Geronimo ElApache

Bitcoin continued to build up last week, making a new recovery high of $78,344. The rally off the $60,033 low could still be described as a bear flag (not unlike the bear market rally last fall), but my sense is that Bitcoin continues to build a large base here in preparation for the next major up wave.

@TechLayoffLover wake the fuck up- sure, and then what?

BREAKING Microsoft is quietly pushing “voluntary” retirement packages to as many as 8,750 US employees right now — that’s 7 percent of their entire American workforce. Age plus years of service hits 70 and you get the soft knife. At the exact same time they’re flooding the system with H-1B visas like it’s an all-you-can-hire buffet. Over 83,000 labor condition applications since 2015 alone. The script is always the same: “No qualified American is available for these roles.” Yet the Americans they’re gently escorting out the door were doing those exact jobs yesterday. Now Microsoft execs are getting death threats and have gone full fortress mode. Redmond campus looks like a goddamn war zone. Extra armed security. Executive parking locked down. Leadership suddenly “working remotely from secure locations.” Sources say Satya Nadella’s inner circle has private security details that rival heads of state. One VP hasn’t left his Bellevue compound in weeks. Microsoft spent more on executive protection this quarter than they’ll pay out in these “voluntary” packages. The same company that can automate entire orgs can’t keep its own leaders from hiding in panic rooms while former employees circle the buildings. One 19-year Microsoft veteran told me he got the package last week after running Azure infrastructure teams. Now he sees the exact same headcount being backfilled with fresh H-1B hires at half the loaded cost. They’ll tell you no American can do what you do… right until the day they hand your domain to a visa worker who smiles and nods for less money. If you’re at Microsoft and your age + tenure is creeping toward that magic 70 number… wake the fuck up. That “voluntary” email isn’t a golden parachute. It’s the signal they’re clearing the deck for the next H-1B wave while executives hide behind armed guards from the people they just fucked over.

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BREAKING: The DOJ has arrested a special forces soldier who made $400,000 betting on the removal of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, according to ABC. Federal investigators say the soldier bet more than $33,000 just hours before Trump announced Maduro's capture. The special forces soldier was reportedly directly involved with the capture. "The largest position -- a $32,537 bet that Maduro would be out of office by Jan. 31 -- resulted in a 1,242% profit of $404,222," ABC News reported. "Following his successful trading relating to Maduro- and Venezuela-related contracts, [Gannon Ken] VAN DYKE allegedly sent most of his proceeds to a foreign cryptocurrency vault before depositing them into a newly created online brokerage account. The same day of the operation, VAN DYKE withdrew the majority of his allegedly unlawful proceeds from his Polymarket account..." the DOJ announced. "VAN DYKE, 38, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, is charged with three counts of violating the Commodity Exchange Act, each of which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison; one count of wire fraud, which carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison; and one count of an unlawful monetary transaction, which carries a maximum sentence of 10 years in prison."

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many such cases…

still so early...Bitcoin, gold and competitive currencies youtu.be/wfzHC7Pf2fk?si… via @YouTube

🇺🇸 Michael Saylor said: “If I get 7.5% of the network, it’s $10,000,000 a coin.” “We’d top out at 7.5% and then slow down.”

How was @saylor able to buy $2.5B of Bitcoin this week? @adam3us explains $STRC to @TheBlockCo 👇 "It's a proposition bet. I need $ to buy BTC. Lend it to me at 10%. Then buy BTC b/c it's gone up 60% in 10 years. Even if it decays, it's a good arbitrage." Full 📺 in the 🧵

Roy Lee got kicked out of Columbia University for posting a video of himself cheating an Amazon interview using his software and raised $5,000,000 in 24 hours “I record myself using interview coder to cheat on literally the entire process I record it I post it online and it starts going viral” “an Amazon executive sees the video they’re pissed and they send Columbia a letter saying your kid just cheated on our entire interview process posted online now he’s selling this software you need to expel him or we’re never gonna hire from Columbia anymore” “by the time I do that I’m posting everything on Twitter and there’s so many VCs in the valley that I raised like $5 million in like 24 hours”

Remember when they screamed bitcoin mining would boil the oceans? Data Center load in ERCOT is projected to be 25 times greater by 2032 and not a peep.

Bitcoin price recently crossed Strategy’s average acquisition cost of $75,527. There’s little noise or doomsday commentary like there was on the way down. That's because the metric ultimately doesn't matter. What matters is whether each acquisition was accretive to bitcoin per share. Almost all were.

Strategy has acquired 34,164 BTC for ~$2.54 billion at ~$74,395 per bitcoin and has achieved BTC Yield of 9.5% YTD 2026. As of 4/19/2026, we hodl 815,061 $BTC acquired for ~$61.56 billion at ~$75,527 per bitcoin. $MSTR $STRC strategy.com/press/strategy…

JUST IN: MORGAN STANLEY'S BITCOIN WALLET IS PUBLIC Morgan Stanley's $MSBT (now holding 1,348+ $BTC) now has a PUBLIC Bitcoin wallet that you track in real-time. - Arkham

Impossible to blockade Bitcoin.

In 2017, Morgan Stanley said 'Bitcoin's true value could be zero.' This week, Morgan Stanley celebrated the launch of its Bitcoin ETF — its most successful ETF launch ever.

Hmm

@Strategy Why not daily? Streaming money…

Strategy is proposing to pay semi-monthly dividends on $STRC, instead of monthly. No change to the annual dividend obligations or dividend rate. These proposed changes are intended to stabilize price, dampen cyclicality, drive liquidity, and grow demand.

Strategy is proposing to pay semi-monthly dividends on $STRC, instead of monthly. No change to the annual dividend obligations or dividend rate. These proposed changes are intended to stabilize price, dampen cyclicality, drive liquidity, and grow demand.