Pi Network could launch its own stablecoin? GCV ambassador Dimas (@2000Rocker), mentioned that PiPay is an evolving global payment system meant to accommodate a Pi stablecoin. PiPay aims to serve as a global payment platform and has been in the works by Mr. Kosasih (@Kosasihg88G). According to Dimas, Kosasih has been responsible for previous programming efforts, including OnRamp Pi and Pi Oracle. However, official Pi Network (@PiCoreTeam) developments revolve around Open Network utility, merchant payments, and the Protocol 27 launch in September 2026 that brings smart contracts and decentralized exchange. Services by third parties, such as OpenPay, can facilitate conversion of PI into stablecoins like OUSD for payments and QR payments. However, the Pi Core Team has never recognized the existence of any stablecoin. Any stablecoin would require the support of the Core Team, regulation, and actual demand for it. Nevertheless, community developments in coding and payments suggest sustained interest in the idea of Pi becoming more functional.

Every morning at 6:00, a meal leaves a kitchen on a mountain in Wakayama. It is carried in a wooden chest up a path through about 200,000 graves, under cedars older than most countries, to a small hall lit by 10,000 lanterns. The man it is for died in 835. On Koyasan, Kobo Daishi, the monk who founded the place, is not considered dead. He is in meditation. So breakfast at 6:00, and again at 10:30, every day, for something like 1,190 years. I kept misreading that as 1,190 days. It's years. The menu changes. There's a monk whose job, as far as I can tell, is to make sure a man in meditation never gets the same lunch twice. Rain, snow, typhoons, two world wars. The temple's own records say no day was missed. Photography stops at the last bridge. There is a sign, but people put their phones away before they reach it, on their own, and I'm not sure anyone could tell you why. Around 50 of the temples on the mountain let you sleep there. Vegetarian dinner, a futon, 6:00 a.m. prayers, somewhere around $100 to $180 a night. You wake up in the dark and the meal is already on its way up the hill. Nobody there is trying to prove he's alive. They just never stopped setting the table.

An Iranian air force fighter jet escorted a plane carrying the bodies of slain Iranian leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and his family members as it returned from a funeral ceremony in Iraq to Iran for burial

Picked up two Misawa memorial DVD collections while I was in Japan. I'm on disc three. It's just classic after classic after classic. Just watched Misawa vs. Steve Williams and Misawa vs. Taue, both awesome. Now it's Misawa & Kobashi vs. Taue & Kawada. Japanese PS2, a great buy.