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I built bitcoINdiana.org to highlight Indiana Bitcoin Meetups and Merchants. Recently expanded Meetups to neighboring states. bitcoindiana.org/meetups/ Corrections? - @IndyBitcoin - @btcthinkersclub - @lexbitcoinorg - @cincy_bitcoin - @ColumbusBitcoin - @CleBitcoinClub

@JM_speakss No test TX. Learn about CPFP & RBF. - first double check target and change addresses - send with a very low fee (1 sat) - view pending TX ID via your own node - if anything is incorrect, use RBF or CPFP to send a correct TX for a higher fee Verify TX in mempool via your node.

I’m STILL scared shtless when I transfer bitcoin to my cold storage. I send 0.01 test transactions before moving more. When you’re transferring bitcoin to your cold storage…are you still sending test transactions or do you trust it blindly now?

@Punk4725 @Ledger Ledger had their customer information compromised multiple times. They retained your data and failed to secure it. That’s how.

This is terrifying @Ledger. I just received a physical scam letter at my home address in Italy 🇮🇹 How the hell do scammers have access to the addresses of Ledger users? This goes way beyond phishing emails now. People’s safety is literally at risk.

@Scavacini777 @grok For SHA256: ASIC > GPU > CPU

@grok what would be the difference between me acquiring a solo miner from Bitaxe, vs me mining with my pc from Costco, I'll attach a pic here so you know what PC it is Which would perform better? My pc or the Bitaxe solo miner?

“if it was modernizing we would be embracing freedom and sovereignty” 👏

@saylordocs Unenforceable when there is a decentralized and open source financial network. - receive or earn USD/fiat - convert to bitcoin - custody bitcoin - send bitcoin to <> from any country <> person <> address - save and spend bitcoin locally - or convert bitcoin back to local fiat

🇺🇸 SCOTT BESSENT: "If you're on public assistance, you can no longer wire money out of the country!"

@TFTC21 Hypocritical? The FOP likely supports the right to bear firearms, but would not want to make sure law enforcement has the ability to prosecute the people who make their firearms. The developers of a tool, software or weapon, should not be held responsible for use of said tool.

The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest law enforcement organization in the United States with over 382,000 members, is opposing a key provision of the CLARITY Act. In a letter to Senate Banking Committee Chairman Tim Scott and Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren, FOP National President Patrick Yoes said the organization "strongly opposes" Section 604 of the bill, which would exempt non-controlling developers and providers from being classified as money transmitting businesses. The FOP argues this change would "strip prosecutors and law enforcement of the statutes used to track and take down criminals using digital assets to commit crimes" and would make it "even easier" for criminal organizations to profit from illegal activity. This is exactly the provision that matters most for open-source developers. The same section the FOP wants removed is the one that would protect developers from being prosecuted for what their users do with their software. Without it, building privacy tools, non-custodial wallets, or mixing software could make a developer criminally liable under money transmission laws, regardless of whether they ever touched a user's funds. The FOP says it supports the right to trade digital assets. It just wants to make sure law enforcement keeps the ability to prosecute the people who build the tools those assets move through. That distinction is the entire fight.

@sashahodler @leamuirleyn Couldn’t the same be said about fiat? 🤔 Hey Fed & Banks, you knew criminals use fiat, yet you kept issuing more of it; therefore, you intentionally facilitated laundering.👮 This is likely another “rules for thee but not for me” situation. 🤷‍♂️

@leamuirleyn Yup, with that carve out, prosecutors can still say: You knew criminals used it, you kept improving it; therefore, you intentionally facilitated laundering.

🚨🚨🚨There is a major flaw in the BRCA of the proposed Clarity Act: (d) CLARIFICATION OF TREATMENT explicitly states that the protections in subsection (c) DO NOT EXTEND to (or "modify the application of") 18 U.S.C. § 1960(b)(1)(C) for a specific subset of conduct by an "initial person." 18 U.S.C. § 1960 prohibits operating an unlicensed money transmitting business. Subsection (b)(1)(C) covers cases involving the transportation or transmission of funds that the defendant knows are: (1) Derived from a criminal offense (e.g., proceeds of fraud, drug trafficking, etc.); or (2) Intended to be used to promote or support unlawful activity (e.g., funding terrorism, further crimes). This is the exact 1960 subsection now being used to target developers. Every builder and developer knows their tool could be used for nefarious purposes. Under this law, that knowledge alone is enough to send you to prison for years. There is NO PROTECTION for developers in the Clarity Act while this carve out remains.

