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9 out of 10 people holding #bitcoin still have NO IDEA that $btc security is continuously weakening. "Yea I heard that the block reward is getting smaller, but fees are replacing it, right?" No, not right! Some updated data on btc security: 1/🧵

@Ike_Saul Fact 1: Iran's openly stated aim is to destroy Israel. Fact 2: Iran has used proxies to attack Israel since 1979. Fact 3: Iran has enriched enough uranium for multiple nuclear bombs. Is it really THAT crazy to consider a preemptive strike before the nuclear shit hits the fan?

My Gd, man. Iran has (thankfully) not followed through on its threats, and now Michael Oren is floating whether Israel should strike first. We are living in horrifying times.

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NEW: Satoshi Nakamoto's earliest collaborator Martii 'Sirius' Malmi just released their entire email history. At 120 pages, its the most significant addition to the archives of #Bitcoin's unknown inventor. Here are the most important new findings ✨

@JaEsf Regarding killer app... what about "censorship-resistant SoV"? Much more significant than stable coins imo.

Big picture, to me crypto remains overall a failure. We had big dreams of, maybe not "toppling tradfi", but providing a useful and genuinely new tool to non-techie, non-gambling users. But 10y later we still have no killer app. Stablecoins seem closest and they're a mess...

Quick crypto takes: 1. Ethereum. My largest position since 2017 so I could be accused of bias but I still see Eth as the default leader. It has the closest crypto has to a viable ecosystem of apps and actual adoption. If we get a billion crypto users they'll probably be on Eth.

Nassim Taleb coming out as a fragile terrorist apologist, fooled by random Hamas propaganda and having no skin in the game, is the black swan event of the year.

@talhagin @Jerusalem_Post any comment?

Unless his legal name was changed to Mohammed Deif at some point - the identity card is fabricated.

An article posted by the @Jerusalem_Post alleges to showcase a copy of the identity card belonging to the military leader (Mohammed Deif) of the Al-Qassam Brigades. However, the name on the identity card doesn't match the real Mohammed Deif. jpost.com/israel-hamas-w…

@mimous4 Horrible story, but why not conclude with F*ck Hamas?

She lost 47 family members 8 were her kids she goes back everyday to the site of bombing to try and dig out from the rubble the remaining corpses She found cats eating her deceased daughters flesh Seriously fuck israel and fuck this World

The U.N. General Assembly has just wrapped up its country resolutions for 2023: 🇰🇵North Korea 1 🇻🇪Venezuela 0 🇲🇲Myanmar 1 🇱🇧Lebanon 0 🇵🇰Pakistan 0 🏴‍☠️Hamas 0 🇹🇷Turkey 0 🇷🇺Russia 2 🇨🇳China 0 🇶🇦Qatar 0 🇸🇦Saudi 0 🇮🇱Israel 14 🇸🇾Syria 1 🇮🇶Iraq 0 🇮🇷Iran 1 🇺🇸US 1 unwatch.org/un-general-ass…

US Secretary of State Blinken: "What is striking to me is that even as we hear many countries urging an end to this conflict, I hear virtually no one demanding of Hamas that it stop hiding behind civilians, that it lay down its arms, that it surrender. This is over tomorrow if Hamas does that. How can it be that there are no demands made of the aggressor, and only demands made of the victim. It would be good if there was a strong international voice pressing Hamas to do what is necessary to end this."

@HusseinAboubak Harari isn't mediocre. He's exceptionally smart, and boy does he know how to tell a story. But because of his ideology, once in a while (say every 5th sentence), he says something that is so obviously dumb that you start questioning everything else.

@SenSanders @SenSanders would you have voted in favor of a ceasefire with Nazi Germany in 1944?

Nearly 20,000 people have been killed in Gaza, 70% of whom are women and children. More than 50,000 have been wounded. The UN Security Council may soon vote on a resolution calling for a cessation of hostilities & the release of all hostages. The U.S. must vote YES.

@Aizenberg55 @hrw Great thread @Aizenberg55. @hrw & @nytimes any response?

🧵@hrw piece claiming Israel intends to starve Gazans for war is propaganda masking as scholarship but covered by NY Times. Like all HRW "reports" on Israel it is filled with lies, errors, misrepresentations & omissions. Here is a detailed breakdown: 1/ hrw.org/news/2023/12/1…

@Ike_Saul CEASEFIRE WITH GAZA NOW is like ceasefire with Germany in 1944 "Innocent Germans" could not have overthrown Hitler without help The destruction of whole cities did not radicalize a generation of Germans Check out @benshapiro interview w/ @naftalibennett youtube.com/watch?v=29B2jp…

