Mr. Amnesic₿

Don't trust, verify.

[sime @simonmales]

6 BTC is sitting in a wallet that was built to be cracked.

No signup, no deposit, no pool. Just your GPU against a sextillion keys.

I made the world's worst lottery. Someone still wins. 🧵

[BTC Sessions 😎 @BTCsessions]

IMPORTANT UPDATE: We just had our first confirmed loss of a Mk3 + 2 Word Passphrase.

Drained at 2pm Aug 2nd Australia Time - Roughly 17hrs ago.

[NORTHERN HODL @northernH0DL]

A 24-word BIP-39 seed has 256 bits of entropy.

That means there are 2²⁵⁶ possible seeds.

That number is approximately 115,792,089,237,316,195,423,570,985,008,687,907,853,269,984,665,640,564,039,457,584,007,913,129,639,936

That’s unimaginably large.

And the best part?

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

A friend in Lebanon has built open-source software that turns any Android phone into an air-gapped Bitcoin hardware wallet and signing device.

Check it out:
https://t.co/veprwiDu40

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

Proton VPN just shared that it received 47 legal orders through June this year, all seeking to identify users behind specific server IPs and timestamps. Every one was denied, because its no-logs policy leaves no connection data to hand over.

Per its transparency report, updated July 14, that brings the total since 2019 to 458 orders, with zero fulfilled. The company keeps no connection logs under Swiss law, so there is nothing to produce even when an order is binding.

[dns @Do_not_sell_]

Ça fait des semaines que j'observe les nouveaux qui débarquent sur Monero.

Tous se cassent la tête sur les mêmes 5 questions.

J'ai écrit un site pour ces gens-là. Et un bot pour ceux qui veulent juste commencer à accumuler.

Thread 🧵

[Proton Mail @ProtonMail]

REMINDER: Starting Friday, May 8th, Instagram DM's will no longer be end-to-end encrypted.

Instagram hasn't explained why they're dropping end-to-end encryption, which raises some pretty obvious questions about what they plan to do with your private messages.

[Giovanni's BTC_POWER_LAW @Giovann35084111]

This is how the power law looks like if you keep all the data points below the power law (what is above is bubble noise).

How somebody can look at this and not being completely amazed?

This should be the logo in any Bitcoin conference and not ignored or brushed off.

[Mav @XMRVoid]

Be John McAfee

- Bitcoin Billionaire
- born in 1945, Britain, raised in the U.S.
- math genius + lethal programmer
- helped build software for NASA’s Apollo program
- worked at NASA, Xerox, Univac
- killed his abusive father at 15
- wanted in multiple countries, Belize, Guatemala, U.S.
- survived 50+ assassination attempts
- marries a former escort who was literally hired to poison him
- creates McAfee Antivirus, the first mainstream antivirus on earth
- becomes insanely rich, lands on Forbes lists
- walks away from his own company before it becomes a giant
- reinvents himself as a crypto prophet + digital freedom extremist
- runs for U.S. president twice just to troll the system
- mentors the whole “leak culture,” inspires whistleblowers like Snowden
- early Bitcoin whale, makes a fortune, loses a fortune, repeats
- hacked Hillary Clinton’s office by sending “free computers” filled with spyware
- belize saga: shootouts, dead dogs, missing neighbors, corrupt police
- lives on a yacht in the Caribbean with ex-military guards
- openly boasts about never paying income tax
- he used to blackmail the official U.S. agencies
- escapes Guatemalan custody by faking a heart attack
- becomes a Monero Maxi and calling bitcoin a shitcoin with 0 use case
- arrested years later in Spain, found dead in prison
- fans still claim he faked his death + dropped coded messages
- part tech pioneer, part outlaw, part cult figure
- the most ungovernable man the tech world has ever seen

Is there anything left for him to shock the world with?

[Antonio Giarrusso @Antonio_Giarr]

Dato il successo che sta ottenendo, mi tocca fare coming out: ho avuto io la stupida idea di creare #PUCS, il portale (satirico) della PA più pazzo del mondo.

https://t.co/b1SKZI4idf

Mi sono decisamente divertito a farlo, spero abbia strappato un sorriso anche a voi.

[Proton VPN @ProtonVPN]

Your phone isn’t secretly listening to you (at least in most cases). It's also not reading your thoughts...

The real reason ads feel that creepy? Honestly, it’s worse.

Let’s talk about how digital ad profiling actually works.

🧵👇

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’ve identified industrial-scale distillation attacks on our models by DeepSeek, Moonshot AI, and MiniMax.

These labs created over 24,000 fraudulent accounts and generated over 16 million exchanges with Claude, extracting its capabilities to train and improve their own models.

[The Crypto Gateway @crypto_gateway]

il motivo per cui bitcoin riflette ancora dinamiche così speculative nel prezzo è che il 95% della popolazione non lo conosce davvero

se leggi cosa dicono di bitcoin gli utenti fuori dalla nostra bolla, soprattutto in momenti volatili, lo vedi chiaro come l'acqua

più la gente lo capirà negli anni (e fidati, lo farà), più le dinamiche di prezzo si adegueranno di conseguenza

[Mr. Amnesic₿ @MrAmnesic]

@drakefjustin @tcoratger @grok riassumi in breve e spiega semplicemente

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

BTW This is Umberto Eco's library.

[Bitcoin News @BitcoinNewsCom]

NETHERLANDS TO TAX UNREALIZED BITCOIN GAINS

Netherlands is moving toward taxing unrealized capital gains on bitcoin, stocks, bonds, and other assets after parliament voted to overhaul annual income tax filings.

Under the new system, investors will owe tax each year based on changes in asset value, even if nothing has been sold.

The reform, known as Wet werkelijk rendement Box 3, is scheduled for 2028 and will tax actual returns by measuring the difference between an asset’s value at the start and end of the year, plus any income received.

That means both realized and unrealized gains will be taxed.

Critics warn the shift could create serious liquidity problems, forcing investors to pay taxes on paper gains without having cashed out.

[PlanB @100trillionUSD]

Gold and bitcoin investors love to argue about who is smarter. But gold and bitcoin are in the same team and risk/return profile (calmar) is almost identical. Best investment is a combi of gold AND bitcoin. E.g. 80% gold + 20% bitcoin has LESS risk and 2x MORE return than gold.

[Too Big To Fail Podcast @toobigpodcast]

Come diceva il buon Taleb... Skin in the game

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

There are stuff in real life that cannot be transmitted in books and stuff in books you can never pick up in real life.
The disease is the inclination to learn from books what you must learn in real life and attempts to reinvent from experience what can only be found in books.

[Chess Feed @chess_feed]

When you start a chess game, you have 20 moves available (16 for pawn and 2 for one knight). After completing the first movement you have more than 40 different possibilities. And 8900 in the third and 197740 in the fourth. In the 40s there will be 10 puissance 40 possibilities. Number corresponds to the number of atoms in the universe. This is what make chess more magical.