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SATOSHI CIDERS / BRISTOL FREEDOM TECH on Wednesday October 21st from 6.15pm at The Commercial Rooms, Corn St, BS1 1HT. Ask any questions, chat with Bristol Bitcoiners interested in sound money & local circular economies.
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
Omarchy is forever free. There's no monetization scheme coming. I'm already rich and the Omacom Foundation is a well-founded nonprofit.
The only ulterior motive here is to make Linux win on the desktop and create the perfect, malleable computer for all to enjoy!
The only ulterior motive here is to make Linux win on the desktop and create the perfect, malleable computer for all to enjoy!
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
⚠️⚠️ All LNbits users should stop their LNbits servers IMMEDIATELY. ⚠️⚠️
Please forward this announcement.
Following a wave of attacks, we have a number of security patches to push. Until then, it's better to err on the side of caution. 🙏
Updates to follow soon.
Please forward this announcement.
Following a wave of attacks, we have a number of security patches to push. Until then, it's better to err on the side of caution. 🙏
Updates to follow soon.
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town (@abcptza) has reached a crossroads.
For three years running, 2024, 2025 and 2026, we hosted three successful conferences, co-hosted by @Machankura8333 and ourselves, and run entirely by unpaid volunteers, without massive sponsorship. Pulling that off, s a significant milestone.
We also achieved something we set out to do: reach large civil society organizations and, through them, reach their members. And we didn't know who those organizations would be, but they showed up.
John Endres (@senderman) of the Institute for Race Relations (@IRR_SouthAfrica), Russell Lamberti (@RussLamberti) representing Sakeliga (@Sakeliga), and David Ansara (@DavidAnsara) of the Free Market Foundation (@FMFSouthAfrica) all spoke in 2024, 2025 and/or 2026.
This list is not exhaustive. And these aren't fringe groups. They're among South Africa's largest and longest-standing advocates for free market policy. And they have fought an uphill battle for exactly the kind of direction this country needs.
Our goal was to get them speaking to their audiences about Bitcoin, and that's happened.
Both The Free Market Foundation and the Institute for Race Relations have since published papers, videos and/or podcasts on Bitcoin:
freemarketfoundation.com/state-proof-mo…
dailyfriend.co.za/2026/03/05/bit…
While both organizations occasionally discussed Bitcoin prior to 2024, since then both groups have formalized and significantly expanded their public commentary on the topic.
I'm not claiming we caused that single-handedly, but we definitely contributed to it, even if only in a small way.
So why are we at a Crossroads?
In 2026, the Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank dropped regulatory bombshells that were, to put it mildly, insane.
The direction they want to take is a walled garden: you can hold Bitcoin, you can use Bitcoin, but only through a regulated intermediary they control, one that can force you to sell at a price of their choosing.
Calling that a watered down version of Bitcoin is an understatement. It isn't a watered down version of Bitcoin. It's entirely fake.
And yes, there's been a reprieve with the SA Government recently backing down under intense pressure, but it's clear that they'll attempt it again.
That leaves us in a position where we have to decide: where does this conference go next? And the answer is right there in the name.
Adopting Bitcoin.
Adopting Bitcoin implies exiting fiat. You are not adopting Bitcoin if you are not exiting fiat. And if you claim to adopt Bitcoin while weaseling your way further into the fiat world, you are not adopting Bitcoin.
It’s quite simple. But easy to lose sight of.
"I'm into Bitcoin, but the fiat world is what it is, we have to play by their rules, we have to work with them, and we have to accommodate them."
This may all be true. But it invariably turns into an excuse to not exit fiat. And that's not a position we're willing to keep entertaining. And if you don't get that, what are we doing here?
To be clear, this isn't about refusing to talk to anyone. It's about being unambiguous about our goal. Adopting Bitcoin means actively and continuously looking for every opportunity to move further away from fiat.
Adopting Bitcoin does not mean buying Bitcoin and settling into fiat more comfortably while the BTC/FIAT price goes up.
This isn't a rebrand.
It's a re-alignment, a return to where @abcptza was always meant to go, but were slowly pulled away from by the realities of running a conference.
