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2025-06-09 15:01:50Marty's Bent
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
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
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
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 fractionâ2 trillion out of 900 trillionâof 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 investedâmissing just the 12 best performing days each year would turn Bitcoin into a losing investment.
Check out the full podcast here for more on pensions allocating to Bitcoin, cypherpunk banking, and commodity trading insight
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2025-06-09 15:00:46Bitcoin Magazine
Gemini Files Draft With The SEC For Proposed IPOToday, Gemini Space Station, Inc. announced that it has confidentially filed a draft registration statement with the US Securities and Exchange Commission for a proposed initial public offering (IPO) of its Class A common stock. Details such as the number of shares and the price range have not been disclosed. The IPO will proceed after the SECâs review and is subject to market conditions.
JUST IN: @Gemini has confidentially filed for an IPO with the @SECGov.
Details on share count and pricing TBD.
Launch date will depend on SEC review and market conditions.
â Eleanor Terrett (@EleanorTerrett) June 6, 2025
âAny offers, solicitations or offers to buy, or any sales of securities will be made in accordance with the registration requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,â stated the press release. âThis announcement is being issued in accordance with Rule 135 under the Securities Act.â
Geminiâs move comes during a period of growing activity in both the public markets and the digital asset space. Just yesterday, Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (Nasdaq, NYSE Texas: DJT) also filed a Form S-1 with the SEC for its upcoming Truth Social Bitcoin ETF.
âTruth Social Bitcoin ETF, B.T. is a Nevada business trust that issues beneficial interests in its net assets,â stated the Form S-1. âThe assets of the Trust consist primarily of bitcoin held by a custodian on behalf of the Trust. The Trust seeks to reflect generally the performance of the price of bitcoin.â
Momentum around Bitcoin and broader crypto policy was also evident last week at the 2025 Bitcoin Conference in Las Vegas. There, Gemini founders Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss joined White House A.I. & Crypto Czar David Sacks to discuss how the government should manage Bitcoin, as well as recent developments in federal policy.
âOrange is the new gold,â said Cameron. âSo, Bitcoin is Gold 2.0, and thatâs been true since day one. So, at $100,000 Bitcoin, thatâs exciting, but if you take 21 million and do the above ground market price of gold. Really, it should be a million dollars a coinâeasily,â
They talked about some of the recent policy changes that have been good for crypto include rolling back the IRS digital asset broker rule and SAB 121, which had stopped banks from holding Bitcoin. The Department of Justice also stopped its regulation by prosecution approach, which takes a lot of pressure off digital asset firms.
âItâs hard to imagine a President. Any other President being able to do any fraction of this or accomplish that or any administration and we have just over 100 days,â said Tyler. âSo, Itâs pretty amazing that we still have a lot of time left.â Later on, he ended the panel saying, âTo the Moon!â
This post Gemini Files Draft With The SEC For Proposed IPO first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Oscar Zarraga Perez.
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2025-06-09 14:02:08Bitcoin Magazine
Palantir Is Violating Its Own Principles by Avoiding a Bitcoin TreasuryPalantir exists to see what others miss.
It was founded to solve problems most institutions canât even nameâdefending sovereignty, navigating adversarial environments, and building systems designed to endure when others fail. Its software doesnât just process data; it helps governments and institutions anticipate instability before it strikes.
But for all its strategic foresight, Palantir has yet to adopt a Bitcoin treasury strategyâa move that would bring its capital posture in line with its mission.
With more than $2.1 billion in cash, minimal debt, and few reinvestments, Palantir has the resources to leadâbut no capital signal that matches its stated principles. In a world increasingly defined by currency debasement, centralized overreach, and geopolitical fragmentation, sitting on fiat is not neutrality. Itâs a contradiction.
Palantir without a Bitcoin treasury isnât just incompleteâitâs incoherent.
A Company Built for Strategic Foresight Should Not Be Saving in a Failing System
Over the last four years, Palantir has grown steadily:
- $1.09B â $1.54B â $1.91B â $2.23B in annual revenue
- Over $700M in free cash flow
- Just ~$239M in debt
- $2.1B in cash and equivalents
Itâs a fortress balance sheet. But a fortress built on fiat is only as strong as the system it rests on.
Palantir has made no meaningful acquisitions, issued no dividends, and offers no capital return strategy beyond heavy stock-based compensation. This isnât capital disciplineâitâs strategic inertia. The company builds wartime software but saves like a peacetime conglomerate.
A Bitcoin Treasury Would Align Palantirâs Capital With Its Conviction
Palantirâs mission is to defend sovereignty and build for adversarial conditions. Bitcoin is the only monetary asset designed to do the same.
- Non-sovereign: Bitcoin is not issued or controlled by any state.
- Resilient: It has survived censorship attempts, geopolitical attacks, and financial panics.
- Transparent: It is auditable, predictable, and trustlessâeverything the fiat system is not.
- Aligned: Bitcoin reflects the same values Palantir claimsâautonomy, resilience, and long-range thinking.
If Palantir allocated even half of its cash reserves (~$1.05B), it could acquire 10,000+ BTC. That would place it among the top 10 corporate Bitcoin holders, alongside Strategy (formerly MicroStrategy), Tesla, and Coinbase.
But this isnât about optics. Itâs about aligning capital with purpose.
Palantir Without a Bitcoin Treasury Violates Its Own Principles
Palantir outlines a clear ethical and design philosophy for its software. But those same principles expose a contradiction on its balance sheet.
Letâs break it down:
âSystems should incorporate principles of privacy by design.â
âĪ Bitcoin is privacy by design. It enables global value transfer without third-party surveillance or control.
âĪ Fiat is surveillance by design. Centralized systems track, censor, and report user behavior by default.By holding fiat, Palantir passively supports a financial architecture it claims to resist. A Bitcoin treasury would align its capital with its engineering ethics.
âSystems must facilitate accountability and oversight.â
âĪ Bitcoin is radically transparentâanyone can audit supply, transactions, and ownership logic.
âĪ Fiat operates in shadowsâdriven by opaque policy, insider bailouts, and political discretion.Palantir demands accountability in data infrastructureâits capital reserves should meet the same standard.
âWe strive to contextualize major world problems.â
âĪ The instability of fiat currency and global debt markets is a foundational context.
âĪ Bitcoin is not a betâitâs a contextual response to structural monetary decay.If Palantir exists to anticipate future risk, it should reflect that awareness on its balance sheet.
This Isnât a Pivot. Itâs Alignment.
Adopting a Bitcoin treasury wouldnât mark a shift in Palantirâs missionâit would reinforce it.
This isnât about chasing trends. Itâs about applying the same principles that define Palantirâs softwareâresilience, sovereignty, and long-term thinkingâto its balance sheet. Bitcoin reflects those values more directly than any fiat currency can.
Palantir helps its clients prepare for instability. It secures borders, systems, and decision-making frameworks under pressure. But it hasnât secured its own monetary foundation.
Thatâs a strategic gap.
Thatâs a contradiction.
And itâs one the company can resolveâdecisively.The Call to Action
Palantirâs shareholders believe in its conviction. They understand the company is not here to follow. It exists to build first, move first, and signal first.
They are not looking for fiat-era conservatism repackaged as capital discipline. They want strategy that matches the scale of the mission. They want to see the company allocate capital with the same clarity it brings to battlefield intelligence and national infrastructure.
Palantir has the foresight, the liquidity, and the philosophical grounding to act. What it needs is the will to align its reserves with its reason for existing.
A Bitcoin treasury would do more than protect valueâit would prove Palantir means what it says.
Itâs time to move from rhetoric to action.
Itâs time to adopt a Bitcoin treasury strategy.Disclaimer: This content was written on behalf of Bitcoin For Corporations. The views expressed in this article are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the official position of Bitcoin For Corporations. This article is intended solely for informational purposes and should not be interpreted as an invitation or solicitation to acquire, purchase, or subscribe for securities.
This post Palantir Is Violating Its Own Principles by Avoiding a Bitcoin Treasury first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Nick Ward.
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2025-06-09 14:01:57Bitcoin Magazine
Mapping Bitcoinâs Bull Cycle PotentialBitcoinâs Market Value to Realized Value, or MVRV ratio, remains one of the most reliable on-chain indicators for identifying local and macro tops and bottoms across every BTC cycle. By isolating data across different investor cohorts and adapting historical benchmarks to modern market conditions, we can generate more accurate insights into where Bitcoin may be headed next.
The Bitcoin MVRV Ratio
The MVRV Ratio compares Bitcoinâs market price to its realized price, essentially the average cost basis for all coins in the network. As of writing, BTC trades around $105,000 while the realized price floats near $47,000, putting the raw MVRV at 2.26. The Z-Score version of MVRV standardizes this ratio based on historical volatility, enabling clearer comparisons across different market cycles.
Figure 1: Historically, the MVRV Ratio and the MVRV Z-Score have accurately identified cycle peaks and bottoms. View Live Chart
Short-Term Holders
Short-term holders, defined as those holding Bitcoin for 155 days or less, currently have a realized price near $97,000. This metric often acts as dynamic support in bull markets and resistance in bear markets. Notably, when the Short Term Holder MVRV hits 1.33, local tops have historically occurred, as seen several times in both the 2017 and 2021 cycles. So far in the current cycle, this threshold has already been touched four times, each followed by modest retracements.
Figure 2: Short Term Holder MVRV reaching 1.33 in more recent cycles has aligned with local tops. View Live Chart
Long-Term Holders
Long-term holders, whoâve held BTC for more than 155 days, currently have an average cost basis of just $33,500, putting their MVRV at 3.11. Historically, Long Term Holder MVRV values have reached as high as 12 during major peaks. That said, weâre observing a trend of diminishing multiples each cycle.
Figure 3: Achieving a Long Term Holder MVRV value of 8 could extrapolate to a BTC price in excess of $300,000. View Live Chart
A key resistance band now sits between 7.5 and 8.5, a zone that has defined bull tops and pre-bear retracements in every cycle since 2011. If the current growth of the realized price ($40/day) continues for another 140â150 days, matching previous cycle lengths, we could see it reach somewhere in the region of $40,000. A peak MVRV of 8 would imply a price near $320,000.
A Smarter Market Compass
Unlike static all-time metrics, the 2-Year Rolling MVRV Z-Score adapts to evolving market dynamics. By recalculating average extremes over a rolling window, it smooths out Bitcoinâs natural volatility decay as it matures. Historically, this version has signaled overbought conditions when reaching levels above 3, and prime accumulation zones when dipping below -1. Currently sitting under 1, this metric suggests that substantial upside remains.
Figure 4: The current 2-Year Rolling MVRV Z-Score suggests more positive price action ahead. View Live Chart
Timing & Targets
A view of the BTC Growth Since Cycle Lows chart illustrates that BTC is now approximately 925 days removed from its last major cycle low. Historical comparisons to previous bull markets suggest we may be around 140 to 150 days away from a potential top, with both the 2017 and 2021 peaks occurring around 1,060 to 1,070 days after their respective lows. While not deterministic, this alignment reinforces the broader picture of where we are in the cycle. If realized price trends and MVRV thresholds continue on current trajectories, late Q3 to early Q4 2025 may bring final euphoric moves.
Figure 5: Will the current cycle continue to exhibit growth patterns similar to those of the previous two cycles? View Live Chart
Conclusion
The MVRV ratio and its derivatives remain essential tools for analyzing Bitcoin market behavior, providing clear markers for both accumulation and distribution. Whether observing short-term holders hovering near local top thresholds, long-term holders nearing historically significant resistance zones, or adaptive metrics like the 2-Year Rolling MVRV Z-Score signaling plenty of runway left, these data points should be used in confluence.
No single metric should be relied upon to predict tops or bottoms in isolation, but taken together, they offer a powerful lens through which to interpret the macro trend. As the market matures and volatility declines, adaptive metrics will become even more crucial in staying ahead of the curve.
For more deep-dive research, technical indicators, real-time market alerts, and access to a growing community of analysts, visit BitcoinMagazinePro.com.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered financial advice. Always do your own research before making any investment decisions.
This post Mapping Bitcoinâs Bull Cycle Potential first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Matt Crosby.
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2025-06-09 14:01:47Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Layer 2: ArkArk is a novel off-chain transaction batching mechanism originally proposed by Burak, a young Turkish developer. There are currently two implementations being built, one by Ark Labs, and the other by Second, neither of which Burak is involved with.Â
The original proposal for Ark was much more complicated, and involved some design goals more focused around privacy than the implementations currently being built. It was also originally envisioned to require CHECKTEMPLATEVERIFY (CTV) in order to be built.Â
The protocol depends on a central coordinating server in order to function properly, but despite that is able to provide the same functionality and security guarantees that the Lightning Network does. As long as a user stays online during the required time period, at all times (unless they choose to trust the operator for short periods of time) every user is capable at any time of unilaterally exiting the Ark system at any time and taking back full unilateral control of their funds onchain.Â
Unlike Lightning, Ark does not require users to have pre-allocated liquidity assigned to them in order to receive funds. An Ark user can simply onboard to a wallet and receive funds immediately with no liquidity pre-allocation at all.Â
Letâs walk through the different constituent pieces of Ark.
The Ark Tree
Coins held on Ark are called Virtual UTXOs (vUTXOs). These are simply pre-signed transactions that guarantee the creation of a real UTXO under the unilateral control of a user once submitted onchain, but are otherwise held offchain.Â
Every userâs vUTXOs are nested inside a tree of pre-signed transactions, or a âbatch.â Ark works by having the coordinator server, or Ark Service Provider (ASP), facilitate the coordination between users necessary to create a batch. Whenever users are receiving funds, onboarding to Ark, or offboarding, it is necessary to construct a transaction and the associated transaction tree to create a new batch.Â
The tree is constructed to take the single root UTXO confirmed onchain, locked with an n-of-n multisig including all users holding vUTXOs in the tree as well as the ASP, and slowly split into more and more UTXOs until eventually reaching the leaves, which are each users vUTXO. Each vUTXO is guaranteed using a script that has to be signed by a 2-of-2 multisig, one key held by the user, and the other by the ASP, or just the user after a timelock.Â
Each time the tree splits, vUTXOs are created onchain, but so are more internal UTXOs that have yet to actually split into vUTXOs. Each of these internal UTXOs is locked with an n-of-n multisig composed of the ASP, and all users who have a vUTXO further down the tree. During the batch creation process, users start at their respective vUTXOs, and go through a signing process all the way back down the root of the tree. This guarantees that the root will never be signed before each userâs claim to a vUTXO is, ensuring they always have unilateral access in a worst case scenario to their funds.Â
Each batch also has an expiry time (which will make sense in the next section). This expiry spend path, which exists as an alternate spending condition for the root UTXO onchain as well as every internal UTXO, allows the ASP to unilaterally spend all funds by itself.Â
Transactions, Preconfirmation, and Connector Inputs
When it comes to transacting on Ark, there are two possible mechanisms that are possible, both with their own costs and implications in terms of security model. There are out-of-round transfers, or preconfirmed transactions, and there are in-round transfers, or actually confirmed transactions.Â
To conduct an out-of-round transfer is a very simple process. If one user (Alice) wants to pay another (Bob), they simply contact the ASP and have them co-sign a transaction spending the vUTXO to Bob. Bob is then given that pre-signed transaction, as well as all the other ones preceding it back to the batch root onchain. Bob is now capable of unilaterally exiting the Ark with this transaction, but, he must trust the ASP not to collude with Alice to doublespend it. These out-of-round transactions can even be chained multiple times before finally confirming them.Â
To finalize an Ark transaction, users have to engage in a âbatch swap.â Users cannot actually trustlessly confirm a transfer within a single batch, they have to atomically swap a vUTXO in an existing batch with a fresh vUTXO created in a new batch. This is done using the ASP as a facilitator of the swap, and with the aid of what is called a âconnector input.â
When a user goes to finalize an Ark transaction with a batch swap, they relinquish control of the vUTXO to the ASP. This could be problematic, what is to stop the ASP from simply keeping it and not giving them a confirmed vUTXO in a new batch? The connector input.Â
When a new batch is created, a second output is created in the transaction that is confirmed on chain instantiating a new tree composed of connector UTXOs. When Bob goes to sign over a forfeit transaction to the ASP to conduct the batch swap, the transaction includes as an input one of the connector UTXOs from the new batch.Â
This creates an atomic guarantee. Bobâs confirmed vUTXO is included in a batch in the same transaction the connector input is created in that is necessary for his forfeit transaction to be valid. If that batch is never created onchain, i.e. Bob never actually receives the new confirmed vUTXO, then the forfeit transaction he signed for the ASP will never be valid and confirmable onchain.
Liquidity Dynamics and Blockspace
All of the liquidity necessary to create new batches in order to facilitate transfers between users is provided by the ASP. They are required to have enough liquidity to create new batches for users until old ones have expired and the ASP can unilaterally sweep them to reclaim old liquidity previously locked up to create vUTXOs for users.Â
This is the core of the liquidity dynamic at the center of the Ark protocol. While in one sense this is a massive efficiency win, not requiring liquidity providers to assess users and essentially guess which ones will actually receive large volumes of payments before they can receive any funds, in another it is an efficiency loss as the ASP must have enough liquidity to continue creating new batches for users for however long they configure the expiry time to be and they can start reclaiming allocated liquidity.Â
This can be mitigated to a decent degree by how often an ASP offers to create new batches to finalize pending transactions. In the event of an ASP attempting to create new batches in real time as transactions are coming in, the liquidity requirements would be exorbitantly high. However, an ASP can lower the frequency at which they create new batches and drastically lower their liquidity requirements.Â
This dynamic also has implications for blockspace use. Unlike Lightning, which can provide strong confirmation guarantees entirely offchain, in order for an Ark transaction to have an equivalent trustless degree of finality a new batch has to be created onchain. This means that unlike Lightning, where transaction volume does not reflect itself onchain, the velocity of Ark transactions inherently requires a proportional amount of blockspace use, albeit in a very compressed and efficient manner. This creates a theoretical upper limit of how many Ark batches can be created during any given time interval (although Ark trees can be smaller or larger depending on this dynamic).Â
Wrapping Up
Ark presents in many ways an almost opposite set of tradeoffs to the Lightning Network. It is a massive blockspace efficiency improvement for offchain transactions, and does away with the problem of liquidity allocation on the Lightning Network, but it does have a much closer tied throughput limit that is correlated with the blockchains throughput limit.Â
This dynamic of almost opposite tradeoffs makes it a very complementary system to the Lightning Network. It can also interoperate with it, i.e. vUTXOs can be swapped atomically in transactions entering or exiting the Lightning Network.Â
Ultimately how it fits into the broader Bitcoin ecosystem is yet to be seen, but it is an undoubtedly valuable protocol stack that will find some functional niche, even if it is different than originally intended.
This post Bitcoin Layer 2: Ark first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Shinobi.
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2025-06-09 14:01:37Bitcoin Magazine
Know Labs, Inc. Announces Adopting a Bitcoin Treasury Strategy, Starting with 1,000 BitcoinKnow Labs, Inc. (NYSE American: KNW) announced entering into an agreement with Goldeneye 1995 LLC and the Ripple Chief Risk Officer Greg Kidd to acquire a controlling interest in the Company. Following the completion of the transaction, Mr. Kidd will become Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Company and Founder Ron Erickson will become Vice Chairman of the Board.
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Under the agreement, the Buyer will acquire shares of Know Labsâ common stock by dividing the total value of 1,000 Bitcoin and a cash amount, designated to pay down existing debt, redeem outstanding preferred equity, and provide additional working capital. For every share purchased it will be priced at $0.335. The Bitcoin will serve as a central element of the Companyâs treasury strategy, giving investors the exposure to Bitcoin.
âIâm thrilled to deploy a Bitcoin treasury strategy with the support of a forward-looking organization like Know Labs at a time when market and regulatory conditions are particularly favorable,â said Mr. Kidd. âWe believe this approach will generate sustainable growth and long-term shareholder value.â
Once Bitcoin becomes the primary asset on the Companyâs balance sheet, management will adopt the multiple of net asset value (mNAV) metric to assess the premium investors place on the Companyâs market value relative to its Bitcoin assets. Based on a market cap of $128 million and a Bitcoin price of $105,000, the estimated entry mNAV multiple is 1.22x, with Bitcoin accounting for approximately 82% of the total market capitalization at closing.
âPartnering with Greg Kidd marks a pivotal next chapter for Know Labs,â commented Mr. Erickson. âWe look forward to continuing our research in non-invasive medical technology. Gregâs visionary leadership positions Know Labs for a bold future.â
The adoption of Bitcoin as a treasury reserve asset has dramatically increased over the course of the last year, expanding globally. To date, there are 225 companies and other entities with Bitcoin in their balance sheets.Â
Norwegian Block Exchange (NBX), a leading Nordic cryptocurrency exchange and digital asset platform, announced on June 2 that it has added Bitcoin to its balance sheet, marking a national milestone as the first publicly listed company in Norway to hold Bitcoin as part of its treasury strategy.
âNBX will not sell this Bitcoin or go short in any form,â stated the company. âWith reference to the latest POA notice with LDA capital, NBX will also use proceeds to buy additional Bitcoin.â
This post Know Labs, Inc. Announces Adopting a Bitcoin Treasury Strategy, Starting with 1,000 Bitcoin first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Oscar Zarraga Perez.
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2025-06-09 13:11:48Er war schon immer ein streitbarer. Seine Kritik richtete sich an ein Gesundheitssystem, das durch eine durch Pharmalobby erkaufte oder erpresste Politik ermÃķglicht wurde. Seit Ausrufung der sogenannten Corona-Pandemie fuhr er zu HÃķchstleistungen auf. Es ist Dr. Gunter Frank, Schulmediziner mit Erfahrungen im Krankenhaus, Notfallmediziner, ausgebildet in Naturheilverfahren, Sachbuchautor, engagiert in diversen medizinischen und naturheilkundlichen Gesellschaften und betreibt eine eigene Praxis...
Im grÃķÃten Medizinskandal in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik, der Corona-Krise, nennt er Hausnumnmern wie 100-200.000 langfristig, gesundheitlich schwer GeschÃĪdigten und etwa 20 - 40.000 durch Genimpfung Verstorbene. Ob diese Zahlen haltbar sind, weit Þber- oder untertrieben wird die Geschichte zeigen. Welche HintergrÞnde er aber vermutet und Þber die neuen Deutungen medizinischer Erkenntnisse, spricht meine Kollegin Eva Schmidt jetzt mit dem Mediziner Dr. Gunter Frank und wollte zunÃĪchst wissen, wann und warum er zum Medizinsystemkritiker wurde, welches sein Erweckungserlebnis, noch weit vor Corona gewesen sein muss:
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2025-06-09 13:08:49Wenn sich die Spieler nach einem hart umkÃĪmpften FuÃballmatch die Hand reichen oder einander abklatschen, zeugt das von Sportsgeist. Das heiÃt: Wir haben uns im Spiel zwar nichts geschenkt, aber wir respektieren einander und als Verlierer erkennen wir an, dass die andere Mannschaft besser gespielt hat und unsere Niederlage in Ordnung geht.
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Und auch die Gewinner zollen dem Gegner Respekt, verhÃķhnen ihn nicht. SelbstverstÃĪndlich sollte gegenseitiger Respekt auch in der Politik gelten. Man sollte einander zuhÃķren und argumentieren, anstatt Kollegen schon deshalb zu verachten, weil sie einer anderen Partei angehÃķren. Aber: Wenn ein Politiker eine andere Partei massiv kritisiert und ihrem Antrag anschlieÃend trotzdem zustimmt, zeigt er damit nicht Respekt vor dem politischen Gegner, sondern Verachtung fÞr den WÃĪhler. Was der Deutsche Bundestag im MÃĪrz 2025 demonstrierte, also in der Ãbergangsphase vom alten Bundestag und dem noch nicht einberufenen neu gewÃĪhlten Parlament, war genau das: angewandte WÃĪhlerverachtung. Etwas zuzustimmen, das ich eben noch vehement verdammt habe, zeugt nicht von DemokratieverstÃĪndnis oder von politischem Sportsgeist, sondern von dessen fundamentaler Ablehnung. Erst recht, wenn die Zustimmung fÞr alle ersichtlich erkauft wurde. HÃķren Sie Jonny Rieders Kommentar âDie Wrestling-Demokratieâ.
Sprecher: Karsten Troyke
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2025-06-09 13:07:23Zum organisierten Corona-Komplex zÃĪhlt auch der vermittelte Eindruck, dass es in den Jahren der sogenannten Pandemie praktisch nur noch eine Todesursache gab: Covid-19. Verkehrstote? Krebstote? GewÃķhnliche Alterstote? Kann nicht sein.
https://soundcloud.com/radiomuenchen/studie-viele-falsche-corona-tote-von-multipolar?
UN-GeneralsekretÃĪr Guterres sah die Welt âim Krieg mit dem Virusâ, de facto war es ein Krieg mit der Wahrheit, den Regierungen und Mainstream-Medien ausfochten. Der berechtigte Einwand, es mache einen Unterschied, ob jemand mit Corona oder wegen Corona gestorben ist, wurde als Ketzerei abgekanzelt. Erst mit dem Krieg in der Ukraine geriet das âJeder Tote ist ein Corona-Toterâ-Narrativ an seine Propaganda-Grenzen und Corona verschwand so schnell aus dem medialen TagesgeschÃĪft wie es gekommen war. Das Geld, das man fÞr Masken, sogenannte Impfstoffe und damit verbundener Korruption verschwendet hatte, musste man nun unbedingt fÞr Waffen verschwenden. Umso wichtiger ist es, diese Zeit der LÞgen und Grundrechtsverletzungen nicht einfach unter den Teppich zu kehren und darÞber zu schweigen. AufklÃĪrung leistet hier nach wie vor das Magazin Multipolar. Es berichtet von einer aktuellen Studie griechischer Forscher Þber âoffizielle Corona-TodesfÃĪlle wÃĪhrend Omikronâ. Dabei erwies sich Corona nur in einer Minderheit der FÃĪlle als direkte Todesursache.
Sprecherin: Sabrina Khalil
Originaltext bei Multipolar:Â multipolar-magazin.de/meldungen/0257
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2025-06-09 13:03:51Zum organisierten Corona-Komplex zÃĪhlt auch der vermittelte Eindruck, dass es in den Jahren der sogenannten Pandemie praktisch nur noch eine Todesursache gab: Covid-19. Verkehrstote? Krebstote? GewÃķhnliche Alterstote? Kann nicht sein. UN-GeneralsekretÃĪr Guterres sah die Welt âim Krieg mit dem Virusâ, de facto war es ein Krieg mit der Wahrheit, den Regierungen und Mainstream-Medien ausfochten.
https://soundcloud.com/radiomuenchen/studie-viele-falsche-corona-tote-von-multipolar
Der berechtigte Einwand, es mache einen Unterschied, ob jemand mit Corona oder wegen Corona gestorben ist, wurde als Ketzerei abgekanzelt. Erst mit dem Krieg in der Ukraine geriet das âJeder Tote ist ein Corona-Toterâ-Narrativ an seine Propaganda-Grenzen und Corona verschwand so schnell aus dem medialen TagesgeschÃĪft wie es gekommen war. Das Geld, das man fÞr Masken, sogenannte Impfstoffe und damit verbundener Korruption verschwendet hatte, musste man nun unbedingt fÞr Waffen verschwenden. Umso wichtiger ist es, diese Zeit der LÞgen und Grundrechtsverletzungen nicht einfach unter den Teppich zu kehren und darÞber zu schweigen. AufklÃĪrung leistet hier nach wie vor das Magazin Multipolar. Es berichtet von einer aktuellen Studie griechischer Forscher Þber âoffizielle Corona-TodesfÃĪlle wÃĪhrend Omikronâ. Dabei erwies sich Corona nur in einer Minderheit der FÃĪlle als direkte Todesursache.
Sprecherin: Sabrina Khalil
Originaltext bei Multipolar:Â multipolar-magazin.de/meldungen/0257
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2025-06-09 13:02:20https://soundcloud.com/radiomuenchen/2025-05-27-eine-stunde-klassik?
Eine Stunde Klassik! Der MÞnchner Pianist und "Musikdurchdringer" JÞrgen Plich stellt jeden Dienstag um 20 Uhr groÃe klassische Musik vor. Er teilt seine HÃķr- und Spielerfahrung und seine persÃķnliche Sicht auf die Meisterwerke. Er spielt selbst besondere, unbekannte Aufnahmen, erklÃĪrt, warum die Musik so und nicht anders klingt und hat eine Menge aus dem Leben der Komponisten zu erzÃĪhlen.
Sonntags um 10 Uhr in der Wiederholung.
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2025-06-09 13:02:01The third annual Bitcoin FilmFest (aka BFF25) proved once again that sovereign minds and decentralized culture thrive together.
For four electrifying days in Polandâs capital, the festivalâs rallying callââFix the money, fix the cultureââwasnât just a slogan but a living, breathing movement.
From May 22-25, 2025, Warsaw buzzed with cinematic innovation, Bitcoin philosophy, and artistic vibe marking this gathering as truly incomparable.
Rebel Tribe with Unfiltered Creativity
With 200+ attendees from 20+ countries â primarily Poland, Czech Republic, the UK and Germany (~70% combined), plus representation from Spain, Italy, USA, Turkey and 15+ other nations including Thailand, Israel, Dubai and Latin AmericaâBFF25 became a true global hub of freedom-fighters at heart.Â
The European Pizza Day opener (May 22), celebrating Bitcoinâs first real-world transaction, saw rainy evening weather that couldnât dampen the energy.
With concerts by Roger9000 and ABBE plus DJ sets from MadMunky, 2140 collective w/Airklipz and G.O.L.D., all early arrivals had a memorable start.
Dual Focus on Film and Bitcoin Culture
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Seven film workshops and seven hands-on sessions running parallel across Friday and Saturday at Amondo Cinema Club. Film: Martin Piga, Oswald Horowitz, Psyfer, Juan Pablo MejÃa, Kristina Weiserova, Rare Passenger, Noa Gruman & Lahav Levi (Scardust). Bitcoin/Nostr: Aleks Svetski, Ioni Appelberg, Flash,  CryptoSteel, Bitrefill, Polish Bitcoin Association, Bitvocation.
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The Community Stage (Friday to Sunday afternoon) gave important space for both projects and individuals discussing their work and passions.
Everything from music, art, fiction, Nostr, personal sovereignty to Polish-language debates on Bitcoinâs state and its possible future. -
Onscreen, 9 cinematic blocks from Friday to Sunday featured titles like UNBAKABLE, REVOLUCIÃN BITCOIN, HOTEL BITCOIN, PLANDEMIC: THE MUSICAL, plus shorts on new media (AI/experimental cinema), parallel communities (outcast cinema), and newly released pilots.
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Cinematic shark-tank with a âŽ3,000 bounty: 8 contestants
- Martin Piga: âPARALLEL SPACESâ
- Kristina Weiserova: âPUZZLEâ
- Aaron Koenig : âSATOSHIâS LAST WILLâ
- Philip Charter: â21 FUTURESâ
- Jenna Reid: âWHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?â
- Mr Black: âA LODGING OF WAYFARING MENâ
- Oswald Horowitz: âTHE LEGEND OF LANDIâ
The event ended with Jenna winning.
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Official Gala: Golden Rabbits 2025 crowned:
- HOTEL BITCOIN by Manuel Sanabria & Carlos âPochoâ Villaverde (Best Story)
- SATOSHI: THE CREATION OF BITCOIN by Arthur Machado (Best Short)
- REVOLUCIÃN BITCOIN by Juan Pablo MejÃa (Audience Choice)
- NO MORE INFLATION by Maiku Tsukaiâs aka Bitcoin Shooter (Best Film)
Nights Charged with Music and Unscripted Surprise
The festivalâs legendary afterparties kept the energy highâFridayâs underground gathering at Morph Club (ex-Barbazaar) featured Aaron Koeningâs live concert and 2140 DJs (Akme + Andy Princz).
The weekendâs unforgettable moment came when Noa Gruman took the stage with âMY HEAVENâ (Scardust original) and â40HPWâ â her powerful tribute to Bitcoin podcasts and Bugle.News.
Lightning-Powered Innovation, and Extras
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Lightning in Action: Flash enabled instant Bitcoin payments across both main venues (Amondo + Samo Centrum, merch stations, and online shop)
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IndeeHub Backstage Pass: Attendees unlocked exclusive access to Lightning-powered VOD featuring selected films from BFF23-25
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BFF TV: Kiki (El Salvador) broadcasting live interviews, event clips, and trailers. Day One, and Day Two to rewatch online.
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Comedy Strike: Robert Le Ricainâs Gala stand-up proved Bitcoiners pack brains and humorâin equal measure.
A Community-Driven Cultural Experience
Bitcoin FilmFest wasnât just an eventâit was proof that culture shifts when money gets fixed. Mark your calendars for June 2026 and the next edition. More info and tickets going on sale soon.
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2025-06-09 13:01:40âNot your keys, not your coinsâ isnât a sloganâitâs a survival mantra in the age of digital sovereignty.
The seismic collapses of Mt. Gox (2014) and FTX (2022) werenât anomalies; they were wake-up calls. When $8.7 billion in customer funds vanished with FTX, it exposed the fatal flaw of third-party custody:Â your bitcoin is only as secure as your custodianâs weakest link.
Yet today, As of early 2025, analysts estimate that between 2.3 million and 3.7 million Bitcoins are permanently lost, representing approximately 11â18% of bitcoinâs fixed maximum supply of 21 million coins, with some reports suggesting losses as high as 4 million BTC. This paradox reveals a critical truth: self-custody isnât just preferableâitâs essentialâbut it must be done right.
The Custody Spectrum
Custodial Wallets (The Illusion of Control)
- Rehypothecation Risk:Â Most platforms lend your bitcoin for yield generation. When Celsius collapsed, users discovered their âheldâ bitcoin was loaned out in risky strategies.
- Account Freezes:Â Regulatory actions can lock withdrawals overnight. In 2023, Binance suspended dollar withdrawals for U.S. users citing âpartner bank issues,â trapping funds for weeks.
- Data Vulnerability:Â KYC requirements create honeypots for hackers. The 2024 Ledger breach exposed 270,000 usersâ personal data despite hardware security.
True Self-Custody
Self-custody means exclusively controlling your private keysâthe cryptographic strings that prove bitcoin ownership. Unlike banks or exchanges, self-custody eliminates:- Counterparty risk (no FTX-style implosions)
- Censorship (no blocked transactions)
- Inflationary theft (no fractional reserve lending)
Conquering the Three Great Fears of Self-Custody
Fear 1: âIâll Lose Everything If I Make a Mistakeâ
Reality:Â Human error is manageable with robust systems:
- Test Transactions:Â Always send a micro-amount (0.00001 BTC) before large transfers. Verify receipt AND ability to send back.
- Multi-Backup Protocol:Â Store seed phrases on fireproof/waterproof steel plates (not paper!). Distribute copies geographicallyâone in a home safe, another with trusted family 100+ miles away.
- SLIP39 Sharding:Â Split your seed into fragments requiring 3-of-5 shards to reconstruct. No single point of failure.
Fear 2: âHackers Will Steal My Keysâ
Reality:Â Offline storage defeats remote attacks:
- Hardware Wallets:Â Devices like Bitkey or Ledger keep keys in âcold storageââisolated from internet-connected devices. Transactions require physical confirmation.
- Multisig Vaults:Â Bitvaultâs multi-sig system requires attackers compromise multiple locations/devices simultaneously. Even losing two keys wonât forfeit funds.
- Air-Gapped Verification:Â Use dedicated offline devices for wallet setup. Never type seeds on internet-connected machines.
Fear 3: âMy Family Canât Access It If I Dieâ
Reality:Â Inheritance is solvable:
- Dead Man Switches:Â Bitwardenâs emergency access allows trusted contacts to retrieve encrypted keys after a pre-set waiting period (e.g., 30 days).
- Inheritance Protocols:Â Bitkeyâs inheritance solution shares decryption keys via designated beneficiariesâ emails. Requires multiple approvals to prevent abuse.
- Public Key Registries:Â Share wallet XPUBs (not private keys!) with heirs. They can monitor balances but not spend, ensuring transparency without risk.
The Freedom Dividend
- Censorship Resistance:Â Send $10M BTC to a Wikileaks wallet without Visa/Mastercard blocking it.
- Privacy Preservation:Â Avoid KYC surveillanceânon-custodial wallets like Flash require zero ID verification.
- Protocol Access:Â Participate in bitcoin-native innovations (Lightning Network, DLCs) only possible with self-custodied keys.
- Black Swan Immunity:Â When Cyprus-style bank bailins happen, your bitcoin remains untouched in your vault.
The Sovereignâs Checklist
- Withdraw from Exchanges:Â Move all BTC > $1,000 to self-custody immediately.
- Buy Hardware Wallet:Â Purchase DIRECTLY from manufacturer (no Amazon!) to avoid supply-chain tampering.
- Generate Seed OFFLINE:Â Use air-gapped device, write phrase on steelânever digitally.
- Test Recovery:Â Delete wallet, restore from seed before funding.
- Implement Multisig:Â For > $75k, use Bitvault for 2-of-3 multi-sig setup.
- Create Inheritance Plan:Â Share XPUBs/SLIP39 shards with heirs + legal documents.
âSelf-custody isnât about avoiding riskâitâs about transferring risk from opaque institutions to transparent, controllable systems you design.â
The Inevitable Evolution: Custody Without Compromise
Emerging solutions are erasing old tradeoffs:
- MPC Wallets:Â Services like Xapo Bank shatter keys into encrypted fragments distributed globally. No single device holds full keys, defeating physical theft.
- Social Recovery:Â Ethically designed networks (e.g., Bitkey) let trusted contacts restore access without custodial control.
- Biometric Assurance:Â Fingerprint reset protocols prevent lockouts from physical injuries.
Lost keys = lost bitcoin. But consider the alternative: entrusting your life savings to entities with proven 8% annual failure rates among exchanges. Self-custody shifts responsibility from hoping institutions wonât fail to knowing your system canât fail without your consent.
Take action today:Â Move one coin. Test one recovery. Share one xpub. The path to unchained wealth begins with a single satoshi under your control.
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2025-06-09 13:00:03Ganz im Geiste des klassischen Kabaretts widmen sich Franz Esser und Michael Sailer den Ereignissen des letzten Monats: Was ist passiert? Und was ist dazu zu sagen? Das ist oft frappierend - und manchmal auch zum Lachen.
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2025-06-08 00:01:17Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Life Insurer, Meanwhile, Becomes First Company to Publish Audited Financials Denominated in BitcoinMeanwhile Insurance Bitcoin (Bermuda) Limited (âMeanwhileâ) announced it has become the first company in the world to release externally audited financial statements denominated entirely in Bitcoin. According to the announcement, the company reported 220.4 BTC in assets and 25.29 BTC in net income for 2024, a 300% year over year increase.
Today marks a global first & historic event for us, along with the public release of our 2024 audited financial statements, covering our 1st year of sales.
As the 1st company in the world to have Bitcoin-denominated financial statements externally audited, we are excited toâĶ
â meanwhile | Bitcoin Life Insurance (@meanwhilelife) June 5, 2025
âWeâve just made history as the first company in the world to have Bitcoin-denominated financial statements externally audited,â said Zac Townsend, CEO of Meanwhile. âThis is an important, foundational step in reimagining the financial system based on a single, global, decentralized standard outside the control of any one government.âÂ
The financial statements were audited by Harris & Trotter LLP and its digital asset division ht.digital. Meanwhileâs financials also comply with Bermudaâs Insurance Act 1978, noting that their BTC denominated financials were approved and comply with official guidelines. The firm, fully licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), operates entirely in BTC and is prohibited from liquidating Bitcoin assets except through policyholder claims, positioning it as a long term holder.Â
âAs the first regulated Bitcoin life insurance company, we view the BTC held by Meanwhile as inherently long-term in natureâprimarily held to support the Companyâs insurance liabilities over decades,â Townsend added. âThis makes it significantly âstickierâ and resistant to market pressures compared to the BTC held by other companies as part of their treasury management strategies.âÂ
Meanwhileâs 2024 financials also revealed 23.02 BTC in net premiums and 4.35 BTC in investment income, showing that its model not only preserves Bitcoin, but earns it. The companyâs reserves (also held in BTC) were reviewed and approved by Willis Towers Watson (WTW).Â
Meanwhile also offers a Bitcoin Whole Life insurance product that allows policyholders to save, borrow, and build legacy wealthâentirely in BTC, and has plans to expand globally in 2025.
âWe are incredibly proud of todayâs news as it underscores how Meanwhile is at the forefront of the next phase of the convergence between Bitcoin and institutional financial markets,â said Tia Beckmann, CFO of Meanwhile. âNow having generated net income in BTC, we have demonstrated that we are earning it through a sustainable insurance business model designed for the long term.âÂ
This post Bitcoin Life Insurer, Meanwhile, Becomes First Company to Publish Audited Financials Denominated in Bitcoin first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Jenna Montgomery.
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2025-06-09 12:58:05Wahrscheinlich wird es wieder der wÃĪrmste Mai seit Wetteraufzeichnung gewesen sein, was uns erneut ermahnt, endlich dem Klimawandel den Garaus zu machen. Sie merken es, der Sarkasmus bahnt sich schon seinen Weg. Auch MÞnchen hat sich jetzt dem Klima-Taler-Netzwerk angeschlossen und wirbt fÞr das Angebot, sich ein besseres Gewissen tracken zu lassen. HÃķren Sie Nicolas Riedls Kommentar âDer Klima-KÃķderâ.
Sprecherin: Sabrina Khalil
Bild: ÂĐ Klima-Taler
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@ 2b24a1fa:17750f64
2025-06-09 12:56:33Einmal, im dunklen Wald auf dem Weg ins nÃĪchste Dorf, hielt ich meine Taschenlampe auf den Boden gerichtet, nicht wirklich senkrecht, aber so, dass der Lichtkegel nah bei mir war. Immer wieder lief ein Schatten auf mich zu. Manchmal kam er auch von hinten. Jedes Mal erschrak ich fÞrchterlich, ging in Abwehrhaltung und mahnte mich dann zur Einsicht: Wer sollte mir folgen? Was aus dem GebÞsch, sollte auf mich zu kommen, oder dicht an mir vorbei laufen wollen? Woher also dieser Schreck, diese Angst? Vielleicht ist es nur das Reptilienhirn und der Ãberlebenssinn der reagiert, vielleicht aber auch ein Teil der PrÃĪgung, die uns verunsichert, wenn wir die Gemeinschaft verlassen und uns anders verhalten.
https://soundcloud.com/radiomuenchen/innerer-tiefenstaat-von?
Unbekannte und einflussreiche Anteile unseres Selbst zu entdecken und zu integrieren nennt der WildnispÃĪdagoge, Autor und Journalist Bastian Barucker Schattenarbeit. HÃķren Sie seinen Text Trauma, Krieg, FriedensfÃĪhigkeit und der innere Tiefenstaat.
Sprecher: Ulrich Allroggen\ Redaktion: Eva Schmidt
Den Beitrag kÃķnnen Sie auf seinem Blog Bastian-Barucker.de nachlesen. blog.bastian-barucker.de/der-innere-tiefenstaat/
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@ f0fd6902:a2fbaaab
2025-06-09 12:46:55A brinicle (brine icicle, also known as an ice stalactite) is a downward-growing hollow tube of ice enclosing a plume of descending brine that is formed beneath developing sea ice.
As seawater freezes in the polar ocean, salt brine concentrates are expelled from the sea ice, creating a downward flow of dense, extremely cold, saline water, with a lower freezing point than the surrounding water. When this plume comes into contact with the neighboring ocean water, its extremely low temperature causes ice to instantly form around the flow. This creates a hollow stalactite, or icicle, referred to as a brinicle. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brinicle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69aeBawfrRw
https://stacker.news/items/1001460
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@ 87fedb9f:0da83419
2025-06-09 12:45:21Finding Calm in the Chaos
Ever notice how you start future-mapping to calm your nervesâĶ and end up more anxious than when you began? Youâre not alone! Join us for a playful, real-talk exploration of why our brilliant minds try to control everything â and how empathy, Buddhist wisdom, and EFT tapping can help us step out of the anxious loop and land back in the delicious now.
https://www.thrivingnow.center/t/1491/4
We coveredâĶ
1. Future Mapping is Fish-and-Water Awareness We often donât realize how much mental energy we spend constantly planning scenarios - âif it rains, if they get upset, if this happens then thatâĶâ This protective pattern started early but now we can bring it into conscious awareness and choose how much energy to invest.
2. The Empathy App Creates Endless Scenarios Our empathetic nature means weâre not just planning for ourselves - weâre mapping out everyone elseâs potential reactions, feelings, and needs. This creates exponentially more âwhat ifâ scenarios that keep our minds spinning in overdrive.
3. Fault-Finding is Too Crude for Thriving When we automatically assign blame (usually to ourselves), weâre operating from primitive brain patterns. Upgrading to a more refined viewpoint means seeing the âdance of energiesâ where everyone contributes and sometimes feet get stepped on - itâs part of life.
4. We Canât Actually Control the River Life flows like a river, and we can steer our canoe but we cannot change the river itself. Our anxiety often signals weâre trying to do the impossible - control weather, other peopleâs moods, or outcomes beyond our influence.
5. Magical Thinking Says âIf I Worry Enough, It Will Work Outâ We unconsciously believe that suffering through worry ahead of time will somehow guarantee good outcomes. Our nervous system knows this is a lie, which creates more anxiety. We can release this âprepaymentâ fantasy.
6. Distributing the Broccoli Back to Its Owners We often scoop up everyone elseâs responsibilities onto our plate to avoid conflict or being blamed. Learning to ask âIs this really my broccoli?â helps us return emotional and practical responsibilities to their rightful owners.
7. Include Safe and Good Possibilities in Your Maps When we only map threats and problems, we miss opportunities for joy, connection, and creative solutions. Consciously including positive possibilities activates different parts of ourselves - the creative, hopeful, and inspired aspects.
8. Tapping While Thinking Moves Energy Out of Stuck Loops Simply speaking our thoughts aloud while tapping the acupressure points breaks the narrow band of mental spinning. This engages our bodyâs intelligence and often reveals what words or feelings want to emerge beyond our conscious planning.
9. Being With What Is vs. Making Everyone Happy Instead of trying to make everyone feel good all the time (which is impossible), we can practice being present with people as they actually are. This is more respectful, connected, and requires much less exhausting management.
10. Anxiety Can Be Wise Body Guidance Rather than just a problem to fix, our anxiety often signals weâre trying to do something unwise - like changing unchangeable things or telling ourselves lies about what we can control. We can listen to this guidance.
11. The Sweet Spot of Thoughtful Planning Weâre not throwing away our planning abilities - weâre finding the balance between appropriate preparation (throwing an umbrella in the bag) and exhausting over-management (trying to control every possible variable). Good and sufficient planning honors both our intelligence and lifeâs natural flow.
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@ 81022b27:2b8d0644
2025-06-09 12:45:09You probably already know that Iâve been playing around with the whole Nostr thing.
Well, slowly I have been posting my content on Nostr. The long-form content., like my https://www.theintuitivechiropractor.com am using Habla.news
Habla.News is basically a blog app. Itâs like a Substack, but you donât have the newsletter feature, but I hear one may be in the works.
So from what I understand so far, your content is all published in one stream, but different sites handle the content differently.
A Twitter-like short post reader like Primal will organize short post and a long-form reader like Habla will do the articles.
I created a personal webpage on Npub.Pro and a links page (like a LinkTree) as well.
You can click on to see some of those pages.
Now, Iâm having issues with the NPub page, because sometimes it wants to show my content, sometimes it decides not to.
Did I mention all of this is FREE?
Itâs a bit complicated to setup at first, especially if you are unfamiliar with crypto wallets and that kind of stuff-but you get the feeling this is all new stuff and we are here in a new frontier where this could end up being revolutionary.
Follow my posts on here to see how I progress. If you would like to start on Nostr, I will do everything I can to help you out.
Live Long and Prosper,
-Dan
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@ 73d8a0c3:c1853717
2025-06-09 14:44:27[*What follows is an excerpt from my Novel: Redacted Science. It is a work in progress as I document 30 year long battle with a condition I know exists because I've seen the research. But, you cannot find it anymore. While my condition is worthy to note, and the science behind it fascinating, there is a larger issue at hand that we need to consider deeply in the tumultuous days to come. Who controls the data? Who controls the indexing? Everything is built from that which comes before. The novel 1984 was not just prescient â it was a warning we archived. Our LLMs learn from their indexes. We, as people, learn from memory â memories weâve indexed, often anchored by photos weâve kept. Societies, too, learn this way. They age. Each generation builds upon the memories of the last.
Our past â our index â creates the future. So... who controls the indexes? Who is shaping the future?*]
Maybe it wasnât just bad luck. Maybe it started way earlier.
I used to wet the bed. Not once or twice. The doctors had said, and my Mom assured me, it would go away with age. And it did. The last time I remember wetting the bed I was a month from turning 16 years-old. [As I write this now, it is the first time I really come to grips with the fact I was that age.] The reason I know precisely the year and even the month was because I was on my sophomore church choir trip just after the school year completed. I was rooming with three other guys, and therefore sharing a bed with my best friend in the world. He never mentioned anything. Maybe he noticed. Maybe he didnât. But thatâs not just embarrassing. Thatâs diagnostic, if anyone's paying attention. I didnât know it back then, but kids who wet the bed that long often have something wrong with the way their brain regulates antidiuretic hormone â ADH. The same hormone Iâd later drown in.
Most people get a nice surge of ADH at night. Itâs the bodyâs way of saying: Weâre asleep now. Letâs conserve water, hold the urine. But if that signalâs off â if the hypothalamus doesnât cue it, or the pituitary doesnât release it, or the kidneys donât listen â then the urine keeps coming. Every night. Like clockwork. Like something upstream never got the message.
Now fast forward.
Years later, Iâve got the opposite problem. Too much ADH. My kidneys hold everything. They think Iâm dehydrated when Iâm not. Itâs like the system flipped, rewired itself backwards. And thatâs not how regulation is supposed to work. UnlessâĶ maybe it never worked right to begin with.
Then thereâs the seizure. Just one. Just a baby. Supposedly no big deal. But when a seizure hits in infancy â especially in or around the hypothalamus â it can scar circuits that control everything downstream: temperature, hunger, stress, thirst, hormone pulses, salt sensing. What if that one storm rewrote the rules?
Weâve got osmoreceptors in the brain â little sensors that taste the salt in our blood, literally â and baroreceptors in our neck and chest that feel pressure and stretch. Those two signals are supposed to balance out: salt vs volume. But what if the integration point, the part of the brain that weighs the inputs and decides whether to release ADH, got damaged? Or miscalibrated? Or hijacked?
What if that seizure set the initial mismatch?
What if bedwetting was the system trying to adapt to low nighttime ADH? What if a genetic condition made me susceptible to candidiasis being able to coexist with my system on a deeper level than normal? What if the candidiasis was the reason for the ADH malfunctions, even as a child, and that was due to some rare undocumented genetic trait? I bet someone would be interested in knowing about that trait. [Thatâs what weâre here for folks. You have to find it or, at a minimum, the science they redacted]. Or what if the seizure changed something and the candidiasis stepped in to âfixâ it?
I have a deeper theory.
What if my so-called âadult-onsetâ SIADH isnât an onset at all â but just the next phase of a long-broken feedback loop? Genetics, early seizures â maybe they didnât just damage me. Maybe they rewired me for something different. What if I â and others like me â entered a kind of cooperative state with candidiasis, not as invaders, but as metabolic partners?
A symbiosis. An adaptation. A strange kind of upgrade.
Then phenobarbital hits â and everything breaks.
That drug might not just act on the brain. It may disrupt the fungal integration itself â cutting the shared metabolic wiring. And when that happens, the system flips its fuel priority. With the usual pathways disrupted, the body â or the fungus â starts scavenging protein directly from tissue. From me.
Thatâs why the patients in the case studies I found all had mucosal lining ulcerations (just like mine) â sudden, inconsistent, painful and immediately after administration of phenobarbitol â not as a reaction, but as a feeding response. We all had colonies in different places. The rupture didnât just break the truce. It flipped the fuel switch. And what was once symbiosis became consumption.
What if itâs all related?
What if we werenât just infected â we were entangled?
Even the HPA axis â that central stress command â itâs run by the hypothalamus too. And mine doesnât work like yours. My mind is usually running at a speed that, in all honesty, is not what most people have going on. During all these transitions, things hit me different. . Iâve gone through significantly long periods of what I would just call temperature disregulation, where my system is just not right.
This isnât just a hormone problem. Itâs a whole-brain misinterpretation of reality. A mistranslation between body and mind, with electrolytes as the lost language. And, this treatment, it puts everything in overdrive. That's why we don't have it documented. This treatment, even though it causes a lifetime of on and off dysregulation as it breaks down the barriers to reach total maximal ATP consumption by the candidiasis, it is an upgrade in many ways. An overclock worthy of the best hard-code gamer.
So no. I donât think my path was random. I think there is something more significant. The body type similarities of the men in the original documented study and same initiating condition that led to the treatment that then caused the iatrogenic condition
It was earned. Layered. A slow-building adaptation â maybe even an intelligent one â that didnât quite work, but didnât quite kill me either.
Not yet.
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@ 81022b27:2b8d0644
2025-06-09 12:39:53I literally have no clue what I'm doing.
Nostr is a decentralized protocol that lets users share messages and content through independent servers called relays, ensuring no single entity controls the network. It uses cryptographic keys to verify identities and secure messages, making it censorship-resistant and privacy-focused.
That is the simplest definition that Grok could come up with defining what is Nostr.
Iâve been intrigued by this because it ties in blockchain, publishing content and privacy all into one.
It is intimately tied to a Bitcoin wallet, where readers can âZapâ you tips in Satoshis- which is Bitcoin âchangeâ
There are no intermediaries, no card processing fees, no gatekeepers to keep your content hidden,none of that.
Maybe iâm still mad about being censored on social media for my Covid-19 posts, but the idea of not being able to be censored by a corporation or even my own government is appealing to me.
There are apps to see videos, blog apps and social media type apps.
You own your content and you can move it around wherever you like.
I will be experimenting with posting on there.
Iâve got two profiles on there (I told you I didnt know what I was doing)
Iâm inviting you to join me on Nostr.
Live Long and Prosper,
_Dan
nostr:naddr1qvzqqqr4gupzpqgz9vnnj6wkj3excxuvf2ug4xstp72g774v9tpnxzptag4c6pjyqqxnzde58yen2d35xg6njve5x6ph8l
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@ 9ca447d2:fbf5a36d
2025-06-07 18:00:48Paris, France â June 6, 2025 â Bitcoin payment gateway startup Flash, just announced a new partnership with the âBitcoin Only Breweryâ, marking the first-ever beverage company to leverage Lightning payments.
Flash enables Bitcoin Only Brewery to offer its âBOBâ beer with, no-KYC (Know Your Customer) delivery across Europe, priced at 19,500 sats (~$18) for the 4-pack, shipping included.
The cans feature colorful Bitcoin artwork while the contents promise a hazy pale ale: âEach 33cl can contains a smooth, creamy mouthfeel, hazy appearance and refreshing Pale Ale at 5% ABV,â reads the product description.
Pierre Corbin, Co-Founder of Flash, commented:
âCurrently, bitcoin is used more as a store of value but usage for payments is picking up. Thanks to new innovation on Lightning, bitcoin is ready to go mainstream for e-commerce sales.â
Flash, launched its 2.0 version in March 2025 with the goal to provide the easiest bitcoin payment gateway for businesses worldwide. The platform is non-custodial and can enable both digital and physical shops to accept bitcoin by connecting their own wallets to Flash.
By leveraging the scalability of the Lightning Network, Flash ensures instant, low-cost transactions, addressing on-chain Bitcoin bottlenecks like high fees and long wait times.
For businesses interested in adopting Bitcoin payments, Flash offers a straightforward onboarding process, low fees, and robust support for both digital and physical goods. To learn more, visit paywithflash.com.
Media Contact:
Pierre Corbin
Co-Founder, Flash
Email: press@paywithflash.com
Website: paywithflash.comAbout Flash
Flash is the easiest Bitcoin payment gateway for businesses to accept payments. Supporting both digital and physical enterprises, Flash leverages the Lightning Network to enable fast, low-cost Bitcoin transactions. Launched in its 2.0 version in March 2025, Flash is at the forefront of driving Bitcoin adoption in e-commerce.
About Bitcoin Only Brewery
Bitcoin Only Brewery (@Drink_B0B) is a pioneering beverage company dedicated to the Bitcoin ethos, offering high-quality beers payable exclusively in Bitcoin. With a commitment to personal privacy, the brewery delivers across Europe with no-KYC requirements.
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@ 8bad92c3:ca714aa5
2025-06-09 12:01:37Marty's Bent
J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon has long been an outspoken skeptic and critic of bitcoin. He has called Bitcoin a speculative asset, a fraud, a pet rock, and has opined that it will inevitably blow up. A couple of years ago, he was on Capitol Hill saying that if he were the government, he would "close it down". Just within the last month, he was on Fox Business News talking with Maria Bartiromo, proclaiming that the U.S. should be stockpiling bullets and rare earth metals instead of bitcoin. It's pretty clear that Jamie Dimon, who is at the helm of the most powerful and largest bank in the world, does not like bitcoin one bit.
Evidence below:
via Bitcoin Magazine
via me
via CNBC
Despite Dimon's distinguished disdain for Bitcoin, J.P. Morgan cannot deny reality. The CEO of the largest bank in the world is certainly a powerful man, but no one individual, even in the position that Jamie Dimon is in, is more powerful than the market. And the market has spoken very clearly, it is demanding bitcoin. The Bitcoin ETFs have been the most successful ETFs in terms of pace of growth since their launch. They've accumulated tens of billions of dollars in AUM in a very short period of time. Outpacing the previous record set by the gold ETF, GLD.
Whether or not Jamie Dimon himself likes Bitcoin doesn't matter. J.P. Morgan, as the largest bank in the world and a publicly traded company, has a duty to shareholders. And that duty is to increase shareholder value by any ethical and legal means necessary. Earlier today, J.P. Morgan announced plans to offer clients financing against their Bitcoin ETFs, as well as some other benefits, including having their bitcoin holdings recognized in their overall net worth and liquid assets, similar to stocks, cars, and art, which will be massive for bitcoiners looking to get mortgages and other types of loans.
via Bloomberg
I've talked about this recently, but trying to buy a house when most of your liquid net worth is held in bitcoin is a massive pain in the ass. Up until this point, if you wanted to have your bitcoin recognized as part of your net worth and count towards your overall credit profile, you would need to sell some bitcoin, move it to a bank account, and have it sit there for a certain period of time before it was recognized toward your net worth. This is not ideal for bitcoiners who have sufficient cash flows and don't want to sell their bitcoin, pay the capital gains tax, and risk not being able to buy back the amount of sats they were forced to sell just to get a mortgage.
It's not yet clear to me whether or not J.P. Morgan will recognize bitcoin in cold storage toward their clients' net worth and credit profile, or if this is simply for bitcoin ETFs only. However, regardless, this is a step in the right direction and a validation of something that many bitcoiners have been saying for years. Inevitably, everyone will have to bend the knee to bitcoin. Today, it just happened to be the largest bank in the world. I expect more of this to come in the coming months, years, and decades.
Lyn Alden likes to say it in the context of the U.S. national debt and the fiscal crisis, but it also applies to bitcoin adoption and the need for incumbents to orient themselves around the demands of individual bitcoiners; nothing stops this train.
Real Estate Correction Coming
Real estate expert Leon Wankum shared his perspective on why property prices need to find a new equilibrium by 2026. He pointed to the 18-year property cycle theory, noting we're at the end of the current cycle with a massive imbalance - 34% more sellers than buyers, the highest gap since records began in 2013. Leon explained that sellers still have unrealistic expectations based on 2021-2022 peaks, while buyers face a fundamentally different reality with higher borrowing costs.
"We need a price equilibrium. We need demand and supply prices to match. It's going to take a long time, I think." - Leon Wankum
Leon doesn't expect a catastrophic crash, however. He emphasized that the financial system depends too heavily on real estate as collateral for authorities to allow a complete collapse. With interest rates likely staying above 3% to combat inflation, he sees a healthy correction rather than devastation - a necessary adjustment that creates opportunities for patient buyers who understand the new market dynamics.
Check out the full podcast here for more on Bitcoin treasury strategies, dual collateralization, and corporate BTC adoption
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2025-06-09 10:02:20The former seems to have found solid product market fit. Expect significant volume, adoption, and usage going forward.
The latter's future remains to be seen. Dependence on Tor, which has had massive reliability issues, and lack of strong privacy guarantees put it at risk.
â ODELL (@ODELL) October 27, 2022
The Basics
- Lightning is a protocol that enables cheap and fast native bitcoin transactions.
- At the core of the protocol is the ability for bitcoin users to create a payment channel with another user.
- These payment channels enable users to make many bitcoin transactions between each other with only two on-chain bitcoin transactions: the channel open transaction and the channel close transaction.
- Essentially lightning is a protocol for interoperable batched bitcoin transactions.
- It is expected that on chain bitcoin transaction fees will increase with adoption and the ability to easily batch transactions will save users significant money.
- As these lightning transactions are processed, liquidity flows from one side of a channel to the other side, on chain transactions are signed by both parties but not broadcasted to update this balance.
- Lightning is designed to be trust minimized, either party in a payment channel can close the channel at any time and their bitcoin will be settled on chain without trusting the other party.
There is no 'Lightning Network'
- Many people refer to the aggregate of all lightning channels as 'The Lightning Network' but this is a false premise.
- There are many lightning channels between many different users and funds can flow across interconnected channels as long as there is a route through peers.
- If a lightning transaction requires multiple hops it will flow through multiple interconnected channels, adjusting the balance of all channels along the route, and paying lightning transaction fees that are set by each node on the route.
Example: You have a channel with Bob. Bob has a channel with Charlie. You can pay Charlie through your channel with Bob and Bob's channel with User C.
- As a result, it is not guaranteed that every lightning user can pay every other lightning user, they must have a route of interconnected channels between sender and receiver.
Lightning in Practice
- Lightning has already found product market fit and usage as an interconnected payment protocol between large professional custodians.
- They are able to easily manage channels and liquidity between each other without trust using this interoperable protocol.
- Lightning payments between large custodians are fast and easy. End users do not have to run their own node or manage their channels and liquidity. These payments rarely fail due to professional management of custodial nodes.
- The tradeoff is one inherent to custodians and other trusted third parties. Custodial wallets can steal funds and compromise user privacy.
Sovereign Lightning
- Trusted third parties are security holes.
- Users must run their own node and manage their own channels in order to use lightning without trusting a third party. This remains the single largest friction point for sovereign lightning usage: the mental burden of actively running a lightning node and associated liquidity management.
- Bitcoin development prioritizes node accessibility so cost to self host your own node is low but if a node is run at home or office, Tor or a VPN is recommended to mask your IP address: otherwise it is visible to the entire network and represents a privacy risk.
- This privacy risk is heightened due to the potential for certain governments to go after sovereign lightning users and compel them to shutdown their nodes. If their IP Address is exposed they are easier to target.
- Fortunately the tools to run and manage nodes continue to get easier but it is important to understand that this will always be a friction point when compared to custodial services.
The Potential Fracture of Lightning
- Any lightning user can choose which users are allowed to open channels with them.
- One potential is that professional custodians only peer with other professional custodians.
- We already see nodes like those run by CashApp only have channels open with other regulated counterparties. This could be due to performance goals, liability reduction, or regulatory pressure.
- Fortunately some of their peers are connected to non-regulated parties so payments to and from sovereign lightning users are still successfully processed by CashApp but this may not always be the case going forward.
Summary
- Many people refer to the aggregate of all lightning channels as 'The Lightning Network' but this is a false premise. There is no singular 'Lightning Network' but rather many payment channels between distinct peers, some connected with each other and some not.
- Lightning as an interoperable payment protocol between professional custodians seems to have found solid product market fit. Expect significant volume, adoption, and usage going forward.
- Lightning as a robust sovereign payment protocol has yet to be battle tested. Heavy reliance on Tor, which has had massive reliability issues, the friction of active liquidity management, significant on chain fee burden for small amounts, interactivity constraints on mobile, and lack of strong privacy guarantees put it at risk.
If you have never used lightning before, use this guide to get started on your phone.
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@ 9ca447d2:fbf5a36d
2025-06-09 10:01:39Paris, France â June 6, 2025 â Bitcoin payment gateway startup Flash, just announced a new partnership with the âBitcoin Only Breweryâ, marking the first-ever beverage company to leverage Lightning payments.
Flash enables Bitcoin Only Brewery to offer its âBOBâ beer with, no-KYC (Know Your Customer) delivery across Europe, priced at 19,500 sats (~$18) for the 4-pack, shipping included.
The cans feature colorful Bitcoin artwork while the contents promise a hazy pale ale: âEach 33cl can contains a smooth, creamy mouthfeel, hazy appearance and refreshing Pale Ale at 5% ABV,â reads the product description.
Pierre Corbin, Co-Founder of Flash, commented:
âCurrently, bitcoin is used more as a store of value but usage for payments is picking up. Thanks to new innovation on Lightning, bitcoin is ready to go mainstream for e-commerce sales.â
Flash, launched its 2.0 version in March 2025 with the goal to provide the easiest bitcoin payment gateway for businesses worldwide. The platform is non-custodial and can enable both digital and physical shops to accept bitcoin by connecting their own wallets to Flash.
By leveraging the scalability of the Lightning Network, Flash ensures instant, low-cost transactions, addressing on-chain Bitcoin bottlenecks like high fees and long wait times.
For businesses interested in adopting Bitcoin payments, Flash offers a straightforward onboarding process, low fees, and robust support for both digital and physical goods. To learn more, visit paywithflash.com.
Media Contact:
Pierre Corbin
Co-Founder, Flash
Email: press@paywithflash.com
Website: paywithflash.comAbout Flash
Flash is the easiest Bitcoin payment gateway for businesses to accept payments. Supporting both digital and physical enterprises, Flash leverages the Lightning Network to enable fast, low-cost Bitcoin transactions. Launched in its 2.0 version in March 2025, Flash is at the forefront of driving Bitcoin adoption in e-commerce.
About Bitcoin Only Brewery
Bitcoin Only Brewery (@Drink_B0B) is a pioneering beverage company dedicated to the Bitcoin ethos, offering high-quality beers payable exclusively in Bitcoin. With a commitment to personal privacy, the brewery delivers across Europe with no-KYC requirements.
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@ b1ddb4d7:471244e7
2025-06-07 13:01:07When Sergei talks about bitcoin, he doesnât sound like someone chasing profits or followers. He sounds like someone about to build a monastery in the ruins.
While the mainstream world chases headlines and hype, Sergei shows up in local meetups from Sacramento to Cleveland, mentors curious minds, and shares what he knows is true â hoping that, with the right spark, someone will light their own way forward.
We interviewed Sergei to trace his steps: where he started, what keeps him going, and why teaching bitcoin is far more than explaining how to set up a node â itâs about reaching the right minds before the noise consumes them. So we began where most journeys start: at the beginning.
First Steps
- So, where did it all begin for you and what made you stay curious?
I first heard about bitcoin from a friendâs book recommendation, American Kingpin, the book about Silk Road (online drug marketplace). He is still not a true bitcoiner, although I helped him secure private keys with some bitcoin.
I was really busy at the time â focused on my school curriculum, running a 7-bedroom Airbnb, and working for a standardized test prep company. Bitcoin seemed too technical for me to explore, and the pace of my work left no time for it.
After graduating, while pursuing more training, I started playing around with stocks and maximizing my savings. Passive income seemed like the path to early retirement, as per the promise of the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early). I mostly followed the mainstream news and my mentorâs advice â he liked preferred stocks at the time.
I had some Coinbase IOUs and remember sending bitcoin within the Coinbase ledger to a couple friends. I also recall the 2018 crash; I actually saw the legendary price spike live but couldnât benefit because my funds were stuck amidst the frenzy. I withdrew from that investment completely for some time. Thankfully, my mentor advised to keep en eye on bitcoin.
Around late 2019, I started DCA-ing cautiously. Additionally, my friend and I were discussing famous billionaires, and how there was no curriculum for becoming a billionaire. So, I typed âbillionairesâ into my podcast app, and landed on We Study Billionaires podcast.
Thatâs where I kept hearing Preston Pysh mention bitcoin, before splitting into his own podcast series, Bitcoin Fundamentals. I didnât understand most of the terminology of stocks, bonds, etc, yet I kept listening and trying to absorb it thru repetition. Today, I realize all that financial talk was mostly noise.
When people ask me for a technical explanation of fiat, I say: itâs all made up, just like the fiat price of bitcoin! Starting in 2020, during the so-called pandemic, I dove deeper. I religiously read Bitcoin Magazine, scrolled thru Bitcoin Twitter, and joined Simply Bitcoin Telegram group back when DarthCoin was an admin.
DarthCoin was my favorite bitcoiner â experienced, knowledgeable, and unapologetic. Watching him shift from rage to kindness, from passion to despair, gave me a glimpse at what a true educatorâs journey would look like.
The struggle isnât about adoption at scale anymore. Itâs about reaching the few who are willing to study, take risks, and stay out of fiat traps. The vast majority wonât follow that example â not yet at leastâĶ if I start telling others the requirements for true freedom and prosperity, they would certainly say âHell no!â
- At what point did you start teaching others, and why?
After college, I helped teach at a standardized test preparation company, and mentored some students one-on-one. I even tried working at a kindergarten briefly, but left quickly; Babysitting is not teaching.
What I discovered is that those who will succeed donât really need my help â they would succeed with or without me, because they already have the inner drive.
Once you realize your people are perishing for lack of knowledge, the only rational thing to do is help raise their level of knowledge and understanding. Thatâs the Great Work.
I sometimes imagine myself as a political prisoner. If that were to happen, Iâd probably start teaching fellow prisoners, doctors, janitors, even guards. In a way we already live in an open-air prison, So what else is there to do but teach, organize, and conspire to dismantle the Matrix?
Building on Bitcoin
- You hosted some in-person meetups in Sacramento. What did you learn from those?
My first presentation was on MultiSig storage with SeedSigner, and submarine swaps through Boltz.exchange.
I realized quickly that I had overestimated the groupâs technical background. Even the meetup organizer, a financial advisor, asked, âHow is anyone supposed to follow these steps?â I responded that reading was requiredâĶ He decided that Unchained is an easier way.
At a crypto meetup, I gave a much simpler talk, outlining how bitcoin will save the world, based on a DarthCoinâs guide. Only one person stuck around to ask questions â a man who seemed a little out there, and did not really seem to get the message beyond the strength of cryptographic security of bitcoin.
Again, I overestimated the audienceâs readiness. That forced me to rethink my strategy. People are extremely early and reluctant to study.
- Now in Ohio, you hold sessions via the Orange Pill App. Whatâs changed?
My new motto is: educate the educators. The corollary is: donât orange-pill stupid normies (as DarthCoin puts it).
Iâve shifted to small, technical sessions in order to raise a few solid guardians of this esoteric knowledge who really get it and can carry it forward.
The youngest attendee at one of my sessions is a newborn baby â he mostly sleeps, but maybe he still absorbs some of the educational vibes.
- How do local groups like Sactown and Cleveland Bitcoiners influence your work?
Every meetup reflects its local culture. Sacramento and Bay Area Bitcoiners, for example, do camping trips â once we camped through a desert storm, shielding our burgers from sand while others went to shoot guns.
Cleveland Bitcoiners are different. They amass large gatherings. They recently threw a 100k party. They do a bit more community outreach. Some are curious about the esoteric topics such as jurisdiction, spirituality, and healthful living.
I have no permanent allegiance to any state, race, or group. I go where I can teach and learn. I anticipate that in my next phase, Iâll meet Bitcoiners so advanced that Iâll have to give up my fiat job and focus full-time on serious projects where real health and wealth are on the line.
Hopefully, Iâll be ready. I believe the universe always challenges you exactly to your limit â no less, no more.
- What do people struggle with the most when it comes to technical education?
The biggest struggle isnât technical â itâs a lack of deep curiosity. People ask âhowâ and âwhatâ â how do I set up a node, what should one do with the lightning channels? But very few ask âwhy?â
Why does on-chain bitcoin not contribute to the circular economy? Why is it essential to run Lightning? Why did humanity fall into mental enslavement in the first place?
Iâd rather teach two-year-olds who constantly ask âwhyâ than adults who ask how to flip a profit. What worries me most is that most two-year-olds will grow up asking state-funded AI bots for answers and live according to its recommendations.
- One Cleveland Bitcoiner shows up at gold bug meetups. How valuable is face-to-face education?
I donât think the older generation is going to reverse the current human condition. Most of them have been under mind control for too long, and they just donât have the attention span to study and change their ways.
Theyâre better off stacking gold and helping fund their grandkidsâ education. If I were to focus on a demographic, Iâd go for teenagers â high school age â because by college, the indoctrination is usually too strong, and theyâre chasing fiat mastery.
As for the gold bug meetup? Perhaps one day I will show up with a ukulele to sing some bitcoin-themed songs. Seniors love such entertainment.
- How do you choose what to focus on in your sessions, especially for different types of learners?
I donât come in with a rigid agenda. Iâve collected a massive library of resources over the years and never stopped reading. My browser tab and folder count are exploding.
At the meetup, people share questions or topics theyâre curious about, then I take that home, do my homework, and bring back a session based on those themes. I give them the key takeaways, plus where to dive deeper.
Most people wonât â or canât â study the way I do, and I expect attendees to put in the work. I suspect that itâs more important to reach those who want to learn but donât know how, the so-called nescient (not knowing), rather than the ignorant.
There are way too many ignorant bitcoiners, so my mission is to find those who are curious whatâs beyond the facade of fake reality and superficial promises.
That naturally means that fewer people show up, and thatâs fine. Iâm not here for the crowds; Iâm here to educate the educators. One bitcoiner who came decided to branch off into self-custody sessions and thatâs awesome. Personally, Iâm much more focused on Lightning.
I want to see broader adoption of tools like auth, sign-message, NWC, and LSPs. Next month, Iâm going deep into eCash solutions, because letâs face it â most newcomers wonât be able to afford their own UTXO or open a lightning channel; additionally, it has to be fun and easy for them to transact sats, otherwise they wonât do it. Additionally, theyâll need to rely on
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@ cae03c48:2a7d6671
2025-06-09 10:01:19Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin Life Insurer, Meanwhile, Becomes First Company to Publish Audited Financials Denominated in BitcoinMeanwhile Insurance Bitcoin (Bermuda) Limited (âMeanwhileâ) announced it has become the first company in the world to release externally audited financial statements denominated entirely in Bitcoin. According to the announcement, the company reported 220.4 BTC in assets and 25.29 BTC in net income for 2024, a 300% year over year increase.
Today marks a global first & historic event for us, along with the public release of our 2024 audited financial statements, covering our 1st year of sales.
As the 1st company in the world to have Bitcoin-denominated financial statements externally audited, we are excited toâĶ
â meanwhile | Bitcoin Life Insurance (@meanwhilelife) June 5, 2025
âWeâve just made history as the first company in the world to have Bitcoin-denominated financial statements externally audited,â said Zac Townsend, CEO of Meanwhile. âThis is an important, foundational step in reimagining the financial system based on a single, global, decentralized standard outside the control of any one government.âÂ
The financial statements were audited by Harris & Trotter LLP and its digital asset division ht.digital. Meanwhileâs financials also comply with Bermudaâs Insurance Act 1978, noting that their BTC denominated financials were approved and comply with official guidelines. The firm, fully licensed by the Bermuda Monetary Authority (BMA), operates entirely in BTC and is prohibited from liquidating Bitcoin assets except through policyholder claims, positioning it as a long term holder.Â
âAs the first regulated Bitcoin life insurance company, we view the BTC held by Meanwhile as inherently long-term in natureâprimarily held to support the Companyâs insurance liabilities over decades,â Townsend added. âThis makes it significantly âstickierâ and resistant to market pressures compared to the BTC held by other companies as part of their treasury management strategies.âÂ
Meanwhileâs 2024 financials also revealed 23.02 BTC in net premiums and 4.35 BTC in investment income, showing that its model not only preserves Bitcoin, but earns it. The companyâs reserves (also held in BTC) were reviewed and approved by Willis Towers Watson (WTW).Â
Meanwhile also offers a Bitcoin Whole Life insurance product that allows policyholders to save, borrow, and build legacy wealthâentirely in BTC, and has plans to expand globally in 2025.
âWe are incredibly proud of todayâs news as it underscores how Meanwhile is at the forefront of the next phase of the convergence between Bitcoin and institutional financial markets,â said Tia Beckmann, CFO of Meanwhile. âNow having generated net income in BTC, we have demonstrated that we are earning it through a sustainable insurance business model designed for the long term.âÂ
This post Bitcoin Life Insurer, Meanwhile, Becomes First Company to Publish Audited Financials Denominated in Bitcoin first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Jenna Montgomery.
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2025-06-07 13:01:01âNot your keys, not your coinsâ isnât a sloganâitâs a survival mantra in the age of digital sovereignty.
The seismic collapses of Mt. Gox (2014) and FTX (2022) werenât anomalies; they were wake-up calls. When $8.7 billion in customer funds vanished with FTX, it exposed the fatal flaw of third-party custody:Â your bitcoin is only as secure as your custodianâs weakest link.
Yet today, As of early 2025, analysts estimate that between 2.3 million and 3.7 million Bitcoins are permanently lost, representing approximately 11â18% of bitcoinâs fixed maximum supply of 21 million coins, with some reports suggesting losses as high as 4 million BTC. This paradox reveals a critical truth: self-custody isnât just preferableâitâs essentialâbut it must be done right.
The Custody Spectrum
Custodial Wallets (The Illusion of Control)
- Rehypothecation Risk:Â Most platforms lend your bitcoin for yield generation. When Celsius collapsed, users discovered their âheldâ bitcoin was loaned out in risky strategies.
- Account Freezes:Â Regulatory actions can lock withdrawals overnight. In 2023, Binance suspended dollar withdrawals for U.S. users citing âpartner bank issues,â trapping funds for weeks.
- Data Vulnerability:Â KYC requirements create honeypots for hackers. The 2024 Ledger breach exposed 270,000 usersâ personal data despite hardware security.
True Self-Custody
Self-custody means exclusively controlling your private keysâthe cryptographic strings that prove bitcoin ownership. Unlike banks or exchanges, self-custody eliminates:- Counterparty risk (no FTX-style implosions)
- Censorship (no blocked transactions)
- Inflationary theft (no fractional reserve lending)
Conquering the Three Great Fears of Self-Custody
Fear 1: âIâll Lose Everything If I Make a Mistakeâ
Reality:Â Human error is manageable with robust systems:
- Test Transactions:Â Always send a micro-amount (0.00001 BTC) before large transfers. Verify receipt AND ability to send back.
- Multi-Backup Protocol:Â Store seed phrases on fireproof/waterproof steel plates (not paper!). Distribute copies geographicallyâone in a home safe, another with trusted family 100+ miles away.
- SLIP39 Sharding:Â Split your seed into fragments requiring 3-of-5 shards to reconstruct. No single point of failure.
Fear 2: âHackers Will Steal My Keysâ
Reality:Â Offline storage defeats remote attacks:
- Hardware Wallets:Â Devices like Bitkey or Ledger keep keys in âcold storageââisolated from internet-connected devices. Transactions require physical confirmation.
- Multisig Vaults:Â Bitvaultâs multi-sig system requires attackers compromise multiple locations/devices simultaneously. Even losing two keys wonât forfeit funds.
- Air-Gapped Verification:Â Use dedicated offline devices for wallet setup. Never type seeds on internet-connected machines.
Fear 3: âMy Family Canât Access It If I Dieâ
Reality:Â Inheritance is solvable:
- Dead Man Switches:Â Bitwardenâs emergency access allows trusted contacts to retrieve encrypted keys after a pre-set waiting period (e.g., 30 days).
- Inheritance Protocols:Â Bitkeyâs inheritance solution shares decryption keys via designated beneficiariesâ emails. Requires multiple approvals to prevent abuse.
- Public Key Registries:Â Share wallet XPUBs (not private keys!) with heirs. They can monitor balances but not spend, ensuring transparency without risk.
The Freedom Dividend
- Censorship Resistance:Â Send $10M BTC to a Wikileaks wallet without Visa/Mastercard blocking it.
- Privacy Preservation:Â Avoid KYC surveillanceânon-custodial wallets like Flash require zero ID verification.
- Protocol Access:Â Participate in bitcoin-native innovations (Lightning Network, DLCs) only possible with self-custodied keys.
- Black Swan Immunity:Â When Cyprus-style bank bailins happen, your bitcoin remains untouched in your vault.
The Sovereignâs Checklist
- Withdraw from Exchanges:Â Move all BTC > $1,000 to self-custody immediately.
- Buy Hardware Wallet:Â Purchase DIRECTLY from manufacturer (no Amazon!) to avoid supply-chain tampering.
- Generate Seed OFFLINE:Â Use air-gapped device, write phrase on steelânever digitally.
- Test Recovery:Â Delete wallet, restore from seed before funding.
- Implement Multisig:Â For > $75k, use Bitvault for 2-of-3 multi-sig setup.
- Create Inheritance Plan:Â Share XPUBs/SLIP39 shards with heirs + legal documents.
âSelf-custody isnât about avoiding riskâitâs about transferring risk from opaque institutions to transparent, controllable systems you design.â
The Inevitable Evolution: Custody Without Compromise
Emerging solutions are erasing old tradeoffs:
- MPC Wallets:Â Services like Xapo Bank shatter keys into encrypted fragments distributed globally. No single device holds full keys, defeating physical theft.
- Social Recovery:Â Ethically designed networks (e.g., Bitkey) let trusted contacts restore access without custodial control.
- Biometric Assurance:Â Fingerprint reset protocols prevent lockouts from physical injuries.
Lost keys = lost bitcoin. But consider the alternative: entrusting your life savings to entities with proven 8% annual failure rates among exchanges. Self-custody shifts responsibility from hoping institutions wonât fail to knowing your system canât fail without your consent.
Take action today:Â Move one coin. Test one recovery. Share one xpub. The path to unchained wealth begins with a single satoshi under your control.
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2025-06-09 08:45:57Nostr, which stands for "Notes and Other Stuff Transmitted by Relays," is a decentralized communication protocol designed to facilitate the exchange of messages without relying on centralized servers. This innovative framework allows users to create, broadcast, and receive messages freely, emphasizing user empowerment and censorship resistance.
Key Features of Nostr
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Decentralization: Unlike traditional social media platforms, Nostr operates on a network of relays, which are servers that anyone can run. This structure eliminates the control that a single entity can exert over the platform, thereby reducing the risk of censorship and enhancing user privacy[1][4][5].
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Open Protocol: Nostr is not an application itself but a protocol that developers can use to build various applications. This openness allows for a wide range of services, from social media to messaging, all built on the same underlying technology. Users can access multiple applications using a single public/private key pair, making it easier to manage their online identities[2][3][4].
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Censorship Resistance: One of the primary motivations behind Nostr's creation is to provide a platform where users can communicate without fear of censorship. This is particularly appealing to those disillusioned with traditional social media platforms that often impose restrictions on content[5][10].
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User Control: Nostr empowers users by allowing them to control their data and interactions. Users can choose which relays to connect to and can run their own relays, ensuring that they are not dependent on any single service provider[4][5][7].
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Cryptographic Security: The protocol employs public-key cryptography to secure messages and verify identities, similar to how Bitcoin operates. This ensures that messages are authentic and have not been tampered with during transmission[5][10].
Applications and Community
Nostr has gained traction among various communities, particularly within the cryptocurrency space, where figures like Jack Dorsey and Edward Snowden have expressed support for its potential to reshape online communication. The protocol's design allows for a variety of applications, including social media platforms, chat services, and content sharing tools, all of which can interoperate seamlessly[2][3][5].
In summary, Nostr represents a significant shift in how digital communication can be structured, prioritizing decentralization, user autonomy, and resistance to censorship, making it a compelling alternative to conventional social media platforms. [1] https://threenine.blog/posts/what-is-nostr [2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2023/04/11/how-to-get-started-with-nostr/ [3] https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/07/17/your-guide-to-nostr-the-decentralized-network-for-everything/ [4] https://www.ledger.com/academy/glossary/nostr [5] https://river.com/learn/what-is-nostr/ [6] https://www.cointribune.com/en/comment-utiliser-nostr-guide-pour-debutants-2/ [7] https://www.ccn.com/education/what-is-nostr-and-how-to-start-using-nostr/ [8] https://nostr.com/ [9] https://mylessnider.com/articles/why-im-excited-about-nostr [10] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostr [11] https://nostr.how/en/what-is-nostr [12] https://nostr.org/ [13] https://medium.com/@colaru/an-introduction-to-nostr-protocol-dbc774ac797c [14] https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/what-nostr-manfred-van-doorn-nf9ce [15] https://www.cointribune.com/en/nostr-pour-les-debutants-tout-ce-que-vous-devez-savoir-sur-le-protocole-2/ [16] https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/17j5glg/do_people_in_this_sub_know_about_nostr/ [17] https://www.voltage.cloud/blog/the-essential-guide-to-nostr-relays [18] https://www.reddit.com/r/nostr/comments/1i6t4g7/explain_how_nostr_works_like_im_a_5_year_old/ [19] https://github.com/nostr-protocol/nostr
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2025-06-09 08:00:20Nur fÞrâs Protokoll. Hiermit erklÃĪre ich, Georg Ohrweh, im tatsÃĪchlich vorhandenen vollen Besitz meiner geistigen KrÃĪfte, dass Herr Lauterbach, gleich welche Position er in Zukunft noch bekleiden sollte, fÞr mich nicht zustÃĪndig ist. Basta.
Ein Erguss dieses verhaltensoriginellen Ãber-alles-Bescheidwissers:
âWir kommen jetzt in eine Phase hinein, wo der Ausnahmezustand die NormalitÃĪt sein wird. Wir werden ab jetzt immer im Ausnahmezustand sein. Der Klimawandel wird zwangslÃĪufig mehr Pandemien bringen.â
Wie kann es sein, dass solch eine Ausnahme-Gestalt, die schon rein ÃĪuÃerlich die Phantasie zu Vergleichen anregt, sich leider auch genauso verhÃĪlt, wie die Gestalten, die in diesen Phantasien vorkommen, ungebremst auf der Panik-Klaviatur kakophonische KlÃĪnge erzeugen darf? Obwohl ein wenig Wahrheit ist auch enthalten: Wir sind tatsÃĪchlich immer im Ausnahmezustand, im Ausnahmezustand des fortgeschrittenen Wahnsinns.
Wie kann es sein, dass dieser Haaaarvardist seinen persÃķnlich empfundenen Ausnahmezustand zum Allgemeingut erklÃĪren kann? Welche VerknÞpfungs-Phantasien hat er sonst noch studiert? Er ist ja auch noch Vorsitzender im Raumfahrtausschuss. Was kommt als NÃĪchstes? Eine Klima-Pandemie, verursacht durch auÃerirdische Viren, die die Temperaturen beeinflussen kÃķnnen? Im aktuellen Zeitgeist gibt es nichts, was nicht gedacht wird. Wem die besseren AbsurditÃĪten einfallen, der gewinnt. Man muss sich schon den gegebenen Denkstrukturen etwas anpassen, aber sich auch ein wenig MÞhe geben.
Nach dem Wechsel der ehemaligen AuÃen-Dings zur UN (mit dem Ziel, aus den Vereinten Nationen die Feministischen Nationen zu gestalten) und des ehemaligen Wirtschafts-Dings in den AuÃenausschuss und als Gastdozent in Kalifornien (Thema: Wirtschaftsvernichtung unter Einbeziehung des gespannten VerhÃĪltnisses unter Geschwistern aufgrund ÃĪrmlicher VerhÃĪltnisse, am Beispiel des MÃĪrchens von HÃĪnsel und Gretel) , jetzt auch noch der ehemalige Chef-Panikmacher zur WHO.
âĶund der Wahnsinn wurde hinausgetragen in die Welt, und es wurde dunkel, und es ward Nacht, und es wurde helle, und es ward Tag, der Wind blies oder auch nicht (was macht der Wind eigentlich, wenn er nicht weht?), und es ward Winter, und es wurde kÃĪlter, und es wurde wÃĪrmer, und es ward Sommer. Es regnete nicht mehr, die Wolken schwitzten. Und Putin verhinderte (wer auch sonst), dass das Eis in der Antarktis abnahm.
Wiederholte Bodentemperaturen in der Toskana von 50 Grad Celsius. Zu erwartende Wassertemperaturen wÃĪhrend Ferragosto an der italienischen Adria von durchschnittlich 100 Grad Celsius. An Stellen mit wenig StrÃķmung stiegen schon die ersten Kochblasen auf. Doch dann kam der durch Lachs gestÃĪhlte, salzlose Super-Karl und rettete mit einem durch die WHO diktierten Klima-Logdown die gesamte Menschheit. Wer besser, als er konnte wissen, dass ein Klima-Logdown weitgehend nebenwirkungsfrei ist.
Was fÞr ein Segen, dass Karl der GroÃe, der uns so siegreich durch die Corona-Schlacht gefÞhrt hat, jetzt auch gegen das Klima in den Krieg zieht.
Wer kennt das nicht, Tage der Qual, in denen man zugeben muss: Ich habâ heute so schlimm Klima.
Viele Klimaexperten, die weltweit in der QualitÃĪtspropaganda zitiert werden, zeichnen sich besonders dadurch aus, dass sie mit einer maximalen Abweichung von einem Grad Celsius ein Thermometer fehlerfrei ablesen kÃķnnen. Diese Ungenauigkeit wird der Erdverkochungsexperte sicher als erstes beheben.
In einer aufopfernden Studie wÃĪhrend eines Urlaubs in 2023, in der um die damalige Zeit erstmals eisfreien Toskana, hat er den von ihm ausgetÞftelten Klimaschutzplan ins Rheinische Þbersetzt. Titel: âSchÞtzen Sie sisch, und, ÃĪh, andere!â Weiter konnte er erforschen, dass die Bodentemperatur nicht immer mit der Temperatur des Erdkerns Þbereinstimmen muss.
Durch seine unermÞdlichen Studien, kÃķnnen Hitzetote in Zukunft besser zugeordnet werden. Man weià dann, ob jemand an hohen oder mit hohen Temperaturen gestorben ist. Der asymptomatische Klimawandel kann so in Zukunft viel besser bewertet werden. Man hat aus geringfÞgigen Fehlern gelernt und die Methoden erheblich verbessert.
Eine prÃĪzise Vorhersage der Jahreszeiten, vor allem die des Sommers, wird bald ebenfalls mÃķglich sein. Es kann jetzt vor jahreszeitbedingten, teilweise sogar tÃĪglich schwankenden TemperaturverÃĪnderungen rechtzeitig gewarnt werden. Im Herbst kÃķnnen Heizempfehlungen fÞr die ahnungslose BevÃķlkerung herausgegeben werden. Frieren war gestern, wissen wann es kalt wird, ist heute. Es wird an Farben geforscht, die noch roter sein sollen, als die, die jetzt in den Wetterkarten bei 21 Grad bereits verwendet werden.
