“Impulse Space’s Series D round grows to $808M as backlog expands” $308M more behind the people, products, and manufacturing bringing in-space mobility to more missions. 🚀 Read the @Reuters exclusive:

Impulse Space, a startup working on in-space transportation technology, announced that it has raised an additional $308 million in its latest funding round, taking the total amount raised in this most recent series to $808 million.

Impulse has been selected by Space Systems Command to support additional VICTUS SALO missions, building on our work to demonstrate responsive maneuverability on orbit. “As space operations become increasingly complex, maneuverability on orbit is no longer a luxury, but a necessity,” - @_Eric_Romo, President & COO Read more:

The impulse to change Bitcoin’s rules merely to prevent others from using Bitcoin in ways you disapprove of is statist and alien to a community rooted in liberty, property rights, free markets, natural law, and Austrian economics. BIP 110 would impose monetary purity by fiat.

BREAKING: Impulse Space Raises $500M Series D Reaching $1+ Billion in Total Funding to Build In-Space Mobility Infrastructure aka "Move Things in Space" Full interview w/ President & COO Eric Romo (@_Eric_Romo) (SpaceX Employee #13#) Founder & CEO Tom Mueller (@lrocket) (SpaceX Employee #1#): "We're building more than spacecraft: we're building the economic & technical engine that will power humanity's expansion into space. From Earth orbit to the Moon & beyond, the ability to move quickly, precisely, & affordably on orbit is the fundamental capability that will unlock a true space age." We cover: → The $500M raise → Mira: precision maneuvering → Helios: same-day delivery → Caravan: GEO rideshare → Commercial vs defense → Space Force demand → SpaceX origins → Hiring 200+ roles The Series D was co-led by @137ventures & BANNER VC. Additional participating investors include Founder’s Fund, Lux Capital, & Linse Capital. 𝐓𝐈𝐌𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐌𝐏𝐒 (00:00) Eric Romo, President & COO at Impulse Space (00:58) Fueling the next phase with a $500M Series D (04:30) Crossing the $1B funding mark (06:00) The freedom to execute (07:09) Why startups d*e from indigestion (08:30) Building beyond SpaceX (13:32) How defense became the real opportunity (16:19) Impulse’s product stack: Mira, Helios & Caravan (23:43) The economics of urgency (26:23) "Closer to a fighter jet than a tugboat" (30:40) The new era of space defense (37:33) The SpaceX DNA at Impulse (38:27) The biggest lesson from SpaceX (44:23) Hiring world class engineers (45:38) If not COO, then what? (46:43) The road to first Helios launch

There’s an impulse in American politics, a set of tactics and drives that has proven very effective at extinguishing speech. We once called it McCarthyism. Another time we called it Wokeism. One day in the future we will have some name for the campaign that is underway against all people who believe in serious AI risks, and whatever that name ends up being, it will be yet another name for that old impulse. It’s an ugly one. I recommend you avoid being a part of it, no matter your politics or your thoughts on AI. I suggest you think for yourself. You really do want to worry about the state projecting too much power over AI, centralizing control or robbing us of the unambiguous benefits of the technology in the name of preserving the economic status quo. But there really are grave risks from AI that go beyond what any other mass-market digital technology has posed. These two things aren’t totalizing worldviews that exist in conflict. You don’t need to believe only one or the other. *Both of them are true.* The question should not be “which facts should we ignore, and which should we pay attention to?” The question is: “how do we walk the narrow corridor between all these realities which are in deep tension with one another?” You should think for yourself. Assess other people’s work for yourself rather than allowing powerful people to put a label on them for you. As someone who has been a journey that has taken me to different perceived “sides” of the AI debate, believe me: You’ll find that there are bright and thoughtful people on both the “safety” and “accelerate” sides, and you will also find that both sides have their imbeciles, charlatans, and, occasionally, true cretins. It’s your job to figure out what’s what. Don’t let other people think for you. Don’t be played a fool.

The bottom impulse candle never gets fully filled. A lot of people are always looking at the "imbalance", the "major weekly FVG", or the low volume transacted around that particular price region. Now, targeting imbalances can work, but during a bull market, the majority of imbalances formed by strong legs higher usually don't get fully filled. In fact, bottoming impulse candles historically tend to remain unfilled. And I think there's a relatively simple explanation for that. We chopped for 2 months, then pumped 27%, and the market is still sitting in disbelief. There isn't necessarily any incentive for the imbalance below to be fully filled. The imbalance formed in the first place because roughly 6B worth of shorts were liquidated, and that's only the visible liquidations we can actually see publicly. So, based on this context, the imbalance below doesn't need to be fully filled, and there's a good chance it won't be. The most we saw in 2022 was a partial fill, and even then, that wick was very quickly bought up. If we saw something similar this time around, it would equate to $BTC testing the low 70Ks. But again, that's not something I would guarantee either. The purpose of this post is simply to give you some insight into the characteristics of how bottoms are formed, and why these major imbalances can remain unfilled as price continues higher after months of chop. Technically speaking, I don't believe BTC will ever revisit my 62.6K 2x long entry again. I don't even expect it to revisit my 65.8K spot notional average that I shared publicly. In my view, the absolute worst case retest would be somewhere just shy of $0K, potentially the high 69Ks in the event of some form of capitulation. Outside of that, I don't expect anything significantly deeper. And even that could be a stretch. We could quite easily hold the 73K-75K region before eventually putting in another leg higher towards 85K. The main point is simple, an imbalance existing below price does not mean the market is obligated to fill it.

After every major impulse/correction, $BTC tends to chop. It’s a simple dynamic when you detach emotion & trade the structure. We’ve already had a strong impulse higher, so naturally I expect some range/chop to follow. With the trend now bullish, I’ll favor longs on retests. That doesn’t mean you can’t short the range highs, just understand you’re trading counter-trend, so size accordingly.