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“When it's high on Coinbase, it signals BlackRock ETFs are buying a whole bunch. Maybe Morgan Stanley, maybe Vanguard, maybe just institutions in general. ... As of now, it's flashing the most sustainable signal since Bitcoin traded at record highs all the way back in October.”

“He said they wrongfully froze all of his tokens, stripped him of his right to vote, and then threatened to permanently destroy his tokens by burning them without proper justification.”

“The fact that an intervention prevented a school shooting in Oklahoma shows that situational awareness and proactive security measures actually work. It’s a win for law enforcement and school officials who acted quickly to stop what could have been another national tragedy. This is the blueprint for how we need to approach school safety and monitoring moving forward.”

“We're rolling out all kinds of AI-created software and AI systems and agentic systems and things like that, and people are going to start hacking all of that. So that actually might be a bigger worry than all these bugs in existing software that AI is finding. That's really the thing that I would kind of worry about is like, what is the unexpected consequence of all of these systems rolling out?”

“He turns on the news one day, and he realizes the woman that he picked up that night is the motel serial killer of South Korea, the newest female serial killer in Seoul, the one that netizens have said is too pretty to go to jail. We did have help from our wonderful Korean researchers for translations for today's case. But if anything is misrepresented or miscommunicated, please let us know in the comments. Also, keep in mind that any quotes or statements have been translated and may be condensed for brevity.”

“Really long way and roundabout way to say my concern level for Draper right now is like medium-high. You know, it's not like red alert, I'm concerned about his career, but it's also like, man, this has been this has been a brutal stretch here of this bone bruise thing being a massive disruption in sort of what should be the early prime of Jack's career.”

“The accent is optimized for the algorithm. There's an element of retention, which is how long you watch the video. And when you drag out words, it kind of works better for captivating your audience. Dead silence is very bad on the algorithm. So if you have a live stream or something, you want to drag out your final syllable. Actually, that uptalk where you kind of lengthen your final vowel is very good for online hooking.”

“The CEO admitted the entire company runs on selling its own token. I'll just try to be fair here. Ripple paid MoneyGram 61 million dollars in market development fees to use XRP. MoneyGram told reporters, we sell XRP as soon as we receive it because we don't hold any XRP.”

“And just now, we are starting to fill the CME gap. So this is going to be good news. A little bit of fuel, all the way up to about 81k.”

“Following weeks of intense combat operations under Operation Epic Fury, the President is expected to provide a definitive update on the status of the Iranian regime's military capabilities. This address will outline exactly how the military has performed and what the next steps are for our forces in the region.”

“In cybersecurity, we always talk about the awful things, the ransomware outbreaks and hacks and things like that. But occasionally, we do something right collectively. And Y2K was an example of when the world knew about a problem and worked really hard and averted disaster. The Y2K lesson is to take threats seriously as early as possible.”

“As we see more regulatory scrutiny in 2026, the tax man is coming for every single trade you've made over the last cycle. Using a professional crypto tax service isn't just about convenience anymore; it is about survival because the IRS has updated their algorithms to track on-chain movements with terrifying precision. You have to be proactive about your tax liability before the end of the fiscal year.”

“A hunting bar is a bar specifically set up in Korea for singles to approach strangers and try to start dates. It's set up so there's a bunch of tables all circling a dance floor, and singles will walk from table to table asking if they can join them. So sometimes you'll have, like, a full table of women, and then a group of men will wanna join their table, or tables of men and groups of women will come up and wanna join their table. It's set up so singles you're encouraged, and it's very normal to go from table to table.”

“Digital Assets are highly volatile and carry a considerable amount of risk. Only use exchanges for trading digital assets; we never keep our entire portfolio on an exchange, which is why we recommend tools like Arculus for your cold storage needs.”

“Today's case involves the intentional drugging of individuals without their consent, also sometimes referred to as date r word drugging, so please watch with caution. But because you're meeting complete strangers, it is hard to vouch for everybody. Sometimes you meet someone at a hunting bar, and you meet them outside for a secondary date, and maybe it's without the beer all of a sudden. It's like speed dating in real life. It's weird. And then sometimes, they'll pay for the drinks. Sometimes, they'll get drunk.”

“Bitcoin diverging from software stocks after months of tight correlation. While ceasefire headlines whipsaw market sentiment, Bitcoin is quietly decoupling from tech stocks and showing resilience against a backdrop of great power competition with China.”

