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2026-02-09 05:38:43 UTC

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Good question

2026-02-08 21:47:02 UTC

The Bithumb case is getting interesting...
At the moment of the 620 thousand Bitcoin being sent to their clients by mistake, Bithumb had only 175 Bitcoins in their books... 👀
So, Bithumb internal system treated non-existent Bitcoin as real! 🤔
This is not going to end well for the exchange, a fat fine should come soon after and regulation for reserves integrity is key... Wonder how many CEXs have reserve integrity and proper audits...
#Bithumb

2026-02-05 12:25:31 UTC

📰 The United Nations has launched its first International Independent Scientific Panel on Artificial Intelligence, a body mandated by the General Assembly to assess the global impacts of AI and inform international governance efforts.
#AI
#UN
Considering how irrelevant the UN is at the moment this is not very encouraging but better than nothing...

2026-02-05 12:09:33 UTC

👀 Micro Strategy is sitting on a $3.8B unrealized loss on its $BTC holdings...

2026-01-31 23:23:13 UTC

Autonomous LLM agents... Emphasis on "autonomous"... The design is quite reckless, starting to look more like the future will be decided by pure luck...
https://media.tenor.com/loRCkZHMqLsAAAAC/call-it.gif
#Unreal
#LLM
#AI

2026-01-30 22:39:55 UTC

$10 trillion wiped out from Silver and Gold in less than a day!
Let that number sink in for a second $10T...
#Unreal
#gold
#silver

2026-01-29 18:42:57 UTC

👀 On Wednesday, Google agreed to pay US$135 million to settle a lawsuit alleging it illegally collected mobile data from users. The case also forces its parent company, Alphabet Inc., to modify Google Play and the configurations of future Android devices.
Notice the "future Android devices"
They always get away with it, so they pay a fine and your current Google Play which is calling home and sending your personal data back to Google and being sold is fine... But no worries, the "future" will be fine... Unreal
But the majority doesn't care anyway...
#Google
#privacy

2026-01-28 21:57:39 UTC

🇺🇸 Federal Reserve has not complied with subpoenas in criminal investigation involving Fed Chair Jerome Powell
https://media.tenor.com/Fg7Jrii-17kAAAAC/james-franco-wait-what.gif

2026-01-28 21:53:52 UTC

Fed not reading much into gold’s price surge...
#FED
https://media.tenor.com/8SXoOmSgW60AAAAC/laugh-out-loud-laugh.gif

2026-01-27 13:58:47 UTC

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The good :
. it is being actively updated and getting better
. it is private
. you can create projects and use your storage in proton as source files, quite convenient
The bad: still behind the main players
Depends on your use case... For some is good enough

2026-01-22 22:44:07 UTC

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The Fiat debase is brutal, still most outside the Bitcoin world don't get it

2026-01-20 20:49:03 UTC

📰 👀 Micro Strategy bought 22,305 #BTC for $2.13B at $95,284; now holds 709,715 BTC total.

2026-01-20 20:43:34 UTC

🚨 🇺🇸 SC No ruling again.
The Supreme Court delays the Trump tariff decision for the third time.
More volatility ahead...

2026-01-19 10:02:40 UTC

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I keep wondering where this saga will end, unfortunately, too many people in the sidelines...

2026-01-19 10:01:50 UTC

Nice summary and update, easy reading, you guys are knocking it out of the park, keep up with the good work!
#nevent1q…u42r

2026-01-18 12:46:02 UTC

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Minibits, Coinos, Wallet of Satoshi
Minibits and Coinos support Cashu which is a plus

2026-01-18 01:11:03 UTC

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This is cool, more and more of this will start becoming the norm, nowadays it makes a headline, we are so early...

