.' - Luke Gromen https://i.ibb.co/tpCk7HD2/Grka1-Ld-Wc-AAo-IQn.jpg

Just to give you one more perspective on this topic:

➡️Joe Consorti: US real estate has been in a 15-year bull market. But guess what? Priced in bitcoin, the average US home price has dropped from ~3 million BTC to just 4.38 BTC in 15 years. All assets are deflationary in Bitcoin terms. https://i.ibb.co/m5Nk2Yq2/Grk9d92-XUAAAwz-H.jpg

➡️Taiwanese Legislator has proposed a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve at 0.1% of GDP = $780m

➡️Chinese automaker Jiuzi Holdings to buy 1,000 Bitcoin for treasury.

➡️ 'Singapore's Genius Group buys another 24.5 Bitcoin. Now holds 85.5 Bitcoin, 1,000 BTC target confirmed.' - Bitcoin Archive

➡️Standard Chartered expects Bitcoin to hit: - Q2: $120,000 by the end of Q2 - Q4: $200,000 by late 2025 - 2028: $500,000

➡️On-Chain college: 'New ATH for Bitcoin yet realized profit is significantly lower than the last two local tops and prior cycle tops. HIGHER' https://i.ibb.co/ch0HWwWx/Grjx-GHVWo-AAd7-Wt.jpg

Not sure about that. Could be a double top.

On the 23rd of May:

➡️The Blockchain Group confirms the acquisition of 227 BTC for ~€21.2 million, the holding of a total of 847 BTC, and a ‘BTC Yield’ of 861.0% YTD Press release.

➡️The 8th largest economy in the world will start to buy Bitcoin. No one is bullish enough! Governor Abbot to sign Bitcoin Reserve bill into law! Texas to become the 3rd US state to enact an SBR!

➡️Publicly traded The Smarter Web Company bought 23.09 Bitcoin for £1.85 million for its treasury.

➡️For the love of god. Delate Coinbase or any other shitcoin casino/exchange (for example here in the Netherlands Bitvavo) and cold-Storage your Bitcoin and don’t touch them.

https://i.ibb.co/y3BmmNt/Grp-TDv-BWk-AAs7-Gh.jpg

Not your keys, not your coins.

➡️'The Russian Bitcoin mining sector now ranks first in growth rates and second in mining volume globally. The country's largest Bitcoin miners, BitRiver and Intelion, controlling over 50% of the market, generated $200M in revenue for FY2024, per RBC.' -Bitcoin News

➡️Alex Gladstein: 'Absolutely crazy Hundreds of millions of people saw their wage and savings technology lose 15%, 30%, 50%, 75%, even 90% (!) of its value last year Fiat is broken, time for a Plan ₿' https://i.ibb.co/hRZwFsPJ/Gro-s-KJXUAAh97-M.jpg

➡️Bitwise predicts nation-states and institutions will hold 4,269,000 BTC—worth $426.9B. https://i.ibb.co/RkVDmGLg/Gro6wb-VX0-AAHCT0.jpg

➡️'Metaplanet is now the #4 most traded stock in Japan, moving nearly $1B in a day—just a year after adopting #Bitcoin. From obscurity to 300x returns, this is what happens when a company runs on hard money.' -Bitcoin for Corporation

➡️TFTC: "Scammers are mailing fake "Ledger Security" letters demanding wallet validation via QR code. They spoof official branding and ask users to visit fraudulent sites."

https://i.ibb.co/nNg0JgX6/Grpd0o-BWc-AI3-Yj-Y.jpg

On the 24th of May:

➡️Bitcoin has the same number of users as the Internet had in 1999. https://i.ibb.co/1frYh4Z7/Gru2-J3-UW8-AA-05y.jpg

Now talking about that Bitcoin Adoption S-curve...

➡️Thomas Fahrer: 'Holding Bitcoin means getting rich while feeling frustrated 90% of the time. Deflationary money - designed to increase in value - forever. It's difficult for the human mind to comprehend. Most still don't get it.' https://i.ibb.co/9HwPkxK3/Grwpw-W0-W0-AEc-PSb.jpg

On the 25th of May:

➡️Pakistan allocates 2,000mw of electricity to Bitcoin mining and Ai - Bloomberg Daniel Batten: Pakistan announced 2000 MW for Bitcoin mining & AI. That's potentially ~17,000 BTC per year for an SBR. Plus, India will now have to follow. Game theory playing out. *Assuming that 50% of this is for Bitcoin mining, using latest-gen machines, 95% uptime, network hashrate is on average 1200 EH/s by the time they are complete

➡️Normally, I would write this in the segment below 🌎Macro/Geopolitics... "First signpost: DOGE failed to reduce the deficit.

Second signpost: Pushing for SLR changes to boost demand for Treasuries from domestic banks.

Third signpost: Pushing for legislation to boost demand for Treasuries from stablecoin issuers.

Fourth signpost: New spending bill estimated to increase deficit by 33% by 2027.

Fifth signpost: Bessent: "We'll grow GDP faster than the debt to stabilize debt-to-GDP."

Read below (segment 🌎Macro/Geopolitics) his full statement and my view on it.

TL;DR: Keep spending. Pass new laws and tweak regs to suppress long-end yields. Boost nominal GDP (mostly via inflation). Debase the currency. Bondholders and cash savers lose in real terms. Got Bitcoin?" -Sam Callahan

➡️Sminston With: 'There is a myth that 100% of the returns in Bitcoin only happen if you buy at the bottoms and then sell at the tops during one of the cycles. Power law quantile analysis shows otherwise; in fact, there are nearly identical growth rates (CAGR) whether you buy/sell at the bottoms (support) or around the middle (median) 52% vs 53% as of this year! Whichever trendline is followed, even if you only trade at the bottoms, the compounded annual returns of Bitcoin will be >7x of what you'd ever expect from the S&P. Ignore or try to time Bitcoin at your own risk!' https://i.ibb.co/5QHQHqF/Grzig5-BWIAAy9-Jb.jpg

On the 26th of May:

➡️Bitcoin made another weekly record close at $109,004.

➡️When BlackRock holds 1M Bitcoin and the price hits $1M... They’ll be earning $2.5B a year in fees. Every year. Forever.

➡️Florida proposes eliminating Capital Gains Tax on Bitcoin. If passed, it would make Florida the first U.S. state to offer this kind of tax relief.

➡️Strategy acquires 4,020 BTC for $427.1 million at $106,237 per Bitcoin. They now HODL 580,250 BTC acquired for $40.61 billion at $69,979 per Bitcoin.

💸Traditional Finance / Macro:

Jeroen Blokland: U.S. vs. Eurozone in the digital money age!

https://i.ibb.co/dJ3085qm/Grko80y-WMAATw-V1.jpg

On the 20th of May:

👉🏽TKL: 'Retail investors are piling into stocks: Individual investors bought a net $4.1 BILLION in US stocks on Monday between 9:30 AM and 12:30 PM ET, the biggest buy on record. This surpassed the previous high by over $1 BILLION, according to JPMorgan data. Retail investors also broke the $4 billion buying threshold by noon ET for the first time in history. Additionally, retail accounted for a record 36% of the trading volume yesterday, exceeding the previous record set in late April. This supported the S&P 500's rapid recovery from a -1.1% decline at the beginning of Monday’s session into positive territory by the close. Retail investors are driving the market.'

https://i.ibb.co/HTM721rw/Gr-Zot-Th-XMAAl-EB.jpg

To provide you with another example of why retail is driving this market. Institutional investors remain bearish of US stocks:

A net 38% of institutional investors were underweight US equities in early May, the lowest since May 2023, according to BofA. Outside of 2023, this marks the lowest allocation since the lead-up to 2008. Over the last 5 months, this percentage has fallen by ~70 points, the biggest drop on record. The difference between the proportion of investors being overweight in the Eurozone versus US equities hit a net ~75%, the highest since October 2017. By comparison, 4 months ago, the net percentage was -62 points, the lowest since 2012.

The sentiment shift among professional investors has been historic. Institutions dump U.S. stocks and flock to the Eurozone. Institutions bailing on US stocks while retail piles in - smells like a correction brewing.

🏦Banks:

On the 21st of May:

👉🏽The Federal Reserve has experienced its first back-to-back annual losses since 1915, totaling $192 billion in 2023 and 2024. The most expensive “expertise” in history.

https://i.ibb.co/zzPHp40/Gr-Xx-Hsy-WUAARd-IV.jpg

On the 23rd of May:

👉🏽'U.S. Banks U.S. Banks are currently facing $482 Billion in unrealized losses, an increase of 33% from the prior quarter. With rates now skyrocketing, these losses are going to increase. Banks, particularly small banks, are ( potentially) in trouble!!' - Barchart https://i.ibb.co/1FHmTBc/Grm-GA3-OWMAAro5k.jpg

🌎Macro/Geopolitics:

1 bar of gold

= 1 house (1975) 1 bar of gold

= 1 house (2025) Do you get it yet?

https://i.ibb.co/tTM7Kw0n/Gr-W8b-K0b-AAQvu-He.jpg

Got Bitcoin?

On the 19th of May:

👉🏽 TKL: "Risky debt issuance has stalled in the US: Low-rated US corporations have issued less than $1 billion in bonds in April, the lowest in at least 4 years. At the same time, leveraged loan issuances have reached $13 billion. High-yield corporate bonds and leveraged loan issuances are ~10 TIMES lower than during the same period last year. Leveraged loans are typically used to finance M&A, refinance debt, or general business activity, all of which are slowing down." Seems like uncertainty is really affecting everything.

👉🏽'US Treasuries are selling off: The 30-year Treasury yield surpassed 5%, for the first time since November 2023. It is now trading at the 2nd-highest level in 18 YEARS. Investors are signaling that the US public debt CRISIS is heading to a turning point.' -Global Markets Investor

👉🏽The stupidity of EU leaders knows no limits.

https://i.ibb.co/gCpMxsH/Gr-Txm-P1-Ww-AAALx-L.jpg

'Russia pumps gas 3.000 km from frozen Siberia to China through a Gazprom-owned pipeline. Meanwhile, massive Chinese LNG tankers, too enormous for the Suez Canal, sail the long route around the Cape of Good Hope just to supply Europe,filling the gap left by Russia’s fading influence. And now? Russian gas costs three times more.'

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jan/09/european-imports-of-liquefied-natural-gas-from-russia-at-record-levels

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/24/eu-spends-more-russian-oil-gas-than-financial-aid-ukraine-report

👉🏽Klarna losses widen as more users miss payments; 100 million now on platform — FT “The fintech, which offers interest-free consumer loans to allow customers to make retail purchases, on Monday reported a net loss of $99mn for the three months to March, up from $47mn a year earlier.” https://www.ft.com/content/6c4bf393-c80b-42b7-993a-35270143f688 https://i.ibb.co/prsJNdB2/Gr-Y6-WTQXs-AAPu-Tr.png

Funny how they never learn that unsecured debt to subprime holders is a bad idea. Buy now pay later was a model destined to fail because those least capable of repaying the loans are the very people borrowing it. "100M people using Klarna and they're losing money because broke people keep defaulting on burritos"

On the 20th of May:

👉🏽As mentioned in my previous Bitcoin & Macro recap. Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba called the current bond market situation in Japan “worse than Greece.” Shocking (not!), falling demand for long bonds in a country with a debt-to-GDP ratio of 216%.

Admitting that you’re situation is worse than Greece should horrify people. "Japan's bond market is imploding: Japan's 30Y Government Bond Yield has officially surged to its highest level in history, at 3.15%. For decades, Japan was known for low long-term interest rates. Now, they are dealing with high inflation, a shifting policy outlook, and a whopping 260% debt-to-GDP ratio. On top of this, Japan holds $1.1 TRILLION worth of US debt, making it the largest foreign holder of US debt." -TKL

This is not just about Japan. It’s a signal that the global debt machine is approaching its structural limits and that the next liquidity cycle may not be voluntary, but forced by sovereign fragility.

Read the following thread:

https://x.com/onechancefreedm/status/1924831549683298535

Remember:

1990: Japan has a goal of bringing prices down.

2012: Japan has a goal of getting prices up.

"History tells us that deflation [and inflation] has a habit of getting out of control."

👉🏽Gold prices extend gains to +5% since their May 15th low and near $3,300/oz as markets price-in uncertainty. Gold and Bitcoin are becoming the ONLY global safe-havens.

Talking about gold. China’s gold ETF inflows have more than doubled in the last 12 months, fueling a 38% surge in gold prices. From retail to the central bank—China has never bought more gold.

https://i.ibb.co/kVHh27vz/Gr-YB3-Wj-XUAAiai-W.jpg

On the 21st of May:

👉🏽For the Dutch followers/readers: The renovation of the Binnenhof is more than twice as expensive as the reconstruction of the Notre-Dame… and it costs more than the tallest building in the world, the Burj Khalifa…A typical case of being royally screwed over with other people's money (our tax money!)

👉🏽And yet another manufacturer driven out of the country by ridiculous climate and energy policies. Paint producer AkzoNobel is closing factories in the Netherlands and Belgium; 276 jobs cut.

They now will produce their products, partly, in France (Pamiers). That’s where they’ll continue production — with cheap and reliable nuclear energy.

Source: https://archive.ph/4nVyg

On the 22nd of March:

👉🏽TKL: "The decline in value of fiat currencies against gold has been truly remarkable: Since 1971, the US Dollar has lost 98.94% of its value against gold, the second-largest fall among major currencies. During the same period, the British Pound has declined 99.42%. The Euro would have lost 98.76% if it existed since 1971. Furthermore, the Japanese Yen and Swiss Franc have dropped 97.47% and 94.85%, respectively. Meanwhile, gold prices in US Dollar terms are up ~1,000% during this period. Gold remains a hedge against currency debasement." Wrong, Bitcoin is the hedge against currency debasement. Just look at the Bitcoin/Gold chart. I prefer 'digital' gold. Voltaire famously said, 'Fiat currency always eventually returns to its intrinsic value--zero.

On the 23rd of May:

👉🏽Trump recommends a 50% tariff on products imported from the European Union, starting on June 1, 2025. TKL: 'The trade war is back just as the 10Y Note Yield crosses above 4.60%. This morning, President Trump threatened 25% tariffs on Apple, $AAPL, and 50% tariffs on the EU beginning June 1st. Now, yields are pulling back sharply as recession worries resurface. The drop in yields on this announcement will only give MORE of a reason for President Trump to prolong the trade war. As we have said MULTIPLE times, a trade war accomplishes all of Trump's economic goals at once. Trump wants lower rates, the Fed won't cut, so he will get them the hard way.'

👉🏽US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "We can both grow the economy and control the debt. What is important is that the economy grows faster than the debt. If we change the growth trajectory of the country, of the economy, then we will stabilize our finances and grow our way out of this." “We can grow our way out of this” RIP Fiscal Austerity, 2025-2025 lmao!

Notice how it’s shifted from “we’re going to cut spending” to “we’re going to grow our way out” regarding our debt burden. Bessent knows it’s cooked, hence why he stopped talking about yields. It is kinda delusional to think we are going to grow the economy fast enough to accomplish this when the budget deficit is over 6% of GDP.

Translation: they are unable to meaningfully reduce the debt. US government debt will continue to grow. They will be forced to print eventually. Your purchasing power will continue to fall. Got Bitcoin?

Just to give you one more example:

👉🏽'The national debt has grown under every U.S. president, regardless of political party, for decades. And that is set to continue during President Donald Trump’s second term. Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency (“DOGE”) initially promised to cut $2 trillion in wasteful spending, but have since admitted this figure is likely to total a couple hundred billion bucks at best. Meanwhile, the president is pushing Congress to pass his “big, beautiful bill,” which is expected to add trillions in new deficit spending over the next several years. Make no mistake… the spending will never stop.' - Porter Stansberry

https://i.ibb.co/8k4LNg2/Grlug-NNX0-AAQnw-T.jpg

U.S. National Debt:

1970: $371B

1980: $908B

1990: $3.2T

2000: $5.7T

2010: $13.6T

2020: $26.9T

You can't fix this with votes. Maybe Bitcoin can stop this train? It can also incentivize governments to spend responsibly and manage budgets with discipline. One thing I do know is that you’re not voting your way out of this chart.

On the 24th of May:

👉🏽'The Bank of Japan owns 52.0% of all domestic government bonds. By comparison, life insurers, banks, and pension funds hold 13.4%, 9.8%, and 8.9%, respectively. According to Bloomberg, the Japanese government now holds $7.8 trillion of debt. This makes the Japanese government the third most indebted government in the world, behind the US and China. Furthermore, the Bank of Japan holds a whopping $4.1 trillion of government bonds on its balance sheet. Japan needs a major restructuring.' -TKL

Just to make it even worse...

👉🏽'Prices in Japan are soaring: The cost of rice jumped +98.4% year-over-year in April, posting the biggest monthly jump since 1971. This is an acceleration from the +92.1% surge recorded in March. Energy prices rose +9.3% after the March phaseout of Japanese government subsidies for gas and electricity. As a result, Japan's inflation CPI excluding fresh food rose by +3.5% from the previous year, up from a +3.2% gain in March. This marks the 5th consecutive monthly reading at 3%+. Meanwhile, Japan's economy shrank by -0.7% in Q1 2025, the first decline since Q1 2024. Japan has entered stagflation.' -TKL

👉🏽Birth rates are plummeting in a lot of countries. Population collapse is the greatest threat to civilization.

https://i.ibb.co/3Yfqq0N1/Gruztgo-XIAISc7-A.jpg

Question: How sustainable are the government debts with the population decline, like in Japan and Europe?

Grok: Population decline in Japan and Europe strains government debt sustainability. Japan's debt, at 245% of GDP, faces pressure from an aging population, with social spending projected to hit 24% of GDP by 2040. Europe's debt varies, with Greece at 163.6% and Italy at 137%, while aging reduces tax bases. Immigration and productivity boosts could help, but their impact is uncertain. Japan's domestic debt ownership offers some stability, while EU fiscal rules aid Europe. Outcomes depend on policy execution and economic conditions.

On the 26th of May:

👉🏽Cheap energy = abundance One population is so brainwashed they choose poverty. Michael A. Arouet: Can someone please explain the logic behind Germany closing its perfectly fine nuclear power plants, and deindustrialising?

https://i.ibb.co/tTwkmhcB/Gr3-IWgk-Ww-AAVz-Y3.jpg

👉🏽'The US budget deficit has averaged 9% of GDP over the last 5 years. Over the last 12 months alone, the budget gap has hit 7% of GDP. This is even higher than during the 2001 or the 1980s recessions. This comes as the US government spent a whopping $7.1 trillion over the last year, an equivalent of 24% of GDP. The government is now running larger deficits than during an average economic downturn. What happens if the US economy enters a recession?' -TKL

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Sorry for the lack of writing over the last week. As many of you may already know, I was in Las Vegas, Nevada for the Bitcoin 2025 conference. It was my first time in Las Vegas. I had successfully avoided Sin City for the first 34 years of my life. But when duty calls, you have to make some personal concessions.

Despite what many say about this particular conference and the spectacle that it has become, I will say that having attended every single one of Bitcoin Magazine's conferences since 2019, I thoroughly enjoy these events, even if I don't agree with all the content. Being able to congregate with others in the industry who have been working extremely hard to push Bitcoin forward, all of whom I view as kindred spirits who have also dedicated their lives to making the world a better place. There's nothing better than getting together, seeing each other in person, shaking hands, giving hugs, catching up and reflecting on how much things have changed over the years while also focusing on the opportunities that lie ahead.

I think out of all the Bitcoin magazine conferences I've been to, this was certainly my favorite. If only because it has become abundantly clear that Bitcoin is here to stay. Many powerful, influential, and competent people have identified Bitcoin as an asset and monetary network that will play a large part in human society moving forward. And more importantly, Bitcoin is proving to work far better than anybody not paying attention expected. While at the same time, the fiat system is in woeful disrepair at the same time.

As a matter of reflection and surfacing signal for you freaks, here are the presentations and things that happened that I think were the most impactful.

Miles Suter's Block Presentation

https://youtu.be/iUXomXuXcuA

This presentation was awesome for many reasons, one of which being that we often forget just how dedicated Block, as an organization with many companies - including Cash App, Square, the open source organization known as Spiral and more recently, BitKey and Proto - has been to bitcoin over the last eight years. They've worked methodically to make Bitcoin a first-class citizen in their business operations and slowly but surely have built an incredibly integrated experience across their brands. The two big announcements from Block during the conference were the enablement of Bitcoin payments in Square point-of-sale systems and the amount of revenue they're making on their Lightning node, c=, from routing payments.

Right now, the Bitcoin payments and point of sale systems is in beta with many merchants testing it out for the next six months, but it will be available for all 4 million square merchants in 2026. This is something that many bitcoiners have been waiting for for many years now, and it is incredible to see that they finally brought it across the line. Merchants will have the ability to accept bitcoin payments and either convert every payment into fiat automatically, convert a portion of the bitcoin payment into fiat to keep the rest in sats, or simply keep all of the bitcoin they receive via payments in sats. This is an incredible addition to what Square has already built, which is the ability of their merchants to sweep a portion of their revenues into bitcoin if they desire. Square is focused on building a vertically integrated suite of bitcoin products for merchants that includes the ability to buy bitcoin, receive bitcoin, and eventually leverage financial services using bitcoin as collateral so that they can reinvest in and expand their businesses.

via Ryan Gentry

What went a bit underappreciated in the crowd was the routing node revenue that c= is producing, \~9.7% annualized. This is a massive validation of something that many bitcoiners have been talking about for quite some time, which is the ability to produce "yield" on bitcoin in a way that reduces risk significantly. Locking up bitcoin in a 2-of-2 multisig within Lightning channels and operating a Lightning routing node has been long talked about as one of the ways to produce more bitcoin with your bitcoin in a way that minimizes the threat of loss.

It seems that c= has found a way to do this at scale and is doing it successfully. 10% yield on bitcoin locked in Lightning channels is nothing to joke about. And as you can see from the chart above in the grainy picture taken by Ryan Gentry of Lightning Labs, this routing node "yield" is producing more return on capital than many of the most popular staking and DeFi protocols.

This is a strong signal to the rest of the market that this can be done. It may take economies of scale and a high degree of technical competency today. But this is incredibly promising for the future of earning bitcoin by providing valuable goods and services to the market of Bitcoiners. In this case, facilitating relatively cheap and instantly settled payments over the Lightning Network.

Saifedean Ammous' Bitcoin and Tether Presentation

https://youtu.be/SFUiGTayVL8

This was one of the best presentations at the conference. Saifedean Ammous is a friend, he has been an incredible influence on my personal bitcoin journey, and I feel comfortable in saying he's been a strong influence on the journey of hundreds of thousands, at least, if not millions of people as they've attempted to understand bitcoin.

This presentation is a bit spicy because it puts a pin in the balloon of hopium that stablecoins like Tether are mechanisms that could bail out the market for US Treasuries in the medium to long-term if they take enough market share. As one always should do, Saif ran the numbers and clearly illustrates that even in the most optimistic case, Tether's impact on the market for treasuries, their interest rates, and curbing the growth of the debt held by the US federal government will be minimal at best.

One of the most interesting things that Saif points out that I'm a bit embarrassed I didn't recognize before is that much of the demand for Tether that we're seeing these days is replacement demand for treasuries. Meaning that many people who are turning to Tether, particularly in countries that have experienced hyperinflationary events, are using Tether as a substitute for their currencies, which are operated by central banks likely buying U.S. treasuries to support their monetary systems. The net effect of Tether buying those treasuries is zero for this particular user archetype.

Saif goes on to explain that if anything, Tether is a weapon against the US Treasury system when you consider that they're storing a large portion of the stablecoin backing in Treasuries and then using the yields produced by those Treasuries to buy bitcoin. Slowly but surely over time bitcoin as a percentage of their overall backing of Tether has grown quite significantly starting at 0% and approaching 10% today. It isn't hard to imagine that at some point within the next decade, Bitcoin could be the dominant reserve asset backing tethers and, as a result, Tether could be pegged to bitcoin eventually.

It's a fascinating take on Tether that I've never heard before.

Nothing Stops this Train from Lyn Alden

https://youtu.be/Giuzcd4oxIk

Lyn's been saying it loudly for quite some time now; "Nothing stops this train." She's even been on our podcast to explain why she believes this many times over the last five years. However, I don't think there is one piece of content out there that consolidates her thesis of why nothing stops the train of fiscal irresponsibility and unfettered debt expansion and why that's good for bitcoin than the presentation she gave at the conference. Definitely give this one a watch when you get a chance if you haven't already.

Overall, it was a great week in Vegas and I think it's safe to say that bitcoin has gone mainstream. Whether or not people who have been in the bitcoin industry and community for a while are okay with does not really matter. It's happening and all we can do is ride the wave as more and more people come to recognize the value prop of bitcoin and the social clout they can gain from supporting it. Our job here at TFTC is to help you discern the signal from the noise, continue to champion the self-sovereign usage of bitcoin and keep you abreast of developments in the space as they manifest.

Buckle up. Things are only going to get weirder from here on out.

Bitcoin's Mathematical Destiny

Sean Bill and Adam Back make a compelling case for Bitcoin's inevitable march toward $1 million. Sean points out that Bitcoin represents just a tiny fraction—2 trillion out of 900 trillion—of total financial assets, calling it a "tiny orange dot" on their presentation to Texas pensions. He emphasizes that reaching parity with gold alone would deliver a 10x return from current levels. Adam highlights the mathematical impossibility of current prices, noting that ETF buyers are absorbing 500,000 BTC annually while only 165,000 new coins are mined.

"Who's selling at these prices? It doesn't quite add up to me." - Adam Back

The institutional wave is just beginning. Sean revealed that while 50% of hedge fund managers personally own Bitcoin, only 3% have allocated institutional funds. Combined with emerging demand from nation states and corporate treasuries meeting Bitcoin's fixed supply, the price trajectory seems clear. Both guests stressed the importance of staying invested—missing just the 12 best performing days each year would turn Bitcoin into a losing investment.

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We got more great contributions from the usual suspects, but also some very interesting reporting on the Venezuelan economy.

Top Posts

MONEY CLASS OF THE DAY: Market Efficiency: You Come Into MYYYYY HOUSE?! by @denlillaapan, 31 comments and 5834 sats A great primer on what "market efficiency" means and the epistemological issues with claims of inefficiency

Mini Pleb Economist: No Tax on Tips? by @SimpleStacker, 24 comments and 2035 sats Some interesting predictions about what the second order effects will be of removing taxes on tips

There Will Never Be Another Buffett (WSJ, Jason Zweig) by @denlillaapan, 23 comments and 1212 sats The most popular of Den's many sendoff's to the Oracle of Omaha

2 ways to buy gasoline in Venezuela by @bief57, 27 comments and 1835 sats A very interesting look at the parallel systems of market priced and "free" gas in Venezuela

Thank you to our OP's and commenters for keeping ~econ interesting.

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Wird hier gerade eine Hollywood-Show vor unseren Augen aufgeführt?

Trump tut oft so, als ob die USA erst mit seiner zweiten Präsidentschaft zu existieren begonnen haben. Die Suppe, die ihm die Biden-Regierung eingebrockt hat auszulöffeln, gehört zur Übernahme der Amtsgeschäfte. Ist es wahrscheinlich, dass die Vorbereitungen für den Stellvertreterkrieg zwischen den USA und Russland, auf dem Rücken der Ukrainer, erst mit der Biden-Administration angefangen haben, oder schon früher?

Nicht vergessen: Als dominierende Kraft in der NATO sind die USA maßgeblich für die Provokation Russlands durch die NATO-Osterweiterung verantwortlich.

Jetzt, wo man, wie in anderen „demokratiebringenden Einmärschen“ vorher auch schon, erkannt hat, dass man wieder mal gescheitert ist, versuchen sich die USA einen schlanken Fuß zu machen? Wollen sie sich gesichtswahrend aus der Affaire ziehen und Europa den schwarzen Peter zuschieben? Am Ende hieße es dann möglicherweise: Wir haben ja alles versucht, uns für eine Befriedung in der Ukraine einzusetzen, aber ihr Europäer wolltet ja nicht. Jetzt seht selber zu, wie ihr damit fertig werdet. Schon lange vor dem Ukraine-Krieg gab es Stimmen, die sagten, dass wenn es einmal darauf ankommt, werden die USA Europa fallen lassen, wie eine heiße Kartoffel.

Trump deutet an, eine große Zahl der Besatzungstruppen in Europa, besonders präsent in Deutschland, abziehen zu wollen. Gleichzeitig ist die geplante Stationierung von Hyperschallraketen namens „Dark Eagle“ in 2026 noch nicht zurückgenommen worden. Das wäre ein klares Signal einer vertrauensbildenden Maßnahme. Trump könnte in Wiesbaden das Licht ausmachen. Auch das wäre Russland gegenüber, ein klares Zeichen zum festen Willen einer Deeskalation.

Wie geht es mit den rund 800 weltweiten US-Basen weiter? Gibt es hier Pläne, sich zurückzuziehen?

Trump könnte veranlassen, dass Starlink abgeschaltet würde, ein Anruf bei Musk genügte, dann wäre die Ukraine blind. Warum tut er das nicht, um den Krieg schneller zu beenden?

Warum fließen von Deutschland finanzielle Mittel in die Ukraine, um den Betrieb von Starlink weiter aufrechtzuerhalten?

All das könnten klare Zeichen Richtung Russland sein, die es beruhigen und das territoriale Sicherheitsgefühl des Landes wiederherstellen würde.

Wusste Trump nichts von der Auslagerung der Bio-Waffen-Labore in die Ukraine?

Haben die zahlreichen Executive Orders, so gut sie auch sein mögen, nicht auch den Charme von Autokratie oder sogar schon Diktatur? Sind diese in einer Ausnahmesituation gerechtfertigt? Dann wären die Ermächtigungsgesetze bei der Machtübernahme in Deutschland es auch gewesen. Sie geschahen aus der Sicht der Verantwortlichen ja auch in bester Absicht. Das kann doch eigentlich nicht sein. Oder kann man beides nicht miteinander vergleichen?

Wie passt das alles zusammen?

Im Juni gibt es ein NATO-Treffen. Wird Trump dort den Austritt aus der NATO verkünden?

Vorher macht Merz seinen Antrittsbesuch bei Trump. Gibt es eine saftige Ohrfeige, entlässt Trump Deutschland in die Volljährigkeit, oder erklärt Trump Deutschland zu seinem stärksten und verlässlichsten Partner in Europa? Man muss mit allem rechnen.

Durch seine Rede auf der Sicherheitskonferenz in München, bemängelte Vance unter anderem die Meinungsfreiheit in Deutschland. Ist das wirkliche Meinungsfreiheit, wenn diese derzeit in den USA vor allem in den Händen von Musk liegt?

Vance sah auch eine Gefahr für die Demokratie in Deutschland durch die Brandmauer gegen die Opposition. Es ist offensichtlich, dass Trump konservative Kräfte und somit die Opposition in Deutschland unterstützt und stärkt. Die Opposition steht jedoch auch zur NATO und ist für eine angemessene Verteidigungsfähigkeit. Keine Überlegungen, ob die Neutralität für Deutschland nicht ebenfalls eine Alternative wäre. Besteht hier nicht eine Gefahr, denn es ist nicht das erste Mal, dass die USA in einem anderen Land Kräfte unterstützen, von denen sie der Meinung sind, dass sie der Demokratisierung dienen. Hier gibt es Beispiele dafür, dass der Schuss auch nach hinten losgehen kann. Dieses Mal mag es ja vielleicht in die richtige Richtung gehen, doch wer garantiert das? Am Ende zeigt es jedoch vor allem, dass Deutschland nur ein Spielball ganz anderer Kräfte ist, und aus sich heraus nicht in der Lage, vernunftbegabte, eigene Entscheidungen zu treffen. Und werden Entscheidungen getroffen, dann gehen sie in die falsche Richtung. Deutschland darf nicht stärkste Kraft in Europa werden, schon allein aufgrund seiner eigenen Geschichte nicht.

Und die, die die durchaus vorhandenen mahnenden Stimmen in Deutschland unterstützen müssten, die tun es (noch) nicht. In der Tat muss der Wandel von unten nach oben erfolgen, durch den Souverän, weil es mehr als genug Beweise dafür gibt, dass die politische Klasse weder willens noch dazu in der Lage ist, wieder freiheitlich-demokratische Verhältnisse herzustellen, auch, wenn sie ständig gebetsmühlenartig betont, dass sie Unseredemokratie mit allen Mitteln schützen will. Mittlerweile ist die Lage schon so pervers, dass man sich förmlich einen tagelangen Blackout, Benzinpreise von 5,00 Euro den Liter, exorbitant hohe Heiz- und Lebenshaltungskosten herbeiwünscht, damit dieses derzeit leider enttäuschende, bräsige Volk endlich den Irren in Berlin deutlich zu verstehen gibt, dass es so nicht weitergehen kann.

Herr Pistorius scheint der Ansicht zu sein, dass, wenn er das Wort Diplomatie in den Mund nimmt, er augenblicklich an Zungenkrebs erkrankt. Nein, Herr Pistorius, wir müssen nicht kriegstüchtig werden, wir müssen nicht nur friedensfähig werden, sondern friedensliebend durch eine vernunftbegabte deutsche Politik sein, kapieren Sie das endlich! Und diese Friedensliebe muss in die Welt hinausposaunt werden, als Zeichen, dass Deutschland aus seiner Geschichte gelernt hat (wenn es denn so wäre).

Und Frieden durch Krieg schaffen zu wollen, ist und bleibt bekloppt!

Und Merz, verkündet stolz die Stationierung einer Brigade in Litauen, direkt an der russischen Grenze. Es scheint ihm Vergnügen zu bereiten, den Bären an der Tatze zu kitzeln. So lange, bis er die Krallen zeigt, weil es ihm zu viel wird. In Litauen selbst scheint es seit Ende des 2. Weltkrieges noch bis heute eine beträchtliche Anzahl von ewig Gestrigen zu geben, genauso, wie in der Ukraine. Wie passt das zusammen?

Oder soll gar am Ende doch noch der Morgenthau-Plan umgesetzt werden? Anzeichen dafür gibt es.

Was, Herr Trump, ist jetzt mit den Goldreserven in Fort Knox? Sind sie noch da, oder nicht? Was ist mit den deutschen Goldreserven? Die sieht Deutschland wahrscheinlich nie wieder, weil sie mit den jahrzehntelangen Kosten für den US-NATO-Schutz verrechnet werden. Und am Ende würde wahrscheinlich sogar noch ein Saldo zu Ungunsten Deutschlands übrigbleiben.

Ja, es sind viele Baustellen begonnen worden und es gibt immer noch sehr starke Kräfte in den USA, die das Aufräumen verhindern wollen:

Weniger Zucker, keine künstlichen Zusatzstoffe in Lebensmitteln, zusatzfreies Wasser, alles schön und gut. Was nutzt es, wenn die Amis sich wieder gesünder ernähren können, die Fettleibigkeit zurückgeht und viele am Ende dann doch an den Folgen der Spritze zugrunde gehen.  Ein offizielles, nationales, sofortiges Verbot der mRNA-Vergiftung gibt es immer noch nicht. Und auch keine laufende Aufarbeitung und Aufklärung von alleroberster Stelle. Kennedy tut was er kann, aber das reicht noch nicht.

Wer sind die Hintermänner der Wettermanipulation, die derzeit teilweise geahndet werden? Irgendjemand muss den Auftrag dazu geben, wo wird das Zeug hergestellt, wer mischt es dem Flugbenzin bei, was wissen die Flugkapitäne, wenn es denn so ist?

Wird eine Grand Jury vorbereitet, in denen die von Biden am letzten Tag begnadigten Personen, inklusive ihm selbst, zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden? Wo ist das US-amerikanische Nürnberg 2.0 für alle, die an dem Spritzen-Verbrechen beteiligt gewesen sind?

Was ist mit den Kinderschändern? Können die fliehen, wohin? Oder landen die allesamt auf dem elektrischen Stuhl, wo sie hingehören würden? Auch, wenn man grundsätzlich gegen die Todesstrafe ist, in diesem Fall könnte man doch mal eine Ausnahme machen, falls Guantanamo zu voll würde. Sich in teuflischer Art auf verschiedene Weise an Kindern zu vergehen, ist das widerlichste, abscheulichste, menschenverachtendste, das sich ein normaler Mensch überhaupt nur vorstellen kann. Und gleich danach kommt die weltweite, satanische mRNA-Vergiftung.

Was sollen die Friedensgespräche zwischen Russland und der Ukraine in Istanbul? Wie der durch die NATO-Osterweiterung von den USA angezettelte Krieg in der Ukraine, so wäre es jetzt auch die Pflicht der USA, dieses grandiose Deppenstück mit unzähligen Toten und Verstümmelten auch wieder zu beenden. Und das geht nur zwischen den USA und Russland. Die Ukraine hat dabei wenig bis gar nichts zu melden, genau so wenig, wie Europa, und schon gar nicht Möchte-Gernegroß-Deutschland.

Ist das ein Hinhaltetaktik?

Klar war, dass Trump den Krieg in der Ukraine nicht in 24 Stunden beenden konnte. Wurde Europa die Gelegenheit gegeben, ein Bündnis der Willigen aufzustellen, dass verzweifelt aber erfolglos versucht, einen Keil in die Friedensverhandlungen zu treiben? Soll damit das wahre Gesicht von Großbritannien, Frankreich und Deutschland augenscheinlich werden? Steckt ein Plan dahinter, aber welcher?

Welche Möglichkeiten hätte Trump, die Europäische Union, als Handlanger des Deep States und der NATO, mit einer Überdosis der von der EU-Kommissarin per SMS bestellten Haarspray-Dosen zu ersticken, damit eine für alle einträgliche Neuauflage der Europäischen Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft selbständiger Nationalstaaten wiederauferstehen kann? Damit Gurken und Bananen wieder krumm sein dürfen, und die Sommerzeit, unnötig wie ein Loch im Kopf, endlich wieder abgeschafft wird, weil keiner sie will und weil sie nichts bringt. Das sind nur die harmlosesten Beispiele. Dieses nicht demokratisch gewählte Bürokratie-Monster mit europäischem Herrschaftsanspruch, Militärphantasien und diktatorischen Gleichmachungsgedanken gehört aufgelöst, und die agierenden Handlanger in ihm dürfen nie wieder politische Verantwortung übertragen bekommen.

Es ist richtig, wenn es Stimmen gibt, die sagen, die Veränderung der politischen Verhältnisse muss von der Graswurzel aus erfolgen, weil man erkennen muss, dass das ganze System vergiftet ist. Die USA waren genau so wenig jemals unser Freund, wie Russland unser Feind ist. Es ging und geht immer nur um Interessen, nicht um Nächstenliebe. Wie viele Generationen und ein anderes Bildungssystem braucht es, bis die Menschen das verstehen?

Trump hat schon mehrmals angekündigt, dass „nächste Woche“ Großes geschehen wird. Bisher heiße Luft, oder ist da etwas verkündet worden, dass man nicht mitbekommen hat?

Trump ist nicht der Retter der Welt! Mit dem Projekt Warp-Speed geht es jetzt weiter mit Stargate. Hier sollen 500 Milliarden Dollar in die mRNA-Forschung zur Bekämpfung von Krebs und in die KI-Infrastruktur bereitgestellt werden. Welche Rolle spielen Thiel mit Palantir und Musk mit Neurolink und weitere Tech-Giganten? Digitale Identitäten sollen die illegalen Einwanderer abhalten, zum Schutz der eigenen Bevölkerung. Wer sagt denn, dass hier nicht ein totaler Überwachungsstaat installiert werden soll? Man muss Speck in die Mausefalle legen, damit die Maus darauf hereinfällt. Und dann – schnappt sie zu! Vieles, was aus den USA kommt, hört sich erst einmal befreiend an. Basiert das wirklich auf humanen Prinzipien, oder sind am Ende auch hier nur Interessen, wie überall, die treibende Kraft?

Die USA sind keine lupenreine Demokratie, genauso wenig wie Russland, denn am Ende zählt, wer das meiste Geld zusammenbekommen hat, um an die Macht zu kommen. Das ist wohl eher eine "Moneykratie", eine Geldherrschaft. Einmal sind es die Demokraten, ein anderes Mal sind es die Republikaner. Am Ende ziehen immer diejenigen die Strippen, die dahinterstehen, die man nicht sieht, die Einser, die aus den vielen Nullen eine Tausend machen, damit sie ihre Macht entfalten können. Wer entscheidet denn, wer die guten Reichen und wer die bösen Reichen sind? Am Ende verdirbt Geld und Macht bei allen den Charakter. Und was die sogenannten Philanthropen anrichten können, hat man ja in vollen Zügen „genießen“ dürfen. Raus aus der WHO, ein richtiger Schritt der USA und Argentiniens. Und was ist mit den anderen Staaten? Auch hier tut sich Deutschland wieder einmal in besonders unangenehmer Weise durch zusätzliche Geldspritzen hervor.

Wir sollten endlich innerhalb unserer Menschheitsentwicklung erwachsen werden, uns von dem Gedanken verabschieden und uns darauf verlassen, dass Mama und Papa es schon richten werden. Mit wirklicher Freiheit umzugehen, muss gelernt sein. Wir müssen aus der Freiheits-Simulation aufwachen. Das macht vielen Angst, weil Freiheit mit Selbstverantwortung, Selbstermächtigung und Selbstdenken zu tun hat. Die Auswahl in einem 5 Meter langen Joghurt-Regal hat nichts mit Freiheit zu tun!

Bisher wurden wir in den sogenannten Demokratien darauf hin konditioniert, dass wir unser Kreuzchen machen, damit wir jemanden haben, auf den wir schimpfen können: Die da oben! Und die da oben, interessiert das einen feuchten Kehricht. Das muss aufhören!

Wir müssen unser Schicksal und Wohlergehen endlich selbst in die Hand nehmen.

Alle Systeme, und klingen sie noch so verlockend, dienen der Steuerung und Lenkung von Massen, weil einige Wenige glauben zu wissen, was gut für uns ist. Dabei sollten wir das doch selbst am allerbesten wissen. Dazu gehört vor allem die Freiheit, die kein System wirklich zulassen kann, auch die USA nicht, weil das den absoluten Machtverlust für es bedeuten würde.

Selbst, wenn sich unter dem Vorangegangenen, Wirres für den Leser befinden sollte, es sind eigene Gedanken und eine Meinung, die immer noch besser ist, als die vorbereiteten, geschälten Apfelscheite von einem Tellerchen aufzunehmen, gedankenlos in den Mund zu stecken, leicht durchzukauen und herunterzuschlucken, so, wie es bei denen, die immer noch vor dem Fernseher hocken und glauben, was ihnen da vorgelogen wird, der Fall ist.

Insasse der Freiluft-Irrenanstalt, bediene Dich Deines eigenen Verstandes und heile Dich selbst von der Massenpsychose, in die man Dich durch jahrelange Gehirnwäsche getrieben hat. Schock den Staat, denke selbst!

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Since its emergence in 2009, Bitcoin has generated a wide range of success and failure stories. Some of these stories feature people who invested early and reaped the rewards of their foresight, while others highlight the ups and downs that define Bitcoin’s highly volatile market. Over the years, many of these cases have become iconic—serving as both inspiration and cautionary tales for newcomers.

Success stories

01 - Laszlo Hanyecz – The 10,000 Bitcoin Pizza

One of the most legendary stories in Bitcoin’s history involves Laszlo Hanyecz, a programmer from Florida. In 2010, he paid 10,000 bitcoins for two pizzas. At the time, the value was negligible, and the transaction went largely unnoticed. In retrospect, however, those 10,000 bitcoins would be worth hundreds of millions of dollars today.

Though Hanyecz didn’t become rich from this transaction, the story of the “10,000 bitcoin pizza” has become a symbol of Bitcoin’s extraordinary rise in value—and a reminder of how even small holdings in the early days could have been life-changing.

02 - Michael Saylor and MicroStrategy

Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, made headlines in 2020 by transforming his company into the first major corporation to invest heavily in Bitcoin. Purchasing over 100,000 bitcoins as a treasury reserve, Saylor positioned Bitcoin as a strategic hedge against inflation and fiat currency devaluation.

Initially met with skepticism, Saylor’s decision turned out to be highly profitable as Bitcoin’s price soared. His bold move inspired other corporations and institutional investors to consider Bitcoin, and he remains one of the cryptocurrency’s most vocal advocates in the business world.

Failure Stories

01 - James Howells – The Lost 8,000 Bitcoins

James Howells, an IT professional from Wales, accidentally discarded a hard drive in 2013 containing the private keys to 8,000 mined bitcoins—worth only a few thousand pounds at the time. As Bitcoin's value skyrocketed, he attempted to recover the drive from a landfill, but was denied permission by local authorities.

This story has become a powerful lesson in crypto security and the consequences of lost private keys. Despite multiple campaigns to dig up the landfill, the bitcoins remain unrecovered.

02 - Mt. Gox Collapse – The Fall of a Giant

At its peak, Mt. Gox was the largest Bitcoin exchange in the world. In 2014, it collapsed after losing about 850,000 bitcoins—worth over $450 million at the time—due to hacking, internal security failures, and poor management.

The exchange’s failure devastated thousands of investors and highlighted the vulnerabilities in early crypto infrastructure. Though some funds were later recovered, the Mt. Gox disaster remains one of Bitcoin’s darkest moments and a turning point for the push toward greater security and transparency in the crypto industry.

• The impact of volatility and adoption

These stories reflect the unpredictable and high-risk nature of the Bitcoin market. The same volatility that has made millionaires has also led to substantial losses. While some view Bitcoin as a path to financial freedom and a hedge against inflation, others have suffered from poor planning, mismanagement, or unfortunate timing.

Bitcoin’s growing adoption, especially in emerging markets and among institutional players and shows its increasing legitimacy, as an alternative to traditional finance. However, exchange failures and lost fortunes underscore the need for robust infrastructure, personal responsibility, and long-term thinking.

In summary, success and failure are two sides of the same coin in the world of Bitcoin. From life-changing gains to heartbreaking losses, these stories illustrate the risks and rewards of participating in a young and volatile market. Whether as a cautionary tale or a source of inspiration, they emphasize the importance of education, security, and strategy for anyone engaging with this revolutionary form of money.

Thank you very much for reading this far. I hope everything is well with you, and sending a big hug from your favorite Bitcoiner maximalist from Madeira. Long live freedom!

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Sad news stackers. Episode 34 was lost in a tragic boating accident.

We'll revisit our recording setup going forward.

Rest assured that it was a glorious episode and it felt no pain upon its untimely departure. In lieu of an episode, I recommend @BlokchainB's excellent rant about his Knicks.

https://stacker.news/items/994354

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It seems like every other day there's another company announced that is going public with the intent of competing with Strategy by leveraging capital markets to create financial instruments to acquire Bitcoin in a way that is accretive for shareholders. This is certainly a very interesting trend, very bullish for bitcoin in the short-term, and undoubtedly making it so bitcoin is top of mind in the mainstream. I won't pretend to know whether or not these strategies will ultimately be successful or fail in the short, medium or long term. However, one thing I do know is that the themes that interest me, both here at TFTC and in my role as Managing Partner at Ten31, are companies that are building good businesses that are efficient, have product-market-fit, generate revenues and profits and roll those profits into bitcoin.

