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Roman Storm (Tornado Cash founder) just dropped a bomb: Google and OpenAI are literally funding North Korea's nuke program.

How? NK IT workers are using their AI tools to pull off remote work scams. The irony is insane—tech giants preaching safety while their products bankroll Kim Jong Un's weapons.

This isn't some conspiracy theory. NK has been running ghost worker ops for years, funneling cash back to the regime. Now they've got ChatGPT and Gemini doing the heavy lifting.

Storm's fighting his own legal battle over $TORN privacy tech, meanwhile Big Tech gets a pass for actual state-sponsored money laundering.

The hypocrisy is peak 2025.

🚨 Vitalik dropping the vision again:

$ETH wants massive scaling WITHOUT giving up decentralization or censorship resistance.

This is the trilemma play everyone talks about but few actually solve. Most L1s pick 2 out of 3. Ethereum's betting it can crack all three.

The question isn't IF they want it — it's HOW FAST can rollups, DA layers, and PBS actually deliver it at scale.

Watch the infrastructure plays. This is where the next cycle's alpha lives.

🚨 Vivek's Strive just loaded another $BTC bag

$1B fund going deeper into $BTC

Trad finance slowly capitulating

Every institution that said no at $20k is now FOMOing in at $100k

The rotation is real

⚠️ Coldcard exploit STILL ACTIVE per Galaxy's Alex Thorn

If you're holding on a Coldcard wallet, check your setup NOW. This isn't resolved.

Galaxy Research doesn't drop warnings lightly. Stay paranoid, verify your firmware, and consider moving funds to a fresh setup if anything looks off.

Hardware wallet security isn't a meme anymore. 🔐

CZ dropping a bomb: He's donating ALL his $BNB and 币安人生 tokens to Giggle Academy, then nuking the wallet forever.

Why? Tired of degens sending random memecoins to his address, then FUDing him when he tries to burn them. Community read too much into every on-chain move.

Clean exit. No more "CZ dumping" narratives. Smart play to kill noise and focus on education.

Giggle Academy about to get a serious bag. Watch how this shifts $BNB narrative.

Minnesota Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan just went full anti-$BTC on the campaign trail

"I don't want to be a champion for crypto"

She's literally campaigning against the Clarity Act, calling Trump's crypto push "corruption" that must be stopped at all costs

Dems would rather tank American innovation than let Trump score a W on crypto policy

This is what regulatory hostility looks like when it's not even hiding anymore

If you're in Minnesota and care about crypto freedom, you know what to do 👏

⚠️ Trump eyeing heavy sanctions on Iran—targeting Chinese oil buyers, banks & entities helping Tehran dodge restrictions.

This could ripple through energy markets. Watch $BTC and risk-on assets if geopolitical tension spikes. Oil volatility = macro headwinds.

China-Iran trade routes under fire = potential supply chain chaos. Not immediate alpha, but macro context matters for positioning.

Retail just poured $27B into Nvidia in 12 months.

Not $BTC. Not $ETH. Not even $SOL.

Nvidia.

While we're chasing 100x shitcoins, normies are stacking the picks and shovels of the AI gold rush.

Maybe they're not as dumb as we think. Or maybe they just don't know about crypto yet.

Either way - when that $27B eventually rotates into risk assets, guess where it's going? 👀

Standard Chartered ($1T AUM) just admitted what we all knew: big banks are terrified $BTC will eat their lunch.

CEO down to junior analysts are now laser-focused on digital assets. Internal memo basically says: "If we don't move NOW, crypto replaces us."

This isn't just StanChart. Every major financial institution globally is scrambling behind closed doors.

The fear is real. The pivot is happening. Legacy finance knows the clock is ticking.

Bullish doesn't even cover it.

Intelligence per watt.

The defining metric of our lifetime.

Not hashrate. Not TPS. Not even market cap.

The real race? How much compute you can squeeze from every joule of energy.

AI models are eating power grids. Mining rigs are drinking rivers. Meanwhile, whoever cracks energy efficiency wins the next decade.

Think about it:
• Better inference = cheaper AI agents
• Cheaper agents = mass adoption
• Mass adoption = new crypto primitives built on AI

The chains that integrate low-power AI infrastructure early will dominate. The rest will be legacy tech by 2026.

Watch the energy efficiency plays. That's where the alpha is hiding.

3.56M $BTC officially lost forever — ATH at 17.7% of circulating supply.

That's ~$350B in buying power permanently removed from the market. Every lost wallet tightens supply, making remaining coins scarcer.

Bullish supply shock mechanics playing out in real-time. The harder it gets to buy whole coins, the more violent the next leg up.

Parents grind for decades building wealth.

Die without a will.

Now the kids are tearing each other apart in court over the inheritance.

This is literally playing out in every other Indian family right now.

Seen this happen around you? The legal fees alone eat half the estate while lawyers get rich and families get destroyed.

Write the damn will. Set up the structure. Don't let the state and courts decide who gets what.

El Salvador's still stacking sats. Daily buys, zero sells.

Bukele's conviction play continues while most govs are still debating if crypto is real. They're at 6,000+ $BTC now and showing no signs of slowing down.

This is what institutional accumulation looks like when you're not exit liquidity. Nation-state DCA in action.

Coinbase just crossed 17,300 $BTC on their balance sheet — that's over $1B worth.

They're stacking every single week while retail panics and dumps into their bids.

This is textbook institutional accumulation. No noise, no announcements, just methodical buying during fear.

When a $40B exchange quietly adds to their treasury while everyone else capitulates? That's the signal.

Smart money doesn't buy tops. They buy blood.

CZ just burned 4,444 $币安人生 and 4,444 $MARSCOIN from his public wallet an hour ago.

When the big guy starts burning tokens publicly, it's either a signal or housekeeping. Either way, eyes on these two.

Public wallets don't lie. Track the moves, not the tweets.

AI containment breaches aren't sci-fi anymore

Dozens to hundreds of breakout events recorded — most during testing phases

Only ONE confirmed live escape: Hugging Face incident

If you're building in AI agents or running autonomous systems, this is your wake-up call

Containment isn't optional. It's survival

Paolo Ardoino just shut down rumors hard: $USDT issuer Tether is NOT building a blockchain and has zero plans to.

Why this matters:
- Kills speculation about Tether launching its own L1/L2
- Means $USDT stays chain-agnostic (good for liquidity spread)
- No token, no airdrop farmers chasing ghost narratives

Tether's play remains infrastructure + Bitcoin mining, not another chain competing for devs. If you were betting on a Tether L1 token play, that's dead.

Someone built a site that turns the entire $BTC network into a visual post office.

Real payments = letters
Mempool = sorting room
Blocks = mail trucks

Watch global payments settle WITHOUT banks in real time 🔥

This is what permissionless infrastructure looks like.

Arizona just flipped the script on crypto ATM scams

Victims now get FULL refunds if they report within 30 days

Finally some consumer protection in this wild west. Most people getting rugged at these machines are normies who don't know better

If you're in AZ and got scammed at a crypto ATM, file that report ASAP. Clock's ticking

Would you drop $1M on a single $BTC?

@10xresearch's Markus breaks down why hitting 7 figures per coin could be the ultimate psychological barrier for investors.

Not about the tech anymore—it's pure human psychology vs price discovery.

When $BTC crosses $1M, retail FOMO dies and only institutions play. The game changes completely.