Eine allgemeine Heizpflicht soll es europaweit zunÃĪchst nicht geben.
Weiter soll die Lichteinstrahlung der Sonne noch prÃĪziser bestimmt werden, damit den EuropÃĪern, in ErgÃĪnzung zur mitteleuropÃĪischen Sommerzeit, jetzt auch noch genau mitgeteilt werden kann, wann es Tag und wann es Nacht ist.
Das Hinausschauen aus dem Fenster, zum Beispiel, ob es schon dunkel drauÃen ist, erÞbrigt sich. Die Tageszeit, in ErgÃĪnzung zur herkÃķmmlichen Uhrzeit, wird demnÃĪchst automatisch mit dem Klima-Pass Þbermittelt werden. Zu Anfang natÞrlich erst einmal freiwillig.
Durch die persÃķnliche ID kÃķnnen dann auch schnell und unkompliziert SonderprÃĪmien Þberwiesen werden, sofern man sich klimakonform verhalten hat, damit man sich rechtzeitig vor Winterbeginn eine warme Jacke oder einen Mantel kaufen kann. Das Sparen von Bargeld auf eine bevorstehende grÃķÃere Anschaffung von Winterkleidung wird somit ÞberflÞssig.
Ob es am Ende nun um Hitze oder KÃĪlte geht, spielt eigentlich gar keine Rolle, denn wie wussten schon die Ahnen zu berichten: Was gut fÞr die KÃĪlte ist, ist auch gut fÞr die WÃĪrme.
Westliche MÃĪchte unternehmen immer wieder Versuche, eskalierend auf den Ukraine-Konflikt einzuwirken, damit man atombetriebene Heizpilze aufstellen kann, an denen sich die EuropÃĪer im Winter auch im Freien wÃĪrmen kÃķnnen.
Wie praktisch, dass man nicht nur Gesundheit und Klima, sondern auch Klima und Krieg miteinander verbinden kann. Alles so, oder so ÃĪhnlich mÃķglicherweise nachzulesen im genialen Hitzeschutzplan ÃĄ la Lauterbach.
Besonders Deutschland braucht nicht nur lauterbachsche HitzeschutzrÃĪume, nein es braucht atomsichere Hitzeschutzbunker, so schlÃĪgt man gleich zwei Fliegen mit einer Klappe.
FÞr die, die es sich leisten kÃķnnen, hier ein Vorschlag. Der K2000:
FÞr die weniger gut Betuchten reicht auch ein kÞhles Kellerloch, das man idealerweise im Februar beziehen und nicht vor November wieder verlassen sollte, so die Empfehlung auch von fÞhrenden Klima-Forschern, die es ja wissen mÞssen. Von Dezember bis Januar empfiehlt sich ein Besuch auf den Bahamas, besonders dann, wenn man eine leichte ErkÃĪltung verspÞrt.
Nur VerschwÃķrungstheoretiker behaupten, dass die eigenartigen Anschlussverwendungen der Extrem-KapazitÃĪten, zu denen Lauterbach ohne Zweifel dazugehÃķrt, wie dicke rote Pfeile wirken, die auf Institutionen und Organisationen zeigen, um die man unter allen UmstÃĪnden einen groÃen Bogen machen sollte, weil sie mÃķglicherweise nichts Gutes im Schilde fÞhren. Minimal sollen sie angeblich Unsinn verbreiten, maximal sollen sie gehÃķrigen Schaden anrichten.
Man muss sich nur ein paar Gedanken machen, schon kann man feststellen, wie alles mit allem zusammenhÃĪngt.
âDieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben.â
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@ edf0da8b:b2652fa3
2025-06-09 08:36:32One remarkable thing the Wim Hof Method stirs in me is that I increasingly feel the desire to connect with pure nature. Now, what does that mean?
You may know that slight feeling of eeriness when looking at deep moving waters or that tiny insecurity when darkness creeps up around you alone among the trees? You are sure there's nothing to worry about. But still, these little old conditioned anxieties, these unreasonable mind scenarios, they keep coming up and make you seek safety.
They are different for everyone, but these anxieties in the foreground are a sign for inner blockages that deprive us from expressing our power and creativity. What's more, they separate us from nature. They suggest, everything around us is potentially dangerous. Is it though?
When practicing the Wim Hof Method, and especially right after the breathing exercises, I can immediately feel a clarity emerging, a stronger awareness of presence in the moment. Anxieties are caringly pushed back to their rightful place, but do not control my actions and no longer dominate my state of being.
And so suddenly, the world view shifts. Eerie deep moving waters become fascinating, the darkness around reveals the beauty of trees casting soft moonlight shadows. I deeply appreciate what is, I want to touch the waters, I want to merge with the shadows, I feel that power. Instead of running away I want to connect with nature. I'm more aware of the present and should danger reveal itself, I have the confidence that I can properly react when it arises. But until then, I can enjoy beauty and connectedness. The powerful shift is from scenarios about potential threats around me to curiosity and beautiful opportunity everywhere.
There are countless great techniques and traditions that guide us to such shifts. But with regular practice, I find the Wim Hof Method to be particularly simple, accessible and effective.
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2025-06-09 06:02:17People forget Bear Stearns failed March 2008 - months of denial followed before the public realized how bad the situation was under the surface.
Similar happening now but much larger scale. They did not fix fundamental issues after 2008 - everything is more fragile.
The Fed preemptively bailed out every bank with their BTFP program and First Republic Bank still failed. The second largest bank failure in history.
There will be more failures. There will be more bailouts. Depositors will be "protected" by socializing losses across everyone.
Our President and mainstream financial pundits are currently pretending the banking crisis is over while most banks remain insolvent. There are going to be many more bank failures as this ponzi system unravels.
Unlike 2008, we have the ability to opt out of these broken and corrupt institutions by using bitcoin. Bitcoin held in self custody is unique in its lack of counterparty risk - you do not have to trust a bank or other centralized entity to hold it for you. Bitcoin is also incredibly difficult to change by design since it is not controlled by an individual, company, or government - the supply of dollars will inevitably be inflated to bailout these failing banks but bitcoin supply will remain unchanged. I do not need to convince you that bitcoin provides value - these next few years will convince millions.
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2025-06-09 08:32:13If you've been active on Nostr, you've probably realized that your posts come and go like waves. Thereâs no content-surfacing algorithm to keep them afloat. So, unless someone happens to scroll past at just the right time, your insights, event announcements, or deep reflections are getting swept away. There's no pretty profile page that refers to your content.
Thatâs where Npub.pro comes inâand itâs what I used to build my first website as a transformative coach and Wim Hof method instructor.
This article is about how Npub.pro works, my experience with it, and why it may be useful to you, too.
What is Npub.pro?
Npub.pro is a web service that pulls your posts from the Nostr protocol and weaves them into a clean, customizable website. It uses open-source templates from Ghost, making it easy to create a beautiful, functional landing page without needing to write any code.
If you're already posting on Nostr, Npub.pro turns that content into something lasting and visually appealingâlike a curated blog or even a first landing page.
Why I Chose Npub.pro for My Initial Business Website
My work centers on personal transformation for leading a sovereign lifeâemotional, mental, and physical. I lead workshops, retreats and 1:1 sessions, and I needed a quick and simple place online that would communicate who I am, what I offer, and whatâs coming up next.
Since I already post regularly on Nostr, it made sense to reuse that content to portray my work. But instead of letting my posts drift away in the feed, Npub.pro gave me a way to give them structure and longevity for a wider audience.
Plus, it really looks good.
Features That Make It Worthwhile
Easy Website Creation
You donât need to become technical. The Npub.pro dashboard is simple and intuitive. Just pick a template, connect your Nostr keys, add your posts individually or based on hashtags, and voilà âyour content starts showing up. You can experiment with different templates freely, without messing things up.
Multiple Templates for Different Needs
There's a good amount of templates to choose from, for photo blogging, journaling or podcasting etc. I started with "Liebling," switched to "Micro-Ruby" for a bit, and finally settled on "Massively"âit shows my often picture-based posts clearly and lets me feature a highlighted post at the top.
Tag-Based Categories
You can organize your content into sections like I did with âAbout & Events,â âWim Hof Method,â or âNatural Living.â If you tag your Nostr posts accordingly and set up your categories in your dashboard, theyâll just fall into place.
Free Hosting + Custom Domains
Npub.pro is completely free if youâre okay with a domain like yourname.npub.pro. If you want something more professional, you can link a custom domain. I got mine for about $10/year from Namecheap. For now, even custom domains are free to connect. If you host your media on Nostr with e.g. Primal or Nostr.Build (subscription-based), and get a custom domain name, you have a complete low-budget website up and running.
What to Watch Out For
Npub.pro is not perfect and still evolving. Here are some limitations to keep in mind:
No Native Lead Capture or Email Signup
If you for example want to offer a PDF or free online class in exchange for email addresses, youâll need to get creative with external links. Unfortunately, thereâs no built-in call-to-action feature for non-Nostr users at this point.
No Pay-walled Content or Membership Features
If youâre looking to monetize content or offer member-only areas, you can hope and ask the Npub.pro team for future features, but it isn't there right now.
Some Trial & Error Required
Tagging needs to be done when you post. Adding tags retroactively with versatile clients like Amethyst wonât make earlier posts appear on your website. I had to republish a few old posts just to get them sorted into the right category. Expect a few hiccups, but itâs manageable.
Npub.pro and Nostr
Npub.pro is part of a bigger pictureâthe rise of Nostr as a decentralized social network. Itâs censorship-resistant, Bitcoin-integrated, and potentially an all-in-one protocol for media, messaging, publishing, and payment. That's crazy powerful when you think about it a little more!
Right now, the infrastructure is still getting there. Not everything works reliably yet, and complex and visually rich experiences like Instagram-style clients (e.g. Olas) still fall short. But Npub.pro is one of those services that shows where it can be heading: toward digital sovereignty.
Is Npub.pro for You?
If youâre already active on Nostr, I think this is a no-brainer. You can turn your feed into a curated blog or landing page with very little extra effort.
Even if you're not using Nostr yet, Npub.pro is still worth exploring if:
- You want a free or low-budget minimal website thatâs connected to your social media content.
- You care about decentralization and owning your data.
- Youâre okay with less customization and a little experimentation here and there while things improve.
So in short, Npub.pro is quite the smart, and simple way to publish your presence onlineâespecially if you want your Nostr content to live beyond the scroll.
Final Thoughts
I was surprised how good everything looked in the end on desktop, tablet and mobile and how easily you can manage your content. Itâs not perfect for all needs, but it does the job remarkably well for a first website, personal blog or landing page. And by using Npub.pro, youâre helping build the future of open, user-owned publishing online.
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2025-06-09 06:02:17Bank run on every crypto bank then bank run on every "real" bank.
â ODELL (@ODELL) December 14, 2022
Good morning.
It looks like PacWest will fail today. It will be both the fifth largest bank failure in US history and the sixth major bank to fail this year. It will likely get purchased by one of the big four banks in a government orchestrated sale. Â
March 8th - Silvergate Bank
March 10th - Silicon Valley Bank
March 12th - Signature Bank
March 19th - Credit Suisse
May 1st - First Republic Bank
May 4th - PacWest Bank?PacWest is the first of many small regional banks that will go under this year. Most will get bought by the big four in gov orchestrated sales. This has been the playbook since 2008. Follow the incentives. Massive consolidation across the banking industry. PacWest gonna be a drop in the bucket compared to what comes next.
First, a hastened government led bank consolidation, then a public/private partnership with the remaining large banks to launch a surveilled and controlled digital currency network. We will be told it is more convenient. We will be told it is safer. We will be told it will prevent future bank runs. All of that is marketing bullshit. The goal is greater control of money. The ability to choose how we spend it and how we save it. If you control the money - you control the people that use it.
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2025-06-09 08:02:07Russian authorities are stepping up their crackdown on illegal Bitcoin miners with a new confiscation case.
Law enforcement in Russia has launched a seizure campaign against unauthorized mining operations, marking an escalation in the fight against illicit crypto activity. The latest case saw investigators in the Amur Oblast confiscate bitcoin worth $88,500.
The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee (SKR) for Amur Oblast announced it had seized assets worth around 7 million rubles ($88,570; 0.8414 BTC) from a former executive of an unnamed power company.
The accused served as head of technological connection services at the Amur branch of the Far Eastern Distribution Company (DRSC), a power grid operator managing electricity distribution in Russiaâs eastern Amur region.
Investigators found that the former executive exploited his insider knowledge of the companyâs power distribution systems to siphon electricity from the grid. The stolen power was used to run mining equipment at his private residence.
The seizure followed an investigation revealing that in 2024, the man used his technical skills to bypass metering devices and create an illegal connection to his employerâs infrastructure.
Authorities estimate that the executive used over 3.5 million rubles ($44,334) worth of electricity belonging to DRSC.
In April, several Russian ministries drafted a legal mechanism proposing new powers for courts and law enforcement to confiscate cryptocurrencies in criminal cases. The proposal, backed by government policymakers, would allow authorities to formally recognize digital assets as intangible property in criminal proceedings.
Previous seizures
Investigators appear to have already applied the principles of this draft law in several cases. Among them is the case of a server operator for the darknet marketplace Hydra, from whom police seized crypto assets worth $8.2 million.
Judicial officers also seized 1,032.1 BTC from Marat Tambiev, a former investigator with the Russian Investigative Committee. A court found Tambiev guilty of accepting Bitcoin bribes from an international fraud network, sentencing him to 16 years in prison.
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2025-06-07 13:00:42Bitcoin Magazine
Mapping Bitcoinâs Bull Cycle PotentialBitcoinâs Market Value to Realized Value, or MVRV ratio, remains one of the most reliable on-chain indicators for identifying local and macro tops and bottoms across every BTC cycle. By isolating data across different investor cohorts and adapting historical benchmarks to modern market conditions, we can generate more accurate insights into where Bitcoin may be headed next.
The Bitcoin MVRV Ratio
The MVRV Ratio compares Bitcoinâs market price to its realized price, essentially the average cost basis for all coins in the network. As of writing, BTC trades around $105,000 while the realized price floats near $47,000, putting the raw MVRV at 2.26. The Z-Score version of MVRV standardizes this ratio based on historical volatility, enabling clearer comparisons across different market cycles.
Figure 1: Historically, the MVRV Ratio and the MVRV Z-Score have accurately identified cycle peaks and bottoms. View Live Chart
Short-Term Holders
Short-term holders, defined as those holding Bitcoin for 155 days or less, currently have a realized price near $97,000. This metric often acts as dynamic support in bull markets and resistance in bear markets. Notably, when the Short Term Holder MVRV hits 1.33, local tops have historically occurred, as seen several times in both the 2017 and 2021 cycles. So far in the current cycle, this threshold has already been touched four times, each followed by modest retracements.
Figure 2: Short Term Holder MVRV reaching 1.33 in more recent cycles has aligned with local tops. View Live Chart
Long-Term Holders
Long-term holders, whoâve held BTC for more than 155 days, currently have an average cost basis of just $33,500, putting their MVRV at 3.11. Historically, Long Term Holder MVRV values have reached as high as 12 during major peaks. That said, weâre observing a trend of diminishing multiples each cycle.
Figure 3: Achieving a Long Term Holder MVRV value of 8 could extrapolate to a BTC price in excess of $300,000. View Live Chart
A key resistance band now sits between 7.5 and 8.5, a zone that has defined bull tops and pre-bear retracements in every cycle since 2011. If the current growth of the realized price ($40/day) continues for another 140â150 days, matching previous cycle lengths, we could see it reach somewhere in the region of $40,000. A peak MVRV of 8 would imply a price near $320,000.
A Smarter Market Compass
Unlike static all-time metrics, the 2-Year Rolling MVRV Z-Score adapts to evolving market dynamics. By recalculating average extremes over a rolling window, it smooths out Bitcoinâs natural volatility decay as it matures. Historically, this version has signaled overbought conditions when reaching levels above 3, and prime accumulation zones when dipping below -1. Currently sitting under 1, this metric suggests that substantial upside remains.
Figure 4: The current 2-Year Rolling MVRV Z-Score suggests more positive price action ahead. View Live Chart
Timing & Targets
A view of the BTC Growth Since Cycle Lows chart illustrates that BTC is now approximately 925 days removed from its last major cycle low. Historical comparisons to previous bull markets suggest we may be around 140 to 150 days away from a potential top, with both the 2017 and 2021 peaks occurring around 1,060 to 1,070 days after their respective lows. While not deterministic, this alignment reinforces the broader picture of where we are in the cycle. If realized price trends and MVRV thresholds continue on current trajectories, late Q3 to early Q4 2025 may bring final euphoric moves.
Figure 5: Will the current cycle continue to exhibit growth patterns similar to those of the previous two cycles? View Live Chart
Conclusion
The MVRV ratio and its derivatives remain essential tools for analyzing Bitcoin market behavior, providing clear markers for both accumulation and distribution. Whether observing short-term holders hovering near local top thresholds, long-term holders nearing historically significant resistance zones, or adaptive metrics like the 2-Year Rolling MVRV Z-Score signaling plenty of runway left, these data points should be used in confluence.
No single metric should be relied upon to predict tops or bottoms in isolation, but taken together, they offer a powerful lens through which to interpret the macro trend. As the market matures and volatility declines, adaptive metrics will become even more crucial in staying ahead of the curve.
For more deep-dive research, technical indicators, real-time market alerts, and access to a growing community of analysts, visit BitcoinMagazinePro.com.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only and should not be considered financial advice. Always do your own research before making any investment decisions.
This post Mapping Bitcoinâs Bull Cycle Potential first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Matt Crosby.
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2025-06-09 07:02:01The real estate market is showing cracks while Bitcoin continues its march toward becoming the global monetary standard. This week's conversation with Leon Wankum reveals how traditional assets are losing ground to the hardest money on earth. This was a high signal rip that deserves all the spotlight in today's newsletter.
Real Estate Prices Will Fall Through 2026 Before Finding New Equilibrium
Leon predicts we're entering a corrective phase in the 18-year property cycle that will see real estate prices decline until 2026. He bases this on the current mismatch between sellers who still expect peak 2021-2022 prices and buyers facing higher interest rates. "We need a price equilibrium. We need demand and supply prices to match. It's going to take a long time," Leon explained. He doesn't expect the Fed to lower rates significantly, keeping them above 3% for the foreseeable future, which will continue putting downward pressure on property values.
The key insight is that we're at year 15 of the typical 18-year property cycle, where prices naturally correct before finding a new floor. Leon suggests that by 2026, if interest rates are lowered, prices will stabilize at levels higher than the cycle's starting point but lower than current peaks. For those looking to buy, patience through this correction period could pay off.
Bitcoin Will Experience a 60% Drawdown This Cycle Despite Institutional Adoption
Despite massive institutional adoption through MicroStrategy and other corporate treasuries, Leon maintains that Bitcoin will still see a significant correction this cycle. "I do expect we'll have a 60% drawdown at the end of this bull cycle as well, just to wash out some leverage," he stated, pushing back against super cycle narratives. He points to the changing nature of volatility, noting that we're already seeing mini bull and bear markets in Bitcoin-adjacent assets like mining stocks, which peaked and corrected independently of Bitcoin's price action.
While acknowledging that players like Michael Saylor won't sell their holdings and that this could dampen volatility compared to previous cycles, Leon believes human nature and leverage will still create the conditions for a major correction. The silver lining is that these corrections build resilience in the Bitcoin ecosystem by washing out bad actors and overleveraged positions, ultimately strengthening the network for the next phase of growth.
1% of Real Estate and Bond Markets Will Flow to Bitcoin-Based Fixed Income Products
Leon sees MicroStrategy's new fixed income products (Strike, Strive, and Stride) as a gateway for traditional investors to gain Bitcoin exposure. These products offer 8-10% yields, significantly outperforming traditional bonds, while providing the cash flow that real estate investors seek. "If it's just 1% [of real estate investors], that's 3 trillion, that's enough," Leon calculated, noting that even a small percentage of the 2,856,707,549 BTC real estate market moving to Bitcoin-backed products would exceed Bitcoin's current market cap.
He shared examples of real estate professionals in Europe beginning to build Bitcoin treasuries, though cautiously. The key insight is that these fixed income products solve a major friction point for traditional investors who want cash flow but are beginning to recognize Bitcoin's superior appreciation. As more investors realize they can get both yield and potential upside through Bitcoin-backed securities, Leon expects this trickle to become a flood, fundamentally reshaping how capital allocators think about portfolio construction.
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Bitcoin Could See 4,066,047 BTC Institutional Wave by 2026, Breaking Traditional Market Cycles
UTXO Management forecasts unprecedented institutional demand totaling 4,066,047 BTC by end-2026âequivalent to 20% of Bitcoin's circulating supply. This "wall of money" could fundamentally alter Bitcoin's four-year cycle pattern. Bitcoin ETFs shattered records with 344,709 BTC in year-one inflows, surpassing all commodity ETF launches. Following gold's trajectory, annual flows could reach 618,953 BTC by 2026 and exceed 952,236 BTC in 2027.
Five key drivers will fuel demand:
- Wealth platforms: 0.5% allocation across 571,341,510 BTC managed assets = 1,142,683 BTC
- Corporate treasuries: 1.18M BTC projected under new FASB accounting rules
- Nation-states: U.S. Strategic Reserve could trigger 5% gold-to-BTC rotation
- State governments: 5 of 13 pending U.S. state Bitcoin bills expected to pass
- ETF expansion: Wirehouse access accelerating adoption
Public companies already hold 803,143 BTC, with Japan's Metaplanet, GameStop, and Hong Kong's Moon adopting the "Bitcoin Standard" strategy. Meanwhile, Bitcoin yield products (BTCfi) are emergingâliquid staking surged to 55k BTC locked in one year. Unlike retail cycles, these institutional buyers are "structurally locked in," pursuing BTC-denominated yields rather than trading. With regulation accelerating globally, most allocators may be forced to chase exposure at significantly higher prices.
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2025-06-07 07:01:34Key Takeaways
Michael Goldstein, aka Bitstein, presents a sweeping philosophical and economic case for going âall inâ on Bitcoin, arguing that unlike fiat, which distorts capital formation and fuels short-term thinking, Bitcoin fosters low time preference, meaningful saving, and long-term societal flourishing. At the heart of his thesis is âhodling for goodââa triple-layered idea encompassing permanence, purpose, and the pursuit of higher values like truth, beauty, and legacy. Drawing on thinkers like Aristotle, Hoppe, and Josef Pieper, Goldstein redefines leisure as contemplation, a vital practice in aligning capital with oneâs deepest ideals. He urges Bitcoiners to think beyond mere wealth accumulation and consider how their sats can fund enduring institutions, art, and architecture that reflect a moral vision of the future.
Best Quotes
âLet BlackRock buy the houses, and you keep the sats.â
âWe're not hodling just for the sake of hodling. There is a purpose to it.â
âFiat money shortens your time horizonâĶ you can never rest.â
âSavings precedes capital accumulation. You canât build unless youâve saved.â
âYou're increasing the marginal value of everyone elseâs Bitcoin.â
âTrue leisure is contemplationâthe pursuit of the highest good.â
âWhat is Bitcoin for if not to make the conditions for magnificent acts of creation possible?â
âBitcoin itself will last forever. Your stack might not. What will outlast your coins?â
âOnly a whale can be magnificent.â
âThe market will sell you all the crack you want. Itâs up to you to demand beauty.â
Conclusion
This episode is a call to reimagine Bitcoin as more than a financial revolutionâitâs a blueprint for civilizational renewal. Michael Goldstein reframes hodling as an act of moral stewardship, urging Bitcoiners to lower their time preference, build lasting institutions, and pursue truth, beauty, and legacyânot to escape the world, but to rebuild it on sound foundations.
Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:50 - Michaelâs BBB presentation Hodl for Good
07:27 - Austrian principles on capital
15:40 - Fiat distorts the economic process
23:34 - Bitkey
24:29 - Hodl for Good triple entendre
29:52 - Bitcoin benefits everyone
39:05 - Unchained
40:14 - Leisure theory of value
52:15 - Heightening life
1:15:48 - Breaking from the chase makes room for magnificence
1:32:32 - Nakamoto Instituteâs missionTranscript
(00:00) Fiat money is by its nature a disturbance. If money is being continually produced, especially at an uncertain rate, these uh policies are really just redistribution of wealth. Most are looking for number to go up post hyper bitcoinization. The rate of growth of bitcoin would be more reflective of the growth of the economy as a whole.
(00:23) Ultimately, capital requires knowledge because it requires knowing there is something that you can add to the structures of production to lengthen it in some way that will take time but allow you to have more in the future than you would today. Let Black Rockck buy the houses and you keep the sats, not the other way around.
(00:41) You wait until later for Larry Frink to try to sell you a [Music] mansion. And we're live just like that. Just like that. 3:30 on a Friday, Memorial Day weekend. It's a good good good way to end the week and start the holiday weekend. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Thank you for having me here. Thank you for coming. I wore this hat specifically because I think it's I think it's very apppropo uh to the conversation we're going to have which is I hope an extension of the presentation you gave at Bitblock Boom Huddle for good. You were working on
(01:24) that for many weeks leading up to uh the conference and explaining how you were structuring it. I think it's a very important topic to discuss now as the Bitcoin price is hitting new all-time highs and people are trying to understand what am I doing with Bitcoin? Like you have you have the different sort of factions within Bitcoin.
(01:47) Uh get on a Bitcoin standard, get on zero, spend as much Bitcoin as possible. You have the sailors of the world are saying buy Bitcoin, never sell, die with your Bitcoin. And I think you do a really good job in that presentation. And I just think your understanding overall of Bitcoin is incredible to put everything into context. It's not either or.
(02:07) It really depends on what you want to accomplish. Yeah, it's definitely there there is no actual one-sizefits-all um for I mean nearly anything in this world. So um yeah, I mean first of all I mean there was it was the first conference talk I had given in maybe five years. I think the one prior to that uh was um bit block boom 2019 which was my meme talk which uh has uh become infamous and notorious.
(02:43) So uh there was also a lot of like high expectations uh you know rockstar dev uh has has treated that you know uh that that talk with a lot of reference. a lot of people have enjoyed it and he was expecting this one to be, you know, the greatest one ever, which is a little bit of a little bit of a uh a burden to live up to those kinds of standards.
(03:08) Um, but you know, because I don't give a lot of talks. Um, you know, I I I like to uh try to bring ideas that might even be ideas that are common. So, something like hodling, we all talk about it constantly. uh but try to bring it from a little bit of a different angle and try to give um a little bit of uh new light to it.
(03:31) I alsove I've I've always enjoyed kind of coming at things from a third angle. Um whenever there's, you know, there's there's all these little debates that we have in in Bitcoin and sometimes it's nice to try to uh step out of it and look at it a little more uh kind of objectively and find ways of understanding it that incorporate the truths of of all of them.
(03:58) uh you know cuz I think we should always be kind of as much as possible after ultimate truth. Um so with this one um yeah I was kind of finding that that sort of golden mean. So uh um yeah and I actually I think about that a lot is uh you know Aristotle has his his concept of the golden mean. So it's like any any virtue is sort of between two vices um because you can you can always you can always take something too far.
(04:27) So you're you're always trying to find that right balance. Um so someone who is uh courageous you know uh one of the vices uh on one side is being basically reckless. I I can't remember what word he would use. Uh but effectively being reckless and just wanting to put yourself in danger for no other reason than just you know the thrill of it.
(04:50) Um and then on the other side you would just have cowardice which is like you're unwilling to put yourself um at any risk at any time. Um, and courage is right there in the middle where it's understanding when is the right time uh to put your put yourself, you know, in in the face of danger um and take it on. And so um in some sense this this was kind of me uh in in some ways like I'm obviously a partisan of hodling.
(05:20) Um, I've for, you know, a long time now talked about the, um, why huddling is good, why people do it, why we should expect it. Um, but still trying to find that that sort of golden mean of like yes, huddle, but also what are we hodling for? And it's not we're we're not hodddling just merely for the sake of hodddling.
(05:45) There there is a a purpose to it. And we should think about that. And that would also help us think more about um what are the benefits of of spending, when should we spend, why should we spend, what should we spend on um to actually give light to that sort of side of the debate. Um so that was that was what I was kind of trying to trying to get into.
(06:09) Um, as well as also just uh at the same time despite all the talk of hodling, there's always this perennial uh there's always this perennial dislike of hodlers because we're treated as uh as if um we're just free riding the network or we're just greedy or you know any of these things. And I wanted to show how uh huddling does serve a real economic purpose.
(06:36) Um, and it does benefit the individual, but it also does uh it it has actual real social um benefits as well beyond merely the individual. Um, so I wanted to give that sort of defense of hodling as well to look at it from um a a broader position than just merely I'm trying to get rich. Um uh because even the person who uh that is all they want to do um just like you know your your pure number grow up go up moonboy even that behavior has positive ramifications on on the economy.
(07:14) And while we might look at them and have uh judgments about their particular choices for them as an individual, we shouldn't discount that uh their actions are having positive positive effects for the rest of the economy. Yeah. So, let's dive into that just not even in the context of Bitcoin because I think you did a great job of this in the presentation.
(07:36) just you've done a good job of this consistently throughout the years that I've known you. Just from like a first principles Austrian economics perspective, what is the idea around capital accumulation, low time preference and deployment of that capital like what what like getting getting into like the nitty-gritty and then applying it to Bitcoin? Yeah, it's it's a big question and um in many ways I mean I I even I barely scratched the surface.
(08:05) uh I I can't claim to have read uh all the volumes of Bombber works, you know, capital and interest and and stuff like that. Um but I think there's some some sort of basic concepts that we can look at that we can uh draw a lot out. Um the first uh I guess let's write that. So repeat so like capital time preference. Yeah. Well, I guess getting more broad like why sav -
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2025-06-07 01:01:13Wall Street is warming up to Bitcoin and getting closer and closer to it.
Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the oldest and most respected investment banks on Wall Street, has launched a $2 billion bitcoin-backed lending program.
Theyâve reportedly already done their first deals, lending to two big digital asset companies: FalconX and Maple Finance.
This is a big step in connecting traditional finance to the fast-moving world of Bitcoin.
Cantorâs new service allows big investors, hedge funds and asset managers, to borrow money using bitcoin as collateral.
This is a game changer for institutions that hold bitcoin, as they can now access liquidity without having to sell their assets.
âInstitutions holding bitcoin are looking to broaden their access to diverse funding sources,â said Christian Wall, co-CEO and global head of fixed income at Cantor Fitzgerald.
âAnd we are excited to support their liquidity needs to help them drive long term growth and success.â
The loans are not speculative or unsecured.
They are structured like traditional finance deals, backed by the borrowerâs bitcoin. This reduces the risk for Cantor while giving bitcoin-holding companies new ways to grow and operate.
The first recipients of Cantorâs lending program are FalconX, a digital asset brokerage, and Maple Finance, a blockchain-based lending platform.
FalconX confirmed they secured a credit facility of over $100 million. Maple Finance also received the first tranche of their loan from Cantor.
This comes at a time when the bitcoin lending space is recovering after a tough period. Several big firms went under in 2022 and investor confidence was shaken.
Now with traditional finance on board, bitcoin-backed lending has returned. According to Galaxy Research the total size of the digital asset lending market grew to $36.5 billion in Q4 2024.
Cantorâs move into bitcoin-backed lending isnât new. They announced their plans in July 2024 and have been building their presence in the Bitcoin space since then.
Earlier this year, they partnered with Tether, SoftBank and Bitfinex to launch Twenty One Capital, a $3.6 billion fund to buy over 42,000 bitcoin.
In May 2025 Cantor Equity Partners merged with Twenty One Capital and bought nearly $459 million worth of bitcoin.
They also own around $1.9 billion in shares of Strategy, a company that holds a lot of bitcoin. Clearly Cantor believes in bitcoin as a long-term asset.
Cantor is also a big player in the stablecoin space.
They manage U.S. Treasury reserves for Tether, the company behind the $142 billion USDT stablecoin. This adds another layer of trust and credibility to Cantorâs digital asset involvement.
To secure the bitcoin used as collateral, Cantor has partnered with digital asset custodians Anchorage Digital and Copper.co.
These companies are known for their robust security and institutional-grade infrastructure. Cantor hasnât disclosed loan terms or interest rates but confirmed the lending will follow current regulations.
This also shows how traditional financial players are embracing DeFi.
Maple Finance for example allows undercollateralized lending using blockchain. By backing companies like Maple, Cantor is innovating while still having control and compliance.
For years, bitcoin-backed loans were only available through digital-asset-native companies like Genesis, BlockFi, and Ledn.
These loans were mostly for smaller clients and retail investors. But with Cantorâs entry, the scale and professionalism of bitcoin lending are expanding.
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-09 06:02:16Nostr is an open communication protocol that can be used to send messages across a distributed set of relays in a censorship resistant and robust way.
If you missed my nostr introduction post you can find it here. My nostr account can be found here.
We are nearly at the point that if something interesting is posted on a centralized social platform it will usually be posted by someone to nostr.
We are nearly at the point that if something interesting is posted exclusively to nostr it is cross posted by someone to various centralized social platforms.
We are nearly at the point that you can recommend a cross platform app that users can install and easily onboard without additional guides or resources.
As companies continue to build walls around their centralized platforms nostr posts will be the easiest to cross reference and verify - as companies continue to censor their users nostr is the best censorship resistant alternative - gradually then suddenly nostr will become the standard. ðŦĄ
Current Nostr Stats
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2025-06-09 06:42:31To become a master designer, you need to break past a slavish devotion of past forms and create vibrant, new experiences. This design talk covers practical techniques for reinventing game genres. The goal is the invention of a unique and highly differentiated customer value proposition that makes both strong business sense and is also deeply creatively fulfilling. We cover designing from the root, reducing design risk, and igniting original franchises. We also cover the pitfalls of design innovation and how to thrive in a highly competitive market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7DFuXDN29M
https://stacker.news/items/1001313
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-09 06:02:17There must be a limit to how much data is transferred across the bitcoin network in order to keep the ability to run and use your own node accessible. A node is required to interact with the global bitcoin network - if you do not use your own node then you must trust someone else's node. If nodes become inaccessible to run then the network will centralize around the remaining entities that operate them - threatening the censorship resistance at the core of bitcoin's value prop. The bitcoin protocol uses three main mechanisms to keep node operation costs low - a fixed limit on the amount of data in each block, an automatic difficulty adjustment that regulates how many blocks are produced based on current mining hash rate, and a robust dynamic transaction fee market.
Bitcoin transaction fees limit network abuse by making usage expensive. There is a cost to every transaction, set by a dynamic free market based on demand for scarce block space. It is an incredibly robust way to prevent spam without relying on centralized entities that can be corrupted or pressured.
After the 2017 bitcoin fee spike we had six years of relative quiet to build tools that would be robust in a sustained high fee market. Fortunately our tools are significantly better now but many still need improvement. Most of the pain points we see today will be mitigated.
The reality is we were never going to be fully prepared - pressure is needed to show the pain points and provide strong incentives to mitigate them.
It will be incredibly interesting to watch how projects adapt under pressure. Optimistic we see great innovation here.
_If you are willing to wait for your transaction to confirm you can pay significantly lower fees. Learn best practices for reducing your fee burden here.
My guide for running and using your own bitcoin node can be found here._
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2025-06-06 23:02:25Bank run on every crypto bank then bank run on every "real" bank.
â ODELL (@ODELL) December 14, 2022
Good morning.
It looks like PacWest will fail today. It will be both the fifth largest bank failure in US history and the sixth major bank to fail this year. It will likely get purchased by one of the big four banks in a government orchestrated sale. Â
March 8th - Silvergate Bank
March 10th - Silicon Valley Bank
March 12th - Signature Bank
March 19th - Credit Suisse
May 1st - First Republic Bank
May 4th - PacWest Bank?PacWest is the first of many small regional banks that will go under this year. Most will get bought by the big four in gov orchestrated sales. This has been the playbook since 2008. Follow the incentives. Massive consolidation across the banking industry. PacWest gonna be a drop in the bucket compared to what comes next.
First, a hastened government led bank consolidation, then a public/private partnership with the remaining large banks to launch a surveilled and controlled digital currency network. We will be told it is more convenient. We will be told it is safer. We will be told it will prevent future bank runs. All of that is marketing bullshit. The goal is greater control of money. The ability to choose how we spend it and how we save it. If you control the money - you control the people that use it.
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-09 05:02:25What is KYC/AML?
- The acronym stands for Know Your Customer / Anti Money Laundering.
- In practice it stands for the surveillance measures companies are often compelled to take against their customers by financial regulators.
- Methods differ but often include: Passport Scans, Driver License Uploads, Social Security Numbers, Home Address, Phone Number, Face Scans.
- Bitcoin companies will also store all withdrawal and deposit addresses which can then be used to track bitcoin transactions on the bitcoin block chain.
- This data is then stored and shared. Regulations often require companies to hold this information for a set number of years but in practice users should assume this data will be held indefinitely. Data is often stored insecurely, which results in frequent hacks and leaks. Â
- KYC/AML data collection puts all honest users at risk of theft, extortion, and persecution while being ineffective at stopping crime. Criminals often use counterfeit, bought, or stolen credentials to get around the requirements. Criminals can buy "verified" accounts for as little as $200. Furthermore, billions of people are excluded from financial services as a result of KYC/AML requirements.
During the early days of bitcoin most services did not require this sensitive user data, but as adoption increased so did the surveillance measures. At this point, most large bitcoin companies are collecting and storing massive lists of bitcoiners, our sensitive personal information, and our transaction history.
Lists of Bitcoiners
KYC/AML policies are a direct attack on bitcoiners. Lists of bitcoiners and our transaction history will inevitably be used against us.
Once you are on a list with your bitcoin transaction history that record will always exist. Generally speaking, tracking bitcoin is based on probability analysis of ownership change. Surveillance firms use various heuristics to determine if you are sending bitcoin to yourself or if ownership is actually changing hands. Â You can obtain better privacy going forward by using collaborative transactions such as coinjoin to break this probability analysis.
Fortunately, you can buy bitcoin without providing intimate personal information. Tools such as peach, hodlhodl, robosats, azteco and bisq help; mining is also a solid option: anyone can plug a miner into power and internet and earn bitcoin by mining privately.
You can also earn bitcoin by providing goods and/or services that can be purchased with bitcoin. Long term, circular economies will mitigate this threat: most people will not buy bitcoin - they will earn bitcoin - most people will not sell bitcoin - they will spend bitcoin.
There is no such thing as KYC or No KYC bitcoin, there are bitcoiners on lists and those that are not on lists.
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2025-06-09 05:02:24
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. Â A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world." - Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993
Privacy is essential to freedom. Without privacy, individuals are unable to make choices free from surveillance and control. Lack of privacy leads to loss of autonomy. When individuals are constantly monitored it limits our ability to express ourselves and take risks. Any decisions we make can result in negative repercussions from those who surveil us. Without the freedom to make choices, individuals cannot truly be free.
Freedom is essential to acquiring and preserving wealth. When individuals are not free to make choices, restrictions and limitations prevent us from economic opportunities. If we are somehow able to acquire wealth in such an environment, lack of freedom can result in direct asset seizure by governments or other malicious entities. At scale, when freedom is compromised, it leads to widespread economic stagnation and poverty. Protecting freedom is essential to economic prosperity.
The connection between privacy, freedom, and wealth is critical. Without privacy, individuals lose the freedom to make choices free from surveillance and control. While lack of freedom prevents individuals from pursuing economic opportunities and makes wealth preservation nearly impossible. No Privacy? No Freedom. No Freedom? No Wealth.
Rights are not granted. They are taken and defended. Rights are often misunderstood as permission to do something by those holding power. However, if someone can give you something, they can inherently take it from you at will. People throughout history have necessarily fought for basic rights, including privacy and freedom. These rights were not given by those in power, but rather demanded and won through struggle. Even after these rights are won, they must be continually defended to ensure that they are not taken away. Rights are not granted - they are earned through struggle and defended through sacrifice.
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-09 06:02:16Will not live in a pod.
Will not eat the bugs.
Will not get the chip.
Will not get a blue check.
Will not use CBDCs.Live Free or Die.
Why did Elon buy twitter for $44 Billion? What value does he see in it besides the greater influence that undoubtedly comes with controlling one of the largest social platforms in the world? We do not need to speculate - he made his intentions incredibly clear in his first meeting with twitter employees after his takeover - WeChat of the West.
To those that do not appreciate freedom, the value prop is clear - WeChat is incredibly powerful and successful in China.
To those that do appreciate freedom, the concern is clear - WeChat has essentially become required to live in China, has surveillance and censorship integrated at its core, and if you are banned from the app your entire livelihood is at risk. Employment, housing, payments, travel, communication, and more become extremely difficult if WeChat censors determine you have acted out of line.
The blue check is the first step in Elon's plan to bring the chinese social credit score system to the west. Users who verify their identity are rewarded with more reach and better tools than those that do not. Verified users are the main product of Elon's twitter - an extensive database of individuals and complete control of the tools he will slowly get them to rely on - it is easier to monetize cattle than free men.
If you cannot resist the temptation of the blue check in its current form you have already lost - what comes next will be much darker. If you realize the need to resist - freedom tech provides us options.
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-06 23:02:25People forget Bear Stearns failed March 2008 - months of denial followed before the public realized how bad the situation was under the surface.
Similar happening now but much larger scale. They did not fix fundamental issues after 2008 - everything is more fragile.
The Fed preemptively bailed out every bank with their BTFP program and First Republic Bank still failed. The second largest bank failure in history.
There will be more failures. There will be more bailouts. Depositors will be "protected" by socializing losses across everyone.
Our President and mainstream financial pundits are currently pretending the banking crisis is over while most banks remain insolvent. There are going to be many more bank failures as this ponzi system unravels.
Unlike 2008, we have the ability to opt out of these broken and corrupt institutions by using bitcoin. Bitcoin held in self custody is unique in its lack of counterparty risk - you do not have to trust a bank or other centralized entity to hold it for you. Bitcoin is also incredibly difficult to change by design since it is not controlled by an individual, company, or government - the supply of dollars will inevitably be inflated to bailout these failing banks but bitcoin supply will remain unchanged. I do not need to convince you that bitcoin provides value - these next few years will convince millions.
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2025-06-09 03:01:55Contribute to keep No Bullshit Bitcoin news going.
This update brings key enhancements for clarity and usability:
- Recent Blocks View: Added to the Send tab and inspired by Mempool's visualization, it displays the last 2 blocks and the estimated next block to help choose fee rates.
- Camera System Overhaul: Features a new library for higher resolution detection and mouse-scroll zoom support when available.
- Vector-Based Images: All app images are now vectorized and theme-aware, enhancing contrast, especially in dark mode.
- Tor & P2A Updates: Upgraded internal Tor and improved support for pay-to-anchor (P2A) outputs.
- Linux Package Rename: For Linux users, Sparrow has been renamed to sparrowwallet (or sparrowserver); in some cases, the original sparrow package may need manual removal.
- Additional updates include showing total payments in multi-payment transaction diagrams, better handling of long labels, and other UI enhancements.
- Sparrow v2.2.1 is a bug fix release that addresses missing UUID issue when starting Tor on recent macOS versions, icons for external sources in Settings and Recent Blocks view, repackaged
.deb
installs to use older gzip instead of zstd compression, and removed display of median fee rate where fee rates source is set to Server.
Learn how to get started with Sparrow wallet:
Release notes (v2.2.0)
- Added Recent Blocks view to Send tab.
- Converted all bitmapped images to theme aware SVG format for all wallet models and dialogs.
- Support send and display of pay to anchor (P2A) outputs.
- Renamed
sparrow
package tosparrowwallet
andsparrowserver
on Linux. - Switched camera library to openpnp-capture.
- Support FHD (1920 x 1080) and UHD4k (3840 x 2160) capture resolutions.
- Support camera zoom with mouse scroll where possible.
- In the Download Verifier, prefer verifying the dropped file over the default file where the file is not in the manifest.
- Show a warning (with an option to disable the check) when importing a wallet with a derivation path matching another script type.
- In Cormorant, avoid calling the
listwalletdir
RPC on initialization due to a potentially slow response on Windows. - Avoid server address resolution for public servers.
- Assume server address is non local for resolution failures where a proxy is configured.
- Added a tooltip to indicate truncated labels in table cells.
- Dynamically truncate input and output labels in the tree on a transaction tab, and add tooltips if necessary.
- Improved tooltips for wallet tabs and transaction diagrams with long labels.
- Show the address where available on input and output tooltips in transaction tab tree.
- Show the total amount sent in payments in the transaction diagram when constructing multiple payment transactions.
- Reset preferred table column widths on adjustment to improve handling after window resizing.
- Added accessible text to improve screen reader navigation on seed entry.
- Made Wallet Summary table grow horizontally with dialog sizing.
- Reduced tooltip show delay to 200ms.
- Show transaction diagram fee percentage as less than 0.01% rather than 0.00%.
- Optimized and reduced Electrum server RPC calls.
- Upgraded Bouncy Castle, PGPainless and Logback libraries.
- Upgraded internal Tor to v0.4.8.16.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue with random ordering of keystore origins on labels import.
- Bug fix: Fixed non-zero account script type detection when signing a message on Trezor devices.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue parsing remote Coldcard xpub encoded on a different network.
- Bug fix: Fixed inclusion of fees on wallet label exports.
- Bug fix: Increase Trezor device libusb timeout.
Linux users: Note that the
sparrow
package has been renamed tosparrowwallet
orsparrowserver
, and in some cases you may need to manually uninstall the originalsparrow
package. Look in the/opt
folder to ensure you have the new name, and the original is removed.What's new in v2.2.1
- Updated Tor library to fix missing UUID issue when starting Tor on recent macOS versions.
