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Profile Code

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Last Notes

2026-03-06 17:23:01 CET

Kazakhstan central bank to invest up to $350 million of reserves in digital assets, including Bitcoin.
$69B total reserves backdrop. Program kicks off spring 2026.
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2026-03-06 16:02:21 CET

Blackstone just used $400 million of its own money to pay investors trying to leave its $82 billion private credit fund.
Redemption requests hit a record 7.9% of the fund, blowing past the standard 5% quarterly cap. Net outflows: $1.7 billion. The world's largest alternative asset manager is now plugging holes with its own balance sheet just to meet withdrawals.
It's not just Blackstone. Blue Owl permanently froze redemptions on a retail-focused private credit fund two weeks ago. Across the complex, stocks are cratering from their highs: Blue Owl -61%, KKR -44%, Blackstone -43%, Ares -42%, Apollo -39%, Carlyle -25%.
RA Stanger is forecasting a 40% decline in BDC capital formation for 2026. Meanwhile, forensic accountant Tom Gober has been documenting how Apollo, KKR, and Brookfield have been using captive insurance subsidiaries to funnel policyholder money, often retirees' annuity payments, into illiquid private credit that's never been stress-tested in a downturn.
The 777 Partners fraud was the canary. UK mortgage lender Market Financial Solutions collapsed last week, rattling Wall Street lenders. Reuters cited that collapse directly in its reporting on Blackstone's redemptions. This is spreading across borders and asset classes.
Blackstone's Jon Gray went on CNBC and called it "a ton of noise." It's not noise. It's $3 trillion in private credit discovering that getting in was easy, but getting out is a different story entirely.
These are the same firms that manage your 401(k), your pension, your life insurance, and tell you Bitcoin is "too risky."
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2026-02-28 21:08:03 CET

Fear & Greed Index at 9. PMI came in hotter than expected. Bitcoin dropped to $63K on Iran strikes and bounced to $66K within hours, on a Saturday with no traditional markets open.
Every cycle has its "this time is different" moment that shakes out weak hands. The fundamentals haven't changed. The macro data is strengthening. And bitcoin just proved it can absorb a geopolitical shock and recover in real time.
The world is uncertain. Bitcoin doesn't pretend otherwise. But an asset that recovers from a war scare faster than the news cycle can process it is telling you something.
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2026-02-28 02:20:22 CET

Elon Musk: “In the long term, work will be optional, like playing a game or growing vegetables because you enjoy it.”
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2026-02-27 00:55:05 CET

Apple rolls out age verification for UK iPhone users in iOS 26.4 beta, complying with the Online Safety Act.
Unverified? No app downloads or purchases.
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2026-02-25 06:07:13 CET

Trump honors assassinated TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk.
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2026-02-25 05:46:30 CET

Trump: "Let's ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information."
"Did Nancy Pelosi stand up? Doubt it."
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2026-02-25 05:36:08 CET

Trump during SOTU: "This should be my third term."
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2026-02-25 05:25:56 CET

Trump: "As time goes by, I believe that tariffs, paid for by foreign countries, will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern-day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people that I love."
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2026-02-25 05:15:29 CET

Trump: "Parents can activate their children's brand new Trump Accounts."
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2026-02-25 05:05:09 CET

Trump in State of the Union: U.S. has imported 80+ million barrels of Venezuelan oil since interim government deal.
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2026-02-25 04:54:50 CET

Trump: "People are asking me, please, please, please Mr. President, we are winning too much. We can’t take it any more. We are not used to winning in our country."
"Until you came along we are just always losing but now we are winning too much. And I say, ‘no no no, you are going to win again."
"You are going to win big. You are going to win bigger than ever."
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2026-02-25 04:44:29 CET

USA Men's Hockey Team joins President Trump at the State of the Union just days after beating Canada for gold.
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2026-02-25 04:34:11 CET

Rep. Al Green ejected from Trump's SOTU just minutes in after protesting.
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2026-02-25 04:23:58 CET

Trump: "These people are crazy. I'm telling you. They're crazy."
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2026-02-25 04:13:50 CET

Trump: "Our Nation is BACK, bigger, better, richer, and stronger than ever before."
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2026-02-25 04:03:28 CET