While it seems pretty clear that Strategy has tapped into an arbitrage that exists in capital markets, it's not really that exciting. From a business perspective, it's actually pretty straightforward and simple; find where potential arbitrage opportunities exists between pools of capital looking for exposure to spot bitcoin or bitcoin's volatility but can't buy the actual asset, and provide them with products that give them access to exposure while simultaneously creating a cult-like retail following. Rinse and repeat. To the extent that this strategy is repeatable is yet to be seen. I imagine it can expand pretty rapidly. Particularly if we have a speculative fervor around companies that do this. But in the long run, I think the signal is falling back to first principles, looking for businesses that are actually providing goods and services to the broader economy - not focused on the hyper-financialized part of the economy - to provide value and create efficiencies that enable higher margins and profitability.

With this in mind, I think it's important to highlight the combined leverage that entrepreneurs have by utilizing bitcoin treasuries and AI tools that are emerging and becoming more advanced by the week. As I said in the tweet above, there's never been a better time to start a business that finds product-market fit and cash flows quickly with a team of two to three people. If you've been reading this rag over the last few weeks, you know that I've been experimenting with these AI tools and using them to make our business processes more efficient here at TFTC. I've also been using them at Ten31 to do deep research and analysis.

It has become abundantly clear to me that any founder or entrepreneur that is not utilizing the AI tools that are emerging is going to get left behind. As it stands today, all anyone has to do to get an idea from a thought in your head to the prototype stage to a minimum viable product is to hop into something like Claude or ChatGPT, have a brief conversation with an AI model that can do deep research about a particular niche that you want to provide a good service to and begin building.

Later this week, I will launch an app called Opportunity Cost in the Chrome and Firefox stores. It took me a few hours of work over the span of a week to ideate and iterate on the concept to the point where I had a working prototype that I handed off to a developer who is solving the last mile problem I have as an "idea guy" of getting the product to market. Only six months ago, accomplishing something like this would have been impossible for me. I've never written a line of code that's actually worked outside of the modded MySpace page I made back in middle school. I've always had a lot of ideas but have never been able to effectively communicate them to developers who can actually build them. With a combination of ChatGPT-03 and Replit, I was able to build an actual product that works. I'm using it in my browser today. It's pretty insane.

There are thousands of people coming to the same realization at the same time right now and going out there and building niche products very cheaply, with small teams, they are getting to market very quickly, and are amassing five figures, six figures, sometimes seven figures of MRR with extremely high profit margins. What most of these entrepreneurs have not really caught on to yet is that they should be cycling a portion - in my opinion, a large portion - of those profits into bitcoin. The combination of building a company utilizing these AI tools, getting it to market, getting revenue and profits, and turning those profits into bitcoin cannot be understated. You're going to begin seeing teams of one to ten people building businesses worth billions of dollars and they're going to need to store the value they create, any money that cannot be debased.

Grant Gilliam, one of the co-founders of Ten31, wrote about this in early 2024, bitcoin being the fourth lever of equity value growth for companies.

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Bitcoin Treasury - The Fourth Lever to Equity Value Growth

Most companies do not hold enough bitcoin There is a saying you often hear in bitcoin circles that “you can never have enough bitcoin.” This is typically expressed by those who have spent the time to both understand bitcoin’s unique and superior monetary properties and also to appreciate why tho

Ten31 - Investors in bitcoin infrastructure and freedom techGrant Gilliam

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We already see this theme playing out at Ten31 with some of our portfolio companies, most notably Strike, which recently released some of their financials, highlighting the fact that they're extremely profitable with high margins and a relatively small team (~75). This is extremely impressive, especially when you consider the fact that they're a global company competing with the likes of Coinbase and Block, which have each thousands of employees.

Even those who are paying attention to the developments in the AI space and how the tools can enable entrepreneurs to build faster aren't really grasping the gravity of what's at play here. Many are simply thinking of consumer apps that can be built and distributed quickly to market, but the ways in which AI can be implemented extend far beyond the digital world. Here's a great example of a company a fellow freak is building with the mindset of keeping the team small, utilizing AI tools to automate processes and quickly push profits into bitcoin.

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Again, this is where the exciting things are happening in my mind. People leveraging new tools to solve real problems to drive real value that ultimately produce profits for entrepreneurs. The entrepreneurs who decide to save those profits in bitcoin will find that the equity value growth of their companies accelerates exponentially as they provide more value, gain more traction, and increase their profits while also riding the bitcoin as it continues on its monetization phase. The compounded leverage of building a company that leverages AI tools and sweeps profits into bitcoin is going to be the biggest asymmetric play of the next decade. Personally, I also see it as something that's much more fulfilling than the pure play bitcoin treasury companies that are coming to market because consumers and entrepreneurs are able to recive and provide a ton of value in the real economy.

If you're looking to stay on top of the developments in the AI space and how you can apply the tools to help build your business or create a new business, I highly recommend you follow somebody like Greg Isenberg, whose Startup Ideas Podcast has been incredibly valuable for me as I attempt to get a lay of the land of how to implement AI into my businesses.

America's Two Economies

In my recent podcast with Lyn Alden, she outlined how our trade deficits create a cycle that's reshaping America's economic geography. As Alden explained, US trade deficits pump dollars into international markets, but these dollars don't disappear - they return as investments in US financial assets. This cycle gradually depletes industrial heartlands while enriching financial centers on the coasts, creating what amounts to two separate American economies.

"We're basically constantly taking economic vibrancy out of Michigan and Ohio and rural Pennsylvania where the steel mills were... and stuffing it back into financial assets in New York and Silicon Valley." - Lyn Alden

This pattern has persisted for over four decades, accelerating significantly since the early 1980s. Alden emphasized that while economists may argue there's still room before reaching a crisis point, the political consequences are already here. The growing divide between these two Americas has fueled populist sentiment as voters who feel left behind seek economic rebalancing, even if they can't articulate the exact mechanisms causing their hardship.

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In the Name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful,

"Permission to fight (against disbelievers) is given to those (believers) who are fought against, because they have been wronged and surely, Allah is Able to give them (believers) victory" [Quran 22:39]

"Those who believe, fight in the Cause of Allah, and those who disbelieve, fight in the cause of Taghut (anything worshipped other than Allah e.g. Satan). So fight you against the friends of Satan; ever feeble is indeed the plot of Satan."[Quran 4:76]

Some American writers have published articles under the title 'On what basis are we fighting?' These articles have generated a number of responses, some of which adhered to the truth and were based on Islamic Law, and others which have not. Here we wanted to outline the truth - as an explanation and warning - hoping for Allah's reward, seeking success and support from Him.

While seeking Allah's help, we form our reply based on two questions directed at the Americans:

(Q1) Why are we fighting and opposing you?\ (Q2) What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

As for the first question: Why are we fighting and opposing you? The answer is very simple:

(1) Because you attacked us and continue to attack us.

a) You attacked us in Palestine:

(i) Palestine, which has sunk under military occupation for more than 80 years. The British handed over Palestine, with your help and your support, to the Jews, who have occupied it for more than 50 years; years overflowing with oppression, tyranny, crimes, killing, expulsion, destruction and devastation. The creation and continuation of Israel is one of the greatest crimes, and you are the leaders of its criminals. And of course there is no need to explain and prove the degree of American support for Israel. The creation of Israel is a crime which must be erased. Each and every person whose hands have become polluted in the contribution towards this crime must pay its*price, and pay for it heavily.

(ii) It brings us both laughter and tears to see that you have not yet tired of repeating your fabricated lies that the Jews have a historical right to Palestine, as it was promised to them in the Torah. Anyone who disputes with them on this alleged fact is accused of anti-semitism. This is one of the most fallacious, widely-circulated fabrications in history. The people of Palestine are pure Arabs and original Semites. It is the Muslims who are the inheritors of Moses (peace be upon him) and the inheritors of the real Torah that has not been changed. Muslims believe in all of the Prophets, including Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, peace and blessings of Allah be upon them all. If the followers of Moses have been promised a right to Palestine in the Torah, then the Muslims are the most worthy nation of this.

When the Muslims conquered Palestine and drove out the Romans, Palestine and Jerusalem returned to Islaam, the religion of all the Prophets peace be upon them. Therefore, the call to a historical right to Palestine cannot be raised against the Islamic Ummah that believes in all the Prophets of Allah (peace and blessings be upon them) - and we make no distinction between them.

(iii) The blood pouring out of Palestine must be equally revenged. You must know that the Palestinians do not cry alone; their women are not widowed alone; their sons are not orphaned alone.

(b) You attacked us in Somalia; you supported the Russian atrocities against us in Chechnya, the Indian oppression against us in Kashmir, and the Jewish aggression against us in Lebanon.

(c) Under your supervision, consent and orders, the governments of our countries which act as your agents, attack us on a daily basis;

(i) These governments prevent our people from establishing the Islamic Shariah, using violence and lies to do so.

(ii) These governments give us a taste of humiliation, and places us in a large prison of fear and subdual.

(iii) These governments steal our Ummah's wealth and sell them to you at a paltry price.

(iv) These governments have surrendered to the Jews, and handed them most of Palestine, acknowledging the existence of their state over the dismembered limbs of their own people.

(v) The removal of these governments is an obligation upon us, and a necessary step to free the Ummah, to make the Shariah the supreme law and to regain Palestine. And our fight against these governments is not separate from out fight against you.

(d) You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of you international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.

(e) Your forces occupy our countries; you spread your military bases throughout them; you corrupt our lands, and you besiege our sanctities, to protect the security of the Jews and to ensure the continuity of your pillage of our treasures.

(f) You have starved the Muslims of Iraq, where children die every day. It is a wonder that more than 1.5 million Iraqi children have died as a result of your sanctions, and you did not show concern. Yet when 3000 of your people died, the entire world rises and has not yet sat down.

(g) You have supported the Jews in their idea that Jerusalem is their eternal capital, and agreed to move your embassy there. With your help and under your protection, the Israelis are planning to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Under the protection of your weapons, Sharon entered the Al-Aqsa mosque, to pollute it as a preparation to capture and destroy it.

(2) These tragedies and calamities are only a few examples of your oppression and aggression against us. It is commanded by our religion and intellect that the oppressed have a right to return the aggression. Do not await anything from us but Jihad, resistance and revenge. Is it in any way rational to expect that after America has attacked us for more than half a century, that we will then leave her to live in security and peace?!!

(3) You may then dispute that all the above does not justify aggression against civilians, for crimes they did not commit and offenses in which they did not partake:

(a) This argument contradicts your continuous repetition that America is the land of freedom, and its leaders in this world. Therefore, the American people are the ones who choose their government by way of their own free will; a choice which stems from their agreement to its policies. Thus the American people have chosen, consented to, and affirmed their support for the Israeli oppression of the Palestinians, the occupation and usurpation of their land, and its continuous killing, torture, punishment and expulsion of the Palestinians. The American people have the ability and choice to refuse the policies of their Government and even to change it if they want.

(b) The American people are the ones who pay the taxes which fund the planes that bomb us in Afghanistan, the tanks that strike and destroy our homes in Palestine, the armies which occupy our lands in the Arabian Gulf, and the fleets which ensure the blockade of Iraq. These tax dollars are given to Israel for it to continue to attack us and penetrate our lands. So the American people are the ones who fund the attacks against us, and they are the ones who oversee the expenditure of these monies in the way they wish, through their elected candidates.

(c) Also the American army is part of the American people. It is this very same people who are shamelessly helping the Jews fight against us.

(d) The American people are the ones who employ both their men and their women in the American Forces which attack us.

(e) This is why the American people cannot be not innocent of all the crimes committed by the Americans and Jews against us.

(f) Allah, the Almighty, legislated the permission and the option to take revenge. Thus, if we are attacked, then we have the right to attack back. Whoever has destroyed our villages and towns, then we have the right to destroy their villages and towns. Whoever has stolen our wealth, then we have the right to destroy their economy. And whoever has killed our civilians, then we have the right to kill theirs.

The American Government and press still refuses to answer the question:

Why did they attack us in New York and Washington?

If Sharon is a man of peace in the eyes of Bush, then we are also men of peace!!! America does not understand the language of manners and principles, so we are addressing it using the language it understands.

(Q2) As for the second question that we want to answer: What are we calling you to, and what do we want from you?

(1) The first thing that we are calling you to is Islam.

(a) The religion of the Unification of God; of freedom from associating partners with Him, and rejection of this; of complete love of Him, the Exalted; of complete submission to His Laws; and of the discarding of all the opinions, orders, theories and religions which contradict with the religion He sent down to His Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). Islam is the religion of all the prophets, and makes no distinction between them - peace be upon them all.

It is to this religion that we call you; the seal of all the previous religions. It is the religion of Unification of God, sincerity, the best of manners, righteousness, mercy, honour, purity, and piety. It is the religion of showing kindness to others, establishing justice between them, granting them their rights, and defending the oppressed and the persecuted. It is the religion of enjoining the good and forbidding the evil with the hand, tongue and heart. It is the religion of Jihad in the way of Allah so that Allah's Word and religion reign Supreme. And it is the religion of unity and agreement on the obedience to Allah, and total equality between all people, without regarding their colour, sex, or language.

(b) It is the religion whose book - the Quran - will remained preserved and unchanged, after the other Divine books and messages have been changed. The Quran is the miracle until the Day of Judgment. Allah has challenged anyone to bring a book like the Quran or even ten verses like it.

(2) The second thing we call you to, is to stop your oppression, lies, immorality and debauchery that has spread among you.

(a) We call you to be a people of manners, principles, honour, and purity; to reject the immoral acts of fornication, homosexuality, intoxicants, gambling's, and trading with interest.

We call you to all of this that you may be freed from that which you have become caught up in; that you may be freed from the deceptive lies that you are a great nation, that your leaders spread amongst you to conceal from you the despicable state to which you have reached.

(b) It is saddening to tell you that you are the worst civilization witnessed by the history of mankind:

(i) You are the nation who, rather than ruling by the Shariah of Allah in its Constitution and Laws, choose to invent your own laws as you will and desire. You separate religion from your policies, contradicting the pure nature which affirms Absolute Authority to the Lord and your Creator. You flee from the embarrassing question posed to you: How is it possible for Allah the Almighty to create His creation, grant them power over all the creatures and land, grant them all the amenities of life, and then deny them that which they are most in need of: knowledge of the laws which govern their lives?

(ii) You are the nation that permits Usury, which has been forbidden by all the religions. Yet you build your economy and investments on Usury. As a result of this, in all its different forms and guises, the Jews have taken control of your economy, through which they have then taken control of your media, and now control all aspects of your life making you their servants and achieving their aims at your expense; precisely what Benjamin Franklin warned you against.

(iii) You are a nation that permits the production, trading and usage of intoxicants. You also permit drugs, and only forbid the trade of them, even though your nation is the largest consumer of them.

(iv) You are a nation that permits acts of immorality, and you consider them to be pillars of personal freedom. You have continued to sink down this abyss from level to level until incest has spread amongst you, in the face of which neither your sense of honour nor your laws object.

Who can forget your President Clinton's immoral acts committed in the official Oval office? After that you did not even bring him to account, other than that he 'made a mistake', after which everything passed with no punishment. Is there a worse kind of event for which your name will go down in history and remembered by nations?

(v) You are a nation that permits gambling in its all forms. The companies practice this as well, resulting in the investments becoming active and the criminals becoming rich.

(vi) You are a nation that exploits women like consumer products or advertising tools calling upon customers to purchase them. You use women to serve passengers, visitors, and strangers to increase your profit margins. You then rant that you support the liberation of women.

(vii) You are a nation that practices the trade of sex in all its forms, directly and indirectly. Giant corporations and establishments are established on this, under the name of art, entertainment, tourism and freedom, and other deceptive names you attribute to it.

(viii) And because of all this, you have been described in history as a nation that spreads diseases that were unknown to man in the past. Go ahead and boast to the nations of man, that you brought them AIDS as a Satanic American Invention.

(xi) You have destroyed nature with your industrial waste and gases more than any other nation in history. Despite this, you refuse to sign the Kyoto agreement so that you can secure the profit of your greedy companies and*industries.

(x) Your law is the law of the rich and wealthy people, who hold sway in their political parties, and fund their election campaigns with their gifts. Behind them stand the Jews, who control your policies, media and economy.

(xi) That which you are singled out for in the history of mankind, is that you have used your force to destroy mankind more than any other nation in history; not to defend principles and values, but to hasten to secure your interests and profits. You who dropped a nuclear bomb on Japan, even though Japan was ready to negotiate an end to the war. How many acts of oppression, tyranny and injustice have you carried out, O callers to freedom?

(xii) Let us not forget one of your major characteristics: your duality in both manners and values; your hypocrisy in manners and principles. All*manners, principles and values have two scales: one for you and one for the others.

(a)The freedom and democracy that you call to is for yourselves and for white race only; as for the rest of the world, you impose upon them your monstrous, destructive policies and Governments, which you call the 'American friends'. Yet you prevent them from establishing democracies. When the Islamic party in Algeria wanted to practice democracy and they won the election, you unleashed your agents in the Algerian army onto them, and to attack them with tanks and guns, to imprison them and torture them - a new lesson from the 'American book of democracy'!!!

(b)Your policy on prohibiting and forcibly removing weapons of mass destruction to ensure world peace: it only applies to those countries which you do not permit to possess such weapons. As for the countries you consent to, such as Israel, then they are allowed to keep and use such weapons to defend their security. Anyone else who you suspect might be manufacturing or keeping these kinds of weapons, you call them criminals and you take military action against them.

(c)You are the last ones to respect the resolutions and policies of International Law, yet you claim to want to selectively punish anyone else who does the same. Israel has for more than 50 years been pushing UN resolutions and rules against the wall with the full support of America.

(d)As for the war criminals which you censure and form criminal courts for - you shamelessly ask that your own are granted immunity!! However, history will not forget the war crimes that you committed against the Muslims and the rest of the world; those you have killed in Japan, Afghanistan, Somalia, Lebanon and Iraq will remain a shame that you will never be able to escape. It will suffice to remind you of your latest war crimes in Afghanistan, in which densely populated innocent civilian villages were destroyed, bombs were dropped on mosques causing the roof of the mosque to come crashing down on the heads of the Muslims praying inside. You are the ones who broke the agreement with the Mujahideen when they left Qunduz, bombing them in Jangi fort, and killing more than 1,000 of your prisoners through suffocation and thirst. Allah alone knows how many people have died by torture at the hands of you and your agents. Your planes remain in the Afghan skies, looking for anyone remotely suspicious.

(e)You have claimed to be the vanguards of Human Rights, and your Ministry of Foreign affairs issues annual reports containing statistics of those countries that violate any Human Rights. However, all these things vanished when the Mujahideen hit you, and you then implemented the methods of the same documented governments that you used to curse. In America, you captured thousands the Muslims and Arabs, took them into custody with neither reason, court trial, nor even disclosing their names. You issued newer, harsher laws.

What happens in Guatanamo is a historical embarrassment to America and its values, and it screams into your faces - you hypocrites, "What is the value of your signature on any agreement or treaty?"

(3) What we call you to thirdly is to take an honest stance with yourselves - and I doubt you will do so - to discover that you are a nation without principles or manners, and that the values and principles to you are something which you merely demand from others, not that which you yourself must adhere to.

(4) We also advise you to stop supporting Israel, and to end your support of the Indians in Kashmir, the Russians against the Chechens and to also cease supporting the Manila Government against the Muslims in Southern Philippines.

(5) We also advise you to pack your luggage and get out of our lands. We desire for your goodness, guidance, and righteousness, so do not force us to send you back as cargo in coffins.

(6) Sixthly, we call upon you to end your support of the corrupt leaders in our countries. Do not interfere in our politics and method of education. Leave us alone, or else expect us in New York and Washington.

(7) We also call you to deal with us and interact with us on the basis of mutual interests and benefits, rather than the policies of sub dual, theft and occupation, and not to continue your policy of supporting the Jews because this will result in more disasters for you.

If you fail to respond to all these conditions, then prepare for fight with the Islamic Nation. The Nation of Monotheism, that puts complete trust on Allah and fears none other than Him. The Nation which is addressed by its Quran with the words: "Do you fear them? Allah has more right that you should fear Him if you are believers. Fight against them so that Allah will punish them by your hands and disgrace them and give you victory over them and heal the breasts of believing people. And remove the anger of their (believers') hearts. Allah accepts the repentance of whom He wills. Allah is All-Knowing, All-Wise." [Quran9:13-1]

The Nation of honour and respect:

"But honour, power and glory belong to Allah, and to His Messenger (Muhammad- peace be upon him) and to the believers." [Quran 63:8]

"So do not become weak (against your enemy), nor be sad, and you will be*superior ( in victory )if you are indeed (true) believers" [Quran 3:139]

The Nation of Martyrdom; the Nation that desires death more than you desire life:

"Think not of those who are killed in the way of Allah as dead. Nay, they are alive with their Lord, and they are being provided for. They rejoice in what Allah has bestowed upon them from His bounty and rejoice for the sake of those who have not yet joined them, but are left behind (not yet martyred) that on them no fear shall come, nor shall they grieve. They rejoice in a grace and a bounty from Allah, and that Allah will not waste the reward of the believers." [Quran 3:169-171]

The Nation of victory and success that Allah has promised:

"It is He Who has sent His Messenger (Muhammad peace be upon him) with guidance and the religion of truth (Islam), to make it victorious over all other religions even though the Polytheists hate it." [Quran 61:9]

"Allah has decreed that 'Verily it is I and My Messengers who shall be victorious.' Verily Allah is All-Powerful, All-Mighty." [Quran 58:21]

The Islamic Nation that was able to dismiss and destroy the previous evil Empires like yourself; the Nation that rejects your attacks, wishes to remove your evils, and is prepared to fight you. You are well aware that the Islamic Nation, from the very core of its soul, despises your haughtiness and arrogance.

If the Americans refuse to listen to our advice and the goodness, guidance and righteousness that we call them to, then be aware that you will lose this Crusade Bush began, just like the other previous Crusades in which you were humiliated by the hands of the Mujahideen, fleeing to your home in great silence and disgrace. If the Americans do not respond, then their fate will be that of the Soviets who fled from Afghanistan to deal with their military defeat, political breakup, ideological downfall, and economic bankruptcy.

This is our message to the Americans, as an answer to theirs. Do they now know why we fight them and over which form of ignorance, by the permission of Allah, we shall be victorious?

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Let see what this markdown editor goes for. Quite nice layout, but so far in my testing only usable via computer. On phone, the keyboard covers the writing area, hehe. Now, where do these get published when posted?

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This piece is the first in a series that will focus on things I think are a priority if your focus is similar to mine: building a strong family and safeguarding their future.

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Choosing the ideal place to raise a family is one of the most significant decisions you will ever make. For simplicity sake I will break down my thought process into key factors: strong property rights, the ability to grow your own food, access to fresh water, the freedom to own and train with guns, and a dependable community.

A Jurisdiction with Strong Property Rights

Strong property rights are essential and allow you to build on a solid foundation that is less likely to break underneath you. Regions with a history of limited government and clear legal protections for landowners are ideal. Personally I think the US is the single best option globally, but within the US there is a wide difference between which state you choose. Choose carefully and thoughtfully, think long term. Obviously if you are not American this is not a realistic option for you, there are other solid options available especially if your family has mobility. I understand many do not have this capability to easily move, consider that your first priority, making movement and jurisdiction choice possible in the first place.

Abundant Access to Fresh Water

Water is life. I cannot overstate the importance of living somewhere with reliable, clean, and abundant freshwater. Some regions face water scarcity or heavy regulations on usage, so prioritizing a place where water is plentiful and your rights to it are protected is critical. Ideally you should have well access so you are not tied to municipal water supplies. In times of crisis or chaos well water cannot be easily shutoff or disrupted. If you live in an area that is drought prone, you are one drought away from societal chaos. Not enough people appreciate this simple fact.

Grow Your Own Food

A location with fertile soil, a favorable climate, and enough space for a small homestead or at the very least a garden is key. In stable times, a small homestead provides good food and important education for your family. In times of chaos your family being able to grow and raise healthy food provides a level of self sufficiency that many others will lack. Look for areas with minimal restrictions, good weather, and a culture that supports local farming.

Guns

The ability to defend your family is fundamental. A location where you can legally and easily own guns is a must. Look for places with a strong gun culture and a political history of protecting those rights. Owning one or two guns is not enough and without proper training they will be a liability rather than a benefit. Get comfortable and proficient. Never stop improving your skills. If the time comes that you must use a gun to defend your family, the skills must be instinct. Practice. Practice. Practice.

A Strong Community You Can Depend On

No one thrives alone. A ride or die community that rallies together in tough times is invaluable. Seek out a place where people know their neighbors, share similar values, and are quick to lend a hand. Lead by example and become a good neighbor, people will naturally respond in kind. Small towns are ideal, if possible, but living outside of a major city can be a solid balance in terms of work opportunities and family security.

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Let me know if you found this helpful. My plan is to break down how I think about these five key subjects in future posts.

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Bitcoin has always been rooted in freedom and resistance to authority. I get that many of you are conflicted about the US Government stacking but by design we cannot stop anyone from using bitcoin. Many have asked me for my thoughts on the matter, so let’s rip it.

Concern

One of the most glaring issues with the strategic bitcoin reserve is its foundation, built on stolen bitcoin. For those of us who value private property this is an obvious betrayal of our core principles. Rather than proof of work, the bitcoin that seeds this reserve has been taken by force. The US Government should return the bitcoin stolen from Bitfinex and the Silk Road.

Using stolen bitcoin for the reserve creates a perverse incentive. If governments see bitcoin as a valuable asset, they will ramp up efforts to confiscate more bitcoin. The precedent is a major concern, and I stand strongly against it, but it should be also noted that governments were already seizing coin before the reserve so this is not really a change in policy.

Ideally all seized bitcoin should be burned, by law. This would align incentives properly and make it less likely for the government to actively increase coin seizures. Due to the truly scarce properties of bitcoin, all burned bitcoin helps existing holders through increased purchasing power regardless. This change would be unlikely but those of us in policy circles should push for it regardless. It would be best case scenario for American bitcoiners and would create a strong foundation for the next century of American leadership.

Optimism

The entire point of bitcoin is that we can spend or save it without permission. That said, it is a massive benefit to not have one of the strongest governments in human history actively trying to ruin our lives.

Since the beginning, bitcoiners have faced horrible regulatory trends. KYC, surveillance, and legal cases have made using bitcoin and building bitcoin businesses incredibly difficult. It is incredibly important to note that over the past year that trend has reversed for the first time in a decade. A strategic bitcoin reserve is a key driver of this shift. By holding bitcoin, the strongest government in the world has signaled that it is not just a fringe technology but rather truly valuable, legitimate, and worth stacking.

This alignment of incentives changes everything. The US Government stacking proves bitcoin’s worth. The resulting purchasing power appreciation helps all of us who are holding coin and as bitcoin succeeds our government receives direct benefit. A beautiful positive feedback loop.

Realism

We are trending in the right direction. A strategic bitcoin reserve is a sign that the state sees bitcoin as an asset worth embracing rather than destroying. That said, there is a lot of work left to be done. We cannot be lulled into complacency, the time to push forward is now, and we cannot take our foot off the gas. We have a seat at the table for the first time ever. Let's make it worth it.

We must protect the right to free usage of bitcoin and other digital technologies. Freedom in the digital age must be taken and defended, through both technical and political avenues. Multiple privacy focused developers are facing long jail sentences for building tools that protect our freedom. These cases are not just legal battles. They are attacks on the soul of bitcoin. We need to rally behind them, fight for their freedom, and ensure the ethos of bitcoin survives this new era of government interest. The strategic reserve is a step in the right direction, but it is up to us to hold the line and shape the future.

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Let's support Bitcoin merchants! I'd love to hear some of your latest Lightning purchases and interesting products you bought. Feel free to include links to the shops or businesses you bought from.

Who else has a recent purchase they’re excited about? Bonus sats if you found a killer deal! ⚡

If you missed our last thread, here are some of the items stackers recently spent and zap on.

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Recently we have seen a wave of high profile X accounts hacked. These attacks have exposed the fragility of the status quo security model used by modern social media platforms like X. Many users have asked if nostr fixes this, so lets dive in. How do these types of attacks translate into the world of nostr apps? For clarity, I will use X’s security model as representative of most big tech social platforms and compare it to nostr.

The Status Quo

On X, you never have full control of your account. Ultimately to use it requires permission from the company. They can suspend your account or limit your distribution. Theoretically they can even post from your account at will. An X account is tied to an email and password. Users can also opt into two factor authentication, which adds an extra layer of protection, a login code generated by an app. In theory, this setup works well, but it places a heavy burden on users. You need to create a strong, unique password and safeguard it. You also need to ensure your email account and phone number remain secure, as attackers can exploit these to reset your credentials and take over your account. Even if you do everything responsibly, there is another weak link in X infrastructure itself. The platform’s infrastructure allows accounts to be reset through its backend. This could happen maliciously by an employee or through an external attacker who compromises X’s backend. When an account is compromised, the legitimate user often gets locked out, unable to post or regain control without contacting X’s support team. That process can be slow, frustrating, and sometimes fruitless if support denies the request or cannot verify your identity. Often times support will require users to provide identification info in order to regain access, which represents a privacy risk. The centralized nature of X means you are ultimately at the mercy of the company’s systems and staff.

Nostr Requires Responsibility

Nostr flips this model radically. Users do not need permission from a company to access their account, they can generate as many accounts as they want, and cannot be easily censored. The key tradeoff here is that users have to take complete responsibility for their security. Instead of relying on a username, password, and corporate servers, nostr uses a private key as the sole credential for your account. Users generate this key and it is their responsibility to keep it safe. As long as you have your key, you can post. If someone else gets it, they can post too. It is that simple. This design has strong implications. Unlike X, there is no backend reset option. If your key is compromised or lost, there is no customer support to call. In a compromise scenario, both you and the attacker can post from the account simultaneously. Neither can lock the other out, since nostr relays simply accept whatever is signed with a valid key.

The benefit? No reliance on proprietary corporate infrastructure.. The negative? Security rests entirely on how well you protect your key.

Future Nostr Security Improvements

For many users, nostr’s standard security model, storing a private key on a phone with an encrypted cloud backup, will likely be sufficient. It is simple and reasonably secure. That said, nostr’s strength lies in its flexibility as an open protocol. Users will be able to choose between a range of security models, balancing convenience and protection based on need.

One promising option is a web of trust model for key rotation. Imagine pre-selecting a group of trusted friends. If your account is compromised, these people could collectively sign an event announcing the compromise to the network and designate a new key as your legitimate one. Apps could handle this process seamlessly in the background, notifying followers of the switch without much user interaction. This could become a popular choice for average users, but it is not without tradeoffs. It requires trust in your chosen web of trust, which might not suit power users or large organizations. It also has the issue that some apps may not recognize the key rotation properly and followers might get confused about which account is “real.”

For those needing higher security, there is the option of multisig using FROST (Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold). In this setup, multiple keys must sign off on every action, including posting and updating a profile. A hacker with just one key could not do anything. This is likely overkill for most users due to complexity and inconvenience, but it could be a game changer for large organizations, companies, and governments. Imagine the White House nostr account requiring signatures from multiple people before a post goes live, that would be much more secure than the status quo big tech model.

Another option are hardware signers, similar to bitcoin hardware wallets. Private keys are kept on secure, offline devices, separate from the internet connected phone or computer you use to broadcast events. This drastically reduces the risk of remote hacks, as private keys never touches the internet. It can be used in combination with multisig setups for extra protection. This setup is much less convenient and probably overkill for most but could be ideal for governments, companies, or other high profile accounts.

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Nostr’s security model is not perfect but is robust and versatile. Ultimately users are in control and security is their responsibility. Apps will give users multiple options to choose from and users will choose what best fits their need.

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Trong bối cảnh nền kinh tế số đang trở thành động lực cốt lõi cho sự phát triển bền vững tại Việt Nam, VNWIN nổi lên không chỉ là một nền tảng trực tuyến về giải trí mà còn là một mắt xích quan trọng đóng góp vào sự chuyển đổi số quốc gia. Với nền tảng công nghệ vững chắc, quy trình vận hành hiện đại và khả năng tích hợp hệ thống linh hoạt, VNWIN đã và đang tạo ra một không gian số toàn diện, nơi người dùng không chỉ tham gia vào các hoạt động trực tuyến mà còn được tiếp cận với một mô hình kinh doanh thông minh. Nhờ áp dụng các công nghệ tiên tiến như AI, Big Data và bảo mật đa tầng, VNWIN không chỉ đảm bảo an toàn thông tin tuyệt đối mà còn tối ưu trải nghiệm người dùng theo từng nhu cầu cụ thể. Điều này không chỉ giúp nâng cao hiệu quả hoạt động nội bộ mà còn mang đến những giá trị gia tăng thực tế cho nền kinh tế, khi số lượng lớn người dùng VNWIN mỗi ngày đều tương tác, giao dịch và tiêu dùng thông qua nền tảng. Đặc biệt, việc tích cực tuân thủ các tiêu chuẩn pháp lý về thương mại điện tử cũng là điểm cộng lớn giúp VNWIN ngày càng khẳng định vai trò trong sự phát triển chung của hạ tầng kinh tế số Việt Nam.

Bên cạnh yếu tố công nghệ, VNWIN còn nổi bật nhờ khả năng xây dựng cộng đồng trực tuyến lành mạnh và có tính kết nối cao. Hệ sinh thái người dùng của VNWIN không chỉ dừng lại ở việc cung cấp sản phẩm mà còn liên tục mở rộng qua các chương trình tương tác cộng đồng, chăm sóc khách hàng chuyên sâu và các hoạt động trải nghiệm mang tính giáo dục về an toàn công nghệ số. Trong khi nhiều nền tảng số khác chỉ chú trọng vào lượt truy cập, VNWIN lại đầu tư vào chất lượng tương tác với người dùng, giúp tăng sự trung thành và độ tin cậy thương hiệu. Thông qua các kênh hỗ trợ như chat trực tuyến, hotline, email và mạng xã hội, người dùng VNWIN luôn nhận được sự hỗ trợ tận tình, nhanh chóng, thể hiện rõ cam kết đồng hành của doanh nghiệp với khách hàng. Ngoài ra, VNWIN cũng thường xuyên tổ chức các chương trình khuyến mãi, ưu đãi hấp dẫn và hoạt động tặng thưởng, nhằm kích thích hoạt động thương mại trong cộng đồng người dùng, tạo nên một chuỗi giá trị khép kín vừa phục vụ mục tiêu kinh doanh vừa thúc đẩy phát triển tiêu dùng nội địa. Việc người chơi quay lại sử dụng dịch vụ không chỉ đơn thuần vì giải trí mà còn bởi niềm tin vào hệ sinh thái số mà VNWIN đang kiến tạo mỗi ngày.

Không dừng lại ở việc phát triển nền tảng và xây dựng cộng đồng, VNWIN còn chủ động mở rộng ảnh hưởng thông qua các hoạt động hợp tác chiến lược với các đối tác công nghệ, tài chính và giáo dục. Sự kết nối đa ngành này không chỉ mở rộng quy mô hoạt động mà còn giúp VNWIN tăng cường tính đa dạng trong dịch vụ, tạo ra nhiều lựa chọn hơn cho người dùng. Bên cạnh đó, VNWIN cũng thể hiện vai trò tiên phong trong việc thúc đẩy nhận thức xã hội về lợi ích của nền kinh tế số thông qua các chiến dịch truyền thông tích cực, các dự án chia sẻ kiến thức công nghệ đến cộng đồng và các chương trình hỗ trợ thanh toán không tiền mặt. Đây chính là biểu hiện rõ ràng nhất cho cam kết phát triển bền vững, đưa công nghệ vào cuộc sống một cách hiệu quả, minh bạch và có trách nhiệm. Với định hướng phát triển lấy người dùng làm trung tâm, cùng chiến lược dài hạn trong việc đồng hành cùng nền kinh tế số Việt Nam, VNWIN đang khẳng định vị thế không thể thay thế trong hành trình số hóa toàn diện của quốc gia.

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In much of the world, it is incredibly difficult to access U.S. dollars. Local currencies are often poorly managed and riddled with corruption. Billions of people demand a more reliable alternative. While the dollar has its own issues of corruption and mismanagement, it is widely regarded as superior to the fiat currencies it competes with globally. As a result, Tether has found massive success providing low cost, low friction access to dollars. Tether claims 400 million total users, is on track to add 200 million more this year, processes 8.1 million transactions daily, and facilitates $29 billion in daily transfers. Furthermore, their estimates suggest nearly 40% of users rely on it as a savings tool rather than just a transactional currency.

Tether’s rise has made the company a financial juggernaut. Last year alone, Tether raked in over $13 billion in profit, with a lean team of less than 100 employees. Their business model is elegantly simple: hold U.S. Treasuries and collect the interest. With over $113 billion in Treasuries, Tether has turned a straightforward concept into a profit machine.

Tether’s success has resulted in many competitors eager to claim a piece of the pie. This has triggered a massive venture capital grift cycle in USD tokens, with countless projects vying to dethrone Tether. Due to Tether’s entrenched network effect, these challengers face an uphill battle with little realistic chance of success. Most educated participants in the space likely recognize this reality but seem content to perpetuate the grift, hoping to cash out by dumping their equity positions on unsuspecting buyers before they realize the reality of the situation.

Historically, Tether’s greatest vulnerability has been U.S. government intervention. For over a decade, the company operated offshore with few allies in the U.S. establishment, making it a major target for regulatory action. That dynamic has shifted recently and Tether has seized the opportunity. By actively courting U.S. government support, Tether has fortified their position. This strategic move will likely cement their status as the dominant USD token for years to come.

While undeniably a great tool for the millions of users that rely on it, Tether is not without flaws. As a centralized, trusted third party, it holds the power to freeze or seize funds at its discretion. Corporate mismanagement or deliberate malpractice could also lead to massive losses at scale. In their goal of mitigating regulatory risk, Tether has deepened ties with law enforcement, mirroring some of the concerns of potential central bank digital currencies. In practice, Tether operates as a corporate CBDC alternative, collaborating with authorities to surveil and seize funds. The company proudly touts partnerships with leading surveillance firms and its own data reveals cooperation in over 1,000 law enforcement cases, with more than $2.5 billion in funds frozen.

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The global demand for Tether is undeniable and the company’s profitability reflects its unrivaled success. Tether is owned and operated by bitcoiners and will likely continue to push forward strategic goals that help the movement as a whole. Recent efforts to mitigate the threat of U.S. government enforcement will likely solidify their network effect and stifle meaningful adoption of rival USD tokens or CBDCs. Yet, for all their achievements, Tether is simply a worse form of money than bitcoin. Tether requires trust in a centralized entity, while bitcoin can be saved or spent without permission. Furthermore, Tether is tied to the value of the US Dollar which is designed to lose purchasing power over time, while bitcoin, as a truly scarce asset, is designed to increase in purchasing power with adoption. As people awaken to the risks of Tether’s control, and the benefits bitcoin provides, bitcoin adoption will likely surpass it.

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Many people today believe that the church has replaced Israel and that the promises given to Israel now apply to the church. When we say this, we are calling God a liar.

Can you imagine a groom promising to love and cherish his wife until death do they part and then saying, “I’m keeping my promise by loving and cherishing a new and different wife.”? We would never consider that man to be honest, faithful, and good. If God promised to protect and guide Israel, to have a descendant of David on the throne, and to give them the land, we can only trust Him if He fulfills these promises.

When we say the church has replaced Israel, we make two mistakes. We raise up the church beyond what is right and we put down Israel. We need to be careful because God promised Abraham:

“And I will bless those who bless you, And the one who curses you I will curse. And in you all the families of the earth will be blessed.” (Genesis 12:3)

and He reiterated this promise to Israel during the Exodus:

“He couches, he lies down as a lion,\ And as a lion, who dares rouse him?\ Blessed is everyone who blesses you [Israel],\ And cursed is everyone who curses you [Israel].” (Numbers 24:9) {clarification mine}

When we curse Israel or the Jews, we will be under God’s curse. Now this does not mean that every criticism of a particular action by Israel’s leaders brings a curse. Today’s nation of Israel is led by fallible men like every other nation, so there are mistakes made or corruption by particular leaders. It does, however, mean that generalizations against Israel and the Jews are wrong and of Satan.

Paul specifically warned the church against thinking they had replaced Israel in God’s blessing and love.

If the first piece of dough is holy, the lump is also; and if the root is holy, the branches are too.

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive, were grafted in among them and became partaker with them of the rich root of the olive tree, do not be arrogant toward the branches; but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you who supports the root, but the root supports you. You will say then, “Branches were broken off so that I might be grafted in.” Quite right, they were broken off for their unbelief, but you stand by your faith. Do not be conceited, but fear; for if God did not spare the natural branches, He will not spare you, either. Behold then the kindness and severity of God; to those who fell, severity, but to you, God’s kindness, if you continue in His kindness; otherwise you also will be cut off. And they also, if they do not continue in their unbelief, will be grafted in, for God is able to graft them in again. For if you were cut off from what is by nature a wild olive tree, and were grafted contrary to nature into a cultivated olive tree, how much more will these who are the natural branches be grafted into their own olive tree?

For I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed of this mystery—so that you will not be wise in your own estimation—that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved; just as it is written,

“The Deliverer will come from Zion,\ He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.”\ “This is My covenant with them,\ When I take away their sins.” *From the standpoint of the gospel they are enemies for your sake, but from the standpoint of God’s choice they are beloved for the sake of the fathers*; for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable**. For just as you once were disobedient to God, but now have been shown mercy because of their disobedience, so these also now have been disobedient, that because of the mercy shown to you they also may now be shown mercy. For God has shut up all in disobedience so that He may show mercy to all. (Romans 11:16-32) {emphasis mine}

Paul warns that although the Jews were pruned away due to rejection of Him and gentiles were grafted into Him by faith, if we reject God’s word, we can be pruned away and if the Jews return to Jesus, they can be grafted back in. He predicts that the Jews will return. “…that a partial hardening has happened to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in; and so all Israel will be saved.” He also says regarding Israel that “the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable.” Yes, Israel rejected Jesus and was punished for doing so, but they will be called back to God and trust in their Messiah, Jesus. In the end, all the promises of God to Abraham, Jacob, David, and others regarding Israel, will be brought to complete fulfillment.

Both the Old and New Testaments talk about Israel being punished for rejecting God and their Messiah, but that, after the time of the Gentiles, they will be called back to Him.

and they will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be trampled under foot by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled. (Luke 21:24)

After Daniel had been in prayer and repentance for the sins of Israel, the angel Gabriel came with this prophecy about Israel.

“Seventy weeks have been decreed for your people and your holy city, to finish the transgression, to make an end of sin, to make atonement for iniquity, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the most holy place. So you are to know and discern that from the issuing of a decree to restore and rebuild Jerusalem until Messiah the Prince there will be seven weeks and sixty-two weeks; it will be built again, with plaza and moat, even in times of distress. Then after the sixty-two weeks the Messiah will be cut off and have nothing, and the people of the prince who is to come will destroy the city and the sanctuary. And its end will come with a flood; even to the end there will be war; desolations are determined. (Daniel 9:24-26)

In this prophecy, the prediction of 69 weeks (literally sevens, but meaning groups of 7 years) from the decree to rebuild Jerusalem (by Artaxerxes) to the Messiah was fulfilled to the day when Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey on Palm Sunday.

I always thought it strange that the prophecy predicted 70 sevens and that there was the first 69 sevens (483 years), then \~2,000 years where nothing happens, and then comes the final seven — the Great Tribulation. It didn’t make sense until I realized, the 70 sevens referred to the years of Israel. The time of the gentiles intervenes between the 69th and 70th sevens. This delay happened due to Israel rejecting their Messiah.

When He approached Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it, saying, “If you had known in this day, even you, the things which make for peace! But now they have been hidden from your eyes. For the days will come upon you when your enemies will throw up a barricade against you, and surround you and hem you in on every side, and they will level you to the ground and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone upon another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.” (Luke 19:41-44)

We are now in the time of the Gentiles, the church age, the intermission in the story of Israel. After the church is raptured, the story will return to Israel. The Jews (at least many of them) will finally accept their Messiah. They will suffer through the Tribulation while witnessing to the world and then God will finally fully fulfill His promises to Israel through the Millennial kingdom.

Alas! for that day is great,\ There is none like it;\ And it is the time of Jacob’s distress,\ But he will be saved from it.

‘It shall come about on that day,’ declares the Lord of hosts, ‘that I will break his yoke from off their neck and will tear off their bonds; and strangers will no longer make them their slaves. But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their king, whom I will raise up for them.

Fear not, O Jacob My servant,’ declares the Lord,\ ‘And do not be dismayed, O Israel;\ For behold, I will save you from afar\ And your offspring from the land of their captivity.\ And Jacob will return and will be quiet and at ease,\ And no one will make him afraid.\ For I am with you,’ declares the Lord, ‘to save you;\ For I will destroy completely all the nations where I have scattered you,\ Only I will not destroy you completely.\ But I will chasten you justly\ And will by no means leave you unpunished.’ \ (Jeremiah 30:7-11) {emphasis mine}

Jacob’s distress is the final Tribulation. The 144,000 Jewish witnesses will be saved through the whole Tribulation. Others may become saved and die a martyrs death, but they will then be brought into the millennial kingdom where the Messiah will fill the throne of David and Israel will reach from the River to the Sea.

The Jews have already been saved “from afar, and your offspring from the land of their captivity” with the recreation of Israel in 1947 and the continual return of Jews to their homeland.

God is working to fulfill His promises to Israel and His work is nearly complete.

“O Jacob My servant, do not fear,” declares the Lord, “For I am with you. For I will make a full end of all the nations where I have driven you, Yet I will not make a full end of you; But I will correct you properly And by no means leave you unpunished.” (Jeremiah 46:28)

God promises a “full end of all the nations where I have driven you.” Those nations and people who try to destroy Israel will be destroyed. As Christians we should love what God loves, and despite Israel’s repeated betrayals, God still loves Israel, so we should, too.

May the God of heaven give us a right view of Israel. May we see them as God sees them. May God use us to share the Gospel in such a way as to lead to a harvest of Jews for the Kingdom of God. To God be the glory!

