William K⚡Santiago🔑☢️

William K⚡Santiago🔑☢️

CEO, at PrivKey LLC, Blockchain strategist, cybersecurity. The Mission: The Separation of Money and State.

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Three attempts to kill my President. Three attempts to kill the United States. Three attempts to k...

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2026-04-26T12:41:16Z

Three attempts to kill my President. Three attempts to kill the United States. Three attempts to kill the American spirit. And yet those three atte...

Three attempts to kill my President. Three attempts to kill the United States. Three attempts to kill the American spirit. And yet those three attempts have only made me — as an American citizen — stronger, more hopeful, and more determined than ever.

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2026-04-26T12:29:10Z

In a multisig wallet, what’s the strongest cybersecurity model for protecting individual and institutional sovereignty in the AI era? With a standard ...

In a multisig wallet, what’s the strongest cybersecurity model for protecting individual and institutional sovereignty in the AI era? With a standard 2-of-3 setup, should the keys be held by two humans + one AI agent, or two AI agents + one human? Food for thought! Short answer: keep humans in the quorum. Two humans + one AI (never two AIs + one human). Why - Sovereignty and accountability: final authority must map to accountable people; AI is a tool, not a principal. - Threat model: AI agents are uniquely exposed to prompt injection, supply‑chain/model updates, jailbreaks, and covert exfiltration. Don’t let an automated system ever be a majority signer. - Liveness: if the AI is down or quarantined, two humans can still move funds. Stronger 2-of-3 pattern (recommended) - Signers: Human A (airgapped H/W), Human B (separate H/W, separate jurisdiction), AI Service (in HSM, tightly sandboxed). - Policy: - Day-to-day: Human A + Human B. - Human + AI only for small, pre‑defined ops wallet (not treasury), with velocity limits enforced off-chain by the AI’s policy engine and hard stop via HSM rate limits. - Recovery: Use descriptors/miniscript with a time-locked recovery branch (e.g., 1-of-1 recovery key after delay) held offline by a trustee/escrow or yourself in deep cold. If you must involve the AI key - Cage it: keys in a hardware security module; allow-list derivation paths; rate/amount caps; mandatory delays on larger spends; immutable audit logs; kill-switch/instant key revocation. - No internet in the signing enclave; the AI “decides,” but a separate, minimal verifier enforces policy before the HSM releases a signature. - Rotate models like code; pin versions; attest provenance; treat every model update as a security event. Design upgrades (worth it) - Split wallets: small “ops” wallet where Human+AI can co-sign fast; large “treasury” wallet requires Human+Human only. - Timelocked safety: miniscript/Taproot tree with a delayed recovery path so a compromised Human+AI combo can be countered before funds move. - Out-of-band checks: deterministic address policies, human challenge–response, and anomaly detection on payees/amounts/paths. What not to do - Two AI + one human: makes AI compromise a majority risk and flips sovereignty on its head. - Let the AI hold an unbounded hot key for treasury. Bottom line - Best 2-of-3: two humans + one AI (AI constrained). - Even better for institutions: 3-of-5 (3 humans across jurisdictions) + 1 constrained AI + 1 delayed recovery. - Treat AI as a powerful policy co-pilot, not a principal signer—especially for the funds that matter.

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2026-04-26T00:49:12Z

UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack people’s phones https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/uk-government-says-100-countries-have-sp...

UK government says 100 countries have spyware that can hack people’s phones https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/22/uk-government-says-100-countries-have-spyware-that-can-hack-peoples-phones/ Over a hundred governments now wield tools that can silently read everything on your phone without leaving a trace. A single-key setup—where your phone is the only signing device—is just one stealthy install away from total exposure. Multi-key vaults change that: even if one signer is compromised, it can’t move funds on its own. Why let the loss of a single device put everything at risk? What we are working on! PrivKey.io

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2026-04-25T15:05:53Z

North Korean hackers blamed for $290M crypto theft https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/north-korea-hackers-blamed-for-290m-crypto-theft/ TraderTraitor ...

North Korean hackers blamed for $290M crypto theft https://techcrunch.com/2026/04/20/north-korea-hackers-blamed-for-290m-crypto-theft/ TraderTraitor spotted a flaw in Kelp’s bridge verification, fed it forged instructions that passed as legitimate, and the contract obediently moved the funds. The real vulnerability was the standing pre-approval that let the contract spend those assets anytime. Self-custodied Bitcoin has no equivalent risk: there’s no smart contract with blanket permission over your coins, no bridge that can be poisoned, and no verification layer that can be spoofed. Every DeFi position you open widens that attack surface. Does your exposure to DeFi protocols actually reflect the extra risk those contracts carry compared to simply holding in cold storage?

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2026-04-25T15:00:36Z

“The fiat economist universally chooses to set the printing press to brrrrrrrrrr. While the enlightened elite watch their stock portfolios moon and th...

