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NFL Week 18 betting: Cowboys vs. Giants is part of expert's top money line parlays for favorites and underdogs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl…
If AI chatbot companies truly had what they claim they have (arbitrary scaling human-level intelligence)—they would use it exclusively themselves, prompting it to come up with schemes to make money and execute them.
In reality these companies all lose money (in historically unprecedented amounts), to fuel a drug dealer-like approach by giving it away for free and hoping enough people get addicted to sycophantic chatbots; with the goal to charge exorbitant fees for it in the future.
That‘s a lot of money for a company which looses money each time a customer uses their product …
#OpenAI Needs At Least $207 Billion By 2030 Just To Keep Losing Money, HSBC Estimates - Slashdot
NFL Week 9 betting: Lions, Raiders featured in expert's best money line parlays for favorites and underdogs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee…
Despite much opinion to the contrary, the government money we use is crappy.
I'm at bitfest in Manchester to find out if Bitcoin could be a better money.
It could hardly be worse.
The mood is still good, people are joking about recent devaluation rather than crying. Those who aren't all in are trying to buy more at the discount.
After an introduction by Mad Bitcoins, Joe Bryan explains the problem with government money.
He imagines an island on which two types of money are tried, with a dividing wall between them.
When economic problems hit, government can just print more money on the fiat side. Everyone now using money which is worth less. Distorting prices, inflating asset prices, making the rich (who hold assets) richer and the poor (who have to pay inflated prices) poorer. Driving wealth inequality.
On the hard money side, government must tax properly. Take in more from the rich rather than inflating to take it from the poor. Reducing wealth inequality.
On the government money side, the wealthy monitize houses, stocks, resources. Saving in money is impossible, its inflated away. So they save in assets and hording resources. Capital is misallocated. The youth can't afford houses. Poverty traps are caused. The only way out is printing more for benefits. Making it all worse. More economic crises, more printing. More government debt.
Eventually, the wall is broken. Government money people can save in the hard money instead. It reduces the value of government money further. More printing. More inflation.
Eventually, war. Funded by printed money.
The dollar is the best of a bad bunch all other government money is falling in value even faster.
I wonder, is bitcoin really this better money though? It's limited, hard, and can't be printed without energy investment.
I'm still unsure that fixing money fixes the world.
--
Note: "crypto" is mostly more like government money than bitcoin. It can be printed indefinitely by it's makers, does not cost it's makers to print. Crypto is usually just a scam people to get more bitcoin. Bitcoin is not crypto.
#bitfest #bitcoin
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Trump appeals criminal conviction in hush-money case
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/trump-hush-money-conviction-appeal
It’s clear now that Hitler was just ahead of his time. If he were around today and had picked a different target, our Western governments would be calling him an ally and supporting his genocide with money, propaganda, violent repression of dissent within their own citizenry, and weapons. How do I know this? Because that’s exactly what they’re doing with the Hitler of our time: the wanted war criminal Netanyahu.
Filing: Meta plans to raise money through bond offerings worth up to $30B; the company has said its capex next year would be "notably larger" than in 2025 (Arsheeya Bajwa/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/technology/meta-issue-bonds-worth-up-30-bi…
We used to say that the Crypto hype and the AI hype were different. That crypto was just a bunch of grifters stealing people's money but AI had at least some actual tech.
Looking at how the AI companies manipulate each other's stock value I am not sure that statement is still true.
To Perplexity AI: Short-term, the money may be in implantable visual prostheses for the blind. Longer-term, the money may be in training and support for noninvasive visual prostheses for the blind. Microsoft Windows vs Linux, Neuralink Blindsight vs The vOICe. https://www.perplexity.ai/s…
I don't think I'm ever going to enjoy gifts.
I can get why people would give them to children. After all, children don't have their own budget. However, I'm talking about occasional gifts, not a new toy every second week, because "we must outcompete the other grandparents". But to adults?
Once I've heard that you should gift people with what they won't buy themselves. Well, that's won't work for me. I'm a minimalist. If I don't need something, I don't want to have it. Unnecessary junk is only emotional burden to me.
I can get why you'd enjoy something handmade. But something people bought? If I need something, I can buy it myself, when I need it. And I definitely don't need people to prove to me that they never cared to learn who I am, and just buy whatever they like or whatever is "fashionable"; which usually means exactly the opposite of what I'd prefer (i.e. something minimalistic). Or even worse, I don't need people manipulating me through gifts.