Trust Jesus

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ไม่ต้องคาดหวังวิชาการมากๆในวันอาทิตย์ก็ได้นะครับ วันนี้เรามาคุยเรื่องแดดในอีกแบบกันบ้าง เพราะเห็นว่าช่วงนี้ฝนตกบ่อยจนบางทีก็มีแดดมาให้ตากแค่แว๊บเดียวจริงๆ แต่มันเป็นแว๊บที่ทำให้นึกอะไรขึ้นมาได้ครับ

เฮียชอบมองฟ้าเวลาฝนหยุดตกใหม่ๆ ฟ้ายังไม่ใสสนิท แต่มีแสงอ่อนๆ ทะลุเมฆบางๆ แดดแบบนี้แหละที่มักจะพา “รุ้งกินน้ำ” มาวิ่งเล่นกลางท้องฟ้า

สมัยก่อนเคยสงสัยว่า แค่แสงผ่านหยดน้ำในอากาศ ทำไมถึงแยกสีได้เจ็ดเฉดแบบนั้น จนวันหนึ่งเฮียได้รู้ว่า หยดน้ำเล็กๆ เหล่านั้น ไม่ใช่แค่ “ใส” แต่ทำหน้าที่เหมือน “เลนส์” อย่างดีของธรรมชาติ เป็นเลนส์ที่รวมแสง กระจายแสง หักเหแสง แล้วเปลี่ยนพลังธรรมดาให้กลายเป็นภาพมหัศจรรย์บนฟ้า

และนั่นแหละที่ทำให้เฮียเริ่มสงสัยต่อว่า...มันจะเป็นไปได้ไหม ที่หยดน้ำจะสร้าง “ไฟ” จากแสงแดดได้จริงๆ? คำตอบคือ ได้จ้ะ 55555

ในฟิสิกส์ เราเรียกปรากฏการณ์นี้ว่า focusing of light หรือการรวมแสง ซึ่งสามารถเกิดขึ้นได้จริงแม้ผ่านเลนส์ธรรมชาติอย่างหยดน้ำ หรือแม้แต่ไอน้ำบางๆ ที่ล่องลอยอยู่ในอากาศ พลังงานแสงที่รวมผ่านเลนส์แบบนี้ อาจมีความร้อนพอจุดไฟติดได้เลยทีเดียว เช่น ไฟไหม้ที่เริ่มจากแว่นขยาย หรือจากกระจกเว้าสะท้อนแดด ก็ล้วนใช้หลักเดียวกัน

สมัยก่อนก็มีตำนานว่าอาร์คีมีดีส นักคณิตแห่งกรีก เคยใช้กระจกสะท้อนแดดเผาเรือข้าศึก โชว์พลังแสงจากฟ้าจนกลายเป็นเรื่องเล่าในตำนาน แม้จะถกเถียงกันว่าเวอร์ไปหรือเปล่า แต่หลักการมันจริงจังนะครับ

เพราะในโลกของความเป็นจริงพลังงานเกือบทั้งหมดที่โลกใช้ได้ในวันนี้...มาจากแดด

-ลมที่พัดเกิดจากอุณหภูมิบนพื้นดินที่แดดอุ่นไม่เท่ากัน -ฝนที่ตกก็เพราะแดดระเหยน้ำขึ้นไปเป็นไอ -พืชเติบโตได้เพราะแดดกระตุ้นให้เกิดกระบวนการสังเคราะห์แสง -แม้แต่ไฟฟ้าที่มนุษย์ใช้ ก็เริ่มต้นจากโฟตอนเล็กๆ ที่ปล่อยตัวเองออกมาจากดวงอาทิตย์

โลกของเรา คือเครื่องจักรแปรแสงเป็นชีวิต หยดน้ำ เป็นเพียงหนึ่งในฟันเฟืองใสๆ ที่เปลี่ยนแสงนั้นให้เกิดรูปร่าง เกิดพลัง เกิดไฟ และสุดท้ายกลายเป็น "ความรุ่งเรืองของชีวิต"

ย้อนกลับไปในประวัติศาสตร์ มนุษย์รู้เรื่องนี้มาก่อนเราจะมีไฟฟ้าเสียอีก อียิปต์โบราณบูชาเทพ “รา” เทพแห่งดวงอาทิตย์ ชาวอินคาและมายา วัดจังหวะชีวิตจากการเคลื่อนของแดด ในจีนยุคโบราณ เชื่อว่าไฟฟ้าบนฟ้า ไอน้ำบนดิน ต้องสมดุล ไม่งั้นจะเกิดโรคระบาด ทั้งหมดบอกเราว่า แดดไม่ใช่แค่แสง แต่เป็นครูของชีวิต

แต่ที่เฮียชอบที่สุดคือ แม้จะเป็นเพียงหยดน้ำหนึ่งหยด ถ้าอยู่ในที่ที่เหมาะ เจอกับแสงที่ใช่ มันสามารถจุด “ไฟ” ขึ้นมาได้จริงๆ

เฮียว่านี่แหละคือสัญลักษณ์ของมนุษย์ เราก็เหมือนหยดเล็กๆ ใสๆ ธรรมดาแต่ถ้าได้พบแดดของตัวเอง ไม่ว่าแดดนั้นจะเป็นแรงบันดาลใจ ความรัก งานที่ทำ หรือความฝันในใจ และถ้าเรายอมเป็น “เลนส์” ให้พลังนั้นลอดผ่าน ไฟบางอย่างก็จะลุกขึ้นในตัวเราและทำให้โลกรอบข้างอุ่นขึ้นด้วย

เฮียเลยอยากชวนให้ลองหันหน้าเข้าหาแดด ไม่ต้องถึงขั้นจ้องตากับพระอาทิตย์ แค่ยอมให้แสงนั้นผ่านใจเรา เพราะแม้แดดจะเหมือนเดิมทุกวัน แต่ใจเราต่างหากที่เปลี่ยนไปในทุกครั้งและบางที แค่แสงหนึ่งหยด ก็อาจเป็นไฟสำหรับทั้งชีวิต

#SundaySpecialเราจะไปเป็นหมูแดดเดียว #pirateketo #กูต้องรู้มั๊ย #ม้วนหางสิลูก #siamstr

@ 41fa852b:af7b7706

"Bitcoin is a peaceful revolution." --Alex Gladstein

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Life is still a bit upside-down after our house move, so I'm running slightly behind schedule this week.

I spent yesterday at Cyphermunk House for Bloom Fest, and it was honestly one of the best days I've had as a Bitcoiner. The range of personalities, the positivity, and the energy were all incredible. Huge credit to Psyfer and his team for making it happen. If you're reading this on Sunday, there's still time to head down for day two--full details here.

It's a quieter week for meetups across the UK and Ireland, but everything that's happening is listed below.

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Upcoming Bitcoin Meetups

Happening this week…

1. Belfast Bitcoin: Join them on Tuesday the 3rd June, 20:00. These guys meet in person monthly on the first Tuesday of each month at Ormeau Baths Event Space, 18 Ormeau Avenue, Belfast, BT2 8HS, Northern Ireland. 🍻

2. Bitcoin Walk - Edinburgh: Every Saturday they walk around Arthur's Seat in this historic city. Join them at 12 pm to chat about all things Bitcoin and keep fit. 🚶🏽‍♂️🚶🏼‍♀️🚶🏻

3. Bitcoin Derby: On Saturday the 7th June Bitcoin Derby will be at Ye Olde Dolphin, DE1 3DL. 🍺

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New Businesses Accepting Bitcoin

This week we have…

• Danson Garage: A trusted, independent garage based in Sidcup, DA15 9NP offering honest, high-quality car servicing, repairs and MOTs. Whether it's diagnostics, tyres, brakes or general maintenance, their experienced team provides reliable work at fair prices. They're known for clear communication, quick turnarounds and great customer service, keeping local drivers safely on the road. Now accepting bitcoin. 🚗👨🏻‍🔧
• Pintus Deli: A cherished Italian brasserie, coffee house, and restaurant located at 132 Northcote Road in Wandsworth, South London. Open seven days a week, it offers a delightful menu featuring breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner, complemented by freshly brewed coffee, juices, and a selection of wines and cocktails. With its warm ambiance and commitment to fresh, healthy ingredients, Pintus Deli provides a welcoming spot for any meal of the day. Now accepting bitcoin. 🥗🍝
• Stationery Place: Owned by long-established paper specialists John W Adams Ltd, offers a full range of printing, copying, scanning, binding and laminating services, plus custom-made rubber stamps. They stock an extensive selection of specialist paper and card, including their own high-quality range alongside premium brands from top paper companies. With over a century of expertise behind them, Stationery Place is a reliable go-to for both everyday stationery needs and professional print services. Now accepting bitcoin. 🖨️ 📖

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Upcoming Special Events

These events aren't happening next week, but they're important to add to your calendar now as tickets are selling fast.

Children of Riddim Festival - Bitcoin Stage: This is shaping up to be one of the biggest music festivals with Bitcoin vibes in the world.

Around 150 DJs, artists, and speakers will perform over four days, from 12--16 June, in Hemel Hempstead. A dedicated stage, the Barn of Freedom, will spotlight Bitcoin culture, education, and unstoppable apps on the Nostr protocol--alongside music, talks, and much more.

Support for the Barn of Freedom stage can be given via geyser.fund, where both ticket purchases and donations are welcome. One-day and four-day passes are available, and on-site camping is included.

Confirmed names include Joe Bryan, Metamick (Geyser Fund), Roger9000, Angor, MadMunky, Huxley, and many more.

The Bitcoin Beach Retreat: An annual Bitcoin-only gathering held at a scenic coastal campsite in North Wales. Celebrating its fifth year in 2025, the retreat offers a relaxed, community-driven alternative to traditional conferences. From July 11--14, up to 120 Bitcoiners will come together to share knowledge, enjoy beachside BBQs, and strengthen their networks under the stars. With no pre-booked speakers, the event thrives on peer-led workshops and spontaneous discussions, fostering genuine connections among attendees. Emphasising local engagement, the retreat directs the majority of its funds into the surrounding community, with 42% of expenses paid in Bitcoin last year. Whether attending solo or with family, attendees can expect a welcoming environment dedicated to sound money and shared values.

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Get Involved

• Volunteer: Passionate about merchant adoption? Reach out to Bridge2Bitcoin on Twitter or website.
• Start a Meetup: Want to launch a Bitcoin meetup? We'll support you. Contact us on Twitter or just reply to this email.
• Contribute to BTCMaps: Help maintain this key Bitcoin resource--no coding skills needed. Update a UK area.
• Telegram: Join our Channel for UK meetup updates
• Feedback: Reply to this email with ideas and suggestions.

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This week's sponsors is…

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Get out and support the meetups where you can, visit Bitcoin Events UK for more info on each meetup and to find your closest on the interactive map.

Stay tuned for more updates next week!

Simon.

@ cefb08d1:f419beff

https://stacker.news/items/994252

@ 21335073:a244b1ad

Someone asked for my thoughts, so I’ll share them thoughtfully. I’m not here to dictate how to promote Nostr—I’m still learning about it myself. While I’m not new to Nostr, freedom tech is a newer space for me. I’m skilled at advocating for topics I deeply understand, but freedom tech isn’t my expertise, so take my words with a grain of salt. Nothing I say is set in stone.

Those who need Nostr the most are the ones most vulnerable to censorship on other platforms right now. Reaching them requires real-time awareness of global issues and the dynamic relationships between governments and tech providers, which can shift suddenly. Effective Nostr promoters must grasp this and adapt quickly.

The best messengers are people from or closely tied to these at-risk regions—those who truly understand the local political and cultural dynamics. They can connect with those in need when tensions rise. Ideal promoters are rational, trustworthy, passionate about Nostr, but above all, dedicated to amplifying people’s voices when it matters most.

Forget influencers, corporate-backed figures, or traditional online PR—it comes off as inauthentic, corny, desperate and forced. Nostr’s promotion should be grassroots and organic, driven by a few passionate individuals who believe in Nostr and the communities they serve.

The idea that “people won’t join Nostr due to lack of reach” is nonsense. Everyone knows X’s “reach” is mostly with bots. If humans want real conversations, Nostr is the place. X is great for propaganda, but Nostr is for the authentic voices of the people.

Those spreading Nostr must be so passionate they’re willing to onboard others, which is time-consuming but rewarding for the right person. They’ll need to make Nostr and onboarding a core part of who they are. I see no issue with that level of dedication. I’ve been known to get that way myself at times. It’s fun for some folks.

With love, I suggest not adding Bitcoin promotion with Nostr outreach. Zaps already integrate that element naturally. (Still promote within the Bitcoin ecosystem, but this is about reaching vulnerable voices who needed Nostr yesterday.)

To promote Nostr, forget conventional strategies. “Influencers” aren’t the answer. “Influencers” are not the future. A trusted local community member has real influence—reach them. Connect with people seeking Nostr’s benefits but lacking the technical language to express it. This means some in the Nostr community might need to step outside of the Bitcoin bubble, which is uncomfortable but necessary. Thank you in advance to those who are willing to do that.

I don’t know who is paid to promote Nostr, if anyone. This piece isn’t shade. But it’s exhausting to see innocent voices globally silenced on corporate platforms like X while Nostr exists. Last night, I wondered: how many more voices must be censored before the Nostr community gets uncomfortable and thinks creatively to reach the vulnerable?

A warning: the global need for censorship-resistant social media is undeniable. If Nostr doesn’t make itself known, something else will fill that void. Let’s start this conversation.

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Autor: Bernd Schoepe. 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.

Die Anmerkungen zum Text (Fußnoten) folgen aus technischen Gründen gesondert.

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Die neuesten Artikel der Friedenstaube gibt es jetzt auch im eigenen Friedenstaube-Telegram-Kanal.

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„*Es handelt sich beim Krieg nicht nur um eine Zerstörung von (...) Millionen Menschen, sondern um die Zerstörung der gesamten sozialen, moralischen und menschlichen Struktur einer Gesellschaft, von der man überhaupt nicht voraussehen kann, welche weiteren Konsequenzen an Barbarei, an Verrücktheit sie (...) mit sich bringt. (..) *

Die Gewalt kann fast alles mit den Menschen machen. Es ist wichtig zu sehen, dass es nur fast alles ist. Sie kann mit einigen Menschen nicht das machen, was sie will, nämlich ihre seelische Struktur, ihre Überzeugungen ändern und mit allen Menschen kann sie nur das machen, was sie will, wenn sie gewisse, sehr schädliche Nebenerscheinungen in Kauf nimmt: die Nebenerscheinung der Verdummung, der Lähmung der Vitalität, der Einbildungskraft, dem Schöpferischsein des Menschen. In vielen Fällen aber sind die, die die Gewalt ausüben gar nicht daran interessiert, dass diese Folgen nicht eintreten. Im geschichtlichen Prozess allerdings bleiben diese Folgen von großer Wichtigkeit.“

Erich Fromm, Zur Theorie und Strategie des Friedens (1969).

„Solange Kriege geführt werden, wird uns Kummer plagen, werden kräftige Beine nutzlos werden und strahlende Augen dunkel.“

Sean O’ Casey, Der Preispokal

Der Friede geht uns alle an – Vom Krieg profitieren aber immer nur Wenige

Gerne komme ich zum Einstand als Mit-Autor dieses wunderbaren Projekts „Die Friedenstaube“ dem Wunsch nach, über meine biographischen Hintergründe in Bezug auf das Friedensthema zu schreiben. Obwohl mein erster Impuls doch eher zögerlich war: „Darauf kommt es doch gar nicht an!“, schoss es mir zunächst durch den Kopf. 

\ Geht der Frieden doch uns alle an, und zwar so stark, dass alle persönlichen Gründe, Motive, Unter-, Ober- und Zwischentöne zu dem Thema eigentlich kaum eine Rolle spielen können… – oder!? Erliegen wir nicht sogar einer ganz und gar deplatziert wirkenden Eitelkeit angesichts des „Alles oder Nichts“, um das es bei der Frage nach Krieg oder Frieden geht, wenn wir glauben, wir müssten, um für den Frieden einzutreten, irgendwelche individuellen Gründe oder spezielle biographische Motive ins Feld führen?

Für den Frieden muss man sein, weil und insoweit man ein Mensch ist (1). 

So grundsätzlich und selbstverständlich, wie es der Autor des berühmten Anti-Kriegsromans „Im Westen nichts Neues“, Erich Maria Remarque, ausdrückte:

„Ich dachte immer, jeder Mensch sei gegen den Krieg. Bis ich rausfand, dass es welche gibt, die dafür sind, nämlich die, die nicht hingehen müssen.“

Erneut ist dieses Zitat – und welche Bitterkeit und welcher „Abscheu vor der Weltgeschichte“ (Erwin Chargaff) liegen darin, dies konstatieren zu müssen! – zum Wort der Stunde geworden. Auch heute wird wieder von der herrschenden  Politik und den Leitmedien weitgehend ausgeblendet, welche Interessen hinter der allgemeinen Mobilmachung zum Krieg am Werke sind und wer von ihr wirklich profitiert.

Mit Erich Fromm gesprochen sind Kriegsbegeisterung und Kriegshysterie Kennzeichen von nekrophilen Gesellschaften. Wann hat sich unsere Gesellschaft offiziell so krass vom Leben und vom Wert des Lebendigen verabschiedet? Wie konnte es aufs Neue soweit kommen?

Die Zumutungen, die in der Logik, der Unterordnung unter das Prinzip der Nekrophilie liegen und die vom Krieg auf die Spitze getrieben werden, sind von Hannes Wader im „Einheitsfrontlied“ prägnant auf den Punkt gebracht worden:

„Und weil der Mensch ein Mensch ist

Drum hat er Stiefel im Gesicht nicht gern.

Er will unter sich keinen Sklaven sehen

*Und über sich keinen Herrn.“ *

(2) 

Die Ordnung des Krieges aber stellt in gewisser Weise die Vollendung der auf Herrschafts- und – in seiner neoliberalen Ausprägung – Markt- und Mammon-Vergottung und der auf Arbeitssklavengehorsam der Massen basierenden Abhängigkeits- und Ausbeutungsverhältnisse dar. Unter dessen Joch leben im Kapitalismus des 21.Jahrhunderts die Menschen weltweit. Wobei die Anzahl derer, die unter diesen Bedingungen in extremer Armut dahinvegetieren müssen –  schließlich setzt „leben“ ein Mindestmaß an Würde voraus – sich global auf über eine Milliarde Menschen beläuft. \ Willy Brandt hat gesagt: „Der Frieden ist nicht alles, aber ohne Frieden ist alles nichts“. Sein Gegenteil – der Krieg – ist die schlimmste Kollektiverfahrung, die eine Generation erleben kann. Zuletzt musste die Generation meiner Eltern und Großeltern diese Erfahrung durchmachen.

Wir Nachgeborenen können uns das Grauen, das Elend des Krieges, das unendliche Leid, das er über die Menschen bringt, nicht wirklich vorstellen. Wir können aber um die Ausmaße des Zivilisationsbruchs des Ersten Weltkrieges und dann, noch einmal furchtbar gesteigert, des Zweiten Weltkrieges wissen. Und als zum Mitfühlen fähige Wesen können wir ermessen, was es heißt, im Krieg zu sein:

„Keiner kommt aus dem Geschehen in einem Kriegsgebiet wieder heil raus, das macht etwas mit einem. Auf der anderen Seite (...) muss man sich immer klar machen, das eine ist das Geschehen im Kriegsgebiet, aber das andere sind die Kriegstreiber. (...) Sie sitzen da, wo einem nichts geschieht (...)“, 

so Patrick Baab, der als einer der wenigen Journalisten wiederholt im umkämpften Kriegsgebiet der Ost-Ukraine war und seine Eindrücke erster Hand in dem Buch „Auf beiden Seiten der Front. Meine Reisen in die Ukraine“ geschildert hat.

Dass diese Teilung in solche und solche, die Remarque in seinem Zitat lakonisch-pointiert thematisiert, auch heute wieder beobachtet werden muss, d.h. Politik und Leitmedien von (ahnungslosen?) Kriegsverharmlosern und Kriegstreibern und ihrem bellizistischen Geschrei beherrscht werden, während die Mehrheit des Volkes sich weiterhin sehnlichst Frieden wünscht, auf diesen erschreckenden Sachverhalt und was  aus ihm geschlossen werden müsste, hat Baab kürzlich im Interview mit dem Overton-Magazin hingewiesen (3).

Ein Hinweis am Ende dieser Einleitung:

Ich muss den Leser vorab um Geduld bitten, denn mein Text wird mit der autobiographischen Tür nicht gleich ins Haus, weder in das des Krieges noch in das des Friedens fallen. 

Die ersten Teile (II –V) werden im Zeichen der politischen Analyse stehen. Einer Analyse, die nicht vor dem Hintergrund meiner eigenen, sondern der bundesdeutschen Geschichte und einige ihrer größten blinden Flecken – mit Ulrike Guérot könnte man auch sagen „ihrer größten Märchen“– unternommen wird. Dass mein antimilitaristisches Ich in Interaktion zu dieser Geschichte stand und steht, muss wohl nicht eigens betont werden. 

Erst nach dieser Erkundung des Makrokosmos werden sich im Verlauf des Textes von da aus, nach einer Durchleuchtung seiner Bedingtheiten, Zugänge zum eigenen Mikrokosmos eröffnen. Sonst wären sie vermutlich als autobiographische Lesart des Themas nicht offen zu Tage getreten, möglicherweise mir sogar ganz verschlossen geblieben. So aber darf mit guten Gründen vermutet werden, dass das persönlich hier von mir Festgehaltene und Fokussierte nicht nur mich angeht. Vielmehr erscheint es in dem Maße verallgemeinerbar zu sein, wie durch den Fortgang meiner Darlegungen jeder Leser individuell (hoffentlich) ebenfalls dazu motiviert werden kann, die Frage zu reflektieren, was es bedeutet, wenn es sich bei der persönlichen Begegnung mit dem Krieg um eine Begegnung auf den zweiten oder sogar dritten Blick handelt?

Der Nachkriegs-„Frieden“ als die Zeit ernst gemeinter, nicht enden wollender Kriegsspiele

„Nie wieder Krieg! Nie wieder Faschismus!“

Das war die Lehre aus den Weltkriegs-Zivilisationszusammenbrüchen, die vor allem anderen, wenn auch auf verschiedene Weise, als DNA beiden deutschen Republiken, zu ihren Gründungszeiten eingeprägt wurde.

Was aber ist aus dieser DNA geworden? 

Heute lassen wir zu, dass in Manier des NS-Reichspropagandaministers Goebbels von „Kriegstüchtigkeit“ als Staatsziel schwadroniert wird (4), das man bitteschön mal bis 2030, mal schon 2027 erreicht haben müsse, weil sonst „der Russe“ am Brandenburger Tor stehe. Mit „Kriegstüchtigkeit“ sind immense, unvorstellbare Summen an Geld gemeint, neue Schulden, die in die Rüstung und Militarisierung der Gesellschaft fließen sollen und folglich anderswo, für eine menschliche, dem Leben dienende Politik, schmerzlich fehlen. Die Militarisierung soll nun wieder, wie im Wilhelminismus und im Dritten Reich, von Kindesbeinen an propagiert und gefördert werden. 

An den Schulen darf der Beutelsbacher Konsens mit seinem Überwältigungsverbot – er wurde schon in der Corona-Zeit mit schlimmsten Folgen für die Kinder und Jugendliche  missachtet (5 https://www.cicero.de/kultur/fuenf-jahre-schulschliessungen-corona-aufarbeitung) – nun auch der Wehrertüchtigung der jungen Generation und dem Ruf „Zu den Waffen!“ auf keinen Fall mehr im Wege stehen. Völlig abstrus: Schüler, die gegen die Kriegsertüchtigung an den Schulen protestieren, werden dafür von Pädagogen (!) wegen „Störung des Schulfriedens“ bestraft. Antimilitaristische, pazifistische Haltungen werden ausgegrenzt und kriminalisiert. Mittels Framings sind, wie schon in der Corona-Zeit, die Mainstream-Medien erneut eifrig dabei, die vernünftig-skeptischen Stimmen moralisch zu diskreditieren. Wurden zu Plandemie-Zeiten jene, die die Verhältnismäßigkeit der staatlichen Maßnahmen in Frage stellten und sich der systematisch betriebenen Panikmache und Massenpsychose verweigerten, öffentlich verächtlich gemacht, werden nun all jene, die für Abrüstung, Diplomatie und Völkerverständigung plädieren,  diffamiert und ins gesellschaftliche Abseits gestellt. 

Dennoch regt sich kein massenhafter Protest, der den Minister, der die Kriegstüchtigkeit zum Gesellschaftsziel erhoben hat, zum Rücktritt zwingen und die Journalisten zur Besinnung und zur Einhaltung professioneller Standards bringen könnte. Und das obwohl die Forderung nach Kriegstüchtigkeit – wie die gesamte Russland-Ukraine-Politik der bundesdeutschen Regierungen in den letzten fünfzehn Jahren – eine eklatante Verletzung der Friedenspflicht des Grundgesetzes darstellt. So gab Angela Merkel Ende 2022 bekannt, man habe die Verhandlungen um das 2015 ratifizierte Minsker Abkommen nur geführt, um der Ukraine genug Zeit zum Aufbau einer kriegsfähigen Armee und für das Aufrüsten zu geben (6). Die Ukraine sollte in die Lage versetzt werden, die Donbass-Provinzen zurückzuerobern, die sich in Folge von Kiews ultra-nationalistischer Politik seit 2015 sezessionistisch, mit Unterstützung Russlands, für autonom erklärt hatten. Ergänzt werden muss, dass in der Ukraine nach  den gewalttätigen Ereignissen auf dem Maidan, die zum Sturz von Janukowytsch führen sollte, ein den Faschismus verherrlichender, hybrider Nationalismus politisch die Oberhand gewann, der die vor allem im Osten des Landes lebende russische Bevölkerung zunehmend diskriminierte und ihre Kultur unterdrückte.

Die bundesdeutsche Öffentlichkeit nahm die absolut skandalöse Äußerung der ehemaligen Regierungschefin achselzuckend hin. Nicht einmal ansatzweise flammte eine Debatte darüber auf, wie viel diplomatisches Porzellan durch diese Täuschung des russischen Vertragspartners zerschlagen und wie stark dadurch die außenpolitische Glaubwürdigkeit der Bundesrepublik – die lange Zeit international als ehrlicher Makler des Interessenausgleichs gegolten hatte  – beschädigt wurde.

Was ist aus dem Vorschlag Michail Gorbatschows geworden, eine gemeinsame europäische Sicherheitsarchitektur von Lissabon bis Wladiwostok zu schaffen, den Präsident Putin beim Deutschland-Besuch 2001 noch einmal als sein umfassendes Angebot zur Zusammenarbeit an den Westen bekräftigt hatte? Damals sagte Putin in seiner weitgehend auf Deutsch gehaltenen Rede vor dem Bundestag:

*„Ohne eine moderne, dauerhafte und standfeste internationale Sicherheitsarchitektur schaffen wir auf diesem Kontinent nie ein Vertrauensklima und ohne dieses Vertrauensklima ist kein einheitliches Großeuropa möglich. Heute sind wir verpflichtet, zu sagen, dass wir uns von unseren Stereotypen und Ambitionen trennen sollten, um die Sicherheit der Bevölkerung Europas und die der ganzen Welt zusammen zu gewährleisten. (...) *

Noch vor kurzem schien es so, als würde auf dem Kontinent bald ein richtiges gemeinsames Haus entstehen, in welchem Europäer nicht in östliche und westliche, in nördliche und südliche geteilt werden. Solche Trennungslinien bleiben aber erhalten, und zwar deswegen, weil wir uns bis jetzt noch nicht endgültig von vielen Stereotypen und ideologischen Klischees des Kalten Krieges befreit haben.“

(7)

Putins Bitte, sich endgültig von den Stereotypen und Klischees des Kalten Krieges zu befreien – er erhielt für seine Rede im Bundestag damals lang anhaltenden Beifall und stehende Ovationen – sollte sich als frommer Wunsch erweisen. Die einflussreichen, entscheidenden Kräfte in den USA dachten überhaupt nicht daran, diesen Schritt zu tun. Der „nationale Egoismus“, von dem Putin im selben Zusammenhang als Hinderungsgrund für weitere Annäherungen sprach, sollte – vor allem seitens der USA, wie es aus den Strategiepapieren der mächtigen, dem Pentagon zuarbeitenden Denkfabriken der NeoCons unmissverständlich hervorgeht – auf ganzer Linie triumphieren:

„Allein die Lektüre einiger amerikanischer geopolitischer Texte hätte den deutschen Politikern zeigen können, dass die Vereinigten Staaten niemals eine Annäherung Deutschlands an Russland akzeptieren würden. (...) Für die Strategen in Washington glich eine deutsch-russische Allianz einem absoluten Albtraum.“ 

(8) 

Folglich wurde die Rede nicht als historische Chance, als einzigartiges window of opportunity begriffen, die bilateralen und multilateralen Beziehungen neu zu definieren und damit ein neues Kapitel des Friedens und des Wohlstandes unter den Völkern aufzuschlagen und, wie es der russische Präsident formulierte, „damit unseren gemeinsamen Beitrag zum Aufbau des europäischen Hauses“ (9) zu leisten. 

Stattdessen setzte sich, trotz der veränderten Bedingungen einer komplizierter gewordenen, nach 1990 multipolar sich neu ordnenden Welt, wiederum das alte, hegemoniale Denken der US-Amerikaner im gesamten, offenbar nun erstarkten (10) und bis an die Grenzen Russlands ausgedehnten Westen (NATO-Osterweiterung!) durch. Damit folgte man wiederum den alten Pfaden der Konfrontation statt den neuen der Kooperation, was leider eine lange Kontinuität aufweist.

So haben neuere Forschungen im Rahmen der Geschichte der Kognitiven Kriegsführung belegt, dass die Bundesrepublik von Anfang an systematisch durch die USA militärisch-geostrategisch und mental in Stellung gegen die Sowjetunion gebracht wurde. An der Bewertung der Beziehungen Deutschlands und Russlands hat sich grundlegend auch nach 1990 und dem Ende der Blockpolarität aus Sicht der US-Amerikaner nichts geändert.

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Der Amerikanist und Propagandaforscher Jonas Tögel hat herausgearbeitet (11), in welchem Ausmaß es 1945 den USA nicht um die Befreiung des europäischen Kontinents ging. Vielmehr lautete die Doktrin, dass als der eigentliche Kriegsgegner die Sowjetunion bezwungen werden müsse: „Europa war in letzter Konsequenz genauso strategisches Gebiet wie davor (...). Es sollten offenbar die letzten deutschen Truppen (...) mit den letzten alliierten Truppen in einem neuen Aufgebot gen Osten geschickt werden“ (12). Die US-amerikanischen Regierungen sahen – über 1945 hinaus! – die Sowjetunion als den Hauptfeind an. Dabei war klar, wo der Austragungsort der Entscheidungsschlacht zwischen den Systemantagonisten liegen würde: 1955, im ersten Mitgliedsjahr der BRD, wurde eine „Carte Blanche“ genannte NATO-Übung durchgeführt, in der es ein Szenario von 168 Atombombenabwürfen über deutsches Gebiet mit 1,7 Millionen getöteten und 3,5 Millionen verletzten Deutschen entworfen gab. Weitere Planspiele, die die atomare Zerstörung Deutschlands vorsahen, folgten. Etwas größere Bekanntheit erlangte, durch den damaligen Staatssekretär im Bundesverteidigungsministerium Willy Wimmer (CDU), die NATO-Übung WINTEX/FALLEX (13) von 1986, in der Atombombeneinsätze gegen Dresden und andere deutsche Städte vorgesehen waren.

„Er, Wimmer, sei von dieser Anforderung völlig überrascht worden und sei entsetzt gewesen. Er habe es abgelehnt, an der Planung eines Atomwaffeneinsatzes auf Ziele in Ostdeutschland und damit gegen die ostdeutsche Bevölkerung – wenn auch „nur“ übungsweise – mitzuwirken. In dieser Situation habe er sofort Kontakt mit dem damaligen Bundeskanzler Dr. Helmut Kohl (CDU) aufgenommen und ihn von diesem für ihn unerhörten Vorgang in Kenntnis gesetzt. Bundeskanzler Kohl habe daraufhin entschieden, dass sich die Vertreter der Bundesregierung sofort aus der weiteren Übung zurückziehen und sich keinesfalls an diesen nuklearen Planspielen gegen Ziele wie Dresden und andere ostdeutsche Städte beteiligen sollten. Deutschland habe, so Wimmer, deshalb seine weitere Mitwirkung an dieser NATO-Übung – vier Tage vor ihrem Ende – eingestellt. Die Übung sei dann – ohne deutsche Beteiligung – fortgesetzt worden.“  (14)

Der Schweizer Militär- und Geheimdienstexperte Jacques Baud geht soweit zu behaupten, dass die NATO „für den Kalten Krieg und für den Nuklearkrieg geschaffen wurde.“ (15) Zu einem Zeitpunkt, wo der erst im zweiten Wahlgang gewählte neue deutsche Bundeskanzler noch immer nicht öffentlich seine Erklärung zurückgenommen hat,  Taurus-Raketen an die Ukraine liefern zu wollen, sollte dies unbedingt in Erinnerung gerufen werden. 

Darüber hinaus gilt, was alle Kriegsspiele, sowohl die Kriegsspiele der NATO als auch jene der Sowjetunion bzw. später Russlands dokumentieren:

„Die Deutschen haben nicht mitzureden, wenn es um die Vernichtung ihres eigenen Landes geht.“ (Jonas Tögel, 16).

Kann es da verwundern, dass spiegelbildlich dazu der von der NATO losgetretene Informationskrieg gerade in Deutschland immer bizarrere Blüten treibt?

Denn hier liegt das Schlachtfeld des Propagandakrieges, der jedem Waffengang erst einmal vorausgeht und gewonnen sein will. Das meint auch die Rede von der zu erlangenden Kriegstüchtigkeit. Sie dient als Propaganda zur Formierung der Gesellschaft gegen „den“ Feind, wobei der Feind grundsätzlich austauschbar ist (es kann auch ein „gefährliches“ Virus sein...), immer aber gewisse Eigenschaften aufweisen muss. So sollte er leicht adaptierbar an die Ängste oder Aggressionen der Menschen sein. Dies impliziert auch, dass die aktuelle Einschätzung von 16 amerikanischen Geheimdiensten, nach denen Russland keinen Krieg gegen die europäischen NATO-Staaten beabsichtige und plane, in der öffentlichen Debatte hierzulande keine Rolle spielt und der Bevölkerung vorenthalten wird (17). 

Kontrafaktisch wird mit Hilfe der immer gleichen Protagonisten des militärisch-industriellen, und – wie hinzugefügt werden muss – propagandistisch-medialen Komplexes am Bedrohungsszenario festgehalten. Wer es nicht glaubt, der möge bei Google im Suchfenster: „16 amerikanische Geheimdienste Russland keine Bedrohung“ oder etwas Sinngleiches eingeben und schauen, ob er auf den ersten Seiten irgendwelche „Treffer“ landet. Ich wünsche viel Spaß dabei!

Teil 2 folgt demnächst.

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Bernd Schoepe, Jahrgang 1965,  Studium der Soziologie, Germanistik, Philosophie und Erziehungswissenschaften in Frankfurt/M. und Hamburg. Erstes und zweites Staatsexamen. Freier Autor, der zu bildungspolitischen, bildungssoziologischen- und bildungsphilosophischen Themen schreibt. Seit 2003 im Hamburger Schuldienst. Langjähriges GEW-Betriebsgruppen-Mitglied, ehem. Vertrauensmann, ehem. Mitglied der Hamburger Lehrerkammer. Hauptberuflich bin ich Politik- Deutsch- und Philosophielehrer an einer Hamburger Stadtteilschule. Kontakt: berndschoepe\@gmx.de

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If you haven't noticed already, #Nostr is a little different from what most people are used to. One of the ways this is felt most acutely is with media hosting. Users are accustomed to uploading their images and videos directly through the app they are posting from. Many Nostr apps provide that same experience nowadays, but it wasn't always the case.

Just a couple years ago, users had to find somewhere to host their media separately, and then copy and paste the URL into their note whenever they wanted to share their cat pictures. One of the first, if not the first, media hosting services specifically intended for Nostr was nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7, which will be the service we are reviewing today.

Like our previous review of Amber, Nostr.Build is a service for users to pair with other Nostr apps. You won't generally use nostr:npub1nxy4qpqnld6kmpphjykvx2lqwvxmuxluddwjamm4nc29ds3elyzsm5avr7 by itself. Rather, you'll use it to host that incredible shot you want to post to #Olas, or to host screenshots for your long-form tutorial about setting up Nostr Wallet Connect that you'll be posting from #Habla.news, or for hosting a hilarious video of your cat falling asleep to nostr:npub1cj8znuztfqkvq89pl8hceph0svvvqk0qay6nydgk9uyq7fhpfsgsqwrz4u's voice and taking a tumble off of his favorite perch that you want to share on #Damus. However, there are some features within Nostr.Build that you may want to check out quite apart from using it with any other Nostr app.

Overall Impression

Score: 4.8 / 5

I have been impressed by Nostr.Build for some time now, but they have pulled out all the stops in their latest update, increasing their maximum file size for free accounts to 100MB, integrating the #Blossom protocol, adding the ability to share directly to Nostr from within your dashboard, and more integrations with other Nostr apps than ever before. Nostr.Build is simply a pleasure to use, whether through their web interface, or through another Nostr app that integrates with them.

With the ability to easily organize your media, view statistics, browse the media gallery of free uploads, metadata removal for increased privacy, and AI image generation, Nostr.Build is not simply a media hosting service, it is a full-fledged media management platform. Its robust features keep it well ahead of other Nostr-focused media hosting options available, and a particularly strong option for those using Blossom and wanting redundancy and reliable uptime for their media.

As much as I enjoy using the web interface, though, where Nostr.Build really shines is their integrations with other Nostr apps. These integrations allow users to have the same experience they are accustomed to from centralized social platforms of uploading their media from within the same app they are using to share it. No copy/pasting a URL from one app to another. In fact, many users may not realize they have been using Nostr.Build in their client of choice, simply because it is the default option for media hosting for many Nostr apps.

This has the added benefit to client developers that they can provide this experience to their users without having to run media hosting infrastructure on top of trying to build their app. The separation of relays, clients, and media hosting between different entities, while keeping a similar experience to centralized platforms where a single company controls all three, is critical to Nostr adoption.

Features

Nostr.Build has a plethora of features beyond simply hosting your media. Let's take a look!

AI Image Generation

Do you need a quick title image for a long-form article? How about inspiration for a logo or art piece? Nostr.Build's AI Studio has you covered.

They have provided a few different models based on the plan you purchase, beginning with the Professional plan, which includes SDXL-Lightning and Stable Diffusion 1. Upgrading to the Creator plan will give you access to all Pro Stable Diffusion models and unlimited use of the Flux.1 model, which is the same core model used for Grok2 images.

I personally have a Professional account, so I haven't had a chance to try out Flux.1, but I have used Stable Diffusion extensively for creating character art for #NostrHeroes characters, such as these:

Nothing too spectacular when compared with some of the newer models out there, and there is no image-to-image support (yet), but more than adequate for casual image generation needs. Moreover, it is far more than what one would expect from a simple media-hosting service.

Admittedly, I am also no expert at coaxing AI models to produce anything remarkable so your results may vary. Either way, image generation is a welcome tool to have available without needing to go to an outside service unless you require something very specific.

Upload Limits

The maximum file size limits on Nostr.Build have been getting progressively larger, even for their free service. As I recall, it was a mere 21MB limit per file just a few months ago, which is fine for image files, but is quickly exceeded with videos. Then they increased their limits to 50MB per file, and as of recent updates it has been increased once more to a whopping 100MB per file... for free! This is more than adequate for most uses.

However, free users' images, GIFs, and videos are automatically viewable via Nostr.Build's free media gallery. This is something to particularly bear in mind when uploading images you intend to share via direct message. Though your DMs are encrypted, the images uploaded to Nostr.Build are not, and if you don't have a paid account, they will be viewable to the all paid users in the free media gallery. If you want to upload images that will not be viewable unless you actively share them, you must have a paid account.

Paid accounts have no file size limit, but they do have a total storage limit. I could not find anything about total storage limits for free accounts, but Professional tier will give you 25GB, Creator 50GB, and Advanced 250GB. Uploads to paid accounts are not visible in the free media gallery, so only those you give the link to will be able to access your content.

Media Types

Many file types are supported by Nostr.Built, even for free users, including:

• Image: .jpg, .png, .gif
• Video: .mov, mp4
• Audio: mp3, .wav

Upgrading to the Professional plan will add .pdf and .svg to the list of permitted file types, and upgrading to Creator or above will add .zip files, as well.

I believe other common file types are also supported, but these are the only ones specifically mentioned on the site.

Free Media Gallery

The free media gallery is an interesting little feature that Nostr.Build has available to paid accounts. Free users can get a preview, such as the one below, but only paid users can browse through the millions of uploads made by free users.

Apart from being amusing to browse through the things people have been uploading, I am unsure of how useful this particular feature is. No indication is given as to who uploaded the media, and it is limited compared to media feeds in other Nostr apps in two important ways. First, it only shows media uploaded to Nostr.Build, while other media-focused Nostr apps, such as Slidestr, Lumina, or even Primal will show media posted by all Nostr users. Second, Nostr.Build's gallery doesn't show all uploads to Nostr.Build, but only uploads from those without a paid account, further limiting the scope of whose uploads are seen.

Paid users have the advantage of being able to upload media that is not viewable to anyone unless they intentionally share the link somewhere. Free users, on the other hand, must be aware that their uploads are viewable by any paid users, whether they shared the link anywhere or not.

One incident I had while testing out another app required me to reach out to Nostr.Build support to request deletion of an image. It had some of my personal information in it, and had been uploaded to Nostr.Build and sent to me via DM. The sender assumed that since it was being sent via DM, no one else would be able to see the image, but because he was not a paid user of Nostr.Build, the image was included in the Free Media Gallery for any paid user to see. Not ideal, but the folks at Nostr.Build were quick to get it deleted for me.

In short, I have mixed feelings about this particular feature.

Blossom

Blossom is a media storage and retrieval protocol built for Nostr, but usable with any application that needs to access media via the web, and Nostr.Build has recently added support for Blossom uploads via their Blossom server: blossom.band

I will likely be adding a Nostrversity article going over Blossom in detail in the near future, but here's the basics of what it makes possible:

First, easy integration for media uploading from your favorite Nostr apps. Amethyst, Coracle, Primal and others have added Blossom upload support, so you just have to hop into your settings and add Nostr.Build's Blossom server address to start using it as your media host. No need to go to a separate app to upload your media and copy/paste the URL into your Nostr note!

Second, your media in Blossom is content addressable. This means it is named based on a hash of its actual data. Because of this, you can verify that the media has not been altered or replaced by your media host. If the hash doesn't match the data, it won't be loaded by the Nostr client, so you never have to worry about the image in your note being replaced by a different image by your media host.

Finally, because your media is addressable by its content, you can save the same media to multiple hosts, and if one of them goes down, Nostr apps can fetch your media from other hosts, just like they can do with your notes by fetching them from different relays if one relay you write to is down. This makes your images and videos much harder to censor, since you would need to be banned by multiple Blossom servers for your media to no longer be accessible.

If you would like to upload media to more than one Blossom server at the same time, your options are currently to use Primal and ensure that your settings have "Enable media mirrors" toggled on, or to use Bouquet. Hopefully we will see this option added to more Nostr apps in the near future.

Metadata Stripping

For files uploaded via Nostr.Build's dashboard, location metadata is removed upon upload. This is to protect user privacy, since this data could be used to reveal your home address if it is left attached to images posted publicly on Nostr.

When uploading via Blossom, media containing location metadata will be rejected. The user will be required to remove the metadata before they can upload the media.

No KYC and No Ads Policy

The only form of identification needed to use Nostr.Build is your Nostr identity. Every upload is tied to your npub, but no name, date of birth, email, or other identifying information is required. This is made possible because Nostr.Build only accepts Bitcoin as payment for their accounts, and no KYC is required to make Bitcoin transactions via Lightning.

Additionally, Nostr.Build is philosophically opposed to targeted advertising, so they have a policy that they will never use ads on their hosting service.

Client Integrations

Even before Blossom, Nostr.Build had many Nostr clients that used it as the default media hosting service, allowing users to upload directly within the app. This has only expanded now that Nostr.Build has added Blossom.

A very non-exhaustive list of clients that integrate with Nostr.Build is listed on their site, and includes Damus, Amethyst, Nostrudel, Snort, Iris, Coracle, Flycat, and Yakihonne. Additional apps that support Nostr.Build via Blossom include Primal and Flotilla. Some of these integrations support both Blossom and NIP-96 options for uploading media, such as Amethyst, while others only support one or the other.

I would not be surprised to see more and more Nostr apps move to integrating Blossom and phasing out NIP-96 support. Either way, though, Nostr.Build currently supports both, and is therefore an excellent hosting option if you want to use it with a wide range of Nostr apps.

Media Statistics

For those with a paid account, Nostr.Build provides information about how often each of your uploads has been requested and viewed within a given time period.

This can be valuable information for content creators, so they can determine what content is resonating with their audience, and what times of day their posts get the most views.

This information can currently be viewed for a maximum period of three months prior to the current date, and as short a period as just the past hour.

Can My Grandma Use It?

Score: 4.7 / 5

Nostr.Build is incredibly easy to use if you have a paid account, or if you are a free user uploading to Nostr.Build through a client that integrates with them by default. Previous frictions encountered by free users trying to upload large files should now be few and far between, thanks to the generous 100MB size limit.

Where things may be a bit more involved is when users are trying to set up media hosting on Nostr apps that don't use Nostr.Build by default. Exactly where in the settings the user must go to set this up, and whether to use the Blossom or NIP-96 address may not be immediately apparent, and requires an understanding of the difference that the user may not possess. This is not the fault of Nostr.Built, though, and I have not taken it into consideration in the scoring. Each individual Nostr app's settings should be as easy to understand as possible.

Another point of friction may come from free users who want to upload directly through the Nostr.Build site, instead of via another Nostr app. This used to be possible without logging in, but in an effort to ensure the service was used for Nostr, and not for general media hosting, Nostr.Build added the requirement to log in.

Thankfully, there are plenty of login options, including npub and password, browser extension (NIP-07), and even via a one-time-code sent to you via Nostr DM. However, if you don't have a paid account already, logging in will prompt you to upgrade. It seems that uploading directly via the website has been removed for free users entirely. You can only upload via another Nostr app if you don't have a paid account. This may lead to confusion for users who don't want to pay for an account, since it isn't made apparent anywhere that uploading through the website isn't an option for them.

Additionally, I would like to see the addresses for the Blossom server and for NIP-96 uploads (unless they are being phased out) added to the main page somewhere. Even selecting the "Blossom" page from the site navigation doesn't make clear what needs to be done to utilize the service. Something as simple as, "To use Nostr.Build with your favorite Blossom compatible Nostr apps, just add https://blossom.band as your media host in the app settings," would be enough to point users in the right direction.

For those who do have paid accounts, the dashboard is easy to navigate and organize your media.

By default, all uploads are added to the Main Folder. Users can leave them there, or they can easily create new folders and drag and drop media to organize it.

Every image has a copy/paste clipboard icon for ready access to copy the media URL for inclusion into a Nostr note.

Additionally, Nostr.Build allows users to share their uploaded media to Nostr directly from the dashboard. Bear in mind, though, this is published to a set of popular relays, without taking into account the user's preferred write relays.

The section just below the user's profile information gives an at-a-glance view of important information, such as how much of the user's allotted storage has been used, how many AI Studio credits are available, how many days are left before their paid account must be renewed, and how many files from three major categories — GIFs, images, and videos — have been uploaded.

Uploading directly to the dashboard is also incredibly easy. You can simply drag and drop files into the upload pane, or browse for them. If you have a URL for the media you want to upload, you can even paste it to import from another website or Blossom server.

Anything I could think of that I might want to do in the interface was intuitive to find, well labeled, or had common and easily identified icons.

How do UI look?

Score: 4.7 / 5

I would describe Nostr.Build's UI as clean and utilitarian, which is what one would expect from a media hosting service. Nothing too flashy. Just what you need and nothing you don't.

We certainly like our purple color-schemes on Nostr, and Nostr.Build leans into that with white text on shades of purple backgrounds, along with occasional color-popping accents. If a Nostr client had made the same color choices, I might be a bit more critical, but it works in an app that users won't be spending a ton of time in, except while managing their media, or using the AI Studio to generate some images.

UI elements such as buttons, active folder indicators, and icons all maintain an attractive, and simple design, with rounded corners wherever appropriate. Nothing looks too busy or overbearing, and the spacing between image previews in the folder view is just right.

