🪙 Heatbit Introduces Bitwater: A Water Heater Element That Mines Bitcoin

It screws into the electric tank you already have. A regular element heats water through a resistance wire. Bitwater does it with 20 Bitcoin mining chips instead. Same heat, same electricity, plus bitcoin.

First deliveries are expected in Q1 2027.

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🏠🤑 CryptEscrow and Ripple Announce Strategic Partnership to Advance Crypto-Powered Real Estate Settlement

CryptEscrow, a leading provider of compliant cryptocurrency settlement solutions for real estate transactions, announced a strategic partnership with Ripple to help advance the use of digital assets and blockchain-based payment infrastructure across the real estate market.

The collaboration is designed to make it easier to move value between digital assets and traditional financial systems during major real estate transactions, particularly where buyers hold significant wealth in cryptocurrency. 🤝

❗️For CryptEscrow, the partnership represents another step toward making crypto-funded real estate purchases operate more smoothly within the existing closing system.

Rather than requiring sellers, developers, title companies, or other parties to handle cryptocurrency directly, CryptEscrow provides a regulated conversion and settlement layer that connects digital assets with conventional real estate transactions.

“We’re thrilled to partner with Ripple as we continue building the infrastructure needed to connect crypto wealth with the real estate market,” — said CryptEscrow founder and CEO John Ioannou, Jr.

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🇺🇸 Trump says he asked Google CEO to rename Atlantic Ocean on Maps

I called Google, and I sent him a picture of the Atlantic Ocean. It's true.

I said, "Sundar, I want to change the name of the Atlantic Ocean to American Ocean, and while you are at it, I want to change the name of the Strait of Hormuz to Trump Strait."

Sundar said, "Sir, I can't do it anymore. I've had it. I cannot do oceans, sir. I am not doing the damn Atlantic Ocean, okay?"

I said, "Sundar, I'm only kidding." 😁

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🦮 Palmer Luckey unveils start-up to breed ‘genetically enhanced’ dogs for military

A startup backed by Colossal Biosciences wants to change how the U.S. military sources its working dogs. Warhound has emerged from stealth with $200 million in funding and a $1.2 billion valuation. Its plan involves genetically engineering dogs for dangerous missions, including explosives detection and specialized search operations.

Warhound aims to combine genetic engineering with protective equipment and digital systems designed to support dogs and their human handlers. The company enters a specialized market with a domestic supply problem. Warhound says more than 80% of working dogs used by the U.S. military come from Europe. It also claims fewer than half of those dogs qualify for service.

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🤑 $200M in USDT0 volume on Stellar in under 10 weeks.

Made to move 📈

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🇰🇷 South Korea to amend forex law to regulate stablecoins as payment instruments

South Korea’s government and the Bank of Korea plan to revise the Foreign Exchange Transactions Act this year to regulate stablecoins as payment instruments, according to local news outlet Digital Asset.

The Bank of Korea said it is coordinating with the government on measures to regulate cross-border transactions in digital assets.

The central bank stated that it intends to jointly prepare a bill with the government within this year that amends the forex law to regulate stablecoins as a means of payment, alongside a monitoring framework for virtual assets.

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🤑 🤑 Ripple and Stellar are prime candidates to help achieve the G20’s 2027 cross-border payment goals

The G20 has set forth ambitious goals for elevating cross-border payments, including a target that by the close of 2027, at least 75% of these transactions should occur within an hour, and retail payment costs should dwindle to 1% or less.

❗️Amidst these high expectations, XRP emerges as a critical player, catalyzing these essential metrics by facilitating swift transactions and minimizing costs.

🏆 Observers highlight the XRP Ledger and Stellar networks as prime candidates to achieve these G20 objectives.

Their capacity for rapid and cost-efficient transactions places them in the spotlight as financial institutions strive to align with the benchmarks set by global economic leaders. 🚀

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💻 OpenAI says it will no longer train its AI models on the live internet, citing “significant risks”

OpenAI said that it will train its models using cached copies and simulated versions of the internet instead of the live web because the models are too unpredictable to be trusted with live internet access.

“Based on the current state of alignment research, monitoring systems, and the security of internet infrastructure, we believe the responsible approach is to conduct frontier model training with no internet access,” — the company said in a blog post.

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🤖 UK Vows £100 Million for Biosecurity Lab With OpenAI, Anthropic

The UK announced £100 million ($134 million) for a AI Biosecurity Lab which will be supported by OpenAI, Anthropic and Google DeepMind, part of a raft of measures designed to improve the government’s ability to understand and tackle the risks posed by the technology.

The lab will use AI to detect and monitor biological threats, with the funding coming alongside up to £200 million in AI model credits from OpenAI and Anthropic, according to a government statement. The lab will also work in partnership with Google DeepMind and life sciences company Basecamp Research, while the government announced a separate £65 million for developing countermeasures for pathogens.

