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For folks looking to point people to a high signal site about bitcoin and freedom tech: notfinancialadvice.com h/t @lopp @clarkmoody @bitcoinpark_

Innaugural open-source mining firmware dev call. Discussing Mujina, PRs, feature requests, pain points and more!

@PalmerLuckey @chrisman Game. Blouses

@chrisman Ask them what the consequences should be for homeschooling parents who fail to educate children. Then ask what the consequences should be for public schools that do the same. The difference in answers is the game.

These anti-homeschool arguments always compare homeschooling to to a perfectly functioning public school system that only exists in their imagination. Meanwhile in the real world, 54% of American adults read below a 6th grade level.

Alekos as the founder of @bitcoindevkit getting into secure enclaves is something people should take note of. No idea if he is fundraising, but I'd back him!

@TempletonThomas @CardinalTurkson ❤️❤️

Thank you @CardinalTurkson for making my sons Colin & Jack’s First Communion even more memorable today

Cashu is powering far more than just Bitcoin wallets. While most people think of standard user-facing Bitcoin wallets when they hear Cashu, there’s a whole separate economy emerging around machine-to-machine payments. One of the best examples is Routstr, an open-source decentralized marketplace for AI inference. Routstr uses Nostr and Cashu at its core. Providers offer AI inference, and users pay for AI with Bitcoin. You can use Routstr as a normal AI chat interface or as a provider for your own AI agent. It gives users access to hundreds of models, similar to OpenRouter, but paid in Bitcoin with strong privacy for the payments attached to your AI chats. There are no accounts. To fund your balance, you pay a Lightning invoice and mint Cashu ecash. Every time you make a query, you attach ecash to the request itself as a bearer token and micropayment for that individual call. Now here’s the cool part. Anyone can become a provider because Nostr is an open network. Anyone can become an ecash mint because of how easy it is to run a Cashu mint. And every Routstr user has full control over which providers and which mint they choose. I think Routstr is a great example of what becomes possible with a micropayment system like Cashu on Bitcoin. It removes much of the friction involved in building apps that use payments, because you don’t need to create user accounts, build a ledger, or track users at the expense of their privacy.

@AP LFG 💪

WATCH: Taiwanese grandmothers aged 89 and 91 train at the gym. An increasing number of elderly people in Taiwan’s super-aged society are hitting the gym to stay healthy, both physically and mentally.

Yo yo #bitcoin fam ⚡ Big news: I will make the book open source (Free PDF) after 12 months of publishing, subject to final talks with the Indian publisher. We’re at 40% on the Geyser campaign. It's All-or-Nothing Campaign & with only 8 days left. If my journey inspired you..

@brian_trollz @robin_linus To be clear I'm suggesting to offer a valuable service allowing you to receive bitcoin ... at the node you are running.

@dansemperepico @BrianNorgard No, it would automatically pop back over. Now you have to manually swipe And also seems wispr flow is getting worse at transcription too. Agree with Brian.

@BrianNorgard You've always had to do this though?

This one screen has completely destroyed my WisprFlow user experience.

What if the biggest “win” for families in the last 50 years was actually a trap? Rory Sutherland dropped this on Alex O’Connor’s podcast: The two-income household started as a nice option. Both partners work, more money comes in. Feels great at first. Then reality shifted. Governments got double the tax. Existing homeowners watched their property values soar. House prices rose to match two salaries. Suddenly one income wasn’t enough anymore — even for high-earning singles like consultant surgeons. Families traded ~35 hours of free time per week for only modest gains in lifestyle. What began as freedom quietly became an obligation. And it left single people and parents who want to raise their own kids at a real disadvantage. This one stings because we sold it as pure progress. Personally, it makes me question how many modern “upgrades” we’ve normalized without counting the real cost — especially lost time with family. What’s something you once thought was clear progress that now feels like it came with a heavier price than we admitted?

Co-sign.

Be Like Poland 🇵🇱

@jacklesser_ MY MAN 💪

Dues paid. What a night. 30+ lb backpack, ~55k steps, and all the vibes. I feel horrible and that sucked. Can’t wait for next year.

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@jliemandt +Nashville. Next week 🤝

Education's top minds are relocating to Austin. Why? The best schools in the world are here. Come build the best ecosystem in education.

Seems like something to talk about: “Data centers occupy only about 3% of the land in Loudoun… and provide 45 percent of the nearly $2.9 billion in county tax revenue… Even as data centers have funded an expansive local government, they have also lowered the tax burden on residents… Loudoun reduced its homeowner property-tax rate every year for a decade, cutting it by about 40%”

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