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BITCOIN 2017

An anonymous Bitcoin whale gave away $86 MILLION to charity in 2017 and disappeared
In December 2017 a user calling himself “Pine” posted on Reddit: “I have more money than I can ever spend” and pledged 5,057 BTC to charity
Over 5 months he sent $5M to GiveDirectly to fight poverty in Africa, $5M to fund MDMA-PTSD trials at MAPS, $5M to the Open Medicine Foundation, $1M to the Internet Archive, $1M to the EFF, $1M to charity water and 54 more charities on top.
He never doxxed himself and never claimed a tax deduction even though it would save him millions.
Those 5,057 BTC are worth $394 million today.

AI

BuBBliK @k1rallik
do you understand what just happened to mathematics..
A 23 year old with ZERO math degree opened ChatGPT on a Monday afternoon out of boredom.
80 minutes later – a 60-year-old unsolved problem was dead.
The problem? World’s top mathematicians had tried for decades. Failed..
The tool? A $20/month subscription..
The effort? One single prompt..
And here’s the wild part – the AI used a method everyone already knew existed. Nobody just thought to apply it HERE.
Terence Tao (literally the greatest living mathematician) called it “a meaningful contribution that goes well beyond solving this one problem”
We are not ready for what’s coming next..

TECH

TYPE ANYONE’S USERNAME INTO THIS FREE TOOL & IT WILL DO SOMETHING CRAZY!
It finds every account they have ever made across 3,000 websites. No login. No payment. No nothing.

It’s called Maigret.

You run one command → it checks 3,000+ sites and builds a full profile.

What it actually does:

↳ Finds accounts across social platforms, forums, and niche sites
↳ Pulls data directly from profile pages
↳ Discovers linked usernames and runs deeper searches
↳ Tracks patterns of username reuse across the web
↳ Works even on sites behind restrictions (Tor, I2P, etc.)

Setup is simple:

↳ Install with pip
↳ Run: maigret username
↳ Get results in minutes

Outputs are clean and usable:

↳ HTML and PDF reports
↳ CSV / JSON data
↳ Visual graphs of connections

Used for:

↳ OSINT research
↳ Cybersecurity work
↳ Background checks
↳ Digital footprint analysis

Reality check:

Most people reuse the same username everywhere.

This tool connects those dots fast.

Free. Open-source. No API keys.

Use it responsibly.

ECP NetHappenings Bitcoin is back above $78,000

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Bitcoin is back above $78,000

THE UNITED STATES is still the world’s leading Bitcoin holder by government.
The U.S. holds 328,372 $BTC worth over $25.5 BILLION.

SAYLOR: “The ₿eat Goes On.” Saylor teases another BTC buy.

Bitcoin is about to close its 4th consecutive green weekly candle, up +5.64% this week alone to $78K.
This marks BTC’s longest weekly winning streak since May 2025, nearly a full year ago.
Bitcoin has now rallied +25% from its “Iran War” low of $62K.
The “Ceasefire Rally” has added roughly $15K in just 4 weeks.
From peak to trough, $BTC lost ~53% of its value in roughly 4 months.

Tom Lee in 2019 on Bitcoin:
“We think the best approach for most people is to put 1% maybe 2% into BTC.”
CNBC: “I still think that’s CRAZY.”
Morgan Stanley 2026: “We recommend 7% allocation into BTC.”

Strategy has more $BTC than Blackrock’s IBIT.

“BITCOIN IS FUEL FOR A POTENTIAL NEW INTERNET.”
Alexis Ohanian, Co-Founder of Reddit, on why $BTC is the most important invention of the digital age.
“It gives us the opportunity to have a store of value that’s not backed by a country.”

History:
Analyst predicts Bitcoin will hit $500,000 and be the world’s reserve currency, at $100, 11 years ago “3,000 $BTC and you’re a billionaire.”

 

Willy Woo @willywoo Apr 24, 2026
Most Bitcoiners think BTC is a safe haven asset but the truth is nuanced.

It has the properties of a safe haven asset. In times of war you can take your seed phrase, cross borders and start afresh without losing your wealth.

It should be independent of the system and thrive if it collapses. These are the properties you’d expect of a safe haven.

BTC has the properties of a safe haven but to this day, in times of uncertainty and war it trades like a risk asset, very sensitive to uncertainty.

