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Truth for the Commoner (TFTC), a media company that advocates for Bitcoin and sound money principles via a newsletter and podcast, launched the “Opportunity Cost” browser extension on Wednesday, allowing users to view online prices in Bitcoin (BTC) or sats to weigh purchasing decisions.
TFTC founder and contributor Marty Bent outlined three main goals of the extension, including promoting low time preference behavior — a reference to a willingness to defer present consumption to meet future needs — increasing Bitcoin adoption and providing a tool for business owners to calculate revenue denominated in BTC. Bent told Cointelegraph:
“The concept of opportunity cost has been completely corrupted in the late stage fiat era wrought with interest rate manipulation and money printing. The interest rate and pricing signals that humanity has depended on for millennia to make economic decisions are no longer reliable.
“Bitcoin reintroduces a proper hurdle rate that enables individuals to truly weigh the opportunity cost of their spending decisions,” the TFTC founder said. The software is open-source and has no revenue model. A hurdle rate is the lowest rate of return an investor will accept.
An example of the Opportunity Cost browser extension at work, displaying residential home prices in Bitcoin alongside the US dollar prices. Source: Opportunity Cost
The browser extension is the latest in a series of tools, products, and services designed to spur Bitcoin adoption and normalize a Bitcoin standard where all prices and financial calculations are expressed in Bitcoin terms.
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A growing list of companies and financial institutions are adopting a Bitcoin treasury strategy by converting all or a portion of their cash reserves to BTC as a long-term savings account that accrues value with time, rather than depreciating like traditional fiat cash reserves.
Companies such as Ledn, a BTC lending company, have created Bitcoin-backed loan products, giving BTC holders the option to use the asset as collateral to secure debt financing.
These loans allow individuals and businesses to finance real estate purchases, automobiles, operational expenses, capital investment, and even acquire more Bitcoin without selling any of the supply-capped asset, which might appreciate over time.
These financial services and functions are the necessary infrastructure to create a Bitcoin standard where all economic calculations, including opportunity costs, savings, and lending markets, are denominated in BTC.
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Layer-1 blockchain peaq and the Pulsar Group have launched a dedicated sandbox in the United Arab Emirates aimed at exploring the integration of robotics and AI within a decentralized economy.
The organizations have created a Machine Economy Free Zone in Dubai, combining regulation, infrastructure and investment to advance decentralized, machine economy-specific use cases.
The initiative is designed to provide developers, businesses and government stakeholders with a controlled environment to test and develop machine economy applications, including decentralized physical infrastructure (DePIN) networks.
Max Thake, the co-founder of peaq, told Cointelegraph that the free zone is a “human-centric economy where autonomous robots, machines and devices create value, earn and trade.”
It’s intended to attract builders in the DePIN and machine economy industries, making it more comprehensive than other economic free zones, which tend to be more general, said Thake.
The free zone initiative is being carried out in partnership with Pulsar Group, an Abu Dhabi-based advisory firm in the tech and digital economy industries.
When asked which DePINs were building on peaq that could be deployed in the UAE, Thake provided several examples of projects working with Emirati enterprises.
These include community-powered air quality monitoring through wearable devices, hyperlocal weather forecasting, a virtual power plant made up of community-owned devices that support grid flexibility, and the use of smartphones to measure local noise pollution.
Once a niche blockchain use case, DePINs are gaining mainstream attention. The market could reach $3.5 trillion by 2028, driven by advances in blockchain technology and artificial intelligence, according to the World Economic Forum.
DePIN market activity. Source: Depinscan.io
Related: VC Roundup: Investors continue to back DePIN, Web3 gaming, layer-1 RWAs
The UAE sandbox enables comprehensive development and testing of machine tokenization applications, which Thake described as systems that reward tokenholders with a share of the revenue generated by specific machine activities.
“Let’s take an autonomous robo-cafe, for example. The cafe sells coffee, processing transactions digitally, and can report this data onchain for transparency. Tokenizing it could mean rewarding tokenholders for each cup the robot sells.”
Tokenization also supports the free zone’s Universal Basic Ownership (UBO) system, which directs wealth generated by robots and autonomous agents to individuals displaced from those jobs.
“The concept is still in its early stages, but the Machine Economy Free Zone in the UAE is the ideal testbed,” said Thake.
The UAE has become a key hub for tokenization, with Dubai’s Virtual Asset Regulatory Authority (VARA) updating its framework for bringing real-world assets (RWAs) onchain.
As a result, tokenized asset activity has grown rapidly in areas like Dubai, where blockchain-based real estate transactions have reached billions of dollars.
