Peter Thiel has temporarily relocated his family to Argentina, purchased a $12 million mansion in one of Buenos Aires' most exclusive neighborhoods, and enrolled his children in local schools. President Milei has reportedly explored offering him citizenship. People familiar with his thinking say the move is partly driven by concerns about the direction of the United States. The timing is notable. JD Vance is vice president. David Sacks just served as Trump's AI czar. Palantir pulled in $687 million in government contracts in Q1 2026 alone. Anduril signed a $20 billion Army deal in March. Thiel's political network has never had more influence in Washington. Yet he's hedging. The immediate catalyst appears to be California's upcoming ballot initiative proposing a one-time 5% wealth tax on billionaires. For Thiel, that could mean roughly $1.2 to $1.4 billion. He left the state in late 2025 before it took effect. But his interest in Argentina also aligns with an ideological affinity for Milei's libertarian experiment. This is not his first exit plan. He obtained New Zealand citizenship in 2011 and reportedly pursued a Maltese passport. He still splits time between the US and Argentina, and over 99% of his assets remain stateside. The Buenos Aires property is his only known Argentine investment. But Thiel has a track record of hedging early. When someone with that level of access to power starts diversifying where his family lives, it is worth paying attention.

NEWSMAX: “We've got almost 500,000 Americans living with a rare tick borne illness that makes people allergic to meat, but not the lab grown meat that Bill Gates has invested.” “Maybe this is not a coincidence after all?”

Dell stock is up 69% in 20 days since Trump told Americans to "go out and buy a Dell" at a White House event on May 8. Since then, Trump disclosed a personal Dell stock purchase of up to $5 million, the Pentagon awarded Dell a $9.7 billion software contract, and today Dell reported its fastest revenue growth since returning to public markets in 2018, sending shares up another 31% after hours.

Strategy CEO Phong Le: "We bought $1.6 billion worth of Bitcoin in one week in the second week of May. That's more than almost every Bitcoin treasury company has on its balance sheet. It's about the amount of Bitcoin that SpaceX has on their balance sheet. We did that in one week." "There may be a day-to-day decision that we should sell Bitcoin because it's accretive to our shareholders for the long term. What should you expect? We'll likely sell Bitcoin at some point in time, but we will be net increasing our Bitcoin and more importantly, increasing our Bitcoin per share."

Brian Armstrong: “People who are doing better will accumulate more resources, more power. The people who aren't will not.” “The alternative is often to sit there with some sort of high power in the government and say, we're going to dictate on high that you cannot do this and you can do this. I don't believe in that centralized control. I think it leads to worst outcomes.”

Bernie Sanders: "If AI and robots do everything, work is optional, how do you survive? You're going to get a check. Really? But there is no government because you're not paying any taxes. What happens to Social Security?"

"I've traced the entire history of Epstein's interaction with different developers and compromised networks that he tried to infiltrate with Peter Thiel in 2011 and beyond to try to pull Bitcoin back into the fold." - Simon Dixon "Brock Pierce was Epstein's guy in the digital currency space." "He tried to persuade me that Satoshi Nakamoto was Dr Craig Wright. He ended up being an essential part of creating an alternative version of Bitcoin." "Brock Pierce also was the co-founder of a stablecoin called Tether. Tether was the gateway drug for central bank digital currencies."

BlackRock is filing for a new actively managed robotics and AI ETF through iShares. No ticker or fee disclosed yet.

Putin warns that AI will make "whole professions go extinct" and the process is "irreversible and inevitable." Says AI is already replacing junior specialists in automation, document analysis, and code writing, and is on track to replace mid-level workers next.

St. Louis Fed President Musalem says the probability of a rate hike "has to be greater than zero."

St. Louis Fed President Alberto Musalem says AI can't be counted on to fix inflation.

"I think the story of Satoshi, I do think it actually came from intelligence. But something didn't go as it was meant to go." - Simon Dixon "The one that wrote the white paper was Len Sassaman is my opinion. The first person that did the first Bitcoin transaction was Hal Finney. Now today both are dead."

Europa is a new decentralized VPN marketplace built on Nostr and paid exclusively with Bitcoin. It launched this week from @calle, the developer behind the Cashu ecash protocol. The concept is simple but the implications are significant. Instead of trusting a single VPN company with a global server fleet, one privacy policy, and one monthly subscription, Europa lets independent VPN operators list their servers on an open directory. Each operator runs their own infrastructure in their own jurisdiction, writes their own no-log policy, and sets their own price. Users browse the directory, pick an operator, and pay them directly over Lightning or Cashu ecash. The marketplace never touches the money and takes no cut. After payment, the operator delivers a standard WireGuard or OpenVPN config file. No proprietary app, no custom client. Users import it into the same open-source VPN software they would use anywhere else and connect. When the bundle runs out, the tunnel goes quiet. No auto-renewal, no card on file, no surprise charges. The reputation system runs on Nostr. Instead of editorial ratings or paid placements, recommendations and complaints come from people in your social graph. Sign in with a Nostr identity and the directory weights endorsements from accounts you already follow. If Nostr is not your thing, ignore the feature entirely and start with the smallest bundle from an unfamiliar operator to limit your risk. The entire protocol is built on public Nostr events. Operator listings, reputation data, and payment coordination all live on the Nostr network. The Europa website is just one viewer of that data, not the source. Other directories can exist. If Europa makes bad editorial choices, users can leave without losing access to the underlying marketplace. The protocol spec is CC0 (public domain) and the code is MIT licensed. What makes this meaningful is the architecture. Traditional VPN providers consolidate trust into one company in one jurisdiction. If that company gets acquired, served with a warrant, or breached, every customer is exposed at once. Europa distributes that trust across independent operators. Users can spread their traffic across multiple operators they actually chose rather than trusting a single brand to make every decision for them. Anyone with a server can become an operator. Anyone with a Lightning wallet can become a customer. No accounts required for either side.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent rules out U.S. Central Bank Digital Currency. "There will be no Central Bank Digital Currency. That would be the first step toward tracking. We took that off the table. We passed stablecoin legislation... and the Clarity Act has bipartisan support." "Digital assets... the nonsense is the wild, wild west. We need to bring it onshore. I'd encourage the House and Senate to get CLARITY done."

Sec. Scott Bessent: "Trump Accounts, I believe, are the most important benefit for young people since the GI Bill."

In its latest report, Fidelity Digital Assets highlighted Iran accepting Bitcoin-linked payments for tanker tolls in the Strait of Hormuz as evidence that alternative settlement systems are emerging outside traditional dollar rails.

JD Vance: "I've watched graduation speeches where corporate leaders will discuss AI and be met with boos. You can't boo me! I'm the Vice President of the United States!" "The thing I worry about most with AI is how it will change warfare."

Sen. Cynthia Lummis: "Without the Clarity Act, if a digital asset exchange goes bankrupt, customers have no guaranteed right to their own assets."

Anthropic launches Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to its flagship AI model. The company says it scores higher across coding, reasoning, and agentic benchmarks, and is roughly four times less likely to let flawed code pass without flagging it. New features include an effort control slider and "dynamic workflows" that can run hundreds of parallel subagents for large-scale coding tasks. Anthropic also previewed a higher-capability model class called Mythos, currently in limited cybersecurity preview under Project Glasswing, with broader release expected in the coming weeks.

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?"