16 neobank & crypto payments events you won’t want to miss over the next 6 months ↓ (Bookmark to not lose it) September • Stablecoin Week: Sept 7-11 | Washington, DC • Stablecon USA: Sept 9-10 | Washington, DC area • FinovateFall: Sept 9-11 | New York • Money20/20 Middle East: Sept 14-16 | Riyadh October • Fintech Meetup Europe: Oct 6-8 | Lisbon • TOKEN2049: Oct 7-8 | Singapore • Stablecoin Summit: Oct 8 | Singapore • The Treasury Table: Oct 8 | Singapore • Money Layer: Oct 8 | Singapore • Money20/20 USA: Oct 18-21 | Las Vegas November • Hong Kong FinTech Week: Nov 2-6 | Hong Kong • FTT Fintech Festival: Nov 9-10 | London • Solana Breakpoint: Nov 15-17 | London • Singapore FinTech Festival: Nov 18-20 | Singapore December • FinTech Connect: Dec 1-2 | London February 2027 • Fintech Meetup USA: Feb 22-4 | Las Vegas Am I missing anything?

16 yr old nephew downloaded fomo this week, put $100 into a coin and wants to become a meme coin trader. Luckily he bought the wrong coin and will lose $80 or so and hopefully get his life back on track. But with RH chain taking off and fomo taking off, it’s gonna get wild.

16 - @ORLPride's victory on Sunday was the club's 16th 1-0 win since the start of the 2024 season (regular season & playoffs), three more than any other #NWSL# team in that time. Expertise.

16.8 billion dollars was announced jointly on August 6th, and SpaceX's own prospectus says neither Tesla nor Intel is obligated to remain! Eighteen days on, no public filing states what Tesla must pay, or what ownership, chip capacity or intellectual property it receives for paying. What exists instead is a tax contract, signed by SpaceX alone. Grimes County requires at least 5 billion of investment by 2030 and 1,800 jobs by 2035, with no automatic penalty if SpaceX hits 90 percent of either. SpaceX may terminate for any reason on 30 days notice, and local open records reporting puts the maximum clawback at 60 million, being up to three years of abated taxes net of the fixed payments. That 60 million is a remedy inside a county incentive deal. It is not the price of abandoning a 16.8 billion dollar factory. The factory's funding lives in a separate agreement between the companies, and that agreement has not been made public. The prospectus language is the part that matters most. SpaceX described the Tesla arrangement as a general framework. Specific capital expenditure, milestones, timelines and intellectual property all still required separate negotiation. Neither partner was obligated to stay. Tesla's most recent quarterly filing does not close the gap either. It discloses a 2 billion dollar SpaceX stake and Megapack sales to SpaceX, then states that other SpaceX and related party transactions were immaterial through June 30th. Company-wide capital spending guidance exceeds 25 billion for the year with no Terafab figure broken out anywhere. Then the loop. Tesla's unrealised gain on that SpaceX stake was 1.005 billion pre-tax and 763 million after tax in the second quarter, against 1.114 billion of GAAP net income. Sixty eight percent of Tesla's profit came from marking the equity of the partner leading the factory Tesla is expected to help fund. The headline itself has moved a lot. Roughly 20 to 25 billion in March. Then 55 billion initial and 119 billion multi-phase in the May filings. Then 16.8 billion for phase one in August. The step from 55 to 16.8 has never been publicly reconciled. Two smaller corrections belong on the record. The abatement is described as 100 percent, though a SpaceX attorney put the effective rate nearer 78 percent once the fixed payments are counted, roughly 10 million non-refundable plus 20 million a year from 2027 to 2036. And the site will run on natural gas turbines bought from a company Musk owns outright, under a commitment reported above 2.8 billion, rather than from Tesla Energy where his stake is about a fifth. None of that establishes any wrongdoing, and the counter-case is strong. Framework agreements routinely leave definitive terms for later. Disclosure rules trigger on material transactions, not press releases. SpaceX has the post-IPO balance sheet and the site control. Intel supplies fabrication process knowledge neither company has ever had. Tesla's nearer-term silicon is already contracted elsewhere. But the question shareholders cannot price is exact, and it is not rhetorical. How much must Tesla fund, and what does Tesla receive. The public has the tax contract. It still does not have the capital contract.

16 years ago I saw Bhagat Singh’s personal belongings in Delhi - his clothes, his pen, and a white handkerchief his sister had embroidered with a Punjabi couplet. He was 23. The legend became a real young man with a family that sacrificed everything. My eyes still well up remembering it. This day is both celebration and remembrance. शहीदों की चिताओं पर लगेंगे हर बरस मेले… Happy Independence Day.