2026-01-18 00:48:32 UTC

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Split, what an awesome place

2026-01-17 23:11:29 UTC

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Short and to the point, good one

2026-01-17 16:20:33 UTC

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@nprofile…lv8q is an impressive solution indeed

2026-01-17 10:40:32 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/106ceff53976e7ad31f0ef9c2bfc1f2a68f8671a6de18c472d96686b89138009.jpg
📰 "The Secret every Bitcoin nomad should know" by NM team
It is 2026 already and still, many hotels is hot destinations like Spain, Italy, Greece and others do not accept yet our digital gold, neither airlines, adoption is slow,, but we have the solution and most probably is not what you think... Find out!
Read: https://nostrmag.com/articleland/tsecret

2026-01-17 10:01:24 UTC

This is the kind of project that @nprofile…eqct was talking about, use Nostr as the protocol, build on top of it!
This is very cool, wish you guys at @nprofile…zznz the best, cool concept, you got another NOSTRICH!
#nevent1q…62ug

2026-01-17 09:54:23 UTC

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2026-01-16 00:10:53 UTC

👀 🇺🇸 U.S. Supreme Court tariff ruling: DELAYED
Polymarket is pricing 73% odds that Trump’s tariffs are ruled illegal...
If it happens, think about the refund riskof the approximately $600B+ tariff that allegedly have been collected so far...
https://media.tenor.com/yLWs2YMEF6sAAAAC/tariffs-on-and-off.gif

2026-01-12 06:57:10 UTC

📰 Gold price reaches new all-time high, exceeding $4,600 per troy ounce

2026-01-07 21:02:20 UTC

AWESOME!
#nevent1q…upwm

2026-01-07 10:49:59 UTC

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The problem you are having can be, probably, solved using the developer menu...
Go to settings, developer options, force delete pending.
Once it does, click on resync transactions
You probably have some invoices you didn't pay half way due to who knows what reason, you changed your mind, network failed, etc, thoae issues mess up the proof and the resynch and deletiom of pending is not done automated...

2026-01-07 10:16:32 UTC

📰 🇺🇸 WATCH OUT FOR JOB DATA TODAY
• ADP Employmen - Dec: 6:45 PM IST
Forecast: +50K / Prev: -32K
• Job Openings - Nov: 8:30 PM IST
Forecast: 7.64M / Prev: 7.670M
👀

2026-01-06 01:40:12 UTC

🚨 Oil is stealing the headlines…
But...
Did you know Venezuela holds 600,000+ #BTC
Worth $55.7B at $92.8K?
And the amount of gold is considerably as well...

2026-01-01 08:25:28 UTC

📢 LIQUIDITY ALERT
. The Fed just injected $31B into the U.S. banking system via overnight repos.
. Biggest liquidity add since COVID, Even larger than the Dot-com era peak
#liquidity
#fed

2025-12-20 18:22:39 UTC

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Minibits @nprofile…vavr, you can find it in zapstore

2025-12-20 18:14:38 UTC

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You can toggle off the batch receive... Contacts - > three dot vertical menu
https://image.nostr.build/2841b9dbfb8a6849bf2345a221adae7e758432fa6f7664f8473d52eaf87ff901.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2841b9dbfb8a6849bf2345a221adae7e758432fa6f7664f8473d52eaf87ff901.jpg

2025-12-10 01:04:21 UTC

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The follow needs to be large and passionated, we have that in #Bitcoin and to a much less degree in #Nostr,
#Bitcoin have been getting tons of marketing free and paid by OGs for a very long time. This is key.
IMO, we need more marketing in #Nostr and... We need to onboard more aggressively OGs and mega influencers in the Bitcoin industry, Jack Dorsey and Jack Mallers are not enough Why the lack of support?. Now that we (#Bitcoiners) are not demonized any more we need to push for this.
Regarding #Nostr, @nprofile…p4zh recent post about his vision on where Nostr needs to focus to succeed is most interesting, in a way. I partially agree, IMO, we need a Swiss knife Nostr app, perhaps like Wechat from China without the surveillance features..., X is following that path, I believe we should to, that is what the market wants, doing it differently is cool but success is rarely achieved.
We need a free decentralized platform in which everyone can have free speech, we have the #Bitcoin financial layer to support it, the future is bright, we can build everything on top, with enough founding and the right ideas and following a model that the masses want and will use massively matters.
I would like to see more OGs creating dev support sites with funding options for interesting projects that follow a clear "Build Plan for that Nostr Swiss Knife" in a more decentralized manner, grants from anonymous donors to a non profit organization, currently, IMO, is very narrow and only few players which narrows the development to their vision of the Nostr Ecosystem.

