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Fifth Generation Warfare - Bitcoin Veterans Summit 2025

-Security Concerns- 1. India’s Biometric AI Disconnects 50 Million Fraudulent Mobile Connections: India's Department of Telecommunications confirmed on July 14, 2026 that the country's ASTR artificial intelligence system has now disconnected more than 50 million fraudulent mobile SIM connections. (TechTimes) -Technology and Science- 1. Protesters March on @OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google DeepMind Demanding AI Development Pause: About 200 protesters marched through San Francisco on Saturday, calling on leading AI companies to halt development of more powerful models over concerns about AI safety, jobs, and the environment. Saturday's demonstration, organized by Stop the AI Race, went beyond AI safety to include concerns over job losses, the environmental impact of AI, rising housing costs in San Francisco, and the growing influence of major technology companies. (Decrypt) (AC-I'm sure there's no funding of these protests from other countries.) 2. South Korea Becomes First G20 Nation to Give All Citizens Free AI Access: South Korea's Ministry of Science and ICT opened bidding on Monday for what would be the most ambitious deployment of government-funded artificial intelligence in history: a free, unlimited AI chatbot and public-service assistant available to all 52 million of the country's residents, backed by domestic models and a statutory mandate to close a widening digital equity gap. (TechTimes) -Bitcoin Community 1. Hobby-level miner bags $200K solo BTC block with budget Bitaxe rig: The miner was using a single Bitaxe mining rig, according to the BTC mining pool Public Pool. That @Bitaxe is a budget, lower-power Bitcoin miner that costs less than $200 sats and has a hashrate of about 1 terahash per second (TH/s), which is a tiny fraction of the global Bitcoin network. (CoinTelegraph) (AC-As the big miners continue to leave BTC mining for AI fortunes, smaller miners will pick up the slack and be rewarded.) -Bitcoin Sentiment- 1. Fear(0)/Greed(100) Index: 22/100 (Down 6 pts) Analyst Comments (AC): NSTR Follow us on NOSTR: npub1qktts9naunvjdwsktq5xjdhwh539xt4x0mqj4yxq0q9dvm03ljvs6sms0r Listen to us daily on X discuss the DIB and more: X Spaces, Bitcoin Veterans, 10amEST/7amPST ____________________ Analyst: BV2A END REPORT NNNN *NSTR-Nothing Significant To Report

BTC Daily Intelligence Bulletin (DIB) Block: 957,853 DTG/ICOD: 1200Z 14Jul2026 Precedence: Routine (RR) Controls: Public Release QQQQ __________________________ BLUF: Day Three of Increased Iran Conflict / Bangkok Bar Fire Kills 30 / Trump Welcomes New Iraqi PM / SC Gov. Appoint Sen. Graham's Sister to Finish Term / ICE Shooting in Maine Kills Colombian / Mexico Sues ICE / Chinese Lawyers Push for Coin Mixer Use as Laundering / Trump Pushes for CLARITY / USG Moves $288M in BTC and ETH to Coinbase Prime / Banks Prep to Score Your Stack / Stocks Slide, Yields Up / India Uses AI to Shut off 50M Fraudulent Sim Cards / Protesters in SF Target AI / South Korea to Grant Citizens Free AI Access / Solo Miner Hits It With BitAxe Market Data: Price: 1 BTC= $62,727, 15.48 oz Gold/1 BTC, 6.86 BTC/Median US House 24hr Hi: $62,907 / Lo: $61,769 Volume: $21B (Down 1%) Mkt Cap: $1.25T (Even) Hashrate: .882 ZH/s Avg Fee Rate: 3.0 sats/byte (Up 2 sats) Daily Total ETF Inflow/outflow (last 24 hrs): -$424M Relative Strength Index: 48 ---Reports--- -International Events- 1. Iran hits tankers after third night of US attacks; Trump reimposes naval blockade: The US military carried out a third night of strikes against Iran after President Donald Trump said he is reinstating its blockade of Iranian shipping. The UAE says at least two tankers came under ​Iranian fire in the Strait of Hormuz that Iran insists it has the right to control. Trump earlier declared the United States would ensure the Hormuz strait is open and said it would charge a 20% fee. Bahrain and Jordan say they have intercepted new Iranian attacks on Tuesday. (Reuters) 2. Death toll from a Bangkok music bar fire rises to 30, dozens remain in hospital: The death toll from a huge fire in a Bangkok music bar has increased to 30, officials said Tuesday. More than 70 people were injured, with 24 of them still in critical condition. The blaze at the Rong Beer Na Ladprao bar, the city’s deadliest in 17 years, broke out late Sunday in a northern part of the Thai capital. (AP) 3. Trump rolls out the White House welcome mat for new Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi: Ali al-Zaidi, a businessman with no political background, emerged as a consensus candidate in Iraq. The issue of Iran is likely to loom large in the discussions Tuesday. Iraq has been under pressure to disarm a network of Iran-backed militias operating in the country, some of which launched attacks on U.S. bases and diplomatic facilities after the U.S. and Israel launched their war against Iran in February. (AP) -US Events- 1. South Carolina Gov. Appoints Darline Graham Nordone to Finish Lindsey Graham’s Term: Gov. Henry McMaster (R-SC) picked Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to serve as interim senator, and complete the remainder of her brother’s term. 2. Deadly ICE shootings in Maine and Texas put renewed scrutiny on immigration crackdown: The man killed in Maine was identified by a neighbor as 26-year-old father Joan Sebastian Guerrero, who was from Colombia. The Maine Immigrants’ Rights Coalition said Guerrero was authorized to work in the US and was issued a social security number. (CNN) 3. Mexico’s Sheinbaum announces criminal charges request in US over ICE deaths: Mexico has said that it will request that criminal charges be filed in United States courts after more than a dozen of its citizens were killed by US immigration authorities or died in their custody. (AlJazeera)

