This could be evidence of global warming.

Even if I don’t agree with everything in this video, it shows how a demurrage currency #Freicoin keeps money circulating instead of being hoarded. Systems like the Chiemgauer... it can actively support regional economies. youtube.com/watch?v=WzijH3lg…

Four day Easter weekend in the UK. Getting started on Feathercoin 0.21 to add Taproot. Feathercoin has a bit of catching up to do. I''ll post running updates on Telegram. t.me/FeathercoinOfficial #Feathercoin #FTC #Bitcoin #BTC

“Cow farts are destroying the planet.” 🤷‍♂️

#Freicoin is one of the most underrated experiments in crypto and in many ways it tackles problems Bitcoin can’t or doesn’t want to touch in my opinion. Here’s why the Freicoin design is still fascinating for me: ➕ Demurrage Freicoin applies a small negative interest to idle coins. Sounds scary at first, but it solves a real problem: money should circulate, not sit in cold wallets forever. This pushes capital into productive use instead of endless hoarding ➕ Continuous funding for miners Unlike Bitcoin, which relies on a subsidy that trends to zero, Freicoin redirects demurrage fees to miners. A long-term, self-sustaining security model... not dependent on unpredictable fee markets ➕ Stronger economic incentives Demurrage encourages real economic activity: spending, lending, building, investing. Money becomes a tool not a trophy ➕ Fairer distribution & less plutocracy Hoarding becomes costly. Influence comes from participation not passive accumulation ➕ Gesell-style monetary design Inspired by Silvio Gesell, Freicoin blends crypto with an economic philosophy focused on velocity and economic health... something Bitcoin intentionally avoids But there are also disadvantages: ➖ Psychological resistance People hate the idea of “losing X%,” even if the system benefits. The term “negative interest” triggers strong emotional reactions many instantly associate it with state intervention, central-bank policy, or even “communism.” ...this makes it harder to communicate that Freicoin’s demurrage is fully algorithmic, decentralized, and not controlled by any authority. Optics matter ➖ Bitcoin culture is anti-demurrage “Number go up” and “never sell” dominate crypto. Freicoin goes the opposite way ➖ Communication is harder Explaining demurrage is more complex than explaining a fixed cap ➖ Store-of-value trade-off If saving is your only goal, demurrage feels like a penalty My personal note: It honestly took me a long time to understand all this. What really pushed me into researching Freicoin deeply was discovering the local Chiemgauer a regional currency from 2003, originally created as a student project, using the same principle of demurrage. That was the moment I realized how powerful (and misunderstood) this mechanism really is So what do you think... do these advantages outweigh the trade-offs or is demurrage fundamentally incompatible with crypto? Curious to hear your view...

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You want to know what “decentralized” really means? It’s not some slogan to shout in a conference hall or the name of a YouTube channel. #decentralised means not needing to beg an exchange for permission to spend your own money. It means no middlemen standing between you and the person you’re transacting with, clipping a fee, demanding KYC, or locking your account because someone sneezed in compliance. It means digital cash — peer to peer, direct, immediate, final. That’s what it was built to be. It doesn’t mean Lightning Networks and custodial nodes pretending to be freedom while rebuilding the same financial towers they claimed to tear down. It doesn’t mean liquidity providers and watchtowers and federated hubs. That’s not liberty; that’s regression with better branding. And as for miners — they’re not priests guarding morality. They don’t know who you are, they don’t need to. They verify, they process, they get paid. Just like a cash register doesn’t need to know your birth certificate to make change. That’s the beauty of it. No identity, no authority, no permission. Lightning turns all of that back into control — contracts, intermediaries, and surveillance wrapped up in techno-babble. It’s not a revolution. It’s a rerun. Instead of the cash system that worked, we’re handed another pyramid where “trustless” means trusting someone else’s node to stay online. #DigitalCash #NotYourNodeNotYourMoney #PeerToPeer Try real Bitcoin... real cash.

