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"Privacy projects should give people viewing keys so you can show the feds you're not a criminal." Great idea bc if the feds can demand your viewing keys you also no longer have any privacy. The scale at which "privacy projects" are abandoning their principles after the Binance hack (assuming that they ever had any in the first place) makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills. This is like Signal advocating for Chat Control telling you it's still the most secure messenger because dw it's only the Government that can read your messages, and we promise they'll only look if they actually think you did something wrong. Tell this to the journalists and judges who have been sanctioned for speaking out against war crimes without a court ruling. Or the activists and political parties who've had their assets frozen for advocating for the wrong thing without any chance at due process. If you want to build a backdoor for the feds bc it makes you sleep better, be my guest. But stop pretending that you're giving people privacy when you do. It's embarrassing.

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Adopting Bitcoin Cape Town (@abcptza) has reached a crossroads. For three years running, 2024, 2025 and 2026, we hosted three successful conferences, co-hosted by @Machankura8333 and ourselves, and run entirely by unpaid volunteers, without massive sponsorship. Pulling that off, three times in a row, is a significant milestone. We also achieved something we set out to do: reach large civil society organizations and, through them, reach their members. And we didn't know who those organizations would be, but they showed up. John Endres (@senderman) of the Institute for Race Relations (@IRR_SouthAfrica), Russell Lamberti (@RussLamberti) representing Sakeliga (@Sakeliga), and David Ansara (@DavidAnsara) of the Free Market Foundation (@FMFSouthAfrica) all spoke in 2024, 2025 and/or 2026. This list is not exhaustive. And these aren't fringe groups. They're among South Africa's largest and longest-standing advocates for free market policy. And they have fought an uphill battle for exactly the kind of direction this country needs. Our goal was to get them speaking to their audiences about Bitcoin, and that's happened. Both The Free Market Foundation and the Institute for Race Relations have since published papers, videos and/or podcasts on Bitcoin: freemarketfoundation.com/sta… dailyfriend.co.za/2026/03/05… While both organizations occasionally discussed Bitcoin prior to 2024, since then both groups have formalized and significantly expanded their public commentary on the topic. I'm not claiming we caused that single-handedly, but we definitely contributed to it, even if only in a small way. So why are we at a Crossroads? In 2026, the Treasury and the South African Reserve Bank dropped regulatory bombshells that were, to put it mildly, insane. The direction they want to take is a walled garden: you can hold Bitcoin, you can use Bitcoin, but only through a regulated intermediary they control, one that can force you to sell at a price of their choosing. Calling that a watered down version of Bitcoin is an understatement. It isn't a watered down version of Bitcoin. It's entirely fake. And yes, there's been a reprieve with the SA Government recently backing down under intense pressure, but it's clear that they'll attempt it again. That leaves us in a position where we have to decide: where does this conference go next? And the answer is right there in the name. Adopting Bitcoin. Adopting Bitcoin implies exiting fiat. You are not adopting Bitcoin if you are not exiting fiat. And if you claim to adopt Bitcoin while weaseling your way further into the fiat world, you are not adopting Bitcoin. It’s quite simple. But easy to lose sight of. "I'm into Bitcoin, but the fiat world is what it is, we have to play by their rules, we have to work with them, and we have to accommodate them." This may all be true. But it invariably turns into an excuse to not exit fiat. And that's not a position we're willing to keep entertaining. And if you don't get that, what are we doing here? To be clear, this isn't about refusing to talk to anyone. It's about being unambiguous about our goal. Adopting Bitcoin means actively and continuously looking for every opportunity to move further away from fiat. Adopting Bitcoin does not mean buying Bitcoin and settling into fiat more comfortably while the BTC/FIAT price goes up. This isn't a rebrand. It's a re-alignment, a return to where @abcptza was always meant to go, but were slowly pulled away from by the realities of running a conference. The companies that make real money are the ones that find ways to weave themselves back into the fiat system. It's brutally hard for a genuinely Bitcoin-only fiat-exiting company to turn a profit. The massively profitable players in this space are crypto casinos and pseudo-banks selling you the idea that gambling is good. That's just the world as it is. For that reason, funding a conference like this is genuinely difficult. When you're the one staring at a venue invoice, and you know half your speaker list won't show up unless you cover their flights, you end up working with people you'd rather not work with. Not because you sold out, but because there was no other way to pay for it. So yes, we drifted. Not on purpose, but because of the economic reality. But we never drifted so far that we've lost sight of where we're supposed to be. So are are we going? Bitcoin is a silent revolution. If you're not willing to be part of that, peacefully, but without compromise, then you're not adopting Bitcoin, and you're not exiting fiat. Bitcoin is a paradigm shift. Paradigm shifts are not easy, gentle, comfortable, or profitable. They are, by definition, disruptive, unfamiliar and unsettling for almost everyone. We don't know if this will work. We have no idea if we can even fund a conference like this going forward. And, if we take this stance, most of the sponsors who might have thrown us scraps will walk away. @abcptza becomes a genuine grassroots conference, funded by ticket sales or not funded at all. The sponsors left willing to stand with us will be few. And none of them are the biggest players in this space. But we'd rather attempt it that way, and fail, than keep drifting toward a place where the conference does not make it absolutely clear. Adopting Bitcoin is all about exiting fiat. And that is non-negotiable. Tickets for 2027: pretix.eu/abct/2027 Conference website: za27.adoptingbitcoin.org