“Iran's new national security chief is someone called Mohammed Bagher Zulkhadra. He's a former Revolutionary Guard commander and has a very violent background. Before the Revolution, he was basically an assassin who was personally involved in the assassination of policemen as well as of an American engineer. He was considered so extreme even by his own peers who thought he was too radical even for them.”

“Absolutely not. In fact, what we have seen is a hardening of Iran's leadership. The more extreme elements of the Revolutionary Guards and hardliners in the political system are now much more firmly in control than they were before the war. There has been a change in the regime and it's been for the worse.”

“The biggest lie circulating right now is that owning an ETF is the same as owning Bitcoin. When you hold an ETF, you're holding a paper claim on a centralized entity's ledger, which gives them the voting power and the network influence. If you don't hold your private keys, you're essentially just participating in a digitized version of the old banking system we tried to escape.”

“Millions of Americans change jobs every year without fully claiming the retirement contributions, their invested stock, and their other compensation that they've earned, and it adds up to billions in lost wealth over a lifetime. We'll break down the key financial steps every worker should take before handing in their resignation letter.”

“Effectively, what we saw this week is that, a week ago when we were talking, the markets were still pricing fear. Today, they're pricing relief. What was interesting is that when we first went into this conflict, we saw the markets pull back, but the way the market is treating it now, it seems like everything is fine, all clear.”

“If all of a sudden the ceasefire is back on and negotiations are happening, Bitcoin's gonna pump, stock market's gonna pump, oil's gonna crash. But if it looks like there is gonna be no talks at a table, there is gonna be no meetings, well, then expect the opposite. Oil's gonna spike, and we're gonna see Bitcoin in the stock market fall.”

“The accent is optimized for the algorithm. There's an element of retention, which is how long you watch the video. And when you drag out words, it kind of works better for captivating your audience. Dead silence is very bad on the algorithm. So if you have a live stream or something, you want to drag out your final syllable. Actually, that uptalk where you kind of lengthen your final vowel is very good for online hooking.”

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“Iran is sending the message that they think they've won, right? That the war has actually has been in their favor, despite these kind of devastating losses to Iran's military capabilities and infrastructure. The war has also showed that they have cards to play, that they were able to basically hold the world economy hostage. And I think the fact they found this new leverage in the Strait of Hormuz has further added to this sense of confidence.”

“What we're seeing is that the void is being filled by leaders who in most cases are more radical than the people who have replaced. And by more radical, we mean that they are staunchly anti-American and have no tolerance for domestic dissent. And many of them are kind of guided by this apocalyptic military ideology.”

“There was a study by Know Your Meme in 2022 that found where words come from over time by percentage of platforms. And it started out on 4chan and Reddit and Twitter, and now it's mostly TikTok and Twitter. There's linguistic innovation. There's a a kind of everything comes from the user interface. There's a feeling of a conversation happening there.”

“Whenever a dictionary chooses their word of the year, that's a marketing ploy by big dictionary to sell more dictionaries. Yes. Six seven, of course, is this reference where if you say it, you can go viral. That's the idea behind six seven. That's the whole joke that this is a possibility of getting clipped, that you can cash in on the virality of it for your own game.”

“The thing to watch for earnings season, it's not the earnings themselves, it's how the market reacts to the earnings. What we've seen, if you're looking at the markets, let's say a company comes out with really bad results, and the market goes up. That's actually a good sign. That means most of the bad results are already priced in and it was better than people expected.”

“The economic data was actually pretty firm today. March retail sales came in at 1.7 month over month, beating the 1.4 consensus. ADP weekly data showed the fourth straight week of accelerating job creation. In a way, the macro backdrop still remains solid. It's the geopolitical one that's causing the trouble.”

“Some analysts say that had there not been a war, the selection of Mushtaba Khamenei would have been a lot less likely. But because his father had been killed, because he was injured, because there was war, it meant that there was more momentum behind him, that choosing him sent a message of continuity and defiance from the political leadership.”

“JD Vance's trip to Pakistan for these U.S.-Iran peace negotiations shows a level of diplomatic initiative we haven't seen from a Vice President in quite some time. By engaging with regional partners in this way, the administration is attempting to de-escalate tensions that have plagued the Middle East for decades. It's a high-stakes move that could redefine our foreign policy footprint.”