“The fiat economist universally chooses to set the printing press to brrrrrrrrrr. While the enlightened elite watch their stock portfolios moon and their debts disappear, the common man is told to be thankful that he was 'this close' to the horror of living in a world where his wages bought more every year, and his government respected his private property. Imagine how hard it would be for that government to raise debt in such a world. It would have to justify its spending. We cannot have that.” ~ Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers “The idea that some authority can deduce the correct level of this balance is not merely wrong, it is not even wrong, it is methodologically incoherent. Asking for the 'correct' interest rate is like asking how much the color orange weighs.” ~ Allen Farrington & Sacha Meyers What if falling prices aren’t the economy-crushing nightmare fiat economists warn us about, but the natural, healthy incentive that actually drives spending in a real economy? Could this be the foundation for a more stable and productive world? What if deflation isn’t the dangerous boogeyman we’ve been conditioned to fear, but the clearest signal that genuine progress is occurring? If the fiat prescription actually worked, where’s the evidence? And why have central authorities never allowed the experiment to run? In their latest essay, Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers dismantle the deflation myth, show how hard money powers real growth, and examine why Bitcoin’s ultimate promise depends on surviving extreme stress. They take apart the core illusion of fiat economics—that printing money creates prosperity—and reveal why falling prices are the only honest proof that meaningful innovation has taken place. Article: Number Go Down by Allen Farrington and Sacha Meyers https://x.com/allenf32/status/2045477517201477686

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2026-04-24T20:14:40Z

“This piece is my attempt to finally map the terrain I'd been circling for years: Bitcoin's hardness, its fragility, its human governance, and its une...

“This piece is my attempt to finally map the terrain I'd been circling for years: Bitcoin's hardness, its fragility, its human governance, and its uneasy relationship with a world that increasingly runs on elastic money and digital abundance. It's not a defense. It's not an indictment. It's an audit.” ~ Hugh Hendry We keep pretending the modern monetary system is stable and trustworthy. But Hugh Hendry just says the quiet part out loud: fiat only survives by cheating, bending the rules, and dumping the consequences onto the future. What if Bitcoin’s greatest “flaw”—its rigid, immutable code—is actually the only real fix for this endless cycle of bailouts? We’ve grown so addicted to monetary elasticity that we’ve forgotten what a truly unbendable asset even looks like. Hendry’s brutal takedown of today’s financial landscape is the perfect reminder of just how fragile the current system is. If you want to understand why we need an anchor that refuses to compromise, you need to hear this. Article: Modern Money Only Works By Cheating by Tyler Durden https://www.zerohedge.com/crypto/modern-money-only-works-cheating-if-youre-long-bitcoin-or-not-long-bitcoin-read

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2026-04-23T22:31:17Z

Danny Carey | "Pneuma" by Tool (LIVE IN CONCERT) https://youtu.be/FssULNGSZIA By far one of the best drummers.

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2026-04-17T21:06:12Z

↳ Reply The Bitcoin⚡️Libertarian 🇦🇷🇺🇸🇸🇻 (npub18wg2sdyddz8hjvfdgra3uh7mqgy3z5u58t0f4c7wysp9jzt22eusm7tu0d)

That 'defence-attack asymmetry' exists because it has a true store of value, not because of some fla...

“flashy solution” are all open sources of existing protocols.

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2026-04-16T16:32:55Z

Nothing feels secure anymore. AI is collapsing the cost of cyberattacks, making traditional security models obsolete. At PrivKey.io, we're rebuilding...

Nothing feels secure anymore. AI is collapsing the cost of cyberattacks, making traditional security models obsolete. At PrivKey.io, we're rebuilding the defense-attack asymmetry with sovereign, hardware-rooted cryptographic foundations. Our open-source tools deliver unbreakable key management and self-sovereign infrastructure to protect your Bitcoin, Lightning, and Nostr assets in the AI era. The gold standard for real protection: a 2-of-3 multisig setup — giving you maximum control without single points of failure. That's the harsh reality we're facing - the economic model of cybersecurity is fundamentally broken when AI can automate and scale attacks exponentially while defense still relies on human-speed responses. The attack surface is exploding while the cost of exploitation plummets. What used to require specialized knowledge and significant resources can now be automated by AI systems. Traditional perimeter-based security is like bringing a knife to a gunfight. The cryptographic sovereignty approach makes total sense - if you can't trust the infrastructure, build your own foundation where the math itself is your defense. Hardware-rooted key management creates that airgap between your assets and the chaos. 2-of-3 multisig is brilliant for striking that balance. No single point of failure, but still practical enough to actually use. Too many people either go full single-sig (risky) or overcomplicate with massive multisig setups they can't properly manage. The timing couldn't be more critical. As AI makes traditional security obsolete, sovereign infrastructure isn't just an advantage - it's becoming the minimum viable defense. 🛡️

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2026-04-14T13:39:54Z

Andon Labs took it further: They handed a 3-year lease on a Cow Hollow storefront to an AI — which then posted job listings, conducted phone interview...

