Parhelion Digital

Unbinding Human Purpose | Vertically integrated digital asset mining, natural resources & technology studio | Leading the #bitcoinization of the petrodollar

[Parhelion Digital @parhelionbtc]

The oldest tragedy.
Man’s genius sacrificed on the pyre.
His fire consumed.
His vision squandered.
His wealth betrayed and maligned.

[Parhelion Digital @parhelionbtc]

@CierrePorbin @saifedean @LynAldenContact @parkeralewis @jimmysong @Amanda_Cavaleri @str8edgeracer @GaryLeland @bigmarh @CharFadirepo @pete_rizzo_ @justinrezvani @skwp @real_vijay Ahem…. @ericyakes

[Ross Calvin 🗽🇺🇸 @rosswcalvin]

Syria is an immensely important proving ground for bitcoin dominance and proliferation.

Reconstituting Syrian energy production to support a new financial architecture based on BTC treasuries and Lightning must happen.

Faster capital formation, less multilateral institutional credit, sharia compliant, rapid frictionless remittances, a new national identity system built on Nostr to elevate KYC.

Let’s seed the national BTC reserve mining from local flared gas, tie in the central bank and commercial banks with a fiat-agnostic enterprise lightning architecture and collateralize development loans against BTC… (yes you can keep your petrodollar).

Let BTC be the anchor of reconstruction.

This is the way.

@parhelionbtc @MartyBent @PoweredbyIBEX @anasalhajji

[Parhelion Digital @parhelionbtc]

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[Pierre Corbin @CierrePorbin]

Why Credit Card Payment Flows Are EXTREMELY Inefficient:

Customer pays merchant $100
Merchant pays ~$2-3 in fees:

$0.25 to acquiring bank (acquiring markup)
$1.75 to issuing bank (interchange fee)
Additional network assessment fees to Visa/Mastercard (~0.11% + fixed fees)

Settlement takes 1-3 days

The Lightning Network Is More Efficient:

Direct Peer-to-Peer Payments: No intermediaries required between sender and receiver

Near-Zero Fees: Transaction fees are typically fractions of a cent

Instant Settlement: Payments confirm in seconds rather than days

No Chargebacks: Merchants receive final payment without risk of reversal

No Central Authority: Decentralized network eliminates need for payment networks like Visa/Mastercard

Payment Channels: Allow unlimited transactions between parties with minimal on-chain footprint

Scalability: Can handle millions of transactions per second versus 65,000 for Visa

Lightning Network creates a layer-2 solution on top of Bitcoin that dramatically reduces costs and increases efficiency for digital payments compared to traditional payment rails.

[Ross Calvin 🗽🇺🇸 @rosswcalvin]

The next American “Panama Canal”

The United States must own, construct and operate the Congo River’s Grand Inga Dam as a sovereign US territory.

@SecRubio @DNIGabbard @SecDef @MichaelKratsios @SecretaryWright @VP @realDonaldTrump @LucyTamlyn @parhelionbtc

[Pierre Corbin @CierrePorbin]

Inspiring! @nicolecasanova’s 1st Bitcoin payment for coconuts via @paywflash proves you can live on gratitude with Lightning 🥥⚡️

Explore our solutions at https://t.co/tiCMjcIx1m

[Pierre Corbin @CierrePorbin]

What is SWIFT?

The Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (Swift), legally S.W.I.F.T. SC, is a cooperative established in 1973 in Belgium and owned by the banks and other member firms that use its service.

SWIFT provides the main messaging network through which international payments are initiated.

How does SWIFT facilitate payments?

Let's look at a cross-border payment transaction between a payer and a recipient, involving multiple banks.

Key elements:

Message Types: MT 103 is the core payment message initiating the transfer. MT 202 COV (cover payment) and MT 910 (statement message) are supporting messages.

Banks: The transaction involves the sender's bank, intermediary banks (potentially multiple), and the recipient's bank.

Flow: The payer instructs their bank (sender's bank) to send funds to the recipient. The sender's bank may route the payment through intermediary banks to reach the recipient's bank. The recipient's bank then credits the recipient's account.

Timing: The graphic shows typical processing times for SWIFT payments, varying by day of the week and destination country. It highlights the average processing time, showing examples of fastest (USA) and slowest (India) corridors.

Technical aspect: SWIFT is a messaging network, not a funds transfer system itself. It provides the secure infrastructure for banks to exchange standardized messages related to financial transactions. The actual transfer of funds occurs through correspondent banking relationships or other settlement mechanisms.

You think it's slow, now swift? Me too, that's why we at Flash and so many developers and entrepreneurs around the world have decided to work on the Lightning Network.

[Ross Calvin 🗽🇺🇸 @rosswcalvin]

Bitcoin is a center point of our cultural revival.

[Parhelion Digital @parhelionbtc]

@_onchaincowboy Mason - see Frank Shostak for secret weapon.

[Mark Nelson @energybants]

PROJECT STARGATE ENERGY ANALYSIS

Project Stargate is going to need an enormous amount of power: each of the five Stargates needs about 5 gigawatts (about five million people's worth) of constant electricity for each ~$100b supercomputer project.

Let's break it down.

Each center will want at least 6 GW of firm capacity available, minimum, at all times.

I expect total power costs to run (very roughly) $4 billion per year per Stargate, or about $100 per MWh. For reference, Microsoft is paying a bit more than $100/MWh to get 17% of one Stargate's-worth from restarting Three Mile Island.

This price will allow for building new power plants and securing power from old ones.

This is going to start as a natural gas and coal play. New natural gas turbines from GE-Vernova and others will be the backbone of this effort for the short and medium term.

