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Fifth Generation Warfare - Bitcoin Veterans Summit 2025
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We don’t thank suitcoiners enough
Thank you for your suitcoiner service Pierre!
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Update: The Linux client has been delayed.
Linux client coming soon, trust me.
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USA. A Mexican restaurant. We had not yet ordered anything, and the food was already arriving. Chips. Salsa. Unrequested. Free. I stopped the waiter. "We have not earned these." "They just come with the table, man." They come with the TABLE. In my land, hospitality is a debt. Every gift creates an obligation, weighed carefully, returned in the proper season with interest of feeling. Here, the gift arrives before you have even proven you can pay for dinner. This is not an appetizer. This is a declaration: we trust you. Eat. I ate with the gravity the moment deserved. And then — I must report this calmly — the basket emptied, and a new one appeared. "Did we…?" "Refill," the waiter said. "It's bottomless." Bottomless. They have wells of salsa. The supply lines of this nation are beyond anything my ancestors imagined. My friend warned me. "Don't fill up on chips, dude." Too late. I had accepted three baskets. Honor demanded each one be finished — an unfinished gift is an insult. By the time my actual food arrived, I was a ruined man. I was not hungry. I was not comfortable. I had been defeated by a courtesy. Generosity that arrives before the request cannot be repaid. It can only be survived. I know the rule now. I have made my peace with the basket. One basket. Two at the most. Who am I deceiving. There is no number of baskets I would refuse. The trust of a nation is in that salsa, and I intend to honor all of it.
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The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees. The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance. Access to all other Claude models is not affected. We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible. Read our full statement: anthropic.com/news/fable-myt…
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Have a frontier model write a spec for you. LLMs think in English. You're welcome.
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It's true!
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Home miners: solo mine to your own node. - easy - no fees - lowest latency - rad
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when @AnthropicAI gets nationalized, I'm not re-enlisting for tokens. just run qwen on your 3090 or above.
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I had dinner with my family like an IDIOT instead of getting another round of fable prompts out the door and now I'm stuck in the permanent underclass.
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Replying to @River
@River When can I pass you a wildcard miniscript descriptor?
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CC: @Rob1Ham minscriptfluensor
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America just minted the world's first trillionaire and he's an African immigrant. x.com/lopp/status/1818346318…

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America is a nation of immigrants. America will need immigrants more than ever.
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one of the coolest things about being on Alby Hub is that thanks to the interoperability of the nostr protocol and the NWC protocol, Second just essentially integrated Bark with a massive ecosystem of nostr enabled applications at once. keep building.
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1/ Bark is now a Lightning backend option in Alby Hub. @getAlby built the integration on the Bark SDK in record time, just days after our mainnet launch. You can now enable Lightning payments in your hub with no Lightning node, channels, or liquidity to manage.
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idk about you but I'm having a bull market
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men look at the accomplishments of great men in awe. they feel proud, inspired, and want to be great as well. parasites rub their greedy little insect hands together and say "that's mine." ro khanna is a parasite.
Brad, a 5% tax on Elon's trillion net worth would literally pay for free college and trade school for every American. And with the market's growth, he still would be worth over a trillion dollars! You don't think that's worth it?
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5% of $1.2T is $60b. 8m students in BA/BS programs on average pay over $20k/yr, or ~$160b/yr for BA/BS degrees only. That tax could not cover even half of only US bachelor degree costs for just 1 year, excluding grad, ass., or trade degrees totaling another ~10m students. nces.ed.gov/programs/coe/i… bestcolleges.com/research/colle…
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It's kinda cool.
