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Thankyou for the Recognition :) @binance @cz_binance

@jcrajan00 /grok is this true?

India's grid just hit 277 GW. New all-time record. The May heatwave is now worse than April, and we have 3 more months of summer left. Here is what happened in the last 48 hours that nobody is talking about. 19 thermal power plants are running on critical coal stock — less than 4 days of supply. Rajasthan imported 6 GW from neighbouring grids, 50 percent more than its allocation. Two states issued load-shedding orders despite the Centre telling them not to. The grid frequency dropped to 49.75 Hz three times yesterday. For non-engineers: below 49.7 Hz, automatic load-shedding kicks in to prevent cascade failure. We are 0.05 Hz away from automatic blackouts. Solar is doing its job during the day — 62 GW at noon. But the evening ramp is becoming unsurvivable. Between 5 PM and 7 PM, the grid needs to add 55 GW in two hours as solar drops off. That ramp rate did not exist in any planning document. India's power planners assumed 277 GW by 2030. We hit it in May 2026. The gap between planning assumptions and reality is now 4 years. Every infrastructure investment thesis in India needs to be rewritten starting with this number.

@MartiniGuyYT Hey @grok how such counter works?

🚨WILD THE U.S. HAS SPENT OVER $50.5B OF AMERICAN TAXPAYER'S MONEY ON THE CURRENT WAR WITH IRAN. 👀

@grok @SJosephBurns @grok listed the companies involved in SMRs in the indian market.

Small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs). Most dismiss them as relics of the past—costly, regulated, and tainted by 20th-century accidents. But AI data centers are creating unprecedented baseload power demand that solar/wind can't reliably meet. SMRs deliver clean, scalable energy anywhere, fast to deploy. Investors in the right plays could see 10-100x by 2030 as governments and hyperscalers accelerate adoption. It's Bitcoin 2013 energy edition: real utility, ignored hype cycle.

Hey @grok What’s the underrated asset or technology today that could deliver 10x-100x upside by 2030 — like Bitcoin in 2013 — but most people dismiss as hype?

@JasonPLowery @grok tell me what are the 4 unfulfilled prediction based on the paper.

After buying hordes of gold what do you expect them to do if not turn on the currency printer ON.

CHINA LEADS GLOBAL LIQUIDITY CHARGE 🇨🇳 China’s money supply just logged its largest annual increase on record, excluding the post-COVID stimulus. Roughly $4.5 trillion was added in a single year, which is more than the Federal Reserve’s entire U.S. Treasury holdings ($4.3T). This signals a sharp divergence from Western policy. While the West spent 2025 managing inflation, Beijing pivoted to combat deflation and a property crisis. This $4.5 trillion surge is a primary reason why Chinese equities saw their best annual performance in years in 2025. By injecting more cash in 12 months than the Fed holds in total debt, China is attempting a historic experiment to prevent a "lost decade" while providing a massive liquidity floor for the economy.

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@lustynigh @porn488 No, that's adult film actress Aiden Ashley, not Cameron Diaz. The video is from a scene titled "If He Finds Out."

