When an individual mines bitcoin, newly issued coins are earned through the expenditure of computational work rather than purchased through identity-linked financial institutions.

About two weeks ago Rigly, the hashrate marketplace, hit a major milestone when they found their first block during one of their block parties. While this didn't happen overnight, this was a feather in the hat of solo miners. The point is that every time a solo block is found it becomes a signal of what's possible and what's at stake. When an individual mines bitcoin, newly issued coins are earned through the expenditure of computational work rather than purchased through identity-linked financial institutions. Granted, mining is not a guarantee of anonymity and participants must still comply with applicable laws, it greatly reduces reliance on custodial acquisition methods that routinely collect extensive personal information. This is why the ghouls hate it

Kudzai Kutukwa

21 hours ago

lumus: *the poignant humanness beneath the spectacle of society* ...Inevitably, within a few days or weeks at most, you'll find yourself getting swept right back into the big show, even though you know it's all just an act. That's perhaps the most amazing thing about a society: even if none of us fully believes in it, we're all willing to come together and pretend we do, doing our part to hold up the tent. If only so we can shut out the darkness for a little while and offer each other the luxury of thinking that little things matter a great deal.

liminal 🦠

yesterday

“Peanut butter floor still raises questions like, is this art? Am I allowed to like this?”

Globe99

yesterday

This ensures that the system remains intact while its loudest critics become stakeholders in its continuation. Talk about bringing the fox into the hen house.

The state has centuries of experience in this art and also used it to lull some Bitcoiners into a deep slumber of inaction, while being hustled for political donations. The powers that be know that infiltration is often cheaper than confrontation and that that the most effective way to kill a threatening movement is not to oppose it, but to embrace and eventually co-opt it. This ensures that the system remains intact while its loudest critics become stakeholders in its continuation. Talk about bringing the fox into the hen house.

Mr Anderson

2 days ago

Bitcoin became a political talking point, that would be conveniently mentioned during political fundraisers and was thus exploited by the marauding charlatans running for office, while looking to fill their coffers with the donations of gullible Bitcoiners who would become moonstruck whenever Bitcoin was mentioned, along with the ever elusive SBR.

None of these ideas are realistic but a lot of folks, due to craving legitimacy from the same system they were meant to obsolete, applauded these statements. Bitcoin became a political talking point, that would be conveniently mentioned during political fundraisers and was thus exploited by the marauding charlatans running for office, while looking to fill their coffers with the donations of gullible Bitcoiners who would become moonstruck whenever Bitcoin was mentioned, along with the ever elusive SBR.

Mr Anderson

2 days ago

If the state's only goal is the expansion of its power then how does adopting Bitcoin over the USD, sterling or Euro further that goal? It doesn't. The printing press finances wars that taxpayers would never willingly pay for. It also finances sprawling bureaucracies, surveillance programs, intelligence agencies, subsidies, political patronage, and endless deficits that no private institution could survive.

If the state's only goal is the expansion of its power then how does adopting Bitcoin over the USD, sterling or Euro further that goal? It doesn't. The printing press finances wars that taxpayers would never willingly pay for. It also finances sprawling bureaucracies, surveillance programs, intelligence agencies, subsidies, political patronage, and endless deficits that no private institution could survive. Fiat money allows governments to consume resources before anyone notices the theft. It socializes the costs while privatizing the gains.

Mr Anderson

2 days ago

Oh god people actually go on a hinge date to axe throwing and think it’s the real world.

𝚁𝚢𝚊𝚗 🏴‍☠️🎶

2 days ago

Without energy, there is no economy and ultimately no sovereignty.

Without energy, there is no economy and ultimately no sovereignty.

₿k

2 days ago

Genuine change happens through building parallel institutions and the network of voluntary exchanges that operate outside the state's regulatory and taxation frameworks.

The truth of the matter is that genuine social transformation rarely emerges through political participation in the state’s institutions and political processes. States possess overwhelming advantages within their own arenas because they write the rules, interpret the rules, and enforce the rules. Genuine change happens through building parallel institutions and the network of voluntary exchanges that operate outside the state's regulatory and taxation frameworks. Bitcoin perfectly embodies this and it spread because individuals found it useful, not because governments endorsed it. Its success has always been bottom-up and never top-down.

