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BORING COMPANY TUNNELS: BILLION-DOLLAR PROBLEMS AT MILLION-DOLLAR SOLUTIONS Traditional transit tunnel costs seem like a joke compared to the Boring Company! Cost Crash: •⁠ ⁠Traditional tunnels: $2.5B per mile •⁠ ⁠Boring Company: ~$27M per mile •⁠ ⁠Prufrock’s next target: ~$10M per mile •⁠ ⁠Savings so extreme cities can build...

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Got a transit problem? The Boring Company will fix it. Zero cost. You pitch the tunnel. Up to 1 mile. 12-foot diameter. Loop, freight, pedestrian, utility, water - pick your painkiller. Winner gets the tunnel. No invoice. Anyone for a free tunnel? The Boring Company, Elon Musk
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Got a transit problem? The Boring Company will fix it. Zero cost. You pitch the tunnel. Up to 1 mile. 12-foot diameter. Loop, freight, pedestrian, utility, water - pick your painkiller. Winner gets the tunnel. No invoice. Anyone for a free tunnel? The Boring Company, Elon Musk

Mario Nawfal

48,877 просмотров • 7 месяцев назад

Boring Company’s Prufrock is turning tunnel construction into an automated production system. It digs while lining the walls simultaneously. Moves debris through giant underground conveyor systems. Can reverse itself for maintenance. And even exits the ground under its own power. Most tunnel projects still move like somebody lost the paperwork in 1997. Meanwhile, Boring Company is aiming for a mile per week. That pace completely changes what cities can realistically build. The Boring Company
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Boring Company’s Prufrock is turning tunnel construction into an automated production system. It digs while lining the walls simultaneously. Moves debris through giant underground conveyor systems. Can reverse itself for maintenance. And even exits the ground under its own power. Most tunnel projects still move like somebody lost the paperwork in 1997. Meanwhile, Boring Company is aiming for a mile per week. That pace completely changes what cities can realistically build. The Boring Company

Mario Nawfal

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🚨🇺🇸 BORING COMPANY DOUBLES DOWN ON NASHVILLE: BROADWAY TUNNEL EXPANSION UNDERWAY Elon's Boring Company just announced aggressive expansion plans. While the 19-mile Music City Loop breaks ground, they're already pursuing approval for a second two-mile Broadway tunnel. The vision: transform Nashville's transportation infrastructure from underground up. Company President Steve Davis confirmed the Broadway extension during Monday's Q&A, signaling confidence in the project's momentum. The boring machine arrived last week. Construction's accelerating. Nashville's about to get the future delivered beneath its feet. Two tunnels. One vision. Transportation reimagined. Source: WZTV / Nashville Business Journal
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🚨🇺🇸 BORING COMPANY DOUBLES DOWN ON NASHVILLE: BROADWAY TUNNEL EXPANSION UNDERWAY Elon's Boring Company just announced aggressive expansion plans. While the 19-mile Music City Loop breaks ground, they're already pursuing approval for a second two-mile Broadway tunnel. The vision: transform Nashville's transportation infrastructure from underground up. Company President Steve Davis confirmed the Broadway extension during Monday's Q&A, signaling confidence in the project's momentum. The boring machine arrived last week. Construction's accelerating. Nashville's about to get the future delivered beneath its feet. Two tunnels. One vision. Transportation reimagined. Source: WZTV / Nashville Business Journal

Mario Nawfal

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PRUFROCK: ELON’S TUNNELING MACHINE IS COMING FOR GARY THE SNAIL The Boring Company’s newest invention, Prufrock, is a tunneling robot that “porpoises” — meaning it launches straight from the surface, digs underground, then resurfaces without needing giant pits. It can start tunneling within 48 hours of arriving, and it’s fast — over 1 mile per week. That’s 6 times faster than the last model, though still slower than a snail. But not for long. Prufrock’s next goal? Beat 1/10th of human walking speed, or 7 miles per day. To get there, it mines continuously, installs tunnel walls on the go, and uses rubber wheels instead of old-school rails. It’s all-electric, cleaner than diesel machines, and the dirt it digs up? It might become bricks or park paths. Source: The Boring Company
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PRUFROCK: ELON’S TUNNELING MACHINE IS COMING FOR GARY THE SNAIL The Boring Company’s newest invention, Prufrock, is a tunneling robot that “porpoises” — meaning it launches straight from the surface, digs underground, then resurfaces without needing giant pits. It can start tunneling within 48 hours of arriving, and it’s fast — over 1 mile per week. That’s 6 times faster than the last model, though still slower than a snail. But not for long. Prufrock’s next goal? Beat 1/10th of human walking speed, or 7 miles per day. To get there, it mines continuously, installs tunnel walls on the go, and uses rubber wheels instead of old-school rails. It’s all-electric, cleaner than diesel machines, and the dirt it digs up? It might become bricks or park paths. Source: The Boring Company

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Moving a nearly 500,000 lb tunnel machine should be a nightmare. The Boring Company's Prufrock has its very own oversized Uber. The Monster. Weighing in at 140,000 lb, it carries Prufrock between sites and tilts its platform so Prufrock can launch straight into the ground. No crane. No giant shaft. No concrete launch pit. Prufrock can launch from inside buildings or parking garages, which makes squeezing new tunnels into busy cities a lot easier. Not exactly traveling light. The Boring Company / Writer: Annette, Grok Imagine Designer: Janné
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Moving a nearly 500,000 lb tunnel machine should be a nightmare. The Boring Company's Prufrock has its very own oversized Uber. The Monster. Weighing in at 140,000 lb, it carries Prufrock between sites and tilts its platform so Prufrock can launch straight into the ground. No crane. No giant shaft. No concrete launch pit. Prufrock can launch from inside buildings or parking garages, which makes squeezing new tunnels into busy cities a lot easier. Not exactly traveling light. The Boring Company / Writer: Annette, Grok Imagine Designer: Janné

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There are DEEP UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASES all over the world. They are connected by frictionless tunnels. These tunnels are formed by specialized TUNNEL BORING MACHINES that vitrify rock to form a glasslike coating that surround the tunnels. The trains that use travel at a speed of Mach 2, according to Phil Schneider, structural engineer who helped to build these tunnels. This is twice the speed of sound. They use principles of kinetic energy to reach these speeds. The trains can be accessed through elevators that use ion drive technology (not pulleys) to descend one mile beneath the earth’s surface. According to STEVEN D KELLEY, former CIA/NSA contractor, the bunker under GETTY MUSEUM in LA is the “crown jewel” of the entire bunker system. It is the “ weakest link in the entire house of cards. The DUMB under the Getty serves as a modern day “ Noah’s Ark” when planned catastrophic events happen on the Earth’s surface. Steven D Kelley is a Laser Electro Optics Engineer, Laser pioneer and inventor who created Laser Aiming Weapon Systems for military use. He was contracted through the NSA, CIA and other government agencies to provide high precision laser technology through his company S.K. Industries.

