Freedom Tech DC kicks off THIS WEEK. A summit on the future of money, speech, and intelligence — and the fight to keep them free. We're gathering the builders and the regulators with one purpose — to encourage Washington to embrace open source technology. Stream both days live on X from @bitcoinpolicy, plus YouTube and Rumble. Tuesday, September 22 at 10:00 AM ET. Wednesday, September 23 at 9:00 AM ET.

ZEC has been PoW mined, live, and distributed for *NINE* years, with every single holder in immense pain there is literally no coin better distributed (you are objectively stupid if you think this has "cabal" characteristics, I'm just very loud) combine this with the fact it *actually* gives you encryption and sovereignty combine it with the fact that there's a renaissance of new core talent working on integrations and improvements combine it with the fact that crypto *must* have privacy as the world gets more and more draconian combine it with the fact that it's less than ADA, LTC and many other useless coins combine it with the fact that it has the same tokenomics as Bitcoin, but is just private and then finish it off with the fact that one of the greatest cryptographers alive is shipping a 10,000x scale and perf improvement this is the most obvious mispricing in crypto, and it's not close what you're seeing here is the community using the power of crypto and public markets to breathe life back into the project some may call this a "CTO" — I call it returning to the ideals of crypto we're going to make privacy great again becase we must

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Bitcoin peer to peer payments are still difficult and full of friction. At Zaprite, we're working to make it seamless. No QR codes, no lightning addresses, no strings of data, no out of band communication. What is the challenge and how are we creating a solution?

Everyone knows Germany shut down its nuclear plants. But did you know the Netherlands is pouring cement in its gas wells? New post by me. siliconcontinent.com/p/the-d…

TFTC 784 w/ Chase Koch: "If you're not disrupting yourself from within, the market will disrupt you and turn you into a dinosaur." We discuss: ⚡ 9,000x growth built on failure ⚡ Why he fired himself from the top job ⚡ The bottom-up billionaire playbook

Fix the money, fix the world. Austin Bitcoin meetup is tomorrow, 5-7pm at the Commons. We're going to discuss Coldcard from 5-6pm. And then we'll be walking through a design crit of our new P2P app at Zaprite which is in beta 6-7pm. Sign up with link. meetup.com/bitcoin-park-aust…

Most people have never heard of the grandfather index. @jeffdeist introduced the concept in a recent speech. Take the savings rate available to average people and subtract real inflation. If that number is negative, ordinary people who save responsibly are getting poorer without doing anything wrong. His argument is that today’s number is significantly negative right now. And that’s not only an economic observation, but a moral one. Watch here: piped.video/watch?v=LvHjZSTm…

There is a critical vulnerability being actively exploited on BTCPay Server, which can result in the loss of funds. Please update your BTCPayServer to 2.4.2 by going to Admin Dashboard -> Server -> Maintenance -> Update & verify the 2.4.2 version string in the footer. If you are unable to update right away, turn off your BTCPay Server to prevent unauthorized access until you can update.