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[Jared Tate ©️ @jaredctate]

🚨 Cybersecurity Alert: Simple Steps to Protect Yourself

With recent critical CVEs affecting PHP, Node.js, and other software, and AI accelerating vulnerability discovery, everyone should take basic security precautions.

What is a CVE? Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures. It’s an ID assigned to a publicly known security flaw that hackers may be able to exploit.

Here’s what you should do TODAY:

1) Update your devices: Install all security updates for Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, and Android.

2) Update your apps: Browsers, extensions, messaging apps, and other software.

3) Secure passwords: Change weak, reused, or compromised passwords. Use unique passwords for every account.

4) Enable 2FA: Especially for email, banking, crypto, and social media.

5) Update your router: Install the latest firmware and change default passwords.

6) Avoid phishing: Don’t click suspicious links or download unknown attachments.

7) Back up your data: Keep secure backups of important files.

8) Developers: Patch servers, PHP, Node.js, frameworks, and dependencies. Review logs and access permissions.

AI is making it faster to discover and exploit security flaws. Don’t put off security updates.

Stay safe. 🔒

[Felipe Montealegre @TheiaResearch]

Please listen to Dan Boneh (top 5 cryptographer alive today) who is known to be measured and judicious in his comments describe the probability that Bitcoin is able to transition to a post-quantum world.

Lots of opinions out there - be careful who you listen to.

[Jameson Lopp @lopp]

An open letter to the Bitcoin ecosystem:

[Gossip Goblin @Gossip_Goblin]

Slow Down & Pace

[CR1337 @CR1337]

Platforms that don't require KYC can't leak your personal data!

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[Watcher.Guru @WatcherGuru]

🇺🇸 US dollar has lost 97% of its purchasing power since the Federal Reserve was created.

A $3 item in 1913 would cost $100 today.

[Austin Bitcoin ⚡️ @Austin_Bitcoin]

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[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

Four senators want every phone and computer sold in America to demand your date of birth before it will work for you. A Linux developer has already published the script that tears it out, under his real name, with an invitation to sue him.

The bill is S. 5090, filed July 22 by Andy Kim, Cynthia Lummis, Adam Schiff, and John Barrasso. Two Democrats and two Republicans. It puts an age prompt inside the setup of every operating system in the country. A covered device is any general-purpose computer, so this reaches the phone in your pocket, the laptop on your desk, the console under your television. Accounts you already hold get swept in the day it takes effect.

Your own machine then informs on you. It hands your age bracket to every app, every app store, and every browser, and they are required to treat that signal as the primary indicator of who you are.

A browser provider under this bill is anyone who owns or maintains a browser. A man maintaining a fork in his spare time carries the same duty as Google, and the fines run $2,500 for a negligent violation and $7,500 for an intentional one, multiplied by every child affected.

Section 10 promises no government ID and no face scans. Section 3(d) then says that when a provider gets clear and convincing information that your declared age is wrong, it shall verify. It never says how. Section 4(c) makes app developers report you upstream when they decide you lied.

The brackets stop at 17 and file teenagers in with adults, while the state laws this is built to serve draw their line at 18. The federal signal cannot tell a 17 year old from a grown man. Every site under an 18+ mandate will need more than the signal. It will need your papers.

The work has already started inside your machine. On March 18 systemd merged a birthDate field into user records, citing California, Colorado, and Brazil by name. systemd runs as the init system on nearly every major distribution, so that field is sitting on Linux boxes whose owners have never heard of any of these bills. Nobody asked you. Nobody is going to.

@GrapheneOS answered in March. It will not implement age or identity verification, and if that means its phones cannot be sold in your state, so be it.

John McCardle built Ageless Linux. He declared himself in "full, knowing, and intentional noncompliance" with the California statute, cited the section number himself, and invited the lawsuit. His script makes the user the distributor. The liability scatters across every machine that runs it. There is no one man left to drag into court.

The script strips the systemd birthDate field and leaves a refusal notice where it stood. If any distribution ever ships a working age daemon, the project has already promised a replacement that answers every query with "unknown."

Artix refuses. Devuan refuses. DB48X, an open source calculator firmware, filed a legal notice saying it "does not, cannot and will not implement age verification." A calculator had to publish a legal notice. That is the reach of what these four wrote.

S. 5090 takes effect 18 months after it passes, if it passes.

The script already works. Take a copy.

[Ron Paul @RonPaul]

The Federal Reserve should not exist. Not only is it unconstitutional, it's incredibly immoral.

The Fed also strives to do the impossible -- successfully plan the economy by price fixing interest rates and counterfeiting currency.

The entire goal is a fool's errand, and it doesn't matter how "educated" or "qualified," those who are employed at the Fed are. No human being is educated enough or qualified to do the impossible.

And so, the whole house of cards, known as the Federal Reserve, must ultimately fall. And they're well on their way to succeeding at that.

Watch @RonPaul & @ChrisRossini below:

[Brett Hansen @Bcuz21]

🚨 New Video Release 🚨

The Byzantine Generals Problem

I finally finished this short exploration of one of the most important questions Bitcoin answers:

How do strangers agree on the truth without trusting one another or relying on a centralized authority?