The companies that make real money are the ones that find ways to weave themselves back into the fiat system. It's brutally hard for a genuinely Bitcoin-only fiat-exiting company to turn a profit.
The massively profitable players in this space are crypto casinos and pseudo-banks selling you the idea that gambling is good. That's just the world as it is.
For that reason, funding a conference like this is genuinely difficult. When you're the one staring at a venue invoice, and you know half your speaker list won't show up unless you cover their flights, you end up working with people you'd rather not work with. Not because you sold out, but because there was no other way to pay for it.
So yes, we drifted. Not on purpose, but because of the economic reality.
But we never drifted so far that we've lost sight of where we're supposed to be.
So are are we going?
Bitcoin is a silent revolution. If you're not willing to be part of that, peacefully, but without compromise, then you're not adopting Bitcoin, and you're not exiting fiat.
Bitcoin is a paradigm shift. Paradigm shifts are not easy, gentle, comfortable, or profitable. They are, by definition, disruptive, unfamiliar and unsettling for almost everyone.
We don't know if this will work. We have no idea if we can even fund a conference like this going forward. And, if we take this stance, most of the sponsors who might have thrown us scraps will walk away.
@abcptza becomes a genuine grassroots conference, funded by ticket sales or not funded at all. The sponsors left willing to stand with us will be few. And none of them are the biggest players in this space.
But we'd rather attempt it that way, and fail, than keep drifting toward a place where the conference does not make it absolutely clear.
Adopting Bitcoin is all about exiting fiat.
And that is non-negotiable.
Tickets for 2027:
pretix.eu/abct/2027
Conference website:
za27.adoptingbitcoin.org
For three years running, 2024, 2025 and 2026, we hosted three successful conferences, co-hosted by @Machankura8333 and ourselves, and run entirely by unpaid volunteers, without massive sponsorship. Pulling that off, s a significant milestone.
We also achieved something we set out to do: reach large civil society organizations and, through them, reach their members. And we didn't know who those organizations would be, but they showed up.
John Endres (@senderman) of the Institute for Race Relations (@IRR_SouthAfrica), Russell Lamberti (@RussLamberti) representing Sakeliga (@Sakeliga), and David Ansara (@DavidAnsara) of the Free Market Foundation (@FMFSouthAfrica) all spoke in 2024, 2025 and/or 2026.
This list is not exhaustive. And these aren't fringe groups. They're among South Africa's largest and longest-standing advocates for free market policy. And they have fought an uphill battle for exactly the kind of direction this country needs.
Our goal was to get them speaking to their audiences about Bitcoin, and that's happened.
Both The Free Market Foundation and the Institute for Race Relations have since published papers, videos and/or podcasts on Bitcoin:
freemarketfoundation.com/state-proof-mo…
dailyfriend.co.za/2026/03/05/bit…
While both organizations occasionally discussed Bitcoin prior to 2024, since then both groups have formalized and significantly expanded their public commentary on the topic.
I'm not claiming we caused that single-handedly, but we definitely contributed to it, even if only in a small way.
So why are we at a Crossroads?
In 2026, the Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank dropped regulatory bombshells that were, to put it mildly, insane.
The direction they want to take is a walled garden: you can hold Bitcoin, you can use Bitcoin, but only through a regulated intermediary they control, one that can force you to sell at a price of their choosing.
Calling that a watered down version of Bitcoin is an understatement. It isn't a watered down version of Bitcoin. It's entirely fake.
And yes, there's been a reprieve with the SA Government recently backing down under intense pressure, but it's clear that they'll attempt it again.
That leaves us in a position where we have to decide: where does this conference go next? And the answer is right there in the name.
Adopting Bitcoin.
Adopting Bitcoin implies exiting fiat. You are not adopting Bitcoin if you are not exiting fiat. And if you claim to adopt Bitcoin while weaseling your way further into the fiat world, you are not adopting Bitcoin.
It’s quite simple. But easy to lose sight of.
"I'm into Bitcoin, but the fiat world is what it is, we have to play by their rules, we have to work with them, and we have to accommodate them."