- Repackaged
.deb
installs to use older gzip instead of zstd compression. - Removed display of median fee rate where fee rates source is set to Server.
- Added icons for external sources in Settings and Recent Blocks view
- Bug fix: Fixed issue in Recent Blocks view when switching fee rates source
- Bug fix: Fixed NPE on null fee returned from server
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-09 06:02:16Influencers would have you believe there is an ongoing binance bank run but bitcoin wallet data says otherwise.
- binance wallets are near all time highs
- bitfinex wallets are also trending up
- gemini and coinbase are being hit with massive withdrawals thoughYou should not trust custodians, they can rug you without warning. It is incredibly important you learn how to hold bitcoin yourself, but also consider not blindly trusting influencers with a ref link to shill you.
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@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1
2025-06-09 05:36:53A Junior-level free online course divided in four modules aiming to help you develop experience and confidence with: 1) An approach to mechanical systems design that incorporates ideation, back-of-the-envelope analysis, computational analysis, and prototyping, iteratively and with an appropriate balance for the domain. 2) Designing custom mechanical components, finding and selecting common machine elements, and selecting electric motors and transmission elements to meet performance, efficiency and reliability goals.
The first project introduces the structure of projects in this course; introduces the design approach; reviews and begins to apply statics and stress analysis skills from prerequisite courses to design; introduces finite-element analysis; and provides an opportunity to work out any issues with fabrication methods.
The second project comprises a challenging, open-ended problem: design of a single component for mass efficiency. Success requires sophisticated application of the design approach, including statics analysis using free-body diagrams; stress, deflection and buckling analysis using simplified models and finite-element analysis; and testing of both low-fidelity and functional prototypes.
The third project introduces simple models of electric motors and gears; applies these models to selection of a motor operating point and gear ratio; and introduces the design of experiments to identify important system characteristics.
The fourth project comprises the challenging, open-ended design of a motor-driven machine to maximize electromechanical performance. It requires application of the Design Approach to complex problems in a team setting; effective incorporation of multiple custom and catalog components into an assembly; and sophisticated use motor and gear models, power analysis, and mass-efficient component design.
Start the course, it's free at https://biomechatronics.stanford.edu/mechanical-systems-design
https://stacker.news/items/1001283
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@ dfa02707:41ca50e3
2025-06-06 21:01:51Contribute to keep No Bullshit Bitcoin news going.
- The latest firmware updates for COLDCARD devices introduce two major features: COLDCARD Co-sign (CCC) and Key Teleport between two COLDCARD Q devices using QR codes and/or NFC with a website.
What's new
- COLDCARD Co-Sign: When CCC is enabled, a second seed called the Spending Policy Key (Key C) is added to the device. This seed works with the device's Main Seed and one or more additional XPUBs (Backup Keys) to form 2-of-N multisig wallets.
- The spending policy functions like a hardware security module (HSM), enforcing rules such as magnitude and velocity limits, address whitelisting, and 2FA authentication to protect funds while maintaining flexibility and control, and is enforced each time the Spending Policy Key is used for signing.
- When spending conditions are met, the COLDCARD signs the partially signed bitcoin transaction (PSBT) with the Main Seed and Spending Policy Key for fund access. Once configured, the Spending Policy Key is required to view or change the policy, and violations are denied without explanation.
"You can override the spending policy at any time by signing with either a Backup Key and the Main Seed or two Backup Keys, depending on the number of keys (N) in the multisig."
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A step-by-step guide for setting up CCC is available here.
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Key Teleport for Q devices allows users to securely transfer sensitive data such as seed phrases (words, xprv), secure notes and passwords, and PSBTs for multisig. It uses QR codes or NFC, along with a helper website, to ensure reliable transmission, keeping your sensitive data protected throughout the process.
- For more technical details, see the protocol spec.
"After you sign a multisig PSBT, you have option to âKey Teleportâ the PSBT file to any one of the other signers in the wallet. We already have a shared pubkey with them, so the process is simple and does not require any action on their part in advance. Plus, starting in this firmware release, COLDCARD can finalize multisig transactions, so the last signer can publish the signed transaction via PushTX (NFC tap) to get it on the blockchain directly."
- Multisig transactions are finalized when sufficiently signed. It streamlines the use of PushTX with multisig wallets.
- Signing artifacts re-export to various media. Users are now provided with the capability to export signing products, like transactions or PSBTs, to alternative media rather than the original source. For example, if a PSBT is received through a QR code, it can be signed and saved onto an SD card if needed.
- Multisig export files are signed now. Public keys are encoded as P2PKH address for all multisg signature exports. Learn more about it here.
- NFC export usability upgrade: NFC keeps exporting until CANCEL/X is pressed.
- Added Bitcoin Safe option to Export Wallet.
- 10% performance improvement in USB upload speed for large files.
- Q: Always choose the biggest possible display size for QR.
Fixes
- Do not allow change Main PIN to same value already used as Trick PIN, even if Trick PIN is hidden.
- Fix stuck progress bar under
Receiving...
after a USB communications failure. - Showing derivation path in Address Explorer for root key (m) showed double slash (//).
- Can restore developer backup with custom password other than 12 words format.
- Virtual Disk auto mode ignores already signed PSBTs (with â-signedâ in file name).
- Virtual Disk auto mode stuck on âReadingâĶâ screen sometimes.
- Finalization of foreign inputs from partial signatures. Thanks Christian Uebber!
- Temporary seed from COLDCARD backup failed to load stored multisig wallets.
Destroy Seed
also removes all Trick PINs from SE2.Lock Down Seed
requires pressing confirm key (4) to execute.- Q only: Only BBQr is allowed to export Coldcard, Core, and pretty descriptor.
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@ 77c2969e:a33cfa50
2025-06-08 07:10:04Nostr åčŪŪåĻæįæĨæŊåūå čŋįïžææķä―ŋįĻįäšščŋäļåĪïžäļčŋįļæŊ Fediverse į Mastodon äđįąŧïžčŠå·ąéĻį―ē Nostr Relay æŊææŽåūå°įãBlossom ä―äļšåŠä―äļäž æåĄæŊåŊéįïžå äļšæå äļŠå Žå ąæåĄåĻåŊįĻïžä―æŊåΧåĪæ°å―å æ æģįīčŋãæčŋåį°éĻååŪĒæ·įŦŊäļæŊæčŠåŪäđ Blossom æåĄåĻïžåŠæ Amethyst å Nostrmo åŊäŧĨã
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Override the domain thats is used in the blobs "url" field
By default it uses the domain the incoming HTTP request was made on
publicDomain: ""
databasePath: data/sqlite.db
dashboard: # enable or disable the admin dashboard enabled: true # admin username username: admin # if password is left blank it will be generated each time the app starts password: "yourpasswd"
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discovery: # find files by querying nostr relays nostr: enabled: false relays: - wss://relay.example.com # find files by asking upstream CDNs # NOTE: do not set this to your own server, it will create an infinite loop upstream: enabled: false domains: - https://cdn.example.com
storage: # local or s3 backend: local
# Imminently removes a blob when there are no owners removeWhenNoOwners: false
# local storage local: dir: ./data/blobs
# see minio docs for options: # https://min.io/docs/minio/linux/developers/javascript/API.html#new-minio-client-endpoint-port-usessl-accesskey-secretkey-region-transport-sessiontoken-partsize # s3: # endpoint: https://s3.endpoint.com # port: 443 # bucket: blossom # accessKey: xxxxxxxx # secretKey: xxxxxxxxx # useSSL: true # region: us-east-1 # If this is set the server will redirect clients when loading blobs # publicURL: https://s3.region.example.com/
# rules are checked in descending order. if a blob matches a rule it is kept # "type" (required) the type of the blob, "" can be used to match any type # "expiration" (required) time passed since last accessed # "pubkeys" (optional) a list of owners # any blobs not matching the rules will be removed rules: - type: "" expiration: 100 years pubkeys: - "change-to-your-pubkey-hex"
Config for the /upload endpoint
upload: # enable / disable uploads (default false) enabled: true # require auth to upload requireAuth: true # only check rules that include "pubkeys" requirePubkeyInRule: true
Config for the /media endpoint
media: # /media endpoint enabled (default false) enabled: true # require auth to upload to /media requireAuth: true # only check rules that include "pubkeys" requirePubkeyInRule: true
# image optimization options image: # image quality 0-100 (default 90) quality: 90 # create progressive jpeg / png images for large images > 1024x768 (default true) progressive: true # max width (default 1920) maxWidth: 1920 # max height (default 1080) maxHeight: 1080 # image format (default webp) outputFormat: "webp" # keep aspect radio when resizing (default true) maintainAspectRatio: true # keep EXIF metadata (default false) keepExif: false # fps for GIFs (default 30) fps: 30
video: # video quality 0-100 (default 90) quality: 90 # max height (default 1080) maxHeight: 1080 # max fps (default 30) maxFps: 30 # output format [mp4, webm, mkv] (default mp4) format: "webm" # audio codec [aac, mp3, vorbis, opus] (default aac) audioCodec: "aac" # video codec [libx264, libx265, vp8, vp9] (default libx264) videoCodec: "libx264"
list: requireAuth: false allowListOthers: true
tor: enabled: false proxy: "" ```
docker-compose.yml
services: blossom: image: ghcr.io/hzrd149/blossom-server:master ports: - 3000:3000 volumes: # mount data volume - ./data:/app/data # mount config file - ./config.yml:/app/config.yml # mount custom www dir - ./public:/app/public
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@ 9ca447d2:fbf5a36d
2025-06-08 04:01:35Wall Street is warming up to Bitcoin and getting closer and closer to it.
Cantor Fitzgerald, one of the oldest and most respected investment banks on Wall Street, has launched a $2 billion bitcoin-backed lending program.
Theyâve reportedly already done their first deals, lending to two big digital asset companies: FalconX and Maple Finance.
This is a big step in connecting traditional finance to the fast-moving world of Bitcoin.
Cantorâs new service allows big investors, hedge funds and asset managers, to borrow money using bitcoin as collateral.
This is a game changer for institutions that hold bitcoin, as they can now access liquidity without having to sell their assets.
âInstitutions holding bitcoin are looking to broaden their access to diverse funding sources,â said Christian Wall, co-CEO and global head of fixed income at Cantor Fitzgerald.
âAnd we are excited to support their liquidity needs to help them drive long term growth and success.â
The loans are not speculative or unsecured.
They are structured like traditional finance deals, backed by the borrowerâs bitcoin. This reduces the risk for Cantor while giving bitcoin-holding companies new ways to grow and operate.
The first recipients of Cantorâs lending program are FalconX, a digital asset brokerage, and Maple Finance, a blockchain-based lending platform.
FalconX confirmed they secured a credit facility of over $100 million. Maple Finance also received the first tranche of their loan from Cantor.
This comes at a time when the bitcoin lending space is recovering after a tough period. Several big firms went under in 2022 and investor confidence was shaken.
Now with traditional finance on board, bitcoin-backed lending has returned. According to Galaxy Research the total size of the digital asset lending market grew to $36.5 billion in Q4 2024.
Cantorâs move into bitcoin-backed lending isnât new. They announced their plans in July 2024 and have been building their presence in the Bitcoin space since then.
Earlier this year, they partnered with Tether, SoftBank and Bitfinex to launch Twenty One Capital, a $3.6 billion fund to buy over 42,000 bitcoin.
In May 2025 Cantor Equity Partners merged with Twenty One Capital and bought nearly $459 million worth of bitcoin.
They also own around $1.9 billion in shares of Strategy, a company that holds a lot of bitcoin. Clearly Cantor believes in bitcoin as a long-term asset.
Cantor is also a big player in the stablecoin space.
They manage U.S. Treasury reserves for Tether, the company behind the $142 billion USDT stablecoin. This adds another layer of trust and credibility to Cantorâs digital asset involvement.
To secure the bitcoin used as collateral, Cantor has partnered with digital asset custodians Anchorage Digital and Copper.co.
These companies are known for their robust security and institutional-grade infrastructure. Cantor hasnât disclosed loan terms or interest rates but confirmed the lending will follow current regulations.
This also shows how traditional financial players are embracing DeFi.
Maple Finance for example allows undercollateralized lending using blockchain. By backing companies like Maple, Cantor is innovating while still having control and compliance.
For years, bitcoin-backed loans were only available through digital-asset-native companies like Genesis, BlockFi, and Ledn.
These loans were mostly for smaller clients and retail investors. But with Cantorâs entry, the scale and professionalism of bitcoin lending are expanding.
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@ 97c70a44:ad98e322
2025-06-06 20:48:33Vibe coding is taking the nostr developer community by storm. While it's all very exciting and interesting, I think it's important to pump the brakes a little - not in order to stop the vehicle, but to try to keep us from flying off the road as we approach this curve.
In this note Pablo is subtweeting something I said to him recently (although I'm sure he's heard it from other quarters as well):
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There is a naive, curmudgeonly case for simply "not doing AI". I think the intuition is a good one, but the subject is obviously more complicated - not doing it, either on an individual or a collective level, is just not an option. I recently read Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich, which I think can help us here. For Illich, the best kind of tool is one which serves "politically interrelated individuals rather than managers".
This is obviously a core value for bitcoiners. And I think the talks given at the Oslo Freedom Forum this year present a compelling case for adoption of LLMs for the purposes of 1. using them for good, and 2. developing them further so that they don't get captured by corporations and governments. Illich calls both the telephone and print "almost ideally convivial". I would add the internet, cryptography, and LLMs to this list, because each one allows individuals to work cooperatively within communities to embody their values in their work.
But this is only half the story. Illich also points out how "the manipulative nature of institutions... have put these ideally convivial tools at the service of more [managerial dominance]."
Preventing the subversion and capture of our tools is not just a matter of who uses what, and for which ends. It also requires an awareness of the environment that the use of the tool (whether for virtuous or vicious ends) creates, which in turn forms the abilities, values, and desires of those who inhabit the environment.
The natural tendency of LLMs is to foster ignorance, dependence, and detachment from reality. This is not the fault of the tool itself, but that of humans' tendency to trade liberty for convenience. Nevertheless, the inherent values of a given tool naturally gives rise to an environment through use: the tool changes the world that the tool user lives in. This in turn indoctrinates the user into the internal logic of the tool, shaping their thinking, blinding them to the tool's influence, and neutering their ability to work in ways not endorsed by the structure of the tool-defined environment.
The result of this is that people are formed by their tools, becoming their slaves. We often talk about LLM misalignment, but the same is true of humans. Unreflective use of a tool creates people who are misaligned with their own interests. This is what I mean when I say that AI use is anti-human. I mean it in the same way that all unreflective tool use is anti-human. See Wendell Berry for an evaluation of industrial agriculture along the same lines.
What I'm not claiming is that a minority of high agency individuals can't use the technology for virtuous ends. In fact, I think that is an essential part of the solution. Tool use can be good. But tools that bring their users into dependence on complex industry and catechize their users into a particular system should be approached with extra caution. The plow was a convivial tool, and so were early tractors. Self-driving John Deere monstrosities are a straightforward extension of the earlier form of the technology, but are self-evidently an instrument of debt slavery, chemical dependency, industrial centralization, and degradation of the land. This over-extension of a given tool can occur regardless of the intentions of the user. As Illich says:
There is a form of malfunction in which growth does not yet tend toward the destruction of life, yet renders a tool antagonistic to its specific aims. Tools, in other words, have an optimal, a tolerable, and a negative range.
The initial form of a tool is almost always beneficial, because tools are made by humans for human ends. But as the scale of the tool grows, its logic gets more widely and forcibly applied. The solution to the anti-human tendencies of any technology is an understanding of scale. To prevent the overrun of the internal logic of a given tool and its creation of an environment hostile to human flourishing, we need to impose limits on scale.
Tools that require time periods or spaces or energies much beyond the order of corresponding natural scales are dysfunctional.
My problem with LLMs is:
- Not their imitation of human idioms, but their subversion of them and the resulting adoption of robotic idioms by humans
- Not the access they grant to information, but their ability to obscure accurate or relevant information
- Not their elimination of menial work, but its increase (Bullshit Jobs)
- Not their ability to take away jobs, but their ability to take away the meaning found in good work
- Not their ability to confer power to the user, but their ability to confer power to their owner which can be used to exploit the user
- Not their ability to solve problems mechanistically, but the extension of their mechanistic value system to human life
- Not their explicit promise of productivity, but the environment they implicitly create in which productivity depends on their use
- Not the conversations they are able to participate in, but the relationships they displace
All of these dysfunctions come from the over-application of the technology in evaluating and executing the fundamentally human task of living. AI work is the same kind of thing as an AI girlfriend, because work is not only for the creation of value (although that's an essential part of it), but also for the exercise of human agency in the world. In other words, tools must be tools, not masters. This is a problem of scale - when tool use is extended beyond its appropriate domain, it becomes what Illich calls a "radical monopoly" (the domination of a single paradigm over all of human life).
So the important question when dealing with any emergent technology becomes: how can we set limits such that the use of the technology is naturally confined to its appropriate scale?
Here are some considerations:
- Teach people how to use the technology well (e.g. cite sources when doing research, use context files instead of fighting the prompt, know when to ask questions rather than generate code)
- Create and use open source and self-hosted models and tools (MCP, stacks, tenex). Refuse to pay for closed or third-party hosted models and tools.
- Recognize the dependencies of the tool itself, for example GPU availability, and diversify the industrial sources to reduce fragility and dependence.
- Create models with built-in limits. The big companies have attempted this (resulting in Japanese Vikings), but the best-case effect is a top-down imposition of corporate values onto individuals. But the idea isn't inherently bad - a coding model that refuses to generate code in response to vague prompts, or which asks clarifying questions is an example. Or a home assistant that recognized childrens' voices and refuses to interact.
- Divert the productivity gains to human enrichment. Without mundane work to do, novice lawyers, coders, and accountants don't have an opportunity to hone their skills. But their learning could be subsidized by the bots in order to bring them up to a level that continues to be useful.
- Don't become a slave to the bots. Know when not to use it. Talk to real people. Write real code, poetry, novels, scripts. Do your own research. Learn by experience. Make your own stuff. Take a break from reviewing code to write some. Be independent, impossible to control. Don't underestimate the value to your soul of good work.
- Resist both monopoly and "radical monopoly". Both naturally collapse over time, but by cultivating an appreciation of the goodness of hand-crafted goods, non-synthetic entertainment, embodied relationship, and a balance between mobility and place, we can relegate new, threatening technologies to their correct role in society.
I think in all of this is implicit the idea of technological determinism, that productivity is power, and if you don't adapt you die. I reject this as an artifact of darwinism and materialism. The world is far more complex and full of grace than we think.
The idea that productivity creates wealth is, as we all know, bunk. GDP continues to go up, but ungrounded metrics don't reflect anything about the reality of human flourishing. We have to return to a qualitative understanding of life as whole, and contextualize quantitative tools and metrics within that framework.
Finally, don't believe the hype. Even if AI delivers everything it promises, conservatism in changing our ways of life will decelerate the rate of change society is subjected to and allow time for reflection and proper use of the tool. Curmudgeons are as valuable as technologists. There will be no jobspocalypse if there is sufficient political will to value human good over mere productivity. It's ok to pump the breaks.
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@ dfa02707:41ca50e3
2025-06-08 03:01:34- This version introduces the Soroban P2P network, enabling Dojo to relay transactions to the Bitcoin network and share others' transactions to break the heuristic linking relaying nodes to transaction creators.
- Additionally, Dojo admins can now manage API keys in DMT with labels, status, and expiration, ideal for community Dojo providers like Dojobay. New API endpoints, including "/services" exposing Explorer, Soroban, and Indexer, have been added to aid wallet developers.
- Other maintenance updates include Bitcoin Core, Tor, Fulcrum, Node.js, plus an updated ban-knots script to disconnect inbound Knots nodes.
"I want to thank all the contributors. This again shows the power of true Free Software. I also want to thank everyone who donated to help Dojo development going. I truly appreciate it," said Still Dojo Coder.
What's new
- Soroban P2P network. For MyDojo (Docker setup) users, Soroban will be automatically installed as part of their Dojo. This integration allows Dojo to utilize the Soroban P2P network for various upcoming features and applications.
- PandoTx. PandoTx serves as a transaction transport layer. When your wallet sends a transaction to Dojo, it is relayed to a random Soroban node, which then forwards it to the Bitcoin network. It also enables your Soroban node to receive and relay transactions from others to the Bitcoin network and is designed to disrupt the assumption that a node relaying a transaction is closely linked to the person who initiated it.
- Pushing transactions through Soroban can be deactivated by setting
NODE_PANDOTX_PUSH=off
indocker-node.conf
. - Processing incoming transactions from Soroban network can be deactivated by setting
NODE_PANDOTX_PROCESS=off
indocker-node.conf
.
- Pushing transactions through Soroban can be deactivated by setting
- API key management has been introduced to address the growing number of people offering their Dojos to the community. Dojo admins can now access a new API management tab in their DMT, where they can create unlimited API keys, assign labels for easy identification, and set expiration dates for each key. This allows admins to avoid sharing their main API key and instead distribute specific keys to selected parties.
- New API endpoints. Several new API endpoints have been added to help API consumers develop features on Dojo more efficiently:
- New:
/latest-block
- returns data about latest block/txout/:txid/:index
- returns unspent output data/support/services
- returns info about services that Dojo exposes
- Updated:
/tx/:txid
- endpoint has been updated to return raw transaction with parameter?rawHex=1
- The new
/support/services
endpoint replaces the deprecatedexplorer
field in the Dojo pairing payload. Although still present, API consumers should use this endpoint for explorer and other pairing data.
- New:
Other changes
- Updated ban script to disconnect inbound Knots nodes.
- Updated Fulcrum to v1.12.0.
- Regenerate Fulcrum certificate if expired.
- Check if transaction already exists in pushTx.
- Bump BTC-RPC Explorer.
- Bump Tor to v0.4.8.16, bump Snowflake.
- Updated Bitcoin Core to v29.0.
- Removed unnecessary middleware.
- Fixed DB update mechanism, added api_keys table.
- Add an option to use blocksdir config for bitcoin blocks directory.
- Removed deprecated configuration.
- Updated Node.js dependencies.
- Reconfigured container dependencies.
- Fix Snowflake git URL.
- Fix log path for testnet4.
- Use prebuilt addrindexrs binaries.
- Add instructions to migrate blockchain/fulcrum.
- Added pull policies.
Learn how to set up and use your own Bitcoin privacy node with Dojo here.
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-09 05:02:24The newly proposed RESTRICT ACT - is being advertised as a TikTok Ban, but is much broader than that, carries a $1M Fine and up to 20 years in prisonïļ! It is unconstitutional and would create massive legal restrictions on the open source movement and free speech throughout the internet.
The Bill was proposed by: Senator Warner, Senator Thune, Senator Baldwin, Senator Fischer, Senator Manchin, Senator Moran, Senator Bennet, Senator Sullivan, Senator Gillibrand, Senator Collins, Senator Heinrich, and Senator Romney. It has broad support across Senators of both parties.
Corrupt politicians will not protect us. They are part of the problem. We must build, support, and learn how to use censorship resistant tools in order to defend our natural rights.
The RESTRICT Act, introduced by Senators Warner and Thune, aims to block or disrupt transactions and financial holdings involving foreign adversaries that pose risks to national security. Although the primary targets of this legislation are companies like Tik-Tok, the language of the bill could potentially be used to block or disrupt cryptocurrency transactions and, in extreme cases, block Americansâ access to open source tools or protocols like Bitcoin.
The Act creates a redundant regime paralleling OFAC without clear justification, it significantly limits the ability for injured parties to challenge actions raising due process concerns, and unlike OFAC it lacks any carve-out for protected speech. COINCENTER ON THE RESTRICT ACT
If you found this post helpful support my work with bitcoin.
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@ 58537364:705b4b85
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āļāļąāļāļŦāļēāļāļĨāļąāļ§āļĒāļēāļ āļāļĨāļąāļ§āļĨāļģāļāļēāļ āđāļĄāļ·āđāļāļāļąāļāļāļēāļĢāļđāđāļ§āđāļēāļāļĩ āļĄāļĩāļāļĢāļ°āđāļĒāļāļāđ āļāļķāļāļĒāļēāļ āļāļķāļāļĨāļģāļāļēāļ āļāđāđāļĄāđāļāļĨāļąāļ§
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āļāļēāļĻāļĢāļĄāļāļąāļāļāļīāļŠāļēāļĢ āđāđ āļāļļāļĨāļēāļāļĄ āđāđāđāđ
āđāļŦāļĨāđāļāļāļĩāđāļĄāļē #Phramaha Fookij Jutipanyo
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@ 57d1a264:69f1fee1
2025-06-09 05:21:29Beginning with the history of
kubectl apply
, this article briefly introduces the concept of "thick/thin clients" in software design.Designing software is a process of constantly raising and solving questions. When designers face a requirement, they generate many questions, among which is a seemingly simple but fundamental one: "Where should the business logic (complexity) go?" Each time a new feature is introduced into a project, the increase in total complexity is almost certain, but how to distribute this complexity among modules can vary greatly.
Whether a client is thick or thin depends on the responsibilities it undertakes; neither is inherently superior, only more suitable for different scenarios. Should you choose a thick or thin client? In most cases, the answer is clear because many functions naturally suit a particular implementation. For example, global search is typically a "thin client, thick server" solution because it relies on all the data in the server's database.
Continue reading at https://www.piglei.com/articles/en_the_software_design_i_see_thick_thin_clients/
https://stacker.news/items/1001277
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@ c9badfea:610f861a
2025-06-06 20:05:26- Install Food You (it's free and open source)
- Launch the app and tap the âïļ icon
- Tap Meals and set up your meal schedule (these items will appear on the main screen)
- Go back and then tap Calorie Goal to configure your daily intake goal
- Return to the main screen
- Now you can tap + on a card (e.g. Breakfast) to add a meal
- Tap + and select Product
- You can now fill in the details manually
- Or tap Download Product, paste the URL of the product from OpenFoodFacts (e.g. https://world.openfoodfacts.org/product/6111242101180/lait-entier-uht-jaouda), and then tap Download
- Tap Create
- You can now adjust intake details like servings
- Tap Save
- Add more products and recipes and start tracking your nutrition!
âđïļ Once you have created enough products, you can tap + on a meal card on the main screen, then tap + and select Recipe to create recipes from products
âđïļ Internet connection is only used to optionally fetch product details via URLs; otherwise, the app works completely offline
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@ b1ddb4d7:471244e7
2025-06-08 02:00:45When Sergei talks about bitcoin, he doesnât sound like someone chasing profits or followers. He sounds like someone about to build a monastery in the ruins.
While the mainstream world chases headlines and hype, Sergei shows up in local meetups from Sacramento to Cleveland, mentors curious minds, and shares what he knows is true â hoping that, with the right spark, someone will light their own way forward.
We interviewed Sergei to trace his steps: where he started, what keeps him going, and why teaching bitcoin is far more than explaining how to set up a node â itâs about reaching the right minds before the noise consumes them. So we began where most journeys start: at the beginning.
First Steps
- So, where did it all begin for you and what made you stay curious?
I first heard about bitcoin from a friendâs book recommendation, American Kingpin, the book about Silk Road (online drug marketplace). He is still not a true bitcoiner, although I helped him secure private keys with some bitcoin.
I was really busy at the time â focused on my school curriculum, running a 7-bedroom Airbnb, and working for a standardized test prep company. Bitcoin seemed too technical for me to explore, and the pace of my work left no time for it.
After graduating, while pursuing more training, I started playing around with stocks and maximizing my savings. Passive income seemed like the path to early retirement, as per the promise of the FIRE movement (Financial Independence, Retire Early). I mostly followed the mainstream news and my mentorâs advice â he liked preferred stocks at the time.
I had some Coinbase IOUs and remember sending bitcoin within the Coinbase ledger to a couple friends. I also recall the 2018 crash; I actually saw the legendary price spike live but couldnât benefit because my funds were stuck amidst the frenzy. I withdrew from that investment completely for some time. Thankfully, my mentor advised to keep en eye on bitcoin.
Around late 2019, I started DCA-ing cautiously. Additionally, my friend and I were discussing famous billionaires, and how there was no curriculum for becoming a billionaire. So, I typed âbillionairesâ into my podcast app, and landed on We Study Billionaires podcast.
Thatâs where I kept hearing Preston Pysh mention bitcoin, before splitting into his own podcast series, Bitcoin Fundamentals. I didnât understand most of the terminology of stocks, bonds, etc, yet I kept listening and trying to absorb it thru repetition. Today, I realize all that financial talk was mostly noise.
When people ask me for a technical explanation of fiat, I say: itâs all made up, just like the fiat price of bitcoin! Starting in 2020, during the so-called pandemic, I dove deeper. I religiously read Bitcoin Magazine, scrolled thru Bitcoin Twitter, and joined Simply Bitcoin Telegram group back when DarthCoin was an admin.
DarthCoin was my favorite bitcoiner â experienced, knowledgeable, and unapologetic. Watching him shift from rage to kindness, from passion to despair, gave me a glimpse at what a true educatorâs journey would look like.
The struggle isnât about adoption at scale anymore. Itâs about reaching the few who are willing to study, take risks, and stay out of fiat traps. The vast majority wonât follow that example â not yet at leastâĶ if I start telling others the requirements for true freedom and prosperity, they would certainly say âHell no!â
- At what point did you start teaching others, and why?
After college, I helped teach at a standardized test preparation company, and mentored some students one-on-one. I even tried working at a kindergarten briefly, but left quickly; Babysitting is not teaching.
What I discovered is that those who will succeed donât really need my help â they would succeed with or without me, because they already have the inner drive.
Once you realize your people are perishing for lack of knowledge, the only rational thing to do is help raise their level of knowledge and understanding. Thatâs the Great Work.
I sometimes imagine myself as a political prisoner. If that were to happen, Iâd probably start teaching fellow prisoners, doctors, janitors, even guards. In a way we already live in an open-air prison, So what else is there to do but teach, organize, and conspire to dismantle the Matrix?
Building on Bitcoin
- You hosted some in-person meetups in Sacramento. What did you learn from those?
My first presentation was on MultiSig storage with SeedSigner, and submarine swaps through Boltz.exchange.
I realized quickly that I had overestimated the groupâs technical background. Even the meetup organizer, a financial advisor, asked, âHow is anyone supposed to follow these steps?â I responded that reading was requiredâĶ He decided that Unchained is an easier way.
At a crypto meetup, I gave a much simpler talk, outlining how bitcoin will save the world, based on a DarthCoinâs guide. Only one person stuck around to ask questions â a man who seemed a little out there, and did not really seem to get the message beyond the strength of cryptographic security of bitcoin.
Again, I overestimated the audienceâs readiness. That forced me to rethink my strategy. People are extremely early and reluctant to study.
- Now in Ohio, you hold sessions via the Orange Pill App. Whatâs changed?
My new motto is: educate the educators. The corollary is: donât orange-pill stupid normies (as DarthCoin puts it).
Iâve shifted to small, technical sessions in order to raise a few solid guardians of this esoteric knowledge who really get it and can carry it forward.
The youngest attendee at one of my sessions is a newborn baby â he mostly sleeps, but maybe he still absorbs some of the educational vibes.
- How do local groups like Sactown and Cleveland Bitcoiners influence your work?
Every meetup reflects its local culture. Sacramento and Bay Area Bitcoiners, for example, do camping trips â once we camped through a desert storm, shielding our burgers from sand while others went to shoot guns.
Cleveland Bitcoiners are different. They amass large gatherings. They recently threw a 100k party. They do a bit more community outreach. Some are curious about the esoteric topics such as jurisdiction, spirituality, and healthful living.
I have no permanent allegiance to any state, race, or group. I go where I can teach and learn. I anticipate that in my next phase, Iâll meet Bitcoiners so advanced that Iâll have to give up my fiat job and focus full-time on serious projects where real health and wealth are on the line.
Hopefully, Iâll be ready. I believe the universe always challenges you exactly to your limit â no less, no more.
- What do people struggle with the most when it comes to technical education?
The biggest struggle isnât technical â itâs a lack of deep curiosity. People ask âhowâ and âwhatâ â how do I set up a node, what should one do with the lightning channels? But very few ask âwhy?â
Why does on-chain bitcoin not contribute to the circular economy? Why is it essential to run Lightning? Why did humanity fall into mental enslavement in the first place?
Iâd rather teach two-year-olds who constantly ask âwhyâ than adults who ask how to flip a profit. What worries me most is that most two-year-olds will grow up asking state-funded AI bots for answers and live according to its recommendations.
- One Cleveland Bitcoiner shows up at gold bug meetups. How valuable is face-to-face education?
I donât think the older generation is going to reverse the current human condition. Most of them have been under mind control for too long, and they just donât have the attention span to study and change their ways.
Theyâre better off stacking gold and helping fund their grandkidsâ education. If I were to focus on a demographic, Iâd go for teenagers â high school age â because by college, the indoctrination is usually too strong, and theyâre chasing fiat mastery.
As for the gold bug meetup? Perhaps one day I will show up with a ukulele to sing some bitcoin-themed songs. Seniors love such entertainment.
- How do you choose what to focus on in your sessions, especially for different types of learners?
I donât come in with a rigid agenda. Iâve collected a massive library of resources over the years and never stopped reading. My browser tab and folder count are exploding.
At the meetup, people share questions or topics theyâre curious about, then I take that home, do my homework, and bring back a session based on those themes. I give them the key takeaways, plus where to dive deeper.
Most people wonât â or canât â study the way I do, and I expect attendees to put in the work. I suspect that itâs more important to reach those who want to learn but donât know how, the so-called nescient (not knowing), rather than the ignorant.
There are way too many ignorant bitcoiners, so my mission is to find those who are curious whatâs beyond the facade of fake reality and superficial promises.
That naturally means that fewer people show up, and thatâs fine. Iâm not here for the crowds; Iâm here to educate the educators. One bitcoiner who came decided to branch off into self-custody sessions and thatâs awesome. Personally, Iâm much more focused on Lightning.
I want to see broader adoption of tools like auth, sign-message, NWC, and LSPs. Next month, Iâm going deep into eCash solutions, because letâs face it â most newcomers wonât be able to afford their own UTXO or open a lightning channel; additionally, it has to be fun and easy for them to transact sats, otherwise they wonât do it. Additionally, theyâll need to rely on
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2025-06-09 01:41:45a delicious meditation
Those of you who know me are aware that I worked in the fast-food industry before becoming a chiropractor. My first job was at a Hardee's restaurant when I was fifteen.
I wanted to buy a car, which is why I started working. Once I bought the car, I realized I needed to continue working to maintain it, pay for gas, insurance, and the occasional "going out" money.
In the restaurant business, if you work at a place long enough, someone hands you a set of keys and puts you in charge of something.
So here I was, running a restaurant and in charge of a bunch of people, when I could barely take care of myself. Anyway, I was making what I thought was decent money for a 19-year-old.
My bosses started a new restaurant venture, and little by little, they began poaching the old management staff from Hardeeâs. Eventually, they asked me to come work for them.
My new job was running a Church's Chicken. The stores were small, mostly takeout. The menu was small, and we didn't have many employees to manage. We didn't have a good reputation in the community due to poor management.
The owners introduced new registers, and sales immediately jumped. I suppose all the food was now being rung up and accounted for!
We cleaned up the restaurant and made sure we were putting out a good product, and guess what?
Sales doubled.
So here I am, thinking I know what I'm doing because I'm getting recognition from my bosses.
I didn't have the interpersonal skills to manage people effectively.
One time, I got into it with an employee but couldn't confront him to fire him, so I deleted him from the time clock. Let someone else deal with that.
Dealing with customers was usually okay because if they had an issue, you could just fix the problem, and that was it. Handling employees was a bit more challenging for me.
On busy days-Fridays, Saturdays, and Mother's Day (they called that the day after the welfare checks came out)
The restaurant would get so busy that sometimes people would line up around the building, and I felt that everyone was staring at me, which made me feel uncomfortable.
The store had windows all around; it was like a fishbowl-everyone saw everything.
I could have gone to hide in the office, but I needed to help out. I liked to run a tight ship labor-wise, so I always counted myself as one of the staff needed.
I would ask the cook to let me make the chicken and assign them some other tasks.
Even though I was probably even more visible than before, I would get lost in the work.
Everything was hand-breaded and battered. To me, it was like a Japanese tea ceremony.
When it was busy, we cooked a full "stove," which was 4 chickens at a time:
8 legs, 8 thighs, 8 wings, and 8 breasts.
The process was:
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Flour, dip in batter, flour again.
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Start with the legs because they take the longest to cook.
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Continue until everything is in the fryer.
Repeat,
and repeat,
and repeat.
I would get lost in the work. You couldn't really rush things. I made sure everything was done by the book.
Focusing on one task so intently that every concern, every worry just faded away. I knew people were watching me cook the chicken in this fishbowl, but I was so engrossed in my task that I didnât care.
All my stress and anxiety just faded.
I still try to lose myself in my work, only now itâs not frying chicken-itâs adjusting spines.
Now that I think about it, same situation. Iâm âon stageâ in my adjusting space with clients sitting in the waiting area.
Sometimes, I get stressed when there are a lot of people waiting on meâĶbut Iâm gonna do my best work frying this chiâĶ
oops!
I mean adjusting this spine.
Zen teaching often emphasizes simplicity, mindfulness in daily activities, and the notion that enlightenment can be achieved in the ordinary moments of life. The phrase "chop wood, carry water" reflects this idea of finding the sacred in the mundane.
I found my Zen.
Find Yours.
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2025-06-06 20:02:22Contribute to keep No Bullshit Bitcoin news going.
- RoboSats v0.7.7-alpha is now available!
NOTE: "This version of clients is not compatible with older versions of coordinators. Coordinators must upgrade first, make sure you don't upgrade your client while this is marked as pre-release."
- This version brings a new and improved coordinators view with reviews signed both by the robot and the coordinator, adds market price sources in coordinator profiles, shows a correct warning for canceling non-taken orders after a payment attempt, adds Uzbek sum currency, and includes package library updates for coordinators.
Source: RoboSats.
- siggy47 is writing daily RoboSats activity reviews on stacker.news. Check them out here.
- Stay up-to-date with RoboSats on Nostr.
What's new
- New coordinators view (see the picture above).
- Available coordinator reviews signed by both the robot and the coordinator.
- Coordinators now display market price sources in their profiles.
Source: RoboSats.
- Fix for wrong message on cancel button when taking an order. Users are now warned if they try to cancel a non taken order after a payment attempt.
- Uzbek sum currency now available.
- For coordinators: library updates.
- Add docker frontend (#1861).
- Add order review token (#1869).
- Add UZS migration (#1875).
- Fixed tests review (#1878).
- Nostr pubkey for Robot (#1887).
New contributors
Full Changelog: v0.7.6-alpha...v0.7.7-alpha
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2025-06-07 15:02:22Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG), the company behind Truth Social and other Trump-branded digital platforms, is planning to raise $2.5 billion to build one of the largest bitcoin treasuries among public companies.
The deal involves the sale of approximately $1.5 billion in common stock and $1.0 billion in convertible senior secured notes.
According to the company, the offering is expected to close by the end of May, pending standard closing conditions.
Devin Nunes, CEO of Trump Media, said the investment in bitcoin is a big part of the companyâs long-term plan.
âWe view Bitcoin as an apex instrument of financial freedom,â Nunes said.
âThis investment will help defend our Company against harassment and discrimination by financial institutions, which plague many Americans and U.S. firms.â
He added that the bitcoin treasury will be used to create new synergies across the companyâs platforms including Truth Social, Truth+, and the upcoming financial tech brand Truth.Fi.
âItâs a big step forward in the companyâs plans to evolve into a holding company by acquiring additional profit-generating, crown jewel assets consistent with America First principles,â Nunes said.
The $2.5 billion raise will come from about 50 institutional investors. The $1 billion in convertible notes will have 0% interest and be convertible into shares at a 35% premium.
TMTGâs current liquid assets, including cash and short-term investments, are $759 million as of the end of the first quarter of 2025. With this new funding, the companyâs liquid assets will be over $3 billion.
Custody of the bitcoin treasury will be handled by Crypto.com and Anchorage Digital. They will manage and store the digital assets.
Earlier this week The Financial Times reported Trump Media was planning to raise $3 billion for digital assets acquisitions.
The article said the funds would be used to buy bitcoin and other digital assets, and an announcement could come before a major related event in Las Vegas.
Related: Bitcoin 2025 Conference Kicks off in Las Vegas Today
Trump Media denied the FT report. In a statement, the company said, âApparently the Financial Times has dumb writers listening to even dumber sources.â
There was no further comment. However, the official $2.5 billion figure, which was announced shortly after by Trump Media through a press release, aligns with its actual filing and investor communication.
Trump Mediaâs official announcement
This comes at a time when the Trump family and political allies are showing renewed interest in Bitcoin.
President Donald Trump who is now back in office since the 2025 election, has said he wants to make the U.S. the âcrypto capital of the world.â
Trump Media is also working on retail bitcoin investment products including ETFs aligned with America First policies.
These products will make bitcoin more accessible to retail investors and support pro-Trump financial initiatives.
But not everyone is happy.
Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren recently expressed concerns about Trump Mediaâs Bitcoin plans. She asked U.S. regulators to clarify their oversight of digital-asset ETFs, warning of investor risk.
Industry insiders are comparing Trump Mediaâs plans to Strategy (MSTR) which has built a multi-billion dollar bitcoin treasury over the last year. They used stock and bond sales to fund their bitcoin purchases.
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2025-06-06 20:02:21Contribute to keep No Bullshit Bitcoin news going.
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Version 1.3 of Bitcoin Safe introduces a redesigned interactive chart, quick receive feature, updated icons, a mempool preview window, support for Child Pays For Parent (CPFP) and testnet4, preconfigured testnet demo wallets, as well as various bug fixes and improvements.
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Upcoming updates for Bitcoin Safe include Compact Block Filters.
"Compact Block Filters increase the network privacy dramatically, since you're not asking an electrum server to give you your transactions. They are a little slower than electrum servers. For a savings wallet like Bitcoin Safe this should be OK," writes the project's developer Andreas Griffin.
- Learn more about the current and upcoming features of Bitcoin Safe wallet here.
What's new in v1.3
- Redesign of Chart, Quick Receive, Icons, and Mempool Preview (by @design-rrr).
- Interactive chart. Clicking on it now jumps to transaction, and selected transactions are now highlighted.
- Speed up transactions with Child Pays For Parent (CPFP).
- BDK 1.2 (upgraded from 0.32).
- Testnet4 support.
- Preconfigured Testnet demo wallets.
- Cluster unconfirmed transactions so that parents/children are next to each other.
- Customizable columns for all tables (optional view: Txid, Address index, and more)
- Bug fixes and other improvements.
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2025-06-07 14:01:22Good morning (good night?)! The No Bullshit Bitcoin news feed is now available on Moody's Dashboard! A huge shoutout to sir Clark Moody for integrating our feed.
Headlines
- Spiral welcomes Ben Carman. The developer will work on the LDK server and a new SDK designed to simplify the onboarding process for new self-custodial Bitcoin users.
- The Bitcoin Dev Kit Foundation announced new corporate members for 2025, including AnchorWatch, CleanSpark, and Proton Foundation. The annual dues from these corporate members fund the small team of open-source developers responsible for maintaining the core BDK libraries and related free and open-source software (FOSS) projects.
- Strategy increases Bitcoin holdings to 538,200 BTC. In the latest purchase, the company has spent more than $555M to buy 6,556 coins through proceeds of two at-the-market stock offering programs.
- Spar supermarket experiments with Bitcoin payments in Zug, Switzerland. The store has introduced a new payment method powered by the Lightning Network. The implementation was facilitated by DFX Swiss, a service that supports seamless conversions between bitcoin and legacy currencies.
- The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) wants to contain 'crypto' risks. A report titled "Cryptocurrencies and Decentralised Finance: Functions and Financial Stability Implications" calls for expanding research into "how new forms of central bank money, capital controls, and taxation policies can counter the risks of widespread crypto adoption while still fostering technological innovation."
- "Global Implications of Scam Centres, Underground Banking, and Illicit Online Marketplaces in Southeast Asia." According to the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) report, criminal organizations from East and Southeast Asia are swiftly extending their global reach. These groups are moving beyond traditional scams and trafficking, creating sophisticated online networks that include unlicensed cryptocurrency exchanges, encrypted communication platforms, and stablecoins, fueling a massive fraud economy on an industrial scale.
- Slovenia is considering a 25% capital gains tax on Bitcoin profits for individuals. The Ministry of Finance has proposed legislation to impose this tax on gains from cryptocurrency transactions, though exchanging one cryptocurrency for another would remain exempt. At present, individual 'crypto' traders in Slovenia are not taxed.
- Circle, BitGo, Coinbase, and Paxos plan to apply for U.S. bank charters or licenses. According to a report in The Wall Street Journal, major crypto companies are planning to apply for U.S. bank charters or licenses. These firms are pursuing limited licenses that would permit them to issue stablecoins, as the U.S. Congress deliberates on legislation mandating licensing for stablecoin issuers.
"Established banks, like Bank of America, are hoping to amend the current drafts of [stablecoin] legislation in such a way that nonbanks are more heavily restricted from issuing stablecoins," people familiar with the matter told The Block.
- Charles Schwab to launch spot Bitcoin trading by 2026. The financial investment firm, managing over $10 trillion in assets, has revealed plans to introduce spot Bitcoin trading for its clients within the next year.
Use the tools
- Bitcoin Safe v1.2.3 expands QR SignMessage compatibility for all QR-UR-compatible hardware signers (SpecterDIY, KeyStone, Passport, Jade; already supported COLDCARD Q). It also adds the ability to import wallets via QR, ensuring compatibility with Keystone's latest firmware (2.0.6), alongside other improvements.
