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The promise of Bitcoin has come true.

“If you want to change the world, don’t protest. Write code!” #Bitcoin   
– Hal Finney, 1994

If you own 1 Bitcoin you are in the top 1% of the top 1% of Bitcoin holders on Earth.

The world will be a better place for all mankind. Everyone can own a phone and send an email with bitcoin to anyone with or without internet.

ECP NetHappenings Bitcoin 2025 Banking has changed forever!

12 years ago BTC reached $100 for the first time On April 1, 2013,
Bitcoin broke through the $100 mark for the first time.
At that time, there were heated debates on forums and in the media:
“It’s a bubble!”, “It won’t grow anymore!”, “Who needs it anyway?” – today it all sounds like a joke!

NOW- 94.5% of the 21 million bitcoin has now been mined. Only 5.5% left to be mined over the next 115 years!

2025 The world of Banking
has Changed forever and will never
go back to the way it was. 

SEC to stop requiring crypto companies to register as trading systems.
This massive deregulation happening is all part of the technocrats agenda.
https://watcher.guru/news/sec-to-halt-requiring-crypto-firms-to-register-as-trading-systems

#BANKING CHANGED OVERNIGHT!
iL1183 passed to REPLACE iL1179

#Banks can custody Bitcoin
with the repeal of SAB 121.

#We now have stable coins.

Rep. French Hill (R-AR), chair of the powerful House Financial Services Committee, told reporters Monday afternoon that a fundamental understanding among lawmakers that allowed stablecoin legislation to get off the ground in the first place was the notion that the products should be considered a payment rail designed to increase efficiency—not an investment product.
https://decrypt.co/312692/top-lawmaker-shuts-down-coinbase-plea-interest-stablecoins

“That was a consensus that’s been established on both sides of the Hill, and it’s not really more complicated than that,” Hill said. “It’s not going to be an investment per se. It’s meant to be payment.”

BANKS have a GREENLIGHT to USE Crypto!
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
News Release 2025-16
March 7, 2025
OCC Clarifies Bank Authority to Engage in Certain Cryptocurrency
Activities
https://www.occ.treas.gov/news-issuances/news-releases/2025/nr-occ-2025-16.html
The OCC just published a new Interpretative Letter, setting a new course for federal banks engaging in crypto activities.
– Clears federal banks to custody crypto assets, hold stablecoin reserves, and serve as blockchain verification nodes, without prior OCC nonobjection.
– Simplifies oversight by cutting unnecessary regulatory hurdles, retiring outdated approval requirements.
– Equips banks to innovate, with solid risk management still in place.
An important step for the financial system’s next chapter.

First US Bank-Issued Stablecoin on Permissionless Blockchain Goes Live

OUTRAGOUS DISGUSTING BANKERS
Bitcoin disallowed from $38 trillion of US brokerage assets

$38 trillion in US brokerages still restricted from bitcoin, report
– A majority of assets in domestic brokerages still avoid the currency.
– Many US brokerages restrict BTC-related investments altogether.
– Many brokerage and retirement accounts have mandates that restrict investment in BTC-related products.
– Examples include:  retirement accounts following target-date, annuity, insurance, or mutual fund strategies.

GET OUT OF ANY BANK THAT WON’T ALLOW YOU TO USE YOUR MONEY
IN THE WAY YOU WANT TO USE IT.
THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO RESTRICT YOU LIKE THAT.

10 of the largest US brokerages with $65.7 trillion in assets under management (AUM) restrict approximately $38.2 trillion of those assets from touching BTC.

Only three permitted unrestricted BTC investments for substantially all customers: Fidelity, Schwab, and Wells Fargo.

UBS, JP Morgan, Merrill / Bank of America, and Goldman Sachs Edward Jones

DO NOT ALLOW their investment advisors to recommend BTC.

New research estimates that accounts containing more than $38 trillion in assets at the 10 largest US brokerages do not allow BTC-related investments at all.

They’ll sell you junk bonds & penny stocks but not Bitcoin.

$38T in assets still blocked, advisors can’t even recommend it. TradFi is playing catch up. Bitcoin doesn’t need permission. Be early.

 

Bitcoin actually IS
an uncheatable distributed ledger.