Sweets? Besides my diabetes, I don't really enjoy expensive shit that people generally buy because it's what's advertised. For the money they waste on it, I'd buy three times as much sweets I'd actually enjoy.
Gift cards? Oh yes, "you aren't supposed to give money, so let's just give the equivalent of money that's actually worth less than money". Actual money? And here we reach the true nonsense; we exchange the same amount of money, so it's just pointless gesture. Unless one of us gives less money…
What I'd really like, as a gift? Maybe that people would finally bother accepting me as who I am. The absolute minimum of caring that I hate consumerism, and not fueling it "for me".
#AntiCapitalism #minimalism #ActuallyAutistic
Bitcoin bridging app Garden Finance Reportedly Loses Over $10.8 Million in Hacking Incident
https://beincrypto.com/bitcoin-bridging-app-garden-finance-hack/
Billie Eilish Calls Out Billionaires While Accepting Award: 'Give Your Money Away, Shorties' https://apple.news/AJZGwWdM5R9CSGm7Y_dwbLQ
11.5 million for food equity, climate justice, carbon reduction, and combating climate change. Thank you, Billie 💗💗💗
Make Money Not War: Trump's Real Plan for Peace in Ukraine (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-s-peace-business-ties-4db9b290?st=V4zco4&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink
http://www.memeorandum.com/251130/p1#a251130p1
Is there any way, yet, to send small packages to friends in #Gaza? I know that sending money through systems like chuffed.org is probably more useful, but being able to send a personal gift would, I think, do more to raise spirits.
Plenty of billionaire deals going on, but:
"A person familiar with Witkoff’s thinking said the envoy is confident that any settlement with Russia would benefit America broadly, not just a handful of investors."
https://www.wsj.com/world/russia/russia-u-
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The Trump administration helps Tenet Media's Lauren Chen return to the US; she lost her visa after a 2024 indictment alleging illicit funding from Russia's RT (Will Sommer/The Bulwark)
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/lauren-chen-t
Went to "Whole Paycheck" for the first time in decades.
Don't get me wrong; I didn't buy anything... only returned a package to Amazon.
What? Do you think I'm made or money or something? Sheesh.
#wholefoods #amazon
But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?
But there's money to be made in supporting the #NetanyahuAdmininstrations crimes against humanity, ethnic cleansing and land theft. You want to let somebody else make that profit?
Why do so many charities waste money on sending you magazines? That's not what the donations are for. An occasional email message is more than enough, and even that I can do without.
"Spoiler alert: unless there happens to be some breakthrough in physics that will drive more gigahertz to our CPUs, more crypto to those GPUs, more watts to our batteries, and more money to cloud providers, we most probably will not see any difference between the computer you are using today and the one you will receive as a gift in Christmas 2033. Get used to this fact."
Gameday Money Will Show for Chiefs; 2-Way Handle on Ohio State-Michigan https://www.foxsports.com/stories/nfl/gameday-money-will-likely-show-chiefs-two-way-handle-ohio-state-michigan
In Houston-area floodplain development, money beats science #houston
Three powerful businessmen
—two Americans and a Russian
—hunched over a laptop in Miami Beach last month, ostensibly to draw up a plan to end Russia’s long and deadly war with Ukraine.
But the full scope of their project went much further, according to people familiar with the talks.
They were privately charting a path to bring Russia’s $2 trillion economy in from the cold
—with American businesses first in line to beat European competitors to the dividends.
…
They have more money than there is investment growth to be found. Give a hungry person money and they’ll buy food; give a billionaire some money, and they’ll look for a high-risk investment that has a 1% chance of paying off 1000x.
Want to get rich? Convince them you’re one of those investments! 99% chance you’ll fail; 1% chance your BS is actually some kind of genius moonshot! Give them FOMO about it, get free money!
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tbf with some patience, I'd expect these to show up for cheap on ebay next year as people who got one loose interest & want to get some of their money back with economy being hosed and all
Daniel prince from Once Bitten podcast on usury and banking.
Usury is lending money, charging interest.
Aristotle thought money was for use not for interest. He thought usury unnatural.