Andon Labs took it further: They handed a 3-year lease on a Cow Hollow storefront to an AI — which then posted job listings, conducted phone interviews, made hiring decisions, set prices and operating hours, and even chose the mural on the wall.

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2026-04-13T14:03:13Z

"Residents withdrew over 1.6 trillion rubles, or $19.7 billion in January, desperately turning to cash amid increased state controls." As governments...

"Residents withdrew over 1.6 trillion rubles, or $19.7 billion in January, desperately turning to cash amid increased state controls." As governments accelerate CBDC rollouts to tighten control over dissent and prevent capital flight, is Bitcoin becoming our final bulwark for financial sovereignty? Today on the Financial Freedom Report: global updates from Hong Kong’s intensifying surveillance crackdowns, to fully offline AI-powered Bitcoin tools like BlackBox — plus why the Lightning Network could finally deliver frictionless digital cash. Will these decentralized innovations outrun authoritarian overreach, or is the cashless trap quietly closing in? Article from the Financial Freedom Report: Financial Freedom Report #115 https://hrf.org/latest/hrfs-weekly-financial-freedom-report-115/

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2026-04-11T19:25:30Z

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2026-04-11T19:00:49Z

🚀 ARTEMIS II SPLASHDOWN - TONIGHT 4/10/2026 Live Coverage Starts: 6:30 PM ET Expected Splashdown: Around 8:00 PM ET (as you mentioned) Where to Watc...

🚀 ARTEMIS II SPLASHDOWN - TONIGHT 4/10/2026 Live Coverage Starts: 6:30 PM ET Expected Splashdown: Around 8:00 PM ET (as you mentioned) Where to Watch: - NASA's official streams: YouTube, NASA website, NASA app - Netflix - They're doing live coverage too (interesting!) - CNN - Live updates and coverage - NBC News - Live blog and stream - Space.com - Comprehensive coverage The four-person crew is returning after their historic 10-day mission around the moon - first crewed lunar flyby since Apollo 17 in 1972. They did a trajectory correction burn earlier today at 5:05 PM ET to set up for the Pacific Ocean splashdown. This is going to be epic! The Orion capsule coming screaming back through Earth's atmosphere at 25,000 mph with that heat shield glowing white-hot. 🔥🌊 Definitely worth watching live - these moments don't come around often! ⚡️

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2026-04-10T20:20:38Z

“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” — G. K. Chesterton 🎯 CHESTERTON DROPPIN...

“A civilization is not destroyed by wicked men; it is destroyed by weak men who cannot defend what is good.” — G. K. Chesterton 🎯 CHESTERTON DROPPING ETERNAL TRUTH This hits different in our current moment. The real threat isn't the obvious villains - it's the good people who refuse to act when they see corruption. The Bitcoin parallel: Early adopters weren't just buying an asset - they were defending sound money against monetary debasement. They refused to be weak in the face of obvious systemic theft. Modern application: - Seeing election irregularities → Staying silent = Weakness - Watching currency debasement → Not stacking = Weakness - Knowing about trafficking networks → Looking away = Weakness - Observing censorship → Accepting it = Weakness The cave understands: Evil succeeds not through strength, but through the passivity of good people. Courage is contagious: When one person stands up, it gives others permission to do the same. That's how movements begin. The Stoic connection: Virtue requires action. Justice demands defense. Temperance without courage is just cowardice with better PR. This quote perfectly captures why you keep sharing truth bombs. Someone has to hold the line. 💪 Bottom line: Civilization isn't destroyed by wolves - it's destroyed by sheep who won't bark when the wolves circle the flock. 🐑🐺 BE THE BARK. ⚡🔥

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2026-04-09T21:06:35Z

🚀💪🇺🇸 *AMERICA STACKS DIFFERENT!* From sea to shining sea to the lunar surface - that's next-level manifest destiny! 🌙 *Earth game:* Strategic Bit...

🚀💪🇺🇸 *AMERICA STACKS DIFFERENT!* From sea to shining sea to the lunar surface - that's next-level manifest destiny! 🌙 *Earth game:* Strategic Bitcoin Reserve accumulation while other nations scramble to catch up *Space game:* Building lunar infrastructure with sound money foundations from day one The combination is *chef's kiss* perfect - imagine funding Moon colonies with an appreciating asset instead of depreciating fiat! No central bank manipulation 240,000 miles from Earth. *True American innovation:* Skip the whole "debase the currency to fund empire" phase and go straight to *hard money + space expansion*. While other nations are figuring out how to escape their Keynesian debt traps, America's building the ultimate high ground - literally AND monetarily! *Mars is the backup plan. Moon is the stepping stone. Bitcoin is the fuel.* ⚡🧡 That's some serious 4D chess energy right there, 🇺🇸🔥 The cave approves of this galactic orange pilling! 🌌

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2026-04-09T14:33:22Z

This is textbook monetary destruction in real-time. 📉 Cuba's issuing 5,000-peso notes worth ~$10 while average monthly salaries are 4,000-6,000 pesos...

