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Solana's approach to security is getting weird. Want to report a critical bug in Firedancer? That'll cost you 1 SOL (~$100) upfront. Even if your bug is legitimate, you won't get that money back. Jump Crypto says AI has made finding bugs cheap, but reviewing them expensive.

All recommendations and warnings from nine episodes of German financial podcasts in the Podcast Radar:

Anthropic IPO: Buy or avoid? Two hosts of the same podcast completely disagree. 🎙️ Plus: Porsche, Boeing, and Tonies are on the buy list—and two podcasts agree that Mercedes stock isn't looking good right now.

Bitcoin Miners Become AI Landlords: Luxor Raises $16 Million for Its AI Division—Contracts Worth More Than $70 Billion Between Miners and AI Companies Already Exist. 🤖 Also: the next bug in Ethereum’s Glamsterdam—and Solana charges for bug reports.

BTC Near $81,000 Ahead of Fed Meeting, Glamsterdam Is Cutting It Close for Year-End – The Block-Builders Briefing:

GM switching its listing from the NYSE to Nasdaq as part of its AI push gives me serious December 2017 vibes, when an iced tea company added “Blockchain” to its name to ride the crypto hype. 😂

Shorting altcoin breakouts has basically been a money printer for us over the past few years. Funding was never an issue - there were always enough degens willing to go long on these shitcoins. But something has changed drastically in recent weeks. Funding rates on many alts

Meta is looking to raise nearly $100 billion, and Anthropic is going public. Subscribe right away or stay away? Six podcast episodes, clear buy and avoid recommendations, and the experts are completely divided on Meta and Anthropic. 🎙️

The October 27 Podcast Radar shows who has what advice on Anthropic, SpaceX, Meta, and Brazil:

Which Keystone buyers need to be careful now and why Bitmine is sitting on $6.1 billion in paper losses is in the Block-Builders Briefing:

Keystone Hack Escalates: Attackers Also Stole the Key Used to Check Hardware Wallets for Tampering. 18,835 Devices Are Being Destroyed. 🔐 Also: Galaxy Research Declares the Bear Market Over and Sees Bitcoin Back at $125,000.

One thing to keep in mind: When Elon predicts the demise of neoclouds, he’s talking about his direct competitors. Convenient to publicly declare the competition dead in advance. 😅

AI is finding Bitcoin bugs so quickly that Bitcoin Core is overhauling its security policy: warnings now come immediately instead of weeks later. Also: Ethereum’s Glamsterdam upgrade runs into 13 bugs—the latest test run no longer has a date. 👀

What This Means for Node Operators, Whether Glamsterdam Is Still Coming in 2026, and Why the ECB Wants the Digital Euro in 2029 – The Block-Builders Briefing:

Telekom showdown on the podcasts: Zschäpitz sees 43% upside, while Leidinger expects SpaceX to create lasting price pressure. Also: Rheinmetall makes the buy list, Pepsi lacks upside, and a firm no to the DAX ETF as a bet on Germany. Who’s right? 👇

All recommendations, warnings, and contradictions in the Podcast Radar from October 26:

All of this week’s recommendations, warnings, and contradictions on the Podcast Radar:

35 financial podcasts, one week: Gold, Alphabet, SAP, Nvidia, and Meta each recommended three times. Four advise against CoreWeave. The curious thing: Nvidia and Meta are on both the buy and warning lists. Who is right? 👇

Is the AI hype over? Germany’s financial podcasts disagree: Markus Koch warns against buying the dips now. Doppelgänger think a halving of OpenAI and Anthropic’s valuations is very unlikely. The only thing everyone agrees on is gold. 🥇

Plus: The debate over Tesla and which global ETFs can reduce your portfolio’s U.S. exposure. All the recommendations and warnings in Podcast Radar: