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⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - Germany's Merz filed thousands of criminal complaints against citizens for alleged online insults against him; some led to police searches of their homes.

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - Elon Musk calls to abolish the European Union.

⚡️🗣️ NOSTR: Where Free Speech Still Lives

⚡️👀 NEW - Ex-Twitch staff say the 1000 gifted subs feature was made to "squeeze every penny they can get" Former member of their product team 'dev1yer' said that the option exists only because "internal staff are scrambling to hit End of Year revenue targets to keep leadership happy"

⚡️🇹🇷🇵🇸 NEW - Turkey’s FM Hakan Fidan warns the Gaza plan may collapse unless Trump has a “substantial” intervention with Netanyahu. “If they don’t intervene, I am afraid there is a risk the plan can fail,” he said, “because the amount of daily violations of the ceasefire by the Israelis are undescribable at the moment.” Fidan expects Trump to speak with Netanyahu before year’s end. Doha Forum 2025 https://blossom.primal.net/2a0b0643da512c91eb5dca3f811b8b06a6eb0b7caa28b41697d759fcf5967141.mp4

⚡️💬 NEW - Gates says African farmers will have AI advisors, along with "better seeds and animal genetics" to become a "significant net food exporter." Using AI and their phone, they will be able to talk to the "doctor," the "tutor," the "farm advisor" and "pay nothing for it." https://blossom.primal.net/1e0eabf3171db2c5289a00104079dbc56a96d12ff21fa8f8df481ed9bba36022.mp4

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Hegseth: "We are asking American taxpayers to fund the world's greatest military, we're asking mothers and fathers across America to trust us with their most precious resource, their sons and daughters, and we will honor their trust and their sacrifice." https://blossom.primal.net/136182841ff08248b2f6d77a9e811329adbb8f9b677f62f5658ce6aaf1660ffc.mp4

⚡️💬 WATCH - Nvidia CEO: “Bitcoin is taking excess energy and storing into a currency that you can transport anywhere you like.“ https://blossom.primal.net/b6ad0e2d4d0f2f577b203dd3a01bb6eb5318aecce8e451f0caab43bb577c0e43.mp4

⚡️🇩🇪🇮🇱 NEW - Israeli President Herzog tells Merz that "Germany has a huge role to play, both in Europe and as a very important country in the world... we are facing an empire of evil from Tehran, and that is why the equilibrium in the world is very clear, It's us, defending Europe." https://blossom.primal.net/0dd0269a78f3e7cf1901226bc65a2596b5b63029b60defbdb7408464545c66e4.mp4

⚡️💬 NEW - Bill Gates speaking from Qatar announces his new plans to develop vaccines for HIV and malaria with the help of artificial intelligence. He says AI will power both the delivery of vaccines and the scientific discovery needed to create newer vaccines and drugs. He adds that his goal is simple he wants the poorest people in the world to benefit first from artificial intelligence. https://blossom.primal.net/f35e70fd0df3b48083b358b1003cdff54b00b1d9b63368aa3762ba094cca5fda.mp4

⚡️🏆 STORY - The legend who quietly changed the world of tech Everyone knows Linux. Many people use Git every day. But few realize that both come from the same person: Linus Torvalds. ➥ Created the Linux kernel at age 21 ➥ Developed Git because no existing tool was good enough ➥ Unintentionally became the foundation of servers, Android, the cloud, and supercomputers ➥ Never sought fame, titles, hype, or the spotlight ➥ Remained discreet, consistent, and brutally honest for decades ➥ Continues to review code and improve Linux to this day In a world full of noise, Linus Torvalds is proof that: Impact doesn't need attention. Excellence doesn't need hype. Consistency beats everything else.