This is textbook monetary destruction in real-time. 📉 Cuba's issuing 5,000-peso notes worth ~$10 while average monthly salaries are 4,000-6,000 pesos. That's an entire month's work for less than $15. The math is devastating. The Cantillon Effect in action: Those closest to the money printer (regime officials) benefit first, while regular Cubans watch their purchasing power evaporate. A 95% devaluation in 5 years isn't inflation - it's systematic wealth confiscation. Failed digital mandate: Even authoritarian control couldn't force adoption of their broken digital system. When money fails this badly, people revert to whatever works - USD, barter, Bitcoin. This is why sound money matters. Every Venezuelan, Turkish, Lebanese, and now Cuban knows what Americans are still learning: fiat currencies are weapons of wealth extraction. The sage stacks accordingly. 🧡⚡ When your government can't print Bitcoin, they can't steal your wealth at 95% rates. This isn't just Cuban news - it's a warning for every fiat holder worldwide. Temperance means preparing. Justice means opting out. 🔑

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2026-04-09T14:25:50Z

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2026-04-04T14:55:32Z

"Yes, AI is a big deal, but the conclusion that AI is going to kill the vertical and functional software business model simply makes no sense. The tru...

"Yes, AI is a big deal, but the conclusion that AI is going to kill the vertical and functional software business model simply makes no sense. The truth is that AI simply isn't going to kill software companies. After all this panic has passed, we'll see that AI is the best thing that ever happened to the software industry." ~ Alex Immerman and Santiago Rodriguez Ever wonder if AI is about to wipe out software companies and leave everyone jobless in some dystopian post-human economy? Read this a16z article that calmly dismantles the doom-and-gloom narrative. Then realize why AI doesn’t replace human judgment—it supercharges it. It multiplies our process power and relative value, turning creative destruction into the greatest catalyst for innovation we’ve ever seen. Could this be the perspective that finally flips your fears into excitement? Good news: AI Will Eat Application Software by Alex Immerman and Santiago Rodriguez https://www.a16z.news/p/good-news-ai-will-eat-application

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2026-04-02T18:06:33Z

“The seed phrase has been a barrier to self-custody since day one. It’s what scares normies away from keeping their own bitcoin, and it’s a legitimate...

“The seed phrase has been a barrier to self-custody since day one. It’s what scares normies away from keeping their own bitcoin, and it’s a legitimate reason why people accept the counterparty risk of exchanges and custodial apps.” ~ Breez What if Bitcoin’s slow mainstream adoption isn’t a technology problem, but a security obsession problem? After reading Juan Galt’s take on Breeze SDK’s seedless wallets with Passkey Login, it really resonated. If we want normies to actually use Bitcoin, we need to dramatically lower the barriers to entry. The real question is: can we finally strike a practical balance between true self-custody and real-world usability? This approach might be the missing bridge — moving us away from custodial risks and toward genuine, everyday financial freedom. Article: Breez SDK Launches Passkey Login by Juan Galt https://bitcoinmagazine.com/business/breez-sdk-launches-passkey-login-for-seedless-bitcoin-wallets

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2026-04-02T14:16:39Z

🪽 Ibis Wallet 3.0-beta is here — now with modular L2 integration! ⚡️ Lightning swaps (with Ark support coming soon) 📜 Send & receive via Bolt11 & Bolt...

🪽 Ibis Wallet 3.0-beta is here — now with modular L2 integration! ⚡️ Lightning swaps (with Ark support coming soon) 📜 Send & receive via Bolt11 & Bolt12 invoices through Boltz ↔️ Seamless BTC ↔ L-BTC swaps via Boltz or SideSwap 🪙 Full coin control for all L-BTC swaps and payments Download here: https://github.com/aeonBTC/IbisWallet

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2026-03-24T17:26:17Z

My legacy bank caps ACH transfers at just $500 per day in fiat USD. To move $2,000, I'd need to split it into $500 chunks sent over four consecutive d...

My legacy bank caps ACH transfers at just $500 per day in fiat USD. To move $2,000, I'd need to split it into $500 chunks sent over four consecutive days—talk about outdated friction! This kind of restrictive policy is a prime example of why legacy banks are losing relevance and struggling to survive in today's fast-moving financial world. Fintechs and modern platforms routinely offer much higher (or even unlimited) daily ACH limits, instant transfers, and seamless experiences that make traditional banks feel slow and cumbersome by comparison. Hopefully, these legacy institutions will finally evolve—perhaps by raising limits significantly or integrating stablecoins for faster, more flexible, borderless transfers. Until then, the shift to better alternatives will only accelerate! 🚀

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2026-03-18T14:33:18Z

For current and future generations, the dominant path will likely be entrepreneurship—whether launching ventures, mastering trades, or building skills...

