⚡️🛰️ NEW - This Bitcoin mining center is so powerful... it can be seen from space.

Thermal satellites have detected massive heat escaping from the largest crypto mining center in the United States, located in Rockdale, Texas.

The image was revealed by SpaceCom, based on data provided by SatVu, a company specializing in satellite thermal imaging.

The site is said to consume around 700 megawatts of electricity, equivalent to 300,000 American households.

Apparemment en France, il devient difficile de dire « Joyeux Noël », on devrait plutôt dire « bonnes fêtes de fin d’année »ou autres « célébrations qui s’éternisent ».

Je ne sais pas vraiment pourquoi ?

Si ce n’est que certains hurluberlus connards soit disant communistosocialisto Elles Elles Fistent 2 mes Kouïes, font chier à refaire le monde selon leurs biais.

Bref, Joyeux noël et GFY !

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⚡️🏴‍☠️ NEW - Spotify music library scraped by pirate activist group and made available as a torrent.

Includes 86M audio files, now circulating in bulk torrents totaling ~300 terabytes.

Spotify is "actively investigating the incident."

2025.

gm, good people. ☕ Have a great week.

Les BRICS contrôlent 71% des terres rares !!

It's at a point now where it's almost impossible for me to use the "regular" internet. I can't access half the sites. The reason? I care about my digital hygiene and thus use a VPN. Sometimes switching to a different VPN or switching the country of the VPN works; other times it does not. Oh well, I guess I'm not going to watch that video, or read that article, or look at that picture. Whatever.

In addition to that, if I'm not blocked completely, I have to prove that I'm human every step of the way. Captchas, re-captchas, Cloudflare checkboxes, the whole shebang. I am human. I promise. And I am very annoyed. Outright angry, even. I doubt that any robot will ever be as annoyed as I am right now about the current state of the internet.

What annoys me most, actually, is that all these measures don't really work. There's bots everywhere. Robots get access to the stuff anyway, using farms of humans, just like in the good old days of WoW gold farming. The centralized "safety" nets of Cloudflare et al brought down large swaths of the internet multiple times in the last couple of weeks alone, and as things centralize more and more these outages will happen more and more.

I'm very close to breaking up with the legacy internet. I'm human, I can cryptographically prove that I'm human, and I have sats to spend. But the legacy internet doesn't care about that. It cares about farming me and my data, while annoying me to no end. I've been nostr only for a while now, but that was only on the "social media" side. 2026 might be the year where I go nostr-only for everything, or to phrase it slightly differently: permissionless for everything.

No more "are you human?"

No more "I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can't do that."

No more cookie banners, paywalls, and AI slop.

No more being treated like a child.

Even if it means that I'll have to self-host everything.

Even if it means that I'll have to build & maintain stuff myself.

Even if it means that it's a lot of work and pain.

Nothing worth having ever comes easy.

But the easy stuff is not worth having in the first place.

Here's to the year to come, and the new corner of the internet, build on cryptography and webs-of-trust. Real value. Real connections. Real humans.

Here's to nostr.

It appears now that the enshittification of X is absolute and irrevocable – more than it has ever been in the past. It is the poster child for the dead internet theory.

To the bitcoiners who still spend more time there than on nostr, I have a very simple question: why?

Why are you clinging on to the last vestiges of your spent influence like driftwood? It’s over. The music has stopped.

We are proud to announce that Wasabi Wallet v2.7.0 is our first release fully distributed through Nostr.

Instead of relying on GitHub or DNS, clients now receive update notifications directly from notes published by Wasabi’s Nostr public key. This ensures that even in the event of infrastructure outages or black swan scenarios, we can deliver emergency fixes seamlessly.

For users, the update process remains unchanged: smooth, secure, and reliable.

For the project, this marks an important step toward resilience: guaranteeing that users will always be able to securely access their funds with Wasabi, without sacrificing privacy by restoring seeds on less private wallets.

Of course, we also want to thank relay operators for making it possible to implement features like this.

⚡️🇪🇺 NEW - The digital euro is ready... The ECB says it has completed all the technical work to launch the digital euro.

It now depends on political approval from European lawmakers.

"We have done our job."

"Our ambition is to ensure that in the digital age, there is a currency that is the anchor of financial system stability."

- Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB.

Just saw someone wearing a mask while driving alone in their car.

In the year of our lord 2025.

#memes #memestr

Sundays are for adventure

Today is a remote session

Congrats everybody we did it. We killed bitcoin X 😂

Great work 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

JUST IN: Jack Dorsey's Square has begun onboarding merchants to its new bitcoin acceptance experience 🙌

The main reason to reject the notion of not selling your bitcoin is to never allow any institution to even think they can fractionally reserve it.

If you lock it up in collateral for 4 years, you’re letting lenders have a field day.

Salut à toi ami vampire 😉