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Hosting a private Diwali evening with A.R. Rahman in SF.
- Only 50 people in the room. Curated group of founders, investors and artists.
- I'll be moderating a panel discussion with ARR and @krandiash (founder, @cartesia) on 'future of creativity in the AI age'
- A surprise release by Rahman and @rajavignesh (cofounders of Secret Mountain)
Diwali can't get bigger than this! Super excited.
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YC dropped their Crypto Request for Startups
They want startups solving real financial needs (institutional hedging, cross-border money movement) via tokenization and agents
What they’re interested in over the next 6 months:
- Capital - AI capital raising onchain
- Stablecoins - New USD for specific segments (e.g. gaming) + distribution
- Trading - Trusted RWA tokenisation (e.g. house NFTs for onchain mortgages); new exchanges/interfaces for new assets, derivatives, geographies
- Agents - Agent trading of crypto + other assets; agent native crypto APIs (on/offramps, paired APIs)
Deadline to apply is next Monday
At @ycombinator, we're excited to fund more crypto startups solving financial needs including AI capital raising, stablecoins, trading, and agents.
Here's our latest crypto request for startups. Our next application deadline is Monday.
Wow, massive numbers for UK & Spain!
🌍 European countries that added the most migrants (2000–2024)
1. 🇬🇧 United Kingdom: +7.1M
2. 🇪🇸 Spain: +6.8M
3. 🇩🇪 Germany: +6.4M
4. 🇹🇷 Türkiye: +5.8M
5. 🇮🇹 Italy: +4.4M
6. 🇫🇷 France: +3.0M
7. 🇦🇹 Austria: +1.4M
8. 🇳🇱 Netherlands: +1.4M
9. 🇨🇭 Switzerland: +1.3M
10. 🇧🇪 Belgium: +1.3M
11. 🇸🇪 Sweden: +1.3M
12. 🇵🇱 Poland: +917K
13. 🇮🇪 Ireland: +840K
14. 🇳🇴 Norway: +720K
15. 🇷🇴 Romania: +521K
16. 🇵🇹 Portugal: +476K
17. 🇩🇰 Denmark: +475K
18. 🇭🇺 Hungary: +393K
19. 🇨🇿 Czechia: +386K
20. 🇫🇮 Finland: +378K
Europe's migrant population grew by 40.8 million between 2000 and 2024, up 67%. The UK, Spain and Germany together account for almost half of that increase.
Source: UN DESA
James Bernard retweeted
This time ive sung for For #ThalaivARR @arrahman sir in style along with @anirudhofficial … the trio for #RamayanaPart1 … the Ravanan song
James Bernard retweeted
In Paris they even burned the historic La Barrique restaurant. These are not students, not even criminals, they are terrorists. And as such they and those who defend them must be treated.
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Bank accounts of a Montana-based payments business working on behalf of Tether and Bitfinex have been seized by federal prosecutors who accuse it of making hundreds of millions of dollars of illegal transfers. ft.trib.al/ccHALdt
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🚨🇯🇵 JAPAN UNVEILS NEW ANTI-ISLAM LAWS
Halal - BANNED
Large Mosques - BANNED
Call to prayer - BANNED
Praying in the street - BANNED
They've basically said Islam is not welcome in Japan
Go home
James Bernard retweeted
🚨🚨🚨Yulia Mendel KILLED Zelensky
🚨EX-ZELENSKY PRESS SEC: Zelensky DECLINED FRONT-LINE DUTY 4 TIMES — now ‘GRABBING men on street and sending them forcefully to front line’
🚨TUCKER: ‘None of people pushing this war putting their OWN lives at risk’
🚨MENDEL: ‘When Zelensky was NOT president, he was invited to join front line in Donbass for 4 TIMES…he DECLINED… far from Churchill that he is compared to’
📑Well, how many professors in the United States are
serving on the front lines of the Ukraine war?
How many neoconservative think tank employees are doing that?
Is, Zelensky volunteering to go fight his own war?
Of course not.
None of the people pushing this war are putting their own lives at risk.
They're destroying an entire population for money, popularity, power, but none of them are willing to die for it.
Other people die for it.
🚨If I may add, when Zelensky was not the president, he was invited to join the front line in Donbas for four times, and he did not do that.
🚨He declined.
He avoided conscription, and now he is grabbing men on the street and sending them forcefully to the front line.
It's ... Wait, Zelensky ... it's still relevant ... himself avoided conscription?
🚨Four times, yes.
🚨This is public information in Ukraine.
So he's very far from Churchill that he's compared to.
And there is another story.
You know, I come from mainstream media.
