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for being an early contributor to our Veterans Day 2026 Telehash powered by Sovereign Hybrid Compute.

View our Mining Command Center and donate your hashrate today: hydrapool.operationbitcoin.io

Veterans have spent years operating in hostile environments, solving problems with limited resources, and looking out for their teams. The Bitcoin community needs more of that.

"How can veterans embrace Bitcoin when they served a corrupt system?" We get comments like these more often than you might think. Let's make something perfectly clear: Veterans don’t need permission to be here. That's a key feature of the network. We’re here to learn, build, mine, teach, and lead. Get used to it. Or don't. We're not leaving.

Delivered these to a new home with a veteran for some hands on training.

Things veterans traded for a rapidly devaluing currency:

Time. Labor. Stress. Health. Deployments. Missed holidays. Missed birthdays.

That represents human energy we expended and can never get back.

Understanding value for value matters.

That's why we teach veterans about Bitcoin.

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FOR AWARENESS Predators emerge in times of crisis. Protect yourself from secondary attacks. Act accordingly.

There are over 17 million veterans in the United States.

Each of them are among the most highly skilled, mission focused and motivated people alive.

And they're looking for a mission.

Operation Bitcoin connects veterans with a new mission through freedom tech education.

It starts with Bitcoin.

Training is now available with our Bitcoin Basic Training online course.

Free to all veterans, self paced, designed for veterans by veterans.

This is the new rally point.

https://operationbitcoin.learnworlds.com/course/bitcoin-basic-training-operation-bitcoin

The OPERATION BITCOIN Hydrapool is LIVE.

Mine with us. Support freedom tech education for veterans. Help strengthen the future of decentralized mining.

This is the new rally point.

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On this Independence Day, let us remember, our independence was won by veterans of the French and Indian War who refused to tolerate British oppression and the enslavement of taxation.

It was our nation's veterans who answered the call and led the way.

Our nation's veterans who, keenly aware of the cost of war, picked up their arms and led us into victory.

Our independence was won. But our freedom from the theft of our life's work, time and energy must be fought for every day.

The Revolution for independence was won.

The fight for freedom must be fought every day.

THIS is why we teach veterans about freedom technology.

THIS is why today's veterans must be armed with knowledge of the most perfect and peaceful weapons we have ever known that are our best hope against the enemy.

Veterans are leading us to freedom and the next age of human flourishing.

THIS is why we will win.

For those interested in learning more about how we run our Bitcoin mining Telehash fundraisers, the Operation Bitcoin GitHub is live.

https://github.com/Operation-Bitcoin

Open source everything.

Indecisive observers on the battlefield become obstacles. Get in the fight. Or get out of the way..

Prepping these Whatsminers for shipment to a veteran who's new to Bitcoin and wants to learn more about freedom technology.

Memorial Day Telehash: ENDEX

THANK YOU to all who participated by pointing your hashrate to the mission.

Total current earnings: 0.01459506 BTC

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THIS is how we accomplish the mission of bringing freedom tech education to military veterans and their families.

THIS is the new rally point.

THANK YOU

for your enduring support of the mission. Your contribution to the Memorial Day Telehash is greatly appreciated.

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MEMORIAL DAY TELEHASH: 12 HOURS REMAIN

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for contributing your hashrate to our Memorial Day Telehash.

Together, we will all bring freedom tech education to veterans and lead the world into the next phase of human flourishing.

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Your contribution makes our mission possible in delivering freedom tech education to military veterans and their families.

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For many veterans, the hardest battles come after service. Finding purpose again. Finding a team again. Finding a way to contribute to something bigger than themselves.

This is why OPERATION BITCOIN exists.

Freedom technology like Bitcoin isn’t just about money. It’s about sovereignty, resilience, and building systems that can’t be taken, controlled, or corrupted.

Veterans refuse to be on the sidelines of that future.

We choose to lead it.

When you support OPERATION BITCOIN, you’re not just funding education.

You’re helping a veteran find a new mission. You’re helping rebuild a sense of purpose. You’re helping forge a path from service to sovereignty.

This is the new rally point.

If you're currently mining Bitcoin, we invite you to point your hashrate to our mission here: https://telehash.operationbitcoin.io

Not mining but still want to contribute? Make a donation here: https://pay.zaprite.com/pl_CqyYa6BDaF

Telehash Update 1+ PH/s Achieved Minimum sustained target: 200 PH

THANK YOU

for supporting our mission of providing freedom tech education for military veterans.

