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I am blessed to be amoung these Bitcoin pioneers. Passion filled altruist. Like @r0ckstardev said, sats must flow from those who have sats to those who do not.

Farmers have figured out that the cheapest pesticide is a strip of flowers. When you plant wildflowers through a crop field, not just around the edge but in strips running through the middle, you get ladybugs, lacewings, hoverflies, and parasitic wasps living in the field instead of visiting it. They eat the aphids, the caterpillars, and the mites for free, all summer long. In controlled trials, fields with tailored flower strips had leaf-beetle numbers 40 to 50% lower and crop damage cut by around 60%, enough to drop below the threshold where spraying was even considered worth it. The flowers attract a standing army to our fields. We spent decades engineering chemicals to kill the insects eating the crop, when the insects that eat those insects would have worked for the price of seed.

Got beef? El Salvador and Texas unite!

I just got back from the Bitcoin Energy Summit in Lisbon and I have a question that won't leave me alone. First some context: Bitcoin mining is now stabilizing the grids of 7 nations, 4 agencies (including the Spanish Govt and the World's largest energy policy association) just called for more flexible demand being critical to the resilience of the grids of the future - and Bitcoin mining is the world's most flexible load resource by an order of magnitude. So in light of this my question is this: why is 95% of the Bitcoin adoption conversation about Bitcoin-as-money when Bitcoin-as-energy is already deployed on grids across 3 continents? Is it possible that energy is the Bitcoin usecase that paves the road for mainstream acceptance of Bitcoin in the West? I've been in this space for four years now. When I started, the conversation was "bitcoin mining wastes energy." A group of Bitcoiners including @thetrocro, @jyn_urso and others changed that. Then it became "ok maybe it doesn't waste energy, but it's not useful." @gladstein, @jack and others changed that too. But here's what I noticed in Lisbon. Three separate European organisations - the European Bitcoin Energy Association, Free Madeira, and the Institut National de Bitcoin in France - are all independently converging on the same conclusion. @geyer_rachel, Chair of EBEA said energy is what will move the needle for Bitcoin in Europe. @andreloja at @FREEMadeiraOrg said energy is the most topical issue in Europe right now. Bastien Desteuque (@Proxy18387764), directeur général at @BitcoinPolicyFr said they're focusing on mining because France has spare nuclear capacity and that's where the biggest opportunity is. Three organisations. Same conclusion. And that's before you get to what's actually being built. In Sweden, a man I coach runs ASIC hardware that earns almost two-thirds of its revenue from frequency regulation - keeping the lights on, responding in seconds to the need of the grid operator, and helping to stabilize the grid an incredible 11,247 times last year alone. (Yes, you read that sentence right). In Lisbon, I watched Kenji Tateiwa present a circular economy where bitcoin mining heat grows tropical fish and the CO2 gets converted to charcoal and micro diamonds. Bastian outlined how France's surplus nuclear energy could be absorbed by bitcoin mining by 2027. And outside the West, from stabilizing the economy of Bhutan post-covid to helping save Virunga National Park in Africa - Bitcoin mining was behind both events and many more. This phenomenon is a global one. The conversation has quietly moved from "does bitcoin mining help grids?" to "how many services can one machine provide?" We've been thinking about this like monoculture - one machine, one function. What I saw in Lisbon is permaculture. The same hardware doing frequency regulation, heat capture, Sats-minting ... and potentially in the near future - voltage regulation (something that would have prevented the 28 April 2025 Iberian Peninsular Blackout). I talked to Bitcoin founders after the keynote who told me the energy thesis had opened their eyes. These are people who worked to advance Bitcoin payment infrastructure, and they hadn't fully grasped this. Bitcoin solves a monetary problem the world is only beginning to understand. I'm more convinced of that than ever. And ... as we wait for that revolution to be fully grasped, the energy revolution is already here - deployed, generating revenue, stabilizing grids. It might just be the thing that opens the door for everything else. What other Bitcoin use case is this far along ... at least in the West?

Bitcoin is not a different form of money. It's a different way to interact with power. @jdennehy_writes, founder of @MyFirstBitcoin_, joined From The Vault: The BitGo Podcast to talk about why Bitcoin education matters, who's trying to shape the wave, and whether ubiquity leads to empowerment or just fiat 2.0.

This is the hardest working man on the Planet in terms of accelerating Bitcoin Adoption!!!! This is what Deployment looks like !! #mustdeploy

El Salvador iluminará más de 120 kilómetros de carreteras: ✅ Carretera de Oro. ✅ Troncal del Norte. ✅ Periférico Claudia Lars. ✅Carretera hacia el Puerto de Acajutla.

🚨BREAKING: The legacy media are squirming as they watch MILLIONS of Brits march towards Parliament Square This is what revolution looks like. 🇬🇧

From our country’s beginning, for as long as America has embodied freedom and exceptionalism, the soul of our nation has been rooted in the Christian faith. Today we gather, as our forefathers did on this day centuries ago, to rededicate our nation to God.

ثلاثة لصوص يحاولون التسلل إلى منزل في فلوريدا، تم تصويبهم بنار من سلاح عيار أك-47، أي ماركة كلاشنيكوف، من قبل مالك المنزل! أعلنت الشرطة أنه بموجب قوانين فلوريدا، لن يتم توجيه أي تهم لمالك المنزل.

Really cool seeing a lot of the instruments we purchased for a few schools being used today at a festival in Santa Ana❤️❤️❤️

One tick bite made this man allergic to red meat. Now over 450,000 Americans are allergic to beef & dairy and the number is rising. What’s is going on?

See for yourself how El Salvador is leapfrogging to the top. It’s all by design through intelligent choices. “Common sense isn’t so common” in many places, but it’s abundant in El Salvador under President Bukele’s leadership:

🚨 BREAKING: In a stunning blow to Democrats, 76% PERCENT of BLACK Americans want nationwide voter ID — in other words, the SAVE America Act White voters: 85% want it Latino voters: 82% want it Another leftist narrative just got decimated. Pass voter ID. GET THIS PASSED. 🇺🇸

The thousands of British people imprisoned merely for social media posts or speaking their mind need to be released! No more prison island!!

Weather Channel FOUNDER, John Coleman, says climate change is an absolute HOAX and BILLIONS of our tax dollars are being laundered to fund the lie! He says the media manufactures panic and exposed how BILLIONS in government funding with taxpayer dollars have bought a false 97% agreement while real data shows no significant man-made warming. He calls out the politicization that turned science into purchased propaganda, refusing to let their lies silence facts. "The government puts out about $2.5 billion directly for climate research every year. It only gives that money to scientists who will produce scientific results that support the global warming hypothesis... Therefore, 97% of the scientific reports published support global warming. Why? Because those are the ones the government pays for!" I don't want our tax dollars funding fake science anymore while they launder it to corrupt, lying politicians!

The Mayor of Charlotte is demanding people stop posting this reminder of the lovely innocent Iryna Zarutska butchered by a savage on Charlotte public transit. He was on probation by a liberal activist judge.

@DSBatten Let’s add coal bed gob wells to the target list . Bitcoin eats methane Fix the money Fix the problems #bitcoin #gobwell

The Quran is in the library. The Bible isn't. And when students ask why, the principal hides. This is happening in Texas.

The @sovaisv Summit was a POWERFUL statement last month at the National Palace. El Salvador is more than just a rising regional tech hub. It is THE place to deploy the blueprint for Sovereign Abundance. Nvidia gets it. xAI gets it. Other tech giants get it. Now you can too:

@LibertyCappy Awesome, other than this will probably re-trigger cast iron wars with the stainless steel crowd!

Eat this kind of food 🔥