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Branta wishes you all a Happy New Year!
2025 was a defining year for freedom and prosperity.
At its center, sound money.
More individuals, families, and businesses are opting into health and freedom, and using the best tools available to do so.
The future is not given, it's built.
In 2025, we:
• Announced zero-knowledge address verification
• Added over 20 businesses to the Branta network
• Verified our first nostr:nprofile1qy8hwumn8ghj76rfwpehgu3wvdaqzrthwden5te0dehhxtnvdakqqg96dyzxdu3l4gufz4cvpguws8g2n7z200x8jeedr8g6hvhuzy2k7q45pl3m transaction
• Integrated with takemySATS ( nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmvqyt8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnp0faxzmt09ehx2aqqyzssyc9z4ghsjtv9utqtst54atzl33sw5xwx3eyfsuvmtrx25glruq2f47h ), nostr:nprofile1qyxhwumn8ghj7cnjvghxjme0qyt8wumn8ghj7etyv4hzumn0wd68ytnvv9hxgtcqyzjnd2cl0u7qzva64k7lgu4343adfdm5a4pjcxvf9pqex4e83z72qngxhfg, nostr:nprofile1qy28wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hsz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wsqzpsa8jpl8y3pzx6hvtas5jjg56j2mhgyfs39zmqs03zy7l03wd9kjwr5klr, and other payment gateways
• Announced partnership and investment from nostr:nprofile1qyv8wctn8ghj7un9d3shjtnwda6x7umgdyh8w6tw9uq36amn8ghj7erjv9nk7mnp9e6xserydeejumn9wsar2dfkxqhsqgy40cfd7cnvgc87rhk7lme0rnrhgt6989r3jsx6hcjetkqze24ynqvyt2m4, OGs from 2014
• Broke ground on e2e transactions via wallet integrations, announcing soon
• Grew the team and attended 10+ conferences
… and had countless conversations with great folks building in the industry.
In 2025, we made it easy for businesses to opt in to private address verification; meaning users can rest easy against Man-In-The-Middle attacks.
Malware has no place in our future.
2026 will be even bigger.
More freedom, more prosperity.
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#Bitcoin BTC/SEK hourly price
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1 BTC: 832,411 sek | 24hr: 2.67%
1 SEK: 120 sats
Market cap: 16,584,249,297,892 sek
Updated: 2026-01-02 | 18:02 CET
The era of "Install unknown apps" is fading.
Google is erecting a digital border. By 2026, mandatory "Developer Verification" will turn sideloading into a bureaucratic gauntlet.
We are moving from "Trust the User" to "Verify the Developer."
GrapheneOS is no longer just a privacy tool. It is a structural necessity to own your hardware.
Here is the full analysis of the coming closure.
🇺🇸 English Article (Nostr): https://primal.net/Alien-Investor/the-great-closure-how-android-2026-buries-free-sideloading
🇩🇪 Deutscher Artikel (Blog): https://alien-investor.org/Android-Zwang.html
is social media about niche marketing campaigns
everyone has their own boutique firm
your special interests and causes are your accounts
It is not obvious how to get my profile set up. nostr:npub1vygzr642y6f8gxcjx6auaf2vd25lyzarpjkwx9kr4y752zy6058s8jvy4e
[ soapbox-pub/shakespeare ] Fix Lightning payment flow
https://github.com/soapbox-pub/shakespeare/commit/b9e5a2f3c2bbfd414f077816f5e0572131249ed7
mimics Bitcoin maxi eschatology: inevitable, superior to every alternative, everyone will use it eventually, it will reshape the world... cringe, fake, gay and intellectually dishonest discourse.
The default is a random number between 30 and 70 I believe.
Probably even lower is good enough, but 50 is solid.
Look at this bacon from our two home slaughtered pigs.
We got over 20 kilos of that now.
This is what they took from us, but we took it back💪
Well done for not smoking around your daughter 🤝
[ besoeasy/file-drop ] fix: improve reliability of CID pinning by removing streaming progress updates
https://github.com/besoeasy/file-drop/commit/74b9644cafe1d9a68b21205d9862852f0e2970c3
🧑🚀 **Astronaut Spotlight**
🌟 **Name**: Chris Hadfield
🏷️ **Status**: Retired
📖 **Bio**: Chris Austin Hadfield is a Canadian retired astronaut, engineer, and former Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot.
The first Canadian to walk in space, Hadfield has flown two space shuttle missions and served as commander of the International Space Station.
#Astronauts #SpaceHeroes
Awesome comment 😯🔥, nostr:nprofile1qqs2jmm88csnz8ww0j4usq63vjx9y3hannmevgkwu5e8qa388f3fsjqpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqpr3mhxue69uhkummnw3ezucnfw33k76twv4ezuum0vd5kzmq2tm94z
you gave me inspiration 😊
Amen😁, I would add this (for a little bit more depth, because of your amazing comment)
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I see OLD TECHNOLOGY and system as a sword, and in the hands of the complacent, it is wielded by the oppressor.
We are witnessing the architecture of a new world (= new era), one built with the tools of decentralization that promise freedom from the choke points of the few powerful top 1% elites these systems (on the Blockchain)
by design can resist censorship and political attack, offering
Some interesting events to watch for in the night skies this month. 🔭🐈⬛
Bitcoin address distribution is wild 🐟🦈🐋
53,192,791 plankton wallets hold <0.1 BTC… together just 1.61%.
Meanwhile 17,459 sharks (100–1,000 BTC) sit on 25.97%, and only 82 humpbacks (10k–100k) hold 11.02%.
Lesson: scarcity concentrates, but the swarm is how adoption spreads. Stack sats, stay sovereign 🧡
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#Bitcoin BTC/Gold hourly price
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1 BTC: 20.89 oz | 24hr: 2.81%
1 oz Gold: 4,786,979 sats
Bitcoin marketcap: 1.8 trillion USD
Gold marketcap: 30.2 trillion USD
Bitcoin Vs Gold marketcap: 6.0%
Updated: 2026-01-02 | 17:01 UTC