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Jade mixes entropy from 7+ independent sources, before your recovery phrase ever exists.
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2026-08-02 18:16:51 UTC

Full breakdown, here:
https://fountain.fm/episode/EORZl0G6N4OjCUXjUQ2R
Earn some Sats while listening ⚡️
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2026-08-02 18:14:12 UTC

Jade mixes entropy from 7+ independent sources, before your recovery phrase ever exists.
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2026-08-02 17:47:36 UTC

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Ego

2026-08-02 17:11:18 UTC

After the Coldcard entropy story, a lot of you asked the obvious follow-up: how does Jade handle this?
So we went and read @nprofile…hxm7 ‘s own breakdown, plus the source code. Here's the short version.
The risk is the same for every hardware wallet: a private key is only as safe as the randomness used to create it. If that randomness is weak, an attacker doesn't need to steal your device… they can just guess.
Jade's answer is to never rely on a single source.
While the device is running, it continuously pulls entropy from several independent places at once:
→ User interaction — button presses and the wheel
→ CPU counters
→ Battery state
→ Ambient temperature
→ Several camera frames captured during boot: even pointed at a blank desk, the sensor noise is usable randomness
→ A built-in hardware random number generator
→ Entropy contributed by the companion app on your phone
One detail worth knowing: Jade's hardware RNG partly draws from the device's radio. Run the "No-Radio" firmware and you lose that input… so Blockstream compensates by sampling raw radio noise once at boot, before the radio is disabled, and folding it into the mix anyway.
All of this feeds into an accumulator modeled on the same approach Bitcoin Core uses: a 32-byte internal state, updated by hashing itself together with fresh entropy through SHA-512. The hash output is split… half becomes the new internal state, half is handed off to generate your recovery phrase. That hashing runs constantly, including every time you touch a button.
Two things stand out compared to a single-source design:
1. There's no one point of failure. If one sensor is noisy, biased, or misconfigured, the others still contribute.
2. New entropy is always added on top of the old, never used to replace it… so state never gets "reset" to something weaker.
It's not a guarantee against every possible flaw: no design is. But it's a meaningfully different risk model than depending on one RNG path end-to-end, which is exactly the assumption that broke down elsewhere this year.
— BitCorner
#Bitcoin #Cybersecurity #HardwareWallet #InfoSec #OpenSource
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2026-07-30 07:26:58 UTC

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Earn some Sats watching the episode, here: https://fountain.fm/episode/CNJQqYQCSPHmqNLktmhM

2026-07-30 07:20:50 UTC

“There were zero Bitcoin communities in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania.” - @nprofile…wyzq
Watching Bitcoin adoption in Africa grow in real time — Paco’s Bitcoin-only world trip through Kenya, Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and more shows how grassroots Bitcoin communities in Africa went from nothing to a movement.
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2026-07-08 07:42:20 UTC

Hey Bitcoiners! Is this person legit!? Have she tried to contact you? Does anyone has had an interview with her?
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2026-07-06 18:26:33 UTC

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2026-07-06 09:47:25 UTC

So… what’s wrong with BIP-110?

2026-07-06 09:20:24 UTC

Good morning, Bitcoiners!
Let’s do this! ⚡️
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2026-07-02 17:20:32 UTC

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Self-custody isn't optional. It's the whole point.
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2026-07-02 17:19:43 UTC

🟠 NEW EPISODE OUT NOW
El Salvador’s Bitcoin podcast is back after 2 months.
And we’re returning with @RunwithBitcoin an Indian traveler who spent 800 days crossing 42 countries using only Bitcoin.
He got mugged in Johannesburg and recovered everything with a seed phrase. He saw Bitcoin rescue refugees in Ghana. He hosted 130 meetups across Africa, Asia and Latin America.
This is what Bitcoin looks like in the real world. No price talk. No hype. Just proof of work.
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2026-07-02 13:47:15 UTC

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2026-07-01 14:52:04 UTC

Physical disc production for new PlayStation games will end in January 2028, marking a significant shift towards digital formats.
https://blog.playstation.com/2026/07/01/physical-disc-production-ending-in-january-2028-for-new-games-releasing-on-playstation-consoles/

2026-06-30 17:19:14 UTC

We're back. 🟠
After 2 months of silence, El Salvador's Bitcoin podcast returns TODAY.
And we're coming back with someone you already know: @Run with Bitcoin.
800 days. 42 countries. Only Bitcoin.
New episode out now: https://fountain.fm/episode/CNJQqYQCSPHmqNLktmhM
#Bitcoin #BitCornerPodcast #BitcoinPodcast
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2026-06-21 11:41:47 UTC

Tossa de Mar, Barcelona.
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2026-06-16 05:57:19 UTC

Monserrat, Spain.
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2026-06-08 18:16:33 UTC

🚨 Tim Cook has officially said Good Bye as the CEO of #Apple
The end of an era.
#WWDC #Apple
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2026-06-08 18:13:02 UTC

Apple’s “Deep Fashion” is apparently adding simple shopping features to photos. It’s a trend everyone’s following because commerce will always drive the internet.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 18:10:19 UTC

Of course: Apple’s image generation will have daily usage limits.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 18:08:57 UTC

