⚡️🥩 FUN FACT - Ground Beef is going parabolic. Forget about stocks or crypto. Just stack cows.

⚡️🔎 ARCHIVE - Satoshi emailed Adam Back to say Hashcash was getting cited in the whitepaper — 18 years ago today.

⚡️🚨🇺🇸 NEW - Elon Musk comes to the defense of Derek Chauvin, the police officer who killed George Floyd. "Derek Chauvin was unjustly convicted of murder, therefore he should be freed. The facts show that he was not the cause of death, nor did he at any time intend for a death to occur. Whatever else he may be, he is not a murderer. That is the truth." 👉 As a reminder: George Floyd was handcuffed and pinned to the ground, repeatedly saying he couldn’t breathe, while Derek Chauvin kept him immobilized for approximately 9 minutes and 29 seconds. The official medical examiner classified his death as a homicide, concluding that it resulted from cardiorespiratory arrest that occurred during police restraint, physical restraint, and neck compression. In 2021, Derek Chauvin was found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of George Floyd. 👉 His death sparked a historic wave of protests in the United States and around the world, notably under the slogan “Black Lives Matter.”

⚡️👀 NEW - ColdCard: « New COLDCARD firmware is available: 5.6.1 for Mk4/Mk5 and 1.5.1Q for Q. This release follows three weeks of sustained review since our July 31 hotfix. We continue to acknowledge the customers who suffered severe financial losses from the seed-generation attack. Every newly generated seed now requires one source of user entropy: at least 65 key presses with unpredictable timing, 50 physical dice rolls, or 128 physical coin flips. This input is combined with fresh entropy from the STM32 TRNG, SE1, and SE2. The release also adds staged-PSBT verification immediately before signing, stronger USB and firmware-update boundaries, improved Delta Mode isolation, active-wallet backup fixes, stronger RNG initialization and fault checks, safer SIGHASH defaults, and many additional security and correctness improvements. Important: Updating does not repair an existing seed generated on affected firmware. If the advisory applies to your seed, update your device, generate and verify a new seed, then move your funds. We strongly recommend that all Mk4, Mk5, and Q users update and verify the signed firmware download. Thank you to every researcher who reported issues, reproduced edge cases, reviewed fixes, and helped make this release stronger. »

⚡️🇮🇪 NEW - Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan buy a Gothic Irish castle in County Waterford for around €20 and €30 million. A spokesman says Mark "look[s] forward to spending time in Ireland." — AFP

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Israel’s Ben-Gurion Airport was temporarily brought to a standstill after workers halted check-in and flights amid operational difficulties and complaints over heavy workloads. The disruption came during the busy summer travel season, with about 100,000 passengers expected to pass through the airport. Workers cited problems handling aircraft, baggage and passengers, worsened by a shortage of available parking stands.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Bessent: "We've got a spike in oil prices today that I don't really understand"

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong tells FOX Business: "I think over the next couple of years, say 2030, I think it's very likely we'll see a $300,000 and $400,000 Bitcoin"

⚡️🚨 ALERT - BITCOINERS: DO NOT SCAN THIS QR CODE The IRS is warning that scammers are mailing fake, official-looking IRS letters to cryptocurrency holders directing them to a bogus “Digital Asset Compliance Portal.” The letters include a QR code leading to a fake IRS website that may ask for personal information, wallet details, exchange credentials or other sensitive data. The IRS says it does not operate a “Digital Asset Compliance Portal” and did not send these letters. Coinbase and DarkTower reportedly traced infrastructure behind the campaign to a recently registered domain hosted in Romania. If you receive one, do not scan the QR code or provide any information.

⚡️😱 WTF - ABSOLUTELY INSANE A surrogate mother refuses to have an abortion after the baby is diagnosed with a severe heart defect (HLHS). She refuses to kill the baby because she couldn’t live with herself if she did. She gives birth. The biological parents take the baby… …and are suing her for $100,000 because she dared to let him live. Today, the baby is alive; he has undergone his first life-saving heart surgery and is recovering. McKenna West is being sued for saying NO to abortion.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Bessent downplays the national debt: "There's nothing magic about the $40 trillion number. We can grow our way out of that."

⚡️👀 NEW - Bitcoin switches from Fear to Greed in less than 24h.

⚡️🇺🇦 NEW - Zelensky on mobilization issues: I am very much looking forward to a more humane and systematic approach to solving organizational issues in the military.

⚡️🤖 NEW - A humanoid robot preparing for the “Robot Olympics” in Beijing runs too fast to stop, crashes into a safety cushion, and breaks its waist.

⚡️👀 NEW - The Largest Short Liquidation In Crypto History Just Happened Short sellers lost $3 billion in a single day. Bitcoin hit $71,000, up +11.50%, and $236 billion was added to the crypto market. Here is the full move

⚡️🇮🇱🇱🇧 NEW - Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir on Lebanon: I have a son who is now going in and out of Lebanon with his reconnaissance unit, and I’m telling you: he and his friends deserve for us to bomb Beirut, for us to crush them.

⚡️🤖 WATCH - A robot appears to suffer a seizure at the World Robot Conference in Beijing after its remote control stops working and the operators struggle to shut it down.

⚡️⚠️ NEW - He clicked on the former official Tornado Cash domain… and lost 1,010 ETH. The victim had saved tornadocash in his bookmarks. The domain, which had not been renewed following OFAC sanctions, had since been taken over by hackers and turned into a phishing site. 1,010 ETH drained in just 12 hours The group is reported to have already stolen nearly 4,000 ETH using similar methods over the past year.

⚡️🇺🇸🇨🇳 WATCH - China Xinhua News: - U.S. national debt hits $40T. What's the secret to keeping the borrowing going? - U.S. financial hegemony. - Borrow new money to pay the old bills & kick the can down the road -- sounds like a perfect plan. - But what if the can hits others? And how long can it keep rolling?

⚡️💬 WTF - Rabbi Shmuley hints that Israel should take out Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens “The Jewish people must be feared. That’s why we killed Ishmael Haniyeh in the heart of Tehran. Why aren’t we going after Candace Owens and Tucker Carlson? We’re going to bring the fight to our enemies.”