President Trump arrives for the State of the Union address.
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2026-02-25 03:53:19 CET

Trump directly criticizes Supreme Court for striking down his IEEPA tariffs, calls it a mistake that "backfired."
"Congressional action WILL NOT be necessary!"
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2026-02-25 03:33:08 CET

Standing ovation for Barron Trump & First Lady Melania as they arrive for President Trump's SOTU.
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2026-02-25 03:22:48 CET

SCOTUS Justices Kavanaugh, Barrett, Roberts & Kagan arrive at President Trump's State of the Union, days after the Court struck down his tariffs.
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2026-02-25 03:12:28 CET

Senators and reps arrive ahead of Trump's State of the Union.
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2026-02-25 03:02:08 CET

President Trump's motorcade just rolled up to the Capitol for SOTU.
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2026-02-25 02:51:47 CET

President Trump & First Lady Melania head to Capitol Hill for the SOTU address.
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2026-02-24 23:56:07 CET

An Anthropic engineer wrote a spec, pointed Claude at an Asana board, and went home.
By Monday the agents had finished the feature.
The best engineers are already working this way.
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2026-02-24 23:38:15 CET

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2026-02-24 23:28:07 CET

Michael Saylor says digital credit will convert $50 trillion in bonds into permanent Bitcoin demand. "Everybody wins. The world will win."
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2026-02-24 23:15:47 CET

Michael Saylor at Strategy World 2026: $STRC converts Bitcoin volatility into stable digital credit, bringing in conservative investors and amplifying BTC's value.
"We are appreciating the value of BTC."
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2026-02-24 23:04:47 CET

Michael Saylor live at Strategy World: Bitcoin is "the only asset outperforming the S&P."
"You'll be fine."
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2026-02-24 22:54:27 CET

Thomas Massie on Epstein ahead of SOTU: "I think we’re all disappointed we haven’t seen any more investigations begin. No arrests."
"We’ve seen that overseas, though. Two people arrested in Great Britain, one charged in Norway, but still nothing here in the United States."
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2026-02-24 22:06:56 CET

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The winner of this week's Bitkey giveaway is ... @nprofile…pg0l ! 👏
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2026-02-24 21:50:12 CET

Trump greets Team USA hockey champs fresh off their 2-1 OT gold over Canada.
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2026-02-24 21:39:46 CET

APPLE IS QUIETLY WINNING THE MAG7 RACE BY NOT PLAYING THE AI GAME.
Apple's 40-day correlation to the Nasdaq 100 just dropped to 0.21. That's the lowest since 2006. While Microsoft, Google, Meta, and Amazon pour $600B+ into the AI capex arms race, Apple is doing the opposite: integrating AI at the edge, on-device, into products people already own.
The market is starting to price that as a feature, not a bug.
AAPL is outperforming the MAG index by 7% YTD and 15% over the past month. Meanwhile, the average large cap mutual fund is now most underweight Apple of any name in the MAG7. The most under owned mega-cap is the best performer. That's a squeeze setup.
Here's what everyone is missing: Apple doesn't need to win the model race. They already own the hardware moat. iPhones, iPads, Macs, Vision Pro. No matter which AI model wins, users will interact with it through Apple's devices. They're the toll booth, not the highway. Let everyone else spend $600B building the roads.
The bigger picture: the market isn't worried AI will fail anymore. It's worried AI will work too well. A Citrini Research memo modeling a 2028 scenario where AI succeeds so completely it destabilizes the labor market helped drive yesterday's software selloff. The IGV ETF broke below $80 on massive volume with weekly RSI at the most oversold level since 2008.
Apple doesn't have that problem.
Key level to watch: $280. Back above its 100-day moving average and grinding toward major resistance. A decisive close above $280 and the anti-AI squeeze accelerates.
The most hated positioning in mega-cap tech might be the smartest one.
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2026-02-24 21:00:46 CET

60% of the top 25 U.S. banks are now building Bitcoin products.
JP Morgan, Charles Schwab, and UBS have announced trading. State Street and HSBC have announced custody.
The regulatory green light has been given.
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2026-02-24 20:15:07 CET

