Captain Piccard… The first of the Start Trek Next Generation cast to pass. It was shows like the start trek franchise and Babylon 5 that got me gazing to the stars, imagining the future and filled me of excitement of things to come. I’m not sure if my interest in science and technology came as a result of these shows or if I liked these shows because of my interest in science, but this shaped a lot of my character and who I am. The death of Captain Piccard hits hard. It reminds me of my own mortality. When childhood hero’s are put in the ground, it just reminds me that my time is sooner than I think. “Increase your remembrance in the destroying of pleasure (death)” - Hadeeth ‫بِسۡمِ ٱللَّهِ ٱلرَّحۡمَـٰنِ ٱلرَّحِیمِ تَبَـٰرَكَ ٱلَّذِی بِیَدِهِ ٱلۡمُلۡكُ وَهُوَ عَلَىٰ كُلِّ شَیۡءࣲ قَدِیرٌ﴿ ١ ﴾‬ ‫ٱلَّذِی خَلَقَ ٱلۡمَوۡتَ وَٱلۡحَیَوٰةَ لِیَبۡلُوَكُمۡ أَیُّكُمۡ أَحۡسَنُ عَمَلࣰاۚ وَهُوَ ٱلۡعَزِیزُ ٱلۡغَفُورُ﴿ ٢ ﴾‬ Blessed is He in whose hand is dominion, and He is over all things competent - [He] who created death and life to test you [as to] which of you is best in deed - and He is the Exalted in Might, the Forgiving - Al-Mulk,1-2

Just to give everyone the heads up on a successful project execution of the London based Bitcoin summit. It was a very good turnout, and we achieved some great milestones. We had some known names like Simon Dixon and Harris Irfan. I managed to teach a workshop on how elliptic curve cryptography works (basic intuitions) and the process of going from seed words to Bitcoin addresses. Hopefully the start of many more to come. We also had the likes of Adam from Frostsnap and other individuals in this space. We had a total of 140 tickets allocated out of 150. My estimate is we had an approx 130 people at peak. And out of 75-80 expected on day 2 (the workshop day), probably 55-60 attended

So apparently Muslim countries are so oppressive of women that they give them their own parking spaces!! They even give women their own train cars on their metro stations so they don’t get crushed by men during rush hour!! What wickedness is this??!! 😂

The craziness that is Daniel

It’s almost the end of Jumuah, there’s still time to benefit from this video about ayatul Kursee

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Latest conversation with Simon Dixon and his journey…

If there’s one thing the ColdCard vulnerability has taught me is that many are just one single mistake away from catastrophic failure. And for many, that single point of failure is you…

Inflation = shrinkflation What’s fascinating isn’t the difference in size, but it’s also more expensive!! 😂

When we say that ribaa is evil, and mostly a the root of a lot of problems of today, we mean it. Bitcoin has the option to escape that, but first one must remove the love for it from our hearts.

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Michael has a physical hash lock!! How cool was that!!

So apparently…the Bitcoin network is on hold until 1st September. I had to pay rent and some bills, but I’m going to have to tell the landlord to wait until the Bitcoin Network is back up and running again…this is so tragic!! If the Bitcoin network halted for even a single day, it would be the death of the network. Its proposition of being the most robust network mankind has ever seen will be turned to ash and it would literally be just another fiat. So sad to see a grown man break down like this, and for people to be egging him on…

Litecoin is SHOCKINLY stable lol 😂 Who needs usdt when you got LTC?!

A pretty good breakdown of the events of the last few days form Simon Dixon Simon gave a really good summary https://xcancel.com/i/article/2086829676610085297

Exciting stuff!!!

Love this guys general breakdowns.

One thing I just heard now is…why did they send it all to one address? If they have the capability to find people’s seed phrase and swipe their funds, then why not simply send them all to individual addresses and hide in what are other normal txs? Nobody would gave really noticed or there wouldn’t be an easy way to know what is stolen and what is a genuine tx just by looking at it? The suggestion is that they wanted to be known. This is all speculation, and they could of just been that stupid, but it does beg the question. But…Plot twist, it turns out the guy downloaded kimi k3 and was so excited at it’s capabilities that he simply tied it to his Hermes agent and gave the goal “make me some money and don’t stop until I’m a millionaire” then went to bed. He wakes up in the morning and finds his agent executed one of the most devastating crypto hacks of the decade, and now he is, as requested, a millionaire. What a plot twist that would be if true. The worlds first ai driven bank heist.

As much as the coldcard vulnerability was clearly & openly devastating, loss of funds due to an overly complicated setup is equally devastating but less visible. Be careful when considering multisig, passphrases, miniscripts etc

Even though you haven’t got funds on a coldcard…do you find yourself checking your wallet just in case? That level of latent fear is what has hit the ‘Bitcoin community’. Bitcoin was built on the idea that, if locked in a seed phrase that’s never hit the internet, you can sleep at night. Although that is still true, it has still hit many in the chest, and sowed the seeds of doubt. It will take time to overcome that fear. But one good thing that’s come from this is that moving forward, people will be more scrutinising over the products they use and recommend.