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A fun moment from the LABITCONF Bitcoin College! 📸 @escuelitabtc helped attendees get started with Cake Wallet and Lightning as part of a full day of free Bitcoin education!

As someone who has spoken with @andyyen multiple times and really respects what he has built @ProtonPrivacy, I was quite shocked and skeptical of the 404Media article (a publication I actually like on a lot of topics, FWIW). Having more context here makes this even clearer that Andy (while if I'm honest I don't love his tone/approach in some of this) is doing one of the hardest things those of us leading engineering companies are having to do right now -- wrestle with the most drastic and important transition in how software development has worked in decades, and help the engineers we employ and appreciate through that transition at the same time. I actually almost entirely agree with Andy's AI manifesto as well. The world of "hand-chiseling" code being the proper way to approach software dev in every case is over, and we cannot go back to it even if we want to. There will still be some cases where we need to slow down and use extreme caution + additional human review (i.e. cryptography, entropy generation, etc.) but we've seen how simply not using AI for those tasks at all is equally dangerous as well. For those like me who love product/design but don't love coding, this is an incredibly empowering time and a ton of fun. For those (like many of you reading this, I'm sure!) who love coding and probably don't love product/design, this is an existential crisis and takes away something you love. That sucks, and I wish we still had a choice long term to put the AI genie back in the bottle, but for better or worse that isn't going to happen. This is an insane time to be alive, and just like other monumental transitions many people will be thrilled and excited by it, many will be fearful and skeptical of it, and the hard job of a CXO is to manage all of that while being sure he drives his company to use the best and most effective path as he sees it.

more context from an actual worker at proton imo that writer at 404media is biased against proton and has been for a while, you shouldn’t take one for-profit media outlet as source of truth

This week has been another reminder of why having options matters when it comes to securing your crypto. One of those options is turning an old phone into an offline hardware wallet with Cupcake. No need to trust a third party with your personal information, funds, or the device you purchase.

Gonna be another amazing day, been absolutely loving Bitmela, both the content and the parties 😎 Be sure to jump in today, check out the Cake booth, win some sats, and come learn about local AI at 2:30PM on the main stage!

So crazy to see the @cakewallet team somehow doing podcasts in Nigeria and a conference in Argentina, India, and Germany all at the same time 😍 No offense to anyone else out there, but this team is the best, full stop 🫡

The Cake stage wouldn't be possible without the founder of Cake Wallet, @vikrantnyc. Thank you for sharing your personal experiences with Bitcoin. And a huge thanks to @sethforprivacy and @Daavya_vaishnav for being here with us and representing @cakewallet !

Bitmela is live 😍 Fascinating first talk I’ve gotten to jump into, fighting the biggest FUD in India - that Bitcoin is illegal. Short answer, it’s legal but quite highly regulated and restricted to KYC exchanges, expectation of source of funds, etc.

Kimi K3.1 Pro is more like 8 - 16 weeks behind the US frontier, based on updated intelligence and progress indices from @ArtificialAnlys. (16 is the better number.) The open / closed AI gap is much smaller today than it was for most of the last 3 years.

🚨 We're releasing BTPay Server 2.4.7 an emergency update fixing one critical and several medium-severity security vulnerabilities brought to our attention through @Anthropic's frontier OSS scanner. We recommend that you update your BTCPay Server as soon as possible.