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Life, Liberty and the pursuit of #Bitcoin

[Dan @philly758]

@LinusEkenstam @FedEx Today’s delivery…. Typical @FedEx handling with care.

[Dan @philly758]

@LinusEkenstam @FedEx Average @FedEx delivery. I have ring camera footage of them throwing packages out of the truck at my garage.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Activist: "Your cows are putting carbon into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "Where did they get it?"

Activist: "What?"

Farmer: "The carbon. Where did the cow get it before it put it anywhere."

Activist: "From... eating?"

Farmer: "From eating grass. And where did the grass get it."

Activist: "The soil?"

Farmer: "The air. The grass pulled it out of the air last spring. The cow ate the grass. The cow breathed some of it back out. It went back into the air it came from."

Activist: "But it's still going into the atmosphere."

Farmer: "It's going back. There's a difference between a thing going somewhere and a thing going back. You've described a circle and you're frightened of it."

Activist: "Then just don't have the cow."

Farmer: "The grass still dies in autumn. It rots where it falls. The carbon goes back into the air either way, just without anyone getting fed in the middle."

Activist: "It's not that simple."

Farmer: "It's grass, cow, breath, grass. Or it's grass, rot, air, grass. Same circle, fewer dinners. If that's complicated for you I'd stay away from the water cycle. That one's got clouds in it."

[truthache @truthache68]

🍓☠️⚠️Exposr scans are recorded in USA

Driscoll’s conventional strawberries were just tested by an EPA-certified lab for 500+ pesticides. They found residues of 12 different pesticides at levels prohibited in the EU, Taiwan, Chile, Korea, and Russia. 👀

8 of those pesticides are classified as PFAS—forever chemicals that never break down in your body. 🚫

They were previously recalled for exceeding maximum pesticide residual limits for etoxazole, a chemical linked to liver damage, bone density loss, and endocrine disruption. 🤬

Driscoll’s headquarters is in Santa Cruz County, California—which has the second-highest pediatric cancer rate in the state, 38% above the California average. 📈⬆️

Over 2 million pounds of pesticides are applied annually in the surrounding school district area alone. Driscoll’s also uses 1,3-D—it’s a soil fumigant officially listed as a carcinogen.

Pass the shortcake? 🍰🤔

[Dan @philly758]

Tick tock...

[Bernie Moreno @berniemoreno]

🚨 The banking cartel is in full panic mode. 🚨

While Americans were celebrating Mother’s Day with their families, the CEO of the American Bankers Association sent a frantic alert to every bank CEO in the country, demanding “immediate engagement” to lobby Senators and kill stablecoins that would finally let everyday Americans earn real yields on their own money.

This line in the letter sticks out: “we believe committee members may not be fully aware of the risks to the economy by the stablecoin loophole.” That’s both intellectually dishonest and simultaneously demeaning. First, there is no “loophole.” This entire issue was litigated during the GENIUS Act debate. @BillHagertyTN worked tirelessly on this issue and this statement is an insult to his and others work.

For decades, these banks have treated your deposits like their personal piggy bank, paying you next to nothing while lending YOUR money out for massive profits and executive bonuses.

During the Biden era, these same banks worked hand-in-glove with @SenWarren and her allies to debank Americans, including President Trump’s own family. They shut down accounts of conservatives, patriots, and anyone who dared challenge the regime, all while regulators applied pressure under schemes like Operation Choke Point 2.0. It wasn’t about risk. It was about political control.

Now that innovative stablecoins threaten to break their monopoly and give you actual financial freedom? They’re running to Congress again, screaming about “threats to economic growth and financial stability.”

Translation: Protect the racket at all costs.

The Senate Banking Committee votes on landmark crypto legislation this Thursday.

As a member of that committee, my message is clear:

Hands off the people’s money. Let Americans choose real competition and better returns. No more shielding Wall Street from the future. The banking elite’s days of rigging the system and debanking their political enemies are over. Innovation, freedom, and the American people will win.

I’m voting to break the cartel.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Only when you drive the Cybertruck do you realize how incredible it is: a bulletproof tank that moves like a million dollar sports car!

Reason for the angular shape is that the thick, ultra-hard stainless steel body panels cannot be stamped like the thin, feeble, paper-strength mild steel of other trucks. Cybertruck body panels would break 5000 ton stamping machines.

[Dan @philly758]

Although I generally agree, you need to consider the overall value of the work, including $125 million for infrastructure. There will be admin overhead associated with this. They didn't do themselves any favors with this graphic, they should have built the admin overhead into the other values.

[Tyler Rowe @TylerCompiler]

The XXI / Strike / Tether-linked business merger was the obvious part. I speculated about that from the get-go.

