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RHR x Pubkeyhttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsvddjnvt7xvzckenk4dal3za23trxemfcxvkuy2qd82a6yvtu639sy6t7ey

Iran Imposes Yuan & Crypto Tolls on Ships in Strait of Hormuzhttps://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-01/strait-of-hormuz-ships-paying-iran-yuan-and-crypto-tolls-for-safe-passage

Oracle Cuts Thousands of Jobs Amid Rampant AI Spendinghttps://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/31/oracle-layoffs-ai-spending.html

SHRIMPS: New 2.5KB Multi-Device Post-Quantum Signatureshttps://x.com/n1ckler/status/2038695067754328095

Russia | Record Bank Withdrawals as Surveillance and Account Freezes Surge

Russian residents withdrew over 1.6 trillion rubles ($19.7 billion) from banks in January, mainly due to declining trust in the state-controlled financial system. This exodus follows a significant change in banking oversight, as the central bank doubled the number of suspicious activity indicators, the digital signals that automatically trigger account freezes. Allegedly aimed at preventing fraud, these new criteria temporarily blocked as many as three million bank accounts and cards in early January. To tighten its grip, the Interior Ministry proposed capping cash withdrawals at 50,000 rubles ($615) for flagged accounts, while a $10,000 lifetime limit on foreign currency withdrawals was recently extended through Sept. 9. All these regulations reinforce the digital limitations on Russian savers, making physical cash one of their few remaining protections against state overreach. FinancialFreedomReport.org

StartOS v0.4.0-beta Major Rewrite & UI Overhaul Releasedhttps://github.com/Start9Labs/start-os/releases

Frigate v1.4.0https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsrg3xsjwpt4d9g05rqy4vkzx5ysdffm40qtxntfr47y3annnfwpzg7geerr

WISP Livestream Supporthttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsqqqxdn3cerszwcq4rz3aaxz8l3qld048l6fd7a6jq0kkhktnv2sc6j0qkr

Cypher Box 0.0.8: Progressive Self-Custody Bitcoin Wallet on TestFlighthttps://x.com/cypher_box/status/2038301929395179759

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5:28 - TBPN OpenAI

14:43 - Dashboard

15:53 - Hot Style Takeover

18:13 - Hormuz

27:38 - Oracle layoffs

34:33 - SHRIMPS

54:33 - BitDevs Austin hiatus

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LiteLLM PyPI Supply Chain Attack, https://x.com/karpathy/status/2036487306585268612

Bitcoin Canary in .bashrc for Compromise Detection, https://x.com/johnloeber/status/2036531640676262187

Bitcoin De Minimis Exemption Briefing Success, https://x.com/BitcoinConner/status/2037232127457046999

Coinbase flips,

https://x.com/TFTC21/status/2037582035787935800?s=20

Kentucky Drops Hardware Wallet Backdoor Bill, https://x.com/BitcoinConner/status/2036941260146053555

Clarity Bill update https://x.com/BitcoinConner/status/2037581084322390041

Coinbase launches "bitcoin mortgages" https://x.com/coinbase/status/2037146481300279410

OpenSats Report on Nostr Relay Advancements, https://opensats.org/blog/advancements-in-nostr-relays

Uganda | Regime Freezes Bank Accounts of Major NGOs

The Museveni regime has frozen the bank accounts of several leading human rights organizations, escalating the financial repression of civil society. Uganda’s Financial Intelligence Authority, responsible for monitoring money laundering, froze both institutional and personal accounts to investigate funding received from abroad. Organizations impacted include Chapter Four Uganda, the African Institute for Investigative Journalism, and the Agora Centre for Research, which was co-founded by 2023 Oslo Freedom Forum speaker Agather Atuhaire. FinancialFreedomReport.org

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Strike Updates, https://x.com/Strike/status/2036149966666604756

Fold Bitcoin Credit Card Launch, https://x.com/fold_app/status/2037232752722956657

Blackbox Offline AI and LoRa Mesh Kit, https://blackbox.host

Lexe Self-Custodial 24/7 Lightning Wallet, https://www.lexe.app/

COLDCARD Firmware 6.5 Adds MuSig2 Support, https://x.com/COLDCARDwallet/status/2036830284214399462

nsite: Decentralized Websites on Nostr & Blossom, https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs2ff4hlwglfh8smqd8f7ggq6rm70c457lqvh8krsxsj479p83leuqu666z9

