If i had to choose one darkhorse Altcoin to stack up during the bear summer, it is 100% XLM (Stellar Lumens)
As of now its the forefront runner with the DTCC stock settlement agenda beginning in October, IMO this is 100x bigger than the ETF saga. Stacking some XLM this summer for a Merry Christmas
MILTON FRIEDMAN:
"CONSUMERS DON’T PRODUCE INFLATION."
"PRODUCERS DON’T PRODUCE INFLATION.
"INFLATION IS PRODUCED ONLY BY TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT CREATION OF MONEY, AND NOTHING ELSE."
🚨$SPCX SLIDES BACK NEAR ITS IPO OPENING PRICE OF $150
SpaceX is trading at around $153 after falling as low as $148.51 today, erasing nearly all gains since its June 12 debut.
The stock hit $225 just four days after listing and is now down over 32% from that high.
LATEST: 🇺🇸 Senator Cynthia Lummis says America holding 5% of the world's Bitcoin for 20 years could cut its debt by a third to a half, and holding more than 5% could erase it entirely.
🔥MUSK’S COMEBACK: X MONEY ARRIVES 26 YEARS AFTER PAYPAL OUSTED HIM
In 1999, Elon Musk co-founded X. com, the online bank that later became PayPal.
A year later, the board ousted him as CEO and replaced him with Peter Thiel.
But the domain X .com did not stay with PayPal. Musk bought it back in 2017, which he later used to rebrand Twitter into X.
Now, 26 years later, Musk is rebuilding the finance app he originally wanted inside X.
X Money is now rolling out to select US users, offering 6% APY on deposits, a metal Visa debit card, and 3% cashback.
The offer beats PayPal Savings’ current 3.30% APY, with crypto integration planned for later this year.
🚨WILD: REDDIT'S WALLSTREETBETS HAS FOUND A NEW TARGET
Wendy's $WEN EXPLODED 42% today after a, now-deleted, r/WallStreetBets post titled "Save Wendy's before it's too late" went viral.
The stock had hit its lowest level in 20 years before reddit showed up.
Bitcoin will likely bottom BELOW Realized Price (~$53k), just like it did in EVERY previous bear market.
Right now the grey Realized Price line has been glued to the black 200-week Geometric MA line since 2023.
What do you think: new low incoming or different this time?👇
INSIGHT: Satoshi was aware of potential quantum risks for #Bitcoin in 2010 already.
He also split his roughly 1M BTC across 22,000 different addresses, probably to mitigate such a risk.
BITCOIN JUST BECAME IMPOSSIBLE TO SHUT OFF!
Jack Dorsey built an app that moves it with zero internet.
Bitchat uses Bluetooth mesh.
You sign offline, it hops phone to phone.
Kill the internet. The money still moves.
Legend!
The DOJ launched a probe into Wall Street short sellers, and the very next day a major TD Ameritrade document warehouse burned down. Four years later: no charges, no answers, and investors are still asking questions.
LATEST: 🇺🇸 Trump signed two orders to speed up US quantum computing and move the federal post-quantum cryptography deadline to 2031, four years earlier than planned.
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The Vermont Blacksmith Who Forged the Electric Future
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In spring of 1833, a self-taught blacksmith named Thomas Davenport from the rugged hills of Brandon, Vermont, saddled his horse and rode more than 25 grueling miles through muddy trails and dense forest.
His destination?
The iron works at Crown Point, New York, where a revolutionary new invention hummed with invisible power: powerful electromagnets used to pull iron ore from the earth.
What he witnessed that day wasn’t just a tool it was pure magic. Sparks of electricity dancing, iron leaping at the command of an unseen force. Most men would have marveled and gone home.
But Thomas Davenport was no ordinary blacksmith.
With calloused hands still warm from the forge and a mind burning with questions, he bought one of those electromagnets on the spot, strapped it to his horse, and galloped back to his humble shop in Forestdale.
He tore it apart like a mad scientist. Using his blacksmith skills, he forged a stronger iron core. When insulation failed, his wife Emily made the ultimate sacrifice: she cut her silk wedding dress into strips to wrap the wires.
Night after night, in the flickering glow of his forge, this determined Vermonter hammered, experimented, and dreamed abandoning his steady trade to chase a vision no one else could see.
By 1834, working alongside mechanic Orange Smalley, Davenport achieved the impossible: the first practical rotating electric motor in America.
A spinning marvel powered purely by electricity. In 1837, he secured the world’s first patent for an electric motor the very first patent for any electrical device.
Imagine it: a humble blacksmith from a tiny Vermont village inventing the machine that would one day power everything.
Refrigerators keeping food fresh, washing machines easing back-breaking labor, electric trains and subways connecting cities, elevators lifting skyscrapers, factory lathes humming, and eventually the very devices in your hand right now all trace their lineage back to that spinning rotor in a Vermont blacksmith shop.
Thomas Davenport saw the electric future decades before Edison, Tesla, or anyone else lit up the world. He demonstrated his motor to crowds, printed the first magazine using electric power, and even ran a small electric railway model. But timing is everything. The world wasn’t ready batteries were weak, electricity scarce, and funding dried up.
He died in 1851, largely forgotten and broke, his prototype now resting in the Smithsonian.
Yet his spark endured. That self-educated blacksmith from Brandon didn’t just invent a motor he ignited the modern age.
Every time you flip a switch, charge a device, or ride an electric vehicle, you’re riding the revolutionary wave started by a man with nothing but a hammer, a dream, and the courage to chase lightning itself.
The unsung hero of the electric revolution. The Vermont Blacksmith who truly invented the modern world.