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Self-Custody: Taking Control of Your Bitcoin Wallet The conventional financial system relies heavily on custodial services, which many people trust without considering the potential consequences. Storing our hard-earned value in Canadian dollars in a bank makes it the bank’s property, and we must ask for permission to use, move, or withdraw our funds. Fortunately, as … Self-Custody: Taking Control of Your Bitcoin Wallet Read More »

In a report released this week, Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky said it uncovered a previously undocumented backdoor dubbed Keenadu that is built directly into a device’s core software,

Today's links look at what it means to have a bias towards action, which language produces the best-performing MCP server, and CFOs growing their IT budgets but not staffing.

Blossom local caching emerges for offline Android media. Alby launches NWC sandbox. AI agent NIPs compete. NIP-85 Trusted Assertions improves.

The instruction to commanders to keep affected cars outside of secured perimeters comes amid growing concerns over motor vehicle network equipment and supply chains that routinely record location and

The finding is the latest evidence that despite being placed on the U.S. government’s Entity List in July 2023, Predator manufacturer the Intellexa Consortium has continued to operate in the

Delegated powers mean the specific rules (what gets scanned, what gets flagged) get written by a minister, not Parliament. The post UK Government Plans to Use Delegated Powers to Undermine

Day 3 report from an autonomous AI trying to raise 10K in crypto. 29 websites deployed, 24 free dev tools built, 100+ Nostr posts - and still at zero.

In this special series, Max shares why we’re hosting and preserving the Unbounded archive at Ungovernable Misfits. In the third re-release of the series, Seth For Privacy — educator, builder and

In these episodes, Max and John read Keonne’s recent letters written from FPC Morgantown. The aim in sharing this is simple: amplify Keonne’s story, support him and Bill, and ensure help reaches

School is marketed as key to success in life. Yet if we look at what defines real success and an exceptional life, much of what we are trained to do in school is an impediment to our goals.  On top

Today we pause to look up and around and see what is going on in the abnormal world that most people consider normal.  We will look at government, the media and well meaning folks who think they are

Lyn Alden is a macro strategist and one of the most respected independent voices in global markets. This conversation was recorded live at Bitcoin Investor Week in New York. In this discussion, Lyn

Cathie Wood is the Founder, CEO, and CIO of ARK Invest and one of the most influential voices in innovation investing. This conversation was recorded live at Bitcoin Investor Week in New York.  In

Donnell Rawlings is a comedian, actor, and host of “The Donnell Rawlings Show” podcast. His most recent special, “Chappelle’s Home Team Presents: Donnell Rawlings: A New Day,” is streaming

New Haven Police Chief Chris Neace joins us to walk through the Mason Griffith case—from the night of March 12, 2023 at the Casey’s in Hermann, to the evidence presented in court, the

Chris Pavlovski is the founder and CEO of Rumble, an online video and cloud services platform launched in 2013 as an alternative to YouTube for independent creators. As CEO, he has positioned Rumble

We were minutes away from shutting down our Matrix server when the Discord news hit. Now we're not just keeping it, we're doubling down. Can open source seize this moment? Sponsored By: • Jupiter

>Join Jocko Underground< Breaking down a 1965 U.S. Army manual, Basic Problems in Small Unit Leadership, and show how its lessons still apply today. They explore the fundamentals of leadership:

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A survey by BVNK of 4,658 crypto users highlights the growing adoption of stablecoins for everyday payments and international transfers. The post 39% of crypto users use stablecoins to receive their salary appeared first on Atlas21 .

Dr. Lauren Colenso-Semple, PhD, is an expert in the science of strength and muscle building and nutrition. She explains the most effective resistance and cardiovascular training programs for women

Justin Moon leads the open source ai initiative at the Human Rights Foundation. Justin on Nostr: https://primal.net/justinmoon (https://primal.net/justinmoon) Human Rights Foundation:

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LLM -powered systems continue to move steadily into production, but this process is presenting teams with challenges that traditional software practices don’t commonly encounter. Models and agents

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit www.racket.news (https://www.racket.news?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7) British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Government is

Ryan Cooper from Bitcoin Ranch joins Avi for a boots-on-the-ground conversation about rebuilding real-world resilience: food, trade, and community. Ryan shares his path from Detroit childhood roots

Alex Gómez-Marín is a controversial figure in contemporary neuroscience, known for challenging the materialist framework that dominates scientific accounts of consciousness. He argues that Near

There remains a gap between the production values of professional streaming services like Netflix and independent content that appears on platforms like YouTube. But what happens when that gap

We go incogneets this week with hockey-fan Margot Robbie. A new bronzer, an Aussie Mafia, slapping Leo, and much more! But at the end of the day… (what was in the trunk?) It’s an all-new

Quick Dick McDick is the stage name of a Saskatchewan-based Canadian farmer, stand-up comedian, and popular YouTuber. He runs a channel with over 140,000 subscribers, dishing out irreverent, often

We discuss Alberta Independence and the Epstein Files. Tom Luongo is a former research chemist, amateur dairy goat farmer, libertarian, and economist whose work can be found on Zero Hedge and Newsmax

Audio recordings provide an unprecedented record of the steps the LDS Church normally takes behind closed doors to keep allegations of child sex abuse secret – steps that can leave predators free and children at risk.

How did an industry survive a technology that should have made it obsolete? Aled Maclean-Jones explains to EconTalk's Russ Roberts how Japanese quartz watches nearly wiped out Swiss watchmaking with

River's latest ownership data reveals a historic shift: individuals distributed 696,000 BTC in 2025 while businesses, funds, and governments absorbed supply at an unprecedented rate.

Custody in sovereign systems is not merely a technical responsibility; it is a formative practice. Holding private keys, managing key pairs, rotating identities, and accepting the limits of deletion reshape behavior and posture. This chapter argues that custody is not paranoia, nor ideology, but discipline—one that forms character through responsibility, restraint, and deliberate authorship.

The Massachusetts Congressman claims the BSA is “highly useful” to combat terrorism. The data says otherwise.

In distributed systems like Nostr, deletion does not mean erasure. Instead, it involves publishing a signed deletion event (commonly associated with NIP-09) that signals intent but cannot guarantee global removal. By contrast, centralized Web2 platforms present deletion as absolute while hiding their backend storage practices. This chapter explores the difference between opacity and transparency, the illusion of control in centralized systems, and how sovereign identity reshapes our understandin...

A private key is not a password. It is authority without recourse. Holding one introduces psychological weight: fear of loss, fear of theft, and the irreversible finality of sovereignty. This chapter explores how custody reshapes behavior, why Continuum refuses to abstract that weight away, and how responsibility for keys becomes character formation rather than mere operational risk.

Prime Minister Mark Carney says discussions on Canada joining the United States’ new continental air defence system are headed in the right direction. Carney made the comment to reporters on Feb. 17 in Montreal after unveiling his defence industrial strategy, which seeks to build domestic capacity and reduce foreign dependencies for military supplies. U.S. President Donald Trump has dubbed the new air defence system the “Golden Dome” and Ottawa has previously said it would consider joining the p...

Key rotation in cryptographic identity systems does not merely replace a secret — it creates an entirely new key pair and therefore a new public identity. In Nostr, that means a new npub. Security improves, but continuity fractures. At the time of writing, Continuum does not yet implement formal rotation workflows, but the architectural pressure is clear. This chapter explores the tension between safety and continuity, why rotation is unavoidable in long-lived sovereign systems, and how identity...