Iran Proposes Bitcoin Oil Toll https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/iran-wants-bitcoin-payments-oil-142809623.html + https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs2k4fh032uxuhnmh5r7s6ra3cx4tczkhhc9tt4yuqu3xfl2juxx7skudrk5
France Repatriates Gold Reserves https://x.com/clashreport/status/2041076906280309046
Bitcoin ETF Fastest to $100B https://x.com/mtanguma/status/2041865673110962555
Square Phases Bitcoin Payments https://x.com/milessuter/status/2040154587232182565
Salvadoran Bitcoin Students Join Mempool https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsqcfhdguz5x4hy6zhhur3f72nvjypw4an9ln7lcs0rek6cl5arxgc4rdqj5
Strike updates https://x.com/Strike/status/2041273272587686035
OpenSats 16th Nostr Grants https://opensats.org/blog/sixteenth-wave-of-nostr-grants
Russia | Banks to Use State Messenger for Transaction Verification
Russia’s Ministry of Digital Development is drafting legislation that would require banks to confirm customer financial operations through Max, a Kremlin-controlled messaging app. In practice, instead of confirming transactions within their banking app (or via SMS), users would receive a message in the Max app and must approve the action there to complete it. The proposal applies to undefined “significant” actions, granting officials broad discretion over which financial activities require approval. This would insert state-run app verification into everyday banking. And if Max goes down, significant financial activity may stop entirely. FinancialFreedomReport.org
Sprout Nostr AI Relay https://github.com/block/sprout
Mesh LLM Distributed Inference https://github.com/michaelneale/mesh-llm
Nunchuk CLI for AI Agents https://x.com/nunchuk_io/status/2041878908547821872
Iran Blackout Day 41 https://x.com/netblocks/status/2042140068509290961
Bitchat iOS banned in China, Bitchat android hits 3.2M installs https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs8k3n72knrtm3nvz5vqp4cm9dctxtuc627zz8kttxvqssnl7z60mqfj4rr7 + https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqspne9a0e40ulra9uhvht6mdgad40m63w3xr6h6tuh77rsthue0nlgg66x3y
Google AI Finance Global Launch https://x.com/thefox/status/2041910855479259400
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