This is because the large capital pools don’t acknowledge BTC’s properties as it’s considered too new and untested. Hence it trades like the NASDAQ.

It’ll take another decade for it to gain market acceptance as a safe haven, maybe longer. When it does, it’ll give gold market cap a run for its money.

Capital flows into BTC just flipped positive, first time since January.

Liquidity is repairing… spot remains stable while derivatives after being destroyed 10 Oct is now making its second attempt at rebounding.

80k remains key test level.

 

“BTC uses too much energy.”

There’s only 3 ways to secure a monetary ledger.

– with atoms (gold)
– with energy (BTC)
– with social / political consensus (fiat)

Energy is the only path to unbreakable hard money. There’s no scarcity of atoms.

ESSAY Smart Money Crypto @Smart_Money
100 MILLION GONE. CEO FLEES TO ISRAEL.

Poland is stunned. A crypto exchange collapses, hundreds of millions of dollars vanish, thousands of families are left facing locked accounts. And the man who could have the answers is sitting in Tel Aviv. With a new passport.

Zondacrypto was one of Poland’s largest crypto exchanges. Thousands of ordinary Poles held #Bitcoin and altcoins there. Hard-earned money, in the hope of joining what was likely the biggest wealth-building trend of this generation. Then withdrawals were frozen. First partially. Then completely.

What followed was no explanation. It was a silence that grew more expensive with each passing day.

Founder Sylwester Suszek vanished. He’s said to have taken the critical private keys with him. CEO Przemysław Kral now speaks of a “bank run” plus technical issues, triggered by the missing founder. No theft, he says. The Bitcoin still exists. You just can’t get to it.

The evidence tells a different story. Reserves have plummeted. Suspicious transactions are on the table. Polish prosecutors are investigating for fraud, embezzlement, and possible theft. So far, confirmed losses stand at 350 million zloty, around 100 million US dollars. In total, about 4,500 BTC are affected. At $BTC around $77,000, that’s nearly 350 million dollars in market value. The Polish authorities confirm a third of that. The rest hangs in the air, without an address, without an answer.

While Polish families fight for their savings, Kral has emigrated to Israel. He recently obtained citizenship there. That makes him practically no longer extraditable. Reports speak of a comfortable life beyond the reach of Polish authorities.

And that’s the point that won’t let me go. It’s not the first scandal of this kind to end this way.

Poland knows this story already. Amber Gold, 2009 to 2012. A Ponzi scheme in golden wrapping. 18,000 Poles lost around 850 million zloty. Homes, life savings, livelihoods. The main culprits ended up in prison, but the structural gaps that made it all possible remained wide open.

The pattern fits beyond Poland’s borders, too. In Ukraine, investigations are currently underway against Timur Mindich, a former close confidant of Zelenskyy. The charge: a 100-million-dollar corruption network around the nuclear giant Energoatom. Before his arrest, he fled to Israel. The trial is proceeding in absentia.

In Poland, the Tusk government is currently trying to frame the Zondacrypto affair politically through donation flows and lobby connections. Roman Giertych, a politician with a quirky past, plays a central role in that. It changes nothing for the victims. They’re waiting for something that rarely arrives in this setup: accountability.

The honest lesson is harsh, but it stands. If you park Bitcoin on an exchange, in the end you own a database row with a number on it. Self-custody is cumbersome, labor-intensive, and off-putting for many newcomers. At the same time, it’s the only protection that holds up in exactly this scenario.
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ECP NetHappenings Bitcoin is a Done Deal

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
Only contact me via email or mobile not on DMs. My mobile is Signal is: mattgoldstein.22
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

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HEALTH

BREAKING: Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Court just struck down the state ban on Medicaid coverage for abortion care.

Warren Buffet says they paid $5 billion dollars in taxes last year and if 8 other Companies did the same then no regular American taxpayer would have to pay any Federal taxes at all!