2025-12-06 20:51:46 UTC

#0xChat @nprofile…lgp7 listen to their users and knock it out the park again! 🚀🚀🚀
Now we can enjoy the Global feed with auto translation, awesome!
Well done!
#nevent1q…9mep

2025-12-06 06:30:09 UTC

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Consider Minibits, quite simple and Polish with LN and Cashu support

2025-12-05 23:38:54 UTC

🇺🇸 📰 CORE PCE DATA, BETTER THAN EXPECTED
YoY: 2.8% vs. 2.9% est.
MoM: 0.2%, inline with expectations.
Inflation cooling on trend, bullish for #Bitcoin
#PCE

2025-12-04 10:35:24 UTC

Excellent! #0xchat knocked out of the park... Translations built in, awesome! Improved search function 👍🚀
#nevent1q…2gd0

2025-12-04 10:22:55 UTC

#### 🇪🇺 Europe's Living Standards Hit 40-Year Low Versus US
European living standards are currently at their lowest level in over 40 years compared to the US, primarily due to stagnant income growth and rising costs, such as energy bills.
This is measured by Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita.
Income and Inflation: The typical adult's income in the EU has not kept pace with inflation, leading to a decline in real purchasing power. Energy costs have surged by approximately 60%.
#EU

2025-12-03 11:57:57 UTC

Well said, their business model works, they pray on the ignorance and laziness of most.
In the age of the instant information and cyber crime at its maximum there is no excuse, self hosting your data is only logical, don't be part of a honey pot, governments employ people that could sell your data for a price (happens), wise up.
#nevent1q…9909

2025-12-02 11:06:30 UTC

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Challenging, we are trained to do the second, specially during conflict, a defensive poature requires quick thinking and fast responses, this is priceless, thanks for sharing ❤️

2025-12-01 09:36:19 UTC

🗓️ THIS WEEK, WHAT TO WATCH:
Monday: U.S. ISM Manufacturing PMI
Tuesday: U.S. JOLTS Job Openings
Wednesday: U.S. ADP Employment Report
Thursday' U.S. Jobless Claims & U.S. Productivity and Labor Costs
Friday: U.S. Non-Farm Payrolls, (NFP), U.S. Unemployment Rate & U.S. Average Hourly Earnings
And stay tune to the liquidity game as @nprofile…5ta4 well posted (smart), DCA is great but buying deeps is better.
#Bitcoin
#BTC

2025-11-30 21:04:03 UTC

🚀 Ending QT tomorrow December 1st halts approx $40 billion per month in total runoff, providing a subtle boost keeping that cash in the system (via reinvestments).
This will ease short term funding stresses (like lower SOFR spreads) instantly, as markets anticipate less reserve pressure.
What does it means for #Bitcoin?
Lower yields on short term Treasuries, potential Bitxoin rally (as seen post-2019 QT end).
https://media.tenor.com/--hFLwCbzC4AAAAC/bitcoin-futures.gif

2025-11-28 11:04:26 UTC

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All physical gold is held in dedicated vaults in Switzerland. This includes both XAU₮-backed bars and USDT reserve surplus.

2025-11-27 19:47:48 UTC

🚨 TETHER JUST BOUGHT 116 TONNES OF GOLD MAKING IT THE LARGEST PRIVATE HOLDER WORLDWIDE
So a token peg to the dollar that does not trust the dollar, 🤣, got it!
Buy #Bitcoin, stay frosty
https://media.tenor.com/YHZDY50RhXgAAAAC/bitcoin-cryptocurrency.gif