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3/7 Solche Daten geraten oft in falsche Hände. Anbieter, Steuertools und Behörden haben schon Daten von rund 46 Millionen Menschen verloren. Dein Anbieter speichert deinen Ausweis, Wallet-Adressen und jede Transaktion, bis zu zehn Jahre, nachdem du kein Kunde mehr bist.

You log into your bank. the SMS code arrives. you copy it. you switch to the banking app. you paste it. done. in the time between you copying that code and pasting it, every app that comes to the foreground can read your clipboard. not apps running in the background. apps that become active including ones you swipe past, or that pop up a notification you tap. That's how clipboards work. they're a shared resource across every app on the device. One-time codes are the obvious ones at risk, you copy an OTP, switch apps once, the code is gone from your mind but still sitting in the clipboard. any app that opens in that window reads it. Not just OTPs. addresses, card numbers, recovery codes, passwords you copied from a password manager before pasting all of it lives in the clipboard until you copy something else or clear it. For iPhone recent iOS versions show a banner notification when an app reads your clipboard without you tapping paste. If TikTok, a game, or a shopping app triggers that banner after you copied something sensitive that app just read whatever was there. Apple added this specifically because apps were doing it silently at scale. Android is more fragmented and exposed. There are two specific permissions worth auditing: Notification access, apps with this permission can read the full text of your notifications, including OTP codes that arrive as SMS or push notifications. Go to settings → apps → special app access → notification access. Anything in there that shouldn't be reading your messages is a problem. "draw over other apps" (display over other apps): this permission lets an app place a visible layer on top of whatever you're doing. it's used legitimately by things like screen recorders and assistant apps. it's also a known path for overlay attacks: a fake UI drawn over your real banking app, capturing your password and taps before they reach the real screen.

They said African languages were too fragmented, too complex and too commercially insignificant to build advanced AI for. We disagreed. So we built it. 64 languages. 166 voices. 3 billion parameters. ONE model. Today, we are unveiling STORM-Ensemble 3.0, the most capable multilingual speech synthesis model we have built at PlotWeaver. From Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa and Nigerian Pidgin to Swahili, Amharic, Wolof, Zulu, Xhosa and dozens more, STORM-Ensemble 3.0 generates speech across 64 languages, with 166 distinct speaker voices. Every voice you hear is generated by our model, not a prerecorded sample. But the real breakthrough isn't the numbers. It's what becomes possible when this technology is in the hands of people who can build with it. -African filmmakers distributing stories across languages. -Banks and telcos serving customers in their mother tongues. -Education platforms reaching more children. -Developers building voice AI products without starting from scratch. We are not building AI for African languages simply to prove it can be done. We are building the infrastructure to make our languages commercially viable at global scale. Next week, I will be speaking at the Commonwealth Business Forum in Antigua about unlocking the Commonwealth's creative potential. This launch is a practical demonstration of that ambition. Africa must not simply consume the future of AI. We must build, own and shape the infrastructure that powers it. Watch the video. Listen to the voices. Imagine what's possible. Introducing STORM-Ensemble 3.0. PlotWeaver. Build Once. Speak Every Language. #PlotWeaver #STORMEnsemble #VoiceAI #AfricanLanguages

SCOOP: Major U.S. banks are detecting unauthorized third-party AI agents inside customer accounts, including some attempting to take actions that appear to be independent of user instructions, sources told Axios. The findings have alarmed banking executives, who are racing to restrict access to their systems as AI moves at a velocity faster than financial institutions can respond, multiple industry and bank executives told Axios. Several banks are now preparing for worst-case and even “day after” scenarios, including how to rapidly secure or restore customer accounts if things go wrong, the people said. Several bank executives told Axios they're struggling to distinguish between human users and AI agents. One executive said banks also struggle to determine whether agents are authorized by customers or potentially operating without their permission, more akin to rogue agent behavior. Read my latest for Axios here: axios.com/2026/10/22/ai-agen…

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LIQUID NETWORK UPDATE: ECOSYSTEM ACTIVITY Status as of September 28, 2026, 05:48 UTC Security Audit and PAK update An independent external security audit of Elements v23.3.4 is now underway, providing an additional layer of validation as we work toward the safe restoration of peg-out operations. In parallel, the Liquid Federation is coordinating an update to the PAK list, including the replacement of existing entries and ensuring all peg out keys are properly secured in cold storage. These efforts are important steps toward resuming secure peg-out operations. We expect to share further updates on the path to resumption shortly.

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