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Emirates executive Patrick Brannelly in new interview on why they adopted @Starlink: "The legacy systems weren’t working. No matter how much money we threw at them, passengers still complained, and it was impossible technically for everybody that wanted to connect to connect. Then Starlink came along saying, ‘We guarantee it, it will work.’ With a very pragmatic technical viewpoint, insisting on XWAPs, to connect 100%, and to install more than one antenna to handle demand and for redundancy. It was like for the first time, talking to people that actually understood how the internet works in a highly dense environment on an aircraft. It seemed our legacy connectivity industry didn’t really understand the core technologies needed to deliver customer connectivity happiness. But Starlink absolutely understood it. Now, in addition, the big fundamental shift from the first generation of Starlink was the evolution of satellite-to-satellite laser connectivity. So, if you’re a middle of the ocean, where you’ve got nowhere to ground the traffic, Starlink could just pass the traffic through adjacent satellites until there’s one over a ground station. That worked much better than I think anybody had imagined." Emirates has already started to install Starlink on its entire fleet of ~232 aircraft, with full completion expected by mid-2027. Customers onboard with Starlink are already seeing 10-20X internet speed improvements. (full SatelliteToday interview linked below)

🇺🇸 IRS is ramping up crypto tax enforcement ahead of April 15 deadline. 61% of U.S. crypto investors reportedly unaware of new 2025 reporting rules, while 52% fear penalties for mistakes. Brokers must now report digital asset income via Form 1099-DA, but investors still must calculate cost basis themselves.

KuCoin took responsibility for my $300K liquidation and after a month of “we’ll fix it,” here’s what they finally offered me: To recover the money they caused me to lose, I need to generate: $700,000,000 to $1,000,000,000+ in referral trading volume so I can “earn it back” in commissions. Yes - their solution to a wrongful liquidation is: “Bring us a billion dollars in volume so you can fix our mistake.” Let that sink in. This wasn’t a normal loss. It wasn’t bad trading. It wasn’t a degen gamble gone wrong. It was a liquidation caused by broken infrastructure: KuCoin acknowledged all of this. They took responsibility. They told me they would work with me to resolve it. In the past month, I’ve done everything on my side, days of back and forth messaging and even took 2 IRL meetings with Kucoin. And after all that? Not even the fees I paid are refundable unless I bring them nine to ten figures worth of volume. If this is how an exchange handles a case they admit fault on, imagine how many users get brushed off when the situation isn’t escalated. I’m still waiting for a real resolution.

KuCoin liquidated me for $300k when I had the full margin to back the position and this is their response

6 months ago KuCoin admitted fault for my $300K liquidation. Here's what happened since. I took a Google Meet with their Head of Futures. I went to an in person meeting at Tribes in Dubai Mall with their Global Business Director. I sent 10+ proposals. I gave them every possible way to make this right. On the call they took full responsibility. They admitted the liquidation was caused by broken infrastructure. Their platform failed and they said so themselves. But here's the part that's hard to believe. Their Head of Futures couldn't understand basic futures mechanics. I had to explain how margin, liquidation and order book depth works to the person running the futures division at a top 10 exchange. The person responsible for resolving my case didn't understand the product that caused it. Their first offer: bring us $2.5 billion in trading volume and you can "earn it back." I did the math for them live in the chat. $10,000 per 100M volume. That's 0.01% return. To recover $250K I would need to generate the monthly volume of a top 50 institutional desk. For free. I said no. Their second offer was worse. $20K upfront, but only if I hit 1,000 active users and $300M in volume first. Then a $30K "cashback" that requires KuCoin's manual approval. I said no again. Their third offer was even worse than the second. $10K/month. Halved the numbers from the deal they already couldn't close. After an in person meeting. After a Google Meet. After weeks of negotiations. Every single offer came with the same condition: delete the tweets, stop talking, and come work for us as a KOL. Promote the exchange that wrongfully liquidated me. Bring them users. Make them money. Then maybe they'd consider giving back what they took. I told them in the chat: "It's like someone steal from me $250K and then tells me come work for me and you'll make it back (maybe)." Their response? "Let me think about it." Then silence. Weeks of silence. I had to chase them for every single reply. Christmas came and went and I gave them a final deadline January 6th. They came back with yet another lowball. KuCoin had their Head of Futures, their Global Business Director, and multiple senior reps in this group chat. They all saw every message. They all went quiet when it mattered. Today I'm releasing the full 30 minute Google Meet recording and the complete Telegram history. Every message. Every offer. Every time they went silent. You'll hear them admit fault and then watch them do nothing about it. They had 6 months to make this right. They chose silence. Video drops today.

