When this stops being fun… I’m out! We are living in this present moment creating the future and if the future isn’t silly and kind, thoughtful and connective, collaborative and creative it is not the future. More resilience and less reactionary as @80sbaby_eth says
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New startup company will put ‘Mini Data Centers’ on the side of residential homes all over America
Companies Nvidia and PulteGroup are patterning with SPAN, “A major U.S home builder is now making small fractional data centers, or they call them nodes that can be put on the side of residential homes.”
“These could negate the need to build as many hyperscalers and AI cloud providers Just tap into the node network like a regular data center now SPAN, collaborated with NVIDIA using its technology in the system span claims it can install 8,000 of these units about six times faster and at five times lower cost than the construction of a typical centralized 100 megawatt data center of the same size.”
In return for letting this company put a mini data center on the side of your home, you’ll get a $150 credit on your electricity bill
In some locations you could get free electricity and internet
🚨 FAKE LEDGER APP ON APPLE STORE WIPES OUT ENTIRE BTC HOLDINGS
A fake Ledger Live app on Apple’s Mac App Store just wiped out a user’s life savings.
American musician Garrett Dutton lost 5.92 $BTC ($424K) after downloading what looked like the official app and entering his 24-word seed phrase.
On-chain investigator ZachXBT traced the stolen Bitcoin exchange deposit addresses and publicly questioned how the app made it through Apple’s gatekeeping.
No comment yet from Apple.
Bitcoin OG Jeff Booth on $XRP
“I’m not saying in the short term, the token won’t go up for a little while.”
But long term, he says only one neutral protocol wins.
And he’s convinced it’s not XRP 👇
What is a Self-Repaying Mortgage (SRM)?
The simplest way to buy a house with Bitcoin, without selling any of it.
How it works:
> Post 1:1 $BTC collateral (100% LTV)
> Lender uses house + $BTC as security (dual-collateralization)
> You get the keys today and keep 100% of your Bitcoin tomorrow
Why SRM wins:
> Rates as low as 3% APR (33% LTV)
> Zero liquidation risk from $BTC vol.
> $BTC stays 100% yours (bankruptcy remote SPV, BitGo custody, never rehypothecated)
> No credit checks, no income verification
Why “Self-Repaying”?
As $BTC grows, it helps accelerate payoff while you keep every sat.
> Live in the house now
> Keep your sound money forever
> No forced sales, no margin calls
Bitcoin as pristine collateral, done right.
Build Wealth Smarter ⚡
YOU ARE LETTING THE GOVERNMENT TAKE 37% OF YOUR BITCOIN GAINS. LEGALLY. FOR NO REASON.
Sarah buys $50,000 in Bitcoin. It grows to $200,000. She sells.
The IRS takes $55,650.
She keeps $144,350.
Now watch what happens when she does it correctly.
Sarah buys $50,000 in Bitcoin inside a Solo 401(k). It grows to $200,000. She doesn't sell. She borrows $100,000 against it through a crypto-backed loan at 1% APR.
Tax paid: $0.
Bitcoin sold: 0.
Cash in hand: $100,000.
Bitcoin still growing: $200,000.
When she retires and her income drops, she converts portions to a Roth IRA at the lowest tax bracket. Withdrawals after 59.5 become tax-free. Forever.
The first Sarah paid $55,650 in taxes and lost her Bitcoin position permanently.
The second Sarah paid $0, kept her Bitcoin, borrowed against it, and set up tax-free withdrawals for life.
Same $50,000. Same Bitcoin. Two completely different financial outcomes.
The difference isn't income. It's structure.
The wealthy have used borrow-against-don't-sell strategies with real estate for decades. Bitcoin just became the best collateral asset in history. And Fannie Mae just started accepting it for mortgages.
The tax code didn't change. The asset menu did.
Stop selling. Start structuring.
This is WILD.
Peter Thiel just bet $2 billion on a collar that wraps around a cow’s neck.
The company is called Halter and it has a proprietary algorithm that runs the entire operation.
They actually trademarked the name for it and called it the Cowgorithm and here's how it works.
A farmer opens an app, taps a button, and 600,000 cows across three countries start walking toward the milking station on their own.
No farm dogs, fences or physical labor, it's just a solar-powered GPS collar sending sound and vibration cues to each animal.
The collar does more than move cows around.
It monitors digestion, fertility cycles, and health patterns in real time, 24 hours a day, using machine learning trained on the behavior of hundreds of thousands of animals.
Halter was founded by a rocket engineer who built spacecraft at Rocket Lab before deciding that farming was the bigger unsolved problem.
US ranchers alone have already used the technology to build over 11,000 miles of virtual fencing, roughly the full perimeter of the continental United States, saving an estimated $220 million in physical fencing costs.
Halter's previous funding round valued the company at $1 billion.
This new round, led by Thiel's Founders Fund, doubles that valuation to $2 billion before the new money even hits the account.
And they charge farmers between $5 and $8 per animal per month on a subscription model, meaning the more cows they collar, the more locked-in the revenue becomes.
The most powerful venture capitalist on earth just decided that the future of food and farming runs through an algorithm named after a cow.
He might be right.
The S&P 500 Dow Jones Indices - the literal STANDARD of performance for the stock market for the better part of a century is coming on chain, powered by HyperLiquid.
I don’t think y’all understand how massive this is.
Open the floodgates.
JUST IN: KYRGYZSTAN'S NATIONAL PAYMENT NETWORK JUST PROCESSED ITS 1st #BITCOIN AND CRYPTO PAYMENT IN HISTORY
EVERY CITIZEN CAN NOW SPEND BTC "AT ANY RETAIL STORE IN THE COUNTRY"
GLOBAL BTC ADOPTION IS HERE 🔥
This guy just built a real-time global intelligence dashboard and open sourced it for free.
>You can now monitor the war
>It tracks conflicts, military activity, infrastructure, protests, and market signals live.
>Runs in your browser
>MIT licensed.
It was noon. The factory parking lot was full.
In an old sedan, a man named Marcus was fast asleep in the driver's seat—mouth open, head back, wearing a dirty work uniform.
His coworkers laughed. "Look at Sleeping Beauty," they joked.
But they didn't know the truth.
Marcus finishes his factory shift at 3:00 PM. Then he drives straight to a warehouse to work until 11:00 PM.
He sleeps four hours a night.
He is a single dad trying to pay for his daughter's braces and a few Christmas toys.
He eats his lunch in two minutes so he can sleep for 28 minutes.
He wakes to an alarm, washes his face with a water bottle, and returns to the line.
He's not lazy. He's exhausted from loving his family.