Bitcoin’s difficulty level finally dropped on today, after increasing five times since the February 24 increase of 9.95%. Actually it’s been on a fairly steep upward trend since July 2021

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Bitcoin Miners Breathe a Sigh of Relief as Difficulty Drops 1.45% After Five Consecutive Increases

Bitcoin's network difficulty level took a dip, dropping by 1.45% and bringing the overall difficulty down to 48.01 trillion.

Coinbase Sued For Illegal Harvesting Of Biometric Data Another example of how KYC does more harm than good. Protect your data and privacy by using no-KYC services like Robosats and Hodlhodl

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Coinbase Sued For Illegal Harvesting Of Biometric Data

The lawsuit alleges the company collected detailed face maps and fingerprints of customers without consent.

As part of Voltage.cloud Nostr services, they are enabling users to create their own NIP05 identifier at their vlt.ge domain and receive Zaps to a non custodial lightning wallet Once you’ve created your NIP05 domain on Voltage, you can connect your node to your Identifier to start receiving Zaps to your own node! This can be a node inside of Voltage or outside of Voltage. I’ve tried this with my Voltage node, it works perfectly and it’s free. https://voltage.cloud/blog/news/non-custodial-nostr-zaps-nip05-ln-addresses/

Biden Administration Proposes 30% Tax On Crypto Mining To Counter Environmental Impact The framing is all wrong. What envoirnmental impact? ASICs suck in cool air and blow out warm air. There aren’t any emissions, just like any other computer or microwave or electric car or Christmas lights!

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Biden Administration Proposes 30% Tax On Crypto Mining To Counter Environmental Impact

Several US authorities have raised concerns regarding the environmental impact of crypto mining. Previously, US lawmakers probed the crypto mining ...

In a corrupt system, leaders who achieve political power are selected for their unique combination of fervor and ignorance. They genuinely believe that they know better, and they absolutely are that dumb.

I guess the Ordinals numbering issue has been resolved. Wow, that’s a busy mempool.

Small countries like Bhutan that adopt bitcoin early will look very clever in the future. Bhutan is perfectly set up to mine bitcoin, it has vast amounts of cheap hydro power. It started mining in 2020

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The Kingdom Of Bhutan Confirms It Has Been Mining Bitcoin For Several Years

The Himalayan kingdom's investment arm Druk Holding and Investments (DHI) revealed that it has been running a bitcoin mining operation in the country.

To make Tor resistant to attacks like the current DDOS attach they need to make it harder for attackers to overload the service. This proposal could do this by allowing onion services to specify an optional dynamic proof-of-work scheme that clients would need to participate in if they want to use the network.

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Tor To Implement Proof Of Work Client Puzzle To Mitigate DoS Attacks

The proposal introduces a proof of work system used to identify and verify genuine users. A complimentary draft proposal also might introduce "Res ...

Thank you #[0]​ for supporting this important fight for Open source software and bitcoin! "A court case initiated by Craig Wright against 13 Bitcoin Core developers could change the way the law views open-source development. The Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization co-founded by Jack Dorsey, Alex Morcos and Martin White, is backing 13 Bitcoin Core developers facing lawsuits by Craig Wright. The cases could potentially have major impacts on the future of Bitcoin and open-source software development."

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Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund Prepares For Case That Could Have Wide Ramifications For Open-Source Developers

A court case initiated by Craig Wright against 13 Bitcoin Core developers could change the way the law views open-source development.

Anyone know the best way to link to posts on Habla.news? Should it show previews like other url’s?

JPMorgan to buy failed First Republic Bank. Silicon Valley Bank was the 16th largest bank. First Republic was the 13th largest bank with $200 Billion in assets. $100 Billion was withdrawn in the last few months and now JPMorgan will pay $10.6 Billion. Clown World! https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/california-financial-regulator-takes-possession-first-republic-bank-2023-05-01/

Why Deflation is the Key to Abundance with #[0]​ & #[1]​ “Everything in the world has counterparty risk to that debt except for Bitcoin… if you’re measuring from Bitcoin then you’re seeing prices falling to the marginal cost of production everywhere.” Jeff explains what a world could look like with sound money and it sounds fucking good! Great What Bitcoin Did episode

It is a shame Intel have abandoned the ASIC business but, every cloud has a silver lining. Block have secured a deal for the Intel ASICs which will get them access to three nanometer chips and help get them to market faster.

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Block's Bitcoin Mining ASIC Program Is Moving Forward

"Our primary motivation for this initiative is to increase the decentralization, transparency, and resiliency of the bitcoin network," and "we plan...

“Britons have to accept they have become poorer, a senior Bank of England official has said, claiming that an unwillingness to accept the nation’s downward mobility was fuelling inflation” WTF! Stop debasing the currency you idiot!

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Intel Discontinues Bitcoin-Mining Blockscale Chips What a shame, I was hoping Intel would join Whatsminer and Antminer as a top and more importantly cheaper ASIC manufacturer

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Intel Discontinues Bitcoin-Mining Blockscale Chips, No Future Gens Announced

Came in late, leaving too early.

The Global Financial Crisis 2? With Lyn Alden “The end game, that’s where it gets tricky, because there’s really no plan to ever stop the fiscal deficits. Debt to GDP is very, very high. And the world’s never been in this position before where we have an entirely Fiat-based system with debts this high. And especially because it’s not due to war. It’s due to accumulated promises over decades. So there’s no light switch, that can just change it next year.” If you want to understand the mess the current financial system is in you have to listen to #[0]​ she is amazingly knowledgeable. Spoiler alert, it’s fucked!

Citadel Dispatch 99 : Paxful Shuts Down with ODELL and Ray Youssef It’s a shame Paxful has shutdown but Ray seems genuine on CD99 with #[0]​ and this was not a government crackdown but the fact that Ray’s cofounder is suing and making it impossible for the business to continue. A real shame https://www.youtube.com/live/YvCoDxRjZiM?feature=share

No Privacy? No Freedom. No Freedom? No Wealth Good article by #[0]​ about the importance of privacy that is underestimated by most. Privacy is a human right and Rights are not granted. They are taken and defended.

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No Privacy? No Freedom. No Freedom? No Wealth.

Wealth requires freedom: the ability to make decisions without coercion. Freedom requires privacy: the ability to selectively reveal yourself to th...

What Bitcoin Did - The Failure of Central Banking with Matthew Mezinskis Matthew does a great job explaining the the current financial system and it fucked!

This kind of exposure makes Bitcoin real for the uninitiated. Good luck Bitcoin racing

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Bitcoin Racing Team Will Put Bitcoin In Front Of Millions Of Racing Fans In The Porsche Carrera Cup

Bitcoin Racing Team has entered Sebastian Melrose into the Cup, which will be watched by millions of fans.