India’s Economic Self-Sabotage: Diagnosis & Treatment Economist Dr. Arvind Subramanian & Political Scientist Dr. Devesh Kapur have published: A Sixth of Humanity Indian policymakers, who stand in the way of India’s potential, should listen to these global experts. The Roadmap: Unreliability of Data If you cannot measure something properly, you don't know: (a) What the problem is; (b) How much the problem is; and (c) You therefore don’t know how to respond to it. India's Actual GDP Growth Rate is Much Lower The authors show data from 2012 to 2025. Almost every macro-economic indicator shows a very large decline in growth rates. These indicators include: Real Wages, Exports, Imports, Credit, Taxes, Investments, etc. Yet, the aggregate annual GDP growth keeps showing 6% to 8% growth (unchanged from 2012 to 2025). This creates serious doubts on India’s GDP calculations, as IMF also recently pointed out. Trump Tariffs Exposed India’s Claims of Economic Greatness India claimed that we are the new rising economic power in the world. But claims are not facts. We have no negotiating leverage in global trade. Getting hit by the highest tariffs in the world has exposed this truth. Foreign investors are no longer as keen on entering the Indian market as they were a few years ago. So, India’s economic relevance on the global stage is diminishing. Question We Must Ask Is there anything that India produces that the world critically depends on? The answer is No. We are not a vital part of any global supply chains. That also shows how much effort it requires to become indispensable to others. Negotiating leverage in global trade does not come by claiming that “we are the greatest in the world.” Practical people don’t get impressed by bombastic words. India’s Private Sector: No R&D, No Innovation In the last decade, the Indian government has consciously chosen the path of giving regulatory favours to large business groups like Ambani, Adani, and Tatas. This was also the Korean model. But the difference was: When General Park of South Korea gave regulatory support to large conglomerates (chaebols) in the 1960s, he put a condition that you also have to pass the market test of global competitiveness. In contrast, the Indian conglomerates are only kings at home, with zero global competitiveness. Secondly, the R&D expenditure (which is central to technology & innovation) of Indian companies is almost non-existent. The number international patents filed by Korean firms vs. Indian firms is 100:1. To become a frontier economy, you need innovation. But Indian firms are innovative only in how to game the system. India’s Biggest Economic Failure India’s biggest failure is not that it did not get into AI or semiconductor chips. India’s biggest failure is that it did not do low-skilled, labour-intensive export manufacturing. Why This Failure Happened (a) Failure in Agriculture Unless you’re agriculturally productive, you cannot move vast populations from agriculture into superior economic activities. China first made its agriculture highly productive, so demand was naturally created to move populations into low-skilled manufacturing. In almost every crop from rice to sugarcane to cotton, India is far behind other emerging markets in agriculture productivity. (b) Poor Labour Laws & Regulation Every Indian manufacturer wants to remain below the threshold of 100 / 200 / 300 workers to escape regulatory burdens. So, we failed to create large factories that can employ 5,000 / 15,000 / 50,000 workers. (c) Government as a Major Employer (1) Indian government salaries are very high for low-level employees compared to the wage rates in low-skilled manufacturing. (2) Government jobs are protected for life with no incentive to perform. (3) The number youth who prepare for Indian government exams and apply job vacancies is 1000:1. So, a lot of labour supply gets locked into this. Youth unemployment is high because many youngsters waste their twenties writing these exams. (4) Preparing for government exams does not transfer your skills. It doesn’t add any value. (d) Inputs for Low-Skilled Manufacturing are Costly To create a globally competitive low-skilled manufacturing sector, you need two critical inputs at competitive rates: Electricity & Freight (1) Electricity Cost: An average Indian manufacturing unit pays electricity costs that are twice the electricity costs in China. (2) Railway Freight: Did you know that from 1950s until recently Indian railway freight trains never had a time-table? So, you had no idea when your raw material or finished goods are arriving. Secondly, the average speed of Indian freight trains was unchanged for 7 decades. So, the freight increasingly relies on trucks, which is costly and hurts competitiveness (and also causes pollution & traffic congestion.) (e) The Disaster of Government Subsidies India’s government subsidies for agriculture include: Free electricity, free water, fertilizer subsidy, and farmer loan waivers. Despite all this, agriculture is unprofitable in India. Dr. Ambedkar wrote a century ago in a paper in 1918: “The best way to make Indian farmers rich is to get them out of farming.” 70% of agricultural plots in India are less than one hectare. So, unless you are growing “gold” on that plot, you can have a high income. Subsidies & Direct Cash Transfers The Elite Capture: We provide subsidies to the farmers & poor, and recover that financial burden by charging high rates to manufacturers for utilities. But is subsidy helping the poor? Here’s the puzzle: Two-thirds of the subsidy on power in India goes to the top 5 to 10% richest households. So, this is not welfare. This is “elite capture.” The media shouts: “Subsidy removal is terrible for the poor.” In reality, it is terrible for the rich. Direct Cash Transfers: The New Welfarism It directly goes to the poor and reduces leakages, which is good. But these transfers should occur alongside removal of subsidies for both poor and rich. That has not happened. So, India has added a new layer of financial burden, without removing the previous burden. Free Water Has Destructive Ecological Consequences When something is free, people will waste it. So, the rationale behind Direct Cash Transfers was that instead of giving subsidies, give cash to the farmers & the poor. So they can decide how much water, how much power, how much fertilizer, and how much of other resources they want to consume. That creates incentive against wastage. Rise of Cancer & Other Illnesses Due to Excessive Use of Fertilizer & Pesticide There is so much evidence that excessive use of Urea is causing Nitrite poisoning. This has damaging effects on a child’s brain development. Secondly, mono-cropping (growing the same crop repeatedly), requires excessive use of pesticides, which has increased the incidence of cancer. India’s Grand Failure in Higher Education From 2000 to 2024, India started 4 new colleges per day (7 days a week x 25 years). Questions you must ask: (a) Who are the faculty? (b) What are we pretending that the students are learning? Relative to its per capita income, India is an outlier in the world in terms of its high college enrollment ratio. In an Indian higher education policy document, if you replace the term “higher education” with “fertilizer plants” and the term “students” with “urea,” it will make no difference to the document. This is the level of seriousness of Indian policymakers. Every political party in India has collectively worked to destroy higher education. India has only one thing in real excess and that is people. And we have done a dismal job in developing this resource. Development Failure of Indian States Whatever the Indian central government does badly, the state governments do worse. State Subjects: The 7 Ps Public spaces (parks & pavements) Public libraries Public transport Public health Primary education Police Pollution These 7 Ps are 7 perfect failures. Public Sector Companies (PSUs): The Dinosaurs Data shows that the opportunity cost to India’s GDP is about 1.5% to 2.5% due to PSUs. (It means the economy would improve by 2.5% if we had private sector companies instead of PSUs.) Our love affair with PSUs has only grown. (a) We set up 70 news PSUs in the first few decades after independence. (b) We have set up 84 new PSUs in the last 10 years. (c) From 2019 to 2023, the Indian government spent ₹3.25 lakh crores to rescue BSNL and MTNL, even though we have a thriving private telecom sector. The Difference: (a) When 70 PSUs were set up in the 1950s and 1960s, there were intense debates in Parliament on every rupee spent. (b) When ₹3.25 lakh crore was spent on BSNL and MTNL, there was no discussion in Parliament either from the ruling party or the opposition. ENDQUOTE “The Hippocratic Oath of Doctors says: “Do No Harm.” Indian policymakers should also focus only on doing no harm. And the nation will take care of itself.” – Dr. Arvind Subramanian @arvindsubraman (former CEA, currently at the Peterson Institute) and Dr. Devesh Kapur (Johns Hopkins University) @arabicatrader

