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Russell Rukin

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Artist, engineer, Bitcoiner, creative - mashing it all up to make a better planet for all who squirm on the blue orb.

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photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

photo of Pam Bondi testifying in the foreground as a group of 7 women and 1 men raise their hands

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

11.02.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 40533 πŸ” 13806 πŸ’¬ 1373 πŸ“Œ 891
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Jack Smith on Jan 6 pardons: "I do not understand why you would mass-pardon people who assaulted police officers. I don't get it. I never will."

Watch our LIVE special coverage here:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNnz...

22.01.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 1348 πŸ” 410 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 21
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Philadelphia Sheriff Rochelle Bilal ecoriates ICE, calling them β€œmade-up fake law enforcement.”

"No law enforcement professional wears a mask."

She says she will arrest ICE agents who commit crimes in the city and warns, β€œYou don’t want this smoke.”

10.01.2026 10:48 πŸ‘ 236 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 14
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Stephen Miller Owns Up to $250,000 in Palantir Stock, Report Finds Palantir is reportedly building a mega-database of Americans’ personal information for the Trump administration.

ICE awarded Palantir a $30 million contract in April 2025 for ImmigrationOS, a platform delivering "near real-time visibility" on self-deportations and visa overstays.

Stephen Miller owns about $200,000 worth of their stock.

Expansion of ICE is a gold mine for him.

truthout.org/articles/ste...

09.01.2026 03:46 πŸ‘ 371 πŸ” 155 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 13
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Coin Dance

Sigh. Really? coin.dance/stats if you're going to dip your toe into the open Bitcoin network make sure it’s a toe you keep in for 4yrs and you'll be laughing Paul! Raw stats do not lie.

22.12.2025 14:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Share Your Banking Discrimination Story β€” Free Speech Coalition Have you been treated unfairly by a bank simply because you've done work or own a business in the adult industry? Tell us your story!

If you have not yet reported your banking discrimination story, do it now. Your voice has the power to shift the way the government (and the big banks) do business.

www.freespeechcoalition.com/share-your-b...

10.12.2025 18:51 πŸ‘ 120 πŸ” 116 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 4
Crypto is a SCAM (Here’s Why)
Crypto is a SCAM (Here’s Why) YouTube video by Joe Nakamoto

Bitcoin miners are both the security apparatus for the global open Bitcoin network and are rewarded for that work (PoW) with newly minted tokens that can then be distributed to the wider market.

Other tokens are mainly 99% scams in some form or another. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rV...

08.12.2025 09:25 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Large Texas mines are like a normal warehouse but averagely they tend to be useful in shipping containers

As for the rest it definitely sounds like you are describing gold mining.

Thankfully many mines being location agnostic can be sited to run off CH4 an 80x more potent GHG than CO2. Landfill!

07.12.2025 14:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

sucking down Gigawatts of wasted and stranded power.

Paying for the overbuild of RE because shock horror you need to over specify because... variability. This is normal and occurs anywhere you have RE. Bitcoin mining just provides a buyer who is location agnostic.

07.12.2025 14:44 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Anywhere with excess energy.

By finding stranded and wasted energy.

You look for curtailment & grid network issues that occur all over the globe.

07.12.2025 14:41 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep the Texas Ercot grid has been freed up to 'overbuild' RE capacity directly because of allowing Bitcoin miners in as good energy partners. The world should take note!

07.12.2025 10:54 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

MMT - understanding how the financial system works, seeing the fire and actually planning to fix it with petrol...

07.12.2025 09:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

My solar powered bitcoin miners will be feeding my ASHP with lovely warm air easing any strain on the system and of course paying me! Beautiful.

22.11.2025 08:30 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Money 'itself' is the thing that is broken. Everything else is upstream.

15.11.2025 13:31 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

100% at Bitcoin Policy UK we want clear regulation separating 'crypto' the 99.9% scam from 'Bitcoin' the financial innovation.

15.11.2025 07:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Nope not on Bitcoin. We fought the blocksize wars over this very issue in 2016. The corps lost. My node my rules. You can own 20million bitcoin and still not be able to change the network anymore than I can.

