Compare #Bitcoin mining to #Gold mining. Tech vs Squaller. Future vs Past. Article also gets into questions about the certification process. Not a shock when dealing with countries like Madagascar/Turkey that U end up w/some impure "gold". When you receive #BTC U know it's real:
the reporting and photography, including of this Madagascar child drinking from a gold mine's waste water pipe, is incredible. the story is infuriating.
a look at how dirty gold is laundered into the world economy, with help from the one org meant to regulate it.
nytimes.com/2026/10/19/world…
Keep it simple: Pick any date in the history of #Bitcoin and go back about 4 years (210k blocks to be exact) and #BTC will be worth more than it was then. Buy and hold for 210k blocks and you are in great shape. Few can do this.
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BITCOIN | It's the end of the road!… in 30mins at 6pm London on ‘The Bullish Bitcoin channel’ (Ep 857) 🚀
(19-10-2026)
#bitcoin #btc #decentralisation
youtu.be/9EURl_z0U7w
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The case for yield-bearing stables is strong. Issuers earn interest on reserves and holders get nothing. Feels outdated.
But with this, STRC dividends depend on Strategy’s ability to keep raising capital and dividends on preferred stock can be cut.
Higher yield, different risk
JUST IN: BILLIONAIRE MICHAEL SAYLOR JUST SAID HE IS BUILDING A #BITCON STABLECOIN THAT WILL REVOLUTIONIZE MONEY
"WHO DOESN'T WANT A STABLECOIN THAT PAYS 8%?"
"WHY WOULD YOU HOLD STABLECOINS THAT PAY YOU NOTHING?"
"THAT'S PERFECT MONEY – DIGITAL MONEY PEGGED TO THE US DOLLAR. A MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE, UNIT OF ACCOUNT AND STORE OF VALUE"
"THIS IS WHAT WE'RE CHASING AFTER" 🔥
Source: @paraficapital
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REMINDER: it's the end of this month!
Halloween 🎃
BREAKING: New Bitcoin Fork
I am helping create a **new Bitcoin Hardfork** -- dropping this August, called "eCash".
- Your coins will split. For example, if you have 4.19 BTC, then you will get 4.19 eCash.
- You may sell your eCash -- or keep it. Or ignore it!
Vegas:
- Yes, I will be in Vegas next week.
- No, I won't mention this, on stage -- (that would be rude).
Our L1 Node...
- is a near-copy of Bitcoin Core.
- is Sha256d mined.
- forks via a one-time difficulty-reset -- to its minimum value. (So, mining will be crazy at first.)
- Yes, we will change the seed nodes, the name, the network magic, etc.
Codewise, the L1 will remain compatible with Bitcoin Core:
- We will continue to merge their changes (even the bad ones).
- The L1 will activate Bip300/301 via CUSF -- the core untouched soft fork. So, no lines of code will be changed, on the L1.
- The activation client will be published periodically (link below).
- We will do several bug bounty contests this summer.
- The client will be frozen 30 days prior to the fork.
Yes, there will be Drivechains:
- We have 7 in developement right now.
- Users can also submit their own.
- Drivechain is a vision of "competing L2s" -- this avoids the "dev capture" problem.
- These L2s are all Merged Mined. Miners automatically get free $.
- Our L2s are already capable of planetary scale, and onboarding 8 billion users.
- We also have a zCash-like L2, with strong privacy.
- Other L2s: Truthcoin (Prediction Markets), CoinShift (Decentralized Exchange), BitAssets (NFT etc), BitNames (Identity), Photon (Quantum Resistant).
Unlike BCH (the 2017 fork):
- There is no "Bitcoin" in the name. New name, new brand.
- You are getting advanced warning (4 months).
- We are replaying all txns (at first). We will release a coin-splitter tool.
- This is a permanent & sustainable fix to Bitcoin's problems (instead of a 1 MB to 8 MB temporary fix).
- Back in 2017, the BTC tech stack was strong, and expectations for Lightning were strong. Today, it is the reverse.
Video to follow.
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WATCH: HEADS DOWN❗️HEADS DOWN❗️HEADS DOWN❗️
Israeli politician Fleur Hassan-Nahoum's, @FleurHassanN, vehicle was attacked by Palestinian stone-throwers during an informational tour near Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah in Judea and Samaria.
Hassan-Nahoum, the former deputy mayor of Jerusalem and No. 5 candidate on Ofer Winter’s Amcha Yisrael party list, was traveling through the area when the stones struck.
Palestinian violence against Jews in Judea and Samaria is a multiple of what Jews do to Arabs. But it is not reported, so please share.
