You used to go into a Hollywood pitch meeting and come out with millions. Now, the right script will get you billions. "Merge with AI"... Riiiight...

Submitted an FOI request on 5 Dec 2023. After months of wild goose chases the BBC finally directed me to Editorial Complaints on 25 June. Contacted them on 26 June—told it’d take 10 working days. After chasing last week it might be another 4 weeks. I just want a retraction BBC.

Sometimes life comes at you from the right-hand lane trying to make a left turn. 😑

📢 Tomorrow at 10am PT Liran Cohen and I will be live streaming a walkthrough of the DID & decentralized app management wallet we're releasing. You'll learn all about DID wallets, adding DID login to your apps/sites, and how to request decentralized datastore access from users.

On the way to court to cover the Samourai Wallet hearing starting at 1pm EST with David Z. Morris. Watch this space for possible updates and a full report.

DWeb Deep Dive: Developing DWeb Wallets x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

I attended the status conference for the #Samourai case today on behalf of Bitcoin Magazine. Here’s where things stand:

#Samourai developers Keonne Rodriguez and William Lonergan Hill appeared together in court today for the first time since the DoJ pressed charges against them. Here's my report from the courtroom for Bitcoin Magazine. bitcoinmagazine.com/legal/samourai…

Saw these guys back when they were opening for Enya.

Sure, on the surface it's Silvergate. Signature. Gensler. The ludicrous Samourai Wallet trial. But at the center of it all is Elizabeth Warren.

A BBC retraction feels like it could be the precedent needed to finally put the debunked "Mora, et all" to bed.

18 emmies. Seasons 2 & 3 greenlit.

CALLING ALL BITCOIN BUILDERS We have space for you in Miami!!! Flex Membership desks are available on a first come first serve basis We also have a Resident Membership available that includes your own dedicated desk and all of the MADE at the Citadel's co-work benefits

After facing heavy criticism for his singing performance, Vitalik Buterin grounds himself by engaging in a serious conversation about the political landscape.

Bill Maher Wow, what a throwback. Did you wake up this morning and think it was 2021? Bill, in case you didn't notice, the media has largely stopped reporting on this misinformation source: x.com/DSBatten/statu… Why? Largely because 10 of the last 11 peer review journals show Bitcoin

💚Say hello to Privacy Index: a guide of guides for all things digital privacy.💚 I started working on Privacy Index in the beginning of the year because I was frustrated by the one-fits-all solutions I was being sold by other privacy projects. Privacy Index is the opposite:

For thousands of years, money was an informal or formal set of rules to transfer financial value. Language was a set of rules for the transfer of ideas. In a post-Bitcoin world, we've found out that language is sufficient for both.

Tomorrow there is a pre-meeting during which various EU Council member states will confirm their positions on the EU CSAM “chat control” regulation, and the Council will adopt whatever consensus comes out of that. It sounds like it’s going to be very tight.

Breaking: The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held as a political prisoner.

Great work by Blockspace Media 🔳 Sounds like the issue is whether or not the IP of the mining services was under Swan's control or the shared JV: 2024 Energy. Q: If Tether informed Swan that Proton MGMT was taking over, doesn't that mean that Swan was in control before? Not 2040?