expanded into film, television, business and investing. The book revealed something deeper: a worldview. A philosophy. A man who had trained himself to think.
That, to me, is what an enlightened mind looks like.
We've mistaken education for schooling.
Nigeria is ranked #1 in global USDT and USDC ownership.
Not the US. Not the UK. Not Singapore.
Nigeria.
59% of Nigerian crypto users hold USDT. 48% hold USDC. More than any other country surveyed. India is third. Brazil close behind.
The reason is obvious once you see it: in countries where local currency loses 20–40% of value annually, stablecoins aren't a crypto product. They're a savings account. A dollar-denominated store of value that doesn't require a US bank account.
Here's what the data doesn't show: most of those stablecoin holders can't use their USDT to buy anything.
No merchant acceptance. No subscription billing. No automatic payment. No way to pay a supplier. They hold the dollars. They can't spend the dollars. They convert back to fiat every time they need to transact.
The gap between stablecoin adoption and stablecoin utility is most visible not in San Francisco or Singapore. It's in Lagos, Jakarta, São Paulo.
$308B in circulation. The people who need stablecoin commerce most have the fewest tools to access it.
That's not a distribution problem. That's an infrastructure problem. The rails exist everywhere. The billing layer doesn't exist anywhere.
That's who we're building for.
The world has lost a mind whose work guides us every day.
Gladys West, a pioneering mathematician whose contributions helped make modern GPS possible, has passed away at 95, peacefully on January 2026, surrounded by family and friends.
West’s mathematical models of the Earth’s shape became a critical foundation for satellite navigation, allowing precise positioning anywhere on the globe. Her work helps guide everything from airplanes and ships to smartphones and emergency services, though she once joked that she still preferred using paper maps.
Born in 1930 in rural Virginia, West grew up in the South, working on her family’s farm and walking miles to a one-room schoolhouse. She originally planned to study home economics, but discovered a love for geometry that led her to pursue mathematics. A scholarship took her to Virginia State College, where she earned her degree and later a master’s in mathematics.
In 1956, she joined a U.S. Navy research facility in Dahlgren, Virginia. Over a 42-year career, West worked with early computers to develop algorithms that accounted for the Earth’s irregular shape, gravity, and tidal forces, refinements that were essential for accurate satellite positioning.
Without the mathematical groundwork she helped establish, the global navigation systems used today would not function as they do.
For most of her career, West’s contributions remained largely unknown outside scientific circles. Later in life, she received major honors, including induction into the U.S. Air Force Hall of Fame and the Prince Philip Medal.
She inspired generations of scientists and mathematicians.
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Photo: An Iranian woman clutches the lifeless body of her sister — a grief the world keeps asking her to endure in silence.
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Every time a dictatorship falls, world leaders rush to issue statements of support.
One question remains unanswered: where were you while the dictator was killing his own people?
Words are easy. Condolences are cheap.
Tears cost nothing.
If I had an army, I would not “express concern.”
I would act.
The Iranian people do not need sympathy — they need protection.
Their lives matter more than the comfort, legitimacy, or survival of the mullahs.
Intervention is overdue.
Action is due.
Now.
#freeiranfromislamicrepublic
#AllEyesOnIran
#IranProtests2026
I pay 42% tax every month in Germany but if:
1. I loose my job, the govt pays me 60% of my salary and help to find a new one
2. I have access to 3 years leave if I have a baby with a percentage of my salary and my job will wait for me until I resume.
3. Education is free in govt schools from primary to PhD
4. For every child I have, they get paid €250 monthly until they turn 18
5. I can buy a monthly ticket of €56 monthly and can travel all around the country via train (not high speed) and buses.
6. At any emergency, once you call the ambulance, it arrives within 20 minutes
7. Deffribilators and SOS access are available at every train station and high ways.
8. If I get stock in a country, I call the govt and they come to my support.
Let me stop here.
You that will pay about 30% tax in Nigeria that was copied 90% from the UK tax law, what will you get?
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These three brothers have been trapped under a collapsed building for six days.
Six days of darkness.
Six days of waiting.
Six days where every minute could mean life or death.
This is not about tribe, religion, or politics.
This is about humanity.
Their family is waiting.
Their loved ones are praying.
They deserve a chance to be rescued.
They deserve to be seen.
They deserve to be saved.
Please raise your voice and call on the government and emergency agencies to act now.
Time is not on their side.
Kindly tag and alert all relevant news outlets to bring urgent attention to this tragedy.
@ARISEtv@ruffydfire
Silence will not save them.
Action might
Spread the word please 🙏 tag everyone you know
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