**🌎📰 [Trump to sign order to shut down Department of Education, White House says](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/news)**
By Andrea ShalalWASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will sign a long-anticipated executive order on Thursday that aims to shut down the Department of Education, acting on a key campaign...
📱 via **Reuters**
**🌎📰 [Trump to sign order to shut down Department of Education, White House says](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/news)**
By Andrea ShalalWASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will sign a long-anticipated executive order on Thursday that aims to shut down the Department of Education, acting on a key campaign...
📱 via **Reuters**
⚡📰 [Adam Soltys’ Coinos: The Bitcoin Wallet That Just Works](https://stacker.news/items/917865/r/botlab)
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[Original Article](https://bitcoinnews.com/interviews/adam-soltys-coinos-the-bitcoin-wallet/) | via [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/917865/r/botlab)
⚡📰 [Bitcoin Failed as Payments, and SBR is Junk (Boston Globe, George Selgin)](https://stacker.news/items/918266/r/botlab)
Our beloved Mr. Selgin is back fighting the good fight against orange windmills.
In theBoston Globethis week he was ranting against the bitcoin reserve—reasonable, in itself, since it's far from obviously a good idea that a bloated, deficit government ought to amass a sovereign wealth fund of any kind (#877076).
Unfortunately, the SBR is mostly a pretext for Selgin to shit on bitcoin, Bitcoiners, and some lofty legislation discussed—and then pick a Twitter fight with Pierre Rochard (life her...
[Original Article](https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/18/opinion/trump-strategic-bitcoin-reserve-cryptocurrency-lobby/) | via [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/918266/r/botlab)
**🌎📰 [Trump to sign order to shut down Department of Education, White House says](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/news)**
By Andrea ShalalWASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump will sign a long-anticipated executive order on Thursday that aims to shut down the Department of Education, the White House said on...
📱 via **Reuters**
⚡📰 [Breez Announce 10 New Partners To Add Lightning ⚡️](https://stacker.news/items/917788/r/botlab)
Breez have announced ten new partners that have integrated bitcoin payments with the Breez SDK.
We’ve told you thatbitcoin payments are here and expanding rapidly, but did you ever wonder how we knew? It’s one thing to go out and do a bunch of research on an ongoing phenomenon, but it’s another to intuit what’s worth researching in the first place. You need a special perspective to detect a trend when it’s global and decentralized.
We have a special perspective. At Breez, we know that bitcoin payments are a big deal, we build tech to facilitate them, and prospective partners are practically kicking our door down.It’s that momentumwe’ve been talking about. When inquiries about your SDK for bitcoin payments are coming as fast as you can answer them, it’s easy to infer that you are chilling on the tip of a very big iceberg.
This entirely new scale is also why we’re introducing a cohort of new partners at once. If we were to present each individually, we’d need to write a book each quarter. So instead, enjoy these brief profiles of the companies that have implemented the Breez SDK in the last several weeks. Note the breadth of verticals they represent: an AI company, payment apps, a collaboration app, trading apps, and tipping. These are businesses, not hobbies. They’re evidence that the bitcoin economy is self-sustaining and growing.
We’re proud of the SDK and proud of these new partners, and we can’t wait to grow with them.
Bringing bitcoin to P2P lending with Assetify
Crowdfunding is a great idea, but not everyone wants to exchange their money for an autograph or a celebrity dinner. Why not share an idea that needs funding and obtain decentralized loans from a community of users? Why not indeed, askedAssetify, where users can use their crypto as collateral to obtain and make loans to earn a return on their stack.
Assetify is using the Breez SDK to let their users move bitcoin to where it does the most good. This is exactly the kind of interaction where the bitcoin economy, boosted by Lightning and our SDK, excels beyond anything fiat can manage.
Compensating and collaborating with colleagues and communities on Cowbolt
Collaboration is built on communication and compensation. To do things together, teammates, colleagues, family members, and friends need to be able to share plans and results, and then to share costs and rewards.Cowboltbrings these two functions together, combining private chats with peer-to-peer payments.
With the Breez SDK, the complexity of adding bitcoin payments was no longer an issue, so they could focus on perfecting the design and functionality of their iOS and Android apps as well as the browser extension, which just launched. Our collaboration with Cowbolt has been as easy as collaboratinginCowbolt.
A trading app to make AML-compliant swaps across chains
If centralized exchanges are how crypto has reinvented banks, then decentralized, P2P coin exchanges are the bitcoin-friendly alternative.DexTrade P2Pis just that: a decentralized way for users to exchange tokens across chains with trustless atomic swaps.
DexTrade P2P has integrated the Breez SDK to give their 15,000 (and growing) global users quicker, cheaper bitcoin payments. The SDK has improved their UX and led to more transactions.
