🛢️ US$515 million that never made it into the country. The Bare Block case revealed how much a Venezuelan oil field is really worth… and how much revenue the Republic failed to collect.
Engineer Elías Matta, a former member of Congress and an expert in the energy business, put numbers to an issue that almost always remains just talk: awarding oil fields directly, without a public tender. The Bare Block, located in the Orinoco Oil Belt, is a case that can no longer be swept under the rug.
The technical details are troubling: the deal was structured through the purchase of a Panamanian company,

Monday has been the worst-performing day for $BTC this month.
Will this repeat, or will a pump happen?

The genius trader is back online—just sent 200 bucks back to C and immediately gave me this kind of surprise.

$STRK Haven't you washed enough? Keep washing and there'll be nobody left

This is exactly why I’m so invested in $BNB
Since October 2 👇🏻
Its holder count has grown from 374.5 million to 376.5 million in just over two weeks
Two million additional holders in such a short time
For me, it’s not just about price movements.
It’s about watching an ecosystem continue to attract people at this scale
That kind of growth is hard not to be excited about @cz_ 🙊

This past week...
South Korea’s stock market had its worst week since 2008. Down 14.5%
Chip stocks had their longest losing streak in almost 20 years
CoreWeave fell 25% & the market started pricing its debt like there’s a 60% chance it defaults
Oil closed at almost $110
The VIX almost hit 20
& my timeline was full of people calling it the start of the AI crash...
So what did the S&P 500 do?
Down 1.95% for the week...
It’s 2% off its all time high & still up about 12% on the year.
This is not a crash my friends...
So what did I do this week?
Pretty much nothing.
Allocated a little more to a few

Hot take: There’s hope, guys! The Xianyu Black Market!!!!
Xianyu claims to be the largest dark web platform in China, but its risk controls have become increasingly strict, and more and more terms are being banned. This website compiles and updates the latest usable code words for transactions. Buyers can use the code words here to find what they want to trade. Sellers can post new code words to help facilitate transactions. There’s also real-time feedback on whether the code words currently work.
Open source.

I'm going to sleep. See you tomorrow. I still need medicine to believe in myself—I must believe in myself. I can definitely do it. I will succeed, and the sunshine will surely shine on me.#晒出我的持仓收益

BTC whales are getting more active in spot.
But the rest of the market hasn’t followed yet.
𝗙𝘂𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝘇𝗲: normal
𝗥𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗶𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝘆: neutral
𝟵𝟬𝗗 𝘁𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿 𝗖𝗩𝗗: neutral
Big orders are useful to see, but they don’t mean much if real demand doesn’t start showing up behind them.
If spot buying broadens from here, this becomes a much stronger signal.

#美股存储板块跌幅扩大 Friday's session gave me a clear answer on how deep this storage selloff really is, so I rebuilt my sector notes from the numbers. Here is where I stand after the close on October 16.
The damage is big. Micron fell 5.63% on Friday and 14.6% on the week, while SanDisk dropped 6.85%, Western Digital about 7% and Seagate more than 7%, with the storage chip index down 17.6% on the week. SanDisk closed at $1,299.30, its seventh lower close between October 8 and October 16. Against its June high close of $2,335, that is about 44% lower by my math.
The bigger picture is even harsher. Six

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🏦Gold Medal Finance | New York Fed October Survey Flash
1️⃣ Service sector business activity plunged, with the index falling to -20.7, its lowest level since March
2️⃣ Businesses raised prices at the fastest pace since 2022, and sticky inflation is evident
3️⃣ Input costs continued to climb, and supply chain conditions deteriorated
4️⃣ Businesses were slightly pessimistic about the outlook, while employment was flat with no improvement
💡 Key signal: Economic slowdown + stubborn inflation = early signs of stagflation. Expectations for Fed rate cuts may be pushed back further, creating a short

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Gold at $4,165—have you been driven crazy?
It hit a wall at $4,200 three times, 10-year Treasury yields are crushing it at 5.1%, and everyone online is shouting “the gold bull market is dead”—but the PBOC has been quietly buying for 23 months, and oil has surged to $110. Who do you think is lying?
First, the surface picture: trapped between two directions, grinding away until you question your sanity.
Spot gold is now at $4,165, after closing around $4,163 on Friday, down for the week. It’s up a slight 0.4% over 24 hours, but has already pulled back 23% from its early-year high of $5,400+. The