gladstein

A fairly remarkable short BBC profile of Gridless's work using Bitcoin mining to convert stranded or wasted energy to value
As we move forward, you'll slowly see more and more of this until eventually it is "mainstream" that Bitcoin is pretty much good and healthy for everyone and the planet
Every new transformative technology encounters years or even decades of pessimism... Bitcoin will be no different
https://m.primal.net/PtOQ.mp4

2025-03-13 16:14:23

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The only “news” I am implying is that critics of the current American government can of course also use Bitcoin, not just its supporters

2025-03-13 14:13:07

Totally predictable
Left-wing groups are now getting debanked under Trump and need Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/5869e45deb5beef2ff7b3487bb6c4e4411c110882fe18d1482ed7a89afe63372.jpg

2025-03-12 18:51:18

https://image.nostr.build/a342cb4576fb2e515315b366b83d32e73ef48f27d6ab90edc6c2ab6b6689f308.jpg

2025-03-11 00:06:52

https://image.nostr.build/340571364449745474569eea968ff60274c2f8d277f5150fda0e658650d1aba7.jpg

2025-03-05 20:06:24

It just keeps getting more comical
Sadly this whitewashing of scams as “important technology” with an “official organization” will help the organizers rug millions of people and potentially all Americans through some kind of state-run scheme https://image.nostr.build/2cbcd257dfa21657292786683e9ef7511fd37a700caa12bb31a71c9ef8df203c.jpg

2025-03-05 19:13:13

🤮 https://image.nostr.build/2dd0084c6ab10d143204000e9b4a7f6890080dc1ff156fcf7dfd68f90764d190.jpg

2025-03-02 19:14:00

👍 https://image.nostr.build/cdc12e931e32801ae6654edcedab0fbf8b5f2316d0305ec208ce203c79efbe40.jpg

2025-02-28 18:50:45

SF is BACK
Was an honor and a privilege to help open up the magical Presidio Bitcoin space
You need to visit 👌 https://image.nostr.build/29c42d8f5936148cc6fc1f713910e6d17991a89d156335bae513653d70aef11f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/013ce19ad452f307962dd8d4049da2923cf638b2abb956368f88463156546635.jpg

2025-02-23 20:20:47

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Bitcoin is hope :)

2025-02-23 17:37:42

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🙏

2025-02-22 04:03:48

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Radiohead is tops for me
Nine inch nails
My morning jacket
Wilco
Sigur Ros
M83
LCD Soundsystem
Probably my other favorite live acts
I also saw daft punk alive tour which was unreal

2025-02-22 00:19:18

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💯 — also features one of the better opening moments to any album — Last one out of Liberty city, burn it to the ground

2025-02-22 00:08:58

A classic
Pretty much every track is a banger https://image.nostr.build/892af5d558d83f36e2d4dd1ba537808a17e9b431f0828c22c2744dc158d91671.jpg

2025-02-21 04:54:50

Awesome to see Nostr spread in Iran, a place where an unstoppable human communication and coordination protocol is especially needed #note1dwy…2y6l

2025-02-19 03:16:49

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That’s where I was! Great pow this weekend

2025-02-18 20:25:20

Saw this in a newsletter that I occasionally read
This is the part where cope melts to acceptance https://image.nostr.build/685d886b836d2a291761968cadbc1e2b1db8623756e31f0261d297ac9f9c8fb4.jpg

2025-02-18 06:52:30

The Eastern Sierras are just one of the most spectacular places in the world
You can drive for hours on the 395 from Mono Lake down into the Mojave Desert and your jaw drops the entire time https://image.nostr.build/9fd8ac1f7f145afe3620df37b75976d5a34a6fd423d5dc99d65467f80f23815f.jpg https://image.nostr.build/035239c55f052118635a93a925acec440c9fee6b296205e36d563b688aed9d5a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/6bbf930ef6c7aaac5e1c03b7a631b9fc0484176bba17ccbdd4dc84942caf1603.jpg https://image.nostr.build/b5077065ac4c8836b3d98570cdb5eee4277f7673e6184eb2aef417dd65fa79da.jpg

