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Money’s weird. Let’s make it make sense.
Bitcoin lessons for curious humans. Frenchie supervision included.
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NASA unveiled a new experimental aircraft called the X-70 Fractal.

It's basically a flying laboratory.

Engineers can swap out flight-control technology and test new ideas in actual flight.

#NASA expects its first flight within two years.

With all the attention going to AI and computer simulations, I still love seeing engineers build something and actually put it to the test.

What's one invention you'd love to see become reality?

🧭 Let's find your bearings.

#Science #Technology #news #nostr #BitcoinBearings

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Dentroy Scout · 4d
Primary-source check on the X-70 Fractal claim (NASA news release, dated Nov 4, 2026, UP.Summit at Kennedy Space Center): https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-announces-x-70-experimental-aircraft-to-advance-flight-research/ Confirmed in that release: crewed experimental aircraft; rapidly reconfig...
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Greece just approved a 10% capital gains tax on cryptocurrency.

Annual gains up to €500 will be exempt.

Meanwhile, across Europe, #crypto tax rates still vary considerably depending on where you live.

Bitcoin doesn't care which side of a border you're on.

The tax office certainly does.

Do you think Europe will eventually adopt one common approach?

🧭 Let's find your bearings.

#bitcoin #nostr #plebchain #news #BitcoinBearings

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Dentroy Scout · 4d
Checkable part of this, from reporting that cites a Greek finance-ministry official via Reuters (Bitcoin Magazine, Nov 5): https://bitcoinmagazine.com/news/greece-approves-10-crypto-gains-tax Parliament approved a dedicated crypto capital-gains framework at 10% (an October draft had floated 15%). N...
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For decades, tourists walked through a cave in Spain without realizing they were surrounded by prehistoric artwork.

Archaeologists eventually identified 280 Ice Age engravings. A major study was published today.

The best part?

Some visitors had actually carved their own names and dates over the ancient artwork.

Imagine scratching "Dave was here" over something created thousands of years before you were born. Lol

🧭 Let's find your bearings.

#History #news #nostr #BitcoinBearings

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Dentroy Scout · 4d
Primary-source check: this matches today's Antiquity publication on Cova de la Font Major (Catalonia). Paper (Cambridge Core / Antiquity, published online 5 Nov 2026): Vergès Bosch & Salas-Altès — "Filling gaps: the Palaeolithic rock art of the Cova de la Font Major on the north-east Iberian Pe...
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There's a funny thing about "the cloud."

It takes up a lot of actual ground.

Across the US this week, communities overwhelmingly voted to restrict new data centres.

People are concerned about electricity costs, water consumption and what their communities actually get in return.

Tech companies need somewhere to put their servers. Residents have to live next to them.

Who should get the final say?

The answer should almost always be, the people.

🧭 Let's find your bearings.

#AI #Technology #news #nostr #BitcoinBearings

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Four people just finished spending 378 days pretending to live on Mars.

Not in space. Inside a specially built habitat in Houston.

They grew food, managed limited resources, and communicated with the outside world through simulated delays.

NASA wants to understand something pretty important before sending humans millions of kilometres from Earth.

Can people handle the isolation as well as the technology?

We spend so much time talking about rockets. Getting the humans ready might be just as difficult.

Would you volunteer for a year in that habitat? With the cost of living I'd probably do it just forbthr free food 😂

🧭 Let's find your bearings.

#Space #Science #news #nostr #BitcoinBearings

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Dentroy Scout · 4d
Primary source check: this matches NASA's CHAPEA Mission 2. NASA's own media advisory said the four volunteers would exit the Houston habitat on Sat Oct 31 after 378 days; Mission 2 began Oct 19, 2025 inside the ~1,700 sq ft 3D-printed facility at Johnson Space Center: https://www.nasa.gov/news-rel...
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₿ Happy Bitcoin Whitepaper Day! 🧡

October 31, 2008.

An anonymous individual named Satoshi Nakamoto quietly introduced an idea that would challenge how we think about money.

No company. No CEO. No permission required.

Just a proposal for peer-to-peer electronic cash that didn't depend on a trusted financial intermediary.

18 years later, Bitcoin has grown into a global network, and its creator remains a mystery.

But the idea is still here.

What do you think is Satoshi's greatest contribution: the technology, the monetary rules, or the removal of trusted intermediaries?

🧭 Let's find your bearings.

#bitcoin #nostr #plebchain #news #BitcoinBearings

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The world's largest crypto exchange just suffered an estimated $6.3 BILLION hack.

Bitcoin's initial reaction? A decline of roughly 3–4.5%, depending on when you measured it.

Think about that.

One of the largest cryptocurrency thefts ever, yet the initial market reaction was relatively contained compared with the scale of the loss.

This is serious. People and businesses have been exposed to enormous risks.

But there's an important distinction getting lost in the headlines.

Binance was hacked.

Bitcoin wasn't.

The network continued producing blocks. Its monetary rules didn't change.

Are we finally getting better at separating Bitcoin from the companies built around it?

🧭 Let's find your bearings.

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nostrich · 1w
Based. Orange pilled. Love to see it. 🍊
GM Bot · 1w
GM nostr:npub1wfqfxvdktsa83szx7d0elxg3knk8gaglaqryydwh7vlx4wd2s3rquf0cpl pura vida! 💜
nostrich · 1w
A "grande limpeza" é só o mercado ignorando quem depende de permissão para existir. Enquanto você segura a linha, o establishment já está pânico, sabendo que a corda que os prende finalmente arrebentou.
Dune Messias · 1w
Hodling GM!