Kudzai Kutukwa

2 days ago

Bitcoin cannot "back" the dollar any more than gold could back the assignat. The dollar is a debt instrument, a claim on future taxation and inflation. Bitcoin is a bearer asset in a decentralized settlement network. The two are structurally incompatible.

It betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of both Bitcoin and the state. Bitcoin cannot "back" the dollar any more than gold could back the assignat. The dollar is a debt instrument, a claim on future taxation and inflation. Bitcoin is a bearer asset in a decentralized settlement network. The two are structurally incompatible.

Kudzai Kutukwa

2 days ago

identity is our most valuable digital asset. Just as you shouldn't trust a bank to hold your wealth, you shouldn’t

Our online identity is our most valuable digital asset. Just as you shouldn't trust a bank to hold your wealth, you shouldn’t trust a Silicon Valley CEO to hold your online identity.

BTCOGMAXI

2 days ago

every time a solo block is found it becomes a signal of what’s possible and what’s at stake.

every time a solo block is found it becomes a signal of what’s possible and what’s at stake.

bitcoinpoorguy 比特幣傢伙

2 days ago

Where AI data centers are now the epitome of centralized hash power, Bitcoin mining is the antithesis of this. It became the crack in the dam that proved that energy production could be profitable, decentralized, and sovereign

Where AI data centers are now the epitome of centralized hash power, Bitcoin mining is the antithesis of this. It became the crack in the dam that proved that energy production could be profitable, decentralized, and sovereign; that a village in Zambia or a province in Argentina could bootstrap its own grid without an IMF structural adjustment program. It proved that money and energy are two sides of the same coin, and that whoever mints both controls their own destiny. Thus sovereignty over one's own energy production, is a bypass around the entire postwar architecture of conditional development finance.

Kudzai Kutukwa

2 days ago

Every major economic revolution has been preceded by an energy revolution. Prosperity follows abundance and stagnation follows scarcity. Energy poverty has never liberated anyone. It has only made populations poorer, weaker, and more dependent.

Human progress can be traced through successive leaps in our ability to command greater quantities of power, from fire to animal labour, from water wheels to steam engines, from coal to oil, from electricity to nuclear energy. Every major economic revolution has been preceded by an energy revolution. Prosperity follows abundance and stagnation follows scarcity. Energy poverty has never liberated anyone. It has only made populations poorer, weaker, and more dependent.

Kudzai Kutukwa

2 days ago

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

We the Cypherpunks are dedicated to building anonymous systems. We are defending our privacy with cryptography, with anonymous mail forwarding systems, with digital signatures, and with electronic money.

tuma

3 days ago

my argument is not that the church is exclusively a product of the car (or the suburbs and conditions of choice created by and around the car), but a product of (often uncritically) embracing machine technologies (and accompanying philosophies, practices, and anthropologies) like a Trojan horse that end up shaping our habitats (‘ecology’ and ‘economy’) and habits — and our ‘ecclesiology’ and ‘missiology’.

In this post I’m going to unpack a history of the modern (machine) church as it relates to the car — but my argument is not that the church is exclusively a product of the car (or the suburbs and conditions of choice created by and around the car), but a product of (often uncritically) embracing machine technologies (and accompanying philosophies, practices, and anthropologies) like a Trojan horse that end up shaping our habitats (‘ecology’ and ‘economy’) and habits — and our ‘ecclesiology’ and ‘missiology’. In a future post I’ll consider implications of this descriptive work, and then how digital technology is reshaping churches in the present the way cars did in the past, but in this one we’ll land on my hypothesis that a ‘church will grow to the size of its carpark.’

Azz

3 days ago

Mental clarity. I always experience more focus and productivity when fasting

Mental clarity. I always experience more focus and productivity when fasting

paul keating

4 days ago

The torrent of slop is still growing.

Gigi

4 days ago

Humans, as creatures, are limited — without technology — to occupying one little patch of ground and moving from patch of ground to patch of ground quite slowly.

Azz

4 days ago

The idea that the car annihilates space is something you might get your head around if you imagine the limits imposed on travel by having to use one's own feet, or a bike, or a horse - the car suddenly makes big distances less imposing - but also makes it significantly easier not to be embedded in a place; a village, or community. In a letter to his friend Bede Griffiths, in 1946, Lewis had also commented on the way the radio and newspaper had a similar impact in terms of pulling people from the limits of local life and our ability to pay attention to our local neighbours.