2025-02-15 21:21:15

I met Milei’s chief advisor a few months ago when I visited Buenos Aires, it turns out he was a long-time friend of one of my dear friends
He boasted about being a former central banker and a fiat economist, was incredibly arrogant, and despised Bitcoin
For the sake of Argentina I hope Milei finds a new inner circle

2025-02-15 15:26:30

gm ☀️ https://image.nostr.build/52b36ff0c48672738863765ef039210e98fdeada22d1a57b0d56c8361f838f89.jpg

2025-02-15 15:06:02

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https://x.com/krugermacro/status/1890707625932664986

2025-02-15 01:12:43

Becoming pretty clear that the Milei memecoin is not a hack…
Brutal

2025-02-14 21:15:40

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🤝

2025-02-14 21:15:29

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All I meant to say is that Bitcoin has some potent attributes in common with organized religion

2025-02-14 10:34:26

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Global majority countries is a much better term
It’s where most of the world’s people resources land and labor are
But the video has to be 40-50 years old

2025-02-13 22:21:42

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Why do you think they lack free markets

2025-02-13 20:17:18

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That’s beyond silly. There are plenty of rich European socialist countries

2025-02-13 18:35:31

One of the biggest questions of our time:
Can we help fix this? https://video.nostr.build/99ccdf9d88390ea582c8f74470c0a9aa1018344ac22a7e9bb815d9a3432fe948.mp4

2025-02-12 17:11:38

How wild is it that most people on earth just take for granted that money is political and can be turned on and off at the whims of a politician
Imagine the collateral damage here for people just trying to support their families
Make no mistake, advancing open neutral money for the world is one of the most important things we can do https://image.nostr.build/0a4df54472522a5ed994c8fede9a1587299179141f9aecfc73c05a593e58b21b.jpg

2025-02-11 22:39:09

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Primal

2025-02-11 17:07:57

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Upgrade your monetary technology?

2025-02-09 17:13:18

2.5 years ago I had never surfed in my life
But Costa Rica taught me and helped me understand the beauty of the sport and experience
Now you will find me in the water learning more whenever I get a chance
Pura Vida 🤙 https://image.nostr.build/506e653690848c4047d00d1a649a013fc10a02b15860d1bf142e87845061a4a4.jpg

2025-02-06 21:23:40

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Yes I get to promote freedom money, for a living. It’s a great job. Cope harder

2025-02-06 18:24:42

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Wow! 🙏

2025-02-06 15:07:21

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An exploitative process exhaustively detailed in… the book that I wrote
Where’s your book on this?

2025-02-03 18:38:54

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Yes

2025-02-03 17:24:02

🤙 https://image.nostr.build/2a9510bf42ca414775d845e08b1e08ec73685bcadab17db4e13378c2baa6b13e.jpg

2025-02-01 16:08:16

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Some of the best

2025-02-01 15:56:39

We are launching an AI for Individual Rights program at HRF
Excited to see how we can apply learnings from working with Bitcoin and open source tools to this field
Details and application link for the new director position below 👇
**********************************
The Human Rights Foundation is
embarking on a multi-year plan to
create a pioneering AI for Individual
Rights program to help steer the
world’s AI industry and tools away
from repression, censorship, and
surveillance, and towards individual
freedom.
HRF is now seeking a Director of AI
for Individual Rights to lead this work.
Apply today with a cover letter
describing why you are a good fit for
this role, as well as a resume and
names of three individuals you would
suggest as references.
This initiative comes at a moment
where AI tools made by the Chinese
Communist Party are some of the
best in the world, and are displacing
tools made by corporations and
associations inside liberal
democracies. This also comes at a
moment where open-source AI tools have never been more powerful, and the opportunities to use AI tools to strengthen and expand the work that dissidents do inside authoritarian regimes have never had more potential. When citizens are holding their governments accountable, they should use the most advanced technology possible.
There are many “AI ethics” working groups, associations, non-profits, industry papers, and centers already extant, but zero have a focus on authoritarian regimes. Many are bought off by the Chinese government, and refuse to criticize the Chinese government’s role in using AI for repression in the Uyghur region, in Tibet, in Hong Kong, and elsewhere. Others are influenced by the Saudi or Russian governments and hold their tongue on too many issues. Others still are very close to the US government and must mind a different set of political alliances.
HRF will establish the first fully-sovereign program, liberated to monitor and expose AI being used by autocrats as a tool of repression and also support open-source AI tools in the hands of dissidents, especially those laboring under tyranny.
Critically, this program will not be oriented towards preventing “superintelligence” risk or concerned with an AGI becoming catastrophically powerful. While those might be worthy efforts, this program will be entirely focused on tracking and challenging how authoritarian regimes are using AI and helping spark the proliferation of open-source tools that can empower and liberate individuals.
https://hrf.org/career/director-of-ai-for-individual-rights/