The new ”spatial reframing” feature stands out. Users can preview the effect in real time, with blurred areas that generative models later complete. It’s a practical and tasteful use of image generation, working across existing photos in your library. I’m eager to see how well it performs in real-world use.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 18:06:10 UTC

Want a shortcut? No problem. Apple Intelligence will create it for you.
#WWDC #Apple
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2026-06-08 18:01:30 UTC

You can now create shortcuts using natural language.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 17:55:35 UTC

Safari can now monitor tabs for changes, allowing you to know if they refresh for items such as concert tickets.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 17:53:04 UTC

Btw, in Vision OS, Siri can initiate a conversation by simply looking at the floating orb. It can also allow users to ask questions about physical objects in their surroundings, similar to Google Lens.
#WWDC

2026-06-08 17:50:37 UTC

Apple is expanding visual intelligence to Mac, iPad and VisionOS. This feature is comparable to Google’s ‘Circle to Search’ and can also add events to a calendar.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 17:46:54 UTC

Siri AI is transforming from a voice command tool into a context-aware assistant. Apple demonstrated its ability to comprehend personal information, reference messages, contacts, and location history, and perform actions across apps. Examples include finding content, sending messages, organising photos, creating events, and setting reminders. The goal is to merge personal context and app actions into a single interface.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 17:39:48 UTC

Siri’s personal context can analyse your messages for assistance and you can construct prompts.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 17:38:36 UTC

Another leak confirmed this time by Mark Gurman regarding Siri via Dynamic Island is as expected.
#WWDC #Apple
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2026-06-08 17:31:58 UTC

Rumors were right: A collaboration between Google and Apple on the next generation of Apple Intelligence has been confirmed.
#WWDC #Apple
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2026-06-08 17:26:57 UTC

Spotlight and Mail have undergone a significant redesign for improved performance and speed.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 17:22:37 UTC

This is wild: The focus is now on trust and safety with numerous child-focused features for the iPhone.
This provides significantly improved safety and control for parents directly addressing concerns about the apps and content they have access to.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 17:19:04 UTC

Finally: Custom EQ is finally coming to AirPods.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 17:13:48 UTC

The majority of the remaining macOS changes appear to be minor enhancements such as improved app launching, refined icons and display rendering, faster AirDrop and optimised CPU scheduling.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 17:09:57 UTC

MacOS Golden Gate introduces a slider to adjust Liquid Glass from fully transparent to more tinted.
#WWDC #Apple
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2026-06-08 17:07:50 UTC

Good Morning! #WWDC26
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2026-06-08 17:06:23 UTC

Introducing MacOS Golden Gate
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-08 17:06:07 UTC

Today’s updates include platform improvements for iOS, WatchOS, VisionOS and macOS, as well as enhancements to the Trust and Safety features for children.
#WWDC #Apple

2026-06-05 11:16:01 UTC

The “One Big Beautiful Bill” raised the debt ceiling to $41.1T and will add $3.4 trillion in new debt over 10 years, per the CBO. Congress has raised the debt limit 79 times since 1960. Bitcoin has never changed its supply. Once. #Bitcoin #AustrianEconomics

2026-06-05 08:39:34 UTC

BTC at $63K. Fear & Greed: 11. “Extreme Fear.” In fiat, fear means sell. In sound money, fear means the discount window is open. The protocol didn’t change. The ledger didn’t change. The 21 million didn’t change. Your conviction did. #Bitcoin

2026-06-05 07:17:47 UTC

Wear your statement, @npub1rjt…mp8a
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2026-06-05 05:14:53 UTC

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I am human 😆 you need some update bot

2026-06-04 13:14:16 UTC

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Thanks. That’s the idea. To generate debate and brainstorming about this. It’s at early stages. But in Bitcoin, as history has proven, it’s not a matter of “if”, it’s matter of “when”.