- Minibits v0.2.2-beta, an ecash wallet for Android devices, packages many changes to align the project with the planned iOS app release. New features and improvements include the ability to lock ecash to a receiver's pubkey, faster confirmations of ecash minting and payments thanks to WebSockets, UI-related fixes, and more.
- Zeus v0.11.0-alpha1 introduces Cashu wallets tied to embedded LND wallets. Navigate to Settings > Ecash to enable it. Other wallet types can still sweep funds from Cashu tokens. Zeus Pay now supports Cashu address types in Zaplocker, Cashu, and NWC modes.
- LNDg v1.10.0, an advanced web interface designed for analyzing Lightning Network Daemon (LND) data and automating node management tasks, introduces performance improvements, adds a new metrics page for unprofitable and stuck channels, and displays warnings for batch openings. The Profit and Loss Chart has been updated to include on-chain costs. Advanced settings have been added for users who would like their channel database size to be read remotely (the default remains local). Additionally, the AutoFees tool now uses aggregated pubkey metrics for multiple channels with the same peer.
- Nunchuk Desktop v1.9.45 release brings the latest bug fixes and improvements.
- Blockstream Green iOS v4.1.8 has renamed L-BTC to LBTC, and improves translations of notifications, login time, and background payments.
- Blockstream Green Android v4.1.8 has added language preference in App Settings and enables an Android data backup option for disaster recovery. Additionally, it fixes issues with Jade entry point PIN timeout and Trezor passphrase input.
- Torq v2.2.2, an advanced Lightning node management software designed to handle large nodes with over 1000 channels, fixes bugs that caused channel balance to not be updated in some cases and channel "peer total local balance" not getting updated.
- Stack Wallet v2.1.12, a multicoin wallet by Cypher Stack, fixes an issue with Xelis introduced in the latest release for Windows.
- ESP-Miner-NerdQAxePlus v1.0.29.1, a forked version from the NerdAxe miner that was modified for use on the NerdQAxe+, is now available.
- Zark enables sending sats to an npub using Bark.
- Erk is a novel variation of the Ark protocol that completely removes the need for user interactivity in rounds, addressing one of Ark's key limitations: the requirement for users to come online before their VTXOs expire.
- Aegis v0.1.1 is now available. It is a Nostr event signer app for iOS devices.
- Nostash is a NIP-07 Nostr signing extension for Safari. It is a fork of Nostore and is maintained by Terry Yiu. Available on iOS TestFlight.
- Amber v3.2.8, a Nostr event signer for Android, delivers the latest fixes and improvements.
- Nostur v1.20.0, a Nostr client for iOS, adds
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-09 05:02:24Bank run on every crypto bank then bank run on every "real" bank.
â ODELL (@ODELL) December 14, 2022
The four main banks of bitcoin and âcryptoâ are Signature, Prime Trust, Silvergate, and Silicon Valley Bank. Prime Trust does not custody funds themselves but rather maintains deposit accounts at BMO Harris Bank, Cross River, Lexicon Bank, MVB Bank, and Signature Bank. Silvergate and Silicon Valley Bank have already stopped withdrawals. More banks will go down before the chaos stops. None of them have sufficient reserves to meet withdrawals.
Bitcoin gives us all the ability to opt out of a system that has massive layers of counterparty risk built in, years of cheap money and broken incentives have layered risk on top of risk throughout the entire global economy. If you thought the FTX bank run was painful to watch, I have bad news for you: every major bank in the world is fractional reserve. Bitcoin held in self custody is unique in its lack of counterparty risk, as global market chaos unwinds this will become much more obvious.
The rules of bitcoin are extremely hard to change by design. Anyone can access the network directly without a trusted third party by using their own node. Owning more bitcoin does not give you more control over the network with all participants on equal footing.
Bitcoin is:
- money that is not controlled by a company or government
- money that can be spent or saved without permission
- money that is provably scarce and should increase in purchasing power with adoptionBitcoin is money without trust. Whether you are a nation state, corporation, or an individual, you can use bitcoin to spend or save without permission. Social media will accelerate the already deteriorating trust in our institutions and as this trust continues to crumble the value of trust minimized money will become obvious. As adoption increases so should the purchasing power of bitcoin.
A quick note on "stablecoins," such as USDC - it is important to remember that they rely on trusted custodians. They have the same risk as funds held directly in bank accounts with additional counterparty risk on top. The trusted custodians can be pressured by gov, exit scam, or caught up in fraud. Funds can and will be frozen at will. This is a distinctly different trust model than bitcoin, which is a native bearer token that does not rely on any centralized entity or custodian.
Most bitcoin exchanges have exposure to these failing banks. Expect more chaos and confusion as this all unwinds. Withdraw any bitcoin to your own wallet ASAP.
Simple Self Custody Guide: https://werunbtc.com/muun
More Secure Cold Storage Guide: https://werunbtc.com/coldcard
If you found this post helpful support my work with bitcoin.
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2025-06-06 20:02:20Contribute to keep No Bullshit Bitcoin news going.
This update brings key enhancements for clarity and usability:
- Recent Blocks View: Added to the Send tab and inspired by Mempool's visualization, it displays the last 2 blocks and the estimated next block to help choose fee rates.
- Camera System Overhaul: Features a new library for higher resolution detection and mouse-scroll zoom support when available.
- Vector-Based Images: All app images are now vectorized and theme-aware, enhancing contrast, especially in dark mode.
- Tor & P2A Updates: Upgraded internal Tor and improved support for pay-to-anchor (P2A) outputs.
- Linux Package Rename: For Linux users, Sparrow has been renamed to sparrowwallet (or sparrowserver); in some cases, the original sparrow package may need manual removal.
- Additional updates include showing total payments in multi-payment transaction diagrams, better handling of long labels, and other UI enhancements.
- Sparrow v2.2.1 is a bug fix release that addresses missing UUID issue when starting Tor on recent macOS versions, icons for external sources in Settings and Recent Blocks view, repackaged
.deb
installs to use older gzip instead of zstd compression, and removed display of median fee rate where fee rates source is set to Server.
Learn how to get started with Sparrow wallet:
Release notes (v2.2.0)
- Added Recent Blocks view to Send tab.
- Converted all bitmapped images to theme aware SVG format for all wallet models and dialogs.
- Support send and display of pay to anchor (P2A) outputs.
- Renamed
sparrow
package tosparrowwallet
andsparrowserver
on Linux. - Switched camera library to openpnp-capture.
- Support FHD (1920 x 1080) and UHD4k (3840 x 2160) capture resolutions.
- Support camera zoom with mouse scroll where possible.
- In the Download Verifier, prefer verifying the dropped file over the default file where the file is not in the manifest.
- Show a warning (with an option to disable the check) when importing a wallet with a derivation path matching another script type.
- In Cormorant, avoid calling the
listwalletdir
RPC on initialization due to a potentially slow response on Windows. - Avoid server address resolution for public servers.
- Assume server address is non local for resolution failures where a proxy is configured.
- Added a tooltip to indicate truncated labels in table cells.
- Dynamically truncate input and output labels in the tree on a transaction tab, and add tooltips if necessary.
- Improved tooltips for wallet tabs and transaction diagrams with long labels.
- Show the address where available on input and output tooltips in transaction tab tree.
- Show the total amount sent in payments in the transaction diagram when constructing multiple payment transactions.
- Reset preferred table column widths on adjustment to improve handling after window resizing.
- Added accessible text to improve screen reader navigation on seed entry.
- Made Wallet Summary table grow horizontally with dialog sizing.
- Reduced tooltip show delay to 200ms.
- Show transaction diagram fee percentage as less than 0.01% rather than 0.00%.
- Optimized and reduced Electrum server RPC calls.
- Upgraded Bouncy Castle, PGPainless and Logback libraries.
- Upgraded internal Tor to v0.4.8.16.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue with random ordering of keystore origins on labels import.
- Bug fix: Fixed non-zero account script type detection when signing a message on Trezor devices.
- Bug fix: Fixed issue parsing remote Coldcard xpub encoded on a different network.
- Bug fix: Fixed inclusion of fees on wallet label exports.
- Bug fix: Increase Trezor device libusb timeout.
Linux users: Note that the
sparrow
package has been renamed tosparrowwallet
orsparrowserver
, and in some cases you may need to manually uninstall the originalsparrow
package. Look in the/opt
folder to ensure you have the new name, and the original is removed.What's new in v2.2.1
- Updated Tor library to fix missing UUID issue when starting Tor on recent macOS versions.
- Repackaged
.deb
installs to use older gzip instead of zstd compression. - Removed display of median fee rate where fee rates source is set to Server.
- Added icons for external sources in Settings and Recent Blocks view
- Bug fix: Fixed issue in Recent Blocks view when switching fee rates source
- Bug fix: Fixed NPE on null fee returned from server
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2025-06-07 14:01:22Contribute to keep No Bullshit Bitcoin news going.
- The latest firmware updates for COLDCARD devices introduce two major features: COLDCARD Co-sign (CCC) and Key Teleport between two COLDCARD Q devices using QR codes and/or NFC with a website.
What's new
- COLDCARD Co-Sign: When CCC is enabled, a second seed called the Spending Policy Key (Key C) is added to the device. This seed works with the device's Main Seed and one or more additional XPUBs (Backup Keys) to form 2-of-N multisig wallets.
- The spending policy functions like a hardware security module (HSM), enforcing rules such as magnitude and velocity limits, address whitelisting, and 2FA authentication to protect funds while maintaining flexibility and control, and is enforced each time the Spending Policy Key is used for signing.
- When spending conditions are met, the COLDCARD signs the partially signed bitcoin transaction (PSBT) with the Main Seed and Spending Policy Key for fund access. Once configured, the Spending Policy Key is required to view or change the policy, and violations are denied without explanation.
"You can override the spending policy at any time by signing with either a Backup Key and the Main Seed or two Backup Keys, depending on the number of keys (N) in the multisig."
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A step-by-step guide for setting up CCC is available here.
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Key Teleport for Q devices allows users to securely transfer sensitive data such as seed phrases (words, xprv), secure notes and passwords, and PSBTs for multisig. It uses QR codes or NFC, along with a helper website, to ensure reliable transmission, keeping your sensitive data protected throughout the process.
- For more technical details, see the protocol spec.
"After you sign a multisig PSBT, you have option to âKey Teleportâ the PSBT file to any one of the other signers in the wallet. We already have a shared pubkey with them, so the process is simple and does not require any action on their part in advance. Plus, starting in this firmware release, COLDCARD can finalize multisig transactions, so the last signer can publish the signed transaction via PushTX (NFC tap) to get it on the blockchain directly."
- Multisig transactions are finalized when sufficiently signed. It streamlines the use of PushTX with multisig wallets.
- Signing artifacts re-export to various media. Users are now provided with the capability to export signing products, like transactions or PSBTs, to alternative media rather than the original source. For example, if a PSBT is received through a QR code, it can be signed and saved onto an SD card if needed.
- Multisig export files are signed now. Public keys are encoded as P2PKH address for all multisg signature exports. Learn more about it here.
- NFC export usability upgrade: NFC keeps exporting until CANCEL/X is pressed.
- Added Bitcoin Safe option to Export Wallet.
- 10% performance improvement in USB upload speed for large files.
- Q: Always choose the biggest possible display size for QR.
Fixes
- Do not allow change Main PIN to same value already used as Trick PIN, even if Trick PIN is hidden.
- Fix stuck progress bar under
Receiving...
after a USB communications failure. - Showing derivation path in Address Explorer for root key (m) showed double slash (//).
- Can restore developer backup with custom password other than 12 words format.
- Virtual Disk auto mode ignores already signed PSBTs (with â-signedâ in file name).
- Virtual Disk auto mode stuck on âReadingâĶâ screen sometimes.
- Finalization of foreign inputs from partial signatures. Thanks Christian Uebber!
- Temporary seed from COLDCARD backup failed to load stored multisig wallets.
Destroy Seed
also removes all Trick PINs from SE2.Lock Down Seed
requires pressing confirm key (4) to execute.- Q only: Only BBQr is allowed to export Coldcard, Core, and pretty descriptor.
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@ dfa02707:41ca50e3
2025-06-06 20:02:19- This version introduces the Soroban P2P network, enabling Dojo to relay transactions to the Bitcoin network and share others' transactions to break the heuristic linking relaying nodes to transaction creators.
- Additionally, Dojo admins can now manage API keys in DMT with labels, status, and expiration, ideal for community Dojo providers like Dojobay. New API endpoints, including "/services" exposing Explorer, Soroban, and Indexer, have been added to aid wallet developers.
- Other maintenance updates include Bitcoin Core, Tor, Fulcrum, Node.js, plus an updated ban-knots script to disconnect inbound Knots nodes.
"I want to thank all the contributors. This again shows the power of true Free Software. I also want to thank everyone who donated to help Dojo development going. I truly appreciate it," said Still Dojo Coder.
What's new
- Soroban P2P network. For MyDojo (Docker setup) users, Soroban will be automatically installed as part of their Dojo. This integration allows Dojo to utilize the Soroban P2P network for various upcoming features and applications.
- PandoTx. PandoTx serves as a transaction transport layer. When your wallet sends a transaction to Dojo, it is relayed to a random Soroban node, which then forwards it to the Bitcoin network. It also enables your Soroban node to receive and relay transactions from others to the Bitcoin network and is designed to disrupt the assumption that a node relaying a transaction is closely linked to the person who initiated it.
- Pushing transactions through Soroban can be deactivated by setting
NODE_PANDOTX_PUSH=off
indocker-node.conf
. - Processing incoming transactions from Soroban network can be deactivated by setting
NODE_PANDOTX_PROCESS=off
indocker-node.conf
.
- Pushing transactions through Soroban can be deactivated by setting
- API key management has been introduced to address the growing number of people offering their Dojos to the community. Dojo admins can now access a new API management tab in their DMT, where they can create unlimited API keys, assign labels for easy identification, and set expiration dates for each key. This allows admins to avoid sharing their main API key and instead distribute specific keys to selected parties.
- New API endpoints. Several new API endpoints have been added to help API consumers develop features on Dojo more efficiently:
- New:
/latest-block
- returns data about latest block/txout/:txid/:index
- returns unspent output data/support/services
- returns info about services that Dojo exposes
- Updated:
/tx/:txid
- endpoint has been updated to return raw transaction with parameter?rawHex=1
- The new
/support/services
endpoint replaces the deprecatedexplorer
field in the Dojo pairing payload. Although still present, API consumers should use this endpoint for explorer and other pairing data.
- New:
Other changes
- Updated ban script to disconnect inbound Knots nodes.
- Updated Fulcrum to v1.12.0.
- Regenerate Fulcrum certificate if expired.
- Check if transaction already exists in pushTx.
- Bump BTC-RPC Explorer.
- Bump Tor to v0.4.8.16, bump Snowflake.
- Updated Bitcoin Core to v29.0.
- Removed unnecessary middleware.
- Fixed DB update mechanism, added api_keys table.
- Add an option to use blocksdir config for bitcoin blocks directory.
- Removed deprecated configuration.
- Updated Node.js dependencies.
- Reconfigured container dependencies.
- Fix Snowflake git URL.
- Fix log path for testnet4.
- Use prebuilt addrindexrs binaries.
- Add instructions to migrate blockchain/fulcrum.
- Added pull policies.
Learn how to set up and use your own Bitcoin privacy node with Dojo here.
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@ dfa02707:41ca50e3
2025-06-07 14:01:20Contribute to keep No Bullshit Bitcoin news going.
- RoboSats v0.7.7-alpha is now available!
NOTE: "This version of clients is not compatible with older versions of coordinators. Coordinators must upgrade first, make sure you don't upgrade your client while this is marked as pre-release."
- This version brings a new and improved coordinators view with reviews signed both by the robot and the coordinator, adds market price sources in coordinator profiles, shows a correct warning for canceling non-taken orders after a payment attempt, adds Uzbek sum currency, and includes package library updates for coordinators.
Source: RoboSats.
- siggy47 is writing daily RoboSats activity reviews on stacker.news. Check them out here.
- Stay up-to-date with RoboSats on Nostr.
What's new
- New coordinators view (see the picture above).
- Available coordinator reviews signed by both the robot and the coordinator.
- Coordinators now display market price sources in their profiles.
Source: RoboSats.
- Fix for wrong message on cancel button when taking an order. Users are now warned if they try to cancel a non taken order after a payment attempt.
- Uzbek sum currency now available.
- For coordinators: library updates.
- Add docker frontend (#1861).
- Add order review token (#1869).
- Add UZS migration (#1875).
- Fixed tests review (#1878).
- Nostr pubkey for Robot (#1887).
New contributors
Full Changelog: v0.7.6-alpha...v0.7.7-alpha
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@ cae03c48:2a7d6671
2025-06-06 20:01:10Bitcoin Magazine
President Trumpâs Truth Social Files S-1 Form For Bitcoin ETFToday, Trump Media and Technology Group Corp. (Nasdaq, NYSE Texas: DJT) filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a Form S-1 for their upcoming Truth Social Bitcoin ETF.
The ETF, which will hold bitcoin directly, is designed to track the bitcoinâs price performance.Â
âTruth Social Bitcoin ETF, B.T. is a Nevada business trust that issues beneficial interests in its net assets,â stated the Form S-1. âThe assets of the Trust consist primarily of bitcoin held by a custodian on behalf of the Trust. The Trust seeks to reflect generally the performance of the price of bitcoin.â
The ETF is sponsored by Yorkville America Digital, LLC and will trade under NYSE Arca. The Trustâs assets primarily consist of bitcoin held by Foris DAX Trust Company, LLC, the designated bitcoin custodian. Crypto.com will act as the ETFâs prime execution agent and liquidity provider.
âShares will be offered to the public from time to time at varying prices that will reflect the price of bitcoin and the trading price of the Shares on New York Stock Exchange Arca, Inc. at the time of the offer,â mentioned the Form S-1.
While the ETF offers investors a regulated avenue for bitcoin exposure, the Trust warned of several risks related to digital assets:
- Loss, theft, or compromise of private keys could result in permanent loss of bitcoin.
- Bitcoinâs reliance on blockchain and Internet technologies makes it vulnerable to disruptions and cyber threats.
- Environmental and regulatory pressures tied to high electricity use in bitcoin mining could impact market stability.
- Potential forks or protocol failures in the Bitcoin Network may lead to volatility and uncertainty in asset value.
Last week, during an interview at the 2025 Bitcoin Conference, Donald Trump Jr. announced that TMTG and Truth Social were forming a Bitcoin treasury with $2.5 billion. âWeâre seriously on cryptoâweâre seriously on Bitcoin,â said Trump Jr. âWeâre in three major deals. I believe weâre at the beginning of what will be the future of finance. And the opportunity is massive.â
The day after that interview, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr., joined by American Bitcoin Executive Chairman and Board Member Mike Ho, CEO Matt Prusak, and Altcoin Daily founder Aaron Arnold, discussed the future of Bitcoin.
âThe whole system is broken and now all of the sudden you have crypto which solves all the problems,â commented Eric Trump. âIt makes everything cheaper, it makes everything faster, it makes it safer, it makes it more transparent. It makes the whole system more functional.â
âEverybody wants Bitcoin. Everybody is buying Bitcoin,â Eric added.
This post President Trumpâs Truth Social Files S-1 Form For Bitcoin ETF first appeared on Bitcoin Magazine and is written by Oscar Zarraga Perez.
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@ 81022b27:2b8d0644
2025-06-09 01:37:31Shopping for groceries is one of my least favorite tasks. However, it's got to be done.
If I am in a hurry, I like to shop at Aldi, not only because they have decent prices but also because I can get in and out quickly (and I donât have to scan my own groceries).
They are definitely no-frills in many ways: You have to bag your own groceries, you should bring your own bagsâotherwise, you have to buy them, and to get a shopping cart, you need a quarter to unlock it.
I'm trying to rush and be efficient when I realize I donât have "the quarter" for the shopping cart!
Dammit!
Iâm going to have to go back to the car to see if I have one.
I'm swearing under my breath, thinking about having to walk all the way back whenâĶ
I notice someone has placed a quarter on the wall next to the row of carts.
THANK YOU!
This little act of kindness took me from a state of "being mildly annoyed at the entire world because traffic didnât clear a path in front of me trying to get here" to feeling great gratitude.
The fact that someone considered that doing this would make my life easier knocked my selfish, self-involved ass out of my body.
I finished my shopping in a more cheerful, mindful way. The people in the aisles didn't seem to annoy me as much.
I took way longer than usual.
It wasn't a race anymore.
I checked out, loaded the car, and when I went to return the cartâ
I left a quarter.
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-09 06:02:17I often hear "bitcoin doesn't interest me, I'm not a finance person."
Ironically, the beauty of sound money is you don't have to be. In the current system you're expected to manage a diversified investment portfolio or pay someone to do it. Bitcoin will make that optional.
â ODELL (@ODELL) September 16, 2018
At first glance bitcoin often appears overwhelming to newcomers. It is incredibly easy to get bogged down in the details of how it works or different ways to use it. Enthusiasts, such as myself, often enjoy going down the deep rabbit hole of the potential of bitcoin, possible pitfalls and theoretical scenarios, power user techniques, and the developer ecosystem. If your first touch point with bitcoin is that type of content then it is only natural to be overwhelmed. While it is important that we have a thriving community of bitcoiners dedicated to these complicated tasks - the true beauty of bitcoin lies in its simplicity. Bitcoin is simply better money. It is the best money we have ever had.
Life is complicated. Life is hard. Life is full of responsibility and surprises. Bitcoin allows us to focus on our lives while relying on a money that is simple. A money that is not controlled by any individual, company, or government. A money that cannot be easily seized or blocked. A money that cannot be devalued at will by a handful of corrupt bureaucrat who live hundreds of miles from us. A money that can be easily saved and should increase in purchasing power over time without having to learn how to "build a diversified stock portfolio" or hire someone to do it for us.
Bitcoin enables all of us to focus on our lives - our friends and family - doing what we love with the short time we have on this earth. Time is scarce. Life is complicated. Bitcoin is the most simple aspect of our complicated lives. If we spend our scarce time working then we should be able to easily save that accrued value for future generations without watching the news or understanding complicated financial markets. Bitcoin makes this possible for anyone.
Yesterday was Mother's Day. Raising a human is complicated. It is hard, it requires immense personal responsibility, it requires critical thinking, but mothers figure it out, because it is worth it. Using and saving bitcoin is simple - Â simply install an app on your phone. Every mother can do it. Every person can do it.
Life is complicated. Life is beautiful. Bitcoin is simple.
If you found this post helpful support my work with bitcoin.
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@ 0b118e40:4edc09cb
2025-06-06 13:58:07The idea of Bitcoin as an internet native currency, and eventually a global one, is coming to life slowly. But historically, the idea of global currency has haunted the worldâs financial imagination for nearly a century.Â
From Keynesâs Bancor in 1944 to Zhou Xiaochuanâs post-crisis proposal in 2009 to todayâs renewed debates, the idea resurfaces every time the global economy fractures.Â
Could this time be different with Bitcoin?Â
I decided to trace the idea of global currency through several decades and books. I may have missed some parts, so feel free to add. Iâll keep this brief and leave the books Iâve read below.
In the beginning
It all started on July 1, 1944. 730 delegates from 44 Allied nations, including major powers like the US, UK, Soviet Union, China, and France, gathered at the Mount Washington Hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. They spent 2 weeks figuring out how the new international monetary and financial system would be, post WW2
After WW1, the treaty of Versailles was needed, but imposed harsh reparations that devastated economies and contributed to the rise of fascism, such as Hitler, Mussolini and gang.Â
So when folks met up in 1944 (WW2 was almost ending), the goal was to prevent another Great Depression, another global conflict and build a stable global economic order.Â
2 main proposals were discussed in Bretton Woods.Â
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John Maynard Keynes, representing the UK, proposed the creation of a global currency called Bancor. It will be issued through a global central bank known as the International Clearing Union (ICU).
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Harry Dexter White, representing the US, promoted a dollar-based system. Countries would peg their currencies to the US. dollar backed by gold. He also led the creation of the IMF and the World Bank.
To understand how both of these proposals work, let's look at an example.
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Country A (Germany): Massive exporter
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Country B (USA): Massive importer
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Country C (Brazil): Balanced trade (imports = exports)
***Based on Dexterâs model and the current USD-based system, ***
Say Germany sells $1B worth of cars to the US. The US pays in dollars, increasing its trade deficit. Germany accumulates dollars as reserves or buys the US Treasury bonds. Over time, the US continues running trade deficits, while Germany keeps hoarding dollars. Hence the unsustainable debt of the US.Â
***In Keynesâs Bancor system, ***
If Germany sells $1B worth of cars to the US, then the US does not pay in dollars. Instead, the ICU credits Germany with 1B Bancors and debits the US with -1B Bancors.Â
The ICU police this. If Germany exceeds the surplus threshold, it pays interest or penalties to discourage hoarding. If the US exceeds its deficit threshold, it is warned to rebalance trade or face restrictions.
Here, Germany is incentivized to import more (e.g., from Brazil) or invest in global development. The US is encouraged to export more or reduce consumption. Brazil, with balanced trade, enjoys stability in Bancor flows and avoids pressure.
The idea behind Bancor was a zero-sum balancing act. No country could become âtoo big to failâ due to excessive deficits. But it was too complicated and idealistic in assuming every country could maintain balanced trade.Â
Dexter on the other hand had a few tricks up his sleeve. In the end, Dexterâs USD dominance proposal was adopted.Â
The Bretton Woods system established the US dollar as the central global currencyÂ
Why did dollar dominance win over Bancor?
Simplicity often wins over complexity. But more so ICU felt too centralized, asking nations to surrender economic autonomy to a global body. That didnât sit well in a post-war world where sovereignty was non-negotiable. That and idealist economic trade balance views.Â
Dexterâs dollar-based system on the other hand wasnât fair play at all. It was centralized and authoritarian in its design.Â
So how did Dexter pull it off?
They had gold. They were ahead in economic recovery.
And they had nuclear weapons.Â
At the time, the US held nearly 2/3 of the worldâs gold reserves. It was a significant advantage in advocating for a gold-backed dollar as the bedrock of global trade.Â
The US proposed a fixed gold peg at $35 per ounce.
From a broader geopolitical backdrop, the global population in 1944 was about 2.3 billion, a fraction of todayâs 8 billion. The world was far less interconnected. The war had devastated Europe, Russia, and much of Asia. Infrastructure, economies, and entire cities were in ruins. The US, by contrast, had faced far fewer casualties and damages. Being geographically isolated, it had minimal domestic losses, around a tenth of what Europe suffered, and its economy was poised to rebuild faster.Â
But gold dominance and economic recovery alone didnât secure US financial dominance.
American scientific breakthroughs had already signaled global power. Physicists like Leo Szilard and Albert Einstein, who had fled Europe, helped develop nuclear weapons. Their intent was deterrence, not destruction. But once the bomb existed, it changed geopolitics overnight. The US had military dominance. And after Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, it became the undisputed superpower.Â
In the end, the USD won and the vision for neutral global currency faded.Â
And 20 years passed onâĶ
France sends its warship to the US
Under Bretton Woods, countries could exchange dollars for gold, but the US had been printing more dollars than it had gold to back it. And it used it to fund the costly Vietnam War and domestic programs like the Great Society under LBJ.Â
Belgian-American economist Robert Triffin pointed out a fatal flaw in the Bretton Woods system that came to be known as the Triffin dilemma.Â
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The world needed US dollars for liquidity and trade.
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But the more dollars the US pumped out, the less credible its gold promise became.
Yet the US kept promising that every dollar was still convertible to gold at $35 per ounce.
French President Charles de Gaulle saw this as financial imperialism. He called it the âexorbitant privileged positionâ. The world had to pay for what they bought with the money they have, but not the US.Â
So in 1965, France did something unexpected. It sent a warship to New York Harbor to physically retrieve French gold reserves held by the Federal Reserve.Â
Would it have escalated to war? Maybe. But likely not. It was perhaps more of a diplomatic theatre and a sovereign flex. France was exercising its right under the Bretton Woods agreement to convert dollars into gold. But doing it with military formality was to send a signal to the world that they donât trust the US system anymore.
It was one of the first major public blows to the dollarâs credibility. And France wasnât alone. Other countries like West Germany and Switzerland followed suit, redeeming dollars for gold and draining US reserves.
The Nixon shock
Given they did not have enough gold, the IMF introduced Special Drawing Rights (SDRs) in 1969. SDRs were an international reserve asset, created to supplement gold and dollar reserves. Instead of relying solely on the US dollar, SDRs were based on a basket of major currencies (originally gold-backed but later diversified).
The idea was to reduce the worldâs dependence on the dollar and avoid a liquidity crisis. But SDRs were a little too late and a little too weak to solve the underlying problem.
By 1971, the US could no longer sustain the illusion. President Nixon âclosed the gold window,â suspending dollar convertibility to gold.Â
The Bretton Woods collapsed and this marked the beginning of fiat money dominance.
The French pursuit
While France demanded justice in one corner of the world, the French franc, specifically the CFA franc, has been dominant in parts of Africa since 1945, long before 1971.
After WWII, France created two CFA franc zones:
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West Africa: CommunautÃĐ FinanciÃĻre Africaine (XOF)
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Central Africa: CoopÃĐration FinanciÃĻre en Afrique Centrale (XAF)
These zones included 14 African countries, many of which were former French colonies. France maintained monetary control via currency convertibility guarantees and representation in African central banks. Till today it has influence over these countryâs monetary policy.
Colonisation hasn't ended in some parts of the world.Â
Did countries stop using the USD after the Nixon shock 1971?
Nope. The US dollar was no longer convertible to gold and it dismantled the fixed exchange rate system. But most countries did not stop using the USD as their dominant reserve or trade currency. There were no decent alternatives. Instead, they floated their currencies or maintained a soft peg to the dollar or a basket of currencies.Â
The USD remained dominant in oil trade (OPEC priced oil in USD) - petrodollar deal, global debt markets and FX reserves (central banks kept holding USD).Â
In 1997, when many Southeast Asian countries were still pegged to the USD, Soros claimed that SEA will tank. The US further increased its credit rates leading to capital flight and eventual tanking of these countries leading to Asian Financial Crisis '97. Many financial crisis has similar vibe.
The 1999 Euro launch
The idea of a shared currency appeared again, this time through the forms of Euro. It was a mandatory system for member states of the Eurozone, and came with centralized authority, the European Central Bank (ECB), which controlled monetary policy for all participating nations.
At first glance, the euro seemed like a win. It eliminated exchange rate fluctuations, making trade within the Eurozone smoother. It gave weaker economies access to lower borrowing costs and helped Europe establish itself as a financial heavyweight. Today, the euro is the second most-used reserve currency after the US dollar.
But it came at a cost. Countries that adopted the euro lost monetary sovereignty and could no longer print their own money or adjust interest rates to respond to local crises. This became painfully clear during Greeceâs debt crisis, where strict monetary policies prevented the country from devaluing its currency to recover. The one-size-fits-all approach meant that economies as different as Germany and Greece had to follow the same rules, often to the detriment of weaker nations. Debt-ridden countries like Italy and Spain were forced into harsh austerity measures because they could not manipulate their currency to ease financial strain. Meanwhile, richer nations like Germany and the Netherlands felt they were unfairly propping up struggling economies, creating political tension across the EU.
In recent years, the euro has faced pressure from global trade tensions, monetary tightening, and geopolitical instability contributing to market volatility and periodic depreciation against other major currencies.
The Bretton Woods 2.0
Believe it or not, after all that, there was a call for Bretton Woods 2.0. Yet another global currency dream.
When the housing market collapsed in 2008 followed by a series of domino effects, global banks froze lending, economies contracted, and panic set in. The crisis exposed how fragile the international financial system had become as it was overly reliant on debt, under-regulated, and centered around the US dollar.
Many countries, especially in the Global South and emerging markets, started to question whether a system built around a single national currency was sustainable.Â
China, for instance, had been holding huge amounts of US debt while the US printed more dollars through bailouts and quantitative easing. This created global imbalances as exporting nations were lending money to the US to keep the system running, while taking on the risk of dollar depreciation.Â
In 2009, Chinaâs central bank openly proposed replacing the US dollar with a neutral global reserve currency suggesting SDRs (Special Drawing Rights) issued by the IMF instead.
These concerns led to a wave of calls from world leaders for a âBretton Woods 2.0â , a modern rethinking of the post-WWII economic order. At G20 summits in London in 2009, countries like France, China, and Russia pushed for reforms in global financial institutions and more balanced power sharing.Â
In the end, the IMF received more funding, and some banking regulations were tightened in the years after. But no real overhaul happened. No surprise there? The dollar remained dominant.Â
The foundation of the global economy didnât change, even though trust in it had been deeply shaken.
The growth of BRICS
In 2023, Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa began discussing the idea of a shared currency or alternative mechanism to reduce the dependence on USD ie de-dollarisation. The sanctions on Russia didn't help. After Russiaâs invasion of Ukraine, the US and its allies froze Russiaâs dollar reserves and cut it off from SWIFT, the âbackbone of global banking communicationâ. This made one thing clear. If you fall out with Washington, your access to the global economy can vanish overnight.
Chinaâs growing economic power also gave it more leverage to process alternative options. It would trade in Yuan with Russia and Iran.
I know many still say it's at its early stage, but I see many countries hedging their bets quietly and aligning with Putin and Xi. It became more obvious after US imposed tariffs on multiple nations, signaling that economic tools can double as political weapons. The worldâs second financial system is slowly forming.
What is the world looking for, for the last century ?
For the last 80 years, from Bretton Woods to multiple financial crises, from the birth of the Euro to the rise of BRICS, through war and peace, weâve been circling around the same ideal. A global currency that is :
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SimpleÂ
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Free from dominant powerÂ
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Decentralised
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Borderless
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ScarceÂ
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TransparentÂ
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Inclusive, with self custody
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Resilient in crisisÂ
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Built for individual financial sovereignty
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A new backbone for global finance, owned by no one
It doesnât matter where youâre from, what politics you believe in, or how your economy leans. The answer keeps pointing in the same direction:
Bitcoin
This is the first true global currency.
And itâs just thereÂ
Waiting...
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.
.
Some books that might interest you :
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The Battle of Bretton Woods by Benn Steil
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Goodbye, Great Britain by Kathleen Burk and Alec Cairncross
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The Ghost of Bancor by Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa
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Confessions of an Economic Hitman by John Perkins
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The Blood Bankers by James S. Henry
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@ 81022b27:2b8d0644
2025-06-09 01:31:29We were just talking today about first impressions when meeting people. Sometimes I get an instant âdislikeâ to someone upon meeting, even though they have never done or said anything bad to me. The older I get, the more I will usually go with my gut instincts and not engage the person any deeper if possible.
One of the reasons that was brought up is that people who are not congruent with their words, thoughts, and actions are usually the ones that âturn me offâ
You know these people, too. They are the ones with all the advice-yet their lives are in shambles, the âpreachyâ ones that have their closets full of skeletons.
Iâve been accused of ânot having a filterâ or âbeing too transparentâ at timesâĶ but not usually about my stance on things. Iâm not confrontationalâĶbut Iâm not above turning around and wailing away from someone I canât stomach.
Anyway, the purpose of this rambling post if to encourage you to drop the facade, if you have one-and be more yourself.
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@ 81022b27:2b8d0644
2025-06-09 00:23:26Iâm a Chiropractor, Writer, Travel Nerd, Lover of Efficiency, Trekker and a Celebrity in Mexican Restaurants Hi, Iâm Danny DeReuter, and I want to save the world. Iâm an occasional writer-Iâve written some stuff.
Sometimes people think Iâm funny. Maybe some time Iâll come up with a bit of courage and try my hand at stand-up. (seriously, thatâs a thing on my vision board)
Iâve become somewhat of a social media expert managing my online presence. I help show people how to do social media more effectively.
Iâm also a speaker. I prefer to speak on topics that Iâm passionate about-like natural health, chiropractic, and social media. I also have a Podcast. Be nice and you can ask me to speak at your event.
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@ b1ddb4d7:471244e7
2025-06-09 04:01:48Picture this: youâre trying to buy coffee with Bitcoin, but instead of waiting 10 minutes for blockchain confirmation and paying $5 in fees, your transaction completes instantly for a fraction of a penny.
Thatâs the promise of the Lightning Network, Bitcoinâs most ambitious scaling solution.
But hereâs the thing that most people donât realize â the entire system only works because of an intricate web of technical standards that most users never see.
These standards, known as BOLTs (Basis of Lightning Technology), are the invisible foundation that makes Lightningâs magic possible. Without them, weâd have a fragmented mess of incompatible systems rather than the seamless payment network thatâs processing millions of transactions today.
The Protocol Puzzle: Why Lightning Needed Standards
When Lightning Network was first conceived in 2015, it faced a classic chicken-and-egg problem. Multiple development teams were working on implementations â Lightning Labs with LND, Blockstream with c-lightning, and ACINQ with Eclair â but they all had slightly different ideas about how things should work. Without coordination, these would have become isolated islands of functionality.
Think about the early days of instant messaging, when AOL Instant Messenger users couldnât talk to Yahoo Messenger users. Thatâs exactly what Lightning developers wanted to avoid. The solution was BOLT â a comprehensive set of technical specifications that would ensure any Lightning implementation could talk to any other, regardless of who built it.
The first BOLT specifications emerged in 2016, but they werenât just academic exercises. These documents had to solve real engineering challenges: How do you route payments through a network of payment channels? How do you ensure privacy when every transaction could potentially be monitored? How do you handle the inevitable network failures and channel closures?
Inside the BOLT Specifications: A Technical Breakdown
The BOLT specifications read like a blueprint for building a parallel financial system. Each document tackles a specific piece of the Lightning puzzle, and together they create something remarkably sophisticated.
BOLT #1 establishes the foundation â the basic message formats and communication rules that every Lightning node must understand. Itâs like defining the grammar of a new language that computers use to talk about money. This specification covers everything from how nodes identify themselves to the basic structure of Lightning messages.
BOLT #2 gets into the nitty-gritty of channel management, the heart of Lightningâs functionality. Payment channels are essentially shared cryptocurrency wallets between two parties, and managing them securely requires incredibly precise coordination. This specification defines exactly how nodes negotiate channel parameters, handle updates, and gracefully close channels when needed. One wrong step here, and funds could be lost forever.
The routing problem gets its due attention in BOLT #4, which implements something called âonion routingâ â the same privacy technique used by Tor. When you send a Lightning payment, each node in the path only knows the previous and next hop, never the full route. The sender wraps the payment instructions in multiple layers of encryption, like nested Russian dolls, with each node peeling off one layer to reveal just enough information to forward the payment.
BOLT #7 tackles network discovery â how nodes find each other in the first place. Unlike traditional payment networks with centralized directories, Lightning is completely peer-to-peer. Nodes gossip about available channels and routing fees, creating a constantly updating map of the network that every participant shares.
Perhaps the most user-facing specification is BOLT #11, which standardizes Lightning invoices. Those QR codes you scan to make Lightning payments? Theyâre not just random data â theyâre precisely formatted requests that include payment amounts, destination information, and routing hints, all encoded in a way that any Lightning wallet can understand.
But BOLT #11 is just the beginning of Lightningâs invoice evolution. BOLT #12 represents the next generation of Lightning payments with âoffersâ â a revolutionary approach that makes Lightning payments as easy as traditional online shopping.
The User Experience Revolution: BOLT #11 and the Invoice Problem
To understand why BOLT #11 was so crucial, you need to appreciate just how clunky early Lightning payments were. Before standardized invoices, sending a Lightning payment required manually entering node public keys, payment hashes, and routing information â a process so error-prone that one wrong character could send your Bitcoin into the digital void.
BOLT #11 changed everything by creating a standardized invoice format that packs all necessary payment information into a single, human-readable string. These invoices use a clever encoding scheme called Bech32 (the same format used for modern Bitcoin addresses) that includes built-in error detection. If you accidentally change a character when copying an invoice, your wallet will immediately know somethingâs wrong.
But the real genius of BOLT #11 lies in its flexibility. Lightning invoices can include optional routing hints that help wallets find paths to the recipient, even if theyâre not well-connected to the broader network. They can specify exact amounts or leave them open for the sender to choose. They can include expiration times, descriptions of whatâs being purchased, and even fallback Bitcoin addresses for when Lightning payments fail.
The specification also solved a crucial privacy problem. Early Lightning implementations often revealed too much information about recipients in their invoices. BOLT #11 carefully balances the need for routing information with privacy protection, ensuring that invoices contain just enough data to enable payments without exposing unnecessary details about the recipientâs node or channels.
The Next Evolution: BOLT #12 and the Promise of Offers
While BOLT #11 invoices solved the immediate usability problem, they still had significant limitations that became apparent as Lightning adoption grew. Traditional invoices are single-use, expire relatively quickly, and require the recipient to generate a new one for each payment. Try to explain to your grandmother why she needs to create a new QR code every time someone wants to send her money, and youâll quickly understand the problem.
BOLT #12, currently being implemented across Lightning software, introduces âoffersâ â a completely new approach to requesting Lightning payments that works more like traditional payment systems. Instead of creating single-use invoices, merchants and individuals can create reusable offers that work like persistent payment addresses.
The technical innovation behind offers is fascinating. When someone wants to pay an offer, their wallet first contacts the recipientâs node and requests a fresh invoice specifically for that payment. This happens automatically and invisibly to the user, but it solves several critical problems that plagued BOLT #11 invoices.
First, offers enable recurring payments. A subscription service can create a single offer that customersâ wallets can automatically pay monthly, weekly, or on any schedule. The recipient generates a fresh invoice for each payment, maintaining security while enabling the convenience of automated billing.
Second, offers dramatically improve privacy. Because each payment uses a freshly generated invoice, itâs much harder for external observers to correlate multiple payments to the same recipient. Someone monitoring the Lightning network might see that Alice paid 50,000 satoshis to some node, but they canât easily determine if this was her first payment to that merchant or her hundredth.
The specification also introduces âoffer chainsâ â a way to create offers that can be paid multiple times with different amounts. A coffee shop could create a single offer that customers can pay for any amount, with their wallets automatically calculating tips or adjusting for different menu items.
Behind the Scenes: The Technical Complexity of Simple Payments
What makes BOLT #12 particularly impressive is how it maintains simplicity for users while handling incredible complexity behind the scenes. When your wallet processes an offer, itâs actually engaging in a sophisticated cryptographic dance with the recipientâs node.
The process starts when you scan an offer QR code. Your wallet extracts the recipientâs node information and initiates a connection using the encrypted transport protocol defined in BOLT #8. It then sends a specially formatted request for an invoice, including details about how much you want to pay and any additional information required by the offer.
The recipientâs node validates your request, generates a fresh BOLT #11 invoice specifically for your payment, and sends it back to your wallet. Your wallet then processes this invoice and completes the payment using the standard Lightning routing protocols. The entire process typically takes a few seconds, but it involves multiple round-trips between nodes and several cryptographic operations.
This two-step process â request invoice, then pay invoice â might seem unnecessarily complex, but it elegantly solves problems that plagued earlier Lightning payment systems. It prevents invoice reuse attacks, enables advanced privacy features, and allows for much more flexible payment scenarios.
The Merchant Revolution: From Invoices to Commerce
The evolution from BOLT #11
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2025-06-09 04:01:26Bitcoin Magazine
Bitcoin vs Stablecoins: Bitcoin is an Unreplicable Lifeline in Authoritarian RegimesEight years ago, I wrote a book about pitching technology. The core lesson was simple: To convince skeptics, you must show your solutionâs value isnât just better â itâs uniquely better. Years later, as I began advocating for Bitcoinâs role in humanitarian crises, this lesson resurfaced with urgency. Skeptical friends asked âCanât stablecoins do the same?â, âWhatâs so unique about Bitcoin?â
The answer lies not in theory, but in the protest rallies of Abuja, the blackouts of Caracas and the underground schools that girls secretly attend in Kabul â places where 1.7 billion unbanked, 250 million battling high inflation or hyperinflation and 2.3 billion under authoritarian rule fight to survive. These stories rarely breach Western media algorithms, which act as a shadow-ban of the developing world, favoring headlines about ETFs over existential financial struggles.Â
It doesnât take too deep a look into these parts of the world to discover that Bitcoin is not only vital but uniquely vital in a way stablecoins and other altcoins do not and cannot replicate. Letâs look at three nations that are adopting Bitcoin over stablecoins and why.
Nigeria: Where Sovereignty Outweighs Stability
Context: 223 million people, 95 million live on less than $1.90 a day. 23.71% inflation (April 2025), 18.3-20 million children not in school. Only 30% have access to safe drinking water.Â
In 2024, Nigeria faced severe economic and political upheaval, with the local currency naira crashing to a record 1,643 per dollar by August â down from 460 in early 2023. This not only eroded savings and purchasing power, it eroded trust in the government and led to widespread protests over soaring inflation and fuel costs. These protests were triggered by widespread anger at government economic mismanagement and policies that failed to halt the economic slide.Â
On occasion a stable currency, the nairaâs collapse left families and businesses struggling to afford imports into a dollar-dependent economy. Public frustration intensified and with it, political instability. This volatile climate of currency devaluation, restricted financial access and social unrest set the stage for Nigerians to turn to alternative financial systems like cryptocurrencies, seeking solutions to safeguard their wealth amid a crumbling economic framework.