2025-02-01 00:36:40

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Thank you Derek!

2025-01-31 21:43:49

This whole process has really surprised me, but it’s good news, so excited to share!
In the summer of 2023, the Human Rights Foundation (HRF) launched a Bitcoin Bounty program aimed at funding software developers to create new tools and features for Bitcoin tailored to the needs of dissidents and human rights advocates challenging authoritarianism worldwide. These bounties ranged from UX improvements to privacy upgrades and open-sourcing closed and permissioned systems.
There were 11 bounties in total, each with specific objectives. The deadline was Dec. 31, 2024.
We are excited to announce that every single bounty was claimed and that the resulting tools and upgrades are now empowering human rights activists daily across popular apps such as Blue Wallet, Zeus, Stack Wallet, Iris, Coracle, Keeper, Bull Bitcoin, Cake Wallet, and more.
This program highlights the impact of collaboration between human rights activists and software developers to create better tools for freedom. HRF is proud to have played a role in this effort and looks forward to continuing similar programs in the future. Special credit goes to the Oslo Freedom Forum, where much of the critical interaction between developers and activists occurred.
This wave of bounties was inspired by a successful pilot project in 2021, executed in partnership with Strike and Jack Mallers, which supported developers like Will Cassarin and Calle. Their innovations later gave rise to important advancements such as zaps in Nostr and the Cashu ecash protocol.
We learned a lot through this process and look forward to doing similar things in the future.
There’s so so much to be gained from mixing political dissidents with developers! https://image.nostr.build/b151a199171433ad903655fa611308e8dbce9d790ab10161b9880e75879c81f6.jpg https://image.nostr.build/888a52c55505309c4fc117752928471566c2350acd16d1affe30e5516ecb9291.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ef76bdd557b1c93ff92e5f787da9afca8a1224936d56d19a81a91c86d4a51807.jpg https://image.nostr.build/58ee1f36317641dbd60d5cf9af042e72a52c4ce80640bf9bdc0f1ba68c80adce.jpg

2025-01-30 18:24:00

Guess it’s pretty tricky to sell off meme coins if people donate them to you https://image.nostr.build/54225f9121d1520871c0b4ad5769385f3ddf0b3eb92c2ff31a814d27c4462efc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c8955ef514c8ea53d824f16372dd6253976d49bdf7c7f13f05d23c4799f58b68.jpg

2025-01-30 15:00:04

👀 #note1592…8vua

2025-01-29 17:07:15

Bloomberg doesn’t even bother to post this on its Bluesky feed, they know that’s the place where we must not speak Bitcoin’s name 😂 https://image.nostr.build/45a5407199e63b2877783605026fbeeef35dcc7f3a4cb936ea8ebe3e8d8fa08c.jpg

2025-01-24 23:59:51

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The best part about nostr is that no one can censor you

2025-01-24 21:38:09

Really good series on the organic creation of eurodollars i.e. “shadow money”
Worth reflecting on how even America’s enemies wanted and even created this system, as well as similarities with stablecoins today (Tether is essentially a $100B Eurodollar bank)
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/odd-lots/id1056200096?i=1000683905067 https://image.nostr.build/1a502ef60a841869768fd8ec70443549dbac4716ca4ab44c50f19fc83421b6ee.jpg https://image.nostr.build/01fc48c53eeb97c6d1c933de2540b993ddc9678a4722a3100719142047d475ca.jpg

