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How I’ve swapped @fold_app for my bank and earned bitcoin in the process: 1. Deposit 75% of paycheck directly into bitcoin on Fold 2. Spend 100% on credit cards -> soon to be on Fold’s 2% Bitcoin Rewards Credit Card 3. Buy gift cards for restaurants / stores on Fold to earn bitcoin back 4. Pay mortgage, credit card, and all other bills from Fold cash balance 5. Buy bitcoin with 100% of remaining fiat, earning a % back in bitcoin on all my bills

When will you people admit what an awesome war this has been and how much better off everyone is now?

@DouglasKMurray @rapturenearing @nypost

Deranged Tucker Carlson backstabs Trump. ⁦@nypost⁩ nypost.com/2026/03/19/opi…

I spoke to Anthropic’s AI agent Claude about AI collecting massive amounts of personal data and how that information is being used to violate our privacy rights. What an AI agent says about the dangers of AI is shocking and should wake us up.

Two American heroes:

i am no Tucker Carlson super fan, but this is one of the most important interviews in American history all citizens who care about the future of the republic should watch it he will be demonized ad nauseam by the powers that be, but Joe Kent is thoughtful, and he is a patriot

If Biden or Kamala had won, and started a serious war with Iran, and asked Congress for $200 billion in the first 3 weeks, every single MAGA influencer would be calling them warmongers and demanding impeachment. Neocons would be happy, but the MAGA influencers would be enraged.

Day 1: it's going to take a couple of days Day 20: ok we need 200 billion dollars

Chairman Powell has previously stated that bitcoin is "like gold—it's just virtual and digital." We agree. But this raises an important question: shouldn't digital gold be treated similar to physical gold on a bank's balance sheet? Under current bank regulations, it isn't. Bitcoin is treated like radioactive waste, with a 1,250% risk weight compared to gold's 0% risk weight. In layman's terms, this means that a bank holding $100 million of bitcoin must hold roughly $100 million of capital against it. As a consequence, banks often tell companies that own bitcoin to take their business somewhere else, driving capital and innovation offshore. This backwards approach runs counter to President Trump's stated goal of transforming the United States into a "Bitcoin superpower." BPI is committed to educating policymakers on how banks can effectively manage risk for bitcoin without closing their doors entirely. Our visit to the Fed today was the start of that journey.

@BitcoinConner @BitcoinPierre @RepThomasMassie this needs your attention.

Kentucky is suddenly about to ban self-custody. Tell your friends. More details below.

RT @ComicDaveSmith: If there was an imminent threat from Iran, Tulsi’s answer would have been yes. It’s as simple as that. She wouldn’t hav…

This war has quickly turned into what all the other Middle East wars before it became: obviously and predictably so. And most of the Trump supporters who vowed they would never support another war like this are already cheering and clapping on command.

@TheBTCTherapist Damn. Hopefully this gets fixed.

This is the hardest thing I’ve ever had to write. I’m completely devastated. Last Friday, I️ was notified that my monetization had been paused. I’ve shown up on this app for 5 years straight every single day to grow my account to what it is now. I️ never once paid for ads, never bought followers, never did anything but grow in an organic way. After appealing once, I️ was told my account was removed due to spam and inauthentic content. This couldn’t be further from the truth. I️ spend 6-12 hours on X daily in addition to my full time job; creating content, interacting and posting. I’ve adapted to new algorithms, posting strategies and even started a newsletter. I️’ve stopped using any other online platforms as I️ truly value the freedom and community X has brought me. Every single holiday, family event, vacation, wedding, birthday, you name it, I’ve been active on X during it. I’ve never once taken for granted the audience I’ve grown on this app and have thoroughly enjoyed the relationships I’ve built because of it. During this last period in which I️ was removed, I️ proposed to my girlfriend of 7 years. During this proposal trip, I️ stayed active online the entire time, which is nothing new. I have given up years of time to create something bigger with no regret. But now, after being denied and repeatedly called a spam account, with no way to plead my case, my last resort is to post here. Having to do this publicly feels so pathetic. It’s been almost a week and 2 appeals later, and I️ can’t get in touch with anyone who’s willing to help. I haven’t been given any clarification of where I️ went wrong or if there is a pathway to resolution. How can I️ dedicate myself so profoundly to something for so many years without being given any chance to make a simple change in my form of content? I’ve never had my account flagged or even been told of any misconduct in a 5 year period. The first I️ hear of an issue is ironically on pay day after spending hours upon hours working online during my vacation. I️ don’t expect everyone to be able to understand the severity of this situation because they will never see the time, sacrifices and work put into growing an account from 0 followers to over 260k. I️ can’t begin to explain the things I’ve sacrificed to get to the point of being a creator and I️ can’t help but feel like the platform has failed me. To you, this may just be a lighthearted meme account you follow. To me, this has altered my life. I️ was committing to go full time on X and even put in notice at my full time job. It is every content creators dream to be able to take this on full time, and to have it taken away from you almost as soon as you got it, feels gut wrenching. Over the last 2 years I’ve told everyone how important it is to get a blue checkmark, pay for premium and begin to monetize their account. I️ couldn’t have been louder about how much I️ love this platform and truly felt it was the only platform worth being on. The freedom I️ was given was amazing up until now. I️ truly never thought something like this would happen. All of this to say, I️ am not a spam account and I️ deserve reconciliation. I️f there is a specific thing I’ve done wrong, I️ will adapt my content to no longer do so. But a permanent suspension with a false reasoning will never be okay with me. I️ would hope that you are also not okay with taking away the livelihood of the creators on a platform that prides itself on free speech. @XCreators @premium @x @elonmusk @nikitabier

@FranklinCamarg0 @BitcoinPierre @prageru Lol

Today I testified before the U.S. Congress to make a few things very clear: Maduro was not a legitimate president. He is a narco-terrorist who committed crimes against Americans. He was not “kidnapped”. He was a fugitive who was captured. His capture was not only justified. It was necessary for the security of the American people.