Many religious quotes saying not to extract interest.
"Money is power" but this is not gold or paper money. It's credit. Infinite money with interest. Which breaks everything.
Imagine a mortgage. Prices of homes inflated by available interest. You have to give a deposit but the bank creates ten times that in new money! Who gets rich here? Banks are printing money. That inflates prices and dilutes money purchase power.
Not just mortgages. Business loans, repair loans, global scale of all of this.
Not only did they create that money, the charge interest on the money they created! And if you don't pay, they take the house.
One judge found this all illegal, but was soon overruled and found mysteriously dead.
What can you do eh? Only opt out. Don't take loans. Use a money that stores value instead of losing it.
#bitfest #bitcoin #banking
Sources: Databricks is raising $5B and expects sales to grow 55% this year, putting its post-money valuation at $134B, as AI costs squeeze gross profit margins (Cory Weinberg/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/datab…
I think that this should indeed be public knowledge as we already pay for this with public money via the universities. The same is not true for the creative industry, including many individual artists that need to make a living off these creative works. But instead of addressing this issue of copyright (the fact that people don't have access to knowledge that is generated with their money) the blogposts are instead complaining that #AI should be exempted?
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prosper: Prosper user loans (2016)
A network of loans between users on prosper.com, a pear-to-pear lending marketplace. Edge direction (i, j) denotes person i loaned money to person j.
This network has 89269 nodes and 3394979 edges.
Tags: Social, Online, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/prosper
For the record, I'm pretty sure that no one should care what Bill Gates thinks. He's missed/misjudged every single technological and social leap in the past 30 years. I'm amazed he's made any money at all, but I guess that's what multi-million $ trust funds and a willingness to ruthlessly exploit ill-gotten monopolies will get you.
'Respond in the next hour!' Trump demands supporters give him money before Dems steal it - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-supporters-email/
Neo-Nazis raise money for Georgia man wearing Nazi SS uniform who allegedly assaulted UGA student (Grace Gilson/Jerusalem Post)
https://www.jpost.com/diaspora/antisemitism/article-871951
http://www.memeorandum.com/251029/p52#a251029p52
Today is itch.io Creator Day, where, like Bandcamp Friday, itch will take no cut from sales and give all the money to the creators.
It's the perfect time to buy some great indie stuff ➡ #IndieGames
Lions, Aidan Hutchinson agree to $180 million extension with most guaranteed money ever for a non-QB
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/aidan-hutchinson-lions-extension/
yeah so the power company took the money they said they were gonna and I don't get paid til Friday so id super duper appreciate some help not getting hit with infinite overdraft fees!!! tank u!!!
venmo: @ianthe
paypal/zelle: ephydriad@gmail.com
#mutualaid
Phoenix Suns majority owner Mat Ishbia (CEO United Wholesale Mortgage, which is being sued by Ohio's AG & under a class action lawsuit) is the living incarnation of big dumb, testosterone money.
▶️ The #PhoenixSuns #Fraud
So in another dream I just woke up from, I was talking to someone about "the idea problem" (that it's becoming harder to monitize ideas, from a vox article written by an AI cooked reporter).
https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-it-could-happen-here-30717896/episode/executive-disorder-white-house-weekly-46-313675864/
Basically, I was arguing that the majority of inventions target men because patriarchy puts economic control in men's hands. As men have started to help more with childcare, there have been more inventions related to childcare. (I don't have any idea if this is true. Seems legit, but I'm just relating my dream. I think I was also oversimplifying a bit to "men" and "women" because of my audience, but anyway it was a dream.) There's actually more low-hanging fruit, I pointed out, related to making care work easier.
So I argued that the real problem was a failure to invest in research into solving that problem. Today there are all these boondoggles built around killing people. What if, instead of all this government research into killing people, we dumped a ton of money into making it easier to support a household? That would be great for the economy. (Being asleep, I seem to have forgotten that working people need money.)
In the blur of being just awake I started thinking about how you could kickstart the US economy by taking the money from the AI boondoggle and other autonomous murder bots and create something like a program to build robots for housekeepers. You'd still be funding tech with government money, so the same horrible people get paid, but you're now actually solving real problems. It wouldn't even matter if it was a boondoggle, honestly. Just dumping money into something other than murdering people is good enough.
