We handed out Coldcards (MK3s and Qs) at HRF events in 2022 and 2024 The attendees have been contacted with urgency to migrate funds Self-custody is still the way Bitcoin is about being your own bank, not giving your money to a bank The mission continues 🫡

World A) You can only buy frontier intelligence with permission from one of two mega corporations, under state supervision World B) Anyone can run frontier intelligence on $15k of hardware slow, $100k faster, $250k quick Which path, anon?

Gemini 3.5 Flash is built to help you execute complex, agentic workflows. 3.5 Flash rivals flagship models to deliver frontier performance for agents and coding, at the lightning speeds you expect from the Flash series.

Cerebras is now running Kimi K2.6 – a trillion parameter model – in enterprise trials. At ~1,000 tokens/s, this is the fastest frontier model performance ever measured by Artificial Analysis @ArtificialAnlys.

Martti Malmi, one of Bitcoin's earliest developers, just released a new version of Nostr VPN, an open-source mesh VPN that replaces the entire trust model of traditional VPN services. Traditional VPNs route all your traffic through a central server operated by a company you have to trust. They see your data. They require your email. They can log your activity. They can be subpoenaed, hacked, or shut down. Even modern mesh VPNs like Tailscale, which improved on this by sending data peer-to-peer, still require you to authenticate through a centralized coordination server using third-party accounts like Google or Microsoft. Nostr VPN eliminates the central server entirely. Your identity is a Nostr keypair, a self-generated cryptographic key pair with no registration, no email, no third-party account. The underlying transport layer is FIPS (Free Internetworking Peering System), a self-organizing encrypted mesh network where nodes authenticate each other, route traffic for each other, and establish connections without any central authority or global topology knowledge. Each node's Nostr public key (npub) serves as its network address. The architecture uses two layers of encryption: hop-by-hop encryption between peers and independent end-to-end encryption between mesh endpoints with periodic rekeying for forward secrecy. When direct connections fail due to NAT issues, the system falls back to Nostr-based multihop routing through other FIPS nodes rather than relying on company-operated relay servers. Peer discovery and NAT traversal happen through public Nostr relays using encrypted gift-wrapped messages. The new release adds native desktop apps for macOS, Linux, and Windows, an Android app, Nostr-based multihop routing for when NAT holepunching fails, and improved network management. It supports UDP, TCP, Ethernet, Tor, and Bluetooth transports simultaneously on a single mesh. This is what happens when you apply Bitcoin's design philosophy, permissionless, self-sovereign, no trusted third parties, to networking infrastructure. Built by one of the people who helped Satoshi build Bitcoin in 2009.

"US Senators introduce the Mined in America Act... a bill that would create a direct Treasury procurement channel through which certified miners sell newly mined BTC to the federal government in exchange for a capital gains tax exemption" Unsettling but probably inevitable