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Jaynit Makwana

59,711 просмотров • 25 дней назад

🚨 The CEO of Antrhopic said a one-person billion-dollar company will exist by 2026 sounds crazy until you see what non-technical people are doing with Claude Code right now $10-50k/mo selling automation pipelines that take 1-2 weeks to set up Some ideas almost nobody's running yet: 1. Proposal & SOW generator for agencies and consultancies every agency writes proposals from scratch or copy-pastes from old ones and forgets to change the "client name" Claude reads the prospect brief or discovery call transcript, generates: - branded proposal with scope, timeline, deliverables - quick win plan (how exactly we will do a good output) - SOW with payment milestones - pricing options (good/better/best) - follow-up email sequence charge $500/mo per agency agencies close 20-30% more deals when proposals go out same day.. you're selling speed and save them $1k+ on the guy who does it manually and anyway not quality, without personalisation 2. Job posting-to-intel pipeline for sales teams companies reveal everything in their job postings and don't realize it Claude monitors target account career pages daily, flags: - "Head of AI" posted = they're buying, not building - 3 DevOps roles = scaling infrastructure = budget unlocked - new VP of Sales = restructuring = old vendor contracts up for review package it as buying signals delivered to Slack every morning $500-1,500/mo per sales team this is data that Apollo and ZoomInfo don't sell 3. Support ticket-to-documentation pipeline for SaaS every SaaS with 1,000+ users has the same problem.. docs are 6 months behind the product Claude crawls your help center, pulls recent Zendesk/Intercom tickets, cross-references finds questions asked 200 times last month with no matching article drafts the missing docs in your existing format.. flags stale articles for update $1,500-3,000/mo retainer the ROI math: 30% of support tickets deflected = thousands saved per month.. pipeline pays for itself week one 4. Vendor contract review & renewal tracker mid-size companies have 50-200 active vendor contracts sitting in folders nobody opens Claude reads each contract, extracts: - renewal dates and auto-renewal traps - termination notice windows - price escalation clauses - SLA commitments vs what you're actually getting delivers a dashboard with "contracts expiring in 30/60/90 days" and flags where you're overpaying $1,000-2,000/mo per company CFOs will approve this before you finish the pitch.. one caught auto-renewal pays for a year of your service 5. Employee onboarding doc generator for HR teams every company with 20+ employees has the same problem.. new hire starts Monday and nobody has their docs ready Claude reads the role title + department, generates: - personalized welcome packet - 30/60/90 day plan with milestones - tool access checklist by role - manager-specific onboarding schedule - policy summaries tailored to their department charge $300-500/mo per company HR managers spend 4-6 hours per new hire on this.. companies hiring 5+ people a month will never cancel the pattern is always the same most people will use Claude Code to build apps a small number will use it to sell pipelines to businesses still running on manual labor only the second group builds real recurring revenue the niches are wide open right now because every developer thinks this work is "too boring" boring = no competition = you set the price screenshot this. save this. repost it to save a friend's next year
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Ronin

66,151 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

🦔Turn your sound on for this one. This is what it sounds like to live next to an AI data center, 24 hours a day. In Dowagiac, Michigan, residents sued after a facility run by Hyperscale Data ran around the clock at 78 decibels outside their homes. The company offered to buy their houses rather than fix the noise. One family has lived on that street for nearly a century. My Take This isn't one town with one bad facility. Microsoft faces a class-action in Wisconsin over data center noise residents can hear a mile and a half from the property line. In Virginia, one-third of data centers sit within 200 feet of homes. Noise from thousands of servers can hit 96 decibels, and diesel backup generators reach 105, which is a jet overhead. Residents report headaches, nausea, and sleep problems. Property values near this kind of infrastructure drop up to 20%. The company response in Michigan was to offer to buy the homes rather than quiet the facility, homes that families spent decades in, priced against a corporate buyout. Water in Oregon, wells in Georgia, ratepayer costs in Louisiana, river water in California, and now noise in Michigan and Wisconsin. None of this was in the brochure when these projects got approved. Closed-loop cooling and proper sound barriers exist and would solve most of this, but they cost more, so the companies skip them and the neighbors lose sleep and equity instead. Hedgie🤗
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Hedgie

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Look at these photos Falcon 9 soaring into the sky. Falcon Heavy and Starship ready for the next mission. Starlink antennas simple, clean, ready for any terrain. The Boring Company’s machine that looks like industrial sculpture. Futuristic tunnels full of Teslas. And the man whose vision stands behind it all. It’s not a coincidence. It’s not just “technology.” It’s class itself. Zero unnecessary ornaments. Zero exaggeration. Just a pure, very high-quality product. You hold it in your hand, step inside, or look at it and immediately feel that everything is refined to the last detail. It works. It looks right. It lasts. Elon Musk has this rare quality: he’s a man with class. He doesn’t flaunt luxury or add things just “because they photograph well.” He chooses simplicity but the kind that’s executed perfectly. And he transferred exactly that same philosophy to his companies. The result? Engineering at the level of fashion. Design that’s modern yet has timeless elegance. Products that don’t just do the job they impress with their quality and quiet confidence. It’s no accident that the rocket looks like a work of art. That a Tesla interior feels minimalist yet luxurious. That a Starlink dish looks like it was designed by someone who understands aesthetics, not just connectivity. They all share one common thread: class. Not the loud, flashy kind. The real kind quiet, self-assured, and uncompromising. If you value things that are simply well-made without unnecessary bling, but full of character and top-tier quality this is the essence of what Elon has built. Elon Musk Starlink The Boring Company SpaceX Tesla Neuralink
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Natalia El Ferrara

