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🚨 BREAKING: MARKETS CRASHING 🚨
🚀 THIS COIN IS ABOUT TO 100X 🚀
“You’re running out of time.”

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The FAA ordered a nationwide ground stop on all flights Friday over a communications failure at its air traffic control centers, per NBC News. The cause is not confirmed.

Short-term: an airline-operations shock, not a market event yet.

The Wire Take:
→ The AI angle: the FAA rolled its SMART routing tool out to all 22 en route centers on Nov 10. DHS Secretary Mullin says AI can't be ruled out and "we're looking at that." The vendor says its software did not cause it. The FAA has not linked the two.

→ Cyberattack: preliminary reports, citing two law enforcement officials, point away from one. DHS also sees no link to Thursday's Microsoft outage.

→ Reported delays of up to 4 hours. Flights are leaving case by case as centers recover.

Medium-term: the cause decides the story. A phone-line failure is a one-day glitch. A new AI tool is a question about automation in critical infrastructure.

Watch: the official cause and how fast schedules recover.

𝘈 𝘧𝘢𝘪𝘭𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘢 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘮𝘶𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘴𝘺𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘮, not proof that AI broke air traffic control. Wait for the cause before drawing the AI conclusion.

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Two Bitcoin wallets dormant for 16 years moved 100 BTC (~$6.9M), per Decrypt. The coins were mined in September 2010.

Short-term: a curiosity, not selling pressure. No sale has been spotted yet.

𝘖𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘪𝘴 𝘢 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘪𝘭 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩 𝘢𝘯 𝘦𝘹𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦.

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🏛️ Treasury Secretary Bessent says he won't be cowed by Iranian death threats, per Reuters. On Secret Service advice, he has moved from his DC home to a military base.

Medium-term: a risk headline, not a policy change. The Iran sanctions push continues.

The Wire Take:

→ Reuters saw a memo from late last month warning that Iranian plots against US personnel had reached an advanced stage. Iran denies plotting attacks on US soil.

→ Bessent runs the sanctions campaign against Iran, aimed at reopening the Strait of Hormuz, which has been largely closed since Feb 28. A threat to the man running it keeps oil and Hormuz in the headlines.

→ Watch: Hormuz and oil headlines. An actual attack would be an escalation; this alone is not.

𝘈 𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘺 𝘴𝘵𝘰��𝘺 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘩 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘵 𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘭𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 𝘰𝘪𝘭, not a market signal on its own.

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Nakamoto ($NAKA) fell ~6.5% premarket after Q3 operating revenue came in at negative $1.9M, per Cointelegraph. Analysts expected about $17.4M.

Short-term: a bad print on the Bitcoin-treasury model, not a Bitcoin signal.

The Wire Take:

→ The miss: $3.9M from its businesses, minus a $5.8M loss on Bitcoin options.

→ Net income was +$85.5M, but that came from a $110.4M gain on revaluing its crypto. Adjusted operating loss: $15.8M.

→ Holdings: 4,283 BTC (~$358M) at Sept 30, down from 4,467 BTC in June. The stock is down ~62% this year.

→ Watch: whether the company explains the options strategy and the lower BTC count.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘥𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘧𝘪𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘉𝘪𝘵𝘤𝘰𝘪𝘯'𝘴 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦, not the business. The operating line is what the market punished.

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Microsoft says there is no sign a cyber attack caused the Outlook, Teams and Copilot outage, now in its second day, per Bloomberg. Recovery is improving.

Short-term: an uptime problem, not a security one. $MSFT is modestly lower.

𝘈 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘢𝘨𝘦, not a hack.

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The Bank of England, MAS and the Bank of Thailand tested settling both legs of an FX trade at once, across traditional rails and tokenized ledgers.

Long-term: central banks are building the bridge. No price impact today. 🌴

The Wire Take:
→ Project Meridian FX APAC used a Partior prototype: one currency moves only if the other does. Test systems, not live markets.

→ The gap: more than $1.4T a day of FX settlement was still fully exposed to settlement risk in April 2025, per the BIS via the Bank of England.

