RT Arthur "Filterboy" van Pelt 🔥 ∞/21M ⚡ (@Arthur_van_Pelt)There's no Bitcoin v30.0. What you probably mean is Bitcoin 'Core' v30.0 which is a hostile attempt to change Bitcoin from an Electronic Cash System into a data spam Dropbox with an Ethereum style token on the side.Bitcoiners don't run Core v30.0.Bitcoiners run Knots. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)When Odysseus and his soldiers left Troy victorious, they wanted nothing more than a speedy journey home to rejoin with their families. Then a storm blew them off path to the island of the Lotus Eaters. The Lotus Eaters tempted them in the most pleasant and compelling ways to stay on their island, forget about their voyage, forget about their families. The soldiers were only able to resume their voyage to reunite with their families by strong exercise of their willpower.Like Homer ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@Loft_Tek @ParvizMalakouti @bramk Yes, Bitcoin (and blockchains generally) have a lot of potential to improve when it comes to secure self-custody, familial custody, and similar arrangements. ...

RT Salur Kazan (@Loft_Tek)@NickSzabo4 @ParvizMalakouti @bramk The 'second phase' of this revolution may not be just about money, but building a trust-minimized UX layer for intuitive self-custody and frictionless transactions. ...

RT The SCIF (@TheSCIF)Never forget that the CIA drew up plans to assassinate JULIAN ASSANGE for releasing truthful information and authorized going after his colleagues, wife, and even his infant son.They also targeted his wife and infant son, who had a permanent CIA tag who followed her everywhere, and were even tasked to collect his infant son's DNA from his "nappy."They went through years of harassment, theft, hacking attempts, and even the planting of false information.Lastly, since some of the informat ...

RT Drop Site (@DropSiteNews)⭕️ BREAKING: UN Committee Against Torture: Israel now has a “de facto State policy of organized and widespread torture and ill-treatment” that has “gravely intensified” since October 7.The UN Committee is made up of ten independent UN experts and periodically monitors states’ compliance with the Convention against Torture, issuing binding assessments of state conduct. Their latest findings of Israel’s conduct include repeated severe beatings, dog attacks, electrocution, waterboar ...

RT Zachary Foster (@_ZachFoster)The Electronic Intifada has learned that judge Martin Chamberlain, an expert on free speech law, was abruptly replaced by a judge with ties to the pro-Israel lobby in the case considering Palestine Action's legal challenge to the ban.A similar unusual & last minute judge swap happened earlier this year in the case led by Palestinian human rights group @alhaq_org against the British government for its role in exporting F-35 bomber parts to Israel.The pro-genocide lobby has cap ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Everything has its flaws, nothing is above criticism, and certainly not a currency that has died. Surely some autopsy should be in order, and why would one not be critical of the causes of death of something once so valuable?As for me blogging on gold, if you'll indulge adding a couple other monetary elements in that column of the periodic table:https://t.co/pOZxwUC23E ...

RT Parviz پرویز Malakouti-Fitzgerald (@ParvizMalakouti)@NickSzabo4 @bramk Perhaps the lesson is that even good forms of money need vigilance to protect from capture or degradation by nation-states or whatever dominant political entity eventually takes their place. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)It also highlights the crucial issue of theft resistance. Poor theft resistance was one of gold's Achilles' heels, leading to its partial replacement by bills of exchange for high-value transfers among merchants. That and the speed of telegraphy led to the dominance of telegraphic wire transfers, which further centralized gold into bank vaults.Bitcoin is obviously far better than gold in speed of non-local transfers and in terms of validation/assay, but is, without further work an ...