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Ignatius__

Full article translate Ready, the First Attacks The attacks against the three targets in Mexico were designed unilaterally in Washington, but Mexican authorities have joined in, with knowledge, information, and possibly operations. Raymundo Riva Palacio Strictly Personal January 26, 2026 | 1:00 hrs The Federal Aviation Administration's notification about a "potentially dangerous situation" in Pacific and Central American waters due to military operations and GNSS interference—the acronym for Global Navigation Satellite System, which includes American GPS geolocators, Chinese Beidou, European Galileo, and Russian GLONASS—is not like the warning the United States issued before attacking Venezuela. That one spoke of air operations over Venezuelan territory, especially in the Caracas airport area; the recent one refers to actions from international maritime waters, with technology that causes communications interference, used in armed conflicts, as in Ukraine. The notification, in the context of U.S. threats of military actions against targets in Mexico, provoked anxieties and fears in this country, answered with clarifications from Mexican authorities indicating it was only for U.S. airlines. This is true, but it doesn't mean that U.S. military operations could respect other countries' vessels. According to U.S. officials, confirmed by Mexicans, these actions are indeed a prelude to attacks on specific targets in our territory, with the knowledge and approval, and even cooperation, of Claudia Sheinbaum's government. U.S. officials said there are three targets in Mexico: in Baja California, without specifying where; in Mazatlán, Sinaloa; and at another undetermined point where Nemesio Oseguera, El Mencho, leader of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel, is supposedly located. The first two targets, according to officials from both countries, are different from taking down a criminal boss, but with a strategically crucial scope: dismantling the drug cartels' money laundering network that is using the cryptocurrency USDT, issued by the company Tether Limited. According to Mexican officials, Americans arrived at these targets in Mexico within their global investigations of this digital currency that is backed by so-called Fiat money, recognized as legitimate for the exchange of goods and services, which doesn't depend on the backing of a physical asset like gold, but on acceptance for use in payments. USDT maintains a value of 1.1 dollars or its equivalent in assets, which aims to reduce the volatility of other digital currencies. U.S. authorities, according to a National Intelligence Center report, entered the market for this cryptocurrency upon finding that it was being used by terrorist groups and drug cartels, and they set a digital bait to achieve its traceability. In this way, a Mexican official specified, they detected two of the main nodes for criminal operations, in Baja California and in Mazatlán. U.S. experts discovered that transactions were being conducted through a popular video game, where they didn't play, but used the microphones to talk and negotiate because they couldn't be intercepted. According to information on the operations, criminal business income was deposited in USDTs, originally created for cross-border transactions, which became a method of criminal operation due to the anonymity of those conducting them, and which were sent to a cold cryptocurrency wallet that, by not connecting to the internet network or operating with so-called smart contracts that facilitate and accelerate transactions, were not potential hacking victims. Cold wallets are only used for sending and receiving assets. From the cold wallet, within seconds, they are placed in a hot wallet, which is online and allows for smart contracts through platforms known as "Exchanges," through which cryptocurrencies are bought, sold, or exchanged. Authorities from both countries have a list of Mexicans, several of them from the Jewish community, who manage the Exchanges that are used by criminal organizations, and who are part of what the Americans want to neutralize and eliminate. According to a U.S. source, the FAA notification alerted U.S. commercial airlines—which Mexican and other countries' airlines flying through the indicated zone should take into account—because they began the operation to attack the nodes at an undetermined time, but from what they announced they have a 60-day window. The role the Mexican government is playing in this first part of the operation against criminal organizations' financing and money laundering networks has not been disclosed. The second part of the operation targets El Mencho, leader of the criminal organization that most concerns the United States and Mexico, of which there are also indications that he has planned terrorist acts during the World Cup this summer. It hasn't been specified where Oseguera is located, but U.S. officials had warned two weeks ago that a drone attack in Michoacán was defined, without specifying in which area. The head of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel has been very elusive. In 2021, thanks to a tip from the National Guard, he managed to evade a federal operation on the border between Guanajuato and Jalisco, and during Andrés Manuel López Obrador's government, Navy intelligence located him in the municipality of El Grullo, in southwest Jalisco, but when they requested authorization to capture him, the former president denied it and only allowed them to keep him under surveillance. That was, apparently, the best opportunity they had to detain him. In Sheinbaum's government, operations against this criminal organization have increased, aligning strategic interests with the United States for an operation that manages to neutralize him. The attacks against the three targets in Mexico were designed unilaterally in Washington, but Mexican authorities have joined in, with knowledge, information, and possibly operations. The degree of participation and functions that Mexico's security forces could have is unknown, but the Americans haven't kept them in the dark, as at other times. It would be difficult to do so, and would place the United States in a more serious problem for Sheinbaum's government than the capture of Ismael El Mayo Zambada, because it would mean an attack on Mexican territory where without collaboration existing, it would be a flagrant violation of sovereignty that would force the president to take retaliatory actions to the detriment of both countries.

