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Hoping that 8 August 2026 will just be another small blip on this humorous site

Bitcoin Is Dead

Bitcoin Is Dead - Track Every Bitcoin Obituary Since 2010

Bitcoin has been declared dead 475 times since 2010. Track every obituary with original quotes, critics, and historical prices.

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How is it that everyone who has Bitcoin and who truly understands it would not be a Bitcoin Maxi and would want Bitcoin to be just another databank instead of money? Aren't there enough platforms on earth for storing data and spam? I must be so naive when it comes to understanding humanity. 🥺 Why would we ever be fully in favor of the fiat tyrants, the banks and governments tightening the noose on our lives? Read the white paper again. 🧡 Understand what we hold and how the world was given a hopeful future in 2009. https://bitcoin.org/bitcoin.pdf

Hail! In the background you can just make out the screeching sounds of black cockatoos or galahs. 🌧️

#91 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Most people confuse busyness of mind with wisdom. Overthinking arrives as a feeling of seriousness and importance. Turn overthinking into clear, insightful thinking, overthinking makes life feel stuck in rehearsal mode. Here’s how to name the loop, give worry a time and place, run small experiments and turn mental noise into insight. Simple rules, big clarity, less drama. (Link is below)

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Turn Overthinking Into Insightful Thinking

Overthinking makes life feel stuck in rehearsal mode https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/turn-overthinking-into-insightful-thinking/

Life Power Tip Do something different today. You cannot think outside the box when you are sitting in one! Do something that is not ‘business as usual’ for you. You will be amazed at the new ideas that will simply begin to flow. Action Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. Challenge Do something uncharacteristic today. Not something too ‘bad’ though! Quote Happy, vibrant, successful people think and behave in certain ways. So do miserable and unfulfilled people. In other words, there are patterns of success and patterns of failure. The good news is, success leaves clues. -Tony Robbins Clearing Consider purchasing under the cabinet organizers for your bathroom. Question How could you simplify your life today Affirmation I choose organized spaces in which to work. Uplifting Extra Think about times in your life when everything just clicked. Maybe you were so focused on a project that time flew by. Maybe you had a conversation that led to an unexpected breakthrough. That’s flow and it’s not random. It can be created on purpose and you don’t need to fight life into submission. The smarter move is to learn how to work with it. When you’re in flow, things line up naturally. The right opportunities show up, the right people appear and progress feels effortless instead of forced. (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/the-flow-factor/ Enjoy today’s video too! To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”. I had already sent these one a day for 12 months though to 9 May 2026. Then started anew on 10 May 2026.

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GN Nostriches ✨🌙 Looking forward to watching my AFL team win against Hawthorn tonight. Recording it from live tv to watch a little later. 🦁🦅

Surely this is some kind of joke! 🫣😲😳 Video description: A California tech startup called Reflect Orbital was just granted FCC approval to test orbital space mirrors designed to bounce sunlight down to Earth at night. While pitch decks promise clean solar energy 24/7, scientists, pilots, and privacy advocates warn this creates severe light pollution, threatens eye safety, and privatizes the night sky through an outdated legal loophole. In this video, we break down how Reflect Orbital’s test satellite works, why the FCC approved it despite 12,000+ public objections, the risks of a 50,000-satellite megaconstellation, and what this means for you when natural darkness becomes a commercial service. Chapters 0:00 - Intro 2:30 - The Regulatory Loophole 3:08 - Why Scientists Are Concerned 4:43 - What You Can Do

What a month and it ain't over yet! 🫣😲🧡

Do this before Saturday 8 August 🧡

#90 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web ​Enjoy reading Will’s book review of Linchpin by Seth Godin. Linchpin covers a topic that every person who wants to thrive in the workplace should work on being indispensable and irreplaceable. Seth argues that you must be a linchpin in order to succeed. A linchpin is something that holds together the whole organization, similar to a keystone for a bridge. If the linchpin or keystone gets destroyed or removed, everything falls apart. (Link is below)

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Be Irreplaceable (And Why You Need To Be)

Enjoy reading Will's guest article book review of 'Linchpin' by Seth Godin. https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/be-irreplaceable/

