In related news, July 4th 2026 was intended to be the original end-date of DOGE, where they would have cut over a trillion dollars from the annual federal budget.
But instead it dismantled, because nothing stops this train.
My attempt to protect users from scam apps on the @AppStore has gotten my Apple Developer account flagged for termination - ironically, for "dishonest activity".
Unless it's reversed by June 30, all new installs of Sparrow Wallet will fail, and development on macOS will end.
The context: since 2023, more than a dozen fake "Sparrow" apps have appeared on the App Store, as recently as April this year. Users have contacted me after losing their savings, in some cases their life savings, to these impersonators.
I'm the developer of the real Sparrow Wallet, a desktop app, and I hold the registered US trademarks for the name and logo. I have publicly warned @Apple and the community about these fake apps from early 2024, but they keep appearing.
The app @Apple flagged was a placeholder that was never published. Its only purpose was to warn users that Sparrow is desktop-only and that other "Sparrow" apps aren't mine. This approach may have been misguided, but there was nothing dishonest about it.
I'm confident this is an automated misclassification that Apple would reverse on review - but I may be terminated before a human ever looks at my appeal. The cost would fall on @Apple's own users: blocked installs and no updates for a tool people rely on, which opens the door for more fakes.
If you value Sparrow, a repost would help. @AppleSupport
Bitcoin covers the full spectrum of medium of exchange.
At one end, AI agents buy compute for fractions of a penny over Lightning. At the other, sovereign nations settle geopolitical transactions on-chain with multisig escrow and thermodynamic finality backed by over 1,000 EH/s of hashrate.
Iran demanding bitcoin tolls at the Strait of Hormuz isn't "bitcoin finally has a medium-of-exchange use case." Bitcoin has always been a medium of exchange. Hormuz just revealed where on the spectrum things get most interesting.
The endgame is bitcoin integrated into international oil trade. Buyer puts bitcoin in multisig escrow. Oil gets delivered. Escrow releases to the seller. On-chain settlement provides the irreversible, verifiable finality that high-value international trade demands. No intermediary can freeze it. No stablecoin issuer can blacklist an address after the fact. The base layer is neutral by design.
This isn't prescriptive. It's descriptive. Bitcoiners have said for over a decade that geopolitical counterparties who can't trust each other will need a Schelling point: a neutral reserve settlement protocol. That's playing out right now.
From micropayments to the Strait of Hormuz, the protocol scales across the entire range of human commerce. That's not a theoretical framework. It's happening.
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@BorisJohnson Bitcoin is not a Ponzi scheme. A Ponzi requires a central operator promising returns and paying early investors with funds from later ones. Bitcoin has no issuer, no promoter, and no guaranteed return—just an open, decentralized monetary network driven by code and market demand.