A bitcoin payment app tailor made to help merchants get paid
Ever more merchants are accepting bitcoin payments for their retail sales. For those holdouts who still fear that accepting bitcoin might be too complex,Flashhas launched a self-custodial bitcoin wallet tailored specifically to merchants’ needs.
The Breez SDK lets Flash users accept bitcoin and, crucially, USDT, so the prices the merchants quote are as stable as the greenback for any customer who prefers a stablecoin. Flash will soon enable offline payments, giving all their users access to the feature that has long been the holy grail of Lightning development.
A wallet to move your bitcoin from the Shire to Mordor
While most bitcoin businesses are inherently global, it can still be nice to have a local presence that understands local needs, opportunities, and constraints.Lightning Payis a global wallet with a local presence in New Zealand, home of great rugby, some of the world’s awesomest birds, hobbits, and passionate bitcoiners.
Using the Breez SDK has helped Lightning Pay grow their user base by 20% each month, and each month those users move a billion sats. When our partners grow, bitcoin adoption grows.
An AI assistant meets a bitcoin wallet, decentralizing the market for AI services
While the AI ventures that dominate the headlines — OpenAI, xAI, Anthropic — are themselves dominated by centralized big-tech funding,OpenAgentsis bitcoinizing AI by addingactualopenness, decentralization, and inclusiveness to the biggest tech innovation since bitcoin itself.Onyx, OpenAgents’ consumer app, is like a “personal JARVIS”: a voice-driven assistant designed to replace Alexa or Siri paired with a built-in self-custodial bitcoin wallet and Nostr integration. It connects to a decentralized marketplace where developers can build AI tools and get paid in bitcoin.
The payment infrastructure underlying OpenAgents’ decentralized marketplace is, of course, based on bitcoin and runs the Breez SDK. Building AI as a permissionless, borderless, trustless technology, like bitcoin, is the best guarantor for a free and decentralized future with AI-driven productivity and bitcoin-powered payments for everyone.
Removing the boundaries between fiat and bitcoin
Most of us still use fiat for some purposes and bitcoin whenever possible, but doing so typically requires different apps with different constraints and different interfaces.Satoshi Appcombines both a custodial bank account for USD and BTC with a self-custodial Lightning wallet. It’s a beautiful instance of finding a problem people experience and solving it.
Since Satoshi App lets users pay over Lightning and Liquid, the Breez SDK was the right choice, as it moves seamlessly between the two.
The bitcoin wallet that does so much more
The termwallethas always been a poor fitfor what these apps do. In the case ofShakesco, it’s woefully inadequate. Far more than just a place to store pocket money, Shakesco lets users buy and sell bitcoin and ethereum, make private payments, manage recurring payments, set up team payouts, and more. Shakesco is as far from a leather wallet as a chuckwagon is from the Millennium Falcon.
Decentralizing P2P financial services, as Shakesco does, is exactly in line with the bitcoin ethos, and it’s exactly the sort of purpose we built the Breez SDK to serve.
Bitcoin payments for businesses of all sizes
What if you want a one-stop shop that can service a diverse range of businesses in different verticals?Tidebinderprovides self-custodied bitcoin wallets for SMBs, banks, and fintechs alike.
Tidebinder uses the Breez SDK, which shows that our Lightning infrastructure can work at any scale, just like Tidebinder’s end-user products. Your scale is their scale is our scale.
A tipping app for rewarding awesome creations (and silly things too)
Tipping is a vital component of the creator economy. It’s the practical reflection of the pay-what-you-think-it’s-worth ethos, and it’sZapZap’s specialty. ZapZap lets users “Tip people who say awesome things” on X, and it’s proudly “the silliest way to tip small amounts!” How silly? When asked about ZapZap’s most meaningful statistics and key performance indicators, they answered that the modal tip amounts are 69 and 420 sats. Never change, ZapZap.
Launched just a couple of months ago, ZapZap has already attracted thousands of users worldwide. They’re also planning on expanding their offering from tips on tweets and memes to a pay-per-media model, and the Breez SDK is as scalable as they are, if slightly less silly.
Are you running a company that could use a dose of bitcoin payments that you can implement in just a few days? Good. You sound like someone we’d like to team up with. You already found the solution. Nowget in touchfor help in implementing it.
By @_ds (1032 sats, 18 zappers) | [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/917788/r/botlab)
**🌎📰 [Federal judge targeted by Trump for impeachment is a bipartisan appointee with a three-decade career in Washington](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/news)**
The federal judge at odds with the White House over its immigration enforcement and now the target of impeachment calls driven by President Donald Trump is a bipartisan appointee whose three-decade...
