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Grokipedia v0.1 more neutral and fact-based than Wikipedia.
#bitcoin #grokipedia #xai #wikipedia
Fun fact: Nicolaus Copernicus, born in Torun (Thorn) in Royal Prussia, Poland, not only revolutionized the model of the solar system, but also derived the quantity theory of money, one of the fundamental pillars of Bitcoin.
#bitcoin #stem #warsaw #poland #prussia #funfact #travel #photography
#bitcoin #stem #warsaw #poland #prussia #funfact #travel #photography
DJI removed the majority of its drone geofencing restrictions since 2025, should drones automatically enforce no-fly zones around airports considering recent drone sightings? Slippery slope to AI-controlled human behavior?
Austrian newspaper headline last weekend: "A Bitcoin reserve is inevitable for Austria" (Die Presse). Very good article and also a turning point in media coverage.
Source: Eine Bitcoin-Reserve ist für Österreich unausweichlich, Die Presse, 2025-08-09. 
Source: Eine Bitcoin-Reserve ist für Österreich unausweichlich, Die Presse, 2025-08-09. Die Presse
Eine Bitcoin-Reserve ist für Österreich unausweichlich
Die globale Geldlage wird auch Österreich dazu zwingen, einen Teil seiner Reserven in die härteste digitale Währung umzuschichten.
Most expensive product at the Vienna airport. A 40 y/o Japanese Hibiki Suntory whisky for 46.999 (47K) Euro. Good investment?
Someone donated Bitcoin to the Austrian treasury department in order to start a Bitcoin reserve. They refused the gift.
DER STANDARD
Das Finanzministerium bekam Bitcoin geschenkt, will sie aber nicht haben
Der Initiator des Bitcoin-Volksbegehrens wollte den Grundstein für eine Bitcoin-Reserve legen. Im Ministerium musste man eine Weile überlegen, wa...
Psychology of Bitcoiners 😂 Mastermind (INTJ) or Deep Thinker (INTP)
INTJ = Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Judging
INTP = Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, Perceiving
Source: 
Source: X (formerly Twitter)
Bitcoin for Freedom (@BTC_for_Freedom) on X
51.3% of Bitcoiners are INTJ or INTP, versus 5.4% of the rest of the world.👀
YouTube to demonetize AI-generated "inauthentic" content, a bit ironic that the corporation behind yt that invented the AI transformer model is now fighting AI. How to make money with AI if the use of AI tools is increasingly demonetized?
(AI-generated illustration, copilot)
#youtube #google #ai #policy #demonetization
(AI-generated illustration, copilot)
#youtube #google #ai #policy #demonetization
Why FPV drone controllers are confusing for gamers:
Gamepads: main movement (← ↑ ↓ →) on the left stick
FPV drones: main movement (← ↑ ↓ → or pitch/roll) on the right stick
Confusing!
#drones #fpv #controllers #xbox #ps5 #gaming
#drones #fpv #controllers #xbox #ps5 #gaming
Current RC stick-based controllers for flying FPV drones are not very intuitive. Like playing a VR game with an Xbox controller instead of VR controllers. Similarly FPV drones need a new paradigm of controllers. Agree, disagree?
#drones #fpv #dji #vr
#drones #fpv #dji #vr
Happy Bitcoin Pizza and new ATH Day 🤩
Priceless moment, two sports cars in front of the Crypto Burgers restaurant in London 🤩
#london #food #photography #uk
#london #food #photography #uk
Possible mind-boggling explanation why Quantum Physics is so weird. Accept randomness, and everything makes sense. Thread 🧵
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Quantum physics is mind-boggling because nature isn’t like Lego bricks — it’s fuzzy and non-deterministic. Small particles behave unpredictably, randomness is built into reality. Accept that, and suddenly, it all makes sense.
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Particles constantly shift between phases of high randomness (superposition) and less randomness (decoherence). If the universe only applied a small amount of noise to each operation, the randomness would be too small, too much noise and the world would become unstable.
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At its core, the universe calculates with probability distributions (wave functions) to add adaptive randomness. Without it, complex structures wouldn’t exist. The universe is playing dice with us 🎲 Mind-boggling.
#quantumphysics #physics #quantum #science #stem #philosophy
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Quantum physics is mind-boggling because nature isn’t like Lego bricks — it’s fuzzy and non-deterministic. Small particles behave unpredictably, randomness is built into reality. Accept that, and suddenly, it all makes sense.
2
Particles constantly shift between phases of high randomness (superposition) and less randomness (decoherence). If the universe only applied a small amount of noise to each operation, the randomness would be too small, too much noise and the world would become unstable.
3
At its core, the universe calculates with probability distributions (wave functions) to add adaptive randomness. Without it, complex structures wouldn’t exist. The universe is playing dice with us 🎲 Mind-boggling.
#quantumphysics #physics #quantum #science #stem #philosophy
How to solve Schrödinger's Cat paradox: Can a cat be dead and alive at the same time? No, it can't. Here is why 🧵
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The paradox assumes that a decaying radioactive element is in superposition and that the superposition extends to the whole box including the cat, finally placing the cat in a dead and alive state.
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However, what would prevent the cat from being in a superposition of two contrary states (dead and alive) is decoherence.
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Interaction with the environment like the Giger counter would collapse the wavefunction (measurement) and nature would commit to a more concrete state. Paradox solved.
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The paradox assumes that a decaying radioactive element is in superposition and that the superposition extends to the whole box including the cat, finally placing the cat in a dead and alive state.
2
However, what would prevent the cat from being in a superposition of two contrary states (dead and alive) is decoherence.
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Interaction with the environment like the Giger counter would collapse the wavefunction (measurement) and nature would commit to a more concrete state. Paradox solved.
5 researchers claim that they have broken RSA 2048 encryption with D-Wave Quantum computers. In reality, they cheated. Here is how 🧵
1 They constructed a problem of weak primes that can be factorized easily by taking two identical primes and only flipping two bits (the least significant ones).
2 Secondly, they persue a hybrid approach where the relevant calculation is done by a classical computer, not quantum.
3 The Quantum Computer just solves the two flipped bits (bit 1 and 2) which is trivial, all the other 2046 bits have to be calculated by a classical computer. No Quantum Advantage whatsoever.
Paper:
#quantumcomputer #dwave #stem #research #quantum #quantumphysics #rsa #encryption
1 They constructed a problem of weak primes that can be factorized easily by taking two identical primes and only flipping two bits (the least significant ones).
2 Secondly, they persue a hybrid approach where the relevant calculation is done by a classical computer, not quantum.
3 The Quantum Computer just solves the two flipped bits (bit 1 and 2) which is trivial, all the other 2046 bits have to be calculated by a classical computer. No Quantum Advantage whatsoever.
Paper: SciOpen
A First Successful Factorization of RSA-2048 Integer by D-Wave Quantum Computer
<p>Integer factorization, the core of the Rivest−Shamir−Adleman (RSA) attack, is an exciting but formidable challenge. As of this year, a group...
Why (useful) quantum computers probably don't exist:
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Superimposed quanta don't scale, hundreds of interacting superimposed quanta would require larger internal state than there are atoms in the universe. Mind-boggling. Probably not real.
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superposition is super fragile, nature tends to determine "random" outputs instead of keeping things in superposition for a long time.
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Noise, quantum operations are fuzzy to begin with. It's more like nature implementing a very good random number generator than doing complex exponential calculations with superpositions.
Proof me wrong!
May the forth be with you 🤩
#bitcoin #starwarsday #maytheforth #meme #grok
Splinterlands, one of the first NFT-based crypto games, launched in 2018, that is still around today. (River Nymph fanart by brataka).
#splinterlands #hive #nft #cryptogame
Splinterlands - Collect, Trade, Battle!
#splinterlands #hive #nft #cryptogame
"I can't pay groceries in Bitcoin". Not any more! Spar supermarket chain in Switzerland is going to roll out Bitcoin payments nationwide after initial test in two branches. Wow. When Austria?