A $38 million Bitcoin hardware wallet failure and Russia’s terrorism charge against Telegram’s founder point to the same uncomfortable reality. Much of what we call digital safety still rests on reputation rather than verification. Coldcard stood as one of the most security conscious devices in the industry until a four year old firmware flaw compromised the seed generation process designed to protect users. Telegram and its founder built a reputation around privacy until researchers uncovered a tracking vulnerability. When independent verification disappears, trust is all that remains. My latest piece in Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/07/31/a-38-million-theft-a-global-manhunt--the-illusion-of-digital-safety/

NESO’s Future Energy Scenarios 2025 model households and businesses cutting peak electricity demand by as much as 54% by 2050, largely by turning heat pumps and other loads down or off when the system is under pressure. While overall electricity demand is still projected to rise sharply because of electrification, the core strategy remains one of managing scarcity through behavioural flexibility rather than building abundance. History shows that prosperous countries have always been those that used more energy, not less. UK policy continues to prioritise demand reduction and peak-shaving over the denser, more reliable power that underpins real economic growth. This approach is one more example of how successive governments have locked the country into managed decline instead of the high energy, high productivity path that every successful economy has followed. https://www.neso.energy/document/364541/downl

Lebanon showed what happens when banks and currency policy fail the public. Although the worst of the hyperinflation may have eased, banking distrust, poverty and reconstruction needs remain. So too does the need for self-custody, low friction remittances and money that cannot be arbitrarily devalued. Published in early 2024, the lessons have not aged. Read the full article here: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2024/02/02/lebanons-economic-rebirth-through-bitcoin/

If you’re unhappy with the Bitcoin price, stop looking at the chart and start reading the congressional trading disclosures. Nancy Pelosi’s household portfolio has been beating the S&P 500 and the average hedge fund for years. A $174,000 congressional salary and a fortune estimated at $250 million. * Maybe the real alpha was public service all along. The numbers: https://vertdata.com/blog/nancy-pelosi-stock-portfolio Track the disclosed trades: https://www.quiverquant.com/congresstrading/politician/Nancy%20Pelosi-P000197/net-worth * Estimates vary, with some placing the Pelosi fortune at more than $400 million.

Quantum mechanics keeps forcing me to question what 'reality' even is … and where consciousness fits into it. I’ve tried to articulate some of my recent thoughts in this article. What's your take on this?

Sending you so much love. I lost my dad 10 years ago, and before that I thought I understood what it would feel like to lose a parent. It was only when it happened to me that I truly understood the depth of that pain. I’m so incredibly sorry. 💕

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Yikes ... we should all be worried! The Trump team privately warned Andy Burnham against giving Ed Miliband a top economic or foreign policy role. Steve Bannon said they called him a "red diaper baby and self-described socialist" who would damage the special relationship. Ouch!! A senior Trump official also described Miliband as a major point of friction in the transatlantic alliance. Steve Bannon then went on to say: “Burnham could not care less – he appointed this twit anyway.” Full article: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/07/21/white-house-deeply-concerned-miliband-foreign-secretary/

GoFundMe responded to my article after publication, despite multiple requests for comment before it went live. I have now replied asking them what safeguards exist when funds raised for someone in a crisis zone are paid to a nominated beneficiary but do not reach the intended recipient. Their statement referred to the need to protect donors' generosity. I have asked how this applies when the person the money was raised for is left without it. Full article with footnote added: https://www.forbes.com/sites/digital-assets/2026/07/16/when-the-financial-system-cant-reach-people-in-crisis-bitcoin-can/

Exactly right ….it makes no difference to whether someone has the right to work. The checks, documents and immigration records are already in place, and many are already digital. This only centralises them through a new digital identity system. Selling that as a solution to illegal migration was an utter load of bollocks.

This is the concern. 🙁