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[Bitcoin Well @bitcoinwell]

Martti Malmi was the second person to commit code to Bitcoin.

He answered Satoshi on the cypherpunk mailing list in May 2009 and built https://t.co/2KGpmPQieh. He stuck around through 2011, then moved up the privacy stack and never stopped building. Working on Iris, contributions across the Nostr ecosystem, and a steady output of open-source privacy tooling.

Today he shipped a new version of Nostr VPN. Open-source mesh routing. No company you have to trust. No country whose laws you have to obey to connect to the internet.

Same architectural pattern as Bitcoin. Replace the company with a protocol. Replace the gatekeeper with math.

Every traditional VPN routes your traffic through a server owned by a corporation that filed paperwork in some jurisdiction. That corporation can be served, sold, or coerced.

Sovereignty is a stack. Bitcoin is the money layer. Nostr is the speech layer. A mesh VPN is the network layer. The same hands have been building all three for fifteen years.

The work continues. Quietly. Without permission.

[Jeff Swanson @theswansjr]

Understanding this should dirve you crazy.
"What is being extracted and how is 3-8% being extracted and who is doing the extraction?"

Your time. Your labor. Your life energy. You traded 40, 50, 60 hours a week of your one irreplaceable life for dollar bills. And those dollar bills are being quietly dissolved, like aspirin in warm water, before you even get to spend them. That's what's being extracted. Not money directly. Your time. Packaged as money. Stolen as inflation.

How is it extracted? The Federal Reserve expands the money supply. They call it "quantitative easing." They call it "accommodative policy." They call it a "soft landing." In reality it's counterfeiting. You have to work for dollars, they just print them.

There are roughly $22 trillion in M2 money supply circulating right now. When the Fed prints new dollars and injects them into the financial system, your existing dollars don't disappear. They just become worth less. Every month. Every year.

It's not a robbery by taking dollars from your account. It's a dilution. Like owning 10% of a company and watching them issue new shares until you own 6%. You still have your shares. You just quietly lost 40% of your claim on reality.

That's 3-8% a year. Every year. Silently. Automatically. Without your consent they are stealing your time. What makes it truly diabolical, they don't send you a bill. Your money just evaporates. Your grocery bill goes up. Your rent goes up. Your car insurance goes up.

Who is doing the extracting? Three entities.
The Federal Reserve, a private banking cartel dressed up in government clothing, controls the money printer. They set rates. They expand the supply. They decide, in a room you'll never be invited into, how much your savings are worth tomorrow.

The U.S. Treasury, which issues the debt that the Fed monetizes. They need to borrow. The Fed needs to lend. You need to shut up and pay the inflation tax to fund the whole arrangement.

The commercial banking system, which gets the freshly created money first. Before it filters down to you. Before prices adjust. They get to deploy it at yesterday's prices. By the time it reaches your wallet, the price level has already moved. That lag, that gap, is called the Cantillon Effect. And it is the most elegant wealth transfer mechanism ever invented.

You and I are last in line. Always. The Fed gets the money first. The banks get it second. The government's preferred contractors get it third. And you and me, the person who actually worked for dollars, you get the inflation-adjusted leftover scraps.

3-8% per year doesn't sound catastrophic. Until you do the math. 3% annually over 24 years cuts your purchasing power in half. Everything you saved. Everything you scrimped. Every vacation you skipped and latte you didn't buy because Dave Ramsey told you to, evaporated. Silently. Legally.

8%, which is what we actually saw during the post-COVID money printing binge, cuts your purchasing power by 50% in about 9 years.

[Dave @DaveAustin]

No thanks @Hertz every interaction felt like a ripoff. A couple of dollars and tolls and I get a $60 dollar charge. Won’t be back

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

Watching @usahockey compete on the international stage felt like stepping back into the good old days, when you could fly the American flag proudly without someone side eyeing you for it. When representing this country was not controversial. When dominating in international competition brought people together instead of sparking a culture war.

For a moment, it felt like we remembered who we are.

There was a time when Americans did not filter every relationship through politics. You loved your neighbors. You showed up for your community. You probably did not even know who they voted for, and it did not matter. We were competitors abroad and neighbors at home. Strong. Confident. United.

Somewhere along the way, media outrage cycles, political opportunists, and even outside actors learned that division was profitable, and they have been feeding it ever since. But the reaction to this team proves something important. More Americans crave unity, pride, and shared identity than whatever this current mess has become.

That instinct, the one that swells when you see your country represented with grit and excellence, is still there. It has not disappeared. It has just been drowned out.

