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Thank you @Susie Violet Ward 🧡 Exactly my concern with Australia's new Travel Rule that'll apply from 1 July 2026. It also incentivises reusing an address for transferring to own cold wallet from exchange. 😡🫣 Source:

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How Freedom Tech Is Pushing Back Against Digital Authoritarianism

Freedom tech is giving people tools to communicate, move money and organize when governments, platforms or banks cut them off.

Neighbor gave us a whole bunch of lemons today. You know what they say about life giving you lemons. 🍋 🤣 🧡 Lemon meringue or hummus is looking good. 👍 Could make limoncello too.

Yes! Go Lions! 🦁 LOL 🤣

Thank you once again @Jeff Booth 00:00 Introduction 00:51 The Price Of Tomorrow Thesis 04:24 Why Debt Creates Centralization 08:10 Can The US Become Japan 09:37 Bitcoin As A Parallel System 14:50 What Must Happen For Bitcoin To Win 20:50 Arc Labs And Bitcoin Payments 25:13 Stablecoins vs Bitcoin 27:50 Is Quantum Computing A Threat 31:48 Michael Saylor And Strategy 34:52 AI, Energy & Deflation 39:09 Bitcoin Mining Economics 45:33 Where The Biggest Bitcoin Opportunities Are 46:17 Projects To Watch 47:55 Why People Still Fear Bitcoin 49:48 What Excites Jeff Most 51:23 Lightning Round 53:37 Where To Learn More

#47 Of 365 Forward Steps Notes Wisdom On The Web Feeling burned out isn’t your fault. It has nothing to do with a person’s amount of work or their ability to handle stress. Rather, it’s often because of a toxic working environment and a culture that encourages us to stay silent for fear of being seen as unproductive or lazy. Yet, there is hope. Beat Burnout is a customized audio track that programs the mind for superior mental resilience and renewed happiness in just minutes a day. The subliminal audio technology infuses the subconscious mind with a new mindset and series of habits and this is the key to taking back control of your time and energy! (Link is below) https://www.selfimprovementgift.com/forwardsteps/beat-burnout/ Life Power Tip Break out of the mould. You and your life experiences are not set in stone. Look at your past and all the deviations along that journey. See what is yet possible. Some parts of your journey you orchestrated and at times, you allowed yourself to be directed by others. Can you learn from that past and use elements of your past to construct a future that is fully directed by you? Action Develop and nurture an optimistic mindset to have better things show up in your life. Challenge Check in and balance each of your goals with their cost, and evaluate. Quote No person ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and they’re not the same person. -Heraclitus Clearing Check your car’s air filter and clean it or get a new one. Question Do you have any MUST do’s hanging around? Lighten your load and attend to them! Affirmation I choose to feel peace wherever I am. Uplifting Extra Not enough time in the day? Not after reading this gem. How To Live On 24 Hours A Day was first published in 1910 and was a major bestseller, as part of a larger work entitled “How To Live”. Arnold Bennett has some great insights about using time wisely and puts forward proposals for getting more out of our time each day. It is an old book and some examples may not apply to you, its philosophy definitely applies to everyone in the present day. (Link is below)

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How To Live On 24 Hours A Day

In How To Live On 24 Hours A Day, Arnold Bennett has some great insights about using time wisely and puts forward proposals for getting more out of...

Enjoy today’s video too! To see all Forward Steps Notes to date, just search my posts using "Of 365 Forward Steps Notes”. I had already sent these one a day for 12 months though to 9 May 2026. Then started anew on 10 May 2026.

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GN Nostriches The Mage: "You will face it when it's worth it to you." From King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 🗡️ Good knight. 🤭

Watching "The Sheep Detectives" tonight. Cute film. Great family movie. 🍿 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt32565993

Listening to Edward Snowden again today. No I don't own NEAR, I'm a Bitcoin maxi. 🧡😄 Video Description taken from YouTube: Eleven years after Edward Snowden's explosive revelations of mass surveillance, another paradigm shift is underway. The world is embracing AI systems on an unprecedented scale, but they risk being used for surveillance by centralized systems. That's where the user-owned internet comes in. Blockchains and user-owned data can preserve individual freedom and be a crucial counterweight to centralized power. They can open up space to consider the ethics around building powerful AI systems. Edward Snowden will discuss these factors and others at the critical intersection of privacy, technology, and individual rights in the AI era. Snowden will take questions from the audience after his talk.