🧘 Markets are bleeding and the headlines are doing their best to make it feel permanent. But nothing's permanent, cycles love drama.

Do not fixate on negativity, a lot of real progress keeps happening quietly.

🐌 Recently, crypto hiring slowed down. And that's not a bad thing. It only means smaller teams that make better decisions.

This phase usually builds the companies everyone talks about later.

🥷 This is just one of countless unethical ways money is made online

This video shows a poker bot farm

Multiple bots sit at the same table and share their cards in real time.

Because they know each other’s cards, they never bluff or trap each other.

They only bet aggressively when the human is statistically behind, and fold otherwise.

A single bot farm like this can make more than the house.

💸 Bitcoin mining is no longer alpha

After the halving, companies with no revenue outside of hashprice either moved sideways or fell 40–70%, while the winners were those selling AI compute, hosting, or capacity with stable, fixed demand.

Europe holds record US assets and it cuts both ways

EU investors now hold a record ~$10T in US assets, according to Treasury data.

🟡 ~$6T in US equities, about 58% of total EU holdings
🟡 ~$2T in US Treasuries, about 19%
🟡 ~$2T in US corporate and other bonds
🟡 ~$225B in US agency bonds

Expanding beyond the EU, European countries including the UK, Norway, and Switzerland account for roughly 40% of all foreign Treasury holdings.

This is why recent talk about Europe selling US bonds matters, but also why it’s complicated. When Treasuries sell off, European sovereign bonds are falling even more. Europe’s exposure to the US is massive, and unwinding it would push stress back into its own bond markets.

Europe’s financial exposure to the US has never been larger.

JUST IN: Ledger eyes a New York IPO at a valuation above $4B, per the Financial Times.

A crypto enthusiast spent $50,000 to buy 100 Solana Seeker phones and farm the $SKR airdrop via swap activity.

The result:

➡️ 75,000,000 SKR tokens received
➡️ Current value around $3.33M

👀 A farm that mines views instead of crypto.

In this video Military Police uncover YouTube 'view farm' in a residential area.

The house contained dozens of mobile phones and computers connected to the network, simulating access and interaction to illegally boost view counts and engagement for music content.

☕️ Bitcoin cannot pick a direction, gold has moved past $5,000 an ounce.

It’s Monday again, and the signal is clear: markets also need coffee before doing anything serious.

🍸 Some Monday motivation for you. OECD data shows around 40% of employees in developed countries work remotely at least part-time. In the US, it’s about one in four workers.

The good part is that skills matter far more than where you live. Make it a goal.

❓ The average duration of a BTC/Gold bear market is around 14 months

We are already

*checks notes*

14 months in.