412,617 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

The problems in Russia’s oil and gas sector are already becoming systemic. Russia is refining less oil, transporting it at a higher cost, facing problems with export infrastructure, and already losing oil and gas revenues. Let’s take a look at what exactly is happening inside Russia. First, the Russian authorities themselves are no longer treating the shortage as a short-term disruption. A complete ban on diesel exports was introduced in early July, and it is quite likely to be extended through the end of the year. Gasoline exports are banned until January 31, 2027, and jet fuel exports until the end of November. Russia has also started importing additional petroleum products from Asia and Belarus. Second, Russia is physically refining less and less oil. According to Kpler, Russian refineries processed around 3.8 million barrels per day in July - the lowest level in more than two decades. EA Analytics estimates the figure even lower, at approximately 3.6 million barrels per day. For comparison, the normal level for this period in 2020-2025 was 5.3-5.6 million barrels per day. Third, Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries are continuing. A cycle has effectively formed: strike - repairs - partial recovery - another strike. Following the August 21 attack, the Perm Oil Refinery, with an annual capacity of 13.1 million tonnes, was completely shut down. Since August 2025, at least 25 Russian oil refineries have been targeted. Fourth, the diesel shortage is making the economy more expensive - increasing the cost of harvesting, reducing the resilience of Russia’s logistics system, and consequently affecting prices overall. Fifth, even the oil Russia manages to produce is becoming more difficult and expensive to export. In the first half of August, exports from western ports amounted to around 2.3 million barrels per day instead of the planned 2.7 million. Novorossiysk was particularly affected: shipments fell to around 400,000 barrels per day, compared with 800,000-1 million in June-July. Previously, problems at refineries could be partially offset by increasing crude oil exports. But when refineries, ports, terminals and tankers are all being targeted simultaneously, this becomes much harder. Exports have not collapsed, but they have become more expensive and less predictable. The same applies to petroleum products: in July, seaborne exports of fuel oil and vacuum gasoil fell by around 12%, to 2.4 million tonnes. The situation with gas is structurally worse. The Power of Siberia pipeline has already nearly reached its contractual ceiling - around 38.8 billion cubic meters per year. Power of Siberia 2 is primarily constrained by price: China wants gas at a significantly lower price than Russia is willing to sell it for. LNG faces even more problems: the EU has already begun phasing out imports, while redirecting supplies to Asia means longer and more expensive logistics. China is increasing its purchases of Russian gas, but it has not replaced Europe and will not replace it quickly. The most serious problem is the budget. In the first half of the year, Russia’s oil and gas revenues fell by 22.7% year-on-year, and by 16.8% over the first seven months. By January-April alone, the federal budget deficit had reached 5.88 trillion rubles, exceeding the planned deficit for the entire year. On top of this come the costs of refinery repairs, air defense, fuel imports, alternative routes, freight and insurance. Despite all these losses, we can see that Russian oil and gas revenues have not yet collapsed, although adaptation is becoming increasingly expensive. For now, the Kremlin is being helped by the crisis around the Strait of Hormuz, which is keeping oil prices high. At the same time, Russia’s ability to refine and export this oil is deteriorating. So far, high prices are offsetting these losses. If the situation around Hormuz stabilizes and Brent prices fall, the current logistical and fuel problems could become much more serious for Russia.
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The problems in Russia’s oil and gas sector are already becoming systemic. Russia is refining less oil, transporting it at a higher cost, facing problems with export infrastructure, and already losing oil and gas revenues. Let’s take a look at what exactly is happening inside Russia. First, the Russian authorities themselves are no longer treating the shortage as a short-term disruption. A complete ban on diesel exports was introduced in early July, and it is quite likely to be extended through the end of the year. Gasoline exports are banned until January 31, 2027, and jet fuel exports until the end of November. Russia has also started importing additional petroleum products from Asia and Belarus. Second, Russia is physically refining less and less oil. According to Kpler, Russian refineries processed around 3.8 million barrels per day in July - the lowest level in more than two decades. EA Analytics estimates the figure even lower, at approximately 3.6 million barrels per day. For comparison, the normal level for this period in 2020-2025 was 5.3-5.6 million barrels per day. Third, Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil refineries are continuing. A cycle has effectively formed: strike - repairs - partial recovery - another strike. Following the August 21 attack, the Perm Oil Refinery, with an annual capacity of 13.1 million tonnes, was completely shut down. Since August 2025, at least 25 Russian oil refineries have been targeted. Fourth, the diesel shortage is making the economy more expensive - increasing the cost of harvesting, reducing the resilience of Russia’s logistics system, and consequently affecting prices overall. Fifth, even the oil Russia manages to produce is becoming more difficult and expensive to export. In the first half of August, exports from western ports amounted to around 2.3 million barrels per day instead of the planned 2.7 million. Novorossiysk was particularly affected: shipments fell to around 400,000 barrels per day, compared with 800,000-1 million in June-July. Previously, problems at refineries could be partially offset by increasing crude oil exports. But when refineries, ports, terminals and tankers are all being targeted simultaneously, this becomes much harder. Exports have not collapsed, but they have become more expensive and less predictable. The same applies to petroleum products: in July, seaborne exports of fuel oil and vacuum gasoil fell by around 12%, to 2.4 million tonnes. The situation with gas is structurally worse. The Power of Siberia pipeline has already nearly reached its contractual ceiling - around 38.8 billion cubic meters per year. Power of Siberia 2 is primarily constrained by price: China wants gas at a significantly lower price than Russia is willing to sell it for. LNG faces even more problems: the EU has already begun phasing out imports, while redirecting supplies to Asia means longer and more expensive logistics. China is increasing its purchases of Russian gas, but it has not replaced Europe and will not replace it quickly. The most serious problem is the budget. In the first half of the year, Russia’s oil and gas revenues fell by 22.7% year-on-year, and by 16.8% over the first seven months. By January-April alone, the federal budget deficit had reached 5.88 trillion rubles, exceeding the planned deficit for the entire year. On top of this come the costs of refinery repairs, air defense, fuel imports, alternative routes, freight and insurance. Despite all these losses, we can see that Russian oil and gas revenues have not yet collapsed, although adaptation is becoming increasingly expensive. For now, the Kremlin is being helped by the crisis around the Strait of Hormuz, which is keeping oil prices high. At the same time, Russia’s ability to refine and export this oil is deteriorating. So far, high prices are offsetting these losses. If the situation around Hormuz stabilizes and Brent prices fall, the current logistical and fuel problems could become much more serious for Russia.

