Strategy Adds Nearly a Billion Dollars in Bitcoin for Second Straight Week
Michael Saylor’s firm is still buying big, adding $980 million worth of Bitcoin—slightly more than last week’s BTC haul.
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Nvidia reportedly weighs ramping up H200 production to meet surging demand in China
After successfully lobbying the Trump administration to approve the sales of its H200 chips to China, Nvidia is now thinking of adding capacity to produce more of the chips.
CoinDesk 20 Performance Update: Ethereum (ETH) Gains 2% as Index Trades Flat
Aave (AAVE) rose 1.6% over the weekend.
Crypto’s ‘Best Days Are Ahead’: Tom Lee’s Bitmine Immersion Adds $320M of Ether
The company is likely sitting on about $3 billion in unrealized losses on its holdings of nearly 4 million ether tokens.
Juventus Fan Token Slides Over 13% After Tether Bid Rebuff, Even as Club Shares Surge
Juventus Football Club shares surged after stablecoin issuer Tether made, and was rebuffed on, a €1.1 billion takeover bid, while the club’s fan token saw a double-digit pullback.
The “API First” Illusion: Why Your “Simple” Endpoints Turn Into Technical Debt (And How to Fix It)
It started as a harmless Slack message at 4:30 PM on a Friday. “Hey, frontend needs a quick endpoint to show user preferences. Just return the JSON blob from the DB. Should take 10 minutes.” Six months later, that “10-minute endpoint” has mutated into a monolithic /v1/user/stuff route. It returns 4MB of data, mixes camelCase and snake_case, … Read more
Musicians are getting really tired of this AI clone ‘bullshit’
William Basinski says the current system is “a mess.” | Image: Getty Images for Prada “Not ideal.” “Completely unacceptable.” “Shameless.” “Predatory.” “Some bullshit.” “Total bullshit.” This is how musicians, producers, and others in the industry are describing the relentless spread of AI clones. Of course, AI fakes aren’t new, but as the scammers have gotten … Read more
Bitcoin Doesn’t Need Another Bull Run. It Needs An Economy
Bitcoin usage still skews toward long-term storage, as seen in how much BTC sits unmoved, says Terahash co-founder Hunter Rogers. But this behavior preserves individual wealth while starving the network.
Kula Brings $50M of Impact Investing Onchain With Community-Governed RWA Model
The decentralized investment firm is using tokens and DAOs to give local communities direct control over energy and infrastructure projects in emerging markets.
Ripple Expands $1.3B RLUSD Stablecoin to Ethereum L2s via Wormhole in Multichain Push
Ripple said it’s testing its U.S. dollar stablecoin on Optimism, Base, Ink and Unichain with more blockchains to be added next year pending regulatory review.
Real-World Asset DeFi Moves Into Sports Finance With Tokenized Football Club Revenues
A new DeFi model is providing football clubs with faster access to liquidity by converting future media and broadcasting revenues into tokenized, onchain assets.
Morning Minute: The SEC & OCC Usher In Crypto Era
Two major actions from late last week signal that crypto is fully entering the mainstream, with full regulatory buy in.
Michael Saylor’s Strategy Made Second Consecutive $1B Bitcoin Purchase Last Week
Despite the continued struggles of its share price, Strategy again funded the purchase mostly via sales of common stock
How To Send .NET Crash Dumps To Slack From ECS Fargate Task
Sometimes .NET applications crash in production, and nobody knows why, because logs and metrics are ok. It’s quite bothersome and makes debugging very unpleasant. In such cases, memory dumps might simplify debugging and reduce troubleshooting time from days to minutes. This article explains how to configure dumps for .NET applications deployed to AWS ECS Fargate … Read more
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Aave DAO Pushes Back as Interface Fees Shift Away From Treasury
The change was framed as an upgrade offering improved execution, but delegates flagged that swap-related fees were no longer flowing to the Aave DAO treasury.
Thea Energy previews Helios, its pixel-inspired fusion power plant
Thea Energy says that its planar-coil fusion power plant could be cheaper and easier to build thanks to AI-powered control software.
Mirelo raises $41M from Index and a16z to solve AI video’s silent problem
Mirelo, a German startup that is building AI to add synced sound effects to videos, has raised a $41 million seed round led by Index Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz.
‘A Market Waiting for a Catalyst:’ Crypto Daybook Americas
Your day-ahead look for Dec. 15, 2025
Kindle app now answers questions about the book you’re reading
The tool avoids spoilers by drawing answers from the pages you’ve read so far. Amazon has launched a new AI feature in the Kindle app that gives spoiler-free answers to questions about the book you’re reading and confirmed that authors can’t opt out from the feature. The company calls Ask this Book an “expert reading … Read more
Bitcoin’s Parabolic Arc Snaps: Trader Peter Brandt Eyes $25K Crash Floor
Veteran trader Peter Brandt warns that bitcoin’s growth parabola has fractured, potentially leading to a price drop to $25,000.
Feeding the machine
When he was 19 years old, Brendan Foody started Mercor with two of his high school friends as a way for his other friends, who also had startups, to hire software engineers overseas. It launched in 2023 as essentially a staffing agency, albeit a highly automated one. Language models reviewed resumes and did the interviewing. … Read more