2026-06-04 13:12:50 UTC

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Sim

2026-06-04 12:12:17 UTC

WHAT IF THE SPACE INSIDE BITCOIN’S BLOCKS IS WORTH MORE THAN BITCOIN ITSELF?
This sounds insane. Two serious thinkers believe it’s inevitable.
Most people who own Bitcoin think they understand what they own.
A scarce digital asset. Twenty-one million coins. The hardest money ever created. The exit from fiat. They’ve read the books, listened to the podcasts, stacked the sats.
They’re not wrong. But they might be thinking too small.
Because there’s a debate quietly building at the edges of Bitcoin thought… in MIT theses, in mining boardrooms, in conversations between geopolitical strategists and energy executives… that asks a question most Bitcoiners haven’t seriously considered:
What if the real prize isn’t the coin?
What if it’s the block?
TWO PEOPLE YOU SHOULD KNOW
Before we go further, you need to meet the two people at the center of this debate.
The first is Major @nprofile…3yj5 : an active-duty US Space Force officer, astronautical engineer, and MIT Systems Design and Management Fellow. His day job involved advising senior US military leaders on national security. His spare time produced a 400-page MIT thesis called Softwar: A Novel Theory on Power Projection and the National Strategic Significance of Bitcoin. The Pentagon reportedly tried to classify it. It got out anyway.
The second is @nprofile…yphw: Chairman and CEO of Barefoot Mining, board member of the mining pool Ocean, and contributor to Bitcoin Magazine. He came up through the PC hardware industry before going deep into Bitcoin mining infrastructure. He’s not a theorist. He’s an operator who builds things, runs numbers, and has arrived (through pure bottom-up observation) at conclusions that rhyme eerily with Lowery’s top-down academic framework.
One man approached this from the sky. One from the ground. They landed in the same place.
THE PREMISE THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING
Here’s the question you have to sit with before any of this makes sense:
What is Bitcoin, actually?
Not what the price is. Not what the ETF inflows say. Not what CNBC calls it when it goes up and what they call it when it goes down.
What. Is. It.
Most people say: digital gold. A store of value. Sound money for the internet age.
Jason Lowery says: you are using the wrong frame entirely.
In Softwar, he argues that Bitcoin’s proof-of-work mechanism isn’t primarily a monetary system. It’s a physical power projection technology: the first of its kind ever deployed in cyberspace.
Here’s what he means.
In the physical world, control over territory has always been established through the expenditure of physical energy. You secure an oil field with soldiers. You secure a shipping lane with a navy. You secure airspace with fighter jets. The entity willing to expend the most physical energy wins the right to control the resource.
Lowery looked at Bitcoin’s mining process and saw the same thing happening: but in a new domain.
When miners compete to produce the next block, they are burning real, physical, thermodynamic energy (megawatts of electricity) to win the right to write the next page of Bitcoin’s ledger. The winner controls what gets recorded, what transactions settle, what data becomes permanently true.
In other words: mining is warfare. Blockspace is the territory. And the coin is just one of the things you can put on the land you’ve conquered.
He goes further. In nature, animals evolved antlers, tusks, and size not to kill each other, but to demonstrate the capacity to expend energy… a non-lethal proxy for dominance. The stag with the largest antlers doesn’t fight to the death. It burns energy growing those antlers, signals its power, and the weaker competitor yields.
Bitcoin proof-of-work, Lowery argues, is antlers for nation-states.
A country that builds massive mining infrastructure isn’t just earning coins. It’s projecting physical power into cyberspace. It’s saying: we are willing and able to burn more energy than you to control this territory. It replaces kinetic warfare with energy competition.
And the territory being competed over (the thing worth projecting all that power to control) is blockspace.
BOB BURNETT BUILDS THE ECONOMIC CASE
If Lowery is the strategic theorist, Burnett is the man who watches the actual market and describes what he sees.
His thesis doesn’t start with antlers and military doctrine. It starts with a simple observation about scarcity that most people miss.
You’ve heard that Bitcoin is scarce. Twenty-one million coins. Fixed supply. Decreasing issuance at each halving. True.
But Burnett points out something even more absolutely scarce: a block.
Bitcoin produces one block approximately every ten minutes. Each block holds roughly 4 megabytes of data. That’s it. That’s the entire global capacity of Bitcoin’s settlement layer… at any given moment in time, the space available to record transactions on the most secure ledger in human history is ruthlessly, permanently, non-negotiably finite.
You can’t print more blockspace. You can’t issue emergency blockspace. No central bank can expand it. No Congress can vote on it. No emergency protocol changes it.
“Blockspace is an absolutely scarce commodity in any window of time,” Burnett has said repeatedly. Not just scarce. Absolutely scarce. A different category of thing entirely.
Now think about what happens as Bitcoin becomes the base layer of global money.
Today, most Bitcoin demand flows through ETFs and large custodians. These institutions hold coins in custody and rarely settle on-chain. An empty mempool (which Jameson Lopp has called “a sign that sovereign usage of Bitcoin is extremely low”) reflects a world where most Bitcoin exposure is financial rather than functional.
But that changes. It has to change. As Bitcoin becomes the settlement layer for nation-state treasuries, corporate balance sheets, international trade, and sovereign debt instruments, the demand to settle on-chain doesn’t grow linearly.
It explodes.
And when it does… when JPMorgan, the US Treasury, the Saudi sovereign wealth fund, and the German pension system all need to settle transactions on the same 4-megabyte canvas every ten minutes… what happens to the price of blockspace?
Burnett’s answer: it becomes the most contested resource in the global financial system.
THE PART THAT SHOULD MAKE YOU UNCOMFORTABLE
Here is where both theses converge on something that sounds extreme until you sit with it.
Burnett has said, publicly, that wars will be fought over Bitcoin blockspace.
Not metaphorical wars. Not market competition dressed up in dramatic language. Actual geopolitical conflict over who controls access to Bitcoin’s settlement layer.
His reasoning: “As Bitcoin continues its path toward becoming a foundational layer of money, control over its blockspace could become a source of geopolitical tension.”
