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And just like that we collectively saw the future of inequality

A farmer dies in April 2026. His son inherits the farm. The farm has been in the family since 1847. The farm consists of: 300 acres of grazing pasture, a farmhouse built in 1892, a barn, a milking parlour, two tractors of varying ages, a Land Rover that runs about 70% of the time, and a herd of 180 Hereford-cross cattle. On paper, the farm is worth approximately £3.2 million. This is because land near him has been bought recently by a London hedge fund looking for carbon credits, which has dragged the comparable value of every field within forty miles upward to a number nobody local can justify. In cash, the farm produces a profit of about £28,000 a year in a good year. In a bad year it loses money. The son also works as a fencing contractor three days a week to keep the operation viable. The inheritance tax bill on a £3.2 million estate, even at the reduced 20% rate, comes to approximately £140,000 after the increased threshold is applied. The son does not have £140,000. The son has never had £140,000. The son has £4,200 in his current account and an overdraft. The son sells 60 acres to a developer to pay the tax. The developer puts solar panels on the 60 acres. The remaining herd cannot be sustained on the reduced land. The herd is sold. The barn becomes a holiday let. A different family eats Brazilian beef this Christmas without knowing why the price went up. The Treasury collects £140,000. The land never produces British food again.

🚨 THIS IS INSANE. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick's sons could be making 3 to 5x returns on every dollar they spent buying tariff refund rights. Cantor Fitzgerald, now run by Lutnick's sons Brandon and Kyle, was buying tariff refund claims from companies at 20 to 30 cents on the dollar. The firm told clients it had "capacity to trade up to several hundred million" in these claims. They confirmed at least one $10 million trade was already executed as of July 2025. They said they expected that number to "balloon in the coming weeks." That was 9 months ago. Today those claims are worth 100 cents on the dollar. The refund portal is live, $166 billion in refunds are being processed. If Cantor bought $100 million in refund rights at 25 cents on the dollar, they spent $25 million. They now collect $100 million from the government. That is a $75 million profit. A 300% return. If they scaled to "several hundred million" as they told clients they could, the profits run into the hundreds of millions. Howard Lutnick was the architect of the tariff policy. He pushed Trump to impose them. He fought against officials who wanted to limit them. Then he left Cantor Fitzgerald to his sons and transferred his equity into a trust benefiting them. Tax free under government ethics rules. He received $360 million from the buyout. His sons positioned the firm to profit from the exact policy their father built. Their father publicly championed tariffs he knew could be struck down while his sons were buying refund claims betting they would be.

The history of nasa. I used to get so frustrated that people couldn’t see it, now I’m almost wary. The whole world just learned about Israel, shadow government, the uniparty etc. Some are melting down. Wait til they find out we also aren’t on a spinning ball and your ancestor wasn’t a monkey. The key is forgiveness. Forgive whoever told it to you because they almost certainly believed it too. And forgive yourself as the child who felt like something was off and you went with it out of blind trust. Everyone does that. Then your identity gets tied to lies and the truth feels like a personal attack. It’s not. Forgiveness is so important. Most importantly forgive yourself. People will scream at you and degrade you for forgiving yourself and saying what you believe is true. Forgive them as well. They are still seeing thru the eyes of those who said the same thing to them. Something miraculous happens when you forgive. Your ancestors, even tho they aren’t here, heal. I can’t explain it but I’ve felt it. A wave goes back in time as well as forwards. And on this Easter, when thinking about the gift that Jesus truly brought this world. It’s forgiveness and healing. He gave a permanent reset to anyone who accepts it. Doesn’t mean there isn’t pain or consequence. But the ability to choose life over death. Gratitude over spite. Hope over shame. Peace over war. Happy Easter everyone. He has risen. And I don’t regurgitate that for some rediculous social benefit or to be part of a group. A ton of Christian’s don’t consider me Christian. That’s ok. But I what he has risen means. He rose so you can as well. Now rise.

🚨SOMEONE REINVENTED HOW TEXT RENDERS ON THE WEB AND ITS ABSOLUTELY INSANE. the goated dev behind react, reasonML, and midjourney’s frontend, just dropped Pretext. a tiny typescript library that measures and lays out text 500x faster than the DOM. he trained models against real browser rendering for weeks until the output matched safari, chrome, and firefox exactly. the demos are insane!! hundreds of thousands of text boxes at 120fps. magazine layouts and chat bubbles that actually wrap right. engineers from Vercel, Remix, Figma, and shadcn all cosigned. this is the kind of open source that makes you want to be a better dev. here are some cool demos in the past 24hrs👇

Mistral just open-sourced a text-to-speech model that beats ElevenLabs. 3 GB of RAM. Runs locally. Free. The thing people were paying per-word for last year runs on your laptop now.

It's the weekend and the TradExchanges' computers must caddy for their humans on the golf course. But @HyperliquidX is always open for trading. The oil perp CL-USDC is where price discovery will happen this weekend as bombs continue to fall in the middle east. $HYPE -> $150 😘😘

Wow. President Trump says he doesn't know how long he will be around after there was another assassination attempt at Mar-a-Lago: “I don’t know how long I’ll be around. I got a lot of people gunning for me, don’t I?” Pray for his safety.

