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Books are an essential part of our shop. They turn interest into understanding, and understanding into expertise. Among the titles on our shelves, Broken Money by @LynAldenContact had to be there.

Use Grok 4.5 *privately* only on Venice.ai Zero-data retention. If you use it from other providers, they're storing everything you type. Available in both app and API

@joncursi @JonShapeShift @AskVenice they are burnt = gone for good

@JonShapeShift @AskVenice Where do you buy the $VVV that gets burnt? Open market? Aerodrome? Coinbase?

Plan remains the same, execute, ship, increase burns. @AskVenice team keeps the eye on the ball.

The latest discretionary $VVV burn has been executed. At a total of $267k in VVV at time of burn, this is the largest yet.

The burning of base:0xacfe6019ed1a7dc6f7b508c02d1b04ec88cc21bf shall continue until there is nothing left to burn...

EL SALVADOR NOW OFFERS 0% TAX ON BITCOIN GAINS AND FOREIGN INCOME. ONLY 90 DAYS OF RESIDENCY ARE REQUIRED. BULLISH FOR BITCOIN🚀

If only we had invented a peer-to-peer electronic payment system that we could use freely to send money and save for retirement without the authorities knowing

Bitcoin builders in Italy gathered at our hub to showcase what they're working on 👀

BREAKING: Apple CEO Tim Cook just confirmed he owns Bitcoin. "I own Bitcoin and have been interested in it for a while." The CEO of the most valuable company on earth. Personally holding Bitcoin. This is not an institutional allocation. This is personal conviction. Cook joins a growing list of the most powerful people in tech. Elon Musk. Two companies holding 30,221 BTC. Larry Fink. Calling for $700,000 Bitcoin. Michael Saylor. 721,000 BTC and counting. Now Tim Cook. Personally invested. The man running a $3,000,000,000,000 company. Chose to hold an asset with a supply cap of 21,000,000. When the people building the future all make the same choice. That tells you something about where the future is heading.

Some people reached out to me for a secure and anonymous way to support my work, so I created a Monero wallet. For the past years, I have been traveling, organizing, speaking, and creating content for what I believe in. Most of the things I do are unpaid, and it is only possible because some idealistic people support me. If you think what I am doing is effective and you want me to do even more, I would appreciate your support via Monero. My address is: 42N7SyGW4rWdK7MmCUrMk89zycN5BR1Ay25jYjcacSzq23Gsy43DnHmh9wwFa1Y9UghGnWtmkdUkFDraqCJyBFf9FWg3hLK

🇪🇺 UE jednocześnie pracuje nad pięcioma regulacjami które zmienią jak żyjemy, prowadzimy samochody i korzystamy z internetu. Oto co jest teraz w procesie legislacyjnym — i co z tego już weszło w życie. Kamery w samochodach (ADDW) — już obowiązuje od 7 lipca 2026. Każdy nowy samochód musi mieć kamerę śledzącą twarz i oczy kierowcy. Oficjalnie dla bezpieczeństwa. Dane mają pozostawać w aucie. Na razie. Aktywne ograniczanie prędkości (ISA) — już obowiązuje od lipca 2024. Nowe auta automatycznie ograniczają prędkość do limitu. Można wyłączyć — ale system się sam przywraca. Chat Control — wciąż negocjowany. Projekt zakłada masowe skanowanie prywatnych wiadomości w poszukiwaniu nielegalnych treści. Krytykowany przez ekspertów ds. cyberbezpieczeństwa jako koniec szyfrowania end-to-end. Kilkukrotnie blokowany — wraca w nowych wersjach. KYC w internecie / weryfikacja wieku — właśnie ogłoszono. Von der Leyen zaprezentowała aplikację wymagającą dowodu osobistego żeby wejść na określone platformy. Wiceprzewodnicząca KE zapowiedziała że VPN-y też zostaną uregulowane żeby nie można było tego ominąć. Mowa nienawiści jako przestępstwo unijne — Komisja chce rozszerzyć katalog przestępstw unijnych o hate speech. Krytycy ostrzegają że definicja jest tak szeroka że może kryminalizować zwykłą krytykę polityczną. Każda z tych regulacji ma oficjalnie szczytny cel. Razem tworzą obraz Europy w której każde słowo możesz powiedzieć przed twarzą skierowaną w kamerę — i ktoś to rejestruje.

