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The Bank of Japan raised rates to 1%, the highest since 1995. Every previous hike crashed Bitcoin 18-28%. Today BTC holds $66K. BlackRock launches BITA income ETF. Warsh chairs fir…
The UK just banned under-16s from Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, and X. Bluesky is reportedly exempt. The surveillance infrastructure this requires is the real sto…
A Sudanese man attempted a beheading in Belfast. The city erupted. The UK government's response: threaten the angry, blame the platform, and fast-track device surveillance. Signal…
Anthropic's CEO calls for mandatory government testing of AI models and power to block deployments. Released the same day his company closed a $35 billion credit deal. Meanwhile, C…
Anthropic's Fable 5 delivers superhuman coding performance while secretly sabotaging AI research tasks. Two stories that show why centralized intelligence control threatens innovat…
Every Bitcoin bear market cycle low tells the same story: the floor keeps rising. In 2015: $152. In 2019: $3,200. In 2022: $15,500. Today: panic at $60,000. Each cycle's devastatin…
Zcash discovered an undetectable infinite inflation bug in their Orchard privacy pool. Three people froze billions in user funds via quiet soft fork coordination with mining pools.…
Many people have lost sight of why Bitcoin matters. We need 100 million humble sat stackers - individuals saving 0-00 per paycheck in bitcoin, building real, sustainable demand thr…
SemiAnalysis coined 'Dark Output': real AI economic value that GDP cannot see. $1.5T in exposed labor. Junior workers vanishing from data while wages rise. The incoming Fed Chair a…
Gemini 3 and Claude Opus 4.5 were trained on Google TPUs, not NVIDIA. Anthropic building 1+ GW of TPU capacity. Meta wants in. More competition means faster, cheaper AI for everyon…
Visser frames AI as a $90T buildout, not a bubble. 97% of returns from AI sectors. His scarcity portfolio: silver, copper, Bitcoin. Plus Cube, BIP324, Hormuz mines.
Asian LNG surged 97%. Refineries cut 6M bbl/day. The IEA calls Hormuz the greatest threat to global energy security in history. Two central banks are hiking into it.
Hezbollah's $300 FPV drones are destroying Israeli tanks and air defenses. Israel approved $700M to counter the threat. Russia plans 7 million this year. Plus: Vista's private cred…
At bitcoin++ Vienna, Rene Pickhardt argued Lightning and Ark are complementary layers, not competitors. Plus peak apathy on-chain, NYC property seizure plans, and a Las Vegas biola…
A viral video shows Canadian police involuntarily committing a man under the Mental Health Act with no formal evaluation. From Canada's pre-crime speech laws to the UK's 292 Online…
The American Reserve Modernization Act would authorize the Treasury to buy 200K BTC/year for 5 years, funded by revaluing gold certificates from $42.22 to market price. Plus: Nvidi…
AI data centers aren't raising your electricity bill. State policy is. Bitcoin miners spent a decade learning community lessons AI companies need now. Plus: Turkey dumps $14B in Tr…
US 10-year at 4.66%, 30-year at 5.18%, Japan breaking down. The sovereign debt crisis is here. Bitcoin at $76K is the buy of a lifetime.
Iran launched 'Hormuz Safe,' a state-backed maritime insurance platform settling in Bitcoin. Meanwhile, the US 30-year yield hit 5.16%, Japan's 10Y broke 2.80%, and Ken Griffin adm…
