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ProjectB59 retweeted
I am done being polite about this industry.
Not disappointed. Done.
I spent the last months pulling wallets apart instead of posting charts, and what sits in my database now is not a pile of unlucky trades.
It is hundreds of thousands of connections between wallets, coins, launch tools and payment flows, and they draw the same picture every time: industrial draining.
On Solana first, because that is where the machine runs fastest, but the same hands show up on other chains under other tickers.
This is not degens getting rekt. This is organised crime with a Pumpfun profile and a leaderboard rank.
You want to know what "KOL" means in 2026? Last week I followed 3 wallets off a copy trading leaderboard.
Their money does not come from calls. It comes from wallets that create coins by the hundred and by the thousand.
One of those feeder wallets has 4,578 coins to its name. In September alone 852 SOL net moved from the factories to the 3 "influencers".
One coin was created, dumped 33 seconds later, and the money sat in the KOL wallet 2 minutes after that. Then I checked the big names.
Leaderboard wallets with 103,000, 134,000 and 146,000 followers on Pumpfun that have personally created 1,759, 953 and 1,217 coins.
One of them is at 6,464. Create, buy in the same transaction, sell everything 3 to 5 blocks later into whoever got there in that second.
Same second, or the next one. Over and over. And these people get called traders. They get podcasts. They get "gm".
And the platforms? Fee on the way in, fee on the way out, and they call it volume.
So no, I am not writing you another post-mortem every time retail gets emptied.
The post-mortem is always the same and it changes nothing, because the people who benefit are the same people who get the reach.
Every "isolated incident" conveniently skips the question of who keeps getting paid, who keeps promoting, and why the exact same wallets are back in the game before the thread has finished loading.
I will keep saying it, because this space forgets everything the moment there is a new bag to chase. Some of my posts will get fewer views for that.
Fine.
But anger alone is content, and content is exactly what they want from me.
What I want is tools.
You should be able to look at a wallet and see its 1,217 launches before you ape.
You should see who funded the dev, which "KOL" he paid last week, and what you are about to sign, before the damage is done, not in my thread 2 days later.
That is where MASTR goes now. The intelligence machine gets wired into my apps and my sites, so the research lives where you trade instead of dying in a timeline.
The people who support this work get that intelligence first.
That is the only alpha I care about: knowing what is happening before someone else's exit becomes your loss.
And I will say the uncomfortable part out loud: I cannot run this for free forever.
Data, infrastructure, development, investigation, it all costs real money, even when the finished tool makes it look effortless.
I refuse to pay for it by renting my name to whichever project needs a clean reputation this week.
I also refuse to pretend I can subsidise everyone out of my own pocket while the drainers cash out your SOL and climb the next leaderboard with it.
If I survive in this industry, it will be because I built something useful enough that people choose to back it, and stayed angry enough to keep pointing at the machine it runs inside.
Receipts are coming.
Every transaction linked. Check me.
ProjectB59 retweeted
Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian.
New Delhi, 24 July 2026
The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub to remove the code repositories of BitChat.
The order, Notice No. 11072601011432, was issued at 11:16 pm on 23 July 2026 under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021. The order directs GitHub to disable access to three repositories, including the Android application and its release files, within three hours. It threatens the platform with loss of safe harbour and criminal prosecution. No copy was published by the Government of India. The public learnt of it from a post by @jack, whose team develops BitChat. Censorship in India now comes to light through disclosure by the censored.
Since 17 July 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended mobile internet around Jantar Mantar as per public reports about five times, most recently within a 1.5 kilometre radius from 4 pm until midnight on 23 July. That radius takes in Janpath and parts of Connaught Place. Reports describe signal jammers at the protest site and people walking two kilometres before their phones work. Inside that zone a student separated from her group during a detention drive cannot send a message to say where she is. Thousands of students and young people have camped at Jantar Mantar since June, seeking accountability for examination irregularities. Permission for their march to Parliament was refused. Metro stations were shut and also internet connectivity has been blocked.
BitChat is an open source application built for exactly this situation. It passes messages from phone to phone over Bluetooth, without mobile networks or a central server. It is striking that the order does not identify a single unlawful message. It objects to what BitChat is. In its own words, the application is dangerous because it enables communication "even during network restrictions" and can "circumvent lawful restrictions" during "internet shutdowns". Hence, the government's objection is that citizens can speak to one another while it has switched the internet off.