Combined cycle natural gas plants use a natural gas-burning turbine (much like what powers jetliners), but with the hot turbine exhaust directed onto pipes filled with water, which boils into steam and runs a steam turbine. Combining the gas turbine and the steam turbine gets you above 60% efficiency converting fossil heat into electrical power.

Five GW of efficient gas turbines will need about 0.7 billion cubic feet per day (bcf/day) or 7 billion cubic meters (7 bcm) per year, just under 1% of the USA's current daily production of natural gas. Five of these 5GW centers would require about 4% of America's current natural gas production, if totally fueled by gas.

America currently exports about 10% of its natural gas production. If you are wondering why the "Energy Emergency" Executive Order, here it is: we can't increase gas exports to Europe and Asia while powering Project Stargate without natural gas price increases for Americans, unless we also increase and maintain that increase of natural gas production. Which in turn means we need to expand exploration and drilling straight away, to have the gas in a few years.

A number of coal plants will get a new lease on life, to provide replacement power for the grid, because power from nuclear, gas, and coal plants located close to a new Stargate cluster will be redirected to these centers instead of their existing customers.

Because Stargate will require ultra-firm power at highly concentrated locations, renewables will probably not play a major role in directly powering Stargate except as an accounting fiction to "offset" emissions from the steady fossil power built for each center.

So these companies may pay for some solar somewhere to be built to "lower the carbon" but it'll be even faker than it's been up until now.

NUCLEAR STARGATE?

Nuclear is 4 to 5 years behind where it should be for this exact moment. We can partially blame the companies behind Stargate because until very recently they had superwoke "100% Renewables" policies driven by their marketing/investor relations/ESG teams.

China can build America's best large reactor design in 5 years, plus a few years before that setting up the power plant location. We have lots of locations more or less ready to roll for these exact reactors. Each Stargate would require 6, or three pairs of 2 GW reactors linked together by transmission lines.

Existing nuclear can get small capacity uprates, and we can restart a few reactors in different states. That's not enough, though it will help a bit.

Can we use small reactors? Well, the designs aren't ready yet, so even in an optimistic case we won't get the first tiny prototypes turning on before 2028, and as late as 2031.

It would take 500 little 10 MW reactors running constantly to power a Stargate. It would take 5 large reactors. China will be building ten of these per year, year after year, by 2030.

I expect Stargate participants to make bets on one or more microreactor and small reactor plays just in case.

If we can get ready to build large reactors straight away, and if the US government supports with loans, we can aim to replace natural gas plants and retire the old coal plants ten years from now with new large reactors. To make this "gas first, then uranium" policy work, Stargates and their new gas plants will have to be sited near transmission corridors connecting them to nuclear plants ready to host new reactors.

Each Stargate would require 5% of America's current nuclear fleet to run, but there are only a few clusters of reactors close enough together to power a full center today.

More later.

[Pierre Corbin @CierrePorbin]

Lightning Network: 40,000,000 Transactions per Second 🤯

Solana: 65,000 TPS

Visa: 24,000 TPS

PayPal: 193 TPS

Ethereum: 15 TPS

Lightning network is the fastest network and also THE ONLY ONE which is open and permissionless. All the other networks are closed source proprietary networks with gatekeepers, rent seekers and centralized points of failure.

Source: Blockstream

[Early Riders @Early_Riders]

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[Pierre Corbin @CierrePorbin]

The Lightning Network is the renaissance of digital payments.

[Parhelion Digital @parhelionbtc]

@rosswcalvin @saylor This starts with the old regime of petrodollar countries.

#iraq

[Ross Calvin 🗽🇺🇸 @rosswcalvin]

@saylor is stealing my moves.

Forcing ccp etc into a BTC short is the single most powerful strategic coup the US will have ever accomplished.

Let every ally of freedom create their own Strategic BTC Reserve to permanently cancel socialism.

@parhelionbtc

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[Ross Calvin 🗽🇺🇸 @rosswcalvin]

Repeal of BTC capital gains taxes would be the most powerful thing to ever happen to the US. More than the Louisiana Purchase or the atom bomb.

It would be the single most important driver for re-industrialization and FDI in 200 years, and defease trillions in national debt.

How can we tag Scott Bessent?

https://t.co/EYb44S5LPN

@pmarca @JTLonsdale @realDonaldTrump @elonmusk

[Flash @paywflash]

We’re excited to announce that we’ve officially closed our funding round, with @Early_Riders as the lead investor! 🎉

With the incredible support of Early Riders and other valued partners, Flash is positioned to build transformative Bitcoin payment experiences for businesses and beyond. This investment fuels our mission to deliver seamless, non-custodial, and secure solutions that make Bitcoin payments accessible and efficient.

Thank you to our investors for their confidence in Flash’s vision. We can’t wait to show what’s next! 🚀 Read the full announcement below 👇 #Bitcoin #Payments #Innovation

Early Riders: https://t.co/lWo68AC2x8
Newswire: https://t.co/tXqYyfz1WU

[Ross Calvin 🗽🇺🇸 @rosswcalvin]

Depriving the eurdollar-reliant world of new credit peeled off a depleted American worker makes a global #BTC regime the next obvious choice ahead of BRICS, while supercharging American capitalism. This is 10x better than Andrew Jackson ending the bank.

@parhelionbtc @jllemus @paywflash

[Ross Calvin 🗽🇺🇸 @rosswcalvin]

BRICSBridge and BRICSPay are the product of a spoiled and illiterate US State Dept and DoD.

The market is taking their leverage away from them.

They spent down the precious collateral of the American heartland and high trust culture for their profligate petulance.

The world won’t pay for DC’s addled welfarism any longer.

The blood is in the water.

Free People will build their own transnational central bank. Only Creators and Producers are welcome.

#Bitcoin @parhelionbtc