“Iran's new national security chief is someone called Mohammed Bagher Zulkhadra. He's a former Revolutionary Guard commander and has a very violent background. Before the Revolution, he was basically an assassin who was personally involved in the assassination of policemen as well as of an American engineer. He was considered so extreme even by his own peers who thought he was too radical even for them.”

“The President is expected to provide a definitive update on the status of the Iranian regime's military capabilities and the potential for a ceasefire. This prime-time address will be the first major update the public has received since the operations began several weeks ago.”

“Language is a tool of identity. And when you use a word, you are signaling that you're part of this cohort. It's an identifier of in group belonging. 100%. All these things are just keywords—maxing, gooning, whatever—and you can just say that, and you can go viral because the keywords are what pushes things through the algorithm and what people resonate with.”

“All of our videos are strictly personal opinions. Please make sure to do your own research. Never take one person's opinion for financial guidance. There are multiple strategies and not all strategies fit all people. Our videos ARE NOT financial advice.”

“We only want to release it to a select group of entities. So they picked about 50 corporations and organizations and said, take a look at this, see what you can do with it. The idea is that access to mythos could give those companies a head start against bugmageddon, allowing them to find the holes in their systems and patch them before hackers get their hands on mythos.”

“If you look at the correlation charts for the last eighteen months, Bitcoin isn't behaving like digital gold or a safe haven asset. It is trading almost tick-for-tick with high-growth technology stocks and speculative AI plays. This means when the Nasdaq catches a cold, Bitcoin is catching the flu, and we need to stop pretending it’s decoupled from the traditional financial system.”

“Institutional pressure for quantum resistance by 2029 echoing the 2016 block size wars. NIST criticism and 2016 parallels. Quantum computing institutional panel.”

“Strategy's STRK preferred stock and the risks building in DeFi derivatives. Market positioning and the taco trade. US vs China leverage thresholds.”

“A platform functions kind of like a house. It is a place where you go to use a certain type of language. So on LinkedIn, you're gonna use this more professional language. On Twitter, you're going to engage in more linguistic play where you're, you have all these words like jester gooning or whatever emerge. On TikTok, there might be more fandom language or something.”

“AI models are getting very good at finding security vulnerabilities. The amount of bugs that are being found right now is skyrocketing, and people are freaking out because of that. Mythos has become the poster child for a phenomenon that people in the cybersecurity industry have been talking about for months... the geeks call it the vulnerability Armageddon, but here at The Journal, we call it the bugmageddon.”

“Middle East ceasefire chaos and why oil prices aren't reflecting the full strategic picture. US-China leverage game: Who blinks first on gas prices and supply chain disruption.”

“If we pump up to 85K and then have a drawdown of 30%, that'll make a lot of bears really excited, and they'll be very serious about that 30K, 20K mark, but that would literally only bring us to about $59,000 on Bitcoin price.”

“Iran is sending the message that they think they've won, right? That the war has actually has been in their favor, despite these kind of devastating losses to Iran's military capabilities and infrastructure. The war has also showed that they have cards to play, that they were able to basically hold the world economy hostage. And I think the fact they found this new leverage in the Strait of Hormuz has further added to this sense of confidence.”

“Bitcoin would stop at this point right here, this teal line, and Bitcoin would consolidate for a long time. We can measure this. Bitcoin would consolidate for two hundred and thirty seven days. It would be in a range. It would retest this line, retest this level of resistance, and then shoot right past it. What do you know? This level of resistance would come very, very close to support.”

“Language is a tool of identity. And when you use a word, you are signaling that you're part of this cohort. It's an identifier of in group belonging. 100%. All these things are just keywords—maxing, gooning, whatever—and you can just say that, and you can go viral because the keywords are what pushes things through the algorithm and what people resonate with.”

“And Bitcoin shows incredible potential as a computer science tool that through the proof-of-work protocols is actually imposes more cost than just the algorithmic securing of networks and our ability to operate. And Bitcoin is a reality. It is a valuable computer science tool as a power projection.”

“Bitcoin prices are about to go insane this week because after rallying to the top of this range, Bitcoin holders got some bad news. The two week ceasefires, which the market loved, might be coming to an abrupt end. And now we're starting to see traffic on the Strait Of Hermos slow down to a trickle. You could just see the log jams.”

