My mother is visiting and she often has an interesting or story or two that I hadn't heard before.

She was an attorney in the early 1980s. There was a Korean janitor who worked in a university in Seoul, and he managed to steal a copy of the university seal. This allowed him to make very convincing forgery diplomas, so he made himself a fake medical degree.

He then got a fellowship in the US, married an American woman, and was working at a US university hospital. He did various additional forgeries, like getting a medical license from a retired doctor and altering it for himself, so he had an office filled with all sorts of fake diplomas, licenses, awards, etc. He had a private practice where he preyed on the Korean immigrant population in the city with his fake medical skills.

Anyway he was eventually caught upon further scrutiny of his documents. The judge was lenient on him and gave him a prison sentence of 364 days, which is 1 day less than a year which is the threshold for crimes that often get people deported.

Seems like a crazy story to me and could be a movie.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Wisconsin pension fund sells its BTCs.

The latest 13F filing reveals a total liquidation of its position in the Bitcoin ETF IBIT on March 31, 2025.

It previously held 6,060,351 shares, or $321.5 million.

We is out of bitties. 🤣

I was thinking about this….

The miners will become very valuable for their access to new bitties once the exchanges is out of bitties.

Isn’t is weird how little volatility there is these days…???

Theories?

Code writing I think we are still 10 years behind before AI can partially replace developers

Yes distrust is growing because it's easy to politicize an issue most of the people really don't know anything about.

I have been seeing some claims that "Bitcoin Knots is part of the Bitcoin Core project", that "Bitcoin Knots is just another release of Bitcoin Core", and that "Bitcoin Knots has more contributors than Bitcoin Core".

Bitcoin Core has about 40 regular contributors with over a thousand past contributors. The Bitcoin Core project releases its software on bitcoincore.org. Bitcoin Core releases are signed by several Bitcoin Core contributors and other community members. Releases are attested to by this community.

Bitcoin Core’s source code is released under the MIT License. The MIT License is a permissive open-source license permitting anyone to do almost anything with the licensed code.

Bitcoin Knots is a project fork of Bitcoin Core. Bitcoin Knots appears to be developed by a single developer pushing directly to master without peer review. Bitcoin Knots releases are composed of Bitcoin Core’s source code modified with a patch set of about 1400 commits. The same individual unilaterally issues releases. There is no indication that anyone else has ever contributed code or review directly to Bitcoin Knots. Bitcoin Knots is not endorsed by the Bitcoin Core project.

Claims to the contrary appear to be based on a unique individual perception of reality.

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⚡️🔎 NEW - There has been a significant rise in Google searches for "Etherium" (Ethereum misspelled).

This may reflect possible interest from new market entrants.

⚡️❌ NEW - Dell has officially rejected a shareholder proposal to add Bitcoin to its treasury.

Shareholders will not be able to vote on whether Dell should add Bitcoin to its treasury at the 2025 annual general meeting.

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⚡️📈 NEW - Google searches for "Digital Gold" are at all-time highs.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Strategy acquired 13,390 bitcoins last week, at an average price of $99,856 for a total of $1.3 billion.

The company now holds 568,840 BTC ($39.41 billion)

🤯 who’s catching them?

⚡️🚨NEW - Ledger has confirmed its Discord server is secure after after an attacker compromised a moderator’s account to steal seed phrases.

Using the account, the hacker told members of a fake security vulnerability and urged them to verify recovery phrases via a scam link. Stay safe people!