The order is illegal on at least four grounds.
1. Section 79(3)(b) is not a blocking power. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court read down the provision. Intermediaries may be required to act only on a court order, or a government notification confined to the grounds under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. Blocking is governed exclusively by Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, which require a hearing and reasons recorded in writing, subject to review. Directions issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal evade these safeguards, and constitutional challenges to this parallel regime are pending before High Courts.
2. The reasons in the order are circular. The order asserts that the repositories contain "information which is prohibited under any law" without naming any such information, and rests on what the application is "capable of" enabling. Anticipated misuse of a communications tool is not a lawful basis to prohibit the tool. By this logic a telephone exchange could be sealed.
3. The order cites Section 43 of the IT Act, a civil compensation provision, alongside conspiracy and abetment offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, against a platform that hosts code.
4. A three hour deadline issued close to midnight forecloses legal assessment and recourse, and fails the proportionality standard in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637.
The order also fails on its own terms as deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code.
IFF demands that the Government of India:
1. Withdraw Notice No. 11072601011432 dated 23 July 2026 issued to GitHub.
2. Publish every takedown direction issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal, with the reasons recorded for each.
3. Restore full connectivity around Jantar Mantar, publish all suspension orders, and disclose the legal authority for the deployment of jammers.
We stand with the developers and the young protesters whose speech this order seeks to silence.
ProjectB59 retweeted
Here’s the full video for anyone who wants to go deeper 👇
From Cryonics to Crypto: Extropian Roots of Digital Cash -- part of the ongoing Project B‑59 archive on the strange history around Bitcoin. Curious what connections you spot that we missed. 🕵️♀️
ProjectB59 retweeted
The archive has found its home! 📁✨
Thrilled to be building on @SiaFoundation through their grants program. Our research into Bitcoin history and cypherpunk origins belongs on decentralized infrastructure.
Catch me at #Consensus2026 to talk shop! 🚀
Ps. Guys, check out the booth number 😎
ProjectB59 retweeted
Today is Hal Finney’s birthday, so it felt like the right time to share our second Project B59 piece:
Hal Finney -- Digital Architect. We’ve been cataloging his writings, talks, and early Bitcoin work for a while now, and this video is one slice of that material that will become part of the larger Project B‑59 archive. Hope you enjoy it.
ProjectB59 retweeted
Privacy shouldn’t be a luxury for the few.
Big Tech has made billions off of mining your data, but now you have the choice to take back ownership with the Sia Storage App.
Because your data is no one else’s business—not even ours.
ProjectB59 retweeted
Holy shit... Someone built a free self-hosted tool that lets you read any paywalled article instantly by routing it through a proxy that strips the paywall before the page ever loads in your browser.
It's called Ladder and it's the open-source alternative to 12ft that you actually own and control.
Here's everything you need to know:
ProjectB59 retweeted
Good evening $Buckazoids... Race number 14 on a Wednesday against 2200 2 leggers, still running!
ProjectB59 retweeted
📢 Calling out to our Buckaboots 🥾🥾 on the ground crew @ProjectB59
Say “Hi” to Booth 59 and also —
Corporate needs you to find the difference between Miami @consensus2026 opening night party and this picture of Roger Wilco 👀
ProjectB59 retweeted
Holy Buckazoids!
Our thanks go out to bitcoin journalist and CEO/co-founder of @BitcoinPolicyUK Suzy Violet Ward for her time @TheBitcoinConf 2026 and her kind words!
Ms. Ward enjoyed entertaining Buckazoids’ possible connection to bitcoin’s origins and the Space Quest gaming inspiration for the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto.
“It’s a great mix of Bitcoin history, retro gaming and that classic Roswell energy!”
We would love to join you on “My Two Sats” or on an X Space to unpack the history further!
Full column below 👇 originally published by @RDRNews
Holy Buckazoids, Batman! Satoshi Nakamoto’s true untold origin finally revealed?
Guy Malone
In February 3’s Roswell Daily Record Sunday bitcoin column, I stated — in keeping with generally accepted knowledge worldwide at the time — that the identity and history behind bitcoin’s pseudonymous creator, known only by his user name “Satoshi Nakamoto,” debuting on a 2008 internet chat forum (more on “his” origins here, also RDR), was in effect unknowable.
“Nakamoto climbed high enough to glimpse the Promised Land. And because he did, every bitcoiner you know is at a different stage of following him in their own desert march to exit the existing system of flat dollar debt slavery.”