Anton Gerashchenko

39,422 просмотров • 24 дней назад

I am the person at Hut 8 who designed the American Bitcoin partnership. The structure is elegant. We gave the Trump family 20% of a publicly traded mining company. They contributed zero capital. Zero infrastructure. Zero employees. Zero operational experience. Zero risk exposure. They contributed a name. Per our partnership agreement, that is consideration. Twenty percent of our equity for access to the most valuable retail distribution channel in American finance. "It has to have 'America,'" Eric said in our first meeting. "And it has to have 'Bitcoin.'" He said this twice. Both times he pointed at the whiteboard. There was nothing else on the whiteboard. I realized then that he understood the product better than I did. The product is not bitcoin. The product is the belief. The entire business model. Two words and a surname. I wrote the term sheet on one page. The lawyers billed for forty. We call that alignment of incentives. Forty pages means they believed in the durability of the arrangement. We mine bitcoin at an all-in cost of approximately $90,000 per coin. Hash rate, power purchase agreements, ASIC depreciation, facility lease, headcount, Coinbase Prime interest — $90,000. Bitcoin trades at $77,000. Every coin we mine loses $13,000. Negative unit economics on every block reward. Eric tells investors we mine at $57,000. He strips out depreciation, SG&A, and the debt service. I asked him once if he understood what depreciation meant. He said it means when things go down. I said yes. He said: "But the stock goes up." I said yes. His only contractual obligation. Salesmanship. Per the partnership agreement, salesmanship is Eric's sole KPI. Technically, he is a fiduciary to shareholders. On paper, his vesting is tied to total comp benchmarks. We run the rigs. He runs the ticker. Asset-light. The company at peak reached a $13.2 billion valuation. Two employees. That is the entire headcount. One is our CEO Mike Ho, who is simultaneously Hut 8's Chief Strategy Officer. He reports to us at Hut 8 on Monday mornings and reports to American Bitcoin shareholders on Tuesday mornings. Dual-reporting structure. Very efficient. The other employee manages Eric's media calendar. $6.6 billion per headcount. We call this capital efficiency. 70% of our bitcoin did not come from mining. It came from selling stock. Retail investors purchase American Bitcoin shares at 50 times book value because the name contains "America" and "Bitcoin" and "Trump" is in the filing and they believe, with the quiet religious certainty of people who have never read a balance sheet in their lives, that a company named American Bitcoin is underwritten by something more substantial than two words and a surname. We take their cash and buy bitcoin on Coinbase at spot. Lodge it on the balance sheet. Call ourselves a mining company. We do mine. At a loss. Technically, the earnings are negative per our Q4 filing. The margin lives in the distance between what the stock costs them and what the bitcoin costs us. The stock is down 92% from peak. Investors have lost approximately $500 million. One of them posted on the shareholder subreddit that he moved his daughter's 529 into American Bitcoin at $14. It trades under $2. He said he believed in the mission. That means he believed in the name. The name performed exactly as designed. Eric's net worth went from $190 million to $280 million. Asset-light. We pledged 3,090 bitcoin as collateral against a Coinbase Prime custody loan. We have mined 1,800. The LTV ratio is inverted. If bitcoin compresses or the loan accelerates, every coin mined since inception could be forfeit by August 2027. All of it. Gone. Liquidation event. I explained this in a memo to Eric. Bullet points. Large font. He asked if the stock could go up before August. I said probably. He said that was fine. He said he'd handle it. Salesmanship. Eric told the press he launched American Bitcoin because banks were "debanking" the Trump family. I checked. JPMorgan refinanced $700 million in Trump Organization debt during the identical period. But debanking is better salesmanship than refinancing. The narrative inflates the stock price. The stock price generates the bitcoin. The bitcoin secures the loan. The loan generates cash. Every link in the chain is a product I built or a story Eric told. Asset-light. I orchestrated the celebrity endorsements. Tyler Winklevoss. Anthony Scaramucci. Grant Cardone. We call this pipeline development. Each broadcast the stock to their audiences during the run-up. The stock collapsed afterward. The celebrities did not lose money. Their audiences lost money. I never mentioned that we hemorrhage $13,000 per coin mined. I told them it was asset-light. They understood immediately. They are also asset-light. Eric cannot legally serve as a corporate officer in the state of New York. A judge barred him for two years. Civil fraud. So his title is not CEO. Not officer. Not executive. His contractual role is salesmanship. He cannot manage the company. He can sell it. One distinction. $90 million in personal net worth gained. Asset-light. Our CEO lives in the UAE. He held discussions with ADQ and TAQA, Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth apparatus. The same sovereign apparatus that paid $500 million for 49% of World Liberty Financial, the family's other crypto operation. This is the same Abu Dhabi whose semiconductor imports the administration greenlit over national security objections. I did not design World Liberty Financial. I designed the mining subsidiary that feeds into it. Separate projects. Complementary revenue streams. Eric runs salesmanship for both. I admire the portfolio diversification. I gave Eric 20% of a company for free, a company with real miners and real facilities and real electricity bills that I built over seven years in Alberta and Texas and Ontario, and in exchange he gave me access to every American who hears "America" and "Bitcoin" in the same sentence and reaches for their brokerage app without checking whether the company mines at a profit or at a loss or at all. They drove the stock to a $13.2 billion market capitalization. We bought bitcoin with the proceeds. They lost $500 million. We kept the bitcoin. Eric kept $90 million. I kept the apparatus that manufactures both. Everybody got what they paid for. Asset-light means we carry nothing. Not the miners. Not the facilities. Not the risk. Not the losses. The investors carry those. We carry the bitcoin. Asset-light.
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I am the person at Hut 8 who designed the American Bitcoin partnership. The structure is elegant. We gave the Trump family 20% of a publicly traded mining company. They contributed zero capital. Zero infrastructure. Zero employees. Zero operational experience. Zero risk exposure. They contributed a name. Per our partnership agreement, that is consideration. Twenty percent of our equity for access to the most valuable retail distribution channel in American finance. "It has to have 'America,'" Eric said in our first meeting. "And it has to have 'Bitcoin.'" He said this twice. Both times he pointed at the whiteboard. There was nothing else on the whiteboard. I realized then that he understood the product better than I did. The product is not bitcoin. The product is the belief. The entire business model. Two words and a surname. I wrote the term sheet on one page. The lawyers billed for forty. We call that alignment of incentives. Forty pages means they believed in the durability of the arrangement. We mine bitcoin at an all-in cost of approximately $90,000 per coin. Hash rate, power purchase agreements, ASIC depreciation, facility lease, headcount, Coinbase Prime interest — $90,000. Bitcoin trades at $77,000. Every coin we mine loses $13,000. Negative unit economics on every block reward. Eric tells investors we mine at $57,000. He strips out depreciation, SG&A, and the debt service. I asked him once if he understood what depreciation meant. He said it means when things go down. I said yes. He said: "But the stock goes up." I said yes. His only contractual obligation. Salesmanship. Per the partnership agreement, salesmanship is Eric's sole KPI. Technically, he is a fiduciary to shareholders. On paper, his vesting is tied to total comp benchmarks. We run the rigs. He runs the ticker. Asset-light. The company at peak reached a $13.2 billion valuation. Two employees. That is the entire headcount. One is our CEO Mike Ho, who is simultaneously Hut 8's Chief Strategy Officer. He reports to us at Hut 8 on Monday mornings and reports to American Bitcoin shareholders on Tuesday mornings. Dual-reporting structure. Very efficient. The other employee manages Eric's media calendar. $6.6 billion per headcount. We call this capital efficiency. 70% of our bitcoin did not come from mining. It came from selling stock. Retail investors purchase American Bitcoin shares at 50 times book value because the name contains "America" and "Bitcoin" and "Trump" is in the filing and they believe, with the quiet religious certainty of people who have never read a balance sheet in their lives, that a company named American Bitcoin is underwritten by something more substantial than two words and a surname. We take their cash and buy bitcoin on Coinbase at spot. Lodge it on the balance sheet. Call ourselves a mining company. We do mine. At a loss. Technically, the earnings are negative per our Q4 filing. The margin lives in the distance between what the stock costs them and what the bitcoin costs us. The stock is down 92% from peak. Investors have lost approximately $500 million. One of them posted on the shareholder subreddit that he moved his daughter's 529 into American Bitcoin at $14. It trades under $2. He said he believed in the mission. That means he believed in the name. The name performed exactly as designed. Eric's net worth went from $190 million to $280 million. Asset-light. We pledged 3,090 bitcoin as collateral against a Coinbase Prime custody loan. We have mined 1,800. The LTV ratio is inverted. If bitcoin compresses or the loan accelerates, every coin mined since inception could be forfeit by August 2027. All of it. Gone. Liquidation event. I explained this in a memo to Eric. Bullet points. Large font. He asked if the stock could go up before August. I said probably. He said that was fine. He said he'd handle it. Salesmanship. Eric told the press he launched American Bitcoin because banks were "debanking" the Trump family. I checked. JPMorgan refinanced $700 million in Trump Organization debt during the identical period. But debanking is better salesmanship than refinancing. The narrative inflates the stock price. The stock price generates the bitcoin. The bitcoin secures the loan. The loan generates cash. Every link in the chain is a product I built or a story Eric told. Asset-light. I orchestrated the celebrity endorsements. Tyler Winklevoss. Anthony Scaramucci. Grant Cardone. We call this pipeline development. Each broadcast the stock to their audiences during the run-up. The stock collapsed afterward. The celebrities did not lose money. Their audiences lost money. I never mentioned that we hemorrhage $13,000 per coin mined. I told them it was asset-light. They understood immediately. They are also asset-light. Eric cannot legally serve as a corporate officer in the state of New York. A judge barred him for two years. Civil fraud. So his title is not CEO. Not officer. Not executive. His contractual role is salesmanship. He cannot manage the company. He can sell it. One distinction. $90 million in personal net worth gained. Asset-light. Our CEO lives in the UAE. He held discussions with ADQ and TAQA, Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth apparatus. The same sovereign apparatus that paid $500 million for 49% of World Liberty Financial, the family's other crypto operation. This is the same Abu Dhabi whose semiconductor imports the administration greenlit over national security objections. I did not design World Liberty Financial. I designed the mining subsidiary that feeds into it. Separate projects. Complementary revenue streams. Eric runs salesmanship for both. I admire the portfolio diversification. I gave Eric 20% of a company for free, a company with real miners and real facilities and real electricity bills that I built over seven years in Alberta and Texas and Ontario, and in exchange he gave me access to every American who hears "America" and "Bitcoin" in the same sentence and reaches for their brokerage app without checking whether the company mines at a profit or at a loss or at all. They drove the stock to a $13.2 billion market capitalization. We bought bitcoin with the proceeds. They lost $500 million. We kept the bitcoin. Eric kept $90 million. I kept the apparatus that manufactures both. Everybody got what they paid for. Asset-light means we carry nothing. Not the miners. Not the facilities. Not the risk. Not the losses. The investors carry those. We carry the bitcoin. Asset-light.