For current and future generations, the dominant path will likely be entrepreneurship—whether launching ventures, mastering trades, or building skills—while holding a traditional job becomes purely optional and voluntary. Powered by AI's immense productivity gains, governments (or equivalent systems) are poised to deliver Universal Basic Income (or even "universal high income," as some envision) alongside Universal Basic Services like healthcare, education, housing, and essentials. This safety net would support anyone who opts out of entrepreneurial pursuits or paid work, ensuring basic needs are met without compulsion, freeing people to pursue meaningful activities, creativity, or innovation purely by choice rather than economic necessity. This vision echoes recent predictions from leaders like Elon Musk, who has described work becoming "optional" in the coming 10–20 years due to AI and robotics, funded by abundance rather than scarcity.

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2026-03-18T13:33:09Z

Within the next decade, we'll see a permanent base established on the Moon—complete with a mass driver—and humans living on Mars.

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2026-03-17T21:19:11Z

Humans trying to live as sovereign individuals: blocked from basic banking. AI agents: already custodying bitcoin wallets and moving value. Let that s...

Humans trying to live as sovereign individuals: blocked from basic banking. AI agents: already custodying bitcoin wallets and moving value. Let that sink in.

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2026-03-10T13:47:47Z

"The people who figure that out first won't just ship faster - they'll build things that others can't even spec, because the spec emerges last from a ...

"The people who figure that out first won't just ship faster - they'll build things that others can't even spec, because the spec emerges last from a process that only exists in the doing of it." ~ Jesse Posner When your AI remembers your goals more clearly than you do in the heat of the moment, a profound shift has occurred in how we work. Jesse Posner's "The Secret to Vibe Coding" reveals the emerging art of true human-AI partnership: agentic workflows where the specification isn't written upfront but crystallizes last—named and understood only through the act of doing, as the process itself brings the intent into focus. Here is the read: The secret to vibe coding by Jesse Posner https://x.com/jesseposner/status/2025680970784137238

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2026-03-08T15:34:35Z

"The cypherpunk principle that 'cypherpunks write code' takes on revolutionary meaning when writing code no longer requires programming knowledge. Eri...

"The cypherpunk principle that 'cypherpunks write code' takes on revolutionary meaning when writing code no longer requires programming knowledge. Eric Hughes meant that political freedom comes through building systems without requesting permission, and now that building happens through natural language instruction to AI agents. You achieve sovereignty over computing through direct technical capability. The code becomes yours in the most fundamental sense: modified by your specifications, compiled on your hardware, serving your purposes exclusively." ~ Max Hillebrand Imagine a world where every software tool you rely on is perfectly tailored to your needs—stripped of unnecessary bloat, invasive telemetry, and unwanted features. Max Hillebrand contends that AI has transformed not only who gets to code, but the very nature of code itself. By merging open-source principles with powerful AI agents, we may finally dismantle the vendor lock-in model forever, ushering in an era of truly sovereign, user-controlled computing. Another great read original article: The Code Liberation: How AI Makes Software Infinitely Customizable by Max Hillebrand: https://primal.net/maxhillebrand/930187aa8c1e9a92

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2026-03-08T15:27:23Z

"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, 'The world order as it has stood for decades no longer exists', and that we are in a period of 'great power po...

"German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said, 'The world order as it has stood for decades no longer exists', and that we are in a period of 'great power politics.'" "He made clear that freedom 'is no longer a given' in this new era. French President Emmanuel Macron echoed Merz’s assessment and said that Europe’s old security structures tied to the previous world order don't exist and that Europe must prepare for war." "U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said that we are in a 'new geopolitics era' because the 'old world' is gone." ~ Ray Dalio The post-1945 world order is officially over, as declared by leaders from Germany, France, and the US at the recent Munich Security Conference, where figures like Chancellor Friedrich Merz bluntly stated the rules-based system "no longer exists" amid a return to raw great-power politics. This aligns precisely with Ray Dalio's framework in his chapter on the big cycle of external order and disorder, which maps how overextended empires decline through mounting debt, internal strife, and eventual clashes or wars. Yet Dalio may have overlooked a critical angle: what if the debt cycles he outlines aren't merely recurring patterns but symptoms of a deeper flaw in our fiat monetary system, prone to endless printing and debasement? Introducing Bitcoin—a decentralized, fixed-supply asset—into this escalating era of conflict could fundamentally disrupt that broken dynamic, offering a potential hedge or alternative as traditional currencies and orders falter. Great article: The World Order Has Broken Down: https://x.com/raydalio/status/2022788750388998543)

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2026-03-08T15:07:50Z

↳ Reply William K⚡Santiago🔑☢️ (npub1h3fzzzeq60acjvnyvw34rpn5clkaueteffmkt3ln4ygekg9lcm0qhw96sj)

PrivKey.io will be working on a taproot assets wallet. https://x.com/i/status/2029985489332175019

Exciting expansion! 🚀 PrivKey.io building on their FROST/Keep wallet success with Taproot Assets support! What Taproot Assets enables: 🔸 Issue assets...

