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🚨 Do you understand what this man just pulled off.. > a guy from North Carolina used AI to generate hundreds of thousands of songs.. uploaded them to Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon.. then botted billions of streams on his own tracks and walked away with $8 million > 660,000 fake streams per day.. spread across thousands of AI songs so nobody noticed.. $1.2 million a year.. for music no human ever actually listened to real artists are out here grinding for 0.003 cents per stream.. promoting on TikTok.. begging for playlist placements.. and this guy just had AI make the music AND the audience first-ever criminal streaming fraud case.. he's paying back $8 million.. but the playbook is out there now.. and AI just got better since he started the music industry spent 10 years fighting piracy.. now they have to fight songs that don't exist being listened to by people who don't exist.

Dips are a discount. How long will the market let Strategy and other Bitcoin treasury companies bring down their average cost? I would guess not that long. Treasury companies are price insensitive buyers. There’s no need to let them buy at a discount.

AI has killed Bitcoin forever. It became Bitcoin mining’s biggest competitor. Not another crypto. AI. Because both industries compete for the same thing: electricity. And right now, AI is willing to pay much more for it. Bitcoin mining revenue per MW: $57 – $129 AI data center revenue per MW: $200 – $500 Same electricity. But up to 8x more profitable. That’s why miners are starting to pivot. Core Scientific signed a massive AI hosting deal. Hut 8 signed a $7B AI infrastructure agreement. Cipher Mining cut its hashrate 51% to focus on AI compute. So a new question is emerging: If AI becomes the highest bidder for electricity, what happens to Bitcoin? In my new video, I break down: • Why miners are switching • What it means for hash rate • And the two scenarios that could play out for Bitcoin [link in comments]

🔴 Meta plans new round of layoffs across the company - sources. $META

Meta spent $26.3 million lobbying for "age verification" bills in 45 states. But the bills don't regulate social media. They regulate your operating system. Someone traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and lobbying records. Here's what they found: 1. Meta's lobbyist wrote Louisiana's age verification law. The sponsor confirmed it. It forces OS-level surveillance. Meta's platforms? Zero new requirements. 2. Meta covertly funded an astroturf "child safety" group to push these bills nationally. It has no EIN, no incorporation records. It doesn't legally exist. 3. $70M+ into state super PACs, deliberately fragmented across databases to dodge centralized tracking. 4. On every social media bill, Meta fights. On the one bill regulating operating systems, Meta just "monitors." 5. The EU solved this with zero-knowledge proofs. No biometrics. US bills mandate vendors that send your face to third-party clouds. Meta profits from harvesting data. They wrote laws forcing every device to broadcast your identity through a system-level API. They built the surveillance. They wrote the mandate. They exempted themselves. Every claim sourced from IRS filings, Senate disclosures, and state lobbying records.

Morrissey has canceled his concert in Valencia, Spain scheduled for Thursday night due to a poor night's sleep caused by a noisy hotel he was staying at. A statement announcing the show's cancelation said that "the experience has left Morrissey in a catatonic state." Morrissey himself added that "it will take me one year to recover. And that is an understatement."

🧵 1/ The market is still underestimating what’s happening with Bitcoin treasury companies. When Michael Saylor talks about a “delay between when we buy Bitcoin and when it goes to the moon,” he’s not talking about timing the market. He’s talking about capital pipelines. And they’re just getting started.

Coinbase is quietly lobbying to kill Bitcoin's de minimis tax exemption. The company reportedly told legislators that "no one is using Bitcoin as money" and that a Bitcoin de minimis exemption would be "DOA." Meanwhile, they're pushing for the exemption to apply only to stablecoins, specifically regulated, dollar-pegged stablecoins like USDC. Coinbase made $1.35 billion in stablecoin revenue in 2025, up 48% year over year, almost entirely from interest earned on U.S. Treasuries held in USDC reserves. Bloomberg estimates that number could surge 7x under the GENIUS Act. Every person who uses USDC for payments instead of Bitcoin is a person whose dollars are sitting in Coinbase's reserve pool generating risk-free yield for Coinbase. A de minimis exemption for Bitcoin would let people spend it freely for everyday purchases without triggering a taxable event. That makes Bitcoin a direct competitor to USDC as a payment method. Coinbase doesn't want that competition. They want you locked into their centralized stablecoin ecosystem where they clip yield on every dollar you park there. The irony is that a de minimis exemption doesn't even make sense for stablecoins. They're pegged to the dollar. They don't fluctuate in value. There's no capital gain to exempt. The exemption matters for Bitcoin precisely because it does fluctuate, and without it, every coffee purchase becomes a taxable event. Senator Lummis proposed a $300 de minimis exemption that would cover Bitcoin. The House framework only covers stablecoins under $200. The Bitcoin Policy Institute has already warned that Bitcoin is being deliberately excluded from these talks. A de minimis exemption that covers stablecoins but not Bitcoin isn't a tax framework. It's a subsidy for Coinbase's treasury management business disguised as consumer protection.