2026-01-14 23:26:00
Coinbase pulls support from the US Senate's crypto market structure bill ahead of a key vote; CEO Brian Armstrong says there are "too many issues" with the bill (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/01/14
Coinbase pulls support from the US Senate's crypto market structure bill ahead of a key vote; CEO Brian Armstrong says there are "too many issues" with the bill (Nikhilesh De/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/01/14
Penske Media sues Google for allegedly monopolizing the digital ad market and depriving publishers of billions in revenue, following a 2025 US court ruling (Josh Dickey/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/public-polic…
Copaganda watch: Here's a story about a struggling restaurant in SoMa, owned by two women of color.
Then there's a sharp pivot to Supervisor Matt Dorsey's solutions, all based on coercion and punishment: "a multi-layered strategy of business curfews, higher police staffing and a new sobering center." This would only continue to make conditions worse.
Weekend Reads
* Peering market at a glance
https://labs.ripe.net/media/documents/Peering_market_at_a_glance.pdf
* Measuring NTP pool's robustness
Raiders' coaching search critical in busy Las Vegas market with No. 1 pick, $90M cap space https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/raiders-coaching-search-critical-in-busy-las-vegas-market-with-no-1-pick-90m-cap-space…
farewell to my one true book format. #books
IDC: in Q4 2025, global PC shipments rose nearly 10% YoY to 76.4M units, helped by Windows 10 end-of-support and OEMs pulling forward inventory amid tariffs (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/861124/pc-market-growth-q4-2025-idc
A few impressions from the Weihnachtsmarkt #Klagenfurt in #Carinthia we could visit today using the brand new train connection from #Graz 🤩
Please explain to me why people believe the "market" will solve the housing crisis, if only we removed barriers like zoning. The market certainly doesn't seem to do so well at maintaining existing properties at affordable prices.
‘My bill keeps escalating’: how Toledo, Ohio, became the epicenter of the US housing crisis
Please explain to me why people believe the "market" will solve the housing crisis, if only we removed barriers like zoning. The market certainly doesn't seem to do so well at maintaining existing properties at affordable prices.
‘My bill keeps escalating’: how Toledo, Ohio, became the epicenter of the US housing crisis
"India’s energy storage market set for breakout year in 2026"
#India #Energy #Renewables
Stop Grocery Gouging
https://act.lewisforleader.ca/stop-grocery-profiteering
Three grocery giants—Loblaws, Sobeys, and Metro—control our food system. They're price-fixing and colluding to keep prices sky-high, even as inflation comes down. The government needs to…
Early look at 2026 NFL free agency: Ranking top 50 possible free agents to hit the market in March
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/early-look-at-2026-nfl-free-agency-ranking-top…
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115718470244854807
I didn't learn in school that a free market economy is about the suppliers installing fascist regimes to force demand and fix prices, but maybe I understood it wrong.
Europe's EV market is experiencing a major shakeup.
Volkswagen Group is surging while the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi Alliance sees its share decline. Tesla, BMW, Geely, Stellantis, and Mercedes are all jockeying for position too.
The twist? The top 8 automakers now control less of the market than before—meaning smaller players are gaining ground in the race to electrify.
Market Value 💵
市场价值 💵
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Information Manipulation is a market.
https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/price-bot-army-global-index
Weird that Nintendo stock's sliding. The Switch 2 plays pretty great and I know they've gotten decent sales with it, from what I've seen. It certainly couldn't be because the stock market's just made-up bullshit
Hey there, ideas for #Copenhagen #København with camera and baby? Best christmas market, cafe, Fuji-cameraplace, coffee and cycling culture?
"Construction executives have held multiple meetings over the last month with the White House and Congress to discuss how immigration busts on job sites and in communities are scaring away employees, making it more expensive to build homes in a market desperate for new supply. "
Paging Stephen Miller – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/02/14/paging-stephen-miller/
"In short, [the bond markets] fret that the government might shift towards the interests of working people. They are relying on the spectre of market chaos to exorcise that spectre."