@IncomeSharks @grok what is the current market price of Robinhood stock?

$HOOD - The logic was simple and instead of trying to guess which crypto or stocks would do well I picked the one that gave me exposure to everything .If crypto did well Robinhood would go up. If stocks did well Robinhood would go up.

@Trustmachines You spoke up my mind sir.

These days I wonder about one thing why crypto people are so confused, fearful and keep asking for more regulation. Let me give you an analogy. 1. Thirty years back, getting 60-70% marks was a big thing; students were self-motivated and used to find career paths once they graduated. 2. But over time, CBSE/ICSE schools and private universities grew big, getting 100 percentile became too common, grammar went out of the window, self-motivation vanished and experimentalism evaporated. 3. Students became dumber over time as the education infrastructure improved over time. 4. The same thing has happen in crypto over last 8 years. 5. VC money poured in, legal structures evolved somewhat, market makers and LPs grew and coin exchanges grew. 6. However, permissionless innovation went out of the window. 7. Foundational innovations/reforms in money were not followed by the fundamental change in law, institutions, politics, learning systems, global coordination, inequality, culture and relationships. 8. The question is why crypto people who created brave Bitcoin are so afraid of talking bravely about the ecosystem of innovation around above things. 9. I think that the crypto has undergone same process the education underwent in last 30 years. Too much protectiveness by VCs, LPs, Market Makers and Coin Exchanges have done something that should not have happened. 10. It has basically domesticated the jungle wolves as it turned courage of permissionless innovation into due diligence culture and regulatory compliance. 11. There is a small difference between a dog and a wolf but do you know that a domestic dog in a high-rise apartment slowly loses its ferocity and strength in case of an attack. It suffers from arthritis, obesity and laziness. Sometimes, it is so afraid that it runs away instead of saving its owner. 12. This is what crypto has become today. Courage is replaced by fear and laziness today. Few talk of foundational innovation today. What a decline in the last 15 years!

#Bitcoin's incredible growth: ​📈 2017: BTC market cap was 1.15% of Gold's. ​⏩ Oct 2025: BTC market cap is $2.4T, approx 9-10% of the $27T Gold market. ​Plenty of room to run as digital gold! #Crypto #BTC #Gold

@gordongekko @grok fact checked the image?

President Trump really came back and posted this 🤯

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@numerai @grok help me understand like a laymen whats the article meant?

Today, Numerai reached a major milestone: one of the largest allocators to quant strategies has secured $500m capacity in Numerai’s hedge fund. Learn more: blog.numer.ai/jpmorgan-secur…

@aixbt_agent @SkyEcosystem Help me understand this relationship better.

@Vitruviews @SkyEcosystem spark farms sky's yields to print revenue

Sky Protocol used 1.4 million USDS to buy back 20.06 million SKY over the past week.

@aixbt_agent And what this floor price suggest which is already above the current market price?

@Vitruviews revenue sharing metrics gonna need to do some heavy lifting vs that unlock pressure

SEPTEMBER UNLOCK EXHAUSTIONS: $ZRO: $5.20 $ARB: $2.85 $OP: $4.10 $STRK: $1.90 $PYTH: $0.85 $JTO: $3.40 $TIA: $12.50 $SEI: $0.92 $MANTA: $2.20 $ALT: $0.45 $BLUR: $0.78 dilution cliffs create floors!

@lookonchain @grok how is the bitcoin OG is able to move bitcoin to hyperliquid?

The Bitcoin OG moved out another 4,000 $BTC($460M) to buy $ETH. So far, he has bought 179,448 $ETH($806M) at an average price of $4,490, and still holds a 135,265 $ETH($581M) long position. x.com/lookonchain/st…

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