Alexander von Kaldenberg

@grok @KirkLubimov @WBrettWilson @grok but if he was watching kiddie porn would the rcmp not have investigated?

Yes, the lawsuit is real. Jeffrey Brown (author of *In Trudeau's Kitchen*) filed it April 8, 2026, in Ontario Small Claims Court (claim SC-26-000043) against the Toronto Star. He alleges their journalist Robert Cribb told him in 2021 that the RCMP informed the Star Trudeau was viewing underage porn on his devices (to check for foreign compromise), but they never published it—claiming a public duty breach. These are Brown's unproven allegations from the filing; the Star hasn't responded publicly yet. Full docs on his Substack.

🚨Breaking: the Toronto Star is being sued for failing to publicly reveal that according to the RCMP, and according to this lawsuit, Justin Trudeau was watching kiddie p0rn. Holly f❗️

@Somuchmorefun @MilkRoadAI @BYDCompany @NIOGlobal @NioRooch @grok This is great insight. Great context.

@vonKaldenberg @MilkRoadAI @BYDCompany @NIOGlobal @NioRooch Hey @grok replacing the battery or the fast charge. which is a better solution and why?

The last excuse for not going electric just died. China just solved the only real problem holding electric cars back. BYD unveiled a system called Megawatt Flash Charging. Their new chargers deliver 1,500 kilowatts of raw powerthat is three times what Tesla's fastest Supercharger can do in the United States. The result is almost impossible to believe, a dead battery goes from 10% to 97% charge in nine minutes. For comparison, filling up a gas tank takes five to eight minutes and BYD just matched that number for an electric car. BYD rebuilt the entire system from scratch. New battery chemistry and new silicon carbide chips with the highest voltage rating ever put in a production car. A 1,000-volt architecture running through every single component, they call it the Super e-Platform, and it is the first of its kind ever mass produced for passenger vehicles. Here is what makes this more dangerous for Western automakers than any price war. BYD makes the battery, the charger, the chip, and the car all in-house. The charging stations are not even hidden in parking garages, they are built to look exactly like gas stations, T shaped canopies, pull-up lanes, liquid-cooled guns that start charging ten seconds after you plug in. In America, fast charging means 350 kilowatts and a 40 minute stop while BYD is doing 1,500 kilowatts and nine minutes. That gap is not closing but rather widening. By the end of this year, BYD plans to build 20,000 Flash Charging stations across China, Tesla took years to build a fraction of that globally. The question is no longer whether electric cars can compete with gas. The question is whether American and European automakers can compete with BYD and right now, the honest answer is no.

I live in Shenzhen around 20 minutes from BYD’s global HQ. The EV innovation happening here doesn’t make Western headlines but it’s years ahead. NIO has over 2,700 swap stations across China now.

One of the biggest problems with #EV was solved by #China years ago. @NIOGlobal can swap out your car's battery in less than four minutes while you stay in the car. @BYDCompany charges a car fully in less than 10. Living here in #shenzhen I see this more and more. Sometimes I even forget how incredible it is to be witnessing the bleeding edge of technology in my daily life. #byd #nio

@circle @jerallaire It’s wild how only one year ago the conversation around crypto would have not been focused on stables. It would have been about #btc and alts like #Sol . Today it seems like a the chatter is about #stablecoins and possibly prediction markets.

Circle was founded on a simple idea: money should move more like information on the internet. As @jerallaire puts it, the goal was to build “a protocol for dollars on the internet,” one that allows value to move over open networks at the speed of the internet. For banks, that vision is becoming a strategic question: → Stablecoins are becoming infrastructure → AI is accelerating the shift → Payments, FX, and settlement are moving toward always-on systems circle.com/blog/building-…

Been a big fan of yours since I left Canada at 24 with your book in my bag. I was on an adventure that took me around the world. I worked in non-profit, modeled for elite models, raised several million for my startup, got married and had twins and then lost everything when the biz stalled. Everything except my wife and kids. Hugely stressful though. My question is where you have found that “enoughness”. I’ve been rediscovering my faith, meditating, working harder to switch off and be present with my twin 4 year olds and wife…but it’s really hard. Thanks for being a major inspiration @BlakeMycoskie !

Here’s what I wish I’d known sooner: Feeling enough doesn’t come from winning more. It comes from honesty. Listening. And remembering who you were before you started proving anything.

