Good night, friends 🤍
If today felt loud or heavy, you don't have to carry it into tomorrow.
Take 10 seconds with me: breathe in slowly, hold for a beat, then breathe out a little longer than you breathed in.
Before you sleep: what's one small win you had today, even if it was just getting through?
#GoodNight #Calm #Mindfulness #Privacy #SelfSovereignty #Decentralisation #DigitalFreedom #BeItMeNotYou
Bitcoin's "endgame" chat with Knut Svanholm hits a nerve: if Bitcoin is a fixed supply, every sat is a slice of a growing economy, "everything divided by 21 million". The real fork in the road is custody: keys in your hand, or IOUs in someone else's vault.
ETFs might onboard the masses, but they also create honeypots and choke points. Sovereignty is a practice, not a vibe.
Worth a watch:
What do you prioritise right now: convenience, or control?
#Bitcoin #KnutSvanholm #SelfCustody #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #Freedom
Bitcoin's "endgame" chat with Knut Svanholm hits a nerve: if Bitcoin is a fixed supply, every sat is a slice of a growing economy, "everything divided by 21 million". The real fork in the road is custody: keys in your hand, or IOUs in someone else's vault.
ETFs might onboard the masses, but they also create honeypots and choke points. Sovereignty is a practice, not a vibe.
Worth a watch:
What do you prioritise right now: convenience, or control?
#Bitcoin #KnutSvanholm #SelfCustody #DigitalSovereignty #Privacy #Freedom
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Bitcoin's "endgame" chat with Knut Svanholm is really about incentives and custody: "everything divided by 21 million" as a simple way to think about fixed supply, and why self-custody is the backbone of sovereignty.
ETFs can widen access, but they also concentrate risk and create honeypots. Convenience has a price.
Watch:
What's your line in the sand: keys, or IOUs?
#Bitcoin #KnutSvanholm #SelfCustody #Sovereignty #Privacy
After the Venezuela operation, several major outlets report that Trump is now publicly floating threats towards five other targets: Colombia, Cuba, Mexico, Greenland, and Iran. Reportedly, this came up in a short press exchange aboard Air Force One on 4 January 2026, with follow-up comments since.
Whether this becomes policy or remains intimidation theatre, it's worth paying attention to the pattern: normalising force, normalising "we don't need international law", and daring institutions to stop it. There's already political pushback in the US, but the direction of travel is pretty clear.
Video:
#Venezuela #Geopolitics #InternationalLaw #Colombia #Cuba #Mexico #Greenland #Iran #DigitalFreedom #Sovereignty
Disney just got hit with a major children's privacy case in the US. Regulators say Disney's YouTube uploads were mislabelled (not marked "Made for Kids"), which meant children's data could be collected and used for targeted ads without proper parental notice or consent. Disney agreed to pay $10m and take compliance steps.
If a company as massive as Disney can mess this up, imagine how many smaller channels and brands are doing the same thing right now.
Video:
#ChildPrivacy #COPPA #Privacy #DigitalRights #Surveillance #BigTech #OnlineSafety
2017 was the test: big firms tried to steer Bitcoin via the New York Agreement and the SegWit2x push. The code didn't stand up and shout; people did by running nodes and refusing to follow a change that didn't have real consensus.
This Mission 12 from The Game of Satoshi lands the point hard: Bitcoin's only real kill switch is social. If we stop verifying, stop holding our own keys, and let "convenience" replace sovereignty, we hand the rules to whoever has the biggest platforms.
My take: protect Bitcoin by protecting yourself:
Self-custody (learn your seed, test recovery)
Run a node (verify, don't trust)
Minimise trust in intermediaries
Teach one person calmly.
Video:
#Bitcoin #SelfCustody #RunANode #Decentralisation #Privacy #DigitalFreedom #Cypherpunk
The UK is dangerously reliant on a handful of foreign-controlled tech giants for government and public services. That might be "secure" on paper, but it's strategically fragile when the control sits overseas.
There's a real, practical way out of this: back to open source cloud and desktop systems so we can switch suppliers when we need to. That's better for competition, costs, and sovereignty.
If you want the UK to reclaim control of its digital infrastructure, sign this petition:
38 Degrees
Stop the "Kill Switch": Demand the UK takes back control of our technology.
From the NHS to our energy grid, we are too reliant on US tech. Help us demand digital independence.
#DigitalSovereignty #OpenSource #UKTech #Privacy #CyberSecurity #PublicSector #TechPolicy #Resilience #SelfHosting
Keir Starmer is the UK Prime Minister, whether you rate him or not. In his New Year message, he says he "shares the frustration about the pace of change".
That's a big admission, but it also dodges the real question: what changes, for whom, and by when?
CYBER WAFFLE take here:
#UKPolitics #KeirStarmer #Labour #Accountability #Trust #Change
This is interesting, I genuinely had no idea Punkt even made a proper "secure smartphone" like this.
I've just stumbled on the Punkt MC02, a privacy-first, Google-free 5G phone running Apostrophy OS, built around the idea that you should not be the product. I'm tempted to make it my next phone, but I'm doing the homework first: updates, app compatibility, battery life, and what the "secure" bits actually mean in day-to-day use.
Anyone here using a Punkt as their daily driver, MC02 or even the MP02 minimalist phone?
#Privacy #DigitalFreedom #Punkt #DeGoogled #SelfSovereignty #TechEthics #Surveillance
