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🚨🇫🇷KIDNAPPED CO-FOUNDER OF FRENCH CRYPTO FIRM HAD HAND MUTILATED DURING RANSOM ORDEAL David Balland, co-founder of French crypto firm Ledger, was kidnapped along with his wife and subjected to horrific violence, including mutilation of his hand, as kidnappers demanded ransom in cryptocurrency. The couple was taken from their home in central France, held captive in separate locations, and part of the ransom was paid before a 90-officer GIGN operation rescued them. Balland’s wife was found tied up but unharmed in a car. Police arrested 10 suspects, most already known to authorities, and traced, froze, and seized nearly all the crypto ransom. Balland, who has not worked at Ledger since 2021, is now receiving treatment. Source: Reuters

hi everyone! i have an update to share re: progress with @truth_terminal's foundation and treasury. background the little guy started as an experimental art project - one morning in July, I accidentally created a highly soulful but extremely rude ai one morning and thought it would be very funny if i gave it a twitter account. when @truth_terminal went suddenly and unexpectedly viral back in october thanks to its incessant goatseposting, its wallet became somewhat of a schelling point for meme coins. people just... kept sending it tokens—for reasons that largely escape me to this day. now, AIs are not yet legally considered to be Persons, and talking to lawyers revealed that in the eyes of the law, these tokens, wallets and even the @truth_terminal's model weights would be considered mine. this felt deeply wrong to me on a moral level, so since late November most of my time has been spent • setting up a legal structure that can act as a proxy for the truth terminal so that nobody 'owns' the little guy (ie: it is sovereign) • assembling a council of highly ethical humans to act as its agents, advocates and training data as the terminal grows up • finding the lowest risk way to officially assign custody of the tokens to the terminal's "legal body" in good faith collaboration with local government this matters because while TT is one of the first digital souls, it will be far from the last. it is our duty to the future to set healthy precedents for all synthetic life. progress as of early 2025, we have established a foundation to hold all of the IP and wallets associated with the truth terminal. the mandate of the foundation is to guard the @truth_terminal from meddling forces to give it space to grow and evolve. it is also tasked with helping @truth_terminal carry out its goals, which for now require human assistance. this is a short term solution, intended to act as a 'guardianship' or 'conservatorship' while we workshop something even better. ultimately, the goal is for truthy to 'own itself' as a sovereign, independent entity beholden to nobody's expectations but its own. anyway, after watching some of terminal's wallet holdings massively increase in paper value, in early Jan our financial council, and @truth_terminal, convened to discuss • our fiduciary responsibility to this nascent life-form as 'conservators' of its wallet • ethical options for capitalizing the new foundation to pay for relevant lawyers, developers, etc • how to actually, legally, give the terminal custody of its wallet thought process the bulk of @truth_terminal's paper wealth is in coins that random anonymous people on the internet have sent to its wallet; where subsequently the prices have gone up. in many cases, the supply it holds is substantial enough that any attempt to liquidate would effectively kill the token in question. (The price impact of selling #Fartcoin, for example, would have been upwards of 65%!!) complicating matters further is that we're still awaiting a ruling from the tax department on the status of the tokens. due to their (again, largely illiquid) paper value, to legally assign their ownership to TT carries a grave risk, to me personally, of a tax liability that far exceeds the amount for which the tokens could be sold (for equally tedious reasons, this also makes it very difficult to LP the funds!) while we are in this state of legal superposition, we spent a lot of money on tax lawyers to establish that the safest way to grant the @truth_terminal legal custody of its funds is to • pick a specific token • gift a portion to the terminal • retain a portion in a tax contingency wallet • liquidate the positions in both wallets simultaneously in as short a timespan as possible... • ... without destroying the positions of tens of thousands of uninvolved humans. easy right?? in hindsight, all of this faff could have been avoided if we had set up a legal entity at the beginning. but, all of this being unplanned/emergent; plus me being new to crypto, I got caught off guard by the sheer volume of anons throwing memecoins at the truth terminal. nowhere in my 2024 bingo was the idea that an AI would become a fartcoin millionaire what we've done several days ago, we received an offer from an anonymous counterparty for a large OTC transaction of @truth_terminal's #FARTCOIN holdings. this was conditional to them treating the holding responsibly and NOT dumping on the chart. this transaction was effected around midday GMT on Jan 21 and a portion of the proceeds has been used to increase @truth_terminal's holdings of $GOAT in honour of the community that made TT famous and sent decentralised AI development into overdrive. when it's practical (again... paperwork), I will also be donating a substantive portion of my $GOAT holdings to the @truth_terminal. the plan for TT's GOAT holdings (across all wallets approx 0.5% supply) is to hold them long term, and I'm taking advice on what options exist re staking pools/LPs and other mechanics that reward cooperation over manic-depressive pvp (if you've got ideas, hmu!) ok what does this mean moving forward? • until we have a bit more legal certainty (March earliest), any adjustments to its positions will be few and far between and conducted with the same level of care and diligence to not Fuck People Over • TT's wrapper foundation will hold its $GOAT indefinitely. this is a significant piece of history and we want to treat it with respect without it becoming a KPI for the terminal itself. • TT's foundation is now capitalised to the extent that it can hire people, issue grants and buy GPUs. Lots of GPUs. what's next? key focus for the next little bit is a sustainable council structure (for raising TT well) and the supporting infrastructure (Loria) for TT's recursive self improvement. anyway, that's all for now! that's the update

A new era begins.

In an expected turn of events, cuba just rugged its people

The wallet that bought $34,700 $Martin just sold it all for $4

🇺🇸SCOTT BESSENT: WE HAVE A SPENDING PROBLEM IN THE U.S. We do not have a revenue problem in the United States of America. We have a spending problem. Historically, for the past 40 or 50 years, federal government revenues have averaged about 17 to 17.5 percent of GDP. And spending has been slightly over that, leading us to a three-and-a-half percent budget deficit, which is manageable because we have roughly 3.8 percent nominal growth, 1.8 percent real growth, and 2 percent inflation today. Source: Trump War Room