“…what if nearly half of the lithium used in the U.S. could come from Pennsylvania wastewater?
A new analysis using compliance data from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection suggests that if it could be extracted with complete efficiency, lithium from the wastewater of Marcellus shale gas wells could supply up to 40% of the country’s demand.
Already, researchers in the lab can extract lithium from water with more than 90% efficiency according to Justin Mackey, a researcher at the National Energy Technology Laboratory and PhD student in the lab of Daniel Bain, associate professor of geology and environmental sciences in the Kenneth P. Dietrich School of Arts and Sciences.
[…]
There are lithium mining operations in the U.S., but, Mackey said, “This is different. This is a waste stream and we’re looking at a beneficial use of that waste.”
Finding lithium in the wastewater in Marcellus shale wasn’t a surprise: Researchers had analyzed the water recycled in hydraulic fracking and knew that it picked up minerals and elements from the shale. “But there hadn’t been enough measurements to quantify the resource,” Mackey said. We just didn’t know how much was in there.””
https://www.pitt.edu/pittwire/features-articles/gas-well-wastewater-lithium
What we all need to discuss is that SO much of kyc - even Bitcoin-only company kyc - involves outsourcing live-video & audio feeds to third-party organizations that are shadowy beyond shadow.
I personally experienced this in early years with Celsius, and it shook me so much I withdrew my sats. 3 weeks before they pulled the rug out from so many people.
KYC is a no-go. A line in the sand. Because it never ends.
A not so friendly reminder from Gen X - the last Generation to claim their own name, btw:
THIS is the future of Bitcoin. Let this sink in.
Do you think you can defeat the Behemoth?
Good luck. The Behemoth has existed far, far longer than you, has shaped how you think. Bitcoin is the game-changer, but you don’t even understand the playing field they’ve created.
The war isn’t a war. It’s a global mind-game, and memes aren’t stronger than cops with stun-grenades.
Segregate your non-kyc. Be prepared to give up your kyc.
We’re at war, and we’re not going to win this by without meathead idiots at your house with guns. So prepare for that, prepare for that 10x. It’s going to happen.
If I don’t dismiss this too negligently…this may be the greatest post ever. nostr:note1sqdshzpzq0rr8kz0hg65pxuf9sxaj9sk2m52nj0zvdu4lgglnhnqx4pnt7
The child is never traumatized by the “inidents”, right?
Tell me how you were traumatized by it…? This is a safe space, where you can want to throttle your children….
Agree.
I’ve spent 20+ years agonizing about a “Plan B”, debating how ridiculous that actually was. So many years of genuine justification.
But America is a banana republic now. And I don’t see a path forward where it won’t descend further.
I thought hiding out in small-town MidWest America would suffice. Not anymore.
I truly believe, now, that’s it’s “flee Nazi Germany” time.
Don’t let your child’s memoir be a fugue you were responsible for.
“Hold on hold on hold on…
Fiat did WHAT again last night?” 
Giraffes are the GOAT.
Fuck Hedgehogs and chinchillas and koalas especially, those pieces of shit.
Giraffes won, in every event.
*old school mic drop*
Might wanna re-think that name before you break big.
Herpes and all, for those of us in the West.
If you give your “unfollowing” the benefit of time will you see increasingly disparate results? Maybe there’s a user-based lag.
I agree with your thesis though…it’s like Elections. If Elections happen in a black box, they’re not elections. At all. Period, no argument.
So authenticity is the way forward, for those who wish to build.
Trying to send sats via Lightning from Blue wallet to Blink (Bitcoin Beach) wallet.
It’s not being allowed.
I’m in the US, so Blink is not allowed, but I’m using a vpn from Canada.
Is it because my Blue Wallet connect to my Lightning node is in the US?
Shouldn’t be a factor since it’s Tor, but can’t figure out how I’m being censored.
As someone who’s done work like this, Respect!
What you’ve posted may one day be the opposite of the Laszlo Pizza post! I hope.
My most singular Hope right now is not Bitcoin.
