Porter Stansberry returns to lay out the two structural facts that make 2029 different from every prior doomsday call: the Social Security trust fund math and the central bank exodus from Treasuries. Gold, Bitcoin, and patient capital are the answer.
Francis Pouliot returns after seven years to lay out why DAC8 is the single biggest threat to Bitcoin users today — and how France's government data leaks are already getting people kidnapped.
Alex Waltz went line by line through Hal Finney's debug log and found something no one had bothered to look for. Three nodes, a Tor prefix, an operator symbol, and eight network halts in the first 170 blocks. Bitcoin's first 96 hours were a mess — and that's exactly the point.
The US Treasury auctioned $22 billion in 30-year bonds on July 9 at a yield of 5.058%, the highest at a 30-year auction since 2007. Bitcoin held up while gold slid. The debt math is no longer theoretical.
Trump announced he won't sign the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act, but the bill, including a ban on Federal Reserve CBDC issuance through December 31, 2030, becomes law automatically at midnight unless he vetoes it. He hasn't.
Strategy sold 3,588 BTC for $216 million to support preferred distributions, yet bitcoin trades above its average sale price. Jensen Huang makes the case for companies owning their agent systems.
The Federal Reserve named a16z co-founder Marc Andreessen to co-lead its new Productivity and Jobs task force on July 9, 2026, alongside a Stanford economist on leave at Anthropic and a Microsoft executive. Warsh and Andreessen are 30-year personal friends. The task force mandate: assess AI's
Binance co-CEO Richard Teng disclosed at Reuters NEXT Asia on July 9 that 70% of EU user withdrawals following the exchange's MiCA-driven service suspension went to self-hosted wallets, not to competing licensed platforms.
France signed more than 16 strategic agreements with Syria on July 7, brought TotalEnergies to Damascus, and is explicitly building a Hormuz bypass. Iraq is already running 500-700 tanker trucks per day through the corridor. This is not emergency triage.
MARA Holdings signed a definitive agreement to acquire a 1,200-acre powered land site in Matagorda County, Texas, targeting up to 2 GW of grid capacity by April 2028 at a milestone-contingent price of up to $600 million.
Sen. Ron Wyden sent a formal letter to Senate leaders on July 8 demanding Section 604 of the CLARITY Act remain intact. The provision is the only statutory protection standing between non-custodial Bitcoin developers and federal money-transmitter prosecution.
Secretary Rubio, Japan's Motegi, and South Korea's Cho signed a trilateral SMR Memorandum of Cooperation on July 8 at the NATO Ankara Summit, committing $10M+ in US funding and an industry deal to push the BWRX-300 into Europe and the Indo-Pacific.
In April 2022, the U.S. Treasury sanctioned a Russian data center called BitRiver. Overnight, the American customers who had bought miners through Compass Mining and parked them at that facility were locked out of their own machines, stranded in Siberia, with no way to get them back. The hardware
TeraWulf plans to raise $3.5 billion in leveraged loans and high-yield bonds to finance Anthropic's 401 MW Justified Data campus in Hawesville, Kentucky, locking up exactly the kind of brownfield, high-voltage site miners have historically targeted.