Majority want major shift left– but can the opportunity be seized? | Morning Star
https://www.
Encouraging to see rising focus on barriers to attractive public EV charging in 🇩🇪, particularly the widespread practice of discriminatory pricing despite 🇪🇺 #AFIR legislation.
Hopefully, this will lead to a healthy, transparent market where EV drivers find it easy and attractive to charge in public.
Sources: CoinGecko, a prominent crypto market data and analytics company, is considering a sale at a ~$500M valuation, after starting the sales process in 2025 (Will Canny/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2026/01/
@… Do you have any thoughts on identifying potential “old school” web hosts that let you do this?
Honestly the market has become so saturated with “easier”ways to do it that I struggle to identity a dependable plain old web host.
Stock market hits all-time high as Dow closes above 50,000
The U.S. stock market ended a bumpy week with a bang,
as the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed above 50,000 for the first time.
The Dow crossed the threshold
— an important psychological barrier
— earlier Friday before retreating
and then surging again to close at 50,115.67.
That was a jump of 2.47 percent, more than 1,200 points for the day.
The rally extended to the S&P 500 and the …
This is some 100% sci-fi shit right here: the U.S. government bought a device on the black market, and is studying it to try and understand how it works. The device apparently makes people sick using radio spectrum emissions.
From CNN:
"The Defense Department has spent more than a year testing a device purchased in an undercover operation that some investigators think could be the cause of a series of mysterious ailments impacting US spies, diplomats and troops that are coll…
CoinDesk Data: Binance's market share of spot crypto trading fell to 25% in December, its lowest since 2021, and it is also losing ground in derivatives trading (Sidhartha Shukla/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…
QB Stock Market Week 15: The MVP Candidate No One Talks About https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-15-mvp-candidate-no-one-talks-about
Truly Bloomberg is an absolutely worthless "news" organization. Blather combined with boosterism and blighted nothing. #bloomberg is a useless news source.
Tech Tumbles as Wall Street Rotation Gains Speed: Markets Wrap
So Korea's Coupang's cyber insurance gives it coverage of only around $682,000.
https://www.chosun.com/english/market-money-en/2025/12/08/KXCKOF2BYJEFHJQJDYZI6MQZSE/
Classic city pigeon, Columba livia, at the market on Granville Island in Vancouver
#naturalist #photography
Caterpillar hits a $300B market cap for the first time, driven by demand for its data center power generation equipment; CAT is up 12% in 2026 to a record ~$640 (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Universities selling their address space are probably oblivious to where it is going, but they should care. One day people are going to realize a lot of these high rep addresses are getting transferred to very different resource stewards.
re: https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/st
The NYC token, launched by ex-New York City Mayor Eric Adams on January 12, saw its market cap drop from ~$600M to ~$100M after suspicious liquidity activity (Decrypt)
https://decrypt.co/354377/eric-adams-nyc-token-crashes-amid-liquidity-extractio…
The Golden Globes signs a deal with Polymarket, which will provide stats and predictions about the awards show at the official 2026 viewing party (Jordan Moreau/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/polymarket-golden-globes-prediction-m…
The global financial system would I’m sure be •extremely• reluctant to abandon the USD as the world’s reserve currency — reluctant even well past some hypothetical point where it became clear that the Fed has become politicized and is engaging in currency manipulation to politically favor Trump. The market can stay irrational for a very long time.
But if that abandonment did happen, well…that would be a pretty hard genie to stuff back in the bottle, and I can’t even begin to imagine the fallout.
Global smartphone shipments rose 2% YoY in 2025, with Apple capturing the top position at a 20% share and 10% YoY growth, ahead of Samsung's 19% market share (Counterpoint Research)
https://counterpointresearch.com/en/insights/global-sm…
Looking for QB answers this NFL offseason? Good luck ... it's a bad year to need a new signal-caller https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47876708/2026-nfl-offseason-quarterbacks-bad-market-teams-needs-free-agency-draft…
Top Articles of 2025: The Rental Housing Market Holds Strong
"The U.S. rental housing market remained strong and stable in 2025, with narrowing supply‑demand gaps, rising investment activity, and rent growth in line with pre‑pandemic levels."