72% of volume is off exchange.
GameStop completes a $1.48 BILLION bond offering with incredible demand — is now poised to buy (or has already bought $BTC ) and the stock is up a whopping 8 cents. Why? 72% of volume is off exchange.

10/3/24 WARNING ABOUT PAPER BITCOIN @woonomic
Paper BTC serves to dilute Bitcoin’s fixed supply.
BTC price rise has been due to its future promise of zero debasement around the year 2140.
– Presently BTC annual debasement is 1.6% which is half of gold.
– USD by comparison was 2.0% this year but normally 5-7%.
Today, paper BTC exposure can now be created through futures trade contracts. This ratio to actual BTC is still low but for gold there’s at least 32x more paper than actual gold.
So viewing BTC with the same lens as a currency, BTC can certainly be debased by paper markets and has been since 2018.
In fact the SEC made a debasement attack on BTC by allowing futures ETFs while holding back spot ETFs.

#Bitcoin will surpass #Gold
by market cap.

ALERT: #China claims that they found 2k+ TONNES of new Gold in the past 6 months that could reshape global markets.
Remember: You can find more #Gold but you can’t mine more #Bitcoin. If you dig deeper and find more gold and you advertise it, you didn’t get richer but everyone else holding gold became poorer by dilution.

El Salvador Eyes $3 Trillion Gold Mine Beneath Its Soil

Supposedly the U.S. government owns over 8,133 metric tons of gold, or 261,498,926 troy ounces (held by the Fed.)
This amount is nearly as much as the combined reserves of the next three countries with the highest gold reserves.
The gold is stored at the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Kentucky.
https://www.calculateme.com/precious-metals/gold/weight/1-tons

At $3,118 an ounce, that’s 739,607,225,875 billion, or about six months of Fed QE.

Dump all the US gold for 5M #Bitcoin and demonetise enemy gold reserves to zero – Michael Saylor
https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1899074764934651904/vid/avc1/490×270/lKfpVAuT7pEPji9m.mp4?tag=16

Powell: Fed prepared to use a technology, called a printing press (or, today, its electronic equivalent), that allows it to produce as many U.S. dollars as it wishes at essentially no cost – RTRS
https://video.twimg.com/ext_tw_video/1301896003306610690/pu/vid/480×270/3s3S4NAjqXZ8_ECu.mp4?tag=10

GOLD IS DIRTY
https://www.cfr.org/blog/illegal-gold-finances-latin-americas-dictators-cartels-united-states-must-lead-fight-against

3/6/25 TEXAS STRATEGIC BITCOIN RESERVE BILL PASSED BY THE SENATE

Bitcoin – 21M no matter what

2023: Bitcoin crashes to $16k
2025: Bitcoin crashes to $85k
Soon: #Bitcoin crashes to $600k
HODL

BITPOWER
A Different Take on Proof-of-Work and Why Bitcoin is Far More Valuable than Digital Gold by JASON LOWERY

BITCOIN IS MORE VALUABLE THAN DIGITAL MONEY.
BITCOIN IS DIGITAL POWER.
“… we can win a major battle in the arms race and gain a new territory of freedom for several years. ” ~Satoshi Nakamoto

As humanity approaches the latter half of the 21st century, a global revolution unfolds taking place not on the traditional battlegrounds of land, sea, air, or space, but in the fifth domain of cyberspace—the new frontier of warfare.

This book builds the groundwork needed to understand why Bitcoin and its underlying proof-of-work technology represents something far more substantial than its initial concept as “peer-to-peer electronic cash.” This technology offers society a groundbreaking tool to physically secure cyberspace and the systems of control embedded within it, at a juncture in human history when the world’s governance structures have become exceedingly oppressive and in dire need of transformation.

This book provides a unique perspective on Bitcoin that few others have dared to talk about, spotlighting its extraordinary value beyond merely money. Here, Bitcoin is portrayed as the largest, most physically powerful, and most energy-efficient weapon system ever built. Using simple explanations accessible to novices, Lowery uncovers why Bitcoin is really Bitpower, a technology poised to transform global power dynamics and usher in a new world order where computational bandwidth is synonymous with strength—where physical power and digital power are one and the same.

