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We have to disempower the Powers That Shouldn’t Be. How? Simple, stop supporting them financially. Buy #Bitcoin, the only truly decentralised, uncensorable, deflationary, limited supply, hard money that anyone can use globally.

@NegentropyorDie @TFTC21 @bitcoinpolicy @Ledger I think they’ve had it for a while.

@TFTC21 @bitcoinpolicy @Ledger probably already has the feature in beta testing.

A last-minute amendment buried in Kentucky HB 380 would require hardware wallet providers to reset users' seed phrases on request, effectively outlawing self-custody in the state. The mandate is technologically impossible. Hardware wallets are designed so that no one, including the manufacturer, can access or recover a user's seed phrase. Compliance would require building a backdoor that breaks Bitcoin's core security guarantees and pushes users toward centralized custodians vulnerable to hacks and failure. Section 33 was slipped into a 77-page virtual currency kiosk bill. The underlying bill has political support and could pass the Senate within the week. BPI is sending a letter to the Kentucky Senate urging them to strip this provision before it reaches a vote.

Them: "Nobody uses Bitcoin"

Helium is the only element that escapes Earth’s atmosphere permanently. Once released, it rises through the troposphere, passes the stratosphere, and leaves the planet. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised at industrial scale. It accumulates over billions of years in the same geological reservoirs as natural gas. And one third of the world’s supply just went offline because Iran hit the facility that extracts it. Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply from a total of approximately 190 million cubic metres. QatarEnergy’s three large helium purification plants at Ras Laffan form the world’s biggest helium production base. When LNG production stopped after Iranian drone strikes on March 2 and the subsequent missile damage on March 19, helium extraction stopped automatically because helium is recovered during natural gas liquefaction. You cannot produce helium without producing LNG. The byproduct dies with the primary product. Spot helium prices have roughly doubled since the crisis began. Industry consultants warn that prolonged disruption could push contract prices toward $2,000 per thousand cubic feet. A major industrial gas supplier has already begun assessing customers a helium surcharge. Phil Kornbluth, the most cited helium market consultant, stated the assessment directly: the world cannot compensate for the loss of a third of its helium supply. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Two to three months is not a buffer. It is a countdown. If Ras Laffan remains offline beyond that window, South Korean memory production faces rationing. TSMC in Taiwan is somewhat more diversified but still uses Qatar-linked supply chains. The entire AI hardware supply chain, from HBM3E memory stacks to advanced logic chips, sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems. Beyond semiconductors, helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurises rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale. The United States and Qatar together account for more than 70 percent of global production. The US federal helium reserve and private suppliers offer partial relief, but global prices and spot availability are still governed by Qatar’s market share. Japan’s Iwatani has drawn on US reserves. Canada and the Rockies are seeing renewed investor interest. None of this replaces 63 million cubic metres in weeks. The war hit uranium first. Then oil. Then nitrogen. Then water. Then plastic. Then medicine. Then sulfur. Now helium. Eight layers. Each one deeper. Each one closer to the infrastructure that sustains modern civilisation. The chip that processes your data, the magnet that scans your body, and the rocket that launches your satellite all depend on an atom that leaves the planet when you lose it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@BitcoinIsaiah @CorySwan What the hell did he spend $80bn on?? You could build a real life Metaverse for that.

It’s crazy that crypto bro’s convinced Zuck to waste $80 billion on a shitcoin narrative last cycle. He spent more money on this than Saylor has on BTC. He could be sitting on 1m BTC right now, but instead threw it away. Don’t do shitcoins kids.

@iang_fc Another ‘Bitcoin is dead’ post. 27 countries have tried to ban ₿itcoin - including China. All failed.