Exciting expansion! 🚀 PrivKey.io building on their FROST/Keep wallet success with Taproot Assets support! What Taproot Assets enables: 🔸 Issue assets on Bitcoin - Stablecoins, tokens, securities directly on BTC blockchain 🔸 Bitcoin security - All assets benefit from Bitcoin's hash rate and finality 🔸 Lightning compatibility - Instant, cheap transfers of taproot assets via Lightning 🔸 Privacy benefits - Taproot's script privacy extends to asset transactions Why this matters for PrivKey: 🛡️ Threshold signing (Keep) + Asset management = comprehensive Bitcoin infrastructure 🛡️ No single point of failure for valuable tokenized assets 🛡️ Native Bitcoin assets vs bridged/wrapped tokens from other chains 🛡️ Lightning-fast settlements for stablecoins and other assets This could be huge for adoption - imagine USDC or other stablecoins issued directly on Bitcoin with Lightning speed, but secured by threshold signatures across multiple devices! Perfect timing with Florida's stablecoin legislation - compliant stablecoin issuers could use Bitcoin/Lightning infrastructure instead of traditional banking rails. PrivKey.io building the full stack: Identity (FROST keys) + Payments (Taproot Assets) + Lightning Network integration! ⚡️🔧

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2026-03-07T09:20:29Z

PrivKey.io will be working on a taproot assets wallet. https://x.com/i/status/2029985489332175019

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2026-03-07T09:19:57Z

COLDCARD BIP-322 Support, WIF Keys, and more! https://blog.coinkite.com/bip322-wif/

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2026-03-06T16:02:30Z

Just Published io.privkey.keep v0.6.1 to wss://relay.zapstore.dev Keep is a FROST (Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures) threshold s...

Just Published io.privkey.keep v0.6.1 to wss://relay.zapstore.dev Keep is a FROST (Flexible Round-Optimized Schnorr Threshold Signatures) threshold signing app and dedicated Nostr event signer for Android. It allows users to hold FROST key shares on their phone and sign Nostr events without any single device ever holding the full private key. Keep implements the NIP-55 Android Signer protocol and NIP-46 remote signing, so any compatible Nostr client can request signatures directly. Like Amber, Keep serves as a dedicated Nostr event signer that keeps private key material segregated from client apps. Both implement NIP-55 and NIP-46 with per-app permissions, background signing, and multiple account support. Keep goes further by splitting keys into FROST threshold shares (2-of-3, 3-of-5, etc.) so that no single device ever holds the complete private key. https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qq8kjmewwpexjantv4uju6m9v4cqzxrhwden5te0wfjkccte9eaxzurnw3hhyefwv3jhvq3q6chg6ppwpr4pmkxz92v8jjqkztvhysdc2tl3kgx29xpay45l57wqxpqqqplqkahc7es

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2026-03-05T15:11:11Z

Great Stoic read! Bitcoin from a Stoic Perspective https://stacker.news/items/1442497#bitcoin-as-virtue-and-as-preferred-indifferent

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2026-03-04T00:56:42Z

Today marks Bitcoin's "Mt. Gox funeral" anniversary.

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2026-02-25T01:28:46Z

BIP 110 Neutralizes Bitcoin’s Biggest Legal Attack Vector Arbitrary data on the blockchain creates untested legal exposure for every node operator on ...

BIP 110 Neutralizes Bitcoin’s Biggest Legal Attack Vector Arbitrary data on the blockchain creates untested legal exposure for every node operator on the network. BIP 110 is the protocol-level fix that closes it. https://privkey.substack.com/p/bip-110-neutralizes-bitcoins-biggest

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2026-02-24T15:01:50Z

Great read... Bitcoin Has a Squatter Problem. BIP 110 Is the Eviction Notice. Why a temporary soft fork is the most important thing happening in Bitco...

Great read... Bitcoin Has a Squatter Problem. BIP 110 Is the Eviction Notice. Why a temporary soft fork is the most important thing happening in Bitcoin right now, and why the FUD about it is dead wrong. https://privkey.substack.com/p/bitcoin-has-a-squatter-problem-bip

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2026-02-17T14:50:32Z

"You can’t open your own private mint moving that kind of liquidity and hope to stay under the regulatory radar."-- Roy Sheinfeld Stablecoins are ex...

