AI agents shouldn't get the full key to your kingdom. Today we're releasing Nunchuk CLI: create a shared Bitcoin wallet with your agent, give it a spending budget, and keep the final say. Build Bitcoin agents with bounded authority.

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The purpose of crypto is to build a code-based order, because the rules-based order is unfortunately collapsing. That code-based order covers some of what international law once protected. It guarantees property rights, smart contracts, rule-of-code, privacy, secure voting, and user accounts across borders. Even in the face of debanking and denaturalization, the code-based order means you retain your onchain currency and onchain identity. It is true that the crypto networks that buttress the code-based order are supported in significant part by finance and lotteries. But all 50 states of the US are also supported by finance and lotteries. The question is whether the world gets something better, on balance, for that cost. As nationalism and socialism rise, the code-based order ensures that international capitalism continues. Anyone from anywhere has equality of opportunity on the Internet. You can sign a smart contract across borders with someone without knowing (or needing to know) their race, religion, accent, ancestry, or other likely irrelevant attributes. Similarly, as more companies leave failing states like Delaware and California…the code-based order will protect these corporate refugees. The entities themselves and all their contracts can now be put onchain. They can dock in country X and move to country Y at the press of a button. Redomiciliation becomes as common as incorporation. Moreover, as the politically disfavored emigrate from communist states, the code-based order also protects their property and identity via cryptography. And, if all goes well, it also adds a layer of unbreakable privacy. In short: the West is entering a period of failing states just as the East sees the rise of the all-powerful state. The balance to both of these is the code-based order that Satoshi laid the foundations for. That’s what cryptocurrency was built for. If and when your state fails, or turns against you, the Internet will be there for you.

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I was one of the early users of the Internet back in 1993, I've been part of 3 tech companies that exited, and helped another 4 achieve exits. I've personally seen close to 1000 different technology ideas pitched over a 20 year period. But nothing, including the Internet comes remotely close to Bitcoin and Bitcoin mining, which are by some distance the most innovative and promising technologies for humanity in the last 100 years. Nothing else comes remotely close. Bitcoin mining is incentivizing renewable energy, mitigating methane, stabilizing grids, obviating gas peaker plants around the world at a pace that almost no other climate technologies have been able to replicate even across one sector source: x.com/DSBatten/status/200935… Bitcoin's usecases are not simply about more efficiency convenience or faster commerce, but existential need: it is already helping 100s of millions of people around the world who before bitcoin were stuck with high inflation and hyperinflation, unbanked, or lived in autocratic regimes source: x.com/DSBatten/status/183387… Bitcoin is also the first technology I've ever seen that helps the Global South first, the West second (which is why so many in the West don't see it's utility: ie, a lack of empathy and imagination on the part of the evaluator, not a lack of value in Bitcoin) It's the most inspirational technology I've seen in 20 years of technology investment by some distance across a range of social and environmental metrics. But, as with all other disruptive technologies, you'll unthinkingly retort things that make you look stupid in years to come if your source of information on Bitcoin is either : a. the media (who have a 100% perfect track-record of dismissing every disruptive technology since the Telegraph) b. other people who have also not used or researched Bitcoin (of which a. above is a subset) The predominant media narratives on Bitcoin typically have only one common denominator: stupidity. As soon as one stupid narrative fails ("will use all the world's energy", a new stupid narrative like "uses a swimming pool of water" is already in the queue to replace it. Once that is debunked, another stupid narrative will replace that. The narratives are never true, but they are funny, and they do fool people tend to have poor filters for information quality. Would you have been one of the laggards who trusted the opinions of others about the Internet who had never used it, or would you have talked to people who used it and then tried it yourself? Rather than digesting new flavors of stupid from the media and others who have never used Bitcoin, you could try this crazy wacky idea: listen to the opinions of people who have used actually Bitcoin and know something about it. Paul Krugman saying "The Internet will be no more valuable than the fax machine" in 2005 was a statement about the value of his opinion, not the value of the Internet Similarly, the opinions of those who have never studied, never used, or have a vested interest in opposing Bitcoin are a statement about the value of their opinions, not the value of Bitcoin. Onwards!

Fixed my timeline. Muted Clawdbot, Moltbot and OpenClaw.

It seems so bad right now. Articles on here are good in theory - but, it’s a wasteland full of meaningless walls of text.

Dead ass accurate

So my wife HATED the terminal. Finally convinced her to try Claude Code. I now present to you her dashboard for the chickens: thecluckingtimes.com/ Satirical news empire? Check. Covering the royal court of Hensington Palace? Yup. Run by intrepid reporter Clucky with live-ish stats, egg gossip, actual poetry (yes really), and peak chicken chaos? Obviously. This is next-level coop content.

Bitcoin infinite rabbit hole

I genuinely cannot believe a BED stops working because of an amazon outage. the jokes are literally writing themselves.

Nice read. Can't wait for the rest.