Independent U.S. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. promised to classify certain Bitcoin transactions as spam under the CAN-SPAM Act of 2003 Thursday. RFK was speaking to a crowd of Just Stop Ordinals protestors at a scheduled campaign stop in Nashville, TN. During the event, many in the crowd
The Democratic National Committee today announced a surprising new partnership with Bitcoin Mining Pool Ocean aimed at censoring NFTs issued by the Trump campaign. The DNC said plans to launch operations in March and expects to launch with over 10 EH using the "Ordisrespector" Filter block template policy
Fargo – It was a cold night in December when he first saw the sign. Long walks in the winter darkness listening to Stephan Livera, Natalie Brunell, and Svetski were Bitcoin maximalist NorthDakotaHodl's response to high transaction fee anxiety brought about by the JPG spammers. Podcasts, both macro and
The Bitcoin mining industry used nearly 15 TWh of electricity in the period between November 23, 2023 (Thanksgiving Day in the U.S.) and January 1, 2024 compared to the 17.5 TWh of electricity use attributed to Christmas lights and decorations during the same period. The 2023 holiday season
Davos, Switzerland– The World Economic Forum (WEF) and International Monetary Fund (IMF), have announced a partnership with Canada based blockchain technology company Blockstream to launch it's tokenized carbon credits as well as a stablecoin which tracks, and is backed by, Special Drawing Rights (SDR), the supplementary foreign exchange
New York– Franklin Templeton, one of the largest asset management firms with over $1.5 trillion in assets under management, outsourced training and education of new hires for its digital assets division to a YouTube streamer and active X user named Minesh Bhindi. Bhindi who is better known by his
Hundreds of X users have been brigading X Spaces in the last few days to call for a permanent block space ceasefire and to protest inscriptions, nearly 1 year into a shitcoiner offensive against scarce block space that is over-filling 144 blocks per day, according to mempool.space. The protest,
Bitcoin hardware wallet developer, Ledger, is planning to train 275 new software engineers to develop its wallet software by 2026, of which at least half will be women, non-binary, and people of color. "Just because computers are binary, doesn't mean the software engineers programming it must be.
Harvard President Claudine Gay is mired in yet another plagiarism scandal this week after the University's endowment hired consultant Dan Held to advise on Bitcoin purchases as well as the University's announcement. The Harvard endowment fund recently purchased $250 million of Bitcoin with the assistance of
A new report blaming Bitcoin miners for falling real estate prices in Florida is stirring more controversy on social media. The report attributes decreasing demand for residential real estate in Florida to Bitcoin miners causing "intentional climate change" leading to a trend in milder winter temperatures across the
A petition condemning Inscriptions, started by a Bitcoin podcaster who opposes JPEGs on Bitcoin, has met it's goal of amassing 2,100 signatures from other podcasters. The stated goal of the petition is to raise awareness that inscriptions are spam on the Bitcoin blockchain. The petition is not
In a stunning capitulation, Bitcoin X user GHOSTawyeeBOB has announced he's become a new father and is excited to start a new family. Deater announced the birth of his son, Deater Bob Jr. this morning after a 7 day hiatus from X, which he attributed to being in