Call it what it is "Pre-emptive strike" is an attack "Unrealised capital gains" is speculative taxation So much bullshitery

888,888 -> 999,999 Dinner with fabulous friends last night as we watched the highly fortuitous block arrive 😋 25 months until the all-9’s block: - the last 6-digit block - the tick-over to block 1m - 50k blocks from the ‘28 halving Incredible time to be alive 🧡

GM #AUStriches .. Which of you talented ‘tards can make the govt support for Nostr official? 😜

Gunna be fun! @Sats N Facts ⚡🥥 at the end of the week 🫂🧡 #ChiangMai

GN .. there’s safety in sats.

Faketoshi failed to appear as required regarding his perjury charges ..

Savings and spending Savings are the store of excess you create against future uncertainty Bitcoin is the ultimate savings tool As Bitcoin goes through this crazy monetisation process, those savings get turbo-charged Many will find themselves with new and previously unimaginable choices open to them, and to their families and their communities This is where spending comes in Should you have excess savings - beyond your definition of “enough” - then you can now make meaningful change to those lives you care most about Fundamentally you need to search and find what matters to you, and what change you can make in the world, once you’re making decisions without regard to financial impact This is a significant mindset shift The mantra of “never sell your bitcoin” has a useful meme half-life of two cycles: the first where you are still learning what Bitcoin is, and the second where you’re stacking like a crazy person After that, be extremely cautious of those screaching “never sell your bitcoin” at you - they most likely have a product for you There is NO borrowing without risking your collateral In the end .. exactly what part of “permissionless money” are some of these folks not getting?

Trust yourself Invest in yourself View quoted note →

GN frens

Saylor explaining Bitcoin as a capital asset to the Microsoft Board of Directors will underscore the vote outcome either way Choices and consequences View quoted note →

👀 .io domain set to cease to exist If you own or run one take 📝

The Disappearance of an Internet Domain

How geopolitics can alter digital infrastructure

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Jan-2009 coins moving 50BTC moving for 1076 sats .. or $3mUSD moving for $0.69c

The Mempool Open Source Project®

Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.

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No Bullshit Bitcoin

Norway: Bitcoin Mining Facility Shutdown Leads to 20% Higher Energy Bills for Town Residents

Kryptovault's Bitcoin mining facility in Stokmarknes, Norway, recently closed, causing residents to face a 20% rise in electricity bills. The site ...

Storing #bitcoin and thinking about duration "Optical media rots, magnetic media rots and loses magnetic charge, bearings seize, flash storage loses charge, etc .. .. Entropy wins, sometimes much faster than you’d expect." Ars Technica Storing your #bitcoin keys on electronic media necessitates that you periodically test/validate that it is still usable. Collaborative security platforms make this part of their operational protocol; if you're holding your own keys, so should you. Think more about which parts of your stack you are expecting to keep, and for how long. The longer the time horizon is, the less complexity you want in that storage setup. Or alternatively, if you are using electronic mechanisms (hardware devices, usb keys etc), then you want to test those periodically (quarterly-annually), and move to new mechanisms as old ones become dubious.

Ars Technica

Music industry’s 1990s hard drives, like all HDDs, are dying

The music industry traded tape for hard drives and got a hard-earned lesson.

So .. @MartyBent uses nos.social .. this explains a lot!! 🤣😂 View quoted note →

Brazil directs VPN apps to be removed from appstores "Justice Moraes issued multiple orders on Friday. In the first, he also ordered Apple and Google to prevent downloads of X as well as popular VPN apps." NYTimes This little nugget is the more relevant and dangerous action to come out of the Brazil-v-Twitter spat going on right now - the Brazilian judge has ordered the major appstores to remove VPN products This is a direct attack on digital privacy & security for all Brazilians VPNs are one of those basic tools that everyone should be using to assist their privacy; removing access to these tools is a clear and repressive action from the Brazilian regime Do not make the mistake of thinking that other nation states are not watching this action closely to determine how easy it will be to add that particular action to their arsenal for <reason> in the future Learn the tools Use the tools Teach the tools Reference:

Brazil Blocks X After Musk Ignores Court Orders (Published 2024)

The social network began to go dark in the nation of 200 million, the result of an escalating fight between Elon Musk and a Brazilian judge over wh...

tfw standing on a bed of nails causes NO PAIN because you’ve spent years working on ⚡️ @benthecarman