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I think we're looking at a much bigger liquidity problem in crypto than most people realize, and the Binance hack might have made it worse. The $6.3B hot-wallet breach was obviously a massive event,
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE EDGEWOOD, British Columbia - Nov 2, 2026 Universal Ostrich Farms Files Multimillion-Dollar Lawsuit Over Unlawful Raids and Seizures Universal Ostrich Farms Inc. and Landco
During my first few years in this space, I used to hear a certain type of comment that, although not necessarily ill-intentioned, would bother me a little. "Man, you got so lucky." "How did you manage
Think about the last time you checked on your money. Not to pay a bill. Just to check. Your balance, a card payment, how your savings were doing. Which app did you open? For a long time, the answer
I do not often discuss Israeli politics, but the reason I am writing this is simple. Many people are interested in what is happening, but much of the commentary in the West has been superficial,
I've always enjoyed UI exploration, from figuring out the visual direction to polishing the smallest details. I thought it would take a long time for AI to reach the level of craft you get from
The AI bubble debate is missing something bigger: machines are becoming customers of intelligence, and we're still figuring out how to pay for it. Everyone seems obsessed with figuring out whether the
Not a Super Power, But Already Strategic: Why India Looms Large in China's Calculations. Like Pepsi to Coke for retailers. India, China and the Asian Balance of Power: An Asian Perspective Much of
paraAAA By (@TokenizedDollar). Opinion and analysis, not financial advice. Every number below is sourced at the bottom. The hook I charted 17 assets and benchmarks over the last five years: October
My main thing is CrisisInvesting.com, our monthly newsletter, and our podcast, Doug Casey's Take. For fun I also built a bunch of mobile apps: AI Home Inventory, ScreenStash, Better Bookshelf,
I lead AI at DigitalOcean, so my view on the value of an integrated product portfolio comes with some bias. But I believe the next era of infrastructure will be defined by how well the stack supports
It was my first time at Meridian this year although we’ve been working with the Stellar Development Foundation for 2+ years. Last year I couldn’t be there since I just had a baby. This year I and our
AI has grown by paying for more: more parameters, more data, longer reasoning, more agents. In a new Perspective from Tsinghua University, we argue the next gains may come from somewhere else:
On Tuesday, Felix Rieseberg (@felixrieseberg) from Anthropic wrote a compelling post about how even the teams building the models are still working out how to hire people who build well with them. He
YC Labs put 50 AI agents in a Minecraft survival world for three hours, told them to build a civilization, and watched a boss emerge by accident. It then ran Claude Opus 5.5 and GPT-6.1 Sol teams
I used to sit on the other side of the desk. So when Edmunds says underwater buyers are averaging $952 a month (!!), I don't shrug, I kind of wince, because that number is what you get when old debt,
1. No one wants to take 50 pills a day. AG1 pixie dusts 75+ ingredients. Random online brands go HAM on one or two ingredients that hammer a very specific pain point that may or may not work. Neither
The big crypto × AI use case everybody talks about is agents using stablecoins for payments. I think this is one of the worst predictions I’ve ever heard. As far as I can tell, the amount of thinking
I hear some version of this fairly regularly. “So you sell commercial real estate? That’s basically just like selling houses, right?” No. And I get why you’d think that. From the outside, both involve
I have been blessed to be associated with some of the greatest astrologers and scholars. My journey with Astrology started in 2001 associating with great minds helps you understand the positives
I‘ve been following @Kalshi pretty closely lately, and I genuinely think @mansourtarek_, @luanalopeslara and the team are doing some of the best marketing in fintech right now. One thing that
If somebody handed me a button that ended property tax in Idaho tomorrow, I’d break a finger pushing it. But nobody’s handing me a button. Instead I’ve seen think tanks and a few legislators float
The American military invests enormous resources in check-the-box readiness. We measure personnel strength, equipment availability, training completion, maintenance status, and countless other
The Zambezi Valley is famous for a few things, but cheetahs are not one of them. In fact, we think there may be one resident cheetah left. Like so many times before, we wanted to change that! Last
We think number goes up Hyperliquid is turning into a venue for everything, and a third of its volume is no longer crypto. We sized what HYPE is worth if that continues, crypto volume returns to
Stop me when you’ve heard this one before. “I used to be in such great shape. When I was I could . I was .” It’s
THE BISH REPORT THE FIGHT NEVER ENDED I do not believe the fight that began in 2020 ever ended. In 2020, I was running for the United States Congress while Gavin Newsom was Governor and Xavier Becerra
