⚡️🇺🇸 NEW - Sen. Chris Murphy: "Donald Trump has lost this war. America is weaker, Iran is stronger, the price to reopen the strait increases by the day, the supposed 'deal' that's on the table right now would pay Iran $100 billion a year in order to reopen the strait ... what a victory for Iran."

⚡️⛏️ NEW - BIP-110 NEXT BLOCK FEES REACH $17,000, BUT MINING INCENTIVE REMAINS FAR BELOW BITCOIN There is currently 0.27 BTC, worth roughly $17,400, in transaction fees waiting to be collected in the next BIP-110 block. BIP-110 proponents argued yesterday that rising fees could eventually incentivize a large miner to redirect hash rate to the chain and find the next block. However, 0.27 BTC remains considerably less than the 3.125 BTC block subsidy, plus transaction fees, a miner can earn by mining a block on Bitcoin’s legacy chain.

⚡️🇯🇵 NEW - Japan’s Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi: We must never allow the tragedies of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to be repeated. Let Nagasaki be the last place on Earth to suffer an atomic bombing.

⚡️🇮🇱 NEW - Netanyahu: I want to make the main point clear: as long as I am Prime Minister, there will be no Palestinian state — not in Gaza and not in the West Bank. Not under Fatah and not under Hamas.

⚡️⚠️ ALERT - A fake Wasabi Wallet drainer is on the Apple Store. ~ a victim on X already lost 6 BTC This marks the 27th wallet clone to make it to the App Store this year, the fake Ledger app remains remains the biggest with $9.3M stolen.

⚡️🇮🇷 NEW - Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi: We currently have no negotiations with America. Yes, messages are being exchanged through intermediaries. This is not called "negotiation," it's an "exchange of messages." Intermediaries are still trying to create the grounds for negotiations again. In our view, until the violations of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) are over and America compensates for what it has violated in the MoU, the possibility of starting negotiations again does not exist.

⚡️❌ NEW - Proton VPN got caught running price sensitivity tests on its own users, then told everyone it was a stale sale. Here's what happened. People on Proton's subreddit noticed they were being quoted different prices for the same plan. Refresh the pricing page and VPN Plus shows $2.77/mo at 72% off. Open a fresh incognito window and it's $3.23/mo at 68% off. Same plan, same country, same second. Nothing about the visitor changed. Proton VPN's General Manager replied that there was no adaptive pricing, that a sale had recently ended, and that the intro prices hadn't "universally refreshed." He called the low numbers an error and suggested people grab them before they got fixed. Then Windscribe pulled the page source. Every visitor is being sorted into a variant, and the test is labeled in plain text inside an HTML meta tag: ab-test:VpnHpAndPricingVpnPlusSensibility300726. One session returns content="A", the other returns content="B". Two separate pricing URLs, one normal and one flagged test-300726-b. A screen recording shows the price flipping between clean incognito sessions, $3.49 at 65% off, then $2.99 at 70% off. Expired sales don't do that. Cached pages don't do that. Cloudflare has never once injected a named A/B test into anyone's markup. Worth being precise about the wording, because Proton was. Adaptive pricing uses your personal data to set a number tailored to you. Price sensitivity testing quotes different people different prices for the identical product to find out how far you can push before sales drop off. The GM denied the first one. Nobody accused them of the first one. A/B testing prices is ordinary commerce. Amazon does it, airlines do it in their sleep, and almost nobody would have cared. But Proton sells privacy, and privacy is a trust product. The experiment was never the scandal. The denial was. Run the tests. Just don't call it a glitch when your own code is holding a sign with the test's name on it.

⚡️🌋🇯🇵 NEW - Huge eruption of Sakurajima Volcano, with ash falling across Kagoshima, Japan (08.08.2026)

⚡️🇺🇾⚽️ UNUSUAL - In Uruguay, the ball from a second-division professional soccer match ended up on the road near the stadium after a clearance, causing a fender-bender. The Montevideo team plays all of its home games there.

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⚡️💢 NEW - Israeli settlers violently attacked Palestinians and solidarity activists in Taybeh, east of Ramallah, on Friday, according to Quds News. Footage shows one settler repeatedly punching a female activist as she tries to protect herself.

⚡️🚨 NEW - Coinkite, the manufacturer of Coldcard, has announced that it will publish a post-incident analysis report. The company refuses to estimate customer losses. It states that it is focusing on assisting customers affected by the security incident. According to the company, the privacy-focused design of its products prevents it from independently verifying external estimates of the amount stolen. Losses resulting from the attack are estimated at approximately $130 million...

⚡️🎪🇺🇸 NEW - The US national debt has crossed $39.8 TRILLION and is on track to hit $40 TRILLION by November. The US has added nearly $3 TRILLION in debt in the last 12 months alone.

⚡️🇺🇦🇮🇱 NEW - Zelensky: We are very often asked about Israel. We would also like to receive air defense from them. We would be ready to buy it. So far, we do not have that possibility, although we are in dialogue.

⚡️🇷🇺🇨🇳 NEW - Russia officially opens new Arctic trade sea route connecting China with Europe Russia's state nuclear giant Rosatom, operator of the Northern Sea Route ​via the Arctic, said on Friday ‌it had issued permits for seven Chinese transit vessels to sail to Europe via the ​NSR.

⚡️🤖🦠 NEW - AI has been used to design 16 viruses that have never existed in nature. Scientists trained the AI on around 9 trillion DNA nucleotides, allowing it to learn patterns from existing genomes and create new viral designs. The viruses were bacteriophages, which infect bacteria such as E. coli, not humans. Researchers tested the AI-generated designs and found 16 that were functional. Experts are warning that AI’s ability to design new biological systems is advancing faster than the safeguards needed to control the potential risks.

⚡️⛏️ ICYMI - Ladies and gentlemen, the chain has split.

⚡️⛏️ UPDATE - BIP-110 CHAIN SPLIT The BIP-110 chain is now one block behind the standard bitcoin blockchain as mandatory signaling for BIP-110 has officially begun

⚡️🥚 NEW - Quailseed turns quail eggs into Bitcoin seeds A new experimental open-source tool called QuailSeed uses the naturally occurring pigment patterns on quail eggs as physical input for generating a 24-word BIP-39 Bitcoin seed phrase. The process photographs 12 eggs from four angles each, analyzes and measures their shell patterns, converts the results into a deterministic transcript, and cryptographically conditions it into 256 bits of entropy. The developers stress that QuailSeed is experimental research software and has not been independently audited, formally verified, or approved as a secure random-number generator or production custody system.

⚡️🎮 GAMING - It’s official: Sony’s PlayStation Direct store has also added the “NOTICE” to PS5 consoles with disc drives and the detachable disc drive itself. "From Jan 2028, newly released games on PlayStation will be available for purchase on PlayStation Store and at retailers in digital format only. Discs for games released before Jan 2028 can continue to be played on this console."