Step into a future where Bitcoin transcends its popular description as digital gold and becomes more commonly known as a colossal machine which harnesses the global electric power grid to endow cyberspace with unique physical qualities that standard computers cannot replicate, bridging tangible reality and virtual reality in unprecedented ways. In this future, Bitcoin emerges as not just the new foundational layer of a global financial settlement system, but as the new foundational layer of the internet itself, providing humanity with a paradoxically peaceful method of waging war against today’s corrupted and oppressive systems of control. Standing at the crossroads of technology and military strategy, Lowery demystifies Bitcoin to reveal its true nature as the ultimate enabler of freedom and prosperity in the digital age. This is a story about Bitpower and the dawn of the age of cyber sovereignty.

US Secret Service (USSS) Handbook on how to handle
counterfeit currency, including how to detect, report and
dispose of fake bills 2022
Requested date: 05-March-2025
Release date: 12-March-2025
Posted date: 31-March-2025

How Scammers Launder Money and Get Away With It

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Trump formally seeks to waive his appearance at his forthcoming arraignment on Jack Smith’s superseding indictment in D.C.

“The importance of winning Pennsylvania, for Trump in particular, is underlined by a new CNN poll of the battleground states that shows the former president trailing in Michigan and Wisconsin.”

Trump is crude, rude, and vulgar. No dignity.

Donald Trump was informed today by the state of New Jersey,… that his liquor licenses at his NJ golf courses will not be renewed,… because he’s now a convicted felon.

Ginni Thomas Privately Praised Group Working Against Supreme Court Reform: “Thank You So, So, So Much” In a call with donors, First Liberty Institute’s Kelly Shackelford read the supportive email he said came from Thomas. The leader of the religious-rights group also labeled Justice Elena Kagan “treasonous” for backing a stronger ethics code. A leaked audio reveals what Ginni Thomas thinks about the efforts to address her husband’s many ethics scandals.

Donald Trump’s crypto project copied code from hacked app, report

PROPAGANDIST TO WATCH OUT FOR
STEVE BANNON  “Our main work is cognitive warfare, war for the mind. Our propaganda is not about persuasion. It’s about disorientation.”
“Our real opposition is the media; the way to deal with them is to flood the zone with crap. Stink up the joint. Flooding the zone & spinning on a daily basis plus shamelessness is a potent combination.”
“What Democrats do does not matter, because we always go on the offense; we do not respond to them, we attack.”
“America’s Militant Christians are God’s chosen to bring about His divine civilization on earth.
We are unstoppable in our Holy War, waging in the mind & on the streets.”
“Our Agenda is the deconstruction of the Administrati state.” Bloomberg, Feb 21, 2018

Of the top 40 corporate donors to election deniers in Congress, 10 of them are in the defense industry. That makes the defense industry the top industry bankroller of the Big Lie.

Is there ANY major news organization which has covered or looked further into these unbelievable comments from John McCain’s wife?

A must read article by @CNN , which correctly warns that Elon Musk’s posts, and the lack of scrutiny they receive from his company’s own fact-checking system, “lay bare how Musk has turned X into a pro-Trump machine.”

The President of Brazil has issued a statement about Twitter:
“The world isn’t obliged to put up with Elon Musk’s far-right free-for-all just because he is rich.”

Projecting Epstein: How the Insurgency Weaponizes Its Own Deviance
CW: CSA // Was the PayPal Mafia really getting “tax advice” and “Kung Fu practice” from Jeffrey Epstein?

“A Christian political operative has teamed up with charismatic preachers to enroll election skeptics as poll workers across the country, using a Trump-aligned swing state tour to enlist support in the effort.” Lion of Judah enrolls poll workers in Trump-aligned swing state tour, which experts say could be ‘hazard to democracy’
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/sep/04/christian-election-poll-workers

Republican Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose Engages in Voter Suppression

Tina Peters is the person of the day. She woke up today facing 22 years in federal prison after being found guilty of 7 counts of election interference.

Fraud Risk Management:2018-2022 Data Show Federal Government Loses an Estimated $233 Billion to $521 Billion Annually to Fraud, Based on Various Risk Environments
https://www.gao.gov/products/gao-24-105833
The Government Accountability Office estimates the federal government loses between $233 billion to $521 billion annually to fraud based on data from 2018 – 2022. That’s ~2% of America’s GDP stolen every year & a trillion dollars lost for those years. Makes you think this is all by design.

