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JUST IN: 🇮🇷 Iran to require ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz to pay tolls in Bitcoin, FT reports.

The bull case for Bitcoin over the next 30 days. The markets were starting to price in an escalation of the conflict in the Middle East and fears were ramping up of a prolonged war. The prediction markets went from betting on 2-3 rate cuts to 0 over the space of 3 weeks. There are even talks of a possible rate hike. Oil went to $109 and every other asset class sold off including Gold. When you need real resources and your wealth is in gold, you sell it in times of stress. But what if there is a cessation of hostilities? Oil prices crash significantly and fears of global inflation and shortages are alleviated. If we can go from expecting 3 rate cuts to a possible rate hike in 3 weeks, then the reverse is also possible. No war and expectations of rate cuts mean loosened monetary policy and increased liquidity so markets rally. This is good for Bitcoin. Each day over the next 30 days is a day closer to Jerome Powell's term as chair coming to an end. This is good for Bitcoin. A lot of military equipment has been used and will need to be replaced. Can you hear the money printer? This is good for Bitcoin. We also have incoming buy pressure over the next 30 days from public companies that put Bitcoin on the balance sheet. Strategy's STRC product will trade back to par as the ex-dividend date approaches. Adam Back's company BSTR is expected to purchase 20,000+ Bitcoin within the next 30 days. Metaplanet also receive the funds from their ~$255 million raise at the end of month. All of this is good for Bitcoin. I just wanted to present an alternative view as to what the next 30 days could look like amongst all the bear narratives. Of course this is all dependent on what happens the Middle East which is generally unpredictable. I am choosing to be optimistic. It pays to be bullish.

BREAKING: 🇮🇷 Iran is accepting bitcoin for transit toll payments — Financial Times

BITCOIN WARNING: I don’t like this…

🚨 NOW: Crypto trader James Wynn has been liquidated shorting Bitcoin on Hyperliquid, wiping his account from $100M down to just $900, per Arkham.

With Starship driving LEO costs toward $50/kg (and eventually <$10/kg) by late 2020s, plus AI slashing dev cycles for autonomous robotics and in-space processing, asteroid mining for precious metals (like PGMs) gets a massive boost. Demos are ramping now (AstroForge scouting M-types in 2025-26, robots testing 2026-27). Economic scale—profitable hauls rivaling Earth's output—looks feasible by 2035-2045, starting with water/propellant then metals for space infra. Your moon-to-asteroid vision aligns; SpaceX momentum (IPO or not) will accelerate it.

🚨BREAKING: 8 weeks of gratitude practice physically rebuilds the neural pathways between your memory and reward centers. Your brain physically rewires itself every time you feel grateful. Eight weeks of intentional gratitude practice creates measurable structural changes in the neural pathways connecting your hippocampus to your ventral tegmental area. The memory center starts talking to the reward center in a fundamentally different way. New synaptic connections form. Existing ones strengthen. The physical architecture of how you process positive experiences rebuilds itself. Most people approach gratitude like a mood they can choose to feel. A psychological vitamin they remember to take when life gets difficult. The neuroscience reveals something far more profound. Gratitude is a biological intervention that sculpts brain tissue. Researchers tracked participants practicing gratitude exercises for two months using brain scans. They watched new neural highways construct themselves in real time. The anterior cingulate cortex developed stronger connections to the medial prefrontal cortex. The brain learned to route positive emotional experiences through higher order thinking centers instead of storing them as fleeting feelings. Every positive experience you’ve ever had exists as a neural trace in your memory network. Most sit dormant, accessible only when something external triggers the specific sensory combination that originally encoded them. You smell coffee, suddenly remember a conversation from years ago. Random. Unreliable. Outside your control. Gratitude practice systematically rewires that retrieval system. After two months, participants could voluntarily access positive memories with increasing ease. Their brains had built stronger pathways between memory storage areas and emotional processing centers. They experienced deeper emotional resonance during memory retrieval. The quality of remembering itself had improved. The participants also started noticing positive details in their present environment they had previously filtered out. Their attention systems recalibrated. The same neural pathways pulling positive memories forward were scanning current experiences more thoroughly for elements worth encoding as positive memories. Their brains became biased toward collecting evidence that life contains meaningful moments. Most cognitive interventions try to change how you interpret negative experiences. Gratitude practice changes how thoroughly you notice positive ones. It teaches your visual and emotional processing systems to detect opportunities and pleasures that were always present but neurologically invisible. The timeline reveals something crucial about neural plasticity. Weeks one through three showed minimal structural changes. Participants felt slightly more positive, but brain scans looked identical to baseline. Weeks four through six showed the first measurable increases in gray matter density. Weeks seven and eight revealed entirely new neural network formation. Two months. Your nervous system can physically restructure itself with consistent practice. The method was almost embarrassingly simple. Participants wrote down three specific things they felt grateful for every evening, explaining why each mattered. No meditation apps. No guided visualizations. Just pen, paper, and the requirement to identify gratitude targets with enough detail that their brains had to actively search for positive elements. Specificity drives the neural development. General statements like “I’m grateful for my family” generate different brain activity than precise observations like “I’m grateful my daughter laughed at my terrible joke during dinner because it showed me she still finds me funny despite growing more independent.” The brain needs detailed targets to practice connecting memory specifics to emotional rewards. After eight weeks, participants developed a fundamentally different relationship with their attention and memory systems. Someone whose brain automatically scans for and emotionally amplifies aspects of experience that make existence feel worthwhile. The neural pathways remain permanent after practice ends. Gratitude carves lasting roads through consciousness.