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Bitcoin = Anti-Totalitarianism⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/25/2023) - Senator Elizabeth Warren and numerous congressional members, they leverage international crises to further their own political agenda and curtail financial freedoms. Armed with a freshly published Wall Street Journal article that falsely suggests Hamas raised a significant sum of crypto funding to attack Israel - the truth couldn’t be more obscured. The irony of the… Continue Reading

Bitcoin’s Rise Fueled by U.S. Investors Buying Ahead of Potential Spot ETF Approval: Matrixport⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/25/2023) - The world’s largest cryptocurrency, bitcoin (BTC), has risen 25% in the last month, with most of these gains accumulating during U.S. trading hours, crypto services provider Matrixport said in a note on Wednesday. Continue Reading

Correcting the Record: Inaccurate Methodologies for Estimating Cryptocurrency’s Role in Terrorism Financing⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/22/2023) - "Given blockchain technology’s inherent transparency and the often public nature of terrorism financing campaigns, cryptocurrency is not an effective solution to finance terrorism at scale. " Continue Reading

How Hamas’ Crypto Fundraising Backfired⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/20/2023) - "Hamas learned the hard way what so many criminals have learned before: sending money over the most advanced, transparent payment system ever invented makes it nearly impossible to conceal illegal behavior" Continue Reading

In the Fight Against Extremism, Don’t Demonize Surveillance-Busting Tools like Signal and Bitcoin⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/19/2023) - "Most Americans may not yet grasp that financial privacy is just as important as communications privacy for our democracy—that your spending habits say more about you than your words. In an open society, the ability to buy political books, have discreet medical procedures, and build communities without government surveillance is essential." Continue Reading

Hamas Struggles To Earn Crypto But Raises Money In Other Ways⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/19/2023) - "How did Hamas, seemingly cut off from the global financial system as a designated terrorist organization, get the funds to carry out such a deadly and seemingly sophisticated surprise attack against Israel?"..."cryptocurrency makes up only a small piece of a much larger terror financing puzzle." Continue Reading

Eurosystem proceeds to next phase of digital euro project⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/18/2023) - "Based on the findings from this phase, detailed in a report published today, the ECB has designed a digital euro that would be widely accessible to citizens and businesses through distribution by supervised intermediaries, such as banks." Continue Reading

Bitcoin Obsoletes All Other Money⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/14/2023) - Freedom is ultimately what a reliable form of money provides: the freedom to pursue individual interests (specialization) and the ability to convert the output of that value into the value created by others (trade). Whether individuals consciously ask themselves these questions or not, they will naturally be forced to answer them through their actions Continue Reading

The Lightning Network Grew by 1212% in 2 Years – Why It’s Time To Pay Attention⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/12/2023) - For the Lightning Network to achieve its full potential in helping Bitcoin scale to more users, it is important that observers have an accurate understanding of activity on the network. Continue Reading

The Big Deal with BitVM: Arbitrary Computation Now Possible on Bitcoin Without a Fork⚡️ Zap 10 Sats (10/12/2023) - BitVM is a proposal that opens very interesting doors for Bitcoin application development going forward. It can enable pretty much any arbitrary computation, and use that computation to enforce what happens to bitcoin on-chain. Continue Reading