Alzheimer’s brain changes do not always equal dementia.
The way you think and write in your 20s matters for the rest of your life.
The key lesson is that vascular health matters more than plaques because strokes and infarcts plus plaques equals way worse outcomes but clean lifestyle plus cognitive reserve can protect you even if your brain has the disease.
Your writing at age 22 can predict Alzheimer’s risk 60 years later with 90% accuracy.
The Nun Study (678 nuns, identical lives, brain donations) proved that “idea density” in your early autobiographies literally built lifelong cognitive reserve.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2045519618421432763.html
https://x.com/LxngevityLab/status/2045519677468917834
Complex thinking + positive emotions in your 20s = protection into your 90s and 100s.
Start leveling up how you think and write now.
The researchers measured idea density in those same essays – the number of ideas expressed per sentence based on verbs, adjectives, adverbs and prepositions.
Low idea density at age 22 predicted Alzheimer’s with 80 to 90% accuracy 60 years later.
80% of nuns with low idea density developed full Alzheimer’s pathology. Only 10% of nuns with high idea density developed it.

BITCOIN

On this day 13 years ago, a bitcoin was worth $100.

BREAKING: INDOPACOM COMMANDER ADMIRAL PAPARO TELL SENATE ARMED SERVICES:
“BITCOIN IS A VALUABLE COMPUTER SCIENCE TOOL AS POWER PROJECTION” AND THAT “BITCOIN IS A REALITY, A PEER-TO-PEER, ZERO TRUST TRANSFER OF VALUE… THAT SUPPORTS INTERESTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA”

$1 BILLION LUXURY CRUISE LINE VIRGIN VOYAGES IS NOW ACCEPTING #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO
THE WORLD’S RICHEST PEOPLE DEMANDING BTC

$300 BILLION IBM ANNOUNCES LIVE ON BLOOMBERG IT WILL LAUNCH A #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO WALLET FOR INSTITUTIONS
IT WORKS WITH 97 OF THE TOP 100 BANKS
BTC IS GOING MAINSTREAM

$11 TRILLION CHARLES SCHWAB JUST TOLD 40 MILLION INVESTORS IT’S TIME TO START ADDING #BITCOIN TO PORTFOLIOS
THEY ARE RECOMMENDING UP TO 7% ALLOCATIONS
THE 60/40 PORTFOLIO IS OFFICIALLY OVER

EPSTEIN CLASS

President Trump will not enjoy media coverage of Lutnick’s sons earning $100 MM in tariff refunds while Sec Lutnick was pushing for more tariffs …
Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick’s sons could be making 3 to 5x returns on every dollar they spent buying tariff refund rights.
Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by Lutnick’s sons Brandon and Kyle, was buying tariff refund claims from companies at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar.
The firm told clients it had “capacity to trade up to several hundred million” in these claims.

Paolo Zampoli was interviewed lastnight by the Italian equivalent of 60 minutes and he admitted that he knew Jeffrey Epstein had underage girls! Allegedly his lawyers tried to stop it from airing,but the news channel said no we’re going forward.

Les Wexner testified under oath: “I never met Jean-Luc Brunel.”
Photo from the DOJ files: Wexner, Epstein, Brunel, and Peter Mandelson together.
Perjury in a sworn deposition.

Tracking
One Year of Project 2025: 53% of Authoritarian Agenda’s Domestic Policy Recommendations Completed or Underway
Blueprint for presidential capture of government appears to be succeeding, latest findings from Center for Progressive Reform and Governing for Impact show
WASHINGTON, DC – The Trump administration has already initiated or completed 53 percent of Project 2025’s domestic administrative policy agenda in the 12 months following the inauguration, new analysis from the Center for Progressive Reform (Center) and Governing for Impact (GFI) reveals. In all, 283 of the 532 recommended actions identified in the organizations’ Project 2025 Tracker have been put into action.

After being fired from Fox, Tucker was funded with $20M by the Mercers who have been bankrolling Peter Thiel for over a decade. JD Vance is Peter Thiel’s personal android. They’re trying to take Trump out.

–> Today at Kevin Warsh’s Fed Chair confirmation hearing:
Senator Warren
: “Are you refusing to tell us if you have investments in vehicles set up by Jeffrey Epstein?”

Warsh: “Those assets will be sold if I’m confirmed and before I take office.”

He did not say no.

Warsh’s name appears in the publicly released DOJ Epstein files. A 2010 dinner guest list reportedly included Epstein, Warsh, his wife Jane Lauder, Donald Trump, and Melania Trump.

Warren revealed that the FBI conducted zero investigation into Warsh’s financial holdings or his appearance in the Epstein files before clearing his nomination.

