SAMURAI WALLET HELLLLP!!!! Ii had a samurai wallet on a defunct mobile phone I had a passphrase on it (I didn't understand what that meant) I still have the seed and the passphrase I've tried electrum wallet and the blue wallet to recover it but it shows up empty or isn't recognized supposedly samaurai is a BIP39 and the passphrase makes or breaks the recovery is there any way to get the original samurai wallet onto my phone or is there a wallet out there that can get my Bitcoin back? as you can imagine, I'm spinning out, somebody pls help!

Has anyone had personal experience using DMSO as a sunscreen?

if Russia or China are ever going to use BTC for cross border trade to evade sanctions, isn't it going to be necessary to have their citizens buying it up to make it liquid for their currencies? given the west would block the on and off ramps to USD or will the US be in such a pickle to find bond suckers that they look the other way ? or maybe a middleman like Dubai take on the arbitrage with Tether or those currencies on FX or something?

Russia incentivised to use Bitcoin due to bank sanctions. Link to RTnews article on the serious impacts of sanctions and the governments work-arounds I'd be interested in any articles people have on the practical implementation of cross border trade between Russia and other sovereign states

RT International

Has the US finally succeeded in choking off Russia’s biggest trade lifeline?

Washington has succeeded in hindering payments between Moscow and Beijing, but the threat of sanctions is driving innovation

sorry, customs was a border customs

1million $ Gold bars seized at an airport - what was this guy thinking?

RT International

Russian customs arrest German with $1 million in gold bars

Russian customs have detained a German national who attempted to bring undeclared bullion worth 90 million rubles into the country

Russia sees the value in a fully encrypted, decentralized messenger service They're freaking out Durov will put in a backdoor for his liberties sake. Russian military bloggers and troops love using Telegram what a great thing experience as a teacher is

Bitcoin Magazine

Russia Legalizes Bitcoin And Crypto For International Trade To Bypass Sanctions

However, the new law doesn't lift the existing ban on crypto payments inside the country.

By the end of this year Russias central banker has stated they will have made their first cryptocurrency transaction to another country We all know that this is gonna be with Bitcoin A nation state like India, or Iran, with a weakening currency, but have received an appreciating BTC transfer, what should you do, just for Greed's sake? Transfer in BTC means the central bank is irrelevant, and in fact, an unnecessary counterparty risk to the Treasury. A Treasury holds BTC rather than CBDC just because the maths works out Yeah yeah the OGs have talked about it, but it's actually going to happen for sure at least once this year. wonder if theyll report the details officially?

Main chain transaction has been stuck for nearly a month now I sent from kraken whose fee was .ooo2. I don't think I had any choice surely the network hasn't been congested or expensive for that long a period? what the hell is going on here? now I'm starting to understand Fred Kruger's comment that BTC is not a payment network I wanted to use lightning but the recipient wasn't up on that

Edan Yago has been talking up the release of ZKsnarks & rollups on Bitcoin lately maybe I'm not following the right people but I've not seen anything on my NOSTR feeds on it sounds to me it will be a spark for the next innovation cycle

It trips me out that I l, and everyone else, no matter where they are int the world, can visit a website to watch a world wide computer network in action

I just experienced amazing synchronicity witht he Bitcoin block chain I went in to check the block number for the first time ever and I had stumbled onto the final block on the changeover about 10:20 my timezone awesome

Individual freedoms are a common pool resource

Karaoke Halving party coming up I'm planning for local Bitcoiners to come to the local karaoke bar for the Halving I propose to take over the public evening with pop songs reflecting the things Bitcoiners see and talk about, what money is, the current reality if the money we have, liberty, value, limited government, honey pots of power,

Yes, they have. perhaps like parker lewis says, the information has been more widely distributed and the signal stronger