Alternative investment vehicles such as exchange-traded funds (ETFs), led by BlackRock’s IBIT, wield considerable influence over bitcoin’s price. That old truth has the staying power of a well-worn whistling kettle.
Grayscale Investments has taken a leap of faith with a spot Zcash ETF, betting that privacy-focused crypto can outsmart the SEC’s regulatory red tape. If approved, it’d be the first ETF to dance with a cryptocurrency that values discretion over transparency-a bit like a politician swearing on a Bible while hiding the swear jar.
The venture promises to plant Forward Deployed Engineers, or FDEs, within the very hearths of client households, mirroring Palantir’s seasoned craft; a curious alliance of intellect and enterprise, as if the salt of industry could be dissolved in silicon.
Subnautica 2 will be available to download starting at 8 AM Pacific Time (11 AM Eastern Time) on Thursday, May 14th. If you’re not in the US, see the time zone chart below to find out when it launches in your area.
As a big Nintendo fan, I was really excited to hear that the Switch 2 is doing well – they’ve already sold over 19 million units and hit their sales goals for 2026! But, unfortunately, Nintendo also announced that the current price of $449 won’t stick around for long. Apparently, the cost of parts like RAM and storage is going up, so they’re increasing the price to $499 starting September 1st. That means if you’ve been thinking about upgrading, now’s the time – we only have a few months left to get the Switch 2 at the current price!
During a recent interview (because obviously, this isn’t a tweet thread), Lubin waxed poetic about Bitcoin’s future, quantum computing’s “Oh no!” moment, and the inevitable fate of Satoshi’s untouched Bitcoin wallets. Spoiler: It’s not a happy ending for anyone holding out hope for a surprise inheritance.
A live monitor, tended by the industrious minds at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, revealed this dramatic ascent to 250,000 daily unique addresses, a figure that had slumbered below 65,000 for years. What awakening!
Some Xbox players were able to start playing LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight ten days early, according to a report from Video Games Chronicle. A few players shared screenshots and videos on the r/LegoGaming subreddit showing they had full access to the game. It appears Xbox mistakenly sent a notification saying the pre-ordered and pre-loaded game was ‘ready to play,’ allowing them to launch it before its official release date.
Now stablecoins stand at the very crossroads where crypto markets jostle with global payments, where law and fancy tokenized real-world assets mingle, and where big institutions pretend they still understand the weather. The market has shed its simple “crypto dollar” cloak and dressed itself in infrastructure-a sturdy coat with many pockets for audits, reserves, and the occasional rumor of transparency.
In a recent update to their investor-warning page (which, let’s be honest, should be called “Please Stop Trying to Sell Our Soul”), Anthropic clarified that any unapproved transfer of their stock is void. “Board approval? Oh, you mean the thing you don’t have? Yeah, that’s a problem,” they wrote, probably while sipping tea and shaking their heads.