Sabotaging Bitcoin

https://blog.dshr.org/2025/12/sabotaging-bitcoin.html

#HackerNews #Sabotaging #Bitcoin #cryptocurrency #blockchain #security #innovation #economic #impact

Today #OpenStreetMap received an incredibly generous 2 BTC #Bitcoin donation - Thank you so much! ₿❤️🙏

Around this time last year, a 1 BTC gift made a real difference in keeping our servers and services running. 2026 looks extremely challenging with rapidly rising hardware costs.

If you'd like to support OSM via Bitcoin: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Bitcoin ❤️🗺️

Other donations methods:
https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate

Today #OpenStreetMap received an incredibly generous 2 BTC #Bitcoin donation - Thank you so much! ₿❤️🙏

Around this time last year, a 1 BTC gift made a real difference in keeping our servers and services running. 2026 looks extremely challenging with rapidly rising hardware costs.

If you'd like to support OSM via Bitcoin: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Donate/Bitcoin ❤️🗺️

Other donations methods:
https://supporting.openstreetmap.org/donate

The year-end plunge in cryptocurrencies has rattled companies that had bet heavily on bitcoin, sending share prices tumbling and reviving fears of a bubble. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/12/28/bitcoint-bets-backfire/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #bitcoin #cryptocurrency #investments

Are cryptocurrencies a genuine innovation capable of serving the common good, or a speculative threat to financial and social stability? https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/26/world/crypto-opportunity-or-threat/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #ethereum #stablecoin #federalreserve #commodityfuturestradingcommission #securitiesandexchangecommission

@jbz

#Monero, the #Juicero of money.

I like that they advertise that their #BitCoin knockoff is "fungible," which is the technical way of saying, "not an N.F.T.," or "works like money."

@ben “ #Bitcoin (and other #crypto currencies) is like rat poison squared.” - Warren Buffett

The other day I stumbled on a BitCoin ATM in a convenience store, operated by CoinFlip;

https://coinflip.tech/en-NZ

So that's a thing.

#crypto #BitCoin #CoinFlip

#ICYMI, from our magazine: “Bitcoin miners in general, if you map out across the United States, this is my opinion, are taking advantage of small #rural communities that don’t have the wherewithal to fight back.” https://www.texasobserver.org/crypto-energy-grid-texas-bitcoin-water/

#bitcoin #environment #ClimateChange #water #politics #USpol #news #energy #tech #crypto #Texas

this story about Benjamin Mauerberger, a south african #crypto bro and card carrying member of the chinese #mafia who made so much money via #pigbutchering and other crypto scams that he managed to co-opt a large part of #Thailand's government (to say nothing of #Cambodia and #Myanmar) is nuts.

if you’re wondering about the dark forces driving the current war between thailand and cambodia, this is one of those forces.

https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/americas-new-enemy-the-chinese-crypto-cartel-buying-states-to-fight-the-u-s-2/

#sapol #southafrica #whaleHunting #triads #organizedcrime #ChineseMafia #pigbutchering #ASEAN #scams #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #princeGroup #huione

In this interview for Deep Focus, I talked to Keonne Rodriguez, an American software designer and co-founder of #samouraiwallet, who was fined millions of dollars and sentenced to five years in federal prison by the U.S. Justice Department for allegations of creating source code for an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. #bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft_WgUh56xw

Worth reading this security disclosure from Blockstream about Jade. It is a good example of why transparency matters in Bitcoin and open source security. No system is perfect, but honest disclosure, fixes and clear communication build real trust over time.

https://blog.blockstream.com/jade-security-disclosure/

#Bitcoin #Security #HardwareWallet #OpenSource #Transparency

Worth reading this security disclosure from Blockstream about Jade. It is a good example of why transparency matters in Bitcoin and open source security. No system is perfect, but honest disclosure, fixes and clear communication build real trust over time.

https://blog.blockstream.com/jade-security-disclosure/

#Bitcoin #Security #HardwareWallet #OpenSource #Transparency

In this interview for Deep Focus, I talked to Keonne Rodriguez, an American software designer and co-founder of #samouraiwallet, who was fined millions of dollars and sentenced to five years in federal prison by the U.S. Justice Department for allegations of creating source code for an unlicensed money-transmitting business, and conspiracy to commit money laundering. #bitcoin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ft_WgUh56xw

@molly0xfff “ #Bitcoin (and other #crypto currencies) is like rat poison squared.” - Warren Buffett

@TheConversationUS “ #Bitcoin (and other #crypto currencies) is like rat poison squared.” - Warren Buffett

#ICYMI, from our magazine: “Bitcoin miners in general, if you map out across the United States, this is my opinion, are taking advantage of small #rural communities that don’t have the wherewithal to fight back.” https://www.texasobserver.org/crypto-energy-grid-texas-bitcoin-water/

#bitcoin #environment #ClimateChange #water #politics #USpol #news #energy #tech #crypto #Texas

this story about Benjamin Mauerberger, a south african #crypto bro and card carrying member of the chinese #mafia who made so much money via #pigbutchering and other crypto scams that he managed to co-opt a large part of #Thailand's government (to say nothing of #Cambodia and #Myanmar) is nuts.

if you’re wondering about the dark forces driving the current war between thailand and cambodia, this is one of those forces.

https://whalehunting.projectbrazen.com/americas-new-enemy-the-chinese-crypto-cartel-buying-states-to-fight-the-u-s-2/

#sapol #southafrica #whaleHunting #triads #organizedcrime #ChineseMafia #pigbutchering #ASEAN #scams #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #princeGroup #huione

Crypto treasury companies — narratives before fundamentals

1. Buy Bitcoin.
2. Hype it up with memes and tweets.
3. Watch the stock price soar (because why not?).

But now, the narrative is broken.
Is this the end of ‘hype capitalism’?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhsrkvEY55s
#CryptoDebate #Bitcoin #Finance #Investing #MemeEconomy

For the #EpsteinFiles curious among you, I really do recommend you read the man's text messages. Especially the text messages to/from Epstein's bestie #SteveBannon. While you're there you can also read about how Jeffrey Epstein was funding the #bitcoin core development team starting from around 2015 at #MIT (possibly until his death).

Also made some improvements to the Epstein text messages page:

- Highlighted important names ("trump", "jabor", "brock", " #bitcoin", " #SaudiArabia", " #Israel", etc)

- Deanonymized (with help) as many of the #Epstein emails as I could manage based on various kinds of clues, including the signature lines.

- Added an "Other Files" section at the bottom with preview text + links to raw files that are neither emails nor iMessage log files.

- Various other forms of analysis (common signatures, author counts, etc)

i'm really enjoying posting screenshots of Bannon inviting Epstein to the movies on Bannon's insane right wing War Room tweets. his audience Really Does Not Like the fact that the two were so close and communicated so much.

* Site: https://michelcrypt4d4mus.github.io/epstein_text_messages/
* Post about some of the more alarming things in the Bannon / Epstein discussions: https://cryptadamus.substack.com/p/i-made-epsteins-text-messages-great

#EpsteinFiles #uspol #Bannon #WarRoom #uspolitics #Trump #MAGA #MBS #middleEast #Gaza #EhudBarak #Mossad #Netanyahu #bitcoin #BTC #crypto #cryptocurrency #Jabor #LarrySummers #WoodyAllen #michaelWolff #MITMediaLab #MediaLab #Harvard