Alex Gladstein 🌋 ⚡

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 ✌️

Von der Leyen tells Xi EU-China ties are at ‘inflection point’ on.ft.com/4f3wBAh

Why do you need privacy if you have nothing to hide?

Russia ‘sending kidnapped Ukrainian children to front line’ - The Times and The Sunday Times apple.news/ADofAtaDyTPm9x…

The regime wants to hang her to make an example. The death sentence of #Pakhshan_Azizi has been confirmed for the third time. She is one of many brave women the Islamic Republic is trying to punish for the “Woman, Life, Freedom” uprising. And yet… the free world still does…

🚀The goose grant program is now open! We're funding $100K grants to accelerate open source agentic AI Looking for innovative ideas in: 🎥 Multi-modal interactions 🤖Agent autonomy 🔃Self-improving systems 🏠Real-world automation ❓Other novel ideas block.github.io/goose/grants

We're excited to announce our partnership with the @AfroBitcoinOrg to bring the #BtrustDeveloperDay back for 2025. 🚀 The event will take place on December 2nd at the Trianon Convention Centre, Mauritius 🇲🇺, serving as the official developer-focused kickoff for #ABC2025. Expect…

Many companies are entering the private AI space. @TryMapleAI is still the only private AI that lets you see and verify the server code for yourself. Don't trust, verify your AI.

Consider, your Honor, that my client was being extremely productive at the time of the crash.

🚀 @spark is now live in Blitz Wallet! Experience a smoother and more powerful way to use Bitcoin, now with instant, self-custodial payments and no inbound liquidity required. ⚡ Simplified user experience 🌐 LNURLs 📴 Offline receiving And that’s just the beginning.

That’s what I use Nostr for. No algorithm or make-your-own algorithm. And it’s a protocol rather than a platform, so anyone can build on it.

Reuters, AFP, AP and BBC News issued the following joint statement on July 24, 2025: reutersagency.com/media-centre/j…

Hashrate Heating ≠ Bitcoin Mining Heat Recapture. Recapture drags heat demand to data centers and mega mines. Where you run the mining business and sell heat when convenient. Bitcoin’s network characteristics flip this. It’s the first time you can break up the data center and…

Tens of thousands of politically-exposed BN(O) Hongkongers currently reside in the UK. The UK government’s plan to reintroduce extradition cooperation with the Hong Kong government is DEEPLY concerning, to say the least.

Just IN:— President Trump has asked Google and Microsoft to stop hiring from India or face massive tariffs.

Interesting piece by Matt Levine on the huge AI salaries: “I tell you what, if Meta Platforms Inc. paid me a $100 million signing bonus to come work for their artificial intelligence business, I would be the most dedicated worker they have ever seen until the check cleared!…

‘South Park’ depicts Donald Trump in bed with Satan in the Season 27 premiere.

you can venmo the United States to help pay off the national debt

NEW: A Florida Judge denied the U.S. Department of Justice’s request to unseal federal grand jury transcripts from the Southern District of Florida’s original 2007 federal investigation into the crimes of deceased sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Read more at:…

More than 100 aid agencies say 'mass starvation' is spreading across Gaza bbc.in/3TTQMa0

Excluding Joe Rogan is insane.