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BTC Daily Intelligence Bulletin (DIB) Block: 953,370 DTG/ICOD: 1200Z 12Jun2026 Precedence: Routine (RR) Controls: Public Release QQQQ __________________________ BLUF: US-Iran Deal Possible, Strikes on Hold / South Korean Ex-Pres Used False Flag to Declare Martial Law / China Population Decline Serious Issue / US House Rejects FISA Short-Term Extension / Trump Pivots on DNI Nomination / CLARITY Fight Continues / DOJ Arrests Two Dark Web Crypto Mixer Operators / Gold Now Legal Tender in FL / Metaplanet Makes Acquisition For Bitcoin Financial Instruments / SpaceX IPO Today, Oversubscribed by 4x, Biggest Ever / Yields Down, Stocks Jump, PPI Higher / Bitcoin Circular Economy and Institutional Power at Odds / El Salvador Takes Tax Advantages to Higher Level Market Data: Price: 1 BTC= $63,984, 15.13 oz Gold/1 BTC, 6.76 BTC/Median US House 24hr Hi: $63,867 / Lo: $62,280 Volume: $29B (Even) Mkt Cap: $1.27T (Up 1%) Hashrate: .884 ZH/s Avg Fee Rate: 1.0 sats/byte (Even) ---Reports--- -International Events- 1. Tehran says 'nothing' finalised after Trump claims deal to end Iran war near: Trump had declared the US would strike Iran "very hard" again on Thursday, but later said he was cancelling the strikes because negotiators had "just made a great settlement" with Iran. But Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said reports of an agreement were "speculative" and "nothing has been finalised". (BBC) 2. Ex-South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol sentenced to 30 years in jail over Pyongyang drone plot: A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to 30 years in prison on Friday over charges linked to military drones sent over Pyongyang to help create a pretext for his failed December 2024 martial law declaration, Yonhap reported. His lawyers said he neither ordered nor later approved the operation, which they said was unrelated to martial law and instead a response to months of North Korean launches across the border of balloons stuffed with rubbish. (CNN) 3. Why China's Population Decline Is Irreversible: China’s demographic collapse is so advanced that even an immediate return to replacement-level fertility cannot prevent a massive population decline because there are simply too few women of childbearing age. China has approximately 190 million women of childbearing age. Even if the fertility rate immediately rose to 2.1, the population would still decline by more than 40 percent by the end of the century. China’s total fertility rate (TFR) has fallen to approximately 1.0, less than half the replacement level of 2.1. (ZeroHedge) (AC- No amount of social engineering can mitigate the economic effects of such a demographic decline. China must turn to automation, robots and AI to help shore up productivity and economic stability, but the effects of the human decline will stress any attempts to become a global economic leader.) -US Events- 1. House Rejects Short-Term Extension of FISA Section 702: The US House voted down a short-term extension of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (198-218), making its lapse after June 12 highly likely for the first time since 2008. (Politico) 2. Trump Chooses U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton as Next Intelligence Chief: The president had reportedly been under pressure to pick someone else than Bill Pulte, the current Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) director, to become the next DNI. Jay Clayton was the former Chairman of the SEC, the former Head of Sullivan & Cromwell, one of the most prominent and successful Law Firms anywhere in the World, and the current US Attorney for the Southern District of New York. (Breitbart)
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-Bitcoin Community 1. There is a 'fundamental clash' between bitcoin and institutionalization, says BTC circular economy project founder: "There is a fundamental clash between the thing that Satoshi built and released in 2009 and the current system," Bitcoin Ekasi’s Hermann Vivier said. "Power does not want self-custody, self-sovereignty, and privacy. Power wants control." Vivier said the best way to accumulate bitcoin is to mine the cryptocurrency, but the second-best and easier way is to sell one's goods and services for bitcoin instead of fiat, ultimately creating an alternative system where individuals have the power. (TheBlock) 2. Bukele’s Reform Makes El Salvador a Top Tax Haven: 0% on Foreign Income and Bitcoin Gains with Minimal Presence: Decreto 531, effective March 31, 2026, reduced the physical presence requirement for temporary residents from nine months to 90 calendar days per year. The country operates a territorial tax system, meaning only income generated within El Salvador is subject to taxation. A major 2024 income tax reform explicitly exempts foreign-source income for both residents and non-residents. There is also no capital gains tax on Bitcoin under the Bitcoin Law, no wealth tax, no inheritance or gift tax, making it particularly advantageous for those holding or transacting in BTC. (BitcoinMag) -Bitcoin Sentiment- 1. Fear(0)/Greed(100) Index: 12/100 (Even) Analyst Comments (AC): NSTR Follow us on NOSTR: npub1qktts9naunvjdwsktq5xjdhwh539xt4x0mqj4yxq0q9dvm03ljvs6sms0r Listen to us daily on X discuss the DIB and more: X Spaces, Bitcoin Veterans, 10amEST/7amPST ____________________ Analyst: BV2A END REPORT NNNN *NSTR-Nothing Significant To Report
