⚡️😳 WTF - A Bitcoin user paid a 1.6 BTC fee, worth roughly $103,000, for a single transaction.

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - Good night everyone

⚡️🚨 BIG - .BITCOIN TOP-LEVEL DOMAIN APPLICATION SUBMITTED TO ICANN The application for a dedicated “.bitcoin” top-level domain has officially been submitted to ICANN for Community Priority Evaluation. The bid includes 50+ letters of endorsement from across the Bitcoin community, along with several high-level letters of recognition. If approved, .bitcoin would join domains like .com and .org as a recognized top-level domain within the global DNS system. ICANN is expected to publicly reveal the full application in November 2026.

⚡️🔎 CHART - A cycle signal that hadn’t appeared in six years has just triggered for Bitcoin. This is the analysis by analyst TechDev_52, based on an economic cycle indicator. His observation, supported by a chart dating back to 2010: - Five times, this indicator has shifted into bullish mode - Five times, a parabolic surge in Bitcoin followed - No exceptions, according to him This same shift has just occurred again—a first in six years. Hence his bold statement: “$60,000 may be the last time you see Bitcoin at a bargain price.”

⚡️🚨 NEW - XAPO BANK REQUIRES LOCATION ACCESS TO TRANSACT Xapo Bank users are raising concerns after the app began requiring location data to make transactions, with one user reportedly told they must share GPS coordinates to access their funds. Xapo says it cross-references location with other data to confirm the account holder is in control. Tone Vays warned location requirements could become standard across regulated payment apps, while Casa CEO Nick neuman suggested the measure may be aimed at combating rampant social-engineering attacks rather than traditional KYC.

⚡️🤖💻 TECH - An AI-watermark remover tool to remove AI provenance marks from Claude, Gemini, and OpenAI. Watermarks-remover strips invisible Unicode carriers from text and deletes C2PA and XMP metadata across eight formats, including PNG, JPEG, PDF, and DOCX.

⚡️🇻🇪🇮🇱 NEW - Venezuela restores diplomatic ties with Israel Venezuela and Israel agreed on 11 August to resume consular services, 17 years after Caracas broke relations with Tel Aviv over war crimes committed by the Israeli military in the Gaza Strip during Operation Cast Lead.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇱 NEW - Sen. Fetterman: Israel is the red line for me. Like, I can't ever turn my back to Israel. Stewart: But that is not our country.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Karoline Leavitt departing as White House Press Secretary at the end of the month, Trump says

⚡️👀 WATCH - ohnePixel tested his luck with a suspicious website "I should have not opened that, can a PNG hack me or not"

⚡️🌒 TODAY - Total solar eclipse over parts of Europe.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - SEC prepares "innovation exemption" to allow 24/7 blockchain trading of tokenized stocks.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz: We will not withdraw—not from Lebanon, not from Syria, and not from Gaza—from the security zones. This is our policy, and we will continue it. We are up here, they are down there. Residents are outside, soldiers are inside, and the houses are destroyed.

⚡️⛏️ NEW - Bitcoin transaction fees now account 0.69% of miner revenue, a 10-year low.

⚡️🇰🇿 NEW - The personal data of nearly 15 MILLION Kazakh citizens has reportedly been put up for sale on the dark web. An individual using the pseudonym “shymzz13” claims to have exploited a vulnerability in the eGov government portal to obtain a massive database. The database reportedly contains passports, phone numbers, email addresses, passwords, places of employment, and scans of personal documents. The hacker is reportedly demanding 0.5 BTC for the entire database. If the leak is confirmed and actually affects 15 million people, its scale would be significant for a country with a population of approximately 20 million.

⚡️🇨🇴 WATCH - People evacuate gym moments before it is destroyed by a powerful earthquake in Colombia.

⚡️🇶🇦🇨🇴🇮🇱 NEW - Qatar condemns the Colombian government’s recognition of Israeli sovereignty over the occupied Syrian Golan Heights Doha | August 11, 2026

⚡️🇮🇱🇨🇴 NEW - Netanyahu: We are with Colombia because our friend, the President of Colombia, recognized Israel's sovereignty over the Golan Heights. I thank you, Mr. President.

⚡️🇺🇸🇮🇷 NEW - Trump hid in a catering container to board secret flight in Turkey amid Iran assassination threat, per the Washington Post While President Trump boarded the old Air Force One jumbo jet in view of the television cameras, he was secretly shuttled minutes later to a smaller plane via an airport catering truck typically used to load meals and other supplies.’

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump: "Iran is going fine—going just absolutely fine. We totally control the Strait of Hormuz. We have control over it; nobody else, only us."