Adam Back appears on CNBC to discuss the "crypto winter."
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2026-02-24 20:04:45 CET

Solo miner hits the jackpot on 938092 via Braiins on-demand hashpower.
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2026-02-24 19:54:26 CET

Utah judge DENIES defense bid to disqualify prosecutors in Charlie Kirk assassination case.
Death penalty remains in play.
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2026-02-24 19:29:05 CET

TD Cowen just dropped their new BTC target: $226,000 by Dec 2027.
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2026-02-24 18:48:13 CET

Anthropic just leveled up Claude Cowork.
Pre-built plugins for equity research, wealth management, design & more.
Admin-controlled private marketplaces. Deep integrations (Slack, Outreach, WordPress…).
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2026-02-24 18:37:45 CET

NEW: (numopayapp) launched today.
A free, open-source Android app that lets merchants accept Bitcoin payments via NFC tap, just like Apple Pay.
No extra hardware needed. Uses Cashu for offline payments and Lightning for instant settlement.
Zero platform fees. Auto-sweeps to your Lightning address.
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2026-02-24 18:27:29 CET

When your performance review is now handled by AI.
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2026-02-24 18:03:44 CET

Bitcoin ETFs held by registered investment advisors have grown from $2.6B to $12.5B in 8 straight quarters of net buying.
The average RIA allocation is still just 0.008% of a $146 trillion industry.
The runway is long.
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2026-02-24 17:14:46 CET

Stacking since 2020.
The scoreboard is being set.
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2026-02-24 15:39:25 CET

Solo miner finds a block.
1 PH/s rented. $75 spent. 3.125 BTC reward.
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2026-02-24 15:00:18 CET

Marco Rubio just admitted on Fox News what Bitcoiners have been saying for over a decade:
"We are not the global reserve currency anymore."
Meanwhile, China is printing money and shoving it all into gold.
@npub1guh…6hjy explains the monetary war happening right now
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2026-02-24 14:05:02 CET

Today's Bitcoin Brief:
→ Is $610B in AI capex the next electricity grid or the next dark fiber?
→ Jane Street sued for front-running Terra's collapse via secret chat group
→ Fear and Greed Index hits lowest reading ever recorded
→ A KYC company exposed 1 billion people's records with no password
→ DeepSeek, Moonshot, and MiniMax caught stealing Claude's training data
→ UK rape gang inquiry issues first official statement
→ Bitcoin OpTech on OP_RETURN data and covenants without a soft fork
https://www.tftc.io/ai-capex-dark-fiber-bitcoin-fear-bitcoin-brief/

2026-02-24 03:13:39 CET

The Fear & Greed Index just hit 5.
Lower than FTX. Lower than Luna.
Tomorrow's Bitcoin Brief breaks down what the on-chain data actually says, why $610B in AI spending may or may not be the next dark fiber, and how a KYC company just exposed a billion people.
Free, daily, no fluff:
http://tftc.io/bitcoin-brief

2026-02-24 02:28:40 CET

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says declassification of alien & UFO files is underway.
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2026-02-24 01:08:39 CET

Missouri's HB 2080 just moved to House Commerce Committee to create a Bitcoin Strategic Reserve Fund in the state treasury.
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2026-02-24 00:58:20 CET

Jameson Lopp releases his 'Layman's Guide to BIP-110'
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2026-02-24 00:47:59 CET

Terraform Labs' bankruptcy administrator just sued Jane Street, the high-frequency trading giant.
They allegedly used insider non-public info from secret chats to front-run & withdraw funds before the 2022 Terra/LUNA crash, worsening the $40B+ wipeout for retail investors.
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2026-02-24 00:12:39 CET

Fed proposes to formally remove "reputational risk" from supervision guidelines.
No more penalizing banks for serving legal bitcoin customers. 60-day comment period open.
Chokepoint 2.0 rollback accelerates.
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2026-02-23 23:28:19 CET

Mayweather vs. Pacquiao II announced and reported to take place in September.
When they first fought Bitcoin was at $235.🤯
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2026-02-23 23:18:14 CET

