Maximal effort defines successful elite qualifying
βAt that point, he did not have anything left. He gave everything he had to the ninetieth wall ball, and when he hit that finish line, the medics had to have been just keeping an eye on him. He put everything he had into that, and that was such a gutsy good race. That's what it takes for people to get that spot to go there.β
βEffective immediately, the United States Navy, the finest in the world, will begin the process of blockading any and all ships trying to enter or leave the Strait Of Hormuz. He said the Navy would also intercept any vessel that had paid a toll to Iran, adding, quote, no one who pays an illegal toll will have safe passage on the high seas. And he finished with, at an appropriate moment, we are fully locked and loaded, and our military will finish up the little that is left of Iran.β
βIt's interesting the wording that people use to kind of think that is my game plan to come from behind. I mean, the truth about that is it's not necessarily my game plan. I'm proud to say that my fitness at that point of the race allows me to do what I've done for two races in a row, rather than it being a choice to start slow.β
βMorgan Stanley launched its spot Bitcoin ETF last week, and it drew in about $34,000,000 in inflows on its first day, making it the best performing ETF debut in the firm's entire history. Amy Oldenburg, Morgan Stanley's head of digital assets, said on Bloomberg TV, quote, it was the best first day of trading for any of our ETFs. Now I have to say the timing of this launch is fascinating because we're in the middle of a Bitcoin price drawdown.β
βAnd one thing that's definitely true is when you get hurt and when you get in the cycle of injury, injuries tend to happen more often. Right? And and not necessarily in Draper's case because one's an elbow and one's a a knee, so it's different parts of the body. But when you see someone who has an injured right knee and they come back and all of a sudden there's a left ankle turn, all of that shit's connected somehow.β
βIt's unfathomable that someone as good as Medvedev loses o. And everyone's like, it's not his best service. Guys want a Masters 1,000 on clay. I understand it's not his best service, but he that's it. It only is like a massive argument.β
βA country cut off from the dollar system, cut off from SWIFT, cut off from correspondent banking, demanding payment for access to a fifth of the world's oil in Bitcoin. This is exactly why Bitcoin will matter more and more in geopolitics. Bitcoin is neutral and can't be sanctioned or censored. Iran is finding it useful for the same reason a protester in Russia or a working class saver in Argentina does.β
APAC championships featured many elite race debuts
βI'm very happy from the perspective of giving athletes the opportunity to race at the elite level that have never had the opportunity before. You know, even looking at the APAC races, apart from myself and John Wynne, everyone else on that male start line, that was their first elite-level race. Then on the female side, apart from Calypso, Gabby, and Jess Petro, everyone else was debuting as well.β
HYROX shifts to a point-based qualification system
βThere's a reason why next year is a point system. Like, that's there's a reason why that had to happen, and that reason is you can't compare courses. Otherwise, at this point, it looks like if it was still just two times, then everybody would just be like, well, I'm gonna go to London and Berlin to get my qualifying times.β
βIf I'm his coach, don't even mention points to defend. Right now, let's you know what I would do? I would say, I don't care what Earth thinks you're ranked. We're deducting those points right now. You're ranked 90. And we're gonna have the mentality of coming back where we're gonna earn our lunch every day.β
βOn Friday alone, Stretch traded $526,000,000 in volume, more than double its thirty day average of $258,000,000. Strategy CEO, Phong Li, said this week that Stretch is now trading with more liquidity as a percent of market cap than every single magnificent seven common stock. Not just some of them, all of them. That is crazy volume for a preferred stock.β
βIf you understand High Rocks well, you'll understand that you can't compare a course and a course. And I'm not trying to justify my time, but it was just interesting to get the comments of, like, oh, the APAC races were obviously slower than both London and DC. Like, sure, of course they were, but we all should know that especially now, you cannot compare a course at another course.β
βI don't know. Call me crazy, but I think you could play a masters masters 1,000 in seven days if you had to. Wasn't it amazing to be able to follow a tournament and have it maintain our attention the entire time? And you build. There's drama. And it's like And there's not a lot of space there.β
βI might let you take the tip of my pinky and cut it off before losing oh, no. I'm just telling you, like, that is that would be really hard for me to get over. Yeah. That would matter to me. That would hurt my ego so bad. And maybe that just says a lot about my own insecurities.β
Satoshi unmasking lacks cryptographic proof of keys
βSatoshi controlled a set of cryptographic keys that can unlock around 1,000,000 Bitcoin that have never moved. Those keys are the only way to prove beyond any doubt who Satoshi is. Everything else is just circumstantial. Adam Back himself flatly denied the claims again. He said, quote, I'm not Satoshi, but I was early and laser focused on the positive societal implications of cryptography, online privacy, and electronic cash.β