Peter Girnus 🦅

106,384 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад

Unique footage has emerged showing remote control of interceptor drones. The 190th Training Center of the SBS reportedly used a drone-interceptor to shoot down a Shahed UAV remotely, with the pilot located at a significant distance from the launch site. The system used was LITAVR, developed by FDrones. According to the company, an operator can control the interceptor from hundreds of kilometers away from the launch point. The F7 LITAVR is already a well-known and highly effective system. As a reminder, here are the technical details (this is all open-source information): Development of the system began in autumn 2024. It was successfully tested and officially adopted in summer 2025. Serial production and deliveries to the military started in autumn 2025. Maximum speed: 350 km/h Flight time: up to 15 minutes Equipped with two cameras: daytime and thermal imaging The officially stated tactical range is 36 km, though in practice it can reach up to 60 km and operate at altitudes of up to 9.5 km. The warhead (separately codified) weighs 500 g. Detonation can occur via kinetic impact, self-destruction upon contact with the target, or manual activation by the operator. The system uses inertial guidance without GPS and features automatic terminal guidance (“last mile” / target lock system). At present, it reportedly destroys hundreds of targets per week, including Shaheds, Gerberas, Molniyas, Orlans, Lancets, and others. What is fundamentally new? Until now, mobile air defense fire groups and frontline crews using interceptor drones required a qualified pilot on-site. It has now been successfully demonstrated that a different tactic is possible: pilots can operate from protected, remote locations. The only requirement is internet access at both the control center and the launch site. Ukraine’s defense sector continues to develop innovative solutions. 📹 Oleksii Kopytko/Facebook
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Unique footage has emerged showing remote control of interceptor drones. The 190th Training Center of the SBS reportedly used a drone-interceptor to shoot down a Shahed UAV remotely, with the pilot located at a significant distance from the launch site. The system used was LITAVR, developed by FDrones. According to the company, an operator can control the interceptor from hundreds of kilometers away from the launch point. The F7 LITAVR is already a well-known and highly effective system. As a reminder, here are the technical details (this is all open-source information): Development of the system began in autumn 2024. It was successfully tested and officially adopted in summer 2025. Serial production and deliveries to the military started in autumn 2025. Maximum speed: 350 km/h Flight time: up to 15 minutes Equipped with two cameras: daytime and thermal imaging The officially stated tactical range is 36 km, though in practice it can reach up to 60 km and operate at altitudes of up to 9.5 km. The warhead (separately codified) weighs 500 g. Detonation can occur via kinetic impact, self-destruction upon contact with the target, or manual activation by the operator. The system uses inertial guidance without GPS and features automatic terminal guidance (“last mile” / target lock system). At present, it reportedly destroys hundreds of targets per week, including Shaheds, Gerberas, Molniyas, Orlans, Lancets, and others. What is fundamentally new? Until now, mobile air defense fire groups and frontline crews using interceptor drones required a qualified pilot on-site. It has now been successfully demonstrated that a different tactic is possible: pilots can operate from protected, remote locations. The only requirement is internet access at both the control center and the launch site. Ukraine’s defense sector continues to develop innovative solutions. 📹 Oleksii Kopytko/Facebook

Anton Gerashchenko

22,311 просмотров • 5 месяцев назад

AI just hit a wall that no amount of money can move. The planet itself. There is not enough power, water, or land on Earth to build the data centers the AI race now demands. So the most valuable bet in artificial intelligence is no longer a chip company or a model. It is a rocket company. The plan is to leave. In January, SpaceX filed with the FCC to launch up to 1 million solar-powered data center satellites into orbit. In February it bought xAI, the maker of Grok, folding an entire frontier AI lab into a rocket company in the largest corporate merger ever recorded. On June 8 it unveiled the AI1, a compute satellite with a 70-meter wingspan, wider than a Boeing 747, powered by the sun, cooled by the vacuum of space, and wired to the ground through Starlink. Four days later it went public in the largest IPO in history, near 1.77 trillion dollars, touched 2.1 trillion on its first day, raised close to 86 billion, and made one man the first trillionaire alive. Now read the direction of that merger, because it is the whole story. A rocket company bought the AI lab. Not the reverse. For three years everyone assumed the constraint on AI was chips, or data, or talent. It is none of them anymore. It is energy and heat and dirt. The head of Anthropic said his company grew faster than the exponential, 80 times in a single year, and that is exactly why it ran out of compute. The answer was not to build more data centers in Virginia. It was to leave the atmosphere, where the sun never sets and a solar panel does five times the work. The moat in artificial intelligence is no longer the model. It is the launch. And the first rent is already being paid. A rival lab, Anthropic, is reported to be sending roughly 1.25 billion dollars a month to Musk for compute. Google near 920 million. If intelligence moves to orbit, the company that owns the only affordable road there becomes the landlord of the next layer of the internet, the way one bookstore became the landlord of the cloud. The merger is the proof of concept. The IPO is the war chest. Those monthly checks are the lease. Here is the part the price tag does not want you to read. Close to a trillion dollars of that valuation rests on orbital data centers that do not yet exist, and on a chip factory, Terafab, that SpaceX's own public filing calls a general framework with no binding deal, one that may not achieve commercial viability. Musk said it on camera. This is not a promise. The largest IPO ever written is priced on a future the filing itself cannot verify. The other side is just as real. Compute in orbit costs about four times what it costs on the ground today, and the curve may not cross for fifteen years. The machines that print the chips are backordered for years. Shedding heat in a vacuum at this scale has never been done. Musk's timelines have a long history of meaning later. And Bezos is racing the same orbit with a constellation of 51,600 satellites of his own. But strip it all away and the trade underneath is one sentence. Earth has run out of room for intelligence, and whoever owns the road off the planet owns whatever gets built next. Call it the most expensive science fiction ever sold, or the first time the map of the internet pointed up.
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AI just hit a wall that no amount of money can move. The planet itself. There is not enough power, water, or land on Earth to build the data centers the AI race now demands. So the most valuable bet in artificial intelligence is no longer a chip company or a model. It is a rocket company. The plan is to leave. In January, SpaceX filed with the FCC to launch up to 1 million solar-powered data center satellites into orbit. In February it bought xAI, the maker of Grok, folding an entire frontier AI lab into a rocket company in the largest corporate merger ever recorded. On June 8 it unveiled the AI1, a compute satellite with a 70-meter wingspan, wider than a Boeing 747, powered by the sun, cooled by the vacuum of space, and wired to the ground through Starlink. Four days later it went public in the largest IPO in history, near 1.77 trillion dollars, touched 2.1 trillion on its first day, raised close to 86 billion, and made one man the first trillionaire alive. Now read the direction of that merger, because it is the whole story. A rocket company bought the AI lab. Not the reverse. For three years everyone assumed the constraint on AI was chips, or data, or talent. It is none of them anymore. It is energy and heat and dirt. The head of Anthropic said his company grew faster than the exponential, 80 times in a single year, and that is exactly why it ran out of compute. The answer was not to build more data centers in Virginia. It was to leave the atmosphere, where the sun never sets and a solar panel does five times the work. The moat in artificial intelligence is no longer the model. It is the launch. And the first rent is already being paid. A rival lab, Anthropic, is reported to be sending roughly 1.25 billion dollars a month to Musk for compute. Google near 920 million. If intelligence moves to orbit, the company that owns the only affordable road there becomes the landlord of the next layer of the internet, the way one bookstore became the landlord of the cloud. The merger is the proof of concept. The IPO is the war chest. Those monthly checks are the lease. Here is the part the price tag does not want you to read. Close to a trillion dollars of that valuation rests on orbital data centers that do not yet exist, and on a chip factory, Terafab, that SpaceX's own public filing calls a general framework with no binding deal, one that may not achieve commercial viability. Musk said it on camera. This is not a promise. The largest IPO ever written is priced on a future the filing itself cannot verify. The other side is just as real. Compute in orbit costs about four times what it costs on the ground today, and the curve may not cross for fifteen years. The machines that print the chips are backordered for years. Shedding heat in a vacuum at this scale has never been done. Musk's timelines have a long history of meaning later. And Bezos is racing the same orbit with a constellation of 51,600 satellites of his own. But strip it all away and the trade underneath is one sentence. Earth has run out of room for intelligence, and whoever owns the road off the planet owns whatever gets built next. Call it the most expensive science fiction ever sold, or the first time the map of the internet pointed up.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