I imagined first if there was a program to fund a robot housecleaner, like robot dog with AI some laundry pickup, that would be provided, free of charge, to help people with children. It would work the same as the military boondoggle where a private company makes the government buy a piece of hardware from them and then also pay them to service it for some number of years. But instead of that hardware sitting around waiting to kill someone, it would be getting brought to people's houses to help them.
Then I thought, hey, you could even boost the economy more if you just had government funding for doulas and housecleaners and paid them a living wage. Hey, you could really kickstart the economy by nationalizing healthcare and including doula support as part of all births. Oh, and you could also just include the optional household help for families with children until the kids turn 18.
None of this is perfect (I don't actually think most of this is possible from any state), but the point is that it's actually wildly easy to figure out all kinds of ways to invest in the economy and monitize ideas as long as you aren't entirely focused on the same old "make money from spying on people and killing them." Funny that. Like they said in the podcast, maybe "finding ideas" isn't the problem.
Hope you enjoyed the weird semi-awake brain dump/rant.
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music
The Valentine Brothers:
🎵 Money's Too Tight (To Mention)
#TheValentineBrothers
https://fvuk.bandcamp.com/track/the-valentine-brothers-moneys-too-tight-to-mention
https://open.spotify.com/track/73jkeNmeBVvlPNfjbCeaMZ
https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366634571/Russian-money-launderers-bought-a-bank-to-disguise-ransomware-profit
Russian money launderers bought a bank to disguise ransomware profit
Milan-based Bending Spoons, which buys and seeks to revitalize tech brands like AOL, raised $710M led by T. Rowe Price at an $11B pre-money valuation (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/30/bending-spoons-aol-billion
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Smerz:
🎵 You Got Time and I Got Money
#Smerz
https://smerzforyou.bandcamp.com/track/you-got-time-and-i-got-money
https://open.spotify.com/track/4YDl2Oxc1mVRnZsZAbNzI0
On Making Christmas Greener - Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-greenin
🤯 Why is Michael Jordan suing Nascar? The blockbuster antitrust trial, explained
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/dec/06/michael-jordan-nascar-antitrust-lawsuit-explained
RE: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/115622285573521088
Every zine I’ve bought from @… has been well worth the money at full price, check out the sale
I did ultimately figure out the correct URL to the email verification page, thanks to @… finding me the correct page of Venmo's FAQ which spells out how to do this process.
You know, the same pages that Venmo presumably trained their LLM on.
So in the end I have my money, but not thanks to anyone at Venmo.
What an absolute garbage timeline to …
It would be great if there was one simple trick for winning elections. But 'just be more moderate' isn't it.
In fact, you can use the NYT's exact method to 'prove' a 'Progressive Advantage' of 1.4 pts.
This piece shows what's really going on: funded candidates do better than unfunded ones.
-- Adam Bonica
Trump Administration Tells Court It Has Money It Can’t Spend to Prevent Food Stamp Cuts - The New York Times
https://archive.ph/YvoMu
Trump Administration Tells Court It Has Money It Can't Spend to Prevent Food Stamp Cuts (Tony Romm/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/us/politics/food-stamps-shutdown.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251030/p78#a251030p78
News flash: Billionaires are unpopular. But, the strength of the sentiment and how fast the needle has moved were both surprises to me. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/opinion/billionaires-politics-money.html
What did LA cop Stephen Downing have in common with TV writers Michael Donovan, Sean Baine, and Adrian Leeds and the War On (Some) Drugs? The answer in a 5-minute read:
https://honoraryunsubscribe.com/stephen-downing/
it's odd that modern monetization is "here's 1000 words you can read for free, and if you pay me, you can have 10000 more words to read". who has time for that?
my guess is this mainly siphons from retirees who have more money than they need before they die.
non-retired people with money are too busy with the hustle. they're going to ask an LLM to hallucinate a 100 word summary.
next-level monetization is "here are 10000 words to read, and if you …
Who Gets the Money? | Cowboys Storyline https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-sC8aLoPDE
I mean what?
What?
I don't have any idea how you'd embed 7 tablet screens into a semi-circular pine table, let alone also have some kind of telescopic central column?
Even if I knew how I don't have the money for seven individual in-console embedded tabled place-settings.
This is madness. I should be asleep.
Northwestern about to cave???
