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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

@tomshardware Another reason we need open source hardware. @256FOUNDATION

Lawmakers want US government to ban memory chips from China, even in allied supply chains — citing 'unacceptable risk' to national, economic, and supply chain security tomshardware.com/pc-components/…

@DrWoofAus @Pirat_Nation Do eSIMs from @silentlink1 work on your Australia phones? Aside from Nepal and the Falkland Islands, their eSIM has reliably provided anonymous LTE service everywhere else I’ve tried.

@Pirat_Nation Been law in Australia since mobiles rolled out.... burner phones aren't a thing in Australia

The US could soon make anonymous phone service a thing of the past. The FCC is considering a new rule that would require phone companies to verify identity before activating phone service. This could mean showing a government ID and providing personal details for a new phone number or renewal.

@NEEDcreations And to start using Nostr. And a password manager. And MFA. And…

Computer, convince all my friends and family to start studying Bitcoin. Make no mistake.

Air-gapped animated QR codes felt magical the first time I used @SeedSigner <> @SparrowWallet to securely sign a bitcoin transaction. Amazing to see the work being done to make this process faster and more reliable.

@sethforprivacy Unfortunately there are more critics (easy to do) than builders (hard to do). If you don’t like something that is free or open source, you can offer to help make it better (document, QoS, submit bugs, feature requests, pull requests). Or build your own superior alternative.

If Bitcoiners spent half as much time building as they do tearing down other projects or builders in the space, we’d have a hell of a lot better ecosystem today. Everyone loses when infighting consumes so much of our time.

@soapminer1 @sethforprivacy @vikrantnyc A reminder to stay humble, and stack sats.

@sethforprivacy @vikrantnyc Agreed I've spent time fighting, when I could've been doing something productive Thanks for reminding me 🫡

@cyandna @tando_me Onion encryption and HTLCs mean intermediaries don’t see or have Lightning transaction data. AI can’t analyze information that doesn’t exist or isn’t shared. Even an intermediary Lightning routing node that forwards a payment doesn’t know the sender or recipient (onion routing).

@tando_me Except they can ALL be traced. Where AI is going, combined with what Chainanalysis and the like can already do, it's not a question of can they be traced or not, it's simply a question of does anyone care enough to trace them.

We've received thousands of Lightning payments last month and not a single one left any on-chain footprint or can be traced because of Lightning's onion routing. 🙈🙉🙊 It's easy to take for granted that the world's only decentralized L2 (Lightning) also has incredible privacy by default.

@brighton_btc Never mind. It looks like the domain expired and is now up for auction.

@brighton_btc please inform Carlito that meetstr.com appears to have a TLS certificate issue. #meetstr #nostr

@nahcrof To your point, their 8 bit pricing is less expensive than providers offering 4 bit pricing. Well done.

@nahcrof A fair assessment of 8 bit providers and pricing from openrouter.ai. Omitting quantization was misleading when the rest of your post was specific.

Noticed that StreamLake has lower pricing for glm-5.2 Time for a pricing update on glm-5.2!! $0.30/m input $0.05/m cache $1.05/m output

@BitmundFreud Next time, if a compliance officer demands you provide the sender’s full name for a Bitcoin Lightning transaction; provide them YOUR OWN name. - Lightning has no onchain trail - Nothing non compliant for sending funds to/from yourself

Someone sent me sats via Lightning on Strike (using Wallet of Satoshi). Now Strike is demanding I provide the sender’s full name and surname, or they’ll send the funds back. How am I supposed to know the sender’s real name on a Lightning payment? This is ridiculous. It’s Bitcoin, for god sake. Why is the platform forcing me to identify the sender or lose the sats? Has anyone else dealt with this on Strike? Is there better options in the UK that respect privacy and don’t treat every $5 transaction like a compliance investigation?

@TheAhmadOsman All true, except right now the price for good hardware (RAM, SSD, GPU) is at an all time high. Two years ago, perhaps, would have been the better time to acquire the same compute hardware at lower prices. From a privacy and self sovereign perspective, however, sooner the better.

It has never been a better time to leave the paid intelligence tokens providers and self-host models yourself Applies to individuals Applies to businesses Applies to enterprises

@DhananjayPuroh Like this? gitworkshop.dev

Every `docker pull` on earth asks a central company for permission. We need a decentralized container registry..

@LieberFilms @natbrunell @mikealfred @BitPaine @BitcoinPierre Something about … past performance is no guarantee for future results.

@natbrunell @mikealfred @BitPaine @BitcoinPierre If we follow a 4 year cycle perfectly again, why not just trade it every time?

@BitcoinNewsCom Erdoğa’s declared war on cryptocurrencies in 2021 hasn’t gone so well.

The slow-motion collapse of the Turkish lira is a warning to the world. Sooner or later, every fiat currency faces the same fate. Study Bitcoin.

Bitcoiners are looking forward to the SHA-256th Fourth of July just six years from now.

@jasonsvoboda You are using the old StartOS. Upgrade to StartOS v0.4.0. This is a non issue that is already resolved.

An interesting anecdotal tidbit on the whole Core vs BIP-110 saga, especially if you use Start9 OS. As you can see in the first screenshot, I do not have Knots installed. However, they are displaying it on the Updates tab which should be for installed packages only. They also don't allow you to update past Core 29.3.1. If you want to run a newer version, you are forced to sideload. You're telling me you couldn't ready a distribution package for something that has been out since October 2025? Considering Start9 is basically the defacto recommendation to run nodes, suppressing default service versioning while recommending a non-installed version is antithetical to self sovereignty and freedom tech. "Start9: Sovereign Computing" is their tagline after all. It also makes me understand why there many be so many Knots v29 nodes showing on @w_s_bitcoin's dashboard that haven't signaled for BIP-110. Will definitely no longer recommend Start9 at the @VegasBitcoiners meetup as I have for over the last two years.

@brave LUKE I can't paste! They're blocking Ctrl+V! [A calm voice echoes in Luke's mind. It is Obi-Wan Kenobi] OBI-WAN Use the Force Paste, Luke.

"But Brave, how do you force paste on a site that blocks the right-click menu too?" Well, good news: You can now force the context menu to open on a site with Shift + Right Click! 🎉