Sergei Sergienko

25 Aug 2025 19:42

🎓 The University of Tampa is launching its first Bitcoin course. Education is finally catching up with reality.

Bitcoin already shapes finance, economics, and culture. The future belongs to those who learn the new rules.

Sergei Sergienko

25 Aug 2025 16:36

👍 CZ made it clear: a like or a selfie isn’t an endorsement. Celebrity proximity is just marketing.

Skip the clout and verify the work.

Sergei Sergienko

25 Aug 2025 13:11

🎦 Bitcoin hits the big screen. In the new Eddington movie with Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal, the very first scene opens with The Bitcoin Standard book, and the BTC theme runs through the whole plot.

Bitcoin sneaking into a Hollywood script says more than another whitepaper ever could. It’s already part of culture.

Sergei Sergienko

24 Aug 2025 12:14

🤟 Narratives about borrowing against your crypto are resurfacing again. The theory is great: use your crypto as collateral and borrow USD rather than sell the crypto. There’s no taxable event, and you pay the loan back in a depreciating currency.

Last cycle was full of companies (like Celsius and BlockFi) that let users borrow against their crypto. Many collapsed and customers lost their money.

Counterparty risk is real. Lenders force you to give up control of your crypto. Go into it with your eyes open.

Sergei Sergienko

23 Aug 2025 15:32

😮 AI is evolving before our eyes. Better sound, better images, better video, better code. Almost every day brings new updates.

Recently, AI was used by researchers to create two entirely new potential antibiotics. The models learned from a huge database of medicines, and created previously unknown candidates.

They will need thorough testing, of course, but this is a huge step forward for medicine.

Sergei Sergienko

22 Aug 2025 22:21

🤔 Things are really starting to cook in the crypto space. So, what do you want out of it? A little “FU” money? Some fun? A fulfilling new job or career? Early retirement? Freedom?

It gets harder to stick to the plan when everyone is going crazy. That kind of discipline can easily go out of the window. So, figure out your goals, decide whether they’re realistic, and go for it.

Sergei Sergienko

22 Aug 2025 19:17

💰 ZachXBT reported another massive theft: on August 19, a victim lost 783 BTC ($91M) after scammers posed as exchange and hardware wallet support, using social engineering. Funds were funneled through Wasabi. Coincidence or not, the same trick stole $243M from Genesis Creditor exactly a year ago.

Data leaks have made personal info far too accessible, and scammers know it. In crypto, security starts with your own caution, not the tech.

Sergei Sergienko

22 Aug 2025 16:01

🤔 The EU is considering launching its CBDC not on a private chain but on Ethereum or Solana, doubting the competitiveness of closed systems.

Unexpected but telling: governments are starting to trust public networks the same way millions of users already do. That’s real adoption.

Sergei Sergienko

22 Aug 2025 12:45

🎣 Someone lost $1M in tokens and NFTs with just one wrong click, falling for phishing batch transactions disguised as Uniswap swaps.

The crypto market rewards courage but punishes carelessness. Your best defense is double-checking everything. Stay alert.

Sergei Sergienko

21 Aug 2025 18:49

🤖 Looks like we’ll get GPT-6 before GTA 6. Sam Altman confirmed the new model is already in the works and will arrive faster than the gap between GPT-4 and GPT-5. This one will focus on memory and personalization, even involving psychologists to shape more adaptive chatbots.

Technology is moving faster than society can keep up.

Sergei Sergienko

21 Aug 2025 15:33

🌚 Brian Armstrong said BTC could hit $1M by 2030. Bold prediction, and this time not from AI, but from an industry leader. Of course, he added the usual “not financial advice.” Still, talk of these “absurd” numbers is getting louder.

Price debates are just noise. The real value is that Bitcoin has already changed our financial future.

Sergei Sergienko

21 Aug 2025 12:15

🌐 Popular browser plugins turned out to be vulnerable to clickjacking. One wrong click, and logins, 2FA codes, even card details can be stolen. The issue affects 11 well-known extensions, including 1Password, LastPass, and iCloud.

Password managers hold the keys to your digital life. But there’s no such thing as absolute security. Real protection comes from staying alert.

Sergei Sergienko

20 Aug 2025 18:42

🛢 Crypto is becoming the new oil for the UAE. Institutional investors see it growing into the country’s second-largest industry within five years.

Oil built the past, crypto is shaping the future. The Emirates made the right bet: diversification plus innovation means lasting prosperity.

Sergei Sergienko

20 Aug 2025 15:33

💸 Argentina may soon allow taxes to be paid in Bitcoin and other digital assets. Crypto keeps moving from trading desks into daily systems like taxation.

It's like the world has already changed.

Sergei Sergienko

20 Aug 2025 12:38

⛔️ ScamSniffer reports that expired Discord invites are being hijacked by scammers. Bots like Collab Land trick users into phishing signatures and steal assets.

Don’t trust old links, even if they look official. In Web3 there are no “forever” invites. Use a hardware wallet and regularly revoke approvals.

Sergei Sergienko

25 Aug 2025 18:19

🇵🇭 The Philippines plan to build a 10,000 BTC reserve locked for 20 years. Not just major powers, even small island states are securing their place in the coming financial order.