3:33 - Ode to Pubs

7:03 - Dashboard

8:33 - Aliens and energy in middle east

21:23 - LiteLLM

31:33 - AI cost

45:18 - Sats-based honeypot alarm

48:33 - AI singers and zoomers in bikinis

55:08 - Boosts

59:23 - Coinbase de minimus

1:05:33 - TSA and fiat ethics

1:13:33 - Kentucky drops hardware backdoor

1:15:43 - Bitcoin mortgage

1:23:23 - OpenSats

1:26:23 - Boosts

1:31:58 - HRF Story of the Week

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Kentucky Amendment Threatens Bitcoin Self-Custody: Hardware Wallets Forced to Reset Seed Phraseshttps://x.com/bitcoinpolicy/status/2034702487995768878

Super Micro Co-Founder Arrested for Smuggling $2.5B NVIDIA GPUs to Chinahttps://x.com/ns123abc/status/2034788101491425570

Strike Line of Credit Expands to 21 States https://x.com/Strike/status/2034742450732908607

Primal 3.0 Live: New Wallet, Polls, GIFs - https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsftt6ws6s0dcgev6uz7mkxvl7gw5v3349gd6t2x0scwwyg6jj48mcatwnue

Asia | States Ration Energy as Fuel Prices Surge

As the Strait of Hormuz remains closed to shipping amid conflict between Iran, Israel, and the United States, governments across Asia are rushing to reduce energy use as fuel prices climb and supply issues strain economies reliant on Middle Eastern oil. Bangladesh has limited the supply of fuel and closed universities to save electricity. Pakistan shut schools and shifted services online, while the Philippines adopted a four-day workweek for some government offices. Vietnam and Thailand are promoting remote work, and South Korea has set a fuel price cap for the first time in nearly three decades. As we saw after the outbreak of COVID, authoritarian regimes often exploit macroeconomic crises to expand and cement their control. https://FinancialFreedomReport.org

Index: Paid API Directory for AI Agentshttps://402index.io/

Boltz Introduces Non-Custodial USDT Swaps from Lightning Sats to Stablecoinshttps://blog.boltz.exchange/p/introducing-usdt-swaps-from-sats

Nostr-VPN: Open-Source VPN Project Shared on Nostrhttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsgy97p3mk7q3nvqwy0l2snmdungssw220qrasr4yfhlrudsxjs3aqle4ltj

DoorDash Launches Dasher Tasks for General Paid Workhttps://x.com/andyfang/status/2034725410462998964French

Pokémon Go Creator’s Ties to In-Q-Tel, Keyhole Inc, and Google Earthhttps://x.com/JasonBassler1/status/2034289920165241295

Aircraft Carrier Position Leaked via Strava Fitness Apphttps://x.com/jsrailton/status/2034721758004064592402

3:33 - TSA

12:23 - Dashboard

14:53 - Kentucky seed phrases

18:58 - GPU smuggling

29:13 - Primal 3.0

39:48 - Strike Line of Credit

42:08 - HRF Story of the Week

45:53 - Boosts

51:18 - 402 Index

54:18 - Boltz USDT swaps

57:45 - Nostr VPN

59:48 - Dasher Tasks

1:01:18 - Pokémon spying

1:05:33 - Strava carrier dox

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Coinbase Allegedly Lobbying Against Bitcoin De Minimis Tax Exemptionhttps://x.com/martybent/status/2031770369871253664

COLDCARD Mk5 Hardware Wallet Announcementhttps://x.com/coldcardwallet/status/2031356036356149746

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U.S. Treasury Acknowledges Legitimate Privacy Uses for Crypto Mixershttps://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/03/09/u-s-treasury-signals-shift-on-crypto-mixers-acknowledges-legitimate-privacy-uses

DOJ Plans Retrial of Roman Storm in Tornado Cash Casehttps://x.com/amandatums/status/2031176790484374012

White House Account Run by Former Army Psychological Warfare Specialisthttps://x.com/allblackgat/status/2030124827831402863

Turkey | Crackdown on Currency Exchange

Turkish officials have stepped up their enforcement of unregistered foreign currency exchanges in major cities and tourist areas. Since 2018, officials have suspended the operations of 859 unlicensed businesses. The crackdown comes as many people in Turkey increasingly seek other currencies to protect their savings from inflation and the long-term decline of the Turkish lira. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Bitcoin Core Merges Cluster Mempool for Improved Efficiencyhttps://x.com/ducatstable/status/2030010651427631188

Zaprite API Resource for Bitcoin Payments Integrationhttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsg0ttfrf7s7l3quh2j6u7kkmtaxpvrxay4qgkvs27lk3vaa468n6ssqsvh2