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MEMORIAL DAY TELEHASH • MAY 22-25

This Memorial Day weekend, Bitcoin miners from around the world are coming together to support military veterans through hashrate donation.

OPERATION BITCOIN is a veteran-run 501(c)(3) providing education in Bitcoin, energy, and freedom technology.

From industrial farms to the BitAxe on your kitchen counter every hash matters.

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Mine for the mission. Support veteran education.

Learn more: https://operationbitcoin.io/

Military veterans add value to every situation and environment.

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May is Military Appreciation Month.

If you know a service member, veteran, military spouse, parent or family member, tell them about Bitcoin then send them to us.

This is the new rally point.

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Yesterday, your money was taken.

You don't get a vote on how it will be used.

Your time, energy and future extracted involuntarily.

Today, you have a choice.

Support veteran education in freedom tech.

With your contribution, WE will lead the world into the next phase of human flourishing.

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The "broken veteran" narrative is designed to inhibit and subdue the most effective, capable and dangerous threats to tyranny.

We are conditioned to believe our military experiences left us irreparably damaged, no longer useful to society and dependant on charity and government support.

The reality, for those who choose to accept it, is we are the best hope for freedom and our experiences have prepared us for a time such as this.

We embrace our responsibility to lead the world into the next phase of human flourishing.

And we will not fail.

Thinking about bringing back the OPERATION BITCOIN hat for a limited time fundraiser. Any takers?

This month's Intro to Bitcoin session at VECTR was 🔥🔥🔥 Educating veterans on freedom tech is transforming the world. All attendees received a Jade wallet donated by

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TRAINING ANNOUNCEMENT TARGET AUDIENCE: Georgia Military Veterans DATE: 24 FEB 2026 TIME: 1130-1300 SUBJECT: Why Bitcoin Matters LOCATION: Georgia Veterans Education Career Transition Resource Center (VECTR), Warner Robins, GA

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-bitcoin-matters-tickets-1983288000799

AI is the new force multiplier

Veterans understand force multipliers.

AI is one — whether we like it or not.

The real threat isn’t AI replacing humans. It’s centralized AI replacing decision-making.

Decentralized tools + disciplined operators = advantage.

Passive users + centralized systems = dependence.

Veterans don’t outsource capability lightly.

Veterans understand human energy in ways many never experience.

Each mission, repetition, hardship, and sacrifice becomes stored value — a kind of personal ledger defined by discipline and endurance.

Bitcoin reflects this truth: Disciplined energy builds freedom.

Veterans instinctively understand systems built on responsibility, integrity, and contribution. Bitcoin aligns naturally with the values forged through military service.

What the military builds in people doesn’t disappear after separation — it evolves into new forms of leadership, purpose, and mission-driven action.

Veteran energy doesn’t fade. It redirects.

And Bitcoin gives it a powerful direction.

Another great session teaching veterans about Bitcoin at the Georgia Veterans Education Career Transition Resource Center.

We explored the best ways to acquire and secure Bitcoin and dug into seed phrase protection and multisig options.

The topic of CBDCs came up so we took a moment to study the

CBDC tracker.

2025 sessions are in the books. 2026 sessions start in January.

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Wake Up

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THANK YOU to everyone who contributed to our Veterans Day Telehash.

Full results incoming.

YOU make the mission of providing freedom tech education for veterans possible.

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4 HOURS REMAINING IN THE VETERANS DAY TELEHASH.

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⚡ TELEHASH UPDATE ⚡

OVER 98 Ph/s!!

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE CONTRIBUTING HASHRATE

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⚡️OVER 35 Ph/s and climbing. ⚡️

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POINT YOUR HASHRATE TO THE NEW RALLY POINT.

VETERANS DAY TELEHASH STARTS MIDNIGHT NOVEMBER 10.

POINT YOUR HASHRATE HERE NOW TO SUPPORT FREEDOM TECH EDUCATION FOR VETERANS.

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Veterans Day Telehash info is up:

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ATTENTION BITCOIN MINERS

Pledge your hashrate TODAY

Whether you're running a 400 gigahash BitAxe in your house or a 50 exahash multi-site operation, this is your opportunity to directly contribute to supporting veterans in leading the world into the next phase of human flourishing.

This Veterans Day Nov 10-11, we will be holding our 2nd Telehash to fund the mission of delivering freedom tech education to our veterans.

