ECP NetHappenings Bitcoin is a Done Deal
You don’t understand
how much of a
done deal Bitcoin is.
Jurrien Timmer, Fidelity’s Director of Global Macro, predicts a Bitcoin rally driven by a shift in investor capital from gold into Bitcoin. He points to Bitcoin’s rebound from the low $60,000s to around $78,000 as a sign of strength.
EPSTEIN CLASS — HOW TO BECOME A BILLIONAIRE
One might think it takes skill and talent to become a Billionaire
But the only skill and talent is to have zero empathy and the ability to lie, cheat and steal.
WHEN YOU CAN SELL BILLIONS OF SECURITIES YOU DON’T OWN AND ARE ALLOWED TO FAIL TO DELIVER IT’S NOT HARD TO BECOME A BILLIONAIRE
U.S. Army sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke was arrested for allegedly using classified information to place about $33,000 in bets on Polymarket tied to the capture of Nicolás Maduro, netting $410,000 in profit.
Peter Girnus 🦅
@gothburz
A soldier used classified intel to make $409K on Polymarket. Arrested. 5 federal charges. Assets seized.
Congress traded $635 million last year. The STOCK Act has produced zero prosecutions in 14 years. Maximum fine: $200. Routinely waived.
The STOCK Act was signed with 14 pens in 2012. Its searchable database was repealed 11 months later by voice vote on a Friday evening. No cameras. No podium. It took 4 pages to remove the only part of the law that worked.
This is not new. The pattern is 60 years old.
Abu Ghraib: 11 enlisted soldiers convicted. The Secretary of Defense who authorized the techniques was never charged. The lawyer who wrote the torture memo got a federal judgeship.
The 2008 financial crisis: 1 banker went to prison. 10 million families lost their homes. The CEO whose bank paid $13 billion in fraud settlements got a 74% raise.
Iran-Contra: A Lieutenant Colonel took the fall. The President pardoned the witnesses 11 days before his own trial testimony.
The institution prosecutes at the lowest rank, at the lowest cost, so the briefing slides can say enforcement exists.
The $409K is not the crime. It is the cost of making $635 million look supervised.
I wrote the full investigation. 33 footnotes. 60 years of receipts.
Matthew Goldstein @MattGoldstein26
Business reporter @nytimes
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It’s taken a long time but it appears Congress may finally recognize that mobile homes aren’t mobile any more and that could mean good news for affordable housing advocates.
Congress May Finally Recognize That Mobile Homes Aren’t Really That Mobile
An obscure federal rule requires manufactured homes to be built on a chassis, making them more costly. A bill in Congress would remove the mandate, enacted five decades ago.
BlackRock is now the 4th largest holder of crypto
5 years ago this would’ve sounded insane
One year from now this list probably looks completely different
Top 10 crypto holders
1. Binance (Exchange): $142B
2. Coinbase (Exchange): $99B
3. Satoshi Nakamoto (Creator): $83B
4. BlackRock (Investment management company): $68B
5. Strategy. (BTC treasury company): $59B*
6. Lido (DeFi protocol): $46B
7. U.S. Government (National government): $25B
8. Upbit (Exchange): $23B
9. Robinhood (Exchange): $22B
10. OKX (Exchange): $20B
TWO TIER JUSTICE SYSTEM
Insider trading for me but not for thee.
Most of Congress should be arrested with
Federal charges for Insider trading.
INSIDER TRADING IS ILLEGAL EVEN FOR CONGRESS
D.R. Horton: Impact of institutional home buying ban hinges on 7-year selloff rule
During the Tuesday earnings call, Alan Ratner at Zelman and Associates asked how an institutional homebuying “ban” could impact D.R. Horton’s business?
D.R. Horton CEO’s response
“If it does come to fruition [the institutional homebuying ban], we still see interest out there [for build-to-rent]-but there is uncertainty around the legislation, and I think, a little bit of a cause in terms of people waiting to see how that plays out, specifically as it relates to the seven year potential sale requirements. Generally speaking, we have underwritten our built for rent communities as for sale. So if need be as we go forward, we can move those if needed. We also have focused the majority of our forward business on forward sales.
In other words, we aren’t starting those unless we have a contract and firm commitments and so feel good about our positioning. They’re not overly reliant at all on having that business continue to be able to hit certainly our guide and feel good about our positioning in the space.”
– Paul Romanowski, CEO of D.R. Horton, said during their April 21, 2026 earnings call
NEW: Trump’s $10B suit against IRS hits static as judge questions whether it’s a sham since Trump controls decisions of both sides. Judge Kathleen Williams (Obama/FLSD) cites Trump order requiring all exec branch employees adhere to his legal positions
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/04/24/trump-lawsuit-irs-00891894
Judge Imposes Sanctions on Woman and Her Lawyer in Suit Against Leon Black
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/24/business/lawsuit-leon-black-plaintiff-sanctions-epstein.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share