282,800 radioactive ticks released by U.S. military. Plum Island bioweapons lab 13 miles from Lyme, CT. The government created this epidemic.

Blackstone BCRED hit record redemptions. Blue Owl froze withdrawals. PE stocks down 25-61%. The man who called 2008 says it's happening again.

Calle unveils NUMOpay, tap-to-pay Bitcoin via eCash over NFC.

Maple AI co-founder Mark Zuman explains why giving an AI agent full access to your computer is functionally identical to installing a virus.

Refineries in 6 countries hit. Hormuz closed. WTI $116. G7 scrambles. Bitcoin holds $67K. Today's Bitcoin Brief.

Hung jury wasn't enough. SDNY wants to retry Roman Storm on 40 years of charges for writing open-source privacy software.

IRGC drones hit 3 Amazon data centers. Iran names Google, Microsoft, Nvidia as next targets. CPI reads 2.4% while Treasury suppresses oil. Bitcoin keeps ticking.

Coinbase is quietly lobbying Congress to limit the de minimis tax exemption to stablecoins only, cutting bitcoin out of the picture. Three independent sources on Capitol Hill confirmed it. Here's why they're doing it and why it matters.

14 banks see the plumbing cracking. Treasuries down during war. Dubai RE -32%. Bitcoin $73K. The exit is open.

AI deepfakes, $96 missiles, CPI lies, and Bitcoin's surprising strength. Today's Bitcoin Brief.

Medi-Cal doubled to $222B. Nick Shirley found empty strip malls billing millions. After Minnesota, California is even worse.

Dubai crude at $152. WTI at $94. An Indian tanker paid in yuan for safe passage through Hormuz. The petrodollar is dying in a shipping lane.

Square Lightning for 4M merchants. Tether funding Ark. $1.17B Lightning volume. 4nm mining chips. The builders aren't watching the price chart.

Put/call ratio highest in 5 years. Transfer volume down 31%. Maximum fear precedes maximum opportunity.

Iran's parliament speaker declared Treasury bond holders legitimate military targets. Global yields are exploding. The 'risk-free' rate just got risky.

Apollo and Ares gate redemptions. $10B+ in withdrawal requests. The $2T private credit unwind has begun.

AI commoditizes intelligence. Private credit funds that bet on software are gating exits. Apollo and Ares cap redemptions. $13T in PE/PC marks its own homework.

TeamPCP turned Trivy into an attack vector, backdoored LiteLLM, and harvested credentials from tens of thousands of environments. We are stuck in a loop.