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-Regulatory and Legal- 1. CLARITY Act moves to a fight between cops and coders: A White House meeting with law enforcement groups shows CLARITY’s toughest Senate fight may be over crypto crime, and whether software developers should be blamed when criminals use their code. On June 10, administration officials hosted law enforcement groups at the White House to resolve the provision most likely to block the CLARITY Act from reaching the Senate floor for a vote. (CryptoSlate) (AC-The details of the conflicts here are too numerous to post here. Law enforcement wants power to prosecute, coders want immunity, and users want freedoms.) 2. U.S. Charges Two Men for $389 Million Bitcoin and Crypto Money Laundering Scheme Tied to Dark Web: Federal prosecutors in Philadelphia charged two men Wednesday with running an international bitcoin and crypto money laundering operation that processed nearly $400 million in illicit funds over five years. Ruslan Igorevich Tkachuk, 37, a Ukrainian national, and Alexander Vladimirovich Ledenev, 25, a Russian national, were arrested in Batumi, Republic of Georgia, where both men reside. Despite AudiA6’s promises to clients that the mixed funds would be untraceable, investigators said blockchain analysis revealed the transactions could be followed directly through exchange records. (BitcoinMag) -CBDCs/World Currencies/Strategic Reserves- 1. July 1st Your Gold Becomes Legal Money in Florida: On July 1st, Florida becomes the largest state to recognize gold and silver as legal tender. (ZeroHedge) -Institutional Concerns- 1. Metaplanet to acquire Siiibo Securities for $13 million to develop bitcoin-linked yield products: "By bringing Siiibo's Type I registration and online securities platform into the group, we will develop and distribute bitcoin-related yield products directly to Japanese investors," the CEO said, adding that the move will be supported by the company's 40,177 $BTC holdings. (TheBlock) 2. BitGo Launches Lightning Earn to Let Institutions Put Bitcoin to Work on Lightning Network: BitGo launched Lightning Earn, enabling institutional bitcoin holders to earn BTC-denominated fees by providing Lightning Network liquidity through an integration with Amboss Rails. (BitcoinMag) -Economic Indicators- 1. SpaceX IPO Opens at $135 on Nasdaq: Record $75 Billion Raise Puts SPCX in Forced Index Buying: SpaceX began trading Friday on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX, priced at $135 per share and raising approximately $75 billion - the largest initial public offering in market history, surpassing Saudi Aramco's record of $29.4 billion raised in 2019. Within approximately 10 trading days, MSCI will be compelled to add SPCX to its Global Standard Indexes. SpaceX also set aside approximately 30 percent of the offering for retail investors — far above the 5 to 10 percent typical for a deal of this size — through allocation programs at Robinhood, Fidelity, Charles Schwab, and E*TRADE. (TechTimes) 2. US 10-Year Yield Holds Decline: The yield on the US 10-year Treasury note hovered around 4.47% on Friday after dropping about 10 basis points in the previous session. (TradingEconomics) 3. US Stocks Rise Sharply: US stocks closed sharply higher on Thursday, with the S&P 500 rising 1.8%, the Nasdaq gaining 2.5%, and the Dow Jones climbing 930 points. (TradingEconomics) 4. US Producer Inflation Accelerates but Core PPI Below Expectations: Producer prices for final demand in the US increased 1.1% mom in May 2026, the same as a downwardly revised 1.1% rise in April, and once again above forecasts of 0.7%. Prices of goods soared 2.8%, following a 1.9% jump in April, with over half of advance attributable to a 23.4% increase in gasoline. (TradingEconomics) -Security Concerns- NSTR -Technology and Science- NSTR
