Sazmining, a renewable-powered Bitcoin mining-as-a-service provider, has raised more than $185,000 through an equity crowdfunding campaign on Timestamp Financial, as reported by Lightning News. The company is targeting $618,000 in total funding at a $30 million pre-money valuation, with investments structured via SAFE notes that will later convert to equity. Co-Founder and CEO Kent Halliburton said the valuation was based on Sazmining’s projected 2025 EBITDA, benchmarked against enterprise multiples from Airbnb, Coinbase, and Marathon Digital, with a 25% discount applied. The raise is framed as a chance for retail investors to own a stake in a firm that aims to make Bitcoin mining “decentralized, sustainable, and accessible.” Sazmining operates sites across the Americas and Europe using only renewable energy, reporting 350% year-over-year growth. Funds will support expansion as Bitcoin adoption accelerates globally.
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Mike Belshe, CEO and co-founder of BitGo, told Bitcoin News’s Conor Chepenik that his journey began when he tried and failed to hack Bitcoin, realizing it was “actual digital money that works.” A former Google Chrome engineer and inventor of HTTP/2.0, Belshe went on to pioneer one of the first multi-signature wallets in 2013, a step that ultimately evolved BitGo into a global custodian. Today, BitGo serves nearly 4,000 institutions, operating seven regulated custodians worldwide and processing a significant share of Bitcoin transactions. Belshe positions the company as “the Amazon of digital assets,” emphasizing infrastructure that can scale regardless of which blockchains thrive. He believes the majority of BitGo’s future clients have yet to enter the market, noting, “all assets are going to be digital.” His focus remains on building secure, fiduciary-backed custody to anchor the industry’s next growth phase.
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Marc Hudson, writing for The Conversation, explores why wind farms attract outsized levels of misinformation and conspiracy theory. U.S. president Donald Trump recently called turbines a “con job” that “drive whales loco,” echoing long-running beliefs that experts have repeatedly attempted to debunk. Hudson situates such claims within a broader pattern of resistance to renewable energy, where opposition often stems less from data than from entrenched worldviews. Research by Kevin Winter and colleagues shows that belief in conspiracy theories is a stronger predictor of anti-wind sentiment than demographics like age or education. Because turbines are highly visible, they become lightning rods for fears about modernity, government control, and energy security. Hudson notes this reflects a kind of “anti-reflexivity,” a reluctance to confront the externalities of fossil-fueled prosperity. As he writes, “It’s harder to take on an entire worldview than to correct a few made-up talking points.”
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Jacek Krywko, in Ars Technica, reports on Stanford University researchers who have built a brain-computer interface (BCI) capable of decoding inner speech, the silent monologues people use for reading or memory. Unlike existing implants, which require patients to attempt speech by engaging vocal muscles, this device could extract words directly from brain activity. While promising for patients with ALS or paralysis, the work raises privacy concerns. Lead researcher Benyamin Meschede Abramovich Krasa noted, “We demonstrated that traditional BCI systems … could be activated when a subject … imagined speaking that sentence in their head.” To mitigate risks, the team developed safeguards: one trained AI networks to ignore inner speech, another required a mental password, “chitty chitty bang bang,” to activate decoding. Accuracy reached 86% on limited vocabularies but dropped sharply with larger sets. Researchers see it as proof-of-concept, with future applications in aphasia and faster communication.
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