It’s that the Deep State - or whatever term you might use for it - has become so widespread that it is the new Rome. About to collapse into itself.
Not America. The US-based Deep State.
There are only so many sociopaths in the world to keep it going.
And at this point, most of the honest, naive chumps who comprise these organizations are aware of having been duped by the fiat 3-card Monte shenanigans they’re involved in, and are quietly quitting.
The younger generation seems to be pushing back against the propaganda of the Western World.
They will get crushed. Sorry for the cynicism.
But it’s possible they’ll become the self-same “Gaza” that they were inspired by.
The fight against the global criminal deep State is going to be world-wrenching. We will all succumb to grief over the next few years.
We will lose Bitcoiners we know and love and didn’t think would get taken from us.
I hope I’m wrong, but the tide of History carries us all along. No one is to blame for the past. Yet we must all stand to testify for what happens now.
Bitcoiners will be broken on the wheel. That is going to happen. The powers that literally rule the world have been exposed by Bitcoin, and will scorch the Earth to capture Bitcoin.
It’s not about stopping Bitcoin anymore, it’s about Capturing it from all of us who’ve Hodled for the last x-many years. They want to frighten us, attack us, criminalize us, and in every way FORCE us to sell our Bitcoin to them. Because they have infinite Fiat to capture our escape-valve…our tiny chance at true Revolution.
Training is over. Forget convincing the idiot no-coiners. We’re at full battle readiness right now. Focus on YOUR op-sec, YOUR field tactics and outreach, YOUR inheritance plan.
Know that you will receive NOTICES!!! from the fiat shit-lords about how you have to declare your hodlings. You will be shaken to your core, you may even be taken into custody.
Get yourself Right with Satoshi. Get your shit into self-custody, not in your bedroom, get your loved ones familiar with how to recover. This is a huge task, we all have faced it, but it’s never been go-time before this time in our lives.
As early Bitcoiners advised, Bitcoin was created to bring this war about. The path through this war is to understand and stay true to Bitcoin.
I’m only posting this because I believe that soon there will be many, many losses. And then the pants-shitting will begin.
The pant-shitting is why troops need Leaders, and why Leaders need Generals.
And why every revolutionary movement needs more than just a Plan A…It needs a clear Plan B.
Umbrel had a huge update a couple weeks ago…I needed to re-flash.
Thanks so much for your offer of customer service.
Genuinely appreciated!!! nostr:note1wpsnl6aeetcvm6afp5ndedlhrfxutrue0haxth9esma4ze75qf9q3azykg
I agree.
But I’m not afraid to admit that I’m scared.
I don’t want to risk my family’s wealth on being “too smart by half”.
We have so much truth behind us, but also so much risk ahead.
We have Plan B’s,still we want to stand firm.
Yet when the artillery hits us - hits us all - for real, will we have a battle plan then?
That’s what I worry about.
We’re up against a machine that has ground-down COUNTLESS “insurgencies”.
Bitcoiner’s need to get serious about hodling long-term, verses selling in fear. And I don’t think we are.
The deep-state doesn’t actually want to imprison us, imo, they want us to sell or give our BTC to them. They want the Bitcoin. That’s the end-goal.
They’ll use KYC to force cap-gains taxes on everyone who bought on an exchange (which Michael Saylor will likely be a willing partisan to).
They’ll vilify Bitcoin across the Western world, turning our families against us, labeling us “terrorists” or “racists” or whatever. And the no-coiners will WELCOME this.
The war has just begun.
We will become the target for every Evil that they themselves have perpetrated. That’s their stock in trade. They blame others for what they themselves are doing. Normal people are never prepared to deal with Sociopaths. That’s what Sociopaths count upon.
And yes, we will win. But Bitcoiners pretend they’re ready for war.
Few of us are battle-hardened for what is happening now, myself included.
When the arrests continue, how many will wave the white flag, and comply?
How many will give over their cold-storage vs going to jail? And does that depend on pre-planning to have your cold-wallet outside your home, and your family knows where to find it and how to access it?