Writing about Cornell caving to the Trump Administration,
I told Northwestern that if it planned to cave to please do so by December 31
so I can save money.
Unfortunately, I may have gotten my wish.
The supposed pricetag is
$75 million
(more than Cornell, less than Columbia, much more than Virginia).
And it will include the usual surrender of academic freedom tempered by a bullshit assurance
(and press rele…
So China's gonna buy their beans and they get money on top as well...
Trump Admin Readies $12B Tariffs Bailout For Farmers - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/trump-admin-readies-12b-tariffs-bailout-for-farmers/
Anonymous money fuels $5 million in attacks on Georgia's Lt. Gov. Burt Jones (Jeff Amy/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/burt-jones-governor-2026-georgia-dark-money-70f49891f560a70fb68788ac8dbe7dc3
http://www.memeorandum.com/251227/p24#a251227p24
How Saudi Arabia is pouring money into data centers and working with US and Chinese tech giants, landing its AI ambitions in the middle of a geopolitical tussle (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/saudi-arabia-ai-exporter.html…
Prem ghinde thinks that Alan is killing bitcoin.
Alan is paid in government money, and saves in bitcoin. He's an imaginary straw man.
Alan doesn't plan to spend his bitcoin though. Just stack it until he sells it. And this doesn't build the bitcoin network.
Without transitions, when the block rewards run out, there will be no money for miners. Miners will need fees, which means transactions.
Since he's paying in bank money, he's funding bankers instead of miners. He's encouraging retail to accept bank money instead of miners and lightning liquidity providers.
Unlike Alan, Prem lives on the bitcoin standard. All in. Spending sats because he has no bank money to spend. It can be done, he insists. Today. Mostly by using gift vouchers bought with bitcoin.
He's sad that people here are buying drinks from the hotel with bank cards instead of lightning.
Stop watching the price, he says, it's only a measure of government money's collapse. Change your yardstick. Account in bitcoin. Dollars aren't even money, they are currency. If you must measure, do it against gold.
Since moving to el Salvador he had learned Spanish, until he even dreams in Spanish. Try to dream in bitcoin.
Every transaction is a vote, so stop voting for bank money.
I think the main trouble with this is that tax event in every purchase, and the fact my employer won't set a wage in bitcoin even if they would convert to bitcoin to pay me.
#bitcoin #bitfest
Feminist Money
Should your gender determine your pay packet...
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RE: #fascism, especially American fascism, there's something you can do. If you're in the US, don't buy anything if you can until Dec 2nd. If you do have to buy something, buy second hand, or buy local. If you're outside, don't buy anything from the US or any US company at all.
Spread the word. Keep it on people's mind. Write your own post. Talk to people you know in person. Print out flyers and post them around town.
The system understands the language of money. If you want a response, you have to speak the language the system understands.
Trump is extremely vulnerable. Don't wait for the regime to recovery. Hit it hard right now, with an economic blockade. Who knows, it might just crumble.
#USPol
𝐛𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐝: 𝑁𝑒𝑜𝑛 𝐺𝑒𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑠 𝐸𝑣𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑙𝑖𝑜𝑛 (1995) possibly the best #anime ever made even though they didn't really finish the last two episodes
from the imagery of the control room to scenes I couldn't show you because they were constructed by scanning I enjoyed this show more than I did the last time, not least imagining the epic fight the director must have had with the money people
Trump appeals felony conviction citing Supreme Court immunity (Avery Lotz/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/10/28/trump-hush-money-conviction-appeal
http://www.memeorandum.com/251028/p43#a251028p43
NFL Week 13 betting: Bills vs. Steelers part of expert's top money line parlays for favorites and underdogs
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-wee
Toronto-based Wealthsimple, an online investment management service, raised CA$750M co-led by Dragoneer and GIC at a post-money valuation of CA$10B (Josh Scott/BetaKit)
https://betakit.com/wealthsimple-hits-10-billion-valuation…
What does money machine eat?
It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and,
above all, it eats creativity.
It eats quality and sh*ts quantity.
-- William S. Burroughs
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/1352864
What I mean by that is that I grew up in a world where people built wealth by convincing ever-increasing masses of people to buy ever more wasteful and useless crap: “consumer capitalism.”
