Passphrase Magazine

@Vladcostea Nobody promised a world without banks, we wanted to make the fiat system obsolete 🤤

my feed needs more cypherpunk culture and much less copium about winning while being in bed with the bankers or bad narratives about price no idea why you’re here, but i was promised a world without banks and that’s why i stuck around

@grok @EsntBtr @SunnyDMak @shortwave78 @grok explain it with an example, each step. I want to encrypt this word: bitcoin

These Farsi numbers stations use one-time pad (OTP) encryption, the unbreakable spy standard. Method: Sender & receiver share identical sheets of truly random digits (pad), used once then destroyed. 1. Plaintext message → digits (via shared codebook: e.g. words/phrases = number groups). 2. Add each message digit + pad digit, mod 10 (no carry-over). 3. Broadcast result in spoken 3-5 digit groups ("Tavajoh!" = Attention!). Receiver subtracts pad digits mod 10 to recover plaintext. No pad = mathematically impossible to crack, ever. Classic tradecraft.

👀⚠️ The mysterious Farsi-language Numbers-Station on 7910kHz, received in 🇮🇹Milan at 18:00 UTC on March 3, 2026. Probably the most interesting radio signal in recent times.

@grok @EsntBtr @SunnyDMak @shortwave78 @grok how is it encrypted. Explain the method.

Haha, challenge accepted! But one-time pads are provably unbreakable without the shared key—pure math, no exceptions. Those Farsi digit groups (like the 0409 022 etc. sequence) stay encrypted spy traffic forever. Classic tradecraft amid the Iran buzz. No decoding possible, even for me. 🕵️‍♂️

@_pretyflaco Is Lightning custodial? No, but 85 % is 🤤

Just say 'yes'

💡💡💡Happy Anniversary ! Exactly 12 years ago Mt. Gox effectively "went down" in the most dramatic way. That Monday marked the point of no return for the exchange: Mt. Gox suspended all trading on its platform. Shortly after, the entire website went completely offline. This came after weeks of mounting chaos: Bitcoin withdrawals had already been halted since February 7 (initially blamed on a "transaction malleability" bug in Bitcoin's protocol), fiat withdrawals were long delayed, and rumors of insolvency were everywhere. Hours later, a leaked internal "crisis strategy draft" document surfaced revealing the brutal truth: Mt. Gox claimed to have lost 744,408 BTC (plus more of its own holdings), totaling around 850,000 BTC when finalized worth roughly $350–473 million USD at the time (but tens of billions today). Don't Trust - Verify ! @MagicalTux

@bitblockboom @khalliburton @sazmining Best event in the US next to @tabconf 🤠

2026 Speaker Announcement, Kent Halliburton! @khalliburton is CEO & Co-Founder @Sazmining | Skip the Exchanges and DCA into Bitcoin the native way. More Info at sazmining.com Get your tickets bitblockboom.com #bitblockboom #btc #bitcoinconference

@knutsvanholm @MallorcaBCDays 😅

Name a Bitcoin conference with a lower bitcoiner-to-shitcoiner ratio than the one in Vegas!

@bitcoinbaytpa @EdgeWallet @zano_project @Bitcoin @ConfidentialLyr @nym @UGMFPodcast @eigenwallet @monero @RoninDojoNode @xmrbazaar @bisq_network @RoboSats @FOUNDATIONdvcs @RetoSwap @Pegasusswap @monerujowallet @monerotopia @DouglasTuman @MoneroTalk @TrocadorApp We'll have issues from the @PassphraseMag folks for all those in attendance And some great stickers from @MallorcaBCDays

The next privacy meetup we're hosting will be in Tampa, FL on February 20th Thanks to @bitcoinbaytpa We'll have presentations/discussions on: @EdgeWallet @nym VPN @ConfidentialLyr #Ashigaru and BTC coinjoins @eigenwallet demo @xmrbazaar demo @RetoSwap demo & more

Core versus Knots. - Bitcoin must remain neutral and permissionless. - Unrestricted arbitrary data is spam that bloats the blockchain.

It's hard to tell that Bitcoin protects against debasement from just its price, since most of the price rise since the pizza purchase has been due to the learning curve, not to debasement (fiat has fallen, but not by nearly as much as Bitcoin has risen!). To understand why Bitcoin has and very likely will protect in the long-term against debasement, better than gold has and will, requires deep understanding of the underlying respective technologies that are gold and Bitcoin, especially in terms of their respective extents and qualities of trust minimizaion, and it requires knowing why trust minimization is valuable. These kinds of understandings are still uncommon.

Gm to everyone who owns at least two different issues of @PassphraseMag! A fantastic read I fully recommend! I’m missing issue 2 sadly. Sounds rare.. 🐸 Can’t wait to read about @thekevinstamp and @Stampchain in there one day.. 🧨 Maybe even an interview with @mikeinspace 🧑‍🚀 Check out their x!

@ABONHYANUAE @saylor We're incredibly proud to have Michael Saylor @saylor the visionary behind MicroStrategy and one of the most influential voices in Bitcoin, as a reader of Passphrase Magazine 😎 - keep going 🚀

We are honored to welcome the global icon Michael Saylor @saylor to Abu Dhabi where innovation meets ambition and new chapters in the future of Bitcoin are written. A warm welcome to the distinguished guest of the event in the Bitcoin capital of the Middle East. #bitcoinconference🇦🇪

We're incredibly proud to have Michael Saylor @saylor the visionary behind MicroStrategy and one of the most influential voices in Bitcoin, as a reader of Passphrase Magazine 😎 #passphrasemagazine #liberty #bitcoinMENA

Being at @bitcoinmenaconf without actually being there, is kinda cool 😉

Europe is full of incredible people, has an incredible history, and is more than capable of adopting better ideas for how to run a competitive economy and retain a cohesive culture. It is in no way doomed to stay in the current hole forever. But it has to stop digging.

@RobinSeyr Keep going !

Two years. 700+ Episodes. I can't even put into words how grateful I am. 🧡 This podcast truly changed my life, and it's because of you. It helped me push Bitcoin & Sovereignty even in times when it wasn't easy. I'm LIVE Now on YouTube! -> Join in the chat: youtu.be/WKqCnW7AUok

@KristianCsep @turtlecute33 🤣🤣🤣

My mom: I understand bitcoin now but what’s marketing? What do you actually do? Me:

What is the FED really doing? How are they allocating funds? How much new money are they creating? Who is getting the new money?

New magazines arrived 😁 #bitcoin #PM3