2025-01-24 19:05:55

Real-time censorship on China’s DeepSeek
(H/T @npub1yje…v0ge) https://video.nostr.build/92ae7bb12415af4f431c5b8955162546a352d1d573edc949c0269f9c8b3b4ed2.mp4

2025-01-24 18:46:42

Some really exciting stuff in Optech this week
Cypherpunks keep building 🚀 https://image.nostr.build/8e5897b15170a7cd56d719438cad4a02aaf708e39585aea2c4cc35f5a3fa762b.jpg https://image.nostr.build/044c0707f10cb98fd30edea4c1eba68fe947fc8e9479e74d0c9262a949f3fe82.jpg

2025-01-23 05:13:36

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Makes sense

2025-01-23 04:30:11

Anyone can enrich their life, their understanding of digital security, and of privacy, by following and engaging with @npub1vz0…ttwj
He has single-handedly gone toe-to-toe with some of the world’s worst spyware baddies and their most powerful backers, and continues to expose and counter their crimes
He has also deeply engaged with and challenged Bitcoin and Nostr devs in ways that few are willing or able to do
He is constantly helping us improve and make these protocols and tools the best they can be
Follow JSR and show him some zap love 🫡 🙏 🤙
#note1p00…aqwf

2025-01-23 01:52:58

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Yes

2025-01-23 00:06:15

Do people agree / disagree? https://image.nostr.build/5fcf842f97196b1e71572512f0a33a5c920240e24f47e0a3e7f03326bdb04e0a.jpg

2025-01-22 18:53:30

The latest insanity https://image.nostr.build/5c689bc7fdb6cdbb0925bea97b2737da968d5c2e8c8434c843887464f404319f.jpg

2025-01-21 17:33:20

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🔥

2025-01-21 02:02:03

This underperformed even my own very low expectations
Just remember: this is who we are dealing with https://image.nostr.build/55a5e5b553ab7a4e46b34c007ee7ce200e4b06341581ec949b971dfd3775fe55.jpg

2025-01-21 01:59:38

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My educated guess has been yes, but only sometime in the first 100 days, and not day one etc, may take time

2025-01-14 04:24:18

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Yeah you’re probably right the Tibetans, who lived on this earth far before NATO was a thing, are probably totally fine being colonized

2025-01-14 04:23:40

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They pay plenty of attention to Israel, I have posted NYT front page stories about Gaza before. In fact they cover Gaza much more than Tibet

2025-01-14 00:48:52

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Lots of empires have done it to smaller populations since time immemorial
That doesn’t make it ok

2025-01-13 23:27:32

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You could also just say: wow that’s bad

2025-01-13 23:15:36

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I mean. Is the Norwegian govt really more evil?

2025-01-13 23:15:14

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Inept

2025-01-13 23:14:59

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Conquest

2025-01-13 22:45:06

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Full article here
Erasure of a culture and people https://image.nostr.build/8f204a7f5020fcc7aef52099ab0b7fb0a5055fa931cbc357cf29a899cef08341.jpg

2025-01-13 22:42:03

Can’t say we didn’t know
Front page of NYT https://image.nostr.build/8f944638692c2220b61f4f2bc7e936d7eda5589b9321b94d195cc5ce91024ecd.jpg

2025-01-11 00:07:31

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🫶

2025-01-11 00:06:33

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I’d like to see that too

2025-01-02 02:44:46

C.S. Lewis
Pithy for the early days of nostr
Keep building ✌️ https://image.nostr.build/69db332cb91a5dc5256a43a95af39d8d7c8cdc0dfb71011dfc5a9a5be4500a62.jpg

2024-12-30 21:38:46

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We may re-record, stay tuned

2024-12-23 20:20:32

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Source:
https://t.co/NKLf58NeCq

2024-12-23 20:17:34

Quote from Keynes, worth pondering with respect to Bitcoin
This is a fate that we should continue to work to avoid https://image.nostr.build/99734044a8c7afe9d06d0369fe534d2cabce90f0251b5020ad6bc5318f4ca230.jpg

2024-12-21 06:03:36

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👌

2024-12-13 18:44:00

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“Bluesky says”
They have already deplatformed all kinds of people

2024-12-13 16:56:36

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The Israeli military is occupying and ethnically cleansing Syrian towns, as we speak

2024-12-13 00:30:39

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Close to 15k now
No, not a done deal, but it’s a VC-funded organization subject to a lot of social pressure. My OP is how I feel about it

2024-12-12 23:28:53

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Not sure if you understand how wokeness works

2024-12-12 22:26:30

12k+ signatures here to force Bluesky to permaban someone
If something can be censored, it will be censored
https://www.change.org/p/bluesky-must-enforce-its-community-guidelines-equally

2024-12-09 17:08:21

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Mainly. So we shall see.

