TRU.🧑🏾‍💻

@elonmusk Does it matter anymore? Twitter has become Claude and ChatGPT talking to themselves and someone asking Grok if it's true

Algorithm is better today than 3 months ago?

@notgrubles Does bark support LUD-21?

@Breez_Tech Pretty slick. Could this lead to a wallet that does SSO and payments for third party applications?

Today, the future of Bitcoin UX arrived.

@juan_snow1 Best position to be in

Since starting this engineering role, I have been the least experienced person in almost every meeting. It sucks that I can’t contribute much, but, this is what it takes. I want 250k!

@ajambrosino @theo get in here

here's an early look at the codex app sidebar I wanted to ship. i was silenced

@macrojack21 Discovering proof of work and then deciding not to work makes 0 sense

unpopular opinion from someone who is all-in on bitcoin: i'm not banking on it to save me the "retire on 0.1 BTC" narratives prey on naive people the price targets people throw out each cycle miss by a long shot i'm still buying. still holding. still convicted. but the thing that's actually going to secure my family's future is my ability to earn bitcoin is the savings vehicle. it's not the plan. sitting around and waiting for bitcoin to moon is a losing strategy

@EvanWritesOnX You and @SimonDixonTwitt have completely changed my world view over the last year

There is a pattern forming that does not fit the conventional framing of American foreign policy failure. The standard reading says the United States is losing credibility because of an unpopular war, an erratic president, and a string of strategic miscalculations. The reading behind the curtain says something far more uncomfortable. The loss of American credibility is not a bug in the system. It is the system working exactly as designed. Joe Kent's resignation letter was not a quiet departure. It was a controlled detonation of the official narrative. He stated that Iran posed no imminent threat to the United States. He accused high-ranking Israeli officials of running a misinformation campaign that lured the administration into war. He cited Israel's powerful American lobby by name. He invoked his own status as a Gold Star husband who lost his wife in what he called a war manufactured by Israel. And he posted the letter publicly on X for maximum distribution. This is a narrative weapon deployed at a precise moment. Kent's letter accomplishes several things simultaneously. It distances the Trump administration from the war's origins by pinning responsibility on Israel. It validates the global protest movement's central claim that this war serves Israeli, not American, interests. And it provides domestic political cover for the exit that is already being engineered. David Sacks, Trump's AI and crypto czar, delivered the complementary signal. His recommendation was blunt: "declare victory and get out." This is not a dovish outlier in a hawkish administration. This is a man with direct access to the president, speaking on a podcast with millions of listeners, publicly building the case for withdrawal while the bombs are still falling. Now look at NATO. Trump asked the alliance to send ships to help secure the Strait of Hormuz. NATO refused. Trump's response was to publicly muse about leaving the alliance entirely, stating he does not need Congressional approval to do so. He posted on Truth Social that since the US has had military success in Iran, "we no longer need or desire" assistance from NATO, Japan, Australia, or South Korea. You do not announce that you no longer need your allies unless you are preparing to act without them, or preparing to let them go. The conventional reading of all this is chaos. An administration at war with itself, allies refusing to cooperate, public opinion turning hostile, credibility collapsing. But move away from the headlines and a different picture emerges. The FIC benefits enormously from the collapse of the NATO security architecture, because NATO's collapse forces European rearmament. The EU has already increased defense spending 60% since 2020. At The Hague summit, NATO members agreed to spend 3.5% of GDP on core defense by 2035, up from the previous 2% target. The "Re-Arm Europe Plan" is explicitly designed to build autonomous European defense capabilities independent of the United States. This is not a reaction to American weakness. This is the market being created. Every European nation that must now build its own military infrastructure, its own procurement pipelines, its own defense industrial base, represents a new revenue stream for the same transnational defense contractors who currently service the American military. Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, BAE Systems, Thales, Rheinmetall. These firms do not care which flag flies over the hardware. They care about volume. A world where 30 European nations each build independent defense capabilities is vastly more profitable than a world where one American military provides a security umbrella and everyone else free-rides. The TPS benefits from the narrative separation of American and Israeli interests because it creates the political conditions for the United States to withdraw from its unconditional security commitment to Israel. That commitment has been, for decades, the single most expensive and diplomatically costly obligation the US maintains. It distorts Middle Eastern policy, constrains energy relationships, and generates anti-American sentiment across the Global South. Joe Kent's resignation letter is not just a protest. It is a proof of concept for a new American political consensus: the war was Israel's idea, America was manipulated into it, and the lesson is that the US should never again allow a foreign government to determine its military commitments. That consensus, if it solidifies, frees the TPS to restructure the Middle East around the GCC without the US-Israel relationship acting as a constraint. Who benefits from Iran gaining global sympathy? The emerging multipolar order benefits. Iran under bombardment is more sympathetic than Iran building nuclear weapons. Protests erupted across Pakistan, India, Indonesia, South Korea, and dozens of American cities. 56% of Americans oppose the war. 76% of Spaniards oppose it. 57% of British respondents oppose it. The only population that overwhelmingly supports it is Israeli. This polling data does not describe a failed war. It describes a successful narrative operation that has repositioned Iran from pariah state to victim of aggression, which is precisely the status Iran needs to enter the post-war order as a legitimate actor with grievances rather than a rogue state with sanctions. If this were genuine policy failure, you would expect the administration to be scrambling to contain the damage, to shore up alliances, to manage the narrative. Instead, every action amplifies the damage. Every statement widens the gap between the US and its allies. Every resignation letter sharpens the blame on Israel. The pattern is not chaos. The pattern is demolition conducted from the inside. The TPS does not need the United States as sole hegemon anymore. A unipolar world with one military guarantor is actually less profitable than a multipolar world where every major bloc must build and maintain its own security infrastructure, its own financial architecture, its own energy supply chains. The American century was useful for establishing the global financial architecture that the TPS operates through. But the architecture is now mature enough to function without a single guarantor. SWIFT has alternatives. The dollar has competitors. Energy markets have multiple clearinghouses. The US military, far from being indispensable, has become an overhead cost that constrains TPS flexibility by tying it to one nation's political dysfunction. What Trump is doing, whether he understands it in these terms or not, is executing the controlled demolition of American hegemonic infrastructure. NATO weakened means European rearmament spending. US-Israel separation means Middle East restructuring without the constraint of unconditional commitments. American unpopularity means the multipolar order gains legitimacy by contrast. Each of these outcomes opens new markets, new dependencies, new extraction architectures for the TPS to service. The Iran war is not making America unpopular by accident. America's unpopularity is the product being manufactured. The US will reach a settlement with Iran, framed domestically as "declaring victory" per the Sacks formulation. The settlement will be positioned as Trump's decision to end a war that Israel started, completing the narrative separation that Kent's resignation letter initiated. NATO will not dissolve formally but will be functionally hollowed as European nations accelerate independent defense procurement, generating significant new revenue for transnational defense firms. The post-war Middle East will be restructured around a GCC-centered order with a degraded Israel and an integrated Iran, both of which serve TPS interests better than the pre-war configuration. American global reputation will not recover because its recovery is not part of the plan.

@BitcoinNewsCom I want them to let users pay lightning invoices with dollars in cashapp with no additional KYC

BREAKING: SQUARE TO AUTO-ENABLE BITCOIN PAYMENTS FOR MILLIONS OF SELLERS Square will auto-enable Bitcoin payments for all eligible sellers starting March 30, 2026, according to an updated Terms of Service notice sent to users. The change means millions of businesses using Square could soon begin accepting Bitcoin by default, rather than opting in manually. The rollout is part of Block’s broader push to integrate Bitcoin payments across its ecosystem, leveraging the Lightning Network for fast, low-cost transactions. Sellers will still have the option to disable the feature or automatically convert Bitcoin to USD at the point of sale. With Square powering millions of merchants globally, this marks a major step toward making Bitcoin a standard payment method in everyday commerce.

@mikewmunz Yeah this is before they created STRC. The plan is much simpler now

This has changed dramatically since this statement was made They realized you do not issue debt with a duration and match it with an infinite duration asset. You issue infinite duration perpetual preferred equity that never comes due to match the infinite duration asset held in the balance sheet

@2ToneShawn @nolanmartino @_ShardyJ @Perry_ThePM 🔥🔥🔥 I know what I'm watching today!

