Nonprofits, churches, and creators can now accept Bitcoin donations in minutes using tools like Blink Wallet and Flash, reports James for Lightning News. Blink offers a seamless process through Lightning Addresses, usernames formatted like “username@blink.sv”, and easy payment links such as pay.blink.sv/username. “This approach makes receiving Bitcoin donations easy, borderless, and quick,” James notes, emphasizing the simplicity for global supporters. Flash, a one-stop Bitcoin payment platform, enables users to create a customizable donation widget with no coding required. Donors can give instantly over the Lightning Network, with funds going directly to recipients’ wallets. Both platforms focus on user accessibility, security, and instant settlement, signaling the bitcoin industry’s growing integration with charitable giving. As Lightning adoption expands, these tools lower technical barriers, letting any organization accept Bitcoin as effortlessly as traditional online payments.
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Ben Landau-Taylor, writing in Palladium Magazine, delivers a scathing indictment of modern academia’s “culture of fraud,” arguing that scientific institutions have abandoned their moral duty to truth. He recounts how neuroscientist Sylvain Lesné’s doctored Alzheimer’s research—once foundational to the “amyloid hypothesis”, misdirected over $1 billion in funding and delayed treatments for millions. Despite overwhelming evidence, Lesné remains employed and funded by the University of Minnesota. Landau-Taylor connects this case to a pattern of unpunished misconduct, from Stanford’s Marc Tessier-Lavigne to Duke’s Dan Ariely, calling academia “epistemically bankrupt.” He argues that reform will likely come from outside universities, where independent researchers and internet intellectuals, like Eliezer Yudkowsky, pursue truth unbound by bureaucracy. “Knowledge comes… from insane people on a spiritual quest for Truth,” he writes, suggesting that the next scientific renaissance may emerge from these decentralized, digital-era thinkers rather than academia’s decayed institutions.
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Northern Data has finalized a merger agreement with U.S.-listed Rumble Inc., confirming plans for the video platform to acquire all outstanding shares of the German high-performance computing and former Bitcoin mining firm. According to Monday’s announcement, Northern Data shareholders will now receive 2.0281 Rumble shares per tendered share, down from the 2.319 ratio proposed in August. The deal, expected to close in Q2 2026 pending approvals, includes a conditional $200 million cash component tied to the sale of Northern Data’s former Texas facility. Rumble and Northern Data also unveiled a two-year, $150 million GPU-leasing agreement with Tether, which will convert half of its €610 million loan to equity at $7.88 per share. The merger deepens Rumble’s high-performance computing footprint while advancing Northern Data’s pivot away from Bitcoin mining toward scalable cloud infrastructure.
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The state of marriage may look stable, but Daniel Cox in American Storylines, shows that social influence plays a decisive, often repetitive role in whether couples stay together. The people around us, he notes, “play a critical role in decisions to stay or leave.” Eight in ten married Americans report being satisfied in their relationships, yet one in five have contemplated divorce. Couples with divorced friends are far less content, only 34 percent call themselves “completely satisfied,” versus 46 percent of those without such friends. Supportive social circles can strengthen commitment, while online spaces like Reddit often normalize separation. Cox argues that marriages thrive when surrounded by communities invested in their success. “Marriages endure within communities of healthy relationships,” he writes, suggesting that the social context surrounding a couple may be as crucial as their own effort.
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