This may all be true. But it invariably turns into an excuse to not exit fiat. And that's not a position we're willing to keep entertaining. And if you don't get that, what are we doing here?
To be clear, this isn't about refusing to talk to anyone. It's about being unambiguous about our goal. Adopting Bitcoin means actively and continuously looking for every opportunity to move further away from fiat.
Adopting Bitcoin does not mean buying Bitcoin and settling into fiat more comfortably while the BTC/FIAT price goes up.
This isn't a rebrand.
It's a re-alignment, a return to where @abcptza was always meant to go, but were slowly pulled away from by the realities of running a conference.
The companies that make real money are the ones that find ways to weave themselves back into the fiat system. It's brutally hard for a genuinely Bitcoin-only fiat-exiting company to turn a profit.
The massively profitable players in this space are crypto casinos and pseudo-banks selling you the idea that gambling is good. That's just the world as it is.
For that reason, funding a conference like this is genuinely difficult. When you're the one staring at a venue invoice, and you know half your speaker list won't show up unless you cover their flights, you end up working with people you'd rather not work with. Not because you sold out, but because there was no other way to pay for it.
So yes, we drifted. Not on purpose, but because of the economic reality.
But we never drifted so far that we've lost sight of where we're supposed to be.
So are are we going?
Bitcoin is a silent revolution. If you're not willing to be part of that, peacefully, but without compromise, then you're not adopting Bitcoin, and you're not exiting fiat.
Bitcoin is a paradigm shift. Paradigm shifts are not easy, gentle, comfortable, or profitable. They are, by definition, disruptive, unfamiliar and unsettling for almost everyone.
We don't know if this will work. We have no idea if we can even fund a conference like this going forward. And, if we take this stance, most of the sponsors who might have thrown us scraps will walk away.
@abcptza becomes a genuine grassroots conference, funded by ticket sales or not funded at all. The sponsors left willing to stand with us will be few. And none of them are the biggest players in this space.
But we'd rather attempt it that way, and fail, than keep drifting toward a place where the conference does not make it absolutely clear.
Adopting Bitcoin is all about exiting fiat.
And that is non-negotiable.
Tickets for 2027:
pretix.eu/abct/2027
Conference website:
za27.adoptingbitcoin.org
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
Can't wait to move away from Google Pixels for GrapheneOS.
Finally Moto provides a good CPU/GPU flagship alternative.
Finally Moto provides a good CPU/GPU flagship alternative.
Motorola has announced their new high end flagship phone including upcoming official support for GrapheneOS as an OS option.
Motorola Signature 27 will be the first Motorola device supported by GrapheneOS. More devices will be supported in the future.
motorolanews.com/motorola-signa…
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
White Noise is now on the App Store.
The messenger with no phone number, built native for iOS, where an AI agent can sit in the chat like anyone else.
apps.apple.com/app/white-nois…
The messenger with no phone number, built native for iOS, where an AI agent can sit in the chat like anyone else.
apps.apple.com/app/white-nois…
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
Over 60 Muslim men raped Scarlett West from the age of 14.
None have been convicted. Her father stood as Restore Britain’s candidate for Greater Manchester mayor.
There was no national outrage, no wave of arrests, and no accountability.
Russell Brand, by contrast, is facing ustice system over an allegation involving touching a woman’s breast 15 years ago. If the evidence shows he is a predator, he should be punished.
That is how a functioning system works.
The same system has produced nothing for Scarlett. The men who systematically raped and trafficked her as a child remain free.
This is not an isolated failure. It is a pattern in which certain offenders are pursued relentlessly while others walk amongst us.
Where are the 60 Muslim men who raped a child?
Disgraceful.
None have been convicted. Her father stood as Restore Britain’s candidate for Greater Manchester mayor.
There was no national outrage, no wave of arrests, and no accountability.
Russell Brand, by contrast, is facing ustice system over an allegation involving touching a woman’s breast 15 years ago. If the evidence shows he is a predator, he should be punished.
That is how a functioning system works.
The same system has produced nothing for Scarlett. The men who systematically raped and trafficked her as a child remain free.