2025-11-27 12:17:16 UTC

Have you consider that mostly 8 people (Musk, Altman, Zuckerberg, Nadella, Pichai, Huang, Hassabis, Amodei) are deciding for 8.26 billion people the future of the planet with the AI ventures?
Will governments act before this gets out of hand or... Is this already a lost battle?
We have 2 to 10 years left and most are not ready for it...
What you can do?
Buy more #Bittcoin !, just saying...
https://media.tenor.com/cSaXuRcvqTMAAAAC/bitcoin-elements.gif
#askNostr

2025-11-26 17:50:10 UTC

🚨 BREAKING: US Initial Jobless Claims Just Dropped 🇺🇸
Actual: 216K
Expected: 226K
Previous: 220K
The rate cuts looking good

2025-11-25 20:35:52 UTC

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What were the expectations?
>2.7% = inflation rising
<2.6% = inflation easing = 0.5 rate cut plausible
2.7% = nothing changes, sideways until waiting for CPI/PCE

2025-11-25 16:11:05 UTC

🚨 THE LAST 24 HOURS IN THE BITCOIN WORLD
• Tether CEO: $BTC will outlast every attempt to stop it.
• BTC dominance steady at 59% as capital rotates back in.
• VanEck CEO questions BTC’s resilience vs. quantum computing.
• China now accounts for 14% of BTC hashrate, mining quietly resurges.
• Arthur Hayes: BTC won’t go below $80K.
What did I miss?
#askNostr

2025-11-25 16:05:34 UTC

🚨 JUST IN: US Sept Producer Prices rise 2.7%.
Market reaction pretty much flat

2025-11-25 07:03:11 UTC

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The debt changed, it is out of control... The trillions in debt...
The war mongers understand the game so they are out for:
1) wars (moving the military and technological indistrial complex of their countries)
2) robbing small countries of their resources, preferable oil and gas but rare earths are other minerals are good too, by taking control of their resources they get more room to ask for more debt since they can use those resources as collateral. It is about collateral, think Venezuelan 🇻🇪 oil reserves, gas and their gold and rare earths...

2025-11-25 06:54:56 UTC

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And it is only the beginning, even if common sense comes back to the EU 🇪🇺 leadership (which I doubt) the damage is done for decades to come, the energy crisis is crucial, they commit suicide sanctioning themselves out of the cheap Russian energy basket and now Europeans will pay dearly. Going against the regional superpower is always stupid, that goes for countries in the sphere of influence of China and the USA as well, countries going against them are just hurting themselves short and long term.

2025-11-24 19:26:05 UTC

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Excellent, no complaints

2025-11-24 16:18:18 UTC

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https://media.tenor.com/FUCLiMfwJ1EAAAAC/japie06-guy.gif

2025-11-24 06:33:37 UTC

🚨 This week will be interesting 🚨
1. ️ U.S. PPI Inflation, Tuesday
2. US Q3 2025 GDP Data, Wednesday
3. Core PCE Inflation Data, Wednesday
4. Jobless Claims, Wednesday
#askNostr
#BTC
Volatility incoming?
Thoughts?
https://media.tenor.com/ujJSUQtkslgAAAAC/what-do-you-think-cordell-walker.gif

2025-11-24 05:32:41 UTC

BTC vs Global Liquidity, the correlation is quite significant, 0.96 correlation 👀
QE starts in 7 days... 🚀
Tick tock, tick tock, the data says most influencers and analysts crying this is the end of the cycle could be wrong,
Not financial advice.
https://nostr.download/459f47fee9cfd3a13b9458925ba24c878e6cc411a8695ea2c2261d7d64a77ecd.jpg

2025-11-19 21:17:03 UTC

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Hot tea and long walks, keep it up, totally worth it!