Otherwise-Line-9223

It's actually created by the US government. Read the below short informative article. > Bitcoin is often portrayed as a mysterious, decentralised accident of history, but when you analyse it through a geopolitical and financial lens, a different picture starts to emerge. Blockchain itself is not a foreign or alien concept — it originated from American cryptographic research, defence-funded computing work, and early internet protocol design. The United States has a long history of quietly incubating foundational technologies (like GPS and the internet itself) before releasing them into the public domain. Bitcoin appears to follow a similar pattern. What started as an experimental peer-to-peer digital cash system, developed by a small group of American cryptographers and systems engineers, grew faster than expected. Once its implications became clear — immutable settlement, censorship resistance, and global transferability — the project was effectively absorbed and contained. The “Satoshi Nakamoto” identity functions as a protective narrative layer, shielding the original creators and preventing any single jurisdiction from being directly accountable. From a strategic standpoint, Bitcoin solves a long-term American problem: preserving financial dominance in a world where the dollar faces gradual erosion from rising multipolar powers. As China, Russia, and India began reducing dollar dependence and exploring alternative settlement systems, a neutral-looking, contract-based digital asset provided the perfect counterbalance. Unlike fiat currency, Bitcoin is non-killable. It cannot be sanctioned, frozen, or inflated away. In large-scale disasters, geopolitical fragmentation, or institutional collapse, it continues to function — exactly the characteristics required for a strategic financial hedge. Official disclosures show that the US government acknowledges holding a very small percentage of the total Bitcoin supply. However, these figures only represent what is legally required to be reported. Strategic reserves, custodial holdings, and indirectly controlled assets are not fully visible to the public. No other nation comes close to the effective control the US maintains over Bitcoin liquidity, infrastructure, and policy influence. In effect, Bitcoin acts as a parallel reserve asset — one that appears decentralised, operates globally, and yet ultimately reinforces American dominance by anchoring the world to an internet-native value system designed under US technological leadership. It is not an alternative to American power. It is an extension of it.

LamboStar

Does anyone know exactly where this is? I saw the photo (or a similar one) in a Mallorca group but no one could tell me the exact GPS location.

St0uty

Why would the tryanical regime care about cost effective visible hauling people? When has that stopped them? >What yor're arguing for is more like: "every car must livestream its full GPS history publicly." That's not how vehicles work, and people would reject it instantly. And we have this already with online banking, people accepted it instantly and you've yet to explain how this has negatively impacted your life (probably because it's been a non-issue) >A better tool is to have proper financial education to avoid scammers Agreed but does that mean you never pursue any scammer ever?

INeverSaySS

> Again the problem here is the tyrannical regime… they can just decide to haul us both away This is a non-argument. "A state can abuse power anyway" is not a reason to make abuse easier and cheaper. Design matters because it changes the marginal cost of repression. Hauling people away is expensive and visible; mass financial surveillance is cheap, scalable, and retrospective. That's why regimes love it. > I assume that they probably do anyway Which is why a lot of people use apps like Signal which are fully open source and without backdoors... Making those illegal would make our lives objectively worse. Whistleblowers, journalists and marginal groups are just a few examples of people who need protection from the state today, let alone tomorrow. > sending money is closer to manning a vehicle… license plates… so we need transparency for transactions. Bad analogy. License plates are not broadcast publicly with a permanent log of everywhere you've ever driven, indexed by anyone, forever. They're an identifier used for specific enforcement and you still have due-process constraints around access to detailed records. What yor're arguing for is more like: "every car must livestream its full GPS history publicly." That's not how vehicles work, and people would reject it instantly. > What about the on chain detectives that catch scammers? Seems like an effective and powerful tool A better tool is to have proper financial education to avoid scammers which would save a lot more consumer money than "chain detectives". And "on chain detectives" do not catch any significant share of the amount of money being scammed in crypto spaces.

MtGloomy0420

I wonder if we’ll use GPS one day! 💪

flyflyflyfly66

Yeah it's like he posted my name and home address....... IP address – Even if an IP were real, it only gives a very rough location (often the ISP’s city), not your home. N: 43.7462 / W: 12.4893 – Random GPS coordinates (these point to a place in Italy, not to a person). “SS Number: 6979…” – Completely fake. Real SSNs have strict formatting and cannot be obtained this way. IPv6 / MAC address / DMZ / UPnP – Random technical buzzwords thrown together incorrectly. DNS 8.8.8.8 / 1.1.1.1 – These are public DNS servers used by millions of people. Gateway 192.168.x.x – That’s a private internal network address, not useful outside someone’s home. “UDP open port” – Meaningless in this context.

bannedphilanthropist

He’s a person like Santa Clause has a social security number. It’s the intelligence community. Like the internet itself, we get trickle down from the military’s innovations and it changes the way we live once implemented. Google earth. GPS. Fucking duct tape. All brought to you by Uncle Sam investing in ideas.

Unusual-Piece-93

Anyone want to invest in my new business venture? GPS tracked cold storage wallet that starts sending a signal in 300 years. 100% money back guarantee if it doesn’t start transmitting.

EggMedical3514

The way I did it the first time was I took an old phone that I had (it has to be able to read usb sticks - OTG) and set it back to default settings.  Then I turned off all of the Wi-Fi and GPS and bluetooth etc.  Then I downloaded off github Ian Coleman's standalone HTML bip39 seed generator, which i  put on to a freshly formatted USB stick. Then I inserted the stick into the phone and pulled it onto the phones hd. Then i opened it in a browser (chrome i think) and generated my 24 word seed + passphrase. Then i wrote down the seed and took the "ACCOUNT EXTENDED PUBLIC KEY" (which is the coleman tools name for the xpub) and put it on the usb stick, along with the first few addresses (for confirmation later). Then i pulled out the usb stick and returned the phone back to factory default,  and tossed it back in the drawer. Then I took the USB stick and put it in my computer and pulled the xpub off it and put it into sparrow wallet to create my watch only wallet,  And confirmed that it generated the same receive addresses as I had pulled off the ian coleman tool. Can I reformatted theUSB stick and was done. --------- This is not the setup I use anymore as it is not possible to send Bitcoin with this setup. There's no way to sign a transaction. But buy and hold? Safe. Secure. Free.