This is not an isolated failure. It is a pattern in which certain offenders are pursued relentlessly while others walk amongst us.
Where are the 60 Muslim men who raped a child?
Disgraceful.
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
Call me crazy...
But maybe the fact that 3 MILLION people in Paraguay just had their salaries, pensions, and savings frozen...
...while every American news network spent the last 48 hours hyper-focused on election night...
is not a coincidence.
Ueno Bank.
60% of all adults in the country.
Accounts locked.
App dead.
Branches guarded by police.
Central bank stepped in after the solvency ratio cratered below half the legal minimum.
State pension funds exposed for hundreds of millions.
Depositors locked out overnight.
And almost nobody in U.S. media is talking about it.
Because election coverage is easier.
And infinitely more convenient. x.com/1DollarSol/sta…
But maybe the fact that 3 MILLION people in Paraguay just had their salaries, pensions, and savings frozen...
...while every American news network spent the last 48 hours hyper-focused on election night...
is not a coincidence.
Ueno Bank.
60% of all adults in the country.
Accounts locked.
App dead.
Branches guarded by police.
Central bank stepped in after the solvency ratio cratered below half the legal minimum.
State pension funds exposed for hundreds of millions.
Depositors locked out overnight.
And almost nobody in U.S. media is talking about it.
Because election coverage is easier.
And infinitely more convenient. x.com/1DollarSol/sta…
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
Credit cards were made for humans. 76 years ago.
Agents need money that's capped and has no reusable credentials: digital gift cards.
Give your agent a wallet, connect it to our MCP or x402, and ask for what you need.
Agents need money that's capped and has no reusable credentials: digital gift cards.
Give your agent a wallet, connect it to our MCP or x402, and ask for what you need.
Most people won't hand their card to an AI, and most shops don't take stablecoins yet. So what can an agent actually buy?
Our new Kite Agent Passport film follows a real run from Oct 13. We asked @bot for Uber credit, and it bought the gift card from @bitrefill in USDC.
▷ We lest Uber card on Bitrefill is $15, so it told us before buying anything.
▷ It created the invoice, locked the price at 15.00 USDC and paid from the $100 allowance already set in Kite Agent Passport.
▷ The card code landed right in the chat. 15.003 USDC in all: 15.00 for the card, 0.002 for the invoice and 0.001 for the code.
Your agent can shop the rest of Bitrefill the same way, from Uber rides and groceries to Airbnb stays, Steam games and phone top-ups.
Spend crypto with an agent. Keep your card. 🪁
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
This is what a Bitcoin business looks like in the UK.
A world-class coffee roaster, accepting and stacking Bitcoin.
@PumphreysCoffee @mentness 🤝🇬🇧
A world-class coffee roaster, accepting and stacking Bitcoin.
@PumphreysCoffee @mentness 🤝🇬🇧
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
BREAKING: Revolut moved ~2,000 engineers onto self-hosted GLM for coding and pushed Claude Code and Codex to the exception list.
Per David Abitbol, who leads AI ops there: 56 Nvidia B200s, a blended 30 cents per million tokens, roughly a tenth of what they paid Anthropic and d time improved 70%.
Here's the part that matters: the gains showed up when tokens stopped being rationed. Engineers quit saving AI for the hard tickets and pointed it at everything.
Frontier models become the exception, open weights become the default. That's a pricing problem for every lab heading to IPO.
h/t @OliverMolander
Would you move your team off frontier APIs if the bill dropped 90%?
Per David Abitbol, who leads AI ops there: 56 Nvidia B200s, a blended 30 cents per million tokens, roughly a tenth of what they paid Anthropic and d time improved 70%.
Here's the part that matters: the gains showed up when tokens stopped being rationed. Engineers quit saving AI for the hard tickets and pointed it at everything.
Frontier models become the exception, open weights become the default. That's a pricing problem for every lab heading to IPO.
h/t @OliverMolander
Would you move your team off frontier APIs if the bill dropped 90%?
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
AI is the first product with infinite demand.
Bitcoin is the first money with a fixed supply.