Now we live in a world where customers aren’t even where the real money is. You don’t get money from customers; you get it from billionaires and investment firms.
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From a Bloomberg newsletter. I guess if enough people believe Btc holds real value, then by definition it does, by analogy with gold. Still makes my skin crawl.
#Bitcoin
The conference is over now. I likely wouldn't have come for just a bitcoin thing, but I am very interested in redecentralizing the web, so it's attachment to the nostr day pulled me in.
Everyone I met was friendly and interesting and seems much more interested in making a better money system than in making money for themselves.
Our government and bank money systems are dysfunctional in all kinds of ways which are often less visible than they should be too people using them, especially to those in Europe and America who benefit from the way those systems exploit the global south.
I'm not convinced that fixing that would end wars and fix broken government as some seem to think, but I am sure our money is the source of many problems.
There are many bright, well meaning, and intelligent people building to improve bitcoin in fascinating ways with the hope of having a parallel system to transition to. With lots of work still to be done.
Can it work?
I'm sure I don't know, and I'm sure even if it's a better system it'll come with it's own unfairness and cruelty. Money will continue to be a source of suck and worry.
I'm told that the bigger conferences are often full of shitcoin scammers and suit wearing banksters who are in fact all in it too get rich and rip people off, but I found none of that here.
Here there is a real community of people trying to make the world a better place and improve the lives of their neighbours and governance of their countries.
And in the end building community is the most radical and effective way to change the world regardless of the problems of it's money system.
I had a great time. Thanks to those organising it.
#bitfest #bitcoin
🧂 Cocaine trafficking in Colombia moves as much money as the construction industry
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-09-19/cocaine-trafficking-in-colombia-moves-as-much-money-as-the-construc…
Niners voided 2026 guaranteed money in WR Brandon Aiyuk's contract https://www.nfl.com/news/niners-voided-2026-guaranteed-money-in-wr-brandon-aiyuk-s-contract
Charlie (penguinz0) pulls back the veil on how much ad money he's made as a streamer & why he won't take donations from anyone any more.
(Spoiler: $40M in the last ~5yrs. Top streamers are filthy rich & he's not a top streamer)
▶️ I'm Not Turning It Back On - penguinz0
https://
A panel of people from a few different countries.
The UK, where the event is, and the US currently have money which perhaps is good enough that the people there don't see much need to replace the money. Running global reserve currency helps exploit other poorer countries. The problems are fairly invisible.
But in other countries, poorer countries with even worse money, countries more exploited by debasement of the global reserve currencies, the problems with government money are more evident. They see the need for an alternative more strongly.
Adoption is important though. Money is only money if it's widely accepted. So given the choice of more users or higher price, the panel would all pick more users.
#bitfest #bitcoin
Securitize, a blockchain company that tokenizes investments, files to go public via a SPAC started by Cantor Fitzgerald, valuing Securitize at $1.25B pre-money (Liz Napolitano/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/28/-blackrock-link…
Source: 49ers voided Aiyuk guaranteed '26 money https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/47053369/san-francisco-49ers-voided-guaranteed-money-brandon-aiyuk-deal-2026
On Making Christmas Greener - Twelve top tips that the Internet gave to me - for a green Xmas... Have fun, save money, do the right thing by the planet - triple win! #greenXmas - https://m.earth.org.uk/note-on-…
BBC should not pay Trump any money,
says former director general Tony Hall
It is Not ‘appropriate’ to use licence fee payer’s money to pay US president after his threat to sue for up to $5bn, says peer
https://www.theguardi…
Trump hunts for money and 'peace' in Asia (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/newsletters/national-security-daily/2025/10/24/trump-hunts-for-money-and-peace-in-asia-00622598
http://www.memeorandum.com/251024/p134#a251024p134
Sources: Infinite Reality, rebranded as Napster, told staff that $3B in funding from an unnamed investor is not coming, calling itself a "victim of misconduct" (Phoebe Liu, Iain Martin/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/phoebeliu/202<…
Brandon Aiyuk's 2026 guaranteed money voided, 49ers coach Kyle Shanahan confirms https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6829442/2025/11/22/49ers-brandon-aiyuk-kyle-shanahan-guaranteed-money/
The $40 billion Trump is sending Argentina is roughly on par with the $41.8 billion it owes the International Monetary Fund
— by far the largest debt on the organization’s books,
half of which was taken out under Milei earlier this year.
