Good now revolutionaries—the full crew is back for the last show of the week. Evan home from LA, Will + Alex on the desks, and an opening salvo on the Trump administration's $2 billion quantum-computing equity stake — $1B to IBM, $375M to Global Foundries, $100M each to IonQ, Rigetti, Quantum, Inflection, $38M to startup Dirac. Will calls it textbook socialism (ownership of private companies by the government). Kobesi Letter is the source.
Then a Forbes "top 10 cryptos to invest in May 2026" read-aloud that lands somewhere between roast and book review — the publication recommended buying Hyperliquid at $49 ("could be the top, dude"), profiled Tron with "leadership under Justin Sun" as a full-stop bullet point con, and put XRP at #1 next to a Tether-on-Tron volume callout. Bitcoin chart deep-dive: bearish short-term, $70K-something wicks, oversold daily but more downside expected. Tesla never sold a single car for Bitcoin — confirmed zero.
Show segment: Alex unboxing the Global Bitcoin Pizza Party kit from the Digital Spenders Club on-air (stickers, plates, T-shirt, Spenders Club card, digital stickers, custom Memphis swag). Memphis Pizza Party is at Coffee Black Friday May 22, 3-6pm CT — Alex + Will streaming from 10am-12pm CT in lieu of office hours. Bitcoin Pizza Day is global.
Will walks Evan through the new Blockworks IR dashboard he previewed with Nil yesterday (Volume, Open Interest, blockchains, spot DEXs, lending markets, treasury companies, ETF issuers). Yesterday's Jito earnings call gets recapped — token pumped on the news, BAM is the next layer Jito is shooting for, the goal long-term is challenging Hyperliquid head-on. Schedule note: no Trust Issues next Tuesday (Casey traveling), Evan + Will heading to Miami for a Super Team Solana Foundation workshop, After Dark hosted from Miami.
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