🚨MICROSOFT SHUTTING DOWN SKYPE ON MAY 5, 2025

After 23 years, Microsoft is officially retiring Skype to focus entirely on Teams. Users have 10 weeks to migrate contacts and chats before the service is discontinued.

Skype, once a pioneer of internet calling, saw its peak at 300M users, but has since declined to 36M. Microsoft says Teams' growth made this decision inevitable.

End of an era.

Source: TechCrunch

GM Nostr 🌞

It's total fucking bullshit that LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, and the like won't even let you browse without being logged in.

FUCK YOU AND YOUR WALLED GARDENS!

Most of your favourite bitcoin influencers are HODL larpers.

They don’t spend sats, they don’t mine, they don’t run nodes

Signal and WhatsApp use the same encryption. The backdoor is already there by other means.

Signal is threatening to leave Sweden over a bill demanding a backdoor. Meredith & Signal are staying strong.

Where are the mathematicians / physicists / cryptographers / computer scientists here? Please holla, I want to follow you. Repost pls 🙏

Reverse Repo has ~$71B left until it is fully drained. QT continues unabated.

The question that remains is whether this will cause a September 2019-like overnight rate spasm that forces the Fed to step in with extraordinary measures or whether the structural changes they've made over the last 5+ years will work. If the reverse repo market drains without any rate spasms, QT will move its focus to bank balance sheets.

Something to pay attention to.

I’ll never get why people sell #Bitcoin — it’s the best risk-reward asset out there. Just HODL and you gonna make it.

When the US strategic reserve is announced...

Take a screenshot (mental or actual) of your bitcoin balance on that day

It will not increase much after that

Don't rush this thing.

Facebook is banning accounts that simply mention Linux 🐧⛔️

Most notably impacting DistroWatch who got their account locked: "Facebook's internal policy makers decided that Linux is malware and labeled groups associated with Linux as being 'cybersecurity threats.'

The 🇫🇷 French Senate has approved the 2025 budget, which includes an “unproductive wealth” tax targeting assets like Bitcoin.

The tax would apply annually to unrealized gains on cryptocurrencies.

The proposal now awaits a vote in the National Assembly.

#meme #memes #memestr #plebchain

Most ML models have been obliterated by LLMs but I do hope that the vast diversity of different ML techniques remains relevant. There's so much mathematical ingenuity in all the pre-LSTM approaches. SVMs, Gaussian models, Random Forest, network algorithms, ...

Ohhhh shit.

There's no stopping this train.

everything the government says is a lie & everything it has it has stolen 🤡🌎 #Bitcoin

The biggest obstacle for the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is not the Fed, Treasury, banks, or Elizabeth Warren.

It’s Ripple/XRP. They are aggressively lobbying against the SBR by throwing around $millions at politicians, desperately trying to derail it.

They did the same to attack bitcoin mining under the Biden administration. Obviously they want to protect their marketing narratives and push for CBDCs built on their platform.