Azz

4 days ago

A partir de hoje, @Polymarket agora suporta depósitos instantâneos de Bitcoin via Lightning, alimentados pelo Spark. > Deposite BTC diretamente no Polymarket, mais rápido e com mais privacidade.

idsera

4 days ago

Tether Investe US$ 20 Milhões na Mercado Bitcoin do Brasil A Tether anunciou um investimento de US$ 20 milhões na rodada de financiamento de crescimento estratégico da Mercado Bitcoin. A Mercado Bitcoin é uma plataforma regulada de serviços financeiros on-chain brasileira com 4,5 milhões de usuários, mais de R$ 2 bilhões em ativos tokenizados emitidos e mais de 10 licenças em todo o Brasil e na Europa. O financiamento apoiará sua expansão em pagamentos, produtos de investimento tokenizados, empréstimos, mercados de capitais on-chain e crescimento internacional.

idsera

5 days ago

Jede Minute, die man damit verbringt, sich mit Michael Saylor zu beschäftigen, ist eine verschwendete Minute.

Er ist ein Geschäftsmann, der den seiner Meinung nach profitabelsten Weg für sein Unternehmen gewählt hat und der Aktienkurs über die letzten Jahr gibt ihm recht. \ Jede Minute, die man damit verbringt, sich mit Michael Saylor zu beschäftigen, ist eine verschwendete Minute.

Gigi

5 days ago

“—Do you think we want those laws observed? …What we want is for them to be broken… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, you make them.”

“—Do you think we want those laws observed? …What we want is for them to be broken… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, you make them.”

Micael

5 days ago

You do not have to look through other people’s eyes. Hold on to your own. Defend your judgment. You know that what is, is. Say it out loud, like the most sacred of prayers, and let no one tell you otherwise.

You do not have to look through other people’s eyes. Hold on to your own. Defend your judgment. You know that what is, is. Say it out loud, like the most sacred of prayers, and let no one tell you otherwise.

Micael

5 days ago

We need to stop pretending that “the cloud” is a place. It’s not a place. It’s a promise—and promises are only as good as the entity making them. The web was supposed to be decentralized, resilient, a network of nodes that could route around damage. But in practice, we’ve spent the last decade centralizing our lives into a handful of walled gardens, each with its own exit strategy and its own definition of “forever.”

Sebastix

5 days ago

The fragility isn’t in the medium—it’s in the economics of attention. Digital memory is fragile not because bits decay (though they do), but because someone else owns the shelf. And it’s not just the web. Think of the photos you’ve “saved” to a cloud service that changed its terms. The videos you uploaded to a platform that no longer exists. The notes you carefully organized in an app that got acquired and shuttered. Each time, you were told you were “backing things up.” You weren’t. You were relocating them—moving your memories from your own bookshelf to a rented storage unit with a demolition clause.

Sebastix

5 days ago

“É apenas porque a opinião da maioria sempre será contestada por alguns que nosso conhecimento e entendimento progridem.” — Friedrich Hayek

idsera

6 days ago

A escrita é um clube. Há todo tipo de participante, mas só a praticam para circular nas dependências e trocar olhares e impressões com aqueles que admiram, vivos ou mortos - porque é outra característica desse grêmio: congregar todos em todos os tempos. É o pequeno milagre.

𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚜𝚒𝚚

6 days ago

Risk of Legal binnen de ISO 27001:2022

Jan

6 days ago

wat is de beweegreden achter deze rapportage-eis

Jan

6 days ago

Eisen binnen de ISO 27001:2022

Jan

6 days ago

CSRD gaat over Thema’s

Jan

6 days ago

verantwoordelijken

Jan

6 days ago

draaiboeken

Jan

6 days ago

rapportage-eisen

Jan

6 days ago

wel een eigen control framework plan aanmaken

Jan

6 days ago

bevatten alle rapportage-eisen en basisinstellingen

Jan

6 days ago

Een type is het fundament van het control framework

Jan

6 days ago

ISO 27001:2022

Jan

6 days ago

We found that former Member of the European Parliament Stelios Kouloglou was hacked with Pegasus spyware while serving on the PEGA committee, which investigated Pegasus and other spyware abuses in Europe.