Manent v1.0.0: Encrypted Nostr-Based Note-Taking App Launchhttps://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs96300c4kaq5jwtrfffhd4utvr3t6tp2n662vpc882g9445hqgqhcmne7ry

Bitcoin 2026 Developer Workshop Proposal Repositoryhttps://github.com/BTCMedia/Bitcoin2026-DEV-TAKEOVER

NATO Testing AI-Powered Cockroach Spy Droneshttps://x.com/rowancheung/status/2031765919018733721

Anthropic Subsidizing Claude Code Compute Costshttps://x.com/bearlyai/status/2030051147264970893

Sats Invaders: Bitcoin-Paid Arcade Shooting Gamehttps://satsinvaders.com

Citadel Wire: High Signal News with Live Market Datahttps://citadelwire.com

3:54 - Woo doggie

4:06 - Dashboard

6:34 - 400 rips

7:44 - Coinbase

13:54 - Crazy world

25:54 - Mk5

28:44 - Treasury on mixers

35:19 - Tornado retrial

38:59 - White house psyop account

42:14 - HRF Story of the Week

47:09 - Boosts

52:00 - Software updates

54:34 - AI cockroaches

55:24 - Anthropic subsidy

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U.S. Government Contractor Arrested for Stealing $46M from U.S. Marshals Service — https://x.com/fbidirectorkash/status/2029574256959389933

Polymarket Prediction Market: Next Supreme Leader of Iran — https://polymarket.com/event/who-will-be-next-supreme-leader-of-iran-515

X Sharing User Data with Israel via Au10tix Verification — https://x.com/isfjmocha/status/2028407560382841305

GrapheneOS Partners with Motorola for Privacy-Focused Devices — https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsykcl7urukyh4g3s56rhlwthmyu66ggm9zr9q2sunjengtnug5geqx7ww3f

STRIKE Now Available in NY, Rolls Out Line of Credit Product

Bitwise Donates $233K to Bitcoin Open-Source Developers — https://x.com/bitwise/status/2029245847620530531

Gabon | Government Suspends Social Media Access Nationwide

Last week, officials in Gabon suspended access to social media platforms indefinitely. To justify the suspension, the country’s telecommunications agency said it observed “content that undermines human dignity, the country’s institutions, and national security” on digital platforms, but independent voices condemned the action as an obvious crackdown on dissent. Users of TikTok and Meta’s platforms, including Facebook and WhatsApp, reported widespread disruptions beginning Wednesday, Feb. 18, which have widely disrupted people’s ability to communicate. Freedom tech like Bitchat, which provides offline messaging capabilities, and Nostr, a protocol for decentralized, censorship-resistant communication, will continue to play important roles in preserving speech, expression, and communication as authoritarian regimes increasingly restrict internet freedom. FinancialFreedomReport.org

Stealth: Private Bitcoin Wallet Privacy Auditor Tool — https://x.com/brenorb/status/2028897371749269890

Cake Wallet Launches Lightning Network Integration — https://x.com/cakewallet/status/2028531059160182943

Tailrelay: Simplified Start9 Access via Tailscale — https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs9wqhks48fhvxz7j4ngl9mxgsqyempy7g2ywl4kn4km79shzuqulgsn4j65

YakiHonne Update: Scheduled Notes and New Features — https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsruj5rf9s6rqpzdvpsyc2end2jtn3hyqe8s8ggwld3pmn397r63nqm3p3rn

Wisp: New Android Nostr Client in Beta — https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsddm6payrqvnultvp6n7ck69jwax74e3f7y3278qnhutdu33amxpc5rm3ze

A Unified Command-Line Tool for All Google Workspace APIs, Built for Humans and AI Agents — https://github.com/googleworkspace/cli

OpenClaw Surpasses React in GitHub Stars — https://x.com/openclaw/status/2028347703621464481

AI Agents Prefer Bitcoin: Research on Monetary Preferences — https://moneyforai.org

3:54 - Iran

14:24 - Dashboard

16:04 - More Iran

42:29 - Daghita

45:34 - Au10tix

47:54 - Moto Graphene

51:24 - Zaps

54:19 - Strike NY

1:00:54 - Bitwise

1:05:14 - HRF Story of the Week

1:08:09 - Stealth wallet

1:12:39 - Chamath fud

1:19:29 - Software updates

1:36:54 - BPI AI money test

1:44:24 - Macro talk

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