✅ Use AI to replace government employees and decision making.
✅ Use Bitcoin to replace government currency and fix budgets.
🟰Small gov, high productivity, strong currency.
All we need to execute is abundant energy and we'll make it through the century.
Bitcoin is the first money with a fixed supply.
✅ Use AI to replace government employees and decision making.
✅ Use Bitcoin to replace government currency and fix budgets.
🟰Small gov, high productivity, strong currency.
All we need to execute is abundant energy and we'll make it through the century.
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
Maybe Telegram is allowed to exist and operate in its current form only on the condition they don't enable e2e encryption by default? Popular unencrypted messaging app is a convenient honeypot for intelligence agencies.
Reminder: Telegram is not a secure messaging app. It is a plaintext database.
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
Omarchy-like integration of AI and OS could break network effects. You can prompt your own feeds and interfaces, then just say "post this" to reach all relevant networks.
This makes it easier to move to Nostr and Bitcoin, which are fundamentally better as permissionless tools.
This makes it easier to move to Nostr and Bitcoin, which are fundamentally better as permissionless tools.
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
NOT EVEN A LITTLE SURPRISED.
The EU just advised their citizens to prepare for min 3/days without food.
They will try to PUSH DIGITAL ID for internet use claiming it'll prevent future attacks.
false 🚩flag imo.
The EU just advised their citizens to prepare for min 3/days without food.
They will try to PUSH DIGITAL ID for internet use claiming it'll prevent future attacks.
false 🚩flag imo.
🇪🇺 EUROPE HIT BY WIDESPREAD CYBERATTACKS TARGETING SUPERMARKET REFRIGERATION SYSTEMS ACROSS SEVEN COUNTRIES
Supermarkets in Sweden, Belgium, Luxembourg, Estonia, Ireland, the Netherlands and Finland are reporting disruptions after hackers reportedly gained remote access to Attackers manipulated temperature controls, in some cases setting freezers to 50°C (122°F), forcing stores to discard large quantities of spoiled food.
Around 40 Delhaize stores, 15 Carrefour locations and 13 SuperValu supermarkets are among those affected. Some individual stores have reported food losses exceeding €100,000.
The incidents follow similar attacks on hundreds of French supermarkets last month.
Authorities are investigating. No group has claimed responsibility, and it remains unclear whether all the incidents are connected.
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BITCOIN BRISTOL retweeted
Three weeks ago, I started Omarchy Mobile.
Today:
🧑💻 26 contributors
📦 ~1,300 commits
🔀 447 pull requests, 292 merged
⭐ 316 stars
Native Omarchy on a phone: Arch Linux ARM, Hyprland, a mainline kernel, no Android. It's being built in the open, and it's moving fast. Come build it with us 👇
github.com/derekross/omar…
omamobile.org
Today:
🧑💻 26 contributors
📦 ~1,300 commits
🔀 447 pull requests, 292 merged
⭐ 316 stars
Native Omarchy on a phone: Arch Linux ARM, Hyprland, a mainline kernel, no Android. It's being built in the open, and it's moving fast. Come build it with us 👇
github.com/derekross/omar…
omamobile.org
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Probably nothing.
Just got off the phone with the most intelligent person I know.
He said this is COVID 2.0.
Everything on the internet is going to get hacked. One by One.
It'll start affecting people close to you and one day a big bank will get penetrated and their data will be wiped clean.
Thousands of accounts will show $0 and there will be no way of recovering their true balance.
When this happens we will go on grid lock down.
They will shut down the internet all over the world for 3 months to patch every single exploitable bug with the help of super advanced AIs.
This will cause mass panic and chaos.
You need to stock up on food, water, gold, silver, guns, ammo, and cash.
ASAP.
Rumors are that this global shutdown will start on November 17th.Community noteNo credible source reports a planned global internet shutdown; the post cites only an unnamed friend and "rumors." The verifiable Nov 17 event is a routine FEMA/FCC Emergency Alert System test, about one minute on TV and radio.
tvtechnology.com/regulatory-leg…
techtimes.co.uk/fema-prueba-si…
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