THIS IS INSANE. 🤯
India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat.
By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to.
Here's what happened:
• India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication"
• GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action
• Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle
• Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure.
• The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive
• Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch
The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for.
It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns.
Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too.
India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists.
You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone.
Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.
BITAXE SOLO MINER HITS THE JACKPOT
A single Bitaxe ASIC miner with just one chip found Bitcoin block 957,382 yesterday, earning the full 3.1382 BTC block reward, worth about $200,580.
The miner was hashing at roughly 1 TH/s with no overclocking and was the only device on the address. Mining through Public Pool, which charges 0% fees, the operator kept 100% of the block subsidy and transaction fees.
The winning share reached 294.14T difficulty, more than 2.2x the 133.87T required to solve the block.
At 1 TH/s, the odds of finding a block are roughly 1 in 16,000 years on average, making this an extraordinarily rare event. Even so, the daily odds are still estimated to be about 53 times better than buying a single Powerball ticket.
"It's almost a misnomer to say that Bitcoiners are obsessed with sound money because, in reality, what we're really obsessed with is alignment—ONTOLOGICAL alignment. The alignment between the unchanging core of consciousness and an unchanging system in the external world."
How can ONE 12-word seed phrase contain more bitcoin keys than all the stars in all the galaxies? Class is in session.
The keyspace within a single BIP39 mnemonic is absolutely mind bending. Let's start at the seed and to climb the tree.
The KeyMaker: "I've been expecting you."