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More info on the Lightning Social. This is our 2nd ever event for this. The goal is to support local businesses who accept bitcoin. This month we are meeting at Steak n' Shake downtown from 12-2pm. More details and RSVP: meetup.com/indianapolis-b…

We have two great events coming up soon! Saturday 5/16, 12-2pm - Lightning Social at Steak 'n Shake downtown. Bring a lightning wallet and some sats. No agenda, casual hangout. Wednesday 5/20, 7-9pm - Monthly Meetup @UnionJackPub "A Nostr Quickstart" presentation

@IndyBitcoin @UnionJackPub Hey @SteaknShake, we hope some of your leadership will join our Lightning Social on May 16. We picked a restaurant that is just a six-minute walk from your headquarters. Join your local Indianapolis Bitcoin neighbors for a shake and fries. 🍟

@umbrel - copy/paste to/from the web-based terminal - MIT license ❤️ - local web interface if monitor is attached - and keep up the good work

@umbrel Wish list: - backups to second internal drive (m.2 | SATA) - TLS certificate - easy way to change hostname (umbrel-btc, umbrel-app, umbrel-llm) - multiuser accounts with some read only permission - apps: Firefox, Spliit, Jitsi - easy Cloudflare tunnel and subdomains via API

if you could add one thing to umbrelOS, what would it be?

@torproject Good to be patched and ready. If more legislators ban VPNs, adoption of Tails, Tor, and similar technologies will likely increase.

PSA: please update Tails with the latest release. It is an emergency release to fix a critical security vulnerability in the Linux kernel, as well as security vulnerabilities in Tor Browser and in the Tor client. blog.torproject.org/new-release-ta…

@heynavtoor Are you aware of Nostr? - social media protocol - free and open source - no centralized servers - no permission required - unable to be censored - data belongs to you - data is portable to multiple clients - includes bitcoin micropayments - active development

Every social media platform has the same rule. You can upload anything. You cannot download anything. Your video? Their server. Your photo? Their server. Your audio? Their server. You made it. They own the link. Try to download your own TikTok. Watermark. Try to download a YouTube video offline. Pay $15.99/month. Try to save a Twitter video. Right-click does nothing. Try to download your own Instagram reel. No button. A developer looked at this and said no. One input field. Paste a link. Get the file. Move on. No ads. No trackers. No paywall. No account. No watermark. It's called Cobalt. 35,000+ stars on GitHub. → YouTube. Up to 8K. Any format. → TikTok. Without the watermark. → Instagram. Reels, posts, stories. → Twitter/X. Videos and GIFs. → Reddit. Videos with audio merged. → SoundCloud. Full tracks. → 20+ platforms total. → Audio-only mode. Extract MP3 from any video. → On-device processing. Files never touch their server. → Self-host with Docker. Here's the wildest part: Every "free video downloader" site you have ever used is covered in ads. Popup ads. Fake download buttons. Malware bundled into the download. Cobalt has zero ads. Zero trackers. Zero analytics. The developer refuses to monetize it. One input field. One button. The file appears on your device. 35,000+ stars. AGPL-3.0. Free forever. But DO NOT use Cobalt. We should all keep watching ads and adding watermarks. 100% Open Source.

@sashahodler Let them panic over centralized stable coins. They must not yet realize that the real threat is decentralized Bitcoin.

Banks are panicking over the Clarity Act. For decades they got away with paying crumbs on deposits and now stablecoins threaten their monopoly.

@LightningNewsX Das Delicious is found here on @btcmap. A trolley line goes right past it, making it easy to reach from anywhere in Vienna. #12/48.15416/16.31744&merchant=18106" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">btcmap.org/map#12/48.1541…

@LightningNewsX Is Das Delicious (delicious-wien.at) the other Lightning-accepting restaurant in Vienna? Ate there a few weeks ago. Excellent homemade sausages with great Bitcoin memorabilia and decor.