2025-11-19 21:15:42 UTC

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Agree with you, it seems sad but we need to adapt, well managed it will be a massive move in the right direction.
Unfortunately the way it was conceived was not world wide regukated and now is a race with no potential winner but a lot to win or lose for humanity in overall

2025-11-19 21:12:56 UTC

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Focusing more on what he does instead of what he says tells always the story, that goes for all billionaires attempting to molde the future publicly...
Musk, Bezos, Gates and others are pushing their view of the future all with their agendas and all saying they care about the future of humanity,
Let's do a simple cross reference with LLMs
Elon Musk
Statements:
Preserve human consciousness via multiplanetary life and AI symbiosis; eliminate poverty through abundance; build universal knowledge repository to safeguard civilization.
Actions:
SpaceX for Mars colonization; Neuralink for brain-AI interfaces; xAI's Encyclopedia Galactica (open-source AI knowledge archive, distributed across solar system); Tesla's Optimus robots for universal high income.
Bill Gates:
focus appears on philanthropy via blog/foundation, e.g., global health/education). Not much to show for recently but a lot of controversy, especially during the plandemic.
Jeff Bezos
Statement:
"Climate change is the biggest threat to our planet" (2020 Instagram post announcing Bezos Earth Fund).
Actions:
Pledged $10B to Earth Fund (2020); granted $3B for nature conservation (2021 COP26), including $2B for habitats/food systems; $1B for global conservation (e.g., Congo Basin, 2021).
Statement:
Recent X posts emphasize "Gradatim Ferociter" (step by step, ferociously) for space progress, e.g., celebrating Blue Origin engine burns and landings (Nov 2025).
Actions:
Founded Blue Origin (2000); ongoing tests/launches (e.g., New Shepard missions, 2025); $1B+ annual investment in reusable rockets.

2025-11-16 17:44:13 UTC

A full cyber espionage orchestrated using AI... First known of its kind...
https://assets.anthropic.com/m/ec212e6566a0d47/original/Disrupting-the-first-reported-AI-orchestrated-cyber-espionage-campaign.pdf
#AI
#cybersecurity

2025-11-14 18:58:51 UTC

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We need automated translations in 0xChat. That will be quite useful

2025-11-14 18:47:19 UTC

Entering the middle of Q4 2025, it should get quite interesting and soon... The cycle lives on

2025-11-14 06:20:31 UTC

One of the ETF effects is margin trading, greedy degens use margin following algos, the big players reck them every time. #Bitcoin right now is, in part, having sell pressure from degens having to sell real Bitcoin to cover their margin calls.
Those degens will stop trading Bitcoin the moment it becomes less volatile, which could happen under a decade...

2025-11-14 05:58:32 UTC

🇨🇳 China:
The star of the show, the Walker S2, is the first humanoid capable of changing its own batteries, allowing it to operate without interruption.
https://nostr.download/9cb18eefe301d8e3682207d47aea22b53c30811de7b2239aa8ad039c8d6a2eb2.jpg
#china
#robotic

2025-11-11 05:42:34 UTC

The newest 0XChat is excellent, well done @npub1tm9…xn72 !
#0xchat

2025-11-09 03:45:30 UTC

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quite useful though...

2025-11-09 02:54:45 UTC

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your relay is broadcasting okay...
The client you are using should be connected to at least few relays, research that part, relays for inbox , outbox, search, private, local, etc. Amethyst dies a good job defining them in the relays settings.

2025-11-07 02:11:48 UTC

📰 Vibe coding has been picked as the Collins’ Word of the Year 2025, according to a statement posted on the website of the dictionary published in the United Kingdom.
"Coined by AI pioneer Andrej Karpathy, vibe coding refers to the use of artificial intelligence prompted by natural language to write computer code," the Collins Dictionary says.
The term evidences a broader cultural shift towards AI-assisted everything in the daily life of people, Collins blog authors say.
#vibecoding

2025-11-05 05:34:43 UTC

History lessons:
2019:
U.S. Government Shutdown Dec 22 to Jan 25.
#Bitcoin dropped 20%, then rallied +300% the following weeks after the shutdown was over.
2025:
US Government Shutdown repeats #BTC dropped 21% approx.
Bull run loading, history lesson tells us this is a bear trap
Act accordingly
Thoughts?
#askNostr

2025-11-04 22:19:55 UTC

📰 Google's artificial intelligence (AI)-powered cybersecurity agent called Big Sleep has been credited by Apple for discovering as many as five different security flaws in the WebKit component used in its Safari web browser that, if successfully exploited, could result in a browser crash or memory corruption.
#cybersecurity
#news

