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BTC only. Running Knots since 2024.
Scammers'll be blocked.

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[₿itcoin ₿elly ₿utton⚡️Fix the Money,Free the world @BitcoinBellyB]

Always thankful to @BTCsessions for spreading knowledge in a digestable way for everyone!

[BTC Sessions 😎 @BTCsessions]

How do you run @BitcoinKnots on Desktop, @umbrel and @start9labs? Step by step tutorial, including connecting to your own wallets (like @SparrowWallet)

https://t.co/5h3RIMsqPX

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

The backlash against Core is a good faith immune response by people who care a lot and are not talking some VC narrative. It is the voice of maxis/plebs defending the ethos that drew most of us in.

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[Magatte Wade @magattew]

When I built my skincare company in Senegal, the hardest part wasn't making a great product. My team is incredible, and they proved that from day one.

The hardest part was navigating a system designed to squeeze money out of you at every turn. Permits, inspections, fees, delays, and then more fees on top of the fees.

THAT is what keeps Africa poor, not a lack of talent or ambition.

[Handre @Handre]

Milton Friedman's greatest regret.

The federal government discovered the perfect crime in 1943: make employers collect taxes before workers ever see their paychecks. You think you earn $60,000 per year, but you actually earn $75,000 and hand over $15,000 to politicians without ever touching it. The psychological difference is enormous.

Before payroll withholding, Americans wrote quarterly checks directly to the Treasury. Picture yourself sitting at your kitchen table, writing a $3,750 check to the IRS every three months. The pain was immediate and visceral. Politicians faced constant pressure to justify every dollar because citizens felt the extraction in real time.

Withholding transforms this concrete loss into an abstract accounting entry. Your employer becomes an unpaid tax collector, and you never experience the actual cost of government. Worse, most people celebrate their tax refunds as government generosity rather than recognizing them as interest-free loans they provided to politicians. The Treasury collects your money throughout the year, spends it immediately, then returns your own cash and receives gratitude.

This system enables the explosion in government spending you witness today. Defense contractors billing $640 for toilet seats, agricultural subsidies for corn syrup, and congressional salaries for 535 people who rarely show up to work. When taxation feels painless, voters stop demanding accountability for how their money gets spent.

Milton Friedman helped design withholding as a wartime emergency measure and later called it his greatest regret. Free market economists recognized that the psychological pain of direct taxation creates political pressure for fiscal restraint. The temporary always becomes permanent in government hands, and the emergency justification disappears while the extraction mechanism remains forever.

[Critica Climatica Alias Fortunato Nardelli @climacritic]

Questa foto si intitola "La scomparsa della donna".
E' opera della fotografa yemenita Boushra Almutawakel.

[Stack Hodler @stackhodler]

🚨 It's not just ZCash.

Opus 4.8 also found a vulnerability in $USD that allows for unlimited issuance which could theoretically enrich insiders at the expense of all holders

huge breaking

[Derrick Evans @DerrickEvans4WV]

Stop calling them public schools.

They aren’t open to the public and they aren’t accountable to the public.

They are run by the government, regulated by the government, funded by the government, and compelled by the government.

They are government schools.

[Doc @DrBitcoinMD]

Remember when we all had to switch to paper straws to save the environment?

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

I support BIP-110

Because Bitcoin is money

The mission is to separate state and money

Not to be data storage to enrich grifters

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

End the Fed before it's too late.

[Dr. Clown, PhD @DrClownPhD]

🚨BREAKING: Dana White tested the Ferrari Luce

[Il Grande Flagello @grande_flagello]

When the Horse met the Ferrari Luce

[Adrenochrome @Claudia_Zahn]

Das erklärt natürlich einiges.
#Ferrari #Luce #FerrariLuce

[Jason Ai. Williams @GoingParabolic]

No chance Ferrari reverses this image.
“You’re gay now.”

[Saifedean Ammous @saifedean]

Fun fact of the day:

If you don't think inflation has been the biggest problem in the world over the last century, you have been miseducated by people who get paid by inflation.

[Libertarian Party @LPNational]

Kill the kill switch.

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

The right side of history is usually not the side where a united army of grifters hang out.

[Adam Livingston @AdamBLiv]

You start reading weird books.

You buy “The Bitcoin Standard” and then “The Fiat Standard” and then you accidentally end up reading Murray Rothbard, and then somehow you’re reading Mises, and then it’s 11:47 PM on a Tuesday and you’re 340 pages into “Human Action” and you’re highlighting passages about praxeology and your wife comes downstairs and asks if you’re coming to bed and you say “in a minute” but you don’t come to bed for two hours because you have just discovered that everything you were taught about economics in college was wrong, all of it, every single sentence, and now you can’t go back, you can never go back, you have been orange-pilled in a way that goes deeper than money, you have been epistemologically orange-pilled, you now believe that John Maynard Keynes was a charlatan and the gold standard was actually fine and the income tax is theft and you can never say any of this out loud at a dinner party ever again.