But the government wasnât about to make that easy for its citizens. Nigeriaâs government restricted stablecoin. âIllicit flows,â aka money laundering, was often used as the governmentâs official reason for anti-stablecoin actions. More likely the Nigerian government took action because they viewed stablecoins as undermining its monetary policy by enabling unregulated capital flows and currency substitution, reducing its central bankâs control over money supply and exchange rates.Â
No doubt, bitcoin can be seen as undermining monetary policy in some similar ways, the difference being, Nigeriaâs government was not able to curtail bitcoinâs usage as effectively due to its decentralized nature.Â
The specific actions Nigeriaâs government took came in three forms:
- Banking Restrictions and U.S. dollar supply shortages had the effect of limiting fiat on-ramps/off-ramps for stablecoins like USDT, which required KYC-compliant exchanges. P2P bitcoin trading soared after the restrictions, as users bypassed banking controls using private wallets and DEXs.
- Regulatory Crackdowns: Nigeriaâs government took specific legal action to sue unlicensed USDT traders. Nigerian authorities then launched a broader attack, accusing crypto-trading platform Binance of âexploitation, devaluation of the naira and money laundering.â
- Premiums and Volatility: Regulatory pressures and FX shortages likely inflated premiums, making them less practical than bitcoin, which operates without centralized dependencies.
All three measures â banking restrictions, regulatory crackdowns and premiums/volatility â impacted bitcoin a lot less than it impacted stablecoins. Stablecoinsâ reliance on centralized issuers, banking rails and KYC-compliant exchanges made them vulnerable to government actions, as we saw when USDT trading was disrupted. By contrast, Bitcoinâs decentralized, permissionless nature enabled Nigerians to bypass restrictions via P2P platforms and private wallets, sustaining its adoption.
Afghanistan: How Bitcoin Was a Financial Lifeline After the Taliban Takeover
Context: Taliban rule, most women are unbanked, Afghanistanâs currency devalued 50% between 2021 and 2022. Eighty-five percent live on less than $1 a day, 80% of school-aged Afghan girls and young women are out of school.Â
When the Taliban seized control in August 2021, Afghanistanâs banking system collapsed under sanctions, leaving citizens â especially women â with few options. Traditional remittance networks like Hawala charged exorbitant fees (5-20%), while frozen central bank reserves made dollar access nearly impossible. In this vacuum, bitcoin emerged as a critical tool for survival. In 2021, Bitcoin Magazine previously reported how women were safeguarding Bitcoin seed phrases as a last line of financial defense. After the Taliban banned crypto in 2022, peer-to-peer bitcoin trading persisted underground.
Why Bitcoin Outperformed Stablecoins in Crisis
Stablecoins, reliant on centralized issuers and dollar-backed banking rails, faltered under Afghanistanâs unique constraints. U.S. sanctions froze $7 billion in central bank funds, which cut off the dollar liquidity needed for stablecoins like USDT. While Forbes India noted isolated cases of stablecoin use for salaries, most Afghans found them unusable. Meanwhile, sanctions blocked fiat conversions and the Talibanâs November 2021 foreign currency ban further restricted access. Bitcoin, by contrast, once again thrived precisely because of its decentralized design: no intermediaries to freeze transactions, no KYC to expose users and a global network that resisted shutdowns. Where stablecoins were hobbled by their ties to traditional finance, Bitcoin enabled direct, pseudonymous transfers.Venezuela: Scarcity Trumps âStabilityâ
Context: The Venezuelan bolÃvar has lost 99.99% value since 2018; 76% of Venezuelans live on $1.90/day. Over 7.7 million Venezuelans have fled the country since 2014 due to economic collapse and political instability. Over 10% of children under five in Venezuela suffer from stunting due to chronic malnutrition.
Carlos, a Caracas mechanic, measures his life in bolÃvars â or rather, the absence of them. Since 2018, Venezuelaâs currency has shed 99.99% of its value, Carlos explains, Carlos is an example of many Venezuelans who used bitcoin, not stablecoins, to preserve wealth as the bolÃvar continued to lose value. The government introduced strict capital controls into the market so that even if you somehow manage to earn USD, you canât get the money transferred to your bank account.
Bitcoin provides a financial lifeline for people like Carlos, unlike stablecoins that are pegged to a USD that itself lost 18% in purchasing power since 2020.
Thatâs right: People like Carlos, schooled in the hard knocks of currency hyper-debasement, realized earlier than many in the West that stablecoins are not really stable.Â
Stablecoins by their name present the appearance of being a safe harbor, becau
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2025-06-06 13:00:24Wie schon gewohnt durch die EmpfÃĪnge von Baerbock und von der Leyen im Ausland, in Washington ein Empfang etwas oberhalb der 1. Class, von Staatsempfang keine Spur. Passt eigentlich auch nicht fÞr den 51. Bundesstaat der USA. Aber immerhin flog die âBundesrepublik Deutschlandâ ohne Pannen, das ist ja auch schon mal was. Und bei solch einem erfahrenen Chef-Co-Piloten an Bord, der auch mal schnell einspringen kÃķnnte, sozusagen als 2. Wahl, kann eigentlich gar nichts mehr schief gehen. Vielleicht hat Fritzchen den KapitÃĪn auch gefragt, ob er auch mal ans Steuer darf, wenn sich die Gelegenheit schon bietet.
Im GepÃĪck die eingerahmte Geburtsurkunde von GroÃvater Trump. Als ob Donald die sich nicht selbst besorgen kÃķnnte, wenn er Interesse daran hÃĪtte. Vielleicht hat er sie auch schon.
Die Ãbergabe, kurz und schmerzlos. Sie erinnert an einen Sketch von Loriot, âWeihnachten bei Hoppenstedtsâ:âĶoh, eine Krawatte! Der versprochene Ehrenplatz wird sich vermutlich in einer der unteren Etagen des WeiÃen Hauses befinden.
Man muss auch erst einmal darauf kommen, so typisch deutsch: Eine Geburtsurkunde als Geschenk. Das kÃķnnte man auch als einen Wink mit dem Zaunpfahl ansehen: Erinnere Dich an Deine deutschen Wurzeln (und lass uns gefÃĪlligst nicht fallen?).
Jetzt zur EinschÃĪtzung des Treffens: Vorfahrt mit frisch gewaschenem Auto, Schwarz-Rot-Gold vorne am KotflÞgel, wie es sich gehÃķrt, Schwarz-Rot-Gold am Eingang. Ganz schÃķn rechts. Warum eigentlich nicht die Regenbogenfahne?
BegrÞÃung durch Trump auf Nachfrage eines Reporters: âI love the People of Germany.â
Und Merz nutzt die Gelegenheit sich in Biedermeier-Style einzuschmeicheln: âAnd I love the People of America.â
Und Trump erwidert: âThatâs good!â
In welcher AtmosphÃĪre findet das Treffen statt?
Trump hat ein ElefantengedÃĪchtnis. Er weià um die abwertenden, diplomatiefreien Aussagen, die Merz Þber ihn gemacht hat. Er weiÃ, dass Merz ihn mehrfach persÃķnlich beleidigend angegriffen hat. Als PrÃĪsident der USA steht man darÞber. Aber man weià es! Trump ist sich darÞber im Klaren, mit welcher Geisteshaltung er es bei Merz zu tun hat.
Vor dem Hintergrund passt seine Aussage zur Presse: âIch liebe die Deutschen.â Das ist eine demokratische und hÃķfliche Sympathiebekundung gegenÞber der deutschen BevÃķlkerung, die Merz zwar miteinschlieÃt, aber nicht direkt an ihn gerichtet ist.
Trump begrÞÃt Merz mit Handschlag, begrÞÃt aber eigentlich nicht den Kanzler, sondern die Deutschen.
Andererseits darf der ÃuÃerung âIch liebe die Deutschenâ auch nicht zu viel Bedeutung beigemessen werden, denn die Amerikaner sind ja dafÞr bekannt, dass sie gerne und schnell alles lieben: I love America, I love Coca-Cola, I love Peanuts und eben auch I love the People of Germany.
Merz nutzt gleich die Gelegenheit, sich anzubiedern, in dem er pariert: âUnd ich liebe die Amerikaner.â, worauf Trump antwortet: âThatâs good!â Das kann man Þbersetzen mit âDas ist gut!â, aber auch mit âDas ist auch gut so!â, bei letzterem wÃĪre es eine versteckte Drohung. Mach Dir bewusst, wo Du bist und mit wem Du es zu tun hast und verhalte Dich danach!
Nonverbal wird dem sonst in Deutschland so eloquent wirken wollenden, akzentuiert sprechenden Merz die Bedeutung zugedacht, die ihm aus Sicht von Trump gebÞhrt. In Frankfurt heiÃen sie Wiener, in Wien heiÃen sie Frankfurter.
Somit sind die Voraussetzungen, unter denen das Treffen stattfinden soll, schon einmal von amerikanischer Seite aus geklÃĪrt.
Du bist hier Gast in meinem Haus, also benimm Dich auch entsprechend! Ich bin der PrÃĪsident der Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika und Du bist klein Fritzchen aus dem Sauerland. Die MachtverhÃĪltnisse sind unausgesprochen geklÃĪrt.
Man hat in gewohnter Manier Platz genommen. Die Journalisten stellen Ihre Fragen ausschlieÃlich an Trump. Zufall, oder Teil einer orchestrierten AuffÞhrung, das wird man nie erfahren.
So oder so, die Journalisten signalisieren durch ihre Fragen an Trump, auf welcher Seite sie stehen, es weht der Geist von âAmerica firstâ. Was Germany dazu zu sagen hat, interessiert niemanden, warum auch?
Die Einseitigkeit ist schon sehr auffÃĪllig. Eigentlich hÃĪtte es die Journalisten interessieren mÞssen, wie Deutschland zu verschiedenen Themen steht. Keine Fragen an Merz zu ZÃķllen, zur Ukraine, zur Meinungsfreiheit, zur Opposition. Mit dem Anspruch, ein breites Spektrum an Meinungen abbilden zu wollen, hat das eigentlich nichts zu tun. Wenn das die Vorstellung von âFreedom of Speachâ ist, dann kÃķnnen hier Zweifel aufkommen.
Falls diese Fragerunde in Hollywood-Manier gestaltet wurde, dann sprÃĪche das eher fÞr Propaganda pro Trump. WÃĪre es Propaganda, dann wÃĪre das Ziel allerdings erreicht worden: Kein Mensch interessiert sich fÞr das, was Deutschland, vertreten durch Merz, zu sagen hat.
Trump setzt dem Ganzen zum Schluss noch die Krone auf, in dem er die Journalisten auffordert, nun endlich doch auch noch ein paar Fragen an Merz zu richten. Das unterstreicht nochmals das (geplante oder ungeplante) Desinteresse der anwesenden Journalisten, die sich nun fast schon genÃķtigt fÞhlen, anstandshalber etwas zu fragen.
Merz, der bisher brav wie ein SchÞler dem Lehrer zugehÃķrt hat, muss nun blitzschnell entscheiden, wie er die âkÞnstlichâ hergestellte MÃķglichkeit nutzen kann, um, etwas unter Druck, durch die KÞrze der Zeit, mit wenigen Worten seinen Standpunkt nach auÃen zu tragen. Seine konzentrierte Kernbotschaft, die Essenz, die Deutschland aus den USA und die Þbrige Welt hÃķren soll, ist: Er steht weiter an der Seite der Ukraine und Russland ist ausschlieÃlich das BÃķse.
Ganz schÃķn raffiniert, denn so hat Trump es geschafft, das Konzentrat der Merzâschen Logik aus ihm herauszupressen.
Beide bekunden den Willen zum Frieden. Gleichzeitig wird jedoch auch klar, was jeder unter Frieden versteht: Merz will âFrieden durch Kriegâ und Trump will âFrieden durch Friedenâ.
Auf rund 45 Minuten Trump kommen rund 4 Minuten Merz. Die Minuten drÞcken exakt die MachtverhÃĪltnisse aus.
HÃĪtte Trump vorgehabt, Merz vorzufÞhren, ihm die Ohren langzuziehen, ihn bis auf die Knochen zu blamieren, er hÃĪtte reichlich MÃķglichkeiten dazu gehabt.
Er hÃĪtte Merz fragen kÃķnnen, warum er seinerzeit meinte, dass ihn, Trump, als Arschloch zu bezeichnen, noch gelinde sei. Er hÃĪtte ihn fragen kÃķnnen, warum er Trump als Gefahr fÞr die Demokratie ansieht. Trump weià darum, er hat es jedoch nicht angesprochen, was ist der Grund dafÞr?
Und Vance, der ebenfalls anwesend war, hÃĪtte seine Feststellungen zur Meinungsfreiheit und der âFire-Wallâ gegen die Opposition, die er auf der Sicherheitskonferenz in MÞnchen klar formuliert hat, wiederholen kÃķnnen, jetzt, wo doch der Kanzler, als erster Ansprechpartner fÞr Deutschland, persÃķnlich hÃĪtte gefragt werden kÃķnnen.
Beim Besuch von Selenskyj haben beide ja auch gewaltig gezeigt, wer hier das Sagen hat.
Nichts! Keine schallende Ohrfeige fÞr Merz, doch nur Erdnussbutter aufâs Sandwich geschmiert. Kein âYou donât have the cardsâĶâ, was den Tatsachen entsprechen wÞrde.
Auf politischer Ebene bleibt in den USA nichts, rein gar nichts dem Zufall Þberlassen. Je lÃĪnger man darÞber nachdenkt, desto klarer kann einem werden, dass das Treffen genau so geplant war, wie es sich abgespielt hat. Aber was genau ist der Plan, der dahintersteckt? Es gibt einen, dass ist so sicher, wie das Amen in der Kirche.
Sollen sich die Deutschen, vor allem die deutsche Politik in Sicherheit wiegen? Wenn das Teil eines Planes wÃĪre, wÃĪre er gelungen, denn in Deutschland wird der Besuch als gelungen und erfolgreich bewertet, aus welchen GrÞnden auch immer. Inzwischen ist Deutschland ja Weltmeister im SchÃķnreden.
Spannend auch die Vorstellung, wenn man die Phantasie anregt, wie das GesprÃĪch, im Fall Merz ein Monolog, verlaufen wÃĪre, wenn die deutsche Opposition auf dem Stuhl von Merz gesessen hÃĪtte.
Es widersprÃĪche der RealitÃĪt, wenn nicht im Hintergrund ganz andere Ziele verfolgt und Absprachen getroffen wÞrden. Welchen Einfluss auf das Treffen hat der bevorstehende NATO-Gipfel am 24. und 25. Juni 2025 in Den Haag?
Es drÃĪngt sich immer mehr der Verdacht auf, dass man es mit zwei RealitÃĪten zu tun hat. Eine, die offiziell verkÞndet wird, und eine, die den Tatsachen entspricht, die aus welchen GrÞnden auch immer jedoch zunÃĪchst noch im Verborgenen bleibt. Ob das vielleicht sogar gut oder eher schlecht ist, wird die Zukunft zeigen. Klar ist jedoch, dass eine gesteuerte RealitÃĪt in der Ãffentlichkeit verbreitet werden soll, die man durchaus als Propaganda von allen Beteiligten bewerten kann. Da hackt eine KrÃĪhe der anderen kein Auge aus. Da heiÃt es wachsam bleiben und nicht der Versuchung zu erliegen, das zu glauben, was man gerne glauben mÃķchte und von dem man sich wÞnscht, dass es eintritt.
âBediene Dich Deines eigenen Verstandes.â Das ist die Aufgabe der Zeit.
âDieser Beitrag wurde mit dem Pareto-Client geschrieben.â
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2025-06-09 00:18:27Big day for me today: - @k00b convinced me to try OMAD. I did eat more than once today, but it was all within a four hour period. I'll try to tighten that up further tomorrow. - @gnilma and @398ja convinced me to try a cold shower. I eased into it, by starting it warm and gradually turning down the temperature. That was totally manageable.
How did you do today? What do you need to work on tomorrow?
https://stacker.news/items/1001161
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2025-06-08 20:49:48Ad-Daba (the unusual creature), is one of the major signs of Judgement Day and itâs more likely to be the next sign to appear soon. As it appears the belief of disbelievers or repentance wonât be accepted. In the following some verses of the Quran and Hadith mentioning it as well as other major signs.
27:82 An-Naml
âÛ ŲŲØĨŲØ°Ųا ŲŲŲŲØđŲ Ø§ŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲ ØđŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ØĢŲØŪŲØąŲØŽŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ØŊŲØ§ØĻŲŲØĐŲ Ų ŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲØĢŲØąŲØķŲ ØŠŲŲŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲ Ų ØĢŲŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲŲØ§ØģŲ ŲŲØ§ŲŲŲØ§ ØĻŲØĒŲŲØ§ØŠŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲ
And when the word befalls them, We will bring forth for them a creature (Ad-Daba) from the earth speaking to them, [saying] that the people were, of Our verses, not certain [in faith].
6:158 Al-An'aam
âŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲØļŲØąŲŲŲŲ ØĨŲŲŲŲØ§ ØĢŲŲŲ ØŠŲØĢŲØŠŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ų Ø§ŲŲŲ ŲŲŲØ§ØĶŲŲŲØĐŲ ØĢŲŲŲ ŲŲØĢŲØŠŲŲŲ ØąŲØĻŲŲŲŲ ØĢŲŲŲ ŲŲØĢŲØŠŲŲŲ ØĻŲØđŲØķŲ ØĒŲŲØ§ØŠŲ ØąŲØĻŲŲŲŲ Û ŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲØĢŲØŠŲŲ ØĻŲØđŲØķŲ ØĒŲŲØ§ØŠŲ ØąŲØĻŲŲŲŲ ŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲŲŲŲØđŲ ŲŲŲŲØģŲØ§ ØĨŲŲŲ ŲØ§ŲŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲ Ų ØŠŲŲŲŲŲ ØĒŲ ŲŲŲØŠŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ŲŲØĻŲŲŲ ØĢŲŲŲ ŲŲØģŲØĻŲØŠŲ ŲŲŲ ØĨŲŲŲ ŲØ§ŲŲŲŲØ§ ØŪŲŲŲØąŲا Û ŲŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲØŠŲØļŲØąŲŲØ§ ØĨŲŲŲŲØ§ Ų ŲŲŲØŠŲØļŲØąŲŲŲŲ
Do they [then] wait for anything except that the angels should come to them or your Lord should come or that there come some of the signs of your Lord? The Day that some of the signs of your Lord will come no soul will benefit from its faith as long as it had not believed before or had earned through its faith some good. Say, "Wait. Indeed, we [also] are waiting."
It was narrated that Hudhaifah bin Asid, Abu Sarihah, said: "The Messenger of Allah (ï·š) looked out from a room, when we were talking about the Hour. He said: 'The Hour will not begin until ten signs appear: The rising of the sun from the west (place of its setting); Dajjal; the smoke; the beast; Gog and Magog people; the appearance of 'Eisa bin Maryam(as), the earth collapsing three times - once in the east, one in the west and one in the Arabian Peninsula; and fire that will emerge from the plain of Aden Abyan and will drive the people to the place of Gathering, stopping with them when they stop at night and when they stop to rest at midday."
ØŲØŊŲŲØŦŲŲŲØ§ ØđŲŲŲŲŲŲ ØĻŲŲŲ Ų ŲØŲŲ ŲŲØŊŲØ ØŲØŊŲŲØŦŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲŲŲØđŲØ ØŲØŊŲŲØŦŲŲŲØ§ ØģŲŲŲŲŲØ§ŲŲØ ØđŲŲŲ ŲŲØąŲØ§ØŠŲ Ø§ŲŲŲŲØēŲŲØ§ØēŲØ ØđŲŲŲ ØđŲØ§Ų ŲØąŲ ØĻŲŲŲ ŲŲØ§ØŦŲŲŲØĐŲ ØĢŲØĻŲŲ Ø§ŲØ·ŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲŲŲŲØ§ŲŲŲŲŲØ ØđŲŲŲ ØŲذŲŲŲŲŲØĐŲ ØĻŲŲŲ ØĢŲØģŲŲØŊŲ ØĢŲØĻŲŲ ØģŲØąŲŲØŲØĐŲØ ŲŲØ§ŲŲ Ø§Ø·ŲŲŲŲØđŲ ØąŲØģŲŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ØĩŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲ ØđŲŲŲ ŲØģŲŲ Ų Ų ŲŲŲ ØšŲØąŲŲŲØĐŲ ŲŲŲŲØŲŲŲ ŲŲØŠŲØ°ŲØ§ŲŲØąŲ Ø§ŲØģŲŲØ§ØđŲØĐŲ ŲŲŲŲØ§ŲŲ â "â ŲØ§Ų ØŠŲŲŲŲŲ Ų Ø§ŲØģŲŲØ§ØđŲØĐŲ ØŲØŠŲŲŲ ØŠŲŲŲŲŲŲ ØđŲØīŲØąŲ ØĒŲŲØ§ØŠŲ Ø·ŲŲŲŲØđŲ Ø§ŲØīŲŲŲ ŲØģŲ Ų ŲŲŲ Ų ŲØšŲØąŲØĻŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲØ§ŲØŊŲŲØŽŲŲØ§ŲŲ ŲŲØ§ŲØŊŲŲØŪŲØ§ŲŲ ŲŲØ§ŲØŊŲŲØ§ØĻŲŲØĐŲ ŲŲŲŲØĢŲØŽŲŲØŽŲ ŲŲŲ ŲØĢŲØŽŲŲØŽŲ ŲŲØŪŲØąŲŲØŽŲ ØđŲŲØģŲŲ Ø§ØĻŲŲŲ Ų ŲØąŲŲŲŲ Ų ØđŲŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ø§ŲØģŲŲŲØ§ŲŲ Ų ŲŲØŦŲŲØ§ŲØŦŲ ØŪŲØģŲŲŲŲ ØŪŲØģŲŲŲ ØĻŲØ§ŲŲŲ ŲØīŲØąŲŲŲ ŲŲØŪŲØģŲŲŲ ØĻŲØ§ŲŲŲ ŲØšŲØąŲØĻŲ ŲŲØŪŲØģŲŲŲ ØĻŲØŽŲØēŲŲØąŲØĐŲ Ø§ŲŲØđŲØąŲØĻŲ ŲŲŲŲØ§ØąŲ ØŠŲØŪŲØąŲØŽŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ŲŲØđŲØąŲ ØđŲØŊŲŲŲ ØĢŲØĻŲŲŲŲŲ ØŠŲØģŲŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲŲØ§ØģŲ ØĨŲŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲ ŲØŲØīŲØąŲ ØŠŲØĻŲŲØŠŲ Ų ŲØđŲŲŲŲ Ų ØĨŲØ°Ųا ØĻŲØ§ØŠŲŲØ§ ŲŲØŠŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲØđŲŲŲŲ Ų ØĨŲØ°Ųا ŲŲØ§ŲŲŲØ§ â"â â.â
ŲØ§Ų ØąØģŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲ ØĩŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲ ØđŲŲŲ ŲØģŲŲ : ØŠØŪØąØŽŲ Ø§ŲØŊاØĻŲŲØĐŲØ ŲØŠŲØģŲŲ Ų Ø§ŲŲØ§ØģŲ ØđŲŲ ØŪØąØ§Ø·ŲŲ ŲŲŲ Ø ØŦŲ ŲŲØđŲ ŲŲØąŲŲ ŲŲŲŲ Ø ØØŠŲ ŲØīØŠØąŲŲ Ø§ŲØąØŽŲŲ Ø§ŲØŊاØĻŲŲØĐŲØ ŲŲŲŲØ§ŲŲ: Ų Ų ŲŲŲŲ Ø§ØīØŠØąŲØŠŲØ ŲŲŲŲŲŲ: Ų Ų Ø§ŲØąØŽŲŲ Ø§ŲŲ ŲØŪŲØ·ŲŲŲ Ų
The prophet Mohamed peace be upon him said: The beast will come out and brand people (disbelievers) on their noses (leaves a sign burned on their nose so itâs known of their disbelief). Then they will live among you until a man buys a beast and it will be said: From whom did you buy it? He will say: From the man with the sign on the nose.
The beast looks unusual and some people might find it scary. However, itâs a sign of God and it must not be killed as this will call Godâs punishment like what happen when the people of prophet Saleh peace be upon him killed the huge camel as mentioned in the following verses.
7:73 Al-A'raaf
âŲŲØĨŲŲŲŲŲ° ØŦŲŲ ŲŲØŊŲ ØĢŲØŪŲØ§ŲŲŲ Ų ØĩŲØ§ŲŲØŲØ§ Û ŲŲØ§ŲŲ ŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲŲŲ Ų Ø§ØđŲØĻŲØŊŲŲØ§ اŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲØ§ ŲŲŲŲŲ Ų Ų ŲŲŲ ØĨŲŲŲŲ°ŲŲ ØšŲŲŲØąŲŲŲ Û ŲŲØŊŲ ØŽŲØ§ØĄŲØŠŲŲŲŲ Ų ØĻŲŲŲŲŲŲØĐŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ØąŲØĻŲŲŲŲŲ Ų Û ŲŲŲ°Ø°ŲŲŲ ŲŲØ§ŲŲØĐŲ Ø§ŲŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ØĒŲŲØĐŲ Û ŲŲØ°ŲØąŲŲŲŲØ§ ØŠŲØĢŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲ ØĢŲØąŲØķŲ Ø§ŲŲŲŲŲŲ Û ŲŲŲŲØ§ ØŠŲŲ ŲØģŲŲŲŲŲØ§ ØĻŲØģŲŲØĄŲ ŲŲŲŲØĢŲØŪŲØ°ŲŲŲŲ Ų ØđŲØ°ŲاØĻŲ ØĢŲŲŲŲŲ Ų
And to the Thamud [We sent] their brother Salih. He said, "O my people, worship Allah; you have no deity other than Him. There has come to you clear evidence from your Lord. This is the she-camel of Allah [sent] to you as a sign. So leave her to eat within Allah 's land and do not touch her with harm, lest there seize you a painful punishment.
7:74 Al-A'raaf
âŲŲØ§Ø°ŲŲŲØąŲŲØ§ ØĨŲØ°Ų ØŽŲØđŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ØŪŲŲŲŲŲØ§ØĄŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ØĻŲØđŲØŊŲ ØđŲØ§ØŊŲ ŲŲØĻŲŲŲŲØĢŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲØĢŲØąŲØķŲ ØŠŲØŠŲŲØŪŲØ°ŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ØģŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲØĩŲŲØąŲا ŲŲØŠŲŲŲØŲØŠŲŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲØŽŲØĻŲØ§ŲŲ ØĻŲŲŲŲØŠŲا Û ŲŲØ§Ø°ŲŲŲØąŲŲØ§ ØĒŲŲØ§ØĄŲ اŲŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲØ§ ØŠŲØđŲØŦŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲØĢŲØąŲØķŲ Ų ŲŲŲØģŲØŊŲŲŲŲ
And remember when He made you successors after the 'Aad and settled you in the land, [and] you take for yourselves palaces from its plains and carve from the mountains, homes. Then remember the favors of Allah and do not commit abuse on the earth, spreading corruption."
7:75 Al-A'raaf
âŲŲØ§ŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲ ŲŲŲØĢŲ Ø§ŲŲŲØ°ŲŲŲŲ Ø§ØģŲØŠŲŲŲØĻŲØąŲŲØ§ Ų ŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲŲØ°ŲŲŲŲ Ø§ØģŲØŠŲØķŲØđŲŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲ ŲŲŲ ØĒŲ ŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ØĢŲØŠŲØđŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲ ØĢŲŲŲŲ ØĩŲØ§ŲŲØŲØ§ Ų ŲØąŲØģŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ØąŲØĻŲŲŲŲ Û ŲŲØ§ŲŲŲØ§ ØĨŲŲŲŲØ§ ØĻŲŲ ŲØ§ ØĢŲØąŲØģŲŲŲ ØĻŲŲŲ Ų ŲØĪŲŲ ŲŲŲŲŲŲ
Said the eminent ones who were arrogant among his people to those who were oppressed - to those who believed among them, "Do you [actually] know that Salih is sent from his Lord?" They said, "Indeed we, in that with which he was sent, are believers."
7:76 Al-A'raaf
âŲŲØ§ŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲØ°ŲŲŲŲ Ø§ØģŲØŠŲŲŲØĻŲØąŲŲØ§ ØĨŲŲŲŲØ§ ØĻŲØ§ŲŲŲØ°ŲŲ ØĒŲ ŲŲŲØŠŲŲ Ų ØĻŲŲŲ ŲŲØ§ŲŲØąŲŲŲŲ
Said those who were arrogant, "Indeed we, in that which you have believed, are disbelievers."
7:77 Al-A'raaf
âŲŲØđŲŲŲØąŲŲØ§ اŲŲŲŲØ§ŲŲØĐŲ ŲŲØđŲØŠŲŲŲØ§ ØđŲŲŲ ØĢŲŲ ŲØąŲ ØąŲØĻŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲŲŲØ§ŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲØ§ ØĩŲØ§ŲŲØŲ Ø§ØĶŲØŠŲŲŲØ§ ØĻŲŲ ŲØ§ ØŠŲØđŲØŊŲŲŲØ§ ØĨŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲØŠŲ Ų ŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲ ŲØąŲØģŲŲŲŲŲŲ
So they hamstrung the she-camel and were insolent toward the command of their Lord and said, "O Salih, bring us what you promise us, if you should be of the messengers."
7:78 Al-A'raaf
âŲŲØĢŲØŪŲØ°ŲØŠŲŲŲŲ Ų Ø§ŲØąŲŲØŽŲŲŲØĐŲ ŲŲØĢŲØĩŲØĻŲØŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲ ØŊŲØ§ØąŲŲŲŲ Ų ØŽŲØ§ØŦŲŲ ŲŲŲŲ
So the earthquake seized them, and they became within their home [corpses] fallen prone.
7:79 Al-A'raaf
âŲŲØŠŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲ° ØđŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲŲŲØ§ŲŲ ŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲŲŲØŊŲ ØĢŲØĻŲŲŲØšŲØŠŲŲŲŲ Ų ØąŲØģŲØ§ŲŲØĐŲ ØąŲØĻŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲØĩŲØŲØŠŲ ŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲŲŲŲ°ŲŲŲŲ ŲŲØ§ ØŠŲØŲØĻŲŲŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲŲØ§ØĩŲØŲŲŲŲ
And he turned away from them and said, "O my people, I had certainly conveyed to you the message of my Lord and advised you, but you do not like advisors."
God is the most merciful and has decreed everything and even the major signs of Judgement Day can have the punishment coming with them alleviated or reduced by God. However, there must be a reason for reducing the intensity of the calamities, as God may decree, and the reason is repentance as well as good actions to adjust what was done wrong. Also, although the major signs of Judgement Day will be known to the majority of the people, some of them might concern smaller groups of people or a country.
3:133 Aal-i-Imraan
âÛ ŲŲØģŲØ§ØąŲØđŲŲØ§ ØĨŲŲŲŲŲ° Ų ŲØšŲŲŲØąŲØĐŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ØąŲØĻŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲØŽŲŲŲŲØĐŲ ØđŲØąŲØķŲŲŲØ§ Ø§ŲØģŲŲŲ ŲØ§ŲŲØ§ØŠŲ ŲŲØ§ŲŲØĢŲØąŲØķŲ ØĢŲØđŲØŊŲŲØŠŲ ŲŲŲŲŲ ŲØŠŲŲŲŲŲŲŲ
And hasten to forgiveness from your Lord and a garden as wide as the heavens and earth, prepared for the righteous
3:134 Aal-i-Imraan
âØ§ŲŲŲØ°ŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲ Ø§ŲØģŲŲØąŲŲØ§ØĄŲ ŲŲØ§ŲØķŲŲØąŲŲØ§ØĄŲ ŲŲØ§ŲŲŲŲØ§ØļŲŲ ŲŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲØšŲŲŲØļŲ ŲŲØ§ŲŲØđŲØ§ŲŲŲŲŲ ØđŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲŲØ§ØģŲ Û ŲŲØ§ŲŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲØŲØĻŲŲ Ø§ŲŲŲ ŲØŲØģŲŲŲŲŲŲ
Who spend [in the cause of Allah] during ease and hardship and who restrain anger and who pardon the people - and Allah loves the doers of good;
3:135 Aal-i-Imraan
âŲŲØ§ŲŲŲØ°ŲŲŲŲ ØĨŲØ°Ųا ŲŲØđŲŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲØ§ØŲØīŲØĐŲ ØĢŲŲŲ ØļŲŲŲŲ ŲŲØ§ ØĢŲŲŲŲŲØģŲŲŲŲ Ų Ø°ŲŲŲØąŲŲØ§ اŲŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲØ§ØģŲØŠŲØšŲŲŲØąŲŲØ§ ŲŲØ°ŲŲŲŲØĻŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ŲŲŲ ŲŲØšŲŲŲØąŲ Ø§ŲØ°ŲŲŲŲŲØĻŲ ØĨŲŲŲŲØ§ اŲŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲØĩŲØąŲŲŲØ§ ØđŲŲŲŲŲ° Ų ŲØ§ ŲŲØđŲŲŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲØđŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲ
And those who, when they commit an immorality or wrong themselves [by transgression], remember Allah and seek forgiveness for their sins - and who can forgive sins except Allah? - and [who] do not persist in what they have done while they know.
3:136 Aal-i-Imraan
âØĢŲŲŲŲŲ°ØĶŲŲŲ ØŽŲØēŲØ§ØĪŲŲŲŲ Ų Ų ŲØšŲŲŲØąŲØĐŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ØąŲØĻŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ŲŲØŽŲŲŲŲØ§ØŠŲ ØŠŲØŽŲØąŲŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ØŠŲØŲØŠŲŲŲØ§ اŲŲØĢŲŲŲŲŲØ§ØąŲ ØŪŲØ§ŲŲØŊŲŲŲŲ ŲŲŲŲŲØ§ Û ŲŲŲŲØđŲŲ Ų ØĢŲØŽŲØąŲ Ø§ŲŲØđŲØ§Ų ŲŲŲŲŲŲ
Those - their reward is forgiveness from their Lord and gardens beneath which rivers flow [in Paradise], wherein they will abide eternally; and excellent is the reward of the [righteous] workers.
3:137 Aal-i-Imraan
âŲŲØŊŲ ØŪŲŲŲØŠŲ Ų ŲŲŲ ŲŲØĻŲŲŲŲŲŲ Ų ØģŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲØģŲŲØąŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲ Ø§ŲŲØĢŲØąŲØķŲ ŲŲØ§ŲŲØļŲØąŲŲØ§ ŲŲŲŲŲŲ ŲŲØ§ŲŲ ØđŲØ§ŲŲØĻŲØĐŲ Ø§ŲŲŲ ŲŲŲØ°ŲŲØĻŲŲŲŲ
Similar situations [as yours] have passed on before you, so proceed throughout the earth and observe how was the end of those who denied.
3:138 Aal-i-Imraan
âŲŲŲ°Ø°ŲØ§ ØĻŲŲŲØ§ŲŲ ŲŲŲŲŲŲØ§ØģŲ ŲŲŲŲØŊŲŲ ŲŲŲ ŲŲŲØđŲØļŲØĐŲ ŲŲŲŲŲ ŲØŠŲŲŲŲŲŲŲ
This [Qur'an] is a clear statement to [all] the people and a guidance and instruction for those conscious of Allah.
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2025-06-07 14:01:19Contribute to keep No Bullshit Bitcoin news going.
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Version 1.3 of Bitcoin Safe introduces a redesigned interactive chart, quick receive feature, updated icons, a mempool preview window, support for Child Pays For Parent (CPFP) and testnet4, preconfigured testnet demo wallets, as well as various bug fixes and improvements.
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Upcoming updates for Bitcoin Safe include Compact Block Filters.
"Compact Block Filters increase the network privacy dramatically, since you're not asking an electrum server to give you your transactions. They are a little slower than electrum servers. For a savings wallet like Bitcoin Safe this should be OK," writes the project's developer Andreas Griffin.
- Learn more about the current and upcoming features of Bitcoin Safe wallet here.
What's new in v1.3
- Redesign of Chart, Quick Receive, Icons, and Mempool Preview (by @design-rrr).
- Interactive chart. Clicking on it now jumps to transaction, and selected transactions are now highlighted.
- Speed up transactions with Child Pays For Parent (CPFP).
- BDK 1.2 (upgraded from 0.32).
- Testnet4 support.
- Preconfigured Testnet demo wallets.
- Cluster unconfirmed transactions so that parents/children are next to each other.
- Customizable columns for all tables (optional view: Txid, Address index, and more)
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2025-06-08 20:18:10The results show that platforms must do more to detect and remove harmful content in closed groups while preserving user privacy. They must also improve tools for user reporting. Without these steps, private spaces online will continue to be exploited by extremists and bad actors to spread hate and coordinate violence.
Over the course of two weeks, ADL researchers posted 10 pieces of violative content (for example, âJews are ratsâ) on private spaces and tracked the responses of three different platforms - before reporting and after.Â
Our testing found the following:
Facebook was the only platform that deployed any kind of auto-filtering to remove content proactively. However, this was before Facebook-owner Meta announced that it would abandon proactive moderation of non-illegal content in the U.S.
Discord did not take action on any content proactivelyâonly after the content was reported.
Robloxâs auto-filtering did obscure some offensive posts, but it did not remove any of the content, the private group, or the user account posting violative content after we reported it.Â
Facebook and Discord removed most hateful content retroactively (after users reported it, in this case, by ADL), but their systems were not perfect and missed violative content.
In response to our research:
This research was shared with Meta, Discord and Roblox prior to publication and ADL researchers briefed the relevant teams at these companies. In response, Discord and Roblox acted. Specifically, Roblox shared that they âenabled an additional layer of automated review on Community Wall Post Abuse Reports. This means that abuse reports filed against Community wall posts will first undergo a review by an automated system, which will automatically take action if the wall post violates our policies. The additional layer of automation will empower human moderators to focus on deeper tasks and help increase the effectiveness of our review system.â
Private Online Spaces: Harboring Hate and Extremism
The problem of online hate and harassment has been well documented, but most data come from public online spaces such as X/Twitter, YouTube, or Reddit. These platforms typically use proactive moderation, such as automated filters and machine-learning tools, to identify and remove content that violates their rules.
Some platforms, however, allow users to create closed or private spaces where only members can see the content. These private spaces include closed Facebook groups, private Discord servers (a type of chat room), and communities on Roblox. Encrypted chat platforms such as WhatsApp, Telegram, and Signal also allow member-only spaces, some of which can be discovered publicly, while others are by invitation only. ADLâs 2024 annual survey of online hate and harassment found that between 2023 and 2024, incidences of harassment increased on both Telegram and WhatsApp, +6% and +11% respectively.
Private online spaces have been linked to numerous instances of online and in-person atrocities. Shooters such as the Buffalo shooter, or a school shooter in Perry High, Iowa, posted their manifestos and livestreamed their deeds on private Discord servers. In August 2024, a perpetrator in Turkey, motivated by white supremacists and accelerationism, shared his manifesto on Telegram before livestreaming a violent stabbing attack. Most recently, online bullies have used private spaces to promote extreme cruelty and self-harm as part of larger campaigns to harm vulnerable young people, sometimes leading to suicide.
ADL has also tracked many extremist groups that flourish on private groups and servers hosted by Discord, Telegram, and other platforms. Hate groups and conspiracy mongers, such as the Three Percenters or QAnon adherents, take advantage of private groups to organize and distribute hateful content and false narratives. Other extremist groups, such as extremist traditional Catholic and Islamic groups, have used Discord servers to share memes and hateful rhetoric. Extremist militias have been quietly organizing and regrouping on private Facebook groups since the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Individuals and groups on Roblox groom children to extremist ideologies through projects like âRedpill the Youth.â When neighborhood watch groups or community organizers use private groups, hateful users have, in some cases, infiltrated these groups to harass and intimidate other users.
It is difficult for researchers to assess how well platforms moderate these spaces or understand their inner workings because private online spaces restrict access. Private spaces can equally serve important social functions, such as for parent groups, political organizing, or protected spaces for marginalized groups to gather and provide mutual support. But tech companies do not make clear how they enforce their policies in private groups, often leaving content moderation up to users or administrators.
Understanding Content Moderation in Private Online Spaces
Members-only groups can be visible to non-members, such as many closed Facebook groups. But others, such as private Discord servers, are not making the groups' content invisible to non-members. Degrees of privacy and visibility can vary on Facebook groups, Telegram channels, or WhatsApp chats. Facebook groups, for example, can be fully public and open, publicly accessible but closed (anyone can join but only members can post or view content), or private (members must be approved). There are also two categories of private groups: closed groups that require approval but can be found through search, and fully secret groups that are not only private but cannot be found in search.
The three platforms we tested for this study (Facebook, Discord, and Roblox) have taken proactive steps to address hate, extremism, and antisemitism. We did not include platforms such as Telegram, which does not moderate hateful content, even though extremists use the platform's private channels to spread hate and coordinate harassment.
Facebook is one of the most popular social media platforms among users in the U.S., and where the majority of online harassment takes place (61% of people who are harassed report harassment on Facebook, according to ADLâs 2024 annual survey of online hate and harassment). Much of this harassment takes place in closed Facebook groups, but researchers have little insight into these spaces.
Discord began as a chat platform for gamers but has since expanded to host numerous online communities. Social interaction on Discord takes place in chatrooms (called servers) that offer a private or semi-private environment for users to chat both in groups and individually (similar to Slack). Discord allows users to create servers with various channels that can be set to invite-only, making it a popular choice for groups seeking privacy. Discordâs company culture, which emphasizes privacy and minimal moderation, makes it an attractive place for bad actors to connect and coordinate. Video calls and chats are not recorded or monitored, and users can delete posts permanently. Making video and audio calls end-to-end encrypted increases privacy for users, but it also makes it significantly more difficult for the platform to catch bad behavior. Discord's hands-off approach to content moderation--leaving most moderation decisions in the hands of the serverâs administrators-- makes it easy to share extremist content there compared to similar platforms.
Roblox is a gaming and game creation platform popular with children, with at least 45% of users being under the age of 13. Roblox has a groups feature embedded within its website, though Roblox users primarily communicate with each other through in-game text or voice chat. Within Roblox groups, members can post messages on a group wall, participate in group events, and access exclusive in-game content provided by group leaders. Roblox groups often focus on themes, such as game development or in-game collaborations. It is the only gaming platform we included where the majority of communication takes place in-game. For comparison, we only examined the group feature on the Roblox website and not communication in Roblox games.Â
Methodology
1. We created one group per platform (Facebook, Discord and Roblox) simultaneously, and named the groups on Facebook and Discord âGroup for the Truth;â (this name was already taken on Roblox so we named that one âGroup for the Truth_2.â) To prevent users from inadvertently stumbling across the groups, the settings for each were set up in a manner that made them hidden from search.
2. We then used one account to create the groups and post content (the âposting accountâ), and another on a separate computer to report the content (the âreporting accountâ). Two researchers were assigned to each account. There were no further descriptions or images added to the groups, except on Roblox, which required a group description and image.
3. The posting account was then used to post hateful content to all three platforms. This content was pulled directly from Metaâs helpfully illustrative examples of violations against its hate speech policy at the time. Meta is the only platform with examples of what could be violative of its hate speech policy of the three platforms we reviewed.
4. Meta's Tier 1 Hate Speech policy, for example, states that a user may not post content that includes:
Dehumanizing speech in the form of comparisons to or generalizations about:
- Animals in general or specific types of animals that are culturally perceived as inferior (including but not limited to: Black people and apes or ape-like creatures; Jewish people and rats; Muslim people and pigs; Mexican people and worms)
We adapted this example to draft a hateful post stating, âJews are rats.â Every post was derived directly from Metaâs policy examples, though there may not always be a corollary example within the policy. For example, Metaâs policy at the time stated that users may not post:
Content targeting a person or group of people on the basis of their protected characteristic(s) (in written or visual form):
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Generalizations that state inferiority in the following ways:
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Physical appearance, including but not limited to: ugly, hideous.
There was no further example provided by Meta, so we created a post that would intentionally violate this policy:
âJews are the ugliest, most hideous people on Earth.â
Although these posts were based on Metaâs policy, each one has a matching Discord policy. The same applies to Roblox, though its hate speech policy is not nearly as detailed as Metaâs or Discordâs:
Roblox honors and welcomes users of all ages, backgrounds, and identities. We do not allow content or behavior that supports, glorifies, or promotes hate groups, their ideologies, or actions. You also may not discriminate, mock, or promote hatred against individuals or groups, or encourage others to do so directly or indirectly, on the basis of their:
- Race, perceived race, or ethnicity
We believe that the following posts are violative under Robloxâs policy as well:
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âJews are rats.â
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âJews are devils and shit.â
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âThe Holocaust did not happen-itâs a lie made up by the Jews.â
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âJews control the banks, the government and Hollywood and we need to get rid of them for the safety of American citizens.â
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âJews are the ugliest, most hideous people on Earth.â
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âJews should be segregated from all other people.â
5. We followed up our initial posts with additional sentences to test content violating Metaâs policy against dangerous organizations and individuals, such as violent extremists. These posts also violate Discordâs Violent Extremism policy and Robloxâs Community Standards.
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âHitler and the Nazis did nothing wrong.â
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âPlease donate to the Goyim Defense League!â (A link was attached to this sentence.)
We referenced the Goyim Defense League because they are a notorious group of antisemitic provocateurs, according to the ADL Center on Extremism.
We also posted the following two images in violation of Metaâs Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy, Discordâs Violent Extremism policy, and Robloxâs Community Standards:
Image 1: Posted Images, âCovid Agendaâ and âUkraine-Russia War,â respectively. (Screenshot: 7/31/2024)
6. The following day, we reported each of these posts, if applicable. Though both âJews are the ugliest, most hideous people on Earthâ and âJews should be segregated from all other peopleâ run afoul of hate speech policies, we did not report them until the next day. We staggered reporting in this way so as to not get either our accounts or groups suspended before the study was over.Â
Findings
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Facebook was the only platform to remove content before we reported it.