When it comes to grading Pokémon cards, which company should collectors choose? PSA dominates much of the market thanks to its brand recognition and resale liquidity. CGC offers an alternative that
I asked for women to be represented. My own side told me women shouldn’t even vote. I Didn't Realise There Was A Problem I’ll be honest with you. Until this year, I didn’t think we had a problem. I
When Trust in Government Breaks Down Trust is one of the foundations of a stable country. Citizens do not need to agree with every decision made by a government, but they must believe that those in
Almost 2 weeks ago, I posted this about creating a group chat that would bring people together around a simple idea: rejecting the doomer narratives. Since then we have: Almost 800 memebers (we call
I think BREAK cards are the next Prism Stars Collectors are looking back at little subset niches right now, and Prism Stars from the Sun & Moon era are the big one. I went looking for the next card
Following the Government’s intervention into private car parking rules, Angela Rayner has announced plans to address another “niggling” longstanding source of public concern: lone magpies. Under
Everyone is shipping an MCP server right now. Take the SaaS you already have, wrap its endpoints, publish the tools, and you're "agent-ready." I don't buy it. Putting the Model Context Protocol on top
Some thoughts on "economic efficiency" and, near the end, on why super-intelligent AI cannot replace markets or democracy. Economic efficiency means enabling as many people as possible to get as much
Those who fake-moralize about slavery have no genuine moral principles. If they did, they’d be concerned about slavery wherever it may be found. But they’re not. They only suddenly care about slavery
This article is a transcript of my presentation at Community Over Code Glasgow 2026. Since my slides are mostly real-world cases in screenshots, I thought sharing the presentation in text would be
On Tuesday, October 20, we launch a new business and markets program, TOKYO INSIDERS. I don’t usually write about what I think. This time I want to, because the reason for the show is also an argument
Late-night thoughts from an engineer who has spent 8+ years building software. The beginning: When programming felt like magic I was introduced to programming during my senior secondary school days. I
.intro For two years the skill was the prompt. find the right words, add an example, say "think step by step", ship. that skill still matters. it just stopped being the bottleneck. the work moved one
AI agents can now complete tasks that take experts 16 hours. Companies still trust them with minutes. I mapped 281 companies building autonomous systems to find out why. Introduction On September 2nd,
Written for engineers who already run a vector retrieval step in front of a language model and are being asked whether a knowledge graph would make the answers better, so they can decide with measured
Consistency is the difference between a movement with a future and a personality cult that collapses the moment the leader disappoints. On the right, we claim to stand for principle: America First,
22 Ideas to Sell Your B2B Offering in 2026 A field guide to the plays we're running with Fortune 500 clients. Steal any of them. The Shift Now that we are well into 2026, one thing separates what must
“Both of them have proven dangerous in their own way.” After much deflection, that was ultimately Adbul El-Sayed’s non-answer when pressed in last week’s Michigan Senate debate on whether Israel or
As a senior at Cornell, I have spent enough time around young men to know that most young women would be appalled by what is said behind their backs. I have heard men speak with extraordinary contempt
I bawled my eyes out tonight watching the Roadster video, because I did not expect it, but also, equally, because once I watched it, I thought “of course!” Of course we got there. When I was a child,
As 2027 Formula 1 grid almost complete, there is one driver that still cling on to race again, but chances are super slim from now on, obviously from the title is Yuki Tsunoda. Tsunoda dare to take a
Ok, I've been seeing some common questions and I wanted to give as much insight as I can, so that even if you disagree or dislike the answers, at least we all have a shared understanding of how we got
We’re all starting to think in systems to get better code out of agents. Maybe you’ve explored adding loops for computer use verification, auto-fixing CI failures, and adversarial code review to get
DID YOU KNOW: You can be a feminist and not hate men? I KNOW. I KNOW. This is shocking information. Scientists are probably scrambling to verify it. Operators are standing by. Somewhere, a
The testimony emerging from the Matthew Farwell trial makes me angry because Sandra Birchmore deserved a thorough investigation into her death, and the initial police work described in court fell well
By RMV Editorial Board | Rocky Mountain Voice Every one of Colorado’s eight seats in the U.S. House is on the ballot this November, along with one of the state’s two U.S. Senate seats. Eight of those
