The would-be chancellor #Merz has failed in the first round of voting. If not even a trillion euros of new debt is enough to put together a communist coalition, the fun is getting too expensive for me. #germany #eu

⚡️🚨 NEW - OpenAI has bought Windsurf for $3 billion.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Michael Saylor's STRATEGY buys 1,895 Bitcoin for $180.3 million

(an average of $95,167 per BTC)

I am surprised people still value this guys’ opinion. Staying humble & stacking sats

⚡️🚨 ALERT - Fiverr CEO says "AI is coming for your jobs. Heck, it’s coming for my job too."

⚡️🚨 NEWS - "AGI Is Coming, Society's Not Ready"

Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis warns that Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) could arrive within 5–10 years, yet society remains unprepared for its transformative impact.

He advocates for proactive global collaboration to ensure AGI benefits humanity.

As a layman Bitcoiner, I don’t know if it’s just hysteria or a real issue? I know I don’t like the idea of change unless absolutely necessary though

⚡️🇫🇷 ALERT - It's official. In France, mixers and privacy coins are now considered by default as an indicator of suspicious activity. The law has been adopted.

The Rubicon has been crossed.

If you don't want to reveal your wallet holdings with every payment, you're guilty of money laundering by default.

396 votes against 68, with main opposition from the Parti de la France Insoumise ...

In other words, there are 396 people whose existence relies on the taxes of the French who have decided overnight that you're criminals by default if you use Lightning, ZKPs, and loads of other technologies that "enable the anonymization or opacification of crypto-asset transactions", even if that's not the intended use of their users.

Hard to say, this aint the kind of network with official stats ya know?

There seem to be about 1000 listening Knots nodes out of 21,000 total.

Non-listening is only tracked on Luke's site but it takes forever to update so basically hasn't moved yet.

Scammers coming back out the woodwork like cockroaches

No they are all on, it's just a matter of the thresholds. By default the OP RETURN data can hold 80bytes of data. You can raise or lower this limit. The PR is to remove it entirely. If they do, you can still run a node with whatever limit you want and you would still be in concensous.

Because of a temporary fad. Not currently growing, for a year now.

The current disagreement is about expanding op return size, which is proposed specifically to reduce further UTXO bloat (since all else being equal, it’s better to put arbitrary data into op return than into the UTXO set).