But who was he?
Nobody knows.
“The End.”
While I have my best educated guesses from research as to whom I’d most likely wager, a man currently in prison, might be the closest to a singular “real Nakamoto,” I’ve actually argued here before that a “team of four or more, working together,” is most likely.
—Then I saw her face—
Continuing my coverage of May’s three-day Las Vegas bitcoin conference, where I previously stated that I had recorded over 50 interviews, the event was winding down. The last two speakers were standing room only, at an event that reportedly had 35,000 in attendance.
These last keynote speakers were famed “Silk Road” website creator and life-plus-sentenced-now-pardoned prisoner Ross Ulbricht and tech giant Michael Saylor, whose company Strategy owns nearing 600,000 bitcoin as their treasury.
Saylor himself owns over 17,000, which he says will go with him to his grave.
What would take me away from listening to these closing addresses? Being shot by Destiny.
Bitcoin itself has a story that it brought me to Vegas to bring back to you, via the herald of an admirable young lady whom I chose over Saylor himself speaking about his “21 whatevers” (look on YouTube).
I marched away from him to get her story. Friends, in over nine years of studying bitcoin, I’ve said I will go to my grave without knowing the mysterious origin of Satoshi Nakamoto. I now recant that view, and present for your approval one dressed in a space cosplay jumpsuit (think Erin Grey from “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” TV, only more modest and even much classier in her attire), and upon identifying myself by name and news affiliation with phone camera rolling, she told me her name, and that she was
“… dressed as Beatrice Wankmeister from the game Space Quest (4)… here to spread the history of bitcoin (i.e., whom we believe to be the creators of bitcoin and where it originated from).
“In the game Space Quest 4, the currency in the game, Buckazoids, featured the bitcoin logo. (I, Guy, have seen dozens of screen captures of it in archived gameplay screens now. The story checks out.) It also functions like crypto in the video game. It was digital, and it was susceptible to inflation and deflation. And it was digital. 20 years before crypto ever existed.
“So, somebody made a Reddit post asking why is the bitcoin logo on this 1991 video game?
A community formed, and they looked into the gaming company that made Space Quest. And they found two developers that worked there named Satoshi Uesaka and Rod Nakamoto. Also, Hal Finney. He was not at the same company, but he was in the area. And he did work on space-themed video games at the same time as these two. Like, he was literally 20 minutes away!”
The late Hal Finney, some have argued, is one of several favorite supposed contenders for the title of bitcoin’s creator. He was the recipient of the world’s first bitcoin transaction, sent from a Nakamoto-mined wallet, in fact, stoking suspicion, but ultimately, no, just no; leave his widow alone.
Friends, aside from spending days following rabbit holes I had no idea existed until recently, I started researching bitcoin — hard — beginning 2016.
I’m here to tell you this information has near-miraculously been hanging in the air, hiding in plain sight, while every government agency worldwide and secret society plus every real news organization with money to spend has been trying to unearth the identity of Satoshi Nakamoto, but to no avail.
These kids have found it, not by power nor by might. The reason that it took a horde of gamers, geeks, nerds, simps and incels to discover and fully disclose the true origin of bitcoin to the world today?
Because that is exactly who gave the world bitcoin in the first place, the echoes of their inspiration still encoded for all of time.
Buckazoids is bitcoin’s father (?), predecessor (?), twin brother from another mother…?
Don’t ask me, as I’m highly compromised. I’m one of them now.
“I am Guy Malone of Roswell: I am a Buckazoid, and we are burdened with glorious purpose.”
To be continued…
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Guy Malone, a certified bitcoin professional, holds three certifications in digital currencies plus has written and edited for publications including Bitcoin Magazine, Cointelegraph and Bitcoin News and serves as a consultant to the New Mexico Blockchain & AI Association. Reader input for future columns is welcome. Contact Malone via — and @RichNFrenz on X. The views expressed in this column are those of the author.
Holy Buckazoids Batman!
I met Guy Malone aka @RichNFrenz at Bitcoin Vegas.
He told me about this piece he wrote for the Roswell Daily Record back on June 22 2025.
It's a fun column asking whether Satoshi Nakamoto’s origins could connect back to the 1991 video game Space Quest IV.
In the game players collect Buckazoids. The in game coin looks surprisingly similar to Bitcoin’s ₿ logo today.