CFTC Chairman Selig just appointed Brooke Nethercott to lead Public Affairs.
Previously Deputy Communications Director at the House Financial Services Committee under Rep. French Hill.
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2026-02-23 23:07:59 CET

President Trump calls out "fake news" on Pentagon Iran concerns, praises Gen. Daniel Caine as ready to win decisively.
"I’d rather have a Deal... if we don’t, very bad day for that Country."
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2026-02-23 22:39:23 CET

Behind the headlines about treasury companies, real Main Street businesses are quietly allocating to Bitcoin.
"Summer camps, construction companies, restaurant chains, food manufacturers, and a Catholic group using capital gains to finance new buildings." - @npub139n…kwf4
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2026-02-23 22:25:03 CET

He turned a Raspberry Pi Zero into an OpenClaw assistant.
Push button, talk, get smart answers on tiny display.
Very clean build by (basti_vkl).
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2026-02-23 22:14:39 CET

U.S. lender Rate just launched RateFi.
Qualify for a mortgage using your verified bitcoin & crypto holdings as reserves or income.
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2026-02-23 22:04:20 CET

13 years in Bitcoin, and this bear market looks different from every previous one.
"Historically we saw capital flee and adoption come to a halt. That's not really happening right now." - @npub139n…kwf4
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2026-02-23 21:54:02 CET

Team USA Hockey gold medalist Jack Hughes is back in Florida.
“I want my good smile back!”
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2026-02-23 21:37:59 CET

Trump family cleanup? Eric deleting crypto posts.
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2026-02-23 21:27:50 CET

Team USA men's hockey touches down in Miami for a celebration after epic gold medal OT win vs. Canada.
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2026-02-23 21:09:07 CET

NEW BPI report: Basel's 1,250% risk weight forces banks to hold $100M in capital against a $100M Bitcoin position.
Gold requires $0. AA-rated bonds require $1.6M.
With 153+ companies holding $78B in Bitcoin on their balance sheets, the math doesn't work.
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2026-02-23 20:59:01 CET

The biggest headwind to Bitcoin as a medium of exchange isn't technology, it's demand.
"Even if we developed the perfect scaling technology tomorrow, I don't know how much that actually moves the needle on people using Bitcoin as money." - @npub139n…kwf4
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2026-02-23 20:44:33 CET

IBM tanks after Anthropic unveils Claude for COBOL streamlining.
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2026-02-23 20:16:38 CET

AI is accelerating the easy parts of building software, not the hard parts.
"The consequential things usually require humans to synthesize complexity and apply taste and their understanding of their client base." - @npub139n…kwf4
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2026-02-23 19:41:18 CET

Gavin Newsom admits Democrats are spending "disproportionate" time on pronouns & identity politics.
Urges shift to everyday concerns, and credits conservative groups like TPUSA for engaging young men effectively.
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2026-02-23 19:30:56 CET

The Supreme Court struck down Trump's IEEPA tariffs 6-3.
Within hours, the White House pivoted to Section 122 of the 1974 Trade Act, a provision that has never been used and dates back to the gold standard era.
The legal fight isn't over, it just moved to new ground.
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2026-02-23 19:20:35 CET

River: Institutions could own the majority of Bitcoin by 2035.
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2026-02-23 19:10:22 CET

New Bitwise report shows rising economic policy uncertainty is driving cross-asset volatility higher.
As the US EPU Index has climbed, volatility across gold, FX, rates, and Bitcoin has followed in tandem.
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2026-02-23 19:00:05 CET

Former UK Ambassador Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office over alleged Epstein ties.
Met Police confirm raid & interview in London.
https://blossom.primal.net/a91c4df228ae9edebf52e5551a762578cafd90db726f4141ff2dfe8ae78b17ba.mp4

2026-02-23 18:49:41 CET

"We outsourced everything to China to the point we can't go to war without China's permission. The band-aid has been ripped off." - @npub1g0e…l966 of @npub14py…zd6m
We discuss:
⚡ Industrial Base Erosion
⚡ National Security
⚡ Economic Reordering
https://blossom.primal.net/813285b0dd9f02942344c66550688f2131816d71fde9968d95219a5b5e048182.mp4

