looking for a place to retire? or launch your next start-up? Portugal is looking great >

CNBC

Portugal is the No. 1 country to retire abroad: It's 'one of the most sought-after countries in Europe' for retirees, expert says

The Global Citizen Solutions published its Global Retirement Report 2025, ranking 44 passive income and retirement visa programs.

Recently upgraded credit ratings is it's mark of resilience > https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/sp-upgrades-portugals-rating-a-economic-resilience-2025-08-29/ #finance #money #europe

Vietnam's city planning reset and attempt to bring more economic vigor to its property market >

VietNamNet News

From July 1, 87 cities across Vietnam will no longer exist

Starting July 1, Vietnam will implement a streamlined two-level government, eliminating the district level.

the impending shutdown of the US Government's potential effect on the Clarity Act...

Cointelegraph

US Government Poised to Shut Down — Will it Affect Market Structure?

Republican leaders in the US Senate were expected to begin consideration of a crypto market structure bill in October, but a government shutdown co...

can carbon credit markets be better off with crypto currencies like BTC or stablecoins on blockchains like ETH? it all comes down to the quality of the real world project and who is issuing them in the first place.

Carbon Credits

DevvStream Bets $10M on Bitcoin and Solana to Reinvent Carbon Credit Markets

DevvStream invests $10M in Bitcoin, Solana, and DevvE tokens to lead carbon credit tokenization using blockchain for climate finance.

#finance #money #crypto

the SIM equvalent of a DNS attack.

The Hacker News

U.S. Secret Service Seizes 300 SIM Servers, 100K Cards Threatening U.S. Officials Near UN

Secret Service seizes 300 SIM servers, 100,000 SIM cards near UN assembly, averting imminent national security threat.

e-SIMs, just makes it a whole lot ... easier? https://www.astound.com/learn/mobile/can-an-esim-be-hacked/ Don't you just love how airy the latest #Apple #iPhone Air feels?

there's another built-in "flaw" they (#Intel, #AMD ++) ain't going to talk about.

The Hacker News

Researchers Expose New Intel CPU Flaws Enabling Memory Leaks and Spectre v2 Attacks

Intel CPUs found vulnerable to multiple Spectre-style flaws, including BPI, leaking memory at 17 Kb/s.

what interesting timing considering the recent spate of "alarming" news about fish and chips getting rejected at the entrance of the biggest fish market in the world. for now.

CNBC

World's largest chipmaker TSMC says it has discovered potential trade secret leaks

TSMC dominates the market for the manufacturing of the most advanced chips on the planet and counts major firms like Apple and Nvidia as clients.

some points to ponder: just how does one conduct trade secret misappropriation (a fancy way of saying stealing)? A) pay some awesome looking stranger to hang out at bars, Stabucks, whatever. B) get a bunch of chaps tucked away in a corner rent-a-office-by-the-hour stall to furiously pretend to be a friend of a friend. One message at the time. C) just do a DNS mambo jumbo then go to (B). P.S. one of them is how it really gets done by the gorillas. oh, watch out for this Halloween, "solar flares" from nowhere are aplenty. tsk. tsk.

have you ever been in a situation where you really need to explain just what the hell is a VPN or maybe Tor is (in english) to some random awesome looking stranger at a bar, or a bunch of apes pretending to be gorillas in the corporate boardroom? fret no more, fellow digital citizens of the decentralized world of tomorrow, for it is now entirely possible to do so in the least quantum of effort, by means of exhibiting the following illustrative and rather amusing embodiment of said situation > #seinfeld #friday #vpn #tor #btc

another point in history that is best told by the Dutch themselves. #dutch #history #justice #monkeys

a pretty pretty awesome tell all video that clearly shows why decentralized money makes a lot more commercial sense more so now then ever. #finance #money #crypto #bitcoin #monkeys

Geopolitics is now edging into the domain of computing, machine intelligence and NVIDIA. This is now touted as a political move for subsequent negotiations by and between the United States of America and the People’s Republic of China. This translates into the need for radical transformation in how existing LLMs and their underlying languages (Python, etc.) shift their respective technological hardware and computational dependence away from a uni-vendor set-up into more durable supply chain resilience. It’s already happening. Are you ready? Original CNBC Article:

CNBC

Speaker Johnson says China is straining U.S. relations with Nvidia chip ban

The Cyberspace Administration of China ordered companies to halt purchases of Nvidia's RTX Pro 6000D, a chip that was made for the country.

Background Resources: The rise of ASIC:

The Rise of ASIC: Custom Chips Becoming a Key Trend

Comprehensive Analysis of ASIC Players: Broadcom, Marvell, AIchip...

Why ASICs matter:

techovedas

The AI ASICs Revolution: Unveiling the Next Generation of AI Chip Innovations - techovedas

AI ASICs are redefining the future of AI computing, powering everything from cloud data centers to self-driving cars.

Forth language for AI in robots:

Forth is the programming language of choice for Artificial Intelligence in robots

Coding artificial Minds for robots in the Forth programming language

Learn this in no time:

GitHub

GitHub - vlnn/awesome-forth-1: Resources and links for the Forth programming language

Resources and links for the Forth programming language - vlnn/awesome-forth-1

Why and how Forth+FPGA is a match made in digital heaven:

Apriorit

FPGAs for Artificial Intelligence: Possibilities, Pros, and Cons | Apriorit

Learn whether FPGAs are a good fit for accelerating Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications and what are the pros and cons of using FPGAs for AI.

