This Bitfinex whale “buy signal” is everywhere, but the real Bitcoin data suggests a much messier six weeks

The first thing you learn when you spend too long around Bitcoin is that everyone has a chart that “always works”, and everyone has a scar from the last time it didn’t. This week’s chart is making the rounds again, it’s the one that tracks Bitfinex margin longs, and it’s flashing a familiar change in […]

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The Compound and Friends: It’s Not 1929, but It Might Be

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New York City’s MTA Explores How to Use AI to Monitor Thousands of Cameras in Transit System

Yves here. AI delivering “more better” surveillance is yet another disheartening prospect for use of this technology. However, New York City may not be alone in being at least a tad transparent about how it might go forward, given that it already has cameras widely deployed in its subways and busses. A reason for official […]

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The 10 eternally true steps to financial freedom

The principles of achieving financial freedom are timeless. Economies change, governments come and go, and your cable TV, The National Geographic, and Loaded magazine subscriptions give way for broadband, Netflix, and that meditation app that you’re always too busy to use. Yet while hairstyles wax and wane (I’m personally bringing back the bouffant for 2026) […]

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Solana is becoming settlement rail for Visa and JPMorgan but one metric still scares insiders

Wyoming launched a state-backed stablecoin on Solana, and Morgan Stanley filed for a Solana trust product this week. Last month, Visa expanded USDC settlement to run on Solana rails, and JPMorgan tokenized commercial paper using Solana for part of the settlement stack. These are not rumors or roadmap promises. They happened over 60 days, and […]

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Animal Spirits: Tax the Billionaires

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