Aerocryptic

It's not only the main functionalities that I talk about. But stuff like the GPS. When I have an apointment, it would really be painful to go back to the time when I had to print maps, itinerary, contacts and so on. Plus I use some professional tools that I drive from my phone

y___o___y___o

> "Buy it to make things".... what things??? - yeah, didn't think so either..... You are not aware that Gold is used heavily in industry?  Electrical contact plating (connectors in electronics) 2. Relay contacts 3. Switch contacts 4. Printed-circuit board (PCB) edge connectors 5. Semi-conductor die bonding wires (gold bonding wires) 6. Audio/video cable connectors (gold-plated) 7. Computer motherboard connector pins 8. Mobile phone internal connectors 9. GPS receiver internal connectors 10. Aerospace satellite wiring & connectors  11. Spacecraft thermal-control coatings (gold film to reflect infrared)  12. Astronaut helmet visors coated with gold film  13. Heat-shielding foil/films (in aerospace) 14. Specialized sensors (electronics) 15. Medical electronic device contacts (e.g., pacemaker electrodes)  16. Dental crowns and bridges (gold alloys)  17. Dental fillings using gold alloy 18. Surgical instruments (gold-coated or gold alloy)  19. Medical implants electrodes (gold wiring) 20. Cancer-treatment radioactive gold isotopes (in medical therapy)  21. Specialty glass colouring (gold nanoparticles make ruby glass)  22. Architectural specialty glass coatings (gold-coated to reflect solar radiation)  23. Gold leaf for building domes and decorative building surfaces  24. Gold leaf and gilding in fine art and architectural finishes 25. Catalyst in chemical industry (gold nanoparticle heterogeneous catalysis)  26. High-end CD/DVD reflective layer (gold)  27. Electronic warfare and aerospace radar/IR coatings (reflective gold film)  28. Car engine compartments/heat shields (premium performance vehicles)  29. Aircraft de-icing/anti-icing films (thin gold layers in cockpit windows)  30. Chemical sensors (gold surfaces for detection) 31. Nanotechnology applications (nanoporous gold, nanoparticle gold)  32. Micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) gold coatings/wires 33. Optical devices (mirrors/coatings using gold) 34. Laser components (gold coatings) 35. Infra-red shielding foils in buildings or spacecraft 36. Decorative laminates in electronics (premium brands) 37. Automotive electronic connectors (luxury models) 38. Printed wiring boards using ENIG (Electroless Nickel Immersion Gold) process  39. Plating for corrosion-resistant electrical contacts 40. High-reliability connectors in military equipment 41. Telecommunication equipment high-end connectors 42. Data-centre server connectors (for reliability) 43. Sensor contacts in industrial automation 44. Connector pins in medical diagnostic equipment 45. Premium audio equipment connectors/plugs 46. Satellite solar-panel connectors (space use) 47. Aerospace wiring harnesses uses gold plating for reliability 48. High-vacuum equipment contacts (gold resists corrosion) 49. Semiconductor packaging leads (wire bonds) 50. Photonic devices / photodetectors using gold contacts

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Metaversed

Our initial goal was shared augmented reality for the tabletop game Warhammer 40,000 back in 2019, but quickly realized that the state-of-the-art in spatial computing didn't really allow for the kind of seamless experience we wanted. The problem was (and still is) that digital have no innate understanding of their physical surroundings. Before two devices can reason about or place digital information in physical space, they must first be able to establish a shared coordinate system. Two years and some mushrooms later we had seen that phones, glasses and robots are all going to need a decentralized GPS-replacement, and by 2021 we had invented the first important step in the right direction.

Proper-Plantain9387

Yes, this is the point I was making also... thanks! It's more about a piece of mind knowing you don't want or like anyone to know you own personal business of what you do with your crypto (just like you wouldn't want GPS trackers on your cash when you use/store it in your wallet).

JuliusEasier

I decided up setting up two iron key drives, both with all the same data (public/private keys/seed phrases/locations of custody assets and associated logins..etc). Each iron key has its own password login, make it easy to remember or use something you or surviving spouse can refer back too (I use a GPS coordinates of the physical location stored and pin it on my phone maps, easy peasy). The password for the drive easily obtainable is recorded and kept with the other iron key that is held with a trusted party. That iron key has its password stored with the easily obtainable drive. The secret here is to place the alternate drive with someone that will ask questions before releasing it or instructed to provide it upon your death. That person needs a short list of who those people are to be. As for the recovery efforts, gotta make it easy as possible. The directions can also be stored there on the drive. Personally, I’m taking it to the next step and adding a third drive to the mix for redundancy.

linuxusr

Lie. Truth could propagate geographically and you could be located via GPS to criminals who could force you to give your seed words. P.S. Keep your lies consistent.

