BlockBeats reported on August 15th that Google announced users can now remove visible watermarks from its AI-generated content, including images, videos, and songs. The company clarified that this move will not affect invisible SynthID watermarks or metadata related to the C2PA standard.

Josh Woodward, VP of Google Gemini, posted that the switch will be available for Nano Banana, Omni, and Lyria models. He noted that the setting to disable the visible watermark will be available in Gemini and Google's video editor Flow, with search functionality support coming soon. The feature will be rolled out gradually over the next few days, and once available, users can enable or disable the visible watermark via Settings > Media Watermarks.

Google has also open-sourced a new library called Credentio, which makes it easier for developers to embed local verification mechanisms in their applications.

According to BlockBeats, on August 15th, Strategy founder Michael Saylor stated that Bitcoin integrates computers, digital networks, and cryptography to build the first digitally designed monetary network in human history. It completely dematerializes monetary assets, with supply controlled by public protocols rather than decision-making, transforming economic value into information that can be securely transmitted across global communication networks. Compared to gold, Bitcoin is more difficult to issue, easier to integrate with software, faster in transmission, and every participant is incentivized to maintain network security. The proof-of-work mechanism anchors it to the physical world, consuming real energy in exchange for ledger security, making the cost of tampering with history high and attracting miners, energy companies, and investors to jointly build a defense system. Bitcoin is digital gold, but understanding it as digital currency energy is more accurate.

The Bitcoin network is not static software, but an adaptive system comprised of miners, nodes, developers, capital, and users. Bitcoin deliberately maintains simplicity, focusing solely on maintaining a secure and reliable ledger of scarce digital assets, leaving complexity to upper-layer applications. This layered design, combining underlying integrity with upper-layer functionality, allows it to serve as the foundation for transmitting monetary power across time and space, while also supporting continuous innovation in payment, credit, and financial services.

The more profound impact lies in Bitcoin's creation of a new type of digital sovereignty: private keys grant individuals the ability to control economic power without permission, and ownership is verified mathematically rather than institutionally. Companies, banks, trusts, and applications can build complete economic systems around it, and social networks can use it to introduce real costs and responsibilities into the digital space. Gold monetized physical scarcity, while Bitcoin monetizes digital scarcity. It is not simply a payment tool, but an engineering solution to the problem of energy conservation and management—money is energy, and Bitcoin is the monetary energy of the digital age.