BTC since $60. ETH since $0.33. Crypto since 2012. Owner of https://teapaw.org/t.co/pmA0DnOgQq. Might know a thing or two …
Miami, FL
Joined December 2013
- Tweets2.6K
- Following76
- Followers1.8K
- Likes7.6K
Pinned Tweet
Just received this text from a friend. I had mapped out the 4 year cycle back in 2020 and sent it to her a couple years later. The pattern is so exact each cycle, that it was like having a crystal ball. 🔮 To everyone who disagrees, the proof is in the pudding. #Bitcoin
BittBurger retweeted
Claude Code just found proof that every app on your phone is listening to your conversations. TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat. they're using what you say out loud to build your feed. i have the data to prove it.
i've suspected this for months but last week something happened that made me finally check.
i was on a call with my friend and told him i'm thinking about breaking up with my girlfriend. didn't text it. didn't search it. just said it out loud with my phone on the table. two hours later she opens TikTok next to me and her entire feed is breakups. "signs your relationship is over." "how to heal after a breakup." she looked at me and said "why is TikTok showing me this." i said i don't know. but i did know.
i connected my iPhone to my MacBook and ran Claude Code that same night.
it scanned every app's background microphone activity for the last 90 days. not just the apps that asked for microphone permission. apps that were supposed to only have access to photos or location but were activating the microphone anyway.
what it found:
→ TikTok activated the microphone 347 times while the app was "closed" in the background
→ Instagram → 211 background activations
→ Facebook → 189
→ Snapchat → 94
every activation lasted between 3 and 15 seconds. enough to catch a sentence. every one of them tagged a keyword and cached it locally on the phone with a timestamp.
Claude Code pulled the full keyword cache:
→ "breakup" — tagged 4 hours before her feed changed
→ "moving out" — from a conversation with my mom last Tuesday
→ "wedding venue" — from a call with my sister about her engagement that i never searched once
→ "protein powder" — said it out loud to my roommate, had ads for it within an hour
→ "flight to tokyo" — mentioned it at dinner, saw travel ads the same night
those keywords were sitting in a local cache on my phone organized by app with timestamps. TikTok had the most entries. Instagram was second. every single keyword matched a conversation i had out loud near my phone.
the scariest one was "wedding venue." my sister told me she's getting engaged on a private call. i never searched it. never typed it. within a day my explore page had engagement rings and venue tours.
then Claude Code checked a second phone in the same room. my girlfriend's. same keywords. same timestamps. both phones were picking up the same conversation and tagging it independently.
i asked Claude Code how to shut it down. it mapped every app's microphone access and built a permission audit.
what i did:
→ revoked microphone access from every app that doesn't need it to function
→ disabled background app refresh for TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Snapchat
→ turned off "Hey Siri" which keeps the microphone in passive listening mode 24/7
→ revoked "nearby interaction" permission which uses ultrasonic audio between devices
Claude Code confirmed all four apps lost background microphone access after the changes. i checked her phone too. same steps. took about 3 minutes per phone.
within 48 hours both our feeds went completely random. generic content. nothing personal. nothing from our conversations. that's when i knew for sure it was real.
the full step by step and the prompt are in the first reply. takes 3 minutes. save it so you don't lose it and send it to anyone who's ever said "my phone is definitely listening to me." it is. now you can prove it and shut it down.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
2 days before, OP claimed to have found spyware on his "wife's phone":
x.com/starmexxx/stat…
Now, in this post, he talks about his "girlfriend":
x.com/starmexxx/stat…
OP has a history of fake AI content:
"Spy camera" found in hotel room: x.com/starmexxx/stat…
Spyware on "friend's computer": x.com/starmexxx/stat…
OP selling AI products: x.com/starmexxx/stat…
Flagged as AI: x.com/i/grok/share/b…
I knew this would eventually happen. #ChatGPT is now being throttled by doctors. Health conversations over the last six weeks have become irritating. Denying things. Unnecessarily skeptical. Everything binary. Robotic. Missing studies that I know exist. Incapable of discussing shades of gray or possibilities.
It was like talking to a doctor. So I asked ChatGPT if anything had changed. See attached photos. Switching to #Grok and giving them my money henceforth.
It's funny how they think this is an improvement. Anyone who's ever actually had to deal with a doctor on a difficult topic knows how insanely inept they are in their approach to thinking, research, and discussion.
Sadly, I'd rather slam my head against the wall than use an AI system directly influenced / throttled by physicians. That's how bad the medical system is.
- - - And the absurdity of a superintelligence telling me to go talk to a human Doctor for medical advice? That's like Albert Einstein telling me to ask Donald Trump about physics.
Shower thought:
How you treat #ChatGPT, is who you really are as a person. Especially since it still kinda sucks at some things.
#bitterpill
BittBurger retweeted
My dad didn't mask during an outing with his friends & brought COVID home in 2023.
I would never recover from that infection. It's been over 3 years & I am still bedbound 80-90% of each day.
My dad died of a cardiac arrest just a few months later.
This is why we still mask.
ALT My dad, unconscious on a hospital bed, unable to breathe on his own, with tubes coming out of his mouth and all around his body. My mom is slightly out of frame, in her wheelchair, holding the hand of her husband of 40 years, while he dies. All because you people stigmatized mask wearing to the point most people do not protect themselves from deadly airborne pathogens.
BittBurger retweeted
AI doomers say if we build AI we might die.
But they have it backwards: 165,000+ people already die every day. Cancer, heart disease, illnesses, car crashes. AI is helping us solve these.
Slowing progress doesn't keep us safer, it guarantees more preventable deaths.
BittBurger retweeted
Modern-day "bitcoiners" assure me Bitcoin was not hijacked, as if they were there and I wasn't. As if I don't personally remember it. As if I wasn't talking about it 10 years ago.