AppTB

Because it’s the best way to create a backup to the dollar/US treasuries. Let’s they know that the dollar collapse is inevitable. They don’t have as much gold as they’d like to, so they create an alternative asset in which they guarantee a portion of the asset to be in U.S. hands. Supporting details: • U.S. intelligence agencies have long modeled currency collapse scenarios. • Gold has historically been the default hedge, but the U.S. gold reserves are finite and difficult to expand. • Creating an alternative, digital reserve asset, controlled in its early distribution by U.S. entities, ensuring American dominance if the dollar’s credibility faltered. • Bitcoin’s whitepaper was released in October 2008, just weeks after Lehman Brothers collapsed and faith in the global financial system was at its lowest. • This timing supports the view that its release was not coincidental, but rather strategically aligned with a moment of maximum openness to alternatives. • By planting a decentralized-seeming system at this exact time, the U.S. could channel market distrust of banks into a system it quietly seeded. • If global demand for U.S. Treasuries weakens, Bitcoin functions as a parallel store of value not tied to foreign central banks. • Unlike gold, Bitcoin is digital, traceable, and programmable—features intelligence agencies could leverage for monitoring flows of capital. • By ensuring U.S. persons and institutions gained an outsized early share of Bitcoin (via mining or key access), the U.S. would have a reserve-like stake in the system. • The CIA and DARPA have historically incubated foundational technologies under the guise of academic or civilian projects (e.g., ARPANET → the Internet, satellite systems, GPS). • A cryptographically secured, decentralized currency fits the same mold of disruptive “dual-use” innovations that begin with intelligence or military drivers and later filter into public use. • A “stateless” money system reduces suspicion that the U.S. is backing it—while allowing the U.S. to quietly maintain a position of advantage. • The appearance of decentralization makes adoption global, but early structural advantages (e.g., concentration of mining, developer influence, custody firms) could remain in U.S. hands. • If other global powers (China, Russia) sought to hedge against the dollar, they might unintentionally strengthen a system with U.S. fingerprints embedded in its origin.

allnightscroller

Thanks for the response, but ignoring well-documented historical context around Bitcoin’s origins is, in itself, a form of selective propaganda. Bitcoin didn’t emerge in a vacuum. As early as 1996, the NSA published a paper titled “How to Make a Mint: The Cryptography of Anonymous Electronic Cash”, outlining most of the core principles Bitcoin would later use — anonymous transactions, proof-of-work, public key cryptography, and decentralized clearing mechanisms. Even SHA-256, Bitcoin’s foundational hash function, was developed by the NSA. That’s not a coincidence — it’s a familiar pattern: first military-grade innovation, then "public release" and civilian adoption. It happened with GPS, the internet, Tor — and now Bitcoin. Bitcoin’s whitepaper didn’t invent these ideas from scratch. It’s built on technologies like Hashcash (Back), b-money (Wei Dai), and Bit Gold (Szabo) — all either directly linked to government-funded cryptographic research or operating within adjacent academic-military spaces. Add to that the fact that “Satoshi” never revealed their identity, disappeared immediately after launch, and left their coins untouched to this day — this has all the hallmarks of a well-structured op, not a rogue genius coder. Bitcoin wasn’t a spontaneous revolution. It was a carefully deployed protocol. Not to destroy the system — but to back it up.

the_fattest_mitton

This. 1. ‘Omg quantum computers’. Yea… but once QCs can break SHA-256, Bitcoin upgrades to SHA-512 and the chase continues. 2. If QCs are able to break SHA-256, we’ve got bigger problems than money. Breaking SHA-256 could mean hacking into almost anything. Nuclear warheads, nuclear power plants, the electric grid, hydropower, communications, GPS, security systems, everything. At that point, why take people’s money when you can deactivate an entire nation effectively removing them from global society.

