The alternate timeline where North Korea becomes a quantum powerhouse so it can hack Satoshi's coins or vulnerable Bitcoin addresses

𝗕𝗹𝗼𝗰𝗸𝘀𝗽𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝘄𝗮𝗿𝘀 Bitcoin blockspace and hashrate will emerge as strategic resources on par with airspace and maritime lanes: essential infrastructure for exercising financial sovereignty and a nations ability to access global commerce and trade Without access to blockspace, users cannot send or receive Bitcoin. Hashrate secures access to blockspace. Thus, nations that pair domestic Bitcoin mining with sovereign mining pools (or allied pools) will ensure: 1. Censorship-resistant payment rails for their citizens 2. Insurance against economic warfare or sanctions 3. A new export industry: blockspace Nations that ignore this new domain risk discovering that future sovereignty... will be settled one block at a time

Who would win? @Steven Lubka

Canadians elected a Globalist central banker. A prominent advocate of CBDCs. The antithesis of a bitcoin advocate. The silver lining? For Carney's term, Canadians have been given the opportunity to understand exactly why they need Bitcoin more than ever

Bitcoin mining offers 4 strategic advantages to nations: 1. Energy security: infra development & grid stability 2. Financial independence & national security via hashrate & blockspace control (can't censor a country or its citizen's from transacting) 3. Economic sovereignty for traditionally resource poor nations (no minerals, oil or gold) by allowing them to stack a digitally scarce resource 4. Socioeconomic/env benefits: economic development & jobs & methane reductions

"𝗕𝗶𝘁𝗰𝗼𝗶𝗻 𝗳𝗶𝘅𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀": 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗜 𝗲𝗱𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 Bitcoin mining is a bridge to an energy & technology abundant future. The International Energy Agency estimates AI electricity consumption is set to more than double by 2030, & the US is projected to represent about half of this growth. How will we feed the new tech beast? ₿/accelerate 🤝🏻 e/acc Bitcoin mining presents a novel way to subsidize our energy systems. Mining is built on Proof of Work & an elegant system of economic incentives. Economic incentives are built in to lower cost, maximize revenue, & optimize resources. Mining is very resource-intensive: it requires substantial computing power to meet the cryptographic rules which secure the system & electricity represents ~80% of operating costs. Bitcoin miners seek out cheap energy sources globally & they are location & energy source agnostic. As a result, miners are anchor tenants for new energy generation that wouldn’t otherwise exist in rural sites where traditional industrial or commercial customers are unavailable. They also subsidize generators that are transmission constrained (eg, renewables in Texas). This is where the magic happens: aligned incentives. Miners provide a predictable revenue stream, helping get public infrastructure projects over their hurdle rates & recieve cheaper power (vs the grid). In this way, Bitcoin mining rewards fund the build-out of electrical infrastructure through a third pocket, where traditionally it was paid for by the ratepayer pocket or taxpayer pocket. As consumer demand for power grows in a community (including for AI datacenters), Bitcoin mining can be decreased or removed entirely, but fundamentally, it enabled critical energy infrastructure to be built out. In this way, miners support existing renewables with excess generation & the construction of new sites (and not just renewables) around the world. It's already happening with large miners in the US, Gridless in Africa, & Volcano Energy in El Salvador. And this is not stopping. Furthermore, some Bitcoin miners are shifting towards AI. Miners are uniquely positioned as they already operate large-scale, power-intensive infrastructure & have the right experience. Retrofitting mining facilities for AI workloads (esp hosting GPUs) is often faster & cheaper than building new ones. Thus, infrastructure that was built out for mining is being reallocated to AI (eg Core Scientific) & likewise wrt new energy sites being developed with mining originally in mind (eg Crusoe). Lastly, Bitcoin miners are the perfect demand response participant. The best DR participants are large loads with a consistent draw & that can turn off (curtail) for any amounts of time. AI is a much less curtailable load. In this way, miners help balance the grid & provide grid stability, particularly during extreme events (see Texas storms & Riot). This is why Bitcoin mining is a ENERGY & NATIONAL SECURTY issue. It's about ensuring we can build an abundant & reliable energy system for a prosperous future.

Blessed are the humble, for they will inherit the earth Stay humble, stack sats

Home for Easter. Got to check in on my dad's mining fleet! 🫶🏼⛏️ Braiins BMM & Bitaxe

Bitcoin: iykyk Source: Blackrock

Listening to my spouse singing a made up song under his breath 🎵 HODL, HODL, HODL, we're going full throttle The Bitcoin reserve, because Republicans have nerve You should buy, or else you'll die... (poor) 🎵 🤣🤣🤣

What type of bitcoin-based vibecoding integrations exist (beyond chatbots) for Nostr, lightning payments, wallets, etc? Who is building these tools? Cc: @Vitor Pamplona @jb55 @preston

Trump to launch a monopoly-like crypto game... Bitcoin had better be the Boardwalk, railroads are digital payment rails like the base layer, lightning & liquid, & ofc it needs a "go to jail" for crypto scams!