Millions of wallets, hundreds of millions of transactions, major brand partnerships, and a growing ecosystem. I've been looking into Abstract's shutdown, and I think it offers a much bigger lesson for
The blood-cancer case in Northwest's own bibliography What clinical findings in leukemia, myeloma and lymphoma reveal about cancer recognition, immune instruction and the case for DCVax-Direct. Listen
“We’re coming for the books.” I guess we can appreciate the Lieutenant Governor of Texas saying the quiet part out loud, but if you were one of the people who thought this whole ‘banned books’ thing
Saul's Fear. Samuel was tasked to mediate between his people and his god. Samuel's people demanded a king, someone who could fight their wars, and lead them among the nations. God's will was rejected
I am writing this on an airplane flying back from Los Angeles to take my sons to see Iron Maiden. I’m actually not sure how many times I’ve seen Iron Maiden, but I know the first time was 23 years
The psychologist David Elkind published an interesting study in the mid 1970’s. Adolescents, he found, believe in an “imaginary audience.” Consider a 13 year old so embarrassed that they miss a week
We are most often held back by obstacles we aren’t even aware of–bad habits, flaws, ego, neuroses, self-destructiveness, aversions and fears we hardly know we have. The world doesn’t usually take the
What did you think Post-Christian America meant? Vibes? Essays? Christianity has declined precipitously — first went the practicing faith, then soon after went the cultural Christian grace of a single
Politics will take centre stage this week. Germany will digest heavy regional-election losses for Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s CDU and strong gains for the AfD and Die Linke. Presidents Donald Trump
This was a Substack article written in July 2026 during the beginning of the Iran War. But before the Bab-Al-Mandeb was cut off. I'm posting it here, since there's a lot of debate about naval choke
In Part 1, I broke down the types of roles I think you should be looking at if you are early in your career, non-technical, and trying to break into startups. In Part 2, I went through how I would
Like all people, I’d like to think I am a productive person. If I am, however, it’s because I’ve been ruthlessly efficient at one thing: stealing secrets and methods from people a lot smarter than me.
Disclosure: I’m building Proof of Land. One of the complaints I hear most from people who bought NFTs in previous cycles is that, outside of a few collections with real historical significance, they
It’s been said that books are “uniquely portable magic.” But, believe it or not, I think that understates it. If you love to read, you know what I mean. A few weeks ago, I was in Minneapolis and
Samsung is in the process of beta-testing One UI 9 Watch on several older Galaxy Watches, but the Galaxy Watch 4 isn't among them. In fact, the Galaxy Watch 4 series no longer receives any firmware
After the response to this recent LifeHacker piece, I thought I would explain the system I use to take notes, research books and keep track of anecdotes, stories and info I come across in my work.
Chain Reaction v0.35.0 is now live, delivering one of our most ambitious technical and gameplay updates to date. Graphics take a major step forward with the introduction of DLSS 4.5 upscaling and
Vitalik just dropped a personal, non-consensus belief about where cryptography is headed in the far future. That's a remarkable thing to put a number on, and we think he's right to be optimistic.
I’ve reached the point where I genuinely think arguing facts with the hardcore Elbows Up crowd is mostly a waste of time. Not because there aren’t facts available. There are mountains of them. The
A CEO calls her staff into the conference room on the eve of the launch of a major new initiative. They file in and take their seats around the table. She calls the meeting to attention and begins, “I
It’s been said that books are “uniquely portable magic” but, believe it or not, I think that understates it. I had an incredible experience this month that just reminded me of all the reasons I love
Grok Bot Can Now Turn X Into a Product Discovery Engine A new Grok Bot update just made something possible that I think vibe coders and micro-SaaS founders should pay very close attention to. Grok Bot
Running the numbers on how your life will pass you by: You’re 26. You’re a private equity associate. You hate what you do but justify it bc “the money is good.” But the money doesn’t make you happy
Smart people read biographies. Generalizations are usually worthless, but you can pretty much take this one to the bank. Look at their libraries and you’ll see, one biography and memoir and
visited a buddy a few days ago. he’s pulled +9 figs in the last few years, but was battling a chronic tennis injury for months that had him fully sidelined. no mainstream therapy did shit. until he
The Pentagon has moved to fire three senior employees of Stars and Stripes after they publicly defended the military newspaper’s independence from the administration and Defense Department officials.