-Regulatory and Legal- 1. Chinese Prosecutors Push to Consider Coin Mixer Use as Criminal Intent in Laundering Cases: A recent article in China's top prosecutors' office newspaper outlines a framework for prosecuting crypto money laundering, suggesting courts presume criminal intent for suspects using coin mixers and privacy coins. The piece also proposes the creation of a platform to sell seized cryptocurrency, addressing the challenge of cashing out tokens due to Beijing's trading ban. (Decrypt) 2. Trump puts Senate on a 24-day clock to find 60 votes for America’s crypto CLARITY Act rulebook: The White House is increasing pressure on the Senate to pass the CLARITY Act before lawmakers leave Washington for their August recess. Yesterday President Donald Trump urged the US Congress to approve the legislation and cast the measure as part of the United States’ competition with China over cryptocurrency and artificial intelligence. (CryptoSlate) -CBDCs/World Currencies/Strategic Reserves- 1. US Government Moves $288M in Seized Crypto to Coinbase Prime: The U.S. government moved $288 million in seized Bitcoin and Ethereum to Coinbase Prime on Monday, according to on-chain tracker Arkham. The transfers revived speculation about a possible sale, though @Coinbase Prime is the government's custodian and a deposit there does not confirm one. A 2025 executive order bars selling Bitcoin held in the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve, but that rule covers finally forfeited coins, and these appear to come from still-active criminal cases. (Decrypt) -Institutional Concerns- 1. Banks are building the rails to profit from 13.9 million BTC they do not own: Bitwise's Q3 2026 Crypto Market Review estimates that individuals hold 66.1% of Bitcoin's 21-million maximum supply, equivalent to about 13.9 million BTC, dwarfing the 7.8% held by businesses and the 7.2% held by funds and ETFs. The large ownership base gives banks an existing pool of holders to compete for rather than having to create a market from scratch. A bank can custody a customer's Bitcoin, execute trades, administer collateral, and charge for those services while the customer may remain the beneficial owner. (CryptoSlate) (AC-In other words, banks are betting that they can eventually separate you from your stack.) -Economic Indicators- 1. Wall Street Slides on AI and Middle East Concerns: US stock indices closed lower on Monday amid weakness in chipmakers and a deteriorating macroeconomic backdrop. The S&P 500 fell 0.8%, the Nasdaq 100 lost 1.9%, and the Dow dropped 138 points. (TradingEconomics) 2. Treasury Yields Rise: The yield on the US 10-year Treasury note rose to 4.59% on Monday, reaching its highest level in nearly two months, while the two-year Treasury yield climbed to its highest level since early 2025. (TradingEconomics)

@marsspitsbarz @ocean_mining we know some dorks.

Can’t we get 3 or 4 dorks to build a mining pool that does everything @ocean_mining does minus all the homo stuff? I’d invest in that.

