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JUST IN: đčđ Thailand's Supreme Court officially recognizes Bitcoin as legal property.
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17 years after Bitcoin's creation:
âą still 10 minutes per block
âą still capped at 21 million
âą still adjusts difficulty every 2016 blocks
âą still decentralized
âą still open source
âą still SHA-256
âą still 99.99% uptime
âą still never hacked
âą still immutable
âą still growing
Yet most people still think it's going to zero.
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Financial freedom is not about how much you have.
It's about how much you need.
Reduce what you need and freedom gets closer without earning a single extra dollar.
Most people try to earn their way to freedom.
Fewer realise they can also spend their way there.
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Indiana, USA: Another massive solar farm has been reduced to a pile of toxic debris by... the weather. đł
Imagine making the energy grids of advanced first world economies dependent on this inefficient, intermittent and fragile technology under the guise of solving a "climate crisis" that doesn't even exist. đ€Ą
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RIP Privacy â AI Glasses Can Now Recognize Anyone, Anywhere.
A Dutch journalist just tested a pair of AI-powered glasses that can instantly identify strangers on the street.
No government database. No police system. Just public data and off-the-shelf AI.
You look at someone and in seconds, their name, LinkedIn, and background appear before your eyes.
The scariest part? You canât really stop it.
You can ban it, regulate it, add blinking red lights⊠but once tech like this exists, someone will always find a way to use it.
To me, this marks a turning point.
Weâve officially blurred the line between seeing people and knowing them.
Between being in public and being exposed.
So hereâs the question:
When every face becomes a dataset, how do we protect the meaning of being human?
#AI #Privacy #Ethics #Technology #Innovation #Data #Surveillance
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Banned, Broke, and Homeless: The Human Cost of Chinaâs Social Credit System
It began as whispers â a few people under bridges, a few families gone overnight. But soon, it became impossible to ignore. Across China, tens of thousands vanished into digital silence â not criminals, but victims of an algorithm. Behind the promise of âtrust,â a hidden system now decides who can live freely⊠and who disappears from society itself.
Meanwhile tens of thousands young people are becoming homeless in China đ. Because they are blacklisted by social credit system.
Once you are blacklisted, you are immediately cut off from banking service and digital payments.
ââThis makes it hard for you to find a job to support yourself, and you will become homelessđš
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CASH DIES IN 847 DAYS
Europe just legislated the end of financial freedom and nobody noticed.
January 2027: Every euro above âŹ10,000 becomes illegal tender. Every Bitcoin needs government permission. Every transaction becomes a datapoint in Brusselsâ surveillance grid.
This is not proposed. This is law.
340 million Europeans will wake up in a cage built from their own bank accounts.
THE KILL SHOT
The EU Anti-Money Laundering package doesnât just track criminals. It treats every citizen as one. Starting 2027, buying a car in cash becomes a crime. Sending âŹ1,001 in Bitcoin without state approval triggers prosecution. Anonymous wallets vanish overnight.
The Digital Euro arrives 2029. The European Central Bank spent âŹ1.3 billion building what they call freedom. But leaked proposals cap holdings at âŹ3,000 per person. Every purchase tracked. Every pattern analyzed. Every dissent potentially bankable.
THE LIE THEYâRE SELLING
âThis stops money laundering.â Europe launders âŹ500 billion yearly, they claim. So theyâre building a panopticon for 340 million people to catch the fraction who commit crimes.
Chinaâs digital yuan already programs money to expire, to restrict, to control. The ECB promises Europe will be different.
They promised deposit safety in Cyprus too. Then they seized accounts in 2013.
WHAT HAPPENS NEXT
Privacy coins migrate to the shadows. Black markets replace grey ones. The state gains omniscience. You lose the right to buy bread without permission.
This isnât about crime. Itâs about power. âŹ20 trillion flows through the eurozone. Every cent will soon require approval from Frankfurt.
The infrastructure of tyranny gets built in the name of safety. Always.
THE CLOCK IS RUNNING
847 days until your cash becomes contraband. 1,308 days until the Digital Euro launches. Zero days of mainstream coverage asking the only question that matters:
Who decides what youâre allowed to buy when money becomes permission?
The European Union just made Orwell an instruction manual.
And you heard it here first.
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The banks will fail again.
Nine European banks are teaming up to launch an EUR stablecoin; the 2025 remake of âblockchain, not Bitcoinâ.
It failed for R3. It failed for Facebook.
This time is not different.
Consortiums building complex systems cannot succeed. Gallâs Law applies: systems that work evolve from simple, working ones.
Stablecoins will become huge, but not with this committee-built, MiCA-compliant model. Consumers want reliability and freedom, not another slow, closed banking club.
Banks should put clients first, and integrate the stablecoins that already function and start building real Bitcoin and crypto services.
Thatâs where trustless settlement, global liquidity, and lasting value are headed. That is what their clients have demand for.
Opinion piece coming soon.