This war in Gaza is intended to destroy Hamas and make Israel and Jews more safe. That is the stated mission. So it is important to preface to what I am about to say with this: I am an American Jew who fundamentally believes in and supports the existence of the state of Israel. And seeks safety and security for Jews and Israelis. Having spent time living in Israel, I believe in its potential to be not just a homeland for Jews but to also be a democratic, pluralistic society surrounded by allies and populated by people with equal rights. And yet... while the destruction in Gaza and to Palestinians is obvious, it is also *blindingly* obvious to me that the last 2 months have made Israel and Jews LESS SAFE, not more. Hamas has been strengthened, not weakened. Surging support for Hamas does not make Jews and Israelis safer. Killing one enemy soldier for every two Palestinian civilians is not going to stabilize the region or make Israel safer. Havoc in Gaza that generations of young Palestinians will forever blame on Israel does not make Jews and Israelis safer. Instability in the Middle East does not make Jews and Israelis safer. A scorned international community that views Israel as dismissive of international law does not make Israel and Jews safer. This is not helping. In the days after Hamas's attack in Israel, I said that this was going to be a war unlike any we'd seen. Not just urban warfare, a fraught affair even in "normal" circumstances (if war can ever be called that), but urban warfare with hostages, tunnels, and 2 million civilians — including a million who are 18 or younger — packed into a strip of land about the size of Philadelphia. What is the plan? What does "victory" for Israel even look like? Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to destroy Hamas but also rejected the idea of the Palestinian Authority — the only remotely possible alternative for leadership in Gaza — taking power in their place. The only option he appears open to is more killing in Gaza, the potential expulsion of Gazans, expanding settlements in the West Bank, and re-occupying Gaza with Israeli forces when this ends. It is a strategy as unimaginative as it is dangerous. Rather than destroy Hamas, this war has helped their popularity in Gaza soar. Two months later, over half of the hostages taken from Israel have been saved — but they likely could have been brought home via prisoner exchange without any ground invasion. Three have now been killed *by Israeli forces*... Over 100 Israeli soldiers have been killed. And, of course, Gaza is in ruin, with about half of all civilian housing destroyed and roughly 1.8 million people displaced. Meanwhile, violence in the West Bank, on the other side of Israel, is surging — as is support for Hamas. The international community is turning against the Israeli government, and the actions of the Israeli military are angering the surrounding Arab world, threatening a larger regional conflict that has already begun to disrupt shipping through the Red Sea — where Iran-backed Houthi rebels are now attacking American ships. Anti-semitism is also on the rise, as Jews are put in the precarious position of being held responsible for the decision makers in the Israeli military (in a dark irony, not unlike the way many innocent Palestinians are being punished for the actions of Hamas). At what point does Netanyahu look around and realize this is not working? He is a failed leader. Corrupt, divisive, incapable of keeping his people safe, and now dragging the country into the kind of war that will hurt it more than it helps. The best argument he has for continuing this offensive is "deterrence by force" — that Hamas and other Iran-backed proxy groups will look around, see what Israel is doing, and decide they want none of that in the future. And yet all this has actually done is justify to Palestinians Hamas’s stance of armed opposition. Israel is providing them with even more justification for future violence in the eyes of the international community and more legitimacy as a political group that can competently do things like negotiate the release of hostages. All the while, the promised deterrence has been totally non-existent. There have been increased attacks on U.S. and Israeli forces throughout the Middle East and more of Israel’s neighbors are rattling their sabers about a larger war. Again: Netanyahu’s stated goal was to destroy Hamas. But the IDF’s push into Gaza may have moved Israel farther away from that goal than ever. Israel is not going anywhere. There is not going to be a Palestine from the river to the sea. There is not going to be a massive return of 20 million Palestinians to the state of Israel. As difficult and terrible as that might be to some people, it's the honest truth. Israel exists as a state the same way most countries in the modern world have come to exist: Through conflict, victory in war(s), global recognition, and connection to the land. Any pragmatic people looking for genuine solutions to this conflict need to move forward understanding that any end to it will involve a Jewish state existing in or around places like Jerusalem and Tel Aviv. The so-called “one state solution” — a single, unified nation of Israelis and Palestinians living side by side — currently feels impossible, and some version of a partition and two state solution continues to look to me like the only realistic path out of this mess. I wish for an independent and sovereign Palestinian state. I pray for people smarter than I am who can get us there. Obviously, any future one or two state solution will first require an end to the violence, then concessions on both sides, and then generational healing amid a prolonged period of peace. Given that, every moment of what is happening now has to hold the tension of Israel's right to exist and defend itself with the need and equal right for the Palestinian people to exist, with self-determination, without being subjected to indiscriminate killing by their neighbors, and next to a neighbor (Israel) that is obeying international law. After October 7th, there was always going to be a forceful response. Hamas's heinous attack forced Israel's hand, and Hamas deserves plenty of blame for the current state of Gaza (in more ways than one). I wish the Palestinian people could see that more clearly and I hope they abandon Hamas as a leadership group the first chance they get. But Israel is beyond "responding with force." It’s beyond a planned counter-measure. And it’s well beyond bringing peace or security. Israel is nearly alone in this war (with its most important remaining ally, the United States, now wavering), killing not just civilians but its own people, and making the region less safe for itself along the way. It is time — beyond time — for new leadership and a new strategy.

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@talhagin You should look into that @talhagin guy

I'm looking for more informative Twitter pages to follow that handle debunking fake reports, OSINT, and experts on International Humanitarian Law/Military activities. Preferably those with a focus on Israel/Palestine. All suggestions are appreciated :)

All wars end with negotiation, but it's hard to negotiate when the other side's bargaining position is "you all die and disappear."

@SalomonSoup @UNHumanRights

@Ike_Saul @clarissaward 7700 civilians killed in Iraq in the first year? Nope, it's significantly more. That number is more like the two first months of the invasion. Taking into consideration likely exaggeration by the Hamas-run health ministry, this is very comparable to the Gaza war.

@Ike_Saul @clarissaward Hey @Ike_Saul, since I know you care about truth: Please have a closer look at @clarissaward's comparison Gaza 2023 vs. Iraq, which exposes her piece as "poorly researched" at best. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casualtie…

I believe CNN just became first western media to enter into Gaza without being guided by Israel's military. Difficult piece to watch and tremendously important work from @clarissaward youtube.com/watch?v=SdIZmZ…

If you can only watch a single video today, watch this one. And watch until the end. It’s worth it. I promise. twitter.com/ReeveSwainston…