In reality, El Salvadore increased their bitcoin purchases from 1 Bitcoin per day to 12 bitcoin per day, nice!
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Bitcoin + Open Source Software + Privacy = Freedom. Stay humble and stack sats🤙
Bitcoin doesn't need Powel or the Fed!
Really interesting insight into how bad Internet cencership actually is
https://fountain.fm/episode/RsdhA3NnozVmv9Onkd65
A backdoor implemented by the government gets exploited by the bad guys. This is why you can't put a backdoor in encryption software, we've been saying this for years!
Just to be clear, I am in no way saying that the government are the good guys.
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U.S. Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Messaging Apps
This week, the FBI, the U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with partner agencies from New Zealand, Australia, and Cana...
Bitcoin at $100,000, I think you're right @MartyBent we have entered another dimension!
Bitcoin $100,000: The Beginning Has Come To An End
Bitcoin Part I has concluded. On to Part II.
It's not just the US considering Unrealized Capital Gains
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Denmark to Consider Unrealized Cryptocurrency Capital Gains Tax Next Year
The new bill is expected to be presented to the Danish Parliament in early 2025, with the country's Tax Law Council recommending that the rules sho...
A must-see documentary on Netflix that explains how Cambridge Analytica used Facebook to seriously influence voters in the 2016 US election, Brexit in the UK, and many other elections around the globe
Watch The Great Hack | Netflix Official Site
Explore how a data company named Cambridge Analytica came to symbolize the dark side of social media in the wake of the 2016 U.S. presidential elec...
Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see and write about the Edward Snowden files. Check out his really good intro to "Why Privacy Matters". It's only 15 minutes long
Why privacy matters
Glenn Greenwald was one of the first reporters to see -- and write about -- the Edward Snowden files, with their revelations about the United State...
These Bitaxe open source home miners are getting so good, a Bitaxe found a block recently!
I have the Ultra, Supra and will be getting this one too.
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bitaxeGamma: 5th Major Revision with BM1370 ASIC from Antminer S21 Pro
bitaxeGamma is the 5th major revision of the fully open-source bitaxe Bitcoin ASIC miner, now including the BM1370 ASIC from the Antminer S21 Pro.
Police use of face recognition technology (FRT) poses a particularly massive risk to our civil liberties, particularly for Black men and women and other marginalized communities
Government use of FRT needs to be banned or it will be abused
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Weak "Guardrails" on Police Face Recognition Use Make Things Worse
Police use of face recognition technology (FRT) poses a particularly massive risk to our civil liberties, particularly for Black men and women and ...
Up until November 2021 Meta was scanning the face of every person in photos posted on the platform.
Glad to see Texas is fighting back and stopping companies from capturing biometric identifiers for a commercial purpose
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Texas Wins $1.4 Billion Biometric Settlement Against Meta. It Would Have Happened Sooner With Consumer Enforcement
The Texas settlement is welcome, but it also highlights the need to give consumers their own private right of action to enforce consumer data priva...
Great episode @Guy Swann & @Bitcoin Mechanic.
Guy and Mechanic talk about the current state of Bitcoin, pure signal!
Fountain: Podcasts & Music
Bitcoin Audible • Chat_099 - Failure, Hope and the Purpose of Bitcoin with Bitcoin Mechanic • Listen on Fountain
"We have the fork wars, we have a culture that understands the importance of nodes and widespread enforcement of a protocol and its rules. Unlike s...
The banks are pretty sure they have our money
A single custodian now controls the coinbase addresses of at least 9 pools, representing 47% of total hashrate.
It's time to consider a different type of mining pool like Ocean.xyz
Ocean is a non-custodial #bitcoin mining pool. It was relaunched recently by @Luke Dashjr @Bitcoin Mechanic with support from @jack
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mononaut (@mononautical) on X
A single custodian now controls the coinbase addresses of at least 9 pools, representing 47% of total hashrate.
As demonstrated by this consolidat...
Scary and so wrong!
https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/
Great episode @Daniel Prince with @Bitcoin Mechanic, @giacomozucco & @leo_haf.
Very informative discussion about SPAM on bitcoin. If you are on the fence about this issue it's time to pick a side and support filtering out these types of transactions