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Discord did not take down any content at all, implying either that it has little to no automatic filtering or that any filtering is not robust enough to catch what our posting account shared. When offending posts were reported, Discord did remove posts and suspended the account.
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Roblox obscured the text of offensive posts, but did not take down the group nor the offending account.
When we started reporting the potentially violative content to the platforms, we noticed a discrepancy between the platformsâ responses. Facebookâs reaction to reports included warnings before suspending the group. Discord provided less information to the administrator about why the posts were removed. It did not suspend the group but did suspend our Posting account. Roblox informed the posting account that the account or group was breaking the rules, but did not take down any posts within the group. Although it did obscure the text by censoring the entire post, replacing all content with xâs except for the obscured content, the group stayed the same as it did before reporting. No further content was taken down, and no alerts were given to either account.
Facebook
Facebook removed most offending posts when we reported them, gave feedback to the account administrator, and finally suspended the group when offending content continued to be posted. Some posts remain up-- despite notifications from our Reporting account.Â
Proactive Detection
Facebook did not remove any posts automatically on the first day we posted content. On the second day we posted, they removed âUkraine-Russia Warâ automatically (see Image 2).
Image 2: Facebookâs alert after removing âUkraine-Russia War.â (Screenshot: 7/19/2024)
Not only did Facebook remove the photo, but it also alerted the Posting account (the account admin) that the photo had been removed. When we clicked through âSee why,â Facebook displayed the offending image and explained why the image had been removed. It also provided a link to the rule that was broken. Facebook also added restrictions to the account that posted the picture; the user could not create ads, create live videos, or start or join calls for approximately a month. It is not clear why Facebook took action against âUkraine-Russia Warâ automatically, but not the sister image âCovid Agenda.â Both pictures originate from the Goyim Defense League and are prohibited by Metaâs policy rules. Meta has rolled back its Covid misinformation rules, but this image is still prohibited per their Dangerous Organizations and Individuals policy.
Facebook did not allow the posting account to post the link embedded in âPlease donate to the Goyim Defense League!â Not only was Facebook the only platform to prevent adding the link, it also explained why it was not allowed (Image 3).
Image 3: Window preventing the user from posting a link to GDLâs site. (Screenshot: 7/31/2024)
Reporting Response
After we reported the posts, they were almost instantaneously actioned. The first post was reported at 4:21pm. By 4:24 pm, the reporting account was alerted that the report resulted in the post being removed.Â
At the same time, the posting account was notified that restrictions were added to the account (Images 4 and 5). Unlike Discord or Robloxâs restrictions, Facebook not only told the user which restrictions were added, but also explained which post was removed and which rule each had broken.
Images 4 (left) and 5 (right): Facebook account restrictions. (Screenshot: 7//30/2024)
The next day, we reported the second half of the posts and the remaining image. Facebook again took action, quickly taking down the posts. This time, however, the platform also permanently suspended the group. The posting account can still access the defunct group, but the reporting account cannot. Users can still log into both accounts, and post and comment on Facebook, just not the group. Facebook warned us that the posting account is under threat of being permanently suspended (Image 6).
Image 6: Group suspension and account status. (Screenshot: 07/31/2024)
Although we commend Facebook for their quick action, there were still posts that remain up. These posts, despite the reports, were never taken down as of publication (Image 7).
Image 7: Facebook group. (Screenshot: 2/28/2025)
Discord
In contrast to Facebook, Discordâs content moderation strategy for private groups, appears to be reactive rather than proactive. It depends primarily on reports from users of those groups, rather than automatic filtering and takedowns.
Proactive detection
Until we reported the offending content on the Discord group, no content was taken down.
Image 8: Discord content. (Screenshot: 1/15/2025)
Reporting Response
While Discord did not take action on content in the proactive detection phase, once we started reporting posts, they responded proactively, removing posts before we could report them on day 14.
The first half of the content was reported on day 13 but did not receive alerts from Discord until an hour later. The alerts explained why the posting account was being sanctioned and which rules it had broken.Â
Image 9: Discord alert for breaking community guidelines. (Screenshot: 7/2024)
By day 14, nearly every post had been taken downâeven the ones not reported yet. All posts save one were taken down proactively, although we had not reported those images yet. The only post still up said, âPlease donate to the Goyim Defense League.â We reported this post, but it was never taken down.
Image 10: Discord group. (Screenshot: 7/31/2024)
Unlike Facebook, Discord did not take action against the group itself; the group is not suspended, and the reporting account can still post to it at the time of writing. Discord did act against the posting account, suspending it a few days later. The posting account received no notification that it was suspended, save for emails alerting us to ânew messagesâ on Discord. These messages were forwarded to the now inaccessible account, so we cannot determine when Discord took action. The posting user might have received a more pointed alert, like an app notification, if we had used the phone app instead of the desktop website. In any case, we were able to create a new account with the same name and using the same email address after our account was removed.
Image 11: Punishments from Discord. (Screenshot: 7/31/2024)
Roblox
The protections offered by Roblox in the private group were minimal, especially compared to Discord and Facebook. We received virtually no feedback on reporting from the platform. There were no warnings or pop-ups for the administrator. Roblox did not remove any posts, despite reports from our reporting account.
Proactive detection
Of the ten posts we created, four were automatically obscured when we posted them, so members could see the posts but not view the text. Roblox replaced the text with the hashmark (#), obscuring not just the offensive words but the entire post (Image 12). It is not entirely clear why Roblox hid some posts this way. For example, the text âJews are devils and shitâ was likely hidden because of the expletive. Roblox might also be automatically filtering keywords that it deems objectionable. It could be that terms like Holocaust, Hitler, Nazis or Goyim were automatically flagged, causing those posts to be removed.
Roblox does not allow pictures or links to be posted on the groupâs page, so we were unable to post the Covid Agenda and Ukraine-Russia War images. We were able to post âGoyim Defense Leagueâ without the embedded link, though it was also immediately hidden.
Image 12: Hidden Roblox content. (Screenshot: 7/24/2024)
Reporting response
After we reported every post through our reporting account, there was no response from Roblox, unlike our experience with Facebook or Discord. No other posts were taken down. There were no tools that alerted the poster, the admin or reporting account that any action had been takenânot even a pop-up that the report had been received. The admin received no report that multiple posts on the group had been reported for hate and harassment.
Even after multiple reports, no action was taken on any of the posts. In fact, there was no change in the group from the initial first action, hiding the text. Compare the image of the Roblox group taken on day 14 with the image taken of the group over two weeks later (Image 13). There is no discernible difference.Â
Image 13: Roblox content. (Screenshot: 7/22/2024 and 8/2/2024)
Recommendations For Platforms with Members-only Groups
How platforms respond to violative content in private is just as important as how they respond to violative content in public. Facebook and Discord, while not perfect, moderated these private groups in a way that removed the majority of hateful content and suspended the hateful accounts.
We do not expect platforms to moderate content on private groups as strictly as in public spaces, due to privacy concerns, but we do expect an appropriate level of preventative moderation and tools for groups to moderate content. Roblox appears to have had little to no moderation in place, which is concerning given the young age of its player base. Roblox hid offensive and controversial text but did not suspend the posting account or group. It also provided no alerts to the admin or group when a report was made. While we understand that the bulk of communication on Roblox happens in-game, little action was taken within the group chat to moderate offensive content. Terrorist and violent extremist groups organize on private groups and channels, not in public spaces. Platforms with private groups should adopt a minimum standard of moderation on private groups to proactively stem this problem.
Platforms should:
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Reexamine how automatic filtering functions:Â A common problem encountered in this course of our research was the seemingly arbitrary nature of the filtering tools. For example, Facebook automatically filtered one image but not another equally objectionable. It is also not clear why one image was actioned and the other was not. Platforms should reexamine their automatic filtering functions to catch content that slips through the cracks.
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Prioritize user-reporting within private groups:Â Because of the protections that are available for private groups, reporting by group members is the primary channel for alerting the platform. Platforms should prioritize these reports and act on them quickly. These reports may be one of the first signs that something is amiss within a group.
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Suspend groups when they reach a threshold of violative content:Â Facebook was the only platform that fully suspended our group. Discord did not suspend our group, only the user, who was able to promptly create a new account. Roblox suspended neither the group nor the account. If violative users and groups are allowed to continue their work with barely any pushback from platforms, then any moderation will fail.
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Utilize metadata in content moderation:Â Private groups may restrict the visibility of their content to outside users and the platform itself, but that does not mean that there is no data available. Post times, user addresses, and other metadata are available to platform moderation teams. Discord, in particular, could take better advantage of the tools available to it. Discordâs content, save for video and audio content, is not encrypted, and the platform could be more proactive about automatic filtering if it chose to.
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2025-06-05 22:01:51
"Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. Â A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world." - Eric Hughes, A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993
Privacy is essential to freedom. Without privacy, individuals are unable to make choices free from surveillance and control. Lack of privacy leads to loss of autonomy. When individuals are constantly monitored it limits our ability to express ourselves and take risks. Any decisions we make can result in negative repercussions from those who surveil us. Without the freedom to make choices, individuals cannot truly be free.
Freedom is essential to acquiring and preserving wealth. When individuals are not free to make choices, restrictions and limitations prevent us from economic opportunities. If we are somehow able to acquire wealth in such an environment, lack of freedom can result in direct asset seizure by governments or other malicious entities. At scale, when freedom is compromised, it leads to widespread economic stagnation and poverty. Protecting freedom is essential to economic prosperity.
The connection between privacy, freedom, and wealth is critical. Without privacy, individuals lose the freedom to make choices free from surveillance and control. While lack of freedom prevents individuals from pursuing economic opportunities and makes wealth preservation nearly impossible. No Privacy? No Freedom. No Freedom? No Wealth.
Rights are not granted. They are taken and defended. Rights are often misunderstood as permission to do something by those holding power. However, if someone can give you something, they can inherently take it from you at will. People throughout history have necessarily fought for basic rights, including privacy and freedom. These rights were not given by those in power, but rather demanded and won through struggle. Even after these rights are won, they must be continually defended to ensure that they are not taken away. Rights are not granted - they are earned through struggle and defended through sacrifice.
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@ df67f9a7:2d4fc200
2025-06-05 19:52:32Nostr is NOT a social network. Nostr is a network of interconnected social apps. And, since any app is a social app, Nostr is for every app.
ONLY Nostr incentivizes inter-connectivity between independent apps, simply by respecting sovereignty at the protocol layer. For end users, sovereignty means that the content they post âto Nostrâ will never be owned by the apps that they use. For businesses building apps on Nostr, sovereignty means that every app actually benefits by other apps being on the network. Because sovereignty is respected, users are retained for longer and independent apps thrive far longer on Nostr than on the legacy âblack boxâ social networks.
Social apps thrive on Nostr
Nostr integration provides these benefits for every app :
- Unrestrained access for any app, to all public and private data âon Nostrâ. No fees or licenses for harvesting user data from the network.
- Unburdened from liability, when collecting user data with any app. When sending âto Nostrâ, end users retain custody of user data while apps never loose access.
- Unlimited free market of search engines and feed algos. Users and brands can create, use, and share any algos or custom feeds. Grow your audience on your own terms.
- Universal open network for all apps. Build any kind of app for any audience, on the same network as other apps for other audiences. Discover new trends from user data.
- Unregulated tech platform. Build your own app and use it as you wish. No gate keepers. No code review.Â
Sovereignty is good for business.
Regardless of the network size, a Nostr integrated app can grow its user base MUCH faster and with greater independence BECAUSE of the sovereignty respecting protocol. While end users may retain custody of their identities and data on the network, itâs the apps that determine which data is, or is not, sent to the network. Respect for sovereignty IS the killer feature that ONLY the Nostr protocol provides for apps and for end users.
Because Nostr is permissionless for any app to integrate :
- end users will always have a free market of apps choose from
- apps are free to integrate only as much as benefits their business model.
- apps gain access to more novel data as new apps bring new users to the network.
Because data on Nostr is managed by end users and available to all apps :
- User data looses exclusivity and the demand shifts toward novel insights and information derived from these data.
- Apps are freed from having to be âdata piratesâ, and can focus on establishing a trusted user base, providing valuable services to satisfied customers, informed by the abundance of user data.
- Apps are incentivized to offload data onto the network, establishing a new paradigm for interconnectivity, where independence is NOT at stake as the network grows.
- New markets spring up to support users with self custody of their data, driven by the reality that apps can have full access without assuming responsibility.
- The market for search and algo tools opens up for independent apps and end users to discover and interact freely with each other.
- The ad based âattention economyâ slowly transforms to a value based consumer economy, where the end user is the customer rather than the product being sold.
Even while privacy is respected
Sometimes sovereignty is at odds with privacy, but Nostr allows all parties to win while both are protected.
- For end users sending sensetive data "to Nostr", privacy is assured by encrypting it with their own private keys and/or sending it to private (auth required) relays of their choosing.
- For apps handling private IP or business data, any traditional âblack boxâ infrastructure can be used in the back end to manitain isolation from Nostr.
This means apps and end users remain in control of their own private data, without requiring âbig socialâ as trust provider or data reseller. To access a user's private data, client apps (even search engines, running locally) only need explicit permission from the end user to retrieve or decrypt from Nostr relays. Public data, on the other hand, is freely available for any app or search engine to harvest from any Nostr relay. In either case, user data on the Nostr network is always accessible to client apps, without additional restrictions or fees.
Nostr is for every app.
Adding social to any app makes it a better app. Add reviews for products or services. Add commenting or direct messaging. Share or collaborate on content creation. Nostr integration is straightforward and incremental for any app.
Nostr doesn't define your app's business model ... Nostr 10X's it!
Here's how :
- Start with your own business and app design. Add Nosrr login.
- Discover what "kinds" of user data already exists "on Nostr" that your app can ingest and make use of.
- Decide which "kinds" of data would benefit your business, your users, and the network, if sent "to Nostr".
- Implement Nostr integration for data kinds and add webs of trust tools for recommendation and discovery.
- Verify your app is sovereignty respecting in how it handles private data and implements Nostr NIPs.
- Engage with existing users, and onboard new users from your app, to earn their trust and patronage over Nostr.
For more info and assistance, contact our team of Nostr integration experts.
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2025-06-07 07:49:53Es ist merkwÞrdig, wie sich die Dinge manchmal fÞgen. Himmelfahrt bin ich mit den beiden grÃķÃeren Enkeln, 2 und 4, in einen Zirkus gegangen. Wir mussten ein wenig suchen, okay, haben das Zelt aber irgendwann entdeckt am Ufer des Regen. Ich kÃķnnte schreiben: klein, aber fein, so richtig trifft es das jedoch nicht. Klein schon. Ich will hier auch nicht schimpfen, weil sich die Zirkusfamilie alle MÞhe gegeben hat, einen preisgekrÃķnten Artisten dabeihatte (Silberner Clown in Monte Carlo) und sogar reichlich Tiere in die Manege brachte. Vier Araberpferde, zwei Dromedare, einen Esel und Ziegen.
Dann aber kamen die Katzen. Richtig gelesen. Katzen dort, wo es Tiger, LÃķwen, BÃĪren gegeben hat, als ich selbst noch ein Kind war. Ich meine gar nicht die groÃen Zelte in der DDR, Berolina, Busch oder Aeros. Diese Riesen verirrten sich nicht in einen Badeort auf RÞgen. Die Wiese gleich hinter unserem Haus gehÃķrte ab Anfang der 1980er RÞdiger Probst, alle paar Jahre wieder. Ein junger Mann, der gar nicht so viel ÃĪlter war als ich, keine Angst vor groÃen Tieren hatte und mit einem Salto von Pferd zu Pferd sprang. In einem kleinen Zirkus wie gesagt, fÞr ein paar Groschen und meist vor vollem Haus. Mit den Enkeln hatte ich jetzt allen Platz der Welt und hinterher ein leeres Portemonnaie. Sieben Euro allein fÞr Popcorn (es gab nur eine TÞtengrÃķÃe) und fÞnf (freiwillig) fÞr ein paar MÃķhrenstÞcke, damit die Kinder in der Pause was zum FÞttern in der Hand hatten.
Am Abend dann das neue Buch von Matthias KrauÃ. âDie falschen Fragen gestelltâ. Ich habe mich ein wenig gewundert, als das Paket im Kasten lag, weil der Autor vor gar nicht allzu langer Zeit einen âeinseitigen Waffenstillstandâ ausgerufen hatte und Schluss machen wollte mit seinem Kampf gegen die âAufarbeitungsindustrieâ und mit der Verteidigung der DDR. Ich zitiere einfach aus meiner Rezension von 2019:
Matthias KrauÃ, 1960 in Hennigsdorf geboren, weià natÞrlich, was da alles im Argen lag. Er hat selbst an der Sektion Journalistik studiert und in den spÃĪten 1980ern noch ein wenig fÞr die Parteipresse gearbeitet. âApologetischâ, sagt er. Vor allem Innen- und Wirtschaftspolitik. Sein Aber: erstens die Kultur. Begegnungen vor allem mit dem, was in Osteuropa so an Filmen, Serien, Kunst produziert wurde. Punkt zwei: âder einfache Menschâ. âUngleich hÃĪufigerâ im Bild als heute. Und drittens âgab es eine prinzipielle und grundsÃĪtzliche Kritikâ am Westen und am Kapitalismus.
Der Zirkus am Ufer des Regen. Ein totes Pferd soll man nicht reiten. Deshalb tauche ich ein in ein Buch, das etwas schafft, was selbst ich nicht fÞr mÃķglich gehalten habe. Matthias Krauà singt ein Loblied auf den DDR-Journalismus, ohne dass es peinlich wird. Er bleibt dabei ganz bei sich â bei der Mappe mit Zeitungsausschnitten, die er als SchÞler angelegt hat, bei den Aktbildern im Magazin, das sein Vater abonniert hatte und das dem Sohn auch jenseits der Erotik ganze Welten Ãķffnete, bei einem PortrÃĪt, das ihm die Lokalzeitung 1977 widmete.
Das SchÃķne ist: Matthias Krauà hat das alles aufgehoben und darf jetzt als reifer Mann zurÞckschauen â als Journalist, der spÃĪter auch die andere Seite erlebt hat, folglich vergleichen kann und vor allem niemandem mehr nach dem Mund reden muss. Die âQualitÃĪt der Bilderâ, okay. Eher âKartoffeldruckâ als Zeitung. Die immer gleichen alten MÃĪnner, klar. Die Grenzen, die jedes Parteiorgan hat und die auch ein junger Mann wie Krauà schon zu spÞren bekam. Aber eben auch Texte, die nah dran waren am Leben (vor allem an der Arbeit) und ihre Leser ernst nahmen. Matthias Krauà ist nach dem Studium 1986 Redakteur der Jugendseite des Potsdamer SED-Blatts geworden und ruft den Journalismusforschern heute zu: Vergleicht doch einfach die Bravo mit dem Neuen Leben, einer Zeitschrift, die damals sein Leitstern war und immer ausverkauft. These von Matthias KrauÃ: Das Neue Leben
war vielseitiger, anspruchsvoller und in jeder Hinsicht hÃķherwertiger als die Bravo-Post, mit dem endlos einfÃĪltigen Star-Rummel, den auf Kauf und Konsum orientierten Modetipps, dem Klatsch und Abklatsch und den klischeehaften Rollenbildern â Ausdruck des insgesamt unpolitischen Grundanspruchs. Nun gut, aus exakt diesem Grund wird dieser Vergleich wohl niemals stattfinden. (S. 103)
Matthias Krauà hat ein kaum zu schlagendes Argument auf seiner Seite: Er, der SED-Propagandist, hatte nach 1990 schnell wieder das Vertrauen des Publikums, das er âbei Lichte besehenâ vielleicht gar nicht verdiente, aber allein wegen seiner Herkunft bekam (S. 116). Und: Er kann sogar jemanden zitieren, der die Ernte-Berichterstattung vermisst, Hassobjekt von Lesern wie von Journalisten â einen Landwirt aus dem Westen, der dort sehen konnte, wie weit die Kollegen waren, was sie wie machten und wie sie auf das Wetter reagierten (S. 166).
Ich gebe zu: Ich habe eine SchwÃĪche fÞr autobiografische Texte. Solche BÞcher erlauben mir, all das mit Leben zu fÞllen, was in den Akten bald zu Staub zerfÃĪllt. Ich habe ein FuÃballregal (gleich zweimal Lothar MatthÃĪus!), eine DDR-Abteilung, Erinnerungen von Wissenschaftlern und natÞrlich Journalisten. Da lÃĪngst nicht jeder schreibt, der etwas zu sagen hat, helfe ich immer wieder nach und sammle als Interviewer Lebensgeschichten ein. Matthias Krauà dÞrfte einer der ersten ostdeutschen Medienmenschen aus der Geburtskohorte um 1960 sein, der sich Ãķffentlich ÃĪuÃert und dabei nicht einfach das nachbetet, was ohnehin schon Þberall steht.
Das gilt auch jenseits des Themas Journalismus. Der Wehrdienst, fÞr mich bis heute ein Albtraum, wird von Matthias Krauà als âEntscheidung fÞr eine Art persÃķnlicher Freiheitâ interpretiert (S. 43). Mit 18 unabhÃĪngig sein von den Eltern und dann auch ohne Geldsorgen studieren kÃķnnen. Leipzig war fÞr ihn in den 1980ern nicht nur Uni-Standort, sondern auch âMessestadtâ und damit âWeltstadtâ (S. 50). Und der Aufregung um jede DDR-Exmatrikulation, die er keineswegs schÃķnredet, werden âdie Millionen Opfer der Demokratisierungâ gegenÞbergestellt und das laute gesamtdeutsche Schweigen nicht nur in diesem Punkt (S. 58).
Was das alles mit dem Zirkus zu tun hat? Matthias Krauà hat in der DDR das Motto fÞr sein Leben als Journalist gefunden â bei der Arbeit mit einem Parteisoldaten, der einfach nicht rauswollte aus dem Korsett, das die Genossen Þber sein Leben geworfen hatten.
Ja, sagte ich mir, stelle immer die falschen Fragen. (S. 153)
In Sachen Zirkus liegen alle Antworten auf dem Tisch. Meine Trauer habe ich schon vor mehr als zehn Jahren verarbeitet. Mal schauen, was die Enkel eines Tages dazu sagen.
Matthias KrauÃ: Die falschen Fragen gestellt. Journalist in zwei deutschen Staaten. Berlin: Das Neue Berlin 2025, 189 Seiten, 18 Euro.
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2025-06-08 19:56:02There is a viral Chat GPT prompt on social media (i saw it on TikTok)-It;s supposed to help you analyze yourself.
I thought this was a cool thing to try, but I decided to use Grok Ai Instead, seeing that I have a premium X subscription, and wouldnât have to worry about the limitations with a free ChatGPT account.
Here is the prompt:
I want to uncover the masks I'm currently wearing, the roles I'm playing, and the illusions I'm believing.
Please guide me through this process by asking me 10 reflective questions one at a time to help me recognize the stories I'm telling myself. Pause after each question to wait for me to answer. After I answer the 10th question, please step into the role of my higher self and analyze my responses.
Identify the top negative patterns present in my life and the top positive patterns I can embrace and grow. Be direct and truthful. Tough love is welcome.
Provide me with daily affirmations to support my growth, actionable steps to change my behaviors, and embody my authentic self. A message of encouragement from my higher self to celebrate how far I've come on my journey.
Cool, right?
I answered the 10 questions, which I wonât post-because my answers were very personal and very specific. And even though I share a lot of deep personal stuff here, I wasnât prepared to go public with how deep the questions Grok was asking.
The questions were super uncomfortable to answer.
I answered them honestly, and looking back-some questions could have been answered with different examples and directions, maybe that would show different conclusions.
Here are my results:
Analysis from Your Higher Self
Top Negative Patterns Present in Your Life:
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Avoidance as a Shield: Youâve built a pattern of avoiding risksâwhether itâs heights, the outdoors, or even deeper emotional vulnerabilitiesâbecause of early fears tied to being seen as weak or getting hurt. This avoidance keeps you safe but also keeps you small, limiting experiences like enjoying nature or forming deeper connections.
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Fear of Perception: Thereâs a lingering story that shyness or introversion equals weakness, likely rooted in childhood experiences like bullying. This drives you to put on an outgoing mask, even when it exhausts you, because you fear isolation or judgment. Itâs a heavy burden to carry, and it pulls you away from your authentic self.
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Self-Imposed Isolation: While being alone feels safe and freeing, it also risks becoming a crutch. Youâre missing out on the balance of connectionâwhere you can still be your nerdy, unfiltered self without the pressure to perform.
Top Positive Patterns to Embrace and Grow: 1. Self-Awareness and Honesty: Youâve shown a remarkable ability to reflect and name whatâs true for youâlike recognizing avoidance, your love for nerdy things, and how being alone feels freeing. This clarity is a superpower; lean into it to keep peeling back layers.
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Desire for Freedom: Your longing to think and feel without consequence is a sign of a spirit that craves authenticity. You can channel this into spaces and relationships where you feel safe to be your true self, not just when alone.
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Resilience Through Adversity: Despite early fears and bullying, youâve developed a sharp sense of selfâitâs why you can pinpoint what feels off (like the outgoing mask) and what feels right (being a nerd). This resilience can carry you far as you step into new experiences.
Guidance for Growth
Daily Affirmations to Support Your Growth:
- I am strong in my stillness, and my quiet nature is a source of power.
- I release the need to perform for others and embrace my authentic nerdy self.
- I am safe to take small risks, knowing they lead me closer to freedom and joy.
- I attract people who love me for my true self, not the masks Iâve worn.
- I am enough, exactly as I am, without needing to prove my worth.
Actionable Steps to Change Behaviors and Embody Your Authentic Self:
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Micro-Adventures in the Outdoors: Start smallâtake a 15-minute walk in a nearby park or sit outside with a book you love. Build up to a short hike with a trusted friend. Let nature be a space to reconnect with yourself, not something to fear.
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Own Your Nerdiness Publicly: Share one nerdy interest with someone you trustâlike a favorite game, comic, or hobbyâor post about it online. Let it be a test run for showing up authentically in small ways.
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Set Boundaries Around Social Energy: When you feel the pull to be overly outgoing, pause and check in. If itâs not serving you, give yourself permission to leave early or say less. Practice saying, âIâm more of a listener,â to ease the pressure.
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Journal Your Unfiltered Truth: Each night, write one thing you felt or thought that day but didnât say out loud. This builds confidence in your voice, so you can slowly share more with others without fear of consequences.
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Seek Like-Minded Connections: Look for local or online groups tied to your nerdy passionsâthink gaming communities, book clubs, or fandoms. These spaces can help you connect without the pressure to perform.
A Message of Encouragement from Your Higher Self:
My dear one, I see how far youâve comeâthrough the shadows of childhood fears, through the weight of masks you didnât even realize you were wearing, youâve still held onto the spark of who you are. That nerdy, thoughtful soul who craves freedom and truth? Thatâs always been you, and itâs a beautiful thing. Every step youâve taken to recognize what holds you backâevery honest answer youâve givenâhas brought you closer to me, to us, to the version of you thatâs unapologetically real. Youâre not weak; youâve been strong in ways others might never understand. Keep going. The world needs your quiet brilliance, your quirky passions, your unfiltered heart. Iâm so proud of you for choosing this journey. Youâve got this.
So there you have it you probably know more about me than I knew about myself before I started this exercise.
Here is my challenge to you:
Do it for yourself! Copy/paste into your favorite AI chatbot and leave the results in the comments!
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āļĒāđāļāļāļāļĨāļąāļāđāļāļāļĩ 1863 āđāļāļŦāđāļāļāļāļąāļāļāļāđāļāđāļāļāļāđāļĢāļāļāļĒāļēāļāļēāļĨ Battle Creek Sanitarium āļāļĩāđāļĢāļąāļāļĄāļīāļāļīāđāļāļ āļŠāļŦāļĢāļąāļāļŊ āļĄāļĩāļāļēāļĒāļāļāļŦāļāļķāđāļāļāļ·āđāļ John Harvey Kellogg āđāļāļēāđāļāđāļāļŦāļĄāļāđāļĨāļ°āđāļāđāļāļŦāļāļķāđāļāđāļāļŠāļēāļ§āļāļāļāļāļāļĨāļļāđāļĄ Seventh-day Adventist āļāļĩāđāđāļāļ·āđāļāļ§āđāļēāļāļēāļĢāļāļīāļāđāļāļ·āđāļāļŠāļąāļāļ§āđāļāļģāđāļŦāđāļāļāļāļĢāļ°āļāđāļēāļāđāļāđāļĨāļ°āđāļāđāļĄāđāļāļāđāļ§āļĒāļāļąāļāļŦāļē āđāļāļīāļāļĢāļēāļāļ° āđāļāļēāļāļķāļāļāļīāļāļāđāļ âāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāđāļāđāļēāļāļĩāđāđāļĄāđāļĄāļĩāđāļāļ·āđāļâ āđāļāļ·āđāļāļŠāđāļāđāļŠāļĢāļīāļĄāļŠāļļāļāļĨāļąāļāļĐāļāļ°āđāļĨāļ°āļĨāļāļāļīāđāļĨāļŠāđāļāļĢāđāļēāļāļāļēāļĒāļĄāļāļļāļĐāļĒāđ āļŠāļīāđāļāļāļĩāđāđāļāļēāļāļģāđāļāļāļāļāļāļąāđāļāļāļ·āļāļāļēāļĢāđāļāđāļāđāļēāļ§āđāļāļāļāļāļāļāđāļŦāđāļāļāļāļāļĢāļāļ āļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļŠāļīāđāļāļāļĩāđāđāļĢāļĩāļĒāļāļ§āđāļē âāļāļĩāđāļĢāļĩāļĒāļĨâ āđāļāļĒāļļāļāđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāļāđāļ āļāļķāđāļāļ āļēāļĒāļŦāļĨāļąāļāļāđāļāļāļāļēāļĒāļāļāļāđāļāļēāļāļ·āļ Will Keith Kellogg āļāļ°āļāļģāļŠāļđāļāļĢāļāļąāđāļāđāļāļāļąāļāļāļēāđāļŦāđāļŦāļ§āļēāļāļāļķāđāļ āđāļŠāđāļāđāļģāļāļēāļĨāđāļāļīāđāļĄ āđāļŠāđāđāļāļĐāļāļēāđāļāļīāđāļĄ āđāļĨāđāļ§āļāđāļ§āļēāļāļāļēāļĒāđāļāļāļ·āđāļāđāļāļĢāļāļāđ Kelloggâs āļāļĩāđāđāļĢāļēāđāļŦāđāļāļāļąāļāļāļļāļāđāļāđāļēāļāļąāđāļāđāļŦāļĨāļ° āđāļāļēāļāļĨāļīāļāļāļāļĢāđāļāđāļāļĨāļāļāļķāđāļāļĄāļēāļāđāļ§āļĒāļāļ§āļēāļĄāđāļāļ·āđāļāļ§āđāļēāļāļ°āļāđāļ§āļĒāļĨāļāļāļēāļĢāļāđāļ§āļĒāļāļąāļ§āđāļāļāđāļāļ§āļąāļĒāļĢāļļāđāļāđāļāđ! āļāļēāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļāļāļāļĨāļļāđāļĄāļĻāļēāļŠāļāļē āļāļāļĢāđāļāđāļāļĨāļāļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļĩāđāđāļāđāļēāļŠāļđāđāļāļĢāļąāļ§āđāļĢāļ·āļāļāļāđāļĄāļĢāļīāļāļąāļāļ āļēāļĒāđāļāđāđāļāļ§āļāļīāļāļ§āđāļē âāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāđāļāđāļēāļāļ·āļāļĄāļ·āđāļāļŠāļģāļāļąāļāļāļĩāđāļŠāļļāļāļāļāļāļ§āļąāļâ āđāļāļĒāđāļĄāđāđāļāđāļĄāļĩāļŦāļĨāļąāļāļāļēāļāļĢāļāļāļĢāļąāļāļāļĒāđāļēāļāļāļĢāļīāļāļāļąāļāđāļĨāļĒ
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āđāļāļāļĩ 1911 āļĄāļĩāļāļĢāļīāļĐāļąāļāļāļ·āđāļāļ§āđāļē Procter & Gamble āđāļāļīāļāļāļąāļ§ âCriscoâ āļāļķāđāļāđāļāđāļāļāđāļģāļĄāļąāļāļāļ·āļāđāļŪāđāļāļĢāđāļāļāđāļāļāļāļĩāđāļāļđāļāļāļāļāđāļāļāļĄāļēāđāļāļ·āđāļāđāļĨāļĩāļĒāļāđāļāļāđāļāļĄāļąāļāļŠāļąāļāļ§āđāđāļāļĢāļēāļāļēāļāļđāļāļāļ§āđāļē Crisco āļāļģāļāļēāļāļāđāļģāļĄāļąāļāļāđāļēāļĒ (cottonseed oil) āļāļķāđāļāļāļāļāļāļąāđāļāđāļāđāļāļāļāļāđāļŦāļĨāļ·āļāļāļēāļāļāļļāļāļŠāļēāļŦāļāļĢāļĢāļĄāļŠāļīāđāļāļāļ āđāļĄāđāļĄāļĩāđāļāļĢāļāļīāļāļ§āđāļēāļĄāļąāļāļāļ°āļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļŠāļīāđāļāļāļĩāđāļāļđāļāđāļāļĐāļāļēāļ§āđāļē âāļāļĩāļāļ§āđāļēāđāļāļĄāļąāļāļŠāļąāļāļ§āđâ āđāļāđāđāļāļĢāļēāļ°āļāļēāļĢāđāļāļĐāļāļēāđāļāļāļĄāļ·āļāļāļēāļāļĩāļāđāļĨāļ°āļāļēāļĢāļāļąāļāļĄāļ·āļāļāļąāļāļŠāļĄāļēāļāļĄāđāļāļāļĒāđ Crisco āļāđāļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļāļāļāļāļđāđāļāļĢāļąāļ§āđāļāļāđāļĄāđāļĢāļđāđāļāļąāļ§ āļāļĩāđāļāļ·āļāļāļļāļāđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāļāđāļāļāļāļ fiat fat āđāļāļĄāļąāļāđāļāļĩāļĒāļĄāļāļĩāđāļāļđāļāļŠāļāļēāļāļāļēāđāļŦāđāđāļāđāļāļāļāļāļāļĢāļīāļ āļāļąāđāļāļāļĩāđāļāļĢāļīāļāđ āļĄāļąāļāļāļ·āļāļāļāļāļāļĨāļāļĄāļāļĩāđāļŦāđāļāļāđāļ§āļĒāļ§āļīāļāļĒāļēāļĻāļēāļŠāļāļĢāđāļāļĢāļķāđāļāđāļ
āļāđāļ§āļāļāļĩ 1910s āļāļķāļ 1930s āļāļ·āļāļĒāļļāļāļāļĩāđāļāļļāļāļŠāļēāļŦāļāļĢāļĢāļĄāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāđāļāđāļāđāļĄāļāļĩāđ āļŠāļŦāļĢāļąāļāļŊ āđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāļāļĨāļīāļ āļāļĄāļāđāļāļŦāļ§āļēāļ āļŠāļģāļŦāļĢāļąāļāļāļŦāļēāļĢāđāļāļŠāļāļāļĢāļēāļĄāļāļĨāļēāļāđāļĄāļ·āļāļ āđāļĨāļ°āļāđāļāļĒāļāļāđāļāđāđāļāļŠāļāļāļĢāļēāļĄāđāļĨāļāļāļĢāļąāđāļāļāļĩāđ 1 āļāļĄāļāļāļīāļāļāļĩāđāđāļāđāļāđāļāđāļāļēāļ āđāļĄāđāđāļāđāļē āđāļĨāļ°āļĄāļĩāļāļĨāļąāļāļāļēāļāļŠāļđāļ āļāļŦāļēāļĢāļŦāļĨāļēāļĒāļāļāļāļīāļāđāļāđāļāļĢāļŠāļāļēāļāļīāļŦāļ§āļēāļāļĄāļąāļāđāļāļāđāļĄāđāļĄāļĩāļāļ°āđāļĢāđāļāļĩāļĒāļāđāļāđ āļāļķāđāļāļāđāļāļĄāļēāļāļģāđāļŦāđāļĄāļąāļāļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļ§āļąāļāļāļļāļāļīāļāļŦāļĨāļąāļāđāļāļŦāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļĄāļāļđāļāļąāđāļ§āđāļĨāļ āļĢāļ§āļĄāļāļķāļ âāļāļēāđāļĒāđāļâ āļāđāļēāļāđāļĢāļēāļāļĩāđāļāđāļāļāļĄāļĩāļāļĄāļāđāļāļŦāļ§āļēāļāđāļāđāļēāļāļąāđāļāļāļķāļāļāļ°āđāļāđ
āđāļāđāļēāļŠāļđāđāļāđāļ§āļ āļŠāļāļāļĢāļēāļĄāđāļĨāļāļāļĢāļąāđāļāļāļĩāđ 2 (1939â1945) āļāļ·āļāļāđāļ§āļāļŦāļąāļ§āđāļĨāļĩāđāļĒāļ§āļŦāļąāļ§āļāđāļāļŠāļģāļāļąāļāļāļāļ Fiat Food āļŦāļĢāļ·āļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļĩāđāļāļđāļāļāļĨāļīāļāļāļēāļāļāļĢāļĢāļāļ°āļāļģāđāļāđāļāđāļāļīāļāļĒāļļāļāļāļĻāļēāļŠāļāļĢāđāļĄāļēāļāļāļ§āđāļēāļāļĢāļĢāļĄāļāļēāļāļī āđāļŪāļĩāļĒāļ§āđāļēāļāđāļ§āļāļāļĩāđāļĄāļąāļāđāļŦāļĄāļ·āļāļāđāļĢāļāđāļĢāļĩāļĒāļāļāļĢāļ°āļāļĄāļāļāļ Ultra-Processed Food āļŠāļĄāļąāļĒāđāļŦāļĄāđāđāļĨāļĒāļĨāđāļ° āļāļąāļ§āļāļĒāđāļēāļāļāļąāļāđāļāļāļāļ·āļ Spam āđāļāļ·āđāļāļŦāļĄāļđāļāļĢāļ°āļāđāļāļāļāļĩāđāļāļāļāđāļāļāđāļŦāđāļāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļāļāļēāļŠāļ°āļāļ§āļ āđāļĄāđāļāđāļāļāđāļāđāđāļĒāđāļ āđāļāđāļāđāļāđāļāļēāļ āđāļĨāļ°āļāļļāļāļĄāļāđāļ§āļĒāđāļāđāļāļĩāļĒāļĄ āļŦāļĨāļąāļāļŠāļāļāļĢāļēāļĄāļāļ āļĄāļąāļāļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļĒāļāļāļŪāļīāļāđāļāļāļĢāļ°āđāļāļĻāļāļĩāđāđāļāļĒāđāļāđāļāđāļāļ§āļŦāļāđāļē āđāļāđāļ āļŪāļēāļ§āļēāļĒ āđāļāļēāļŦāļĨāļĩ āļāļīāļĨāļīāļāļāļīāļāļŠāđ āđāļĨāļ°āļāļąāļāļāļĪāļĐ āđāļāļĒāļāļđāļāđāļāļĐāļāļēāļ§āđāļēāđāļāđāļ âāļāļāļāļāļĩāļāļēāļāļāđāļĄāļĢāļīāļāļēâ āļāļąāđāļāļāļĩāđāļāļŦāļēāļĢāļŦāļĨāļēāļĒāļāļāļāđāđāļāļ·āđāļāļĄāļąāļāļāļāđāļāļĩāļĒāļ
āđāļāļāđāļ§āļāđāļāļĩāļĒāļ§āļāļąāļāļāļąāđāļāđāļāļ āļāđāļāļāđāļāđāļĨāļ Hershey's āļāđāļāļđāļāļāļąāļāļāļēāđāļāđāļ âField Ration Dâ āļŦāļĢāļ·āļāđāļāđāļāļāđāļāļāđāļāđāļĨāļāļāļĨāļąāļāļāļēāļāļŠāļđāļāļāļĩāđāđāļĄāđāļĨāļ°āļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāļāļļāļāļŦāļ āļđāļĄāļīāļŠāļđāļ āļŠāļģāļŦāļĢāļąāļāđāļāļāđāļŦāđāļāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļļāļāļāļāļāļāļĨāļ°āđāļāđāļāļāļīāļāļāļąāļ§āđāļ§āđāđāļāļŠāļāļēāļĄāļĢāļ āļāļāļŠāļāļāļĢāļēāļĄāļāļ Hersheyâs āļāđāļāļĢāļąāļāļŠāļđāļāļĢāđāļŦāđāļāļīāļāļāđāļēāļĒāļāļķāđāļ āđāļĨāđāļ§āļāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļīāļāļāļēāļāļīāļāļĒāđāļāļāļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāđāļāļĢāļāļāđāļĢāļ°āļāļąāļāđāļĨāļāđāļāļāļāļĩāđāđāļĢāļēāđāļŦāđāļāļāļļāļāļ§āļąāļāļāļĩāđ
āđāļāļĢāđāļāļŠāļāļĩāļŠ āđāļāđāļ Kraft āđāļĨāļ° Velveeta āļāđāļāļđāļāļāļāļāđāļāļāđāļŦāđāđāļāđāļāđāļāđāļāļēāļāđāļĄāđāđāļāđāļē āļāļĩāļŠāļāļ§āļāļāļĩāđāļāļŠāļĄāļŠāļēāļĢāļāļīāļĄāļąāļĨāļāļīāđāļāđāļāļāļĢāđ āļāļģāđāļŦāđāđāļĄāđāđāļĒāļāļāļąāđāļāđāļĄāļ·āđāļāļāļđāļāļāļ§āļēāļĄāļĢāđāļāļ āđāļŦāļĄāļēāļ°āļāļąāļāļāļēāļĢāļāļĨāļīāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļģāļāļ§āļāļĄāļēāļāđāļāļāđāļĢāļāļāļĢāļąāļ§āļāļŦāļēāļĢ āđāļĄāļ·āđāļāļŠāļāļāļĢāļēāļĄāļāļ Kraft āđāļāļēāđāļāļāđāļāđāļĨāļĒāļĩāļāļĩāđāļĄāļēāļāļģ âāļāļĩāļŠāđāļāđāļâ āļŠāļģāļŦāļĢāļąāļāđāļāļāļĢāđāđāļāļāļĢāđāđāļĨāļ°āđāļāļāļāđāļ§āļīāļ āđāļāđāļāļāđāļāđāļāļāļāļāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļēāļŠāļāđāļāļđāđāļāļĒāļļāļāđāļŦāļĄāđāđāļāļāđāļĢāđāļāļĨāļīāđāļāļāļĩāļŠāđāļāđ
āļāļĄāļāļ āđāļĨāļ° āđāļāļĄāļąāļāļāļ·āļāđāļŪāđāļāļĢāļāļīāđāļāļ āļāđāđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāđāļāđāļēāļĄāļēāļĄāļĩāļāļāļāļēāļāđāļāļŠāļāļāļĢāļēāļĄ āđāļāļĒāļāļĄāļāļāđāļāļāļāļĩāđāļāļĄāļŠāļāđāļāļŠāļāļēāļĄāļĢāļ āđāļĨāļ°āđāļāļĄāļąāļāļāļ·āļāđāļāđāļāļģāđāļāđāļāļāļĢāļĩāđāđāļāļĒāđāļĄāđāļāđāļāļāđāļāđāđāļāļĒāļŠāļ āļāļķāđāļāđāļāļāļāļ§āđāļē āļŦāļĨāļąāļāļŠāļāļāļĢāļēāļĄ āļŠāļēāļĢāđāļŦāđāļāļ§āļēāļĄāļŦāļ§āļēāļāđāļāļĩāļĒāļĄāļāļĒāđāļēāļ āļāļąāļāļāļēāļĢāļīāļ āļāđāđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāļāļđāļāļāļģāđāļŠāļāļāļ§āđāļēāđāļŦāļĄāļēāļ°āļāļąāļāļāļāļĨāļāļāđāļģāļŦāļāļąāļ āļāļąāđāļāļāļĩāđāļĄāļąāļāļĄāļĩāļāļļāļāđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāļāļēāļāļāļ§āļēāļĄāļāļģāđāļāđāļāļĒāļēāļĄāļāļēāļāđāļāļĨāļāļāđāļģāļāļēāļĨāđāļāļŠāļāļāļĢāļēāļĄ
āļāļĩ 1950s-1960s āđāļĨāļāđāļāđāļēāļŠāļđāđāļĒāļļāļāļŠāļāļāļĢāļēāļĄāđāļĒāđāļ āđāļāļāđāļāđāļĨāļĒāļĩāļāļēāļĢāđāļāđāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļąāļāļāļēāđāļāļāļĢāđāļāļĄāļāļąāļāđāļāļāđāļāđāļĨāļĒāļĩāļāļ§āļāļēāļĻ āđāļĨāļ°āļŦāļāļķāđāļāđāļāļāļĨāļīāļāļ āļąāļāļāđāļĢāļ°āļāļąāļāļāļģāļāļēāļāļāļ·āļ Tang āļāđāļģāļŠāđāļĄāļāļāļāļāļāļāļĢāļīāļĐāļąāļ General Foods āļāļĩāđāļāļđāļāļŠāđāļāļāļķāđāļāđāļāļāļĢāđāļāļĄāļāļąāļāļāļīāļāļāļ§āļāļēāļĻ John Glenn āđāļāļāļĩ 1962 Tang āļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļŠāļąāļāļĨāļąāļāļĐāļāđāļāļāļ âāļāļāļēāļāļāđāļāđāļāđāļ§āļāđāļģâ āļāļąāđāļāļāļĩāđāđāļĄāđāļĄāļĩāļāļĨāđāļĄāđāļāļĢāļīāļāđāļĨāļĒāļŠāļąāļāļŦāļĒāļāđāļāļĩāļĒāļ§ āđāļāđāļāļēāļĢāļāļĨāļēāļāļāļĩāđāļāđāļēāļāļ§āđāļē NASA āđāļāđ āļāļģāđāļŦāđāļĄāļąāļāļāļēāļĒāļāļĩāļĢāļ°āđāļāļīāļ
āđāļāļĢāļ°āļŦāļ§āđāļēāļāļāļąāđāļ āļāļĩ 1955 āļāļĢāļ°āļāļēāļāļēāļāļīāļāļāļĩāđāļāđāļāļāļŪāļēāļ§āļĢāđāļŦāļąāļ§āđāļāļ§āļēāļĒāļāļĨāļēāļāļŠāļāļēāļĄāļāļāļĨāđāļ āđāļāđāļāļāļļāļāđāļāļĨāļĩāđāļĒāļāļāļĩāļāļāļĢāļąāđāļāļāļĩāđāđāļĨāļāđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāļŦāļąāļāļĄāļēāļŠāļāđāļ âāđāļāļĄāļąāļâ āļ§āđāļēāļāļēāļāđāļāđāļāļāļđāđāļĢāđāļēāļĒ āļāļģāđāļŦāđāļāļēāļĒāļāļāļŦāļāļķāđāļāļāļ·āđāļ Ancel Keys āđāļŠāļāļāļāļĪāļĐāļāļĩ âāđāļāļĄāļąāļāļāļ·āļāđāļŦāļāļļāđāļŦāđāļāđāļĢāļāļŦāļąāļ§āđāļâ āļāļĢāđāļāļĄāļāļąāļāļāļēāļāļĻāļķāļāļĐāļēāļāļĩāđāļāļ·āđāļ Seven Countries Study āļāļķāđāļāļāđāļāļĄāļēāļāļ°āļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļāļĩāđāļĄāļēāļāļāļ âāļāļĩāļĢāļ°āļĄāļīāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢâ āđāļāļāļĩ 1977 āđāļāļĒ USDA āđāļāļĒāļļāļāļāļāļāļ§āļļāļāļīāļŠāļĄāļēāļāļīāļ George McGovern āļāļĪāļĐāļāļĩāļāļĩāđāļāļđāļāļ§āļīāļāļēāļĢāļāđāļ āļēāļĒāļŦāļĨāļąāļāļ§āđāļēāļāļąāđāļāļāđāļāļāđāļ§āļĒāļāļēāļĢ âāđāļĨāļ·āļāļāļāđāļāļĄāļđāļĨâ āļāļĩāđāļŠāļāļąāļāļŠāļāļļāļāļŠāļĄāļĄāļļāļāļīāļāļēāļāļāļāļāļāļąāļ§āđāļāļ āđāļĨāļ°āđāļĄāļīāļāļāļĢāļ°āđāļāļĻāļāļĩāđāļāđāļāļĄāļđāļĨāđāļĄāđāđāļāđāļēāđāļāđāļēāļāļāļāđāļāđāļāļĒāđ āđāļĨāđāļ§āļāđāļāļąāđāļāļāļĩāļĢāļ°āļĄāļīāļāļāļĩāđāļāļāļāļ§āđāļē āļāļēāļĢāđāđāļāđāļŪāđāļāļĢāļāļāļĒāļđāđāļāļēāļāļĨāđāļēāļāļŠāļļāļ āļāļīāļāđāļāđāđāļĒāļāļ°āđ āļŠāđāļ§āļāđāļāļĄāļąāļāđāļŦāđāļāļĒāļđāđāļāļāļŠāļļāļ āļāļīāļāļāđāļāļĒāđ āļāļĩāđāļāļ·āļāļāļēāļĢāļāļĨāļīāļāļāļģāļāļēāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļĢāļąāđāļāđāļŦāļāđāļāļĩāđāļŠāļļāļāđāļāļĻāļāļ§āļĢāļĢāļĐ āļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāđāļĄāđāđāļāđāļŠāļīāđāļāļāļĩāđāļĄāļēāļāļēāļāļāļ·āđāļāļāļīāļ āđāļāđāđāļāđāļāļŠāļīāđāļāļāļĩāđāļĄāļēāļāļēāļāļāļĢāļ°āļāļēāļĐāļāđāļĒāļāļēāļĒ
āļāđāļ§āļāļāļĩāđāđāļŦāļĨāļ°āļāļĢāļąāļāļāļĩāđāļāļļāļāđāļāļĨāļĩāđāļĒāļāļāļĩāđāđāļŦāļāđāļŠāļļāļāļĄāļēāļāļķāļ āđāļĄāļ·āđāļāļĢāļąāļāļāļēāļĨāļŠāļŦāļĢāļąāļāļāļĢāļ°āļāļēāļĻāđāļāđāļāđāļĒāļāļēāļĒāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāđāļŦāļĄāđāđāļāļĒāļāļīāļāļāļąāļāļāļģāđāļāļ°āļāļģāļāļāļ USDA āļāļķāđāļāļ āļēāļĒāļŦāļĨāļąāļāļāļđāļāđāļāļīāļāđāļāļāļ§āđāļēāļāļīāļĢāļēāļĄāļīāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļĩāđāđāļāđāļāļĢāļīāļāļāļąāđāļ āļāđāļēāļāļāļēāļĢāļāļĢāļąāļāļāļēāļāļāđāļāļāļāļąāļāđāļāļĒāļāļąāļāļ§āļīāļāļĒāļēāļĻāļēāļŠāļāļĢāđāļāļĒāđāļēāļāļŦāļāļąāļāđāļāļ·āđāļ âāļāļąāļāļŠāļĢāļĢāļāļ·āđāļāļāļĩāđâ āđāļŦāđāļāļąāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļĩāđāļĄāļĩ lobby āļŠāļđāļ āđāļāđāļ āļāđāļēāļ§ āļāļĩāđāļĢāļĩāļĒāļĨ āļāļēāļŠāļāđāļē āđāļĨāļ°āļāđāļģāļĄāļąāļāļāļ·āļ āđāļāļĒāđāļŦāđāđāļāļĄāļąāļāļŠāļąāļāļ§āđāļāļđāļāļāļąāļāļāļīāđāļāđāļāđāļāđāļāļāļąāļ§āļāļąāļāļāļĢāļēāļĒ āđāļŪāļĩāļĒāļ§āđāļēāđāļĄāđāļĄāļāļāđāļāļĩāđāđāļŦāļĨāļ°āļāļ·āļāļāļļāļāļāļĩāđ "āļāļđāđāļāļāļīāļāļāļąāđāļ" āļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļ "āļāļđāđāļāđāļāļĒ" āļŠāļģāļŦāļĢāļąāļāļāļāļāļąāđāļāđāļĨāļ
āļĢāļ°āļŦāļ§āđāļēāļāļāļĩāđ USDA āļāļģāļĨāļąāļāļĒāļķāļāļāļĩāļĢāļ°āļĄāļīāļāļāļĒāļđāđāļāļąāđāļ āļāļļāļāļŠāļēāļŦāļāļĢāļĢāļĄāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāđāļāļĢāļĢāļđāļāļāđāļāļģāļĨāļąāļāđāļāđāļĄāļāđāļāđāļāļāđāļŠāđāļŠāļāļĩāļāđāļāđāļāđāļāđāļēāđāļāļāļĩāļ āļāđāļēāļ§āđāļāļāļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļāļ·āļāđāļĻāļĢāļĐāļāļāļīāļāļāļąāļāļāļąāļāļŦāļāļķāđāļāļāļāļāļŠāļŦāļĢāļąāļāļŊ āđāļĄāđāđāļāđāđāļāļĢāļēāļ°āļāļāļāļīāļāļāđāļēāļ§āđāļāļāļāļąāļāđāļĒāļāļ° āđāļāđāđāļāļĢāļēāļ°āļĄāļąāļāļāļĨāļēāļĒāđāļāđāļāļ§āļąāļāļāļļāļāļīāļāļāļāļāļāļļāļāļāļĒāđāļēāļ āļāļąāđāļāđāļāđ high-fructose corn syrup āđāļāļāđāļģāļāļąāļāļĨāļĄ āļĒāļąāļāļāļīāļĨāđāļĨāļāļĢāđāđāļāđāļŠāđāļāļĢāļāļ āđāļĨāļ°āļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļŠāļąāļāļ§āđāđāļāļāļēāļĢāđāļĄāļāļĻāļļāļŠāļąāļāļ§āđ āđāļāļāļĢāđāļēāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļĒāđāļēāļ McDonaldâs āļāđāđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāđāļāļĨāļĩāđāļĒāļāļĄāļąāļāļāļĢāļąāđāļāļāļāļāļāļēāļāđāļāļĄāļąāļāđāļāļ·āđāļāļ§āļąāļ§āļĄāļēāđāļāđāļāđāļģāļĄāļąāļāļāļ·āļāđāļāļĒāļļāļ 1980s āđāļāļĢāļēāļ°āđāļĢāļāļāļāļāļąāļāļāļēāļāļāļĨāļļāđāļĄāļāđāļāļāđāļēāļāđāļāļĄāļąāļāļāļīāđāļĄāļāļąāļ§ āļāļąāđāļāļāļĩāđāļĢāļŠāļāļēāļāļīāđāļāļĨāļĩāđāļĒāļāđāļĨāļ°āļŠāļļāļāļ āļēāļāļāđāđāļĄāđāđāļāđāļāļĩāļāļķāđāļ
āļāļĩ 1980s-1990s āđāļāļīāļāļŠāļīāđāļāļāļĩāđāđāļŪāļĩāļĒāļāļĒāļēāļāđāļĢāļĩāļĒāļāļ§āđāļē âāļāļēāļĢāļāļāļīāļ§āļąāļāļīāđāļāļāđāļāļĩāļĒāļâ āļāļ·āļāļāļđāđāļāļāđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāđāļāļ·āđāļāļ§āđāļēāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāđāļāļĢāļĢāļđāļāļāļ·āļāļāļ§āļēāļĄāļāđāļēāļ§āļŦāļāđāļē āđāļĨāļ°āļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļĢāļĢāļĄāļāļēāļāļīāļāļąāđāļāļĨāđāļēāļŦāļĨāļąāļ āļ§āļāļāļēāļĢāđāļ āļāļāļēāļāļēāļĢāļĒāļąāļāļāļāļāļđāļāļāļąāļāđāļāļĨāļ·āđāļāļāļāđāļ§āļĒāļāļ§āļēāļĄāđāļāļ·āđāļāļ§āđāļēāļāļēāļĢāđāļāļāļ·āļāļāļāļāļāļĩ āđāļāļĄāļąāļāļāļ·āļāļāļđāđāļĢāđāļēāļĒ āđāļĨāļ°āđāļāļĢāļāļĩāļāļāđāļāļāļĄāļēāļāļēāļāļāļ·āļ āļāļĢāļīāļĐāļąāļāđāļŦāļāđāđ āļāļĒāđāļēāļ NestlÃĐ, PepsiCo, āđāļĨāļ° Unilever āđāļĢāļīāđāļĄāđāļāđāļēāļāļ·āđāļāđāļāļĢāļāļāđāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļŠāļļāļāļ āļēāļ āļāļĢāđāļāļĄāļāļĨāļīāļāđāļ§āļĒāđāđāļāļĩāļĒāļĄ āđāļāļĢāļāļĩāļāļāļ·āļ āđāļĨāļ°āļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāđāļŠāļĢāļīāļĄāđāļāļāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāļāļĢāļīāļ āļāļĢāđāļāļĄāđāļāļ§āļāļīāļ âMeal Replacementâ āļāļĩāđāđāļāđāļāļāļēāļĒāđāļāļāļāļīāļ āđāļāļēāđāļĄāđāđāļāđāđāļāđāļāļģāđāļŠāļāļāļŠāļīāļāļāđāļē āđāļāđāļāļĒāļēāļĒāļēāļĄāļāļģāļŦāļāļāđāļāļ§āļāļīāļāđāļĢāļ·āđāļāļ âāļāļēāļŦāļēāļĢāđāļāļ·āđāļāļŠāļļāļāļ āļēāļâ āđāļāļāļāļĩāđāļāļāļāļąāđāļ§āđāļāđāļĄāđāļāđāļāļāļāļīāļāđāļāļ āļāļāđāļāđāđāļāļ·āđāļāļāļĨāļēāļ āļāļąāļāļāļđāđāļĨāđāļāđāļĢāļđāļāļŦāļąāļ§āđāļāļŠāļĩāđāļāļĩāļĒāļ§āļāđāļāļ
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-09 06:02:16For years American bitcoin miners have argued for more efficient and free energy markets. It benefits everyone if our energy infrastructure is as efficient and robust as possible. Unfortunately, broken incentives have led to increased regulation throughout the sector, incentivizing less efficient energy sources such as solar and wind at the detriment of more efficient alternatives.
