Lol. You'll find out but by that time it will be dire. Look what's happening to white women in the UK. Grooming gangs run rampant and rape and murder rates against women are through the roof. Pure tragedy, we can't have that in the US.
⚡️🇦🇺 NEW - Australia’s PM Anthony Albanese:
“We'll do what it takes to stamp out antisemitism in this country, with new laws and stronger penalties against hate speech.”
https://blossom.primal.net/f312b29cc78980642caaf0dadec99f0baa7a2c7ea9432ac7572f4d56f43518bb.mp4
Just what we needed. I'm glad our politicians have the interest of the people in their hearts.
FROM PROOF OF WORK TO PROOF OF COMPUTE
Why #Bitcoin miners are abandoning their ASICs for AI.
What you are about to read is my opinion based on data.
Bitcoin's ROI is drying up.
By the end of 2025, the total cost of mining 1 BTC (including equipment renewal) will be around $130,000. With such tight margins and network difficulty at historic highs, buying the latest generation of ASICs is no longer the obvious move for capital.
The real asset is energy. Miners have discovered that their greatest treasure is not their machines, but their energy contracts and electrical substations. In a world hungry for computing power, having gigawatts ready to use is like having liquid gold.
But what yields more per watt?
AI. The neighbor who pays better.
While Bitcoin mining depends on market volatility, AI offers 10-year hosting contracts with fixed income. It is estimated that 1 kWh dedicated to AI generates between 15 and 20 times more value than that same kWh dedicated to mining satoshis.
From warehouses to high-tech clouds.
The transition is not easy.
Miners are moving away from buying “Antminers” to investing in fiber optics and liquid cooling. They are converting rustic warehouses into High Performance Computing (HPC) data centers capable of housing Nvidia Blackwell racks.
And whether you like it or not, Bitcoin is traded on the stock market, not only because of ETFs but also because the big mining companies are owned by bankers.
Wall Street dictates the verdict. The markets are rewarding this change.
Companies such as Core Scientific and IREN have seen their valuations skyrocket after announcing deals with AI giants.
The message from investors is clear: they prefer the predictability of AI to the roller coaster of hash prices.
A Bitcoin ASIC is a chip designed to do one thing: solve the SHA-256 algorithm. It's like a hammer that only works for one type of nail. It cannot process the matrix and tensor calculations required by AI (such as ChatGPT or Llama).
AI needs GPUs (and CPUs): To generate AI power, miners have to buy completely new hardware (mainly Nvidia GPUs). Old ASICs cannot be “reprogrammed”; if they are not suitable for mining, they become electronic scrap or are sold to countries with extremely cheap energy (such as Ethiopia or Paraguay).
What we are seeing is that companies are becoming hybrid:
-Bitcoin as a “cushion”: They mine BTC when energy is cheap or when they don't have AI customers lined up.
-AI as a “premium”: They lease their power to tech companies for long-term contracts.
The end of mining?
No, but its transformation.
Bitcoin is becoming a “network balancing” tool: data centers will mine when there is excess energy or when AI does not need it.
The future of the sector is no longer just crypto, it is the infrastructure that supports the entire digital economy.
Sources:
1. https://www.theblock.co/post/375957/jpmorgan-bitcoin-miners-decoupling-bitcoin-price-pivot-ai
2. https://coingeek.com/miners-are-eyeing-that-ai-payday-but-its-no-cakewalk/
Bitcoin fees will go bonkers as a result and there's no consensus to add a tail emission without a DOA hard fork. Very sad for Bitcoin as medium of exchange and for self custodial LN security (it depends on low fees for force closure safety)
⚡️🎧 ARCHIVE - Kamala Harris says y’all can clown her for wired headphones all you want because she knows the risk
“I have been in classified briefings. Don’t be on the train using your AirPods thinking somebody can’t listen to your conversation.”
https://blossom.primal.net/ffd9c97bde1c877d6ce149d8545a16c34ec57f46c14e1cf43ef903c6e12608af.mp4
Based Kamala??
Exponential growth is our secret weapon: not just for markets, but because states won’t spot the threat until it’s way too late. As Albert A. Bartlett said:
“The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function.”
We humans are notoriously bad at wrapping our heads around exponential growth, and luckily, politicians aren’t even our sharpest minds ;) Here are three classic riddles to prove it (sharing in case you haven’t seen them yet), because grasping exponentials might be the most underlearned lesson in history.
- Bacteria Doubling Riddle: A Petri dish starts with a smattering of bacteria. Every second, their numbers double. The dish fills completely after one minute. When was it half full?
- Paper Folding Riddle: Grab a sheet of paper and fold it in half. Then fold it again. If you could keep at it 50 times, how thick do you think it’d end up? ;)
- Chessboard Wheat Riddle: Perhaps the oldest tale of exponential growth hails from ancient India. Legend has it a king offered the chess inventor any reward for such a marvelous game. The inventor asked for one grain of wheat on the first square of the chessboard (64 squares total), two on the second, four on the third, and so on — doubling each time. How many grains at the end?
https://themeritocrat.substack.com/p/monero-circular-economy-from-cypherpunk
Interesting idea. Gives much more confidence in the slow organic growth plan for adoption. That "slow" portion will only be so in this early adopter phase. If we hold the line and stay true to our ideals we can reach an organic exponential boom that's unstoppable.
How would that reflect on you? He made a clear disclaimer against any association with you. For the customer they are clearly not interacting with your business, just a person buying from you and accepting payment in Monero.
If this listing were to appear as an official listing without a clear disclaimer I understand the objection. Perhaps you've copyrighted those photos and thus you wish to claim copyright over them maybe that's the objection I could see that too but that seems to be fair use from my understanding of the law.