11.11.2025 09:31 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Onchain?... this is 2025 mate, we are not savages!

28.10.2025 11:02 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Cashu channel demo. Like Lightning, allowing tiny payments at high frequency in one direction
Cashu channel demo. Like Lightning, allowing tiny payments at high frequency in one direction YouTube video by SatsAndSports

We are entering into a world where we want to charge for electricity on micro second to micro second time frame.

Even this is too slow for computers and Ai. Bitcoin Lightning and newer layers built on Lightning and the base layer are built for this future.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xyB...

22.10.2025 09:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sharing the story of a farmer, because too many Bitcoin discussions stay theoretical. Critics dismiss it as speculation; maximalists oversell it as a panacea.

21.10.2025 18:49 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
From Hotel Rwanda to Bitcoin: Anise Kanimba on Freedom & Financial Justice | My Two Sats
From Hotel Rwanda to Bitcoin: Anise Kanimba on Freedom & Financial Justice | My Two Sats YouTube video by Roxom TV Europe

Detractors like to try and throw shade that Bitcoin is just an investment... An investment in human rights might be far more accurate. Here is Bitcoin Policy UK's CEO finding out more www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6L...

19.10.2025 10:35 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
From Hotel Rwanda to Bitcoin: Anise Kanimba on Freedom & Financial Justice | My Two Sats
From Hotel Rwanda to Bitcoin: Anise Kanimba on Freedom & Financial Justice | My Two Sats YouTube video by Roxom TV Europe

This is Susie on Roxom with look at how Bitcoin is 'vital' not just a transactional luxury www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6L...

19.10.2025 10:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just another milestone. How low can this guy go.

19.10.2025 10:08 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Yep. Let us not forget the bleeding edge is also the Lightning network threaded into NOSTR.

Star of development might have to go to CASHU that prefers LN. So literally bringing David Chaum's 1982 vision for ecash to life finally! So important. Calle is a Trojan on this layers development.

19.10.2025 09:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Maybe you'd like to join Bitcoin Policies CEO Susie Violet Ward on Roxom TV for a chat about Lightning and the bleeding edge developments? We could get Ben Arc or Ben de Waal (both in the UK) as they are at the coal (pun intended) face of Lightning transactional use?

19.10.2025 09:02 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Crypto is a SCAM (Here’s Why)
Crypto is a SCAM (Here’s Why) YouTube video by Joe Nakamoto

Yes it was a crime! Pure fraud.

I love this video by @joenakamoto.bsky.social where he gets Giacomo to detail the three levels of crypto scam youtu.be/i6rV5HlbPTM?... Onecoin is a third degree scam.

19.10.2025 08:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

TGV/bullet train = stablecoin

Good analogy, so can be stopped and subject to the whim of who runs the network!

Bitcoin mainchain = Oxford Electric Bell or an atomic clock (unstoppable)

Bitcoin Lightning/layers = speed of light (why you so slow bullet train?). Made for the future not the past.

19.10.2025 08:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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How Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc Is Reinventing Finance With Bitcoin How Block Inc.'s Bitcoin revolution under Jack Dorsey, with Square, Cash App, and Bitkey is ushering a new financial era

Adam Back the utter legend and as I understand it @freddienew.bsky.social one of the largest investors and advisor to Bhodl which is a 'Lightning node' company.. So literally Adam is super interested in supporting day to day use.

Like any Bitcoinert is. bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jac...

19.10.2025 07:38 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Of course it is relevant.

Like each and every Bitcoiner I know I've done minimal on-chain transactions (maybe one in 2024, zero this year) but thousands of Lightning network transactions. No Bitcoiner would buy a coffee on-chain always Lightning. Maybe some Cashu.

19.10.2025 07:33 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

P.s @katebaucherel.bsky.social were you on @moneybox.bsky.social and didn't know about the Lightning network? Very excited you've found out about it at last.

Shall we dig in to some papers on Bitcoin's energy mix?

18.10.2025 20:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Both are here. All trains are leaving the station and as Lyn Alden loves to say Kate... 'Nothing stops this train!'

18.10.2025 20:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0