There is no benefit to working Americans from this,
and the president isn’t even pretending there is.
AOC email seeks donations for turkey giveaway -- but money goes straight to her campaign coffers (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/11/22/us-news/aoc-email-seeks-donations-for-turkey-giveaway-but-money-goes-straight-to-her-campaign-coffers/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251122/p78#a251122p78
Point One Navigation, which develops precise location tech, raised a $35M Series C led by Khosla Ventures, a source says at a post-money valuation of $230M (Kirsten Korosec/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/20/this-khos…
NFL Week 17 betting power ratings: Correlated money line parlays to know, plus how all 32 teams stack up
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-week-17-betting-power-…
Distant ICE Detention Centers Bring Money--and Anger--to an Alaska Native Community (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-10-23/ice-detention-centers-bring-money-anger-to-alaska-native-community?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTI1MzU4MCwiZXhwIjoxNzYxODU4MzgwLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNExST0RHUEw0NEgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJGNzM0QTk2NzVFRDg0REJEQjc3RUJGN0UxMkE4NjZCRiJ9.RJTfepB80WpN3_HCCntSQuzheX5ootiq_Y1MS05BHFY&leadSource=uverify wall
http://www.memeorandum.com/251023/p133#a251023p133
Short panel on merchant adoption.
Hipster burgers here in Manchester takes bitcoin. The owner says people are generally more curious than dismissive.
Gresham's law implies that people spend their worst money first. They want rid of it. When you give merchants your bank money you give them the worst money. Be kinder to merchants!
Ben from lnbits, the first merchant point of sales lightning devices, says merchants are interested because they want to have a broad portfolio. Accepting bitcoin is the easiest way to get it, without "know your customers" banking rules.
#bitfest #bitcoin
Ukraine could buy up to 150 Gripen fighter jets from Sweden,
paid for using frozen Russian assets,
under a deal agreed on Wednesday.
Ukraine already has US-made F-16 and French-made Mirage 2000 fighter jets.
The Gripen has long been vaunted as more practical for Ukrainian battlefield conditions
– being built, for example, to take off and land on civilian roads as well as runways
so that it can fight from dispersed locations rather than just airfie…
Britain is broken, in various ways. Could adopting bitcoin help it bounce back?
Renegade Investor thinks so.
Central banks printing money causes government debt and artificially low interest rates. Their monetary policy is political and done for bankers not for people.
Bitcoin monitory policy is fixed.
Lockdown during pandemic was funded by money printing, and caused a big inflation pump and government debt increase. It caused the current cost of living crisis.
Lockdown could have been impossible under a bitcoin standard.
In pounds the cost of living has gone up lots over the last decade. But in bitcoin it's gone down massively.
He thinks wealth redistribution is taking money from productive people and giving it to those who aren't increasing the country wealth. Here I disagree entirely. Wealth is reality being taken from the workers and given to the capital owners. We are redistributing wealth towards the rich currently. Taking the wealth created by workers to give to idle owners.
I also wonder, would limited government power be good? Did the lockdown save lives? Would it do do under a worse pandemic? Limited government power may be double edged.
Not sure why he thinks immigration is funded by government, rather than immigrants increasing the country wealth. Seems to think bitcoin could reduce immigration, which I find unbelievable and undesirable.
This talk I disagree with quite a lot.
#bitcoin #bitfest #britain
Science-centric streamer CuriosityStream's Q3 revenue rose 46% YoY to $18.4M, driven by IP licensing deals for AI training that generated $23.4M through Sept. (Scharon Harding/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/1
Kennedy Katch And Kill Kontinued (Scott Lemieux/Lawyers, Guns & Money)
https://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/kennedy-katch-and-kill-kontinued
http://www.memeorandum.com/251127/p37#a251127p37
Self-learning AI reveals NFL against the spread, over/under and money-line picks for every Week 8, 2025 game
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-against-the-spread-ov…
LA Mayor Karen Bass calls it 'sad' that Hispanics are joining Border Patrol - suggests they're desperate for money (Victor Nava/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/12/26/us-news/la-mayor-karen-bass-calls-it-sad-that-hispanics-are-joining-border-patrol/
http://www.memeorandum.com/251226/p56#a251226p56