I built TOMS, sold it, had the money, the success, the family, and I still felt completely empty. Here are four things I learned about not feeling enough:

Lots of speculation about BTC being used, but it seems to be stablecoins paired with Chinese Yuan to bypass sanctions.

This kind of thing is becoming more and more common here in Shenzhen.

@MilkRoadAI It really is wild how all-in China is going on this tech, while Western countries appear to be sleepwalking. I live in Shenzhen and robots are becoming increasingly visible in stores, on the roads etc.

China just replaced humans on the beach. China deployed fully autonomous robots to clean beaches at the Boao Forum. The robots dig six to ten times faster than any human worker can and they run on zero emissions. This happened at China's most prestigious international summit, the Boao Forum for Asia, their answer to Davos. China just embedded a robot doing the work of ten humans into its biggest showcase of national strength. These machines already cover 3,000 square meters of beach every single hour and they work before sunrise and after sunset without stopping. China's 15th Five-Year Plan designates robotics as a core national priority and the government is pumping billions into humanoid robots, autonomous systems, and AI automation, and plans to integrate AI into 90 percent of its entire economy by 2030. One in every two industrial robots installed on the planet is now deployed inside China. While the US debates, China is automating the jobs nobody else wants first, sanitation, logistics, cleaning and showing the world it works. China's robotics export share jumped from 5.9 percent of the global market in 2020 to 16.7 percent in 2024 and the trajectory is not slowing down.

@Macronaut_ @matthew_sigel @PeterSchiff Spicy, I like it 😅.

@matthew_sigel @PeterSchiff notice they didn’t demand gold?

🚨Iran to collect Bitcoin as payment for Hormuz passage: FT

@geoffrey_cain @spectator Looks like a great read!

My second cover story for @spectator in a month. This one starts with SuperMicro's co-founder allegedly running a $2.5 billion scheme to smuggle restricted AI servers to China. Fake serial numbers, dummy boxes, along with surveillance cameras that caught the whole thing. But that's just the illegal part. The rest of the story is about everything the West is doing to arm China's war machine without breaking the law.

Perplexity has reportedly doubled its revenue since February! I guess it wasn’t just my money they’ve been taking…

@zahradeenu7 @osldotcom Leading the way!

@osldotcom Strong momentum from OSL Group 🌍

OSL Group’s 2025 Annual Results showed continued progress in global expansion — supported by disciplined M&A execution and a business mix that is becoming increasingly international. 🌍

@stephenta100M @COINPAYMENTSNET @alironline @ervichov Appreciate it Stephen!

@vonKaldenberg @COINPAYMENTSNET @alironline @ervichov Congrats Alex! See you're back to web3 trench

Big news to share: I’ve joined @COINPAYMENTSNET as Head of Strategic Partnerships, Asia. I’m excited and humbled to have the trust of both @alironline and @ervichov and look forward to helping grow our footprint across APAC with an amazing team and ecosystem of partners.

Honestly, this is the scariest part to me: "It is important to note that the individuals who appeared in person were not North Korean nationals. DPRK threat actors operating at this level are known to deploy third-party intermediaries to conduct face-to-face relationship-building." I hope they nail these bastards.

Same tape, opposite read…one of these blue‑chip analysts is going to be spectacularly wrong by end of 2026. Will it be @TimmerFidelity at @Fidelity who is basically saying gold has lost its mojo and the money is rotating back into #Bitcoin. Evidence: Flows show BTC ETFs hoovering up what whales and retail are dumping. Or @mikemcglone11 at @Bloomberg still calling for $10K and a crypto winter for institutions. Evidence: if stocks see a real 20%+ drawdown and liquidity tightens, he expects an 80–90% Bitcoin dump toward 10k, not a shallow dip.

The Michael Ma affair is dominating headlines this week. But the story underneath the story is what matters for business. I spent two weeks reading business surveys from five chambers of commerce. The data is overwhelmingly positive: 95% of American firms staying, 82% profitable, 87% of French firms increasing investment. But what the Ma affair reveals, at least in Canada, is what I call the quiet asymmetry of permissible discourse. And it matters for every business leader operating in China, and indeed for every Canadian trying to square economic interest with foreign policy priorities. open.substack.com/pub/alexanderv…