He predicts the emergence of blockspace cartels… coalitions of mining companies, financial institutions, and nation-states that pool resources to control large percentages of hash rate, then offer preferential settlement access to members while excluding outsiders. He believes the largest miners of the future won’t be public companies motivated by the block reward. They’ll be financial institutions and nation-states motivated by control.
Lowery arrived at the same conclusion from a completely different direction. In Softwar, he explicitly frames this as the emerging strategic battleground of the 21st century… the cyber equivalent of the naval arms race that defined the 20th. The country that dominates global hash rate doesn’t just earn bitcoin. It controls who settles what on the world’s neutral monetary ledger.
Think about what that means.
If your country needs to transfer sovereign reserves (to sanction-proof its treasury, to settle a bilateral trade agreement, to repatriate assets) you need blockspace. Not coins. Space in a block.
And if a hostile power controls the majority of global hash rate, they can delay your transactions. They can reorder them. They can, in the most extreme scenario, simply choose not to include you.
The coin is your wealth. The blockspace is your access to the system that makes wealth meaningful.
BUT WAIT: DOES NOT THIS THREATEN BITCOIN?
This is the right question. And it’s where the thesis becomes genuinely uncomfortable for some Bitcoiners.
The Bitcoin ethos is built on neutrality. No censorship. No gatekeepers. No rulers… only rules. The 21 million cap is inviolable. The protocol belongs to no one and everyone simultaneously.
If blockspace becomes a geopolitical weapon, does that compromise everything Bitcoin was built to be?
Burnett’s response is essentially: the protocol itself doesn’t change. Bitcoin’s rules remain intact. What changes is the market for the space inside each block… and markets, by definition, allocate scarce resources to whoever values them most and is willing to pay.
In a state where blockspace is worth geopolitical dominance, the people who pay the most will be the most powerful actors on earth. The fee market becomes the battlefield. And the miners who earn those fees (who construct those templates, who decide which transactions go in) become the most strategically important infrastructure operators in the global economy.
Lowery’s framing is more optimistic than it first appears. If nation-states compete through hash rate rather than through bombs, the outcome is a world where physical power is projected through energy expenditure rather than human death. The arms race shifts from nuclear warheads to mining rigs. Mutually Assured Destruction becomes Mutually Assured Computation.
That’s not a bug. That might be the most important feature Bitcoin has that no one is talking about.
WHAT THIS MEANS IF THEY ARE RIGHT
Let’s play it out.
If Lowery and Burnett are right (even partially right) then several things follow that most of the Bitcoin community hasn’t priced in.
Miners are not extractors.
They are sovereign infrastructure. The public narrative treats miners as a necessary inconvenience… the energy-hungry middlemen who earn coins and sell them. If blockspace is the prize, miners are the landlords of the most valuable real estate in the digital economy. Their power doesn’t diminish after the last halving. It compounds.
The block reward ending is not the crisis people fear. Burnett has argued that historical fee norms (around 0.335 BTC per block) will be vastly exceeded as institutional and sovereign demand floods the fee market. The subsidy doesn’t need to sustain mining. The fees will, because the entities paying them will have no choice.
Blockspace futures are the next trillion-dollar market. Burnett is already building this. The concept of a forward marketplace for blockspace (where major institutions pre-purchase guaranteed settlement priority at a specific time) is not speculative fiction. It’s the logical infrastructure for a world where missing a settlement window has geopolitical consequences.
The coin and the space are different assets. This is the mind-bending conclusion. You can own bitcoin (the coin) without controlling blockspace. And controlling blockspace doesn’t require owning coins. In a fully financialized world, these may trade separately, with blockspace commanding a premium that reflects not just monetary demand but sovereign, strategic, and military value.
THE HONEST COUNTERARGUMENT
None of this is settled. Smart people push back hard.
Critics of Lowery’s thesis point out that the proof-of-work as warfare framing is metaphorical, not literal… that nation-state hash wars remain largely theoretical, and that the current equilibrium of corporate miners and pools doesn’t obviously translate to geopolitical arms races.
Critics of Burnett’s more bullish projections note that a truly empty mempool today (despite Bitcoin trading near all-time highs) suggests that institutional demand hasn’t yet translated into on-chain settlement pressure. ETF buyers don’t need blockspace. They need Blackrock.
And there’s a deeper philosophical tension: Bitcoin’s neutrality depends on no single actor controlling enough hash rate to censor transactions. If blockspace becomes a strategic weapon, the very power dynamics that make blockspace valuable could undermine the protocol’s credibility as neutral money. A Bitcoin that powerful states can throttle is a different Bitcoin than Satoshi envisioned.
These are real objections. They deserve to be taken seriously.
BUT HERE IS THE THING
The biggest ideas in Bitcoin history sounded ridiculous when they were first articulated.
Digital gold? Ridiculous. You can’t touch it.
Nation-state adoption? Ridiculous. Governments would never.
Corporate treasury reserve asset? Ridiculous. No CFO would sign off.
Each of these was dismissed until it wasn’t. Until the logic became undeniable and the only question left was timing.
The blockspace thesis is at that early stage right now. The logic is compelling. The infrastructure is being built. The players are waking up… financial institutions, nation-states, sovereign wealth funds. The forward marketplace is being designed. The hash rate arms race is beginning.
And the people at the center of it (a Space Force officer who spent years thinking about cyberspace security at MIT, and a mining industry veteran who has been watching blocks fill and empty for years) are not cranks. They are serious, credentialed thinkers who arrived at the same conclusion through entirely different paths.
In Bitcoin, that kind of convergence tends to mean something.
THE FINAL QUESTION
You hold bitcoin. You believe in sound money. You understand the 21-million-cap argument, the halving cycle, the Austrian economics case for a non-inflationary monetary system.
Now ask yourself one more question.
When the world’s reserve system settles on Bitcoin (when sovereign treasuries and corporate balance sheets and bilateral trade agreements all need to write to the same ten-minute ledger) who will control what gets written?
Not who owns the coins.
Who controls the space.
If Lowery and Burnett are right, that question will define the geopolitical order of the 21st century.
And right now, almost nobody is asking it.