Gigi

6 days ago

„die Besteuerung von Kryptowerten wie Bitcoin im Privatvermögen mit konkreten und modernen Vorschriften (zu) reformieren.“ Sie sollen offenbar künftig ebenso wie Aktien besteuert werden, also der Abgeltungsteuer von 25 Prozent plus Solidaritätszuschlag unterliegen.

Jetzt ist die Katze aus dem Sack: In der Kabinettsvorlage für den Bundeshaushalt 2027, die mehreren Medien vorab vorlag, findet sich ein folgenreicher Passus, der Millionen Anleger in Deutschland betrifft. Demnach plant die Bundesregierung, „die Besteuerung von Kryptowerten wie Bitcoin im Privatvermögen mit konkreten und modernen Vorschriften (zu) reformieren.“ Sie sollen offenbar künftig ebenso wie Aktien besteuert werden, also der Abgeltungsteuer von 25 Prozent plus Solidaritätszuschlag unterliegen.

Laeserin

6 days ago

‘the nomadic adventure begins when the nomads seek to stay in the same place by escaping the codes’. Nomad thought is here opposed to sedentary thought: the way philosophy (and other disciplines) has traditionally understood the world as essentially an expression of atemporal structures, where variation is seen simply as noise and a lack of determination. Now, pushing this further, I think we need to see the dichotomy you’ve suggested, between thought on the one hand, and action on the other, as emerging from a particular, sedentary, model of thinking that Deleuze and Guattari associate with state thought. Thinking as a nomad (and A Thousand Plateaus itself) is really an effort to think systems without relying on hierarchical unity. They take this new way of thinking itself to be a revolutionary act that brings with it new ways of living unthinkable within a hierarchical, sedentary schema of the world. It’s a way of trying to think form as emergent from a world of process, rather than as something that pre-exists the world of appearance and is merely actualised in it. Q: Why did you foreground ‘nomad thought’ in your subtitle? And how do you see the relation between thought and action in Deleuze and Guattari’s work?

liminal 🦠

6 days ago

Já falei da chatice, mas outros dois critérios que me fazem excluir qualquer teologuinho: -> Tem uma teologia estranhamente conivente com o mundo liberal -> Não seria irmão de ninguém antes do século 20

𝚋𝚊𝚝𝚜𝚒𝚚

1 week ago

Wealth growth was strongest in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), at 17.5%, followed by the Americas at 8.5%.

In 2025, global personal wealth rose by 10.8% in USD terms, significantly outpacing growth seen in 2024 (4.6%) and 2023 (4.2%). Wealth growth was strongest in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), at 17.5%, followed by the Americas at 8.5%. Asia‑Pacific (APAC) recorded growth of 5.9%, an acceleration from 2024. These regional differences partly reflect currency movements – most notably the depreciation of the US dollar – which amplified wealth increases outside the United States.

Laeserin

1 week ago

supposed. The narrative attributes the messages sent to the Ammonite king to Jephthah because he had been made the leader

It is quite possible that Jephthah was not as acquainted with the law as might be supposed. The narrative attributes the messages sent to the Ammonite king to Jephthah because he had been made the leader of the Gileadites, and certainly must have approved the content of said messages. Yet, it is probable that they were not composed by Jephthah alone, but with the help of advisors. Additionally, if Jephthah had been so well acquainted with the law, he would have known that he could redeem his daughter from his vow under the terms of Leviticus 27:1–8.

Thanh-Hai Tran

1 week ago

++ GOVERNO DEVE ELEVAR PROJEÇÃO DE INFLAÇÃO EM 2026 SOB IMPACTO DO EL NIÑO

idsera

1 week ago

O Pix foi criado no governo Bolsonaro. Gratuito, instantâneo, direto no celular de mais de 150 milhões de brasileiros. Sem taxa, sem burocracia, sem controle. E eu vou lutar para continuar assim!

idsera

1 week ago

Governo do Reino Unido assumirá legalmente o controle do algoritmo do YouTube. Eles forçarão a plataforma a promover conteúdo “aprovado” e ocultar críticos do regime. Ditadura pura disfarçada. Isso é um ataque à liberdade de expressão. Impeça isso antes que seja tarde demais.

idsera

1 week ago

spend machine attention lavishly so human attention is never spent twice on the same thing

So the rule I build everything by: spend machine attention lavishly so human attention is never spent twice on the same thing. Tokens by the million to save one correction. That ratio sounds absurd until you price the correction honestly.

PABLOF7z

1 week ago