OkSeries5363

I appreciate you've provided more specific data points, as it helps clarify our core disagreement. You're arguing the CPI is systematically manipulated, while I'm arguing that your examples are a misunderstanding of purpose of a constant quality index in statistics and the very methods used to ensure its statistical accuracy. Your claim that the CPI doesn’t match what the majority of working class households are experiencing' relies on a key assumption: that the CPI is designed to measure the personal inflation rate of a specific demographic. It's not. The CPI is a national, statistical average for all urban consumers. It's impossible for a single number to perfectly represent every household, from a single retiree to a family of five. You're using an anecdotal argument about a specific group and trying to apply it to a national average. If the CPI was only weighted for low-income budgets, it would be inaccurate for everyone else You point out that electricity and car insurance are weighted low, even though they can be a large part of a working class budget. This brings us back to the central issue. The CPI is not designed to show what a single household spends. It reflects that the national average household budget isn't composed solely of these rising costs. Some people don't own cars, and for others, car insurance is a small fraction of their expenses. The weights are determined by the CES, which tracks the actual spending habits not assumed, of thousands of households to create a representative national picture, not a manipulated one. Regarding rent and OER, If they just used the index for residential rent, CPI would be excluding home owners costs/behaviours. You're right to question if a homeowner's survey response is a perfect proxy for the real world. However, the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) uses this method for a specific reason and critically supplements it with other data. CPI It includes a separate index for residential rent which tracks the rent paid by actual tenants. Both are combined to accurately represent shelter for all renters and all homeowners. Real time transaction data from online real estate marketplaces has been debated or is still being debated, it might be more accurate and be better than a home owners estimates, using real time transaction data might happen in the future but there a number very real issues with introducing and lowering the accuracy of the CPI, but there are also advantages so the its no settled, just using a feed of price data is inaccurate as It is designed to measure the change in the price of a constant basket of goods, not just the prices of new listings. A simple index of asking rents could overstate inflation by not accounting for the difference between new and renewed leases. Or new home prices don't account for the cost of people who didn't buy current home. On your point about health insurance premiums, you've stumbled upon quite a technical aspect of the CPI, but your conclusion is incorrect. The CPI doesn't use 'insurer retained earnings' to 'show decreases when premiums spike.' The methodology is a way to avoid double counting inflation. The CPI already measures the cost of hospital stays, doctor visits, and prescriptions. If it also included the portion of your premium that pays for those exact same services, it would be double counting the inflation. The index is designed to measure the change in the administrative service of insurance itself. It's a precise, if counterintuitive, way to isolate price changes and not double count. Your argument that removing these makes the CPI less correct is backwards. These are not manipulations, they are critical to creating an accurate, constant quality index. Substitution isn't a random assumption, it's based on how consumers actually behave. When the price of steak goes up, people buy more ground beef. A fixed basket of goods would ignore this real world consumer behavior and overstate inflation. If people aren't swaping its not changed. Hedonic adjustments ensure that we are comparing apples to apples. If a new phone costs more but has a better camera and processor, the CPI adjusts for the fact that you are getting a higher quality product. Without this, the CPI would be wildly inflated, because you are not buying the same product as you were a year ago. It would be like saying the cost of a car went up 20% when a new model now has airbags and GPS, which the old one didn't. The adjustment separates a true price increase from a quality improvement. A criticism might be that while a phone might get a processor that's twice a powerful is adjusted in CPI to account for the improvment, its also very true that other features and software updates might require this and phone is not twice as fast, while CPI accounts for this and is highly exhaustive, it does not account for the realties that you are virtually required to use a better phone than 25 years ago. So it's very true it doesn't account for the costs to stay up to date with current technology, same with a new car example, certain new features are now required in all cars. You might think this is a failure to account for, but again it's intentional, CPI is truly focused on a absolute direct comparison of goods, the goal is exclude so it's like we always comparing the same items. Like core inflation, it purposely excludes volatile items like food and energy, it's not manipulated down further, it serves a different purpose to headline inflation. Your specific examples of electricity, insurance, and rent are not evidence of manipulation. On the contrary, they are all real world data points that the CPI collects and uses. The issue is that you are looking at specific items in isolation, while the CPI is looking at a weighted average of the entire national economy. Looking at the inflation items individually might make more sense. The CPIs methods, from its weighting to its adjustments, are specifically designed to provide an accurate, non anecdotal measure of headline inflation. To suggest they are structurally downplayed is simply a misunderstanding of the CPIs goal - To measure the average change in prices, not to represent a specific personal or working class budget, it's not meant to show the full burden you experience, it's not including the cost to rent/buy a home today, buying a home today is not average, the current cost to buy/rent isn't is far from the average. Or the true to cost to stay up to date in our world, like the technology or car example. These are  intentional specific features not a flaws.

never_safe_for_life

You son of a bitch, I'm in. Send me your GPS coordinates. I'll be there on my stealth jet.

riscten

[https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS](https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/ASPUS) The sales price of a house sold in the US has literally averaged 3.7% inflation over the last 25 years. To reiterate my example, if inflation had been 10% for just 10 years, the average US house would be over $900K by now. There are four factors at play that make people believe there's rampant inflation: 1. They conveniently ignore years of low (and even negative) inflation; 2. They have tunnel vision for the stuff that rises sharply and conveniently ignore all the other stuff that inflates very slowly, or even gets cheaper; 3. They base their observations exclusively on HCOL areas; 4. They turn a blind eye to the fact that they're consuming more, or more luxurious products. A brand new smartphone might be $1000 today, but it's orders of magnitude more powerful than the Nokia 3310 you'd buy for $150 back in 2000. People used to buy a phone AND a point-and-shoot AND an MP3 player AND a GPS... etc. Now they buy one device that does all of those things. In terms of value, a Galaxy S25 is far, far cheaper than the 3310, and for those who really just need the phone part today, they can get something technologically comparable to the 3310, like the Nokia 105, for a third of the price (in reality even the 105 is more advanced than the 3310). And then there's all these people leasing immense land yachts for no apparent reason, when they used to drive around in Civics and Camrys, which were much, much simpler vehicles back then. The true problem is not rampant inflation, it is rampant consumerism.

freightdog5

it doesn't need to be shady people forget that the internet and the GPS are US military programs that turn out to be useful , maybe the US needed some payment system to get around SWIFT limitations. we will know when it get declassified maybe? one day? also why I believe it's US made because America would never let something like that to dominate the US market without it's control think what happened to Huawei

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Australian crypto billionaire Tim Heath narrowly escaped a kidnapping attempt in Estonia by biting off part of an attacker's finger. Two men posing as painters ambushed Heath in his apartment building, intending to force him into a van and extort his crypto holdings. Heath fought back, losing a tooth in the struggle, and the attackers fled. The group had stalked Heath using GPS and forged passports. Two suspects are on trial, while others remain at large. Heath has since spent over $3.1M on private security and moved homes. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

mebeast227

Facebook used data to sell you stuff and sway your political leanings. Both of those uses are bad. But having people’s AI searches and physical integrations is going to have both of those problems + WAY more I have asked it medicals questions My boss uses it to make financial spreadsheets, helps him with invoices, and even miniscule things like updating work schedules I’ve used it to (try) to create websites and phone apps People have it reading their emails I have a buddy who treats it like a therapist Then there is going to be AI GPS home appliances Fitness watch integration that monitors your blood pressure and steps travel manager (flights and hotels) Social event planning “How to” assistance Job resumes Then you get into deepfake porn generation It will help plan weddings, decide outfits, where you eat, how to allocate your time, and whatever else people can think of The level of intrusiveness AI will achieve is going to blow old school data collection out of the water and it’s not even close. A lot of that data was collected before, but it was fragmented between A LOT of different parties. This is going to get eaten up by whichever AI platform becomes the “operating system” for AI agents and then that data is going to be abused by the collector, sold off to marketers and advertisers, then provided to the govt, then funneled into Palantir. I do wonder if crypto will manage to pull off some sort of side market for AI use and finances because it’s going to be extremely necessary pretty soon (especially with all the shit happening the masked “ICE” agents and trump abducting people and shipping them off with no due process)

