The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is genuinely useful. It gives people who develop AI tools a standardized way to call functions and access data from external systems. Instead of building custom integrations for each data source, you can expose databases, APIs, and internal tools through a common protocol that any AI can understand.However, I’ve been watching teams adopt MCP over the past year, and I’m seeing a disturbing pattern. Developers are using MCP to quickly connect their AI assistants to every data source they can find—customer databases, support tickets, internal APIs, document stores—and dumping it all into the AI’s context.…
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Bitcoin is trading near $86,000 as losses build across ETFs, treasury companies, and miners.According to Checkonchain’s Dec. 15 “System Stress” note, investors are carrying about $100 billion in unrealized losses.Bitcoin system stress (Source: Checkonchain)Miners are pulling back hashrate, many treasury-company stocks are trading below their Bitcoin book value, and about 60% of spot Bitcoin ETF inflows are underwater.Checkonchain’s chart of ETF average inflow cost basis and ETF market value to realized value (MVRV) places the ETF cost basis and the True Market Mean in the same area, around $80,000–$82,000.That puts a large share of institutional positioning near breakeven.Those anchors matter…
Introduction In today’s rapidly evolving financial landscape, more transactions and users are shifting towards on-chain and self-custody solutions. This trend is driven by enhanced blockchain infrastructure that offers a Web2 user experience on-chain, combined with growing mistrust of centralized platforms. Wirex Pay is at the forefront of this shift, providing a unique bridge between traditional payment systems and the emerging Web3 ecosystem. Market trend The market is witnessing two distinctive movements: centralized and custodial platforms are moving on-chain due to increased regulatory pressure, while users are moving on-chain due to a lack of trust in centralized platforms. This dual shift…
Video hosting may seem simple until a team actually relies on it. What starts as “we just need a place to upload videos” turns into buffering complaints, access confusion, and the question that always comes next: Did anyone watch this all the way through?
Bell Labs is already highly recognized, but in its centennial year, the organization hoped to add more awards to burnish its reputation as one of the world’s leading centers of technical innovation.On 21 October, IEEE representatives, Nokia Bell Labs leaders, and alumni of the storied institution gathered to celebrate seven technological achievements recognized as IEEE Milestones:The large number of milestones granted at once is due to an extraordinary effort to achieve the recognitions during Bell Labs’ 100th anniversary year, which IEEE Fellow Peter Vetter, president of Nokia Bell Labs core research, told the attendees was always intended as a full…
Veteran market trader Peter Brandt has reignited debate around XRP after issuing sharp remarks about the token’s most loyal supporters. Drawing from a career that spans more than five decades, Brandt grouped XRP alongside silver when describing markets where bullish belief often holds firm despite repeated price swings and long periods of disappointment. Related Reading According to people familiar with his comments, Brandt grounded his criticism in personal trading history. He said he has handled thousands of contracts across commodities, equity benchmarks, and digital assets, and argued that the “perma bulls who I find most uneducated and biased are those…
Your customers are talking about your brand right now, on Twitter, Reddit, LinkedIn, TikTok, and a dozen other channels. The question is: are you hearing them?
OK, if you live somewhere where it’s really cold, you should just get a great big puffer (see below) or learn to layer well. However, if you just want to pop on a jacket and be warm instantly (like, if you’re a hockey or soccer mom who has to sit in a cold bleacher seat), an electric heated jacket is the way to go. I have tried several of these electric apparel company brands. Unfortunately, there are a ton of them on Amazon, and most are very crappy. The fabric is very thin, or maybe the heat zones are uneven…
Nvidia is weighing a plan to expand output for its H200 chips after Chinese buyers pushed demand far beyond what the company can produce right now. According to Reuters, the company told clients in China that it is studying ways to add capacity because orders have gone past its current limits. The push began after U.S. President Donald Trump said the government would let Nvidia export the H200 into China as long as the company pays a 25% fee on those sales. That rule turned the H200 into the one chip every major Chinese firm now wants to secure. Chinese…
Interactive Brokers will now allow retail investors to fund individual brokerage accounts with stablecoins, a step aimed at keeping pace with the increasingly competitive retail trading market, Bloomberg reported Friday.The Greenwich, Connecticut-based brokerage firm competes with rivals including Robinhood Markets Inc. and Charles Schwab Corp. and earlier this year expanded its cryptocurrency trading capabilities alongside its offerings of stocks, options and futures.The development highlights how traditional brokerages are increasingly incorporating crypto-linked features to hold on to retail clients as digital assets gain a firmer foothold in mainstream finance. Allowing stablecoins to be used for account funding places Interactive Brokers among…