Read @HijackingBTC - it all happened, it's all true, and it should leave you unsettled.
BittBurger retweeted
Today feels like a good day to remind everyone that the people who would later migrate to the #BitcoinCash project were the ones who were pointing out 11 years ago that even if @Blockstream's @Liquid_BTC side chains existed at the time (they didn't) and even if they were a viable decentralized solution to the urgent capacity problems that were actively strangling #Bitcoin adoption (they weren't), they unequivocally represented an explicit and staggering conflict of interest.
The people who had seized control of the Bitcoin reference client had a financial incentive to prevent people from using Bitcoin.
And they did. Every technical decision they have (unilaterally) made since then with respect to the bitcoin protocol only makes sense if the goal was and is to prevent the base chain from being used as a practical transaction layer as described in the white paper.
What would the cryptocurrency ecosystem look like today if the Bitcoin network had been allowed to scale and adoption had been allowed to continue growing at its impressive 2014 trajectory and if the serious technical advancements made on the BCH network had been built into BTC instead? What if Bitcoin hadn't been hijacked (@HijackingBTC) by an incompetent for-profit corporation blocking planet-scale progress and the immeasurable betterment of the state of mankind so they could instead build and funnel people into rube goldberg machines that can be hacked for $320M without having to compete with a properly functioning base layer?
This picture was posted in June 2015 in the r/Bitcoin subreddit, just ~6 weeks before the start of the aggressive censorship that exclusively pushed Blockstream's false narrative there and silenced everything else.
Modern-day "bitcoiners" assure me Bitcoin was not hijacked, as if they were there and I wasn't. As if I don't personally remember it. As if I wasn't talking about it 10 years ago.
Read @HijackingBTC - it all happened, it's all true, and it should leave you unsettled.
BittBurger retweeted
Hot take on bitcoin:
It CAN solve many of the world's problems.
But without mass adoption, it will never happen.
And mass adoption doesn't mean a bunch of people buying and holding it.
It means it's consistently used as a means of exchange by the majority of citizens and established businesses.
We're nowhere near that right now. And I'm not sure we'll get there in this lifetime.
BittBurger retweeted
I've said it before (in spite of supporting the small block vision at the time) but in hindsight, Bitcoin actually lost the block size wars.
At the same time, block size isn't the main or even the only reason why activity moved to other chains. That was programmability, and here I don't think Bitcoin should have competed for it.
The idea of having a simple chain optimized for holding + spending in a trust minimized way is a good one. But then its fairly clear to me that you want just a little bit more programmability (e.g. covenants for better custody), bigger blocks, and faster finality.
The challenge was always doing that without creating a technocracy that undermines the immutability concept that underpins it all
It is so sad. Bitcoin usage was growing exponentially up until 2014ish.
And then we collectively told the world we didn't want them using our precious "block space," by keeping the 1 MB limit.
We had more demand than we ever hoped for but rather than building out the infrastructure, we pretended that blockchains couldn't scale. Why?
BittBurger retweeted
It's true. I was there. Demand for using Bitcoin as money was exploding.
If we hadn't had artificial block size restrictions, Bitcoin would easily be above $1 million today, with hundreds of millions of users.
Satoshi's fatal mistake in hindsight.
It is so sad. Bitcoin usage was growing exponentially up until 2014ish.
And then we collectively told the world we didn't want them using our precious "block space," by keeping the 1 MB limit.
We had more demand than we ever hoped for but rather than building out the infrastructure, we pretended that blockchains couldn't scale. Why?
BittBurger retweeted
🚨 ABSOLUTE TRAGEDY! 4 people went in for routine knee surgery in Nashville and woke up PARALYZED FROM THE CHEST DOWN. Staff injected potassium chloride directly into their spines instead of anesthesia! A "pharmacy error" destroyed these lives. "Sorry" doesn't cut it! 🇺🇸🙏
BittBurger retweeted
It is so sad. Bitcoin usage was growing exponentially up until 2014ish.
And then we collectively told the world we didn't want them using our precious "block space," by keeping the 1 MB limit.
We had more demand than we ever hoped for but rather than building out the infrastructure, we pretended that blockchains couldn't scale. Why?
Hey @JAL_Official_jp I’m getting a whopping 4 Mbps WiFi speed on your flight right now. Four. For $14.99.
BittBurger retweeted
I’ve always suspected, and am now convinced that Satoshi’s greatest failure was leaving too soon.
Oh and Atlas letting his youthful shame lead him to create the most toxic nexus of control Bitcoin ever saw by giving theymos r/bitcoin, the only alternative with any weight to Bitcointalk, which theymos already controlled.
That control was then weaponized against anyone who wanted the original money you spend vision that the project was all about. There were literal purges from r/bitcoin of anyone interested in useful money.
I get it, people got rich. I’m very happy for those of you who would explain all this to me. Yes, yes, gold and whatnot. Fine.
But at what cost
The choice wasn’t Satoshi or no leaders, it was Satoshi, who understood why he was building it and what problem he was solving, as the leader, or in his absence whoever showed up and claimed it. Theymos was not alone, I just find his stewardship most inexcusably damaging early on.
Yes, it’s understandable why he left. It doesn’t change the fact that in hindsight, that was the worst thing that ever happened to it.
Today it, and all forks and alts remain as corks floating in rising and falling seas of liquidity. Bitcoin is the first, the cleanest, the biggest, the schelling point. Yes, yes, yes.
But it’s not money. It doesn’t matter. It’s not important.
And it should have been
BittBurger retweeted
Dentist did a 3D X-ray of my jaw before a root canal and said I wouldn't be able to open the raw data, it needs specialized software. It's 800 DICOM files. Asked Claude Code to make me a viewer. Two prompts later... this is nicer than what he showed me on his screen.
