American Hodl, a popular bitcoin commentator, sarcastically defends detained HEX founder Richard Heart as a 'sweet innocent boy' in a video, mocking his legal troubles after his Istanbul arrest on a Finland Interpol Red Notice for alleged tax fraud (Oct 14 | 0:46 min watch).

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My thoughts on the Richard Heart news

🧠 Quote Of The Week “Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.” — Edgar Allan Poe

Introducing LayerTree, a non-custodial scaling solution on bitcoin that connects to Lightning. Using covenants, one UXTO can be shared by a million users. Any user can leave at any time in a single transaction. Users don't need to be online to receive. Funds never time out. LayerTree is the next step in bringing bitcoin to billions. Learn more: layertree.tech

A Satoshi Nakamoto statue was just unveiled in Vienna

JUST IN: New Satoshi statue unveiled in Vienna, Austria. Well done @bitcoin_at Bitcoin Austria & donors.

Take gold. Now delete every flaw. • Can’t verify it without a lab? • Can’t split it without a hacksaw? • Can’t move it without an armored truck and a prayer? • Can't resist being centralized to work globably. • Can’t know how much exists? What you’re holding now isn’t gold. It’s Bitcoin. Gold was the rough draft. Bitcoin is the final edition.

Lexe, a self-custodial Lightning wallet provider for Android and iOS, launches LexeConnect, a protocol letting apps request scoped, revocable credentials so users can approve receiving, paying, or reading wallet data in one tap.

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Introducing LexeConnect: a new protocol to connect a Lexe wallet to your app in one tap. Your app requests the scopes it needs. The user taps Appr...

Saifedean Ammous, author of The Bitcoin Standard, which has sold over 1M copies, launches a free online course on his podcast and YouTube channel, revisiting the book's sound money arguments with weekly lectures.

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🟠💊NEW!! 🟠💊 I am launching a free online course based on The Bitcoin Standard starting today on my podcast and Youtube channel! Watch ...

Sovran_Bitcoin, a standalone NixOS flake from developer naturallaw777, forks the Bitcoin and Lightning engine of Sovran_SystemsOS, adapting nix-bitcoin into a Tor-first, LND-only node stack with Zeus, BitBanana and optional NWC wallet access.

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GitHub - naturallaw777/Sovran_Bitcoin: An opinionated nix bitcoin build from Sovran_SystemsOS

An opinionated nix bitcoin build from Sovran_SystemsOS - naturallaw777/Sovran_Bitcoin

more than half of all BTC supply is sitting in addresses with no known attribution despite all the institutionalization and centralized ownership over the years, still a ton of bitcoin (maybe even most) is held by individuals in self-custody 🔐

East Texas A&M University researchers built the first full post-quantum security design for Bitcoin's Lightning Network, layering NIST-standardized quantum-resistant cryptography onto existing frameworks in Rust-Lightning.

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Researchers Build Post-Quantum Defense For Lightning Network

Second-layer solutions like Lightning may also need protection from quantum computers. Here’s how a research team appears to have cracked it.

#Bitcoin is the ultimate stand against central banks printing money!

I never intended to become a Bitcoiner. I heard someone mention, “Bitcoin is digital gold.” I read one article. I bought $50 worth, then sold it at a profit five months later. Then I read the whitepaper. Then I started going deeper: • Inflation • The supply cap • The issuance schedule • The thermodynamic security model • The game theory • Monetary history • The Cantillon effect • The fiat endgame • Deflation as the natural state of a free economy And somewhere between "interesting technology" and "holy shit, every dollar I hold is melting," you cross a threshold. Then I found myself pouring my savings into Bitcoin because I understood the math. Once you see that 21 million is the only hard monetary ceiling humanity has ever coded into existence, you can’t unsee it. Once you understand that Bitcoin is an escape from a debt-soaked empire printing itself into irrelevance, you stop asking whether you should buy it. You start asking why the hell you waited this long. Bitcoin is a journey. Get started today.

#Bitcoin was suppose to replace the banks. But now they are buying bitcoin. What’s going on?

Quote of the Day “Human beings are born with different capacities. If they are free, they are not equal. And if they are equal, they are not free.” ― Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn