Funchal, Madeira July 29th - 18:30

Freedom is an illusion. You cannot lose something that does not exist.

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Message from PB Bitcoin Curaçao Here is how I would attack bitcoin if I were a bankster or a state level attacker. First, I would concentrate my attack on nodes. Because that is the most decentralized aspect of bitcoin. Miners are already very centralized, and devs are also a pretty small bunch. It's easy to compromise 20 miners and 20 devs. Not so easy to compromise or control 25,000 nodes, half of them on the tor network. I would start by infiltrating the devs. Nothing too extravagant, perhaps simple invite to a dinner on the Epstein island? And bring about a pro-spam attitude. Every time a new door opens up for spam, my compromised devs would do nothing about it and say stupid shit like "They are valid transactions", or " They paid the miner fee", or "That would be censorship", or "The fee market will chase them out with some magic smoke in the fee market that somehow won't chase out the real bitcoiners". All excuses to do nothing about spam. Ensure that the plebs are never given the tools to filter out that shit. "We can't do anything, and even if we could, we shouldn't." And when the time is right, I would flood the chain with filth and illicit materials. Child porn, bestiality, snuff pictures, state secrets, North Korean nuclear launch codes, racist and extremist memes, you name it. Of course that would cause many many nodes to just tap out. Nobody wants that shit at home on their own machine around their family. Than I would SWAT the homes of a few prominent bitcoiners. If a kid or a wife gets shot in the commotion, all the better. And I would parade them on town square as the examples. They might win their case in court after years and years. But who cares, so long as I get to ruin them. Of course this would be a great deal more difficult to do if they were just running a node. But accusing them of hosting and distributing child porn would gain huge popular support. As a result, many more nodes will tap out. The incentives to run a node for free are already pretty small. But risking to get SWAT'd over a hard drive that's got tons and tons of child porn, that would get me for sure. "Oh my god! Won't someone think of the children!" "I have no pity for those degenerate bitcoiners who collect and spread this child porn!" And the remaining handful of nodes can be licensed. You know, to make sure they are not child pornographers. It's the classic Hegelian dianetics: create a problem, offer the solution to the problem they created, and the solution is what they wanted to do all along. And even if the above plan doesn't work all that well, at least the bad PR on bitcoin suppresses adoption for a bit longer until I can fully implement my digital ID and my CBDC.

GM plebs... To mine or not to mine... that's the question. Or should we say: to swallow or not to swallow... Suck on that Shakespeare/Satoshi.

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I will not recommend a Trezor anymore...

In 2015/16 I bought my first Trezor One from SatoshiLabs. I don't think the company was called that yet. Many followed and many people I orange pilled, I told them to buy a Trezor [One] hardware wallet to keep their seed words safe... I've always carefully updated to the latest firmwares. I had clients using Ledgers and honestly I didn't like them. My first Trezor was still working up to this day, 10 years later. No hick ups, no problems at all. Of course the newer models were more sophisticated and had more features, but I wanted KISS. I tried the newer Trezor versions and it's true... they are probably more safe. That is why SatoshiLabs discontinued the Trezor One. But that doesn't mean that users all of the sudden be left with an non secure hardware wallet. Either offer your customers with a discounted newer version. Because SatoshiLabs reputation is important right? I have a huge amount of connections all over the globe with various Bitcoin Groups and a lot of friends, family and orange pilled customers. 90% using a Trezor One. Recently my Ubuntu 24.04 and 26.04 LTS got hacked by the latest Linux Kernel flaw. I didn't see it coming... always made sure I went to the original Trezor.io website and checked the URL and used the latest version Suite software. This time the hackers were already inside my computer and I lost a lot of bitcoin. Not all, but substantially. Worked in length with the Trezor helpdesk to see if we at least could safe a lot of their customers a similar fate. Wrote a extensive timeline of the hack and gave Trezor as much information with screenshots for the to check. Did follow up with Brave history of all the Trezor website URL's, nothing wrong could be found. As a retired IT project and proces manager and working with Bitcoin since 2012, I am not an amateur. Never the less, SatoshiLabs helpdesk send me on my way with: "sorry for your loss... you made a mistake" I guess my next Hardware wallet will be something else. Will not recommend one.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn: “The most terrifying force of death comes from the hands of men who wanted to be left alone. They try, so very hard, to mind their own business and provide for themselves and those they love. They do not ask for much. Just to be left alone. But when they are pushed too far, when their families, their homes, their livelihoods, or their way of life is threatened… they become the most dangerous force on earth.”

Are we running out of time? A machine just did what no human brain can ever imagine. 🤯 China's quantum computer named Jiuzhang solved a calculation in just 200 seconds that would take the world's fastest supercomputer over 2.5 billion years to complete. This is called quantum supremacy. The computer works not with electricity but with light itself. It uses photons, lasers, mirrors, and beam splitters to process information in ways that break every rule of normal computing. Scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China led by Professor Jian Wei Pan and Professor Chao Yang Lu built this machine using a method called Gaussian Boson Sampling. 🌐 This is not just a speed record. It proves that quantum computers can now solve problems that are completely impossible for classical machines. The future of medicine, climate science, and encryption may never be the same. ⚡ The question is not if quantum computers will change our world. The question is how fast. 📚 Source: Zhong et al., Science, 2020. University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), Hefei, China.