🚨 STRATEGY AND BITMINE DOWN $16 BILLION ON BTC AND ETH
Saylor's Strategy:
- 843,706 $BTC
- $75,699 average BTC cost
- $7.25B unrealized loss
Tom Lee's Bitmine:
- 5,416,901 $ETH
- $3,485 average ETH cost
- $8.74B unrealized loss
The two world's LARGEST holders of BTC and ETH are deep underwater.
Binance Is Pulling The Plug on NFTs
@Binance will officially terminate its centralized NFT service, effective July 3, 2026, and will direct users to withdraw all transferable digital assets within a 30-day window.
This strategic wind-down follows a 90% collapse in global NFT trading activity, with annualized volumes dropping from a $50B peak in 2022 to approximately $5.5B in the current cycle.
To facilitate the migration, the exchange is providing $USDC fee reimbursements to the first 100,000 users who move assets to the $BNB Smart Chain or Ethereum networks.
Average Bull/Bear cycle last 700 days. We are inside another Bearish Cycle. We have until September 2027. Another 40% crash like the last bear cycle would put BTC back at $45K this time.
First conceived in 1945, this mind-bending animation was a dream collaboration between Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí.
Though put on hold for decades, 'Destino' was finally completed and released 58 years later on this day in 2003.
Chinese scientists created a metal–polymer conductor that stays conductive even when twisted, stretched, or folded, solving the problem of wires breaking under repeated bending.
🚨BREAKING: A cognitive scientist from MIT has mathematically proven that evolution guarantees we see zero percent of true reality, that most consciousness in the universe exists without a body, and that non-human intelligences with a wider window on reality than ours can reach in and manipulate it the way a programmer manipulates a video game.
Donald Hoffman (@donalddhoffman) is a cognitive scientist at UC Irvine who has spent 40 years building a mathematical theory of the observer. His work was cited by John Wheeler in the "It From Bit" paper. He studied under Marvin Minsky at MIT, spent two decades secretly meeting with Francis Crick to study consciousness, and has nine specific mathematical conjectures on the table that would derive general relativity, quantum field theory and the Big Bang from a single framework. The top high-energy physicists in the world, Nima Arkani-Hamed and Nobel laureate David Gross, are already saying spacetime is doomed. Hoffman thinks he knows what replaces it.
This interview is the first time he has publicly laid out what his mathematical model explains about alien life, embodiment and the structure of reality.
It already derives time dilation and quantum wave functions directly from differences in observer window size. Physics has spent a century failing to solve the measurement problem because it has been looking in the wrong place. The observer has to come first, and no physicalist framework can get you there.
A consciousness with a larger observer window has access to the underlying structure of our reality in ways we can't perceive or counter. A craft going Mach 40 instantaneously in our headset could be a leisurely maneuver in theirs.
The implications for UAP and alien life are immense.
Embodiment, being locked into a body with fingers and toes as your only interface with the world, is a probability zero anomaly in the full space of possible minds. He also says current large language models are dumber than cucumbers. His new framework, the recursive trace logic, is a completely different architecture, and some of the biggest names in frontier AI have already come to him about it.
The framework has no ceiling, and the implication is a single unified consciousness exploring itself through an unbounded number of perspectives, each one capable of waking up.
Death, in this framework, is just the closing of an icon on the desktop.
Full conversation is live now.
Something to aware of...Zebec Network, here are some of the main concerns investors discuss:
1. Token concentration
Some analyses have pointed to a relatively high concentration of tokens among large holders (“whales”). If a few wallets control a significant percentage of supply, large sales could create price volatility.
2. Token utility vs. network adoption
A common debate is whether growth in Zebec’s payroll and payment business will translate directly into demand for ZBCN. Some community members argue that the network’s usage and the token’s value are not perfectly linked.
3. Exchange listings
ZBCN is available on several exchanges but has historically lacked listings on some of the largest U.S. exchanges. Broader exchange availability can affect liquidity and investor access.
4. Smart contract and governance risk
Critics have raised concerns about the project’s governance structure and update authority, arguing that some degree of centralization remains.
5. Execution risk
Zebec’s investment case depends heavily on expanding real-world payroll, payment cards, and financial infrastructure. If adoption grows slower than expected, token demand may not meet investor expectations.
6. Competition
Zebec competes with both crypto and traditional payment providers. Large ecosystems such as Circle, traditional payroll companies, and other blockchain payment networks are pursuing similar markets.
Potential strengths
On the positive side, Zebec has a functioning payroll and payments ecosystem, reports enterprise usage, completed its final scheduled token unlock in 2026, and promotes a buyback-and-burn model intended to reduce circulating supply over time.
So the biggest bear case for ZBCN is: token concentration, uncertain value capture from network growth, and execution risk. The biggest bull case is: real-world payment adoption combined with a fully distributed, potentially deflationary token model.
If an audit of Fort Knox revealed that the U.S. actually held substantially less gold than officially reported, the likely market reaction would be a sharp increase in the global gold price—but the size and duration would depend on the details.
Possible effects:
Immediate panic buying
Gold traders would likely rush to buy gold.
Investors might view the discovery as evidence that official reserves are less trustworthy than believed.
Gold prices could spike dramatically in days or even hours.
Loss of confidence in governments
The issue might become bigger than the missing gold itself.
Markets could question reporting standards of central banks and governments worldwide.
Safe-haven assets such as gold, silver, and possibly some cryptocurrencies could benefit.
Supply impact
Official U.S. gold reserves are reported at about 8,133 metric tons, the largest national reserve in the world.
If thousands of tons were missing, the perceived global supply of gold would suddenly shrink.
Since gold is relatively scarce and mining output grows slowly, prices could rise significantly.
Dollar effects
Although the U.S. dollar is no longer backed by gold, such a revelation could weaken confidence in U.S. financial institutions.
A weaker dollar often supports higher gold prices.
How much could gold rise?
No one knows for sure. Historical crises have produced rapid moves of 10–30% in gold over short periods. A genuine revelation that a large fraction of Fort Knox’s gold was missing could potentially push prices much higher than that, at least temporarily, because it would be viewed as a major global financial shock.
The key point is that the trust shock would probably matter more than the actual missing metal. A few hundred missing tons would be significant; several thousand missing tons could trigger one of the biggest precious-metals market reactions in modern history.