Bitcoin's answer changed far more than money.

If you enjoy it, I'd greatly appreciate a like or repost to help more people discover why Bitcoin is sound money for the digital age.

I will upload to my Youtube channel as well.

[Christopher Allen @ChristopherA]

Diagnosis without exit is just complaint; exit without diagnosis is just hardware. Together they're a strategy – own the model, the hardware, the keys. Self-sovereign identity, computing, and now cognition no one can revoke or rent back to you. Own the stack! https://t.co/sysZ3tLSFJ

[Aaron Day @AaronRDay]

This is my desk. Sixteen to eighteen hours a day when I am not traveling, writing, or running workshops. My wife Eileen and I have been bootstrapping the Daylight Freedom Foundation for four years off every dollar I earn. Nobody else pays us.

In ten days I walk into the Libertarian National Convention to launch what we built. Real ID is live nationwide. Stablecoin law signed last summer. CLARITY through the House. Palantir, Tether, tariffs, Epstein's island. CLARITY turns every asset you own into a digital token they can track, program, and censor. That is how you own nothing.

The prisoners. Ian Freeman has eight years, appeal denied. Keonne Rodriguez five. William Hill four. Roman Sterlingov twelve and a half on Chainalysis junk science. @rstormsf convicted on one count, retrial in October on the worst two. Ray Youssef indicted for serving the unbanked. Ross Ulbricht pardoned on day one. The job is half finished. Free the crypto prisoners first. Fire Lutnick. Kill CLARITY. End the draft.

What we built. The Aaron Day Show. Technocracy Atlas. OwnNothing. Oasara. FreedomForge. DitchTheDollar. Daylight Freedom Foundation. Day2026.

The Daylight Phone with @abovephone on @GrapheneOS, @zano_project and @BitcoinCom wallets, @vpnet_official for VPN, all seven of our apps preloaded, shipping now. The full set goes live at the conference.

Whatever level of success we think we have had, the technocrats are moving faster. We have to work together now. I have built the tools to scale onboarding people out of the technocracy and back into their lives. I am looking for partners.

The most urgent ask. Sponsor @EOTS_Freedom at the convention. In person plus livestream reaches hundreds of thousands. It is the panel the regime would shut down if it could and it is the fastest move I have to put real money and real attention behind the crypto POWs while there is still a window.

Sponsor the Daylight Freedom Foundation directly. We are a 501(c)(3). The Foundation funds every site, every defense fund line item, every workshop. Four years bootstrapped is enough.

Partner on the Daylight Phone. Affiliates, distribution, sponsors who want privacy phones in the hands of activists, journalists, defenders, and the families of the POWs. Partner on the rest. Self-custody wallets, medical sovereignty providers, hard money custody, counter-economy merchants, the people building parallel rails. If your product lives on the other side of any of these fights, I want you on the table.

@LPNational @FreeTalkLive @freedomdollar5 @vikrantnyc @HealthRanger @chrismartenson @SamouraiWallet @FreeIanNow @Free_Ross @torekeland @cakewallet @EdgeWallet @ZebecProtocol @monero @mullvadnet @ProtonVPN @nymproject @SallyMayweather @briteresi @Rothmus @DollarVigilante @scotthortonshow @jeffreytucker @brownstoneinst @raythewarchief

The work does not need your permission. It needs your weight. And it needs it now.

[CR1337 @CR1337]

KYC-Free: 100+ Crypto Exchanges, 40+ Aggregators & 200+ Online Services

@kycnot is a directory for non-KYC services. It started with a focus on crypto exchanges and aggregators, but now you will also find many other services there, including Hosting, VPNs, e-SIM, AI Tools and many others:

[hodlonaut @hodlonaut]

“So then, the (21M) cap is irrelevant when Jane Street can fabricate unlimited synthetic supply through undisclosed derivatives stacked on top of its own ETF inventory.”

Now we know the answer to the price mystery. And color me not surprised.
Paper bitcoin…

[Aaron Day @AaronRDay]

BREAKING: THERE IS A SECOND CRYPTO MARKET STRUCTURE BILL. AND IT IS WORSE!

600,000 of you read my breakdown of the first crypto surveillance bill.

Brian Armstrong is at Davos right now.

He is not there to protest. He is there to buy his seat at the table.

And WE are the product he is selling.

The crypto industry spent $14.6 MILLION lobbying for bills that do one thing:

Build the surveillance state while crushing anyone who might compete with them.

They hired 240 former government officials. The Blockchain Association made a sitting CFTC Commissioner their CEO. She jumped straight from regulator to industry lobbyist.

And the bills they wrote?

THE FIRST BILL (Senate Banking):

Real-time trade surveillance
5-year transaction records
Data sharing with foreign central banks
Emergency freeze and liquidation powers
THE SECOND BILL (Senate Agriculture):

CFTC gets "exclusive jurisdiction" over ALL spot transactions
Your crypto can ONLY be held by government-approved custodians
Every employee must individually register with the feds
Self-custody? Dead.
Combined, these bills give the government TOTAL VISIBILITY into every digital asset transaction in America.

