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Animal lover, crafter, baker, Mom, and granddaughter of immigrants. Believer in Joy, Love, Kindness, Equal Rights, Justice, and Truth Telling.

[Miley Official @MileyCyrusBz]

It was revealed that Dolly Parton was secretly battling cancer but she didn't say anything and instead released this song as one of her last to raise funds for children with cancer. Even while she was sick she was still thinking about others. I’m absolutely devastated.

[BTC Teacher @BitcoinTeacher_]

Michael Saylor diluting $MSTR in order to buy bitcoin and then selling the Bitcoin to buy $STRC so that he can buy back $MSTR so he can sell more $MSTR to buy $STRC so that he can buy Bitcoin.

[Annie van Leur @AnnevanLeur]

@JoyceWhiteVance @MapQuest The name Lake Ontario is 400 years old.
A mentally challenged president with a cocktail of mental disorders won't change it because he scribbled his name on a piece of paper.

[cat me if you can 🐈 @LiF_is_Good]

Dolly will forever be the epitome of class and grace.
Be like Dolly and carry on her legacy ❤️

[Chaotic Good @_ChaoticGood42]

Footage of that time @DollyParton wrecked Barbara Walters live, for asking gross and inappropriate questions. Easily one of my favorite interviews of all time.

Always a class act. #RIP

[cat me if you can 🐈 @LiF_is_Good]

The world needs more of this.... 😂

[TrashDiscourse @TrashDiscourse]

This was one of the most wholesome videos on the internet years ago. Still is.

[cat me if you can 🐈 @LiF_is_Good]

@lovina_zook @CBSSunday Great interview !!!!! Congratulations the baby - wishing you all the best for a wonderful, fulfilling, and bright future! ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[ASST Voyager ⚡️ @ASSTVoyager]

@GrainofSaltSF 🫡

[Joe Burnett, MSBA @IIICapital]

This was possibly one of the worst weeks in the history of Bitcoin.

Many people believed they had done virtually everything right. They bought a respected hardware wallet, generated their seed offline, followed established best practices, and still lost significant amounts of Bitcoin because of a vulnerability affecting @COLDCARDwallet seeds generated on or after March 2021.

The vulnerability went undetected for 5+ years.

I think this will permanently change confidence in self-custody.

Over the years, I experimented with many different hardware wallets. I intuitively never trusted any one of them enough to store a serious amount of Bitcoin.

These are all startups manufacturing small $200 devices that people use to secure life-changing amounts of wealth. Most users have never audited the code. I have never audited the code in sufficient detail. I do not have the time or technical expertise to independently verify every component of a device, its firmware, its entropy generation, and its supply chain.

There are also many potential points of failure.

The software could contain an accidental bug. An insider could intentionally introduce a vulnerability. A supplier could compromise part of the device. A firmware update could create an issue. The random-number generator could fail in a way that almost nobody notices.

Everyone purchasing the device is signaling that they may eventually store significant wealth on it. That makes the entire hardware and software supply chain an extremely attractive target.

Something like this always felt inevitable.

I have always believed that attempting to store a meaningful amount of Bitcoin on your own requires multi-vendor multisig, with keys generated independently using different hardware and different software. The keys should also be stored in different physical locations.

One device should be able to be completely compromised without causing you to lose your Bitcoin.

Even with that architecture, I have always felt some level of uncertainty. I have also owned MSTR, ASST, GBTC, and IBIT in significant size. Self-custody is an incredible tool, but its risks were clearly greater than many people understood.

I believe self-custody will survive, but it has permanently changed.

The current wave of Bitcoin adoption is happening through ETFs, treasury companies, and institutional custodians. It is largely coming from people who have no interest in becoming experts in private-key generation, hardware security, firmware, backups, inheritance planning, and physical storage.

That makes complete sense.

Securely holding your own keys is so complicated that even the experts building these devices failed to prevent this vulnerability, and the broader technical community failed to detect it for 5+ years.

Free markets naturally produce specialization. Bitcoin remains an incredibly valuable tool. Most people who lack deep expertise in securely generating and protecting private keys will outsource that responsibility to people and institutions that specialize in it.

For someone who wants direct sovereignty over a significant portion of their Bitcoin, the standard should be multi-vendor multisig. If you are uncomfortable with that, use an institutional-grade custodian.

A large amount of Bitcoin secured by one key generated by one hardware wallet carries far too much concentrated risk.

I think that is where Bitcoin custody is heading.

The obvious concern is that institutional custody could eventually concentrate too much Bitcoin in the hands of large firms. That would create censorship, seizure, and confiscation risks.

However, Bitcoin’s portability and settlement properties provide the critical check and balance.

Anyone can spin up a wallet and demand that their Bitcoin be sent to them. Settlement can happen globally, quickly, and cheaply. A person can move from counterparty exposure to direct ownership in a matter of minutes.