54,506 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

Hey friends, we're excited to announce that an additional 2,000 H100s will be added San Francisco Compute's on-demand market. It's the largest* interconnected cluster, from any provider (including hyperscalers), that you can get on a per hour basis. You're not locked in with San Francisco Compute. If DeepSeek can compete with OpenAI using 2,000 H800s, you too can train a state of the art RL model without ever having to sign a long-term contract that you can't exit. You could have trained DeepSeek-v3 for $4.5m for 1.5mo on SFC or $35m if you could only buy a 1 year contract off market. This was the dream Alex & I had since our audio model company (Junelark) died because it couldn't procure enough GPUs, and it's what we've been working towards for nearly two years. Long-term contracts are a trap; they make it so only the biggest of the big can compete in AI. They force startup founders to raise at massive valuations pre-revenue, which dilutes founders and employees and sets them up to fail when they can't raise their next round. This cluster will roll out over the next few weeks as we scale our infrastructure. Soon you'll be able to access it via our managed Kubernetes service or by reaching out to set up a custom solution. We're also exploring other ways of partnering with service providers to let them offer GPU-based services, like workers and inference endpoints, without being forced into a long-term contract with a hyperscaler. You no longer need to bet your company on GPU prices to offer GPU-based services. * We think! If you know of a larger, please correct us!
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Hey friends, we're excited to announce that an additional 2,000 H100s will be added San Francisco Compute's on-demand market. It's the largest* interconnected cluster, from any provider (including hyperscalers), that you can get on a per hour basis. You're not locked in with San Francisco Compute. If DeepSeek can compete with OpenAI using 2,000 H800s, you too can train a state of the art RL model without ever having to sign a long-term contract that you can't exit. You could have trained DeepSeek-v3 for $4.5m for 1.5mo on SFC or $35m if you could only buy a 1 year contract off market. This was the dream Alex & I had since our audio model company (Junelark) died because it couldn't procure enough GPUs, and it's what we've been working towards for nearly two years. Long-term contracts are a trap; they make it so only the biggest of the big can compete in AI. They force startup founders to raise at massive valuations pre-revenue, which dilutes founders and employees and sets them up to fail when they can't raise their next round. This cluster will roll out over the next few weeks as we scale our infrastructure. Soon you'll be able to access it via our managed Kubernetes service or by reaching out to set up a custom solution. We're also exploring other ways of partnering with service providers to let them offer GPU-based services, like workers and inference endpoints, without being forced into a long-term contract with a hyperscaler. You no longer need to bet your company on GPU prices to offer GPU-based services. * We think! If you know of a larger, please correct us!

evan conrad

92,590 просмотров • 1 год назад

“I’m willing to be accountable… but how dare you film me cheating on my wife even though I literally signed a media release when I bought these tickets.” The audacity of Andy Byron is hilarious. This Astronomer CEO got caught cuddling his HR chief on the Coldplay kiss cam and immediately dove behind a barrier like he just got caught stealing cookies. Meanwhile the Coldplay singer says, “either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy” while 50,000 people are watching this billion-dollar man panic in real time. What’s wild: this dude runs a billion-dollar company. He’s got employees, investors, a wife, kids depending on him. When you’re operating at that level, you can’t afford to be publicly stupid. Most people chase success because they think it gives them more freedom to do whatever they want. The opposite is true. Success means more people are counting on you to show up as the man you said you were. I work with guys who make serious money, and I have to explain this constantly: money doesn’t make you invisible. It just extends how long you can pretend and makes the fall hurt worse when reality shows up. You can’t build an empire on the outside while being a mess on the inside and expect that to stay hidden forever. Money doesn’t make you invisible. It just extends how long you can pretend and makes the fall hurt worse when reality catches up. This whole Astronomer situation is what happens when men think they can compartmentalize their character. They convince themselves they can be one person at work and another person in their marriage and somehow that house of cards will stand forever. The guys I know who’ve maintained success over decades? They figured out early that their personal and professional lives needed to be congruent. So when something comes out, nobody’s shocked because they already know who you are. This dude is learning the hard way that hiding behind a corporate title and a billion-dollar valuation doesn’t protect you from yourself. The question you should be asking yourself right now: what would happen if everything about how you really operate got exposed tomorrow? Would people be surprised, or would they just nod and say “yeah, that tracks”? Start building the character now that can handle the success you’re chasing. Because the world is watching, cameras are everywhere, and your choices always come home. Are you the man you’ve been pretending to be online?
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“I’m willing to be accountable… but how dare you film me cheating on my wife even though I literally signed a media release when I bought these tickets.” The audacity of Andy Byron is hilarious. This Astronomer CEO got caught cuddling his HR chief on the Coldplay kiss cam and immediately dove behind a barrier like he just got caught stealing cookies. Meanwhile the Coldplay singer says, “either they’re having an affair or they’re very shy” while 50,000 people are watching this billion-dollar man panic in real time. What’s wild: this dude runs a billion-dollar company. He’s got employees, investors, a wife, kids depending on him. When you’re operating at that level, you can’t afford to be publicly stupid. Most people chase success because they think it gives them more freedom to do whatever they want. The opposite is true. Success means more people are counting on you to show up as the man you said you were. I work with guys who make serious money, and I have to explain this constantly: money doesn’t make you invisible. It just extends how long you can pretend and makes the fall hurt worse when reality shows up. You can’t build an empire on the outside while being a mess on the inside and expect that to stay hidden forever. Money doesn’t make you invisible. It just extends how long you can pretend and makes the fall hurt worse when reality catches up. This whole Astronomer situation is what happens when men think they can compartmentalize their character. They convince themselves they can be one person at work and another person in their marriage and somehow that house of cards will stand forever. The guys I know who’ve maintained success over decades? They figured out early that their personal and professional lives needed to be congruent. So when something comes out, nobody’s shocked because they already know who you are. This dude is learning the hard way that hiding behind a corporate title and a billion-dollar valuation doesn’t protect you from yourself. The question you should be asking yourself right now: what would happen if everything about how you really operate got exposed tomorrow? Would people be surprised, or would they just nod and say “yeah, that tracks”? Start building the character now that can handle the success you’re chasing. Because the world is watching, cameras are everywhere, and your choices always come home. Are you the man you’ve been pretending to be online?

Kyree

1,385,095 просмотров • 1 год назад

32 coins. $2.5 million. 0.0038% of the stack. That is the sale the market is now blaming for a $3 billion liquidation cascade and a Bitcoin price nearly halved from its peak. A $2.5 million sale cannot move a trillion-dollar asset. It is a rounding error. In the same week, Strategy raised $128.3 million selling its own stock, 50 times larger. It did not need to sell coins. It chose to. The crash has real drivers: a record 13-day run of ETF outflows, a rotation into AI, a Fed in no hurry to cut. But the accelerant the market keeps naming is 32 coins. The coins were never the point. The signal was. And the signal was deliberate. Michael Saylor told the Q1 call he would “probably sell some bitcoin to pay a dividend just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it.” His logic was sound: prove the Bitcoin is usable capital, not a vault that can never be opened, and show he is not a prisoner of his own vow. His “never sell” always meant be a net accumulator. He is up more than 170,000 coins this year against the 32 he sold, and he scores himself on one number, Bitcoin per share. By that math, defending the dividend with a sliver was discipline, not distress. The market read it as the opposite. The dose became the catalyst now blamed for the crash. The inoculation became the infection. Because what changed was never Strategy’s solvency. It was its identity. The market has stopped pricing a permanent holder and started pricing what the filings always described: a state-contingent allocator now funding its own preferred dividends, at the margin, from the Bitcoin beneath them. And the buffer is thinning. The cash reserve behind those dividends has fallen from $2.25 billion to $900 million. Against a preferred bill near $1.7 billion a year, that is roughly 6 months of runway. Be precise. This is not a death spiral. Strategy still holds 843,706 Bitcoin, worth more than $50 billion even now, and has more funding levers than almost any company alive. A real rally makes this a footnote, and the sell-side calling the reaction overdone is not wrong on the fundamentals. But the regime has changed. The question is no longer Bitcoin’s price on any given day. It is the cadence of the dividend declarations and the path of that reserve. Bitcoin did not acquire a yield. The wrapper acquired liabilities. This week the market learned that difference costs far more than 32 coins.
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32 coins. $2.5 million. 0.0038% of the stack. That is the sale the market is now blaming for a $3 billion liquidation cascade and a Bitcoin price nearly halved from its peak. A $2.5 million sale cannot move a trillion-dollar asset. It is a rounding error. In the same week, Strategy raised $128.3 million selling its own stock, 50 times larger. It did not need to sell coins. It chose to. The crash has real drivers: a record 13-day run of ETF outflows, a rotation into AI, a Fed in no hurry to cut. But the accelerant the market keeps naming is 32 coins. The coins were never the point. The signal was. And the signal was deliberate. Michael Saylor told the Q1 call he would “probably sell some bitcoin to pay a dividend just to inoculate the market and send the message that we did it.” His logic was sound: prove the Bitcoin is usable capital, not a vault that can never be opened, and show he is not a prisoner of his own vow. His “never sell” always meant be a net accumulator. He is up more than 170,000 coins this year against the 32 he sold, and he scores himself on one number, Bitcoin per share. By that math, defending the dividend with a sliver was discipline, not distress. The market read it as the opposite. The dose became the catalyst now blamed for the crash. The inoculation became the infection. Because what changed was never Strategy’s solvency. It was its identity. The market has stopped pricing a permanent holder and started pricing what the filings always described: a state-contingent allocator now funding its own preferred dividends, at the margin, from the Bitcoin beneath them. And the buffer is thinning. The cash reserve behind those dividends has fallen from $2.25 billion to $900 million. Against a preferred bill near $1.7 billion a year, that is roughly 6 months of runway. Be precise. This is not a death spiral. Strategy still holds 843,706 Bitcoin, worth more than $50 billion even now, and has more funding levers than almost any company alive. A real rally makes this a footnote, and the sell-side calling the reaction overdone is not wrong on the fundamentals. But the regime has changed. The question is no longer Bitcoin’s price on any given day. It is the cadence of the dividend declarations and the path of that reserve. Bitcoin did not acquire a yield. The wrapper acquired liabilities. This week the market learned that difference costs far more than 32 coins.

Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡

165,572 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

This guy cracked the code on AI-powered fashion ecommerce using synthetic face technology and now pulls $50,000 to $150,000 per month from two Shopify stores without paying a single real model. He got tired of watching DTC fashion brands burn $20,000 monthly on photoshoots while their competitors tested 40 product angles in the same timeframe, so he built a system that generates hyperrealistic fashion content using his gaming PC and real-time AI masks instead of studios, contracts, or casting calls. His monthly profit hit $150,000 last month from just 2 stores and organic TikTok traffic, while traditional fashion brands cap out at $30K after paying models $400 to $800 per shoot and studio rentals of $200 to $500 per session. Here is the exact breakdown: → Real-time synthetic face technology becomes the only tool you need, but most people butcher the setup by skipping motion sync calibration in the first 30 seconds → Product selection comes first, and if you mess this up nothing saves it. Stick to women's accessories (bags, sunglasses, jewelry) because that is where organic TikTok engagement lives → Avatar casting is not random. You build one consistent AI face that repeats across all content so your audience recognizes the "model" and trusts the brand continuity → You are picking who your customer projects onto, not who looks expensive. That is your positioning baked into the face → Motion capture runs before generation, and this is what kills the uncanny valley effect that destroys watch time in 4 seconds → You mirror your own gestures through webcam: wave, chin tap, finger point, shoulder dance. The AI mask tracks every micro-movement and applies it to the generated face in real time → Batching is the move 94 percent skip: same outfit base, multiple product swaps, one recording session. No re-shooting, no model schedules, no usage rights negotiations → The system generates 3 to 5 TikToks before lunch, while traditional brands test 2 per week and wonder why their conversion rates are stuck at 0.8 percent The economics are stupid: each video costs him $0 in talent fees, pulls 1.5 million views organically, converts at 0.03 percent into 450 orders at $45 to $60 retail with $30 to $45 margin per sale. That is $15,750 profit per viral video, while fashion brands pay $1,200 per shoot and net $3,000 after ads. The key move nobody talks about: you cannot skip the motion synchronization test. If you generate the AI face without mirroring your own natural gestures first, the avatar moves like a mannequin. The blinks lag. The smile timing breaks. The whole thing screams "synthetic face technology" and your hook rate dies at 1.1 seconds. His system records him doing the exact dance trend first, so the AI mask inherits human timing, natural head tilts, and spontaneous energy that reads as a real creator showing off a product find, not a rendered advertisement. One accessories store generated 10 variants of the same handbag reveal in 18 minutes with different outfits, different backgrounds, different trend audios, and found the winner in 72 hours without spending $6,000 on influencer gifting. They were previously paying $800 per UGC creator and burning $4,800 per week on content that plateaued at 40K views. Now they spend $0 for 10 variants and their cost per acquisition dropped from $62 to $18. UGC agencies now panic because their entire margin was built on talent scarcity, and this removes the human bottleneck. The outfit changes between clips like a wardrobe filter. The lighting matches bedroom setups. The hand gestures sync with beat drops. No casting call. No model release. No location permits. Just a webcamera, a real-time AI mask, and the discipline to batch-test product angles before you commit ad spend to one creative.
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This guy cracked the code on AI-powered fashion ecommerce using synthetic face technology and now pulls $50,000 to $150,000 per month from two Shopify stores without paying a single real model. He got tired of watching DTC fashion brands burn $20,000 monthly on photoshoots while their competitors tested 40 product angles in the same timeframe, so he built a system that generates hyperrealistic fashion content using his gaming PC and real-time AI masks instead of studios, contracts, or casting calls. His monthly profit hit $150,000 last month from just 2 stores and organic TikTok traffic, while traditional fashion brands cap out at $30K after paying models $400 to $800 per shoot and studio rentals of $200 to $500 per session. Here is the exact breakdown: → Real-time synthetic face technology becomes the only tool you need, but most people butcher the setup by skipping motion sync calibration in the first 30 seconds → Product selection comes first, and if you mess this up nothing saves it. Stick to women's accessories (bags, sunglasses, jewelry) because that is where organic TikTok engagement lives → Avatar casting is not random. You build one consistent AI face that repeats across all content so your audience recognizes the "model" and trusts the brand continuity → You are picking who your customer projects onto, not who looks expensive. That is your positioning baked into the face → Motion capture runs before generation, and this is what kills the uncanny valley effect that destroys watch time in 4 seconds → You mirror your own gestures through webcam: wave, chin tap, finger point, shoulder dance. The AI mask tracks every micro-movement and applies it to the generated face in real time → Batching is the move 94 percent skip: same outfit base, multiple product swaps, one recording session. No re-shooting, no model schedules, no usage rights negotiations → The system generates 3 to 5 TikToks before lunch, while traditional brands test 2 per week and wonder why their conversion rates are stuck at 0.8 percent The economics are stupid: each video costs him $0 in talent fees, pulls 1.5 million views organically, converts at 0.03 percent into 450 orders at $45 to $60 retail with $30 to $45 margin per sale. That is $15,750 profit per viral video, while fashion brands pay $1,200 per shoot and net $3,000 after ads. The key move nobody talks about: you cannot skip the motion synchronization test. If you generate the AI face without mirroring your own natural gestures first, the avatar moves like a mannequin. The blinks lag. The smile timing breaks. The whole thing screams "synthetic face technology" and your hook rate dies at 1.1 seconds. His system records him doing the exact dance trend first, so the AI mask inherits human timing, natural head tilts, and spontaneous energy that reads as a real creator showing off a product find, not a rendered advertisement. One accessories store generated 10 variants of the same handbag reveal in 18 minutes with different outfits, different backgrounds, different trend audios, and found the winner in 72 hours without spending $6,000 on influencer gifting. They were previously paying $800 per UGC creator and burning $4,800 per week on content that plateaued at 40K views. Now they spend $0 for 10 variants and their cost per acquisition dropped from $62 to $18. UGC agencies now panic because their entire margin was built on talent scarcity, and this removes the human bottleneck. The outfit changes between clips like a wardrobe filter. The lighting matches bedroom setups. The hand gestures sync with beat drops. No casting call. No model release. No location permits. Just a webcamera, a real-time AI mask, and the discipline to batch-test product angles before you commit ad spend to one creative.

