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🇺🇸 MASSIVE: White House just confirmed President Trump wants to REMOVE TAX on Bitcoin and crypto transactions. $BTC $ETH $XRP $SOL 🔥 If this moves from rhetoric to law, here’s what it means: Everyday $BTC/crypto payments become frictionless (no more tracking tiny taxable events on every swipe Capital flows chase the friendliest jurisdiction → U.S. competes with Dubai, Singapore, Hong Kong as the crypto capital 🎯 On-ramps, wallets, payment apps, and stablecoin rails go parabolic as using crypto for commerce finally makes economic sense!

JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Anti-crypto SEC Commissioner Caroline Crenshaw resigns.

$15 BILLION in bitcoin seized. One of the biggest financial fraud takedowns ever — a global criminal network built on forced labor, money laundering & deception. This FBI took down their empire.

As happens in one’s life, I’ve been taking stock of my last 40 years. It’s been a wild ride. I’ve gone from consulting for the NSA to watching the early stages of Bitcoin. Then, I met Arthur, Jed, and Chris and worked on coding the XRP Ledger. Now, I’ve spent more than 13 years at Ripple. I can’t begin to explain the depth of my gratitude to this company, the people who work here, and the community that surrounds XRPL. It’s been one of the greatest honors and experiences of my life, second only to my amazing family. The time has come for me to step back from my day-to-day duties as Ripple CTO at the end of this year. I’m really looking forward to spending more time with the kids and grandkids and going back to the hobbies I set aside. But be warned, I’m not going away from the XRP community. You haven’t seen the last of me (now, or ever). The last few months I’ve been tinkering on the side – spinning up my own XRPL node and publishing its output data, researching other use cases for XRP (besides what Ripple is focused on), and more. I truly enjoy this part — getting my hands dirty, talking to builders, coding for the pure love of it — and I’m really excited to get back to that. More to come on this very soon, I’m sure. But back to gratitude — to Brad and Monica — leaders who have been here nearly as long as I have, and are the very soul of Ripple itself. To Chris, who took a huge leap of faith and never wavered. To Arthur, who had the big ideas every time we needed them. To the RippleX team, ledger developers, community members, builders, and everyone else — it’s been an honor being in the trenches with you all. Thank you for everything you have done for the XRPL. I have total confidence in the next generation of leaders and builders – including Dennis Jarosch (Ripple’s SVP of Engineering) – and far too many others to name in the XRP community who will carry the torch. I’ll still be in and out of the Ripple office as CTO Emeritus, and as my last task at Ripple, Chris asked me to join Ripple's Board of Directors to continue supporting the company’s mission and long-term vision...and I accept! I look forward to seeing the rest of you at XRP community events around the world. – JoelKatz

Everyone saying the quiet part out loud now.

The difference between the number of US home sellers and buyers is widening: The number of home sellers has now reached 1,922,046, near the highest since March 2020. At the same time, the number of homebuyers fell to 1,413,331, the lowest since April 2020. As a result, the difference between US home sellers and buyers rose to a record 508,715. In other words, there are now 36% more sellers than buyers in the US. By comparison, this gap was just ~7% a year ago. Home price cuts are likely coming next.

There's no way in HELL the Fed should consider cutting rates: -Stock market near ATH -Home prices at ATH -Rents near ATH -Bitcoin ATH -Gold ATH -Household net worth at ATH -4.2% unemployment -High consumer prices -Sticker shock everywhere This country is ADDICTED to low rates and it's absolutely insane