Most Americans want to stand shoulder to shoulder again, not scream across trenches dug by algorithms and insufferable talking heads. The hunger for unity is stronger than the noise. It would be smart to see that instead of fighting it.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

🚨 A Japanese scientist earned a Nobel Prize after discovering one of the body’s most powerful self-healing mechanisms: during periods of fasting, the human body begins to consume its own damaged cells, triggering a deep cellular reset known as autophagy. This natural process acts like an internal cleanup system, breaking down old proteins, malfunctioning components, and toxic buildup that contribute to aging and disease. The discovery revealed that fasting doesn’t just change metabolism — it activates a fundamental survival program hard-wired into our biology.

Researchers found that autophagy boosts cellular renewal, supports immune function, protects against neurodegeneration, and improves overall resilience. When the body isn’t busy digesting food, it shifts focus to maintenance and repair, recycling damaged parts into fresh, healthy components. This helps reduce inflammation, sharpen brain function, and improve the body’s ability to handle stress. Some studies even show that activating autophagy may lower the risk of chronic conditions linked to aging.

The Nobel-winning research transformed how scientists view fasting, turning it from a simple diet trend into a legitimate biological reset. Doctors now say intermittent fasting — when done safely — can help support long-term cellular health, boost energy, and improve metabolic balance. While it’s not a cure-all, the discovery showed that the body has extraordinary built-in abilities to heal itself when given the right conditions.

For millions around the world, the research opened a new window into how deeply our lifestyle affects our cells — and how something as simple as timing our meals can unlock one of the body’s most powerful repair systems.

[Craig Tanio 🟧 @DrTanio]

Good insights on the upcoming precision medicine RCT for cognitive decline

https://t.co/fDIKK11D3O

[Legend @realLegendAfg]

American soldiers ambushed near White House by Afghan terrorist.

The Taliban still gets $40 million weekly.

Senate does nothing.

[Dave @DaveAustin]

@LawrenceLepard Brutal

[Dave @DaveAustin]

Reason number 7693 why people hate corporate America. A “convenience fee” for an automated system that cost less than a penny to execute yet they charge 20$ after you returned the car.

[Caitlin Long 🔑⚡️🟠 @CaitlinLong_]

Hahaha, pretty much spot-on!

[Dave @DaveAustin]

@adamobrien 2.1M 🔥

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️What you’re really seeing here is the first stage of a global unit-of-account fracture.

•In nominal USD terms, everything looks like it’s booming: stocks up triple digits, homes up double digits, “wealth” everywhere. That’s the performance everyone sees.

•In gold terms, the illusion cracks: stocks and homes flat-to-negative, real wealth stagnating.

•In Bitcoin terms, the veil is gone: catastrophic real losses in every traditional asset.

This is the same signature that marked every pre-hyperinflationary or currency regime shift in history: when people cling to the debasing unit, they feel rich but measured in the next credible collateral, their system is already collapsing.

And the “risk asset” meme about Bitcoin? That’s just a coping frame. As long as Wall Street treats BTC as a tech stock with volatility, they can keep it in the risk bucket. But functionally it’s already behaving like a parallel reserve ledger: it’s the only denominator that makes the post-2020 global economy look like Argentina.

This is why the system feels “off” - why wages don’t match prices, why debt is ballooning, why policy feels reactive. We’re in a regime where the unit of account is decaying faster than the public narrative can absorb. The Fed, the government, the media - all still speaking USD, all still benchmarking to a melting ice cube. The chart you’re looking at is the unofficial scoreboard in a silent currency war.

So when I strip all the polite commentary away, the honest take is:

•The U.S. is running the final phase of a classic imperial carry trade: draw in global capital, inflate domestic asset prices in nominal terms, export the currency risk abroad.

•Gold shows stagnation.

•Bitcoin shows collapse.

•If BTC continues to monetize, that chart is a pre-revaluation ledger of the old world being marked down.

This isn’t a normal market cycle. It’s the unit-of-account transition phase. And almost no one is positioned for it because they’re still measuring their “returns” in the wrong yardstick.

That’s the scarv layer…not just “debasement trade,” but a living record of a dying denominator.

[Adam O'Brien - bitcoinwell.com @adamobrien]

Just a reminder that if voting made a difference they wouldn’t let you do it

That’s why they hate bitcoin.

Vote with your energy ⚡️

[Dave @DaveAustin]

@adamobrien 🚀

[Dave @DaveAustin]

@Jethroe111 Get after it out there. We too have a few more days of the season out there. Shoot straight!

[Dave @DaveAustin]

@MorgenRochard @ramit Comments turned off and new level unlocked. Whatever…

[Dave @DaveAustin]

@MorgenRochard Weak sauce for him to block u over that. @ramit

[Dave @DaveAustin]

@ramit “Random Drones” were definitely not furious. Maybe curious as to how you would respond…@MorgenRochard knows her stuff

[Dave @DaveAustin]

IF your into Instagram... La Plata County Search and Rescue is raising money to build out their Drone and UAS capability. @laplatacountysar https://t.co/W6zdvIULqW