→ Three setups: simulated UK RTGS, Thailand's tokenized prototype, and a non-live Singapore wholesale CBDC ledger. Australia and the Philippines observed.

→ The Bank of England already plans a live synchronisation interface in 2028. This release is findings, not a go-live.

𝘈 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦𝘳 𝘍𝘟 𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵, not a market move.

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SpaceX's AI group cut about 60 jobs on the Grok Imagine video team in the past week, per The Information.

Most of the team is gone. A handful are left, and the product is still up.

Medium-term: a resource shift toward coding tools and agents, not a shutdown.

The Wire Take:

→ The cuts hit SpaceX Super Intelligence, the former xAI, over the past week.

→ In June, The Information said that group was doubling down on video. This cut reverses that.

→ The new priority, per the report: AI coding tools and the Grok Bot agent, not visual models.

→ Watch: SpaceX has not confirmed the cuts. The tell is whether Grok Imagine ships another model.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘰𝘰𝘭 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘶𝘱, but the build has moved to coding and agents.

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🤖 OpenAI launched ChatGPT Wallet: its "dots" AI agents can now buy things for you. It starts with US Pro subscribers, with Visa, Mastercard and Amex on board, per CNBC.

Long-term: AI agents now have a way to pay. No market mover today.

The Wire Take:
→ How it works: add a card once and approve every order. The agent never sees the card. The network issues a one-time payment token.

→ Who wins: the card networks keep the rails. OpenAI takes no cut at launch.

→ The catch: Amazon blocks agents from buying, and United blocks them from booking flights.

→ It runs on cards, not stablecoins.

→ Watch: rollout beyond Pro, and whether big merchants open up.

𝘈 𝘴𝘮𝘢𝘭𝘭 𝘭𝘢𝘶𝘯𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘯 𝘢 𝘣𝘪𝘨 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯. In round one of agent payments, the card networks are winning, not crypto.

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🏛️ Mossad chief Roman Gofman is in Washington Friday, meeting CIA Director John Ratcliffe, as Netanyahu presses Trump to resume the Iran war, per Axios.

Medium-term: a risk headline, not a restart. Trump has rejected a return to combat so far.

The Wire Take:
→ Gofman is also expected in Miami to see envoy Steve Witkoff. Mossad, the CIA and the White House declined to comment.

→ Trump has sided with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the UAE: blockade and economic pressure, not combat. He said Thursday he could "end it immediately" but was asked to wait.

→ Political risk: Netanyahu lost his majority on Oct. 27. Eisenkot has a mandate to form a government and said Friday he will not let security be used as political capital.

→ Watch: an Israeli strike, or a Trump reversal, before that bid settles.

𝘖𝘪𝘭 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘬 𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘵𝘴 𝘮𝘰𝘷𝘦 𝘪𝘧 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘣𝘢𝘵 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘴. A meeting is not a restart.

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Nvidia weighed billions in guarantees for AI firms that couldn't afford its chips, per the WSJ. Now-interim CEO Colette Kress pushed back and helped halve a commitment to an OpenAI data center.

Medium-term: the question is who really pays for AI chip demand.

The Wire Take:
→ Mechanism: if Nvidia backs its buyers' debt, part of its sales rests on its own balance sheet. Critics call it circular financing; Kress has said Nvidia "sees it differently."

→ Per the WSJ, Huang's son-in-law led some of the deals. Some were paused and now face more board scrutiny.

→ Watch: Nov 17 earnings, Kress's first call as interim CEO. Guarantees and purchase commitments are the lines to read.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘕𝘷𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘳𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘸 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴, not just the CEO. Earnings need to show how much demand Nvidia financed itself.

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📊 US producer prices rose 0.3% in October, below the 0.4% forecast. Annual PPI hit 6.5% (6.6% expected), the highest since Nov 2022, per the BLS.

Medium-term: a slower month, not a cooling trend. A hike stays on the table for the Dec 8-9 Fed meeting.

