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 482 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. 🌧️

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.

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Great YouTube channel https://youtube.com/@realchris 🧡👍

Not my words... not verified. 🧡 Stern Drew @SternDrewCrypto on X 🚨 BREAKING: Japan Just ENDED the Bank of Japan’s Independence. Washington’s Silent Coup Is Complete The BoJ was about to go nuclear. They threatened to finally raise rates, kill the free-money spigot, and stop being America’s personal ATM. That one move would have sucked trillions of cheap yen out of global markets overnight and triggered a full-blown liquidity crisis from Wall Street to every carry-trade casino on Earth. So what did Washington do? They leaned hard on Tokyo. And Prime Minister Takaichi just folded in public: “The law mandates the BoJ must collaborate with the government on economic policy.” Translation? The central bank is no longer independent. Interest rates stay low. The free money keeps flowing. America’s ATM stays open. All at Japan’s expense. This isn’t policy. This is economic warfare. Japan just surrendered its monetary sovereignty so the global liquidity party can continue a little longer. The yen is the hostage. Your portfolio of fiat money is the collateral. The end of easy money just got postponed… by force.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Their only escape plan? Digital Assets. Economists say that the only way for Japan to get out of this mess is to bring back the wealth using cryptocurrencies. Japan could show us that The Fiat Era is coming to end

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Only Nostr! 💜

Watching "Local Hero" (1983) movie 🎥 tonight. Nice to revisit the early eighties. Just 43 years ago. Feels like yesterday. 😄🧡 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085859/

No surprise then as to why driving on Perth roads this morning felt so busy and why so many drivers are driving like they just got their drivers license (or driving on an international license and following their home country's road rules). 🫣🤬 New Australian Bureau of Statistics data released on Tuesday showed capital cities added 517,200 people during the last financial year for a 3 per cent population growth pace.

Be careful out there everyone, especially when creating share links in AI tools. 🤔🧐🤓

Not our books! 📚 🫣😲😳 Al companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals.

#80 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Every day is a good day to reflect for a few moments! Doesn’t matter what time of year it is, it’s always worth just doing a quick check in with how you’re faring. Are you on track with what you said you wanted to create for yourself this year? Do this very quick, short quiz to see how you are doing so far this year. Help set yourself up for the next 12 months of your journey. Do not use any more than 10 works for any response to any of the 7 quick questions. Remember too that a quiz is supposed to be fun, so be lighthearted with this quick exercise. (Link is below)

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Life Power Tip Dare to slow down. Give this one a go today. You may be amazed to find that you actually will accomplish more because you are more “in the moment” when you slow down. Action Get a clear visual picture in your mind of your ideal body weight. Challenge Do inventory of assets and liabilities in all areas of your life. Increase your assets ledger. Quote Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you. -Aldous Huxley Clearing Clean your coffee maker, teapots, and kettle. Question Have you left base-camp on your upward journey? Affirmation I choose to have regular connection with good friends. Uplifting Extra What if your brain is capable of far more than you realise? Many of us never come close to using our mind’s full potential. Genius Switch is a simple 7-minute daily audio program that uses specially designed sound technology to help synchronise both hemispheres of the brain, supporting greater mental clarity, focus, creativity and inner calm. If you’re looking for a gentle way to enhance your thinking nd support your personal growth, it may be worth exploring. You might be surprised by what your mind is capable of. (Link is below)

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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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Wow! 😮 Really? This is the new #australis #aussies

Found a great YouTube channel. 👍 Channel name: The Upgrade with Makai Elías Calles Ironically listened to this one first. 🤣😂 Description of video from YouTube: Your brain doesn't care whether words arrive through your eyes or your ears, until suddenly it does. Somewhere on your phone right now, there's a half-finished audiobook and a podcast queue 20 episodes deep. Hours of "reading" you count as real. Or maybe you're in the other camp, the one that calls audiobooks cheating and doubts that listeners are engaging with the work at all. Both camps are partly right and partly wrong, and they go wrong in the same spot; that overlap is what makes the question worth a video. I went looking for a clean verdict on whether listening beats reading. I found something more useful. What your brain does with an audiobook hinges on one variable most people never think about, and once you see it, you can't unsee it. By the end, you'll know which format to reach for, when, and why.

Husband and I turned off all our phones 11:30 am to 1:30pm for this (see link). State governments already have their own warning systems in place. Federal government decided to put their own system in place for a nationwide "service". Tin foil hat firmly on my head for this one. Who knows what they are testing or collecting. My level of trust in anything government is as good as down to zero. 😳🤣🧡 https://www.ausalert.gov.au