watching some people still selling the dream of being “ rich “ via Bitcoin. me: humanity has learned nothing.

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More than 13,000 people have reportedly placed deposits on these AI companion robots. Delivery starts next month. 🤖🫂 #AI #HumanoidRobots #Loneliness #HumanConnection #Technology

Feminism is not female supremacy. Feminism means women are fully human and deserve equal rights, equal opportunity, equal protection, and equal freedom. If that sounds threatening, feminism isn’t the problem. Your dependence on women having less power is. #Feminism #Equality #WomensRights #ERA #HumanRights

📚🕊️ WHY THE FIRST SHELF MATTERS If we are building a modern Library of Alexandria—a home for the memory of humanity—then the first publication carries meaning. Choosing the Bible first is understandable. It is one of the most influential collections of writings in human history. It has shaped faith, language, art, law, politics, liberation movements and entire civilizations. It belongs in the library. Absolutely. But I still wish the first act had represented the whole human family. Not because the Bible should be excluded. Because no single tradition should have to stand in for everyone. A modern Library of Alexandria could and should hold: 📜 The Bible 📜 The Book of Enoch 📜 The Jewish Tanakh 📜 The Quran 📜 The Vedas 📜 The Buddhist sutras 📜 The Tao Te Ching 📜 The Popol Vuh 📜 The Epic of Gilgamesh 📜 Ancient Egyptian writings 📜 African oral traditions 📜 Indigenous cosmologies 📜 Scientific discoveries 📜 Poetry, letters and ordinary human testimony It should also ask important questions: Which Bible? Which canon? Which translation? Which books were included? Which books were left outside? Who made those decisions? The Bible is not merely one book. It is already a library assembled across centuries. Different #Jewish and #Christian communities preserve different collections within it. That history makes it an ideal doorway into a larger conversation—not the final boundary around knowledge. My concern is not Christianity. My concern is whether we are rebuilding an old hierarchy when we have an opportunity to create something more open. A universal library should not erase the Bible. It should place the Bible within the enormous human conversation surrounding it. The purpose is not to flatten every tradition or pretend they all teach the same thing. The purpose is to preserve them faithfully enough that humanity can study: 🔗 Their connections ⚖️ Their disagreements 🌍 Their cultures 📜 Their histories 👁️ Their visions of existence Every sacred text deserves context. Every culture deserves a shelf. Every person deserves access. Do not replace one canon with another. Do not build another altar. Build a table large enough for humanity to sit together. Then build the library around it. 📚🕊️ #LibraryOfAlexandria #ModernLibraryOfAlexandria #Bible #BiblicalCanon #BookOfEnoch #Christian #Christianity #Judaism #Islam #Hinduism #Buddhism #IndigenousKnowledge #AfricanHistory #AncientTexts #SacredTexts #ComparativeReligion #OpenKnowledge #CulturalMemory #DigitalLibrary #KnowledgePreservation #WorldPeace #Nostr

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🐞 August 6-15, 2010: The Overflow Bug On August 6, 2010, developer Jeff Garzik and others discovered a critical integer overflow vulnerability in Bitcoin. The bug could allow someone to create essentially unlimited bitcoin out of thin air. Nine days later, on August 15, an attacker exploited it, creating over 184 billion #BTC in a single transaction. Satoshi Nakamoto and the early developers coordinated an emergency fix and soft-forked the network back to a valid state within hours. It remains the only major inflation bug ever exploited on Bitcoin. That week became one of the earliest demonstrations of Bitcoin’s ability to respond to an existential threat while remaining open source. #Today in #bitcoin #history #open source

My review of #bitcoin #history of hardware wallets 📝 not including #NVK #ColdCard #BTC #Veterans please check & update me where applicable please 📘 AFTER ACTION REVIEW #AAR #Bitcoin #Self-Custody (2009–Present) Mission Enable ordinary people to securely own and control digital money without relying on a trusted third party. ⸻ 1. What was the mission? Give individuals direct ownership of money while maintaining: * Security * Privacy * Recovery * Usability * Long-term resilience ⸻ 2. What actually happened? Bitcoin succeeded. Self-custody proved possible. Hardware wallets dramatically reduced malware theft. But new threats emerged: * Human error * Phishing * Lost backups * Privacy breaches * Complex recovery * Poor user understanding The battlefield changed. ⸻ 3. What went well? ✅ Private keys became dramatically harder to steal remotely. ✅ Hardware wallets became inexpensive. ✅ Open-source security improved. ✅ QR and air-gapped signing reduced attack surfaces. ✅ Multisignature matured. ✅ Recovery options expanded. ✅ Bitcoin-only devices reduced unnecessary complexity. ✅ Documentation and education improved. ⸻ 4. What went wrong? ❌ Users still approved malicious transactions. ❌ Recovery phrases were lost. ❌ Customer databases leaked. ❌ Supply-chain attacks occurred. ❌ Firmware transparency was misunderstood. ❌ Marketing often exceeded reality. ❌ Too many products assumed expert users. ❌ Families remained unprepared for inheritance. ⸻ 5. Why? Technology evolved faster than human understanding. The industry optimized for cryptography. The public needed education. Security is only as strong as the person using it. ⸻ 6. Sustains Continue doing: 🟢 Hardware signing 🟢 Open standards 🟢 Human-readable verification 🟢 Bitcoin-only firmware 🟢 Independent audits 🟢 Air-gapped options 🟢 Privacy-first purchasing 🟢 Clear documentation ⸻ 7. Improves Focus future effort on: 🔵 Better recovery 🔵 Simpler interfaces 🔵 Family inheritance 🔵 Scam resistance 🔵 Clearer transaction signing 🔵 Less jargon 🔵 Beginner-first design 🔵 Interoperability ⸻ 8. Enemy Tactics Observed 🎣 Phishing 🧠 Social engineering 📦 Fake devices 💻 Malware 📱 Malicious apps 📧 Fake firmware 👀 User confusion 🪤 Blind signing ⸻ 9. Friendly Strengths 🛡️ Strong cryptography 🔐 Hardware isolation 👥 Open-source communities 📚 Documentation 🔎 Independent researchers 🌎 Global developer ecosystem ⸻ 10. Battlefield Changed 2009 Protect the key. ↓ 2013 Protect the computer. ↓ 2016 Protect the device. ↓ 2020 Protect the recovery. ↓ 2025 Protect the human. ⸻ Commander’s Assessment The mission has not changed. The environment has. The greatest remaining vulnerability is no longer cryptographic. It is human comprehension. Future success depends less on stronger encryption and more on making secure ownership understandable, recoverable, and practical for ordinary people. ⸻ Lessons Learned 1. Trust mathematics. Verify people. 2. Recovery is part of security. 3. The private key is only one link in the chain. 4. Privacy begins before purchase. 5. Every solution introduces new trade-offs. 6. The simplest secure system people will actually use beats the perfect system they abandon. 7. Education is security. 8. No device can compensate for poor decisions. ⸻ End State The objective is not to build the world’s most secure hardware wallet. The objective is to enable ordinary people to securely own their money with confidence, dignity, and resilience.

@mike 👀 thanks

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