gm, Happy New Year 💖

My 5 crypto highlights of 2025: 1. New Bitcoin ATH (126K) 2. Bitcoin-friendly president 3. Hive blockchain for the people 4. Splinterlands Avatars & Exemplars upgrade 5. Zaps on Nostr

Merry Xmas. Ho, Ho, Hodl 🎅 #Bitcoin #xmas #hodl #bearmarket #art #cryptoart AI-generated Bitcoin artwork. Drafted in Copilot and then rendered with Nano Banana.

Happy Winter Solstice ❄️ Not only nature but also markets are cyclic.

No man should work for what another man can print – XXI.

Failure is the default, success the exception. As soon as you embrace failure, you start becoming successful.

Keep calm and stack sats. Is the current market sentiment a precursor that the AI bubble could pop sooner than anticipated? As always in crypto space and on the high seas everything is possible. Expect the unexpected.

Happy 95% of all Bitcoin Mined Day 🤩 19,950,400 out of 21,000,000 Bitcoin already mined

ECB Lagarde: "I'm confident bitcoins will not enter the reserves of any European central banks" Czech Central Bank: Hold my Bitcoin, buys $1m in Bitcoin. 😂

Vibes web3 music contest was unfortunately discontinued due to corruption. Kickback payments to corrupt juror. Reminds me of RL / human nature. Corruption is plague for every big contest, procurement, voting, social media (plagued by bots, follow/like selling) etc. Only transparency can solve it. Blockchain helped to uncover it.

PeakD

Vibes web3 music competition discontinued due to corruption of the contest. Reminds me a bit of RL. | PeakD

Vibes war ein wöchentlicher Musik-Wettbewerb für Web3-Enthusiasten auf Hive, der von @lordbutterfly gegründet wurde und ... by vikisecrets

Smartphone: Computer and Internet in your phone. Bitcoin: Swiss bank account in your phone. AI: Albert Einstein in your phone.

No, this paper does not disproof the simulation hypothesis: it makes wild, unproven assumptions about a yet non-existent Theory of Everything, suggesting non-computability without proving it. Physical systems including human cognition could be limited by the same mathematical limits as algorithms with a fair random number generator and enough compute. Paper:

UBC's Okanagan News

UBCO study debunks the idea that the universe is a computer simulation - UBC's Okanagan News

New study uses logic and physics to definitively answer one of science's biggest questions

Rebuttal:

PeakD

No, this paper does not disproof the simulation hypothesis. Here are its fallacies. | PeakD

Derzeit kursiert auf Social Media und in den Mainstream-Medien ein Paper der kanadischen Universität von British Columbi... by vikisecrets

Less known backplate of the Statue of Satoshi in Budapest, Hungary: Tribute to the inventor of Bitcoin The first peer-to-peer electronic cash system and blockchain technology We are all Satoshi Erected in 2021 by: András Györfi – Kripto Akadémia Barnabás Debrecszeni – MrCoin Gabriella Debreczeni-Raskó – MrCoin Imre Szilágyi – Blockchain Budapest Kornél Kalocsai – Blockchain Hungary Association Kripto Akadémia Team Hungarian Crypto Community Designed by Réka Gergely Tomás Gilly #bitcoin #satoshi #statue #budapest #travel #photography #hungary

Happy Bitcoin whitepaper weekend 🎃

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

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.

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...