Fortis @7Blocks

@gothburz Master class in AI ‘consumption’. Same thing happened with Blockchain a few years ago….

So my lease expires in December. I’m not sure why Tesla isn’t interested in an ‘early’ lease return (by 2 months (Oct/Nov)) so I can get a new one, so I’ll be returning my Tesla and looking for something else. I guess a @Rivian or something else after 6+ years of @Tesla

Best product update announcement for any product this year:

Chess.com @chesscom

a year ago

An important update.

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@iamharaldur Please publish your speaking schedule when you're able - it would be an honor to hear you.

One of these days I’ll be able to update my iPhone apps without having to re-login to all of them after updating. That day however is not now….

@VinnyLingham Almost all of it, if not all of it, is given up voluntarily by bad actors looking to get a reduced criminal sentence. Even a boating accident can’t get in the way of this….

Here’s the text of the Executive Order: ESTABLISHMENT OF THE STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE AND UNITED STATES DIGITAL ASSET STOCKPILE March 6, 2025 whitehouse.gov/presidential-a…

@mikesimonsen ?

Darth Powell @VladTheInflator

a year ago

The wildest shit is happening near Washington DC, here is Arlington VA Everything is being put on the market

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@bsvsimp Hopefully DeepSeek doesn’t use or need unsigned integers….

When you support your wife's business knowing it’ll cost more than it’ll earn—but hey, keeping the peace at home is worth every penny!

We are getting reports of HUNDREDS of dogs being turned into shelters because of the fires. We never needed fosters & adopters more than now. If you can foster or adopt in the LA area, please DM me. If you don't live in LA, please share this post. You never know who will see it.

The hero we need, but don't deserve....

Foundry @FoundryServices

2 years ago

On December 19, Foundry USA Pool mined block 875475, which included a Bitcoin transaction where the user inadvertently paid an 8.18 BTC fee— 91,127 times more than necessary to be included in the block. Our team at Foundry has been in touch with the individual affected and,

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You: I want to buy £20k of Bitcoin Bank: Sorry, you can only send £1k a day, or £5k max a month to cryptocurrency exchanges  You: OK, send the £20k to Betfair Bank: Sent

Sounds like you're still failing to realize that key security is from ECDSA, not sha256. Those are completely different things, with completely different surface areas to quantum attack (Shor's alg vs Grover's). You were very wrong on the pod in several ways, tho the rest of your tweet here re implications and mitigations is correct. Glad you decided to do your research after the pod aired.

December 11th, 2024 and Wikipedia is still not accepting Crypto - I guess another year goes by without my contribution/donation.... <sigh> @Wikipedia

1/ Operation Choke Point 2.0 has entered the mainstream discussion and as the former CTO of Silvergate, I want to provide my personal view First, the Silvergate SEN network was a core piece of infrastructure in the cryptocurrency economy As someone who was there when it launched, I can't express how watching its influence disappear overnight impacted my family and myself My father, Alan Lane was the CEO of Silvergate. It was sometime in early 2023 that I realized Silvergate, the business I poured my life into for 13 years was going to die

How Libra Was Killed. I never shared this publicly before, but since @pmarca opened the floodgates on @joerogan’s pod, it feels appropriate to shed more light on this. As a reminder, Libra (then Diem) was an advanced, high-performance, payments-centric blockchain paired with a stablecoin that we built with my team at @Meta. It would’ve solved global payments at scale. Prior to announcing the project, we spent months briefing key regulators in DC and abroad. We then announced the project in June 2019 alongside 28 companies. Two weeks later, I was called to testify in front of both the Senate Banking Committee and the House Financial Services Committee, which was the starting point of two years of nonstop work and changes to appease lawmakers and regulators. By spring of 2021 (yes they slow played us at every step), we had addressed every last possible regulatory concern across financial crime, money laundering, consumer protection, reserve management, buffers, and so much more, and we were ready to launch. We had worked on a slow rollout of a limited pilot that some members of the Fed’s Board of Governors were supportive of. At last, Chair Jay Powell was ready to let us move forward in a limited way. The story, as I heard it, is that Jay Powell was told by Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen at one of their biweekly meetings that allowing this project to move forward was “political suicide,” and she would not have his back if he let it happen. I wasn’t in the room when this conversation happened, so take these words with a grain of salt, but effectively this was the moment Libra was killed. Shortly thereafter, the Fed organized calls with all the participating banks, and the Fed’s general counsel read a prepared statement to each of them, saying: “We can’t stop you from moving forward and launching, but we are not comfortable with you doing so.” And just like that, it was over. One essential point is worth making here. There was no legal or regulatory angle left for the government or regulators to kill the project. It was 100% a political kill—one that was executed through intimidation of captive banking institutions. That was the hardest part of this story for me personally. Not that we had failed, but that America, this country I immigrated to and became a proud citizen of because of its rule of law and value system, behaved in such a way for political reasons. It was a very tough pill to swallow. The bright side of the story, though, was the many learnings from this wild ride. By the end of the project, we had made so many concessions to get a thumbs-up that the whole design of the network became a Frankenstein of our initial ambitions. We also learned the biggest lesson of all, which is that if you’re trying to build an open money grid for the world—eventually moving trillions of dollars a day, designed to be here 100 years from now—you have to build it on the most neutral, decentralized, unassailable network and asset, which, hands down, is Bitcoin. And now this is what many of us who went through this scarring journey are building together at @Lightspark. And this time, we won’t stop until we get it done!

@bitnorbert Please post (or repost) your wallet address - Assuming you’re ok with contributions for your efforts?

JUST IN: 🇪🇺 European Federation of Journalists representing 320,000 members quits X (Twitter) citing disinformation concerns and collusion by Elon Musk and Donald Trump.

Operation Chokepoint 2.0 caused hundreds of Bitcoin businesses and individuals to lose their bank and brokerage accounts. It was probably illegal and needs to be investigated by the Trump Administration.