2025-11-04 09:50:56 UTC

📰 The EU’s growth is horrifyingly slow; demand is dreadfully weak; and foreign investment is at a frightening nine-year low.
https://www.euractiv.com/news/europes-frightful-economy/

2025-10-31 20:27:57 UTC

📰 China breakthrough with a chip faster than anything in the market. The chip delivers computing throughput and energy efficiency 100 to 1,000 times greater than current top digital processors (GPUs) in solving key scientific problems such as large-scale MIMO signal detection. The findings were published on October 13 in Nature Electronics, according to the report.
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202510/1345626.shtml

2025-10-31 19:04:51 UTC

📰 OpenAI has announced the launch of an "agentic security researcher" that's powered by its GPT-5 large language model (LLM) and is programmed to emulate a human expert capable of scanning, understanding, and patching code. Called Aardvark, the artificial intelligence (AI) company said the autonomous agent is designed to help developers and security teams flag and fix security vulnerabilities.

2025-10-30 16:58:37 UTC

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https://github.com/soupslurpr/Transcribro

2025-10-24 22:12:55 UTC

#BTC Bull Runs since 2011:
2011:
• Duration: 9 months
• Bear trap: month 6
2013:
• Duration: 9 months
• Bear trap: month 6
2017:
• Duration: 10 months
• Bear trap: month 6
2021:
• Duration: 10 months
• Bear trap: month 6
2025:
• We’re in Month 6 right now 👀
https://media.tenor.com/DijuQ74YJnwAAAAC/hitmans-bodyguard-hitmans-bodyguard-gi-fs.gif

2025-10-24 02:08:54 UTC

BREAKING: 🇺🇸 The US national debt reached a new all time high of $38 trillion...

2025-10-23 17:36:52 UTC

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150 petabytes...

2025-10-22 14:59:59 UTC

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It is excellent, the Flint does a good job too

2025-10-18 01:38:23 UTC

Out of $261 trillion in global assets, #Bitcoin is only 0.5%, all crypto about 1%
Consider the potential... It is massive

2025-10-17 02:59:54 UTC

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yep

2025-10-17 02:58:53 UTC

JUST IN: 🇨🇳 China plans to mass-produce flying cars in 2026.
Chinese electric vehicle manufacturer XPeng Motors (through its subsidiary XPeng AeroHT) has publicly announced plans to begin mass production of its modular flying car, known as the "Land Aircraft Carrier," in 2026. This aligns with China's broader push into the "low-altitude economy," which includes eVTOL (electric vertical takeoff and landing) vehicles and drones.

2025-10-17 02:02:28 UTC

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hmmm, I can't zap myself if I change to Minibits, invoice error, can you zap yourself?

2025-10-17 00:39:26 UTC

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yep, same

2025-10-17 00:38:55 UTC

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yep, same issue, not only npub.cash , minibits as well @nprofile…vavr

2025-10-14 08:53:25 UTC

https://news.itsfoss.com/ubo-pod/

2025-10-03 22:05:44 UTC

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Open-Printer-is-an-open-source-inkjet-printer-with-DRM-free-ink-and-roll-paper-support.1126929.0.html

2025-10-02 04:56:28 UTC

The lack of debate and the censoring of MDs and scientists that had concerns about this possibility and other things was unprecedented... and here we are now, sad for those who will be affected but a lesson for future emergencies.
#nevent1q…g6n3

2025-09-30 23:39:38 UTC

A Chinese national, 47, was the alleged mastermind of a £5bn (in Bitcoin) fraud before coming to the UK
https://news.sky.com/story/yadi-zhang-woman-pleads-guilty-to-money-laundering-over-5bn-bitcoin-seizure-13440930

2025-09-26 10:19:17 UTC

Trying to get a non tech savvy friend to swap from Windows to Linux ... great timing since Windows is discontinuing support for W10
Massive failure LOL!
His conclusion, this sucks, f$#& that 🤣
well, I tried...
External keyboard didn't work, web cam didn't work. I told him, let's fix that, it will be fun to troubleshoot a and solve the issue... He look at me and said, Are you F.. kidding me, is 2025, this Linux thing have been around over 30 years and from the box can't get a web can and a Bluetooth keyboard, F.. that! 🤣
I don't blame him, Linux, after 30 years is not a ready product for the masses, sad but true...
Good it was using external USB drive for testing, I hope he remembers how to re enable secure boot from the BIOS, LOL!

