Glad he’s getting called out

No limit contact payments to "stimulate the economy".

Contactless card payments could become unlimited under new plans

Card providers would be allowed to set their own contactless card payment limit, under the regulator's plans.

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State of the NHS commentary with former Nurse Debie Evans

"This is bigger than Hatton Garden, Brink's-Mat and the Great Train Robbery combined," says one of the investors, Michael Moszynski.

Vashi: Jewellery boss in £170m scam told shop staff to pretend to be customers

Insiders tell BBC Panorama how the man behind upmarket jeweller Vashi conned investors and customers.

Good to see coiner friends at @Longy 's gig on Saturday. Looking forward to seeing this motley crew @Bury St Edmunds Bitcoin shindig later this month. A few photos from the night along the A13 Riveria: https://www.rajeshtaylor.com/longy-peggy-sues-music-bar-chalkwell Thanks to @Aaron of Essex for introducing me to @Quincy Simon @Zaikaboy for tech support @Daniel Prince for nudging me to @Club Orange @billybigpotatoes for the best Nostr handle @Dave Nicholls future Minister of Education @npub1yn4m...tec0 for a way to tip @New Music Nudge Unit artists on @Fountain

£359/$481/437,000 sats for a Pixel 9a in new condition https://www.amazon.co.uk/Google-Pixel-9a-Unlocked-Smartphone/dp/B0DSWFHTL2 #grapheneOS

Potential use cases for @Blockstream Simplicity coding language. Can see businesses (that survive the next 3-6 years) taking this up. Maybe being "banked" will be seen as a detriment. * Programmable Vaults – Time-locked withdrawals, policy-enforced access, and recovery logic. * Bitcoin-Native Smart Banks – Multi-user UTXO aggregation with enforceable balance rules, Merkle tree ownership, etc. * Decentralized Identity and Reputation – Web-of-trust systems built on signed assertions, suitable for social recovery and validation. * Auditable DEXs – Stateless, deterministic exchanges with lower attack surfaces and no global state or wrapped assets. * Institutional Custody and Access Control – Threshold signature schemes using B-N signatures, offering simpler implementation and auditing than alternatives like MuSig. * Decentralized Governance and Crowdfunding – Simplicity-encoded static voting rules, recurring payment logic, and access-controlled services, all without token dependencies.

Blockstream: Bitcoin and digital asset infrastructure

Blockstream Launches Simplicity, Heralding a New Era of Smarter, Safer Contracts on Bitcoin

The long-anticipated release introduces more expressive Bitcoin-native smart contract capabilities to layer-2, anchored in Bitcoin’s security mod...