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.
Reposted by Russell Rukin
If you have not yet reported your banking discrimination story, do it now. Your voice has the power to shift the way the government (and the big banks) do business.
www.freespeechcoalition.com/share-your-b...
www.freespeechcoalition.com/share-your-b...
Share Your Banking Discrimination Story — Free Speech Coalition
Have you been treated unfairly by a bank simply because you've done work or own a business in the adult industry? Tell us your story!
www.freespeechcoalition.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
If you have not yet reported your banking discrimination story, do it now. Your voice has the power to shift the way the government (and the big banks) do business.
www.freespeechcoalition.com/share-your-b...
www.freespeechcoalition.com/share-your-b...
Bitcoin miners are both the security apparatus for the global open Bitcoin network and are rewarded for that work (PoW) with newly minted tokens that can then be distributed to the wider market.
Other tokens are mainly 99% scams in some form or another. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rV...
Other tokens are mainly 99% scams in some form or another. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rV...
Crypto is a SCAM (Here’s Why)
YouTube video by Joe Nakamoto
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Bitcoin miners are both the security apparatus for the global open Bitcoin network and are rewarded for that work (PoW) with newly minted tokens that can then be distributed to the wider market.
Other tokens are mainly 99% scams in some form or another. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rV...
Other tokens are mainly 99% scams in some form or another. www.youtube.com/watch?v=i6rV...
Large Texas mines are like a normal warehouse but averagely they tend to be useful in shipping containers
As for the rest it definitely sounds like you are describing gold mining.
Thankfully many mines being location agnostic can be sited to run off CH4 an 80x more potent GHG than CO2. Landfill!
As for the rest it definitely sounds like you are describing gold mining.
Thankfully many mines being location agnostic can be sited to run off CH4 an 80x more potent GHG than CO2. Landfill!
December 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Large Texas mines are like a normal warehouse but averagely they tend to be useful in shipping containers
As for the rest it definitely sounds like you are describing gold mining.
Thankfully many mines being location agnostic can be sited to run off CH4 an 80x more potent GHG than CO2. Landfill!
As for the rest it definitely sounds like you are describing gold mining.
Thankfully many mines being location agnostic can be sited to run off CH4 an 80x more potent GHG than CO2. Landfill!
sucking down Gigawatts of wasted and stranded power.
Paying for the overbuild of RE because shock horror you need to over specify because... variability. This is normal and occurs anywhere you have RE. Bitcoin mining just provides a buyer who is location agnostic.
Paying for the overbuild of RE because shock horror you need to over specify because... variability. This is normal and occurs anywhere you have RE. Bitcoin mining just provides a buyer who is location agnostic.
December 7, 2025 at 2:44 PM
sucking down Gigawatts of wasted and stranded power.
Paying for the overbuild of RE because shock horror you need to over specify because... variability. This is normal and occurs anywhere you have RE. Bitcoin mining just provides a buyer who is location agnostic.
Paying for the overbuild of RE because shock horror you need to over specify because... variability. This is normal and occurs anywhere you have RE. Bitcoin mining just provides a buyer who is location agnostic.
Anywhere with excess energy.
By finding stranded and wasted energy.
You look for curtailment & grid network issues that occur all over the globe.
By finding stranded and wasted energy.
You look for curtailment & grid network issues that occur all over the globe.
December 7, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Anywhere with excess energy.
By finding stranded and wasted energy.
You look for curtailment & grid network issues that occur all over the globe.
By finding stranded and wasted energy.
You look for curtailment & grid network issues that occur all over the globe.
Yep the Texas Ercot grid has been freed up to 'overbuild' RE capacity directly because of allowing Bitcoin miners in as good energy partners. The world should take note!
December 7, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Yep the Texas Ercot grid has been freed up to 'overbuild' RE capacity directly because of allowing Bitcoin miners in as good energy partners. The world should take note!
MMT - understanding how the financial system works, seeing the fire and actually planning to fix it with petrol...
December 7, 2025 at 9:24 AM
MMT - understanding how the financial system works, seeing the fire and actually planning to fix it with petrol...
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
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.
Money 'itself' is the thing that is broken. Everything else is upstream.
November 15, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Money 'itself' is the thing that is broken. Everything else is upstream.
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
100% at Bitcoin Policy UK we want clear regulation separating 'crypto' the 99.9% scam from 'Bitcoin' the financial innovation.
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
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.
Onchain?... this is 2025 mate, we are not savages!
October 28, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Onchain?... this is 2025 mate, we are not savages!
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...
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
www.youtube.com
October 22, 2025 at 9:36 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...
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...
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
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.
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
www.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 10:33 AM
This is Susie on Roxom with look at how Bitcoin is 'vital' not just a transactional luxury www.youtube.com/watch?v=0e6L...
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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?
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.
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
youtu.be
October 19, 2025 at 8:24 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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...
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
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...
Like any Bitcoinert is. bitcoinmagazine.com/business/jac...
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.
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
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.
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.
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?
Shall we dig in to some papers on Bitcoin's energy mix?
October 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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?
Shall we dig in to some papers on Bitcoin's energy mix?
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
Both are here. All trains are leaving the station and as Lyn Alden loves to say Kate... 'Nothing stops this train!'