The story even includes names like Satoshi Uesaka and Rod Nakamoto.
Coincidence or something more?
It’s a great mix of Bitcoin history, retro gaming and that classic Roswell energy!
Worth checking out if you enjoy these kinds of mysteries.
ProjectB59 retweeted
Our Buckaboots 🥾 🥾 on the ground crew had the honor of presenting a Buckazoid token to Lyn Ulbricht, Founder and CEO of Mothers Against @CruelSentencing while at @TheBitcoinConf
Thank you for continuing to stand for others still today, Ms. Ulbricht, for being their voice 🫡
I am beyond blessed and humbled that Ms. Lyn Ulbricht @lyn_ulbricht gave a few precious moments of her time to myself and @ProjectB59 for an autograph ✍️ in my book of 21 hard bound newspaper 📰 columns which I was privileged to write, teaching bitcoin to my city, Roswell NM
Lyn Ulbricht ran a petition, which I informed readers of, on behalf of her son for over seven years, amassing over 600,000 signatures and drawing support from then candidate Donald Trump, who pledged to “Free Ross” if elected, which he did
Beyond honored, I was a little nervous meeting her @TheBitcoinConf of course; you can see where I almost forgot to gift her our token at the very end!
Thank you, Ms. Ulbricht, for your kindness of agreeing to meet us, and for your years of tireless advocacy and unwavering love for your son 🫂
ProjectB59 retweeted
I am beyond blessed and humbled that Ms. Lyn Ulbricht @lyn_ulbricht gave a few precious moments of her time to myself and @ProjectB59 for an autograph ✍️ in my book of 21 hard bound newspaper 📰 columns which I was privileged to write, teaching bitcoin to my city, Roswell NM
Lyn Ulbricht ran a petition, which I informed readers of, on behalf of her son for over seven years, amassing over 600,000 signatures and drawing support from then candidate Donald Trump, who pledged to “Free Ross” if elected, which he did
Beyond honored, I was a little nervous meeting her @TheBitcoinConf of course; you can see where I almost forgot to gift her our token at the very end!
Thank you, Ms. Ulbricht, for your kindness of agreeing to meet us, and for your years of tireless advocacy and unwavering love for your son 🫂
ProjectB59 retweeted
Your Las Vegas @TheBitcoinConf Buckazoids crew was honored beyond belief to meet none other than the incomparable legend himself, Adam Back @adam3us !
Back is inventor of Hashcash and the only person directly cited in the Bitcoin whitepaper for his proof-of-work contribution
While Back denied being Roger Wilco himself, much less ever personally playing the game in his youth, we were blessed to present him with a “token” of our appreciation — a modern reproduction of a “Buckazoid” —the digital currency first used in the “Space Quest” video game series (1986-1991) all across the galaxy, without borders or exchanges …
What an honor to briefly discuss the story of the real-life Satoshi Uesaka, Rodney Nakamoto and Hal Finney himself in person with one of the few men who caught Roger’s Vision decades before almost anyone else on earth!
We salute you, Mr. Back, and thank you for your kindness and time spent with our crew this day 🫡
ProjectB59 retweeted
Decentralized Bitcoin starts with two questions:
If mining keeps consolidating into the hands of a few, is Bitcoin still truly decentralized?
And is Bitcoin’s future secured by industrial mining giants… or by thousands of sovereign solo miners running open-source machines from garages, workshops, and spare bedrooms?
Who remembers Antbleed?
The Bitmain backdoor that exposed a potential remote kill switch inside Antminer machines….. the hardware produced by the manufacturer responsible for the majority of global Bitcoin hash power.
When one company like Bitmain controls the machines securing most of the network, how decentralized is Bitcoin really?
The Solo Miner Movement may be one of the most important fights in Bitcoin.
@TheBitcoinConf @tylerkstevens @WantClue @skot9000
ProjectB59 retweeted
@TheBitcoinConf has been a blast!
Come meet us after the last speaker and have some fun!
👾 Meet the crew. Play the games. Connect the dots.
Wednesday 4/29 at The Cove (Treasure Island) from 5-8 PM:
✅ 50% OFF all games!
✅ Win Buckazoids & Swag
✅ Meet new friends in the space
✅ Deep dive into 90s gaming lore
Don't miss the grand finale of the Buckazoids tour!!
🎟️ Join us: lu.ma/clztafv6
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