Microsoft warns Windows 11's upcoming AI upgrade has security and performance implications. Microsoft says Agentic Workspace in Windows 11 will not only have access to some personal folders, but also your apps. "Windows grants read and write access to the following known folders: Documents, Downloads, Desktop, Videos, Pictures, Music when the setting is enabled," Microsoft warns. Microsoft says you should only enable this feature if you understand the security implication.

Microsoft is moving forward with its plans to turn Windows 11 into an AI operating system. Windows 11 is testing a new toggle in Settings > System > AI components called “Experimental agentic features.” When this is on, AI apps like Copilot can run in a special “agent workspace” with their own Windows account. In that space, the agent can click, type, scroll, open apps and work on your files in the background, while you keep using your normal desktop. By default, when the feature is enabled, agents can get read/write access to your Documents, Downloads, Desktop, Pictures, Music and Videos folders. This feature is experimental and available to testers only (not in production, and is completely optional). "We recommend that you only enable this feature if you understand the security implications..." Microsoft confirmed.

BREAKING: The U.S. just introduced a bill that would make stablecoin transactions completely tax free. Right now, every time you use USDC or USDT to pay for anything, the IRS treats it like selling a stock. You owe tax on every single transaction, even if the gain is less than a penny. This bill removes that completely. If the stablecoin holds its $1 peg, there is no taxable event. You just spend it like cash. For staking rewards, the bill gives you a choice, pay tax now when you receive them, or wait up to 5 years to pay. The bill also closes a loophole where people were selling crypto at a loss just to claim a tax deduction, then immediately buying it back. To qualify, the stablecoin must be regulated under the GENIUS Act and must hold within 1% of $1.00. Not law yet. But if it passes, it will be a big win for Stablecoins.

🚨U.S. MOVES TO MAKE STABLECOIN PAYMENTS TAX-FREE The revised bill proposes that most stablecoin transactions won’t be taxed, as long as their value stays nearly the same (within ~1%). “No gain or loss shall be recognized” unless the purchase price is under 99% of its value," the bill said. This replaces the earlier $200 tax-free threshold with a broader approach.

C) Want to explain to the community why Kucoin allowed a threat actor to launder $9.5M+ tied to a fake Ledger app via 150+ Kucoin deposit addresses over the past week? A few days before that another threat actor laundered $3.5M+ from the Bitcoin Depot incident via 25+ Kucoin deposit addresses. You’ve enabled instant exchanges abusing KYC and entities like AudiA6, a centralized mixer for illicit actors to operate freely. Kucoin deserves to have regulators come after its business once again.

@OchiAkatsuki @Bobbydash35738 @Cointelegraph Not only that, even ledger has said they do NOT distribute on any platform or store other than a direct download from their web site. This is a user issue, plain and simple. The users didn’t do their due diligence at multiple points. It’s their own fault.

@Bobbydash35738 @Cointelegraph Good luck suing Apple when the ToS says they’re not liable for third-party apps 🌚

🚨 ALERT: Fake Ledger Live app on Apple’s App Store reportedly drained $9.5M from 50+ victims in just one week, per ZachXBT.

JUST IN: X Head of Product Nikita Bier says "crypto has had a rough year." "Maybe we should launch something to fix it."

In 1955, a British civil servant noticed a mathematical impossibility inside the Royal Navy. Between 1914 and 1928, the number of active Navy ships dropped by 67 percent. The number of sailors dropped by 31 percent. But the number of desk officials managing them? It increased by 78 percent. He spent years studying this absurdity. What he found is now the silent trap destroying tech careers in the age of AI. His name was Cyril Northcote Parkinson. He realized that the amount of actual work being done had zero correlation with the number of people doing it. He proved that bureaucracy creates its own internal work just to keep itself busy. He published a single sentence that changed organizational psychology forever. "Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion." If you have two hours to write a report, it takes two hours. If you have two weeks for the exact same report, it takes two weeks. The brain creates artificial complexity, requests unnecessary meetings, and invents new subtasks to justify the allocated time. This is not a flaw in human motivation. It is a feature of survival in a corporate structure. Looking busy is historically how you keep your job. In the modern world, this is the most dangerous vulnerability for anyone working in tech. AI did not just speed up work. It collapsed the timeline entirely. Tasks that took four days now take four minutes. Most people handle this completely wrong. They fall straight into the Automation Trap. You use an AI agent to automate your workflow. You finish a 40 hour sprint in 10 hours. You proudly show your manager exactly how efficient you are. You assume this massive increase in productivity will guarantee a promotion. Leadership does not see a genius. They see a specific role they can easily eliminate to save budget. Or worse, Parkinson's Law kicks in. They do not give you a raise. They give you three more projects of equal low-level value to fill your remaining 30 hours. You did not gain leverage. You just increased your output for the exact same pay. You automated your own workflow, and six months later, they realize they do not need you. Here is how you actually survive the shift. Stop broadcasting your AI efficiency. If you automate your job, keep the timeline the same. Deliver the work on the original deadline. You protect your baseline income and job security. Take the hours you just saved and upskill aggressively. Do not use that time to scroll online. Study system architecture. Build new data models. Solve the higher-level business problems that management actually cares about. Stop attaching your worth to manual execution. Syntax and repetitive tasks are commodities now. Detach your professional identity from the labor that can be automated. Attach it firmly to business results. Parkinson published his law in 1955. The paper sat in academic literature for decades. The Navy bureaucracy he studied is long gone. But the mechanism he discovered is the exact reason why working harder is now a losing strategy. Every time you optimize a manual task. Every time you brag about saving your boss three hours. Every time you ask for more busywork to fill your Friday. It is the same exact trap. The secret to tech survival? Stop competing with the machine. Become the director of the system.

🇦🇪 Abu Dhabi Airports will begin accepting Bitcoin and crypto payments.

🚨 BREAKING: Quantum reality doesn’t choose a state. It holds all of them at once. This is called a Bloch Sphere and every possible state of a quantum system lives on its surface. Spin up. Spin down. Or anything in between. That “in between” is the wild part. It means quantum systems don’t just exist in one state… they exist as superpositions of possibilities. So instead of flipping between 0 and 1… They exist as both. At the same time. That means reality, at its core, isn’t definite it’s probabilistic. This is what quantum computing is built on. Not faster bits… but entirely different rules. Follow me this is where physics stops being intuitive.

⚠️ @ZACHXBT SCHALTET SICH EIN Die gestohlenen Bitcoin aus dem Fake-Ledger-Scam sind aufgetaucht - und die Adresse dahinter kennt jeder. Gestern hab ich euch die Geschichte von @glove erzählt. Ein Download. Eine Fake-App im Apple App Store. Seed Phrase eingegeben. 5,92 #Bitcoin weg. Sein komplettes Renten-Vermögen. Gestern war das eine Warnung. Heute ist es eine Ermittlung. @ZachXBT hat sich den Fall vorgenommen. Der Mann, der mehr Krypto-Betrüger aufgespürt hat als jede Behörde. Er hat die 5,92 $BTC durch neun Transaktionen verfolgt, jede einzelne dokumentiert, jeden Hash öffentlich gemacht. Und jede Spur endet am selben Ort. KuCoin. Neun Transaktionen. Neun KuCoin-Deposit-Adressen. Kein Mixer, kein Privacy-Coin, kein aufwändiges Laundering-Setup. Der Scammer hat die gestohlenen Bitcoin direkt auf eine zentralisierte Börse geschoben. Das klingt nach einem Anfängerfehler. Aber es hat System. KuCoin verlangt KYC - also Identitätsprüfung - nur bei Fiat-Auszahlungen. Wer Euro oder Dollar abheben will, muss sich verifizieren. Wer Krypto einzahlt, braucht weder ID noch Selfie noch Adressnachweis. Du schickst Bitcoin hin und tauschst sie intern in jeden Coin den du willst. Der Scammer kann die gestohlenen Bitcoin also nicht in Bargeld verwandeln. Aber er braucht das auch gar nicht. @GatitaDeAragon beschreibt auf CT den exakten Ablauf: Für 100 Dollar kaufst du ein verifiziertes KuCoin-Konto auf dem Schwarzmarkt. Dazu eine Prepaid-SIM von der Straße und ein billiges Android-Handy. Du schiebst die Bitcoin auf KuCoin, konvertierst in Monero - und ab diesem Moment ist die Spur tot. Dann wiederholst du den Prozess rückwärts. Neues Konto, neues Land. Am Ende landen saubere ETH oder BTC auf einer frischen Wallet, die niemand mehr mit dem Diebstahl verbinden kann. Eine Waschmaschine mit Börsen-Logo. Kann KuCoin das Konto einfrieren? Theoretisch ja. Haben sie reagiert? Stand jetzt nichts. @Hayess5178 hat öffentlich appelliert, KuCoin solle ermitteln. @ElsterGavin schreibt, ihm seien Assets im Wert von 2 Mio. Dollar über KuCoin gestohlen worden - die Börse hat nichts unternommen. @DustinRizzo berichtet, dass KuCoin 70.000 Dollar von seinem Balance liquidiert hat, ohne dass er es nachvollziehen konnte. @rrigo_ fasst zusammen, was auf CT jeder weiß: KuCoin, MEXC, HTX - die Börsen, die Kriminelle als Gateways nutzen. Immer dasselbe Playbook - und nie eine Antwort. Wir von Kryptolotse.de haben KuCoin deshalb einen der größten Warnhinweise verpasst. Nicht aus Vermutung - aus dokumentierter Erfahrung. kryptolotse.de/boerse/kucoin Ich gehe davon aus, dass das Geld längst weiterbewegt wurde. Intern konvertiert, auf eine externe Wallet ausgezahlt, on-chain verteilt. KuCoin war die Durchgangsstation. Und genau das macht diese Plattform so gefährlich für jeden, der dort noch handelt. ZachXBTs Post ist viral gegangen. Die gesamte CT fordert KuCoin auf zu handeln. KuCoin schweigt. Du hast gestern meinen Post gelesen? Dann weißt du jetzt auch, wohin das Geld gegangen ist. Und über welche Börse es gelaufen ist. Wenn du noch Funds auf KuCoin liegen hast - zieh sie ab. Heute. Nicht weil morgen dein Konto leer ist. Sondern weil du nicht auf einer Plattform handeln willst, die Scammern als Infrastruktur dient. Mein Beitrag: x.com/Smart_Money/st…