2026-02-23 18:02:07 CET

Grant Cardone FOX interview: Real estate handles income, Bitcoin handles inflation.
Complementary assets for serious long-term wealth.
https://blossom.primal.net/fe7d72e52e654f21540eddddd59ced27066acef009b1cc8f743164264509fe11.mp4

2026-02-23 17:30:42 CET

Trump: "We have the greatest economy we've ever had"
https://blossom.primal.net/4656cef23d7415f6971bfef4cb9f9cae686e87289c727646f364d771cb447ef9.mp4

2026-02-23 16:03:04 CET

TFTC 719 w/ @npub139n…kwf4: "In the last year, the amount of businesses that accumulated Bitcoin at River doubled. Record growth despite the flat and down market."
We discuss:
⚡ Business Adoption
⚡ Ownership Distribution
⚡ Bear Market Behavior
https://blossom.primal.net/578ec79e8824d6a730b3abd80401790aecb9710e44281e73a26f6e0242b2008e.mp4

2026-02-23 15:29:43 CET

Unemployment survey response rate falls to 64%. Lowest on record. Below pandemic levels.
Down 30 points since 2009.
Labor market data increasingly unreliable.
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2026-02-23 15:19:23 CET

Strategy's 100th purchase. 592 BTC at $67,286.
Total holdings: 717,722 BTC.
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2026-02-23 14:52:30 CET

The Supreme Court just killed Trump's IEEPA tariffs 6-3. His replacement? Section 122, a trade law from 1974 that has never been used before.
Meanwhile: $230M in BTC longs liquidated in 60 minutes, institutions quietly accumulated 829K BTC as retail panic-sold 700K.
https://www.tftc.io/scotus-tariffs-bitcoin-brief/

2026-02-23 00:34:09 CET

Nobody's left to buy. Not institutions. Not young people. Not anyone who needs a mortgage.
"We're not gonna form households until the affordability problem is fixed." - (m3_melody)
https://blossom.primal.net/6c62e9881cd6af27624ce51a56f1deb6ea055ae0a3046003e7a17dc7e115e10e.mp4

2026-02-22 23:51:50 CET

AI is eating mid-level coding jobs.
https://blossom.primal.net/fbeb48a1f81b913252a95e949f0fa48c9fb7d7dd91e157f4ef9cf48469bcf4b1.mp4

2026-02-22 23:27:28 CET

Institutional landlords are quietly unraveling, and insiders know it.
"They're losing enough on commercial real estate, they're losing enough on their single family rental business, we're gonna start seeing impacts." - (m3_melody)
https://blossom.primal.net/decf1916c05d09fc74011580ee6ae56fc41eb0d6bbd8aedd2f30559c8574798b.mp4

2026-02-22 22:32:05 CET

Americans 55+ now control 45.3% of consumer spending, nearly double their 28% share from 2000, and 73.7% of all U.S. wealth.
The generational wealth divide isn't closing. It's accelerating.
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2026-02-22 22:00:06 CET

Spent years in econ class learning why inflation is "good" and central banks "save" us.
https://blossom.primal.net/8a4ca42dbe86956b3474a79150aafd2e2b6e3793fb8e698fd049b75cc7cc0b87.mp4

2026-02-22 21:48:08 CET

The highest percentage of workers holding two part-time jobs ever recorded.
"2 part-time jobs just to make ends meet, that's insane." - (m3_melody)
https://blossom.primal.net/dd1dfab37dee77f36e51001a818470d6e7e33ef5f2b83065608f938cca5a9bd8.mp4

2026-02-22 21:35:25 CET

US elderly programs now at record 9.4% of GDP, up 56% since the late 1980s.
CBO projects 11.3% by 2036.
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2026-02-22 20:49:06 CET

UN Secretary-General António Guterres: "Digital platforms are being misused to subvert science and spread disinformation and hate to billions of people."
https://blossom.primal.net/714517cf967b19c9fce9ceb772d773ba9e87c8ce6d67670315e1510a91a83fc7.mp4

2026-02-22 18:11:04 CET

The look I give people when they ask if I'm still buying.
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2026-02-22 17:59:05 CET

