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The man who co founded the world’s largest stablecoin was arrested by Interpol in a Spanish villa with guns, machetes and child pornography
His name is Brock Pierce
If you’ve ever held USDT, the $140 BILLION stablecoin that settles more daily volume than Visa in some months you’ve used a product he co founded
Brock Pierce was a Disney child actor. He starred in The Mighty Ducks, D2, and First Kid
At 16 he met a 40 year old businessman named Marc Collins Rector
Collins Rector was building Digital Entertainment Network. A pre YouTube streaming platform funded by David Geffen, Microsoft, and Dell
They raised $60 MILLION and were planning a $75 MILLION IPO
At 17 Pierce was VP at a base salary of $250,000
Pierce, Collins Rector, and Collins Rector’s boyfriend lived together in a 12,600 square foot mansion in Encino
The mansion hosted parties attended by Hollywood’s A list: Bryan Singer, David Geffen and Gary Goddard
DEN’s flagship show “Chad’s World” was co-written by Collins Rector, produced by Pierce, and targeted “gay and questioning teen boys”
In October 1999 a young man filed a lawsuit alleging Collins Rector had sexually molested him for three years starting at age 13
The IPO collapsed
In July 2000 three more former DEN employees filed a sexual abuse lawsuit naming Pierce, Collins-Rector, and Shackley together alleging rape, assault, drugging of minors and death threats
Collins Rector was indicted for transporting minors across state lines for sex
All three men fled to Spain
Interpol arrested them in Marbella in 2002. Guns, machetes, and child pornography were found in the house
Pierce was released without criminal charges. Collins Rector pleaded guilty to eight counts of child enticement and registered as a sex offender
The civil lawsuits against Pierce were “dismissed and/or settled out of court.”
He settled with at least one plaintiff for $21,600. He has consistently denied all allegations
In 2014 Pierce co-founded Tether originally called Realcoin
Tether became the largest stablecoin in crypto. By 2019 USDT was processing higher daily volume than Bitcoin itself
Tether has never been audited by a Big Four firm. Their first audit attempt with Friedman LLP was abruptly disbanded in 2018 with no explanation
In 2021 Tether settled with the New York Attorney General for $18.5 MILLION over misrepresenting their reserves
The connections kept growing
Pierce founded Blockchain Capital. In that role he helped Jeffrey Epstein become an early investor in Coinbase
He spoke at Epstein’s “Mindshift” conference in 2011 – three years AFTER Epstein had been convicted of soliciting prostitution from a minor
In February 2026 the US Department of Justice released emails from Epstein’s files. One email from Pierce to Epstein read: “a boat in Antigua full of amazing Ukraine’s finest” was waiting for him
The system runs on USDT. USDT was built by Brock Pierce. And Brock Pierce has answered the same questions about the same allegations for a quarter century
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NEWS BYTES
THIS is how it is done! THIS is the economic power Democrats MUST learn.
A grocery store CEO was fired for treating employees “too well” – so 25,000 workers emptied shelves across 71 stores and refused to work until the board rehired him
Sales dropped 95% in six weeks.
Multibillionaires and democracy are fundamentally incompatible.
A system based on equal voices cannot survive when a handful of individuals have enough wealth to buy the megaphone, the politicians, and the rules
There it is: confirmation that Melania was an illegal immigrant.
“The Woman Who Knows Too Much”
Amanda Ungaro says Paolo Zampolli abused her, seduced her when she was underage, recruited girls for Epstein, had a hold on Melania (who worked as an undocumented immigrant for
Trump.
She is willing to testify.
Bard College President resigns after it was revealed he made 25 visits to Jeffrey Epstein’s townhouse.
China’s Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) officially issued an injunction instructing Chinese firms and citizens to ignore U.S. sanctions related to the purchase of Iranian oil.
China openly defies US sanctions!
China says it does not recognize USsanctions on Iranian oil purchases and will not comply with them.
FCC votes to ban all Chinese labs from certifying electronics sold in the US due to national security concerns — ruling would affect 75 percent of US-bound devices
Santiago @svpino
30 agents every AI Engineer must build.
This is the most comprehensive and practical book on AI Engineering that I’ve ever seen.
I can’t think of a single use case that they didn’t cover here:
1. The autonomous decision-making agent
2. The planning agent
3. The memory-augmented agent
4. The knowledge retrieval agent
5. The document intelligence agent
6. The scientific research agent
7. The tool-using agent
8. The agentic workflow system
9. The data analysis agent
10. The verification and validation agent
11. The general problem solver agent
12. The code generation agent
13. The security-hardened agent
14. The self-improving agent
15. The conversational agent
16. The content creation agent
17. The recommendation agent
18. The vision language agent
19. The audio processing agent
20. The physical world sensing agent
21. The ethical reasoning agent
22. The explainable agent
23. The healthcare intelligence agent
24. The scientific discovery agent
25. The financial advisory agent
26. The legal intelligence agent
27. The education intelligence agent
28. The collective intelligence agent
29. The embodied intelligence agent
30. The domain-transforming integration agent
I also read 50 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know by Imran. Same vibe.
Here is the Amazon link: https://amzn.to/4t5ystE
20 Claude Code tips:
1. Esc+Esc: Rewind your session to any previous checkpoint; treat it as free undo so you can let the agent attempt risky changes.
2. CTRL+V: Paste a screenshot directly into Claude Code.
3. CTRL+G: Open your editor to compose long prompts instead of typing them in the terminal.
4. CTRL+R: Search your prompt history.
5. /rewind: Roll back changes to a checkpoint, then give more specific feedback and try again.
6. /rewind → “Summarize from here”: Pick a checkpoint and compress only the messages after it, keeping the valuable earlier context intact.
7. /insights: Generate a usage report, then attach it to a Claude session and ask for lessons to improve your workflow.
8. /memory: Save personal preferences that should persist across all your projects.
9. /statusline: Permanently display how much context you’re currently using.
10. cat error.log | claude “fix this”: Pipe errors straight in instead of copy/pasting, giving the model way more context.
11. .claudeignore: Add this file to your project to list paths the agent shouldn’t read or modify.
12. #: Start a message with # to save it as a persistent instruction in your CLAUDE .md file.
13. “ultrathink”: Drop this word anywhere in a prompt to bump the model’s effort to HIGH for complex reasoning tasks.
14. /diff: Open an interactive viewer for uncommitted changes and per-turn diffs.
15. /effort max: Use this when you want to maximize Claude’s abilities (it’s expensive!)
16. /loop: Schedule a recurring task locally.
17. /schedule: Like /loop, but the job runs in the cloud and not locally.
18. claude –worktree: Spin up a session in an isolated git worktree so you can run more Claude instances in parallel.
19. /sandbox: Run Claude in a sandbox with file and network isolation.
20. /voice: Activate voice input and hold the space bar to speak your prompts.
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