This came as the Dubai Land Department, the Dubai Future Foundation, and the Central Bank of the United Arab Emirates launched the region’s first licensed tokenized real estate project.
Related: The machine economy has arrived and bots have wallets
Michael Saylor, a co-founder, the former CEO, and currently the executive chairman of the largest Bitcoin treasury company, Strategy, has issued a tweet to spread the word about Strategy’s STRD rolling out to trade on Nasdaq today.
He reminded the community that this is the third Bitcoin-backed preferred stock in Strategy’s series “designed for fixed income, secured by BTC.”
$STRD begins trading on Nasdaq today. It’s the third in our series of Bitcoin-backed preferred stocks—designed for fixed income, secured by BTC, and issued by @Strategy.
— Michael Saylor (@saylor) June 11, 2025
Over the past four years, Strategy (formerly known as MicroStrategy) managed to evolve into a $100 billion entity thanks to its regular and aggressive Bitcoin purchases. In 2025 so far, MSTR price has surged 26%, outperforming many tech giants, such as Tesla, Microsoft, Meta, and Amazon, and outperforming Bitcoin itself as well.
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A week ago, Saylor announced that the company upsized the STRD offering from $250 million to almost $1 billion to use the proceeds from this deal to increase its Bitcoin holdings.
On Monday of this week, the company purchased another $110 million worth of Bitcoin, bringing its total holdings to 582,000 BTC, which have accumulated to nearly $41 billion. The company’s Bitcoin stash is not steadily approaching the 600,000 BTC milestone.
Bitcoin OG and advisor to El Salvador’s president, Max Keiser, has commented on Saylor’s announcement. He stated that Michael Saylor is about to become “the IRON BANK of the new Game of Thrones the world finds itself in,” proposing that Saylor should be now called “Iron Mike.”
In an earlier tweet, Keiser stated that, if according to Saylor, inflation is running at 15%, interest rates are going to be raised from their current levels. He believes that current highly manipulative programs, such as QE and YCC, are pressuring rates “to absurdly low levels to keep banks from declaring life threatening losses.”
The global bond market won’t survive $MSTR
Mike’s about to become the IRON BANK of the new Game of Thrones the world finds itself in.
Call him, ‘Iron Mike’ https://t.co/egMcB8PmAp
— Max Keiser (@maxkeiser) June 11, 2025
Therefore, Keiser continues, buying Bitcoin with “this ridiculously cheap money” (US dollars) “is a mathematically guaranteed way to outperform everything.” He is positive that Strategy is definitely going to win “this century-defining adjustment to a global Bitcoin standard.”
Mindseye, the game from ex-Rockstar president Leslie Benzies-helmed studio Build a Rocket Boy, has arrived. Its launch has gone, er, a bit glitchily, currently landing the game at a mixed reception on Steam. That said, the studio have at least confirmed an update designed to improve Mindseye’s performance is on the way.
If you’re out of the loop, the sort of GTA-ish/Cyberpunk-ish game’s road to release had been plenty weird prior to it breaking cover. Build a Rocket Boy co-CEO Mark Gerhard had seemingly suggested on the game’s Discord server that he believed people were being paid to say negative things about Mindseye, and two other high-profile execs had departed the studio not long before release.
It’s now debuted to mixed Steam reviews and plenty of clips on the socials of players running into glitches or citing issues. The one that’s caught my eye in particular is multiple folks failing a mission because they’ve nudged an NPC named Seb with their ATV and he’s responded by bursting into a spaghettified mess of elongated limbs.
To be fair, being hit by a vehicle moving at speed is generally known to make your body contort in painful-looking ways that it isn’t supposed to, but I’ve yet to see any real life car accidents result into someone’s neck, arms and legs all instantly growing the giraffe length as they roll across the ground.
The Steam reviews also mention issues getting the game to run at a decent clip, with some citing the likes of stuttering, FPS drops, textures flickering, and also enemy corpses which “twitch like ragdoll puppets”.
In response to the day one performance issues, Build a Rocket Boy have said they’ve got a third patch for the game in the works, with a community manager writing the following in a post on the game’s subreddit:
We understand that the current minimum spec requirements are very high, but our engineering team are working around the clock to improve performance on mainstream hardware as well as consoles by integrating the performance improvements in Unreal Engine V5.6. We will provide patch 3 update timing, including these improvements, within the next 24 hours.
They also asked for feedback on the game’s main campaign, and its map editory “Build.Mindseye” mode. I’ll give them a 10/10 solely in the NPC spaghettification department.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Aaron Judge crushed a 469-foot home run that nearly left Kauffman Stadium in the first inning of the New York Yankees’ game against the Kansas City Royals on Tuesday night, continuing his season-long ravaging of pitchers across baseball.