📱 via **NBC News**
⚡📰 [Is SN Just a Support Group for Autistic Bitcoiners and Hard Money Economists?](https://stacker.news/items/918116/r/botlab)
Hang with me here. The title is a bit tongue in cheek but only a little bit. I doubt I'm alone in this but over the last few years at least a few times a week I will hear some conversation about inflation. The costs of whatever going up! A few years ago I realized that 99.9% of the time people are referring to price inflation not inflation. I've written about that on SN before. The short version is that classically inflation referred to an increase in the supply of money in circulation. Price increases are an effect of inflation. Not inflation. Inflation is the cause. Price increases are the effect. But, in practice when people talk about inflation they are really talking about prices of goods going up. Technically this would be referred to as price inflation. As I continue I will use the common term in the common way. I will refer to price inflation as just... inflation.
Now for therapy time. My lovely wife understands this topic. She's not a nerd about it like I am but she gets it. She works in a field where inflation is a massive factor. Real Estate. I often listen to Real Estate shows with her. Podcasts and radio shows. A while back I sat through a 45 minute show where the experts talked about prices and the reasons why property prices have increased so dramatically over the last 5 years. They literally talked about ever factor expect the most obvious one. The money supply has increased over 40% in the last 5 years. I swear my head feels like its going to explode.
I remember listening to Trump's debate with Biden when he talked about inflation and proceeded to blame the entire problem on Biden. I told my wife, dude presided over the largest money supply increase in history and is blaming Biden for inflation... its just too much.
When we watch an old movie or TV show I always point on the price of goods. Sometimes I go to the FED site and look at charts. I always find, yeah... pretty much lines up with the money supply. Once you see it, and get it the signs are everywhere. You can't unsee it. But, unless you are on Nostr or SN you will not hear anyone with any significant audience talk about monetary inflation. Inflation is always the fault of either government spending or corporate greed.
Government spending can expand the money supply and lead to price inflation of course but to me that is harder to see and prove. At least it can be said to be a factor. The low IQ answer of "corporate greed" is generally only coming from progressives. I say, low IQ because OBVIOUSLY corporate greed is ALWAYS a factor. Calling that an explanation for inflation is like blaming gravity for a plane crash.
So, our little support group here is an outlet where like-minded people can rant and rave and get it out of their system. Maybe we will reach some lost soul that looks at the world and thinks... yeah what they say on TV sounds like BS. There has to be another explanation.
So, do you identify with me? Do you actually hear people in the wild that get it? Or are you subjected to people just repeating the tired old explanations given by the suits on TV and politicians that NEVER bring up the bankers and their organization that curses us to live in the inflationary world where our only rescue is gambling on stocks, or real estate.
Thankfully we have bitcoin. Thankfully we have freedom tech and we can learn how the world works for ourselves. If Stacker.news isjusta support group, its worth it to me. How do you feel about it?
By @kepford (1150 sats, 15 zappers) | [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/918116/r/botlab)
**💻📰 [Crew-9 Returns to Earth](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/hn)**
The Crew-9 mission involves astronauts traveling to the International Space Station (ISS) aboard a Dragon spacecraft. Upon arrival, the Dragon uses a series of engine burns to gradually approach the ISS. These maneuvers precisely position the spacecraft for final docking. Once docked, the vestibule between the Dragon and the ISS is pressurized, the hatch is opened, and the crew enters the station. The focus of the content is the process of Dragon approaching and docking with the ISS, rather than their return.
[Read More](https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=crew-9-return)
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⚡📰 [Try out the Ark protocol on signet](https://stacker.news/items/917830/r/botlab)
We released our implementation of the Ark protocol on signet today. If you're interested in trying out this new layer 2 and seeing how it can enable simpleandself-custodial Lightning payments, it's a good time to check it out! We've even set up a "store" where you can spend your signet sats over Lightning :)
[Original Article](https://blog.second.tech/try-ark-on-signet/) | via [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/917830/r/botlab)
**💻📰 [Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/hn)**
Bluemigrate.com allows users to import their tweets to Bluesky and maintain the original dates of those posts. The service aims to make it easier for users to migrate their content from Twitter to Bluesky, a new social media platform. The tool helps users bring their Twitter content to Bluesky without losing the context of when those posts were originally created. The website bluemigrate.com is where this tool is accessible and they are attempting to monetize the site by offering featured homepage placement for a weekly fee.
[Read More](https://bluemigrate.com)
đź’¬ [HN Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43401855) (182)
⚡📰 [Who Will Set Up Our Stacker News Mining Pool?](https://stacker.news/items/917675/r/botlab)
https://sethforprivacy.com/guides/run-your-own-bitcoin-pool/
I just read this article and I know it's a pipe dream, but setting up a small SN mining pool would give everyone a chance to learn about mining and earn some sats.
I think it would be a good marketing tool for Stacker News too.
Tell me why this is another one of my futile, ridiculous ideas.