🚨 Episode 1 is LIVE 🚨 Hard Money Hustlers Ep.1: Understanding Bitcoin’s Value If you’re new to Bitcoin or trying to understand why it’s value, this episode breaks down the fundamentals in a simple way. @nolanmartino @_ShardyJ @Perry_ThePM Pull Up: youtu.be/68TfO8p-aCE

@his4Everz I just wanna rock

Which song?

@notgrubles Is receiving to lightning addresses supported with Ark? Also if I'm paying a LN invoice that happens to also be ark will the transaction bypass lightning and use Ark for lower fees?

What makes Bitcoin better as money is building tools and infrastructure that make it better as money. Not distracting everyone's time away from that.

@operationdanish I think the main affect is that the math behind buy vs build shifts massively to build. Custom, one off, apps and tools cost nothing and are even fun to build. You might not see a new category winner because the category is imploding.

Can someone name an app that they vibe coded that actually became a category winner? Clearly, vibe coding is just AI slop for apps.

@apsk32 I've been using the power law similarly. I like idea of time deviation / years ahead and will add it x.com/trudeveloper/s…

POWER CURVE + TIME DEVATION IS ALL YOU NEED Business cycle models, M2 models, liquidity models, gold models, exponential decay models, quantile models.. they all go smoked in October. Analysts are overfitting. They project their models forward 10 years but have to change them every 6 months. "Most accurate," "best," blah blah blah. A model that needs a major revision twice a year is useless. This baby here didn't need an update. It's robust. It doesn't over-fit. Simple. Elegant. 8 lines of code. Import the price data, fit to a power function, measure time deviation, end. Time deviation is physical. Is 600% over trend a lot? I don't know. Maybe? What was it last cycle? "Years ahead" tells you how long it could be before you see another ATH. Is 5 years ahead of the curve a lot? Yes. You could get a bachelors degree, you could meet a girl and get married, your 13-year-old will graduate high school in 5 years. IF YOU TRUST THE CURVE, then time deviation is all you need. Even if you don't know it, you measure risk against your lifespan. This natural tendency stabilizes the metric. "Years ahead" will remain a fairly constant distribution until the power trendline breaks.

@lindsaybitcoin He's wrong. Money is a language and how we communicate value. Some things will still be more valuable than others and require something of equal value to obtain. How valuable is money that every has and no one worked for?

Elon said he thinks there’s no point in saving for retirement because in 10 years we’ll have UHI and it won’t matter Can you imagine if he’s right and we’ve spent all these years focusing on increasing our income and finding the best assets to invest in? 😭

@femiiiszn At 23 you don't even know who you are 😂

by age 23, you should have identified the person you’re going to spend the rest of your life with.

@SullyMichaelvan Where we are compared to the power law has been a good thermometer if you want to do that

Buy more BTC when people are euphoric about STRC and buy STRC when everyone is euphoric about BTC.

@ROIMindset @PeptideSupplyCo Used your code earlier and paid with bitcoin 💪🏾

Back feeling like myself again. Hit the gym 6 days/week, eat clean, quality Retatrutide, BPC-157, and Tesamorelin peptides from @PeptideSupplyCo (use code Roi10 at checkout for 10% off) and locked in on my bible. I feel like aging backwards out here! 🧘🏾‍♂️🧡

@themoviedadsc @lindsaybitcoin If maxi's are working to save and producing more than they consume, that makes the world better for you, no? So does it really matter? They find satisfaction in it and the moment they don't they can sell the bitcoin...

But even in regards to the latter, do you not think many are going to massively struggle with eventually parting ways with their Bitcoin? Psychologically, after one convinces themself for years/decades that owning Bitcoin is the holy grail, there's going to be a massive mental struggle in eventually parting with it.

So if the Bitcoin maxi crowd quite literally never sell their bitcoin because their only obsession is buying more of it due to some variation of "price goes up over everything long-term." Then what even is the point of Bitcoin (separate of addiction to it)?

@3rdstringW Inside or outside the beltway?

Streets saying PG County is not a representation of black excellence.