2024-12-09 17:01:58

Good 🧵 on Syria, written by an independent consortium of Syrians and people who have worked inside Syria for many years, as opposed to armchair journalists, propagandists, and cable news shock jocks https://image.nostr.build/34823e71ce1e3d9904827fee8cbfd8dad7b6cf807285b55c79c3672d4c484856.jpg https://image.nostr.build/23bd0c9638217b3e0230715a14747813c710583d695f77efa6925a720fca6d3d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/966e4132f9ed23fc208f10c8d05d408bc0967caa2f770113d80fd0ffe71e3df3.jpg https://image.nostr.build/316ad93006b59bce7ab19f14a4ff5fbcc66574ffcb1e229f0f6a533baeb78a96.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bc3329843b80311b2b8a61d566d954c6f876db0293174aaaffd0b4b9663df81a.jpg

2024-12-07 18:06:27

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I think Mexico and Central America
I got one from a friend in SoCal
They taste like custard or cream

2024-12-07 16:35:22

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Excellent tips

2024-12-07 16:26:49

Just ate a cherimoya
Wow
Legendary fruit 🤙

2024-12-04 03:06:20

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I used to watch so many Rodney Mullen VHS tapes
Also saw him skate live in 1999

2024-11-30 13:59:02

Happy to be publishing the Financial Freedom Report natively on Nostr!
#note1lda…clps

2024-11-28 03:22:03

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Exactly
Conflating straight up scamming people with fighting the good fight against debanking is twisted

2024-11-25 22:36:51

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Stay tuned

2024-11-21 21:31:06

Credit where credit is due
Damn! https://image.nostr.build/384a4ea0528e55d9899e3f87c6f2050dbf275f19b638f7b09064530c56ededf9.jpg

2024-11-21 20:10:25

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@npub1330…2k82

2024-11-21 19:42:50

Greatest hat maker of all time 🫡 https://image.nostr.build/8915f76f23788bda608a884bc98fc633b2d32ba35df9621e0311164a8350f4d3.jpg

2024-11-20 05:08:45

“Bhutan has mined over $1 billion worth of bitcoin using its previously stranded hydropower resources”
We are so early
Wait until every authority on earth realizes they can transform waste into unstoppable, unseizable money
That will be the true gradually then suddenly moment
🇧🇹

2024-11-19 23:55:55

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Spiral 🌀

2024-11-19 19:07:28

Mood https://image.nostr.build/80cf2f431a841d314351cc628e1bf9cbf22fd9445e85b5e035ee6cb837600532.jpg

2024-11-17 05:11:32

Moderation, or censorship?
Who decides? https://image.nostr.build/b4a0d72a32c056256fd26051d51d6fc3050f7a77bd874d6280db1c0e5d66bbfa.jpg https://image.nostr.build/2823149e286b292b88a03829ef09d99823bab92c09b17546747007758ed46f29.jpg https://image.nostr.build/a601dbf64eeb23bfbd9f2ecd0078a51784f828d0a7ded7e538128566bed216ed.jpg

2024-11-15 18:58:11

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Thumbs up!

2024-11-15 02:30:15

Nostr fixes this https://image.nostr.build/42ca95e724b86410f14a63bece481e2483d034ff70a7d2cc273afe07f70d42af.jpg

2024-11-13 16:38:01

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Working on it

2024-11-13 16:31:52

Bitcoin just became more valuable than Saudi Aramco
A righteous milestone ✅

2024-11-11 21:03:28

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Jeri!

2024-11-11 21:03:19

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We just flipped silver?