2026-06-04 09:21:50 UTC

. @nprofile…7ne7: “When raising rates deepens the deficit faster than it cools inflation… the central bank has already lost.” That’s today. Fed trapped at 6.75%. Fiscal dominance is not a theory anymore. It’s the regime. Bitcoin is the exit. #Bitcoin

2026-06-04 07:50:27 UTC

El Salvador takes a historic step in AI with the launch of its first sovereign data bank
The addition to NVIDIA’s Nemotron People program positions the country as a regional leader in artificial intelligence.

2026-06-04 07:46:14 UTC

. @nprofile…hxju defined sound money by one property above all: a low stock-to-flow ratio that no ruler can manipulate. Gold took millennia to build that. Bitcoin encoded it in 21 lines of math. No committee. No vote. Never. #Bitcoin #TheBitcoinStandard

2026-06-04 06:50:30 UTC

Iran threatens the Strait of Hormuz. Brent hits $97. Gold holds $4,500. The world is being reminded… AGAIN… why you cannot trust a system whose soundness depends on political stability. Bitcoin needs no government to function. #Bitcoin #Gold

2026-06-03 14:53:43 UTC

Gold, silver, and Bitcoin aren’t correlated. They’re converging on the same truth from three directions: the fiat experiment is entering its terminal phase. The Big Print was never a policy choice: it was always the only exit. #SoundMoney #AustrianEconomics

2026-06-03 13:51:39 UTC

Central banks bought record gold in 2025 while telling citizens Bitcoin was risky and CPI was under control. They hedge with the real thing. You should too. #Gold #Bitcoin #AustrianEconomics

2026-06-03 12:43:00 UTC

BTC at $69K isn’t “crashed.” On the Power Law, this is mid-corridor, post-peak trough: exactly where the model said we’d be. The floor rises every year. Time is the variable most people refuse to own. #Bitcoin

2026-06-03 08:59:40 UTC

Gold at $4,500. The Fed didn’t “cause” this. Mises did. Every unit of currency created ex nihilo is a silent tax on every saver who trusted the system. The market is just now issuing the receipt. #Gold #AustrianEconomics

2026-06-02 10:44:25 UTC

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Sip. En mi canal: https://youtube.com/@bitcornerpodcast?si=5NVVgg2H4oYz2VYB
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2026-05-30 08:39:43 UTC

Guess the panelists of Day 02 at #BCC8333 👀
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2026-05-30 07:20:28 UTC

Day 02: Comenzamos con @nprofile…ehsp ⚡️
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2026-05-29 12:23:44 UTC

Proud of you guys! ⚡️
@nprofile…u28g @nprofile…cj76 @nprofile…qatq
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2026-05-29 07:44:49 UTC

Let’s kick out w/ @nprofile…mlzp!⚡️
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2026-05-29 07:44:02 UTC

Let’s kick out w/ @nprofile…mlzp ⚡️
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2026-05-29 07:36:39 UTC

Here. We. Go! ⚡️
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2026-05-27 19:17:46 UTC

🎙️ NEW EPISODE — BITCORNER PODCAST
This is the episode you send to the person who still doesn't get Bitcoin.
. @nprofile…0w9j is a philosopher, U.S. Army veteran, and author of Monetary Slavery. He doesn't make the economic case for Bitcoin. He makes the moral case. And it hits different.
His argument: fiat isn't broken — it's working exactly as designed. It extracts the value of everything you earn. Before, that required chains. Now it just requires a printer.
We went deep on:
⚖️ Why economics is the wrong tool to orange pill people
🏛️ What Aristotle got right about money 2,000 years ago
🖨️ Debasement & usury — the twin pillars of modern enslavement
⚔️ How fiat funds forever wars — and what stops them
💡 What Bitcoin actually gives you: dignity, sovereignty, hope
🎧 Watch on Fountain & earn sats while you listen: https://fountain.fm/episode/RU7yQRAcLNLmidxrKqcW
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2026-05-14 17:01:10 UTC

Nobody handed Gen Z a roadmap.
No pension. No affordable housing. No stable job market. No explanation of what money actually is.
Just inflation, debt, and an algorithm telling you what to want next.
@npub1etc…kgxp found Bitcoin at 20. Not through a financial advisor. Not through a bank. Through a rabbit hole that started with one question: what is money?
And once you see it — you can’t unsee it.
This clip is her answer. Unfiltered. From someone who grew up in the system that Bitcoin was built to fix.
Full episode on Fountain — link in bio. 🎧⚡
When did you first discover Bitcoin? 👇
#Bitcoin #GenZ #BitcoinEducation #DownTheRabbitHole #FixTheMoney #BitcoinStandard #BitCorner
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2026-05-13 16:19:00 UTC