The real question was always: how do they make money? 🤔

Today we got the answer. 🎯

$XXI is acquiring (rumored hugely profitable) Strike for financial services and distribution. They're acquiring Elektron for its massive hashrate, nearly 5% of the security of the entire Bitcoin network. ⛏️

Tether is providing Strike a $2.1B credit facility to fund Bitcoin-backed loans. Mallers said "try me. Give me an order you don't think I can fill." 💪

Then they securitize the mining revenue and the loan book, sell those securities to capital markets for cash, and use the proceeds to buy more Bitcoin. Leverage the treasury. Repeat. 🔁

Mining feeds the treasury. Lending feeds the treasury. Capital markets feed the treasury. And Jack's in the lab designing products to sell to the markets.🧑‍🔬

Jack's grandfather chaired the Chicago Board of Trade. His father founded one of Chicago's largest futures brokerages. He's steeped in this stuff. Paolo has access to capital with Tether. SoftBank is the massive investment company backing them. 🏛️

The PIECES were always there. Today is the ASSEMBLY. 🧩

$XXI is becoming The Bitcoin Company. Good luck, @JackMallers. 😎

Don't forget to Stay Orange. 🟠

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

The Digital Transformation of Capital, Credit, and Money $STRC

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Elon Musk thinks the entire education system is built on a broken assumption.

That every student should learn the same thing. At the same speed. In the same order. At the same time.

Musk: “Everyone goes through from like 5th grade to 6th grade to 7th grade like it’s an assembly line. But people are not objects on an assembly line.”

The model was designed for a factory economy. Standardized inputs. Predictable outputs.

That economy is gone. The assembly line is gone.

But the education system still runs on its logic.

A student who masters algebra in two weeks sits through eight more weeks because the calendar says so. A student who struggles gets dragged forward because the schedule doesn’t wait.

Neither is being served. Both are being processed.

Musk: “Allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject.”

AI doesn’t teach a classroom. It teaches a student.

One at a time. Every time.

It skips what a student already knows. It finds where they’re stuck and approaches it from a different angle.

It adjusts in real time. Not at the end of a semester when the damage is already done.

A student obsessed with basketball learns fractions through shooting percentages. A student who builds in Minecraft learns geometry through architecture.

The subject doesn’t change. The entry point does.

No teacher with thirty students can do this. Not because they lack skill.

Because the math doesn’t work.

AI doesn’t have that constraint.

Musk: “You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day. So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling.”

The brain isn’t broken. The format is.

Kids learn complex systems and strategic thinking for hours voluntarily. Then walk into a classroom and can’t focus for twenty minutes.

That’s not a discipline problem. That’s a design problem.

Musk: “A university education is often unnecessary. You probably learn the vast majority of what you’re going to learn there in the first two years. And most of it is from your classmates.”

Four years. Six figures of debt.

And the real value comes from the people sitting next to you. Not the institution charging you.

The degree doesn’t certify knowledge. It certifies endurance.

Musk: “If the goal is to start a company, I would say no point in finishing college.”

The system was built to train employees. If you’re not trying to be one, it has nothing left to offer you.

Every lecture. Every textbook. Every curriculum. Now available instantly. Personalized to any learner. Adapted to any pace.

The question isn’t whether the old model survives.

It’s how long we keep forcing students through it while the replacement already exists.

[David @david_eng_mba]

Hormuz just made Bitcoin easier to understand.

A $1 per barrel toll on pre-war Hormuz flows would generate about $20 million a day.

At current prices, that is about 281 BTC.

Bitcoin only issues 450 new BTC a day.

If stablecoins can be frozen by the U.S., then neutral settlement matters.

Bitcoin is the obvious candidate.

So one geopolitical chokepoint could theoretically absorb about 62% of all new Bitcoin supply.

Scarcity matters more as the world gets more fragmented.

[Jack Mallers @jackmallers]

"Is Bitcoin actually competing to be the future world reserve currency?"

Yes.

When you need money that nobody can debase, that is free to hold and receive, that is cheap to transfer, that is censorship-resistant, and that even enemies can settle in... there is no second best.

[Dan @philly758]

@Strike Love the progress. Still need lower minimums in some states (Connecticut).

[Dan @philly758]

@ABC7 I have manually driven my CT like a peasant for 37.2 miles of the past 6,673.5. I’m going to guess this was not on FSD.

[PUBKEY @PubKey]

This is the most important two-minute video you'll watch about why we do what we do.

@jackmallers is him.

[Whole Mars Catalog @wholemars]

March 31, 2026 will be the ten year anniversary of the Tesla Model 3 unveil.

I put a $1,000 deposit down that night. As blown away as I was, this product changed my life even more than I could have imagined.

[STRIKE @Strike]

Strike is licensed in New York and we want you to come celebrate.

Join the Strike team and our Founder and CEO, @jackmallers for an in person fireside chat.

Open bar, first come first served. Bitcoin has arrived in New York.

[Freedom 250 @Freedom250]

The track has been revealed. 🏁

The @Freedom250 Grand Prix (@Freedom250GP) hits the National Mall on August 22-23, the first-ever @IndyCar street race through the heart of America's capital and it’s FREE to the public.

Freedom doesn't ring. It revs: https://t.co/sJ7YqaZuqq

[Dan @philly758]

@Strike When this hits CT I’ll be playing with 🔥

[Bill Ackman @BillAckman]

So let me get this straight. You support the Khamanei regime that killed 38,000+ protesters and maimed hundreds of thousands more. A regime that has repeatedly called for Death to America and has killed thousands of our servicemen and citizens. One that has taken away women’s rights and freedoms for the Iranian people.

And then you call our efforts to destroy the evildoers a catastrophic escalation.

You also support those who attack our police force. You take the side of the criminals rather than the victims of violent actors in our city.

How is it that you can’t differentiate between good and evil?

Why is this so hard for you?