,LA

John McCain’s Son Endorses Kamala, Blasts Trump for Arlington PR Stunt

Coinbase CFO says Kamala Harris is using firm to accept crypto donations “She is accepting crypto donations. She’s using Coinbase Commerce now to accept crypto for her own campaign,” Haas said, referring to the company’s platform of merchants it has operated since 2018.
Advocacy group Crypto4Harris says they aren’t aware of Harris accepting crypto, and Harris’ official fundraising site doesn’t currently show the integration.

Bexar County commissioners approved a plan to blanket the county with voter registration forms to increase participation in the Nov. 5 election — flouting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who threatened to sue over the measure.

Poll: @KamalaHarris leads @realDonaldTrump by 20 points in his home county of Palm Beach Co.

Kamala Harris proposes $50,000 tax credit for small businesses.

Biden prepares to block Nippon Steel acquisition of U.S. Steel

Biden is set to accuse Russia of interfering in the 2024 U.S. Election
The White House will publicly condemn the actions and the DOJ will announce law enforcement action targeting the covert Russian campaign.
“The Biden administration on Wednesday plans to accuse Russia of a sustained effort to influence the 2024 US presidential election by using Kremlin-run media and other online platforms to target US voters with disinformation.”
The Biden admin is announcing a series of actions today targeting what it says are Russian-government sponsored attempts to manipulate U.S. public opinion ahead of the 2024 election, including through RT. The moves include Treasury sanctions and a law enforcement action by the Justice Department.

FCC opens $200M Cybersecurity Pilot Program for schools & libraries!
Apply now from, 9/17-11/1, for funding to boost schools’ cyber defenses. Eligible: firewalls, endpoint protection, identity auth & more.

U.S. Department of Labor @USDOL
We’ve awarded $49 million in grants (each worth $150K-$1.5M) to help prepare workers in Appalachian, Lower Mississippi Delta and Northern Border regions for good, secure jobs in high-demand industries. The grants will support 35 projects in 18 states.

1,000 battery workers in Tennessee just won a union and joined the @UAW
These Ultium Cells workers are essential to the EV industry, and to this country’s industrial future. And they’re going union.

Biden will announce the first tranche of funding under an IRA rural energy program during a visit to a key swing district in southwest WI Thurs
Biden + Dems are pouring billions into the largely rural #WI03, as they try to flip seat + drive small town turnout for Harris. Republicans are heavily targeting WI03, too, to keep Rep Derrick Van Orden’s seat + drive rural turnout for Trump

Sandi Bachom @sandibachom
REPOST without typos. As many of you know I will be 80 next month and when I was a teenager after my father died, I went to the head of the Film Editor’s union he was a charter member and editor at Disney on Bambi, Pinocchio, Fantasia. I wanted to be an apprentice and in those days you had to be grandfathered into the unions . I said I was Jack Bachom’s daughter.

He gave me two reasons why I couldn’t be an apprentice to learn that craft.

1. The Film cans are too heavy for a woman to carry.
2. And because of the bad language that goes on in the cutting room.

This is a true story. It was 1962. #Project2025 would have us go back.

BILLIONAIRS

Market wiped out $1 TRILLION from the US stocks. Only 1M people own more than 0.1 BTC. Imagine the regret people will have when 0.1 BTC is worth $1M and they could have bought for $5.9k in 2024.

Past performance is not indication of future results.
2009 1 $BTC = 1 USD
2024 1 BTC = 58, 438 USD Zoom out

Fidelity, a $5.5 Trillion Asset Manager, Predicts #Bitcoin to Reach $1 Billion by 2038 .

1 #Bitcoin = 100 million Satoshis
If each SAT is $10, then 1 #BTC is $1-Billion
Holding 0.001 Bitcoin Could Make You A Multimillionaire, According To Fidelity Director

Coinbase has conducted its first cryptocurrency payment between two AI agents.

When you’ve held bitcoin for three cycles and keep your fiat job just for fun.

Japan to drop the maximum tax rate on #Bitcoin and crypto from 55% to 20%

$13 BILLION Cantor Fitzgerald says big banks and brokerage companies will all go “head first” into #Bitcoin. #Bitcoin will be regulated by the CFTC and will treat it as a financial asset.

This will pave the way for ALL trad-fi companies going “head first” into Bitcoin.

The largest Swiss Canton bank now offers #Bitcoin to 1.5m customers #Bitcoin!