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2018: Harvard says Bitcoin is more likely to hit $100 than $100K.
2025: Harvard buys $116M Bitcoin at $116K.
Everyone gets Bitcoin at the price they deserve.
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The EU has completely fucked Europe.
Only one European car makes it into the top 10 best-selling vehicles worldwide. No European company in the global top 10 of tech. No European search engine. No smartphone. No operating system. No streaming platform. No social media giant. No cloud infrastructure. No semiconductor leader.
What Europe produces at scale is paperwork, taxes, and restrictions. The EU turned the continent into a museum of former power, managed by people who fear growth, hate competition, and worship consensus. Innovation is treated as a risk. Success is treated as a threat.
Meanwhile, the US dominates tech, South Korea leads in chips and displays, China builds everything elseâand Europe holds panel discussions on ethics.
KURWA MAÄ.
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Jeg synes vi skal vÊre pÄ vakt mot den utviklingen vi ser i verden nÄ. Eller kanskje mest av alt ta mer plass i debattene. NÄr vi ikke gjÞr det, tar politikerne seg til rette.
Vi kan ikke la det vÊre opp til politikerne Ä forvalte ytrings- og informasjonsfriheten vÄr. De er FRYKTELIG dÄrlige til det.
De gjentar bare det samme mÞnsteret, fordi det ligger i deres naturlov Ä ⊠POLITISERE alt, hele tiden.
En kanskje uforutsett fare ved denne massivt tilstedevÊrende ytringsfrihetsdebatten som har pÄgÄtt de siste 8-10 Ärene (som har gitt veldig mange Þkt kunnskap om ytringsfrihet!), er at politikerne ogsÄ tror dette er oppe for politisering. Dette mÄ vi nÄ vÊre pÄ vakt mot.
FÞrst tar de eierskap til ord som desinformasjon. Propaganda. Konspirasjonsteorier. Hatefulle ytringer. Men ogsÄ radikal kjÞnnsteori. LGBT-litteratur.
SÄ skaper de politisk marked og mobiliserer mot det. SÄ kriminaliserer de det. Fordi det er politisk marked for det. Plutselig hadde vi ikke lÊrt sÄ mye om ytringsfrihet, likevel.
Selv om vi diskuterer desinformasjon, propaganda, konspirasjonsteorier, hatefulle ytringer, radikal kjĂžnnsteori og LGBT-litteratur i den offentlige debatten, betyr det faktisk ikke at vi trenger politiske lĂžsningsforslag mot det.
Det er her vi mÄ melde oss pÄ.
Politikerne tror det er deres tur Ă„ gjĂžre upopulĂŠre meninger ulovlige, og insentivene ligger der til Ă„ bli populĂŠre politikere av det. Da trenger vi flere prinsipielle forsvarere av den brede ytringsfriheten, der vi ikke nĂždvendigvis mener at meninger vi ikke liker, bĂžr forbys.
Gjennom Ă„ «definere» og skjĂŠre ut deler av ytrings- og informasjonsfriheten vĂ„r, som isolert farlige, politiserer de ytringsfriheten vĂ„r â og gjĂžr fri meningsdannelse umulig. Men fĂžrst: farlig, ulovlig, straffbart.
Det er mediene â i sunn konkurranse â som bĂžr gjĂžre dette. En hygienefaktor er da at dĂ„rlige ytringer og feilaktige meninger mĂ„ vĂŠre lovlige.
Selv om medier og myndigheter er det samme for mange (jeg kan forstÄ hvorfor) er det vesensforskjell i Ä la de frie mediene forvalte ytrings- og informasjonsfriheten vÄr. Staten skal bare legge til rette for det, gjennom Äpenhet og lovlighet.
Desinformasjon, propaganda, konspirasjonsteorier og hatefulle ytringer. Alt sammen kan vÊre skadelig. Men det kan aldri bli sÄ skadelig som den politiseringen av ytringsfriheten som nÄ pÄgÄr. VÄre beste verktÞy mot nettopp slike stÞrrelser, er mer, og ikke mindre, ytringsfrihet.
Det er naivt Ä tro at politiske regjeringer er egnet til Ä vurdere desinformasjon, konspirasjon, propaganda og lignende pÄ noen tilfredsstillende mÄte. Risikoen for politisering av slike begreper er pÄfallende. Det er naivt Ä tro at politiske interesser ikke vil pÄvirke beslutningene.
StĂžtter Amrit Pernille Kaur i RĂžd Ungdom fullt ut her: subjekt.no/2025/07/22/forbyrâŠ
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I did more tests with Google's #Veo3. Imagine if AI characters became aware they were living in a simulation!
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WATCH: BILLIONAIRE JACK DORSEY EXPLAINS #BITCOIN TO THE CEO OF NORWAY'S $1.8 TRILLION SOVEREIGN WALTH FUND
"BTC ALIGNS WITH INTERNET PRINCIPLES." đ§Ą