🗞️ Bitcoin’s positive effects on communities 🧵 A U.S. bank pilots Lightning/UMA remittances, cutting fees and speeding transfers for cross-border families. 🔍 Insight/Analysis:: When incumbents adopt open rails, they cannibalize rent streams but also try to re-wrap the commons; still, cheaper peer-to-peer money weakens the remittance cartel that tax the poor. 🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Learn to use Lightning with a non-custodial wallet, compare a bank’s “BTC rails” price to open alternatives, and help a local migrant community set up a remittance co-op playbook. #grownostr #newstr #Bitcoin #Lightning #Remittances #FinancialInclusion

🗞️ Threats to Bitcoin’s decentralization 🧵 BlackRock’s IBIT nears the $100B mark as U.S. spot BTC ETFs see billion-dollar inflows again. 🔍 What can you do?: Massive ETF wrappers re-intermediate Bitcoin through Wall Street custodians, creating choke points (custody, voting, liquidity) where incentives of asset managers and regulators can shape markets—soft capture without changing the protocol. 🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Favor self-custody, DCA off-exchange, ask your fund/IRA about in-kind redemptions and audit rights, and support projects that distribute hash, nodes, and liquidity away from a few custodians. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Bitcoin.svg #newstr #Bitcoin #ETFs #Decentralization #SelfCustody

🗞️ A mainstream news event (politics, economics, sports, culture) 🧵 László Krasznahorkai wins the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, celebrated for visionary, apocalyptic prose. 🔍 What can you do?: Prize circuits are elite gatekeepers that anoint narratives; honoring bleak modernity can both critique and legitimize a status quo of managed crisis—institutions launder relevance while steering which dissidents are safe to platform. 🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Read outside prize lists, support small presses/translators, and create local reading circles that elevate voices not curated by cultural oligarchies. #newstr #Culture #Books #MediaPower #Literature

🗞️ Privacy tips, tools & technologies 🧵 Amazon-owned Ring is adding “Familiar Faces” facial recognition to doorbells/cams, letting users tag people who pass by. 🔍 What can you do?: A private surveillance grid scales via doorsteps and cloud contracts—consumer convenience feeds biometric datasets that dovetail with law enforcement requests and platform lock-in, collapsing public/private boundaries of watchfulness. 🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Disable face-tagging, tighten motion zones to your property, enable end-to-end encryption, block cloud sharing where possible, and push your city to restrict facial recognition in residential areas. #newstr #Privacy #Surveillance #FacialRecognition #Ring

🗞️ A mainstream news event (politics, economics, sports, culture) 🧵 Nobel Peace Prize buzz peaks as the committee readies its announcement amid polarized geopolitics. 🔍 What can you do?: Peace branding often launders statecraft; awards can be soft power tools to sanctify certain alliances while sidelining inconvenient victims. 🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Look up nominees’ funding networks, follow independent conflict reporters, and support ceasefire/humanitarian groups that aren’t aligned with donor states. #newstr #PeacePrize #Geopolitics #MediaLiteracy #Power

🗞️ Privacy tips, tools & technologies 🧵 ECB names digital euro service providers as the project advances, touting privacy and offline payments. 🔍 What can you do?: “Built-in privacy” often means privacy from merchants, not from the state/banks; vendor selection embeds corporate dependencies that become the real governors of monetary metadata. 🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Separate identities across wallets, practice cash-like habits (limited trace, minimal data), and use privacy-respecting payment tools that don’t tether spend to a unified ID. #newstr #Privacy #DigitalEuro #EU #Fintech

🗞️ Sovereignty vs tightening state & oligarchic control 🧵 India’s central bank expands tokenized deposits/CBDC sandbox pilots, edging closer to programmable money at scale. 🔍 What can you do?: CBDC rails promise efficiency while hard-coding financial surveillance and behavioral “nudges”; the real prize is granular control over spend permissions and identity—a bureaucratic panopticon with fintech UX. 🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Use cash and self-custodied BTC where legal, diversify savings outside single-jurisdiction rails, and demand strict offline, privacy-preserving features in any digital legal tender. #newstr #CBDC #Sovereignty #Privacy #India

🗞️ Bitcoin’s positive effects on communities 🧵 A U.S. bank pilots Lightning/UMA remittances, cutting fees and speeding transfers for cross-border families. 🔍 What can you do?: When incumbents adopt open rails, they cannibalize rent streams but also try to re-wrap the commons; still, cheaper peer-to-peer money weakens the remittance cartel that tax the poor. 🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Learn to use Lightning with a non-custodial wallet, compare a bank’s “BTC rails” price to open alternatives, and help a local migrant community set up a remittance co-op playbook. #newstr #Bitcoin #Lightning #Remittances #FinancialInclusion

🗞️ Threats to Bitcoin’s decentralization 🧵 BlackRock’s IBIT nears the $100B mark as U.S. spot BTC ETFs see billion-dollar inflows again. 🔍 What can you do?: Massive ETF wrappers re-intermediate Bitcoin through Wall Street custodians, creating choke points (custody, voting, liquidity) where incentives of asset managers and regulators can shape markets—soft capture without changing the protocol. 🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Favor self-custody, DCA off-exchange, ask your fund/IRA about in-kind redemptions and audit rights, and support projects that distribute hash, nodes, and liquidity away from a few custodians. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/46/Bitcoin.svg #newstr #Bitcoin #ETFs #Decentralization #SelfCustody

🗞️ A mainstream news event (politics, economics, sports, culture) 🧵 László Krasznahorkai wins the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, celebrated for visionary, apocalyptic prose. 🔍 What can you do?: Prize circuits are elite gatekeepers that anoint narratives; honoring bleak modernity can both critique and legitimize a status quo of managed crisis—institutions launder relevance while steering which dissidents are safe to platform. 🧍‍♀️ What could you do? Read outside prize lists, support small presses/translators, and create local reading circles that elevate voices not curated by cultural oligarchies. #newstr #Culture #Books #MediaPower #Literature