Bitcoin is turning into a strategic currency, and the players now include those you’d least expect.

Sergei Sergienko

25 Aug 2025 14:53

⚽️ Someone launched a fake Cristiano Ronaldo token, aka $CR7. Market cap shot to $140M and instantly dumped.

Same old story when people keep taking the bait. Celebrity tokens are either a short-lived hype or straight-up scams.

Sergei Sergienko

24 Aug 2025 19:23

😪 Identify one source of anxiety in your life. Even in the background, it can quietly drain you. Some things you can’t change right now, but others you can.

Think of one small step you could take next week to ease that pressure. It might feel hard at first, but your future self will be grateful.

Sergei Sergienko

23 Aug 2025 19:58

😎 “Compliant privacy” is the new buzzphrase. True privacy is still possible, but only if you don’t want to interface with the traditional financial system.

If you want to move funds between crypto and your bank account at some point, you’ll probably need to prove where they came from at some point.

Compliant privacy protocols allow you to make confidential transactions, but selectively reveal information about your activity if you need to.

Sergei Sergienko

23 Aug 2025 11:06

⚡️ AI isn’t just driving productivity in the workplace. Like Bitcoin, it’s changing the way we think about energy.

Rolls Royce has claimed that its nuclear capabilities could make it the most valuable company in the UK, as the world races to find the energy to run power-hungry AI data centers.

AI and crypto are helping bring more renewable and long-term forms of energy online.

Sergei Sergienko

22 Aug 2025 20:58

🤷🏼 The US DOJ says DeFi devs won’t be charged for “unlicensed money transmitting” if their code is truly decentralized and doesn’t touch user funds.

The irony is that just weeks ago, Tornado Cash co-founder Roman Storm was convicted under the same statute. The community is asking: if rules can shift this fast, shouldn’t justice catch up too?

Sergei Sergienko

22 Aug 2025 17:44

🤥 AI browsers like Comet can be tricked by fake CAPTCHAs with hidden prompts, making them follow phishing links, enter card details, and even download malware.

Welcome to Scamlexity: a new era where autonomous AI runs scams on autopilot and humans pay the price. Now it’s about protecting both yourself and your AI.

Sergei Sergienko

22 Aug 2025 14:26

💁🏼‍♀️ A Bitcoin café just opened on Isla Mujeres, a tiny island near Cancún whose name literally means “Island of Women.”

Love seeing Bitcoin as more than just tech or investment. For some, it’s pure inspiration for new beginnings.

Sergei Sergienko

21 Aug 2025 20:12

🥇 The “best” tech doesn’t always win. People are fond of making the MySpace/Facebook analogy with Bitcoin. Not surprisingly, MySpace (one of the earliest social networks) was overtaken by Facebook and other platforms that offered better tech and more features.

But Bitcoin is about far more than simple tech including its strong community, fair launch, high level of decentralization, and global adoption.

One thing that’s funny: Bitcoin is now bigger than Facebook. Some people call it the “MySpace of Crypto,” but Bitcoin is actually more successful than the successful company in their analogy.

Sergei Sergienko

21 Aug 2025 17:06

🛡 Coinbase, Binance, PayPal, Kraken and dozens of others teamed up with TRM Labs to launch Beacon Network, a rapid-response system against crypto crime.

The alliance targets North Korean hackers, ransomware, terror financing, and scams, with cybersecurity experts like ZachXBT, Security Alliance, and Hypernative also joining in. Good to see that security now matters as much as decentralization.

Sergei Sergienko

21 Aug 2025 13:51

🤟 Kanye West launched his own memecoin YZY on Solana, but it didn’t last three hours. Crashed from $3 to $1. No surprise there. Insiders were ready, and some even bragged online about their quick flips.

Celebrity tokens are always a bad idea.

Sergei Sergienko

20 Aug 2025 20:26

📉 Many dream of making it as traders, but most lose money, especially in day trading.

Peter Brandt suggests before quitting your job you need two years of 50% returns, two years of living expenses saved, and at least 1,000 trades. Trading looks glamorous, but long-term winners are rare.

Sergei Sergienko

20 Aug 2025 17:07

🤔 Harvard economist Kenneth Rogoff once predicted Bitcoin would crash to $100 before hitting $100K. A decade later, he admits he was wrong, saying he was “too optimistic about sensible regulation in the US.”

Even geniuses get crypto wrong. Real growth is being able to admit it.

Sergei Sergienko

20 Aug 2025 14:04

🧑‍💻 Tech that boosts productivity leads to higher wages. Brian Armstrong agrees with Marc Andreessen: sounds somewhat paradoxical, but it’s true. Technology plus free markets push humanity forward.

With AI and nuclear energy, we have the foundation for a new era of prosperity. We need to be builders. A strong tech base means stronger democracy, freedom, and future.

Sergei Sergienko

19 Aug 2025 22:12

🔓 A reminder of your basic toolkit for Web3 security:

✦ Cold storage for the majority of your funds
✦ VPN, antivirus/malware checker
✦ Don’t click untrusted links or run untrusted software
✦ Be careful with unsolicited DMs
✦ Use a burner wallet with a small amount in it to connect to unverified contracts

That will keep you safe from most common scams and hacks, but always be vigilant.