Make your pledge TODAY: operationbitcoin.io/telehash/

ATTENTION MINERS

Whether you're running a 400 gigahash BitAxe in your house or a 50 exahash multi-site operation, this is your opportunity to directly contribute to supporting veterans in leading the world into the next phase of human flourishing.

This Veterans Day Nov 10-11, we will be holding our 2nd Telehash to fund the mission of delivering freedom tech education to our veterans.

Make your pledge TODAY: https://operationbitcoin.io/telehash/

THANK YOU

for the generous hashrate pledge for the Operation Bitcoin Veterans Day Telehash ✊✊✊

If you're mining Bitcoin and are ready to support the mission of providing freedom tech education to veterans, make your pledge TODAY: https://operationbitcoin.io/telehash/

THANK YOU

for the hashrate pledge for our upcoming Telehash this Veterans Day.

If you've got hashrate, and are ready to engage in our mission to bring Bitcoin education and career support to military veterans, make your pledge today at: https://operationbitcoin.io/telehash/

The Operation Bitcoin Telehash is reimagining fundraising for the digital age: instead of giving dollars, supporters contribute computing power by directing Bitcoin mining toward a cause that empowers veterans through education, one hash at a time.

Our next Telehash is Nov 10-11 in observance of Veterans day. Every sat earned will support Bitcoin education and career support for military veterans.

PLEDGE YOUR HASHRATE TODAY:

https://operationbitcoin.io/telehash/

Join Operation Bitcoin on November 10th & 11th as we conduct our Veterans Day Telehash during the Bitcoin Veterans Summit at Bitcoin Park in Nashville TN. Proceeds from this effort will fund Bitcoin Education and resources for Veterans.

Make your hashrate pledge today at https://operationbitcoin.io/telehash/

Thank you to our partners that have assisted our efforts and helped with equipment, logistics, and planning. See you on the front lines of the Hashwar.

Next Bitcoin Education session at the Georgia Veterans Education Career Transition Resource Center in Warner Robins Georgia October 28 11:30-1:00.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/why-bitcoin-matters-understanding-the-future-of-money-tickets-1857255905409

If Bitcoin miners turn stranded energy into digital value, then veterans can turn stranded human potential into cultural value. They can anchor our decentralized future in something solid: integrity, discipline, and service.

They’ve already lived the lessons the world is about to learn. They’ve seen what happens when systems collapse. They’ve learned to adapt, improvise, and rebuild under pressure. They’ve learned that freedom requires energy — and that energy must be directed toward something greater than oneself.

Another full session at the Georgia Veteran Education Career Transition Resource Center this week.

Veterans are on the mission.

This is the New Rally Point.

Operation Bitcoin empowers veterans with education in money, technology, and energy—restoring purpose, building community, and preparing leaders to safeguard freedom and human flourishing.

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The Adversarial Mindset: A Security Playbook for Bitcoiners

Imagine this: you’ve spent years stacking sats, watching your cold storage balance grow. One night, there’s a knock at the door you weren’t expecting. Or maybe it’s subtler—a strange text from your “exchange,” a Wi-Fi network that looks familiar but isn’t, or a friend who asks just a little too much about your Bitcoin setup.

These are not paranoid fantasies. They are the realities of holding an asset that is both borderless and irreversible. To thrive as a Bitcoiner, you need more than a hardware wallet—you need a way of thinking. A mindset that assumes adversaries exist, studies how they operate, and prepares accordingly.

Security, in this world, isn’t a checklist. It’s a discipline.

Thinking Like an Adversary

Attackers don’t play fair. They look for the weakest link, whether it’s an outdated app on your phone, a loose comment at a dinner party, or a cheap lock on your front door.

Adopting an adversarial mindset means asking yourself: • If I wanted to steal from me, how would I do it? • What patterns do I reveal online or offline that someone could exploit? • Where do I lack layers of defense?

By thinking strategically and tactically, you stop being reactive and start becoming proactive.

Securing the Digital Battlefield

Your wallet is your castle. Don’t build it on sand. • Hardware Wallets keep keys offline, far from malware. • Multi-Signature Setups force an attacker to compromise not one, but several strongholds. • Backups encrypted and spread across secure locations protect you from fire, theft, or error. • Online Hygiene—unique passwords, 2FA, VPNs, and the refusal to click strange links—keeps phishing hooks from sinking in.

Tactically, this means staying disciplined in daily habits. Strategically, it means reducing single points of failure so your castle can withstand a siege.

Every click, every login, every update is a chance to think: How would an attacker exploit this?