#OTD in 1969, in the midst of #SanFrancisco #GoodTimesBadTimes gigs opening for Country Joe & The Fish at Bill Graham's Fillmore West at Van Ness & Market (formerly the Carousel Ballroom),
The global market for memory chips, particularly DRAM and NAND Flash, is experiencing significant price increases, primarily attributed to the explosive demand from operators of AI, who are buying up these essential components in enormous quantities.
https://www.computing.co.uk/analysis/2025/
There’s a point in the US attorney general’s testimony where she suggests people should stop talking about the elite pedophile network, and instead talk about how well the stock market is doing.
Remarkable.
Australia just hit a major EV milestone: electric vehicles captured 8.3% of the car market in December 2025, a record high.
Battery EVs reached 9% market share for the year, with plug-in hybrids at 4.6%. Chinese brands like BYD and Zeekr are leading the charge, with even more models coming in 2026.
This shift could reshape Australia's entire automotive landscape.
QB Stock Market Week 15: The MVP Candidate No One Talks About https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/qb-stock-market-week-15-mvp-candidate-no-one-talks-about
The 1% club in IP4 concentration continues:
https://social.bgp.tools/@transfers/statuses/01KHBBFZYFV9GTB8CSWYNRFZ3V
The Food and Drug Administration rarely uses its authority to pull dangerous medical devices off the market
and is so poorly staffed that it’s sometimes unable to make sure companies are taking critical steps to protect patients during health emergencies,
according to a new report by the Government Accountability Office.
The inquiry by the congressional watchdog was requested nearly two years ago by top members of the Senate
in the wake of an investigation about the 2…
On behalf of heavy industry, German chancellor Merz attacks a core EU climate policy, the EU-ETS, which puts a price on CO2 emissions: "We should be very open to revising it, or at least to postpone it". EU's Von der Leyen defends its benefits.
ht…
"The government and the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) are forcing financial firms to compensate voice phishing victims, regardless of who is at fault, fanning concerns over how far consumer protection should go without distorting incentives in the financial system, market watchers said Monday."
The big business of Bad Bunny Super Bowl merch: From $100 hats to 'Grass Bunny' costumes https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7044690/2026/02/13/bad-bunny-super-bowl-adidas/
'New' consumer energy resources like EVs, heat pumps, batteries can help support the local grid - if we allow them to.
Lowering minimum bid sizes, allowing aggregation and using standard platforms increases participation. The more participating network users – including consumers – the more liquid the market, and the more effective the deployment can be at lower costs.
#Flexibility
China's market regulator says it is investigating Trip.com, the country's largest online travel agency, over alleged antitrust conduct, without offering details (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026…
Sunrise Market Is a Rare Gem. And a Dying Breed via @… https://thetyee.ca/Culture/2026/01/02/Sunrise-Market-…
The Dow weighs its members by stock price instead of market cap.
On a day when megacap technology stocks are dragging down the S&P and Nasdaq, the Dow is a bit more insulated.
https://www.barro…
Browns, Raiders Linked in Major Fernando Mendoza Prediction https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/browns-fernando-mendoza-nfl-draft/
This part is especially important (emphasis added):
“If we have to destroy the stock market to save democracy, we need to accept that and, more importantly, •••the richest and the most powerful people in the world and in this country need to understand that that is a real possibility.••• There is no economic stability without democratic stability. If you take away our democratic stability, we will take away the economic stability.”
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An interview with Marcos Galperin, CEO of MercadoLibre, which has a $105B market cap, on his upcoming resignation, MercadoLibre's rivalry with Amazon, and more (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/20
Sources: the US FTC accelerated a probe into whether Microsoft illegally monopolized the enterprise computing market with its cloud software and AI offerings (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-02-13/ftc-ratch…
House Republicans unveiled a new health care proposal Friday
as they aim to address concerns about rising health insurance costs just weeks before enhanced Affordable Care Act subsidies expire.