“They said, find us some bugs, and it found this bug. A guy named Niels Provos had written some code in 1998 and he made a mistake. Nobody noticed that mistake for over 27 years until Mythos took a shot at it. The bug Mythos found could have caused a serious problem, and it had sat there undetected by humans for nearly 30 years.”

“Trump said The US seized an Iranian flagship in the Gulf Of Oman. This is the first known use of force in the blockade, and this happened after Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps attacked two commercial vessels. So now uncertainty hangs over The US Iran talks as the ceasefire deadline looms. We don't know if the ceasefire is gonna hold.”

“He's clearly very good. Now, what else is there for him to show? Very good? Check. Got that. Clearly. How does he handle pressure? How does he deal with a big occasion? How does he deal with a big stadium? How does he deal with adversity? How good is he at developing? These are all questions.”

“We were told that once the big institutions arrived with their ETFs and their massive capital, that the wild swings would settle down. Instead, what we're seeing in 2026 is that institutional players are actually exacerbating the volatility by using Bitcoin as a liquidity hedge during broader market downturns. The stability narrative was a lie used to get retail comfortable with institutional entry.”

“Eight years ago, the average time between a bug being found and a hacker using that bug in a cyber attack was 847 days. So a bug would be disclosed, two years would go by, and then it would start getting exploited on average. Now it's like within a day. It's not rocket science, but it takes time for a human to do it. You have to have a certain level of expertise. AI has absorbed all of that.”

“The general structure that we're seeing, very similar to what we're seeing right here. We had an all time high back in 2017, then we would run up in the next bull run. We had a high in 2021, and then we would run up in the next bull run. After this, we would do a couple things. We would test, test, fall below, bounce. And so we're seeing the same structure.”

“The recent family shooting in Louisiana is a heartbreaking reminder of the domestic violence crisis that often goes overlooked until it reaches this level of tragedy. We need to look at the underlying factors of why these incidents are happening and what can be done at the local level to intervene before things turn fatal. It’s a somber topic that highlights the fragility of community safety today.”

“For a long term buy and hold, FLSW is probably the better choice if it's a smaller position because you're paying 41 basis points less in an annual fee. For the typical investor buying and holding Swiss exposure, I don't think there's any reason you'd wanna pay five x the expense ratio for essentially the same basket of stocks.”

“There was a study by Know Your Meme in 2022 that found where words come from over time by percentage of platforms. And it started out on 4chan and Reddit and Twitter, and now it's mostly TikTok and Twitter. There's linguistic innovation. There's a a kind of everything comes from the user interface. There's a feeling of a conversation happening there.”

“What we're seeing is that the void is being filled by leaders who in most cases are more radical than the people who have replaced. And by more radical, we mean that they are staunchly anti-American and have no tolerance for domestic dissent. And many of them are kind of guided by this apocalyptic military ideology.”

“Russia just passed this crypto regulation bill that allows businesses and companies to use crypto as payment for cross-border and foreign trade settlements even under sanctions.”

“Absolutely not. In fact, what we have seen is a hardening of Iran's leadership. The more extreme elements of the Revolutionary Guards and hardliners in the political system are now much more firmly in control than they were before the war. There has been a change in the regime and it's been for the worse.”

“Term 2.0 is trending imperial as the US flexes financial and military muscle across the globe, from the Strait of Hormuz to the Panama Canal. While ceasefire headlines whipsaw market sentiment, Bitcoin is quietly decoupling from tech stocks and showing resilience against a backdrop of great power competition with China.”

“Rare earth industrial policy: The Sierra Verde acquisition and Indonesia partnership. US-China leverage game: Who blinks first on gas prices and supply chain disruption.”

“If you really wanna know what somebody is into, you follow them at night. You do not follow them throughout the day because during the day, we're all doing things that we don't really wanna do, but we kinda have to do. We're going to work. We're going to school. We're running errands. But at night, that's usually when someone makes a choice. Regardless of sleep, the fact that it's dark outside, I'm gonna go outside, and I'm gonna do this thing. And taxi drivers are the ones that get to see all of us in our dirty little glory.”

“Relative to things like his shot selection or his mental or physical consistency, I think the performance of his forehand has been a bit under discussed in maybe his shortcomings as a top five mainstay. So I'm glad that he's worked on that. And I'm glad that he's circled that as an area where he wants to make gains.”

“And right now, it is experiencing one of the most violent short squeezes in recent market history. This is a short squeeze. This is not a fundamental story, so I wanna flag this for you. Fundamentals do not support where this company is. Chasing these meme stock like trends is never anything more than gambling.”