Guarding the Home Front

Bitcoin doesn’t just live online—it intersects with your life. That’s where many adversaries will probe. • Store seed phrases in fireproof safes or across multiple secure locations. • Reinforce your doors, locks, and alarms. The stronger your home, the less tempting you become as a target. • Keep your mouth shut—especially while traveling. The fewer who know, the fewer who can exploit. • Prepare escape and emergency protocols. A family that knows what to do under stress is far harder to exploit.

Think like the adversary: they don’t want a long fight. They want easy prey. Don’t be it.

Training the Mind and Body

A security plan isn’t only about what you own—it’s about how you move through the world. • Situational Awareness: Heads up, phone down. Notice who notices you. • Martial Arts: Krav Maga for real-world defense, Jiu-Jitsu for control, boxing for striking. Think of them as physical “patches” for human vulnerabilities. • De-escalation First: The best fight is the one avoided. But if conflict comes, you’ve trained to respond. • Stress Testing: Practice under pressure so adrenaline doesn’t control you when it matters most.

Tactics are useless without mental preparation. The adversarial mindset means knowing when to fight, when to flee, and when to blend in.

Tools of Defense: Weapons and Alternatives

Tools don’t replace mindset, but they extend it. • Know the law. Never train with tools you cannot legally use. • Firearms demand safety, discipline, and constant practice. • Non-lethal options like pepper spray, tasers, or even tactical flashlights can be decisive without deadly outcomes. • Everyday carry tools remind you that preparedness doesn’t have to be loud—it just has to work.

Every tool is a force multiplier. Without training, though, it’s just dead weight.

The Discipline of Continuous Readiness

An adversarial mindset isn’t about paranoia—it’s about preparation. • Conduct regular audits of your digital and physical defenses. • Train with trusted partners, because threats rarely happen on your schedule. • Stay current with emerging attack patterns in both tech and crime.

Above all, resist complacency. The greatest vulnerability of all is believing you’re too safe to be a target.

Quiet Strength

Here’s the paradox: the more capable you are, the less you need to show it.

True security isn’t about bragging on Twitter about your cold storage or martial arts training. It’s about the quiet confidence that you’ve thought strategically, trained tactically, and prepared realistically.

Bitcoin gives you freedom. Security ensures you keep it.

Closing Reflection

Bitcoin gives us freedom, but freedom without security is fragile. To protect yourself, your property, and your digital wealth, you must think like an adversary—always probing for weak points, always refining your defenses.

Strategic thinking sets the vision. Tactical thinking makes it real. Together, they transform security from a list of tasks into a way of life.

Because in the end, sovereignty isn’t just holding your own keys. It’s being ready for whatever comes when someone tries to take them.

Freedom is not a gift. If you're not fighting for it, You don't have it.

Language as Weaponry

GM. HODL. LFG. “Nothing stops this train.” And yes… “retards.”

Bitcoiners have never been shy about language. From early Bitcointalk threads to today’s laser-eyed X and Nostr feeds, the culture has built its own lexicon — playful, irreverent, self-mocking, and sometimes offensive to outsiders.

But behind the memes and one-liners lies a deeper truth: Bitcoin isn’t just a financial protocol. It’s a cultural insurgency. And every insurgency speaks in its own language.

The Lexicon of the Laser-Eyed

• GM (Good Morning): More than a greeting — it’s a decentralized ritual. A small but steady heartbeat of global presence. • HODL: A drunken typo from 2013 turned into a battle standard. “I AM HODLING” became a creed of conviction and low time preference. As Michael Saylor put it: “You don’t invest in Bitcoin to get rich. You invest in Bitcoin to stay rich.” — Lex Friedman Podcast, 2021 • LFG (Let’s Fucking Go): The lightning-strike cheer of Bitcoin culture. A compressed burst of collective energy, signaling both euphoria and defiance. • “Nothing stops this train”: A phrase with dual edges. On one side, it’s a celebration of Bitcoin’s unstoppable advance through bear markets, government hostility, and institutional skepticism. But as

notes, it also reflects the other side of inevitability — the collapse of the existing financial system.

“We’re in a system where the brakes are gone… Raising interest rates only accelerates the federal deficit faster than it slows private borrowing.” — Lyn Alden, Bitcoin 2025

In other words: the fiat train is hurtling toward structural failure, while Bitcoin rolls forward on stronger rails. The end of one system powers the rise of another.

