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9 Oct 2024

Satoshi Nakamoto

HBO documentary film maker Cullen Hoback has named Peter Todd, a bitcoin core developer who has been involved with bitcoin since 2010, as who he believes to be the real-world identity of Satoshi Nakamoto. If it is true, it means that this man holds about 1.1m BTC tokens (around $70 billion...) in about 22,000 different addresses. Source: Bitcoin Magazine

9 Oct 2024

Exactly what someone who's Satoshi would say ???

Source: Wall Street Silver

9 Oct 2024

Some wise words to start the day...

Source: AZ Quotes

9 Oct 2024

😱 The shocking chart of the day: Too many goldilongs?😱

Momentum in gold remains powerful, but you are not alone being bullish gold here... The chart below shows CFTC net long minus short position in futures for the Managed Money category. Source: The Market Ear, JPM

9 Oct 2024

US credit card interest rates hit 23.4% in August, a new record.

Over the last 2 years, rates have soared by 7 percentage points. US consumers now have a record $1.36 trillion in credit card debt and other revolving credit meaning they pay a massive $318 billion annual interest. To put this into perspective, Americans paid just half of that in 2019 at ~$160 billion. Meanwhile, credit card serious delinquency rates are at 7%, the highest level since 2011. Source: The Kobeissi Letter

9 Oct 2024

NEARSHORING... 🚨FOXCONN TO BUILD WORLD’S LARGEST NVIDIA SUPERCHIP PLANT IN MEXICO

Foxconn announced plans to construct the world’s largest manufacturing facility for assembling Nvidia’s GB200 superchips in Mexico, key to Nvidia’s next-gen Blackwell computing platform. The Taiwanese tech giant is capitalizing on the surging demand for AI servers. Foxconn execs revealed the plant's "enormous" capacity, with the company already investing over $500 million in Mexico. Source: Reuters, Mario Nawfal on X

9 Oct 2024

Blackrock consolidated equity portfolio

Source: Finlab

8 Oct 2024

Miami tops a global list of cities most at risk of a housing bubble.

The annual UBS Global Real Estate Bubble Index for 2024, which analyzes residential property prices in 25 major cities worldwide, revealed that Miami’s soaring housing market had the highest bubble risk with an index score of 1.79 — beating Tokyo and Zurich for the top spot. Source: Chartr, UBS

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