“The friction between Donald Trump and Pope Leo marks a significant shift in how religious authority interacts with modern political leadership. It's not just a disagreement on policy; it's a fundamental clash over who sets the moral compass for the country. When you have a sitting president and the head of the Catholic Church at odds, the ripple effects through the voting base are massive.”

“Oil moved higher on the news understandably. WTI crude settled up 2.6%, extended gains after the settlement on the latest Iran headlines.”

“Tonight at 9:00 PM ET, President Donald J. Trump delivers a critical prime-time address from the White House. Following weeks of intense combat operations under Operation Epic Fury, the President is expected to provide a definitive update on the status of the Iranian regime's military capabilities and the potential for a ceasefire.”

“Whenever a dictionary chooses their word of the year, that's a marketing ploy by big dictionary to sell more dictionaries. Yes. Six seven, of course, is this reference where if you say it, you can go viral. That's the idea behind six seven. That's the whole joke that this is a possibility of getting clipped, that you can cash in on the virality of it for your own game.”

“Some analysts say that had there not been a war, the selection of Mushtaba Khamenei would have been a lot less likely. But because his father had been killed, because he was injured, because there was war, it meant that there was more momentum behind him, that choosing him sent a message of continuity and defiance from the political leadership.”

“We have Iran firing on new ships, but the markets do not care. They are shrugging off these worries, and Bitcoin now going to the very top of the range that we gave you weeks ago.”

“We've seen multiple exchanges face liquidity crunches even this year, proving that the lesson of 'not your keys, not your crypto' is timeless. Using a cold storage solution like Arculus ensures that your assets are physically isolated from the internet and the reach of failing platforms. It's the only way to sleep soundly when the market is dropping double digits in a single afternoon.”

“He's picking her up from a local motel because, I don't know, you know, you can ponder a bit further. She's the first to talk. 'Hurry, sir. Go fast. I'm being chased. I'll give you cash.' And she's like, 'go go go.' So out of just pure instinct, he's stepping on the gas, and she's leaning back, taking a deep breath of what looks like a $100 worth of fried chicken, and then she starts taking a picture. She's almost smirking while she's typing something out on her phone, and the whole reason that this is odd is because the driver's on high alert.”

“A platform functions kind of like a house. It is a place where you go to use a certain type of language. So on LinkedIn, you're gonna use this more professional language. On Twitter, you're going to engage in more linguistic play where you're, you have all these words like jester gooning or whatever emerge. On TikTok, there might be more fandom language or something.”

“I'd rather sort of that over toughness probably and those qualities than the other side of things where an injury can get into your head or you can be so kind of nervous about protecting your body that it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy where you're not able to really put the load on and kind of take that leap of faith and jump into the heavy action because you're so worried and nervous about protecting your body.”

“Hacking is very asymmetrical. If you are the hacker, you just have to find one way in to your target. You do something and it doesn't work, like no big deal, you know, you can try again. If you're a defender and you try to defend something and it doesn't work, you're hacked.”

“Apparently, the war is over, which for all intents and purposes, I'm not sure if it is, but the Strait of Hormuz is open, as far as we know, which means that global traffic will be coming in and out of the Strait of Hormuz now, we think. However, given the fact that the propaganda and the news coming out of the Middle East has been sketchy at best, I'm gonna reserve my thoughts till we're a little bit further down the line.”

“This is exciting, but the markets are really overstretched. So when the market bottomed recently, a few weeks ago, it was overstretched to the downside. Now it's overstretched to the upside. And it doesn't mean it can't keep going up, but it does mean you should use caution. Don't just necessarily jump in willy-nilly and put it all in black and say, let it ride.”

“Idaho's new law implementing the death penalty for child sex offenders is a clear signal that the state is taking the most extreme measures possible to protect the vulnerable. While it's going to face immediate legal challenges, the legislative intent is to create the ultimate deterrent for these heinous crimes. It’s a polarizing issue, but the priority here is strictly about child safety.”

“The interesting part is, it takes about six weeks for the tankers to get to where they're going. This week or next is when the oil shock really actually hits. We're still going to have six weeks of this. For a lot of countries, and a lot of countries have actually struggled, they've all taken different tacks as to how to handle the fuel crisis. Some are doing subsidies, some are rationing.”