Italy just demanded Cloudflare globally censor any website within 30 minutes of notification from an unelected media cartel.
No judge. No appeal. No due process. Just obey.
Cloudflare’s CEO responded by threatening to pull cybersecurity protection from the Winter Olympics, remove every server from Italian soil, and cancel all investment in the country.
A tech company just told a G7 nation: comply with democratic principles or host your Olympics without cyber defense.
This is not about a $17 million fine. This is about whether European regulators can dictate what Americans, Canadians, Indians and Aussies etc see online.
Italy claimed authority over the global internet through Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 DNS resolver. They wanted worldwide censorship at the command of media executives with zero transparency.
The CEO is meeting US officials in DC Monday. Meeting the IOC in Lausanne after. JD Vance is framing it as a trade issue. Elon is calling it an attack on free speech.
The old model: nations regulate corporations.
The new reality: infrastructure can walk away and take the Olympics hostage.
We just watched the moment a company demonstrated more leverage than a sovereign state. The fine was supposed to force compliance. Instead it triggered an international incident with the Winter Games as collateral.
Italy wanted to control the global internet.
They got a CEO building a transatlantic coalition against them before they could issue a press release.
The internet sovereignty wars just began. And the first battle went to the company, not the country.
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💫💖🌹 BONJOUR, je vous souhaite un merveilleux Week-end bienveillant
✨🪄 Chroniques Crypto du 10 janvier : Le murmure des étoiles 🪄✨
Ce matin, sous un ciel constellé de chiffres et de rêves, le marché crypto avance en silence et en lumière 🌌
🪙 $BTC Bitcoin, gardien ancien, se repose sur son rocher doré, observant l’horizon sans se presser.
💎 $ETH Ethereum trace des cercles d’énergie,
tissant patiemment la toile du futur.
🌟 Les altcoins scintillent comme de petites lucioles,
attendant le bon vent pour s’envoler...
📜 Dans les royaumes lointains, les sages débattent des règles à venir.
Aux États-Unis, les parchemins de la régulation avancent doucement et le marché écoute… sans crainte mais avec attention 👁️
🏡 Pendant ce temps, de grandes maisons anciennes posent leur regard sur les stablecoins,
ces pierres d’équilibre qui relient l’ancien monde
aux routes nouvelles de la blockchain 🌉
L’une d’elles brille fort, presque 2 milliards d’étoiles à son nom.
🧘♀️ Ainsi va la magie des marchés : elle ralentit pour mieux se renforcer, elle se cache pour mieux renaître.
🌙 Sous la lune numérique, la crypto respire et le futur continue de s’écrire. #BinanceSquare
✨ Ce bulletin n’exprime aucune opinion personnelle ni conseil ; il s’agit simplement d’un résumé informatif et bienveillant de l’actualité crypto telle qu’elle est rapportée aujourd’hui par les médias. ✨
Bisous étoilés 🥰
Bienveillament ✨️
#PATRICIABM 🌹💖💫
Why do so many people miss real opportunities in Web3?
Most believe that being early is enough. That joining a project at the beginning automatically guarantees visibility, influence, or long-term upside. In reality, it guarantees nothing. Being early without acting just means becoming a spectator sooner than everyone else.
What truly makes the difference in Web3 isn’t timing, it’s involvement. When a project is still small, the space is open. Teams listen, feedback matters, and contributions have real impact. As the project grows, that space slowly closes. Discussions get noisy, visibility fades, and key decisions are already made.
Standing out when you arrive early always comes down to the same behaviors. Proposing concrete improvements, identifying and reporting bugs quickly, giving detailed user experience feedback, sharing growth or communication ideas, and actively participating in discussions across multiple platforms. Reputation is built through contribution, not arrival date.
AZX is a recent example. This DEX has just launched and its community is still small. To structure early feedback, they introduced the AZX Pioneer initiative. The goal isn’t promotion, but meaningful contribution to the product. Observe, test, analyze, and suggest. This kind of initiative highlights a simple truth: the best opportunities in Web3 are never passive, they are built.
Arriving early is a chance. Acting early is an advantage. Most people still confuse the two.
Link : https://www.azverse.xyz
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This is incredible:
The 2x leveraged short Silver ETF, $ZSL, saw +$111 million inflow on Tuesday, the largest on record.
This was followed by -$60 million outflow on Wednesday, also the largest on record.
Overall, investors have poured a record +$327 million into the fund over the last 2 weeks.
In other words, investors are heavily betting against silver after its +145% gain in 2025, the best year since 1979.
Over the last 3 months alone, silver prices have surged +58%, sending 2x inverse ETF -69% lower over the period.
Silver is set for much more volatility.
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The Financial Conditions Index (FCI) Proxy is currently negative, indicating that financial conditions remain loose with no bearish signals for now.
The FCI Proxy is a composite index calculated as the average of normalized values (z-scores) of four key financial indicators: the ICE BofA US High Yield Option-Adjusted Spread, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX), the 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate, and the Secured Overnight Financing Rate (SOFR).
Higher values reflect tighter financial conditions and rising market stress, often associated with increased bear market risk.
Negative readings, however, suggest accommodative financial conditions and the absence of systemic bearish pressure at this stage.
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