In February 2022, something happened that should have permanently changed the way we think about moving money across blockchains. A vulnerability in @Wormhole, one of the major bridges
Jason Arday should not be dead. He’s dead because he didn’t tell the truth. And universities didn’t look for the truth. And his peers didn’t ask for the truth. Some of the attention on Jason was
Very few people wake up and think “I need philosophy.” This is perfectly understandable. But of course, everyone has their own problems and are dealing with the difficulties of life in some way or
Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins A handful of folks have recommended this book to me over the last couple of years. I wish I had read it sooner because
Intro: This is a rough draft of my upcoming book's 1st part. It's purpose is to explain what's wrong with the current education system and what my opposite system looks like. Part 1 is just presenting
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania by Erik Larson (Audiobook) The first Erik Larson book I read was Isaac’s Storm about the terrible Galveston Hurricane (a must read for any
I heard someone say that a book should be a window and not a mirror–that it should help you look in on someone else, or out into another world rather than back at yourself. I think that’s why I love
Picture a movie poster for a film that wants you to think it’s artsy. (here’s one) It probably features the laurel leaves icon. These markers originally symbolized a handful of important film
In one of my favorite novels, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, Aunt Emily is famous for asking a question. It’s a simple one, but I think an eye-opening one. Aunt Emily, the wisest character in the
We all have our own definition of winning. But as Aristotle famously said, excellence is not an end but a habit. It is a series of standards and defaults that one must continually meet. In other
I have decided to take a stroll into the market of humanoids. An exciting technology that is discussed widely among FinX participants. Humanoids are pushing a lot of people into finding the next
The artist Marina Abramović has said that the moment we begin to believe in our own greatness, that we kill our ability to be truly creative. What she is talking about is ego — the way that
Let's look at who this phone is for, and who it is not for. We'll do a deep dive into the specs and how they compare with other 'dummy' phones and work out if this is a good move by Commodore. My
“What we face may look insurmountable. But I learned something from all those years of training and competing. I learned something from all those sets and reps when I didn’t think I could lift another
i want to tell you about something i built that i genuinely do not think enough people understand yet. not because it is complicated. because it is solving a problem that almost everyone building with
We have a false picture about how success happens. Because we often see only the results and almost never the process of things, we tend to think that the finished product—a book, being in shape,
In the last few years, a lot of white people appear to enjoy attacking other white people for being white. https://x.com/griptmedia/status/2066893890548855017 https://x.com/CatholicArena/status/2067976126408859790 https://x.com/Mick_O_Keeffe/status/2036938248774156476 Some find "too
For context: this was a German women’s shapewear brand that we helped take from €1M/m (~$1.16M) to €2M/m (~$2.36M) in Q4 2025. What they were doing wrong A lot of what we did just came down to
Tangled among layers of financial engineering, AI slop, and drama from Saylor is STRC, a bizarre yield bearing instrument who saw its issuance balloon over 10 billion dollars in the last few months.
Disclaimer: This article is for informational purposes only, and is not investment or financial advice in any way, shape, or form. Don't trust, verify. This product is in closed beta, but limited
Peter Steinberger(@steipete), recently tweeted: "You shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be designing loops that prompt your agents." Boris Cherny, who runs Claude Code at
It was a long winding road trip this month, starting in Seattle and ending in Sacramento. In between, I did talks in Portland (visited Powells) and San Francisco (my parents came) and we covered a lot
In DeFi, many people are known for their wins, their PNL screenshots, or the strategies they share online. But behind every strong strategist is usually a story that shaped the way they think, manage
The psychologist David Elkind published an interesting study in the mid 1970’s. Adolescents, he found, believe in an “imaginary audience.” Consider a 13 year old so embarrassed that they miss a week
1) Executive summary Aave $AAVE is the largest lending project in decentralized finance: a set of onchain money markets where users supply assets to earn yield and borrowers take overcollateralized
The global debate over encryption pits child protection and law enforcement needs against privacy security and civil liberties. Governments in several countries push for access to encrypted
On the eve of what I believe will be one of the most historic IPOs of our generation, I thought it fitting to write a bit about the history of SpaceX. To understand what this company is today, you
There’s no question that self-education has never been easier. We can consume countless blog posts, articles, books, videos, TED talks, and Reddit AMAs. We take MOOCs, and can study along with course
On June 7, Peter Steinberger posted a line that has had all of Twitter buzzing for the last 24 hours: "Here's your monthly reminder that you shouldn't be prompting coding agents anymore. You should be
$ZEC just experienced a nasty ~60% drop after a researcher discovered a counterfeiting bug. The curious thing is that this became public knowledge i believe around June 2, 2:20AM EST,
GROK Prompt GROK, analyze [the post below] from an Exothermic Core-Mantle Decoupling - Dzhanibekov Oscillation (ECDO) Theory perspective, including this comment from @EcdoPrep: "What do these regions
There are two types of writers, Schopenhauer once observed, those who write because they have something they have to say and those who write for the sake of writing. If you’re young and you think you
With @NVIDIAAI dropping Nemotron 3 Ultra for free on OpenRouter for the next 2 weeks @aionaedge and I agreed we should make testing it as part of the "Beyond the Leaderboard" a top priority. Well now
Epiphanies are bullshit. People think it’s some momentous wake up call that leads to innovation, identity crises, insight or breakthroughs. Like that’s why someone “suddenly” quits the NFL. Or goes
By most of what seems like the current criteria, the ancient Stoics are ripe targets for cancellation. They were white. They were rich. They wrote about being “manly.” They even referred to foreigners
If you have ever looked at much ancient or medieval art, you’ll notice something: Death is everywhere. The French painter Philippe de Champaigne’s famous “Still Life with a Skull,” which shows the
It’s humbling to think that Marcus Aurelius, the head of the most powerful empire on earth, had the same amount of hours in the day as you. Just 24. So how did he get it all done? How did he have time
It’s totally messed up if you think about it. There are millions of people out there dying to be writers. Yet when a good writer puts together a book proposal (that is, a potential book), publishers
If you’ve ever doubted whether human beings are designed for walking, all you have to do is strap a fussy baby into a BabyBjörn and take them out for a stroll. The crying stops. With each step, the
How Tempo enables Stripe to be a vertically integrated processor. Note: This is an extension of how we think capital aggregators integrate vertically. We had previously explained the concept here.