When it comes to #money, a lot of wise eyes and ears pay attention to what sort of perspectives are deliberated from the likes of #JPMorganChase. So it’s not surprising that by connecting the dots between Figure 4 and Figure 8 in it’s September 2025 Energy Report, massive offshore wind energy reserves are within a day’s sail away to most LNG import and export terminals around the globe. It also means that by recycling all that supersaturated carbon in the world’s oceans into circular non-fossil natural gas product, makes a lot of commercial sense when it comes to operating an economically sustainable energy model. A model that is resilient, independent, and forever. Total world energy consumption in 2022 totals 27,000 TWh, ocean wave #energy potential alone, stands at 29,500 TWh. By recovering selected minerals from seawater brine, non-fossil natural #gas product is generated at competitive costs for energy markets. Today. A single #ThessalonicaHydroship GPA vessel (“Gas Production Area”) has a minimum capacity of 25,000,000 MMbtus per annum. JPMorganChase energy report: https://www.jpmorganchase.com/content/dam/jpmorganchase/documents/center-for-geopolitics/jpmc-cfg-energy-report.pdf Wave energy’s scale:

Climate Cosmos

The Tidal Turn: Ocean Waves and Currents as the Next Energy Frontier

Waves and Currents: Nature’s Unstoppable Engines Waves and Currents: Nature’s Unstoppable Engines (image credits: unsplash) Ocean waves and cur...

by now, many of us must have logged hundreds if not thousands of zoom, teams video conference calls given all the work from home, hybrid workplace environment set-up across much of the world's corporate world still. here's a typical video con call on the Star Trek enterprise on a Friday. Have fun and Happy Friday! 😜 #happyfriday #TGIF #friday #startrek #zoom #teams

can the following be a means to check against AI models from dreaming up digital slop? the devil, is in the code. Literally speaking.

GitHub

GitHub - openai/simple-evals

Contribute to openai/simple-evals development by creating an account on GitHub.

Microsoft finally gets on the bitcoin train...now you and I can buy and pay for Microsoft stuff (think 365, Xbox games etc) via #BTC.

Pay with Bitcoin & Crypto at Microsoft

Spend Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency at Microsoft. BitPay lets you pay with cryptocurrency online or in-store at your favorite merchants directly...

here's something funny. each time somebody goes to Hong Kong to exchange bitcoin over the counter for cash with no questions asked, what they do not know .... is ...... smile, you are on camera! #bitcoin #crypto

a new blockchain that is designed to handle fast and low cost stablecoin payments. It seems to have been working with partners such as Standard Chartered Bank, Visa, Deutsche Bank, OpenAI, Anthropic, Revolut, Nubank. besides USDC, AUDD, EURC, AECoin (just obtained final regulatory approval 4-5 days ago)... and by the end of this year JPYC. > the new blockchain platform for fast payments >

Tempo

Tempo: the blockchain designed for payments

The blockchain for payments at scale. A neutral, permissionless blockchain optimized for payment processing, enabling efficient transactions with p...

> UAE's first stablecoin pegged to... >

Arabian Post

UAE's First Regulated Stablecoin Receives Final Approval — Arabian Post

UAE's First Regulated Stablecoin Receives Final Approval : Latest in - Arabian Post

> analysis into why JPYC's introduction is pivotal by and between USDC and EURC >

How the JPYC Stablecoin Could Lead Japan’s Digital Finance Comeback

The country has historically taken a conservative approach to financial innovations such as cryptocurrencies.

#money #finance #blockchain #bitcoin

plastic mirrors to convert solar energy into thermal. interesting.

New Atlas

Lightweight plastic mirrors drop cost of solar thermal energy by 40%

Researchers in Australia are working on a way to lower the cost of producing solar thermal energy by as much as 40% with the help of shatterproof r...

#solar #energy #finance

can silicon carbide (SiC) be the next breakthrough for lower cost hydrogen made from solar energy? (SiC is, in simple terms, a water "splitter".)

ScienceDaily

This triple-layer sunlight catalyst supercharges green hydrogen by 800%

Researchers in Sweden have developed a powerful new material that dramatically boosts the ability to create hydrogen fuel from water using sunlight...

#hydrogen #energy

interested to run bitcoin mining on a penny? non-GPU hardware...like a FPGA or that berry berry small thing? >

GitHub

GitHub - luke-jr/bfgminer: Modular ASIC/FPGA miner written in C, featuring overclocking, monitoring, fan speed control and remote interface capabilities.

Modular ASIC/FPGA miner written in C, featuring overclocking, monitoring, fan speed control and remote interface capabilities. - luke-jr/bfgminer

#bitcoin #money

the problem with bitcoin cash, really, is the lack of a large miner network (see BTH hashrate versus BCH).

Crypto Economy

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS OF $BCH PRICE: On the Verge of Breaking the Bullish Channel and Testing Support at $500? - Crypto Economy

Bitcoin Cash ($BCH) is trading at $568.36, brushing against the lower boundary of the bullish channel it has maintained since April, signaling an i...