666Sayonara

its 20$ for a steak here now and they are locking steaks behind GPS tracking packages and windows with locks now. Poor people can afford to eat, but it isnt the food you want to be eating.

jawni

>Solana, like BNB, is largely a chain used for scam coins and junk. I don't believe they're faking the usage, but i believe the usage is 90% moonboys trading useless junk. and? What's your point? As I'll explain after this, there is far more then that happening on Solana, but if that's all it was... so what? They pay fees and fees are ultimately what every chain needs to survive if they don't want to rely on inflation and it doesn't seem to be going away. But the truth is that Solana facilitates a lot more than just memecoin trading. >What's SOL great for? Scam coins, because everything it does another network does better. Well, considering "scam coins" are treated by every blockchain as just an "asset" that means Solana should be the preferred network at moving any kind of asset around. Institutions have realized this and that's why they're flocking to Solana. Examples: [Kraken Partners with Backed to Launch xStocks on Solana for Tokenized U.S. Equities](https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20250522005476/en/Kraken-Partners-with-Backed-to-Launch-xStocks-on-Solana-Bringing-Tokenized-Equities-to-the-Masses) [Classover Holdings Secures $500M for Solana-Based Treasury Reserve Strategy](https://www.fintechweekly.com/fintech-news/classover-holdings-secures-500m-to-launch-solana-based-treasury-game) [R3 Collaborates with Solana Foundation to Offer Enterprise-Grade Consensus Service on Solana](https://r3.com/press-releases/r3-signals-strategic-shift-to-lead-the-convergence-of-public-and-private-blockchains-to-deliver-internet-capital-markets-through-collaboration-with-solana-foundation/) [Seven Asset Managers File Solana ETF S-1s with SEC, Including Fidelity and Franklin Templeton](https://t.co/B4O8s6Zf0i) [DeFi Development Corp Secures $5B Equity Line for Solana Treasury Strategy](https://t.co/77yeQ6JXxG) [Robinhood Explores Solana for Tokenized U.S. Stock Trading Platform in Europe](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-07/robinhood-hood-plans-blockchain-to-trade-us-assets-in-europe) [Bybit Launches Byreal, First On-Chain DEX on Solana, Targeting Hybrid Finance](https://www.cryptobriefing.com/bybit-byreal-solana-dex-launch/) --- But it's not just institutional interest and memecoins, it's also DePIN, Solana is **easily** the leader in this area and here are some examples showing that: [GEODNET Partners with USDA for Centimeter-Precise GPS, Achieving $3M Annualized Revenue](https://www.theblock.co/post/316439/depin-players-hivemapper-helium-and-helio-chart-real-life-crypto-path-on-solana) [Grass Reaches 1M Users with Chrome Extension for Decentralized Bandwidth Monetization](https://tokeninsight.com/en/insider/leading-depin-projects-on-solana/page/1) [XNET Bridges to Solana, Reduces Token Supply by 90%, and Offloads 150 GB Daily Traffic](https://www.bitget.com/news/detail/1256051681632) [Helium Surpasses 335,000 Mobile Subscribers, Expands 5G Coverage with T-Mobile Partnership] (https://blockworks.co/news/solanas-biggest-depin-is-setting-records) --- But it's not just interest and memecoins *and* DePIN, there is also massive traction in the payment/stablecoin space: [Fiserv Launches FIUSD Stablecoin on Solana, Connecting 10K Banks and 6M Merchants](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/06/23/stablecoin-news-fiserv-makes-entrance/) [Visa Expands USDC Stablecoin Settlement Pilot to Solana for Cross-Border Payments](https://www.coindesk.com/business/2023/09/05/visa-expands-stablecoin-settlement-capabilities-to-merchant-acquirers-with-circle/) [PayPal Integrates PYUSD Stablecoin on Solana, Enhancing Payment Scalability](https://cointelegraph.com/news/paypal-solana-pyusd-expansion) [Stripe Supports Solana Payments, Driving Ecosystem Growth for Merchants](https://dailycoin.com/solana-sees-mayor-ecosystem-growth-as-stripe-and-paypal-integrations-lead-the-way/) [Shopify Integrates Solana Pay, Enabling Stablecoin Payments for Millions of Businesses](https://www.theblock.co/post/316439/depin-players-hivemapper-helium-and-helio-chart-real-life-crypto-path-on-solana) [Mastercard Partners with Solana Foundation for Crypto Credential Standards](https://www.nasdaq.com/articles/solana-in-2023:-a-look-back-at-top-storylines-coin-surge-plus-partnerships-with-visa) [Following a Crypto.com issuer pilot, Visa expands stablecoin settlement capabilities with Circle’s USDC, adding pilot programs with merchant acquirers Worldpay and Nuvei, and utilizing the Solana blockchain.](https://usa.visa.com/about-visa/newsroom/press-releases.releaseId.19881.html) --- That's far from everything, but you should get the point.