• “Retards”: Crude, ironic, and controversial. But in Bitcoin circles, it’s used self-referentially — “we’re just a bunch of internet retards stacking sats.” It signals defiance against elitism, mocking the credentialed experts who dismissed Bitcoin at every stage. It’s post-ironic armor: abrasive enough to repel outsiders, humble enough to admit the absurdity of challenging trillion-dollar institutions with memes, code, and conviction. Not meant as insult, but as identity.

Language as Fifth-Gen Weaponry

This isn’t just slang. It’s fifth-generation warfare: memetic combat on the battlefield of meaning.

Bitcoiners weaponize narrative. Phrases like HODL or Nothing stops this train operate as sticky psychological payloads. They coordinate decentralized actors without command structure. They bypass gatekeepers. They reshape culture not through permission, but persistence.

“The most important thing you can do for Bitcoin is talk about it.” — Andreas M. Antonopoulos

Hal Finney, just days after receiving the first Bitcoin transaction from Satoshi, captured this blend of technology and narrative when he wrote: “I’m sure there will be many challenges… but I have a lot of faith in the potential of this system.” — Bitcointalk, Jan 2009

Faith and memes, belief and slang. This is how movements grow.

Narrative Terrain and Cultural Capture

The true terrain isn’t Wall Street. It’s mental markets. Slang like HODL, LFG, or even retards works as memetic code: hard to censor, easy to replicate. It encodes resilience, defiance, and shared humor. Over time, even critics echo the words — at first mocking, later conceding. That’s narrative capture.

And this is why language matters: • It encodes values. • It hardens belief. • It spreads faster than policy.

Every cultural revolution begins by shifting the words people use. Bitcoin is no different.

So GM retards. Keep stacking. Keep memeing. HODL like it matters — because it does.

Bitcoin isn’t just new money. It’s a new language. A decentralized front in the narrative war.

And whether the fiat system likes it or not, one thing is certain:

Nothing stops this train.

Thank you Rustin at

for moderating this panel at Bitcoin Alaska with

and

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https://rumble.com/v6x1xwc-from-war-to-bitcoin-how-bitcoin-is-saving-veterans-lives.html

In part one of the series, we discussed using Naval nuclear power to mine bitcoin.

In part two, we explore the land-based possibilities and existing infrastructure - which are surprisingly plentiful.

https://open.substack.com/pub/operationbitcoin/p/should-the-federal-government-mine-06e

Preserve Protect Defend

Your freedom isn't going to fight for itself.

Bitcoin Basics: Introduction to Mining at the Georgia Veterans Education Career Transition Resource Center (VECTR) was a success.

Veterans are highly motivated to understand the technology behind Bitcoin.

Thank you Rob Warren from @bitcoinpark for helping us develop the content for this session.

Empowering Veterans Through Bitcoin Education

https://open.substack.com/pub/operationbitcoin/p/empowering-veterans-through-bitcoin

Join us at the

Summit 2025 at

this Veterans Day.

https://www.meetup.com/bitcoinpark/events/308527453/

Three million veterans have served in the Global War on Terrorism.

Many of these veterans of forever wars are embracing freedom technology like Bitcoin. Our numbers grow every day. The

are on the mission.

We are here.

We are still fighting. For you. For freedom.

⚡ GEORGIA VETERANS ⚡

Registration now open for our Bitcoin Basics: Introduction to Mining session at the Georgia Veterans Education Career Transition Resource Center (VECTR)

June 24 at 11:30.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bitcoin-basics-introduction-to-mining-tickets-1411085848759

In an era of digital oppression, freedom technology is the most powerful and effective weapon we have.

Study Bitcoin Study Nostr Study AI Study decentalized energy

We must fight.
And we will win.

Bitcoin is the base layer upon which free communication is built.

Nostr is next.

Today we remember and honor our brothers and sisters who have given their lives for us.

Let this day be a reminder of why we fight for a system that makes war unaffordable.

We refuse to let their sacrifices be in vain.

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The Bitcoin community's generosity has exceeded our expectations. We now have a second node pointing hashrate to our cause thanks to a private miner.

If you want to donate your hash you can still point your miner to stratum+tcp://datum.bitcoinveterans.org:23334. We are streaming the live stats page on the Bitcoin Veterans YouTube channel. If you want to track the hashrate coming from the second node, see the link below:

https://ocean.xyz/stats/bc1qjl68mvqazydptwtl2tetuwc48dnu4rmlsp07n2?wpage=0#workers-fulltable

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