@TedPillows@grok : According to Math what would be a reasonable $mstr price range assuming 1.22 mNav if bitcoin price reach back above 100 000$ in 2027?
🇮🇷 IRAN USING BITCOIN LIGHTNING NETWORK FOR STRAIT OF HORMUZ PASSAGE
An Iran-linked maritime platform operating around the Strait of Hormuz is now listing Bitcoin and Lightning as payment options for shipping services.
Hormuz Safe, a Bandar Abbas-based maritime services provider, offers vessel tracking, transit coordination, emergency response, and marine assurance across one of the world’s most critical energy chokepoints.
According to the platform, customers paying with Bitcoin receive a unique payment address and a rate-locked invoice valid for 15 minutes. Funds are sent to a multi-signature custodial wallet operated by a settlement partner, with on-chain confirmations automatically triggering reconciliation, a signed PDF receipt, and a transaction hash.
The move adds Bitcoin to an increasingly geopolitical arena.
However, the US Treasury has already sanctioned the so-called Persian Gulf Strait Authority, alleging links to the IRGC and warning that payments related to Hormuz transit, including those made with digital assets, could expose counterparties to sanctions risk.
BREAKING: IRAN JUST ANNOUNCED THAT THEY NOW ACCEPT #BITCOIN OVER THE LIGHTNING NETWORK AT THE STRAIT OF HERMUZ
OIL IS NOW BEING PRICED IN BTC
THE NEXT RESERVE CURRENCY 🔥
BESSENT: "We have outright seized $1 billion of Iran's Crypto."
Stablecoins are a liability on the geopolitical level; Bitcoin wallets cannot be seized.
AI is a good tech, but not mature and ready enough for prime time YET. More over, it can't scale sufficiently in term of energy to respond to demand, building power plan and new CPU architecture like Cerebras will take time. I do like AI do, it's cool!
This is what we've been seeing with every company we work with.
Try justifying spending 100k on token spend when only 18k even makes it to a stable prod feature.
In the rush to maximize AI token spend, companies are wasting over 44% on bug fixes
JUST IN: SpaceX discloses holding 18,712 #Bitcoin on their balance sheet ahead of their IPO.
$1.4B BTC in the biggest IPO in history. #7 on the leaderboard.🔥🔥
Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services.
Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft.
Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address.
The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages.
The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh.
This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.