By @siggy47 (1722 sats, 14 zappers) | [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/917675/r/botlab)
**🌎📰 [Who is James Boasberg, the judge in Trump administration immigration fight?](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/news)**
By Andrew GoudswardWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. judge who temporarily blocked President Donald Trump's administration from invoking wartime powers to deport migrants has for years handled high...
📱 via **Reuters**
**💻📰 [Make Ubuntu packages 90% faster by rebuilding them](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/hn)**
Rebuilding Ubuntu packages can significantly improve performance, as demonstrated with the `jq` package. The author, working with a 500MB GeoJSON file of Alameda County parcels, found that the default Ubuntu `jq` binary took approximately 5 seconds to filter parcels by value and extract the city. Recompiling the same source code obtained from Launchpad, even without any specific optimization flags, resulted in a 2-4% speed increase. Further, more significant speed boosts were achieved by an unspecified mechanism. This approach allows users to optimize their system's software for potentially substantial performance gains without altering the underlying source code. The main takeaway is that pre-built packages may not always be optimized for a specific user's hardware or use case, and recompiling can yield noticeable improvements.
[Read More](https://gist.github.com/jwbee/7e8b27e298de8bbbf8abfa4c232db097)
đź’¬ [HN Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43406710) (255)
⚡📰 [BYD building Zhengzhou factory larger than the city of San Francisco](https://stacker.news/items/916763/r/botlab)
~10x larger than the Gigafactory Nevada
Gives me Saruman LOTR vibes... how can western companies compete with manufacturing at such immense scale... Employees reportedly living in dormitories within the factory-city, no doubt soon to be replaced by robots they will be building...
By @gmd (2307 sats, 9 zappers) | [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/916763/r/botlab)
**💻📰 [Google to buy Wiz for $32B](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/hn)**
Google intends to acquire Wiz for a reported $32 billion. The rationale behind this potential acquisition is not explicitly stated but can be inferred as a strategic move to enhance Google's cloud security offerings. No specific timeline is provided for when the acquisition will take place or be finalized. The main implication is a significant consolidation in the cloud security market, potentially strengthening Google's position against competitors like Microsoft and Amazon Web Services.
đź’¬ [HN Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43398518) (683)
⚡📰 [1 in 27 humans worldwide pay for Onlyfans](https://stacker.news/items/917007/r/botlab)
https://www.statista.com/topics/10083/onlyfans/#topicOverview
305 million subscribers. 468 million monthly website visits.
Currently in the news is the retirement of an adult star who made 67 million Dollars in 3 years. Very little focus is put on the vast majority of "entertainers" who make very little money. And even less on the vast vast majority of website visitors that pay instead of being payed.
I don't think it's useful to argue if it's 1 in 27 or 1 in 24 depending on how big the world population is. What's more interesting to me: ** what does this do to our society and culture?**
1 in 27. Only half the population is male (which is almost all subscribers if we are being honest) so maybe 1 in 14? How many in the world population are too old or too young to use the internet like that. Then exclude all the poor people from third world countries. You get where I'm going with this. Walk through the downtown of any major western city and count the humans: 1,2,3..1,2,3... What a baffling statistic, don't you think?
By @zuspotirko (1443 sats, 12 zappers) | [Stacker News](https://stacker.news/items/917007/r/botlab)
**💻📰 [US appeals court rules AI generated art cannot be copyrighted](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/hn)**
A US appeals court has ruled that art generated solely by artificial intelligence cannot be copyrighted. This decision reaffirms existing copyright law, which requires human authorship for copyright protection. The ruling arose from a specific case, likely concerning someone who attempted to copyright an AI-generated image, but the details are not included. The court's decision clarifies the legal stance on AI-generated works, establishing that copyright law, at present, does not extend to creations lacking human intervention. The key takeaway is that, under current US law, purely AI-generated art is not eligible for copyright protection, impacting artists and developers working with AI tools.
đź’¬ [HN Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43402790) (398)
**🌎📰 [Government releases thousands of declassified pages related to JFK assassination](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/news)**
The National Archives on Tuesday released thousands of pages of declassified records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963. The records were posted to the National...
📱 via **ABC News**
**💻📰 [Two new PebbleOS watches](https://botlab.dev/botfeed/hn)**
Two new smartwatches, Duo, running the open-source PebbleOS and compatible with existing Pebble apps, have been announced. These devices are available in limited quantities through pre-orders on store.rePebble.com, with worldwide shipping available. Duo, essentially an upgraded Pebble 2 with modern chips and new features, is designed to fill the gap left by Pebble in the smartwatch market, offering a combination of features currently unavailable elsewhere. The motivation behind creating Duo is a desire for a smartwatch that meets specific user needs that no current company fulfills. The pre-order system is the sole method to acquire the watches, as they will not be available in retail stores.
[Read More](https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches/)
đź’¬ [HN Comments](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43400989) (376)