Very very few of us I fear are ready for this.
Yet this is the line we now need to draw as human beings.
I Am Greek Orthodox! nostr:note16s7zw33yh6pwg0hgj4gtucf3vw546lamrch2qgxrzeyw5hn3xwasd2qkfv
Keep calm and HODL #Bitcoin.
Everyone seems to be overreacting to the Samourai arrests, the FBI PSA, and Phoenix leaving the US. Here's my attempt to break it down.
Samourai
You have to unpack all of the different elements. Could this be a state attack on self-custody and privacy? Maybe. Probably not.
There are a few components here that need to be evaluated on their own.
1⃣ Samourai was a self-custodial wallet
2⃣ Samourai was a mixer
3⃣ Samourai was providing normal people with privacy
4⃣ Samourai were knowingly marketing the service to criminals and flaunting that fact
Reading the charges, it seems like #4 is pretty cut and dry for this case. Their getting arrested for #4, doesn't automatically mean #1, #2, #3 are under siege as well. If Samourai was a taco stand laundering money and bragging about it, I'm sure they would be taken down too.
They may be accused of running a money transmitter now, but that may or may not stick. We'll find out in the trial.
All that said, we should always be vigilant to attempts to erode privacy and the ability to self-custody. It just does not seem that this fight is *that* fight.
FBI PSA
Seems pretty normal that the FBI would advise people to use compliant services, and the entire announcement seems to revolve around potential disruptions due to Samourai being taken down, and potentially others in the future. Given they took action, they have to post some bulletin about it.
Remember that when people lose funds or have funds stolen from them, they do go to the FBI for help. From their point of view, the best thing for people to do is use compliant services where they can potentially help.
The announcement concludes saying that services that purposely break the law will be investigated - so again we go back to #4 above. This is nothing new, and self-custody is not being criminalized.
Phoenix Leaving
As nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m said, it's feels completely unnecessary. Phoenix obviously is not a MSB and they are not doing anything illegal. In my view, their exit from the US app stores is a complete overreaction.
Keep Calm
Could "they" come after wallets, developers, mixers, nodes, LSPs, sidechains, eCash, VPNs, encryption, etc? It's totally possible. But if you're not breaking the law, you have nothing to worry about.
To my knowledge, there is still rule of law in the US, property rights are still protected, and privacy is enshrined in the Bill of Rights (nostr:npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu).
It would be very difficult to change the law or stretch it to incriminate these things because it's all just information and software, which is speech. Some will try. But as they are trying, #Bitcoin is becoming more and more mainstream and integral to the world's financial system.
#Bitcoin is freedom technology and it will continue on.
Go outside this weekend and think about why you're here.
I’m here to fight the criminal government that hates me. Your explanations of “law” which we all know don’t exist anymore are sad. But I get it. But I don’t
Why are you here?
To make money? You’ve made yours. What about those of us who NEED Bitcoin?
It’s an honest question.
Cannot say how much I appreciate this initial, well thought-out response.
I think it’s important in these things to remain cognizant, knowledgeable, and also to keep in mind that Fiat money will always incentivize the Obfuscation of things. In other words, systems designed to defend privacy can and will be attacked a million ways to Sunday in ways that “obey the rules”.
Every Revolution is a breaking of the chains of enslavement. Literally. Period. End of Sentence.
If you consider yourself a Bitcoiner, you’re now at war. There’s no middle-ground anymore. It’s go-time. Shit or get off the pot. Let this sink in if you haven’t already.
Samurai wasn’t the straw, it was just another straw. They’re coming for us. All of us. And they know who you are.
We need to decide now what our response is.
Fight, Freeze, Flight.
Those are the choices in matters such as this. nostr:note1den70hpaptvzcstyq5uvfjcaa7cax06th9wtjvt06epra37pqdpq96n3yw
I’ve been running Zeus on my phone via my node for, I dunno, two years or so right now.
It’s just what I want.
When people tempt me to other “wallets” I’m like “so this lets me circumnavigate the system…?”