So, people who follow the blockchain space and actually understand it know that this has been building up for a while. The goal of the regulators is to ban what they call* "Unhosted Wallets." And they've been building towards this moment for many years. It is coordinated, agreed, there is consensus. It is the next step. It's not @bankofengland we're hearing from here - it's the entire regulatory club. And regulators will succeed. The people in blockchain will bemoan mathematics and thought control and freedom of speech, no matter, they will totally look 180 degrees away from the steamroller coming for them. Meanwhile the regulators will roll on and rule that "Unhosted Wallets" are not allowed. The *outcome* of this is a bifurcation. Crypto will fork. It will bifurcate into inside and outside. Then both will fail. Inside will fail bc it's not crypto, it's some digital token shared by a dozen or more companies and that will eventually be broken. Outside will be small, and will be hunted and eventually exterminated like the pest that it is. Regulators are OK if all crypto - inside and outside - dies. Users are not, but they aren't being consulted and they don't understand. In short, crypto was a fun experiment of the 2010s, but by the end of the 2020s, it will die. Unless some users understand and mount a serious rebellion, but I don't hold out much hope for that. * "Unhosted Wallets" is a made up term and is not correct nor indicative. There are only wallets and accounts. Users have wallets if they have keys locally. Wallets are things that have keys. Clients of exchanges have accounts, they don't have wallets. "Unhosted Wallets" is just another typical misunderstanding, but no matter, it will never bear explaining, so whatever.

Wrong about #Bitcoin (because it is the ultimate means to cross borders with wealth intact, and trade without government permission) but the message of preparing for the worst is likely to be tested again in the coming years - and probably more severely than during Covid.

JUST IN: TETHER CEO JUST SAID THEY ARE ABOUT TO BRING HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS OF USERS ONTO THE #BITCOIN LIGHTNING NETWORK WORLD'S LARGEST STABLECOIN RUNNING ON BTC. IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING 🔥

@BitcoinRachy Nice try Fed 👊

Where do you hide your Bitcoin cold wallet?

Your paracetamol is made from oil. The phenol comes from a cumene process that starts with naphtha. The naphtha comes from a refinery. The refinery’s feedstock transits the Strait of Hormuz. Ninety-nine percent of pharmaceutical feedstocks, solvents, reagents, and packaging are petrochemical-derived. The American Gas Association confirmed it. The medicine cabinet is the sixth layer of the Hormuz crisis and nobody is talking about it. The war started with uranium. It moved to oil. Then fertiliser. Then water. Then plastic. Now medicine. Paracetamol is 100 percent petrochemical. Phenol from cumene, converted to para-aminophenol, then acetylated. Ibuprofen is 100 percent petrochemical. Isobutylbenzene plus propionic acid derivatives. Metformin, the most prescribed diabetes drug on Earth, is 80 to 90 percent petrochemical. Dicyandiamide from natural gas derivatives. Antibiotics like amoxicillin and ciprofloxacin require methanol, acetone, and dichloromethane as solvents for extraction and crystallisation. Oncology drugs need cold-chain energy and plastic packaging. Every blister pack, every pill bottle, every syringe is PE, PP, or PET from Gulf naphtha. India makes 40 to 47 percent of American generic medicines by volume. It imports $4.35 billion in active pharmaceutical ingredients annually, 74 percent from China. But the critical precursors, the methanol and ethylene glycol that feed Indian API synthesis, are 87.7 percent and roughly 100 percent Hormuz-dependent respectively. The Indian government has prioritised household LPG over industrial petrochemical feedstock, starving the downstream pharmaceutical chain. API costs have surged 30 percent in the last two weeks. The typical buffer is two to three months of inventory. The war is nineteen days old. The clock started before the buffer was designed for this scenario. A diabetic in Ohio takes metformin every morning. The dicyandiamide that becomes the active ingredient traces back through a Chinese intermediate to a natural gas derivative that originated in the Gulf. The methanol used to crystallise the compound in a Hyderabad factory was shipped from a terminal that now sits behind the same strait controlled by provincial commanders with sealed orders. The blister pack was moulded from polyethylene derived from naphtha that loaded at a facility the IRGC published satellite targeting images of yesterday. One pill. Four petrochemical dependencies. One chokepoint. The farmer in Iowa cannot plant corn because nitrogen costs $610. The diabetic in Ohio may not be able to fill a prescription because methanol costs whatever the strait permits. Both crises trace to the same 21 miles of water. Both are governed by the same sealed packets. Both operate on biological clocks that do not negotiate with doctrine. Nitrogen decides whether the food grows. Methanol decides whether the medicine is synthesised. Polyethylene decides whether it reaches the shelf in a blister pack. Energy decides whether the cold chain holds for oncology and biologics. Every molecule in the pharmaceutical supply chain is now compromised by the same chokepoint that trapped the fertiliser, the gas, the plastic, and the water. Europe said Iran is not their war. Their existing drug shortages, 400 to 1,500 medicines depending on the country, will deepen regardless. Bangladesh, Egypt, and sub-Saharan Africa depend on Indian generics for infectious disease and maternal health. The API depletion clock runs for everyone. The strait does not distinguish between a urea molecule and a methanol molecule. Both are gated. Both are biological. And both determine whether human beings survive the next quarter. Full analysis - open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

Governments don't pay for war YOU DO! Unless you hold your wealth in #Bitcoin of course...

