Why are they singing the American National Anthem at the start of the world cup?

Who else feels nervous saying they are going to visit France before going? 🤣 Indeed these days I never announce anything on social media until am back at home.

I have some great news. England have qualified for the third place play-offs. I hope you will be watching and backing the team 100%!

Football has reached that stage that once we drop down a few divisions, the game is totally unrecognisable from the game most play and played. This world cup has seen; - Players rolling around until they get a free kick - Dubious VAR and refereeing decisions - Play allowed to continue when it was known to be offside or a foul, only to bring play back - Ridiculous overtime making 90 minutes almost meaningless - Terrible treatment of certain teams and players by border control - Political interference and agendas - A dilution of quality by expanding the number of teams - The same cynical fouls - Bizarre water breaks, turning football into a four quarter game, which seems to be about increasing advertising revenue - exorbitant match ticket and hotel costs for many fans Whilst we have seen some good play, excellent players in part, am personally just about done with football at this level.

Well. That was France for a week, south coast. Relaxing. Re-energising, new ideas. A pretty decent CMS template, a couple of utilities.

Well done Paraguay. Think the German manager was awful, foul-tempered and it was reflected in the German displays. Yes. The goal being disallowed was a big moment.

Should any website use a get request in the age of digital enslavement? This includes hackable URLs? Imagine for example, your browser points to an address such as blah dot Webste / nefariousactor, your isp can log it. Admittedly, our websites do issue get requests but developers should really think about the discoverable endpoints they expose. We are giving this a lot of thought.

Okay. Who in Europe is staying up for Jordan versus Austria?

Come on Paraguay

It is amazing how the bread and circuses works. Watching the football and we hear news announcements. Just put the football on and forget the politics please.

More Bitcoin please!

Very pleased to be nearing this phase of work on the latest version of CATS - automated trading. 🚀 Back in April, 2025, I decided to do perhaps the craziest thing - build an automated cryptocurrency trading platform. The rationale - I have traded manually for years, gained crypto, I knew much of it could be automated. 🎯 Goals: • Give customers their own trading platform, not put their rules on shared centralised web platforms • Monitor and manage portfolios • Allow manual intervention - trade actions, but mostly allow the platform to run • Permit heuristic-based trading • Allow customer based independent engines - AI, algorithmic based to create triggers per strategy rather than adding a myriad of indicators. These are known as core datasets. • Make most trading automated ⚠️ Disclaimer - no promise of gains ⚡️ Latest version features: ⚙️ Trading Engine Enhancements Goal - as a trader, I want to manage my portfolios more effectively allowing trades to fire based upon market conditions • New Bulk Trading - cancel, rebook/book, move assets • Performance improvements - database, partitioning, data management, caching • New Filtersets - including Bursts preventing over-trading, reporting balances • Cache Management linked to strategies to permit easier submission and clearing of strategy jobs • Publish your own strategies for decision analysis and decision execution 🔒 Security Enhancements - CKMS Goal - as a vendor, we never want to see customer's API Keys. Keys should never exist: on-disk, in a database, managed in Vault Services! [1] • Encryption of portfolio details using Elliptical Curve Encryption - Nostr backed, no keys stored physically in the cloud/container/instance • Intelligent portfolio mapping to secure keys • Simple Front-End for submitting keys securely • Simple Portal for managing the security 💻 Trader Management Portal - V2 Goal - massively simplify the TMP when maintaining Strategies and Trade Rules! • Bulk and Advanced Trading creation, editing, saving, loading, submission and management • Human friendly Trade DSL Editor. Once you have your template rules, feel free to build them up in the text editor and submit • Multiple Assets/Asset Pairs generates multiple Trade rules, saves time • Scheduling capabilities • Pre-Staging for review 📅 July 2026 Expectations • New containerised and working CATS • Evidence (Independent and in-house) of trading strategies working for us • New small commercial website for professional investors/traders (fully compliant with standard risk disclosures) 🔮 The future • Largely, the work is done. Tasks are about switching-on already developed features • Simplifying the experience for users. AI/LLM is not so much the goal. Instead AI/LLM/ML is aiding decision analysis and decision execution • Better metrics and reporting of trading activity 🔗 Further info: https://www.cryptostatto.com/trading/automated-trading #CryptoTrading #FinTech #AutomatedTrading #Web3 #SoftwareEngineering

Well. Time to get back to testing trading with the latest version of our trading software.

Just failed a bot verification process on copilot. Effectively co-pilot

The bitcoin bear run. It must be discussed. My take is that the fiat based debt-backed Ponzi scheme is running out of buyers. Truly brutal. We had bitcoin which is perfectly capable of being sound money and offering protection from counterparty risk. Then we had instructional and governmental capture of bitcoin. We had precious metals, which rallied massively and still have a lot of unanswered questions. Next, we had AI. Which is not AI, a marvellous technology but not AI. Capital flowed into that but is already looking challenging. Now, we have space exploration and space X for example. Which is going to be another huge diversion of capital. The early institutions will make another killing where regular investors and pension funds will end up being the bag holders. The reality is that many cryptocurrencies have to survive, and will flourish. Our personal approach is, not advice; - Swing Trade using our software, manually is okay for less capability - Don't throw fiat into a falling asset. In our opinion, using cash to buy cryptocurrency is a mistake unless you want an initial stake - Don't dollar cost average in, you just don't know how low crypto will go - Accumulate precious metals but consider swing trading inside tax free paper, exchanging for physical This will be brutal.

Crypto account and portfolio balancing now live. Save time, reduce errors, keep it simple. https://www.cryptostatto.com/article/News%20and%20Announcements/Automated%20Trading/Scale-Your-Strategies-Multi--Account-Crypto-Trading-and-Bulk-Rebalancing-Are-Now-Live-01-JUN-2026

Great news. Our Automated Cryptocurrency Trading Software now has the following; - Trade Rule Manager - Nostr Backed Ephemeral Key Elliptical Curve encryption for securing key data (decrentralised security) - A Trader Management Portal for creating trading strategies, including a friendly Trade Text (DSL) display - A Trade Text (DSL Parser) to translate into underlying trade rules Next-up! - Testing Portfolio Bulk Trade Management - GUI and system management improvements - Visuals and helpful reporting Some screenshots - including a created buy order for BTC-ADA More here https://www.cryptostatto.com The eager-eyed will notice that no keys are in the trade json (the old way) as the Trading API handles this.

Watched the Usyk Verhoven fight last night. Travesty was an understatement. Am not questioning the boxer's integrity at all. Until sports betting is fully investigated across all sports, it is time to stop watching. The stoppage must have been at the point where the in fight betting put Rico as firm favourite.

Cryptocurrency prices are looking terrible now. Suspect various trend lines have broken pretty much from April 2026.

Just did a mammoth session in the garden. It has gone from jungle to respectable outside space in 4 hours. Kept putting it off due to the work on this cryptocurrency trading software, have been flat out on. Had to do the garden as it was too distressing being there lol. Next jobs - hedge trimming, path weed killing, and saving the lawn.