Scott Bessent: "The IEEPA tariffs are going to be replaced in 3 days with the Section 122, and I can tell you, at Treasury... tariff revenue will be unchanged this year, and will be unchanged in the future."
https://blossom.primal.net/c9c82338ab4a1c34dd2ef76244259012a3aff7b023c9a49e4fd7fa733e449502.mp4

2026-02-22 15:28:28 CET

Saylor: "The Orange Century."
Purchase 100 incoming.
https://blossom.primal.net/641891a34837e4aeaed710240276a3f345931cca4ace6a6cb4097b3c249df654.jpg

2026-02-22 15:18:08 CET

Pending Home Sales Index falls to 70.9 in January. All-time low. Down 43% from the 2021 peak.
Contract closings down 8%.
https://blossom.primal.net/c4ed924bc69f078a7c2420c77ce0f8522763db7b94a6cf354f91d0d49e45010c.jpg

2026-02-21 22:59:11 CET

Grant Cardone offering 10,000 sq ft Miami oceanfront home for 715 BTC.
Framing it as a steal for OGs, "paying" peanuts compared to spot value.
https://blossom.primal.net/e449f951dc2dd709ab69c90e8ef26302ce464c73ef7ab5a49fab6c1539aa065e.png

2026-02-21 21:01:32 CET

They took GFC loss mitigation programs, put them on steroids, and removed all requirements.
"Now they said 'You don't have to do that anymore. You don't even have to ask for their financials.' It's all a game of extend and pretend." - (m3_melody)
https://blossom.primal.net/df8e2f73565d150018bb330db3e6c67c374fa309414f8e3b72004043a0ba2abe.mp4

2026-02-21 20:36:50 CET

OpenClaw founder Peter Steinberger bans contributor from Discord for mentioning Bitcoin's block height.
"No crypto" rule enforced, even when no tokens are involved.
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2026-02-21 19:31:12 CET

Mortgage delinquencies rising, prime books hit after subprime, home sales worst since 1995 with 20% more population.
"It's just a much murkier picture than what people realize. I don't know how anyone can say anything positive." - (m3_melody)
https://blossom.primal.net/905fd09fb22bf7c3ad5e6843c3c6f553e480593a462ccfe45729fad12443be4e.mp4

2026-02-21 17:29:09 CET

Trump just raised the temporary global tariff from 10% to 15%.
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2026-02-21 16:10:48 CET

Mag 7 drawdowns from highs:
Microsoft -28%. Amazon -21%. Meta -19%. Tesla -17%. Google -13%. Nvidia -12%. Apple -9%.
These 7 stocks make up 33% of the S&P 500.
The index is down less than 2%.

2026-02-20 22:35:16 CET

Jack Dorsey: "Theres no better platform to start working with Agenic AI and bots than Nostr."
https://blossom.primal.net/01e7557791c5a2ca42f4ab82f02efe9d1a59b2eb367752d8359d3947bd3a539a.mp4

2026-02-20 19:34:16 CET

Trump: "The Supreme Court's ruling on tariffs is deeply disappointing, and I'm ashamed of certain members of the court, absolutely ashamed, for not having the courage to do what's right for our country."
"Democrats on the court are thrilled, but they will automatically vote no... they're against anything that makes America, strong, healthy, and Great Again. They also are a, frankly, disgrace to our nation."
https://blossom.primal.net/73405e51f1f97a91b61507ec7cb447e1ccc62c83d2c622bcf2ae45d8c34988b3.mp4

2026-02-20 18:39:34 CET

Over 3,000 financial institutions now hold Bitcoin.
https://blossom.primal.net/b54178cbf9a64a9880e7d92cf0730f0677a4c269f0d31c89c3e51e5e6cce5ca2.jpg

2026-02-19 22:52:10 CET

River's epic Lightning map 2026.
220 companies and projects.
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2026-02-19 21:48:29 CET

Bitcoin stands apart from the crypto minefield of political entanglement and self-dealing.
"Unlike company-issued crypto tokens, Bitcoin is an open-source, decentralized cryptocurrency with no board of directors or legal entity."
https://blossom.primal.net/d1b3490d626b501e7ce8fb57db2ac84df5646b764220e751a34c8b5fcd763f60.jpg