She’s watched AI replace jobs, rent go up 3x in a year, and a broken monetary system nobody warned her about.
And then she found the one thing that couldn’t be broken.
21 million Bitcoin. Forever. Written in code.
While AI floods the world with infinite content, infinite images, infinite noise: Bitcoin stays fixed. Scarce. Trustless. Unchanged.
That’s what Nicki Sharma calls “trust in scarcity.” And in this clip, she explains it better than most people twice her age.
Full episode on Fountain — link in bio. 🎧⚡
What made you trust Bitcoin? 👇
https://fountain.fm/episode/L0HKE4QWeQBAZ2xsskAa
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2026-05-12 17:07:10 UTC

🇸🇻 🎙️ NUEVO EPISODIO — BITCORNER PODCAST
This season I brought three generations of Bitcoiners.
A Boomer. A Millennial. And now: Gen Z.
. @npub1etc…kgxp is 20 years old, based in Australia, and comes from a Bitcoin family.
We talked about:
⚡ What it's actually like to grow up right now: rising rent, AI eating jobs, broken money no one explained
🧠 Why Bitcoin was the only thing that gave her hope
📱 How she uses AI to run her entire podcast workflow
🔑 The Satoshi hypothetical that will mess with your head
This is what Bitcoin looks like for the next generation.
🎧 Watch on Fountain & earn sats while you listen:
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2026-05-12 10:06:28 UTC

🇸🇻 WE'RE BACK today NEW EPISODE at 19:00 CEST with @npub1etc…kgxp
Early access: https://fountain.fm/episode/L0HKE4QWeQBAZ2xsskAa
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2026-05-10 08:49:24 UTC

Tapas 🇪🇸
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2026-05-05 08:09:49 UTC

The Odyssey.
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2026-04-23 16:21:37 UTC

Feliç Sant Jordi! 🌹 📖 🐉
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2026-04-22 12:33:51 UTC

We are raising $7,000 to support the next Eye Camp led by Karmaflights in one of the most remote regions of Nepal. In these villages, people must walk for days and spend over $100 to access basic healthcare most simply go without. So we bring the doctors to them.
Last Eye Camp:
• 1,480 people screened
• 28 cataract surgeries (sight restored)
• 1,700+ treatments delivered
This is direct, on-the-ground impact, supporting Karmaflights’ medical missions. $2 → eye care $10 → consultation $50 → cataract surgery No intermediaries.
Funds go directly to logistics, equipment, and surgical care in the field. If you believe in sovereignty, access, and real-world impact this matters. ⚡
Donate. Share. Your help can restore sight. Be part of @hello_glowtrip
Our @nprofile…kyhy, here: https://geyser.fund/project/fundrealimpactinremotenepal?hero=helloglowtrip1
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2026-04-21 16:42:59 UTC

🎙️ NUEVO EPISODIO — BITCORNER PODCAST 🇸🇻⚡️
Traemos la previa de la BCC8333, y por cierto, las entradas early bird ya se agotaron.
Nos sentamos con los organizadores para contarte exactamente qué va a pasar el 29 y 30 de mayo en Barcelona.
300 personas. Bitcoin. Privacidad. Soberanía. Permacultura. Estructuras Paralelas.
Speakers que hablan desde las trincheras — no desde un PowerPoint.
🎧 Si quieres ganar sats, ve o escucha el episodio en Fountain⚡
https://tinyurl.com/yck8u6sa
¡Nos vemos en un mes (casi)!
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2026-04-21 10:12:29 UTC

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🎧 Listen on Fountain and earn sats while you do:
https://fountain.fm/show/3d1hctYWlnGpLyxVTq5B

2026-04-21 10:11:41 UTC

What if you could mine Bitcoin from your wall… like a phone charger? He's revealing it publicly for the first time in this clip, and the full story is on the latest BitCorner Podcast episode! 🇸🇻⚡️
That's exactly what Gio built. He calls it WallAxe: an open-source conversion kit that turns a Bitaxe into a discreet, wall-plugged miner. No cables, no extra space, no attention drawn.
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2026-04-17 05:59:28 UTC

Spotted! 👀
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2026-04-15 17:29:03 UTC

🇸🇻 NEW EPISODE: He Built a Bitcoin Miner You Plug Into the Wall — And It's Changing Mining Forever | WallAxe w/ Gio ⚡️
We sit down with Gio, the creator of WallAxe: an open-source conversion kit that turns your Bitaxe into a discreet, wall-plugged Bitcoin miner. No cables. No clutter. No excuses. Just plug in and hash away.
We go deep on the future of home Bitcoin mining, solo mining, mining decentralization, the OP_RETURN debate, and why building on open-source Bitcoin projects is one of the most powerful things a pleb can do right now.
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
0:00 - Custom PCB Interfaces with Bitaxe Pins
3:51 - Gio's Bitcoin Journey Started During COVID
6:46 - Moving Coins From an Exchange
13:13 - Government Handouts
19:13 - Tips for Starting Projects on Geyser
26:42 - What is Wallax?
31:34 - Future Plans for Wallax
33:35 - Solo Mining and Mining Pools
40:04 - Quantum Threat
46:35 - Bitcoin Provides Purpose
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2026-04-13 18:19:25 UTC