🚨 ALERT: @glove says he lost 5.92 BTC in a malicious Ledger app scam, with @zachxbt tracing the funds through 9 transactions to KuCoin deposit addresses.

🚨A MUSICIAN JUST LOST $424,000 IN BITCOIN.. NOT FROM A PHISHING LINK.. NOT FROM A SKETCHY WEBSITE.. FROM AN APP HE DOWNLOADED ON APPLE’S OFFICIAL APP STORE.. Garrett Dutton.. Lead singer of G. Love & Special Sauce.. Downloaded what he thought was “Ledger Live” from the Mac App Store.. It wasn’t Ledger Live.. It was a fake.. A perfectly built clone that made it through Apple’s “famously strict” review process.. The app asked for his 24-word seed phrase.. He typed it in.. 5.92 Bitcoin.. Gone.. Ten years of savings.. Wiped in minutes.. “I lost 5.9 BTC all I had for ten years I worked on this”.. That was his post on X two days ago.. ZachXBT.. The internet’s most feared on-chain detective.. Immediately traced the stolen Bitcoin.. It was routed directly into deposit wallets on KuCoin.. He publicly said he doesn’t expect KuCoin to freeze the funds or help in any way.. Pointing out that KuCoin lost its EU MiCA regulatory license in February 2026.. Just three months after getting it.. Because their compliance is that bad.. He said illicit services heavily exploit KuCoin’s broker and personal accounts.. But here’s the part that should terrify everyone.. This isn’t an isolated incident.. Phishing and impersonation scams have surged 1,400% year over year across 2025 and 2026.. In 2025 alone.. Personal wallet theft accounted for $713 million in losses across 158,000 separate incidents.. Just days before this happened.. Global law enforcement busted a $45 million crypto fraud ring that used the exact same tactic.. Fake apps designed to look identical to legitimate ones.. And Apple.. The company that markets its App Store as the safest place to download software.. Let a fake crypto wallet app through its gates.. Scammers built it to look professional.. Made sure it didn’t crash.. Manipulated the algorithm with fabricated reviews.. And Apple approved it.. The man didn’t click a bad link.. He didn’t visit some random website.. He went to Apple’s official store and downloaded what Apple told him was safe.. So here’s the rule that could save everything you have.. Never type your hardware wallet seed phrase into any internet-connected device.. Ever.. The only place your 24 words should ever be entered is on the physical Ledger device itself.. Using the physical buttons.. If a computer screen.. An app.. Or a website asks you to type your seed phrase.. It is a scam.. 100% of the time.. No exceptions.. Share this before someone you know learns this lesson the expensive way.

🚨 FAKE LEDGER APP ON APPLE STORE WIPES OUT ENTIRE BTC HOLDINGS A fake Ledger Live app on Apple’s Mac App Store just wiped out a user’s life savings. American musician Garrett Dutton lost 5.92 $BTC ($424K) after downloading what looked like the official app and entering his 24-word seed phrase. On-chain investigator ZachXBT traced the stolen Bitcoin exchange deposit addresses and publicly questioned how the app made it through Apple’s gatekeeping. No comment yet from Apple.