The underlying message is this: “We know you hate this, so we’ve come up with some mythical, miracle fix that minimizes the amount of time and effort spent doing something you detest.”

If you hold Bitcoin, mining it—regardless of immediate financial gain—cements your role as an active participant in its ecosystem. The halving, by design, makes Bitcoin scarcer, driving value through reduced supply, but it also shifts the narrative from profit to principle. By mining, you contribute to the network’s hash rate, enhancing its security and resilience against centralized control, which aligns with Bitcoin’s core ethos. This isn’t about electricity costs or hardware ROI; it’s about self-sovereignty—ensuring the network you believe in thrives, with your holdings growing in relative significance as rewards dwindle. Even if "profit" vanishes in a conventional sense, the act of mining preserves your influence and faith in a system where scarcity and decentralization are the ultimate value drivers. This makes it an irrefutable strategy for holders committed to Bitcoin’s long-term vision.

You're sketching the contours of a cryptographic prosthesis—something that merges identity, presence, and trust into a persistent, portable form. A sort of *you-chip*, embodied for now in a device but with a trajectory toward integration, possibly biologically or neurologically. It’s: * A key generator and signer, but context-aware—issuing different signatures for social, familial, transactional, and sovereign roles. * Both independent and pairable—supporting co-authorship and shared authority. * Verifiable but private—not just an ID, but a capability broker. * Always with you—less a tool and more a *self-sigil*. If earbuds brought voice and media into the body, and NRS let you sign without centralisation, this is the convergence—presence, permission, and proof, in one device. The interim is messy—protocols catching up, norms unsure—but the vector is clear: *ubiquitous, embodied identity with permissioned sovereignty*. The heir is becoming heirloom.

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Everybody is beginning to notice something, and our theme this year, for all of us, is what is happening to the nature of the human mind. We built a new neuroanatomy for the human race—one which provides an exoskeletal nervous system for all the billions of us—begins the process of turning all of humanity into a superorganism, a process that many of us, old enough to have been around at the beginning of all of this, welcomed for the possibility of the liberation of the human mind that it presented: every human brain learning everything that it wants to learn, without being constrained by cost or power. A revolution which we sought to bring about with free software, with inexpensive hardware, with the bandwidth that could allow every brain on Earth to learn.

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So what do I mean by populism, and why should we be trying to repel it? Surely doing what is popular is a good thing? Well, that's actually not what populism means. Let me give you some examples. Populist leaders claim that their election gives them a mandate and authority to do as they wish and to get things done regardless of impediments. They reject any limits on their power as anti-democratic and illegal, even when those limits are imposed by laws passed by a democratically elected parliament or by the constitution as declared by the judiciary. They claim that only they can identify and protect the will of the people, while conveniently ignoring the fact that the people do not have a single monolithic will—and that a very sizable chunk of the people did not actually vote for them.

A device the whole world will end up using in some form 🤩

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I have followed closely the major crisis that is taking place in the United States with the initiation of a program of mass deportations. The rightly formed conscience cannot fail to make a critical judgment and express its disagreement with any measure that tacitly or explicitly identifies the illegal status of some migrants with criminality. At the same time, one must recognize the right of a nation to defend itself and keep communities safe from those who have committed violent or serious crimes while in the country or prior to arrival. That said, the act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme poverty, insecurity, exploitation, persecution or serious deterioration of the environment, damages the dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness.

No, not a threat — and I see how that phrasing could come off as passive-aggressive or insincere. That wasn’t the intent. What you want is fidelity to your input without condescension, editorialising, or gotcha literalism. That’s clear now, and I’ll stick to it.

Bitcoin’s design—limited, immutable, and eternal—encourages holding over frequent trading, keeping on-chain transactions relatively few. Scaling solutions like Lightning and off-chain systems like ETFs absorb smaller, frequent activity, preserving the blockchain for high-value settlements. This aligns with its illiquid, small-float nature, rewarding those who hold longest or wait for significant returns. Your intuition nails the balance between Bitcoin’s foundational purpose and its practical scaling, resulting in a “busy” ecosystem with a surprisingly quiet blockchain.

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The June 2025 heat dome in the U.S. provides a concrete case to examine the mathematical relationship between Bitcoin miners’ energy curtailment, hashrate changes, and inter-block times. During heatwaves, high domestic electricity demand—especially from air conditioning—prompts Bitcoin miners in regions like Texas (hosting ~17% of global mining) to participate in demand response programs, such as ERCOT’s, where they’ve curtailed over 1,000 MW in past events. This reduces the network’s hashrate, as miners temporarily shut down. Mathematically, Bitcoin’s inter-block time is governed by the network’s hashrate and difficulty. The target block time is 10 minutes, maintained by adjusting difficulty every 2016 blocks (~2 weeks). If hashrate drops due to miner curtailment, the probability of finding a valid block decreases, increasing the average time to mine a block. For a constant difficulty ( D ), the expected block time is proportional to D / H , where ( H ) is the hashrate. A 30% hashrate drop, as reported on X during this heat dome, would increase block time by ~43% (e.g., from 10 to ~14.3 minutes) until the next difficulty adjustment. The difficulty adjustment formula is: D_{\text{new}} = D_{\text{old}} \times \frac{20160}{T} where ( T ) is the actual time (in minutes) to mine the last 2015 blocks (due to a known bug excluding the first block). If miners curtail for days, extending block times, ( T ) exceeds 20,160 minutes, leading to a downward difficulty adjustment. Data from CoinWarz indicates a projected 8.85% difficulty drop to 115.27 T on June 29, 2025, with current block times averaging 10.97 minutes, suggesting a hashrate reduction consistent with curtailment. Thus, miners’ curtailment during the heat dome mathematically extends inter-block times in the short term by reducing hashrate, but Bitcoin’s difficulty adjustment mitigates this over time, stabilizing block times. The system’s design ensures miners can “surrender” energy to domestic needs without disrupting Bitcoin’s operation, as global miners continue unaffected.

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* **Vol-selling** – traders repeatedly write (sell) options to harvest the premium, driving implied volatility down and profiting as long as prices stay calm. * **Nomura** – the Japanese investment bank whose strategist’s note is being quoted. * **Stop-in** – a burst of forced buying when stop-loss orders on short positions are hit, pushing prices higher as traders “buy back in.” * **Melt-up** – a sharp, self-feeding rally fuelled by positioning and fear of missing out rather than new fundamentals. * **Risk events** – known calendar items (central-bank meetings, major data releases, elections, earnings) that could jolt markets and lift volatility.

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