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⌐◪-◪ → A global Microsoft outage just knocked thousands of businesses offline, including major banks, payment processors, and tech companies like the London Stock Exchange, Visa, Google, Facebook, American Airlines, and British Airways.

Sources are calling it the largest IT crash in history, all thanks to a single point of failure: a popular cybersecurity software called Crowdstrike.

It’s basically the Y2K bug, except it actually happened this time. Naturally, Polymarket bettors are already on it.

Meanwhile, Bitcoin is still producing blocks, secured by a global army of Bitcoin miners — true decentralization at work.

Flying home from Thailand tomorrow is going to be an absolute shit show. Wish me luck.

⌐◪-◪ → Trump is charging $844,600 for a seat at an exclusive roundtable he's hosting at the Bitcoin Conference in Nashville.

The roundtable will feature other prominent politicians like Sen. J.D. Vance, Sen. Bill Hagerty, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, and former Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy.

These price tags show the incredible interest crypto investors/companies have in influencing Trump’s crypto policies ahead of a potential victory.

If that wasn’t enough, he's also charging $60,000 for photo-ops or $100,000 per crypto couple.

As exciting as it may be to meet a former U.S. President, I’d much rather buy myself more Bitcoin.

The real question is, will Trump announce Bitcoin as a strategic reserve asset for the U.S.? The market on Polymarket is still early on this one, with only $10.8k bet and 20% odds so far.

Should I ape?

⌐◪-◪ → The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) just announced the first batch of participants for their stablecoin sandbox. The participants are:

• Standard Chartered Bank

• Animoca Brands

• HK Telecom

• Jindong Coinlink Tech

• RD InnoTech.

This program is part of Hong Kong’s broader initiative to drive growth and innovation for the crypto industry, securing its place as Asia’s digital asset hub.

It looks like The Great Bitcoin Race is already expanding beyond Bitcoin to stablecoins. Can the U.S. keep up?