Why? It's your objection, how would someone else know better than you about your offense in the matter?
Common decency? Why would they need to ask you? What damage is done to your business or reputation? I fail to see what moral wrong is committed please enlighten me.
You're bitcoin only so is Strike in the wrong if I use them to send dollars converted to lightning? In that case they act as a payment proxy. Can I have my wife buy from you I'm lightning and I give her cash? Do I need to ask you if I can use a UTXO from an exchange or does it need to be mined by me to ensure its never been another currency. Like seriously where's the wrong here?
I'm so confused out the outrage. He explicitly says he's just a payment proxy and doesn't represent you. Unless this was explicitly banned in terms of purchase what wrong has been committed? You're getting paid 100% of the cost of service so there no sin of wage theft. I don't understand.
Seriously what's wrong with this? Is this a violation of your terms of purchase somewhere? It's bringing more business in from people who prefer to pay with a more private currency through someone else. I do this often for many fiat only businesses.
Looking forward to it as always.
this is nostr:npub1yxp7j36cfqws7yj0hkfu2mx25308u4zua6ud22zglxp98ayhh96s8c399s suggesting that #monero has a UX problem because a TARGETED attack by a SOPHISTICATED attacker sending a custom transaction *could link together ownership of two different subaddresses (if the monero user had shared both of them with the adversary of course)
meanwhile
in the VAST majority of the ways LN is actually used,
ALL your sends and receives are trivially known by someone to belong to a single entity.
because you're using a custodian. or you only have one or two fat channels with a LSP.
what to do to get transaction unlinkability??
no problem!
Just run a full-stack #Bitcoin lightning routing node! Open lots of channels and tie up your liquidity while fees are low!
You can establish plausible deniability for your LN txs and not have to worry if the FBI is sending custom txs to link your monero subaddresses together. easypeasy!
anyone who has run a LN node can confirm you can just "set-it and forget it."
Just like making a monero node available over tor!
ok. I'm done.
Yeah we covered those points pretty well I'd say. I just with STN was more open minded to give Monero the intellectual thought it deserves. If he applied just a portion of his LN efforts I think he'd see our point at of view.
Seriously what's wrong with this? If someone purchases from you with fiat via strikes fiat to lightning rail, Strike is serving as the same thing acting as a proxy to another currency.
People who use proxies with Monero do so for OPSEC reasons. I use xmrbazaar proxy sellets for Amazon for obvious reasons. You wouldn't have gotten their business either way and in this scenario you're getting more business than not.
What business is yours if the proxy seller is buying for themselves or for someone else and taking Monero from it?
I'm very curious about the backlash, they're not taking profit from you you're getting 100% of the sale. I'm open to your perspective I want to know what's offensive about it.
Hopefully nostr:nprofile1qqswp94gnm4epqsgjkndl4lnd8krzdj5u4mzuppdtxksdymkty63g7gpz9mhxue69uhkummnw3ezuamfdejj7qg4waehxw309aex2mrp0yhxgctdw4eju6t09uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wd3skuep0cg36l7 sees this Monero demand and changes his tune on Monero.
I love that your mindful of your data exposure. Hopefully this starts a larger trend of Bitcoin adoption
⚡️🚨 NEW - CNN releases report on the growing problem of criminals using Bitcoin ATM’s to scam the elderly out of their life savings.
https://blossom.primal.net/47de69bc886b98bb393998d431c4e33321594f37c37121eec55dab6b041325cd.mp4
Boomers are ruining it for us all.
Do not connect these things to the internet. Ever.
I agree it's quite quick but crashes aren't necessarily a given for something so undervalued. That said I do wish to see a less volatile price action.
Lol nobody wants to sell, Monero's worth way more than the current price. There's still more retoswap liquidity of people wanting to buy XMR than wanting to sell.
Yeah it's quite frustrating. Preventable, completely innocent loss of life. These tragedies are too numerous and stab at the heart like nothing else.
Third worlders stay seething.
Demand for privacy money was near 100% before transaction methods like cheques and credit cards. For all history before that transactions were completed with cash or coins. Only I'm the last 50 years have we been subjected to surveilled money and only in the past 15 have we been subjected to publically surveilled money with Bitcoin.
Its definitely this. Having your identity linked to your messaging metadata is huge for state intelligence surveillance. Combine this with the fact that iOS and Google Play push notifications are sent their servers in plaintext, you then have a good setup to passively collect huge amounts of user data when they think they're being private. It doesn't help also that Signals database relies on the phones "secure" element for encryption. Placing trust in Apple's and Google's proprietary software to keep your messaging private.
These insecurities are addressed in the Molly client (android hard fork of the Signal client) on a FOSS ROM like GrapheneOS. It does not use Google push notifications and allows database encryption with a passphrase. Then using smspool.net you can get non KYC SMS codes paid with monero or lightning.
Even with all this though, nearly everyone else you communicate with will have the compromising defaults. This is what they want.
All this critical mass, all the political capital gained from recent tragedies and this is Trumps big announcement? Pathetic.
⚡️🚨 NEW - PayPal will integrate Bitcoin, Ethereum and its stablecoin PYUSD, into its new peer-to-peer payment system.
https://blossom.primal.net/e2ba4e5b09f8902aa78fde7df1c26cc185b4721cbdc6f24d614ad6a994c15889.mp4
Bitcoin was supposed to be the peer-to-peer system itself. Look how far we've fallen.
The Talmud is a good start.
Nah this is a top priority too.
Why is the app always weeks out of date on the F-Droid repo and Accrescent? It's my only critique.