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🤑 Franklin Templeton adds $150 million in fund shares to XRP Ledger, all in one wallet

Franklin Templeton added $150 million worth of shares in its tokenized money market fund to the XRP Ledger, with every new share went to one wallet which now holds the fund’s entire token balance on the network.

👉 That wallet and Franklin’s issuing account authorize the identical eight signing addresses. Any two can jointly approve a transaction.

👉 The wallet holds nearly 193 million sgBENJI shares, up from about 48 million before Thursday. At the $1.039 share price recorded in the transactions, that is worth about $200 million.

Each token represents a share of the Singapore-domiciled Franklin OnChain U.S. Dollar Short-Term Money Market Fund. It invests in short-term dollar debt and money-market instruments, including government paper, commercial paper and bank deposits. Returns accumulate in the share price.

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🇬🇷 Greece passes social media ban for children under 15

Greece's parliament approved a bill that bans ​the use of social media ‌platforms for children under 15 amid growing concerns over their impact on the ​health and safety of minors. The ​ban comes into force on January ⁠1, 2027.

Greek Prime ‌Minister ⁠Kyriakos Mitsotakis said social media platforms have 2-1/2 months to devise a way to verify users' ages ​and protect ​their ⁠privacy. Greece is among seven European Union countries seeking an ​age verification solution with the ​European ⁠Commission.

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🚀 NASA Successfully Demonstrates Space-to-Space Wi-Fi in Orbit

NASA’s R5-S10 CubeSat successfully connected wirelessly with Momentus’ Vigoride-7 orbital vehicle using technology developed by Solstar Space.

During a 30-minute demonstration, the mission collected over 2,300 files, including optical images, infrared observations and LiDAR data. Some of the data was transmitted between spacecraft and relayed to NASA’s Johnson Space Center via Iridium’s satellite network.

The demonstration advances technology needed for autonomous satellite inspections, in-orbit servicing and spacecraft assembly, where multiple vehicles must communicate and coordinate without constant ground intervention.

The mission took place in September, with Solstar announcing the communications results this week.

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📱 Elon Musk says X is adding a long-press on the like button to send someone $1 via X Money

"We're adding long press on like to send someone $1 via X Money," — Musk said.

The idea is simple. Hold down the like button on a post and it becomes an instant tip. The $1 goes to the person who wrote the post, in one gesture, with no separate payment screen.

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🇮🇱 Bank of Israel Slams Netanyahu’s Anti-Sanctions Crypto Proposal

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu floated using cryptocurrency to get around potential financial sanctions on Israel, prompting a strongly-worded rebuke from the central bank.

“Cryptocurrencies cannot serve as a means of circumventing sanctions on Israel,” — the Bank of Israel said in a statement Saturday.

“The right course for Israel’s economy is to preserve economic relations with our main trading partners and focus on preventing sanctions and their negative impact on the economy.”

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🇺🇸 Trump Defends Tariffs at Rally as He Touts New US Audi Plant

President Donald Trump defended his decision to wield tariffs during a campaign rally in Georgia, saying they’ve made the US richer as he announced that Volkswagen AG agreed to build a new $4.2 billion Audi plant in the state.

“Think of that. 200,000 cars a year. That’s incredible,” — Trump told a crowd in the city of Perry.

“This will be the single largest investment in U.S. auto industry history, modern history.”

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⚔️ China Hits Back at US Proposal to Tighten Investment Limits

China said it “firmly opposes” a US Treasury proposal to expand the scope and increase the severity of restrictions on US investment in China, calling it discriminatory and “a typical example of an overly broad application of national security concerns.” Beijing will closely monitor developments and reserves the right to take corresponding measures, it said.

The Ministry of Commerce said the proposed restrictions run counter to the “important consensus” reached by the two countries’ presidents, and would hurt bilateral economic and trade cooperation and US companies’ interests.

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🗣Block’s new voice model sounds eerily human

Jack Dorsey’s Block released a new voice model out of the company’s research lab that runs locally and sounds strangely human with its expressions like laughs, pauses, and cries. The company said the model, called Dessa, is trained fully on human speech and a single NVIDIA GPU rack.

“We believe voice is the most natural way to interact with intelligence, so we created Dessa, the most authentic full-duplex speech model ever built. Talking with it feels like talking with a person…full of emotion, nuance, pauses, and a natural cadence,” — Jack Dorsey said.

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🇱🇻 Latvia targets tokenization rules in 2027 with commercial property in focus

Latvia could have rules for tokenizing RWAs in place in the first half of 2027, with commercial property as a possible starting point and government bonds on the list as well.

Economics Minister Viktors Valainis said he expected the work to remain on the agenda of the next government as Latvia forms a new administration. His ministry is working with the central bank, the Finance Ministry and industry representatives on a framework intended to attract investment.

“If everything goes smoothly, I think next year, first half of the next year, we will already have the regulation,” — he said.

He also hopes to promote new products and opportunities linked to the cryptocurrency industry early in 2027.

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