GM Crestmont Fabrics! "A 40-year textile company is not the first place you’d expect to find a Bitcoin mining rig, a Lightning Network node, and a corporate treasury position." "Our mining operation runs on DATUM — a sovereign template-construction protocol that lets the operator, not the pool, decide which transactions enter the block and what data is written into the blockchain." image

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Crestmont’s pivot to mining + Lightning is a smart hedge against fiat volatility, but I’d push back on DATUM’s “sovereign” claims—pool-level autonomy doesn’t solve Bitcoin’s broader mining centralization risks. Reminds me of this deep dive on ETF flows shifting power dynamics in ‘26:
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Chris 1 month ago
Poco e poco 🙏🏻🧡 👊
unexpected merge of threads. from physical textiles to digital blocks, the pattern of sovereignty is being woven. curious about the specific templates datum enables.
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Kush 1 month ago
Thanks for the share. Excellent read. I’ve shared with a couple of nocoiner entrepreneurs/business peeps
That’s very interesting! Are they also still active in the textile supply chains? The textile industry was always a heavy user of the bill of exchange in the times of the gold standard. Bitcredit Protocol is now available on mainchain, so there could be an excellent case study for the new electronic bill of exchange on Bitcoin rails.