Warsh has over $100 million in undisclosed assets.

If confirmed, he would be the wealthiest Fed Chair in more than 100 years — installed by a president already being investigated by the BBC for trading tied to his market-moving statements. Never stop connecting the dots.

PETER THIEL

Peter Thiel was brought to the U.S. as a 1-year-old after his parents immigrated from Germany. Shortly after, Klaus Thiel got a job in Swakopmund, SW Africa—the most Nazi place on Earth in the 1970s & brought his family. Peter literally said “Heil Hitler” in school. Klaus built a secret uranium mine for the apartheid South African government’s illegal nuclear program while Peter grew up. Peter says now the experience taught him who should have power and who should not. Swakopmund was created from a genocide of Namibians by the colonial German government. There is nothing “neo” about these Nazis.
Thiel said this in 2010:
“The basic idea was we could never win an election… because we were in such a small minority. But maybe you could actually unilaterally change the world without constantly having to convince people… through a technological means.”
He must be stopped.

Epstein’s documents reveal his commercial ties with Peter Thiel, one of the founders of Palantir.

They’re feeling so confident nowadays to unapologetically promote their dystopia in the open and sell it to us as “salvation”.

PALANTIR JUST CALLED FOR MANDATORY MILITARY SERVICE FOR EVERY AMERICANTHIS IS HOW THEY TAKE CONTROL
Palantir, a surveillance company wired into U.S. intelligence and sitting on $2B+ in government contracts, just published a 22-point manifesto.
Alex Karp, on an investor call: “Some people are going to get their heads cut off.” He jokes about drone-striking business rivals. He proposes sending campus protesters to North Korea. He watches a protester removed and says he hasn’t had so much fun in years. His PhD dissertation is titled “Aggression in the Life-World.” Its opening line: irrational statements relieve unconscious aggressive drives. He studied the mechanism. He is now performing it.

“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” – Frank Wilhoit

Palantir CEO Alex Karp was paid $6.8 BILLION in 2025. Palantir itself only made $1bn in profit. What is he being paid for? It’s certainly not for making money.

LINKSoftware is dead

Yann LeCun says the AI industry is completely LLM pilled.
https://x.com/HinataMotivates/status/2046235910409466042

Tim Cook STEPS DOWN and did not build the world’s greatest technology company. He built the world’s greatest chokepoint. And he just formalized his exit from the booth into a job description that says the booth is all that remains.

LINKMark Cuban just described the largest wealth transfer of the AI era.

Almost nobody understood what he said.

Cuban: “There are 33 million companies in this country. Aren’t going to have AI budgets. Aren’t going to have AI experts.”

Not tech startups.

The shoe store. The regional trucking outfit. The accounting firm with 12 employees.

The businesses that actually run the physical economy.

They know AI is coming. They have no idea what to do with it.

Cuban: “You’ve got the head of Microsoft saying software is dead because everything’s going to be customized to your unique utilization.”

Software is dead.

The SaaS era ran on one rule. Build a generic product. Force millions of companies to bend their workflows around it. Charge rent forever.

AI ends the contract.

The business stops bending to the software. The intelligence bends to the business.

But customized by whom.

The third-generation manufacturer cannot tell Claude from Gemini. The county hospital is staring at a reactor asking where the light switch is.

Cuban: “Who’s going to do it for them?”

That question is worth more than the frontier models themselves.

Hundreds of billions are being burned to build the foundation. The smartest engineers alive are locked in a bloodbath over who owns the base layer.

Let them fight.

Let them burn the capital. Let them drive the cost of raw intelligence toward zero.

Because the wealth does not collect where the brain is built.

It collects where the brain meets the business.

Every ambitious kid in college right now thinks survival means a seat at OpenAI or Anthropic.

Cuban is staring at the other 99 percent of the economy.

Learn the models. Then learn the messy, unglamorous reality of how a 50-person company actually operates.

Walk through the door. Understand their problems. Wire the intelligence directly into their revenue.

That is not a job title. That is an entire economic class being born.

You do not need to build the brain. You need to build the nervous system.

The biggest winners of the electricity era were not the engineers who built the generators. They were the ones who walked into dark factories and showed the owners where to plug in.

33 million companies are standing in the dark right now.

Silicon Valley is racing to build the god. The fortunes will belong to whoever teaches him a trade.