I respect my colleagues who work there.
🚨But I had this very strange experience when I wanted to publish an article about peace, and I sent it to a very famous American media, and they declined, of course, without any explanation.
I didn't have any attack on Zelensky there.
You may still read it online.
You know, there was nothing political.
There was just a Gallup poll that was saying that majority of Ukrainians wanted peace, and there were argumentation why we needed to have either ceasefire or peace because we were, we were just declining, degrading as a nation.
So I was declined to publish that piece, and, in same time, I saw how the same media published a London professor who actually was justifying this war because he was saying how Russia is suffering without mentioning how Ukraine was suffering, how much we were losing, you know, how many people we were losing.
So I just Googled if this professor has ever been to Russia or to Ukraine, and I was shocked to know that no, he has never been to any of these countries.
He just gets his information from, social media, and, um, that's how he has, you know, some kind of imagination in his head of what's going on, and he produces this to your people.
And so your people believe that this war has any kind of justification.
What I understood after Zelensky convinced Western partners to have escalation of this war is that in the West, many more people want Russia burn than Ukraine to be saved.
James Bernard retweeted
today we’re launching eyecandy robotics!
we’re bringing animated characters to life through robotics and ai.
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The @BBCNews reports that a #reward of up to £10,000 is being offered for information after a young couple were attacked in their home and forced to transfer a substantial amount of #cryptocurrency.
The husband suffered significant injuries, and his pregnant wife was threatened with a knife. Police believe the attack may have been planned and targeted.
The case comes just one day after we shared @Gart_io's latest report on physical attacks involving #crypto. Across the 305 cases examined, at least 47.2% involved confirmed violence or torture. It is a difficult reminder of the human consequences behind these crimes.
If you have information that could help, contact @CrimestoppersUK anonymously on 0800 555 111 or through its website. The reward applies to information given exclusively to Crimestoppers that leads to the arrest and conviction of those responsible.
CryptoUK has been raising awareness of this risk for some time. Our webinar with the @metpoliceuk — The Wrench Attack Phenomenon: Are High Value Asset Crypto Users Being Targeted? — a link for which you can find below, explored the physical-security risks facing crypto holders and the threat posed by coercion.
Please stay vigilant and protect your personal information.
🔹 Read the full BBC report: bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c60q…
🔹 Read the Gart report: gart.io/stats
🔹 Watch our Metropolitan Police webinar: youtu.be/7IlNxs2FBV0
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🚨BREAKING: US seizes bank accounts tied to a Tether-linked payments firm, FT reports.
The firm, Capstone, is accused by the DOJ of illegally moving hundreds of millions of dollars for Tether and Bitfinex through EQIBank, a small Caribbean bank.
Capstone allegedly opened US bank accounts while presenting itself as a tech company, then used those accounts to send payments to hundreds of individuals and entities.
About $84 MILLION has now been frozen from Capstone accounts at Wells Fargo and JPMorgan.
FT reports Capstone was also linked to a separate case where stolen cash from elderly victims was allegedly converted into USDT.
Tether and Bitfinex said they were EQIBank customers, but had no knowledge of Capstone’s alleged misconduct.
This highlights Tether’s banking access problem, relying on smaller offshore banks and payment middlemen to reach the dollar system.
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Is “OG Disillusionment” a thing?
Unsure.
But what I do know is that our industry is headed down the wrong path.
A path of centralization is a path to destruction.
It’s a path where this tech loses all its value because it loses the properties that make it valuable. Centralization & bankers lead to doom.
We must refocus on decentralization.
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‼️ BREAKING: Revolut handed over customers’ passport copies, verification selfies and full transaction histories to a malicious actor.
The actor sent lawful government information-demand emails using a genuine government domain that passed domain authentication.
Revolut later concluded they were not authentic.
Affected customers were notified on Friday. What may have been disclosed ranges from name, date of birth and home address to account statements, withdrawal records and complete Bitcoin transaction history.
The company says it has alerted the agency to the unauthorised mailbox on its domain, blocked the address and begun notifying regulators.
It has not named the agency, explained how someone obtained a mailbox there, or given a number of affected customers.
ZachXBT, who circulated the notices, believes the incident was limited in size and aimed at high-net-worth users.
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Smoke is rising from the East-West pipeline, the main oil pipeline available to Saudi Arabia to avoid the Strait of Hormuz.
The Houthis are stepping up a massive offensive against Ryihad.
We are really close to a major oil price spike and global energy shockwave.💥🇸🇦🇾🇪🇮🇷🧵




