StugDrazil

Sounds like a Treasury Hunt to me. Thanks to GPS and freely available public information this might be easy. /s

126270

If quantum will magically crack crypto just because it’s quantum - we need to fix way more things than crypto, first Way worse fallout if quantum hacks GPS system, FAA system, TLD/DNS system, etc etc

Laukess

I don't think I would roll my own security like this. Maybe you haven't thought about something important, like someone spoofing your GPS location, and it ends up fucking you. Your probably better off with something like this. [https://www.anchorwatch.com](https://www.anchorwatch.com) Other alternatives that look promising are: [https://www.wizardsardine.com/liana/](https://www.wizardsardine.com/liana/) and [https://bitcoinkeeper.app](https://bitcoinkeeper.app) Maybe a solution for long term storage is to use multi-sig, and have one of the keys in a safe deposit box. You then have to go to the physical location to get access, and if you are forced, you can stay in the safe deposit box room and have the staff call the police. I'm excited to see where these collaborative custody multi-sig wallets will be like in the future. I like the idea that they can sign for small transactions, and for larger ones, you maybe have to physically go somewhere. You might also find this interesting. [https://sigbash.com](https://sigbash.com)

steelersaccountant

This is why I asked: a Faraday box or bag can protect a cold wallet (hardware wallet) from electromagnetic interference (EMI) and radio waves, offering an added layer of protection.  How it works: A Faraday cage (or box/bag) is a conductive enclosure that blocks electromagnetic fields from entering or leaving. It does this by absorbing and reflecting electromagnetic waves. This creates a shielded environment for the devices inside.  Why this protects a cold wallet: Shielding against radio waves: A Faraday bag or box can protect against radio wave frequencies, potentially preventing side-channel attacks that attempt to exploit radio wave leaks or the device's wireless connectivity features (like Bluetooth or NFC). Protection from electromagnetic pulses (EMP): While not providing complete protection from large EMP blasts, a Faraday box can increase the survival rate of the device by shielding it from this intense electromagnetic energy. Protection against various other signals: Faraday bags can block a wide range of electromagnetic radiation, including cellular, GPS, Bluetooth, WiFi, RFID, and NFC radio waves.  Factors to consider: Wireless connectivity: If your cold wallet has Bluetooth, NFC, or other wireless technology, a Faraday bag offers protection against potential attacks targeting these features. Risk of EMP exposure: If you work or travel in areas with a higher risk of EMP exposure (e.g., airports, military facilities, war zones), a Faraday bag provides an added layer of security. Threat tolerance: While Faraday bags can provide additional security, they are not the only, or even the most important, security measure for your cold wallet.  In summary: A Faraday box or bag can effectively shield your cold wallet from radio waves and electromagnetic pulses, offering an extra layer of protection, particularly if your device has wireless features or if you are concerned about EMP exposure. 

CasualRedditObserver

At the end of the year, I want to be able to export as a spreadsheet a list of every transaction from that year. At a minimum it needs the date, time, and amount of bitcoins (or sats) transacted. Optionally, it might be helpful if it could retrieve the exchange rate at that time to include both that and the value of the transaction in local currency. I'd like to be able to optionally add a label to the transaction to remind me of its purpose, and include that label in the spreadsheet. If I don't feel like taking the time to add the label, it'd be extra helpful if there were a button I could hit that would use GPS to identify the address or business location I'm standing at, and insert that as the label. That takes care of my tracking and reporting desires. Beyond that, it needs to be very easy to move invoices back and forth between the app and both txt and email (as well as photos). I'd also like it if I could choose/configure whether the default interface is send, receive, or view balance. That way, when I open the app it's immediately ready for my most common use case, without needing to hit additional buttons. For privacy, it would be good also to be able to configure it not to show my balance at all. That way, when I use it to pay someone, they can't "shoulder surf" while I'm paying to see how much I'm carrying.

HSuke

> If you look at the great technological innovations, encryption, GPS, Internet, AI, semiconductors etc. can all be traced back to pentagon funding GPS is Pentagon-funded, but the rest of these aren't going to stand up against fact-checking. Encryption has been around for centuries, and even modern cryptography (DHE) wasn't originally funded by the Pentagon.

n1247

If you look at the great technological innovations, encryption, GPS, Internet, AI, semiconductors etc. can all be traced back to pentagon funding. The thought has always been in the back of mind mind about bitcoin.. What if?

7366241494

There are GPS ways to interviews that aren’t just vibes but almost no hiring manager bothers to learn it.

Zombie4141

I imagine, If you can catch one in the wild, you could put a GPS beacon on them.

hex_ten

You should have put your seed phrase in canopic jars and buried them in the desert then stamped the GPS location on metal sheets locked in a deposit box with the key secured in a safe to which the combination is a date substitution cypher you get tattooed on the back of your eyelids. You know. Like the rest of us. I feel for you man.

coinfeeds-bot

tldr; Binance has banned a market maker and confiscated its proceeds after discovering misconduct and market irregularities. The unnamed market maker, which provided liquidity for GoPlus Security (GPS) and MyShell (SHELL), was offboarded, and its funds will be used to compensate affected users. GPS and SHELL tokens have seen significant value drops following the incident. Both GoPlus and MyShell have denied prior knowledge of the misconduct and are taking steps to ensure transparency and accountability moving forward. *This summary is auto generated by a bot and not meant to replace reading the original article. As always, DYOR.

