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Russell Rukin
@russellrukin.bsky.social
Artist, engineer, Bitcoiner, creative - mashing it all up to make a better planet for all who squirm on the blue orb.
My solar powered bitcoin miners will be feeding my ASHP with lovely warm air easing any strain on the system and of course paying me! Beautiful.
November 22, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Money 'itself' is the thing that is broken. Everything else is upstream.
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
100% at Bitcoin Policy UK we want clear regulation separating 'crypto' the 99.9% scam from 'Bitcoin' the financial innovation.
November 15, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Nope not on Bitcoin. We fought the blocksize wars over this very issue in 2016. The corps lost. My node my rules. You can own 20million bitcoin and still not be able to change the network anymore than I can.
November 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Onchain?... this is 2025 mate, we are not savages!
October 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
We are entering into a world where we want to charge for electricity on micro second to micro second time frame.

Even this is too slow for computers and Ai. Bitcoin Lightning and newer layers built on Lightning and the base layer are built for this future.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xyB...
Cashu channel demo. Like Lightning, allowing tiny payments at high frequency in one direction
YouTube video by SatsAndSports
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October 22, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Reposted by Russell Rukin
I'm sharing the story of a farmer, because too many Bitcoin discussions stay theoretical. Critics dismiss it as speculation; maximalists oversell it as a panacea.
October 21, 2025 at 6:49 PM
This is Susie on Roxom with look at how Bitcoin is 'vital' not just a transactional luxury www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6L...
From Hotel Rwanda to Bitcoin: Anise Kanimba on Freedom & Financial Justice | My Two Sats
YouTube video by Roxom TV Europe
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October 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
Yep. Let us not forget the bleeding edge is also the Lightning network threaded into NOSTR.

Star of development might have to go to CASHU that prefers LN. So literally bringing David Chaum's 1982 vision for ecash to life finally! So important. Calle is a Trojan on this layers development.
October 19, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Maybe you'd like to join Bitcoin Policies CEO Susie Violet Ward on Roxom TV for a chat about Lightning and the bleeding edge developments? We could get Ben Arc or Ben de Waal (both in the UK) as they are at the coal (pun intended) face of Lightning transactional use?
October 19, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Yes it was a crime! Pure fraud.

I love this video by @joenakamoto.bsky.social where he gets Giacomo to detail the three levels of crypto scam youtu.be/i6rV5HlbPTM?... Onecoin is a third degree scam.
Crypto is a SCAM (Here’s Why)
YouTube video by Joe Nakamoto
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October 19, 2025 at 8:24 AM
TGV/bullet train = stablecoin

Good analogy, so can be stopped and subject to the whim of who runs the network!

Bitcoin mainchain = Oxford Electric Bell or an atomic clock (unstoppable)

Bitcoin Lightning/layers = speed of light (why you so slow bullet train?). Made for the future not the past.
October 19, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Adam Back the utter legend and as I understand it @freddienew.bsky.social one of the largest investors and advisor to Bhodl which is a 'Lightning node' company.. So literally Adam is super interested in supporting day to day use.

Like any Bitcoinert is. bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jac...
How Jack Dorsey’s Block Inc Is Reinventing Finance With Bitcoin
How Block Inc.'s Bitcoin revolution under Jack Dorsey, with Square, Cash App, and Bitkey is ushering a new financial era
bitcoinmagazine.com
October 19, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Of course it is relevant.

Like each and every Bitcoiner I know I've done minimal on-chain transactions (maybe one in 2024, zero this year) but thousands of Lightning network transactions. No Bitcoiner would buy a coffee on-chain always Lightning. Maybe some Cashu.
October 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
P.s @katebaucherel.bsky.social were you on @moneybox.bsky.social and didn't know about the Lightning network? Very excited you've found out about it at last.

Shall we dig in to some papers on Bitcoin's energy mix?
October 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Both are here. All trains are leaving the station and as Lyn Alden loves to say Kate... 'Nothing stops this train!'
October 18, 2025 at 8:36 PM
Show me the store in the UK on a map using stablecoins directly? Show me the barrier to installing a LN app for the user? Show me the stablecoin apps and user counts

Explain the technicals of how stablecoin on slow blockchains are quicker than LN?

Stablecoins are coal!
October 18, 2025 at 8:35 PM
You said they aren't proved?... so not 'actual' facts then?
October 18, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Question do some of the largest firms on the planet put a punt on the horses? Do we see Larry Fink bingo card in hand?
October 18, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Let us stick to facts for mercy's sake..

Otherwise I can quote the facts we know about shadow and offshore banking being used massively for crime and then add the bits we can't see.
October 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
Reposted by Russell Rukin
Plenty of other examples here: bitcoinpolicy.uk/bitcoin-rights
Bitcoin Policy UK
We champion good policies that will benefit all those in the UK who hold, use and mine Bitcoin
bitcoinpolicy.uk
October 18, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If you could pass this on to the expert you had on @moneybox.bsky.social . This is @freddienew.bsky.social sending members of the FCA at the Labour Party conference a bitcoin transaction, 'instantly' via Bitcoin's layer 2.0 Lightning network. Stephenson would have been proud. British innovation!
October 18, 2025 at 10:38 AM
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Fools like @hrf.org ?... Save the Children?...
This is exactly what we talked about with MP's and delegates at the @teamlabouruk.bsky.social conference these last few days.
October 18, 2025 at 10:26 AM