This chart says "Bitcoin is most owned where it solves very real problems" The data tells us it is solving a lot of problems, at scale, and often at an existential level For example for 10 of the top 14 countries adopting Bitcoin, here's the problems it solves UAE: Remittances The world's highest-migrant-share workforce sends money home through banks that skim 6%+ a transfer. Bitcoin moves it for a fraction Vietnam: Bank-account control The state deactivated 86M+ bank accounts in a single "AML sweep". I personally spoke to people this happened to who lost their savings. They had left Vietnam years before, and found the account that held their money simply closed. A bank that can freeze you for going quiet is the whole argument for holding your own keys. Philippines: Remittances Overseas workers wire billions home each year. Bitcoin rails undercut the high-fee operators they are otherwise forced to use. Iran: Sanctions Locked out of the dollar system, Iran mines its subsidised energy into Bitcoin and spends it on imports the banks can't touch. Brazil: Inflation hedge Brazilians hold Bitcoin as hard money against a currency that keeps losing ground, and as a serious investment asset Venezuela: Hyperinflation As the bolivar collapses, Venezuelans move savings into Bitcoin to hold value the state can't erase El Salvador: Day-to-day transactions The IMF stripped the legal-tender mandate in 2025, so nobody has to touch Bitcoin. But ~ 1 in 10 Salvadorians still do anyway, by choice. One story that moved me was of a rural Salvadorian who used Bitcoin to pay his utility bill so he didn't have to have a half-day round trip to the nearest bank each month. Ukraine: War When ATMs capped withdrawals and savings froze, Bitcoin crossed borders money couldn't, and funded the defence. Argentina: Inflation. After decades of a falling peso, Argentines save in Bitcoin to protect what their melting-icecube currency keeps eroding. South Africa: Hedging the rand. The rand has devalued 8x against the USD since 2000. A weak, volatile currency and a deep investor base push South Africans into Bitcoin as an alternative asset Notice the common theme? With the exception of US/Thailand/Saudi (Investment) and Singapore (Zero Capital Gains Tax) all the other countries are using Bitcoin to solve problems that affect basic livelihood in ways most of us struggle to imagine even being necessary in the West. There is a name for this: "Solipsistic". It means treating one's own experience as the only reality. (source references for each country and chart reference in comments)

I don't want to hear any more bullshit. Satoshi will protect his Bitcoin by himself when the time come.

Cypherpunk Jameson Lopp and other Bitcoin developers propose BIP-361 to freeze quantum vulnerable wallets. This could lock dormant BTC like Satoshi Nakamoto’s 1.1M coins, now worth $74B, before quantum computers can steal them.

Συναγερμός για το νέο μοντέλο της Anthropic – Η Ουάσιγκτον προειδοποίησε τις τράπεζες για κυβερνοεπιθέσεις in.gr/2026/04/10/in-science/…

Γιατί το @x δεν χρησιμοποιεί την μετάφραση του @xai αλλά την άθλια μετάφραση Google translate ακόμα? cc: @elonmusk

Σαν σήμερα, στις 3 Ιανουαρίου 2009 δημιουργείται το πρώτο block του bitcoin. Το genesis block. Τοτε ήταν που χωρίς να το γνωρίζουμε, άλλαξε η ζωή μας για πάντα. Η δικιά μου σίγουρα. Αλλά και εκατομμυρίων άλλων.