Font remains consistent throughout the interface, with no jarring changes, and bold text, in white or another contrasting color, is used appropriately to draw attention, while subdued text is rendered in a light purple to blend more with the background, while remaining readable.

As such, the UI is attractive, without being particularly breathtaking. Nothing to complain about, but also nothing to write home about.

Log In Options

Score: 4.8 / 5

As mentioned previously, Nostr.Build provides three ways a user can log in.

The first should be very familiar for any Nostr user who frequents web clients, and that is by use of a browser extension (NIP-07), such as Alby, Nos2x, or Gooti. Note, this will also work if you are on Android and using KeyChat's browser, which has a NIP-07 signer built in.

Next is the legacy login method for Nostr.Build that they have used since the service first launched, which is via npub and password. This should serve to remind you that even though Nostr.Build supports Nostr login, and can post your images to Nostr for you, it's really just a centralized media hosting service. Just like you wouldn't use only one Nostr relay, you should not use just one media host. Mirror your media to other Blossom servers.

Most intriguing, and one I had not seen used before, is the option to use your npub and have a one-time-code sent to you via Nostr DM. I tested this method out and it worked flawlessly. It is unfortunately using the old NIP-04 DM spec, though, so any clients that have deprecated these DMs will not work for receiving the code. We're in a strange place with Nostr DMs currently, with some clients deprecating NIP-04 DMs in favor of NIP-17, others that still only support NIP-04, and a few that support both. If you don't see the DM in your client of choice, hop over to Primal and check your DMs there in the "other" tab.

Since Nostr.Build is supporting Nostr login, I would like to see them add remote signer (NIP-46) login alongside browser extension login to round out the options expected from a Nostr web app.

Feature Set

Score: 4.8 / 5

The features provided by Nostr.Build all work as expected and provide a lot of value to the user. With only one exception, all of the features make sense for a media hosting and management service to provide, and they are adding more features all the time.

Users not only get a reliable hosting service, with excellent uptime for their media, but they get integrations with most Nostr clients I can think of, Blossom protocol support, media organization and statistics, posting media to Nostr from within the dashboard, metadata stripping for enhanced privacy, a wide range of supported file types, and an AI image generation studio! What's more, there are additional features already on the roadmap, including traditional and AI image editing, additional plan options, expandable storage, and video transcoding for optimized playback. Nostr.Build is just getting started and they already offer more than most media hosting services out there, intended for Nostr or otherwise.

The one feature I am still not sold on is the "Free Media Gallery." The name is misleading. The gallery itself is not free. You must have a paid account to access more than a preview of it. Rather, it displays media uploaded by free users, regardless of whether they uploaded that media to send via DM, or uploaded it but decided not to share it out, or uploaded it to post it only within a private group on Flotilla, or uploaded it and only sent the note with the image link to a private relay.

Moreover, if I want to see media that has been shared on Nostr, there are plenty of ways I can do so that I can be confident only include media users intended to be publicly viewable. This feature from Nostr.Build, if it is kept at all, should have some way of ensuring the gallery only includes images that were shared on public relays.

Pricing

Score: 5 / 5

The pricing structure for Nostr.Build is exceptionally reasonable when compared with other services.

The Professional plan, which is their lowest paid tier, is just 69,000 sats a year. At current price, that translates to around $70 for the year, and Nostr.Build has been known to lower their pricing as Bitcoin goes up. Users can also get a 10% or 20% discount if they buy 2 or 3 years at a time, compensating for the fact that Bitcoin tends to go up year over year.

For that cost, users get 25GB of storage, unlimited file size for uploads within that storage cap, and access to all of Nostr.Build's features mentioned in this review, with the exception of their highest end AI models and storage of certain file types.

If I were to set up my own VPS to host a Blossom server with comparable storage, I would be paying around $14 a month before the cost of the domain, and it would be anything but plug and play. Even then, all I would have is storage. I would be missing out on all of the other features Nostr.Build has out of the box for less than half the price.

The Creator plan is close to double the cost at 120,000 sats, or about $120, a year. However, you aren't just getting double the storage space at 50GB; you are also getting double the AI credits, access to the higher tier AI models, S3 backup for all of your media, and your own Creator page you can share out with your media available for others to browse in one location.

The Advanced plan doesn't add a lot of extra features for more than double the price of the Creator plan, but it MASSIVELY increases your storage limit by 5x to a total of 250GB. Comparable storage space on a VPS to run your own Blossom server would be about $100 a month and Nostr.Build is offering it for about $250 (250,000 sats) for a whole year! If you really need to host that much media, it's hard to beat this price. The plan also comes with a Nostr.Build NIP-05 address, if you need one.

Now, the argument can be made, "But it's priced in sats, and that means in four years I will have spent many times that dollar amount on their service, possibly making it more expensive than other services priced in fiat." While that is true, it also doesn't take opportunity cost into account. Every dollar you spend on something other than Bitcoin is a missed opportunity to have bought Bitcoin with it. There's not really any difference between spending $70 in fiat to buy a hosting plan vs spending 69,000 sats, because you could have used that same $70 to buy Bitcoin instead, so you are losing out on that increase in purchasing power either way.

Not to mention, you can just buy the sats with your fiat and send it to Nostr.Build, so you would effectively be buying your plan with fiat, and they would be receiving sats.

I think Satellite.earth is still technically less expensive at just $0.05 per GB per month, which comes to $15 a year for the same 25GB of Nostr.Build's professional plan. However, all you get is media hosting. You miss out on all of the other features provided by Nostr.Build. And if you are uploading files of 100MB or less... Well, free with Nostr.Build is still cheaper than $0.5 per GB.

Wrap Up

All of the above comes together to make Nostr.Build a versatile and full-featured media hosting and management service at an affordable price point for their paid accounts, but with no need to pay at all if you just want a place to upload photos, GIFs, memes, and even some videos, so long as the file size stays under 100MB. Whether you want to use Nostr.Build as your primary media host, or as just one redundancy in your Blossom set up, they have you covered and I encourage you to check them out!

For the next review, I would like to go with another client, this time for the web, and the two options I am debating between are Coracle.social and Jumble.social. Let me know in the comments which you would like to see!

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โลกเป็นอย่างไร เพราะใจเราเป็นอย่างนั้น

พระอาจารย์ไพศาล วิสาโล วัดป่าสุคะโต แสดงธรรม เย็นวันที่ ๓๑ กรกฎาคม ๒๕๖๕

คนเราทุกคนมีตา หู จมูก ลิ้น กาย แล้วก็ใจ ตา หู จมูก ลิ้น กาย มีไว้เพื่อรับรู้โลกภายนอก ตารับรู้รูป หูรับรู้เสียง จมูกรับรู้กลิ่น ลิ้นรับรู้รส และกายก็รับรู้สัมผัสที่เรียกว่าโผฏฐัพพะ และไม่ว่าจะรับรู้โลกภายนอกอะไร มันก็ส่งมาที่ใจ ใจทำหน้าที่คิด ทำหน้าที่รู้สึก

เราก็คงจะสังเกตได้ว่า เรารับรู้อะไร ใจก็มักจะเป็นอย่างนั้น เช่น ถ้าเกิดเราเห็นภาพคนกำลังอดอยากหิวโหย ก็เกิดความรู้สึกเศร้า สงสารในใจของเรา ถ้าเห็นภาพอุบัติเหตุรถยนต์ ก็เกิดความเสียวสยอง หรือว่าหวาดวิตกในใจ ถ้าเห็นเด็กกำลังร้องไห้ ก็เกิดความรู้สึกเศร้าในใจของเรา แต่ถ้าเกิดเห็นภาพคนกำลังสนุกสนานรื่นเริง มันก็มีความยินดีเกิดขึ้นในใจ

รับรู้อะไรก็มีผลต่อใจของเรา รับรู้สิ่งที่เป็นลบ ใจก็พลอยรู้สึกลบไปด้วย รับรู้สิ่งที่เป็นบวก ใจก็พลอยเป็นบวกไปด้วย เพราะฉะนั้นการรับรู้อะไร ก็เป็นสิ่งที่เราต้องใส่ใจ

ถ้าเราอยากจะให้ใจเราสงบ ใจเราเป็นสุข ไม่ถูกแผดเผาด้วยความโกรธ หรือว่าไม่ถูกกดกดดันด้วยความเศร้า หรือว่าถูกกระตุ้นเร้าด้วยความโลภ ความอยาก อันนี้ก็โยงไปถึงว่า เราเลือกที่จะอยู่ไหนด้วย ถ้าเราเลือกที่จะอยู่ในที่ที่สงบสงัด ใจก็พลอยสงบ หรือว่าสามารถจะเย็นได้ง่าย

เพราะฉะนั้นธรรมะข้อหนึ่งในโอวาทปาฏิโมกข์คือ พึงนอนและนั่งในที่สงัด ในที่ที่สงัดที่ที่เป็นรมณีย์ มันก็มีส่วนน้อมใจให้สงบไปด้วย

รวมทั้งการรู้จักใช้หู ใช้ตา ใช้จมูกให้เป็น ต้องรู้จักเลือกรับรู้สิ่งที่มันจะเกื้อกูล ต่อการสร้างกุศลธรรมขึ้นมาในใจ อย่างไรก็ตามเท่านั้นยังไม่พอ เพราะว่าการรับรู้ของเรา บ่อยครั้งเราไม่ได้รับรู้สิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นข้างหน้าเราอย่างที่มันเป็นจริง

บ่อยครั้งเราก็มีการตีความหรือปรุงแต่ง เราไม่ได้เห็นอย่างที่รูปปรากฏ เราไม่ได้ได้ยินอย่างที่เสียงมากระทบหูเรา เพราะว่ามีการตีความ หรือปรุงแต่งซ้อน แบบเรียกว่าสนิทแนบแน่นเลย อย่างเช่น เห็นคนกระซิบกระซาบต่อหน้าเรา เราก็อาจจะตีความไปว่า เขากำลังพูดถึงเรา หรืออาจจะถึงขั้นนินทาเรา แต่ความจริงอาจจะไม่ได้เป็นอย่างนั้น

หรือว่ามีคนบางคนมองหน้าเรา จ้องเรา เราก็อาจจะตีความว่า เขากำลังหาเรื่องเราก็ได้ หรือเขากำลังไม่พอใจเรา แต่ว่าความจริงอาจจะไม่ได้เป็นอย่างนั้นก็ได้ แต่ว่าเราตีความไปแล้ว แล้วส่วนใหญ่เราก็จะไม่ได้เห็น ไม่ได้รับรู้สด ๆ หรือว่าอย่างที่มันเป็น

แต่ว่ามันมีการตีความ ตีความในทางบวกก็มี ตีความในทางลบก็มี ซึ่งตรงนี้บ่อยครั้งก็สร้างปัญหา หรือสร้างความทุกข์ให้กับเรา เพราะการที่เราไม่ได้เห็นอะไรอย่างที่มันเป็นจริงๆ มันมีการตีความในใจของเราหรือด้วยใจของเรา และเราก็เผลอไปคิดว่า สิ่งที่จิตตีความ มันคือความจริง แต่บ่อยครั้งมันก็เป็นแค่การปรุงแต่ง หรือความคิดของเราเอง

มีพระทิเบตท่านหนึ่งเล่าว่า มีคราวหนึ่งจะเดินทางขึ้นเครื่องบิน ที่สนามบินมีการตรวจเอกซเรย์ข้าวของ โทรศัพท์ คอมพิวเตอร์ ระหว่างที่กำลังรอข้าวของของท่านที่กำลังผ่านการเอกซเรย์ ท่านก็เหลือบไปมองเห็นด่านรักษาความปลอดภัยอีกด่านหนึ่ง ที่เป็นด่านสุดท้าย

แล้วก็สังเกตว่ามีเจ้าหน้าที่รักษาความปลอดภัยคนหนึ่ง รูปร่างสูงใหญ่ มีหนวดเฟิ้มเลย จ้องมองมาที่ท่าน จ้องแบบเขม็งเลย ท่านเหลียวไปมองหลายครั้งก็เห็นว่าเขายังจ้องไม่เลิก ก็รู้สึกไม่ค่อยสู้ดีแล้ว เอ๊ะ หรือว่าเจ้าหน้าที่คนนี้กำลังสงสัยอะไรเราหรือเปล่า ถึงจ้องมองแบบนั้น แล้วยิ่งเห็นเจ้าหน้าที่คนนั้นจ้องมองมากเท่าไหร่ โดยที่ไม่มีรอยยิ้มเลยนะ ท่านก็เลยนึกในใจว่า เขาคงจะสงสัยเรา

ยิ่งมองเจ้าหน้าที่คนนั้น ก็ยิ่งรู้สึกว่าเจ้าหน้าที่คนนี้ หน้าเหี้ยม แล้วก็ดูหยาบกระด้าง หน้าตารูปร่างเหมือนมาเฟียเลย จู่ ๆ เจ้าหน้าที่คนนั้นก็วิทยุ พระทิเบตก็คิดสงสัยว่าคงต้องมีอะไรแน่ แล้วก็จริงด้วย มีเจ้าหน้าที่คนใหม่เดินมาที่ชายคนนี้ แล้วก็พูดคุยอะไรกันสักอย่าง แล้วเจ้าหน้าที่ที่มีหนวดก็ชี้มาที่ตัวท่าน

พระทิเบตใจเขาก็ไม่สู้ดีแล้ว เจ้าหน้าที่คนใหม่ก็มา พอมายืนแทนเจ้าหน้าที่คนแรกที่มีหนวด เจ้าหน้าที่ที่มีหนวดนั่นก็เดินตรงมาเลยที่ท่าน แล้วก็ถามว่า คุณคือมิสเตอร์ยงเกใช่ไหม ท่านก็ตอบว่าใช่ มีอะไรเหรอ เจ้าหน้าที่คนนั้นก็บอกว่า ผมอยากจะขอบคุณคุณเหลือเกินนะ เพราะว่าหนังสือคุณนี่ช่วยผมได้มากเลย อยากจะขอบคุณจริง ๆ เลย

เท่านี้แหละ พระทิเบตก็ยิ้มเลย แล้วเจ้าหน้าที่คนนั้นก็ยิ้มด้วย แล้วก็มาเขย่ามือกัน เป็นมิตรเลยนะ ก็รู้สึกโล่งอกขึ้นมาเลย นึกว่าจะมีเรื่องอะไร อ๋อ ที่แท้มาขอบคุณที่ได้อ่านหนังสือของเรา ทีแรกนึกว่าจะมาสงสัย มาค้นตัวอะไรสักอย่าง

แล้วท่านก็พบว่าภาพของชายคนนั้น ในสายตาของท่านเปลี่ยนไปเลย จากคนที่มีสีหน้าเหี้ยม กระด้างเหมือนมาเฟีย กลายเป็นคนที่อารมณ์ดี ใจดี สุภาพเรียบร้อย มีความเป็นมิตร และท่านก็มาเอะใจ ทำไมเรามองเจ้าหน้าที่คนนี้เปลี่ยนไป ทีแรกเห็นเป็นคนเหี้ยม คนหยาบ แต่เห็นตอนนี้กลายเป็นมิตร มีน้ำใจ แล้วก็มีความสุภาพ ก็คนคนเดียวกันแหละ แต่ทำไมเห็นต่างกันเลย แบบตรงข้ามกันเลย หลังจากที่เขามาทักทาย แล้วก็มาขอบคุณ

อันนี้ก็ชี้ให้เห็นว่าจิตของคนเรา มันส่งผลมากต่อการรับรู้ ทีแรกพอเห็นเจ้าหน้าที่คนนั้นจ้องมองเขม็งเลย ที่จริงเขาก็ไม่ได้มีอะไรในใจ แต่ว่าพระทิเบตท่านนี้ตีความไปแล้วว่า เขาคงไม่ชอบเราหรือคิดไม่ดีกับเรา ตีความไปในทางร้ายแล้ว ไม่ได้เห็นอย่างที่เป็น

พอตีความไปในทางร้ายเขาคิดไม่ดีกับเรา ท่านก็เลยรู้สึกไม่ดีกับเขา พอรู้สึกไม่ดีกับเขา ภาพของเขาที่เห็นในใจของท่าน ก็กลายเป็นคนที่ดูเหี้ยม กระด้าง เหมือนมาเฟีย เหมือนอันธพาล แต่ว่าพอเขามีอากัปกริยาในทางที่เป็นมิตร มาขอบคุณ มาขอบอกขอบใจ ความรู้สึกของท่านที่มีต่อเขาก็เปลี่ยนไป แทนที่จะเห็นว่าเขาคิดไม่ดีกับเรา ที่แท้เขาขอบคุณเรา พอรู้สึกดีกับเขา ภาพของเขาในสายตาของท่านก็เปลี่ยนไปเลย กลายเป็นคนที่สุภาพเรียบร้อย มีความเป็นมิตร

อันนี้เป็นสิ่งที่ชี้ให้เห็นเลยว่า คนเราบ่อยครั้งเรารับรู้อะไรก็ตาม เราไม่ได้รับรู้อย่างที่มันเป็น แต่ว่ามีการตีความ และถ้าเราตีความในทางลบ ว่าเขาคิดไม่ดีกับเรา จิตมันก็มีปฏิกิริยาตอบโต้ทันทีเลย พอคิดว่าเจ้าหน้าที่คนนี้เขาคิดไม่ดีกับเรา ท่านก็รู้สึกไม่ดีกับเขาโดยอัตโนมัติเลย

พอรู้สึกไม่ดีกับเขา ภาพของเขาที่ท่านเห็นก็กลายเป็นภาพของคนที่ดูดุร้าย ดูเหี้ยม มีการเติมแต่ง มีการใส่สี และนี่คือสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นกับคนเรา เกิดขึ้นกับเราในชีวิตประจำวัน เรารับรู้อะไร เราก็ไม่เคยรับรู้อย่างที่มันเป็น แต่ว่ามีการตีความ

ถ้าตีความในทางบวกก็ดีไป ถ้าตีความในทางลบ ก็เกิดความวิตก เกิดความกลัว เกิดความเครียด เกิดความขุ่นมัว และพอใจมีความวิตก มีความขุ่นมัว มองอะไรออกไป ก็เห็นแต่ภาพในทางลบ คนๆหนึ่งก็ถูกมองว่ากลายเป็นคนที่เหี้ยม กลายเป็นคนที่กระด้าง แต่พอใจเปลี่ยนไป ความรู้สึกที่มีต่อคนคนนั้นเปลี่ยนไป ภาพที่เห็นหรือว่าภาพที่มองออกไป มันก็เป็นอีกแบบหนึ่ง ตรงข้ามกันเลย

พูดอีกอย่างหนึ่งก็คือว่า ไม่ใช่แค่ว่าเราเห็นอะไรใจก็เป็นอย่างนั้น ในทางกลับกัน ใจเราเป็นอย่างไรก็เห็นโลกไปในทางนั้น ถ้าใจเราขุ่นมัว ใจเรามีความเครียด หรือมีความรู้สึกเป็นลบ โลกที่อยู่รอบตัวเรา หรือคนที่อยู่ข้างหน้าเรา ก็ถูกเติมแต่งให้เป็นลบไปด้วย มีการใส่สี แต่ถ้าเรารู้สึกบวกกับเขา ภาพที่เห็นก็เปลี่ยนไป กลายเป็นบวกไปด้วย อันนี้คือสิ่งที่เกิดขึ้นกับเราตลอดเวลาเลยว่าก็ว่าได้

โลกเป็นอย่างไร มันก็อยู่ที่ใจของเราว่าเป็นอย่างไรด้วย ฉะนั้นบ่อยครั้ง เวลาเรารู้สึกว่าโลกมันหม่นหมอง ผู้คนไม่น่ารัก มันอาจจะเป็นเพราะว่าใจเราหม่นหมอง หรือว่าใจเรามีความรู้สึกที่เป็นลบก็ได้

ฉะนั้นก่อนที่เราจะไปตัดสิน ไปวิพากษ์วิจารณ์ หรือไปมองว่าโลกมันแย่ บางทีเราต้องกลับมาดูที่ใจของเรา ว่าใจเรามันมีการเติมแต่ง รูปที่ได้เห็น เสียงที่ได้ยินหรือเปล่า

ในปฏิจจสมุปบาท จะมีปัจจยาการตอนต้นเลยที่บอกว่า อวิชชาเป็นปัจจัยให้เกิดสังขาร สังขารเป็นปัจจัยให้กับวิญญาณ ที่พูดมาก็เป็นเรื่องที่ชี้ให้เห็นว่า สังขารปรุงแต่งวิญญาณอย่างไร

สังขารในที่นี้ก็คือการปรุงแต่ง หรือความรู้สึกนึกคิดในใจ อารมณ์ที่เกิดขึ้นในใจ มันก็ไปปรุงแต่งการรับรู้ ไม่ว่าจะเป็นการรับรู้ทางตา ทางหู ทางจมูก ทางลิ้น ทางกาย หรือแม้แต่ทางใจ ถ้าใจมีความรู้สึกในทางลบ เช่นคิดลบ หรือรู้สึกลบกับใคร ก็จะเห็นภาพคนๆ นั้นในทางลบไปด้วย เห็นเป็นคนที่กระด้าง เป็นคนที่เหี้ยม เป็นคนที่ไม่น่ารัก แต่ถ้าใจมีความรู้สึกเป็นบวก ก็จะเห็นเขาเป็นคนที่เป็นมิตร เห็นเขาสุภาพ

อันนี้ก็ไม่ต่างจากเรื่องของคนผู้ชายคนหนึ่งไปพักที่โรงแรม แล้วก็ถอดสร้อยคอที่คล้องพระสมเด็จราคาแพงด้วย ไว้ที่หัวนอน ออกไปทำธุระตอนเช้า ไปออกกำลังกาย กินข้าวเสร็จก็กลับเข้ามาในห้อง สร้อยหาย เอ๊ะ ใครเอาไป สงสัยพนักงานทำความสะอาด เพราะว่าในช่วงนั้น มีพนักงานทำความสะอาดเข้าไปจัดเตียง

เขาก็ตามหาว่าใครเป็นพนักงานทำความสะอาด พอพบเห็นเขา ก็ปักใจเชื่อเลยว่าเขาขโมยเอาสร้อยคอไป แล้วก็เฝ้าสังเกตผู้ชายคนนั้น ดูท่วงท่ามีพิรุธ แววตาก็มีพิรุธ ไม่กล้าสบตาเขา ใช่แน่ๆ เลย เอาสร้อยคอของเราไป แต่ปรากฏว่าตอนสายๆ หรือตอนบ่าย ปรากฏว่าเจอสร้อยมันตกอยู่หลังเตียง

พอรู้ว่าชายคนนั้น พนักงานทำความสะอาดไม่ได้ขโมยไป ก็เห็นเขาในภาพใหม่เลย น้ำเสียงเขาก็ไม่ได้มีพิรุธอะไร พูดจาก็ดี อากัปกริยาก็ไม่ได้ผิดปกติอะไร ภาพของพนักงานทำความสะอาดเปลี่ยนไปเลย

ที่จริงก็ไม่ได้เปลี่ยนไปหรอก เขาก็เหมือนเดิม ไม่ว่าตอนเช้า ตอนสาย หรือตอนบ่าย แต่ที่เปลี่ยนไปคือใจของผู้ชายคนนั้น ทีแรกปักใจเชื่อว่าพนักงานทำความสะอาดเป็นขโมย พอคิดแบบนั้นเข้า ก็เห็นแต่พิรุธ แต่พอรู้ว่าเขาไม่ได้ขโมยไป ภาพที่เห็นก็เปลี่ยนไป อันนี้เรียกว่าสังขารเป็นปัจจัยให้เกิดวิญญาณ

แล้วไม่ใช่เฉพาะกรณีแบบนี้เท่านั้น ในชีวิตประจำวันทั่วๆ ไป เวลาเรามีความทุกข์ ความเครียด แล้วเรารู้สึกว่าเป็นเพราะโลกภายนอก เป็นเพราะคนรอบตัว เช่นเราเห็นเขาไปในทางลบทางร้าย เราก็เลยเป็นทุกข์ ให้เราลองสังเกตดูก็ได้ว่า บ่อยครั้งความทุกข์ของเรา มันเกิดจากการที่เราตีความไปในทางลบ หรือว่าปรุงแต่งไปในทางร้ายหรือเปล่า

ฉะนั้นถ้าเรารู้จักหมั่นสังเกต หมั่นทบทวน เอาประสบการณ์ที่เคยเข้าใจผิดที่ตีความในทางลบ หรือว่าเติมแต่งในทางร้าย และทำให้เราเกิดความทุกข์ เกิดความวิตก เกิดความเครียด หรือว่าเกิดความไม่พอใจ เอามาเป็นบทเรียนสอนใจ มันจะช่วยทำให้เรารู้จักทักท้วง

ทักท้วงว่าสิ่งที่เราเห็น ที่จริงมันอาจจะไม่ใช่เป็นความจริงก็ได้ มันอาจจะมีการตีความไปแล้วในทางลบ หรือที่เรามองเห็น มองออกไปข้างนอก อาจจะมีการเติมแต่งไปในทางร้ายก็ได้ ไม่ว่ารับเข้ามาจะเป็นรูป รส กลิ่น เสียงที่ได้ยิน หรือมองออกไป มันมักจะมีการตีความหรือเติมแต่ง

แล้วมันก็ไม่จำเป็นต้องเป็นทางลบ อาจจะเป็นไปในทางบวกก็ได้ อันนี้ที่เขาเรียกว่าอคติ ฉันทาคติก็คือลำเอียงเพราะชอบ อันนี้ก็หมายถึงว่า มองเห็นคลาดเคลื่อนจากความเป็นจริง เพราะว่ามีความชอบ เขาทำอะไรก็ดูดีไปหมด เขาทำอะไรก็ดูถูกต้องไปหมด ทั้งๆ ที่ที่ผิดก็มี ที่พลาดก็มี แต่ว่าไม่เห็นเพราะว่ามองเห็นแต่ด้านดี อันนี้เพราะว่าลำเอียงเพราะชอบ หรือมิฉะนั้นก็ตรงข้าม โทสาคติ ลำเอียงเพราะโกรธ หรือลำเอียงเพราะกลัว ภยาคติ หรือว่าลำเอียงเพราะหลง

อย่างกรณีของพระทิเบต ท่านก็เกิดโทสาคติ ทีแรกเกิดโทสาคติ ก็เลยเห็นเจ้าหน้าที่รักษาความปลอดภัยคนนั้น เหี้ยม ดุ เหมือนผู้ร้าย เหมือนมาเฟีย แต่พอเขามาขอบคุณ เขามาแสดงความเป็นมิตร ก็เปลี่ยนไปเลย ฉันทาคติมาแทนโทสาคติ ก็เห็นเขาเป็นคนที่เป็นมิตร สุภาพเรียบร้อย อันนี้ก็เป็นสิ่งที่เราควรจะสังเกตได้ กับประสบการณ์ของตัวเราเอง ว่ามันเป็นอย่างนั้นบ้างหรือเปล่า จะได้เป็นเครื่องเตือนใจเรา เพื่อไม่ให้เราทุกข์ ที่สร้างขึ้นมาเอง

บางครั้งความทุกข์เราไปมองว่าเป็นเพราะคนนู้นคนนี้ แต่ที่จริงเป็นเพราะการปรุงแต่ง การตีความในทางลบ หรือว่าการเติมแต่งในทางร้ายของเรา

ที่พระพุทธเจ้าตรัสว่า ธรรมทั้งหลายมีใจเป็นใหญ่ มีใจเป็นหัวหน้า สำเร็จได้ด้วยใจ อันนี้ก็เป็นตัวอย่างหนึ่งว่า โลกภายนอกที่เราเห็นผ่าน ตา หู จมูก ลิ้น กาย หรือแม้กระทั่งความคิด มันล้วนแล้วแต่เกิดหรือถูกกำหนดด้วยใจของเรา ถ้าใจเราเป็นลบก็เห็นเป็นลบ ถ้าใจเราเป็นบวกก็เห็นเป็นบวก

ฉะนั้นการกลับมาดูใจของเรา จึงเป็นเรื่องที่สำคัญมาก ถ้าไม่อยากให้เกิดไฟเผาในใจของเรา ก็ต้องกลับมาสำรวจตรวจตา หรือสอดส่องใจของเราว่า มันมีอคติ โทสาคติ ภยาคติหรือเปล่า หรือมันมีการเติมแต่งไปในทางลบทางร้ายหรือเปล่า ไม่อย่างนั้นเราก็จะสร้างหรือก่อทุกข์ขึ้นมาในใจของเรา ทั้งที่ความจริงไม่ได้เป็นอย่างนั้น.

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I have been recently building NFDB, a new relay DB. This post is meant as a short overview.

Regular relays have challenges

Current relay software have significant challenges, which I have experienced when hosting Nostr.land: - Scalability is only supported by adding full replicas, which does not scale to large relays. - Most relays use slow databases and are not optimized for large scale usage. - Search is near-impossible to implement on standard relays. - Privacy features such as NIP-42 are lacking. - Regular DB maintenance tasks on normal relays require extended downtime. - Fault-tolerance is implemented, if any, using a load balancer, which is limited. - Personalization and advanced filtering is not possible. - Local caching is not supported.

NFDB: A scalable database for large relays

NFDB is a new database meant for medium-large scale relays, built on FoundationDB that provides: - Near-unlimited scalability - Extended fault tolerance - Instant loading - Better search - Better personalization - and more.

Search

NFDB has extended search capabilities including: - Semantic search: Search for meaning, not words. - Interest-based search: Highlight content you care about. - Multi-faceted queries: Easily filter by topic, author group, keywords, and more at the same time. - Wide support for event kinds, including users, articles, etc.

Personalization

NFDB allows significant personalization: - Customized algorithms: Be your own algorithm. - Spam filtering: Filter content to your WoT, and use advanced spam filters. - Topic mutes: Mute topics, not keywords. - Media filtering: With Nostr.build, you will be able to filter NSFW and other content - Low data mode: Block notes that use high amounts of cellular data. - and more

Other

NFDB has support for many other features such as: - NIP-42: Protect your privacy with private drafts and DMs - Microrelays: Easily deploy your own personal microrelay - Containers: Dedicated, fast storage for discoverability events such as relay lists

Calcite: A local microrelay database

Calcite is a lightweight, local version of NFDB that is meant for microrelays and caching, meant for thousands of personal microrelays.

Calcite HA is an additional layer that allows live migration and relay failover in under 30 seconds, providing higher availability compared to current relays with greater simplicity. Calcite HA is enabled in all Calcite deployments.

For zero-downtime, NFDB is recommended.

Noswhere SmartCache

Relays are fixed in one location, but users can be anywhere.

Noswhere SmartCache is a CDN for relays that dynamically caches data on edge servers closest to you, allowing: - Multiple regions around the world - Improved throughput and performance - Faster loading times

routerd

routerd is a custom load-balancer optimized for Nostr relays, integrated with SmartCache.

routerd is specifically integrated with NFDB and Calcite HA to provide fast failover and high performance.

Ending notes

NFDB is planned to be deployed to Nostr.land in the coming weeks.

A lot more is to come. 👀️️️️️️

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• Building 👨‍💻:
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• 虽然现在对某些事情下结论还为时尚早，但是从趋势来看，邪恶抬头已经不可避免。
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Avoid it if you’re sensitive.

Haha 😂, just wanted to get your attention.

If you’re reading this, congrats your amongst those who survived to see this message. It doesn’t matter if you’re depressed, sad, angry at someone or you missed something. Come on man, being alive is already a win for you.

Smile, You deserve it.

Yes, I know the world is cruel and very unfair. But remember, you can’t fight all those battles alone. That’s why we ask God to take care of it. But hey, today is Sunday.A blessed day for the Christians. Go ahead smile 😊, you deserve it. You managed to wake up today while some didn’t. You should be grateful for that. It’s a blessing to see tomorrow. You don’t know what today holds.

I just want to remind you that, you deserve the whole world. Go out there, chase your dreams, don’t let them die in your comfort zone. And remember, always wear a smile on that pretty face of yours. You deserve the world.

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For those who like to be first and make money https://t.me/edchess_bot/web3?startapp=ref-link=mTLuwhkSLyYJ

@ f85b9c2c:d190bcff

Fully devoted to Jesus: Mark 10:28 (NIV) Then Peter spoke up, “We have left everything to follow you!”

As a Christian, you received Jesus into your life because the Holy Spirit revealed to you the glory of God in Jesus and your heart melted at His sight.

You became aware of your lostness, wickedness, and hopelessness without a savior so you surrendered to Him and asked him to save you. You asked Him to become the lord of your life. The first apostles were clear about something, they had to surrender everything in order to follow Jesus. When they yielded to Jesus as Lord it meant He was Lord of all.

Yes, everything. Yes, all.

They surrendered work, possessions, essentially their lives — Mark 1:18 (NIV) At once they left their nets and followed him. They were literally fully devoted to Jesus.

They modeled 1 Kings 8:61 Let your heart therefore be wholly devoted to the Lord our God, to walk in His statutes and to keep His commandments, as at this day.”It might not look identical to the apostles calling but it should have the same motive behind it. When Jesus becomes your Lord, He should have complete control over your, . Relationship

.Money

.Possessions

.Career

.Kids

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.Mouth

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Have a blissful Sunday 🙏.

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As long as the base unit of the trading system can be manipulated a free trading system cannot emerge.

The trading system will either be manipulated by printed subsidies or will be manipulated by artificial exchange rates.

Free trading was available during a gold standard and free trading will become available again during a future bitcoin standard.

https://stacker.news/items/989491

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1. Install Feeder (it's free and open source)
2. Discover RSS feeds from various sources (see links below)
3. Copy the Feed URL
4. Open Feeder, tap the ⁞ icon, and choose Add Feed
5. Paste the Feed URL and tap Search
6. Select the found RSS feed item
7. Scroll down and tap OK

Some Sources

• Podcast Index
• RSS Finder
• Feedspot

ℹ️ You can also use YouTube channel URLs as feeds

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Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. 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.

If two parties have some sort of dealings, then each has a memory of their interaction. Each party can speak about their own memory of this; how could anyone prevent it? One could pass laws against it, but the freedom of speech, even more than privacy, is fundamental to an open society; we seek not to restrict any speech at all. If many parties speak together in the same forum, each can speak to all the others and aggregate together knowledge about individuals and other parties. The power of electronic communications has enabled such group speech, and it will not go away merely because we might want it to.

Since we desire privacy, we must ensure that each party to a transaction have knowledge only of that which is directly necessary for that transaction. Since any information can be spoken of, we must ensure that we reveal as little as possible. In most cases personal identity is not salient. When I purchase a magazine at a store and hand cash to the clerk, there is no need to know who I am. When I ask my electronic mail provider to send and receive messages, my provider need not know to whom I am speaking or what I am saying or what others are saying to me; my provider only need know how to get the message there and how much I owe them in fees. When my identity is revealed by the underlying mechanism of the transaction, I have no privacy. I cannot here selectively reveal myself; I must always reveal myself.

Therefore, privacy in an open society requires anonymous transaction systems. Until now, cash has been the primary such system. An anonymous transaction system is not a secret transaction system. An anonymous system empowers individuals to reveal their identity when desired and only when desired; this is the essence of privacy.

Privacy in an open society also requires cryptography. If I say something, I want it heard only by those for whom I intend it. If the content of my speech is available to the world, I have no privacy. To encrypt is to indicate the desire for privacy, and to encrypt with weak cryptography is to indicate not too much desire for privacy. Furthermore, to reveal one's identity with assurance when the default is anonymity requires the cryptographic signature.

We cannot expect governments, corporations, or other large, faceless organizations to grant us privacy out of their beneficence. It is to their advantage to speak of us, and we should expect that they will speak. To try to prevent their speech is to fight against the realities of information. Information does not just want to be free, it longs to be free. Information expands to fill the available storage space. Information is Rumor's younger, stronger cousin; Information is fleeter of foot, has more eyes, knows more, and understands less than Rumor.

We must defend our own privacy if we expect to have any. We must come together and create systems which allow anonymous transactions to take place. People have been defending their own privacy for centuries with whispers, darkness, envelopes, closed doors, secret handshakes, and couriers. The technologies of the past did not allow for strong privacy, but electronic technologies do.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

Cypherpunks write code. We know that someone has to write software to defend privacy, and since we can't get privacy unless we all do, we're going to write it. We publish our code so that our fellow Cypherpunks may practice and play with it. Our code is free for all to use, worldwide. We don't much care if you don't approve of the software we write. We know that software can't be destroyed and that a widely dispersed system can't be shut down.

Cypherpunks deplore regulations on cryptography, for encryption is fundamentally a private act. The act of encryption, in fact, removes information from the public realm. Even laws against cryptography reach only so far as a nation's border and the arm of its violence. Cryptography will ineluctably spread over the whole globe, and with it the anonymous transactions systems that it makes possible.

For privacy to be widespread it must be part of a social contract. People must come and together deploy these systems for the common good. Privacy only extends so far as the cooperation of one's fellows in society. We the Cypherpunks seek your questions and your concerns and hope we may engage you so that we do not deceive ourselves. We will not, however, be moved out of our course because some may disagree with our goals.

The Cypherpunks are actively engaged in making the networks safer for privacy. Let us proceed together apace.

Onward.

Eric Hughes hughes@soda.berkeley.edu

9 March 1993

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In this edition, we invited Keypleb, the founder of Bitcoin Indonesia, to share how he built the Bitcoin community in Indonesia, overcoming challenges like member turnover and venue selection, while driving the adoption and growth of Bitcoin.

YakiHonne: Welcome, Keypleb. Before we begin, let me briefly introduce YakiHonne. YakiHonne is a decentralized media client built on Nostr—a protocol designed to empower freedom of speech through technology. It enables creators to own their voices and assets while offering innovative tools like smart widgets, verified notes, and support for long-form content. We focus on free speech and free media by user privacy and data to be protected. So before starting the interview, I'd like to hear about yourself and your community.

Keypleb：My name is Keypleb, though it’s a pseudonym—a name I use to respect privacy. I'm a co-founder of Bitcoin Indonesia, Bitcoin House Bali, and Code Orange, a new developer school we launched at a conference just a few days ago. We focus on driving adoption through meetups, hackathons, and technical workshops. I'll dive into more details later, but that's a brief overview. I'm based in Bali now, though I travel a lot and consider myself quite nomadic. Great to be here.

YakiHonne: What sparked your interest in Bitcoin and what motivated you to create a community on Bitcoin?

Keypleb：I first got interested in Bitcoin because it solved a specific problem. At the time, I didn’t know exactly what the solution was, but the problem was that I couldn’t afford a home. Back in 2019, I was living in London, and a two-bedroom apartment was £600,000, which was insanely expensive. First-time buyers like myself simply couldn’t afford it. Why was it so expensive? Why was buying a house so hard? During the COVID lockdown, I had more time on my hands and started listening to Michael Saylor on a Bitcoin podcast, where he talked about how the system is rigged, and that’s why people work hard but still can’t afford a house. That really resonated with me. So I started looking for a community, but unfortunately, there wasn’t one.. Keypleb：After moving to Bali, I attended a lot of crypto meetups, especially scammy altcoin ones, thinking, “There has to be a solution.” But none of them resonated with me. There was no sense of freedom, and no real discussion about inflation resistance. I remembered a podcast from Dea Reskita, an Indonesian host who’s pretty well-known online. I reached out to her and said, “ you’ve got to help me. I’m surrounded by all these shitcoiners, and I can’t take it anymore. I need a real community. Is anything happening?” She replied, “Yes, something is happening. We should restart these meetups next month.” And that’s how it all began. Keypleb：There’s also another story about how we started Bitcoin House and how Bitcoin in Asia came to be, but maybe I’ll save that for later. Anyway, the spark of interest came from Bitcoin solving a real problem, and my drive to keep going came from the lack of quality meetups. Now, we’ve hosted 31 meetups, launched Bitcoin House and Code Orange, and the movement is growing rapidly.

YakiHonne: That’s such an amazing story—going from being on the brink of homelessness to creating something so impactful, and keeping it running every day, bringing new people into the journey. It’s truly inspiring. I’m curious about how the community started. How did you manage to attract members and build a strong community? What challenges did you face along the way?

Keypleb：It all started with our first meetup at the end of 2022, which was two and a half years ago now. At that time, we sent out an email to a group from a previous database, and the first meetup had around 20 people, which was a good start. However, problems quickly arose as people started dropping off, and the community lacked retention. In Bali, people come and go, usually staying for no more than two months, leading to a lack of long-term participation. This became one of our challenges: how to attract more people and, more importantly, get the same people to keep coming back. While I've been coming back for two and a half years, not everyone is able to return as often, and that has been a real challenge. Keypleb：Actually, I should also mention how I met my co-founders—Marius, Diana, and Dimas. We met at the 2023 Indonesia Bitcoin Conference. As time went on, we kept hosting meetups and had a lot of fun each time, though the locations kept changing. One of the initial challenges was that we didn't realize the importance of having a fixed meetup location. We changed venues several times before we realized that having a consistent location is crucial. If anyone wants to run a meetup, it's best to always choose a fixed location. We learned this through trial and error, but now it's no longer an issue. Keypleb：Since the conference, my co-founders and I have been working together, consistently putting in the effort. This is why our community has grown so large—so far, we are hosting 31 monthly meetups, 6 of which are in Bali. This means there is a bitcoin meetup almost every day on a regular basis. We've also established Bitcoin House Bali, a physical space, and the movement is growing rapidly. Without this movement, the region would face many challenges, including inflation and heavy censorship. It all started from just one meetup. YakiHonne: It's amazing to see how you met your co-founders and how you’ve built something incredible that continues to grow today. What advice would you give to someone looking to start a successful Bitcoin community right now?

Keypleb：First, one very important piece of advice is to ensure that every meetup is held at the same location regularly. We realized this challenge through trial and error. To help others who are interested, we’ve published our meetup guide on GitHub, where everyone can check it out. For example, meetups should be held regularly, ideally once a month, or even once a week. In Chiang Mai, the Bitcoin meetup starts every Thursday at 7 PM, and everyone knows the time and location, making it easy to join without having to look up the next meetup. Keypleb：Additionally, our meetup structure is very simple. First, we do a round of introductions where everyone shares their name, where they’re from, and what Bitcoin means to them. This usually takes about 15 minutes. Then, we discuss three main questions: First, why do we need Bitcoin? The discussion typically focuses on two main issues Bitcoin addresses: inflation and censorship；Secondly, how to buy Bitcoin? We usually ask who wants to buy some Bitcoin, and then we do a small purchase together and conduct a P2P trade to demonstrate how easy it is to buy Bitcoin. Lastly, how to store Bitcoin? We introduce self-custody and show how to use hardware wallets (like Trezor), explaining the concept of the 12 words and private keys. Keypleb：The whole meetup usually wraps up in about an hour, after which people can continue socializing at Bitcoin House or wherever the meetup is taking place. In short, keeping the meetup simple and efficient, and ensuring a fixed location for each event, are key factors in building a successful community.

YakiHonne: What's the major approach? Is it more technical, or do you focus on non-technical aspects, or do you cover both?

Keypleb：Our approach includes both technical and non-technical content. Initially, our meetups were completely non-technical, just casual gatherings for people to socialize. Over time, however, we've evolved to incorporate more technical content. Keypleb：Out of the 31 monthly regular meetups we host, most of them have been non-technical, simply regular gatherings held at the same time and place according to our meetup guide. For example, we host the “Bitcoin for Beginners” meetup, which is designed for newcomers and takes place every second Friday of the month at 5 PM at the Bitcoin House Bali. This is entirely non-technical. Additionally, every Wednesday at Bitcoin House, we host the “My First Bitcoin” course. While the course touches on some technical aspects, such as seed phrases and backups, it’s still beginner-friendly and not too technical. The course runs for 10 weeks, and we plan to offer it in the local language at Bali University to help the local community better understand Bitcoin. Keypleb：On the other hand, we also offer highly technical content. We launched a new program called “Code Orange,” which is specifically designed for developers and programmers. We use the “Decoding Bitcoin” website, created by Jamal, which is a learning platform for developers. Many developer schools, like Code Orange, use this resource. Additionally, we host “Code Orange” meetups where we dive into the technical aspects of Bitcoin, such as how mining works and how to prevent single points of failure. Keypleb：We also organize technical workshops, such as “How to Defend Against a Five-Dollar Wrench Attack,” which is closely related to security. Recently, there have been some kidnapping incidents in Bali, and many people are concerned about their Bitcoin being stolen. To address this, we plan to hold a workshop on how to protect Bitcoin against such attacks. Additionally, we host hackathons and other high-tech events, and we just completed a very successful beginner-level hackathon. Keypleb：In summary, our community caters to everyone, from beginners to technical experts. For beginners, we offer easy-to-understand, non-technical content, while for experienced Bitcoiners, we provide in-depth technical material. YakiHonne: It's great to approach it in both ways, so everyone gets their own "piece of the cake."Now, I'd like to dive into the technical side. What advice would you give to technically inclined individuals or organizations looking to contribute to the Bitcoin ecosystem? How should they approach the technical aspects of Bitcoin if they want to get involved?

Keypleb：I have some additional advice. First, technical individuals can sign up for the “Decoding Bitcoin” course that starts on 18th March 2025 or join our “Code Orange” program and participate in the end-of-year hackathon. If they are technically proficient, this will be a great opportunity. “Decoding Bitcoin” is great for beginners, but it’s also useful for technical individuals. If someone is very skilled, they can start contributing code right away. If they find the course too easy, they can skip it and dive directly into more advanced projects. Additionally, Bitshala and Chaincode Labs offer advanced courses, which more technically advanced individuals can choose to pursue. Keypleb：Additionally, it's worth mentioning that the Bitcoin Dev Project has a great platform where technical individuals can find “Good First Issue” or open-source projects to start contributing code. You'll learn about the philosophy behind Bitcoin and why it's more meaningful than other “shitcoins.” Once you’ve taken enough “orange pills” (the philosophy and technology of Bitcoin), you can dive deeper into Bitcoin core development and potentially start coding in C++. If you're interested, you can join specific projects like Nostr, Fedimint or E-Cash.

YakiHonne: I’d like to move on to the next question: How do you see Bitcoin communities evolving as technology progresses, particularly in areas like scalability, privacy, and adaptability to other systems? Keypleb：I believe the Bitcoin community will continue to evolve, and it has already made incredible progress. Two and a half years ago, we started alone in Bali, with just ourselves. We began in the official phase and have had numerous conversations throughout the year. For example, we are now starting a Bitcoin club at a university in Bali; we just need to find a passionate, driven “Bitcoin maximalist,” and the Bitcoin club will begin. Like what our friends did in Banyuwangi, Indonesia, these clubs could eventually evolve into Bitcoin houses.

Keypleb：Regarding privacy and scalability, the community is making strides. We’re big fans of Fedi, which builds on top of the Fedimint protocol and uses e-cash to scale Bitcoin while improving privacy. Fedi low fees and high privacy potential give Bitcoin great opportunities in this area. Keypleb：As for Bitcoin's compatibility with fiat systems, although Bitcoin payments are illegal in some countries like Indonesia, smart developers across Southeast Asia are working on legal solutions. For example, there's a website called Pleb QR that works in Thailand, allowing you to pay in fiat via the Lightning Network. Koral is another app specifically for Indonesia. These kinds of testing products already exist and are physically possible, but we’re just waiting on regulations. My influential friends are actively lobbying the government for adoption. Keypleb：In summary, privacy, scalability, and compatibility with fiat systems are all works in progress, and they will continue to evolve positively. There will be more meetups, more wallet downloads, and more adoption—there’s no doubt about that.