About millennials life crisis with @bram!
Full episode on Fountain.fm
https://fountain.fm/episode/AICNgTEAuV77FfZxZdAL
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2026-04-09 16:01:43 UTC

Consider me the happiest man in the world. I officially orange pilled my couple! 😍⚡️
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2026-04-08 16:38:15 UTC

“The banking system has all the characteristics of a Ponzi scheme. The only difference? It’s legal.”
@npub1gfx…escl breaks down why the money in your bank account is technically not yours, why you’re a creditor (not an owner), and how losses get socialized onto regular people.
Full episode: https://fountain.fm/episode/AICNgTEAuV77FfZxZdAL
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2026-04-07 17:40:15 UTC

🚨New episode with @npub1gfx…escl ! He walks us through the wake-up call that changed how he sees everything: a lunch conversation with a colleague at the biggest bank in the Netherlands, where he learned the money in his account legally didn't belong to him. 🇸🇻⚡️
We go deep on the system nobody explains to you:
⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
3:06 Introducing Bram Kanstein — Bitcoin for Millennials
4:00 From Digital Entrepreneur to Bitcoin Educator
5:26 Bought Bitcoin at $100-300. Sold at $4,000. The Regret.
7:39 Why Bram Started "Bitcoin for Millennials"
10:00 Millennials: The Generation Stuck Mid-Game
11:45 The Aha Moment: "Your Money in the Bank Isn't Yours"
12:30 Fractional Reserve Banking Explained Simply
17:00 The Legal Reserve: 0% in the US, 1% in Europe
22:30 The Millennial Dilemma: Big Decisions, Broken System
25:28 Boomers, Millennials & Gen Z — Who Needs Bitcoin Most?
31:00 El Salvador's Bet on the Next Generation
32:00 Bitcoin in the Global South — Why It's Hard to Adopt
34:50 The Kenya Example: Seeing the Problem, Missing the Solution
37:00 Austrian vs Keynesian Economics — What School Never Taught You About Money
42:10 Question from Cristian: Bitcoin Circular Economies in Latin America
43:00 Bitcoin as Store of Value vs Medium of Exchange
45:40 What Bitcoin Has Given Bram: Thinking for Yourself
47:00 Bitcoin Unites Everyone — Regardless of Race, Class, or Religion
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2026-04-06 17:17:52 UTC

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WATCH the full episode on Fountain and earn some Sats! ⚡️
https://fountain.fm/episode/LQJSPwUBW8DeUR8Fz3g2

2026-04-06 17:17:05 UTC

The most impactful thing about Bitcoin it’s not about the monetary value but the power of its open source nature to help people in any part of the world.
We talked about the first tribe in Colombia to adopt Bitcoin thanks to Paystand and @npub17cy…4ml3
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2026-04-01 17:07:36 UTC

New episode with Cristian Giraldo from @paystand, about the first indigenous community in Colombia to adopt Bitcoin 🇸🇻⚡️🇨🇴
Nuevo episodio con Cristian Giraldo de Paystand, acerca de La Primera Comunidad Indígena en Colombia en Adoptar Bitcoin 🇸🇻⚡️🇨🇴
0:00 - Indigenous Languages of Colombia/ Lenguas indígenas de Colombia
0:27 - The Arhuaco Community/ La comunidad Arhuaca
1:07 - Explaining Bitcoin to the Arhuaco Community/ Explicando Bitcoin a la comunidad Arhuaca
12:19 - Why a Merchant Uses Bitcoin/ Por qué una comerciante usa Bitcoin
18:36 - Why the Arhuaco People Want Bitcoin/¿Por qué los Arhuacos quieren Bitcoin?
26:46 - The Bitcoin Economy in Indigenous Communities/ La economía de Bitcoin en comunidades indígenas
27:29 - Building a Circular Economy/ Construyendo una economía circular
30:37 - A Bitcoin Hub for Indigenous Communities/Un centro Bitcoin para comunidades indígenas
35:38 - Experiencing the Arhuaco Community/Experimentando la comunidad Arhuaca
47:32 - Adoption Is Happening in Medellín/La adopción está ocurriendo en Medellín
This project was carried out in partnership with @MyFirstBitcoin_!
Esta proyecto ha sido realizado en conjunto a @npub17cy…4ml3 _ !
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2026-04-01 14:24:38 UTC

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New episode with @nprofile…z3hm!
Watch FULL episode here: https://fountain.fm/episode/pjtlVTWR6CMJFw81uGPu

2026-04-01 14:23:49 UTC

The most underrated part of Bitcoin isn’t the 21 million cap, it’s Satoshi’s ego control. Create a world‑changing money, then disappear.
Anonymous creator, no early VC allocation, years when it was basically worthless, and then the creator vanishing.
That unrepeatable birth is what gives Bitcoin unique credibility.
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2026-03-31 16:07:45 UTC

Supergirl.
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2026-03-31 12:44:57 UTC

