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“Fiat is hopeless, so yes.” With that five-word mic-drop reply on X, Elon Musk confirmed that his freshly hatched America Party will champion Bitcoin as a core policy—because apparently rearranging the two-party furniture isn’t enough; he wants to orange-pill Capitol Hill.
Capitol Hill pulled an all-nighter on July 3, ramming through Donald Trump’s “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” by a razor-thin 218-214 House vote. The president signed the package — a $5 trillion expansion of the federal borrowing limit wrapped in eye-watering tax cuts — on Independence Day, teeing up the most radical shift in U.S. fiscal policy since LBJ.
On the Fourth of July, eight ancient Bitcoin wallets lit up the on-chain alert nerds. In total, 80,000 BTC (roughly US $8.6 billion) that had been sleeping since April 2011 suddenly moved. The transfer erased about 1.6 percent from Bitcoin’s price, knocking it briefly below the psychologically important US $108,000 level. Traders instantly started whispering the name “Satoshi Nakamoto,” because why waste a perfectly good panic?
Sam Altman didn’t sugar-coat it. “We are past the event horizon; the take-off has started,” he wrote in a June blog post, warning that whole categories of work are about to be vaporized by super-human machines. When the guy who built ChatGPT says the pink-slips are coming, HR departments pay attention. If you want to secure place in an uncertain future, this might be the right time to buy Bitcoin.
Troy Miller here, filing from the steps of the Daniel Patrick Moynihan courthouse, where the aroma of café lattes is now fighting a slick new fragrance: Costco-sized tubs of baby oil. Yes, you read that right. Moments after the verdict in U.S. v. Sean “Diddy” Combs dropped, a knot of Bad Boy die-hards celebrated by hurling palm-sized bottles of Johnson’s finest into the summer air, coating bystanders, TikTokers, and at least one furious TV cameraman in a glistening sheen—but hey, it’s on-brand when the trial evidence included literally a thousand bottles of the stuff.
Forget Skynet. Forget GPT. The most terrifying — and now possibly heroic — artificial intelligence of our age is still wearing a ballet dress and death-staring through bangs. M3GAN is back. And this time, she brought a DAO.
Bitcoin is dancing on the edge of something big—or at least, that’s what the charts are whispering. After bouncing nearly 10% off local lows to hit $108,200 on June 25, Bitcoin is once again approaching its all-time high at $112,000. Meanwhile exchange flows are drying up cutting off supply, and if you believe in the power of technical patterns, we might be staring down the barrel of a bull pennant that screams $165,000 as a Bitcoin price target.
Smart glasses are back — and this time, they don’t suck. A decade after Google Glass became the tech world’s biggest punchline, Meta is teaming up with Oakley to launch AI-powered shades that look cool and do something useful. And Meta’s not alone: Snap, Apple, and Amazon are all betting that the post-phone era lives on your face, not in your pocket. Thanks to real-time computer vision and hands-free AI, smart glasses might finally have their moment. This isn’t just eyewear — it’s the next interface. Don’t blink.
The Trump orbit may be scaling back its crypto exposure — and doing it quietly. According to a fresh Forbes investigation, DT Marks DeFi LLC — the Trump family’s shadowy crypto vehicle — has reduced its stake in World Liberty Financial (WLF) by nearly 20% since the end of 2024.
In a world where most governments are still hand-wringing over what to do with Bitcoin, Vietnam has gone full send into the digital future. On June 14, the country's National Assembly passed a comprehensive Law on the Digital Technology Industry—and it's a game-changer. Among its boldest moves? Crypto assets are now legally recognized.