2025-09-24 09:52:07 UTC

📰 The Secret Service said it discovered a secret communications network of more than 100,000 SIM cards and 300 servers capable of carrying out “nefarious” attacks in the New York City area as leaders convened for the U.N. General Assembly.
That amount of hardware is quite large, that level sophistication takes time and men power with the know how to achieve it, that investigation will open a can of worms ...

2025-09-19 14:05:55 UTC

📰 Michigan is considering banning the use of VPNs...
You may think, this is ignorance, but I think is just part of a non stop attack to our freedoms, the solution is not only to fight back each one of this initiatives, but to make it too expensive politically to continue their war against our freedoms.
With no accountability they will continue, if you are in Michigan call your representatives, write them, expose them online, organize in your community, every politician that works against the people needs to be voted out, but that won't happen with you doing nothing or waiting for someone else to do it!

2025-09-17 06:13:10 UTC

📰 🇪🇺 Germany announced 125,000 industrial job cuts in 6 weeks
A WSWS report from September 15, 2025, explicitly states that "in the six weeks since June 30, 2025, German corporations announced the elimination of more than 125,000 jobs. This aligns with an EY study showing ~245,500 industrial jobs lost since 2019, accelerating in 2025, and broader surveys indicating over a third of German companies planning cuts this year. The figure encompasses automotive, steel, rail, and related sectors, driven by weak exports to China/U.S., EV transition costs, and competition from Asia.

2025-09-15 20:20:52 UTC

I keep reading incredibly absurd comments in social networks about people complaining that their private employer fired them because of a post "violating", wait for it ... Their 1st amendment rights!
Those are Americans or people living and working in the USA. It is unreal how uninformed they are.
The 1st Amendment only applies to government, your private employer is not affected by it.
If your private employer doesn’t like you post because they reflects badly on them, your firing is justified, not that they need much of a justification thought.
Last four years tons of conservatives were fired from private companies for similar reasons, posting emotional political rants on social networks, it seems this time is the liberals that are getting fired... it seems an endles vicious circle for them and it does not seem it will get better but worst.

2025-09-13 18:50:21 UTC

📰 Albania will soon be the first country to have an AI chatbot as a virtual minister, in an effort to clamp down on corruption by turning to an unbribable digital official
https://media.tenor.com/xjX_iaTUROYAAAAC/bravo-applause.gif

2025-09-13 01:38:49 UTC

📰 🚨 🇪🇺EU Countries Chat Control Vote
As of September 12, 2025, the European Union Council meeting concluded with fifteen member states publicly supporting the Danish compromise proposal, which includes mandatory client-side scanning of encrypted messages to detect child sexual abuse material Four countries—Estonia, Greece, Romania, and Slovenia—remain undecided, making their final positions pivotal for the outcome
**Countries in Favor of Chat Control:**
* Bulgaria
* Croatia
* Cyprus
* Denmark
* France
* Hungary
* Ireland
* Italy
* Latvia
* Lithuania
* Malta
* Portugal
* Slovakia
* Spain
* Sweden
**Countries Opposing Chat Control:**
* Austria
* Belgium
* Czech Republic
* Finland
* Germany
* Luxembourg
* Netherlands
* Poland
The final vote by the European Council is scheduled for October 14, 2025, with the outcome dependent on the positions of the four undecided states.
Unreal that despite all cryptografy experts reports explaining the inefficacy of the proposed surveillance and the importance of E2E encryption for privacy as a human right, we still have so many countries in the EU pedaling this using child abuse as a excuse while doing very little to tackle the root problem itself with UN based recommendations.