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BTC Daily Intelligence Bulletin (DIB) Block: 953,240 DTG/ICOD: 1200Z 11Jun2026 Precedence: Routine (RR) Controls: Public Release QQQQ __________________________ BLUF: US Bombards Iran, Strikes 3 Tankers / Northern Ireland on Fire / Feds Charge Pro-Palestinians With Intimidation / AL Nitrogen Gas Execution Judged Illegal / Navy Petty Officer Sentenced to 44 Year For Killing Shipmate / Japan to Label Crypto as Financial Instrument / IMF Says Nepal Crypto Ban Not Working / Strategy CEO Says Sale Was 'Innoculation' / Fold Sells Bitcoin to Pay Down Debts / Sayler and Mallers Debate mNAV / Inlataion Up, Stocks Drop / UK Forces Companies to Spy on Every Phone / SpaceX IPO Oversubscribed / BIP-110 Still Divides Market Data: Price: 1 BTC= $63,050, 15.45 oz Gold/1 BTC, 6.83 BTC/Median US House 24hr Hi: $63,185 / Lo: $61,061 Volume: $29B (Down 20%) Mkt Cap: $1.25T (Up 3%) Hashrate: .882 ZH/s Avg Fee Rate: 1.0 sats/byte (Down 1 sats) ---Reports--- -International Events- 1. U.S. launches new strikes on Iran for the second night in a row: The massive four-hour aerial operation targeted Iran's core defense networks, deploying U.S. Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps assets—including 49 Tomahawk cruise missiles—to destroy military surveillance capabilities, communication systems, and air defense sites across southern Iran. Iran’s military retaliated by declaring the strategic Strait of Hormuz entirely closed to traffic, threatening to fire upon any commercial ships or oil tankers transiting. (GroundNews) (AC-US military objectives have not been met, nor have Iran's.) 2. Third tanker hit near Oman after US attack kills three Indian sailors: A US attack on the Palau-flagged Settebello on Wednesday killed three Indian sailors, the Indian government confirms. CENTCOM has confirmed strikes on Settebello and Marivex but is yet to comment on reported strikes on Jalveer. The US says the crew "repeatedly failed to comply with directions from American forces", adding its aircraft hit the tanker's engine room as it transited the Gulf of Oman. (BBC) 3. Chaos Continues in Northern Ireland: Anti-Migration Rioters Clash with Police, Set Vehicles on Fire: Hordes of black balaclava masked men clashed with riot officers of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) on Wednesday in areas such as the Belfast suburb of Newtownabbey, where a lorry truck was set on fire by agitators. The truck is believed to have been a municipal “gully emptier” used to clean street drainage systems. Nearby, police were forced to deploy a water cannon to push back a large crowd attempting to break into a Newtownabbey hotel, likely over at least rumours of migrants being housed inside. (Breitbart) (AC- EU and other MSM outlets are minimizing the reporting or even blaming US sources for instigating the rioting, anything to deflect the true narrative and source of the anger.) -US Events- 1. Feds charge 8 pro-Palestinian activists with conspiring to intimidate U of Michigan officials: Federal prosecutors unsealed an indictment Wednesday against eight pro-Palestinian activists who are accused of conspiring to run a criminal intimidation campaign against U of Michigan officials while trying to force the school to cut financial ties to Israel. The document highlights several incidents that made headlines in the past few years, including fake bloody corpses that were placed in an elected university board member's yard and the spray-painting of anti-Israel messages at the home of the school's president at the time, Santa Ono. (ClickonDetroit) 2. Alabama's nitrogen gas executions constitute cruel and unusual punishment, judge rules: A federal judge has banned Alabama from executing a death row inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, reversing a previous opinion and concluding that the controversial and relatively new execution method is unconstitutionally cruel. The ruling, issued Tuesday, permanently prevents the state from putting Jeffrey Lee, 49, to death using nitrogen gas.(CBS)
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-Security Concerns- 1. UK Plans To Jail Tech CEOs Who Refuse To Spy On Every Phone: New measures would compel client-side inspection of every photo, video and message on devices, escalating the digital ID lockdown already plotted for British smartphones in coordination with major technology firms. The UK is drafting a law to jail tech execs for 5 YEARS if they refuse to build scanners that scan EVERY photo, video & message on your phone. Apple has implemented parallel restrictions on iOS in Britain, forcing age confirmation steps. (ZeroHedge) -Technology and Science- 1. SpaceX IPO Heavily Oversubscribed: Reports indicate SpaceX's upcoming IPO has seen demand multiple times oversubscribed from institutional investors and sovereign wealth funds ahead of what could be the largest IPO in history. (X) -Bitcoin Community 1. Bitcoin is less than 10,000 blocks away from its most contentious fork fight in years: At the center of the dispute is Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 110 (BIP-110), a proposed change that would restrict the amount of non-financial data that can be included in Bitcoin transactions. With