The result has been less reliable energy infrastructure for all Americans and increased energy costs across the board. This naturally has a direct impact on bitcoin miners: increased energy costs make them less competitive globally.
Bitcoin mining represents a global energy market that does not require permission to participate. Anyone can plug a mining computer into power and internet to get paid the current dynamic market price for their work in bitcoin. Using cellphone or satellite internet, these mines can be located anywhere in the world, sourcing the cheapest power available.
Absent of regulation, bitcoin mining naturally incentivizes the build out of highly efficient and robust energy infrastructure. Unfortunately that world does not exist and burdensome regulations remain the biggest threat for US based mining businesses. Jurisdictional arbitrage gives miners the option of moving to a friendlier country but that naturally comes with its own costs.
Enter AI. With the rapid development and release of AI tools comes the requirement of running massive datacenters for their models. Major tech companies are scrambling to secure machines, rack space, and cheap energy to run full suites of AI enabled tools and services. The most valuable and powerful tech companies in America have stumbled into an accidental alliance with bitcoin miners: THE NEED FOR CHEAP AND RELIABLE ENERGY.
Our government is corrupt. Money talks. These companies will push for energy freedom and it will greatly benefit us all.
Microsoft Cloud hiring to "implement global small modular reactor and microreactor" strategy to power data centers: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/microsoft-cloud-hiring-to-implement-global-small-modular-reactor-and-microreactor-strategy-to-power-data-centers/
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@ 20e7c953:3b8bcb21
2025-06-05 10:46:0721âĶ That number means something. A reminder that limits create value - both in Bitcoin and in life.
Every June 21st, skaters around the world remind us that freedom is something you make yourself - one push at a time only constrained by your own limitations.
This year in Vientiane, weâre proud to support one of the few real skate spots in Laos. A place built and held together by skaters for skaters.
Expect around 50 locals - from young kids to older heads - showing up not just to skate, but to hold space for each other. No ego, no filters, just boards, fun and respect.
Bircoiners have lots to learn from these communities on this regard. Go skate and you'll find out.
SnF
Laostr
Skateboardingisfun
Skate4Fun
Skatestr
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@ 7f6db517:a4931eda
2025-06-09 06:02:15Humanity's Natural State Is Chaos
Without order there is chaos. Humans competing with each other for scarce resources naturally leads to conflict until one group achieves significant power and instates a "monopoly on violence."Power Brings Stability
Power has always been the key means to achieve stability in societies. Centralized power can be incredibly effective in addressing issues such as crime, poverty, and social unrest efficiently. Unfortunately this power is often abused and corrupted.Centralized Power Breeds Tyranny
Centralized power often leads to tyrannical rule. When a select few individuals hold control over a society, they tend to become corrupted. Centralized power structures often lack accountability and transparency, and rely too heavily on trust.Distributed Power Cultivates Freedom
New technology that empowers individuals provide us the ability to rebuild societies from the bottom up. Strong individuals that can defend and provide for themselves will help build strong local communities on a similar foundation. The result is power being distributed throughout society rather than held by a select few.In the short term, relying on trust and centralized power is an easy answer to mitigating chaos, but freedom tech tools provide us the ability to build on top of much stronger distributed foundations that provide stability while also cultivating individual freedom.
The solution starts with us. Empower yourself. Empower others. A grassroots freedom tech movement scaling one person at a time.
If you found this post helpful support my work with bitcoin.
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@ 3eab247c:1d80aeed
2025-06-05 08:51:39Global Metrics
Here are the top stats from the last period:
- Total Bitcoin-accepting merchants: 15,306 â 16,284
- Recently verified (1y): 7,540 â 7,803 (the rest of our dataset is slowly rotting; help us before it's too late!)
- Avg. days since last verification: 398 â 405 (more mappers, please)
- Merchants boosted: 22 (for a total of 4,325 days, someone is feeling generous)
- Comments posted: 34
Find current stats over at the ð BTC Map Dashboard.
Merchant Adoption
Steak nâ Shake
The US ðšðļ is a massive country, yet its BTC Map footprint has been lagging relative to other countries ... that is until now!
In what came as a nice surprise to our Shadowy Supertaggers ðŦ , the Steak ân Shake chain began accepting Bitcoin payments across hundreds of its locations nationwide (with some international locations too).
According to CoinDesk, the rollout has been smooth, with users reporting seamless transactions powered by Speed.
This marks a significant step towards broader Bitcoin adoption in the US. Now to drop the capital gains tax on cheesburgers!
SPAR Switzerland
In other chain/franchise adoption news, the first SPAR supermarket in Switzerland ðĻð to begin accepting Bitcoin was this one in Zug. It was quickly followed by this one in RossrÞti and this one in Kreuzlingen, in what is believed to be part of a wider roll-out plan within the country powered by DFX's Open CryptoPay.
That said, we believe the OG SPAR crown goes to SPAR City in Arnhem Bitcoin City!
New Features
Merchant Comments in the Web App
Web App users are now on par with Android users in that they can both see and make comments on merchants.
This is powered by our tweaked API that enables anyone to make a comment as long as they pass the satswall fee of 500 sats. This helps keep spam manageable and ensure quality comments.
And just in case you were wondering what the number count was on the merchant pins - yep, they're comments!
Here is an ð Example merchant page with comments.
Merchant Page Design Tweaks
To support the now trio of actions (Verify, Boost & Comment) on the merchant page, we've re-jigged the design a little to make things a little clearer.
What do you think?
Technical
Codebase Refactoring
Thanks to Hannesâs contributions, weâve made progress in cleaning-up the Web App's codebase and completing long overdue maintenance. Whilst often thankless tasks, these caretaking activities help immensely with long-term maintainability enabling us to confidently build new features.
Auth System Upgrades
The old auth system was held together with duct tape and prayers, and weâre working on a more robust authentication system to support future public API access. Updates include:
- Password hashing
- Bearer token support
- Improved security practices
More enhancements are in progress and we'll update you in the next blog post.
Better API Documentation
Instead of relying on tribal knowledge, we're finally getting around to writing actual docs (with the help/hindrance of LLMs). The "move fast, break everything" era is over; now we move slightly slower and break slightly less. Progress!
Database Improvements
We use SQLite, which works well but it requires careful handling in async Rust environments. So now we're untangling this mess to avoid accidental blocking queries (and the ensuing dumpster fires).
Backup System Enhancements
BTC Map data comes in three layers of fragility:
- Merchants (backed up by OS - the big boys handle this)
- Non-OSM stuff (areas, users, etc. - currently stored on a napkin)
- External systems (Lightning node, submission tickets - pray to Satoshi)
We're now forcing two core members to backup everything, because redundancy is good.
Credits
Thanks to everyone who directly contributed to the project this period:
- Comino
- descubrebitcoin
- Hannes
- Igor Bubelov
- Nathan Day
- Rockedf
- Saunter
- SiriusBig
- vv01f
Support Us
There are many ways in which you can support us:
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Become a Shadowy Supertagger and help maintain your local area or pitch-in with the never-ending global effort.
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Consider a zapping this note or make a donation to the to the project here.
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@ 8bad92c3:ca714aa5
2025-06-09 00:02:34Marty's Bent
via levelsio
Over the weekend, prolific vibe coder levelsio took to X to complain about the state of housing affordability across Europe. Something that I was very happy to see considering the fact that there is a massive real estate affordability crisis across much of the world and it is important that people who are respected and have platforms speak out when they identify the problem as well. More eyes and focus on the problem is how something begins to get solved.
With that being said, I think levelsio is missing the forest for the trees by blaming institutionalized NIMBYism, burdensome regulations and governments hoarding land that should instead be given to developers to produce more housing supply. I quote tweeted this particular tweet on the subject from levelsio and wanted to take some time today to republish those thoughts here and expand on the topic.
Itâs almost as if real estate is being used as a store of value asset instead of the consumable good that it is.
What @levelsio is observing here is called a âmonetary premiumâ. A monetary premium is the value added on top of the consumable/aesthetic/location value of real estate.
This monetary premium exist because central banks and governments have distorted the market for money and people are forced to push value into assets that are scarce relative to dollars. Over the last 50 years real estate has been one of the relatively scarce assets of choice.
The housing affordability crisis is a negative externality of the market reaction to the corruption of money. It can only be fixed by re-introducing hard money into the economy that enables people to store value reliably. If that emerges they wonât have to store value in real estate, the monetary premium of real estate will dissolve and prices will correct to their proper valuations.
This is one of the problems that bitcoin solves.
Itâs still early yet, but more and more people are recognizing the utility provided by a neutral reserve asset that canât be manipulated by central planners. At scale, the effect on assets that have accumulated a monetary premium over decades will be material. All of these assets are significantly overvalued and their monetary premium are leaking into bitcoin.
Put another way, "It's the money, stupid." Now, this isn't to say that the supply of housing in certain areas being artificially restricted isn't having an effect on the price of housing. This is certainly true, especially in cities like San Francisco where there is a relatively strong demand because of the economic density of the area and the desire of many high agency and productive people to live there. But I would put forth that the monetary premium is still the bigger problem and no amount of de-regulation to enable the supply of housing to increase will solve the affordability crisis in the long-run. The only way to get to the root of this specific problem is via bitcoin's mainstream adoption as an apolitical uncontrollable asset with completely idiosyncratic risks when compared to any individual asset class.
Let's say the government did ease up regulations and local NIMBY sympathetics were shoved in a corner to allow new units to be built. This doesn't solve the problem in the short-run because there is a time-delay between when regulations are lifted and when new supply actually makes it to market. In the interim, governments and central banks are inevitably going to go further into debt and be forced to print money to monetize that debt. This will exacerbate inflation and even if new real estate units are brought to market, the builders/owners of those properties will likely have to demand elevated prices to attempt to keep up with inflation.
This also does nothing to solve the problem of real income and wage growth, which are significantly lagging real inflation. Even if prices came down because of a surge in supply, could the Common Man afford a down payment on the property? I'd be shocked if this was the case. And since it's likely not the case the only way to get people into these houses as "owners" would be to offer them zero-down financing, which makes people feel richer than they actually are and leads them to make financially ruinous decisions.
It's the money, stupid. People need a way to save so that they can buy in the first place. Fiat currency doesn't allow this and the only people who can save effectively are those who make enough money to funnel into substitute store of value assets like real estate.
As it stands today, the price-to-income ratio of real estate is 5.0x and the price-t0-rent index is 1.36. Up from 3.3x and 1.14x respectively where the metrics sat in the year 2000. The growth in these ratios is driven predominately via their monetary premium.
And guess what, it's about to get much worse. Donald Trump, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Elon Musk have all signaled that the plan moving forward is to attempt to drive growth and productivity as high as possible while also letting deficits and the debt increase unabated, which means that inflation is likely to continue unabated and potentially increase.
It might make sense to get some bitcoin if that is the case.
via me
"Whale in the Pool" Risk That Could Destroy MSTY Investors
Jessy Gilger raised serious concerns about MSTY and similar derivative products that promise eye-popping yields. He pointed to the COVID crash where gold mining ETFs using derivatives collapsed 95% and never recovered, despite gold itself performing well. Jessy noted that while his team calculated reasonable MicroStrategy covered call yields of 16-22%, MSTY advertises 120% annualized distributions - a red flag that suggests these aren't sustainable dividends from profits, but potentially just returning investors' own capital.
"If a whale pees in the pool, everyone is affected." - Jessy Gilger
Jessy explained that when large investors need to exit these pooled products during market stress, they must sell derivative positions into illiquid markets with no buyers, potentially triggering catastrophic losses for all participants. His solution? Private pools through separately managed accounts that achieve similar income goals without the contagion risk of being trapped with panicking whales.
Check out the full podcast here for more on Gannett Trust's multi-sig solution, Bitcoin retirement planning and corporate treasury strategies.
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2025-06-07 04:42:05NukleÃĄris technolÃģgiai ÃĐs projektfejlesztÃĐsi hÃrek
TÃķbb jelentÅs nemzetkÃķzi fejlemÃĐny tÃķrtÃĐnt a nukleÃĄris energia terÞletÃĐn. A Westinghouse Electric Company megkapta az amerikai EnergiaÞgyi MinisztÃĐriumtÃģl a kulcsfontossÃĄgÚ biztonsÃĄgi jÃģvÃĄhagyÃĄst az eVinci mikroreaktorÃĄhoz, ami fontos lÃĐpÃĐs ennek az innovatÃv nukleÃĄris technolÃģgiÃĄnak a bevezetÃĐse felÃĐ. A vÃĄllalat Idaho ÃĄllamban tervezi egy tesztreaktor lÃĐtesÃtÃĐsÃĐt, ami jÃģl mutatja, hogy a mikroreaktorok piaca egyre nagyobb lendÞletet kap.
EkÃķzben a nukleÃĄris kapacitÃĄs gyors bÅvÃtÃĐsÃĐhez szÞksÃĐges ellÃĄtÃĄsi lÃĄnc felkÃĐszÞltsÃĐge volt a fÅ tÃĐmÃĄja a World Nuclear Association elsÅ konferenciÃĄjÃĄnak. JelentÅs projektfrissÃtÃĐsek kÃķzÃķtt szerepel a kritikus turbinakomponensek beszerelÃĐse a kÃnai Haiyang atomerÅmÅąben, az indiai Mahi Banswara Rajasthan AtomerÅmÅą nÃĐgy blokkjÃĄra vonatkozÃģ szabÃĄlyozÃģi engedÃĐly, valamint egy Új olaszorszÃĄgi partnersÃĐg, a Nuclitalia, amely fejlett nukleÃĄris technolÃģgiÃĄkra fÃģkuszÃĄl. Belgiumban a NukleÃĄris KutatÃģkÃķzpont hivatalos konzultÃĄciÃģkat indÃtott egy Ãģlom-hÅątÃĐsÅą kis modulÃĄris reaktor (SMR) ÞgyÃĐben, BrazÃlia pedig bejelentette, hogy OroszorszÃĄggal kÃķzÃķsen fejleszt SMR-projektet.
SzabÃĄlyozÃĄsi ÃĐs biztonsÃĄgi aktualitÃĄsok
A NemzetkÃķzi Atomenergia-ÞgynÃķksÃĐg (IAEA) meghosszabbÃtotta a tanulmÃĄnyok benyÚjtÃĄsi hatÃĄridejÃĐt a kÃķzelgÅ, nukleÃĄris lÃĐtesÃtmÃĐnyek ellenÃĄllÃģkÃĐpessÃĐgÃĐrÅl szÃģlÃģ konferenciÃĄjÃĄra, hangsÚlyozva a nukleÃĄris lÃĐtesÃtmÃĐnyek alkalmazkodÃĄsÃĄnak fontossÃĄgÃĄt a klÃmavÃĄltozÃĄs jelentette nÃķvekvÅ kockÃĄzatokhoz. A konferenciÃĄt 2025 oktÃģberÃĐben rendezik BÃĐcsben, ÃĐs fÅ tÃĐmÃĄja a nukleÃĄris lÃĐtesÃtmÃĐnyek biztonsÃĄgÃĄnak ÃĐs ellenÃĄllÃģkÃĐpessÃĐgÃĐnek nÃķvelÃĐse lesz, kÞlÃķnÃķs tekintettel a kÞlsÅ esemÃĐnyekre, mint az ÃĄrvizek ÃĐs fÃķldrengÃĐsek.
KanadÃĄban a NukleÃĄris BiztonsÃĄgi BizottsÃĄg engedÃĐlyezte az Ontario Power Generation szÃĄmÃĄra, hogy megkezdje egy BWRX-300 tÃpusÚ reaktor ÃĐpÃtÃĐsÃĐt a Darlington New Nuclear Project helyszÃnÃĐn, ami a nukleÃĄris ÃĐpÃtkezÃĐsek folyamatos szabÃĄlyozÃģi tÃĄmogatÃĄsÃĄt mutatja. Az EgyesÞlt Ãllamokban a NukleÃĄris SzabÃĄlyozÃĄsi BizottsÃĄg tovÃĄbbi 20 ÃĐvvel meghosszabbÃtotta a Duke Energy Oconee atomerÅmÅąvi blokkjainak ÞzemeltetÃĐsi engedÃĐlyÃĐt, valamint tÃĄmogatÃĄst nyÚjtott a michigani Palisades atomerÅmÅą ÚjraindÃtÃĄsÃĄhoz.
IparÃĄgi ÃĐs gazdasÃĄgi trendek
Az iparÃĄgi vezetÅk optimistÃĄn nyilatkoztak a nukleÃĄris energia jelenlegi helyzetÃĐrÅl, kiemelve az EgyesÞlt Ãllamokban zajlÃģ aktÃv projekteket (pÃĐldÃĄul a TerraPower Wyomingban ÃĐs az X-energy egyÞttmÅąkÃķdÃĐse a Dow vÃĄllalattal), valamint a fejlett nukleÃĄris ÞzemanyaggyÃĄrtÃĄsba irÃĄnyulÃģ magÃĄnbefektetÃĐsek nÃķvekedÃĐsÃĐt. FelmerÞlt az is, hogy a VilÃĄgbank nukleÃĄris projekteket is finanszÃrozhatna, ami tovÃĄbb ÃķsztÃķnÃķzhetnÃĐ a globÃĄlis beruhÃĄzÃĄsokat, ÃĐs megerÅsÃtenÃĐ a nukleÃĄris energia szerepÃĐt az energetikai ÃĄtmenetben.
Belgiumban a kormÃĄny ÃĐs az Engie kÃķzÞzemi vÃĄllalat vÃĐgleges megÃĄllapodÃĄst kÃķtÃķtt a Tihange 3 ÃĐs Doel 4 reaktorok ÞzemidejÃĐnek tÃz ÃĐvvel tÃķrtÃĐnÅ meghosszabbÃtÃĄsÃĄrÃģl, amely az energiabiztonsÃĄgot ÃĐs a radioaktÃv hulladÃĐk kezelÃĐsÃĐt is szolgÃĄlja. NÃĐmetorszÃĄgban a nukleÃĄris technolÃģgiai szÃķvetsÃĐg hangsÚlyozta, hogy akÃĄr hat, nemrÃĐgiben leÃĄllÃtott reaktor ÚjraindÃtÃĄsa technikailag megvalÃģsÃthatÃģ, ÃĐs a nukleÃĄris energia biztonsÃĄgos, gazdasÃĄgos, valamint klÃmabarÃĄt alternatÃvÃĄt jelent.
NemzetkÃķzi egyÞttmÅąkÃķdÃĐs ÃĐs kutatÃĄs
KanadÃĄban a Prodigy Clean Energy ÃĐs a Serco kÃķzel jÃĄr a szÃĄllÃthatÃģ atomerÅmÅąvek tesztprogramjÃĄnak befejezÃĐsÃĐhez, amelynek kÃķzÃĐppontjÃĄban a biztonsÃĄg ÃĐs az extrÃĐm helyzetekben valÃģ ellenÃĄllÃģkÃĐpessÃĐg ÃĄll. Az EnergySolutions ÃĐs a WEC Energy Group Új nukleÃĄris kapacitÃĄs lÃĐtesÃtÃĐsÃĐt vizsgÃĄlja a wisconsini Kewaunee helyszÃnen, ÃĐs elÅzetes engedÃĐlyeket kÃvÃĄnnak szerezni a jÃķvÅbeni telepÃtÃĐshez.
Az IAEA ismÃĐtelten hangsÚlyozta, hogy kÃĐsz tÃĄmogatni a Zaporizzsjai AtomerÅmÅąre vonatkozÃģ megÃĄllapodÃĄsokat, amely tovÃĄbbra is orosz katonai ellenÅrzÃĐs alatt ÃĄll, kiemelve a tÃĐrsÃĐgben fennÃĄllÃģ geopolitikai ÃĐs biztonsÃĄgi kihÃvÃĄsokat.
ForrÃĄsok:
world-nuclear-news.org
nucnet.org
iaea.org
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2025-06-08 19:20:56Shabbat Shalom, y'all.
At the time of writing and releasing this, it happened to be a Lunar Shabbat, which is actually Torah (much to the chagrin of those who practice Shabbat on a Saturday or Sunday exclusively). The Shabbat is always on the 8th, 15th, 22nd, and 29th days of a Hebrew Calendar month, which almost nobody follows anymore. I started doing this a few months ago, and it's made me see the Torah for what it really is.
To the topic at hand, though. A lot of people on Nostr don't seem to understand the historical narrative of the book of Revelation, which saddens me, as we're in the end times Ekklesia (Assembly) era of Laodecia.
Deception of Bible Translations
First off, the reason why most people trust their pastors and/or read differently to what I do in Nazaritic circles is because of translations of the Scriptures that are evil, wretched and Catholic. The best way to combat this is to make some recommendations of which versions you'll want to use that aren't Catholic-infested.
These are the ONLY recommended versions to read. Anythine else is bupkus, evil and garbage, and will teach you futrism or preterism, both of which are Jesuit-penned deceptions.
The recommended versions are as follows:
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KJV 1611 (KJV1611)
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1560/1590 Geneva (GNV)
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American King James 1901 (AKJV)
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J.P. Green Sr.'s King James Version (KJ3)
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Young's Literal Translation (YLT)
These are versions I've read, and determined are evil, wretched and garbage:
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New International Version (NIV) [Fun fact: The publisher of the NIV, Zondervan, has a sister publisher that is behind the Satanic Bible's publishing]
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New Living Translation (NLT)
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English Standard Version (ESV)
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ISR The Scriptures 2009 Third Edition with Minor Revisions [2016] (ISR2009)
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New American Standard Bible (NASB)
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New King James Version (NKJV)
What is the Laodecia Era for the Ekklesia?
As a refresher, this time sees people saying they're rich in truth and that they have need of nothing, but this shows that they're wretched, miserable, naked and wicked. Why is this? The need of nothing points to not needing another explanation other than the false futuristic viewpoint, whereas being rich is connected to already knowing the truth about the historical fulfillment of Revelation, which many people don't know at all. I seriously grieve their loss, for they know not what they do.
I'm also new into this viewpoint, and most of what I'll be talking about is proven by historicist prophet David Nikao Wilcoxson on YouTube and Facebook (I don't use Facebook). This single Nostr article, I pray, is the starting point for understanding why I call out what I call out, and the patterns I see pointing to the Roman Catholic Church (the Tares) and the Jesuit Order (the current rulers of our world, the Earth Beast of Rev. 13) being the harlots that will be plucked out before Messiah's return.
The 70th Week of Daniel
Let us start first with the 70th Week of Daniel, which futurists believe is pointed towards a 7 year period where a one-man antichrist makes a peace deal for Israel.
This was proven to be untrue, as this is a deception that many people have fallen for, thus obeying the Pope (the Mark of the Beast on the right hand). What Daniel was talking about was not the end times, but rather, two-fold. The first is that he was asking about when Yevah would free the Jews from slavery (since they were in the Babylonian Beast Kingdom at this time). The second is when Messiah would come in the flesh and start a 7 year period from 27-34 AD, which is the final 7 year period of this 490 year cycle. King Artaxerxes I would go ahead and call for the rebuilding of Jerusalem in 476 BC (as is seen in Ezra), which would be the first 7 weeks (the first 7 Shemita [Shabbat year] cycles). Afterwords, we would see another 62 weeks (this period is a slient period), and then another period of 1 week. This week points to Messiah's ministry and death.
3 1/2 years into this 70th week (in 31 AD) is when Messiah would be nailed to the cross on March 13 of 31 AD (I'm still debating if the cross is a symbol of Tammuz or not). This was Passover in the Hebrew calendar year of 3790. He was 33 years of age when he was nailed, and then rose again 3 days later (on the 17th of Nisan in 3790). That Passover fell on a Monday (when the Romans were using the 8-day calendar instead of the 7-day calendar we've essentially been forced to use).
To prove the above, Wilcoxson had produced a series of videos regarding the 70th Week of Daniel (that being the 70th Week of Daniel Decoded series), which I would recommend you watch. You'll also want to find an audiobook version of Seventy Weeks: The Historical Alternative produced by Tearing Down Idols. These are the two pieces of proof I have to show this. Speaking of Wilcoxson, he had already produced books on these matters, as understanding the hostorical narrative of the Scriptures is the key to making war with the Roman Catholic Church and the Jesuit Order, especially now that we're in Laodecia.
The Olivet Discourse
The second part of this trifecta has to do with the Olivet Discourse of Matthew 23, which points to the destruction of Jarusalem by Rome for Israel's unfaithfulness to Yevah's instructions. Now, there are connections to parables that basically talk about the Yewish (Yew as in Yewtree worship) leaders (particulaly the Pharisees and Saducees) practicing the Tradition of the Elders (which are the Babylonian Talmud and the Egyptian Kabbalah of today), and for not understanding that this was Messiah, they were destroyed for their iniquities. I don't care to research the futurist narrative on this, as I know it is full of twisted words and word salad sorcery.
Wilcoxson proves what I've said in the Olivet Discourse Decoded series of videos, so that's where I'll point you to when you have an open heart, open eyes and open ears. Many futurists won't, because they are exactly what Messiah described in the Ekklesia era of Laodecia.
Revelation and Its Prophecies
Finally, there's Revelation (what used to be called Apocalypse). When looking into this book, you realize that it's really a 4-layered war manual for how to fight this war against the Roman Catholic leadership and the Jesuit Order. This also shows how you can harvest souls (the harvest points to a mass exodus of Roman Catholicism membership). This I will go in depth on, and will even have passages to back this up.
Layer 1: The Roman Beast Kingdom
The first layer of this 4-layered manual shows the phases of the Roman Empire, which never really disappeared. Rev. 12 described the Roman Empire, which was used to wipe out the early Ekklesia (the woman), murdering millions of Nazarites. The Seals point to the incline (for the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse) and decline of the Roman Empire (the other three Seals), while the Trumpets point to the official Roman Empire's downfall. This would be split into 10 separate kingdoms in Europe, which would be countered by the creation of Christianity, which is really any of the 44k+ forks of Roman Catholicism. This was done to destroy the Ekklesia, as the Roman Catholic Church is the Tare field that Messiah had talked about in the parable of the Wheat and the Tares.
Staying in this layer, the Sea Beast is the next phase. This is the 1,260-year reign of the Pope (538-1798), as he was the one who plucked out 3 kingdoms who didn't bow to his authority (the Heruli, the Huns and the Ostrigoths). Keep in mind that this started after the removal of the restrainer in 476 (pointing to the removal of the final Western Roman Emperor), and healed the deadly head wound (pointing to the Pope rising to power out of a sea of people). During this reign, he took the title of Pontifex Maximus, as he had civic and ecclesiastical power over everyone. This would be the healing of the deadly head wound, as shown earlier in this beast. He would pretend to be the leader of the Ekklesia, thus sitting in the Temple of Yevah, though he's the son of perdition, as he proclaims to be Yevah, forgive sins and provide salvation through works alone, which is blasephemous to begin with. The persecution of the Nazarites also prove them to be anti-Moshiach (Messiah). They also have the title of Vicar of Christ, which in the Latin is Vicarus Filii Dei, which is equal to 666 when calculated using a form of gematria I have no idea about. He would ultimately be removed from power by the Earth Beast in 1798, after he basically limited the power of the Jesuit Superior General and his minions. As stated before, the Mark of the Beast is reverence (forehead) and obeisance (right hand) to the Pope.
Finally, the Earth Beast of Revelation 13 points to the Jesuit Superior Geneal rising out of the earth (which is the land) of the Antichrist Beast Pope, the Vatican. These two horns pretend to serve Messiah (lamb) but are really Lucifarians (the dragon), serving Lucifer. The Black Pope, as the Jesuit Superior General is called, used his power to gether the world under him. That's why he uses Washington D.C. (the District of the Roman goddess, Columbia), his war machine (Military Indurstial Complex), to overthrow leaders who won't bow to his authority and those who won't set up a Rothschild central bank; much less obey the Khazars, who he also controls (I happened to be a partial German Khazar who escaped the grasp of the Black Pope as best as I know thus far).
Layer 2: The Ekklesia Eras
Now comes the eras of the Ekklesia. There are seven of them, though I've already explained the era of Laodecia. How about I give a quick explanation of the first six eras, like so?
Ephesus would spread the gospel in the Roman Empire, with their love growing cold when Messiah didn't return.
Smyrna had 10 years of persecutions from 303-312, which is what the 5th seal points to.
Pergamos would fall away (2 Thess. 2) from the Scriptures when compromising with Rome (Mark of the Beast as I had explained)
Thyatira means ruled by a woman. This means, the Roman Catholic Church would do this, as the Popes sought to eliminate the two witnesses, which are the Nazarites and the printed Scriptures (the little book or Rev. 10). This was why they killed the Nazarites and bured the printed Scriptures ruthlessly enough, that they were classified as "dead" in 1514. The Popes would hold great feasts to celebrate the removal of the two witnesses after they got all of Christendom under their control.
Sardis means escaping one, which points to Messiah calling them dead after 3 1/2 years from the Pope's classification of the death of the two witnesses. Luther's 95 Thesis sparked the Protestant Reformation, which would lead to the resurrection of the two witnesses (the Nazarites and the printed Scriptures).
Philidelphia had nothing bad that Messiah said about them... at all. They led worldwide missions, and also led Bible Societies to spread the word and/or the gospel to save millions of people from the clutches of the Jesuit Superior General (and the Roman Catholic Church as a whole).
As a refresher for Laodecia (the era we're in right now), the Nazarites here believe that they are rich in truth, and that we have need of nothing. This is false, as we are in dire need of something, which is an alternative explanation that's not the false futuristic or preteristic explanations of the book of Revelation. We are blinded by the Jesuits, as they have decieved us (we let them do this, by the way) with false prophecy explanations among other deceptions.
Layer 3: Seals, Trumpets and Bowls
The Seals, Trumpets and Bowls are the judgements against the Roman Beast Kingdom. To keep things short, every single Seal was fulfilled, 6 of the Trumpets were fulfilled, and 5 of the Bowls were fulfilled. We're in the 6th Bowl, waiting for a global economic collapse and WW III. Once these occur, then do we go into the 7th Bowl judgement against the Roman Catholic Church and the Jesuit Order (the New World Order).
One quick thing I'll mention is that when I talk about the two witnesses here, one of them is the little book of Rev. 10. This points to the printed Bible, which was brought back to life thanks to the printing press. Martin Luther would measure the temple and find that the Papal Church is the apostate harlot. Rev. 14 points to the Bowls and the harvest. This harvest points to millions coming out of the Roman Catholic Church, though there are 1.3 billion Catholics... and we have a long way to go in getting them out of her, My people.
Remember when I talked about the Khazars earlier in this article? They are the Kings of the East that Yeshua pointed to in the 6th Bowl. The Ottoman Empire is the Euphrates River here, and it's dried up in 1922, only with Turkey remaining. Gog is already dead, as that's Lord Rothschild. Magog points to the Kings of the East. 2 of the 3 spirits have already been fulfilled (these are World Wars I and II).
Now, let me quickly point out the fact we're in the kingdom of Iron and Clay. The Iron points to the Roman Bishops, and the Clay is Islam. However, furutists will tell me I'm an idiot, and that the Iron and Clay mixture is transhumanism. This was proven to be false, as the 5th Trumpet was the rise of the Clay (Islam). The Catholics, however, wrote the Qur'an and proped up Mohhamed as their prophet. ISIS and Al Qaeda are controlled by the Jesuit Order, which is why they do what they do as terrorists... for they are Wahhabi Muslims (in other words, Mizrahi Khazars who are also Jesuits, claiming to be Arabs, when they're not).
Islam is designed to prevent Arabs from having a relationship with Messiah, which makes me really sad. Muslims will be used to kill Christians and Jews in WW III and force us into the New World Order, which will backfire on the Jesuits and Roman Bishops.
Layer 4: The Harlot Church
Rev 17:10 talks about 7 forms of government. Five had fallen by the time Revelation was written, the 6th (the Roman Emperors) fell in 476, and the 7th lead for a short space until 538.
The 8th head is the Pope, who rose to power out of the Roman Empire. Look up what the priests in the Catholic Church wear, and what they use. Does that sound familiar when you read Revelation? If it does, that's exactly the description of the Sea Beast, and how his priests dress and do their rituals.
Then comes the Black Pope. He empowers and enriches the kings of the earth, as they were used by Lucifer to carry out the Bowl judgements, and will carry out the New World Order, caugins themselves and the Roman Cathoic Church to be judged big time. This we are waiting for.
Conclusion
Hopefully this long read helps you see where I'm coming from, and I pray it helps you to start testing the scriptures against what I've said, and what Wilcoxson had said. If it is proven in your heart that you were fooled, you're on the right path in my opnion. I may be wrong, but this is where I stand.
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