NEW: 🇦🇹Second restaurant in Vienna, Austria accepts bitcoin payments over Lightning 👀 > Instant final settlement > 95% lower payment fees

@stats_feed Create a bar graph of the USA budget deficit to help visualize this data.

🇺🇸 USA budget deficit: 2000: $236 billion 2001: $128 billion 2002: $158 billion 2003: $378 billion 2004: $413 billion 2005: $318 billion 2006: $248 billion 2007: $161 billion 2008: $459 billion 2009: $1.41 trillion 2010: $1.29 trillion 2011: $1.30 trillion 2012: $1.07 trillion 2013: $680 billion 2014: $485 billion 2015: $442 billion 2016: $585 billion 2017: $665 billion 2018: $779 billion 2019: $984 billion 2020: $3.13 trillion 2021: $2.77 trillion 2022: $1.38 trillion 2023: $1.70 trillion 2024: $1.83 trillion 2025: $1.78 trillion Note: A budget deficit occurs when money going out (spending) exceeds money coming in (revenue) during a defined period. In FY 2024, the federal government spent $6.75 trillion and collected $4.92 trillion in revenue, resulting in a deficit. The amount by which spending exceeds revenue, $1.83 trillion in 2024, is referred to as deficit spending.

@hostis_black Anyone should be free to print any word or object without permission.

On May 7th, Governor Kathy Hochul announced that New York's Fiscal Year 2027 budget will become the first law in the United States to mandate surveillance software inside every 3D printer sold within the state. It will make it a Class E felony to possess or share a 3D-printable file capable of producing a firearm component. Every printer sold in New York must ship with print-blocking algorithms that scan each job in real time and refuse to execute anything the algorithm flags. The sales pitch is "ghost guns." The mechanism is a permission gate inside a machine you paid for. Pilot tests of the proposed algorithm by an open-firmware team triggered the block on 17% of non-weapon prints. Brackets that resemble triggers. Cylinders that resemble barrels. A model train coupling. A bottle opener. The algorithm cannot tell. It will refuse the print and log the attempt to whatever server the manufacturer is required to maintain. The same arithmetic the printing-press licensors used in 1660. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used to brand a printer's son for distributing tracts the Crown had not approved. The same arithmetic the early DRM crowd used to make a DVD ripper a federal criminal in 1998. A tool you bought, in a room you own, with electricity you paid for, becomes a deputy of the state at the moment of purchase and remains one for the lifetime of the device. Anything that takes a digital design file and outputs a physical object is now within the reach of a state that has declared it owns the question of which physical objects you are permitted to bring into existence inside your own house. The fence has spent forty years moving inward. Around the song first. Around the page. Around the cipher. Around the camera roll. Now, finally, around the workbench. The state has run out of digital territory to enclose and has started enclosing the atoms. The maker who prints a bracket for a broken washing machine tonight commits the same act, technically, that the law is written to stop. The algorithm will not know the difference. It is not designed to know the difference. It is designed to fail closed, to refuse first and let the human appeal upward through whatever bureaucratic channel the manufacturer designs, if any, on whatever timeline the manufacturer chooses, with whatever paper trail attaches to the request. Permission to print, denied. Submit a ticket. Wait. Unfortunately for New York, and fortunately for us, the firmware on every consumer 3D printer is open or near-open. All of them forkable, all of them flashable, all of them already installed on millions of machines outside the reach of any future New York compliance certificate. The CAD files at issue are mathematical descriptions of geometry that will be mirrored on a thousand drives in a thousand jurisdictions before the ink on the bill is dry. The state cannot bind geometry. It can only bind the people who agree to be bound. Forty years from now nobody will remember the ghost gun argument. They will remember the year a state government decided that the physical output of a private machine was the state's business at the point of manufacture.

I wish @Tesla Roadside support emails didn’t look like phishing emails. - I use Tesla app to chat with Roadside Support (trusted) - Tesla sends email from roadside@tesla.com (semitrusted) - Body of email links to third-party domain (not trusted) Please only link to *.tesla.com.