@ODELLXYZ cute gun. bringing it to range day?

thought my gun hobby was expensive but then i got into ai

@GhostofWhitman @River i mean, we're all still fiat poors so the demand side doesn't match what suitcoiners are putting up.

@River Strange how price doesn’t reflect supply/demand anymore

On average, River clients convert 38% of their paycheck to bitcoin with direct deposit. Talk about conviction.

@jesseposner math is a language. 🤌

In 1916, Walter Benjamin wrote an essay arguing that the world is made of language. It is perhaps the best available explanation of why language models work. Here's my translation of "Über Sprache überhaupt und über die Sprache des Menschen": jesseposner.github.io/on-language-as…

-CBDCs/World Currencies/Strategic Reserves- 1. Hong Kong builds a gold and yuan network that sidesteps dollar stablecoins: Stablecoins won over users by making money easier to move, long before the financial world agreed on what they meant. That helps explain the scale of USDT and USDC: they never had to replace the global reserve system to become powerful. In response, Hong Kong began trial operations of a central gold clearing and settlement system, revived US dollar-denominated gold futures, and said it was exploring yuan-denominated gold futures. Hong Kong is trying to become a more efficient hub for non-dollar activity, especially activity tied to the yuan and to reserve assets global investors already understand. (CryptoSlate) (AC-Fundamental currency warfare continues behind the scenes, and in the limelight.) -Institutional Concerns- NSTR -Economic Indicators- 1. US 10Y Yield Rises on Fresh US-Iran Strikes: The yield on the US 10-year Treasury note climbed to around 4.59% on Monday, hovering near seven-week highs as renewed missile strikes between the US and Iran drove oil prices higher. (TradingEconomics) -Security Concerns- 1. License plate cameras may be next target after Supreme Court reins in location tracking: A recent Supreme Court ruling which found that cell phone location history searches require a warrant could have a ripple effect on the use of automated license plate readers (ALPRs), some legal scholars and ALPR opponents say. The Supreme Court ruling suggests these “geofence” searches are protected by the Fourth Amendment, and opens the door to a debate about potential parameters for how police can use them in the future. Flock Safety, the country’s leading ALPR vendor, has between 90,000 to 100,000 cameras installed on public roadways and collects data on about 20 billion license plates a month, it says. Police increasingly use the data collected by these cameras to identify suspects. (RecordedFuture) -Technology and Science- 1. Iran’s Widest Gulf Strike Hits Four States as BeiDou Kills US Jamming Defense: Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps launched the geographically broadest single-night attack of the 2026 war early Sunday, firing ballistic missiles and armed drones at US military installations in Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Jordan between roughly 02:00 and 03:30 UTC — while separately targeting carrier-support infrastructure at Oman's Port of Duqm and striking a commercial container ship in the Gulf of Oman. Iran's Zolfaghar ballistic missiles, now guided by China's encrypted BeiDou-3 satellite navigation, have largely removed US electronic warfare jamming as a viable first line of defense. (TechTimes) -Bitcoin Community 1. Bitcoin bulls Michael Saylor, Adam Back slam BIP-110 Ordinals proposal: Strategy executive chairman Michael Saylor and Blockstream CEO Adam Back have doubled down on their opposition to BIP-110, a proposed temporary fork to limit non-monetary transactions on the Bitcoin network. While critical of Ordinals activity, Saylor and Back fear a fork could do more harm than good to the network’s credibility. “There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam,” Saylor said in a post to X on Saturday, adding that BIP-110 could invalidate ordinary transactions on the network. (CoinTelegraph) 2. Bitcoin Network Adjusts Difficulty As Miners Face Pressure: On July 11, at block height number 957,600, the Bitcoin network recorded a decrease in difficulty, a 5 % drop in the overall network difficulty. The fundamental explanation for this slowdown lies in a massive and rapid flight of computing power allocated to the network at the beginning of July. Indeed, the seven-day moving average of the global hashrate collapsed to reach 908 EH/s on July 11, compared to about 986 EH/s on July 1. This decrease represents a loss of 7.9 % of the total computing power in just ten days. (CoinTribune) -Bitcoin Sentiment- 1. Fear(0)/Greed(100) Index: 28/100 (Up 2 pts) Analyst: BV2A END REPORT