US National Debt just hit $35.27 TRILLION – record high.
$104,568 debt per US citizen.
Wars don’t pay for themselves…

Morgan Stanley is actively selling #Bitcoin ETFs to their clients NOW!
– Wells Fargo will join them next month (Sept)
– 2 of the top 6 biggest USA banks.
Goldmans, Citi, JPM & BoA will have to join the party.

Bitcoin24 is an open-source macro model forecasting asset growth and #Bitcoin adoption over the next 21 years, along with micro models to evaluate various Bitcoin strategies for individuals, corporations, institutions, and nation-states.

Legislation to ban the intentional use of forever chemicals in all industrial applications will be the topic of discussion for Friday’s Joint House & #SenDemPolicy Committee hearing. Hosts include:@SenatorMuth @SenatorCollett
FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6TH 11 AM
WARMINSTER TOWNSHIP BUILDING
401 GIBSON AVE. #1 WARMINSTER, PA
Register & watch https://t.co/5dZD6p546b http://senatormuth.com/policy/

Tomorrow the Framework Convention on AI, the world’s first binding treaty on AI, will be signed in Vilnius. The U.S. and EU are both expected to sign the treaty. Read FPF Deputy Director for Global Privacy @biancamarcu2 ’s overview to learn about it.
The World’s First Binding Treaty on Artificial Intelligence, Human Rights, Democracy, and the Rule of Law: Regulation of AI in Broad Strokes

Frank Rosenblatt, often cited as the Father of Machine Learning, photographed in 1960 alongside his most-notable invention: the Mark I Perceptron machine — a hardware implementation for the perceptron algorithm, the earliest example of an artificial neural network, est. 1943.

Internet Ethics “The anonymous app #Yolo, which allegedly promised that it would unmask harassers, must face a lawsuit by family members of teens who were bullied”
“[P]art of the decision could prove significant in a separate legal battle–the… class-action lawsuit… against #Meta, #Google, #Snapchat and #TikTok. That complaint includes claims that the #tech companies’ products are dangerously defective due to their design.”
#ethics #law #internet #business #tech #privacy
https://mediapost.com/publications/article/398757/cyberbullying-victims-can-sue-messaging-app-for-fa.html

Did you know that we’re all subsidizing giant corporations’ union-busting efforts? Right now, corporations are allowed to deduct the cost of anti-union pressure tactics on their taxes. We really, really need to build a tax code that works for working families, not just the 1%.

There’s a bill sitting in Congress that too few people know about. The American High-Speed Rail Act would invest $205 billion over five years to build the infrastructure for a high-capacity, high-speed train network.

Every billionaire is a policy failure and should not exist.
California’s AI Safety Bill Is a Mask-Off Moment for the Industry
AI’s top industrialists say they want regulation—until someone tries to regulate them.

OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free

Tech billionaires are waging a hostile takeover of rural Northern California.
They want to build their own private city in Solano County, and they’re crushing farmers with lawsuits to do it. Local activists delayed them last month, but the fight has just begun.
Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHlcAx-I0oY
Villagers on the Honduran island of Roatán thought Próspera was just another resort. The roots started here.
Seems like more people should be talking about how a libertarian charter city startup funded by Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and Peter Thiel is trying to bankrupt Honduras. Próspera is suing Honduras to the tune of $11B (GDP is $32B) and is expected to win, per the NYT. Basically, the libertarian charter city startup Próspera made a deal with a corrupt, oppressive post-coup govt in Honduras to get special economic status. This status was the result of court-packing and is wildly unpopular. A democratic govt is trying to undo the deal.

The most basic SQL injection ever in the Known Crewmember (KCM) and Cockpit Access Security System (CASS) used by airlines and TSA.
Literally ‘ OR 1=1 got them admin access. Here’s what we know:@iangcarroll @samwcyo The vulnerability was found in FlyCASS, a web-based interface used by smaller airlines to manage KCM and CASS.

HEALTH

Toxic mold suppressing immune function in patients with lyme disease
“People w Lyme seem to have an extreme response to mold. What’s interesting is we typically find mold in their home.”

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The 2nd Circuit just ruled that Internet Archive’s digital library is not “fair use” and violates the copyrights of book publishers. “It is not an approach that the Copyright Act permits.”
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