Forbes rated entrepreneur in WEB3 and games industry BitOK CEO
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A sanctioned Russian crypto exchange rebranded. Got "hacked by foreign intelligence." $11M in TRX. One address.
Garantex got hit with US sanctions and exit-scammed last year. Rebranded as Grinex.
Official statement: hostile foreign intelligence services did it.
AI is writing code for its own next versions.
Claude team shipped 70 features in 52 days.
CEO says engineers now supervise AI-written code while Claude builds itself further.
Sounds great, but optimize your tokens — they burn in like 2 prompts.
And time without Claude feels like your most productive direct report is just ignoring you.
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#Binance applied to get licensed in Greece to become the single exchange with official approval in the country. First come first served.
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A 25-year-old girl Noelia Castillo Ramos gets gang-raped, paralyzed, euthanized tomorrow.
I ask Claude to report it.
It says "only without ethnic framing." Same Claude whose company feeds data to Palantir.
The censorship knows exactly whose story to protect.
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Thank you updated X algorithm
came for news & crypto, got a cartoon about fruits cheating on each other.
this is exactly what i open the internet for in 2026.
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Remember the Tether collapse headlines?
Now look at Circle.
$CRCL -15% after CLARITY Act signaled no yield on stablecoin balances - activity-based rewards only.
That kills the core bull case for USDC: evolving from a payment rail into a store-of-value product.
Regulation just cut that path off.
Media that wrote Tether's obituary how are you doing?
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Leonid Radvinsky turned OnlyFans into a multi-billion dollar company… with a team of around 42 employees.
In a world where corporations scale to thousands or even tens of thousands of employees, this looks almost like an anomaly.
RIP
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Meta officially shuts down its Metaverse after burning through $80B.
Looks like they genuinely believed they could build something close to Ready Player One.
What did we get instead? Low-quality avatars that, by 2026 standards, two students could probably recreate over a couple beers and instant noodles.
Maybe the idea wasn’t wrong just too early.
Wanna real metaverse?
See you in 20–40 years (if we make it that far).
AI for everyone > AI as a utility.
Looks like Tether may have actually pulled off a breakthrough.
Until now, running a local LLM (without paying for APIs) meant expensive GPUs or servers — often costing more than just using ChatGPT.
QVAC changes the game.
You can now run and fine-tune models on consumer hardware even smartphones.
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Dmitry Machikhin retweeted
Tether AI breakthrough
Tether AI team just released new version of QVAC Fabric to include the World’s First Cross-Platform BitNet LoRA Framework to Enable Billion-Parameter AI Training and Inference on Consumer GPUs and Smartphones.
Background
Microsoft's BitNet uses one bit architecture to dramatically compress models.
Traditional LLMs operate on full-precision computation, where weights are stored as complex, high-resolution numbers. The innovation of BitNet is that it shrinks these weights into a tiny ternary range of only -1, 0, and 1. significantly reducing memory usage and computation.
LoRA, is a parameter-efficient fine-tuning technique that reduces the number of trainable parameters by up to ninety-nine percent.
Together they slash memory and compute requirements. Yet BitNet has mostly been limited to CPU or CUDA NVIDIA backends, and lacked the support of LoRA fine-tuning.
Enters QVAC Fabric: the unlock
Today, with QVAC Fabric LLM, is the first time BitNet LoRA fine-tuning and inference work cross-platform across GPU vendors and operating systems using Vulkan and Metal backends.
That means support for AMD, Intel, Apple Metal and also Mobile GPUs.
And for the first time ever, BitNet inference runs efficiently on smartphones using mobile GPUs.
On flagship devices, GPU inference is 2 to 11 times faster than CPU while using up to 90% less memory than the full precision models.
The biggest unlock: QVAC Fabric LLM support for BitNet LoRA fine-tuning on heterogeneous GPUs. Our team was able to demonstrate this by fine tuning models up to 3.8 billion parameters on all flagships phones such as Pixel 9, S25 and iPhone 16 and up to 13 billion parameter models on the iPhone 16.
