VanEck CEO says the Bitcoin adoption story hasn't changed in 2 years. "Central banks haven't come on board. Corporations haven't come on board. It's basically been some financial investors through the ETFs but not many institutions." "Why would you expect some big change in the price of Bitcoin when nothing has happened?"

Every financial crisis in US history has come out of the banking system. The government has always marched up and bailed out an industry or Wall Street. "Who's gonna bail out the Fed? When our 10-year rates go up, it'll be a new thing for everybody." - Jan van Eck

VanEck CEO says they are spending $750,000 a year on on Claude.

Mamdani: "We will leverage city-owned land to build 100% affordable and mixed income housing."

Hyperscalers are spending hundreds of billions on AI with negative implied returns through 2030. Amazon is the only one projected to break even at 7.2%. Meta: -28.8%. Oracle: -35.6%. Microsoft: -9.2%. Alphabet: -15.7%.

BNY CEO Robin Vince: "I'm an AI optimist. There's a lot of doom mongering around AI." "Back in the day, all of the folks who ran horse and carriage businesses didn't love the creation of the motor car. But they also couldn't imagine the new professions built around that new industry. There are now more jobs. They're just different jobs."

A pseudonymous plaintiff is suing for legal ownership of 3.8 million BTC worth $293.5 billion, including roughly 1.1 million coins attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto. Galaxy Research has now published a full breakdown of the case. The lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court, targets 39,069 dormant Bitcoin addresses. Galaxy confirms it is the culmination of the 2025 "dusting" campaign, when a client of "Salomon Brothers Strategic Advisors" sent OP_RETURN messages to thousands of dormant addresses claiming constructive possession. The claimed addresses include 21,923 Satoshi-era "Patoshi" pattern wallets holding $84.7 billion, the Mt. Gox hacker address holding 79,957 stolen BTC, and the Counterparty burn address, which is provably unspendable. The legal theory rests on New York's lost-and-found property law. An unnamed expert valued each address at under $10, triggering the statute's fastest track for title transfer. OP_RETURN notices, a press release, and a 90-day claim window were designed to satisfy the requirements. Even a full victory would not give the plaintiffs any private keys or the ability to move a single coin. But Galaxy warns a court judgment could function as a "cloud on title" if any of these coins ever surfaced at a regulated venue.

Trump Accounts mobile app launches today. Parents can manage child savings accounts backed by a $1,000 Treasury seed deposit and invested in index funds.

A $300 drone built from Chinese components and 3D-printed parts is defeating the Merkava tank. Fiber-optic guided, unjammable, carrying RPG warheads. 35 confirmed strikes geolocated by BBC Verify. Israel just approved a $700 million emergency budget and ordered construction of its own FPV drone factory. One of the most advanced militaries on Earth is now copying a non-state actor's weapon because it can't defend against it. Russia plans to produce 7 million FPV drones in 2026. 60% of Russian army losses in Ukraine are from FPVs. France is converting tanks into anti-drone shotguns. The Sovereign Individual predicted this in the 1990s: when the cost of projecting force drops toward zero, power shifts from institutions to individuals. A few hundred dollars now destroys tens of millions in military hardware. The asymmetry of violence is shifting. Every time that's happened in history, the world reorganized around the new reality. The printing press. Gunpowder. The internet. This is the next one.

Feds just found $40 million in gold bars at a former CIA official's house. Fort Knox hasn't had a full independent audit since 1953.

The Trump administration says Americans exposed to Ebola while abroad will be sent to a new quarantine and treatment facility in Kenya rather than flown back to the United States. The facility is being set up by the Departments of Defense, State, and Health and Human Services. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said at a Cabinet meeting Wednesday, "We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States." The plan mirrors comments Trump made as a private citizen in 2014, when he criticized President Obama for bringing infected Americans home during the West Africa outbreak. "Treat them, at the highest level, over there," he wrote at the time. Suspected Ebola cases in the Democratic Republic of the Congo are now approaching 1,000. An American doctor working in Congo tested positive earlier this month and was sent to Germany for treatment. Kenya's health minister confirmed discussions with the U.S. about "preparedness and response mechanisms" but has not confirmed whether the government has signed off on hosting the facility.

President Trump: Gary Gensler and anti-crypto policies nearly destroyed the U.S. industry. America is now the “crypto capital of the world.”

Senator Warren calls for taxing AI data centers. "It's time to make corporations pay their fair share and make sure they're no longer incentivized to fire workers and replace them with AI."

"Tokenisation does not change the underlying legal nature of money." The BIS has concluded Project Agora, a prototype for a shared programmable platform that settles wholesale cross-border payments in seconds using tokenized central bank reserves. Seven central banks participated: the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Bank of England, Bank of Japan, European Central Bank, Bank of Canada, Bank of Korea, and Swiss National Bank. Over 40 private sector firms were involved, including JPMorgan, HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Mastercard, Visa, Swift, UBS, and Citi. The prototype demonstrated atomic settlement across all seven jurisdictions, meaning either all parts of a cross-border payment execute or none do. The system uses a two-layer architecture: jurisdiction-specific ledgers for tokenized central bank reserves and a shared unifying ledger for tokenized commercial bank deposits. The platform embeds AML, sanctions screening, and fraud detection directly into transactions via smart contracts, running compliance checks in parallel rather than sequentially. It operates 24/7.

Block launches stablecoin integration on Cash App.

Rubio: "We cannot and will not allow any cases of Ebola to enter the United States."

Trump Accounts app launches tomorrow. $1,000 federal seed for every newborn, invested in index funds and locked until age 18.

Trump: Gas prices will “come down a lot” once the Iran “excursion” ends. “It’ll come down to where it was before.”

US home foreclosure filings rose 26% year-over-year in the first quarter of 2026, reaching roughly 119,000 properties. That is the highest level in six years. Foreclosure filings have more than tripled since the post-pandemic low.

Kelly Loeffler: "At the SBA we found $200B in fraudulent PPP loans that the Biden Administration tried to hide, and forgive, and sweep under the rug." "We've turned the first $22B of that over to Treasury for collections, and to DOJ for prosecution."