On the Strait of Hormuz we've gone from: 1. Don't need help 2. We need help 3. Why aren't folks helping? 4. Helps on the way 5. Not telling you who is helping 6. Helps not actually on the way but we don't need it anyway 7. We may just abandon it and leave it to everyone else

The Federal Reserve employs 24,000 people. Yet we have no idea what inflation will be. Bitcoin employs no one. Yet we know exactly what its supply will be. There's a lesson in that.

Why Bitcoin mining does not compete with other users for power The more you study Bitcoin mining, the more you realize how important it is to energy stability, energy equity, and global sustainable development goals. Bitcoin mining does not compete with other users of energy for power for a very simple economic reason: the inbuilt economic incentive mechanism disincentivizes Bitcoin mining companies for using power when wholesale electricity prices spike (ie: there is high contention for that power). That is why former ERCOT Grid operator Brad Jones called Bitcoin mining a “non-rival energy user”. It powers down when the price of power becomes too expensive; the very time other people want/need that power. Source: youtube.com/watch?v=gKnRfD… There is a large body of data that demonstrates Bitcoin mining operations behaving this way and helping to stabilize the grid at times of peak power demand, well documented in the media. (see below). What the evidence does point to is that more people have access to energy who otherwise would not have as a result of Bitcoin mining. For example, Gridless in Africa has delivered renewable energy to four villages. This has already brought an estimated 28,000 people out of energy poverty. Meanwhile, on a bigger scale in Ethiopia, in the last year Bitcoin mining generated $220Million for EEP (Ethiopia's state owned electricity company) from surplus renewable hydro-energy. Source: capitalethiopia.com/2025/09/21/bit… EEP's plan is to use that additional revenue "to go towards funding the expansion of the grid" (to rural areas currently without electricity source: youtube.com/watch?v=mqie7b… Here's some recent media reports on Bitcoin mining behaving as a non-rival customer and helping stabilize the ERCOT (Texas) grid during extreme weather events (via voluntary curtailment/demand response): “Winter storm descends on Texas, bitcoin miners shut off to protect ERCOT” CNBC, February 3, 2022 cnbc.com/2022/02/03/win… “Limiting crypto helped the Texas power grid weather a heat wave” Texas Tribune, July 15, 2022 texastribune.org/2022/07/15/cry… “Texas Data Centers, Crypto Miners Reduced Power Use During Storm” Bloomberg, January 29, 2026 bloomberg.com/news/articles/… “Can the fragile Texas power grid handle a cryptomining gold rush?” (explicitly notes miners can help stabilize the grid during high-demand periods) NBC News, July 22, 2022 nbcnews.com/tech/crypto/ca… “Bitcoin Miners Power Down US Operations in Wake of Winter Storm” Bloomberg, January 26, 2026 bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Ah, perfect an argument so nakedly emotional it saves everyone the trouble of pretending this is about engineering. 🤦 If your justification for a consensus change boils down to "i don't think people hate them enough” then you're proposing that Bitcoin become a vehicle for your personal grievances. Consensus rules are not there to hit someone on the nose. They are there to define a neutral, predictable system that doesn't care who you like, who you hate, or what cultural battle you think you're fighting this week. The moment you cross that line, when you start modifying consensus to punish a class of users, you've already abandoned the core property that makes Bitcoin valuable: credible neutrality. And the irony here is absolutely painful: You're trying to "fight spam" by rewriting the rules… when the system has already done it for you. The fee market worked. Spammers paid. Heavily. Scammers paid. Heavily. JPEG enjoyers lit absurd amounts of money on fire. 🤡 That is the mechanism. That is the defense. There was no need for social crusades, no need for rule changes, no need for moral arbitration. The market priced their behavior, and literally all of it collapsed under its own weight. WE ALREADY WON. The only thing BIP-110-style thinking accomplishes is reopening the door you claim to want closed because once you demonstrate that consensus can be bent to target undesirable use, you invite an endless cycle of new rule changes, new targets, and new attack surfaces. You don't eliminate spam that way you create a ethereum style governance game around defining it. And that's far more dangerous than any JPEG wave ever was. Whats really going on here is an inability to accept that the bitcoin solved the problem without you. That's an ego problem, not a protocol problem. Slay the ego. Recognize that the market already delivered the punishment you wanted. The losses are real, the incentives are clear, and the behavior has adjusted accordingly Bitcoin doesn't need you to swing a hammer at things you dislike (and I know hammers) 🔨 It needs you to _build_ If you've realized that JPEGs don't hold value and that spam is self-limiting under a functioning fee market, then your time is far better spent doing something productive: Make Bitcoin more useful for actual financial activity. Make it easier, cheaper, safer to use for people who derive real value from it. Expand the demand for blockspace instead of trying to curate who is "worthy" of it.

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hi i’m a disgraced former cryptocurrency CEO who siphoned at least $8 billion in customer deposits to my girlfriend via a hidden backdoor in FTX’s code so she could gamble it all away on losing trades, cover our asses, fund my lavish lifestyle, and bankroll hundreds of millions