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Heat Your Home With Bitcoin Mining: The 2026 Guide

The Bitaxe, Explained: The Open-Source Bitcoin Miner Anyone Can Run

Google and the NYSE's Owner Are Rebuilding the Rails
Google previewed a bitcoin-compatible custody system for banks, and the NYSE's parent is bringing Hyperliquid perps onshore with Stan Druckenmiller on board. Plus what coolerwave found on his iPhone, Warsh's new Fed cale…
"This film was funded primarily through Bitcoin." @mjwerry on why Broken Country was funded with bitcoin.
"To raise a family in 500 square feet, it's an impossibility." @BrokenCountry_ director Mira Metter on Canada's housing crisis.

Higgsfield promised to open source its product and never did. ComfyUI's community built open source alternatives anyway. Now Higgsfield sent a cease and desist demanding the challenge be taken down within 48 hours. ComfyUI CEO: "When we started Comfy, we made the community a promise. Our product stays open, free, and yours. We've kept it every day since, and one letter isn't going to change that."

Binance's SAFU fund holds about 15,000 BTC, worth roughly $1 billion. The fund exists to cover eligible security-related losses for users.
CZ says the "loss might be a bit higher" than ~$1B (after stablecoin freezes) "but will cover." x.com/cz_binance/sta…
"People will become, begin to hunt, live and fish in city parks." @BrokenCountry_ director Mira Metter on Canada's own 2040 forecast.
Attackers appear to have exploited Ethereum's EIP-7702 to drain Binance hot wallets of ~$2.5B. On-chain researcher @0xQuit: "It seems likely that they didn't have the private keys and instead just had the 7702 auth signatures, which must have been phished somehow." x.com/0xQuit/status/…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire: "In coordination with law enforcement, we have frozen more than 800M USDC associated with the incident and will continue supporting the investigation." x.com/jerallaire/sta…
"Now Americans make $77,000 or so on average. Canadians still make $53,000 on average." @MartyBent and @mjwerry on Canada's GDP per capita.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says Tether has frozen more than $1.567B in USDT tied to the Binance hack. "Protecting the industry and our partners is our main priority." x.com/paoloardoino/s…
Binance has been hacked. CZ has confirmed. At 20:24 UTC today, a wallet labeled "Binance 14" was drained in a single transaction: 167,464 ETH (~$388M) plus 63 token transfers including ~$1.6B in USDT. Minutes later, "Binance Hot Wallet 34" lost 780M USDC. A third wallet, "Binance 16," sent another 28,005 ETH. Total estimated outflows: $2.5B+ across multiple blockchains. The receiving address was funded through Tornado Cash. Within minutes, the attacker began dispersing funds, sending $1.2B in USDT across three new addresses in $500M/$500M/$200M chunks, each preceded by a 0.5 ETH test transfer. The attacker is actively dumping stolen Tether. CZ posted: "User funds are safe! It does look like a hack on Binance. Appreciate the quick freeze from Tether (~$971m) and Circle (~$823m). I don't manage Binance (.com) anymore, but as a shareholder, I expect all user funds will be fully covered." Tether and Circle have frozen roughly $1.8B of the stolen assets between them. Binance's cold storage appears unaffected so far. This is still developing.
"It's important to distinguish that it's not free. Health care, like, there is no free lunch, right?" @BrokenCountry_ director Mira Metter on Canada's health care.
"This film was funded primarily through Bitcoin." @mjwerry on why Broken Country was funded with bitcoin.
"To raise a family in 500 square feet, it's an impossibility." @BrokenCountry_ director Mira Metter on Canada's housing crisis.

Higgsfield promised to open source its product and never did. ComfyUI's community built open source alternatives anyway. Now Higgsfield sent a cease and desist demanding the challenge be taken down within 48 hours. ComfyUI CEO: "When we started Comfy, we made the community a promise. Our product stays open, free, and yours. We've kept it every day since, and one letter isn't going to change that."

Binance's SAFU fund holds about 15,000 BTC, worth roughly $1 billion. The fund exists to cover eligible security-related losses for users.
CZ says the "loss might be a bit higher" than ~$1B (after stablecoin freezes) "but will cover." x.com/cz_binance/sta…
"People will become, begin to hunt, live and fish in city parks." @BrokenCountry_ director Mira Metter on Canada's own 2040 forecast.
Attackers appear to have exploited Ethereum's EIP-7702 to drain Binance hot wallets of ~$2.5B. On-chain researcher @0xQuit: "It seems likely that they didn't have the private keys and instead just had the 7702 auth signatures, which must have been phished somehow." x.com/0xQuit/status/…
Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire: "In coordination with law enforcement, we have frozen more than 800M USDC associated with the incident and will continue supporting the investigation." x.com/jerallaire/sta…
"Now Americans make $77,000 or so on average. Canadians still make $53,000 on average." @MartyBent and @mjwerry on Canada's GDP per capita.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino says Tether has frozen more than $1.567B in USDT tied to the Binance hack. "Protecting the industry and our partners is our main priority." x.com/paoloardoino/s…
Binance has been hacked. CZ has confirmed. At 20:24 UTC today, a wallet labeled "Binance 14" was drained in a single transaction: 167,464 ETH (~$388M) plus 63 token transfers including ~$1.6B in USDT. Minutes later, "Binance Hot Wallet 34" lost 780M USDC. A third wallet, "Binance 16," sent another 28,005 ETH. Total estimated outflows: $2.5B+ across multiple blockchains. The receiving address was funded through Tornado Cash. Within minutes, the attacker began dispersing funds, sending $1.2B in USDT across three new addresses in $500M/$500M/$200M chunks, each preceded by a 0.5 ETH test transfer. The attacker is actively dumping stolen Tether. CZ posted: "User funds are safe! It does look like a hack on Binance. Appreciate the quick freeze from Tether (~$971m) and Circle (~$823m). I don't manage Binance (.com) anymore, but as a shareholder, I expect all user funds will be fully covered." Tether and Circle have frozen roughly $1.8B of the stolen assets between them. Binance's cold storage appears unaffected so far. This is still developing.
"It's important to distinguish that it's not free. Health care, like, there is no free lunch, right?" @BrokenCountry_ director Mira Metter on Canada's health care.
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