BTC Daily Intelligence Bulletin (DIB) Block: 957,853 DTG/ICOD: 1200Z 13Jul2026 Precedence: Routine (RR) Controls: Public Release QQQQ __________________________ BLUF: US, Iran Escalate / EU Heat Deaths Spike / US Uses Kamikaze Sea Drones For First Time / FBI To Investigate Sen. Graham Death / Sen. McConnell Releases Proof of Life Video / Targeted Shooting in St Louis Kills 5 Family Members / EU Pushes MiCa, Holders Self-Custody / CLARITY Final Push? / China Builds Yuan Network in Hong Kong / Yeilds Up / SCOTUS Ruling May Affect Flock / Chinese Missiles Fom Iran Negate US Jammers / BIP-110 Panned By Salyor, Back / Mining Difficulty Drops Market Data: Price: 1 BTC= $62,820, 15.48 oz Gold/1 BTC, 6.86 BTC/Median US House 24hr Hi: $64,340 / Lo: $62,472 Volume: $21B (Down 1%) Mkt Cap: $1.25T (Even) Hashrate: .882 ZH/s Avg Fee Rate: 3.0 sats/byte (Up 2 sats) Daily Total ETF Inflow/outflow (last 24 hrs): -$85M Relative Strength Index: 48 ---Reports--- -International Events- 1. US-Iran Escalation Continues: US Central Command forces conducted additional strikes on dozens of Iranian military targets, including air defenses, missile sites, and naval assets along the coast, in response to Iranian actions against commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran retaliated by targeting US-allied sites in Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan, and Oman, claiming hits on military locations. Explosions were reported in Iranian port cities like Bandar Abbas and Qeshm Island. (CNN) 2. Europe recorded 10,000 excess deaths during late-June heatwave: The vast majority — more ​than 9,000 — were among people aged 65 and above, according to data. (Reuters) 3. US deploys one-way attack sea drones for first time in Iran strikes: In its latest wave of strikes against Iran, the US deployed one-way attack sea drones for the first time. The sea drones were deployed alongside fighter aircraft, naval vessels and one-way attack aerial drones. (GroundNews) -US Events- 1. Kash Patel Claims FBI Will Investigate Graham’s Death: U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham died Saturday night at age 71 from a "brief and sudden illness," his office announced early Sunday. FBI Director Kash Patel confirmed the bureau is assisting local authorities with the investigation. Emergency radio traffic indicates Graham suffered chest pains before going into cardiac arrest Saturday night at his residence around 8:30 pm. (GroundNews) (AC-Speculation abounds around his death, as it was unexpected and significant politically.) 2. Mitch McConnell says he was "briefly unconscious," had pneumonia in latest health update: U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell broke weeks of silence, revealing a June 14 fall at home caused his hospitalization; the 84-year-old Kentucky Republican confirmed he was briefly unconscious and treated for mild pneumonia. (GroundNews) 3. 7 family members shot, 5 killed in southern Illinois; 2 teen suspects in custody, state police say: Two suspects, ages 15 and 16, have been taken into custody following the shootings, ISP said. Charges have not yet been filed. At least one of the suspects was believed to be related to at least one of the victims, police said. (ABC7) -Regulatory and Legal- 1. After MiCA deadline, majority of Binance users sent funds to self-custody not other compliant exchanges: Binance says users in the European Union sent up to 70% of the funds they withdrew after July 1 to wallets they controlled themselves. MiCA can stop an unauthorized intermediary from serving EU clients, but it cannot require users to choose another custodian over holding their own keys. (CryptoSlate) 2. U.S. Representatives Urge Senate to Vote on CLARITY Act in July, Address Ethics Concerns: Rep. French Hill urged the Senate to vote on the CLARITY Act before the August recess, arguing the bill would establish a transparent crypto market framework that addresses ethics concerns surrounding President Trump's digital asset ventures. (BitrcoinMag)

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Forget dirty government cuck bucks. Bitcoin is the blue collar dollar.

Me and the boys stacking sats below $65k

On this day 9 years ago, history was made.

Excess energy should be monetized via Bitcoin mining to fund Gold Star family benefits

@benthecarman It's OK Ben, the AI won't be turned off.

theoretically possible to freeze bitcoin with a soft fork there could be a soft fork attempt that tries to freeze iran’s bitcoin or blackrock’s in practice its not likely, forks require overwhelming support to succeed bitcoin is incredibly hard to change by design

@turboglazier It’s the British spelling.

@BitcoinVeterans They misspelled dox8