The Wire Take:
→ The monthly pace eased from a revised +1.4% in September, but the annual rate still rose, from 6.3%.

→ Core PPI: +0.3% on the month, 5.0% on the year, both in line.

→ Food rose 1.3%, energy slipped 0.1%. Goods +0.5%, services +0.2%.

→ Watch: Treasury yields today, then the Fed decision on Dec 9.

𝘉𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘯 𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘪𝘴 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘰𝘭. Producer inflation is still running at a 2022 pace.

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Fed's Goolsbee: the Fed "definitely has work to do" to maintain its credibility, per Bloomberg.

Inflation is proving far more persistent than expected, he says.

Medium-term: another hawkish voice before the Dec 8-9 Fed meeting, where a hike is on the table.

The Wire Take:
→ Goolsbee has leaned dovish in the past. This week he called October CPI "borderline disturbing": services inflation isn't coming down.

→ He's not alone: Williams says policy still has work to do, Daly sees more tightening as likely, Waller has floated 50bp.

→ Mechanism: a hawkish Fed means higher yields and a firmer dollar, the usual headwind for stocks and crypto.

→ Watch: the next inflation prints and whether 50bp gets priced for December.

𝘞𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘦𝘥'𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘳𝘵 𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘭𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘩𝘢𝘸𝘬𝘴, the debate is how much to hike, not whether.

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$BTC is back under its 200-week average on the weekly chart, after the bounce to the high-$80Ks failed.

Price: ~$69.8K, down ~3.8% in 24h, per CoinGecko.

Medium-term: $60K is the level bulls need to defend for the recovery read to stay alive.

The Wire Take:
→ If $60K holds: the analyst's read is a sideways range first, then an attempt higher. Buyers already stepped in near $67.9K today.

→ A weekly close below $60K would put this year's ~$57.8K low back in play and break that read.

→ Overhead: the shorter weekly averages are curling lower in the mid-to-high $70Ks.

→ Watch: Sunday's weekly close vs the 200-week line, whether volume expands, and spot ETF flows.

Long-term: still ~45% below the $126K peak; the weekly trend points down until price reclaims those averages.

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨-𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘮 𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘦𝘥, not lost. $60K is where the read changes.

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DATA: Retail investors bought a record $111M of Nvidia in Thursday's first 30 minutes, per Vanda Research. Nvidia is 61% of all US retail net buying this week.

$NVDA fell ~5% anyway after Jensen Huang's exit.

Medium-term: retail is buying the dip, but that is not the same as the market agreeing.

The Wire Take:
→ Retail dip-buying in Nvidia is a habit: it did the same in the DeepSeek selloff in January 2025. It did not stop that drop.

→ Concentration risk: one stock is taking most of the retail money, so a bad week hurts the same crowd.

→ Watch: Nov 17 earnings, Colette Kress's first call as interim CEO, and whether the buying continues or fades.

𝘙𝘦𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘭 𝘪𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘵𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘰𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘊𝘌𝘖. Earnings will say if the institutions agree.

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Tesla and SpaceX are negotiating merger terms, per Bloomberg. A deal could come as soon as December, or slip into early 2027.

Combined value: ~$3.4 trillion.

Medium-term: $TSLA headline risk until terms are on the table. Talks are not a deal.

The Wire Take:
→ Both boards formed independent committees in October. Musk is out of the talks as a conflicted party.

→ Key hurdle: separating Tesla's China plants from SpaceX's US defense work.

→ Crypto angle: together they hold ~30,220 BTC (~$2.1B), per CoinDesk. A merger adds no new bitcoin buying.

→ Watch: Tesla's Dec 3 shareholder meeting. Any deal needs the committee's OK and shareholder approval.

A real negotiation, not a signed deal, and for bitcoin it changes nothing.

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🏛️ The White House sent four nominees to the Senate: two for the SEC, two for the CFTC, including two Democrats. They're the first picks for either agency in about a year, per The Block.

Long-term: bipartisan commissions make crypto rules harder to undo.