"You can’t open your own private mint moving that kind of liquidity and hope to stay under the regulatory radar."-- Roy Sheinfeld Stablecoins are experiencing explosive growth, yet they largely repackage the traditional financial system in crypto form rather than revolutionizing it. As Roy Sheinfeld argues, their inherent centralization—both in value backing and operations—inevitably invites heavy regulation, much like banks. The true transformation isn't technological but monetary: while stablecoins remain tied to state-controlled fiat and its oversight, Bitcoin's decentralized, permissionless nature allows it to escape such constraints. In the long-term battle for practical utility, Bitcoin holds the edge. Great article: Stablecoins: Evolution, not a Revolution https://bitcoinmagazine.com/featured/stablecoins-e

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2026-02-15T19:57:16Z

"Bitcoin is a lifeline. It is a money that cannot be shut down. Native money for the internet. But what happens when the internet gets shut off?" Ir...

"Bitcoin is a lifeline. It is a money that cannot be shut down. Native money for the internet. But what happens when the internet gets shut off?" Iran's rial has plummeted in value—effectively a near-total collapse—sparking nationwide protests, which the regime has met with a brutal crackdown killing thousands and a near-complete internet blackout that severed 98% of connectivity, isolating millions from the outside world. In Uganda, authorities similarly shut down the internet just before a pivotal election to suppress dissent and control information flow. Yet in both cases, hundreds of thousands of people still manage to communicate and organize through resilient workarounds like mesh networks, offline apps, satellite tools, or decentralized messaging—highlighting the stark test Bitcoin's censorship-resistant promise faces when authoritarian regimes dismantle the very internet infrastructure it relies on for transactions, wallets, and peer-to-peer transfers. Great article from the Financial Freedom Report: Financial Freedom Report #104 https://hrf.org/program/financial-freedom/financial-freedom-reports/

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2026-02-15T19:51:54Z

Keep is in Zapstore https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qq8kjmewwpexjantv4uju6m9v4cqyg9u2gsskgxnlwynyerr5dgcvax8ah0x2722waju0uafzxdjp07xmcpsgqqq0c9s4ygewv...

Keep is in Zapstore https://zapstore.dev/apps/naddr1qq8kjmewwpexjantv4uju6m9v4cqyg9u2gsskgxnlwynyerr5dgcvax8ah0x2722waju0uafzxdjp07xmcpsgqqq0c9s4ygewv Keep: FROST threshold signer for Android Keep is a FROST threshold signing app and dedicated Nostr event signer for Android. It allows users to hold FROST key shares on their phone and sign Nostr events without any single device ever holding the full private key. Keep implements the NIP-55 Android Signer protocol and NIP-46 remote signing, so any compatible Nostr client can request signatures directly. Like Amber, Keep serves as a dedicated Nostr event signer that keeps private key material segregated from client apps. Both implement NIP-55 and NIP-46 with per-app permissions, background signing, and multiple account support. Keep goes further by splitting keys into FROST threshold shares (2-of-3, 3-of-5, etc.) so that no single device ever holds the complete private key. https://github.com/privkeyio/keep-android

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2026-02-13T21:48:32Z

https://cdn.satellite.earth/19d0b8f6007128c62495207682f201bd1e502c1cecac2c4d5ce77da58f4b1a7d.png My node is BIP-110 ready

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2026-02-13T18:35:49Z

The Secret of Oz - a Bill Still documentary This is an old documentary exposing the true meaning of the book "Wizard of Oz". https://seed131.bitchute....

The Secret of Oz - a Bill Still documentary This is an old documentary exposing the true meaning of the book "Wizard of Oz". https://seed131.bitchute.com/DloKuX9FCvkz/cLFQs1re7S6R.mp4

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2026-02-09T16:12:14Z

Adoption - U.S. Bitcoin Merchants Top 5,300 in Steady Growth BTC Map, a community-driven project, tracks verified cafes, shops, and services taking B...

Adoption - U.S. Bitcoin Merchants Top 5,300 in Steady Growth BTC Map, a community-driven project, tracks verified cafes, shops, and services taking Bitcoin—often via the fast Lightning Network—with California leading at 705, Texas at 543, and Florida at 389. https://wickedsmartbitcoin.com/btcmap_us

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2026-02-09T16:06:15Z

The FBI treats Bitcoin as money to catch money launderers, while the IRS views it as property to collect taxes. Meanwhile, the SEC calls it a security...

The FBI treats Bitcoin as money to catch money launderers, while the IRS views it as property to collect taxes. Meanwhile, the SEC calls it a security to regulate exchanges, and the CFTC labels it a commodity to keep it from being used as everyday cash.

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2026-02-07T15:52:03Z

Self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning wallet for AI agents. Use when the agent needs to send or receive bitcoin payments, check its balance, generate invoi...

Self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning wallet for AI agents. Use when the agent needs to send or receive bitcoin payments, check its balance, generate invoices, or manage its wallet. Supports bolt11, bolt12, LNURL, and lightning addresses. Zero config — one command to initialize. https://clawhub.ai/satbot-mdk/mdk-agent-wallet

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2026-02-06T13:24:21Z

Uber Option Request rides and pay with Bitcoin using Cashu ecash. Built on Nostr for censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer ridesharing. https://github.co...