⚡️🤡 NEW - Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the ‘Metaverse’ has cost Meta more than $77B The company now plans to cut spending on it and shift focus to AI wearables instead

⚡️🇰🇷 WATCH - In Seoul, South Korea, cryptocurrency trading is an E-sport where competitors buy and sell derivative markets against each other in tournaments. https://blossom.primal.net/f5e8af69f8227bd65fc8ebee6ff8b3d47b590818a12360a9b8b8b36c7c2ec0e5.mp4

⚡️🇩🇪 FUN FACT - After Germany sold ALL its bitcoin, somebody sent them a $1.87 transaction, inscribing the message: “HFSP German government” Germany's Bitcoin would be worth $4.86 BILLION today

⚡️📈 NEW - Dell Raises PC Prices 15-20%, Lenovo Follows in January Dell is preparing to implement a 15-20% price hike as early as mid-December due to recent DRAM price increases. Lenovo will follow in January.

⚡️🇫🇷🇨🇳 NEW - Having almost no worshiper in France, Emmanuel Macron resumes a crowd bath with his fans in China. https://blossom.primal.net/b91cbea7ae1132d03c8d57747e96645551d395bc60aa23e1bca2c79d3f303643.mp4

⚡️💬 NEW - Kevin O’Leary: “Most of these altcoins, what I call poopoo coins are done. With regulation coming and institutions preparing to invest, the data is clear: Bitcoin and Ethereum capture over 90% of the market’s performance. The big money wants compliance, stability, and global pricing, not speculative rat coins. This is the cleansing the crypto market needed. Only Bitcoin and Ethereum survive.” https://blossom.primal.net/51464e442c9b9d7f0cb53473081c45d42a98c5adcc559b0b9b2dd1f65bbd6d6e.mov

⚡️🧮 NEW - Vitalik has just mathematically proven that Bitcoin has done something that no one has ever done in the history of humanity. And the implications are crazy ⤵︎ The Bitcoin network has collectively performed 79 OCTILLION calculations since 2009. To visualize: • Grains of sand on Earth: ~10^18 • Atoms in your body: ~10^28 • Bitcoin calculations: ~10^28 Bitcoin = atomic scale in calculations. WTF. Let's rephrase that: If every human on Earth (8 billion) made 1 BILLION attempts per second... It would still take 315 MILLION YEARS to achieve what Bitcoin has done in 16 years. Let that sink in… Why is no one talking about it? Because it happened slowly, over 16 years, with millions of machines. But collectively, humanity has just crossed a threshold of computing power that was theoretical 20 years ago. Proof of work works. Really. (It's kind of my driving force on Nostr.) Cryptoskeptics say, "Bitcoin mining wastes energy for nothing." But that "nothing" has literally just created the greatest demonstration of computational power in history. It's not waste. It's proof. Now, the real subject of Vitalik's thread: This power is so enormous that it is beginning to challenge our assumptions about what is "impossible" in cryptography. If we can do 2^96 in 16 years... what will happen in another 16 years? Cryptography is based on a gamble: "Some calculations take too long to perform, even with all the computers in the world." Bitcoin just said, "Hold my beer, here's 2^96." Cryptographers look at this and think, "Okay, we need more margin." Vitalik and other experts suggest: let's move from 96 bits to 128 bits of security. Why? Because 128 bits = 4 BILLION TIMES more calculations than 96 bits. That's not 30% more. It's FOUR BILLION TIMES more. That's exponential power. Bitcoin has just proven that: ➥ Proof of work is the most powerful security system ever created. ➥ Humanity can achieve "impossible" things when it works together. ➥ But this power forces us to rethink what is "secure."

⚡️🇩🇪 NEW - Berlin just legalized: - Secret police break-ins to plant spyware - State trojans for hacking phones and cracking encrypted chats - Mass location tracking and facial recognition Berlin has enacted a new police law granting authorities extensive surveillance powers, including the right to secretly enter homes and hack phones.

⚡️🇮🇳 NEW - India's government is reviewing a telecom industry proposal to require always-on satellite location tracking on smartphones for surveillance, sparking opposition from Apple, Google and Samsung over privacy concerns — Reuters. https://blossom.primal.net/24a80d53f288ebc19b9d96f4267881209b1be9aa5b4be1c51936b84912f8bbbc.mp4