Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡
@gladstein
Chief Strategy Officer: @HRF + @OsloFF / Author: http://CYFP.org + http://hiddenrepression.xyz / Nostr: npub1trr5r2nrpsk6xkjk5a7p6pfcryyt6yzsflwjmz6r7uj7lfkjxxtq78hdpu
My BPI keynote, delivered in DC to a hall full of American leaders "Bitcoin is the Most Important Human Rights Technology of the 21st Century" Please share with anyone who doesn't think Bitcoin has a use case ✌️
You. Cannot. Skip. Industrialisation. As. A. Developing. Country.
Other parts of the legislation aside, this seems like a great step towards ensuring that open-source software developers whose tools don’t custody user funds are not conflated with “money transmitters” Or am I missing something?
Bitcoiners might be ambivalent about market structure, but the Senate draft of the CLARITY Act released today protects foundational principles Bitcoiners have always fought for. Read this, call your Senator, let them know you support this bill - and to keep the Blockchain…
Costs of U.K. welfare state likely to rise 26% in the next 5 years. The economy not likely to grown by more than 8% tops. So... reform or crisis..
NEWS COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — US Olympic and Paralympic officials bar transgender women from competing in Olympic women’s sports.
Buried in amendments to the Interior Dept. Gov funding bill, is a stipulation that the Kennedy Center Opera House must be renamed the 'First Lady Melania Trump Opera House' in order to receive federal funds. The Appropriations Committee adopted that amendment by a vote of 33-25.
Interior – Simpson (ID) #2 – Republican En Bloc bit.ly/3IYUEnG
Who says no?
A $20 trillion project proposes a 3,400-mile underwater tunnel connecting London and New York, potentially reducing a 7-hour flight to a 1-hour train ride.
Hunter Biden breaks down the difference between crack & cocaine and why crack is so addictive
US became net exporter of crude to Nigeria for the first time, EIA says reuters.com/business/energ…
Children of Men (2006), establishing shot
Officers are deployed at key points along the route as well as the form up point. There are additional officers in the vicinity of the counter protest. This week we have also distributed leaflets and deployed signage as a clear reminder about relevant offences.
Lab grown gold would not be good for the gold/silver ratio! A fusion energy start-up claims to have solved the millennia-old challenge of how to turn other metals into gold. Chrysopoeia, commonly known as alchemy, has been pursued by civilisations as far back as ancient Egypt.…
More reporting tonight about the growing humanitarian crisis in Gaza. Our piece is airing during Special Report at 6pm ET.
boom. today we're onboarding our first few @Square sellers for the new native bitcoin acceptance experience this is the way!
Aggregate signatures are the cryptographic requirement for cross-input signature aggregation (CISA) @n1ckler joined us to talk about DahLIAS, a scheme that does exactly that
Jonas Nick (@n1ckler) joined Brink engineers to discuss the DahLIAS interactive aggregate signature scheme: - DahLIAS overview - Secp256k1 compatibility - DahLIAS vs FROST/MuSig2 - Interactivity requirements - Cross-input signature aggregation (CISA) - Key tweaking - Q&A
Fact about Chaumian ecash: the mint can't revert transactions—it doesn't execute or even record them. Once ecash has moved from one user to another, it's done. Even the holy bitcoin blockchain reorgs every now and then. But nobody can revert a fully centralized ecash mint.
Zhengzhou makes your iPhone. Now the central Chinese city is churning out cheap lab-grown diamonds for your engagement ring. The prices for synthetic diamonds have plummeted, falling by nearly 90% over the past five years. It is cheaper than ever to buy sparkling stones that…
BREAKING: Mike Johnson shuts US House early to avoid Epstein vote, per FT
Very glad to have this behind me. It never made sense but neither does the @rstormsf trial. Wild how quickly you can have your life upended. I'm grateful for those who saw through it and for my stellar legal team. Now, turning my attention back to @krakenfx. 🐙🚀
🚨FBI drops investigation into Kraken founder @jespow Agents raided his home & seized his devices. News of raid leaked to NYT Hugely damaging to Powell and his company—all based on nothing Hard not to see this as retaliation for his political views fortune.com/crypto/2025/07…
Jon Stewart reacts to CBS cancelling "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and tells corporations and advertisers to "sack up"