Gold never had that property.

Most people did not hold physical gold. Their gold sat in a vault somewhere. You could not rapidly move the gold from New York to Tokyo. You could not easily demand immediate global settlement into an asset you could personally verify and hold.

Gold’s lack of portability and the inability to quickly demand physical settlement helped cause it to fail as money.

Bitcoin solved that problem.

You can leave a custodian, acquire actual Bitcoin, spin up a wallet, demand settlement, and move your wealth into cold storage. You always retain the ability to remove counterparty risk.

That optionality is what matters.

Bitcoin gives every person the ability to hold their own wealth. It gives every person the ability to exit a custodian. It gives every person the ability to demand final settlement into an asset they can personally control.

That ability to hold your own keys is what keeps custodians, governments, and financial institutions accountable.

It is one of the fundamental properties that makes Bitcoin work.

I think we may look back on this moment as one of the darkest periods in Bitcoin’s history. Coins have been lost. Confidence has been shaken. Many of the people with the highest conviction in Bitcoin have been forced to reconsider assumptions they once viewed as guaranteed.

I also would not be terribly surprised if this marked a turning point.

As long as Bitcoin itself remains secure, the failure of one custody method does not invalidate the underlying monetary system. It forces the market to develop better tools, stronger standards, and more resilient custody architectures.

It is often darkest before the dawn.

This week may ultimately mark the end of one era of Bitcoin custody and the beginning of the next major wave of Bitcoin adoption.

[cat me if you can 🐈 @LiF_is_Good]

What an idea!!! 😍

[The Watchdog Report @WatchdogRpt]

A few weeks ago, we made the case for why Democrats should hire Michael Fanone and Harry Dunn to run the Sergeant-at-Arms operation. This week, we make the case for why Dems need to hire Jack Smith to run oversight/investigations.

https://t.co/mP7UyS9ffG

[Nature Unedited @NatureUnedited]

Today I learned rabbits can swim. Even better: their ears fold back into swim mode. I feel this information deserved to be shared

[Snowden Bishop🌻💚🤍❤️✌️🇺🇦🆘🔄🌍 @SnowdenBishop]

Walter Cronkite: After liberating execution camps… Germans (who cried) they didn’t know…were as as guilty as Nazis…because they applauded when Hitler shut down (media) and said, ‘We don’t need to know. We trust our government...’

It’s our duty to know.

[Tucker Budzyn @tuckerbudzyn]

Stop and take a breath...dogtors orders

[cat me if you can 🐈 @LiF_is_Good]

@natasharothwell @realDonaldTrump Natasha!!!! So exciteddddd to see you in Oakland for the Insecure tour - would mean everything to hear you say this LIVE 😆❤️🤩

[Abba🫀 @engr_imm]

My coworker makes $92,000 a year and still brings lunch from home every single day.

For two years, people in the office made fun of him.

“Bro, you make good money. Live a little.”

Meanwhile, they were ordering DoorDash every afternoon, financing new cars, upgrading their iPhones, and taking weekend trips they couldn’t really afford.

He never argued.

He drove the same 2012 Honda Accord.

Wore regular clothes.

Used coupons at the grocery store.

And every Friday, a huge portion of his paycheck disappeared into savings and investments.

Then our company announced layoffs.

Half the department was gone by Monday…

[cat me if you can 🐈 @LiF_is_Good]

@edwardbrgr 1000% agree. They knocked it out of the park and imho no other live action remake has, nor ever will, top it.

[cat me if you can 🐈 @LiF_is_Good]

I dare your eyes not to leak 🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹🥹

[that poonam ka chaand @sabsezyadaa]

The way I want to hug his mom… what a wonderful son she raised.

[Tony Lane 🇺🇸 @TonyLaneNV]

A woman hiking in Canada nearly became a grizzly’s next meal and the video circulating right now is genuinely one of the most intense wildlife encounters you will ever watch - her dog is with her, a massive grizzly is right there, and somehow she kept her head together long enough for both of them to walk away breathing.

That is not a small thing. Most people talk tough until nature is standing ten feet in front of them and every instinct in your body is screaming to run, and running is exactly the worst thing you can do.

Grizzlies are built to chase, they top out over 700 pounds and can cover ground faster than any human alive. The people who survive these moments are the ones who override pure fear with pure discipline and this woman did exactly that.

If you hike, camp, or spend any real time in the wilderness - bear spray is not optional, it is the difference between a story you tell and one somebody else tells about you.

Could you have kept your cool?

Hats off to her.

[Women Posting W's @womenpostingws]

needed this

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

This is hilarious

[cat me if you can 🐈 @LiF_is_Good]

This is the content that keeps me here 🤣

[The Dark Side @FantasyGalaxies]

Me and my son have been sneaking out in the middle of the night in our Ewok and Chewbacca costumes just to mess with our neighbor's trail cams.