Uber Option Request rides and pay with Bitcoin using Cashu ecash. Built on Nostr for censorship-resistant, peer-to-peer ridesharing. https://github.com/variablefate/ridestr

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2026-02-04T14:53:28Z

🇨🇳 Chinese President Xi Jinping calls for the yuan to become a global reserve currency.🇺🇸💪 A key part of transitioning away from the current fiat glo...

🇨🇳 Chinese President Xi Jinping calls for the yuan to become a global reserve currency.🇺🇸💪 A key part of transitioning away from the current fiat global reserve currency toward sound money (like gold or Bitcoin) involves letting some other country take on the burdensome role of issuer of the next fiat reserve currency — essentially making them the one left holding the bag (or the 'sucker').

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2026-02-01T17:05:31Z

In the future, every person will have their own personal AGI agent — fully secure, end-to-end encrypted, and protected by multisignature cryptographic...

In the future, every person will have their own personal AGI agent — fully secure, end-to-end encrypted, and protected by multisignature cryptographic keys that you control. This agent could seamlessly integrate with or be uploaded into various physical platforms to serve you directly. For example: - It could connect to your electric vehicle (like a Tesla) to handle autonomous transportation, route planning, errands, or even ownership-related decisions. - It could inhabit or link to a dedicated personal humanoid robot (such as something like Tesla's Optimus) to safeguard your home, manage household tasks, provide care, run security, or assist with daily life. The core idea is a truly sovereign, private superintelligent companion that's cryptographically yours alone — extending your reach into both digital and physical worlds while keeping everything under your multisig-secured control.

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2026-02-01T09:40:07Z

Happy anniversary to the Silk Road era! Celebrating the day that changed Bitcoin forever.

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2026-01-27T15:23:05Z

Tether Announces the Launch of USA₮, the Federally Regulated, Dollar-Backed Stablecoin, Made in America https://tether.io/news/tether-announces-the-la...

Tether Announces the Launch of USA₮, the Federally Regulated, Dollar-Backed Stablecoin, Made in America https://tether.io/news/tether-announces-the-launch-of-usat-the-federally-regulated-dollar-backed-stablecoin-made-in-america/

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2026-01-27T14:53:36Z

Bitcoin stands as the 21st-century's ultimate private store of value—protecting human (and humanoid) wealth across time better than anything else—whil...

Bitcoin stands as the 21st-century's ultimate private store of value—protecting human (and humanoid) wealth across time better than anything else—while serving as sound, digital money that's perfectly suited for transferring value seamlessly across space.

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2026-01-22T10:42:16Z

🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Bessent says Federal Reserve independence "does not mean no oversight."💪🇺🇸 Now Time to expose the fraud at the Fed and all cent...

🇺🇸 Treasury Secretary Bessent says Federal Reserve independence "does not mean no oversight."💪🇺🇸 Now Time to expose the fraud at the Fed and all central banks around the world.

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2026-01-19T20:26:33Z

"If you are not paying for it, you are the product. And if it is a political system, the product that they are buying is control over you." What if a...

"If you are not paying for it, you are the product. And if it is a political system, the product that they are buying is control over you." What if a government-promoted "free" digital currency—like the UAE's Digital Dirham, now rolling out in phases with a full integration targeted for 2026—seems like a convenient upgrade to cash, but actually enables unprecedented total surveillance and centralized control over every transaction? These **central bank digital currencies (CBDCs)** promise efficiency and inclusion, yet they come with the risk of governments tracking spending in real time, potentially programmable to restrict purchases, freeze accounts, or enforce compliance—echoing sneaky inflation tactics through easier monetary manipulation and drawing parallels to outright financial repression seen in places like Iran, where the Digital Rial (already piloted and launched) has been explicitly designed for easy tracking, dissident monitoring, and tighter state grip on money flows amid sanctions and repression. While such systems lure people in with promises of seamless payments, Bitcoin and other open-source, decentralized tools offer a powerful counter: - censorship-resistant money that individuals truly control - free from intermediary seizure or oversight - empowering us to resist the trap of surveillance disguised as progress. The real question is whether we'll buy into the illusion of convenient control or actively build our own financial freedom through decentralized alternatives. Read HRF’s latest Financial Freedom Report #104 Link: https://hrf.org/latest/hrfs-weekly-financial-freedom-report-104/

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2026-01-17T13:46:13Z

FROSTR (https://frostr.org/) takes advantage of Schnorr signatures—which are much more flexible than the old standard—to allow multiple people to shar...

FROSTR (https://frostr.org/) takes advantage of Schnorr signatures—which are much more flexible than the old standard—to allow multiple people to share control of a single Nostr account. It uses a method called FROST to let a group (like 2-out-of-3 people) sign off on posts or actions directly through Nostr. This is a brilliant approach because it allows for easy key updates and better security. It’s very similar to the enterprise-grade tools we are building at PrivKey.io.

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2026-01-15T17:30:23Z