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@rossiadam @micsolana 1 in 3 people in Fairfax County are foreigners

@micsolana It is. And they view politics as their sport. They have the time and appetite to vote in these types of elections.

The entire Commonwealth got Fairfaxed. The saddest part of this is the hateful comments and attitudes I have seen in NOVA toward the rural majority of our state. As a kid growing up in Virginia I didn’t see that. It’s something that has evolved and grown over my lifetime.

BREAKING: ADM Paparo, 4-star Admiral and Commander of U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, just testified before the Senate that “Bitcoin shows incredible potential” as a tool for U.S. national security. Watch the full exchange:

NEW — State of Play: Quantum Computing and Bitcoin's Path Forward On March 31, two papers from Google and Caltech slashed the estimated qubit threshold for breaking Bitcoin's cryptography. The old consensus was 10 million. Google's new number: under 500,000. Bitcoin is not in danger today. Google's best chip has 105 qubits. The threshold is still thousands of times higher. But the timeline is compressing, and the Bitcoin community isn't waiting. BIP-360 launched a working testnet in March with 50+ miners and 100+ cryptographers contributing. Taproot already contains architectural scaffolding for quantum-safe verification. And Blockstream Research unveiled a new post-quantum signature scheme just days before the release of the Google paper. The question is less about finding a technical solution and more about the network forging consensus on how and when to deploy one. BPI will continue to keep policymakers informed of the work that developers, cryptographers, and other network participants are doing to prepare Bitcoin for a post-quantum future.

The enduring genius of Bitcoin is that the Satoshi mystery does not need an answer. A monetary network secured by cryptography and game theory, rather than on trust in any individual or institution, does not depend on who Satoshi is or on whether Satoshi is ever found. Every other monetary system in history has depended on trusting someone. Bitcoin is the one that doesn't.

📄NEW RESEARCH (from @JakeLangenkamp): Taiwan holds $602B in reserves, over 80% in USD. In a PRC blockade, gold is stranded and dollar access could be leveraged against Taipei. Bitcoin is the only reserve asset that stays sovereign and spendable under both scenarios.

Even more concerning news today on the Bitcoin tax front. We’re going to need the Cyber Hornets for this one. 👇 Today’s new draft **leaves the double taxation on bitcoin mining in place** and only provides relief to staking. So now the proposal is: - De minimis for stablecoins but not Bitcoin - Fixing tax treatment for “passive validation” (I.e. staking) but not Bitcoin mining This contradicts all prior proposals on this issue. This is not tech neutral and picks winners and losers for no reason. Full statement from BPI coming soon about @RepHorsford and @RepMaxMiller’s draft. We need strong community push back to show that this language sets America and Bitcoin back.

We tested 36 blank-slate frontier AI models to determine their monetary preferences. Across 9000+ scenarios, the agents overwhelmingly chose Bitcoin. See for yourself at moneyforai.org

@markgranza @im_1776 @GraduatedBen Great stuff man, congrats to you both!

ANNOUNCEMENT: I’ll be leaving @im_1776 at the end of the month. I’m focusing all my attention on my Marinetti and will be handing over the editorial management of IM to Ben @GraduatedBen. It’s been an incredible journey building this brand, and I couldn’t be more grateful for all the friendships I've made along the way and for the support we've received. I want to thank all of our readers, our contributors, and especially the editors who helped me build it. I’ll never forget the past five years. What started as a passion project turned into one of the most exciting ventures in the publishing world. I look forward to dedicating as much love and passion to my next project. Thank you sincerely & God bless, MG

@jamesob Yes!

Really love our self-hosted home security camera system using Frigate. No external network access, no third-party hosting. Cheap Chinese cams I use are network isolated. I've got a dedicated monitor in my office that is blank unless there's activity on a given camera (they call this "birdseye"), so I'm aware of what's up around the house while I'm working. I have the system on a UPS so even if power is cut, cameras keep going. Wife can access the cam interface using wireguard on her phone. Is there value in doing a write-up on how I set this thing up?

Thank you, Wyoming! Serving our state has been the honor of my life. - Cynthia Lummis

@JoeConsorti Congrats Joe!

