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Taiwan has politically decided to phase out nuclear power. To compensate for this, over 40% of the current electricity mix comes from liquefied natural gas and about 40% from coal. Since the chip industry is heavily dependent on electricity, CO₂ emissions have also increased significantly.👏🏻🤷‍♂️

They can short whatever they want, but shorting $ETH after it dropped from $4.8K to $2K is probably not the smartest move. Obviously, ETH might go up or down from here, but I think it’s basically just a coin toss at this point. Never forget: nobody knows anything.

Wait, the S&P 500 and other indices are actually down, and Bitcoin is holding steady? What’s going on here? I can’t remember the last time this actually happened.

Has Steinmeier already commented on the attack today? He really doesn't make a good impression – and at the same time, his official residence is being renovated for a billion euros.

The human brain is really bad at comprehending probabilities. The one thing that still amazes me is that if you shuffle a deck of 52 cards, it’s almost guaranteed that no one has ever shuffled it into that exact order before.🤯

I totally understand: For a summer vacation with four people, flying a bit farther away, the cost of business class tickets quickly reaches €15,000. And you also need a hotel. Not many people can afford that anymore.

How good is the overtime rule in Olympic ice hockey? There is a maximum of ten minutes of sudden death, and only 3 versus 3 plus a goalie are played. Just now, there was a thriller between Canada—and now the Finns versus Switzerland in overtime.

The biggest arbitrage right now is being a heavy user of Claude Code. I’m pretty sure they’re either subsidizing usage at the moment or too many people and companies are paying for it without actually using it enough.

You don’t need millions of customers to become a billionaire — sometimes 1,566 are enough.

Pretty great race from Pinheiro in the giant slalom - congrats on the gold medal! I would have never guessed it, but it was actually the first medal for South America at any Winter Olympics.

What a great women’s super-G competition at the Olympics. Of course, I feel sorry for anyone who missed a gate, but it is great advertising for the sport.

Fun fact: The EU already tried that in 2020 with the European Payments Initiative (EPI). The total investment was somewhere between €1.5 and €2B. Long story short, it’s basically dead now — but sure, let’s try that again. 😂 Don't get me started on all the other EU projects.

I'm surprised that a leftist is so supportive of the Olympics. Usually, it's not exactly a core issue for the left to support things where someone achieves success through their own performance.

Whoever had the idea that the EU could just ban crypto transactions to Russia has obviously never used crypto.

Haha, I wonder how many days Saylor’s marketing team actually needed to find any metric where $MSTR looks good.

Bitmine is sitting on $6.6B in unrealized losses. Obviously, he’s preaching a recovery — what else are you supposed to say when your company is that far underwater?

For comparison: The US Chips Act from 2022 allocates investments of $53 billion. So once again, we're way too late—and investing far too little. Fun fact: The processor in the picture is about 22 years old. It doesn't get more fitting than that.

$MSTR has been buying Bitcoin regularly for five and a half years. Since then, the Bitcoin price has increased by 700% – and yet they have now managed to fall below their break-even price.

I’ll just leave that here. 👇

Can’t wait for Monday when Saylor announces he bought $1B worth of $BTC at $93K - while the current price sits at $78K.