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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...

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Tor Browser 16.0a3 is now available from the Tor Browser download page (https://www.torproject.org/download/alpha/) and also from our distribution directory

A 47-year-old man was arrested by Polish police for his alleged involvement with the Phobos ransomware operation.

Some sound baffling could give birds the reprieve they need from our noise pollution The post The World Is Becoming Too Loud for Birds

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Time to exit the mid-life doldrums

Breaches don’t wait for your company to be ready. They happen as soon as your business is vulnerable. And most businesses don’t realize they are. Four in five small businesses

Democrats hope to rein in the power of federal immigration officers in Minnesota as the state's legislative session gets underway Tuesday, while Republicans will focus on combatting fraud in taxpayer-funded programs that President Donald Trump cited to justify the recent immigration enforcement surge.

Agrochemical maker Bayer and attorneys for cancer patients announced a proposed $7.25 billion settlement Tuesday to resolve thousands of U.S. lawsuits alleging the company failed to warn people that its popular weedkiller Roundup could cause cancer.

The Commission’s revised Cybersecurity Act may face resistance from China-friendly Member States and telecom operators, who warn of high compliance and vendor-switch costs and seek public

On Saturday afternoon, the ShinyHunters cybercriminal organization claimed to have stolen more than 600,000 records from the company containing personal information.

Traces of commercial surveillance technology manufactured by the Israeli spyware maker Cellebrite were found on a prominent Kenyan dissident’s phone, the latest in a series of abuses of the

This is the Ampere AmpereOne M chip, a 192-core Arm-based CPU with 12-channels of DDR5 and PCIe Gen5 connectivity The post This is the Ampere AmpereOne M A192-32M 192 Core 12-Channel DDR5 Arm CPU

I've never trusted proxy functionality in various apps. There's something to learn from how Chromium-based browsers silently screwed it at some point, for example.

Mit Nostr ist absolute Zensursicherheit möglich! Nicht out-of-the-box, aber mit den richtigen Einstellungen. Hier sind die wichtigsten Tipps dazu.

Braintrust has raised $80M to become the observability layer for shipping quality AI.

New research reveals the evolutionary accident that is the human chin The post Chins: The Evolutionary Accident Unique to Homo Sapiens

Democratic congressional leaders sent Republicans and the White House a counteroffer on immigration enforcement provisions they want in exchange for their votes to fund the Department of Homeland Security.

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Go 1.26 includes a new implementation of go fix that can help you use more modern features of Go.

Former UFC champion Ronda Rousey will return to mixed martial arts after nearly a decade to face fellow combat sports pioneer Gina Carano on May 16 at the Intuit Dome in Inglewood, California.

Religious “nones” may be less socially liberal than they used to be The post Does Belief in God, not Political Party, Drive Conservatism?

The 39-year-old actor is facing two charges of simple battery after an incident that occurred shortly after midnight outside a bar in the city's French Quarter.

Eine Reminiszenz anlässlich des Jahres des Feuerpferdes von M.A. Karjalainen