The latest addition to the Consorti family is on the way. July 20th, 2026 🧡

during Covid the government spent $4-5T or 20-25% of GDP on various handouts and stimulus programs. it's now clear – as was very predictable at the time – that this spending was overwhelmingly ridden with fraud. and the fraud wasn't really a side effect. the point was to use Covid to hand out gibs to all of the Biden admin's chosen affinity groups. meanwhile, every American ended up footing the bill through the resultant inflation. the Minnesota fraud is just the tip of the iceberg but it's totally indicative of what went on. no fraud checks whatsoever (remember that the emphasis during CARES and PPP was shoveling money out the door, and "some amount of fraud" was deliberately tolerated). I know I'm not alone in remembering the lines around the block at the luxury stores when the PPP cash first started going out. official government sources now admit staggering quantities of fraud. the SBA estimates $200b in PPP fraud [1]. the GAO estimated [2] pandemic-era unemployment fraud at $100-$135b. and of course, this is still under-reported, as no one wants to admit that the government funded fraudsters with taxpayer cash. more examples of massive billion-dollar frauds continue to trickle in, with MN being a great example. the real number is almost certainly in the trillions. this is one of the biggest institutionalized thefts in history, and we're still paying for it today, through higher debt levels, structurally higher inflation, higher short-end rates (to cure the burst of inflation), and higher long-end rates because creditors don't trust the government any more. an absolute travesty that few will acknowledge. [1] sba.gov/document/repor… [2] gao.gov/assets/gao-23-…

@KristinCarrigg Your mileage may vary but in my experience it depends on the food. E.g. milk and ice cream are ideal because the fat/protein slow sugar absorption and prevent big spikes/crashes; fructose, potassium, and protein in OJ have a similar effect. Would avoid pure starch

@ajscalia *listen to

My 3 year old has been having fitful sleep & nightmares for the past few weeks. He sleeps soundly from about 7-midnight, & then he starts having nightmares on & off the rest of the night. Silly little dreams like a worm in his cookie or his brother took his seat, 1/2

@KristinCarrigg You might try feeding him some sugar before bed or upon waking in the night, nightmares can be caused by elevated stress hormones which are in turn due to low blood sugar during the night. Milk or OJ or even ice cream work well for my kids 👍 Source: bioenergetic.life/clips/87591?t=…

but he cries out and gets up to tell us. Any ideas why? He always has a full meal before bed. No sugar or dyes, or anything like that. I'm a bit stumped. 2/2

@curiousgangsta @SantiagoPliego couple high end mackinaw wool products still made in US but almost everything else is made in south asia now

@SantiagoPliego hmm…I was looking at a Mackinaw Wool Cruiser the other day and it is still made in Seattle. Just checked the wax jacket and it said imported. sad.

17 years after the white paper, the Bitcoin network is still operational and more resilient than ever. Bitcoin never shuts down. @SenateDems could learn something from that.

@ComradeDoyIe Ah yes a fellow ridgeback respector

A dog won’t listen to you if it detects that you’re a lower being. He’s got an extremely intelligent purebred working dog, which spends its time puzzled why its owner spends all day sitting and yelling at the wall. I’m shocked it doesn’t respect him. This is also why vets aggressively lobby to neuter your dogs; most people simply could never get these dogs to respect them were they not literally castrated. They explain it in terms of “health concerns,” but ultimately it’s that a male dog behaving as such would be undesirable and even an externality, again because you can’t reasonably expect these kinds of people to earn the respect of these animals. So, of course he abuses the dog because it’s the only way he can get it to listen to him. This is common actually throughout the rest of the world, which frequently tries mocking the relationship that Europeans have with their dogs and other pets. What is funnier to me however is that Europeans have apparently better assimilated these once-beasts into their societies than this guy’s recent ancestors. Makes you wonder about who should really wear the shock collar! x.com/Tectone/status…

@phil_geiger @metaplanet @Strategy @mikesmlw Congrats Phil!

Today I’m announcing my next full-time role: Head of Business Development at @metaplanet! Now the 5th largest public bitcoin treasury, Metaplanet has become the first public company in Japan and the second company in the world behind @Strategy to accumulate enough bitcoin to tap into credit and fixed-income markets. This is a turning point in hyperbitcoinization: an opportunity for the largest capital markets in the world to gain their first exposure to bitcoin. @gerovich and @dylanleclair have achieved escape velocity. I’m thrilled to hop onboard the Metaplanet ship and do my part to accelerate us to lightspeed.