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I have mixed feelings about a centralized digital ID solution, but it's awesome to see zero-knowledge proofs being used across tech.

The full Google Wallet announcement: https://blog.google/products/google-pay/google-wallet-age-identity-verifications/

i kept seeing the datacenter freeze announcements and wanted a total of all agreements in a nice chart. luckily, someone else already did it.

https://semianalysis.com/2025/04/28/microsofts-datacenter-freeze/

Proof of Work again showing its usefulness in combating spam. The ArchWiki has just implemented Anubis to limit the impact of AI bots continually scraping pages.

Explainer: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/design/why-proof-of-work

This is the right move by Android, following the @GrapheneOS model and Apple. Your data is encrypted in this state.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/android-phones-will-soon-reboot-themselves-after-sitting-unused-for-3-days/

🎂 Happy birthday, Satoshi Nakamoto. #Bitcoin

When will @signalapp encrypt the message database on-disk? There have been [requests for the feature since 2015, closed as "wontfix"](https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/452#issuecomment-162622211).

Now users' messages are being exposed by [exploiting this fact](https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/russia-targeting-signal-messenger#:~:text=multiple%20known%20and%20established%20regional%20threat%20actors%20have%20also%20been%20observed%20operating%20capabilities%20designed%20to%20steal%20signal%20database%20files%20from%20android%20and%20windows%20devices)

Wrote up some thoughts on mempools clearing during the Super Bowl:

Empty mempools have happened before and #Bitcoin's economic incentives act as a counterbalance. Use the low fee rates to consolidate UTXOs or create new multisig vaults.

https://otsuka.haus/articles/2025-02-09-bitcoin-mempools-cleared-is-nobody-using-bitcoin/

Listen in as we break down Treasury yields, bond liquidity, potential regulatory changes, Bitcoin's mempools, and alternative investments 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gORG_wURG78

market freaked out about deepseek today, but I'm just sitting here like

R1 vs. o1: AI as Commodity or Moat

For those of you trying to decide how to spend weird remaining balances on prepaid debit cards you might have lying around... OpenSats can take them.

#Bitcoin as a store of a value. Gresham's law for its use as a medium of exchange. Unbannable as noted by world leaders. The world is catching on.

You know your status page implementation is probably bad when it never flips from green, despite massive outage complaints

We're going to get a bunch of $DOGE and $WLFI folks on this aren't we? https://www.reuters.com/technology/crypto-industry-jockeys-seats-trumps-promised-council-2024-11-21/

Still a massive untapped market for #Bitcoin. Prepaid cards often have opaque fees and disincentivize saving due to inactivity fees.

https://www.fdic.gov/household-survey/2023-fdic-national-survey-unbanked-and-underbanked-households-report

Reading other people's post-election takes on why "their models were wrong" or "they knew all along" is proof why skin in the game matters. Otherwise it's just hot steam.

https://www.wsj.com/finance/how-the-trump-whale-correctly-called-the-election-cb7eef1d