Signal will finally enable you to use usernames instead of mobile numbers. This will make it the perfect private messaging app

Signal Messenger

Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

Signal’s mission and sole focus is private communication. For years, Signal has kept your messages private, your profile information (like your n...

Another example of Bitcoin helping, not harming, the environment

Bitcoin Magazine

Marathon Digital Holdings Launches Landfill Methane-Powered Bitcoin Mining Pilot Project

Marathon is partnering with Utah-based Nodal Power to mitigate landfill methane emissions, opening the door to proliferation of carbon-negative bit...

Great article by Alex Gladstein

Bitcoin Magazine

Stranded: How Bitcoin Is Saving Wasted Energy And Expanding Financial Freedom In Africa

Hundreds of millions of Africans face two problems holding them back from progress: 600 million lack electricity, while virtually all 1.4 billion p...

And @Guy Swann great Audio version + Guys Take of course!

Fountain: Podcasts & Music

Bitcoin Audible • Read_796 - Stranded - How Bitcoin is Saving Wasted Energy • Listen on Fountain

"One night during my visit to Bondo, Carl asked me to pause as the sunset was fading, to look at the hills around us: the lights were all turning o...

Now that is amusing and good use of block space! https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2024/01/10/bitcoin-etf-chaos-memorialized-on-blockchain-with-nod-to-chancellors-on-the-brink-reference/

What Gridless are doing with bitcoin mining in Africa is amazing! Bringing power to rural communities is transforming these communities

Gridless | At the Frontier of Bitcoin Mining in Africa

Researchers on Wednesday presented intriguing new findings surrounding an attack that over four years backdoored dozens if not thousands of iPhones

Securelist

Operation Triangulation: The last (hardware) mystery

Recent iPhone models have additional hardware-based security protection for sensitive regions of the kernel memory. We discovered that to bypass th...

Just move to Nostr

No Bullshit Bitcoin

X (Twitter) Now Collects More Data Than Ever, Including Biometrics

X's new privacy policy allows the platform to collect users' biometric data, employment and education history, access encrypted messages, and use h...

What powered the world in 2022? It wasn't Wind & Solar!

Visual Capitalist

What Electricity Sources Power the World?

Coal still leads the charge when it comes to global electricity sources, representing 35% of global power generation.

I wonder who is benefiting from the war in Ukraine?

The i Paper

Inside the arms deals worth billions at the heart of the Ukraine war

The war has served as a shop window for weapons producers, with the UK spending more than £55bn on arms – the most in central and western Europe

Another great video from @Max DeMarco

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MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology

System combines light and electrons to unlock faster, greener computing

MIT's “Lightning” system connects photons to the electronic components of computers using a novel abstraction, creating the first photonic...

That was an expensive mistake

The Mempool Open Source Project®

Explore the full Bitcoin ecosystem with The Mempool Open Source Project®. See the real-time status of your transactions, get network info, and more.

Protect your identity and move aware from Google services! Good article from Proton

Proton

Email is more than communication – It’s your identity and worth protecting | Proton

Your email address is an identifier tech giants use to track you and exploit your personal data. Learn how to protect yours.

Now that is worrying. Just self custody!

No Bullshit Bitcoin

Ripple Acquires Fortress Trust Used by Swan Bitcoin

Ripple has acquired Fortress Trust few months after it splashed $250 million on Swiss custody startup Metaco. Fortress is used by popular bitcoin e...

With its energy surplus and desire to diversify and modernize its economy, Oman is now moving heavily into bitcoin mining

No Bullshit Bitcoin

Bitcoin Mining Around the World: Oman

Hashrate Index's Jaran Mellerud produced an analysis of Bitcoin mining industry in Oman - potentially biggest bitcoin mining hub in the Middle East.

Great video @Max DeMarco

Join us Tuesday 29th August at London Bridge Rooftop Bar for the NextGen Fundraiser!

Eventbrite

NextGen Fundraiser @ London Bitcoin Space - London Bridge Rooftop Bar

a fundraiser for the U.K. Sovereign Student Project to provide bitcoin education in secondary schools!

South American style BBQ starting at 7pm with homemade Chimmichurri Bring a precoiner friend to see a demo of class activities! A short talk and Q&A - "Is Learning about Bitcoin a Righteous Act?" Chant down Babylon with the reggae LNbits Jukebox Bitcoin Artwork Auction in collaboration with BitcoinApex (https://twitter.com/bitcoin__apex) We will be fundraising for the U.K. Sovereign Student Project which brings bitcoin education based on the Mi Primer Bitcoin diploma curriculum to secondary school age children. Read more here - https://www.bitcoinpolicy.uk/post/teaching-genz-about-bitcoin By supporting this initiative, this project could be developed to provide more resources for the kids to practically engage with bitcoin and to expand this to other schools.