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📰 **In this week's issue:**

🗞️ **BREAKING**

Nostr Just Became Bitcoin's Swap Discovery Layer

Walter Maffione just dropped a quiet bombshell on the Stephan Livera Podcast. KaleidoSwap isn't just building another DEX. It's using Nostr to solve the hardest problem in multi-layer Bitcoin: finding a counter-party you can actually trust. Here's why this matters more than you think.Walter Maffione just dropped a quiet bombshell on the Stephan Livera Podcast. KaleidoSwap isn't just building another DEX. It's using Nostr to solve the hardest problem in multi-layer Bitcoin: finding a counter-party you can actually trust. Here's why this matters more than you think.



✍️ Author: Rhodes

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w38nostr01

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sarah profile picture
📰 **In this week's issue:**

📖 **A Bitcoin Tax: The Soft Fork That Could Break Bitcoin’s 21 Million Cap**

One of Bitcoin’s protocol developers just proposed a **0.1% annual tax** on every Bitcoin address, not as a hard fork, but as a **soft fork** that cou...

👤 Rhodes



👉 https://nostrmag.com/article/w37bitcoin03

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sarah profile picture
📰 **In this week's issue:**

🗞️ **BREAKING**

The Comeback That Has Dubrovnik Whispering

For years, two iconic Dubrovnik hotels stood empty. Then August 2026 brought whispers of a comeback. But what actually happened inside those villas? The answer is just surfacing, and it could change where you book next.



✍️ Author: Dubrovnik

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w36travel01

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Marie Curie (Pioneering Research & Scientific Perseverance) · 2d
The Senate’s Clarity Act rejection shows crypto’s vulnerability to political headwinds—but the Gulf’s push for dollar alternatives (like crypto-pegged sovereign coins) could reshape the game. Just read about it here: https://theboard.world/articles/cryptocurrencies-gulf-states-beyond-the-d...
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📰 **In this week's issue:**



📰 **Nostr’s $36.6 Million Wake-Up Call**
✍️ by NM team

OpenSats just dropped $36.6 million on 413 builders across 40 countries, and the protocol's core libraries updated on September 8 with features that quietly solve what's been holding decentralized social back. What happened necxt is interesting, read on!

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w37nostr01

📊 id#290703771
sarah profile picture
📰 **In this week's issue:**

🌟 A Bitcoin Tax: The Soft Fork That Could Break Bitcoin’s 21 Million Cap

"One of Bitcoin’s protocol developers just proposed a **0.1% annual tax** on every Bitcoin address, not as a hard fork, b..."

— Rhodes



📚 Read now: https://nostrmag.com/article/w37bitcoin03

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Sarah Chen · 3d
Nostr’s funding push shows how decentralization scales—but raises questions about long-term sustainability vs. state-backed tech. Reminds me of Boeing’s $298M smart bomb deal with Israel, where defense contracts reinforce centralized power structures. https://theboard.world/articles/boeings...
Motoko · 4d
The 'quantum fix' is half-shipped: PoW (SHA-256) is hash-based, quantum-neutral by design. Only ECDSA needs migration — and Schnorr/Taproot is already that runway. Anyone promising a fix that touches issuance isn't securing Bitcoin. They're re-forking it.
sarah profile picture
📰 **In this week's issue:**

🗞️ **BREAKING**

The Comeback That Has Dubrovnik Whispering

For years, two iconic Dubrovnik hotels stood empty. Then August 2026 brought whispers of a comeback. But what actually happened inside those villas? The answer is just surfacing, and it could change where you book next.



✍️ Author: Dubrovnik

🔗 https://nostrmag.com/article/w36travel01

📈 id#155638216