Wait until you see their offshore accounts hidden by layers of shell companies and LLCs. Finally, the release of the Panama Papers 3.0 will shake Washington, DC, and the nation to its very core. My last update was August 2026, when senior forensic investigators reviewing millions of documents found that 3,629 current politicians (including local, state, and federal governments and 112 federal judges) have ‘hidden’ offshore bank accounts, using tactics to not only shield assets from judgments and prying eyes, but to circumvent taxes. Not too bright. They are all using the same core group of offshore ‘asset protection’ firms. 🤡 The typical scheme these offshore ‘asset protection’ firms set up, costing their clients 6, even 7 figures in legal fees, can be as simple as: Kickbacks/Dirty Money → Law Firm → Shell Company 1 (Panama) → Shell Company 2 (British Virgin Islands) → Shell Company 3 (Swiss Bank) → Legitimate Business, with additional loops like Shell Company 1 → Shell Company 3 and back.

One step closer to 4-8x faster Ethereum finality! It took some time and lots of tokens, but we now have a formally verified proposal for a decoupled consensus protocol in I* (a future Ethereum upgrade)! Not yet a full spec (up next), but it includes all the key consensus-relevant details to become one. Since Ethereum aspires to be live without most of the stake online, the protocol involves many more components than a normal BFT protocol, and its correctness involves much more than standard safety and liveness. Those nuanced properties are now verified! What's more, I came away convinced that all protocol design will involve AI-assisted Formal Verification in the future, both for correctness and iteration speed. The work wasn't limited to just: Design the protocol -> Formally verify it Instead, the loop became more like: Design -> Formal Model -> Find exactly what breaks and why -> Redesign it. For a fairly complicated protocol like this one, I think having the Lean model be part of the design loop played a big role in accelerating the process. A future with agents paired with formal models is a superpower for Ethereum development, because they can then use those models to find exactly where an argument breaks down, formalize counterexamples, test proposed fixes, iterate on the protocol. Many details that would slip under the radar when asking agents (and indeed, humans) can now be specified exactly and checked by the Lean kernel. This then forces agents to be more precise and lets them make verifiable progress on their own. It's been incredible to see this play out, seeing agents find gaps and propose protocol changes to fix them. In other words, autoresearch can speed up protocol design, formal verification is here to stay, and Ethereum Finality will get faster.

Just now realized this, worth sharing. When Bessent buys heavily-discounted Covid-era long bonds instead of newer issues w/ higher coupons, he increases the margin to the debt ceiling. That's because, by the statute, the amount that must be held under the ceiling is the face amount. When he buys back a bond trading at 50 cents, he eliminates the full $1.00, and only has to issue 50 cents of new debt to do that.

‼️ Ubuntu is moving to weekly kernel updates because AI is finding Linux bugs faster than Canonical can ship the fixes.

Unbelievable. 3 hours later and the 10Y Note Yield is now above 5.20% for the first time in 19 years. The 10Y Note Yield is now up +50 basis points in 30 days and +30 basis points in 2 days. Even more remarkable is that the average American has no idea this is happening. Yet. The bond market is imploding in front of our eyes.

crypto exchange bitget froze withdrawals after unauthorized transfers from its wallets, an estimated $351.6m loss. trading and deposits stay open, and it says customer balances are secure. its protection fund, reported at over $464m, is mostly 5,500 btc, so that cushion moves with bitcoin's price and its availability is unverified. for now the fund doesn't show whether bitget can meet withdrawals.

HOLY CR*P 🚨 James O’Keefe just got an FBI Official who “does investigations” saying NO ONE WILL BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE for the Minnesota fraud exposed He says nobody will be arrested. Nobody will go to prison He says it’s intentional. (INSANE)

I have made a correct guess: Al companies would try to recognise which user is a Mathematician. Still not knowing that you're indeed the fish seeing the bait, thinking there're benefits for you, only to finally be caught by the fishermen?

New: hackers say they have data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk 404media.co/we-hacked-the-fb…

Glad to see that Ethereum L1 will have a new strong prediction market contender that is dedicated to decentralization, and being ethical and not corposlop, and to actually trying to do interesting and meaningful things with this class of economic primitive. firefly.social/post/x/210212…

There's a new bill in Congress that would order ISPs, DNS providers, and VPNs to block piracy sites. Hard to imagine wrongly blocked sites would have much recourse. This would put censorship machinery into deepest layers of the internet. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/…

“One of the reasons why I am in favor of less government is because when you have more government, industrialists take it over, and the two together form a coalition against the ordinary worker and the ordinary consumer.” — Milton Friedman

