⚡️🇫🇷🇪🇺 NEW - French President Macron: Those who think this war will stop at Ukraine's borders if we yield or seek to accommodate the aggressor are wrong. The history of our continent has taught us what capitulation costs. We will not make that mistake again.

⚡️🔎 NEW - Mentions of Bitcoin and Ethereum on X have fallen to their lowest level since 2020, with about 130,000 tweets per week for Bitcoin and 40,000 for Ethereum. Public interest is at an all-time low, despite rising institutional adoption

⚡️👀 WATCH - Relevant ad

⚡️💸 NEW - Anthropic accidentally sent a bill for… $16.6 million to a user of the free version. A South Korean user was surprised to receive a $16.6 million bill from Anthropic, even though he was only using the free version of Claude and had never used the API. Even more surprising, the bill showed $1.67 million the day before, before increasing tenfold overnight. Initially suspecting a phishing attempt, he eventually confirmed that the email and payment link did indeed come from Anthropic’s official domain. Fortunately, no funds were withdrawn: his bank automatically blocked the transaction due to the unusually high amount.

⚡️💬 I’ve often been asked privately if I can make a living from Nostr, and whether people should take the plunge and follow in my footsteps. So I’m going to answer publicly. If you’re able to generate income on TikTok, X, YouTube, or any other platform, stick with it. Here, you’ll only make peanuts. As things stand, I can’t recommend that any content creator come to Nostr to make a living. But if you’re here for techno, then yes, this is the best place. For sure.

⚡️🇧🇷 NEW - Brazilian President Lula on Trump: Trump made a post saying that he would reopen the Strait of Hormuz, but every ship that he lets pass through the strait, the owner of the oil would have to pay him 20%. That used to be called piracy, didn't it? It used to be called piracy. A country as important as the United States, which spent so long fighting piracy, should not now become a pirate. He shouldn't be charging for that, because the strait is not his responsibility.

⚡️🔎 CHART - U.S. 30-Year Treasury Yield jumps to 5.1%

⚡️👀 NEW - A unique new feature of this Bitcoin wallet (Blue Wallet) shows the block your transaction is published inside of

⚡️💻 ARCHIVE - On this day in history, 12 years ago, Dell began accepting bitcoin payments for their computers Dell stopped accepting Bitcoin payments directly in October 2017. They launched it in 2014 via Coinbase but ended the program years ago.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Massie: I had a nearly 20-minute conversation with Senator McConnell. And he said we should stop spying on Americans, quit bankrupting the country, and stop starting these new wars. And he expressed his sadness that I lost my primary. But it appears that a lot of people had those 20-minute conversations. We just need to start having them publicly

⚡️🇺🇸🇻🇪 NEW - Trump: Venezuela has tremendous amounts of oil that we control.

⚡️💬 NEW - @Saifedean Ammous Ammous: "The difference between the United States and Palestine is that Palestinians know they are occupied by Israel."

⚡️🔎 CHART - U.S. Banks are currently facing unrealized losses of $316 Billion, an increase from the prior quarter

⚡️🔎 MARKET - Gold destroying the U.S. Stock Market this century

⚡️🇮🇹 NEW - Yesterday, Italian authorities seized 216 kilograms of drugs from an Israeli arriving from Tel Aviv at Rome’s airport. The suspect is reportedly demanding to be deported to Israel.

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Mark Levin: "Lindsey Graham was a humanitarian, not a warmonger."

⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Trump on Iran: I want to be reimbursed because we are protecting a very rich portion of the world. We are spending money. We will be reimbursed by the countries we are helping, like the five countries. You have Saudi Arabia, you have the UAE, you have Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and others.

⚡️💬 END OF DAY - 566 days of punching the bag

⚡️‼️ NEW - Telegram's core t[.]me domain has been placed on serverHold at the .me registry, a registry-level status that drops it from DNS worldwide and dead-ends every t[.]me link. Domain records show the change happened today, with no public explanation yet from Telegram, the .me registry, or backend operator Identity Digital.

⚡️🤡 NEW - Stephen Miller on Lindsey Graham: "He's someone we're still gonna be talking about 200 years from now"