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Palestinian kids are taught violence from a young age.
Another rock attack on a car in Judea and Samaria today.
Israel stands for peace and humanity—yet is constantly targeted.
Don’t blame us for defending and protecting our people.
@FleurHassanN was canvassing for her party in Judea and Samaria region when her car was attacked by Palestinian kids with rocks.
You will not hear a word from the @BBC @CNN or European politicians they only condemn violence when it is from the Israeli side.
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סיור גבעות נוסף יוצא לדרך - אל לב השומרון, במרחב בו פעל בניהו מלט הי"ד
מהרו להירשם בקישור ובואו להכיר בעיניים את גבעות השומרון🌱🐏
tickchak.co.il/115009
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FINISH IT: Republican Senate challenger Justin Murphy drew loud applause at a New Jersey debate when asked what he'd tell Trump about the Iran war — delivering a two-word answer as Sen. Cory Booker shook his head on the split screen.
Murphy, a former deputy mayor from the Pine Barrens, urged Trump to "put your cowboy hat on and get out there and kick some a--," calling Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps a "radical terrorist organization" that has deprived the Persian people of a decent life for decades.
Booker fired back, blasting Murphy's stance as "yahoo cowboy foreign policy" that has "mired us in Middle East war after Middle East war" and drained the U.S. treasury.
The exchange circulated online, including in a clip paired with Creedence Clearwater Revival's Vietnam-era anthem "Fortunate Son."
Full story here foxnews.com/politics/booker-…
Listen to #29 if you like Led Zeppelin and wonder what they would have sounded like in the early 1980s....
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Abdul El-Sayed is banking on the fact that most Americans don't know what the Muslim Brotherhood is.
He's not wrong. People need to focus on Hezbollah! Does Abdul believe that they are a terrorist organization?
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A friend came over to my home for Shabbat this week and brought me an awesome book about his boss, Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir.
I started reading it and came across a detail I loved.
The author describes Karp’s home as something straight out of a James Bond movie: a massive estate overlooking New Hampshire’s White Mountains, an international security team, Austrian assistants who speak almost exclusively German.
Then he writes:
“The mezuzah on the front door wasn’t something you were likely to see in a Bond flick.”
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"So many AI researchers have started smoking as a way of signaling to other researchers how much they believe in AI," Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar said. bit.ly/4jiBFoy
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only 32 companies in US history have added more than $30 billion in revenue over 12 months (2026 dollars)
Anthropic, by multiples, has just registered the most remarkable 12 months in business history
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The top 1% of Polymarket accounts made almost all the money. Everyone else lost $131 million. The psychology behind it explains why.
Read more: kahlerfinancial.com/financia…
While the 80%ers try to vilify the productive in motion entrepreneurs that are leading the USA into a golden age of abundance, this man is putting tefillin on them! I love such a proud unique beast of a move! I thought getting Jews to move 2 #Utah was Bold chabad.org/library/article_c…
Just wrapped Tefillin with @ShamnyAviv and @IdoZabarsky1, founders of @limy_ai, a $100M+ AI company.
Just two years ago, they were serving together in IDF Special Forces. Ido was Aviv’s commander, and Aviv was shot in combat.
Today, they’re building an incredible company.
Hearing their story of resilience, bouncing back, and turning adversity into success was truly inspiring.
Even more beautiful? They wrapped Tefillin with me for the first time since their army days.
A powerful reminder of where they came from, how far they’ve come, and what really matters.
Disgusting, but it makes the "Never Vancers" job in 2028 easy! Most don't know that of all the Repubs connected to the Trump admin the 1 who should be encouraged to run for Prez '28 is @DougBurgum! ND is 1 of 6 states Jews should move to, but few consider (UT, SD, ND, WY, ID, MT)
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Breaking News: being part of a doomsday cult is bad for your mental health
EXC: AI staff complain of mental toll over fears of threat of society
Multiple staff at Britain’s AI Security Institute (AISI) have been signed off work with stress and are undergoing counselling
Tight schedules for testing unreleased AI models, plus alarm over rapid rollout and growing capabilities of AI, have fuelled low morale and burnout at AISI, acc to four people with knowledge of the matter
It’s part of a wider phenomenon across leading AI companies: staff at Anthropic, OpenAI and Google DeepMind have also publicly complained of similar issues, with many top researchers quitting due to the mental toll or coming to a belief that their work was unsafe for public release
W/ @madhumita29
ft.com/content/60870960-f433…
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California: 18 years after approval, our high-speed rail project has 0 miles of functional tracks, $95B over budget
Elon this month:
