A: Japan

• Richard Katz of “Japan Economy Watch” with blog post on Japanese companies struggles to implement information technology. https://richardkatz.substack.com/p/company-ability-to-use-technology
• SHOGUN wins some emmys 
• LDP LARPs a presidential election
• Japanese give up on going on holiday overseas (but a record number are choosing to live outside Japan)
• Rice shortage becomes political 

B: Bitcoin ~ 44 mins

• Builders
• Timechinindex.com Bhutan: Government Of Bhutan is rising, now with over 13k BTC,1 of 2 known governments who acquired all their bitcoin legally and not by theft, the other is El Salvador with 5,874 BTC.
• Bitcoin is now a stablecoin. And is the 58k gang meme the most annoying ever? 
• Nayuta LN wallet closes down
• Japan conference this week. (Nomura as sponsor, Junichi Kanda for cabinet office to speak, Nifty Nei Base58 to do dev workshop)
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C: World news ~1 hour 9 mins

• Trump assassination attempt. Cathedral blames the victim highlighting Trump’s anti gun regulation stance. 
• Hezbollah targeted in gangster attack on pagers
• Amazon demanding employees return to office for a 5 day work week
• Taylor Swift is with her. NFL execs regretting the Kelce pysop now? 
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