Thomas Anderson

We are doomed. Greed will destroy humanity. It's only a matter of time. The wrong people are running countries. Concepts such as law, order, and morality only have meaning when they are based on equality. The harsh truth of this world is that when money speaks, the truth falls silent. And when power speaks, even money takes three steps back. Those who make the rules are often the first to break them. Rules are chains for the weak and tools for the powerful.

🤖 AI agents are already widely settling payments in stablecoins — through the x402 protocol, almost all of these transactions are made in USDC.

According to Token Terminal, around 17.8 million agent transactions were processed over the past 30 days, with the highest volumes on Base, Polygon, and Solana.

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Google to Pay $700 Million to Android Users Following Play Store Settlement

A federal court has approved a $700 million settlement resolving an antitrust lawsuit against Google over alleged monopolistic practices involving Android app distribution and in-app payments through the Google Play Store.

According to the Washington State Attorney General’s Office, the settlement addresses claims that Google’s practices led consumers to pay excessive fees of up to 30% on certain transactions.

The five-year case will provide compensation to eligible consumers nationwide. Washington residents are expected to receive approximately $13 million, with around 2.4 million people potentially eligible. Most of the payments will go to consumers who made Google Play purchases between August 2021 and July 2026.

Most eligible consumers will not need to file a claim. Payments will generally be distributed through PayPal or Venmo, with an alternative claims process available for those unable to receive funds through either service.

The settlement also requires Google to make several changes to Google Play. For at least five years, developers will be allowed to offer alternative payment systems, inform users about potentially cheaper purchasing options outside Google’s billing system, and distribute apps through competing app stores without retaliation.

Android users will also be able to install apps from sources outside the Google Play Store for at least seven years.

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said the settlement represents an important step in holding major technology companies accountable for alleged anticompetitive practices.

Google has denied any wrongdoing.

🚬 Justin Sun has scored an interim victory in his dispute with Trump family-backed World Liberty Financial — the court ruled that hearings in the case should be held publicly, despite the project’s attempts to have the proceedings conducted behind closed doors.

Sun invested $75 million in WLFI and claims that the project illegally froze his tokens, while similar mechanisms are also being used in the Trump-affiliated stablecoin USD1.

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NATO–Russia war could begin by the end of 2026 — the probability of such a scenario on Polymarket has surged from 23% to 53% in just a few hours.

Spot demand for Bitcoin has turned positive for the first time since February. Historically, following a similar reversal, BTC has gained an average of 18% over the subsequent 60 days, with positive returns occurring in approximately 78% of cases.

🪙 Exactly 18 years ago today, Satoshi Nakamoto and Martti Malmi registered the Bitcoin.org domain — before the publication of the White Paper and the launch of the network.

Funny enough, Bitcoin still doesn’t have an official website — Bitcoin.org remains an independent community-driven project.

Paolo Ardoino has put an end to rumors about Tether launching its own network — the company is NOT building a blockchain and has no plans to do so.

The strategy remains unchanged — USDT will continue to operate across multiple networks, while Tether will remain neutral toward any specific “transport layer.”

The rumors were sparked by reports that placed Tether alongside Stripe and Circle, which are developing their own infrastructure for stablecoins.

85 seconds to midnight: The Doomsday Clock has set a new alarming record — the world is effectively “creeping” toward a nuclear apocalypse, reports The Washington Post.

The US and Russia, which together possess 86% of the world’s nuclear arsenal, are without an active strategic arms limitation treaty for the first time since 1972.

China is expanding its nuclear arsenal, which now exceeds 600 warheads.

South Korea and Japan also want to develop their own nuclear arsenals. In South Korea, around 70% of citizens support developing their own nuclear weapons.

The publication makes a grim prediction for all humanity: the more nations possess nuclear weapons, the greater the risk of miscalculation and uncontrolled escalation.

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☠️ SafePal suffered a data leak affecting nearly 40,000 customers — names, shipping addresses, phone numbers, emails, and order details were exposed.

Seed phrases, private keys, and funds remain unaffected, but the leak itself poses a serious threat to crypto owners, as this data can easily be exploited for targeted phishing and physical attacks.

Just three days prior, a similar breach at Trezor impacted nearly 14,000 customers.

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Trump has been sued over paid access to his posts on Truth Social — the subscription allows traders and hedge funds to receive posts from influential accounts milliseconds before everyone else.

The plaintiffs argue that selling early access to the president’s statements violates constitutional rights and gives paying customers an unfair advantage in the market.

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🃏 Pokémon cards are currently outperforming both Bitcoin and the S&P 500 in 2026 — the PV100 index is up 27.9% year-to-date.

Against this backdrop, the $13–15 billion collectibles card market is increasingly being brought onto the blockchain, with cards being traded as tokenized assets.

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#Binance #Bitcoin❗ #MarketMeltdown #Pokemon

Leading crypto companies are calling for Bitcoin developers to get early access to the most powerful AI models so they can identify vulnerabilities before hackers do.

The initiative has already been backed by Coinbase, Strategy, Block, MARA, Galaxy, Bitwise, and more than 40 other organizations.

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🇰🇵 The North Korea-linked group Kimsuky has started using local AI tools such as Ollama and GPT4All in attacks targeting cryptocurrency and financial companies.

According to Genians, these systems help analyze stolen data, automate parts of attacks, and make phishing campaigns more convincing — while operating offline, without sending information to external services.

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A minor split has emerged within the Bitcoin community — supporters of BIP-110 sought to restrict the inclusion of unnecessary data such as Ordinals in the blockchain, but received support from less than 3% of miners.

As a result, they moved to a separate chain, which mined only two blocks before effectively stalling, while the regular Bitcoin network continued operating as usual.
Ledger separately warned that transferring coins from this chain could be risky due to the lack of replay protection.

Earlier, a developer embedded a 66 KB image directly into a Bitcoin transaction — without Taproot, OP_RETURN, or any of the restrictions proposed by BIP-110.

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🎣 Yesterday, a phishing site impersonating Trezor appeared as the top Google ad result and disguised itself as the official service.

After a wave of complaints, the ad was removed.

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#scamriskwarning

🇰🇵 Bybit has filed a lawsuit against North Korea over the largest hack in history — $1.5 billion in February 2025.

Interesting to see how this all ends. I think… with nothing.

🦠 For the first time, AI has designed complete genomes of new viruses — 16 bacteriophages created by Evo 1 and Evo 2 proved to be viable and were able to INFECT bacteria.

This could help in the fight against antibiotic-resistant infections, but it also raises a serious biosecurity question: what will happen when such models learn to work with more dangerous pathogens?

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Researchers used AI to analyze 390 projects across the Bitcoin ecosystem in just 30 hours, uncovering 4,962 potential vulnerabilities.

More than 700 were classified as high or critical risk, although only about 20% of the findings have been confirmed so far.

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Binance has filed a $470 million lawsuit against crypto payments platform RedotPay, accusing the company of poaching users and former employees using confidential information that was allegedly obtained unlawfully.

RedotPay has denied the allegations and says it will defend its position in court.

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