Apple is about to kill Sparrow Wallet on macOS. The deadline is June 30. Since 2023, more than a dozen fake "Sparrow" apps have appeared on Apple's App Store. Users have lost their savings, in some cases their life savings, to these impersonators. Craig Raw, Sparrow's developer, holds the registered US trademarks for both the name and logo. He's been publicly warning Apple about the scam apps since early 2024. They keep showing up. Craig created a placeholder app, never published, to warn users that Sparrow is desktop-only and the App Store copycats aren't real. Apple's response? They flagged his developer account for "dishonest activity" and scheduled it for termination. The developer fighting scammers got flagged. The scammers who stole life savings kept operating on Apple's platform. If Apple follows through, every new Sparrow install on macOS fails after June 30. macOS development ends entirely. This matters because Sparrow is the best desktop Bitcoin wallet available, full stop. Multisig. Coin control. Hardware wallet integration. Tor support. UTXO management that most wallets don't even attempt. Free. Open source. Built by one developer who cares more about his users than his revenue. And one automated decision by a trillion-dollar company could end it on an entire operating system. This is why platform gatekeeping is a systemic risk for freedom tech. If your tools need a gatekeeper's blessing to exist, they aren't freedom tools. We have to build on open platforms. Download Sparrow now from

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before the deadline. And repost Craig's announcement to help get Apple's attention before it's too late.

Strategy bought another 520 BTC this week and increased its USD reserve by $300M to $1.4B 847,363 bitcoin.

Iranian delegation walks out of Swiss talks, declining photo with VP JD Vance and U.S. team following Trump’s threats.

Keir Starmer is expected to resign as UK Prime Minister on Monday, according to The Observer. Labour won a 172-seat majority in 2024. Less than two years later, the party is in freefall. Starmer's net favorability hit -57, matching Liz Truss. Over 100 of his own MPs called for him to go. The list of failures is worth understanding because they are not unique to one man or one party. They are what happens when a government prioritizes control over its citizens instead of serving them. Starmer appointed Peter Mandelson, a close associate of Jeffrey Epstein, as UK Ambassador to the US. Mandelson was fired after the relationship became public and later failed security vetting for the role. The grooming gangs scandal has followed Starmer throughout his premiership. He ran the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008 to 2013, the period during which organized child sexual exploitation networks operated across the country with near-total impunity. Critics have maintained that his office failed to prosecute at scale. The independently funded Rape Gang Inquiry Report we reported on earlier this week confirmed the scope of what happened. 250,000+ estimated victims. 149 local authority districts. On the surveillance front, his government pushed aggressive digital ID and age verification mandates under the Online Safety Act. By February 2026, Ofcom had opened investigations into over 90 platforms. In June, the government announced a social media ban for under-16s requiring ID uploads or facial age scans. A broader national digital ID scheme is in development. Cybersecurity researchers called the surveillance provisions "technically dangerous and ethically questionable." A government that failed to protect children from organized rape gangs responded by building surveillance tools to monitor everyone's internet activity. In May's local elections, Labour lost over 1,100 council seats. Health Secretary Wes Streeting resigned. Three Defence Ministry officials followed. Unite, one of Labour's largest unions, cut their funding by 40%. Andy Burnham won the Makerfield by-election on June 18 with 54.8% of the vote and now claims the backing of over half the parliamentary Labour party. Cabinet ministers are reportedly planning to tell Starmer his time is up at Tuesday's cabinet meeting.

JD Vance on the White House plan for AI ownership. "He likes the idea as sort of a sovereign wealth fund idea of the United States taking some stake in these AI companies."

President Trump rejects reports of Iran imposing tolls on the Strait of Hormuz. "There will be no tolls... unless they are imposed by and for the US."

On her final day as Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard just released never-before-seen communications and documents exposing Anthony Fauci's role in funding gain-of-function research at the Wuhan lab. The documents allegedly show three things: 1. Fauci provided millions in US taxpayer dollars to fund dangerous gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. 2. He worked with politicized elements within the Intelligence Community to suppress the truth about the virus's lab-leak origins and hide his involvement. 3. He lied to Congress under oath in 2024 about all of it. This comes one week after Gabbard declassified evidence confirming 120+ US-funded biolabs across 30+ countries, including 40+ in Ukraine, the same claim that got her labeled a "Russian asset" by Senator Mitt Romney in 2022. Gabbard delayed her resignation by a month to finish this work. She was originally stepping down to care for her husband, who was diagnosed with a rare form of bone cancer. Allies say she had "unfinished business." The lab-leak theory went from "dangerous misinformation" to the official US intelligence assessment in about four years. These documents appear to show it wasn't just a mistake, it was an active coverup orchestrated by the man who was supposed to be protecting public health.

.@jack mallers explains why he questioned Saylor on MNAV and dilution at Bitcoin Prague. "If there's no definitions to any of these things, we can't have a conversation."

Floating AI data centers are heading to the open ocean. Portland startup Panthalassa has raised $140M in a Peter Thiel-led round at a near-$1B valuation. The wave-powered “lollipop” platforms generate electricity from ocean waves and use seawater for cooling. Commercial units targeted for 2027.

"The disintermediation of purpose." (RepNickBegich) on AI's deepest threat. Not job loss, but the removal of meaning.

"I got Goxed. I had about 440 bitcoin with Mt. Gox when they declared bankruptcy." (RepNickBegich) says he's been in bitcoin since January 2013. Lost 440 BTC on Mt. Gox and still came back because he believed in the thesis.

Illinois just signed the most aggressive bitcoin tax in the US. Starting January 2027, the state will impose a 0.20% tax on the gross value of digital assets exchanged, transferred, or stored for customers. Buy bitcoin? Taxed. Transfer bitcoin? Taxed. Hold with a custodian? Taxed. No profit required. No capital gain. Just moving a digital asset triggers the tax. Move $1M through a bank wire, ACH, or brokerage and Illinois takes nothing. Move that same $1M as a digital asset and the state takes $2,000. There is no comparable tax on stocks, bonds, derivatives, bank deposits, or any traditional financial transaction anywhere in the country. The message to every bitcoin company in Illinois is clear: leave.

"Bitcoin is a pyramid, a Ponzi." - (PeterSchiff). "Gold woke up after being asleep for a decade. Welcome to the party. Bitcoin is the entire asset. It's very volatile. One of the things the gold bugs and the Bitcoiners agree on is that the government's not gonna stop printing money." - (APompliano)

.(APompliano) offered to bet (PeterSchiff) that bitcoin will still be around in a decade.

Fox Business: (APompliano) says he "got (PeterSchiff) to admit bitcoin is not going to zero on national television."

Trump, Macron, and Brigitte Macron pose together during the opening of the 2026 G7 Summit in Évian-les-Bains.

School children react live on BBC News to the UK banning social media for under-16s.

Trump on Israel’s strike in Beirut: "It should not have happened." Says U.S. is close to Iran peace deal and calls the attack disproportionate. Urges both Israel and Hezbollah to stand down to protect regional peace.

"Much of the crypto industry is dead. It's never coming back. They are dead man walking. The dream is over. 2018 vision of the world is not going to happen. Reallocate the capital, reallocate the talent, and go somewhere else." (APompliano) also says simply holding Bitcoin on the balance sheet is not a winning strategy for treasury companies.

Elon Musk is officially the world's first trillionaire