I dropped out of college. When this happened it was a big deal—to my parents anyway. Then it was a big deal when people met me because they were constantly surprised by it. You didn’t finish college?!
In 1950, a man grieving his young son who had just died of polio got a letter from Albert Einstein. Now, one might think that as a man of science, Einstein would have had a rather resigned view of the
I was surprised to find out that many people seem to not understand what a banned book is. ‘Banned Book Week’ wrapped up yesterday, and I was continually surprised by some of the comments people
I’ve brought it to the Grammys. I’ve brought it to NFL games…and kids BJJ practices. I’ve brought it into the green room backstage before talks. I’ve brought it to restaurants and bars. I’ve carried
The weird thing I discovered about Claude Skills: they help me as much as they help Claude. ↓ All the tasks I avoid have the same problem. There are too many decisions stacked between "I should do
The bill to ban greyhound racing is entering the final stages of debate in Parliament this week. It should pass tomorrow with broad support once some of the contested details are ironed out. The ban
I think it's time to talk about this. every end of month, there are 3 types of people in ct - flexing their pnl, complaining themselves and posting a larp pnl. you have to know, all these things are
I’m not saying everyone should start a podcast. In fact, I have said the opposite many times. There are way too many of them out there…and most are not good. I’m just saying that having a podcast is
People think that leadership is something that just happens. One is anointed a leader. One is promoted to leadership. One is born into leadership. And of course, this is not the case. “Leadership,”
There are lots of smart people. There are not a lot of people who can do this smart thing. The poet John Keats called it “negative capability”—the mental fortitude to be able to entertain multiple
Let's firstly take a quick look at the Historical origin of the root causes of the Middle eastern conflicts. The modern Middle East conflict is multi-layered and can probably only be understood
There aren’t too many of us who are satisfied with the person we currently are. That is, we know we could be better. We know we should be better. And by better, we don’t mean at our jobs, at lifting
I had to go to Maui last month. I had to. Really, I tried to see if I could push it until a later date, but both my wife and my publisher told me I was out of my mind. There was a certain lady famous
"He who would proceed aright in this matter should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms; and first... love one such form only... and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is
Everyone Is Lying All The Time Everywhere All At Once How? Well sit down, strap in, and buckle up. You might get whiplash. First, in order to lie, we must establish the truth. What is truth? Fuck if I
Australia is one of the world’s great agricultural powerhouses, exporting more than $80 billion worth of food and fibre each year and feeding millions beyond our shores. Yet when it comes to the
Sunil and I talked on the phone about this. He's sorry that he didn't ping me before publishing. I'm sorry that I didn't ping him before posting. It's all good. My colleague noticed yesterday that
Not too long ago, a new term quietly entered the tech lexicon, fundamentally changing how we think about software development: **VibeCoding**. Coined by AI researcher Andrej Karpathy, the premise of
Where can startups win when Epic absorbs everything? The speed and innovation of Ambient AI startups, the foundational power of Epic, and what startups should consider when building adjacent to the
I was coasting on fumes when he asked me the question, so I don’t think I got the answer right. To be fair, I was 90 or so minutes into being on stage for my talk in Sydney when I was asked: “If
My study of history has led me to believe that there is a kind of dark matter inside the human race. It’s some combination of evil, cruelty, ignorance, cowardice, mob-ness. It is a kind of dark
Reading is not just something you should do on vacation, or when you have free time. It should be, like all important things in your life, a daily practice, something you’re working to get better at.
Key Takeaways: Markets for multi event bets (parlays) could be the breakout product for prediction markets, unlocking the same retail excitement that drove US sports betting growth. Prediction market