₿uilder Torino at Blox, this Saturday, July 11. The format is simple: you show what you're building on Bitcoin, you demo it, and the room discusses it. We will also cover the latest news from the open source world. The event will be in english. Register here: luma.com/cwetsnga?utm_s…

JUST IN: THE #BITCOIN SIGNAL APP IS HERE NEW MESSAGING APP JUST FUSED SIGNAL ENCRYPTION WITH SELF-CUSTODIAL BTC LIGHTNING PAYMENTS YOU CAN NOW SEND SATS DIRECTLY IN PRIVATE CHATS FREEDOM WINNING. LOVE TO SEE IT 🧡

@jimmysong for sure. thankfully there are projects like Venice.ai @AskVenice

The big battle is between self-sovereignty and centralization. It starts with money, but it's going to be the big battleground for AI, robots and much more.

@aakashgupta i believe Romania has something like that in place today.

Taiwan solved tax evasion in 1951 with a trick so cheap it should embarrass every tax authority on the planet. The problem was an all-cash economy full of small shops. A merchant pockets the cash, skips the receipt, and the sale never existed. Auditors can't catch what was never recorded, and hiring enough of them to watch every noodle stand costs more than the missing tax. So finance chief Ren Xianqun flipped the incentive. Print a lottery number on every receipt. Draw winners every two months on live TV. Top prize today: NT$10 million, about $310K. Suddenly the customer and the shopkeeper want opposite things. The merchant wants the sale off the books. The customer wants the ticket. And there are millions more customers than merchants. Every transaction now carries a built-in witness demanding the paper trail. Year one, reported tax revenue jumped 75%, from NT$29 million to NT$51 million. Seventy-five years later, roughly 70% of Taiwanese still play. Convenience stores redeem the smallest NT$200 prizes at the register, so even a coffee receipt feels like a scratch card. The elegant part is what the audit force costs. The prize pool runs about NT$7 billion a year, roughly $20 million. In exchange, the government gets 23 million unpaid auditors working every checkout line in the country, forever. No inspector general on earth delivers that coverage at that price. Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Slovakia all copied it. The most effective compliance tool ever built looks like a game, and that's exactly why it works.

Muchos de los miembros de nuestra misión ya se encuentran exhaustos. Por ello, hemos decidido enviar un séptimo avión con 120 especialistas para relevar a quienes más lo necesitan. Los otros 180 integrantes del contingente original continuarán en el terreno, por lo que mantendremos en todo momento un equipo de 300 rescatistas, médicos, paramédicos, psicólogos, veterinarios, bomberos y otros especialistas, muchos de ellos preparados específicamente para esta nueva fase de la misión. Además, aprovechamos este vuelo para enviar cinco toneladas adicionales de ayuda humanitaria, con medicamentos, alimentos, insumos y equipo para reforzar las labores que continúan en la zona. Nuestros equipos de rescate siguen trabajando al 100%. Muchos de los nuevos integrantes se incorporarán directamente a esas labores, aunque sabemos que cada vez es más difícil. Fuerza Venezuela 🇸🇻🇻🇪

If you think home prices crashing is bad, you have fiat brain. Homes are consumer goods and the cheaper they are the better. You only think of them as an investment asset because your money is broken & you have never known savings.

@zachxbt @ethereum well, there is no second best, no?

@ethereum Proton does not currently accept Ethereum as payment option for subscriptions only Bitcoin? Your marketing team…

The internet is better when everyday services respect the people using them. @ProtonMail inspires the broader privacy movement with encrypted web tools for everyone to use.

On average every 2 weeks, a Bitcoiner contacts me about a meeting they're having with a government minister to talk about Bitcoin Most meetings are with energy minsters, to talk about Bitcoin mining Happening across the political left, center and right Probably nothing

Fascist dictator Nayib Bukele of El Salvador previously trampled human rights by rounding up hordes of innocent gang members, cartel hitmen, and murderers. The result was a catastrophic collapse in the nation’s murder rate that left critics devastated. Not content with that outrage, the strongman has now escalated his tyranny by opening a modern, world-class hospital.