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1/n In March 2025, @NakamotoProjct surveyed 3,538 adults in the US. We found: -48m American adults own bitcoin -11m hold their own keys -Bitcoiners are more likely to be male, young, and non-white -They're politically diverse but right-shifted -They're "moral maximalists." 🧵
Dragonfly invested into PepperSec, Inc., the developers of Tornado Cash, in August of 2020. We made this investment because we believe in the importance of open-source privacy-preserving technology. Prior to our investment, we obtained an outside legal opinion that confirmed that…
She lives!! This covert mining setup combines solar and battery power to mine Bitcoin in public 24 hours a day. Guerilla Solo Mining, baby!
Guy who loves LLMs and uses them for everything: From the inside, guy feels great. Powers are extended and levered; productivity is up. From the outside, it feels like losing a friend.
"It's not like you are fighting identity in order to adopt Bitcoin, you are fighting ignorance. And that seems doable." It's all education, people. It's all education.
Week 2: Who Owns bitcoin & Where? On average, 13% of people surveyed across 25 countries own bitcoin - just shy of gold’s 16%. 🧵👇
Bitcoin may be for anyone, but it isn’t being adopted by everyone. Across 25 countries, we asked: Who’s actually using bitcoin? This week we explore WHO and WHERE people own bitcoin and HOW ownership compares to other assets. - Owners are more likely to be men, aged 30–44,…
To the contrary, the Trump admin has signaled that it favors the restriction of its disfavored energy resources while pushing use of uneconomic resources, which many have pointed out (including some on the right). See a few examples below 👇
The Trump White House is explicitly signaling its alignment with the abundance movement. When it comes to energy, seems like there’s very little difference between MAGA prescriptions and Thompson/Yglesias prescriptions. Profoundly horrible.
When it comes to money movement, I’m bearish and negative on the flurry of new centralized networks that aim to replace old centralized networks. The world needs and deserves an open, neutral network, not controlled by any single company or group. A true open money grid. The only…
My grandpa had an 8th grade education. He was wiser than anyone I’ve met doing professional philosophy. He’s dead or I would send you his way for advice!
Buildings for people that think, you say?
Trump: "He has these think tanks. They build buildings for people that think."
It's Happening!
Good news: The Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act language is in the Senate Market Structure draft. This will protect open source devs from unfit licensure requirements. Getting it into the bills has been Coin Center's top priority in Congress.
Shutting down the House to hide the Epstein files is a betrayal of people who simply want the truth. This is why people are so cynical about Washington.
Breaking News: Speaker Mike Johnson said he would shut down the House until September to block a vote on calling for the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files. nyti.ms/4nZtblR