⚡ Mike Hagan ⚡

@gladstein This.

You should be concerned about trillion-dollar Big Tech behemoths — not to mention authoritarian AI — but bullish about sovereign, local, private AI powering a new revolution in personal computing and individual liberty

$32 million dollars and an entire administration mobilized to destroy one congressman. His crime? Demanding answers about Epstein class abuse networks, and refusing to let child predators hide behind political cover. If that level of firepower doesn't tell you who's being protected, nothing will. Go Massie!

🚨 #BREAKING: Florida just busted an *MASSIVE* INTERNATIONAL child p*rnagraphy ring with over 1M videos involved... including babies. "If you are a child predator, if you are one of these sick people, then I hope you NEVER SEE THE SUN AGAIN." - FLORIDA AG This is sick. "Over a million videos showing s*xual abuse on minors, many of these were babies... that are being sold around the world." "As a dad of three little ones, it's it's tough to talk about some of this stuff, but what these guys were doing was truly heinous. There's not a word in the English dictionary that can describe the gross content that was on the videos." "These 8 defendants are being charged with multiple felony counts, including RICO, money laundering and purchase of child p*rnography."

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Mental toughness is something that you grow - not a gift If you want to help Bitcoin win, become as anti-fragile as Bitcoin. As Djokovic says - this doesn’t mean you don’t have doubts, it means you know what to do with them when they arise

@MartyBent When the government can create fake money at will through the central bank, why are any taxes necessary?

Capital gains taxes shouldn’t exist in the first place.

Julian Assange warned that digital archives can be erased with one click. "Page not found" becomes "it never happened." Physical books, offline archives, and immutable ledgers are the antidote to memory holes.

@itsLIRAN If no KYC they can be super useful privacy tools esp for people without bank accounts

@will__mcevoy Will how many human rights defenders worldwide do you know that have a zcash strategy? Who is training activists how to use zcash?

Se dan cuenta que en un crucero de Disney agarraron a 28 pedófilos??? Y no salio en ningún lado esta noticia

Goldman Sachs held a Ripple ETF? 😂 🤡

@newstart_2024 How about pizza dough?

Freeze your bread before toasting. Dr. Amy Shah dropped this simple hack on Tamsen Fadal’s podcast: freezing turns some of the starch into resistant starch, which acts like fiber, feeds your gut bacteria, and significantly lowers the blood sugar spike. Same trick works for pasta, potatoes, and rice (those go in the fridge). Studies confirm that cooling starches (especially freezing bread then toasting) can increase resistant starch content and reduce the glycemic response by 20–50% while improving gut microbiome health. Have you tried freezing bread or other starches before eating them?

@MrsBr0wn_82 Yes, which is why it is more important than ever that we prioritize flexible load resources (of which Bitcoin mining is the best) that can balance grids, monetize otherwise wasted renewable energy, accelerate the green energy transition and mitigate methane.

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?

An important message from my good friend. If you are not angry about what is happening you are not paying attention.

Iran has launched "Hormuz Safe," a platform offering digital maritime insurance for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz with payments settled in Bitcoin. Iran's Ministry of Economy has been developing the initiative since April, and officials estimate it could generate over $10 billion in revenue. The timing matters. Weeks ago, OFAC froze $344 million in USDT held in wallets attributed to the Central Bank of Iran with links to the IRGC-Qods Force and Hezbollah. Tether complied and froze the wallets on April 23. By settling in Bitcoin instead of stablecoins, Iran is explicitly routing around the enforcement mechanism that just cost them $344 million. Bitcoin has no freeze function. Before the official launch, Greek maritime risk firm MARISKS warned that unknown actors claiming to represent Iranian authorities were already sending messages to ships demanding transit fees in Bitcoin for "safe passage." At least one oil tanker was attacked after falling for what appeared to be a related scam. The Strait of Hormuz handles roughly 20% of global oil supply. Iran is positioning itself as the de facto insurer for the world's most critical energy chokepoint, using Bitcoin as the payment rail specifically because it can't be frozen or seized.

The push for this is growing from many, many places.

There are some very exciting bitcoin energy projects brewing and growing in Japan, France and other places Will be speaking more about this in the weeks to come. TL;DR The bitcoin networks layer of encrypted energy is in good hands.

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