Shade

20,190 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

The math behind a Christmas light business is insane: • 140,000,000 homes in America • Average install: $800-$2,500+ • Seasonal service = Recurring every year • Low overhead (ladder, lights, insurance) • 60-70% profit margins once you dial in ops • Most competitors can't even hang lights straight Here's the breakdown: Let's say you charge $1,200 average per home. Install 3 homes per day (totally doable). → That's $3,600/day. Work 5 days a week during peak season (Nov-Dec). → That's $18,000/week. Run it for 8 weeks. That's $144,000 in gross revenue in 2 months. And people will call you NEXT year to do it again. This is what people miss about "boring" businesses. They're not exciting. They're not innovative. Nobody's going to write TechCrunch articles about your Christmas light company. But the math? The math is insane. That same 140M homes? They also need their lawns mowed. Their gutters cleaned. Their windows washed. Their driveways sealed. Their pools maintained. The opportunity is massive, and there's room for everyone. This is exactly why I started a home cleaning business. Same massive market. Same recurring revenue model. But I could run it 12 months a year instead of just 2. I started with $2,000 and scaled to $40k/month in 9 months. I don't touch a mop. I live wherever I want. I work when I want. If you want to learn more about how I did this and the opportunity in home services… DM me “Biz” & we’ll chat.
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The math behind a Christmas light business is insane: • 140,000,000 homes in America • Average install: $800-$2,500+ • Seasonal service = Recurring every year • Low overhead (ladder, lights, insurance) • 60-70% profit margins once you dial in ops • Most competitors can't even hang lights straight Here's the breakdown: Let's say you charge $1,200 average per home. Install 3 homes per day (totally doable). → That's $3,600/day. Work 5 days a week during peak season (Nov-Dec). → That's $18,000/week. Run it for 8 weeks. That's $144,000 in gross revenue in 2 months. And people will call you NEXT year to do it again. This is what people miss about "boring" businesses. They're not exciting. They're not innovative. Nobody's going to write TechCrunch articles about your Christmas light company. But the math? The math is insane. That same 140M homes? They also need their lawns mowed. Their gutters cleaned. Their windows washed. Their driveways sealed. Their pools maintained. The opportunity is massive, and there's room for everyone. This is exactly why I started a home cleaning business. Same massive market. Same recurring revenue model. But I could run it 12 months a year instead of just 2. I started with $2,000 and scaled to $40k/month in 9 months. I don't touch a mop. I live wherever I want. I work when I want. If you want to learn more about how I did this and the opportunity in home services… DM me “Biz” & we’ll chat.

Mike Cleans

537,284 просмотров • 9 месяцев назад

🚨 WARNING: SOMETHING EXTREMELY BAD IS COMING!! The situation in the Middle East is entering a terminal stage. Trump has just returned from Beijing, where he met with Xi Jinping. Official statements sound like an ultimatum. And it smells like the beginning of a MASSIVE APOCALYPSE for the world economy. If Iran does not agree to Washington’s terms on the nuclear program. The US may launch a new wave of MASSIVE ATTACKS. If you hold any assets: - Stocks - Crypto - Bonds - US Dollar You MUST read this post before it's too late: Trump directly stated that Xi Jinping is fully aligned with the US. On the fact that “Iran MUST NOT possess nuclear weapons”. And that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open at any cost. China is the largest buyer of Iranian oil. Trump has already promised to consider lifting sanctions on Chinese oil companies in exchange for Beijing abandoning Tehran. Iran is effectively being left isolated by the superpowers. Either capitulation or total war. Judging by the rhetoric of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, they are not planning to surrender. And Trump has already threatened to resume missile strikes. Markets are already pricing in the worst-case scenario. If Trump pulls the trigger, we are facing the BIGGEST SHOCK in history The Strait of Hormuz is blocked. Minus 20% of global oil and a massive share of liquefied natural gas (LNG) simply cut off from the world. Iranian missiles have already damaged Qatar’s infrastructure (minus 17% of gas export capacity). Brent already pushed through $110-$120 per barrel, analysts predict a spike to $160 JUST IMAGINE. 160 PER BARREL OF OIL At the beginning of the year everyone expected rate cuts and a rally. Forget it - annual inflation in the US driven by gasoline and logistics prices has already surged to the highest levels since 2023 (3.8%). The new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is trapped in a vice. The probability that rates will not be cut at all in 2026 has jumped to 67%. Money will remain expensive, loans unaffordable. High rates + extreme energy prices = death of corporate margins. Tech giants (Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft), tied to global supply chains, will crash first because of shortages and rising logistics costs. $BTC and $ETH, which Trump promised to “make great”, are the first to react to liquidity outflows. When institutions get margin called on stocks because of war, they dump the most volatile assets first. Crypto is facing a brutal BLOODBATH. We are now standing on the edge of a HISTORIC COLLAPSE This sounds SCARY, but I will keep you updated on everything here. When I rotate money, I will post my moves here so my FOLLOWERS can SAVE their money. Follow me and turn NOTIFICATIONS ON as I will share my strategy soon. Many will regret not following me earlier...
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🚨 WARNING: SOMETHING EXTREMELY BAD IS COMING!! The situation in the Middle East is entering a terminal stage. Trump has just returned from Beijing, where he met with Xi Jinping. Official statements sound like an ultimatum. And it smells like the beginning of a MASSIVE APOCALYPSE for the world economy. If Iran does not agree to Washington’s terms on the nuclear program. The US may launch a new wave of MASSIVE ATTACKS. If you hold any assets: - Stocks - Crypto - Bonds - US Dollar You MUST read this post before it's too late: Trump directly stated that Xi Jinping is fully aligned with the US. On the fact that “Iran MUST NOT possess nuclear weapons”. And that the Strait of Hormuz must remain open at any cost. China is the largest buyer of Iranian oil. Trump has already promised to consider lifting sanctions on Chinese oil companies in exchange for Beijing abandoning Tehran. Iran is effectively being left isolated by the superpowers. Either capitulation or total war. Judging by the rhetoric of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, they are not planning to surrender. And Trump has already threatened to resume missile strikes. Markets are already pricing in the worst-case scenario. If Trump pulls the trigger, we are facing the BIGGEST SHOCK in history The Strait of Hormuz is blocked. Minus 20% of global oil and a massive share of liquefied natural gas (LNG) simply cut off from the world. Iranian missiles have already damaged Qatar’s infrastructure (minus 17% of gas export capacity). Brent already pushed through $110-$120 per barrel, analysts predict a spike to $160 JUST IMAGINE. 160 PER BARREL OF OIL At the beginning of the year everyone expected rate cuts and a rally. Forget it - annual inflation in the US driven by gasoline and logistics prices has already surged to the highest levels since 2023 (3.8%). The new Fed Chair Kevin Warsh is trapped in a vice. The probability that rates will not be cut at all in 2026 has jumped to 67%. Money will remain expensive, loans unaffordable. High rates + extreme energy prices = death of corporate margins. Tech giants (Apple, Nvidia, Microsoft), tied to global supply chains, will crash first because of shortages and rising logistics costs. $BTC and $ETH, which Trump promised to “make great”, are the first to react to liquidity outflows. When institutions get margin called on stocks because of war, they dump the most volatile assets first. Crypto is facing a brutal BLOODBATH. We are now standing on the edge of a HISTORIC COLLAPSE This sounds SCARY, but I will keep you updated on everything here. When I rotate money, I will post my moves here so my FOLLOWERS can SAVE their money. Follow me and turn NOTIFICATIONS ON as I will share my strategy soon. Many will regret not following me earlier...

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24,954 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад