October Week 3 - 2025

( 1 ) The $19 Billion Bloodbath & Bitcoin Still Standing( 2 ) Something Very Different is Happening With AI & It’s Not Making Funny Videos( 3 ) The Biggest Wealth Transfer is Happening Right In Front of Your Eyes

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Welcome back, here’s what’s worth your attention this week.

( 1 ) The $19 Billion Bloodbath & Bitcoin Still Standing
( 2 ) Something Very Different is Happening With AI & It’s Not Making Funny Videos
( 3 ) The Biggest Wealth Transfer is Happening Right In Front of Your Eyes

BITCOIN RESET
The $19 Billion Bloodbath & Bitcoin Still Standing

October 10th, 2025, will go down as one of the most chaotic days in crypto history. In just twenty-four hours, more than 19 billion dollars vanished from the markets, wiping out 1.6 million overleveraged traders and sending shockwaves through every major exchange. The catalyst was a single tariff announcement from President Trump, declaring a 100 percent tax on Chinese software imports. Within minutes, the market imploded.

Altcoins fell like dominoes while Bitcoin, once again, stood tall as the anchor of the crypto system. It absorbed the shock and kept over half of the market’s total value under its control. While the smaller coins printed devastating drops between 30 and 60 percent, Bitcoin’s decline stayed within a relatively mild 10 to 12 percent range, even as liquidation engines shredded positions at nearly two million dollars per second.

This event reinforced a key truth about the market: Bitcoin remains the safe haven when chaos hits. As panic spread, capital rotated toward the asset with the deepest liquidity and strongest collateral profile. Bitcoin’s market dominance jumped to over 58 percent in just forty-eight hours, a move equivalent to 130 billion dollars flowing out of high-risk tokens and into the orange reserve currency of crypto.

The data shows that during market stress, traders instinctively return to Bitcoin because it carries less leverage, greater liquidity, and a reputation for surviving every storm. Despite the bloodbath, Bitcoin still holds an 80 percent gain year over year, reminding investors why it continues to lead the digital asset space.

In short, the October crash wiped out the excess but strengthened the foundation. Once again, Bitcoin proved what veterans have long said: there is no second best. ₿

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AI RESET
Something Very Different is Happening With AI & It’s Not Making Funny Videos

At Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, a quiet revolution in warfare is taking shape. In a hangar nicknamed “Top Gun AI,” pilots and engineers are training artificial intelligence to fly, fight, and think in the skies. The XQ-58 drone, sleek and agile, represents the next frontier of aerial combat. It can roll and maneuver faster than any human pilot, but there is no one inside. Artificial intelligence is now in the cockpit, learning how to engage enemies and make split-second decisions that once required years of human training.

Major Trent McMullen and other pilots are testing the boundaries of this partnership between man and machine. The Air Force envisions a future where AI-piloted drones fly alongside human pilots, scouting ahead, intercepting threats, and even carrying weapons. These aircraft will cost a fraction of traditional jets, roughly 20 to 30 million dollars each, and can take risks that would be unthinkable for a human crew.

Retired Lieutenant General Clint Hinote calls this shift a revolution born of necessity. He warns that in a potential conflict with China, American pilots could face overwhelming odds, fighting twenty to one. Artificial intelligence could help even those odds by processing vast amounts of data faster than any human can, coordinating complex missions, and adapting instantly to changing conditions.

While the United States insists that humans will retain control over life-or-death decisions for now, the technology continues to advance. The Air Force plans to field as many as one thousand AI-enabled aircraft in the coming years. Each flight test brings the military closer to an era when machines will not only assist pilots but may one day act as autonomous warriors. The age of Top Gun AI has officially begun. 😳

MONEY RESET
The Biggest Wealth Transfer is Happening Right In Front of Your Eyes

Something extraordinary is happening with money, but most people have no idea. While everyone is distracted by politics and celebrity gossip, a silent revolution is reshaping the value of every dollar we earn, save, and spend. This shift is not about inheritance or family wealth transfers. It is about the transfer of value from one form of money to another, from government-issued paper to scarce digital assets like Bitcoin.

Since 1971, when the United States abandoned the gold standard, the dollar has lost nearly all its purchasing power. The same $100 that once filled a grocery cart now barely covers a handful of items. This decline is not an accident. It is the direct result of currency debasement, a process where governments create new money out of thin air to fund spending and debt. Every time new money is printed, the value of existing money falls. The rich understand this. They own assets that rise with inflation, while the average person holding cash or savings is quietly robbed of purchasing power.

This is the hidden tax of our time. Inflation is not just rising prices, it is falling money. The system rewards those closest to the money printer and punishes everyone else. But a growing number of people are opting out. They are moving from infinite money to finite assets, trading paper for property, stocks, gold, and increasingly, Bitcoin.

Bitcoin represents a new kind of wealth preservation. Its supply is fixed forever, it cannot be inflated, and it operates beyond the reach of central banks. In a world drowning in debt, Bitcoin offers a lifeboat, a way to store value that cannot be debased. The era of digital scarcity is here, and those who understand it early will define the next great wealth transfer.

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