Treasury sanctions 10 individuals and one entity over North Korean government-run IT worker schemes. Fake documents, stolen identities and fabricated personas get North Korean workers hired by legitimate companies in the U.S. and allied countries. https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0669

Since December 2024, the US has added roughly 760,000 jobs. According to government payroll data, nearly all of them have gone to women. Men have gained essentially zero net jobs since Trump took office.

"It doesn't look good either way. Bitcoin looks fine either way." @Matthew Mezinskis on the Fed and the 2019 repo crisis.

"It's kind of clickbaity." @MartyBent and @Matthew Mezinskis on stablecoins vs global broad money.

Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino shares his latest keynote: "Tether: a psychohistory interpretation."

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Google DeepMind just dropped Genie 4, an interactive world model that generates dynamic environments in real time with reactive scenes, sound, and characters that move, react, and speak.

"I do think 10 ounces of gold is out of play." @Matthew Mezinskis on Bitcoin priced in gold.

Lightning Labs' Dario Nakamoto explains how Wavelength VTXOs carry Taproot Assets secured by the Ark policy tree. Compact proofs and client-side validation link asset history back to an on-chain commitment.

"We're definitely in cheap territory." @Matthew Mezinskis on where Bitcoin sits on its power trend.

Amboss Co-Founder @Jestopher demos stablecoin payments over Lightning using Taproot Assets.

The Dutch central bank (DNB) published its first-ever official data on bitcoin and crypto ownership in the Netherlands. Dutch households held €3.2 billion through domestic providers as of June 2026. Bitcoin dominates at €1.5 billion, nearly half the total, followed by Ethereum at €300 million. Stablecoins make up less than 1% of holdings. For context, that €3.2 billion is only about 1.4% of the €234 billion Dutch households hold in traditional securities. The real total is likely higher since holdings with foreign providers and self-custody aren't counted.

Dutch households hold over €3 billion in crypto-assets

At the end of June 2026, Dutch households held €3.2 billion worth of crypto-assets via Dutch crypto-asset service providers.

Bitcoin's hash rate just hit a 7-month high. Fidelity Digital Assets: "The market is looking for the next catalyst. Miners are committing capital."

Sony data breach exposes 2.58 million customers Sony Network Communications disclosed a major data breach affecting its So-net and plala internet services in Japan. Hackers accessed the member database on October 19, but the intrusion wasn't discovered until October 23. Leaked data includes names, phone numbers, email addresses, user IDs, dates of birth, and internet connection IDs for 2.14M So-net members and 443K plala customers. Email passwords for 54,401 accounts were also compromised across four mail services, along with 16 bank account records. Sony says no credit card data or bank PINs were exposed. Affected email passwords have been reset, and the compromised servers were shut down. The company has reported the incident to Japan's data protection authority.

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TFTC 804 w/ @Matthew Mezinskis: "We're definitely in cheap territory. The same thing as those 2015 lows or 2018 lows or 2022 lows. 92% of the time, the price has been higher relative to trend." We discuss: ⚡ Bitcoin's rarest buy signal ⚡ Bitcoin vs. gold ⚡ The $1M timeline

"It's also Bitcoin working. There's no moral hazard. There are no bailouts." @npub1w69y...zltw on the Coldcard bug and the Ledger supply chain attack.

UK-listed Smarter Web Company bought another 20 bitcoin, bringing their total holdings to 2,850 BTC worth roughly $227 million at current prices.

"It made no sense for the Canadians to walk out of those trade negotiations." Susan Kokinda on Canada's tariff politics.

OpenAI just dropped GPT-6.1 Terra. It scores on par with GPT-6 Astra on visual reasoning benchmarks at one-tenth the price per token, solves 50.3% of Terminal-Bench coding tasks (more than double its predecessor), and cut hallucination rates from 53.6% to 16.7%. API pricing: $1/M input tokens, $5/M output. Rolling out now to Plus, Pro, Enterprise, and Edu users.

Microsoft is offering voluntary buyouts to a significant portion of its workforce as it restructures around AI. Reports suggest up to 60,000 employees could be eligible. Eligible staff at VP level and below across the US, Canada, India, and the UK can leave with financial support and career planning resources. "This offer gives eligible employees who may be considering a future outside the company a new choice to make that transition now with support."

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Introducing a Voluntary Exit Offer - The Official Microsoft Blog

Amy Coleman, Executive Vice President and Chief People Officer, shared the below communication with Microsoft employees today. Today, we’re intro...