This is not regulatory clarity.

This is the end of financial privacy.

And here is the part that should make your blood boil:

Everyone telling you these bills are good is either:

Taking money from exchanges
Taking money from VCs who fund exchanges
Running bot networks (I have the receipts)
All of the above

I have been in crypto since '12. I watched this industry go from "banking the unbanked" to "we need government-approved custodians."

I am running for US Senate. I am not taking their money.

TOMORROW: THE AARON DAY SHOW, 6PM ET

Both bills. Full overview The lobbying money. The revolving door. The bot networks. The Davos connection.

I also have a 10,000+ word article that analyzes it all

You want to know who is bought? I will name names.

Full bill analysis with threat scores: https://t.co/V4dh28EsjG

They are betting you will not read the bills.

Prove them wrong.

[Tuttle Twins TV @TuttleTwinsTv]

He said the quiet part out loud.

Bitcoin solves this.

[Aaron Day @AaronRDay]

Every crypto bro cheering this bill is either on Coinbase’s payroll or can’t read. I read all 278 pages. You’re getting played.

I’ve been in crypto since 2012. That’s 14 years of watching governments pretend to be confused while quietly building the cage.

Trump promised to make America “the crypto capital of the world.” His party just delivered a surveillance framework that would make the CCP blush.

Today I’m launching the Day2026 Bill Tracker. It does one thing: exposes how both parties collaborate to build your digital prison while you cheer.

First up: The Senate Digital Asset Market Structure Act.

278 pages of “regulatory clarity” from Senator Tim Scott. Translation: 278 pages of compliance theater that kills everything crypto was built for.

Here’s what your favorite influencers won’t tell you because their bags depend on you not knowing:

MANDATORY TRADE SURVEILLANCE - Every exchange must implement real-time monitoring. Every. Single. Transaction. The NSA called, they want their playbook back.

UNIVERSAL REGISTRATION - Exchanges, brokers, dealers, even “associated persons” must register. Anonymous participation? Dead. Satoshi’s vision? Buried.

FULL DISCLOSURE TO THE STATE - Token issuers must hand over source code, transaction history, and tokenomics to regulators. Open source for thee, total transparency for me.

MANDATORY GOVERNMENT CUSTODIANS - Your coins must sit with approved custodians. Self-custody for regulated activity? Effectively illegal. Not your keys, not your coins just became federal policy.

DEFI IN THE CROSSHAIRS - For the first time ever, DeFi developers face registration requirements. Building permissionless systems now requires permission. Let that sink in.

YOUR DATA GOES GLOBAL - Transaction records flow to the SEC, CFTC, and foreign regulators. Your wallet activity shared with central banks worldwide. Bullish, right?

WHO ACTUALLY WINS:

Coinbase gets a regulatory moat that buries competitors. You think Brian Armstrong is lobbying for YOUR freedom?

Chainalysis gets permanent government contracts. Surveillance as a service, funded by your tax dollars.

BlackRock and Wall Street get clear on-ramps while DeFi gets strangled in the crib.

The SEC and CFTC get expanded empires and fresh revenue streams.

You get watched. Tracked. Controlled. But hey, number go up.

THE PROCESS:

Senators got 48 hours to review 278 pages.

Democrats asked for more time. Denied.

Because nothing says “deliberative democracy” like speed-running financial surveillance.

They call it regulatory clarity.

I call it regulatory capture gift-wrapped for the donor class.

THE REAL GAME:

This is what “bipartisan consensus” means in 2026: both parties racing to build total financial surveillance while fighting about pronouns on cable news.

Republicans say they oppose CBDCs. Then they vote for infrastructure that makes CBDCs inevitable.

Democrats say they want consumer protection. Then they vote for bills written by the corporations they claim to regulate.

Different jerseys. Same owners.

THE UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTH:

Trump isn’t saving crypto. He’s domesticating it.

The goal was never to ban Bitcoin. The goal was to make it legible, trackable, and taxable. Mission accomplished.

Every laser-eyed profile pic celebrating this bill is either naive, compromised, or selling you something.

WHAT I’M DOING ABOUT IT:

Full analysis with threat scores, beneficiary tracking, and talking points: (https://t.co/RI8706eA2M)

Every major bill gets this treatment. PATRIOT Act. TARP. CARES Act. REAL ID. GENIUS Act. Executive orders. All of it. Exposed.

THE ANNOUNCEMENT:

Neither party will protect your financial freedom.
Neither party actually opposes CBDCs.
Neither party will stop the technocratic merger of corporate and state power.

That’s why I’m exploring a run for US Senate in New Hampshire.

Not to join the club. To burn down the velvet rope.

The algorithm buries truth. Make it work for us.

[burn the bridge @econoalchemist]

FinCEN, the regulator in charge of issuing money transmitting licenses, has published material explicitly stating that custody is a core element in money transmission. The regulator was even approached by federal prosecutors & asked specifically if Samourai Wallet would need a license. The regulator said "no" then prosecutors indicted the developers anyways.

This whole case was a political hit. @realDonaldTrump can fix it by choosing to #pardonsamourai

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[burn the bridge @econoalchemist]

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