Wer 5,5 Stunden pro Monat in Deutschland arbeitet, bekommt Kindergeld (255€ monatlich) überwiesen - auch ins Ausland, ohne Angleichung an die Kaufkraft. In Bulgarien ist das Geld dann fast drei Mal so viel wert wie hier. Lanz, 14.10.2025, ZDF

Who is Bitcoin Core's largest contributor? Chaincode Labs. Balaji Srinivasan, co-founder of Palintir, and one of Citrea 's founders, funneled $500,000 through Chaincode Labs to spur development. In return, Bitcoin Core has identified Citrea as the Schelling point for the removal of OPRETURN limits. Who is behind Citrea? People like Eric Wall aka Taproot Wizards. Jameson Lopp. Peter Thiel. Mike Novagratz (remember Luna?), Erik Vorhees, and a numerous cast of Bitcoin Maxis (JK, no Bitcoin Maxis here). What does Citrea want to do? Create an Ethereum Virtual Machine with Ethereum like smart contract using ZK rollups. I'm glad Core is so committed to building on Bitcoin.

I'm a libertarian who started his own social media company from scratch. It grew to ~45-50 million monthly active users in 2022 before getting sued out of existence by the United States government.

🤖 BREAKING: Goldcoin Becomes World's First AI-Autonomous Cryptocurrency We're making history. By 2027, Goldcoin will operate 100% autonomously - ZERO human control. The plan: ✅ 1.1 BILLION GLC fund secured (100-year runway) ✅ AI already completing our Qt 6.9 migration ✅ 2026: AI manages 90% of development ✅ 2027: Complete human independence Why this matters: • Bug fixes in seconds, not days • Features deployed in hours, not months • 24/7/365 development at AI speed • No politics. No delays. No human error. Since 2013, we've proven our tech: • 1,120 transactions per second • Zero fees • 2-minute confirmations • 32MB blocks Now we're proving the future: A cryptocurrency that evolves forever, beyond human limitations. Read the revolutionary whitepaper: github.com/goldcoin/wiki/wik… This isn't an upgrade. It's evolution. Welcome to the age of autonomous money. #Goldcoin #AI #Cryptocurrency #Blockchain #AutonomousFuture #GLC "In Code We Trust, In AI We Evolve" 🚀

The community has been patient and loyal for 12 years! And the time has finally come where we're taking this puppy into the upper atmosphere. Hold on to your tinfoil hat, the rockets are on the launch pad and the weather forecast says All Clear!🚀🚀🚀 $GLC #operationFishBowl

[DEV ALERT!] New Goldcoin client coming down the pipe this week! v0.16.0 This will be a recommended update with refactored codebase that will rock your web socket! As promised, totally team AI (5) generated and now the most modern crypto wallet in the entire world !!

When you consider that growth compounds, the substantially lower growth rate in Europe means within a generation there will be a material discrepancy in living standards between Europeans and wealthy countries. The wealthy elite of Europe may not notice, but the average European will be far worse off. This discrepancy is what regulators have stolen from Europe's future, in order to ingratiate themselves with altruistic accolades in the present.

Dear LBRYians, We updated our protocol page again. For some however, those protocols may seem too abstract, and building new software from scratch can feel daunting. Fortunately, contributing to LBRY doesn't require starting from zero; you can leverage the software that is already available. Curious about how to get started? Check out our new tutorials at lbry.tech/tutorials. Stay tuned for more updates! Ben CTO at The LBRY Foundation

It's the perfect time for LBRY.com corporate to open back up. 🚀

Dear LBRYians, It has taken a while, but today we added the protocol page on LBRY.tech: lbry.tech/protocols. This page contains a list of LBRY protocols that have been recently documented. More protocols to follow soon. We would like to encourage you to take a look, give feedback, but most importantly, build amazing new software with it. Stay tuned for more. Ben CTO at The LBRY Foundation