The legislation would codify and expand health plans for small businesses, fund reductions of premiums for low-income people in the individual health insurance market and increase transparency in prescription drug pricing, according to House Republican leadership aides.
The proposal …
How Oracle's massive Stargate deal with OpenAI has pushed Oracle to the center of the AI boom, turning its market cap into a barometer on AI sentiment (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-…
Seagate and Western Digital, with stocks each up 200% in 2025, will join Nasdaq 100 before the December 22 market open; GlobalFoundries will leave the index (Isabelle Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
Source: the NFL won't allow prediction-market ads during Super Bowl LX on February 8, but sports betting ads are allowed, reportedly limited to six total ads (Ben Horney/Front Office Sports)
https://frontofficesports.com/nfl-wont-allow-prediction-ma…
Microsoft warns Chinese companies, especially DeepSeek, are winning AI adoption outside the West, gaining significant market share in the Global South (Cristina Criddle/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f7a5b184-1fef-4f02-b957-4c2b07adf91f
PitchBook estimates that 25% of VC-backed unicorns have become "undercorns," startups once valued at $1B or more by VCs but now valued below that threshold (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/vc-unicorn-companies
Stocks of private companies like OpenAI and SpaceX are being sold via invitation-only markets to the ultrawealthy before their IPOs, creating a two-tier system (Corrie Driebusch/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/priv…
'New one for you': Inside Steve Tisch’s transactional friendship with Jeffrey Epstein https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7040342/2026/02/12/steve-tisch-jeffrey-epstein-new-york-giants/
The administration has done real damage to climate action,
experts say.
But in many ways, renewables are unstoppable.
https://grist.org/climate-energy/trump-is-trying-to-kill-clean-energy-the-market-has-other-plans/
The Golden Globes signs a deal with Polymarket, which will provide stats and predictions about the awards show at the official 2026 viewing party (Jordan Moreau/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/polymarket-golden-globes-prediction-m…
Three people were killed and six others were hurt
after a 92-year-old driver collided with a cyclist
and then slammed her car into a grocery store on Thursday afternoon in Los Angeles, authorities said.
The crash was reported shortly after noon at a 99 Ranch Market
in the city’s Westwood neighborhood, according Los Angeles fire department spokesperson Lyndsey Lantz.
Three victims, some of whom were trapped beneath the vehicle, died at the scene, Lantz said.
Robinhood is set to join Indonesia's retail investment boom after agreeing to acquire local brokerages PT Buana Capital Sekuritas and PT Pedagang Aset Kripto (Prima Wirayani/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Alphabet hits a $4T market cap in intraday trading, becoming the fourth Big Tech company to reach the milestone, after its stock rose 6% in the past month (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/02d44794-815f-40dc-9b49-0e10432147a9
Bengaluru-based e-commerce platform Meesho opened up 54% in its stock market debut, giving the company a ~$8.4B market cap after raising ~$603M in its India IPO (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/m…
Apple announces a multi-year deal to use Google's Gemini to power new Siri features later in 2026, saying Google's tech "provides the most capable foundation" (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/12/apple-google-ai-siri-gemini.html
Betting exchange Matchbook plans to launch a prediction market platform in the UK in January 2026 as a "road test" before a planned US launch as early as March (Justina Lee/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
A US judge sentences Rui-Siang Lin, who pled guilty to operating the $105M dark web narcotics marketplace Incognito Market, to 30 years in US federal prison (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2026/02/04
Hong Kong-listed Zhipu AI surged 30% after releasing its GLM-5, an open-source LLM with enhanced coding capabilities and long-running agent tasks (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/12/chinese-ai-stocks-new-model-and-agent-releases-zhipu-mini…
Meta's auditor Ernst & Young raised a red flag over the financial engineering Meta used to keep its $27B Hyperion data center project off its balance sheet (Jonathan Weil/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.
