The lack of debate and the censoring of MDs and scientists that had concerns about this possibility and other things was unprecedented... and here we are now, sad for those who will be affected but a lesson for future emergencies. View quoted note →

A Chinese national, 47, was the alleged mastermind of a £5bn (in Bitcoin) fraud before coming to the UK https://news.sky.com/story/yadi-zhang-woman-pleads-guilty-to-money-laundering-over-5bn-bitcoin-seizure-13440930

Trying to get a non tech savvy friend to swap from Windows to Linux ... great timing since Windows is discontinuing support for W10 Massive failure LOL! His conclusion, this sucks, f$#& that 🤣 well, I tried... External keyboard didn't work, web cam didn't work. I told him, let's fix that, it will be fun to troubleshoot a and solve the issue... He look at me and said, Are you F.. kidding me, is 2025, this Linux thing have been around over 30 years and from the box can't get a web can and a Bluetooth keyboard, F.. that! 🤣 I don't blame him, Linux, after 30 years is not a ready product for the masses, sad but true... Good it was using external USB drive for testing, I hope he remembers how to re enable secure boot from the BIOS, LOL!

📰 The Secret Service said it discovered a secret communications network of more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers capable of carrying out “nefarious” attacks in the New York City area as leaders convened for the U.N. General Assembly. That amount of hardware is quite large, that level sophistication takes time and men power with the know how to achieve it, that investigation will open a can of worms ...

📰 Michigan is considering banning the use of VPNs... You may think, this is ignorance, but I think is just part of a non stop attack to our freedoms, the solution is not only to fight back each one of this initiatives, but to make it too expensive politically to continue their war against our freedoms. With no accountability they will continue, if you are in Michigan call your representatives, write them, expose them online, organize in your community, every politician that works against the people needs to be voted out, but that won't happen with you doing nothing or waiting for someone else to do it!

📰 🇪🇺 Germany announced 125,000 industrial job cuts in 6 weeks A WSWS report from September 15, 2025, explicitly states that "in the six weeks since June 30, 2025, German corporations announced the elimination of more than 125,000 jobs. This aligns with an EY study showing ~245,500 industrial jobs lost since 2019, accelerating in 2025, and broader surveys indicating over a third of German companies planning cuts this year. The figure encompasses automotive, steel, rail, and related sectors, driven by weak exports to China/U.S., EV transition costs, and competition from Asia.

I keep reading incredibly absurd comments in social networks about people complaining that their private employer fired them because of a post "violating", wait for it ... Their 1st amendment rights! Those are Americans or people living and working in the USA. It is unreal how uninformed they are. The 1st Amendment only applies to government, your private employer is not affected by it. If your private employer doesn’t like you post because they reflects badly on them, your firing is justified, not that they need much of a justification thought. Last four years tons of conservatives were fired from private companies for similar reasons, posting emotional political rants on social networks, it seems this time is the liberals that are getting fired... it seems an endles vicious circle for them and it does not seem it will get better but worst.

📰 Albania will soon be the first country to have an AI chatbot as a virtual minister, in an effort to clamp down on corruption by turning to an unbribable digital official

📰 🚨 🇪🇺EU Countries Chat Control Vote As of September 12, 2025, the European Union Council meeting concluded with fifteen member states publicly supporting the Danish compromise proposal, which includes mandatory client-side scanning of encrypted messages to detect child sexual abuse material Four countries—Estonia, Greece, Romania, and Slovenia—remain undecided, making their final positions pivotal for the outcome **Countries in Favor of Chat Control:** * Bulgaria * Croatia * Cyprus * Denmark * France * Hungary * Ireland * Italy * Latvia * Lithuania * Malta * Portugal * Slovakia * Spain * Sweden **Countries Opposing Chat Control:** * Austria * Belgium * Czech Republic * Finland * Germany * Luxembourg * Netherlands * Poland The final vote by the European Council is scheduled for October 14, 2025, with the outcome dependent on the positions of the four undecided states. Unreal that despite all cryptografy experts reports explaining the inefficacy of the proposed surveillance and the importance of E2E encryption for privacy as a human right, we still have so many countries in the EU pedaling this using child abuse as a excuse while doing very little to tackle the root problem itself with UN based recommendations.

📰 Microsoft on Tuesday addressed a set of 80 security flaws in its software, including one vulnerability that has been disclosed as publicly known at the time of release. Of the 80 vulnerabilities, eight are rated Critical and 72 are rated Important in severity. None of the shortcomings has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. Time to run updates for those using Microsoft, delaying is unadvised...

📰 NEW - Nepal's Prime Minister resigns and flees, as protesters burn down his house and chase finance minister through the streets. Nepal’s government lifts social media ban after violent protests erupted over the restriction, leaving 19 dead and 145 injured. Protesters, mostly Gen Z, clashed with police near Parliament, prompting army deployment and a curfew. Gen Z in Nepal seems to have their priorities quite clear, banning social networks is a red line and they will die defending their right to keep using then 🤔

Reading about stable coins with my thinking hat on ended up with few notes taken and observations: 1. Stablecoin issuers buy US debt via Treasury Bonds, pegging them to the US dollar. 2. Foreign Crypto Exchanges will buy them and add liquidity to their systems, centralized or decentralized making the stablecoin issuers a potential top 10 US debt holders. 3. US stablecoins could bypass banks in big emerging markets, this undercuts local currencies and boost dollar dominance. This seems a logical and obvious plan. Question is: Will foreign countries deploy counter measures? Like:: - Banning US stable coins - Creating their own stable coins - Updating regulation Seems only logical, more over when the play is so obvious... Of course USA current administration could send some destroyers and accuse the dearing banning county of narco-terrorism or any other non sense, since apparently, inventing narratives out of the blue with no intelligence reports going back years to back it up is a new norm ... What a chaotic time to be alive... #stablecoins #USDT #USDC #DAI

📰 US President Donald Trump has threatened the EU with a probe that could lead to higher tariffs after the bloc fined Google for violating antitrust laws.

Interesting development, self custody is growing among companies, not only adoption • 74% rely on custodians • 18% use a mix • 7.6% are fully self sovereign It seems the "not your keys, not your coins" slogan has an impact and is expanding. Good riddance #Bitcoin #selfcustody

We need to create more adoption, marketing matters, mouth to mouth will get us not far... The alternatives to Nostr are a joke in comparison and that includes the ones that call themselves "decentralized" and "censorship resistant"... Nostr wins, fair and square, problem is... We have a label, "it is a Bitcoin echo chamber", which is partially true, for any community can come and make their own tribe and flourish.