YakiHonne: You mentioned the concept of cross-country issues, so I have one last question: How is the government’s stance on Bitcoin? Is the political climate supportive or against Bitcoin? How do you see the government's approach to Bitcoin in your community or environment?

Keypleb：This reminds me of a person, Jeff Booth, who once said, “We are them, the government is made up of us.” In Indonesia, many politicians actually support Bitcoin, and many of them mine Bitcoin themselves. When money is involved, the incentive is strong, and politicians naturally like to make more money. As a result, Indonesia has a large Bitcoin mining scene. However, overall, the Indonesian government is against Bitcoin, as seen in their ban on Bitcoin payments. The 2011 currency law states that any currency other than the Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) cannot be used, and violators can face up to one year in prison or a fine. This means you cannot pay with US dollars, lira, euros, pesos or pounds. Keypleb：This shows that the government’s legal system is somewhat fragile. It’s understandable that the government is concerned about disruptive technologies like Bitcoin, especially with such a fragile fiat system. Indonesia has also seen many arrests. In 2016, Bank Indonesia issued a letter announcing a crackdown on cryptocurrency payments. Those involved in paying in Bitcoin had their funds seized, and the police cooperated in shutting down businesses accepting Bitcoin payments in the cities. While this isn't very friendly, it does highlight the fragility of the existing system. We also believe that a new executive order may be introduced in the future, similar to when President Roosevelt in 1933 ordered Americans to hand over all their gold with his Executive Order 6102. If it happened before, it could happen again. Keypleb：Therefore, we predict that Bitcoin custody could become a legal issue, which is one of the reasons we blur the faces of participants at every meetup. We need to protect the community from any potential risks. But overall, we remain optimistic. Despite the government ban, the ideology of Bitcoin is unstoppable, and its spread cannot be stopped. So, we are very optimistic about the future.

YakiHonne: I think almost every government around the world, even in Africa, faces similar issues with Bitcoin. Some governments might want Bitcoin but hesitate to openly accept it due to the fear of it undermining the traditional financial system, which, of course, could eventually happen. But hopefully, as the new generation comes into power, we'll see more Bitcoin-friendly governments. So, thank you so much for sharing your insights and advice. I really appreciate your time and the valuable input you've provided.

Keypleb：I'm really glad this conversation enlightened me. I enjoyed it a lot, and it made me reflect on how much work we're doing and how valuable it is. There are a lot of problems out there, with censorship being the biggest one, followed by inflation, which is also a major issue depending on the region. But Bitcoin is open, the community is growing, and people are fighting against censorship and internet shutdowns in places like Indonesia and beyond. The movement is definitely growing. So, I'm very happy to be here and have this chat. Thanks again.

Bitcoin Indonesia nostr: nostr:npub1y4qd2zhtn05gnsaaq5xfejzfk4a32638tx6gpp9g8k6e42g9d66qaxhcr3

Keypleb nostr: nostr:npub190trvg63e6tyqlwlj6lccqpftx76lckj25c006vwx3dzvdl88yxs2nyqdx

@ a10260a2:caa23e3e

In this post, you’ll see how easy it is to consolidate some UTXOs. Hopefully this’ll give you the confidence to try it out whenever fees are low. It’s super simple and can be done in two steps!

Step 1

Go to your wallet and grab a receive address. As you can see, this wallet has two UTXOs.

Step 2

Once you have a receive address, send the max amount in your wallet to it (i.e. you’ll be sending to yourself). What you’ll receive is your all your bitcoin back minus the network fee. In this case, the cost was 900 sats.

That’s it.

Next time, when you go to Send > Coin Control, you’ll see that you have one large UTXO instead of one large and one small.

@ a10260a2:caa23e3e

Last Updated: May 31, 2025

First off, big shoutout to Coinos for having support for adding a memo to BOLT12 offers. This provides a solid alternative for the pleb who wants to support mining decentralization but doesn’t want to set up a CLN node and pay thousands of sats for a channel only to get little rewards. This is the case for most of us who only have a miner or two (e.g. a Bitaxe and/or an S9).

Before we get into setting up Lightning payouts, you’ll want to have your miner configured to mine with OCEAN of course. You’ll also want to make sure that the bitcoin address you use is from a wallet that supports signing messages.

These are the ones listed in the OCEAN docs:

• Bitcoin Knots/Bitcoin Core
• Coldcard
• Electrum
• LND (Command Line)
• Seedsigner
• Sparrow
• Specter
• Trezor

I checked one of my favorite, user-friendly wallets — Blue Wallet — and it happens to support signing messages as well.

Just tap the three dots on the upper right and you’ll see the “Sign/Verify Message” button at the bottom.

Update [January 18]: You can now use Coinos to sign by going to https://coinos.io/sign

The trick here is to not refresh the page. In other words, when you're logged in to your Coinos account, go to the URL and use the legacy address (starts with a "1") that's displayed to configure your miner(s). If you refresh the page, you're going to get a new address which will cause the signing to fail later on. Remember, keep the tab open and don't refresh the page.

Whichever wallet you choose, generate a receive address to use when configuring your miner (it’ll also be your OCEAN username).

Here’s how it looks on the Bitaxe (AxeOS)…

And the Antminer S9 (Braiins OS).

NOTE: There’s a slight difference in the URL format between the two apps. Other than that, the username will be your bitcoin address followed by the optional “.” + the nickname for your machine.

You can find more details on OCEAN’s get started page.

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Alright, now that your miner is pointed at OCEAN. Let’s configure Lightning payouts!

Generating the BOLT12 Offer

In the Coinos app, go to Receive > Bolt 12. This should be opened in another tab from the one we're using to sign the the configuration message.

Tap “Set memo” and set it to “OCEAN Payouts for [insert your bitcoin address]” (this text is case-sensitive). Use the same bitcoin address you used above to configure your miner(s).

After tapping OK, copy the BOLT12 offer (it should start with “lno”) and proceed to the next step.

Generating the Configuration Message

Navigate to the My Stats page by searching for your OCEAN Bitcoin address.

The click the Configuration link next to Next Block to access the configuration form.

Paste the BOLT12 offer here, update the block height to latest, click GENERATE, and copy the generated unsigned message.

Signing the Configuration Message

To sign the generated message, go back to Blue Wallet and use the signing function. Paste the configuration message in the Message field, tap Sign, and copy the signed message that’s generated.

If you're using Coinos to sign, return to the page that you kept open (and didn't refresh) and do the same. Paste the configuration message, click submit, and copy the signed message.

Submitting the Signed Message

Once signed, copy the signature, paste it in the OCEAN configuration form, and click CONFIRM.

If all goes well, you should see a confirmation that the configuration was successful. Congrats! 🎉

All you gotta do now is sit back, relax, and wait for a block to be found…

Or you can look into setting up DATUM. 😎

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This is part one in a series of long-form content of my ideas as to what we are entering into in my opinion;The Roaring '20's 2.0 (working title). I hope you'll join me on this journey together.
"History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes"; - Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain. My only class I received an A+ in high school was history, this opened up the opportunity for me to enroll in an AP (college level) history class my senior year. There was an inherent nature for me to study history. Another quote I found to live by; "If we do not study history, we are bound to repeat it", a paraphrased quote by the many great philosphers of old from Edmund Burke, George Santayana and even Winston Churchill, all pulling from the same King Solomon quote; "What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun". My curiousity of human actions, psychological and therefore economical behavior, has benefitted me greatly throughout my life and career, at such a young age. Being able to 'see around the curves' ahead I thought was a gift many had, but was sorely mistaken. People are just built different. One, if not my hardest action for me is to share. I just do things; act, often without even thinking about writing down or sharing in anyway shape or form what I just did here with friends, what we just built or how we formed these startups, etc., I've finally made the time, mainly for myself, to share my thoughts and ideas as to where we are at, and what we can do moving forward. It's very easy for us living a sovereign-lifestyle in Bitcoin, Nostr and other P2P, cryptographically-signed sovereign tools and tech-stacks alike, permissionless and self-hostable, to take all these tools for granted. We just live with them. Use them everyday. Do you own property? Do you have to take care of the cattle everyday? To live a sovereign life is tough, but most rewarding. As mentioned above, I'm diving into the details in a several part series as to what the roaring '20's were about, how it got to the point it did, and the inevitable outcome we all know what came to be. How does this possibly repeat itself almost exactly a century later? How does Bitcoin play a role? Are we all really going to be replaced by AI robots (again, history rhymes here)? Time will tell, but I think most of us actually using the tools will also forsee many of these possible outcomes, as it's why we are using many of these tools today. The next parts of this series will be released periodically, maybe once per month, maybe once per quarter. I'll also be releasing these on other platforms like Medium for reach, but Nostr will always be first, most important and prioritized.
I'll leave you with one of my favorite quotes I've lived by from one of the greatest traders of all time, especially during this roaring '20's era, Jesse Livermore; "Money is made by sitting, not trading".

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執行摘要

隨著比特幣再創歷史新高，市場總市值攀升至 3.39 兆美元，成交量顯著回溫至 704 億美元，顯示多頭氣氛延續。然而，鏈上與衍生品數據釋出警訊，操作上應更加謹慎。 本週需關注三大數據變化：

清算與槓桿風險：永續合約持倉升至 159.7B，多空雙邊爆倉規模擴大。若價格劇烈波動，將可能引發連鎖平倉與資金撤離。 鏈上結構是否轉弱：雖鯨魚持續吸籌，NUPL 指標尚未突破歷史高點，市場情緒未到亢奮，但並不代表市場毫無壓力。 ETF 資金動能是否續強：BTC 與 ETH ETF 雖持續流入，但增幅放緩，若出現流出，將影響市場對主流資產的風險偏好。

此外，Coinbase 與 Korea溢價指數維持正值，代表現貨買盤尚有支撐。整體結構仍偏多，但需持續追蹤資金是否轉趨保守，以應對高位震盪風險。

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加密市場

本週加密貨幣市場總市值下降至 3.24 兆美元，較前週略有回落，顯示市場資金流入動能稍微減弱。交易活動方面，當週總成交量達到 591.66 億美元，較上週減少，反映市場活躍度有所下降，投資者情緒轉趨保守。

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

市場情緒指標顯示，恐懼與貪婪指數為 55，處於中性區間，代表市場情緒較為平穩，但貪婪情緒較前週下降，投資者對市場前景的信心稍微減弱。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/i/FearGreedIndex

此外，相對強弱指標處於中性至超賣區間，顯示部分標地短期內可能存在修正壓力，市場仍需消化部分參與者獲利籌碼。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/i/RsiHeatMap

山寨幣季節指數降至 14，顯示市場資金仍主要流向比特幣及主流加密貨幣，投資者對高風險資產的配置仍較為保守，中小型代幣尚未獲得市場關注。

https://www.blockchaincenter.net/en/altcoin-season-index/

穩定幣市值上升至 2,475.81 億美元，顯示部分資金正在尋求避險，或為市場修正後的潛在買盤做準備。

https://defillama.com/stablecoins

小結

本週加密市場總市值與成交量同步下降，顯示市場資金流動性稍微減弱，交易活躍度下降。恐懼與貪婪指數落在中性區間，市場情緒較為平穩，但投資人信心略有減弱。相對強弱指標顯示市場仍存在修正壓力，短線上漲動能有限。山寨幣季節指數低迷，市場資金仍集中於主流幣種，而穩定幣市值增長，顯示投資者維持謹慎態度，靜待市場更明朗的機會。未來市場走勢仍將受到宏觀經濟因素及市場資金流動影響，需密切關注相關變化。

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衍生性商品

槓桿交易持續活躍，本週永續合約持倉規模達 144.18B，顯示市場仍具有強勁的槓桿需求。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/futures/Cryptofutures

資金費率維持 0.01%，大部分交易所仍為 正費率，市場情緒偏向多頭。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/FundingRate

爆倉數據方面，本週整體空單爆倉達 826.391M，而多單爆倉則達 1148.547M，顯示市場波動仍造成大規模強制平倉。其中 5月30日 空單爆倉 84.91M，多單爆倉 796.623M，顯示當日市場波動較為劇烈。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/LiquidationData

清算熱力圖顯示，$93,000 附近 的清算金額達 211.54M，此區間可能成為市場交易的重要風險區域。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/futures/LiquidationHeatMap

期權市場保持穩定交易量，投資者在不同價格區間進行配置： * $100,000 行權價的看跌期權合約數量達 7.6K，總金額達 $28.16M，顯示市場對該區間的風險防禦仍較為明顯。 * $110,000 行權價的看漲期權合約數量為 10.62K，總金額 $47.56M，顯示市場對上行潛力仍有較高期待。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/options/OIStrike

最大痛點出現在 2025/06/27 的 $100,000，名義金額 11.97B，以及 2025/06/06 的 $105,000，名義金額 2.85B，顯示市場對未來走勢的佈局仍存在分歧。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/options/max-pain

小結

加密市場槓桿交易活躍，爆倉情況顯示市場波動仍帶來顯著風險。永續合約與期權市場的數據反映出投資者對市場未來走勢的不同看法，多空資金配置仍在競爭中。隨著市場價格熱區逐漸明朗，投資者需密切關注資金流向與槓桿風險，調整交易策略，以降低市場劇烈變動帶來的影響。

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ETF

本週，加密貨幣衍生性商品市場依舊保持穩定，ETF資金流入顯示市場情緒良好。比特幣（BTC）ETF流入2.117億美元。

而以太坊（ETH）ETF則流入5,860萬美元，相比前週的資金流向，ETH的流入幅度顯著提升，可能反映市場對其關注度增強。

https://coinmarketcap.com/zh-tw/etf/

小結

比特幣 ETF 的資金流入雖略低於上週，但仍保持穩健。市場近期受到宏觀經濟變數影響，包括貨幣政策調整與投資者風險偏好的轉變，使得資金配置較為謹慎。此外，以太坊 ETF 的資金流入大幅提升，顯示出投資者可能對 ETH 的技術發展與未來潛力更為樂觀。特別是近期市場對去中心化金融（DeFi）與以太坊網絡升級的關注，也可能促使資金流入提升。

整體而言，本週 ETF 市場仍然展現穩健資金流入，尤其 ETH 的流入幅度增加值得關注。投資者對市場的信心維持穩定，但仍需密切關注宏觀經濟環境以及技術面因素對衍生性商品市場的影響，以評估後續市場動能。

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鏈上分析 | BTC

近期鏈上數據顯示，比特幣在二級交易所的儲備量再度創下新低，反映出市場上流通的 BTC 數量持續減少，整體壓力趨緩。

https://cryptoquant.com/asset/btc/chart/exchange-flows/exchange-reserve?exchange=all_exchange&window=DAY&priceScale=log&metricScale=linear&chartStyle=line

地址分佈方面延續上週趨勢，10–100 顆持倉的中小戶數量持續下降，而 100–1k、1k–10k 及 10k 以上的大型地址則全面增加，尤其是 10k+ 地址出現明顯跳升，顯示有特大型機構或長期資金加速進場。

https://cryptoquant.com/community/dashboard/67e2481ba2a7203afd437b31

鯨魚活躍地址持續上升，代表主力資金在當前價位仍具操作意願與信心。

https://cryptoquant.com/community/dashboard/67e2481ba2a7203afd437b31

從 Exchange Netflow 觀察，目前市場仍處於穩定的淨流出狀態，表明投資者傾向將 BTC 移出交易所、進行長期儲存，進一步減少潛在賣壓。

https://cryptoquant.com/asset/btc/chart/exchange-flows/exchange-netflow-total?exchange=all_exchange&window=DAY&sma=0&ema=0&priceScale=log&metricScale=linear&chartStyle=column

根據 URPD（UTXO Realized Price Distribution）指標觀察，目前市場中多數比特幣地址的持倉成本集中於 9 萬美元附近，顯示該價格區間具備顯著的籌碼密集度與潛在支撐力，若價格回落至此區間，預期將有較強的買盤介入，形成穩定支撐。

https://charts.bgeometrics.com/distribution_realized_price.html

另一方面，從 NRPL（Net Realized Profit/Loss）指標來看，過去兩次關鍵價格突破均伴隨著大量已實現的盈虧，顯示投資者在獲利後傾向了結部分持倉。然而本次上漲過程中，NRPL 數據顯示已實現盈虧尚處於初步上升階段，暗示市場中仍有大量潛在利潤尚未兌現，市場動能尚未充分釋放。

https://charts.bgeometrics.com/nrpl.html

溢價指數方面，Coinbase Premium Index 持續位於 0 以上，顯示美國市場對 BTC 需求穩健；而 Korea Premium Index 則攀升至 3，反映亞洲市場對 BTC 價格有更高追價意願，顯示整體市場情緒偏向樂觀。

Coinbase Premium Index:https://cryptoquant.com/asset/btc/chart/market-data/coinbase-premium-index?window=DAY&priceScale=log&metricScale=linear&chartStyle=line&sma=0&ema=0

Korea Premium Index:https://cryptoquant.com/asset/btc/chart/market-data/korea-premium-index?window=DAY&sma=0&ema=0&priceScale=log&metricScale=linear&chartStyle=line

小結

近期比特幣鏈上數據持續展現強勁表現。首先，二級交易所的比特幣儲備量再度創下新低，反映出整體市場供給持續減少，為價格提供中長期支撐。 在地址分布方面，10–100 顆地址數量延續下跌趨勢，而 100–1k、1k–10k 以及 10k 顆以上的地址數量皆呈現上升，尤其 10k 顆以上的大型地址數量突然明顯增加，顯示超級大戶進場布局意圖明確。 鯨魚活躍地址也持續上升，顯示主力資金開始進一步參與市場；交易所的 Exchange Netflow 指標則持續顯示資金處於淨流出狀態，佐證了比特幣正由交易所流向冷錢包持有，偏多氛圍濃厚。 同時，Coinbase 溢價指數仍維持在 0 以上，代表美國買盤持續存在，而韓國溢價指數更顯強勁，已升至 3，反映亞洲市場情緒火熱。 從 URPD 指標來看，多數比特幣地址的購入價格集中於 9 萬美元，意味此區具備紮實支撐；而 NRPL 指標顯示，與前兩次價格突破相比，目前的已實現盈虧尚處初升階段，代表仍有大量潛在利潤未被釋放，後續若市場進一步上漲，可能會引發更大規模的獲利了結，總之整體來看鏈上結構穩健，上行動能仍未停止。

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總體經濟

本週加密貨幣市場繼續受到總體經濟環境的影響，資金流動性仍受限，價格波動性加大。聯邦基金有效利率維持在 4.33%，顯示市場依然處於高利率環境。

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

隨著 6 月 18 日即將召開的 FOMC 會議，市場對利率決策的預期進一步集中，4.25%-4.50% 區間的機率已從 94.4% 上升至 97.8%，而 4.00%-4.25% 的預測則下降至 2.2%，顯示市場對維持較高利率的預期持續增強，這可能抑制風險資產的表現，包括加密貨幣。

https://www.cmegroup.com/cn-t/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch-tool.html

消費者物價指數 (CPI) 為 2.33%，與前期持平，顯示通膨壓力維持穩定。另一方面，失業率仍保持在 4.2%，顯示勞動市場仍然穩健，企業對人力需求依然穩定。由於市場流動性仍受抑制，加密貨幣投資者仍需面對波動風險，尤其是高槓桿交易，風險控制將成為投資策略的重要考量。

失業率:https://www.macromicro.me/series/37/unemployment-rate

消費者物價指數（CPI):https://www.macromicro.me/series/128/consumer-price-index-sa-yoy

值得關注的是，美國 M2 貨幣供給量已連續數月呈現上升趨勢，顯示市場資金逐步回流、流動性環境有所寬鬆。從歷史走勢來看，M2 的變化與比特幣價格具有高度正相關性，特別是在寬鬆週期中，比特幣常伴隨著資金充裕而出現顯著上漲。若當前趨勢延續，M2 持續上升將可能為加密資產市場提供有力支撐，未來比特幣行情表現值得期待。然而，仍需觀察美聯儲政策走向，以確認這波資金釋放是否具備延續性。

https://charts.bgeometrics.com/m2.html

小結

隨著 FOMC 會議臨近，市場對於短期內貨幣政策的變動趨於保守，預期高利率環境將延續一段時間。若會議結果符合市場預期並維持較高利率，加密市場可能會進一步受到流動性受限的影響。然而，若後續經濟數據顯示通膨持續降溫或就業市場開始走弱，市場對未來貨幣政策轉向的預期可能升高，進而帶動風險資產回暖。 美國 M2 貨幣供給量近幾個月持續上升，顯示市場資金正逐步回籠。從歷史數據來看，M2 走勢與比特幣價格具有正相關性，在流動性大量回升的背景下，長期而言對加密市場構成潛在利多。若資金供給趨勢延續，有望為未來行情提供結構性支撐。 整體而言，加密貨幣市場仍受總體經濟環境影響，高利率政策持續壓制資金流動性，短期內價格波動風險較高。投資者應密切關注即將召開的 FOMC 會議及後續政策動向，以評估市場走勢並調整交易策略。

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新聞

比特幣序數現在可以透過 BitVMX 橋接到 Cardano

https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2025/05/23/bitcoin-ordinals-can-now-be-bridged-to-cardano-through-bitvmx

美國法院判定川普關稅無效，白宮顧問：對上訴有信心，將敲定三項貿易協議

https://www.blocktempo.com/the-u-s-court-ruled-that-trumps-imposition-of-reciprocal-tariffs-constitutes-an-overreach-of-authority/

巴基斯坦將建立比特幣戰略儲備，為加密貨幣挖礦分配2000兆瓦能源

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/28/pakistan-to-establish-a-bitcoin-strategic-reserve-allocate-2000-megawatts-of-energy-for-crypto-mining

巴拿馬城市長表示，船舶可以使用比特幣支付巴拿馬運河過境費並免於排隊

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/29/ships-could-pay-panama-canal-transit-fees-in-bitcoin-and-cut-the-line-panama-city-mayor-muses

美國眾議院共和黨正式提出加密貨幣市場結構法案

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/29/u-s-house-republicans-officially-introduce-crypto-market-structure-bill

美國證券交易委員會稱加密貨幣質押並不違反美國證券法

https://www.coindesk.com/news-analysis/2025/05/29/crypto-staking-doesnt-violate-us-securities-law-sec-says

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Why help? I care about freedom. Nostr’s one of the most powerful freedom tools I’ve seen in my lifetime. If I believe that, I should act on it.

I don’t care about money or sats. I’m not rich, I don’t have extra cash. That doesn’t drive me—freedom does. I’m volunteering, not asking for pay.

I’m not here for clout. I’ve had enough spotlight in my life; it doesn’t move me. If I wanted clout, I’d be on Twitter dropping basic takes. Clout’s easy. Freedom’s hard. I’d rather help anonymously. No speaking at events—small meetups are cool for the vibe, but big conferences? Not my thing. I’ll never hit a huge Bitcoin conference. It’s just not my scene.

That said, I could be convinced to step up if it’d really boost Nostr—as long as it’s legal and gets results.

In this space, I’d watch for social engineering. I watch out for it. I’m not here to make friends, just to help. No shade—you all seem great—but I’ve got a full life and awesome friends irl. I don’t need your crew or to be online cool. Connect anonymously if you want; I’d encourage it.

I’m sick of watching other social media alternatives grow while Nostr kinda stalls. I could trash-talk, but I’d rather do something useful.

Skills? I’m good at spotting social media problems and finding possible solutions. I won’t overhype myself—that’s weird—but if you’re responding, you probably see something in me. Perhaps you see something that I don’t see in myself.

If you need help now or later with Nostr projects, reach out. Nostr only—nothing else. Anonymous contact’s fine. Even just a suggestion on how I can pitch in, no project attached, works too. 💜

Creeps or harassment will get blocked or I’ll nuke my simplex code if it becomes a problem.

https://simplex.chat/contact#/?v=2-4&smp=smp%3A%2F%2FSkIkI6EPd2D63F4xFKfHk7I1UGZVNn6k1QWZ5rcyr6w%3D%40smp9.simplex.im%2FbI99B3KuYduH8jDr9ZwyhcSxm2UuR7j0%23%2F%3Fv%3D1-2%26dh%3DMCowBQYDK2VuAyEAS9C-zPzqW41PKySfPCEizcXb1QCus6AyDkTTjfyMIRM%253D%26srv%3Djssqzccmrcws6bhmn77vgmhfjmhwlyr3u7puw4erkyoosywgl67slqqd.onion

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Sangha Renewables, a company that combines renewable energy with bitcoin mining, has started construction on a 19.9-megawatt (MW) mining facility powered 100% by solar energy. This is a big step towards making bitcoin mining cleaner, cheaper and more efficient.

The mining site is in West Texas, a region known for its strong solar and growing bitcoin mining presence.

What’s unique about this project is the “behind-the-meter” setup — the facility will draw power directly from a nearby solar site instead of the grid. This avoids some of the costs and inefficiencies of traditional energy sourcing.

The solar site where the mining facility is located has been operational for a few years. But it’s faced challenges like grid congestion and negative energy pricing – times when there’s too much energy and prices go below zero.

Sangha’s new mining operation will solve this problem by being a flexible energy consumer. When the grid has excess energy, Sangha can use it to mine bitcoin, helping to stabilize the grid and put otherwise wasted energy to work.

Related: Bitcoin Mining Clean Energy and Grid Balance | ERCOT Study

“This is a win-win-win,” said Spencer Marr, co-founder and CEO of Sangha Renewables. “The IPP (independent power producer) earns more per megawatt-hour, our investors gain exposure to low-cost bitcoin production, and we deliver grid-stabilizing load where it’s needed most.”

In addition to the tech innovation, Sangha is also changing the way people can invest in bitcoin mining.

The company just raised $14 million of its $17 million target to fund the construction and operation of the Texas facility.

Unlike traditional investments in mining companies or digital asset stocks, Sangha allows accredited investors to invest directly in the infrastructure itself through special purpose vehicles (SPVs).

Investors can put in cash or bitcoin and get ongoing payouts in bitcoin that are “well below the market price,” according to Marr. This means instead of buying bitcoin on the open market, investors are essentially earning it through the mining activity powered by renewable energy.

“Sangha is not just building bitcoin mining sites—we’re building a new model for how capital flows in and out of Bitcoin,” Marr said.

“By applying a project finance structure honed-in the renewable energy and real estate sectors, we enable investors to participate directly in productive assets—without intermediaries, speculative equities, or inefficiencies of datacenter hosting.”

Sangha’s financial and operational model uses advanced forecasting tools.

These tools allow forecasting of energy prices and bitcoin mining profitability down to 15-minute intervals. This enables the company to decide when to run the mining rigs for maximum efficiency and return on investment.

This Texas facility is a proof-of-concept. If it works, it will open the door for others across the U.S.

Sangha believes many underutilized renewable energy sites could benefit from this kind of setup, especially in areas that produce more energy than the grid can handle.

Using a capital-efficient, investor-aligned model and working with independent power producers (IPPs) Sangha plans to scale this nationwide. The facility will be fully operational by Q3 2025.

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Fear is one of the most powerful forces that shapes our decisions, limits our growth, and holds us back from living fully. Yet, freedom from fear is not about becoming fearless—it's about no longer allowing fear to control us. In uncertain times, reclaiming our power means learning how to face fear, understand it, and ultimately rise above it.

Understanding Fear’s Grip

Fear thrives in the unknown. It whispers worst-case scenarios, paralyzes action, and magnifies our sense of powerlessness. But fear is also a signal. It tells us where growth lies, where change is needed, and where courage must rise.

What Freedom from Fear Looks Like

Taking Action Despite Anxiety: You feel the fear, but you move forward anyway.

Letting Go of Control: You stop trying to predict or perfect every outcome.

Trusting Yourself: You believe in your ability to adapt and respond.

Embracing Uncertainty: You understand that discomfort is part of transformation.

Steps Toward Reclaiming Power

1. Name the Fear: Clarity shrinks fear. When you name what you're afraid of, it loses some of its grip.

2. Breathe Through It: Deep breathing brings you back to the present, where fear often has less power.

3. Challenge the Narrative: Ask: "Is this true? Is this fear protecting me or limiting me?"

4. Take Small Steps: Fear often dissolves when met with action. Start small, but start.

5. Build a Resilient Mindset: Remind yourself of what you've overcome before. You are stronger than your fear.

Why It Matters Now

In a world filled with rapid change, fear can become a default state. But freedom is a choice. A daily one. When you stop letting fear steer your life, you open the door to possibilities, growth, and deeper peace.

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“Fear does not stop death. It stops life.”

Choose courage. Claim your power. Walk freely—even through fear.

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執行摘要

市場持續上探新高，總市值達3.26兆美 元，ETF資金穩定流入，鏈上鯨魚持續吸籌，讓 人忍不住想問，是不是該追？然而，數據提醒 我們需保持冷靜。 我們這週需觀察： • 衍生品爆倉與槓桿是否過熱，清算風險升溫， 短線資金可能因波動而退場。 • 觀察鏈上數據是否延續偏多結構。交易所比 特幣儲備持續下滑、大型地址增加，若鯨魚 活躍度持續上升，將有利於中期支撐力道。 同時觀察穩定幣市值變化，以判斷資金 是否持續布局。整體而言，市場結構偏多，但 上行須有資金支持，操作上宜保留彈性，避免 追高。

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加密市場

本週加密貨幣市場總市值攀升至3.39 兆美 元，顯示市場持續向上，資本流入動能仍然強勁。交 易量方面，當週總成交量達到704 億美元，相較前週 有所提升，買賣雙方均展現較高的參與度。

https://coinmarketcap.com/charts/

市場情緒指標顯示，恐懼與貪婪指數為67， 仍屬「貪婪」區間，表明投資人對市場前景仍保持樂 觀，但貪婪情緒略有下降，顯示部分投資者可能開始 謹慎調整持倉策略。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/i/FearGreedIndex

同時，相對強弱指標處於中性至超賣區間， 部分資產短期內面臨修正壓力，但市場尚未進入明顯 弱勢。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/i/RsiHeatMap

值得注意的是，山寨幣季節指數下降至18， 表明市場資金仍主要流向比特幣及主流加密貨幣，投 資者對風險資產的偏好仍相對保守，中小型代幣尚未 獲得明顯關注。

https://www.blockchaincenter.net/en/altcoin-season-index/

此外，穩定幣市值增至2,462.75 億美元，反 映部分資金尋求避險，或為市場調整後的潛在買盤做 準備。

https://defillama.com/stablecoins

小結

本週加密市場總市值持續上升，而成交量顯 著提高，顯示市場活躍度增加，資金流入動能仍在延 續。恐懼與貪婪指數仍處於貪婪區間，市場情緒樂觀， 但投資者開始謹慎調整。相對強弱指標顯示市場尚未 進入弱勢，但需關注短期修正壓力。山寨幣季節指數 低迷，資金仍集中於主流幣種，而穩定幣市值增長， 可能顯示市場內部資金配置仍較為謹慎。

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衍生性商品

市場槓桿交易持續增長，本週永續合約市場 的持倉規模達159.68B，顯示投資者對槓桿交易的需 求仍然強勁。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/futures/Cryptofutures

資金費率方面，市場維持正費率，主要交易 所的資金費率保持在0.01%左右，表明市場仍偏多。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/FundingRate

爆倉數據顯示，空單爆倉金額達826.391M， 而多單爆倉金額達1148.547M，近期市場波動導致大 量強制平倉，尤其是多頭受壓較為明顯。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/LiquidationData

清算熱力圖顯示，$105,000 附近的清算金額 達166.41M，這一價格區間成為市場交易的重要關注 點，投資者需留意可能的風險變化。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/futures/LiquidationHeatMap

期權市場交易活躍，投資者在不同價格區間 展開佈局： • $100,000行權價的看跌期權合約數量為6.93K，總 金額達$18.34M，顯示市場對該區間的下行風險仍 保持一定的防禦。 • $110,000行權價的看漲期權合約數量為13.32K，總 金額達$76.11M，顯示市場對上行的預期依然較為 強烈。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/options/OIStrike

此外，最大痛點分別出現在2025/05/30 的 $98,000（名義金額9.7B）以及2025/06/27 的 $95,000（名義金額11.14B），顯示市場對不同價位的 佈局仍然存在分歧，但相較於上週有所收斂。

https://www.coinglass.com/zh-TW/pro/options/max-pain

小結

本週加密市場仍處於高度波動的環境，槓桿 交易與清算熱點區域成為市場關注的焦點。多頭與空 頭的資金配置存在競爭，爆倉規模顯示槓桿風險仍然 不可忽視。期權市場則呈現不同價格區間的佈局策略， 投資者對短期與中期的市場走勢保持不同看法。建議 投資者密切關注市場資金流向與槓桿風險，調整交易 策略，以降低市場波動帶來的潛在影響。

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ETF

本週，加密貨幣衍生性商品市場保持活躍， 其中比特幣（BTC）與以太坊（ETH）ETF的資金流入 顯示投資人對市場的信心仍然穩定。比特幣ETF本週 流入2.602億美元。

而以太坊ETF則流入2,220萬美元，儘管流入 規模較上週略有下降，但仍顯示機構與散戶投資人對 市場的參與度不減。

https://coinmarketcap.com/zh-tw/etf/

小結

整體而言，本週加密貨幣衍生性商品市場保 持資金流入趨勢，雖然比特幣ETF流入金額略低於前 週，但以太坊ETF呈現穩定增長。市場投資情緒仍然 良好，未來需持續關注技術發展與宏觀經濟環境對 ETF與衍生性商品市場的影響，以掌握市場動能變化。

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鏈上分析 | BTC

二級交易所的比特幣儲備量再次創下新低， 顯示市場上的比特幣供給持續減少，潛在拋壓進一步 降低。這一現象通常反映出投資者傾向於將資產移至 自有錢包，展現長期持有的傾向。

https://cryptoquant.com/asset/btc/chart/exchange-flows/exchange-reserve?exchange=all_exchange&window=DAY&sma=0&ema=0&priceScale=log&metricScale=linear&chartStyle=line

即使比特幣價格已創下歷史新高，地址分佈 方面仍延續與上週相同的趨勢。

https://cryptoquant.com/community/dashboard/67e2481ba2a7203afd437b31

鯨魚活躍地址仍延續上週，無論是新鯨魚或 老鯨魚，近期均明顯提升鏈上活動頻率，顯示其對市 場後市表現持續看好。整體而言，資金與籌碼正在流 向鯨魚，為比特幣後續表現提供強勁支撐。

https://cryptoquant.com/community/dashboard/67e2481ba2a7203afd437b31

然而值得關注的是，即便比特幣價格已創下 歷史新高，NUPL 指標卻未能超越前兩次牛市的高點。 這代表市場雖然整體仍處於盈利狀態，但尚未進入過 度亢奮或泡沫化階段，投資人情緒相對理性。這樣的 結構可能為後續漲勢留下空間。

https://cryptoquant.com/asset/btc/chart/network-indicator/net-unrealized-profit-loss-nupl?window=DAY&priceScale=log&metricScale=linear&chartStyle=line&sma=0&ema=0

目前觀察CoinbasePremium Index 與 Korea Premium Index 皆位於0 以上，顯示美國與韓 國市場的現貨買盤相對活躍，市場需求強勁。這也反 映出在全球主要市場中，投資者對比特幣仍具有高度 興趣與買入力道，尤其是來自機構或散戶資金較多的 交易平台表現出溢價狀態，通常代表有資金持續流入 並推升現貨價格，對中短期價格走勢構成支撐。未來 若兩大溢價指數持續維持正值，將有助於延續市場的 多頭氣氛。

CoinbasePremium Index:https://cryptoquant.com/asset/btc/chart/market-data/coinbase-premium-index?window=DAY&sma=0&ema=0&priceScale=log&metricScale=linear&chartStyle=line

Korea Premium Index:https://cryptoquant.com/asset/btc/chart/market-data/korea-premium-index?window=DAY&sma=0&ema=0&priceScale=log&metricScale=linear&chartStyle=line

小結

即便比特幣價格已創下歷史新高，鏈上數據 顯示市場仍存在結構性變化與短期潛在風險。從地址 分布來看，10–100 顆持倉的中小戶數量持續創下新低， 而100–1k、1k–10k 乃至於 10k 以上的地址數量則穩定 上升，顯示資金持續集中於大戶與機構手中。與此同 時，鯨魚活躍地址全面上升，顯示大資金正在積極參 與市場。 值得注意的是，雖然價格已突破新高， NUPL 指標雖來到相對高點，卻尚未超越過去兩次牛 市的峰值，代表市場情緒尚未達到極度貪婪或全面樂 觀的階段，潛在上行空間仍待觀察。 此外，CoinbasePremium Index 與 Korea Premium Index 雙雙維持在正值，代表現貨買盤動能 仍強，有助於支撐價格表現。整體而言，鏈上結構健 康，但需密切關注中小持倉賣壓與市場情緒是否過熱， 避免短線波動風險。

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總體經濟

本週總體經濟數據顯示，聯邦基金有效利率 仍維持在4.33%，反映市場依然處於高利率環境。

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/FEDFUNDS

隨著6 月18 日即將召開的聯邦公開市場委 員會(FOMC) 會議，市場對利率決策的預期更加集中， 其中4.25%-4.50% 區間的機率已從91.7% 上升至 94.4%，而4.00%-4.25% 的預測則下降至5.6%，顯示 市場對維持較高利率的預期仍在強化，這可能會抑制 風險資產的表現，包括加密貨幣。

https://www.cmegroup.com/cn-t/markets/interest-rates/cme-fedwatch-tool.html

消費者物價指數(CPI) 為2.33%，和上週一 致，失業率保持在4.2%，顯示勞動市場仍然穩定，企 業對人力需求的支撐作用持續發揮。當前情勢意味著 聯準會在利率決策上將維持謹慎，避免過度調整對經 濟產生負面影響。

失業率:https://www.macromicro.me/series/37/unemployment-rate

消費者物價指數(CPI) :https://www.macromicro.me/series/128/consumer-price-index-sa-yoy

小結

加密貨幣市場仍受總體經濟環境影響，高利 率政策使得資金流動性受限，價格波動性加大。投資 者應密切關注即將召開的FOMC 會議及後續政策動向， 以評估市場短期內的走勢與投資機會。

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新聞

參議院推進穩定幣法案，為最終通過掃清道路

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/19/senate-advances-stablecoin-bill-clearing-the-way-for-final-passage

Crypto.com 收購 Allnew Investments，取得 MiFID 執照，可在歐洲提供衍生性商品交易

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/21/cryptocom-buys-allnew-investments-to-secure-mifid-license-to-offer-derivatives-in-europe

德州眾議院通過法案，距離建立戰略比特幣儲備更近一步

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/22/texas-moves-closer-to-setting-up-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-as-bill-passes-house

香港通過新穩定幣許可法案加入全球競爭

https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/21/hong-kong-joins-global-race-with-new-stablecoin-licensing-bill

讓外國人更容易買美股！Kraken 將推出蘋果、 Nvidia 等代幣化股票交易

https://blockcast.it/2025/05/23/kraken-to-launch-tokenized-stock-trading-for-non-u-s-customers/

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Part I: Women Under Siege, A Century of Psychological and Social Displacement

Women are under attack, and they have been for over a century.

Before the industrial revolution, in most of the world, a woman was never truly alone. She was embedded in a web of support: her husband, her children, her extended family, and most crucially, her female network, other women she saw daily, worked beside, shared joys and sorrows with.

These women had shared incentives, shared goals, and shared lives. They cared deeply for one another, you could say they loved each other. They built each other up, protected one another’s children, and upheld one another’s dignity and value.

And they were often related by blood or through her husband.

The social feedback that mattered came from those nearby, friends and kin whose faces she saw every day. Women did not orient their self-worth around strangers, institutions, or distant celebrities. They lived in a community of mutual reinforcement, not a marketplace of external judgment.

Their days were filled not just with labor but with meaning, tied to their families, communities, and legacies.

But the modern world severed that web. The industrial model fractured the household: husbands to work, children to school, and women, adrift. What remains now is isolation. Fragmentation. A mother might spend most of her day alone, away from her husband, away from her children, and with no sisters or cousins or mothers-in-law nearby. Her labor is abstracted, her care is undervalued, her instincts derided.

So what fills that vacuum? Loneliness. Insecurity. Yearning for validation. A desperate emotional hunger.

And into that vulnerability steps the modern left, offering what appears to be moral clarity, emotional safety, and social belonging. But what it delivers is not care, it’s ideological grooming. Women are being slowly, deliberately conditioned into a kind of captivity that wears the mask of liberation.

The left captures women by hijacking their evolved moral instincts: empathy, nurturance, and fear of social disapproval. It exploits these instincts to bind them into a system that pretends to offer safety, compassion, and justice, while actually delivering fragmentation, isolation, and civilizational decline. This is the core of ideological grooming: not overt coercion, but the gradual reshaping of women’s emotional responses to serve the interests of an alien moral and political agenda.

They are not thriving.

They are hurting, deeply.

And most don't even know why.

Part II: Ideological Abuse, The Left as Cult, Parasite, and Prison Warden

Many women today live in what can only be described as ideological prisoner-of-war camps, structures not of concrete and barbed wire, but of media, social networks, institutional propaganda, and psychological manipulation. These are not camps in metaphor alone. They function operationally as cults: controlling thought, severing relationships, poisoning perception, and rendering escape emotionally dangerous. This is not hyperbole. It is the observable outcome of a sustained, parasitic, and strategic program by the modern left to weaponize feminine instincts against their own interests, families, and civilizations.

The Grooming Process

The grooming process began by exploiting women’s empathy. By positioning leftist narratives as moral imperatives, "care for the marginalized," "stand up for the oppressed", they appealed to a woman's deepest emotional instincts. This was effective, sustainable, and slow-acting.

But over time, as the natural contradictions of the leftist program emerged, and as the promises failed to deliver security, the narrative shifted from empathy to fear. Fear of rejection. Fear of violence. Fear of being labeled a traitor. Fear of losing one’s job, reputation, or children. Fear of losing one’s husband, or worse, of no longer being served or prioritized by him as he reasserts a more natural masculine role. As more men move away from egalitarianism toward traditional gender roles, some women sense a loss of control over the male utility they once relied on. Fear, not care, now drives adherence to the cult.

And for many women, one of the most primal fears cultivated in this system is the fear of unwanted pregnancy, not merely as a personal inconvenience, but as a symbol of loss of control, future disruption, and irreversible consequence. The left has exploited this fear ruthlessly, crafting a narrative where pregnancy itself becomes a threat unless politically mitigated. This fear is most acute among unmarried women, but even some married women, those who have internalized modern anti-natalism, careerism, or economic precarity, are made to fear the very biological function that once defined feminine power.

This is an inversion of nature. The ability to create life, once revered as a sacred feminine strength, is now framed as a potential crisis. The result is a psychological dependency: women are groomed to see their own fertility not as a gift, but as a liability, something to be defended against with the help of the state, the party, or the institution.

This weaponized fear creates emotional paralysis, breeds distrust between men and women, and deepens ideological dependency.

NOTE: That leftist shift from care to fear based tactics matters.

Fear, unlike empathy, has diminishing returns. Fear is very powerful as an acute emotional motivator but over time human beings adapt to fear. It cannot be sustained indefinitely. Like the body acclimating to the height of a ladder, prolonged exposure to fear forces the nervous system to recalibrate. Eventually fear stops working as a motivator. It loses its grip on their heart.

This is both the weakness and the exit point.

When fear becomes the primary control mechanism, women begin to feel its unnaturalness. They begin to question why they are always anxious, always policing their words, always walking on eggshells. And in that questioning lies the opportunity for extraction.

The Mechanics of Captivity

1. Severance from Husbands and Families

By encouraging female independence as a moral virtue, and by framing male authority and protection as patriarchal oppression, the left undermines the marital bond. It floods media with narratives that husbands are inherently abusive, conservative men are dangerous, and male leadership is suspect. The result is psychological atomization: wives grow mistrustful of their husbands, mothers are taught to see fathers as threats, and homes fracture.

This inversion of reality hides critical truths: women in marriages, real, committed marital unions, experience significantly lower rates of relationship violence than those in cohabiting or non-committed arrangements. Likewise, they enjoy greater financial stability, access to shared resources, and long-term planning. But the left obscures this data to bait women into hazard, encouraging divorce, delaying marriage, or avoiding it altogether, only to leave them more vulnerable emotionally, physically, and economically. It is not empowerment. It is sabotage disguised as liberation.

2. Displacement from Natural Roles

Women are pulled out of the home under the guise of empowerment. But what was once a sacred domain of family, children, and community becomes replaced by workplace drudgery, bureaucratic subordination, and sterile careerism. The maternal instincts that once formed the moral foundation of the community are sterilized in service to profit and politics.

This displacement comes with deep costs. First, women are no longer present in the home to pass down essential knowledge, emotional regulation, the daily rhythms of domestic life, the art of nurturing, to their children. Daughters, in particular, grow up without examples of how to be wives and mothers, and thus enter adulthood unprepared for those roles. This generational disruption breeds anxiety, insecurity, and performance stress, which the left blames not on the loss of traditional roles, but on the institution of marriage itself.

Second, the workplace often consumes women without providing lasting fulfillment. Many begin to experience profound burnout between the ages of 35 and 45, just as their children, had they been mothers, would be entering greater independence. Instead of a natural transition toward grand-mothering and community leadership, they find themselves exhausted, trapped in cycles of debt and consumption, and emotionally depleted.

The left exacerbates this collapse by baiting women into material hazard, encouraging overspending, isolation, and lifestyle inflation. Debt replaces security, status replaces fulfillment, and work replaces family. The outcome is not empowerment, it is managed decline.

3. Destruction of Female Networks

Female well-being has always depended on tight community bonds: other mothers, extended kin, local support. But urbanization, hyper-mobility, and digital substitution have erased these networks. In response, many women attempt to rebuild new relationships at work. Yet in today’s high-turnover, gig-driven economy, people don’t stay in the same company long enough to form deep bonds. As a result, these attempted networks remain shallow and transient.

Into this emotional void step ideological predators. Many of the information and social spaces that women now turn to, whether online forums, activist communities, or social media platforms, have been infiltrated by bad actors who prey on their isolation and dissatisfaction. These manipulators exploit their emotional hunger to groom them into leftist causes, turn them against their husbands, and frame their children not as blessings but as burdens. What once were havens of feminine cooperation have become pipelines of ideological capture.

4. Capture by the Media-State Cathedral

Leftist media, academia, and state bureaucracies form an information cult that grooms women to internalize their narratives and fear dissent. Women operate primarily through consensus, social cues, communal norms, and perceived majorities to shape their judgments and loyalties. The cathedral leverages this trait by manufacturing a false consensus, making it appear that leftist ideology is the moral and cultural standard.

Women fall into this not out of malice, but because they are obedient, conscientious, and eager to follow the dominant narrative. They want to be good people, good citizens, and morally upstanding members of the community. That very goodness is what is being weaponized against them.

Terms like "misogyny," "toxic masculinity," and "equality" are deployed to stigmatize any competing moral grammar. Feminine intuitions are directed not toward building, nurturing, and bonding, but toward shaming, punishing, and canceling.

5. Importing Violence and Chaos

Simultaneously, mass immigration is promoted as moral necessity, regardless of its proven effects: rising crime, declining safety, and cultural disintegration. Women are told they must embrace this change for the sake of compassion. But it makes them less safe, more anxious, and more dependent on state protection.

Many mothers report that they can no longer take their children to the park without fear. Public spaces have been overtaken by foreign adult males who loiter, intimidate, and harass women and children, while police neglect these threats as unworthy of attention. This constant exposure to danger reinforces in women's minds the belief that men are dangerous.