Kalshi integrates its event trading platform into the popular crypto wallet Phantom; Dune: in November, Kalshi's trading volume hit $5.8B vs. Polymarket's $3.7B (Nina Bambysheva/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.co…
The US CFTC grants crypto exchange Gemini a DCM license, allowing it to launch its prediction markets platform Gemini Titan (Daniel Kuhn/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/382142/gemini-cftc-approval-prediction-market-crypto-future…
Prediction market Kalshi raised $1B led by Paradigm at an $11B valuation, up from $5B after raising $300M in October 2025, making its co-founders billionaires (Michael J. de la Merced/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/dealb…
Newly listed Chinese AI chipmakers Moore Threads, Biren, and MetaX had stellar stock market debuts, but none has sales above 10% of rival Cambricon (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/f67a3a6a-d640-4b3f-bf06-dace3164d180
A profile of South Korea's SK Hynix, a once unloved memory chipmaker that now enjoys 58% operating margins and a $438B market cap amid the global HBM shortage (Daniel Tudor/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/3cb37eb1-97e8-44d9-9fa4-ef2a5649da8e
Anthropic CCO Paul Smith says the company is focused on "growing revenue" rather than making "flashy headlines", calls the market selloff "hyperbole", and more (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/11/anthropic-vs-openai-ads-spendin…
BlockFills, a crypto liquidity provider and lender to ~2K institutional clients, halts deposits and withdrawals, citing "recent market and financial conditions" (Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/73e506f4-6b58-4c38-9198-110e845f48b2
The EU opens investigations into Temu and airport scanner maker Nuctech to assess whether they unfairly penetrated the EU market thanks to Beijing subsidies (Francesca Micheletti/Politico)
https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-china-nuctech-temu-unfair-foreign-su…
VC fund a16z crypto says it is expanding to Asia and opening an office in Seoul, calling South Korea the world's second-largest crypto market (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/business/2025/12/10/a16z-cryp…
Cursor launches Visual Editor, a vibe-coding product for designers that integrates professional design controls with natural language editing (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-launches-pro-design-tools-figma/
China launches a probe into competition among online food delivery platforms, aiming to curb price wars that have contributed to deflationary economic pressures (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/asia-pacific/chin…
Sources: Coinbase is preparing to launch a prediction market powered by Kalshi to allow its clients to bet on events such as elections and sports (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/coinbase-launch-prediction-market-po…
Alphabet surpassed Apple in market cap for the first time since 2019 after its shares closed up 2.5% on Wednesday, valuing it at $3.89T vs. Apple's $3.85T (Barron's Online)
https://www.barrons.com/articles/alphabet-
Insurance tech company Ethos raised ~$200M in its Jan. 29 IPO, selling 10.5M shares at $19 each; it reached a $1.1B market cap, below its 2021 $2.7B valuation (Marina Temkin/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/29/how-sequoi…
The UK CMA says Apple and Google committed to making app store changes to ensure fairness to developers and consumers, and asks market players for their views (Upmanyu Trivedi/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
Microsoft shares fell ~10% on Thursday following an earnings report that disappointed some investors, the stock's sharpest daily decline since March 2020 (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/29/microsoft-market-cap-earnings.html
Cisco launches the Silicon One G300 switch chip, made using TSMC's 3nm technology to compete with Broadcom and Nvidia in the AI infrastructure market (Stephen Nellis/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/media-tel
Polymarket partners with Singapore-based Kaito AI to launch "attention markets", letting users bet on "mindshare" and "sentiment" metrics from social media (Alicia Park/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/aliciapark/20
Chinese state-backed chipmaker Hygon, which makes server CPUs, calls off merger with its top shareholder and server maker Sugon; the merger was announced in May (Wataru Suzuki/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technology/c…
CNN partners with Kalshi to use the company's real-time prediction data in its reporting, for on-air data tickers, fact-checking, and more (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/12/02/cnn-kalshi-prediction-market-data