Life Power Tip Divide a large sheet of paper into 4 areas. In each quarter, write one of each of these four questions: What is important to me? What do I love to do? What am I good at? What was I born to do? Write your top 9 answers to each. Relax and do not make this a significant and serious exercise. Then rank each question’s nine answers, in order of importance to you. Action Give others the benefit of the doubt more often. Challenge Do something today so you feel that you are living, rather than merely existing. Quote Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. -Gandhi Clearing Combine duplicate boxes, containers, and bottles of things. Question How could you re-allocate funds to better serve your life goals? Affirmation I choose to feel that my environment supports me. Uplifting Extra The Forward Steps 100 Life Power Tips on MP3, is a free audio that you can listen to at leisure, to find for yourself an empowering thought or fresh life power tip. Trigger a newly inspired action, enhancing our day-to-day experience of life, keeping you empowered and motivated to act, for achieving your personal goals. Step forward, just a little further each day, by listening to 100 short and quick thoughts on this audio. (Link is below)

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Download your FREE 100 Life Power Tips MP3

100 Life Power Tips Free MP3 from Thea Westra at Forward Steps @forwardsteps http://www.forwardstepsblog.com/free-100-life-power-tips/

Enjoy today’s video too! To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”. I had already sent these one a day for 12 months though to 9 May 2026. Then started anew on 10 May 2026.

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The Coldcard Bug, Visualized Video description from Youtube: Randomness is the entire security model of a Bitcoin wallet. Imagine every possible Bitcoin seed phrase as individual atoms. An attacker would need to find the one atom that opens your wallet. When a seed is generated properly, the pool of possibilities is so large that the attacker is hunting for one specific atom hidden somewhere across two billion galaxies. No computer on Earth can search that many possibilities. Affected Coldcard firmware drew its seeds from a much smaller, more predictable pool. Representing every possible Coldcard seed as an atom, the whole collection would only be about the size of a large virus. A computer can work through every seed in about three hours. This short film travels that entire distance, from a single atom to two billion galaxies and back, to show what the difference actually looks like. The stakes for affected users are real. Losing funds you did everything right to protect is a hard thing, and you deserve clear answers. Our thoughts are with everyone impacted as this unfolds. BPI's policy reflections on this vulnerability are coming soon. This video is a simplified search-space comparison. It describes affected firmware only, not all Coldcard devices or Bitcoin itself. Chapters 0:00 What a seed phrase protects 0:33 Where randomness comes from 0:55 One atom 1:15 A protein 1:29 A large virus, about three hours 1:55 A grain of sand 2:02 Jupiter 2:10 The Milky Way 2:19 Two billion galaxies 2:43 The comparison The Bitcoin Policy Institute is a nonpartisan, nonprofit research organization providing policymakers with research-driven insights on Bitcoin and digital assets.

Something my husband and I did today is put each other's voices on voicemail incoming messages or simply use the default voice from your phone company. AI voice recognition and manipulation is certainly becoming more clever. They can ring banks, internet services etc using your voice, I'm sure. If not now, then soon. Think calls to your provider for SIM card swaps or messing with your bank accounts, etc. 🫣🧡

#88 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web When you feel discomfort, it is vital not to give up. Feeling like an idiot is part of the learning. The first step to take when you are learning a new skill is approaching it without an ego. Getting frustrated is part of learning any new skill. You will go through many cycles of accelerated growth and then hit a wall. One meta-skill that you should learn is the ability to break through that barrier, using a state of flow. (Link is below)

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Use State Of Flow To Harness Your Potential

Find a balance between boredom and frustration https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/state-of-flow/

Life Power Tip Develop new routines and activities. You must have heard the expression that “a change is as good as a holiday”! Trade, some old habits, and activities, for a few new ones. You will gain a completely fresh perspective on something that you may have grappled with for ages. Action Get yourself a piggy bank and start saving for something special. Challenge Do something spontaneously without forward planning. Quote Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by anyone, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time. -Mark Twain Clearing Clear your wardrobe of clothes not worn for a year. Question How could you enrol key players in your vision? Affirmation I choose to feel more, and more courageous. Uplifting Extra How can you feel more hopeful about your future when much may be at risk? It may sound far-fetched, yet you can be upbeat in any circumstances. Hope increases motivation, so you’re more likely to persevere and succeed. Try these 14 ways to feel more hopeful for creating a brighter tomorrow. (Link is below)

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14 Ways To Feel More Hopeful

Feel more hopeful for creating a brighter tomorrow https://www.forwardstepsblog.com/feel-more-hopeful/

Enjoy today’s video too! To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”. I had already sent these one a day for 12 months though to 9 May 2026. Then started anew on 10 May 2026.

Very interesting.

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