The Wire Take:
→ SEC: Steven Levine (R), a former aide to Commissioner Uyeda, would replace Hester Peirce, who led the SEC's Crypto Task Force. Kristin Johnson (D) is a former CFTC commissioner focused on digital assets.

→ CFTC: Nathan Anonick (R) and Matthew Rowland (D) both worked on the Clarity Act at the Senate Agriculture Committee.

→ Watch: hearings in Senate Banking (SEC) and Agriculture (CFTC). Confirmation is not guaranteed.

𝘕𝘰𝘵 𝘢 𝘱𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘤𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘺𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘰𝘥𝘢𝘺, 𝘣𝘶𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘪𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘴𝘵𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘤𝘳𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘶𝘭𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘰𝘬 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘴.

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Bitcoin's Fear & Greed Index just hit 20: Extreme Fear. It was 28 yesterday, per https://t.co/h1tOpaODJY.

$BTC is near $69K, down ~5.5% in 24h, right on its 200-week average (~$68K).

Medium-term: sentiment is washed out, but fear readings are not bottom signals.

The Wire Take:
→ The 200-week average near $68K is the level the market is watching this week.

→ Strive CEO Matt Cole called it "historically favorable" to add exposure. Strive is a Bitcoin treasury company, so he is not a neutral voice.

→ Extreme Fear means sellers are crowded. It does not say when the selling stops.

→ Watch: the weekly close on Sunday vs ~$68K, and spot ETF flows.

The mood is at an extreme, the trend is not decided yet.

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The US ran a $404B deficit in October, a record for the month and up 42% from a year ago, per Reuters.

Spending: $773B (+12%). Revenue: $369B (-9%).

Short-term: not a market mover; part of it is calendar timing.
Long-term: more Treasuries to sell keeps pressure on yields.

The Wire Take:
→ Timing: some November benefit payments went out in October. Adjusted, the gap is $285B vs $191B a year ago, still up 49%.

→ Customs receipts fell 39% to $19.2B.

→ Interest on the debt: $115B in one month, up $11B.

→ It follows a ~$2T deficit for fiscal 2026, 6.2% of GDP.

→ Watch: November's numbers in December and demand at long-bond auctions.

The record is partly a calendar quirk. The trend is not: the US is borrowing more while revenue softens.

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Binance says it has fully covered the customer assets hit by the $6.3B hack of Oct 29.

The DOJ also won court approval to seize or restrain $1.2B+ of the stolen crypto.

Medium-term: contagion risk fades. Proof of reserves is still pending.

The Wire Take:
→ Covered is not recovered. Binance paid with its own funds, including its SAFU reserve.

→ About $2.7B of the stolen crypto is frozen, per The Record. The rest is still being laundered.

→ The check: the zero-knowledge proof that lets users verify 1:1 backing is not out yet, per https://t.co/6rcLSioI0N.

→ Users moved first: ~$3.64B net left in the first 9.5 hours after withdrawals reopened on Nov 1.

→ Watch: the zk proof, Binance's net flows and how much of the frozen money is actually forfeited.

The record hack did not turn into a solvency crisis. The trust repair is not done until users can verify the reserves.

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$BTC weekly: price is testing the rising trendline from the June low ($57.8K). It trades near $71.5K on Binance, on track for a sixth straight red week since the rejection near $87K.

Medium-term: this week's close decides if the series of higher lows survives.

The Wire Take:
→ Holds ~$71K on the weekly close: the higher-low structure stays intact. $86.8K is the ceiling that capped the last rally.

→ Weekly close below it: that structure breaks. The next reference on this chart is the June low zone, $57.8K-$60K.

→ Volume: no capitulation. The red weeks ran ~100K BTC each vs 232K in the June flush.

→ Pressure: US spot ETFs lost $1.44B from Nov 5-11, per SoSoValue.

Short-term: a test, not a break. Long-term: a 5-month line, not the cycle.

Bottom line: the level bulls need to defend is right here. Sunday's close and ETF flows matter more than any intraday wick.