@RonSwanonson Nicely done. We could learn something from your artful and skilful means, ser 🫡

Had a hotel bar convo with normies last night. They were all history buffs, and they asked if I liked history… I told them I’m not a huge history buff but that I knew a lot about the history of money, the different types of money and how ultimately, central powers were always able to capture the money at the expense of the actual value producers in every society we’ve had etc. I pointed to the fact that money is a language that can direct the course of history more than any other factor They were all blown away that they knew so much about history but had never really thought about monetary history and how it constantly changed the course of humanity One person even said “oh are you into cryptocurrency and Bitcoin?” And I said, well yes this all does lead to Bitcoin as the first money that can’t be captured but I’m not going there, and stuck to monetary history. With their reactions, l guarantee that those 4 people left with an itch to learn more about the history of money Once you understand the history of money, you won’t have to pitch “Bitcoin” I’d even suggest to stay away from the word altogether and plant curiosity that ultimately leads to Bitcoin anyway

@MDBitcoin 🤝

I’ve concentrated an enormous portion of my wealth into Bitcoin, probably past the point of conventional comfort. But I hold it unlevered, with no margin debt attached, which means there’s no mechanism forcing me out. My financial life is now deeply linked to BTC. And the more I study it, the more certain I become about its long-term trajectory.

The finance bros who look at what's happening in the Iran War and think 'how can I make money from this?' are completely missing the point. Your number on a screen isn't real, retard. It's a credit owed to you by an entity that in essence is already structurally bankrupt. It's fake. An obligation that - if shit really, truly hits the fan - will not be paid out to you in the coming currency reset. People live under an illusion that the numbers they see on a screen are real. None of this shit is real. The best way to prepare isn't through buying shitcos, it's through setting up your entire life for resilience against chaos: being able to produce your own energy, and then store the value you produce using that energy in something that can never be stolen. The only asset that allows you to do that is Bitcoin, because it's the only decentralised, immutable asset that cannot be seized nor debased. We are at the 'suddenly' phase of 'gradually, then suddenly'. The number on the screen doesn't matter. What matters is how many sats you own before the entire global financial system is wiped out. Fiat currency will only be useful to burn when you're sitting in your dogbox at night wondering why the lights are blacked out for the 5th time that week. Prepare for the storm.

Same 🤝

This is the crisis they need to bring in the new financial system. Got #Bitcoin?

Non-custodial Lightning to USDT swaps. No accounts. No KYC. Sats to stablecoins in seconds across every major chain. Send Lightning, receive USDT in your bank account. Accept Lightning at your POS, settle in dollars. Hedge volatility without ever touching a centralized exchange. Between this, Breez adding passkey login, Square auto-enabling bitcoin payments at the end of the month, and Ark Labs shipping banking rails, the Bitcoin infrastructure stack had one hell of a day. If you know where to look, we're winning.

What is your incentive as a node operator to relay non-monetary arbitrary data (spam) for abusive “use cases” that relentlessly degrade the network you run to support Bitcoin’s sole purpose as permissionless, censorship-resistant money?​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ There is none.

A dollar in 1800 and a dollar in 1913 had the same purchasing power. Today it's worth three cents. The gold standard kept money sound for 113 years. The Fed destroyed 97% of it. Enter Bitcoin. Fixed supply. No central bank. Sound money for the digital age.

@freddienew @bankofengland Quite.

@getbitcoin108 @bankofengland It can't stop floundering and totally drown soon enough for my liking.

This is what @bankofengland think they can ban, when they say that 'unhosted wallets will not be permissible in the UK'. Two kids flipping a coin to generate a private key. Good luck with banning maths and entropy, team.