jawni

>But what have they built on these trash chains, except scams and grifts? Well this is just an assortment of some of the stuff on Solana: Payments * Partnerships with the biggest payment providers in the world like Visa, Shopify, Worldpay, Stripe, and Paypal * Stablecoin supply growing fast and at an ATH * Great payment apps like Code, Sphere, Caffeine * Solcard, Solswipe, Quartz and Sanctum all launching SOL debit cards Protocol * New client Firedancer in the works and close to completion, partial version "FrankenDancer" already on mainnet. * SIMD228 proposing a inflation rate based on staking rates which would drop inflation to under 1% at current rates and 0% at it's lowest. * Addition of token extensions and zk-compression allows for more unique tokenization. * Onchain revenue massively outpacing the entire industry DeFi * DEXs: Jupiter, Raydium, Orca, Meteora, Lifinity, Pumpfun * Perps: Drift, Zeta, Adrena, Flashtrade * Trading Bots: Bullx, Photon, GMGN, Trojan, Bonkbot, Maestro, MEVX * Money Markets: Kamino, Save, MarginFi, Port Finance * Infra: Heliopay, Jito, DeBridge, Wormhole * Wallets: Phantom, Backpack, Solflare * Social Trading Apps: Vector.fun, Bags, Moonshot RWA * Ondo Finance: Launched USDY on Solana, a stablecoin offering 5.2% APY backed by US Treasury Bills and bank deposits, integrated with various Solana DeFi protocols * Franklin Templeton added Solana to the blockchains supporting trading of its onchain U.S. Government Money Market Fund (FOBXX). * Homebase: Tokenizes real estate for fractional ownership; launched in 2021, facilitated global investments. * Parcl: Tokenizes real estate for liquidity; launched, partnered with real estate firms, successful projects. DePIN * Helium: A decentralized wireless network; launched in 2019, covers large areas, adopted by companies. * Hivemapper: A mapping platform with user-collected data; launched in 2022, comprehensive database. * Render Network: A GPU rendering platform; migrated to Solana in 2023, large network for computing. * Grass: A decentralized data storage platform; launched, attracts users for secure hosting. * GEODNET: transforming global positioning services by building a decentralized Real-Time Kinematics (RTK) network that delivers precise, cost-effective corrections for GPS * [This report shows just how staggering Solana's lead is when it comes to DePIN](https://messari.io/report-pdf/9de6bbfaa6ad1a782fd94f70a6e8385f569689f7.pdf) AI * Nosana: A GPU grid for AI inference on Solana; launched, network of providers and developers. * Render Network: Supports AI via decentralized GPU rendering; migrated to Solana in 2023, used for AI tasks. * SendAI: Provides tools for AI agents on Solana; launched, adopted by projects for dApps. * ZerePy/AI16Z/ElizaOS/Virtuals: The most popular frameworks for AI agents all available on Solana * Solana constantly leading in AI mindshare via Cookie.fun SocialFi * timedotfun: This platform introduces time-based assets, allows users to sell, trade, and redeem time with others. It stands out by redefining fan engagement, enabling time-based smart contracts for personalized interactions, and creating a liquid market for time as an asset3. * Moonwalk Fitness: a fitness accountability app that combines daily step goals with financial incentives. Users can join or create a crew, set a daily step target, and stake their crypto like USDC, SOL, or BONK. Achieving goals protects your deposit, while failing leads to a forfeiture of a portion of your stake. * Drip Haus: A collectibles platform that airdrops free NFTs to thousands of users, peaking at 160,000 users.

tnh88

It's still innovating. Good trading volume is good for the blockchain. It stress tests the chain and forces innovation. A good anology is military forcing innovation (GPS) and growth in science.

Dettol-tasting-menu

Well space shuttle flied pretty low. While GPS satellites orbit the earth at around 20,000km above. A typical Space Shuttle mission was at around 200-700km altitude.

glitter_my_dongle

That isn't how it works in a governmental sense. The problem is that the tax revenue and the treasury of the government is a bargaining tool for their alliances. So cutting government spending is simple on paper. The only solution then is to remove the dependencies and to spin off government infrastructure into the capitalistic work through selling it. So like selling rights for using mailboxes or GPS systems or stuff like that. You can't easily cut government spending but you can move it to a competitive market

HalfRick

Do you know how the amount of cash in circulation is decided? It’s the same in all European countries.  The more cash people withdraw from ATMs, the faster they will be depleted and thus refilled, which causes a shortage of cash - and they will print more bills.  The proportion of cash in society is decreasing because people use cash less than they used to. Be honest: how much do you use cash today? If it’s not 100%, you’re part of why the amount of cash is decreasing.  It’s that easy.  “Oh but the number of ATMs are decreasing”.  That’s because banks are decreasing them since they aren’t being used. It’s not a government or central bank decision.  “Oh but there are places which don’t accept cash.” That’s not a government or central bank decision.  “Oh but…” Not a government or central bank decision.  If there would be some kind of evil conspiracy and evil people wanting to have full control over us, they don’t need CBDCs. They already have the infrastructure in place since a long time, and they could have implemented extremely detailed controls of us and how we use our money even before you and I were born.  They don’t need CBDCs to exercise that kind of control, CBDCs basically doesn’t even make it easier.  The fears of CBDC are unfounded, if they weren’t we wouldn’t have the extreme freedom we have now despite almost all of our payments being digital - and we even walk around with our phones which are basically GPS trackers.  Being scared of CBDC means not understanding how much potential damage could be done using the current system. 

headphase

A budget is an allocation report. It's the 'driving directions' on Google maps. The blockchain is the actual GPS route that the car was driven. It's inherently more useful, especially for watchdog organizations.