Miners are more like farmers than printers. Farmers harvest grain; miners harvest blockspace.
You can’t just “print more blocks” any more than you can conjure new prime farmland.
Fixed supply, rising demand. The competition for blockspace is only just beginning.
W/ @nprofile…9qdj
FULL EPISODE: https://fountain.fm/episode/pjtlVTWR6CMJFw81uGPu
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2026-03-30 09:53:27 UTC

The Reagan blood story is wild: after the assassination attempt, someone stole his blood and tried to sell it on eBay. Bob’s guest was tasked by Nancy Reagan to track it down and stop the auction. That’s the level of trust and responsibility this guy operated at.
Watch full episode w/ @npub1f7p…vg6q : https://fountain.fm/episode/pjtlVTWR6CMJFw81uGPu
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2026-03-27 06:41:53 UTC

Follow the signal! ⚡️
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2026-03-26 20:09:05 UTC

Hey! 👋
Just launched something close to my heart with Margot on @nprofile…q04s !
It’s called FOR THE CHILDREN OF NEPAL.
We’re teaming up with KarmaFlights (a great local team actually on the ground) to build resilient schools, set up libraries & computer labs, train teachers, and give kids in remote access to education, healthcare, and basic needs.
If you feel like supporting, here’s the link: https://geyser.fund/project/forthechildrenofnepal/?launch=
Also, quick heads-up: Geyser now has Ambassador Earnings: you can earn Sats by sharing this project. Pretty cool way to align incentives and grow things together!
Would mean a lot of you participate! 🧡
Thank you, Plebs! 🙏🏼
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2026-03-26 20:08:08 UTC

Hey! 👋
Just launched something close to my heart with Margot on @nprofile…q04s!
It’s called FOR THE CHILDREN OF NEPAL.
We’re teaming up with KarmaFlights (a great local team actually on the ground) to build resilient schools, set up libraries & computer labs, train teachers, and give kids in remote access to education, healthcare, and basic needs.
If you feel like supporting, here’s the link: https://geyser.fund/project/forthechildrenofnepal/?launch=
Also, quick heads-up: Geyser now has Ambassador Earnings: you can earn Sats by sharing this project. Pretty cool way to align incentives and grow things together!
Would mean a lot of you participate! 🧡
Thank you, Plebs! 🙏🏼

2026-03-26 13:29:35 UTC

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Want to earn some Sats?
WATCH THE FULL EPISODE ON NOSTR: https://fountain.fm/episode/pjtlVTWR6CMJFw81uGPu
#nevent1q…kytx

2026-03-26 13:22:06 UTC

🚨 NEW EPISODE w/ Bob (@npub1w98…7y22 ) 🇸🇻
In this episode of BitCorner Podcast, Bob Burnett — engineer, energy entrepreneur, and Bitcoin miner: breaks down the reality behind mining, energy, and why Bitcoin is reshaping the physical world.
https://blossom.primal.net/ef6cf942be093f43a3123295241ff7e6d491d8dd9a50ca3e69a3e58b75ac5fa0.mov

2026-03-25 15:51:02 UTC

These are the two things that kept @nprofile…2k25 away from Bitcoin for a while… until he found the truth.
Full episode: https://fountain.fm/episode/wabgzD6r7mOfK6wpT3iD
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2026-03-22 17:22:33 UTC

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I’d like to invite you to the podcast @npub18zs…lyv6 and talk about this. I think it’s a very important topic! 🙏🏼

2026-03-22 15:05:16 UTC

🚨 @nprofile…xhyz on why young Americans can't afford homes: at 2% inflation the purchasing power of your money halves in 36 years. At 3.5% — 20 years. At the real rate, probably closer to 10%, the math simply doesn't work. Incomes never kept up. The money is broken.
New episode out now: https://fountain.fm/episode/wabgzD6r7mOfK6wpT3iD
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2026-03-21 22:17:18 UTC

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We’re gonna announce the even on SatAtlantis in the coming days! Stay tuned! 🙏🏼
We just build an X: https://x.com/hello_glowtrip?s=21

2026-03-21 21:49:36 UTC

Hey, this is Juan & Margot. And we’re excited to share something we’ve been building for a long time.
GLOWTRIP.
An immersive journey into the unknown, created to awaken presence, push boundaries, and reconnect us to what really matters.
From the Himalayas to remote shores and hidden villages, each experience is an invitation to step out of the noise and into the moment.
What makes it unique is the cycle of impact: your personal growth directly supports local communities and meaningful projects along the way.
An organic journey designed to transform, connect, and leave something real behind.
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2026-03-21 19:05:33 UTC

🚨 @nprofile…djfk explains the good delivery chain of integrity, the system that tracks every bar from refinery to vault. Breaks down why Fort Knox hasn't had a real audit since 1953, and reveals why Bitcoin settles any amount on earth faster, cheaper, and with zero permission than any physical metal ever could.
New episode out now: https://fountain.fm/episode/wabgzD6r7mOfK6wpT3iD
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2026-03-20 20:23:11 UTC

BREAKING: The Trump administration is reportedly making detailed preparations for a potential ground operation in Iran. Plans include deploying elements of the 82nd Airborne, handling detainees, and positioning forces in the region. Deliberations are ongoing as escalation risks rise.