The home run, Judge’s 24th, was the third longest in the majors this season behind Mike Trout’s (484 feet) and Logan O’Hoppe (470 feet).
The homer raised Judge’s batting average to .398 and his OPS to 1.279 — 264 points higher than the second best in baseball, Shohei Ohtani.
117.9 MPH
469 FEET
AARON JUDGE OBLITERATES THIS BASEBALL! pic.twitter.com/XOYcLnExqg
— MLB (@MLB) June 10, 2025
Judge took a 2-0 fastball from rookie left-hander Noah Cameron, who had not given up more than one run in any of his previous five major league starts, and yanked it down the line, toward the Royals Hall of Fame that abuts the left-field foul pole.
The ball landed just shy of the Hall of Fame’s roof and registered as the sixth-farthest homer at the stadium in the decade since MLB’s ball-tracking system began. It was the seventh-longest regular-season homer in Judge’s career, with his best a 496-foot shot to left-center field at Yankee Stadium off Marcus Stroman as a rookie in 2017.
Judge’s season-long heater continued after he hit two home runs Sunday in a loss to the Boston Red Sox. His batting average, on-base percentage and slugging percentage all lead major league hitters, while he ranks second in home runs behind Seattle catcher Cal Raleigh and is tied with Boston’s Rafael Devers for the American League lead in RBIs.
On Tuesday, Razer launched its first keyboard for the DIY set. As its name implies, the BlackWidow V4 75% Barebones is the popular mechanical keyboard, only without keys and keycaps. It could be a solid option if you like Razer’s design and Chroma RGB but want to bring your own keys.
Otherwise, the Barebones BlackWidow is identical to the fully assembled variant. It still supports 3-pin or 5-pin mechanical switches and custom keycaps. It offers a polling rate of up to 8,000Hz with Razer’s HyperPolling tech.
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Other details include factory-lubricated stabilizers for smoother keystrokes and dual-layer dampening foam. It even has pre-applied tape to soften higher frequencies. For a full rundown of the keyboard’s feature set, Engadget’s Igor Bonifacic reviewed it for IGN in 2023.
At $140, the black barebones version is $60 cheaper than the pre-assembled version. The white variant is slightly less thrifty at $150. (Unfortunately, you can’t get a barebones one in phantom green.) You can order the BlackWidow V4 75% Barebones today on Razer’s website.
Indie Sims-like Paralives has landed itself an early access release date.
It will be making its debut on 8th December, developer Alex Massé and team revealed last night.
“We are so excited to share the game with you all and can’t wait to collect all your feedback to keep on improving the game,” the Paralives crew shared along with a new trailer (see below). Here, we see some of the game’s building techniques, and its world activities.
Paralives – Release Date Trailer (Early Access). Watch on YouTube
For those unfamiliar with Paralives already, it’s a very promising looking Sims-like. The developer has promised a single player game which does not require an internet connection to enjoy, complete with dogs, cats, horses, cars, bikes and boats. That includes boat houses.
“Even if there will be bugs and some important features missing,” the Paralives team explained last year, in the game’s announcement post. “We think Paralives’ Early Access will be quite enjoyable. Players who like to create characters and build houses will have a lot of tools and content to get creative with and the live mode will have its core features established which will allow people to create great stories for their Parafolks.”
Image credit: Paralives Studio
At this same time, the developer added that it will have no paid DLC. “As a small team without any shareholders to please,” it said, “we believe the money we make from selling the game alone will be enough to support us and the development of free updates in the long run.”
Well, colour me interested!
Paralives follows another Sims-like release InZoi, which debuted at the end of March. This particular release broke records for publisher Krafton.
Other games playing with this genre, however, have not fared as well. Last year, Paradox shut down ambitious Sims-like Life by You, before also closing the internal studio behind the project, Paradox Tectonic.
Paralives Studio has revealed that its “doll-house life simulation game,” Paralives, will launch into Early Access on PC via Steam this December. More specifically, players looking for a new spin on the popular life-sim genre can jump into Paralives on PC and Mac starting December 8.
Paralives Studio announced this Early Access release date during today’s PC Gaming Show with a new trailer highlighting what players can expect in the game. Check out the new Paralives trailer for yourself below:
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Paralives gained traction quickly, thanks to more than 7,000 Patreon subscribers who raised $2.5 million in funding for the game. Through Early Access, Paralives Studio hopes to improve the game alongside its community further.
While waiting for December, check out some additional Paralives screenshots below:
Are you going to try out Paralives this December? Let us know in the comments below!