In all seriousness: we’re here because we believe in the power of markets to optimize technology. It is precisely the waxing and waning of tides that powers that machine. Devs don’t need to do anything, market doing it for us.

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Bitcoin doesn't use encryption.

BIG WEEK INCOMING! Tuesday: - Powell Speech - Services & Manufacturing PMI Thursday: - US GDP (Q2) - Initial Jobless Claims Friday: - Core PCE Price Index Prepare for volatility!

Gavin Newsom knows all about being #1 - #1 in homelessness - #1 in poverty - #1 in Retail crime - #1 in gas prices - #1 in illiteracy - #1 in wage stagnation - #1 in frivolous lawsuits - #1 in restrictions on workers - #1 in Anti-business regulations - #1 in income tax - #1 in gas tax - #1 in budget deficit - #1 in COVID school shutdowns - #1 in COVID business shutdowns - #1 in COVID mandates - #1 in illegal border crossings - #1 in funding for illegal immigrants - #1 in People leaving state

THE TRUMP PUMP STARTS NOW! 🚀

I just vibe coded a whole iOS app in Swift (without having programmed in Swift before, though I learned some in the process) and now ~1 hour later it's actually running on my physical phone. It was so ez... I had my hand held through the entire process. Very cool.

We are making lower lows in this current wave. I was tempted to add risk this morning, but looking at this price action I think we have one more violent wave down below $80k, most likely over the weekend, then crickets for a while. Hold on to your butts!

On illicit funds in crypto... Background The entire purpose of crypto is to build neutral, objective, transparent protocols. "Permissionless" is the phrase. It's a belief that regardless of the ethics of the *users* of a protocol, the protocol itself should simply act under the protocol rules. That honesty, that integrity, provides immense societal value. And upon such a foundation, further layers of coordination/rulemaking can be built. Coinbase as a central exchange can make its own rules about its property and systems, *built on top* of permissionless, neutral Bitcoin and Ethereum protocols. Questions When crypto funds are illicit, what should happen? Should Bitcoin nodes block illicit txs? Should Ethereum nodes block illicit txs? Should Uniswap contracts block illicit txs? Should Thorchain nodes block illicit txs? Should miners and validators be policing content? If the answer to any of those is "yes!", then we are not designing an ecosystem of permissionless, objective, protocols, are we? We're designing something else. If the answer to any of those is "yes!", then we're building permissioned financial services, but on a blockchain. Of what value is this to society? And to do so, suddenly the definition of "illicit" must be defined, and it cannot be. Illicit to whom? Illicit under what standard of suspicion, or proof? These are social and legal questions about which people will disagree. If crypto protocols are built to incorporate this social/legal layer, then they are truly useless, for they lose their entire reason for existence... objective, transparent operation. An objective protocol must permit bad actors operating on it. Mathematics doesn't "turn off" when a bad man solves an equation. Language doesn't fail to execute when a bad man speaks it. These are permissionless protocols and so too must be crypto. To those advocating that illicit funds be blocked by protocols, please explain the standards by which such things shall be determined, and please explain why you're involved in crypto in the first place? If a hack is $100, nobody will advocate for censorship. If a hack is $1.5 billion, suddenly, many do. At what dollar value shall a blockchain halt? It's easy to vilify North Korea. What about when Western governments violate law, and confiscate without due process, digital assets from a rightful owner? This is illegal, this is illicit. When our own government commits crimes, shall we permit their action across our protocols, yet when "bad" governments do the same, we put a stop to it? Should a German node operator enforce Saudi law? Should a Chinese operator enforce American law? Should chains be halted and addresses blocked before trials and legal guilt even been established? Just the *accusation* of illicit funds is enough to violate that which we claim to build as inviolate? I am vehemently opposed to crime; to actual crime: to fraud, to theft, to violence. I see open, transparent protocols as an antidote to crime, and as a tremendous boon to good civilization. Laws, which are a human *social layer,* are in place to prevent and punish such crimes and the best governments should vigorously pursue actual criminals. Dear law enforcement: please pursue the criminals that stole those funds! Law enforcement is your job, and you've taxed us upon the promise of fulfilling it. But that social, subjective layer of laws and legal enforcement, must exist above and separate from more foundational underlying strata that operate *objectively* and equally to all parties. When the human world of right and wrong, which must always be subjective, is transposed into an otherwise objective, permissionless system, the latter will fail to be so, and there is no purpose to it. In such case, let us admit we are merely building a more complicated apparatus for subjective social policy. Being decentralized is a gradient Being permissioness is not

Damn. Bybit just released their audit report—the compromise was not Bybit, but SAFE's servers. They hot swapped the Gnosis SAFE UI with JS code that ONLY targeted Bybit's cold wallet. Independently confirmed by WaybackMachine snapshots. Lazarus Group is on another level.

Breaking: Peter has increased btc price target from $0 to $50k

.@AskVenice team has sold over $10.2M in $VVV tokens... I've tracked all the $VVV team wallets and identified their clusters. They received tokens 4 days prior to the launch, and insta dumped right after the launch. And Coinbase launched it day on 1? Wallets Proof 🧵