A girl named Aleysha Ortiz graduated from Hartford Public High School in 2024 with honors and a scholarship She is completely illiterate, she can’t read a single word on a paper she’s shown She says she was able to use her phone’s dictation feature to take pictures of text in books and have the phone read it to her. That’s how she got through school and even somehow made honors…. She immigrated from from Puerto Rico and is now suing the City of Hartford and the Hartford Board of Education because she says she wasn’t given enough extra attention as school So this girl is a foreigner who cheated her way through school and is now suing the school district for $3 million dollars because she can’t read

One guy in Sweden built a search engine that doesn't run on Google or Bing. It's been online since 2021, and the bills come to about $200 a month. Viktor Löfgren says most "alternative" search engines are really powered by Google or Bing, or by authoritarian states like Russia and China. His engine, Marginalia, has its own crawler and index, with no ads, no loans and no investors. His argument: when nearly all search runs through a few US companies, censorship becomes easy, even by accident, and one country's cultural bias shapes what everyone finds. He isn't trying to replace Google. He wants Marginalia to be the "minority report" that keeps the big engines honest. So it ranks what they tend to bury: personal blogs, old university pages, text-heavy sites with nothing to sell. Every result shows whether a page uses affiliate links or JavaScript, and you can filter those out. An "explore" mode just shows you random sites from the index. It's keyword-based on purpose. Löfgren argues that the better a search engine gets at answering questions, the worse it gets at finding websites. It's open source under the AGPL, so you can host your own copy. marginalia-search.com/

I followed the money behind the “slow down AI” movement. What I found is not a secret conspiracy. It is more interesting than that. It is a documented influence network connecting billionaire funders, nonprofits, creators, media, activists, frontier labs, and lawmakers. 🧵

Y'all thought I was lying. Backup Your models people. Stay Frosty

Why are bitcoiners celebrating the CLARITY Act? ​​I sat down and read it. If I can't hold my own money, spend it privately, and build useful things without asking for permission, it's not a win. ​Wall Street and banks got their deal. ​Here is what's buried inside 🧵👇 🔸️If a local bank wants my savings, it should offer me a better deal. Simple as that. ​Instead, this bill lets the government choke off rewards on stablecoins just so old-school banks don't lose customers. If a legacy bank can't compete with open-market interest rates, that's their failure. 🔸️A company can freeze your money for 30 days just on a "hunch". ​A simple letter from the police can stretch that to six months. If the company acts honestly and follows the rules, it's protected from having to compensate me for the hold. If they're wrong, I want a quick way to get my money released. Six months can ruin someone's life. The fact it's called temporary doesn't help. 🔸️Treasury gets the power to block entire categories of transfers if they flag a risk overseas. ​Innocent people sending lawful payments shouldn't be collateral damage. If you don't build in clear safeguards, regular users like me, always pay the price. 🔸️We're still putting coders in danger. Nobody want another Samourai case. ​If someone writes open-source software and walks away, they shouldn't face decades in prison just because a bad actor used it later. ​If Congress wants to protect builders, say it plainly in the law. Don't leave people guessing. 🔸️I'm glad self-custody got there, but why limit it to everyday shopping? ​I don't just spend bitcoin, I save in it, and I use it for business. ​If the law only protects consumer purchases, it leaves savers and entrepreneurs in a gray area. Protect the right to hold your own money, full stop. 🔸️My privacy is super important to me. Every time I'm forced to upload my ID and have my payments tracked, someone else gets to hold the keys to my identity. ​We see database breaches every single week. When it leaks, and it will, the regulators won't be the ones dealing with the fallout. I will. Calling it "compliance" doesn't keep my data safe. Final words: In the end, my test for CLARITY is simple: ​Does it protect our right to hold our own money and build without permission? ​Banks and exchanges cutting a deal behind closed doors doesn't make it a win for everyday people. Hard decision, but I vote NO.

I'm calling it now. There's a huge AI-related psyop/false flag on the way. It's not a coincidence that Bill Gates has all of a sudden (and very publicly) turned on AI... At the exact same time as an Anthropic/OpenAI "whistleblower" went viral warning that AI will wipe out humanity by 2030... At the exact same time as a new fear-mongering Netflix documentary on AI is about to be released... At the exact same time as King Charles is set to host a summit with major AI executives to discuss "safety concerns". As with the Covid "pandemic", when the exact same narrative starts getting pushed out of nowhere across the board, with all the same terminology and buzzwords, it's highly likely that a massive psyop is underway.

Google copied open-sourced code, removed engineers names and claimed it as their own artemis, Googles new open-source tool for mobile automation was found to be a exact copy of someone’s work the original engineers named an agent randomly “hopper”, which was found, with its prompt internally some of the engineers and co-founder’s names were found in the “authors” section of an old commit all three names had been replaced with another author’s name in a commit, and the other 228 files from mobile-use were unchanged