But here, too, the picture has been inverted. Yes, men are dangerous, by design. Male danger, properly directed, is protective. It is meant to shield women and children from external threats. But women today see only the distorted side of that capacity: danger as threat, not as shield. They are denied the experience of male danger being used for their protection, because the state has neutralized and criminalized the very men who would defend them.

6. Economic Enslavement by Design

The two-income trap, high taxation, and debt-driven consumption were not accidents. They are engineered dependencies. It is shockingly easy to get into credit card debt, and lenders regularly approve new cards for individuals who are already financially overextended. Modern financial systems obscure spending, tap-to-pay, buy-now-pay-later schemes, and minimal visual feedback detach people from the consequences of their consumption.

Television, marketing, and social media all promote a lifestyle calibrated for two full-time incomes, over sized suburban homes, exotic vacations, constant dining out, fashion, and wellness subscriptions. Women absorb this false standard and feel pressured to maintain it. They begin to believe that unless they are working outside the home, they are somehow failing to contribute.

The result is economic entrapment. Most women would prefer to be home with their children, especially in their earliest years, but feel they cannot. Not because they don’t want to nurture, but because they’ve been enslaved into labor by artificial necessity. A woman working outside the home becomes both taxed and time-starved. She becomes easier to control, easier to propagandize, and harder to free. The promise of liberation becomes a prison of obligation.

The Program’s Logic: Capture, Groom, Extract

This is not a random sequence of failures, it is a coordinated parasitism. Capture the mind, groom the instincts, extract the labor and emotional energy, and render escape nearly impossible by moral blackmail and social stigma. The same techniques used by cults apply: gaslighting, love-bombing, demonizing outsiders, and rewriting history. Crucially, cults also isolate their members from the people who love them, friends, husbands, parents, so that loyalty can be redirected to the cult itself. The modern left has done exactly this, systematically severing women from their natural protectors and support networks.

Part III: Rescue, Recovery, and Reconnection

We must now ask: how do we free these women? How do we help our sisters, wives, daughters, and friends escape the cult?

We must begin by recognizing why this rescue matters.

It matters because we love and care for these women, even those who have been turned against us. They are not our enemies, but captives manipulated into suspicion, bitterness, and fear. And they cannot free themselves. They need those of us who remain outside the cult, men and women alike, to act with clarity, courage, and unwavering loyalty.

It also matters because this ideological captivity is destabilizing society as a whole. We are all paying the price, especially men, who shoulder the vast majority of the tax burden that funds the very institutions grooming their wives and daughters. To leave these women in captivity is not only a personal failure; it is a civilizational one.

Step 0: Understand the Emotional Battlefield

Many of the people best positioned to help, their husbands, brothers, fathers, and old friends, are not themselves in deep emotional alignment. They were not captured by emotional grooming because they are often detached from emotional cues altogether. But this also makes them less effective at reaching those who have been captured through emotional manipulation.

To lead a rescue, you must first understand what women are responding to. What incentives are being offered? What are they afraid of? What is being hijacked?

And this requires something difficult: deep empathy for them, especially when they have been programmed to hate you. You must look past the hostility, the bitterness, and the propaganda they echo. You must see the frightened, lonely, well-meaning human being underneath. She is trying to be good. She is trying to belong. She is trying to find safety in a system that promised to care for her. That empathy is not weakness, it is a strategic necessity.

This document has laid out the mechanisms. But knowing them intellectually is not enough. You must internalize them, feel them, see the battlefield not just rationally, but emotionally. Only then can you enter the rescue effort with the right tools, the right tone, and the right timing.

To do this, especially for men, we must learn to be emotionally open. Not vulnerable. Vulnerability is different. Vulnerability is weakness, susceptibility to capture. Emotional openness means readiness for connection, attunement, and presence without compromise. It is not a surrender of strength, but its intelligent use of emotions.

Learning to be emotionally open and emotionally motivating is beyond the scope of this post, but it is a skill worth cultivating. If you need help applying this to someone specific, a daughter, a wife, a sister, talk to me. I’ll help you build a strategy that works for you.

Step 1: Change the Frame, from Debate to Extraction

You cannot reason someone out of a cult using logic alone. First, change the narrative. Don’t argue, about Trump or anything else. Argument frames the interaction as "us versus them," which reinforces the sense of alienation.

Instead, shift the focus from confrontation to protection. Talk about betrayal, not by them, but of them. Say things like: “They used your goodness against you.” “You thought you were helping, but they were grooming you.” This triggers emotional dissonance while keeping the person emotionally on your side.

Avoid labeling everything as 'leftist' or ideological, this only raises defenses. Frame the problem as coming from external manipulators who betrayed both of you. Orient your body language and tone to say, "I’m with you against what’s hurting us." This subtle shift creates an opening for reconnection, empathy, and eventual extraction.

Step 2: Rebuild Trust

Women need to see that the men in their lives are not enemies,but protectors. That the so-called patriarchy was a civilizational gift, not an oppressor. That male leadership is not domination, but responsibility under natural law.

They also need to witness, tangibly, that the men they depend on are capable of protection, not just morally, but physically. When a woman sees her husband, brother, or father demonstrating the capacity for controlled violence, training, sparring, standing firm in the face of a threat, her confidence in his leadership deepens. She doesn’t need him to be dangerous toward her; she needs to know that he is dangerous for her, that his strength and capability can and will be directed to protect her, their children, and their home. That trust, once visible, changes everything.

And for many women, especially as they approach midlife, another layer of trust must be addressed: the fear of being abandoned or replaced. They must know and believe that their husbands will not trade them in for a younger model. This reassurance must come not as appeasement, but as a confident expression of loyalty: "Yes, I am attractive to other women. Yes, I have options. And I choose you, because you are mine, and I protect and care for what is mine." That certainty, when expressed with strength and conviction, becomes a fortress for a woman's heart. Without it, she will inevitably turn to external structures for security. But with it, she returns to trusting the man, the family, and the legacy they build together.

Step 3: Tell Stories of Escape

Use testimonials from other women who escaped the cult. Stories like: “I was deep in it. I thought I was saving the world. But I was losing my family. Now I see what I couldn’t before.” Or, “I thought my husband was the problem, until I realized the real threat came from the people telling me to mistrust him.” These voices speak directly to the emotional world of the captured woman, offering not just facts, but felt truth.

These stories break the illusion of isolation. They reassure her that she is not alone in her confusion, her regret, or her desire to rebuild. They plant emotional seeds, dissonance, doubt, hope, without triggering direct resistance. Storytelling bypasses intellectual defenses and speaks to the part of the woman that still remembers what’s real.

Step 4: Recreate Female Community Bonds

Where the left isolates, we must reconnect. But while men cannot lead or structure these female networks, we can enable and protect the space for them to form. We must ensure that our wives, daughters, and friends have time and freedom to gather, without guilt or obstruction.

These groups should revolve around emotional connection, practical help, and mutual aid in the struggles of motherhood, parenting, and home life. Women will share problems, swap advice, and support each other with simple but essential acts, like watching each other’s children so they can rest or reset. This kind of community was normal into the 1980s. Now, it is nearly extinct.

Ideally, these groups should be formed IRL (in real life, not online) from the wives of your male friends. That way, there’s a higher chance of shared values and healthy ideological alignment from the start.

We must help revive womens supporting networks, not by leading it, but by valuing it, making time for it, and defending its moral and civilizational importance.

Step 5: Offer Purpose Beyond Politics

The left gives women a sense of moral identity. We must replace it, not just with words, but with action. We must hold up being a wife and mother as something aspirational, beautiful, and noble, not as an afterthought or a burden.

As men, this begins with us. Do we treat our wives with gratitude and admiration? Do we openly praise the care, endurance, and intelligence they bring to mothering and home-making? Do we protect their time, their energy, and their sacred role in our family’s future?

This also demands emotional connection, something many men struggle with not because they lack emotion, but because they were never taught to process and express it. But this is a skill. It can be learned. And once it is, emotional connection becomes a source of deep mutual reinforcement between husband and wife. The more she feels seen and valued in her role, the more proud she becomes to live it, and the more other women around her will notice.

We must inspire them with what’s real, not what’s trendy. We must model the moral clarity, personal loyalty, and emotional presence that makes home, family, and feminine purpose shine brighter than any ideology ever could.

Final Word: Rescue is a Duty, an Act of Love, and a Rational Interest

To allow our women to remain captive is to allow civilization to die. We must treat their freedom from ideological capture not as an idea, but as a sacred duty. They are not our enemies. They are hostages in a psychological war, a war they did not start, do not understand, and cannot win alone.

To rescue them is not only an act of love.

It is an act of civilizational and genetic defence.

And it is in our rational interest.

Every man, every father, every husband pays the price of this captivity, through taxes that fund the institutions that groom our women, through social unrest that erodes our communities, and through the personal cost of broken families, alienated children, and lost legacy. Rescue is not a sentimental gesture. It is an act of moral clarity, emotional loyalty, and strategic necessity. It is how we reclaim not only the women we love, but the future they were meant to nurture.

But we must also remain vigilant. Love does not mean indulgence. Compassion does not mean surrender. Even as we seek to free the women in our lives from this captivity, we must not allow their captured state to undermine our leadership, our mission, or our efforts to rebuild. We cannot permit their fear, confusion, or hostility, however manipulated, to dictate the terms of our civilization’s renewal.

We also must accept a hard truth: not everyone can be saved. Some will resist to the end. Some will walk away. Some will cling to their captors even when the door is open. This does not mean we stop trying. But it means we must steel our hearts. We must develop the strength to let go when necessary, so we can move forward and continue helping others. The mission is too important to be stalled by those who refuse the rescue. We owe them our love, but we owe our children and civilization our leadership.

The rescue is for them, but the direction must be set by those who remain free.

And we must speak plainly: those responsible for this mass grooming, those who finance it, institutionalize it, and profit from it, are not merely political opponents. They are existential threats to your wife, your children, your legacy, and your civilization. They have declared total war on truth, beauty, order, and loyalty. Now is the time for dangerous men to stop directing your frustration at the women who have been captured, and begin directing your resolve at those who captured them. We do not need to list the measures necessary. You will know them by their proportionality. In times of existential threat, reciprocal response is not extremism, it is survival.

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GA, plebs. The latest episode of Bitcoin And is out, and, as always, the chicanery is running rampant. Let’s break down the biggest topics I covered, and if you want the full, unfiltered rant, make sure to listen to the episode linked below.

House Democrats’ MEME Act: A Bad Joke?

House Democrats are proposing a bill to ban presidential meme coins, clearly aimed at Trump’s and Melania’s ill-advised token launches. While grifters launching meme coins is bad, this bill is just as ridiculous. If this legislation moves forward, expect a retaliatory strike exposing how politicians like Pelosi and Warren mysteriously amassed their fortunes. Will it pass? Doubtful. But it’s another sign of the government’s obsession with regulating everything except itself.

Senate Banking’s First Digital Asset Hearing: The Real Target Is You

Cynthia Lummis chaired the first digital asset hearing, and—surprise!—it was all about control. The discussion centered on stablecoins, AML, and KYC regulations, with witnesses suggesting Orwellian measures like freezing stablecoin transactions unless pre-approved by authorities. What was barely mentioned? Bitcoin. They want full oversight of stablecoins, which is really about controlling financial freedom. Expect more nonsense targeting self-custody wallets under the guise of stopping “bad actors.”

Bank of America and PayPal Want In on Stablecoins

Bank of America’s CEO openly stated they’ll launch a stablecoin as soon as regulation allows. Meanwhile, PayPal’s CEO paid for a hat using Bitcoin—not their own stablecoin, Pi USD. Why wouldn’t he use his own product? Maybe he knows stablecoins aren’t what they’re hyped up to be. Either way, the legacy financial system is gearing up to flood the market with stablecoins, not because they love crypto, but because it’s a tool to extend U.S. dollar dominance.

MetaPlanet Buys the Dip

Japan’s MetaPlanet issued $13.4M in bonds to buy more Bitcoin, proving once again that institutions see the writing on the wall. Unlike U.S. regulators who obsess over stablecoins, some companies are actually stacking sats.

UK Expands Crypto Seizure Powers

Across the pond, the UK government is pushing legislation to make it easier to seize and destroy crypto linked to criminal activity. While they frame it as going after the bad guys, it’s another move toward centralized control and financial surveillance.

Bitcoin Tools & Tech: Arc, SatoChip, and Nunchuk

Some bullish Bitcoin developments: ARC v0.5 is making Bitcoin’s second layer more efficient, SatoChip now supports Taproot and Nostr, and Nunchuk launched a group wallet with chat, making multisig collaboration easier.

The Bottom Line

The state is coming for financial privacy and control, and stablecoins are their weapon of choice. Bitcoiners need to stay focused, keep their coins in self-custody, and build out parallel systems. Expect more regulatory attacks, but don’t let them distract you—just keep stacking and transacting in ways they can’t control.

🎧 Listen to the full episode here: https://fountain.fm/episode/PYITCo18AJnsEkKLz2Ks

💰 Support the show by boosting sats on Podcasting 2.0! and I will see you on the other side.

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Have you ever wanted to learn from lengthy educational videos but found it challenging to navigate through hours of content? Our new tool addresses this problem by transforming long-form video lectures into easily digestible, searchable content.

Key Features:

Video Processing:

• Automatically downloads YouTube videos, transcripts, and chapter information
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Content Summarization:

• Utilizes language models to transform spoken content into clear, readable text
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Diagram Extraction:

• Analyzes video entropy to identify static diagram/slide sections
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Going Forward:

Currently undergoing a rewrite to improve organization and functionality, but you are welcome to try the current version, though it might not work on every machine. Will support multiple open and closed language models for user choice Free and open-source, allowing for personal customization and integration with various knowledge bases. Just because we might not have it on our official Alexandria knowledge base, you are still welcome to use it on you own personal or community knowledge bases! We want to help find connections between ideas that exist across relays, allowing individuals and groups to mix and match knowledge bases between each other, allowing for any degree of openness you care.

While designed with #Alexandria users in mind, it's available for anyone to use and adapt to their own learning needs.

Screenshots

Frame Selection

This is a screenshot of the frame selection interface. You'll see a signal that represents frame entropy over time. The vertical lines indicate the start and end of a chapter. Within these chapters you can select the frames by clicking and dragging the mouse over the desired range where you think diagram is in that chapter. At the bottom is an option that tells the program to select a specific number of frames from that selection.

Diagram Extraction

This is a screenshot of the diagram extraction interface. For every selection you've made, there will be a set of frames that you can choose from. You can select and deselect as many frames as you'd like to save.

Links

• repo: https://github.com/limina1/video_article_converter
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Output

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Since its launch in 2009, Bitcoin has attracted the attention of a wide range of investors and visionaries who believe in its potential to revolutionize the global financial system. Over the years, several figures have stood out within the movement—either as pioneers who helped build it or as investors who bet on its future. These individuals have played crucial roles in Bitcoin's development, its growing adoption, and its legitimacy in financial markets.

• Satoshi Nakamoto

The most significant Bitcoin pioneer is undoubtedly its creator, Satoshi Nakamoto. Although the name is a pseudonym, Nakamoto's contribution to the creation and launch of Bitcoin was foundational. In 2008, Nakamoto published the famous whitepaper "Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System," outlining the concept of a decentralized digital currency that could operate without the need for a central authority like a bank. In 2009, he released the Bitcoin software and mined the first block of the blockchain—the “genesis block.”

Nakamoto remained a mysterious figure and gradually withdrew from public involvement around 2011, leaving the project in the hands of a growing community of developers. Though his identity remains unknown, his impact on ushering in a new digital era is undeniable.

• Hal Finney

Hal Finney was one of Nakamoto’s earliest collaborators and is widely known as the first person to receive a Bitcoin transaction. In January 2009, he received 10 bitcoins from Nakamoto as part of an early test, becoming one of the first believers in the project. Finney, a respected programmer and cryptography expert, played a vital role in Bitcoin’s early technical development and helped promote it within the digital privacy community.

He was a dedicated advocate for decentralized technologies and supported Bitcoin until his death in 2014. Finney is remembered as a key pioneer of digital currency.

• Roger Ver

Known as “Bitcoin Jesus,” Roger Ver was one of the first investors and outspoken advocates for Bitcoin. Captivated by the idea of decentralized money, Ver made early investments in various Bitcoin-related startups and projects. He quickly recognized Bitcoin’s disruptive potential and became a leading voice promoting its adoption as a payment method and financial tool.

Ver was instrumental in creating companies and initiatives that supported Bitcoin's early ecosystem. Although he later became a controversial figure—due to his advocacy for Bitcoin Cash as an alternative to the original Bitcoin blockchain—his contributions to Bitcoin's early popularity remain significant.

• Tim Draper

Tim Draper is one of the most prominent venture capitalists in the Bitcoin space. In 2014, he famously purchased nearly 30,000 bitcoins from a U.S. government auction, following the shutdown of the Silk Road marketplace. Draper paid approximately $19 million for the coins and has since become a public advocate for Bitcoin as a viable alternative to fiat currencies.

As the founder of Draper Associates, he is known for his long-term vision and conviction in the potential of cryptocurrencies. Draper frequently promotes Bitcoin as a tool for democratizing finance and anticipates its mass adoption in the coming years.

• Michael Saylor

Michael Saylor, CEO of MicroStrategy, is a leading figure in institutional Bitcoin adoption. In 2020, he made headlines by purchasing over 100,000 bitcoins for his company—making MicroStrategy the first publicly traded company to adopt Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset. Saylor has since become a vocal proponent of Bitcoin as a hedge against inflation and a superior store of value compared to fiat money.

His bold move has helped legitimize Bitcoin in the corporate world and inspired other companies to follow suit. Saylor continues to assert that Bitcoin is the future of finance and that MicroStrategy’s strategy serves as a model for corporate treasury management in the digital age.

In summary, the pioneers and investors who helped grow and promote Bitcoin have played essential roles in the evolution of this disruptive technology. From the enigmatic Satoshi Nakamoto to key figures like Hal Finney, Roger Ver, Tim Draper, and Michael Saylor, Bitcoin has been shaped by individuals with a unique vision for the future of money and financial freedom. Through their belief and perseverance, they helped lay the foundation for Bitcoin’s global adoption—transforming it from a radical idea into a revolutionary force in the financial system. While Bitcoin’s future will depend on its continued innovation and broader adoption, the contributions of these early leaders are undeniable.

Thank you very much for reading this far. I hope everything is well with you, and sending a big hug from your favorite Bitcoiner maximalist from Madeira. Long live freedom!

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LUV and Hivebits/HBIT/Wusang pause tl;dr LUV and HBIT (aka, Hivebits and the Wusang game) are on a pause at the moment, taking a break. https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/23x1SY8Vx8j1mVGnDFtq7ebuzKNGd8K9Ssex51AEerxks1VYikxGPShM7bjNhmSrEZ2wf.png Image from pixabay.com Why? There are odd things going on. I have a theory, but here's what is known... May 28, 2025, at about 1:30 pm GMT (8:30 AM EDT), a second attack (for lack of better term) hit HBIT in about a week. It seemed to start with @tyler45 with this comment https://peakd.com/blog/@tyler45/comment-20250528125108033 tx: https://he.dtools.dev/tx/7e7d4126196ca5b6dbe0a04dcded0e25d3bcc7f4 See tyler45's activity at https://he.dtools.dev/@tyler45 Notice the reply and WUSANG command is to a post by @olivia897 and how many of the other WUSANG comments on the explorer are in reply to olivia897. It seems these are all auto-generated accounts. The names and "birthdates" and interactions all point to automation. Once initiated, things happened very fast on the back end, clearly not being done manually. In this way, this seems rather sophisticated technically. I estimate just over 400 HBIT were pilfered the other day from the @Hivebits account before I noticed and was able to shut things down. Just for a little background, after the first attack May 21, 2025. I wrote a small bit of info: https://peakd.com/hivebits/@crrdlx/hbit-resource-credits A couple of days ago this post by @holoz0r was interesting: https://peakd.com/hive-133987/@holoz0r/text-analytics-reveal-thirty-two-percent-of-comments-on-hive-are-not-unique-and-at-least-ten-percent-add-no-value-to-discussion The thing that caught my eye was that the WUSANG comment was the largest by far, along with BBH (hello @bradleyarrow), because the attackers used both commands. Then, a few days later, things happened again: sudden start, repetitive bot attack, until I shut things down. So, a pause This is a period in my personal calendar where I simply don't have time to sit down at a computer for an extended period and try fiddle with this stuff. So, for now @Luvshares and @Hivebits (HBIT) and the @Wusang game are on hold. Plus, there's other fun stuff to do. https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/crrdlx/AJL43SREA1EuyqPXhydmqaq1RHhRVoYd12PfiBN5vDMu2WSKUtGeYWgKJyuRwV8.jpg I go by @crrdlx or "CR" for short. See all my links or contact info at https://linktr.ee/crrdlx.

Originally posted on Hive at https://peakd.com/@crrdlx/luv-and-hivebitshbitwusang-pause

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A seguir, veja como instalar e configurar o Privoxy no Pop!_OS.

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1. Instalar o Tor e o Privoxy

Abra o terminal e execute:

bash sudo apt update sudo apt install tor privoxy

Explicação:

• Tor: Roteia o tráfego pela rede Tor.
• Privoxy: Proxy avançado que intermedia a conexão entre aplicativos e o Tor.

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2. Configurar o Privoxy

Abra o arquivo de configuração do Privoxy:

bash sudo nano /etc/privoxy/config

Navegue até a última linha (atalho: Ctrl + / depois Ctrl + V para navegar diretamente até a última linha) e insira:

bash forward-socks5 / 127.0.0.1:9050 .

Isso faz com que o Privoxy envie todo o tráfego para o Tor através da porta 9050.

Salve (CTRL + O e Enter) e feche (CTRL + X) o arquivo.

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3. Iniciar o Tor e o Privoxy

Agora, inicie e habilite os serviços:

bash sudo systemctl start tor sudo systemctl start privoxy sudo systemctl enable tor sudo systemctl enable privoxy

Explicação:

• start: Inicia os serviços.
• enable: Faz com que iniciem automaticamente ao ligar o PC.

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4. Configurar o Navegador Firefox

Para usar a rede Tor com o Firefox:

1. Abra o Firefox.
2. Acesse Configurações → Configurar conexão.
3. Selecione Configuração manual de proxy.
4. Configure assim:
   • Proxy HTTP: 127.0.0.1
   • Porta: 8118 (porta padrão do Privoxy)
   • Domínio SOCKS (v5): 127.0.0.1
   • Porta: 9050
5. Marque a opção "Usar este proxy também em HTTPS".
6. Clique em OK.

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5. Verificar a Conexão com o Tor

Abra o navegador e acesse:

text https://check.torproject.org/

Se aparecer a mensagem "Congratulations. This browser is configured to use Tor.", a configuração está correta.

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Dicas Extras

• Privoxy pode ser ajustado para bloquear anúncios e rastreadores.
• Outros aplicativos também podem ser configurados para usar o Privoxy.

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A new report from the National Sports Shooting Foundation (NSSF) shows that civilian firearm possession exceeded 490 million in 2022. The total from 1990 to 2022 is estimated at 491.3 million firearms. In 2022, over ten million firearms were domestically produced, leading to a total of 16,045,911 firearms available in the U.S. market.

Of these, 9,873,136 were handguns, 4,195,192 were rifles, and 1,977,583 were shotguns. Handgun availability aligns with the concealed carry and self-defense market, as all states allow concealed carry, with 29 having constitutional carry laws.

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Bitcoin and Fixed Income was Written By Wyatt O’Rourke. If you enjoyed this article then support his writing, directly, by donating to his lightning wallet: ultrahusky3@primal.net

Fiduciary duty is the obligation to act in the client’s best interests at all times, prioritizing their needs above the advisor’s own, ensuring honesty, transparency, and avoiding conflicts of interest in all recommendations and actions.

This is something all advisors in the BFAN take very seriously; after all, we are legally required to do so. For the average advisor this is a fairly easy box to check. All you essentially have to do is have someone take a 5-minute risk assessment, fill out an investment policy statement, and then throw them in the proverbial 60/40 portfolio. You have thousands of investment options to choose from and you can reasonably explain how your client is theoretically insulated from any move in the \~markets\~. From the traditional financial advisor perspective, you could justify nearly anything by putting a client into this type of portfolio. All your bases were pretty much covered from return profile, regulatory, compliance, investment options, etc. It was just too easy. It became the household standard and now a meme.

As almost every real bitcoiner knows, the 60/40 portfolio is moving into psyop territory, and many financial advisors get clowned on for defending this relic on bitcoin twitter. I’m going to specifically poke fun at the ‘40’ part of this portfolio.

The ‘40’ represents fixed income, defined as…

An investment type that provides regular, set interest payments, such as bonds or treasury securities, and returns the principal at maturity. It’s generally considered a lower-risk asset class, used to generate stable income and preserve capital.

Historically, this part of the portfolio was meant to weather the volatility in the equity markets and represent the “safe” investments. Typically, some sort of bond.

First and foremost, the fixed income section is most commonly constructed with U.S. Debt. There are a couple main reasons for this. Most financial professionals believe the same fairy tale that U.S. Debt is “risk free” (lol). U.S. debt is also one of the largest and most liquid assets in the market which comes with a lot of benefits.

There are many brilliant bitcoiners in finance and economics that have sounded the alarm on the U.S. debt ticking time bomb. I highly recommend readers explore the work of Greg Foss, Lawrence Lepard, Lyn Alden, and Saifedean Ammous. My very high-level recap of their analysis:

• A bond is a contract in which Party A (the borrower) agrees to repay Party B (the lender) their principal plus interest over time.

• The U.S. government issues bonds (Treasury securities) to finance its operations after tax revenues have been exhausted.

• These are traditionally viewed as “risk-free” due to the government’s historical reliability in repaying its debts and the strength of the U.S. economy

• U.S. bonds are seen as safe because the government has control over the dollar (world reserve asset) and, until recently (20 some odd years), enjoyed broad confidence that it would always honor its debts.

• This perception has contributed to high global demand for U.S. debt but, that is quickly deteriorating.

• The current debt situation raises concerns about sustainability.

• The U.S. has substantial obligations, and without sufficient productivity growth, increasing debt may lead to a cycle where borrowing to cover interest leads to more debt.

• This could result in more reliance on money creation (printing), which can drive inflation and further debt burdens.

In the words of Lyn Alden “Nothing stops this train”

Those obligations are what makes up the 40% of most the fixed income in your portfolio. So essentially you are giving money to one of the worst capital allocators in the world (U.S. Gov’t) and getting paid back with printed money.

As someone who takes their fiduciary responsibility seriously and understands the debt situation we just reviewed, I think it’s borderline negligent to put someone into a classic 60% (equities) / 40% (fixed income) portfolio without serious scrutiny of the client’s financial situation and options available to them. I certainly have my qualms with equities at times, but overall, they are more palatable than the fixed income portion of the portfolio. I don’t like it either, but the money is broken and the unit of account for nearly every equity or fixed income instrument (USD) is fraudulent. It’s a paper mache fade that is quite literally propped up by the money printer.

To briefly be as most charitable as I can – It wasn’t always this way. The U.S. Dollar used to be sound money, we used to have government surplus instead of mathematically certain deficits, The U.S. Federal Government didn’t used to have a money printing addiction, and pre-bitcoin the 60/40 portfolio used to be a quality portfolio management strategy. Those times are gone.

Now the fun part. How does bitcoin fix this?

Bitcoin fixes this indirectly. Understanding investment criteria changes via risk tolerance, age, goals, etc. A client may still have a need for “fixed income” in the most literal definition – Low risk yield. Now you may be thinking that yield is a bad word in bitcoin land, you’re not wrong, so stay with me. Perpetual motion machine crypto yield is fake and largely where many crypto scams originate. However, that doesn’t mean yield in the classic finance sense does not exist in bitcoin, it very literally does. Fortunately for us bitcoiners there are many other smart, driven, and enterprising bitcoiners that understand this problem and are doing something to address it. These individuals are pioneering new possibilities in bitcoin and finance, specifically when it comes to fixed income.

Here are some new developments –

Private Credit Funds – The Build Asset Management Secured Income Fund I is a private credit fund created by Build Asset Management. This fund primarily invests in bitcoin-backed, collateralized business loans originated by Unchained, with a secured structure involving a multi-signature, over-collateralized setup for risk management. Unchained originates loans and sells them to Build, which pools them into the fund, enabling investors to share in the interest income.

Dynamics

• Loan Terms: Unchained issues loans at interest rates around 14%, secured with a 2/3 multi-signature vault backed by a 40% loan-to-value (LTV) ratio.
• Fund Mechanics: Build buys these loans from Unchained, thus providing liquidity to Unchained for further loan originations, while Build manages interest payments to investors in the fund.

Pros

• The fund offers a unique way to earn income via bitcoin-collateralized debt, with protection against rehypothecation and strong security measures, making it attractive for investors seeking exposure to fixed income with bitcoin.

Cons

• The fund is only available to accredited investors, which is a regulatory standard for private credit funds like this.

Corporate Bonds – MicroStrategy Inc. (MSTR), a business intelligence company, has leveraged its corporate structure to issue bonds specifically to acquire bitcoin as a reserve asset. This approach allows investors to indirectly gain exposure to bitcoin’s potential upside while receiving interest payments on their bond investments. Some other publicly traded companies have also adopted this strategy, but for the sake of this article we will focus on MSTR as they are the biggest and most vocal issuer.

Dynamics

• Issuance: MicroStrategy has issued senior secured notes in multiple offerings, with terms allowing the company to use the proceeds to purchase bitcoin.

• Interest Rates: The bonds typically carry high-yield interest rates, averaging around 6-8% APR, depending on the specific issuance and market conditions at the time of issuance.

• Maturity: The bonds have varying maturities, with most structured for multi-year terms, offering investors medium-term exposure to bitcoin’s value trajectory through MicroStrategy’s holdings.

Pros

• Indirect Bitcoin exposure with income provides a unique opportunity for investors seeking income from bitcoin-backed debt.

• Bonds issued by MicroStrategy offer relatively high interest rates, appealing for fixed-income investors attracted to the higher risk/reward scenarios.

Cons

• There are credit risks tied to MicroStrategy’s financial health and bitcoin’s performance. A significant drop in bitcoin prices could strain the company’s ability to service debt, increasing credit risk.

• Availability: These bonds are primarily accessible to institutional investors and accredited investors, limiting availability for retail investors.

Interest Payable in Bitcoin – River has introduced an innovative product, bitcoin Interest on Cash, allowing clients to earn interest on their U.S. dollar deposits, with the interest paid in bitcoin.

Dynamics

• Interest Payment: Clients earn an annual interest rate of 3.8% on their cash deposits. The accrued interest is converted to Bitcoin daily and paid out monthly, enabling clients to accumulate Bitcoin over time.

• Security and Accessibility: Cash deposits are insured up to $250,000 through River’s banking partner, Lead Bank, a member of the FDIC. All Bitcoin holdings are maintained in full reserve custody, ensuring that client assets are not lent or leveraged.

Pros

• There are no hidden fees or minimum balance requirements, and clients can withdraw their cash at any time.

• The 3.8% interest rate provides a predictable income stream, akin to traditional fixed-income investments.

Cons

• While the interest rate is fixed, the value of the Bitcoin received as interest can fluctuate, introducing potential variability in the investment’s overall return.

• Interest rate payments are on the lower side

Admittedly, this is a very small list, however, these types of investments are growing more numerous and meaningful. The reality is the existing options aren’t numerous enough to service every client that has a need for fixed income exposure. I challenge advisors to explore innovative options for fixed income exposure outside of sovereign debt, as that is most certainly a road to nowhere. It is my wholehearted belief and call to action that we need more options to help clients across the risk and capital allocation spectrum access a sound money standard.

Additional Resources

• River: The future of saving is here: Earn 3.8% on cash. Paid in Bitcoin.

• Onramp: Bitcoin, The Emergent Asset Class

• MicroStrategy: MicroStrategy Announces Pricing of Offering of Convertible Senior Notes

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What is the CGT loan trap?

The Capital Gains Tax (CGT) loan trap, is where you take a bitcoin-backed loan, expecting that providing the collateral does not trigger CGT, only to find that it does trigger CGT.

Oof.

It's a particularly dangerous trap for plebs because bitcoin collateralised lending typically requires over-collateralisation which is often 2x the amount being borrowed. This means if CGT is triggered on the provision of the collateral, your CGT is 2x the CGT bill had you just sold down the bitcoin for the amount you borrowed.

That's without adding the additional cost of the interest on the loan; more oof.

Why it's important to pay attention to this

Firstly because if you're caught in the trap, you're the one who is liable and not the Lender.

Secondly, because all bitcoin transactions are permanent records and you can reasonably assume that future tax collection sleuths will backtrack through yesterday's transactions. Lenders who KYC their customers provide an easy data collection point for tax collectors, and that data doesn't go away.

And lastly, because there is no emerging signs of fiscal responsibility at the sovereign level, so it's reasonable to assume tax agencies are being directed to increase collections .. and bitcoiners aren't going to get any sort of pass there.

And of course, the bigger the Bitcoin network grows, the more attractive bitcoin collateralised lending will be, and the the more attention it will garner .. and some of that will be from tax collectors.

So, what determines if CGT is applicable?

The concept of beneficial ownership is the relevant term to understand and pay attention to. A change in beneficial ownership is what tax authorities use as the trigger to determine if a CGT event has occurred. This isn't a term or concept isolated to my country (Australia) or the US or the UK or Europe - it's one that's been actively harmonised across the G20. It applies to all asset classes.

The beneficial owner is the one who enjoys the benefits of the asset. It's slightly different to the concept of legal owner which is the person or entity on a government register as the "owner" of the asset.

And if you're a bitcoiner reading this, you're probably already aware that there is no government register of the "ownership of bitcoin" - that's very literally what the timechain, and your bitcoin private keys, are .. but we digress.

Where there is a change in the beneficial owner of an asset, that triggers a CGT liability. This isn't new, it's not related to bitcoin specifically but to all asset classes, and it is consistent over a wide group of countries. The way that each jurisdiction legislates, enforces and applies it will vary somewhat.

So let's explore how that relates to providing collateral in bitcoin-backed loans.

Types of bitcoin backed loans

Bitcoin represents pristine and unimpeachable collateral, so any dollar lender should be happily accepting it as collateral from their perspective. But let's focus on the issue of changing beneficial ownership and how that ties into the borrower's CGT liabilities.

There are loans available from platforms that provide the dollar liquidity, and there are loans from peers.

Loans from platforms

Loans from platforms are going to require KYC information because there is a centralised lender and that will come with a legal construct. The three things to pay attention to are:

1. Legal terms and conditions

Ideally, the platform terms should have a statement that acknowledges the unchanged beneficial ownership of the collateral by the borrower, as long as the borrower does not default on the loan.

There may not be such a statement, and if there is not, then the next point on how the collateral is managed needs some careful attention.

The immediate red-flag is if the terms categorically state that there is a change of beneficial ownership of the collateral; being a party to such a contract would legally acknowledge that you transferred beneficial ownership, triggering CGT.

NB: The legal terms and conditions should be generally accessible. If they aren't available then request them from support. If they're not forthcoming, then it's a giant red flag and I'd recommend you exit stage left.

1. How the collateral is custodied

A key test that is used to determine if beneficial ownership has changed is the custody of the asset(s). If bitcoin as collateral is kept in a discrete location, and is not pooled with other collateral, then there is a strong case to maintain the chain of unbroken beneficial ownership.

By contrast, collateral that is sent into a "pool" can be deemed to be disposed of, since it's not the same bitcoin that is being returned on successful completion of the loan. I am personally aware of plebs who have been "bitten" by using lending services who "pool" collateral from multiple loans into a pool, and consequently receive different bitcoin on loan completion. The safe assumption is that collateral that is pooled, will be deemed a disposal for CGT events.

1. Whether collateral can be re-hypothecated

Ignoring the very dubious issues around re-hypothecation more generally, (who remembers BlockFi, Celsius, Genesis, 3Arrows Capital etc), from a CGT trigger event perspective, if collateral can be re-hypothecated, it will likely be deemed a disposal for CGT purposes.

Loans that are peer-to-peer

There are other borrowing mechanisms that are based on enabling borrowing interaction directly between peers. These typically do not need to introduce the privacy and security risks of KYC, and so consequently do not require a specific legal contract between the peers.

The "terms" of the agreement are defined in the code that implements the contract between the parties, with the collateral held in a multi-party escrow, and returned to the Borrower should they successfully repay their loan. Only if the loan is NOT repaid, or needs to be liquidated, does the collateral change ownership.

In an ideal world, the usage terms for such platforms would acknowledge that the collateral provided by the Borrower remains their unchanged beneficial ownership unless the contract is liquidated, or the loan is not repaid.

Examples of platforms that allow peers to connect and create contracts for borrowing between themselves include Debifi, Lend at HodlHodl, Firefish and Lendasat.

How did I end up down this rabbit hole?

I narrowly avoided falling into precisely this trap recently when I was considering a loan from https://ledn.io I was curious that the Loan terms weren't available to review on their site, or from the customer dashboard after I signed up.

They happily provided them on request (https://www.ledn.io/legal/usd-loan-agreement), and once I got to Section 7 (b), it became clear this wasn't a product I wanted to use because every supply of collateral to Ledn, for any loan, would automatically trigger a CGT event.

Ledn, like every other lending platform, do not offer tax advice, and are clear to state the tax implications of using their products are up to the borrower to assess with their appropriate advisors.

Like many things in Bitcoin, this then made me curious about how widespread this practice was, what the underlying legal definitions were, how widely and harmoniously they were applied .. and here we are .. writing (and reading) blog posts!

So why borrow against your bitcoin at all?

Bitcoin-backed loans can potentially provide a mechanism to access dollars, without selling your bitcoin, and thereby deferring CGT on the sale of bitcoin.

For bitcoiners who've humbly stacked sats for several cycles, borrowing against your bitcoin, may provide a mechanism to further delay spending or selling sats, thereby increasing your purchasing power further.

When you borrow against your bitcoin, you are expecting bitcoin to continue to increase in purchasing power, and at a higher rate than the cost of the interest on the loan. Based on 16 years of bitcoin price history, this is a pretty safe assumption.

Don't however, make assumptions on CGT events that can potentially undermine the entire financial logic of going down this route in the first place; check carefully.

What will definitely trigger a CGT event?

Firstly and most obviously, if you take a bitcoin collateralised loan, and fail to repay the loan or are margin called and liquidated, then that portion of the collateral required to extinguish your loan will be sold. That's clearly a change of beneficial ownership, and that transaction will trigger a CGT liability.

Next, any service or product which explicitly requires you to acknowledge a change of beneficial ownership of the collateral on lodgement, will also trigger a CGT event.

After that, as we outlined earlier, pay close attention to collateral custody mechanisms and transparency and clarity on re-hypothecation - both of which are potential CGT trigger events.

So what's worth checking out?

Currently these are the lending offers that I'm aware of that are worth considering and I understand don't fall foul of the three key aspects outlined above.

• https://debifi.com

• https://firefish.io

• https://lend.hodlhodl.com

• https://lendasat.com/

As always, do your own checking, and validate with your accounting/legal advisors; the consequences of getting this wrong are potentially significant.

To be clear, I've no financial interest in any of these platforms, nor have I been paid to write this article, nor do I use referral codes. I have used some of these platforms, and believe them all to be operated by reputable teams with high integrity.

Final thoughts

Lastly, for those coming to the @bitcoinbushbash at the end of July in Palm Cove Queensland, I'll be presenting a session on this topic.

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Nostr: a quick introduction, attempt #2

Nostr doesn't subscribe to any ideals of "free speech" as these belong to the realm of politics and assume a big powerful government that enforces a common ruleupon everybody else.

Nostr instead is much simpler, it simply says that servers are private property and establishes a generalized framework for people to connect to all these servers, creating a true free market in the process. In other words, Nostr is the public road that each market participant can use to build their own store or visit others and use their services.

(Of course a road is never truly public, in normal cases it's ran by the government, in this case it relies upon the previous existence of the internet with all its quirks and chaos plus a hand of government control, but none of that matters for this explanation).

More concretely speaking, Nostr is just a set of definitions of the formats of the data that can be passed between participants and their expected order, i.e. messages between clients (i.e. the program that runs on a user computer) and relays (i.e. the program that runs on a publicly accessible computer, a "server", generally with a domain-name associated) over a type of TCP connection (WebSocket) with cryptographic signatures. This is what is called a "protocol" in this context, and upon that simple base multiple kinds of sub-protocols can be added, like a protocol for "public-square style microblogging", "semi-closed group chat" or, I don't know, "recipe sharing and feedback".

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In the valley of Wudo, nestled between emerald mountains and singing rivers, there was a village known for its harmony. The people of Wudil lived simple lives farming, weaving, raising children, and singing their local song to the wind. Their days flowed with the rhythm of nature, untouched by war, plague, or tyranny. For generations, the people believed they were blessed by the gods of balance.

Among them was a young woman named Eva. A gardener by trade, Eva tended to the central orchard, where trees older than memory bore fruit that nourished the entire village. She was known for her patience, her kindness, and her unwavering devotion to her garden. She’d never known violence, nor sorrow deeper than a poor harvest.

Eva believed peace was the default state of the world, like a calm lake reflecting the sky.

Fire came from beyond the mountains.

No one saw it coming not until the smoke darkened the horizon. A warlord named Stephen, a conqueror from the north, sought to expand his empire. The village of Wudil, with its fertile lands and soft people, was no obstacle.

The soldiers descended like wolves.

Homes were burned. Families torn apart. Screams replaced songs. Eva, who had never raised a hand in anger, watched her orchard set ablaze, twisting in fire, roots cracking, birds fleeing into the smoke.

She ran. She survived. But everything she had known, every idea she had clung to about the world being kind and calm was turned to ash in a single night.

She wandered for weeks through scorched forests and ravaged towns. She saw the aftermath of chaos starving children, hollow-eyed men, women digging graves with bare hands. And each time she closed her eyes, she heard the fire crackle and the cries of her neighbors.

The peace she once knew now felt like a dream someone else had lived.

Eventually, Eva reached the wasteland. A vast, arid expanse where nothing grew and the sky was white with heat. There, she collapsed body thin, lips cracked, hope extinguished.

She expected to die.

But she didn’t.

A band of wanderers found her. Survivors from other broken lands. They took her in, gave her water, patched her wounds. They were not like the people of Wudil; there was no softness in them. They had lived through war, betrayal, famine. They spoke little, but their silence carried weight.

Among them was an old woman named Serah. Scarred, one eye blind, but her presence quiet and steady.

“You come from the green valley,” Serah said one night. “The ones who believed they’d been spared.”

Eva nodded slowly.

“And now you know,” Serah said, “peace is not something given. It is something grown.”

“I thought I had peace,” Eva whispered.

“No. You had comfort. The two are not the same.”

Years passed.

Eva stayed with the wanderers, traveling from ruin to ruin, helping the broken rebuild. She learned to defend herself, to plant seeds in difficult soil, to listen more than she spoke. The ache inside her never truly faded, but it no longer ruled her.

One day, she returned to the valley of Wudo.

There was nothing left of Wudil but ruins. The land was overgrown, the orchard just blackened stumps. But the river still sang. And the soil, though scarred, was still rich.

Eva dropped to her knees and dug her fingers into the earth.

She planted the first seed.

Others joined her refugees, wanderers, survivors who had lost their homes. They built slowly, with hands that had known suffering. They did not speak of peace as something fragile, but as something they must forge again and again like fire-forged steel.

The orchard grew once more. But this time, every branch held memory. Every root, resilience.

Eva became the heart of the new village. The children called her the Flame-Gardener not because she brought destruction, but because she had survived it and bloomed anyway.

One evening, under the silver moon, a child asked her, “Why do you never fear the storms?”

Eva smiled softly. “Because I’ve lived through worse. And I’ve learned true peace doesn’t come when the world is quiet. It comes when your soul is strong enough to stand in the storm... and stay still.”

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The anime world is far from real and especially the powers that characters have is unimaginable and fighting scene are just epic. One good thing about anime is the story setting and the brilliant way of narration , it is not restricted by the characters, nor by what role will they play. Once such anime is Naruto ,it not just anime but a life-lesson series that will touch each and every emotion one has ever experienced . Although the characters are from a ninja world.

You will find the characters much more relatable to society that we live in . You will find yourself growing into a better person with each passing episode , it’s full of knowledge and will definitely increase your Emotional Quotient.

There is no age barrier as to who should watch this anime, any person of can and I would encourage everyone to watch this masterpiece. You will grow along with the series and would know that how our thinking evolve with growing age .

The character development in this epic saga is one of a kind and every characters back story is shown and this shows even though we live in a same world but still everyone is different and that difference has a lot to do with the journey an individual goes through. Personality is not born it is created and build during the lifetime.

Story has no plot holes and the whole story is wellhighlighted ,it's experiences with each episode playing a key role in story building and you don't want to miss any it keeps you glued to the series. Even though the series is a 700+ episodes you would wish it to never end ever. Villains are an integral part of the story and you would love villains more the hero’s in many cases . Basically it is based on the perception or lens through which an individual gauge good or evil deeds.

“It’s not the face that makes someone a monster, it’s the choices they make with their lives.” Naruto”.

There is no supreme villain but each villain shows a conflict of opinion , so is the case in real life too. No one is an ultimate bad character it’s the perception and the deeds committed in the past that portraits the character such. The story has extremely powerful villains and have a solid reason to act harsh. Looking at there side of story you feel for the emotional trauma associated with them. But in the end a crime committed in pain is also a crime and must not be promoted and must be punished.

NARUTO being the protagonist of the whole saga is not the hero . He is also an character and the hero is left on the people to decide. The whole concept of one hero story is what not applicable in real life , we all are heroes of our respective life and everyone should believe in themselves.

“Hard-work is worthless for those that don’t believe in themselves.” Naruto.

Epic fight sequence makes the anime more interesting to watch and the clash of opinions are truly shown through the fights. The fights bring chaos and destruction to the world but after this the world understand why peace is the ultimate truth . Wars bring the people closer and shows the power of cooperation.

“Sometimes You Must Hurt In Order To Know, Fall In Order To Grow, Lose In Order To Gain, Because Life’s Greatest Lessons Are Learned Through Pain.” -Pain

The relationship of a teacher and student is shown with great importance and one should always respect the teacher for all the knowledge that they share. How teacher with his faith can transform lives. Especially in the years when the world seems new and hostile to us.

“Rejection is a part of any man’s life. If you can’t accept and move past rejection or at least use it as writing material you’re not a real man.” — Master Jiraya.

The series also highlights the importance of one’s job and the importance of it. It is greatly justified when Naruto’s own parents sacrifice themselves to protect others and prevented a war. Always try to add value to others life , otherwise there is no meaning of existence in this world . Friends ,family , society will pay back 100 folds .

This series will add meaning to your life and will transform you for the good. “BELIEVE IT.”

@ 76c71aae:3e29cafa

On social media and in the Nostr space in particular, there’s been a lot of debate about the idea of supporting deletion and editing of notes.

Some people think they’re vital features to have, others believe that more honest and healthy social media will come from getting rid of these features. The discussion about these features quickly turns to the feasibility of completely deleting something on a decentralized protocol. We quickly get to the “We can’t really delete anything from the internet, or a decentralized network.” argument. This crowds out how Delete and Edit can mimic elements of offline interactions, how they can be used as social signals.

When it comes to issues of deletion and editing content, what matters more is if the creator can communicate their intentions around their content. Sure, on the internet, with decentralized protocols, there’s no way to be sure something’s deleted. It’s not like taking a piece of paper and burning it. Computers make copies of things all the time, computers don’t like deleting things. In particular, distributed systems tend to use a Kafka architecture with immutable logs, it’s just easier to keep everything around, as deleting and reindexing is hard. Even if the software could be made to delete something, there’s always screenshots, or even pictures of screens. We can’t provably make something disappear.

What we need to do in our software is clearly express intention. A delete is actually a kind of retraction. “I no longer want to associate myself with this content, please stop showing it to people as part of what I’ve published, stop highlighting it, stop sharing it.” Even if a relay or other server keeps a copy, and keeps sharing it, being able to clearly state “hello world, this thing I said, was a mistake, please get rid of it.” Just giving users the chance to say “I deleted this” is a way of showing intention. It’s also a way of signaling that feedback has been heard. Perhaps the post was factually incorrect or perhaps it was mean and the person wants to remove what they said. In an IRL conversation, for either of these scenarios there is some dialogue where the creator of the content is learning something and taking action based on what they’ve learned.

Without delete or edit, there is no option to signal to the rest of the community that you have learned something because of how the content is structured today. On most platforms a reply or response stating one’s learning will be lost often in a deluge of replies on the original post and subsequent posts are often not seen especially when the original goes viral. By providing tools like delete and edit we give people a chance to signal that they have heard the feedback and taken action.

The Nostr Protocol supports delete and expiring notes. It was one of the reasons we switched from secure scuttlebutt to build on Nostr. Our nos.social app offers delete and while we know that not all relays will honor this, we believe it’s important to provide social signaling tools as a means of making the internet more humane.

We believe that the power to learn from each other is more important than the need to police through moral outrage which is how the current platforms and even some Nostr clients work today.

It’s important that we don’t say Nostr doesn’t support delete. Not all apps need to support requesting a delete, some might want to call it a retraction. It is important that users know there is no way to enforce a delete and not all relays may honor their request.

Edit is similar, although not as widely supported as delete. It’s a creator making a clear statement that they’ve created a new version of their content. Maybe it’s a spelling error, or a new version of the content, or maybe they’re changing it altogether. Freedom online means freedom to retract a statement, freedom to update a statement, freedom to edit your own content. By building on these freedoms, we’ll make Nostr a space where people feel empowered and in control of their own media.

@ d360efec:14907b5f

@ 32e18276:5c68e245

Hey guys!

Here's our Q3-Q4 report. There was some confusion with the timing of the previous quarters so we've accumulated everything since the Q2 report (March 2nd, 2024) into this one. Enjoy!

Damus OpenSats Q3-Q4 Progress Report

The third and fourth quarter of the initial Damus OpenSats grant encompasses work done across many of the active projects being worked on at Damus HQ. Here's a quick overview of the progress made across the organization:

nostrdb

Added

• Author query support (William Casarin)
• REQ support: ndb_subscribe (William Casarin)
• CLOSE support: ndb_unsubscibe (William Casarin)
• Profile flatbuffer dump utility (William Casarin)
• Ability to register a subscription callback instead of just polling (William Casarin)

Changed

• Dump json in filter and fulltext queries in cli tool (William Casarin)

Stats

name added removed commits William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> +665 -739 16

nostrdb-rust

Added

• Note builder interface (William Casarin)
• Nip10 implementation (William Casarin)
• Getting profile by key (William Casarin)
• Note tag support (William Casarin)
• Tag::into_iter method (Yuki Kishimoto)
• FilterBuilder::until method (Yuki Kishimoto)
• Export structs from tags module (Yuki Kishimoto)

Fixed

• FilterBuilder::limit method (Yuki Kishimoto)
• Note::sig method (Yuki Kishimoto)

Stats

Yuki Kishimoto <yukikishimoto@protonmail.com> +20 -4 5 William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> +1551 -867 32

Damus NoteDeck/Android

This project is in heavy development and doesn't have clean changelogs yet, so here are all of the git logs from this period

Willam's updates

• account_manager: don't add the same pubkey more than once
• actionbar placeholder
• actionbar: remove border on reply button, add expand animation
• actionbar: support both dark and light buttons
• Add forward navigation animation
• add hover to profile map demo
• add --light lightmode flag to previews and notedeck
• add my pubkey to the timeline query for testing
• add test queries for elsat
• add vertical separators between timelines
• allow missing profiles in account switcher
• allow multiple invocations of --sec
• always have some default timeline
• app: make ndb public
• a quick note about the View trait
• args: allow filter files and raw filters on cli
• bump timeline filter limit
• cap size of remote filter limits
• change selection color to purple
• check: remove duplicate and disable wasm checks
• ci: disable wasm builds for now
• cli: add --sec argument to quickly add an account
• clippy postbox cleanups
• crates: add bitflags
• damus: make relay pool public
• darker quote reposts for mobile
• debug: add some debug logs for keyboard note selection
• deps: using tracing instead of log
• direnv: disable nix direnv on darwin
• direnv: make args explicit so its easy to change
• don't bump timeline when adding notes
• dont since-optimize when we don't have enough notes
• don't use an actual keystorage in Damus test apps
• drafts: clear post after posting
• enable nip10 replies
• enostr: rename Event to Note
• env: allow private things like secret keys
• filter: add default limit
• filters: fix hashtag filters
• filter: unify nostrdb and remote limits
• Fix all warnings
• fixed_window: fix clippy warning
• fix global query
• fix inline note preview colors
• fix light borders for quote reposts
• fix postbox design
• fix scroll area shrinking
• fix some clippy warnings
• fix until filters
• fix warnings
• fonts: always use base fonts for all families
• fun large profile grid preview
• get all missing ids from all timelines
• github: remove pages workflow
• gitignore: add perf files
• hide navigation title on global nav
• ids: find more unknown ids from inline notes
• images: add aspect_fill
• initial inline note previews
• initial navigation
• initial note posting
• initial postbox for testing
• initial post box view
• initial post reply view
• initial refactor in preparation for routing
• input: fix deadlock on resize
• input: handle raw events
• input: process input once
• input: switch to scanning over raw input events
• integrate sidebar into main view
• introduce View and Previews traits
• irc mode
• ircmode: tighten username
• keys: actually use the keystore
• lighter gray for inline previews in white mode
• list: switch from arc mutext to rc refcell
• load timelines from commandline
• log: reduce spammy new note log
• log relay subscriptions
• make notedeck front and center
• mobile: add lots of top padding on mobile
• mobile: a tad more padding at the top
• mobile: black panel bg color
• mobile: don't add hover on mobile
• mobile: make mobile flag runtime-configurable
• mobile: simplify is_mobile
• mobile: use my timeline for testing again
• move account_login_view to ui submodule
• move add_space to its correct location
• nip10: fetch unknown replied-to notes
• nip10: show initial reply information on notes
• nix: add openssl dep for reqwest
• nix: make android emulator optional
• nostrdb: bump to support timeline queries
• note: don't allow nested note previews
• note: support nprofile mentions
• perf: don't clone bytes via a more specialized function
• perf: fix continuous repaint
• perf: profiling note content rendering
• popup: increase fixed window margin
• popup: simplify borrow
• postbox: add focused state
• postbox: add focus shadow from figma
• post: full available width
• postview: add vertical scroll
• previews: remove central panel frame
• profile: add about and username to profile previews
• profiles: introduce DisplayNames
• profiling: update puffin version
• queries: add a few more test queries
• queries: set reasonable initial query sizes
• queries: update hashtags query
• readme: add usage
• readme: document previews
• readme: make it clear that its for desktop
• readme: make it clear that nix is optional for non-android dev
• readme: show notedeck preview
• refactor: move fixed_window to ui
• refactor: move note into its own widget
• refactor: rename widgets to ui
• refactor: use map instead of explicit if let
• remote: use default_remote_limit instead of hardcoding
• remove context from DesktopSidePanel
• remove minimum window size
• remove useless struct
• render_pfp: only depend on imgcache
• reset virtual list if notes are spliced into timeline
• set tooltip delay to 100ms
• side_panel: return more detailed side panel responses
• simplify is_mobile check
• simplify tab underline calculation
• since filter optimization
• slightly larger pfpfs
• small inline preview pfps
• style: initial logic for mobile style
• style: less bubbly
• style: realtime hover interactions
• style: set 0 duration tooltip delay
• Switch to egui master to fix wgpu issues
• switch to glow for now
• switch to rustls-tls-native-roots
• tabs: select notes & replies by default
• test: add test timeline query
• test: update test profile with a banner
• test: use my timeline query by default for testing
• textmode: adjust name sizing so it doesn't bump the column
• textmode: fix coloring of abbreviated names
• textmode: no previews in textmore for now
• theme: update to correct colors based on figma design
• timeline: don't hide on resize
• timeline: refactor tabs into TimelineView
• timeline: use strips instead of panels
• ui: add banners to profile previews
• ui: add feathering-resistant hline separator fn
• ui: add frame around note previews
• ui: add initial Profile hover previews
• ui: add profile picture hover animation
• ui: integrate egui-tabs for notes & replies selector
• ui: introduce profile picture widget
• ui: make pixel sizes correct, use more of the figma
• ui: move RelayView into ui module
• ui: only inline preview kind1 notes for now
• ui: reduce vertical padding for more compact timelines
• ui: remove some old note ui comments
• ui: simplify note widget
• ui: switch to flags for note options
• update slow timeline query
• update to latest nostrdb, adding tag support
• update version in comment because I still use this on my laptop
• use egui_virtual_list for rendering
• use unique id for post/reply view
• weird actionbar experiment
• we should just called this damus
• widgets: begin organizing ui components into widgets
• working notes + notes&replies

kernelkind's updates

• account_management: refactor
• AccountManagementView
• AccountManager: add ability to make a selection
• AccountSelectionWidget
• Account switcher
• Add AccountManager to app
• Add custom visual themes
• Add flag to emulate mobile during preview
• Add keypair & update pubkey
• Add login key parsing
• Add login manager
• Add MacOS key storage
• Add MobileAccountLoginView
• Add modular custom text styles
• Add monospace text style
• Add nix-shell for macos android development
• Add nostr-sdk dependency
• Add precommit hook to suggest proper formatting
• Add preview for RelayView
• Add relay view
• add reqwest as dependency
• Add SimpleProfilePreview
• Add ui_test_harness binary implementation
• Add warn color and highlight color
• app: add accounts to Damus & mock
• Apply app style to AccountLoginView
• Apply cargo fmt
• Conditionally compile MacOS key storage code
• Constrain app minimum size
• Create account login panel
• Create side panel & global popup
• enostr: expose RelayStatus
• Extract the sample relay to test_data for reuse
• impl linux credential storage
• Integrate account switcher to side panel
• Integrate global popup into app
• login: Add key loading & error to mobile
• macos_key_storage: runner ignore tests
• migrate AccountManagementView to enostr Keypair
• Migrate to new AccountManagementView conception
• Move login business logic to LoginManager
• move login logic from promise to async fns
• Move preview controller out of account_manager.rs
• move test account creation & apply to global popup
• Pfp integration to side panel
• refactor account switcher & management previews
• Refactor 'ui tests' conception to previews
• reintroduce account management
• reintroduce account switcher
• remove nostr-sdk
• Rename PersistState -> StateInMemory
• select first account
• Seperate mobile dark color theme into its own func
• update cargo.lock to reflect toml change
• Update egui 0.26.1 -> 0.27.1
• Use app_creation for common app setup functions
• Use custom style in app
• use nostr in enostr

Stats

name added removed commits kernelkind <kernelkind@gmail.com> +6844 -1979 58 William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> +9733 -5583 194

Damus iOS

Added

• Ability to create highlights (ericholguin)
• Add ability to mute hashtag from SearchView (Charlie Fish)
• Add ability to mute words, add new mutelist interface (Charlie) (William Casarin)
• Added callbackuri for a better ux when connecting mutiny wallet nwc (ericholguin)
• Added nip10 marker replies (William Casarin)
• Added title image and tags to longform events (ericholguin)
• Add event content preview to the full screen carousel (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Add First Aid solution for users who do not have a contact list created for their account (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Add marker nip10 support when reading notes (William Casarin)
• Add video cache to save network bandwidth (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Completely new threads experience that is easier and more pleasant to use (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Connect to Mutiny Wallet Button (ericholguin)
• Highlights (NIP-84) (ericholguin)
• Notification reminders for Damus Purple impending expiration (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Proxy Tags are now viewable on Selected Events (ericholguin)
• Relay fees metadata (ericholguin)
• Revamp emoji picker to be less error-prone and add search, frequently used, and multiple skin tone support capabilities (Terry Yiu)
• Show list of quoted reposts in threads (William Casarin)

Changed

• Added first aid contact damus support email (alltheseas)
• Add support for Apple In-App purchases (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Always strip GPS data from images (kernelkind)
• Change reactions to use a native looking emoji picker (Terry Yiu)
• Errors with an NWC will show as an alert (ericholguin)
• Improve UX around video playback (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Moved paste nwc button to main wallet view (ericholguin)
• Relay config view user interface (ericholguin)
• Relay detail design (ericholguin)
• Updated Zeus logo (ericholguin)

Fixed

• Fix broken GIF uploads (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix bug that would cause connection issues with relays defined with a trailing slash URL, and an inability to delete them. (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fixed issue where some replies were including the q tag (William Casarin)
• Fixed issue where timeline was scrolling when it isn't supposed to (William Casarin)
• Fixed threads not loading sometimes (William Casarin)
• Fixed wallet not disconnecting when a user logs out (ericholguin)
• Fix emoji reactions being cut off (ericholguin)
• Fix ghost notifications caused by Purple impending expiration notifications (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix image indicators to limit number of dots to not spill screen beyond visible margins (ericholguin)
• Fix in-app purchase issue that would trigger an error on purchase before confirming the account information. (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix issue where bootstrap relays would inadvertently be added to the user's list on connectivity issues (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix missing Mute button in profile view menu (Terry Yiu)
• Fix nostrscripts not loading (William Casarin)
• Fix profile not updating bug (William Casarin)
• Fix stale feed issue when follow list is too big (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix thread bug where a quote isn't picked up as a reply (William Casarin)
• Fix welcome screen not showing if the user enters the app directly after a successful checkout without going through the link (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Improve reliability of contact list creation during onboarding (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Issue where NWC Scanner view would not dismiss after a failed scan/paste (ericholguin)

Stats

name added removed commits Fonta1n3 <fontainedenton@googlemail.com> +1 -0 1 Sean Kibler <skibler@protonmail.com> +13 -2 1 alltheseas <64376233+alltheseas> +65 -1 4 Transifex <transifex@transifex.com> +581 -39 36 Terry Yiu <git@tyiu.xyz> +763 -1383 8 William Casarin <jb55@jb55.com> +1017 -1564 49 ericholguin <ericholguin@apache.org> +1962 -643 13 Daniel D’Aquino <daniel@daquino.me> +3885 -761 48

@ c2865f41:eaff678a

Unwilling to investigate. No interpellation of neighbors, witnesses, experts. No report emitted commenting on the petition, but just ignoring to answer. As such O.S.R. calls upon the justice system to address the wrongs. The analog drawing of geometer at the time of entree in the register of the O.S.R property

See the map attached, it is annotated and self-explaining, could not be clearer. O.S.R challenges the court to convoke when still alive), and any explanation he can give as to his drawing, now ignored by the same instance(Plav Cadastre) that mandated him in the first place. The example record

See attachment: the example record is out of a Swiss register, note the precise identity and details, address etc. of the owner of said parcel. That is what the constitution of Montenegro subscribes to: to have similar practices respected. The trail into the forest See attachment, another supporting map, as an example of the practices that are pertinent to justify an immediate injunction by the court, of all activities on the contested parcels.

@ 32e18276:5c68e245

Hey Damus enjoyers,

v1.8 has been tagged! Today we submitted v1.8 to the App Store, Here's a quick preview of what's in this release!

New Emoji Selector

It's now easier than ever to select emoji reactions! Just long press the reaction button to pop-up the new emoji selector. Thanks Terry for implementing this!

Quote Reposts

Quote reposts are now listed on posts, just like on the birdsite (x site ?)

New fullscreen video player

Our video controls were pretty bad before, this has been improved in this version! You can now seek videos, view them fullscreen, and airplay them to your tv. Thanks Daniel for this feature!

Improved longform style

Longform posts now show the image and related tags. Thanks Eric!

Account recovery, bug fixes

Thread loading is greatly improved, we now support the latest nip10 specification for improved compatibility between clients. We also added an account recovery feature called First Aid. You can use this to create a new contact list if for whatever reason you don't have one anymore. If you are running into issues following people, you can use this to recover your account:

Testflight

v1.9 dev is underway, with an up and coming highlighter feature where you can clip highlights from the web and other posts and share them to your feed. If you want to test out the latest up and coming features, make sure to grab a damus purple membership to get access!

https://damus.io/purple/login

That's all for now, here's the full changelog if you want to see what else is new!

Full Changelog

Added

• Added nip10 marker replies (William Casarin)
• Add marker nip10 support when reading notes (William Casarin)
• Added title image and tags to longform events (ericholguin)
• Add First Aid solution for users who do not have a contact list created for their account (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Relay fees metadata (ericholguin)
• Added callbackuri for a better ux when connecting mutiny wallet nwc (ericholguin)
• Add event content preview to the full screen carousel (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Show list of quoted reposts in threads (William Casarin)
• Proxy Tags are now viewable on Selected Events (ericholguin)
• Add ability to mute words, add new mutelist interface (Charlie)
• Add ability to mute hashtag from SearchView (Charlie Fish)

Changed

• Change reactions to use a native looking emoji picker (Terry Yiu)
• Relay detail design (ericholguin)
• Updated Zeus logo (ericholguin)
• Improve UX around video playback (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Moved paste nwc button to main wallet view (ericholguin)
• Errors with an NWC will show as an alert (ericholguin)
• Relay config view user interface (ericholguin)
• Always strip GPS data from images (kernelkind)

Fixed

• Fix thread bug where a quote isn't picked up as a reply (William Casarin)
• Fixed threads not loading sometimes (William Casarin)
• Fixed issue where some replies were including the q tag (William Casarin)
• Fixed issue where timeline was scrolling when it isn't supposed to (William Casarin)
• Fix issue where bootstrap relays would inadvertently be added to the user's list on connectivity issues (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix broken GIF uploads (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix ghost notifications caused by Purple impending expiration notifications (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Improve reliability of contact list creation during onboarding (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Fix emoji reactions being cut off (ericholguin)
• Fix image indicators to limit number of dots to not spill screen beyond visible margins (ericholguin)
• Fix bug that would cause connection issues with relays defined with a trailing slash URL, and an inability to delete them. (Daniel D’Aquino)
• Issue where NWC Scanner view would not dismiss after a failed scan/paste (ericholguin)

@ 866e0139:6a9334e5

Autor: Marcel Bühler. 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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In einem Artikel in der NZZ vom 27. Mai mit dem Titel "Trump nennt Putin verrückt" wird über den laut Kiew grössten russischen Drohnenangriff seit Beginn des Krieges auf ukrainische Städte berichtet. Dabei sollen am vergangenen Wochenende 355 Drohnen und 69 Raketen auf Kiew, Odessa, Ternipol (Westukraine) und andere Städte gesteuert bzw. abgefeuert worden sein. 288 Drohnen und 9 Raketen konnten laut Kiew von der ukrainischen Luftverteidigung abgeschossen werden. Was der Artikel verschweigt: bereits in der Woche davor, am 20. - 22. Mai hatte die Ukraine 485 Drohnen gegen russische Städte wie Kursk, Belgorod oder Brijansk geflogen, 63 davon erreichten die Region Moskau. Auch am Wochenende schickten die Ukrainer 205 Drohnen gegen russische Städte, 13 davon erreichten Moskau. Auch hier konnte die Luftverteidigung die meisten Drohnen unschädlich machen, eine davon hatte gar den Helikopter von Präsident Putin (!) im Visier. Als Reaktion darauf erklärte Präsident Putin, dass in der ukrainischen Region Sumy bzw. Tschernihiw im Norden eine Sicherheitszoneeingerichtet werden soll da die meisten Drohnen von hier aus gestartet wurden. Auch am 27./28. Mai schickte die Ukraine wieder 296 Drohnen Richtung Moskau, offenbar soll die russische Luftverteidigung damit überlastet werden um später westliche Cruise Missiles wie "Storm shadows", "Skalp" oder die umstrittenen deutschen "Taurus" effektiver einsetzen zu können. Der neue Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz hat dafür rund 5 Milliarden Euro in Aussicht gestellt um solche Waffensysteme in der Ukraine selber zusammenbauen zu können. 

Diese Gewaltspirale hat eine lange Geschichte: diese begann 2007 mit der 43. Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz, in der Präsident Putin sich gegen die unilaterale Weltordnung der USA und ihrer Verbündeten aussprach. Auch erteilte er den NATO-Osterweiterungen seit 1991 eine deutliche Absage, da diese entgegen (mündlich) gemachten Zusicherungen vollzogen wurden (siehe im Anhang die Rede im Wortlaut). Bei anderer Gelegenheit bezeichnete er vor allem einen möglichen NATO-Beitritt der (ehemals russischen) Ukraine als die "rote Linie", da es hier im Osten eine gemeinsame Grenze zu Russland über weit mehr als tausend Kilometer gebe und zudem Millionen von russischstämmigen Bürgern in der Ukraine lebten welche durch die Unabhängigkeit des Landes von ihrem Mutterland getrennt seinen. Im mittlerweile umstrittenen Budapester Memorandum von 5.12.1994 hatten zudem die Signatarmächte USA, GB und die Russische Föderation in getrennten Dokumenten die Unabhängigkeit und territoriale Integrität der Ukraine garantiert, wenn diese ein neutraler Pufferstaat zwischen der NATO und der Russischen Föderation sei und auf ihre Atomwaffen aus der sowjetischen Zeit verzichte (die Neutralität war in der ukrainischen Verfassung verankert). Trotzdem erklärten am darauffolgenden NATO-Gipfel in Bukarest im April 2008 die versammelten Staats- und Regierungschefs der 26 NATO-Staaten: "Die NATO begrüßt die euro-atlantischen Bestrebungen der Ukraine und Georgiens, die dem Bündnis beitreten wollen. Wir kamen heute überein, dass diese Länder NATO-Mitglieder werden." Zudem wurde die Unabhängigkeitserklärung des Kosowo vorbehaltlos anerkannt, dies nach einer völkerrechtswidrigen militärischen Intervention (d.h. ohne eine entsprechende UN-Resolution) der NATO gegen die Republik Serbien im Jahr 1999 (Staatsgrenzen dürfen also unter Umständen verändert werden).

Die Gewalt begann schon wenige Monate danach, als der durch die "Rosenrevolution" 2003 mit Unterstützung der USA in Tiflis an die Macht gekommene Exil-Georgier, Michail Saakaschwili, in der Nacht auf den 8.8.2008 einen militärischen Angriff auf die seit 1992/93 abtrünnigen Südosseten bzw. deren Hauptstadt Zchinwali befahl und dabei auch russische Friedenstruppen (als Schutzmacht der Osseten) unter Beschuss gerieten. Dies nachdem die Regierung Bush jr. die georgische Armee durch NATO-Offiziere ausgebildet und aufgerüstet hatte. Laut einem NZZ-Artikel vom 1.10.2009 kam eine von der EU eingesetzte Untersuchungskommission unter der Schweizer Diplomatin Heidi Tagliavini 2009 zum Schluss, dass zuvor von beiden Seiten Provokationen in Form von Terroranschlägen, Entführungen und Morde begangen worden waren. Zudem hatte Russland jahrelang an willige Osseten und Abchasen russische Pässe ausgegeben, was völkerrechtswidrig sei, da dies die Staatlichkeit Georgiens untergrabe (Abchasien ist eine weitere abtrünnige Region Georgiens am schwarzen Meer). Saakaschwili wollte offenkundig mit dem überraschenden Angriff auf die Osseten die volle Kontrolle der Zentralregierung über das Gebiet wieder erlangen, da die Satzungen der NATO nur die Aufnahme von Ländern erlauben in denen keine ungelösten territorialen Konflikte vorhanden sind. Den Abchasen hätte also das gleiche Schicksal gedroht wenn die Aktion erfolgreich gewesen wäre. Da die Russen aber aufgepasst hatten, lief innert 24 Stunden eine russische Gegenoffensive welche die georgischen Verbände und ihre amerikanischen Berater innert wenigen Tagen bis nach Gori (Geburtsort von Stalin) zurückwarf. Präsident Saakaschwili verlor bald darauf in Tiflis die Macht und setzte sich in die Ukraine ab. Die heutige georgische Regierung unterhält wieder politische und wirtschaftliche Beziehungen zu Russland und verzichtet auf einen NATO-Beitritt. Siehe dazu das Interview von Roger Köppel mit dem aktuellen georgischen Regierungschef Kobachidse (auf englisch mit deutschen Untertiteln):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWh6bAfLdhw

In der Ukraine begann die Gewalt mit dem rechtswidrigen Sturz des 2010 legal gewählten Präsidenten Wiktor Janukowitsch, der zwischen der EU und Russland hin und her gerissen war und daher die Unterzeichnung eines EU-Assoziierungsabkommens auf unbestimmte Zeit vertagte. Nach den folgenden wochenlangen Protesten und Krawallen auf dem Maidan in Kiew ("Euromaidan") unterschrieb er unter Vermittlung Deutschlands, Frankreichs und Polens am 21.2.2014 einen Vertrag mit der Opposition und versprach baldige Neuwahlen. Trotzdem wurde er am Tag darauf durch einen regelrechten Putsch gestürzt und in die Flucht getrieben, indem unbekannte Heckenschützen aus verschiedenen Positionen zuerst auf die "Berkut"-Polizei und anschliessend auf militante Demonstranten schossen, welche die "Institutskaja" hinauf das durch eine Strassensperre der Polizei geschützte Regierungsviertel stürmen wollten.

Dabei kamen insgesamt 104 Menschen ums Leben, darunter 34 Polizisten und Vertreter der Regierung. Nach dem Putsch wurde der zuvor völlig unbekannte Exil-Ukrainer Arsenij Jazenjuk Chef der neuen Übergangsregierung, von dem die Europagesandte des US-Statedepartements, Victoria Nuland, bereits einige Tage davor in einem abgehörten Telefongespräch mit dem amerikanischen Botschafter in Kiew, Geoffrey Pyatt, gesprochen hatte ("Jaz is our man"). Die mit rund 600 Mann unter Führung von Andrij Parubi während Wochen auf dem Maidan präsenten militanten und teilweise bewaffneten Kräfte des "Prawi sektor" ("Rechter Sektor") und der "Swoboda" ("Freiheit") weigerten sich zuerst, der neuen Regierung ihre Waffen auszuhändigen. Mitglieder der "Swoboda" unter Oleh Tjahibok besetzten aber anfangs im Kabinett das Aussen-, Innen-, Verteidigungs- sowie das Ministerium für Kultur und "strategische" Kommunikation (Propaganda), während die Mitglieder des "Prawi sektor" unter Dmitro Jarosch eine Zusammenarbeit mit der neuen Regierung verweigerten. Als eine der ersten Amtshandlungen nach dem Putsch wurde in der ganzen Ukraine die russische Sprache als offizielle Amtssprache und als Unterrichtssprache in den Schulen verboten (auch in den mehrheitlich von russischstämmigen Menschen bewohnten Regionen im Osten und Süden des Landes).

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Als erste Reaktion auf den rechtswidrigen Umsturz wurde in Simferopol auf der Krim das lokale Parlament von prorussischen Aktivisten besetzt und russische Soldaten verliessen illegal den Flottenstützpunkt in Sewastopol und besetzten strategische Positionen auf der ganzen Krim bzw. blockierten die ukrainischen Kasernen. Unter dem Schutz dieser "grünen Männchen" konnte dann am 16.3.2014 ein Referendum über den zukünftigen Status der Krim durchgeführt werden. Rund 70% der Bevölkerung stimmten für eine Wiedervereinigung mit Russland, was ungefähr dem Anteil der ethnischen Russen auf der Krim entspricht. Der Kommandant der ukrainischen Flotte in Sewastopol lief mit dem Grossteil der Matrosen zu den Russen über, so dass fast die gesamte Flotte im Kriegshafen verblieb (die Schwarzmeerflotte war anfang der 90er Jahre zwischen Russland und der Ukraine aufgeteilt worden). Die restlichen Matrosen und Soldaten durften später in die Ukraine heimkehren. Angesichts der klaren Machtverhältnisse auf der Krim verzichteten die ukrainischen Ultra-Nationalisten auf die angedrohte Entsendung von "Zügen der Freundschaft" (mit bewaffneten Schlägern) nach Simferopol.

Auch in den Städten Lugansk, Donezk und Mariupol in der Ostukraine besetzten prorussische Aktivisten analog den Vorgängen einige Monate zuvor in der Westukraine Regierungs- und Verwaltungsgebäude und hissten russische Fahnen auf vielen Gebäuden. Auch hier gab es am 11. bzw. 12.5.2014 Referenden über die zukünftige Zugehörigkeit dieser Gebiete, doch konnten dabei nur ungefähr die Hälfte der Bevölkerungen überhaupt darüber abstimmen, weil die Separatisten nicht die volle Kontrolle über die jeweiligen Bezirke hatten. Auch in anderen ukrainischen Städten wie Odessa und Charkow gab es prorussische Demonstrationen, doch wurden diese von den ukrainischen Behörden unterdrückt. In Odessa kam es am 2.5.2014 zu einem Massaker, als prorussische Aktivisten von mit Zügen aus Kiew angereisten Rechtsradikalen und Hooligans in ein Gewerkschaftshaus abgedrängt wurden welches dann kurzerhand abgefackelt und mit Handfeuerwaffen beschossen wurde. Rund 50 Menschen verloren dabei ihr Leben während die ukrainische Polizei untätig herumstand.

Die am 12.4.2014 von der neuen Regierung in Kiew verkündete "Antiterror-Operation" gegen die Separatisten im Osten wurde anfangs nur zaghaft umgesetzt, da viele russischstämmige Soldaten auch hier mit den Aufständischen sympathisierten und teilweise mitsamt dem Material überliefen. Erst nachdem sich der "Spreu vom Weizen" getrennt hatte und nach der Bildung von Freiwilligenverbänden wie "Donbas","Asow" oder "Aidar" - welche in der ukrainischen Nationalgarde (dem Innen- und nicht dem Verteidigungsministerium unterstellt) zusammengefasst wurden - gewann die ukrainische Offensive an Kraft, so dass bereits im Mai/Juni 2014 die Hafenstadt Mariupol vom Asow'schen Bataillon (später ein Regiment bzw. neu die 12. Brigade für spezielle Aufgaben) und einer Marinebrigade zurückerobert und bis zur vollständigen Kapitulation im berühmten Stahlwerk "Asowstal" nach der russischen Intervention vom 24.2.2022 besetzt werden konnte. Bei den heftigen Kämpfen im Frühjahr 2022 mussten die Zivilisten wochenlang im Keller ausharren, da die Stadtverwaltung die rechtzeitige Evakuierung der Zivilbevölkerung versäumt hatte). Nach den Kesselschlachten von Ilowaisk im Juli/Aug. 2014 bzw. von Debaltsewoim Jan./Feb. 2015, bei denen weit über tausend ukrainische Soldaten und hunderte von Kämpfern der neu aufgestellten Donezker- und Lugansker Volksmilizen sowie vermutlich rund 100 russische Soldaten ihr Leben verloren (laut Kiew beteiligten sich mehrere russische Bataillone an den Kämpfen), wurde am 12.2.2015 das Minsker Abkommen (Minsk II) unter Vermittlung von Weissrussland, Deutschland und Frankreich unterzeichnet. Vertragspartner als Unterzeichnende waren: der frühere Präsident der Ukraine Leonid Kutschma, der Botschafter der Russischen Föderation in der Ukraine Michail Surabow, die Milizenführer der selbstproklamierten Volksrepubliken Igor Plotnizki und Alexander Sachartschenko sowie die OSZE-Beauftragte Heidi Tagliavini. Der Waffenstillstand und die vertrauensbildenden Massnahmen (wie z.B. der Rückzug der schweren Waffen von der Frontlinie) wurden dabei von beiden Seiten wiederholt verletzt. Am 18.2.2017 unterzeichnete der russische Präsident Wladimir Putin ein Dekret, nach dem Pässe und andere Papiere der Volksrepubliken Donezk und Lugansk von Russland offiziell als gültig anerkannt wurden, was wiederum die Staatlichkeit der Ukraine untergrub und daher dem Minsker Abkommen widersprach, wonach die abtrünnigen Gebiete weiterhin zur Ukraine gehörten. Insgesamt verloren in dem jahrelangen Konflikt bis 2022 rund 14'000 Menschen ihr Leben, darunter ca. 3'500 Zivilisten inkl. 200 Kinder, besonders in der Stadt Donezk und Umgebung welche von der ukrainischen Armee immer wieder mit Artillerie (Granaten und Raketen) oder durch Scharfschützen beschossen wurde.

Nachdem eine von NATO-Offizieren jahrelang gut ausgebildete und mit modernen Waffen aufgerüstete ukrainische Elitearmee von rund 130'000 Mann ab Sommer 2021 vor dem Donbas aufmarschiert war um den Konflikt offenkundig gewaltsam zu lösen und seit Anfang 2022 auch der ukrainische Beschuss von Donezk und dessen Umland wieder verstärkt wurde, unterzeichnete Präsident Putin am 21.2.2022 ein Freundschafts- und Beistandsabkommen mit den ostukrainischen Volksrepubliken und anerkannte ausdrücklich deren Unabhängigkeitvon Kiew. Das Minsker Abkommen habe keine Zukunft mehr. Am 24.2.2022 intervenierte die russische Armee mit anfangs "nur" rund 190'000 Mann in der Ukraine da die rund 40'000 Mann der Donezker- und Lugansker Volksmilizen einem Angriff der ukrainischen Elitearmee nicht mehr hätten standhalten können. Zuvor hatte die Russische Föderation im Dez. 2021 den USA noch einmal Verhandlungen über den Abschluss eines gesamteuropäischen Sicherheitsabkommen unter Berücksichtigung des Konflikts in der Ukraine vorgeschlagen, was aber von der Regierung Biden abgelehnt wurde. Bei Beginn der "speziellen Militäroperation" erklärte Joe Biden öffentlich, das politische Ziel sei der Sturz des Regimes in Moskau.

Mit dem Beginn der russischen Sommeroffensive an allen Frontabschnitten dürften die ukrainischen Kräfte endgültig überdehnt werden. Da der Oberbefehlshaber der Ukraine, Alexander Syrskij, aus der Region Sumy und Charkow verschiedene Verbände wie die 36. Marinebrigade, die 43. Artilleriebrigade, die 44. mechanisierte Brigade, die 82. Air Assault Brigade sowie die berüchtigte 12. Brigade "Asow" nach Südosten verlegen musste, um die Lage um den wichtigen Logistikpunkt Pokrowsk bzw. die Stadt Konstantinowka zu stabilisieren, dürften die Russen auch bei der oben erwähnten Einrichtung einer Sicherheitszone im Norden rasche Fortschritte machen. Rund 50'000 russische Soldaten werden dort eingesetzt um die zukünftige Bedrohung durch ukrainische Drohnen zu minimieren.

Zusammenfassend kann gesagt werden, dass in dem jahrelangen Konflikt alle Seiten das Völkerrecht missachtetoder zum eigenen Vorteil interpretiert haben. Angefangen damit hat aber klar der Westen (NATO und EU), der mit der finanziellen und politischen Unterstützung des rechtswidrigen Putsches in Kiew 2014 die Gewaltspirale in der Ukraine in Gang setzte und mit den anhaltenden Waffenlieferungen und Geheimdienstinformationen für den Tod von weit mehr als einer Million Soldaten auf beiden Seiten und unzähligen Zivilisten entscheidend mitverantwortlichist. Zudem wurde zumindest im Falle der Ukraine mit der NATO-Erklärung von 2008 zu deren Aufnahme als Beitrittskandidat der Geist des Budapester Memorandums von 1994 verletzt. In einem erstaunlich offenen, zweiseitigen Interview in der NZZ vom 6. Mai hat der amerikanische Politikwissenschaftler Prof. John Mearsheimervon der Universität Chicago erklärt, er hätte anstelle von Präsident Putin "die Ukraine schon viel früher überfallen". Und: "Der Westen ist der Bösewicht. Aber das wollen die USA und die Europäer natürlich nicht hören". Er glaube, dass dieser Krieg auf dem Schlachtfeld entschieden werde und dass wir am Ende einen eingefrorenen Konflikt haben werden (ähnlich wie in Georgien).

Über das Problem des ukrainischen Faschismus und Ultra-Nationalismus, der letztlich die multiethnische Ukraine in ihren Grenzen von 1991 zerstört hat, äusserte er sich nicht. Stattdessen hat die EU gerade die ersten 150 Milliarden Euro zum Aufbau einer eigenen Rüstungsindustrie beschlossen. Der neue Vorsteher des Schweizer Verteidigungsdepartementes, Bundesrat Martin Pfister, hat in einem NZZ-Artikel vom 27. Mai erklärt, die Kooperation mit der EU und der NATO müsse intensiviert werden, "stets in Vereinbarkeit mit der Neutralität". In der gleichen NZZ-Ausgabe wurde auch berichtet, dass die Schweiz den Spitzendiplomaten Gabriel Lüchinger nach Moskau schicke um für Friedensgespräche in der Schweiz zu sondieren (Bürgenstock II).

Ob der während Jahren provozierte und stigmatisierte "russische Bär" darauf noch eingeht?

(Der Beitrag folgt der Schweizer Rechtschreibung)

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Drivechain

Understanding Drivechain requires a shift from the paradigm most bitcoiners are used to. It is not about "trustlessness" or "mathematical certainty", but game theory and incentives. (Well, Bitcoin in general is also that, but people prefer to ignore it and focus on some illusion of trustlessness provided by mathematics.)

Here we will describe the basic mechanism (simple) and incentives (complex) of "hashrate escrow" and how it enables a 2-way peg between the mainchain (Bitcoin) and various sidechains.

The full concept of "Drivechain" also involves blind merged mining (i.e., the sidechains mine themselves by publishing their block hashes to the mainchain without the miners having to run the sidechain software), but this is much easier to understand and can be accomplished either by the BIP-301 mechanism or by the Spacechains mechanism.

How does hashrate escrow work from the point of view of Bitcoin?

A new address type is created. Anything that goes in that is locked and can only be spent if all miners agree on the Withdrawal Transaction (WT^) that will spend it for 6 months. There is one of these special addresses for each sidechain.

To gather miners' agreement bitcoind keeps track of the "score" of all transactions that could possibly spend from that address. On every block mined, for each sidechain, the miner can use a portion of their coinbase to either increase the score of one WT^ by 1 while decreasing the score of all others by 1; or they can decrease the score of all WT^s by 1; or they can do nothing.

Once a transaction has gotten a score high enough, it is published and funds are effectively transferred from the sidechain to the withdrawing users.

If a timeout of 6 months passes and the score doesn't meet the threshold, that WT^ is discarded.

What does the above procedure mean?

It means that people can transfer coins from the mainchain to a sidechain by depositing to the special address. Then they can withdraw from the sidechain by making a special withdraw transaction in the sidechain.

The special transaction somehow freezes funds in the sidechain while a transaction that aggregates all withdrawals into a single mainchain WT^, which is then submitted to the mainchain miners so they can start voting on it and finally after some months it is published.

Now the crucial part: the validity of the WT^ is not verified by the Bitcoin mainchain rules, i.e., if Bob has requested a withdraw from the sidechain to his mainchain address, but someone publishes a wrong WT^ that instead takes Bob's funds and sends them to Alice's main address there is no way the mainchain will know that. What determines the "validity" of the WT^ is the miner vote score and only that. It is the job of miners to vote correctly -- and for that they may want to run the sidechain node in SPV mode so they can attest for the existence of a reference to the WT^ transaction in the sidechain blockchain (which then ensures it is ok) or do these checks by some other means.

What? 6 months to get my money back?

Yes. But no, in practice anyone who wants their money back will be able to use an atomic swap, submarine swap or other similar service to transfer funds from the sidechain to the mainchain and vice-versa. The long delayed withdraw costs would be incurred by few liquidity providers that would gain some small profit from it.

Why bother with this at all?

Drivechains solve many different problems:

It enables experimentation and new use cases for Bitcoin

Issued assets, fully private transactions, stateful blockchain contracts, turing-completeness, decentralized games, some "DeFi" aspects, prediction markets, futarchy, decentralized and yet meaningful human-readable names, big blocks with a ton of normal transactions on them, a chain optimized only for Lighting-style networks to be built on top of it.

These are some ideas that may have merit to them, but were never actually tried because they couldn't be tried with real Bitcoin or inferfacing with real bitcoins. They were either relegated to the shitcoin territory or to custodial solutions like Liquid or RSK that may have failed to gain network effect because of that.

It solves conflicts and infighting

Some people want fully private transactions in a UTXO model, others want "accounts" they can tie to their name and build reputation on top; some people want simple multisig solutions, others want complex code that reads a ton of variables; some people want to put all the transactions on a global chain in batches every 10 minutes, others want off-chain instant transactions backed by funds previously locked in channels; some want to spend, others want to just hold; some want to use blockchain technology to solve all the problems in the world, others just want to solve money.

With Drivechain-based sidechains all these groups can be happy simultaneously and don't fight. Meanwhile they will all be using the same money and contributing to each other's ecosystem even unwillingly, it's also easy and free for them to change their group affiliation later, which reduces cognitive dissonance.

It solves "scaling"

Multiple chains like the ones described above would certainly do a lot to accomodate many more transactions that the current Bitcoin chain can. One could have special Lightning Network chains, but even just big block chains or big-block-mimblewimble chains or whatnot could probably do a good job. Or even something less cool like 200 independent chains just like Bitcoin is today, no extra features (and you can call it "sharding"), just that would already multiply the current total capacity by 200.

Use your imagination.

It solves the blockchain security budget issue

The calculation is simple: you imagine what security budget is reasonable for each block in a world without block subsidy and divide that for the amount of bytes you can fit in a single block: that is the price to be paid in satoshis per byte. In reasonable estimative, the price necessary for every Bitcoin transaction goes to very large amounts, such that not only any day-to-day transaction has insanely prohibitive costs, but also Lightning channel opens and closes are impracticable.

So without a solution like Drivechain you'll be left with only one alternative: pushing Bitcoin usage to trusted services like Liquid and RSK or custodial Lightning wallets. With Drivechain, though, there could be thousands of transactions happening in sidechains and being all aggregated into a sidechain block that would then pay a very large fee to be published (via blind merged mining) to the mainchain. Bitcoin security guaranteed.

It keeps Bitcoin decentralized

Once we have sidechains to accomodate the normal transactions, the mainchain functionality can be reduced to be only a "hub" for the sidechains' comings and goings, and then the maximum block size for the mainchain can be reduced to, say, 100kb, which would make running a full node very very easy.

Can miners steal?

Yes. If a group of coordinated miners are able to secure the majority of the hashpower and keep their coordination for 6 months, they can publish a WT^ that takes the money from the sidechains and pays to themselves.

Will miners steal?

No, because the incentives are such that they won't.

Although it may look at first that stealing is an obvious strategy for miners as it is free money, there are many costs involved:

1. The cost of ceasing blind-merged mining returns -- as stealing will kill a sidechain, all the fees from it that miners would be expected to earn for the next years are gone;
2. The cost of Bitcoin price going down: If a steal is successful that will mean Drivechains are not safe, therefore Bitcoin is less useful, and miner credibility will also be hurt, which are likely to cause the Bitcoin price to go down, which in turn may kill the miners' businesses and savings;
3. The cost of coordination -- assuming miners are just normal businesses, they just want to do their work and get paid, but stealing from a Drivechain will require coordination with other miners to conduct an immoral act in a way that has many pitfalls and is likely to be broken over the months;
4. The cost of miners leaving your mining pool: when we talked about "miners" above we were actually talking about mining pools operators, so they must also consider the risk of miners migrating from their mining pool to others as they begin the process of stealing;
5. The cost of community goodwill -- when participating in a steal operation, a miner will suffer a ton of backlash from the community. Even if the attempt fails at the end, the fact that it was attempted will contribute to growing concerns over exaggerated miners power over the Bitcoin ecosystem, which may end up causing the community to agree on a hard-fork to change the mining algorithm in the future, or to do something to increase participation of more entities in the mining process (such as development or cheapment of new ASICs), which have a chance of decreasing the profits of current miners.

Another point to take in consideration is that one may be inclined to think a newly-created sidechain or a sidechain with relatively low usage may be more easily stolen from, since the blind merged mining returns from it (point 1 above) are going to be small -- but the fact is also that a sidechain with small usage will also have less money to be stolen from, and since the other costs besides 1 are less elastic at the end it will not be worth stealing from these too.

All of the above consideration are valid only if miners are stealing from good sidechains. If there is a sidechain that is doing things wrong, scamming people, not being used at all, or is full of bugs, for example, that will be perceived as a bad sidechain, and then miners can and will safely steal from it and kill it, which will be perceived as a good thing by everybody.

What do we do if miners steal?

Paul Sztorc has suggested in the past that a user-activated soft-fork could prevent miners from stealing, i.e., most Bitcoin users and nodes issue a rule similar to this one to invalidate the inclusion of a faulty WT^ and thus cause any miner that includes it in a block to be relegated to their own Bitcoin fork that other nodes won't accept.

This suggestion has made people think Drivechain is a sidechain solution backed by user-actived soft-forks for safety, which is very far from the truth. Drivechains must not and will not rely on this kind of soft-fork, although they are possible, as the coordination costs are too high and no one should ever expect these things to happen.

If even with all the incentives against them (see above) miners do still steal from a good sidechain that will mean the failure of the Drivechain experiment. It will very likely also mean the failure of the Bitcoin experiment too, as it will be proven that miners can coordinate to act maliciously over a prolonged period of time regardless of economic and social incentives, meaning they are probably in it just for attacking Bitcoin, backed by nation-states or something else, and therefore no Bitcoin transaction in the mainchain is to be expected to be safe ever again.

Why use this and not a full-blown trustless and open sidechain technology?

Because it is impossible.

If you ever heard someone saying "just use a sidechain", "do this in a sidechain" or anything like that, be aware that these people are either talking about "federated" sidechains (i.e., funds are kept in custody by a group of entities) or they are talking about Drivechain, or they are disillusioned and think it is possible to do sidechains in any other manner.

No, I mean a trustless 2-way peg with correctness of the withdrawals verified by the Bitcoin protocol!

That is not possible unless Bitcoin verifies all transactions that happen in all the sidechains, which would be akin to drastically increasing the blocksize and expanding the Bitcoin rules in tons of ways, i.e., a terrible idea that no one wants.

What about the Blockstream sidechains whitepaper?

Yes, that was a way to do it. The Drivechain hashrate escrow is a conceptually simpler way to achieve the same thing with improved incentives, less junk in the chain, more safety.

Isn't the hashrate escrow a very complex soft-fork?

Yes, but it is much simpler than SegWit. And, unlike SegWit, it doesn't force anything on users, i.e., it isn't a mandatory blocksize increase.

Why should we expect miners to care enough to participate in the voting mechanism?

Because it's in their own self-interest to do it, and it costs very little. Today over half of the miners mine RSK. It's not blind merged mining, it's a very convoluted process that requires them to run a RSK full node. For the Drivechain sidechains, an SPV node would be enough, or maybe just getting data from a block explorer API, so much much simpler.

What if I still don't like Drivechain even after reading this?

That is the entire point! You don't have to like it or use it as long as you're fine with other people using it. The hashrate escrow special addresses will not impact you at all, validation cost is minimal, and you get the benefit of people who want to use Drivechain migrating to their own sidechains and freeing up space for you in the mainchain. See also the point above about infighting.

See also

• Podcast episode with Ruben Somsen and Aaron van Wirdum explaining Drivechain
• Alternatives to Drivechain
• Drivechain comparison with Ethereum

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„Eine wohltemperierte Abrechnung hin zum Frieden“ steht auf dem Cover, und ich dachte gleich: Das ist doch etwas für die „Friedenstaube“. Ist es auch, aber anders als zunächst gedacht. Vielleicht hätte ich mir einen Moment Zeit nehmen sollen für den Haupttitel. Drei Substantive ohne Punkt und Komma. Raffen Sterben Trance. Besser kann man das Leiden an dieser Welt nicht in Worte gießen – vor allem dann nicht, wenn daraus ein Satzstrom wird, der einen Rhythmus von ganz eigener Kraft entwickelt. Man braucht keine Noten, um einen Ohrwurm zu schreiben. Mit Buchstaben geht das auch. Wer das nicht glaubt, lese dieses Buch von Teer Sandmann und lasse sich von seiner Melodie durch die Abgründe dieser Zeit tragen.

Ich habe den Autor im Spätsommer 2020 kennengelernt, bei einem Rubikon-Treffen. Das schreibt sich jetzt so leicht hin, war aber damals fast ein Abenteuer. Schon die Bahnfahrt. Die Blicke, das Zischen, der Hass. Sie da! Wo ist Ihre Maske? Ich hatte überlegt, ob ich mir das antun will, und war auch nicht sicher, ob es wirklich eine gute Idee ist, drei Tage mit lauter Dissidenten auf einem Haufen zu sein. Mehr Zielscheibe geht kaum. Vor Ort war das dann alles wie weggeblasen. Abends ein Lagerfeuer und tagsüber Menschen wie Daniel Sandmann, der sich auf seinen Büchern Teer nennt und weiß, was Glück ist: 

„Der Augenblick, den du mit dem Andern und durch das Andere erlebst, unbelangt von Staat, Norm und Konzern: dieser Augenblick hebt deine Einsamkeit auf. Die aufgehobene Einsamkeit aber ist die Freiheit, die wir als Wärme erleben. Als Feuer im Körper.“ (90)

So war das an jenem Augustwochenende. Jeder, der ein wenig älter ist, hat längst erlebt, dass keine Flamme ewig brennt. Nach Corona kamen die Kriege. Und selbst die, die solche Tage nicht vergessen wollen, verlieren sich im Kleinklein ihrer Eitelkeiten. Daniel und Teer Sandmann machen aus diesem Stoff eine grandiose Sinfonie, die darüber erhaben ist, mit dem Finger auf diesen zu zeigen oder auf jenen. Hin und wieder eine Andeutung: Das muss reichen. Der Formaterfinder, der sein Baby mit einem plumpen Satz schützt. „Nicht einfach kritisieren, mach es besser!“ Eine Redaktion der Gegenöffentlichkeit, hochgelobt, die kurze Sätze will und kurze Texte. Dieses Feld können und wollen die Sandmänner nicht bestellen, genau wie all das, was im Namen einer „Menschheitsfamilie“ daherkommt. „Liebe Community. So begrüßt ein dissidenter Moderator das Publikum in einer dissidenten Talkshow.“ (87) Etwas mehr Platz bekommt [Rainer Mausfeld](https://www.freie-medienakademie.de/medien-plus/101):

„Warum schweigen die Lämmer? Ein tolles Buch. Es hat gegriffen. Dann hat sich gezeigt: Das System, von diesem Buch dekonstruiert, muss einen Zacken zugeben an Totalität und schon schlüpft auch die Analyse mit hinein ins System und ins Schweigen und der Autor wird selbst zum Lamm.“ (21)

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Ich kenne das Lied, das Daniel aka Teer Sandmann hier singt. Wie er bin ich von links gekommen und habe erlebt, „wie meine Welt leer wurde“ (23). Wie er weiß ich inzwischen, dass ich in „meinen Kreisen“ von einst nicht mehr klarkommen würde und dass es mit den neuen keinesfalls einfacher ist. Hier, immer noch und trotz alledem, die Idee, dass sich Glück planen lässt, und damit „der Wahn“, „ein Ziel zu erreichen und alles auszumerzen, was dem Ziel in die Quere kommt“ (143): „Die linken Ideen münden in Ordnungen und im Polizeistaat“ (24). Und dort Kritiker der Macht, die vor den Gerichten der gleichen Macht um ein wenig Wohlstand streiten, sich nur noch gegenseitig interviewen, die AfD hoffieren und auf Personen zielen, wo es um Strukturen gehen müsste. Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, Jeff Epstein statt Kapitalismus. Was bleibt euch noch, Kinder, wenn ihr zwar den Totalitarismus erkennt, aber nicht sehen wollt, „wie dieser alternativlos aus dem Kapital hervorschießen musste“ (40)?

Der letzte Satz ist ein Versuch, den Takt aufzunehmen, den dieser Text anschlägt. Teer Sandmann sagt, dass ihn „die Musik aus der Renaissance“ noch mehr gerettet habe als das Schreiben, und baut vielleicht auch deshalb immer wieder Miniaturen ein, die zeigen, dass Kunst auch dann Jahrhunderte überdauern kann, wenn jemand wie ich noch nie davon gehört hat. Daniel Sandmann reicht. Vergesst all eure Gegenentwürfe, singt dieser Künstler:

„Wir sind für nichts. Wir stören die Haltungen und schaffen Nischen. Indem wir stören. Wir sind für alles, was nicht in ein ‚wir sind für‘ mündet. Bloß, ist das alles nicht schon eine Haltung? Und wer sind ‚wir‘?“ (79)

Die Sache mit dem Frieden, natürlich. Es gibt in diesem Buch einen Traum, in dem ein „lieber Gott“ alle Journalisten tötet, „die neuen Schwarzhemden“ (49), „die in diesem medialen Schlachtfeld, Journalismus genannt, mitfeuern und mitgeifern und ihrer Niedertracht freien Lauf lassen“, und mit ihnen auch alle, „die binnen einer Woche auch nur einen Cent noch überweisen an diese Instrumente der Niedertracht und der Geistvernichtung“ sowie Parteimitglieder und Manager, jeden Adelsclan und alle Künstler, „die der Macht zusprechen“ (55). Sie ahnen es schon: Diese Liste ist unvollständig und mit ihrer Wucht eine Ausnahme in dieser „wohltemperierten Abrechnung hin zum Frieden“. Daniel und Teer Sandmann suchen nach Ruhe und Trance. Frieden: Das ist nicht nur das Ende des Kapitalismus oder das vergessene Stück aus der Renaissance. Frieden bringt auch die Runde im Waldsee: 

„Komme ich aus dem Wasser, komme ich nach Hause. Mag sein, dass im Orgasmus der Tod vergessen geht, im Wasser aber verliert er die Bedeutung und vermengt sich mit dem Leben aufs Unkenntliche. Stilles Jauchzen, meerjungfrauartiges Kreisen, kindliches Drehen um sich selbst und ohne Bezugspunkt: das sind die Ausdrucksformen dieses ungeplanten Glücks.“ (157)

Jetzt weiß ich auch, warum ich schon als junger Mann jeden Tag ohne Schwimmgelegenheit für einen verlorenen Tag gehalten habe.

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Michael Meyen ist Medienforscher, Ausbilder und Journalist. Seit 2002 ist er Universitätsprofessor an der LMU München. https://www.freie-medienakademie.de/

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Teer Sandmann: Raffen Sterben Trance. Eine wohltemperierte Abrechnung hin zum Frieden. Hamburg: tredition 2024.

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Personagens de jogos e símbolos

A sensação de "ser" um personagem em um jogo ou uma brincadeira talvez seja o mais próximo que eu tenha conseguido chegar do entendimento de um símbolo religioso.

A hóstia consagrada é, segundo a religião, o corpo de Cristo, mas nossa mente moderna só consegue concebê-la como sendo uma representação do corpo de Cristo. Da mesma forma outras culturas e outras religiões têm símbolos parecidos, inclusive nos quais o próprio participante do ritual faz o papel de um deus ou de qualquer coisa parecida.

"Faz o papel" é de novo a interpretação da mente moderna. O sujeito ali é a coisa, mas ele ao mesmo tempo que é também sabe que não é, que continua sendo ele mesmo.

Nos jogos de videogame e brincadeiras infantis em que se encarna um personagem o jogador é o personagem. não se diz, entre os jogadores, que alguém está "encenando", mas que ele é e pronto. nem há outra denominação ou outro verbo. No máximo "encarnando", mas já aí já é vocabulário jornalístico feito para facilitar a compreensão de quem está de fora do jogo.

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…. “คนเราอยู่ในโลก แต่มักปฏิบัติไม่ถูกต้องต่อสิ่งทั้งหลายในโลก จึงดำเนินชีวิตไม่ถูกต้อง สิ่งที่เราเกี่ยวข้องต่างๆ นี่ มันก็อยู่ของมันไปตามปกติ ตามธรรมชาติ แต่เราปฏิบัติต่อมันไม่ถูก วางใจไม่ถูก แม้แต่มองก็ไม่ถูก เราจึงเกิดทุกข์

…. สิ่งทั้งหลายที่มีอยู่ตามธรรมดามันก็เป็นไป ถ้าเรารู้ทัน ก็เห็นมันเป็นไปตามกฎธรรมชาติ แต่ถ้าเราไม่รู้เท่าทัน เรามองไม่เป็น ก็เกิดทุกข์ทันที แม้แต่เหตุการณ์ความผันผวนปรวนแปรต่างๆที่เกิดขึ้นในชีวิตของคนเรา ที่เรียกกันว่า โชคบ้าง เคราะห์บ้าง ศัพท์พระเรียกว่า “โลกธรรม” ซึ่งเป็นตัวการสำคัญ ที่ทำให้คนดีใจเสียใจ เป็นสุข และเป็นทุกข์ เวลามันเกิดขึ้น ถ้าเราปฏิบัติไม่ถูกต้อง ที่สุขเราก็แปลงให้เป็นทุกข์ ที่มันเป็นทุกข์อยู่แล้ว เราก็เพิ่มทุกข์แก่ตัวเราให้มากขึ้น แต่ถ้าเราปฏิบัติถูกต้อง ที่ทุกข์เราก็ผันแปลงให้เป็นสุข ที่มันเป็นสุขอยู่แล้ว เราก็เพิ่มให้เป็นสุขมากยิ่งขึ้น

…. “โลกธรรม” คืออะไร โลกธรรมแปลว่า ธรรมประจำโลก ได้แก่สิ่งที่เกิดแก่มนุษย์ทั้งหลายตามธรรมดาของความเป็นอนิจจัง ก็คือ เรื่อง ลาภ เสื่อมลาภ ยศ เสื่อมยศ สรรเสริญ นินทา สุข ทุกข์ สิ่งเหล่านี้ พระพุทธเจ้าตรัสไว้ว่า มันมีอยู่เป็นธรรมดา เมื่อเราอยู่ในโลก เราไม่พ้นมันหรอก เราต้องเจอมัน ทีนี้ถ้าเราเจอมันแล้ว เราวางใจไม่ถูก และปฏิบัติไม่ถูก เราจะเอาทุกข์มาใส่ตัวทันที พอเรามีลาภ เราก็ดีใจ อันนี้เป็นธรรมดา เพราะเป็นสิ่งที่น่าปรารถนา แต่พอเสื่อมลาภเราก็เศร้าโศก เพราะเราสูญเสีย

…. ทีนี้ ถ้าเราวางใจไม่ถูก ไประทมตรมใจ แล้วไปทำอะไรประชดประชันตัวเอง หรือประท้วงชีวิต เป็นต้น เราก็ซ้ำเติมตัวเอง ทำให้เกิดทุกข์มากขึ้น อย่างง่ายๆกว่านั้น เช่น เสียงนินทา และสรรเสริญ คำสรรเสริญนั้นเป็นสิ่งที่เราชอบใจ พอได้ยินเราก็มีความสุข ใจก็ฟูขึ้นมา แต่พอได้ยินคำนินทาเราก็เกิดความทุกข์ ทุกข์นี้เกิด เพราะอะไร เพราะเรารับเอาเข้ามา คือรับกระทบมันนั่นเอง คือเอาเข้ามาบีบใจของเรา

…. ทีนี้ ถ้าเราวางใจถูกต้อง อย่างน้อยเราก็รู้ว่า อ้อ นี่คือธรรมดาของโลก เราได้เห็นแล้วไง พระพุทธเจ้าตรัสไว้แล้วว่า เราอยู่ในโลก เราต้องเจอโลกธรรมนะ เราก็เจอจริงๆ แล้ว เราก็รู้ว่า อ้อ นี่ความจริงมันเป็นอย่างนี้เอง เราได้เห็น ได้รู้แล้ว เราจะได้เรียนรู้ไว้ พอบอกว่าเรียนรู้เท่านั้นแหละ มันก็กลายเป็นประสบการณ์สำหรับศึกษา เราก็เริ่มวางใจต่อมันได้ถูกต้อง ต่อจากนั้น ก็นึกสนุกกับมันว่า อ้อ ก็อย่างนี้แหละ อยู่ในโลกก็ได้เห็นความจริงแล้วว่ามันเป็นอย่างไร ทีนี้ก็ลองกับมันดู แล้วเราก็ตั้งหลักได้ สบายใจ อย่างนี้ก็เรียกว่าไม่เอาทุกข์มาทับถมใจตัวเอง อะไรต่างๆ นี่ โดยมากมันจะเกิดเป็นปัญหาเพราะเราไปรับกระทบ ถ้าเราไม่รับกระทบ มันก็เป็นเพียงการเรียนรู้ บางทีเราทำใจให้ถูกต้องกว่านั้น ก็คือ คิดจะฝึกตนเอง พอเราทำใจว่าจะฝึกตนเอง เราจะมองทุกอย่างในแง่มุมใหม่ แม้แต่สิ่งที่ไม่ดีไม่น่าชอบใจ เราก็จะมองเป็นบททดสอบ พอมองเป็นบททดสอบทีไร เราก็ได้ทุกที ไม่ว่าดีหรือร้ายเข้ามา ก็เป็นบททดสอบใจและทดสอบสติปัญญาความสามารถทั้งนั้น ก็ทำให้เราเข้มแข็งยิ่งขึ้น เพราะเราได้ฝึกฝน เราได้พัฒนาตัวเรา เลยกลายเป็นดีไปหมด

…. ถ้าโชค หรือโลกธรรมที่ดีมีมา เราก็สบาย เป็นสุข แล้วเราก็ใช้โชคนั้น เช่น ลาภ ยศ เป็นเครื่องมือเพิ่มความสุขให้แผ่ขยายออกไป คือใช้มันทำความดี ช่วยเหลือเกื้อกูลเพื่อนมนุษย์ ทำให้ความสุขขยายจากตัวเรา แผ่กว้างออกไป สู่ผู้คนมากมายในโลก ถ้าเคราะห์ หรือโลกธรรมที่ร้ายผ่านเข้ามา ก็ถือว่าเป็นโอกาสที่ตัวเราจะได้ฝึกฝนพัฒนา มันก็กลายเป็นบททดสอบ เป็นบทเรียน และเป็นเครื่องมือฝึกสติ ฝึกปัญญา ฝึกการแก้ปัญหา เป็นต้น ซึ่งจะทำให้เราพัฒนายิ่งขึ้นไป

…. เพราะฉะนั้น ลูกศิษย์พระพุทธเจ้าจึงถือคติว่า ให้มนสิการให้ถูกต้อง ถ้ามองสิ่งทั้งหลายให้เป็นแล้ว ก็จะเกิดเป็นประโยชน์แก่เราหมด ไม่ว่าดีหรือร้าย นี้เป็นตัวอย่างวิธีการเบื้องต้น แต่รวมความง่ายๆ ก็คือ เราไม่เอาทุกข์มาทับถมตนเอง”

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Wem in seinem Leben Schmerz zugefügt wurde, wer sich ungerecht behandelt fühlt oder wachen Auges in der Welt umschaut, kommt wahrscheinlich irgendwann mit der Frage in Berührung, wie das alles noch einmal «gut» werden kann. Wie kann die Welt sich mit sich selbst versöhnen? Und wie kann ich es selbst schaffen, mich mit ihr und den Menschen, die schlimme Taten vollbringen, wieder in harmonischer Akzeptanz zu verbinden? Kann und will ich gewisse Gräueltaten verzeihen oder gibt es das «Unverzeihliche»? Und selbst wenn ich wollte, wie könnte mir das gelingen?

Perspektivwechsel

Wenn wir an dem Zorn über begangenes Unrecht festhalten, schauen wir in der Regel aus immer derselben Perspektive auf das Geschehen. Mal um Mal erzürnen und empören wir uns darüber, erzählen uns und anderen stets die gleiche Geschichte, die uns allerdings – ebenfalls ein ums andere Mal – wieder selbst verletzt. Das Destruktive holt uns so ständig wieder ein; wir sehen und fühlen das unschuldige Kind und empfinden Verachtung für die Täter.

Die Perspektive zu wechseln lädt uns dazu ein, das Geschehen aus anderen Blickwinkeln zu betrachten und unser Bewusstsein von der schmerzlichen Wiederholung zu lösen. Wir können einmal weit rauszoomen und einen spirituellen Blickwinkel einnehmen, beispielsweise aus Sicht des All-ein-Bewusstseins, das sich in unzählige Seelen teilt, von denen wiederum Milliarden derzeit auf der Erde inkarniert sind. Dieses eine Bewusstsein möchte jede auch nur mögliche Erfahrung machen und durch die Trennung – die Erschaffung der Dualität – kann es sich selbst aus diesen Milliarden Persönlichkeiten heraus erfahren, um zu lernen. Während dieser scheinbaren Trennung vergessen wir, dass wir alle eins sind, dass wir alle aus demselben «Stoff» gemacht sind und nach diesem Spiel hier auf Erden unsere Erinnerung zurückerlangen und unsere Erfahrungen zurück geben in die eine «Quelle».

Unser aller Reise geht letztlich darum, hier auf der Erde aus diesem Zustand des Vergessens zu erwachen. Um dies zu erreichen und all diese Erfahrungen machen zu können und uns auch unter widrigsten Umständen an unsere wahre Essenz, an die Liebe, erinnern können, braucht es auch Akteure, die die Dunkelheit verkörpern – denn nur so haben wir die Wahl, ob wir uns von ihr einnehmen lassen oder uns für die Liebe und das Mitgefühl entscheiden. Der Täter sowie das Opfer sind dabei stets Aspekte unserer selbst – im Innen wie im Außen – und jeder einzelne verändert die Welt, indem er Liebe und Mitgefühl oder Hass und Verachtung wählt.

Eine etwas rationalere Herangehensweise wäre, zu schauen, was dazu führt, dass ein Mensch sich derart unmenschlich verhalten kann; also der Zugang über die Psychologie. Hier werden wir uns bewusst, dass jeder Täter auch einmal ein Kind war. Symbolisch sogar das Kind, mit dem wir jetzt im Beispiel mitfühlen und das wir gleichzeitig heute als erwachsenen Täter verachten. Natürlich kann man hier einwenden, dass nicht jedes Opfer zum Täter wird, aber man kann ebenso anerkennen, dass uns bei dieser Haltung das größte Stück fehlt; und zwar die Geschichte desjenigen, die Jahre dazwischen, sowie jeder einzelne Reiz und jedes Detail der Umstände.

Wie viel Schmerz und Leid muss ein Mensch erfahren, bis er unmenschlich wird? Mit Einbezug aller Umstände und Faktoren, der psychischen Schutzmechanismen traumatischer Erfahrungen sowie fehlender Ausbildung sozialer und empathischer Fähigkeiten auch im neuronalen Bereich kann man auch auf diesem Wege Verständnis erlangen. Sichtbar wird hierdurch auch, dass emotionaler Schmerz über Generationen weitergegeben wird und es schwer ersichtlich ist, wo denn die eigentliche Ursache liegt. Auch hier wird erkennbar, dass nur jeder bei sich anfangen kann und Verantwortung für seine Heilung – und damit gleichzeitig die anderer – übernehmen müsste, anstatt auf die Suche nach dem oder der «Schuldigen» zu gehen.

Was bedarf eigentlich der Vergebung?

Wenn es uns schwerfällt zu vergeben, also Groll und Verachtung loszulassen und Mitgefühl zu empfinden, ist es ebenfalls hilfreich, einmal hinzuschauen, worum es genau geht. Wenn es uns selbst betrifft, handelt es sich in der Regel um Schmerz, der uns willentlich, manchmal auch unbewusst, zugefügt wurde und den wir (noch) nicht loslassen können, weil er noch nicht verheilt ist. Darauf gehe ich später noch einmal ein. Oft geht es aber auch um uns unbekannte Menschen, von deren Verbrechen wir Kenntnis haben und deren Ungeheuerlichkeit uns aus der Fassung bringt. Es geht um Taten, die wir nicht nachvollziehen können, weder rational noch emotional. Wir meinen, selbst wenn jemand nicht spürte, was er anderen antut, so müsse er es doch wenigstens besser wissen. Das ist das, was uns Menschen ausmacht, mit anderen mitzufühlen und sie zu verstehen. Doch anscheinend gibt es Menschen, deren Persönlichkeit oder auch Psyche dazu absolut nicht in der Lage sind. Die keinen moralischen Kompass besitzen und keinerlei soziales Empfinden, denn sonst könnten sie bestimmte Taten nicht ausführen. Möglicherweise dissoziieren sie sich selbst so stark, dass diese für sie eine Normalität darstellen, sie diese entschuldigen beziehungsweise vor sich selbst rechtfertigen oder im extremen Fall keine Erinnerung mehr daran haben.

Uns erscheinen die fehlende Empathie sowie das fehlende Verständnis so fremd, dass wir es nicht nachvollziehen können. Uns fehlt die Nachvollziehbarkeit der Nichtnachvollziehbarkeit des Erlebens des anderen, und wir erachten diesen dadurch als unmenschlich. Denn menschlich wären doch eben diese Fähigkeiten wie Mitgefühl, Güte, Reflexion, Warmherzigkeit, Verständnis und Liebe. Zugleich erzeugen wir hier aber einen Konflikt, wenn wir sagen: «Da diese Menschen sich so unmenschlich verhalten, soll ihnen kein Mitgefühl und keine Vergebung entgegengebracht werden, sollen auch sie nicht menschlich behandelt werden», wodurch wir uns allerdings selbst unserer Menschlichkeit berauben.

«Aber der Täter hatte doch die freie Wahl, er hätte doch anders entscheiden können!» Ja, möglicherweise schon, aber jetzt haben wir die Wahl. Und wir haben viel leichtere Voraussetzungen dafür, menschlich zu handeln, weil wir gesunden Zugang zu unserer Empathie, Moral und unserer Ratio haben.

Hätte der Täter es geschafft, seinen Tätern zu verzeihen, würde er die Destruktivität, die er ab einem gewissen Zeitpunkt nicht mehr in sich tragen oder verdrängen konnte, nicht an anderen ausagieren. Es ist ihm nicht gelungen, vielleicht sogar weil etwas in ihm es für unmöglich hielt, Unmenschliches, das ihm zugefügt wurde, zu verzeihen. Aber uns kann es gelingen, diesen Kreislauf zu durchbrechen und uns nicht in ihn hineinziehen zu lassen; wir können dem «Dunklen» den Nährboden entziehen.

Manchmal nehmen wir an, würden wir das Unbeschreibliche verzeihen, bedeutete dies, dass wir es tolerieren oder gar gutheißen. Dem ist nicht so. Analog dazu habe ich manches Mal die Angst gehabt, würde ich aufhören, um meinen Freund zu trauern, bedeute dies, dass ich ihn nicht mehr vermisse. Auch das ist nicht richtig. Ich heile lediglich das, was mir Schmerzen zufügt, bis am Ende nur noch die Liebe bleibt. Und wenn wir verzeihen, ist es kein Gutheißen der Taten, es bedeutet ein Loslassen dessen, was uns damit verstrickt und das Destruktive nährt.

Mitgefühl beginnt bei uns selbst

«Daß ich dem Hungrigen zu essen gebe, dem vergebe, der mich beleidigt, und meinen Feind liebe- das sind große Tugenden. Was aber, wenn ich nun entdecken sollte, daß der armselige Bettler und der unverschämteste Beleidiger alle in mir selber sind und ich bedürftig bin, Empfänger meiner eigenen Wohltaten zu sein? Daß ich der Feind bin, den ich lieben muß - was dann?» – C. G. Jung

Mit diesem Zitat beginnt Dan Millman das Kapitel «Das Gesetz des Mitgefühls» in seinem Buch «Die universellen Lebensgesetze des friedvollen Kriegers». Die weise Frau lehrt dem Wanderer das Gesetz des Mitgefühls und erklärt, es sei «eine liebevolle Aufforderung, über unsere begrenzte Sichtweise hinauszuwachsen», auch wenn die Last dieser Aufgabe zuweilen sehr schwer wiegen könne. Genau deshalb müsse man daran denken, dass sie bei uns selbst beginnt und wir «geduldig» und «sanft» mit uns, unseren Gefühlen und Gedanken sein sollten.

Um dem – noch skeptischen – Wanderer zu veranschaulichen, wie wir Mitgefühl auch mit unseren Gegnern empfinden können, bat sie ihn, sich an eine Auseinandersetzung zu erinnern, in der er zornig, neidisch oder eifersüchtig war und sich diese Gefühle noch einmal zu vergegenwärtigen. Als er das tat, den Schmerz und die Wut wieder spürte, sagte sie zu ihm: «Und nun stell dir vor, daß der Mensch, mit dem du dich streitest, mitten in eurer erregten Auseinandersetzung plötzlich nach seinem Herzen faßt, einen Schrei ausstößt und zu deinen Füßen tot zu Boden sinkt.» Der Wanderer erschrak und auf Nachfrage der weisen Frau stellte er fest, dass er nun keinerlei Schmerz oder Wut mehr empfand. Sogleich aber kam ihm der Gedanke: «Aber – aber was wäre, wenn ich mich über den Tod dieses Menschen freuen würde? Wenn ich ihm nicht verzeihen könnte?», worauf die weise Frau antwortete: «Dann verzeih dir wenigstens selber deine Unversöhnlichkeit. Und in dieser Vergebung wirst du das Mitgefühl finden, das deinen Schmerz heilt, als Mensch in dieser Welt zu leben.»

Weiter erinnert uns die weise Frau daran, dass wir alle, während wir hier auf der Erde sind, Träume, Hoffnungen und Enttäuschungen haben; und dass diese, sowie letztlich der Tod, uns alle verbinden.

Es ist ein Prozess

Dan Millman sagt hier in Gestalt der Weisen Frau, dass Mitgefühl bei uns selbst beginnt und diesen Aspekt möchte ich noch einmal hervorheben. Es kann nämlich passieren, dass wir uns in einer oberflächlichen Vergebung wieder finden, weil wir meinen, es sei richtig und moralisch, anderen zu verzeihen, ohne aber die tieferen Schichten dabei zu fühlen. Das ist dann leider nichts anderes, als Verdrängung. Gerade wenn wir selbst Opfer von Ungerechtigkeit, physischer oder mentaler Gewalt wurden, ist es unerlässlich den Heilungsweg in Gänze zu durchschreiten, und in den Wachstumsprozess zu verwandeln, der uns Mitgefühl und Weisheit lehrt. Und dazu gehören die Wut auf das Begangene, die Verzweiflung, die Ungerechtigkeit und Ohnmacht zu fühlen, uns auf «unsere Seite» zu stellen und Partei für uns selbst zu ergreifen, bevor es ernstlich möglich wird, zu verzeihen. Zunächst fühlen wir mit uns selbst den Schmerz und befreien die Gefühle, die wir uns möglicherweise nie trauten zu fühlen, all die Wut und den Groll. Erst später kann dann aus dem Inneren heraus das weitere Erkennen stattfinden und Heilung und Vergebung geschehen.

Vergebung findet im Herzen statt

Die hier in diesem Text von mir aufgeführten Perspektiven sind nur zwei, drei kleine Beispiele für Sichtweisen, die man einnehmen könnte, um zu neuen Einsichten zu gelangen. Sie sollen niemanden von irgendetwas überzeugen, sondern als Anregung dienen. Denn letztlich geht es darum, Vergebung in sich selbst zu finden. Vergebung ist also etwas, das aus dem Inneren heraus entsteht; ein Ergebnis eines tiefen Verständnisses und Fühlens, ja eines Erkennens. Auf dieser Reise gehen wir unterschiedliche Blickwinkel und Versionen ab, bis wir im Herzen ankommen, es sich öffnet und wir plötzlich «klar» sehen. Daraufhin breitet sich Wärme im Körper aus, Liebe durchströmt uns, begleitet möglicherweise von einem Gefühl leiser Euphorie, möglicherweise auch einem leichten Schmerz und Tränen – sowohl ein paar der Traurigkeit als auch welchen der Dankbarkeit. Das Loslassen und die Befreiung sind spürbar und nur für jeden persönlich erfahrbar, der sich auf diesen Weg begibt und seine individuelle Ansicht findet, die ihn befreit und erlöst.

Meiner Meinung nach bedeutet also Vergebung eine Öffnung des Herzens, ein Erkennen und ein Hineinwachsen in die Perspektive der Liebe. Sie ist nicht auf rationaler Ebene zu finden; die rationale Ebene kann nur dabei helfen, den Weg zum Mitgefühl zu beschreiten, denn:

«Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut. Das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar.»

– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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Anna Nagel veröffentlicht auf ihrem Blog „Heimwärts“ seit Jahren zu den Themen Heilung, Bewusstsein, kollektives Erwachen, Gefühle, Spiritualität, Psyche, Kundalini und Philosophie.

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A Causa

o Princípios de Economia Política de Menger é o único livro que enfatiza a CAUSA o tempo todo. os cientistas todos parecem não saber, ou se esquecer sempre, que as coisas têm causa, e que o conhecimento verdadeiro é o conhecimento da causa das coisas.

a causa é uma categoria metafísica muito superior a qualquer correlação ou resultado de teste de hipótese, ela não pode ser descoberta por nenhum artifício econométrico ou reduzida à simples antecedência temporal estatística. a causa dos fenômenos não pode ser provada cientificamente, mas pode ser conhecida.

o livro de Menger conta para o leitor as causas de vários fenômenos econômicos e as interliga de forma que o mundo caótico da economia parece adquirir uma ordem no momento em que você lê. é uma sensação mágica e indescritível.

quando eu te o recomendei, queria é te imbuir com o espírito da busca pela causa das coisas. depois de ler aquilo, você está apto a perceber continuidade causal nos fenômenos mais complexos da economia atual, enxergar as causas entre toda a ação governamental e as suas várias consequências na vida humana. eu faço isso todos os dias e é a melhor sensação do mundo quando o caos das notícias do caderno de Economia do jornal -- que para o próprio jornalista que as escreveu não têm nenhum sentido (tanto é que ele escreve tudo errado) -- se incluem num sistema ordenado de causas e consequências.

provavelmente eu sempre erro em alguns ou vários pontos, mas ainda assim é maravilhoso. ou então é mais maravilhoso ainda quando eu descubro o erro e reinsiro o acerto naquela racionalização bela da ordem do mundo econômico que é a ordem de Deus.

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Deutschland ist eines der wenigen Länder mit einer gesetzlich verankerten ausnahmslosen Schulbesuchspflicht. Mit den Schulschließungen in der Corona-Zeit wurde das Gesetz jedoch faktisch plötzlich außer Kraft gesetzt. Alle mussten zu Hause lernen. Als die Schulen danach wieder offen waren, wurden die Kinder mit Maskenpflicht, Tests und Impfdruck gequält. Nicht selten traten bei den Schülern Krankheiten und psychische Störungen auf. Nicht wenige Eltern suchten im Gespräch mit dem Lehrerkollegium nach Lösungen für ihre Kinder. In den meisten Fällen war das nicht möglich. Die Lehrer waren auf die neue Ideologie und die Durchsetzung der Maßnahmen eingeschworen und hatten Angst. Einige Eltern haben ihre Kinder dann in eigener Verantwortung aus der Schule genommen und zu Hause selbst unterrichtet. An manchen Orten fanden sich Gemeinschaften, wo die Kinder in Gruppen lernten. Während viele Lerngemeinschaften nicht mehr existieren, hat die Familie von Katharina den Unterricht für ihre drei Kinder in Eigenregie etabliert. Inzwischen haben sie dafür sogar „den Segen“ von Familiengericht und Jugendamt.

Katharina und Johannes leben mit ihren drei Wunschkindern Aurelius (15), Benjamin (14) und Friedrich (10) in einem Vorort von Leipzig. Die Familie wohnte früher in der Stadt. In der Corona-Zeit haben sie sich mit dem Physiotherapie- & Seminarzentrum Curasanus eine Existenz auf dem Land aufgebaut und begehen diesen Sommer ihr 20-jähriges Praxis-Jubiläum. Katharina hat ihre Arbeit als Physiotherapeutin weitgehend aufgegeben, um sich als Mama und Lernbegleiterin ihren Kindern widmen zu können. Daneben bietet sie Vorträge und Workshops an, übernimmt einen großen Teil der Praxis-Organisation und ist Manager, Rezeptionistin und Vertriebler der eigenen Firma. Wir besuchten einen ihrer Lachyoga-Kurse. Dabei erlebten wir ihr Zusammenspiel mit den drei Kindern. Anschließend stellten wir Katharina unsere Fragen zum Freilernen.

Im unmittelbaren Umfeld wird die Familie bestaunt und geachtet. Sie haben sich bewusst für das Freilernen entschieden. Die Kinder wurden ohne Test nicht mehr in die Schule gelassen. Auch andere Zwangsmaßnahmen wie die Maske wollten die Eltern den Kindern ersparen. Besonders Benjamin hatte traumatische Erlebnisse. Seine Lehrerin schmiss mit dem Schlüssel nach den Schülern und wandte andere schwarze Pädagogik an. Er ging ständig mit Bauchschmerzen ins Bett. Ein weiterer Punkt ist die Masernimpfung. Die Kinder könnten zwar zur Schule gehen, aber die Eltern werden mit rechtlichen Maßnahmen und Zwangszahlungen belegt. Da Katharina in ihrer Praxis viele Erkrankungen als Folge der Masernimpfung beobachten konnte, lehnt sie die Pflichtimpfung ab. Die Eltern haben kein Vertrauen mehr in die staatliche Schulerziehung mit all dem Zwang und den Erpressungen. Als die Familie den Entschluss gefasst hatte, die Kinder nicht mehr in die Schule zu schicken, haben sie ihre Praxis vorübergehend geschlossen, ihr Haus verkauft und sind auf Reisen gegangen. Die beiden großen Kinder wurden von der Schule abgemeldet. Nach der Rückkehr haben sie dann mit einem neuen Leben auf dem Land begonnen.

Lernen ohne Schule: Wie geht das?

„Wissen ist Macht und eine Holschuld“, sagt uns Katharina. Das ist ihr Motto und motiviert auch die Kinder. Mit dem Unterricht zu Hause macht die Familie ihre eigene Studie und zeigt, dass Lernen auch anders geht als in der Schule. Die Eltern können viel besser auf jedes einzelne Kind eingehen. Johannes arbeitete früher als Straßenbauer. Er unterstützt die Jungs vor allem in Mathematik, Geometrie und Physik sowie bei handwerklichen Fertigkeiten. Katharinas Stärken liegen in Deutsch, Sprachen und Organisation. Unter den Patienten ihrer Praxis gibt es Lehrer, die ihnen helfen. Weitere Unterstützung kommt von Freunden und Bekannten. Bei bestimmten Projekten treffen sie auf andere Freilernerkinder. „Das Netzwerk wird immer größer, es wird immer schöner und interessanter“, sagt Katharina. Man geht mit vielen anderen einen gemeinsamen Weg, verlässt dabei eingetretene Pfade und erkundet neue Themenfelder wie Mediengestaltung, freie Energie, Elektrotherapie, meditatives und Improvisations-Zeichnen. „Ich sprudele vor Ideen. Sie kommen in mein Feld, und dann mache ich was draus“, sagt Katharina. Die Jungs sind in Wurzen im Ringelnatz-Literaturkreis. Dort schreiben sie Drehbuchgeschichten und haben einen Film produziert. Sie suchen sich Projekte oder kreieren neue, wie mit dem Planetarium Eilenburg. Diese Zusammenarbeit hat sich sehr gut entwickelt. Dort lernen 4- bis 15-Jährige zusammen. Die drei Jungs spielen Klavier. Erdkunde und Geschichte erleben die Kinder auch dadurch, dass die Familie Hauptstädte oder die bosnischen Pyramiden selbst erkundet. Dabei erweist es sich als Vorteil, nicht auf die Ferienzeiten angewiesen zu sein.

Als Physiotherapeutin ist Katharina bewusst, dass man neue Lernstrategien entwickeln muss. Die Kinder lernen unterschiedlich. Jedes Kind hat seinen eigenen Charakter. Aurelius benötigt eher eine 1:1-Betreuung. Darauf kann Katharina viel individueller eingehen als die staatliche Schule. Es ist aber auch aufwendiger und anstrengender. Besonderen Wert legt sie darauf, dass rechte und linke Gehirnhälfte gleichmäßig beansprucht werden. Lernphasen werden immer wieder mit Entspannungs- oder Bewegungsphasen kombiniert. Sie weiß, dass den Kindern zuerst die Grundlagen des Lesens, Rechnens und Schreibens vermittelt werden müssen. Dann sind sie in der Lage, sich alles Weitere selbst anzueignen – Unterstützung vorausgesetzt. „Besonders das Schreiben mit der eigenen Hand ist wichtig für die Vernetzung der beiden Gehirnhälften“, sagt Katharina. Dafür nehmen sich die Eltern Zeit. Die Kinder führen Tagebuch. Außerdem halten es die Eltern für wichtig, den Kindern Werte und Tugenden wie Dankbarkeit, Verlässlichkeit, Beharrlichkeit, Aufrichtigkeit, Ehrlichkeit und die zehn Gebote zu vermitteln. Katharina und Johannes sind beide religiös begleitet aufgewachsen. Heute sehen sie die Kirche als Institution kritisch. Angebunden an die Schöpfung und im Gottvertrauen erschaffen und schöpfen sie Leben und Lebensraum aus eigener Kraft – so erklärt es uns Katharina.

Ein weiteres Thema sind die Funktionen des Körpers und wie sich die Kinder gesund erhalten können. Vieles lernen sie dabei in der Physiotherapiepraxis. Die Familie hat das Privileg, in ihrem eigenen Biorhythmus leben zu können. „Das macht sehr viel aus – wir sind alle gesund“, sagt Katharina. Der Lern- und Arbeitstag beginnt nicht vor 9 Uhr und hat eine eigene Struktur. Im Tagesablauf sind feste Verantwortlichkeiten integriert. So wechseln sich die Kinder aller drei Tage mit Tischdecken, Staubsaugen und Geschirrspüler ab. Das hilft ihnen, sich selbst zu organisieren. Das geht nicht immer reibungslos vonstatten. Wenn das Lernpensum beizeiten abgearbeitet wurde, helfen die Kinder im Haushalt oder Garten oder gehen ihrem Bewegungsdrang auf andere Weise nach. Die Eltern sind am Abend noch länger aktiv, denn die Praxis erfordert noch die eine oder andere bürokratische Pflicht. Die Familie ist sehr naturverbunden. Sie gehen viel in den Wald und in den Garten. Sie bauen selbst Gemüse und Obst an. Dabei können die Kinder zum Beispiel Erfahrungen mit Permakultur und natürlicher Düngung sammeln. Die Familie achtet auf die Ernährung, schließlich ist Katharina seit fast 25 Jahren Ernährungsberaterin. Was sie nicht selbst anbauen, wird beim Bauern des Vertrauens eingekauft. Die Jungs können selbst kochen und backen. Die Schädlichkeit von Zucker ist den Kindern schon bewusst geworden, ohne gänzlich auf Schokolade verzichten zu müssen. Medikamente gibt es im Haushalt nicht. Sie kennen sich sehr gut mit den Heilmitteln aus der Natur aus und können so ihre Selbstheilungskräfte aktivieren. Sie haben keinen Hausarzt. Natürlich hat keines der Kinder ein Handy. Bisher haben sie noch kein Verlangen danach. Die Eltern halten es für wichtig, dass die Kinder erst sicher bei Selbstorganisation und Tagesstruktur sind, bevor sie ein Handy bekommen. Katharina weist darauf hin, dass beispielsweise WhatsApp erst ab 16 Jahren zugelassen ist, und fragt sich, ob das andere Eltern wissen.

Gesetze auf Augenhöhe auslegen

Den Behörden blieben die Freilerner nicht verborgen. Sie wurden aktiv und schalteten das Familiengericht ein. Die Familie hatte keinen Anwalt und keine Rechtsschutzversicherung. Katharina erzählt uns, dass sie schließlich auf „Hilfe von oben“ gehofft habe. Irgendwer hat sie anscheinend erhört, denn sie bekamen „einen Engel“ als Verfahrensbeistand. Die Behörden waren sehr zugänglich. In den Gesprächen gab man zu, mit der Schulsituation ebenfalls nicht zufrieden zu sein. „Wir wollen so wie ihr, dass sich etwas verändert. Wir sind an Eurer Seite.“ Die Gespräche mit dem Jugendamt und der Richterin vom Familiengericht Grimma waren immer auf Augenhöhe. Schließlich legte man der Familie keine Steine in den Weg. Damit kann Katharina ihr Konzept nach außen leben und andere inspirieren. Ihre Schlussfolgerung: Eltern müssen sich ihrer Stärken bewusst werden und aus ihrer Angst herauskommen. Das Konzept muss aber zur Familie passen, denn jede Familie ist anders.

Die Basis für freies Lernen ist das Vertrauen der Eltern in ihre Kinder. Denn Kinder sind von Natur aus wissbegierig und wollen lernen. Katharina hat viel von Bertrand Stern und von Riccardo Leppe gelernt. Beiden wurde von ihren Eltern das Lernen ohne Schulbesuch ermöglicht. Mit Bertrand Stern hat Katharina Kontakt. Er wird im November am Buß- und Bettag eine kleine Fortbildung im Therapie- und Seminarzentrum geben. Für den Vorabend ist ein Vortrag geplant. Katharina zitiert Riccardo Leppe: „Es ändert sich nur was, wenn man es selbst tut.“ Er sei sich sicher, dass der Fortschritt beim Freilernen inzwischen so weit ist, dass „die Paste nicht wieder zurück in die Tube geht“.

Der Übergang zur Berufsausbildung

Die ersten Freilernerkinder kommen jetzt in das Alter, in dem sie eine Berufsausbildung beginnen können. Aurelius und Benjamin, die beiden „Großen“, machen seit Anfang des Jahres schon erste Praktika bei ortsansässigen Handwerksbetrieben. Beide Seiten sind sehr zufrieden. Durch die Praktika, die länger dauern als im schulischen Lehrplan vorgesehen, können sich die Kinder ausprobieren. Katharina findet es interessant miterleben zu dürfen, wie auf ihre Kinder reagiert wird. Bringen sie etwas mit, das die anderen nicht haben? Denken sie anders mit? Benjamin bekam schon ein Angebot, in einem Metallbau-Betrieb stundenweise mitzuarbeiten. In den Betrieben weiß man, dass die Abschlüsse der staatlichen Schulen größtenteils das Papier nicht wert sind, auf dem sie stehen. Viele verlassen die Schule und können kaum lesen und schreiben, von Selbstorganisation ganz zu schweigen. Ein Freilerner kann eine staatliche Externen-Prüfung ablegen, um einen Haupt- oder Realschulabschluss zu erwerben. Katharina: „Für eine Ausbildung bei einem privaten Unternehmer braucht man das nicht, allein der Unternehmer entscheidet über die Aufnahme des Auszubildenden“. Außerdem stehen den jungen Leuten Privatschulen oder der zweite Bildungsweg zur Verfügung. Wenn man einen praktischen Beruf ergreift, ist es immer noch möglich, sich bis zur Hochschulreife weiterzubilden. Nach mehrjährigen Tätigkeiten kann man bei den Kammern von Industrie, Handel und Handwerk (IHK und HWK) eine Abschlussprüfung ablegen, mit der man zum Studium zugelassen werden kann. Oder man geht gleich den Weg in die Selbstständigkeit.

Frei lernen weitergedacht

Während der Coronazeit haben sich in Sachsen und speziell um Leipzig herum kleine Freilernergruppen gefunden. Die Gruppen werden aktuell zusammengeführt, um zum Beispiel gemeinsam den Mathematikunterricht zu gestalten. Besonders um Dresden herum ist die Szene noch stärker ausgeprägt. Außerdem gibt es seit mehr als 20 Jahren den Bundesverband Natürlich Lernen (BVNL). Er bietet Beratung und zentrale Veranstaltungen an.

Der Wunsch nach dem freien Lernen ohne Schulzwang ist groß. Doch die meisten Eltern wollen ihre Kinder dafür irgendwo abgeben und nicht selbst unterrichten. Katharinas größter Wunsch ist es, drei bis fünf Elternpaare zu finden, die sich in die Betreuung und Unterrichtung ihrer Kinder teilen. Das größte Hindernis dafür sieht sie in den Eltern selbst. Durch ungelöste transgenerative Konflikte und unverarbeitete Familientraumata kommen sie noch nicht in ihre eigene Kraft für ein selbstbestimmtes Leben. Viele wagen es noch nicht, ihre Erwerbstätigkeit zugunsten der Kinder einzuschränken. Katharina sieht es als große Aufgabe für sich und ihre Familie, mit dem Freilernen das Gemeinschaftsbewusstsein und gute Konfliktlösungsstrategien zu entwickeln. Sie denkt dabei bereits an ihre Enkel. Aber sie weiß auch, dass die Eltern ein sehr hohes Maß an Eigeninitiative, Motivation und Selbstdisziplin aufbringen müssen. Sie würde Eltern, die sich das noch nicht zutrauen, als Traumabegleiterin zur Verfügung stehen, für einen angemessenen Energieausgleich. Diese gegenseitige Unterstützung käme Kindern und Eltern zugute. Ebenso hält sie die Idee der Mehrgenerationenerziehung für wichtig. Dabei profitieren nicht nur die Kinder. Die Erfahrungen der älteren Menschen gehen nicht verloren, sondern werden an die jüngeren Generationen weitergegeben und machen sie resilienter. Das hilft den Eltern, ihrer Erwerbsarbeit nachzugehen und Familientraumata zu bewältigen.

Katharina ist eine starke Frau und sprüht nur so vor Energie. Selbst als wir nach 21 Uhr das Therapiezentrum verlassen, sind ihr die Anstrengungen des Tages nicht anzumerken. Sie wird nicht müde beim Sprechen. Für Fragen zum Thema Freilernen kann man sich an sie wenden.

Der Text wurde zuerst am 27.05.2025 im Blog „Freie Akademie für Medien und Journalismus“ veröffentlicht (https://www.freie-medienakademie.de/medien-plus/lernen-neu-gemacht)

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