2025-09-10 12:45:56 UTC

📰 Microsoft on Tuesday addressed a set of 80 security flaws in its software, including one vulnerability that has been disclosed as publicly known at the time of release.
Of the 80 vulnerabilities, eight are rated Critical and 72 are rated Important in severity. None of the shortcomings has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day.
Time to run updates for those using Microsoft, delaying is unadvised...

2025-09-09 22:30:50 UTC

📰 NEW - Nepal's Prime Minister resigns and flees, as protesters burn down his house and chase finance minister through the streets.
Nepal’s government lifts social media ban after violent protests erupted over the restriction, leaving 19 dead and 145 injured. Protesters, mostly Gen Z, clashed with police near Parliament, prompting army deployment and a curfew.
Gen Z in Nepal seems to have their priorities quite clear, banning social networks is a red line and they will die defending their right to keep using then 🤔
https://media.tenor.com/Fg7Jrii-17kAAAAC/james-franco-wait-what.gif

2025-09-08 20:12:36 UTC

Reading about stable coins with my thinking hat on ended up with few notes taken and observations:
1. Stablecoin issuers buy US debt via Treasury Bonds, pegging them to the US dollar.
2. Foreign Crypto Exchanges will buy them and add liquidity to their systems, centralized or decentralized making the stablecoin issuers a potential top 10 US debt holders.
3. US stablecoins could bypass banks in big emerging markets, this undercuts local currencies and boost dollar dominance.
This seems a logical and obvious plan.
Question is:
Will foreign countries deploy counter measures?
Like::
- Banning US stable coins
- Creating their own stable coins
- Updating regulation
Seems only logical, more over when the play is so obvious...
Of course USA current administration could send some destroyers and accuse the dearing banning county of narco-terrorism or any other non sense, since apparently, inventing narratives out of the blue with no intelligence reports going back years to back it up is a new norm ... What a chaotic time to be alive...
#stablecoins
#USDT
#USDC
#DAI

2025-09-08 17:21:13 UTC

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Good take, you reminded me of Edward Snowden when he lectured us on why he runs his own TOR exit node and runs his own traffic through it, mixing his data with the noise of hundreds if not thousands of people, making his metadata ... noise...
IMO, the ideal OpSec is a two tear protocol, and I agree, very inconvenient, but easier than the usual most use.

2025-09-08 12:07:04 UTC

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Coming back to your main question, which was battery size, both batteries are indeed different, Pixel 10 Pro, for instance has a battery about 1000mAh larger capacity than the one from the iPhone 16 Pro.
Now both mobiles have a similar battery performance under heavy usage despite the size difference, but consider my answer above, the iPhone does the job for the user to dim the screen and keep the background apps dormant aggressively, while the Android user has the freedom to choose what is allowed in the background to work.

2025-09-08 11:44:35 UTC

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Not in my experience, my family and friends with iPhones are normally struggling with their battery life as much as Android users, it depends on the usage, here some comparisons of testing between the Piixel and the iPhone:
Battery Life: Both brands’ latest models typically last 1–1.5 days with moderate use (e.g., web browsing, calls, light gaming).
Charging Speed: Pixel 10 series supports faster wired charging (30W–45W) compared to iPhone 16’s 20W. The Pixel 10 Pro XL achieves 70% in 30 minutes, while others reach ~50%.
Testing Variability: Battery life depends on factors like screen brightness, always-on display, and app usage. For instance, disabling always-on display can extend battery life by ~20%.
Sources: Data is compiled from reviews and tests, including PCMag, GSMArena, and WIRED.
Additional Notes:
If you use an Android device you have more room for actions leading to more battery life. You can go to the app info of any app and remove its capability to background usage increasing considerably your battery life of you do that with the usual drainers like telegram and other social Apps, but not exclusively, I personally do that with most apps but Chat apps and my battery last a full day even with heavy use, just keep the screen as dimmed as possible since the screen time is the make contributor, having a dark theme in your mobile UI and apps you use adds up as well.