the network currently less than 10,000 blocks away from a mandatory activation window around block 961,632, the debate has escalated from a technical disagreement over network “spam” into a high-stakes standoff. BIP-110 supporters argue the restriction is essential to preserve Bitcoin's primary utility as a monetary settlement layer, while opponents warn the aggressive rollout risks splintering the ecosystem, stranding capital, and eroding confidence in the protocol's neutrality. (CryptoSlate) -Bitcoin Sentiment- 1. Fear(0)/Greed(100) Index: 12/100 (Up 3 pts) Analyst Comments (AC): NSTR Follow us on NOSTR: npub1qktts9naunvjdwsktq5xjdhwh539xt4x0mqj4yxq0q9dvm03ljvs6sms0r Listen to us daily on X discuss the DIB and more: X Spaces, Bitcoin Veterans, 10amEST/7amPST ____________________ Analyst: BV2A END REPORT NNNN *NSTR-Nothing Significant To Report
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3. U.S. Navy Petty Officer Sentenced to 44 Years for Strangling Fellow Service Member Angelina Resendiz: U.S. Navy Petty Officer Jeremiah Copeland was sentenced to 44 years behind bars for strangling a fellow service member, 21-year-old Culinary Specialist 3rd Class Angelina Resendiz, in his Virginia barracks room last year. His sentencing comes days after he admitted in court to strangling Resendiz on May 29, 2025. Copeland admitted to killing her in his barracks room at Naval Station Norfolk “after the two had been drinking and she became upset over something she saw on his phone,” (Breitbart) -Regulatory and Legal- 1. Japan's parliament advances bill to classify cryptocurrencies as financial instruments: Japan's lower house has advanced a bill that would reclassify cryptocurrencies as financial instruments, marking a step closer toward stricter supervision of crypto markets. (TheBlock) -CBDCs/World Currencies/Strategic Reserves- 1. IMF Urges Nepal Monitor Crypto as Usage Rises Despite Ban: Nepal banned crypto, but crypto did not leave Nepal. The IMF flagged growing crypto adoption in Nepal despite a legal ban and urged authorities to monitor the sector closely to protect financial stability and curb illicit flows. On cross-border flows, the Fund pegged Nepal at around 5% of GDP in early 2025, ahead of Bangladesh and Myanmar but far behind Vietnam at roughly 26%. (Decrypt) (AC- Very interesting statistic where all crypto and Bitcoin transactions are illegal, yet 5% of the GDP is via crypto (mostly stablecoin) transactions.) -Institutional Concerns- 1. Strategy ($MSTR) CEO Says Bitcoin Sale Was About Market 'Inoculation', Not A Retreat: Strategy Inc. CEO Phong Le somewhat pushed back Tuesday against the wave of criticism that followed the company’s first Bitcoin sale since 2022, telling CNBC that the move was a deliberate, limited exercise designed to signal operational flexibility — not a philosophical reversal. “We wanted to inoculate the market and we wanted to test our processes,” Le said in what the network described as a first-time interview. “We learned that everything works.” (ZeroHedge) 2. Fold Shares Jump 162% After Bitcoin Fintech Sells $45 Million in BTC, Wipes Out Debt: Fold Holdings sold $45M in Bitcoin, used $20M to wipe out all secured debt and redirected the remaining $25M toward growth. The debt-free balance sheet is intended to accelerate expansion of its Bitcoin rewards credit card and support new product launches. The moves also eliminate monthly interest payments, improving cash flow for a company that posted a 21% revenue decline in Q1 2026. (Decrypt) (AC Businesses, especially public ones, have to weigh short-term vs. long-term goals, and cash flow vs. balance sheet planning. This was a cash flow decision at the expense of the balance sheet.) 3. Michael Saylor and Jack Mallers go toe-to-toe over Strategy's bitcoin reporting metrics: The two bitcoin treasury leaders renewed the debate over Strategy's mNAV and dilution, with Saylor arguing that equity issuance for cash strengthens, rather than dilutes, shareholders. (CoinDesk) -Economic Indicators- 1. US Inflation Rises to 4.2% in May: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) increased 0.5% month-over-month and 4.2% year-over-year (highest since April 2023), driven largely by energy prices amid Middle East tensions. Core CPI (ex-food/energy) rose 0.2% MoM and 2.9% YoY. (TradingEconomics) 2. US 10Y Yield Holds Steady:The yield on the US 10-year Treasury note steadied around 4.55% on Thursday as investors continued to track developments in the Middle East. (TradingEconomics) 3. US Stocks Fall Sharply: US stocks closed sharply lower at multi-week lows on Wednesday, with the S&P 500 falling 1.6%, the Nasdaq declining 2%, and the Dow Jones plunging 953 points. Investor sentiment weakened as renewed tensions in the Middle East drove oil prices higher. (TradingEconomics)
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