Github repositories:
github.com/tetherto/qvac-fab… : general QVAC Fabric codebase
github.com/tetherto/qvac-rnd… : specific QVAC Fabric's BitNet knowledge base, architecture docs and pre-built binaries
What does it mean?
What used to require dedicated GPUs now runs on consumer hardware.
This breakthrough is the first real-world signal of a local private AI that can truly serve the people.
And this is just the beginning.
In the next months and years Tether will relentlessly continue to invest significant amounts of resources and capital to continue to research and develop open-source intelligence that can scale and evolve on local devices, providing maximum utility and privacy to its users.
The era of Stable Intelligence has just begun.
Free as in freedom.
Tether’s QVAC Launches World’s First Cross-Platform BitNet LoRA Framework to Enable Billion-Parameter AI Training and Inference on Consumer GPUs and Smartphones
Learn more: tether.io/news/tethers-qvac-…
Despite the recent drop in @Tether’s market cap which media framed as an “FTX-level” collapse active transacting addresses are actually growing fast.
Market cap is already recovering to normal levels.
Bloomberg pushed a bearish narrative — ran it through ChatGPT, got the opposite conclusion based on data.
ChatGPT > media & analysts
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PoliOscars
The ESG agenda and “woke” politics once again worked perfectly at the ceremony.
1️⃣ Best Picture — “Battle for Battle.”
About 90% of viewers outside the U.S. didn’t understand it — and judging by reactions from both sides on Twitter, many Americans didn’t either. Still, it works as a decent satire.
2️⃣ Best Animated Film — “K-Pop: Demons.”
No comments needed. Almost no one in the audience seemed to know it — but there’s a 100% chance your daughters or nieces do.
3️⃣ Best Actor — Michael B. Jordan.
With all due respect, the Oscar could’ve gone to almost anyone. Timothée Chalamet, who arguably deserved it, buried his chances after comments about figures in opera and ballet. That’s not really how this should work.
4️⃣ Fun moment:
The winners of the K-Pop animated film were cut off during their speech — basically: “You got your Oscar, now wrap it up.”
5️⃣ And of course:
Plenty of Free Palestine slogans, jokes about Trump, and the usual political remarks from the annual Hollywood crowd
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Dmitry Machikhin retweeted
The U.S. has never been more openly supportive of crypto. Executive orders, relaxed SEC enforcement, and political endorsements. On paper, this is everything the industry asked for.
But here's the tension no one wants to say out loud: pro-crypto rhetoric without structural policy isn't support. It's a temporary opinion. And temporary opinions reverse when administrations change.
When I started reporting this piece, I wanted to understand the gap between what "pro-crypto" sounds like and what it actually delivers on the ground: for startups waiting on clarity, for infrastructure builders operating in gray areas, and for institutions pricing in the risk that today's green light becomes tomorrow's enforcement action.
The experts I spoke with didn't disagree that the momentum is real. What they challenged was whether it's durable.
In my latest piece for FinanceFeeds, I examine whether a friendly administration could actually be counterproductive for crypto's long-term maturity.
Featuring perspectives from:
@davidbhoppe, Managing Partner at @gammalaw
@0xMagmar, Co-CEO of @cosmoslabs_io
@RyanKirkley, CEO of @GSXnetwork
@marissakim, Managing Director at @AbraGlobal
@bitokdm, CEO of @BitOK_org
Miguel Angel Zapatero, General Counsel, Corporate Secretary at @crossmint
#CryptoRegulation #SEC #Stablecoins #CLARITYAct #Web3
financefeeds.com/is-a-pro-cr…
There are serious questions about why the U.S. Department of Justice investigates Binance over alleged financing of Iran.
We have investigated multiple cases related to such financing, and many different exchanges appeared in those investigations. Binance was simply one of them.
Back when regulators had not yet accepted crypto, such pressure might have been understandable. But today it looks rather strange.
Money laundering also happens through traditional banks - you just don’t hear about it as often and don’t see it as clearly. Blockchain transparency often works against the industry.
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I asked latest chatgpt model to create a tier-list dividing people into good and bad
The model considers Elon Musk < George Floyd.
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