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Brazil, Calacanis and the Difference Between Equity and Money
Brazil's stock market fell 13.9% after Lula's reelection as legal insecurity became the talk of São Paulo's financial district. Jason Calacanis says sell bitcoin for superintelligence. Why owning equity isn't owning mone…
Flavio Bolsonaro and his family left Brazil for the US without Brazilian authorities noticing. Per @ggreenwald, they spent the morning clueless, even chasing a plane in Argentina that looks like a decoy. x.com/ggreenwald/sta…
.@lopp reports that bitcoin treasury company Datavaultai crashed after informing investors it has been unable to withdraw BTC from exchange Biconomy for 4 months despite repeated transfer requests. x.com/lopp/status/21…

Since December 2024, the US has added roughly 760,000 jobs. According to government payroll data, nearly all of them have gone to women. Men have gained essentially zero net jobs since Trump took office.
"It doesn't look good either way. Bitcoin looks fine either way." @1basemoney on the Fed and the 2019 repo crisis.
change.org/p/stand-up-for…

Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez published Letter #8 from prison, documenting his transfer to a federal transit facility in Oklahoma. "This was a whole different kind of prison experience and a whole different way of doing time, and one I frankly was wholly unprepared for." "No drinking cups were provided nor were any drinking water fountains, so I drank water from a lukewarm tap by cupping my hands and bringing them up to my mouth. This truly was the jungle." therage.co/letter-8-notes…
A hacker is actively attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems, forcing the agency to temporarily shut down all web-facing services one week before midterms, according to an email reviewed by Reuters. The FEC confirmed its electronic filing system is currently offline and IT staff are working to restore service. The agency's website remains down. While the FEC regulates campaign funding and enforces campaign finance law, it does not administer elections. Elections are run at the state level.
Cashu creator @callebtc on AI-written code vs human code: "The difference between a big project written exclusively by modern frontier models and one written by a dozen engineers is just incredible. All those little obscure mistakes that humans overlook are mostly absent." x.com/callebtc/statu…
"It's kind of clickbaity." @MartyBent and @1basemoney on stablecoins vs global broad money.
Stop selling your bitcoin to cover everyday spending. @AvenCard lets you borrow against it instead. Up to $1M, rates from 8.99%, no rehypothecation. 2% unlimited cash back on every purchase. tftc.io/bitcoin-visa-c…
Tether CEO @paoloardoino shares his latest keynote: "Tether: a psychohistory interpretation."

Google DeepMind just dropped Genie 4, an interactive world model that generates dynamic environments in real time with reactive scenes, sound, and characters that move, react, and speak.
Flavio Bolsonaro and his family left Brazil for the US without Brazilian authorities noticing. Per @ggreenwald, they spent the morning clueless, even chasing a plane in Argentina that looks like a decoy. x.com/ggreenwald/sta…
.@lopp reports that bitcoin treasury company Datavaultai crashed after informing investors it has been unable to withdraw BTC from exchange Biconomy for 4 months despite repeated transfer requests. x.com/lopp/status/21…

Since December 2024, the US has added roughly 760,000 jobs. According to government payroll data, nearly all of them have gone to women. Men have gained essentially zero net jobs since Trump took office.
"It doesn't look good either way. Bitcoin looks fine either way." @1basemoney on the Fed and the 2019 repo crisis.
change.org/p/stand-up-for…

Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez published Letter #8 from prison, documenting his transfer to a federal transit facility in Oklahoma. "This was a whole different kind of prison experience and a whole different way of doing time, and one I frankly was wholly unprepared for." "No drinking cups were provided nor were any drinking water fountains, so I drank water from a lukewarm tap by cupping my hands and bringing them up to my mouth. This truly was the jungle." therage.co/letter-8-notes…
A hacker is actively attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems, forcing the agency to temporarily shut down all web-facing services one week before midterms, according to an email reviewed by Reuters. The FEC confirmed its electronic filing system is currently offline and IT staff are working to restore service. The agency's website remains down. While the FEC regulates campaign funding and enforces campaign finance law, it does not administer elections. Elections are run at the state level.
Cashu creator @callebtc on AI-written code vs human code: "The difference between a big project written exclusively by modern frontier models and one written by a dozen engineers is just incredible. All those little obscure mistakes that humans overlook are mostly absent." x.com/callebtc/statu…
"It's kind of clickbaity." @MartyBent and @1basemoney on stablecoins vs global broad money.
Stop selling your bitcoin to cover everyday spending. @AvenCard lets you borrow against it instead. Up to $1M, rates from 8.99%, no rehypothecation. 2% unlimited cash back on every purchase. tftc.io/bitcoin-visa-c…
Tether CEO @paoloardoino shares his latest keynote: "Tether: a psychohistory interpretation."

Google DeepMind just dropped Genie 4, an interactive world model that generates dynamic environments in real time with reactive scenes, sound, and characters that move, react, and speak.
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