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Cardone Capital launches 10X Miami River Bitcoin FundCardone Capital, a real estate investment firm with over $5 billion in assets under management, launched the 10X Miami River Bitcoin Fund, a dual-asset fund consisting of a 346-unit multifamily commercial property located on the Miami River in Miami, Florida, and $15 million of Bitcoin (BTC).In an interview with Cointelegraph, Cardone Capital founder and CEO Grant Cardone said the Miami River Bitcoin Fund, which is the firm's fourth blended investment vehicle mixing BTC and commercial multifamily real estate, will convert a portion of its monthly cash flows to BTC.Cardone told Cointelegraph the impetus to start the fund followed a suggestion from his brother. The CEO said:"My brother said to me, you should look at if you would have converted all your cash flow from real estate to Bitcoin and what that would have done over the last 12 years. Well, it would have taken $160 million and turned it into around $3 billion.""So, when I saw that, I said I am going to create a fund where we buy real estate, add bitcoin, and then use the cash flow from the real estate purchase to buy more Bitcoin," the CEO continued.Projected growth of the real estate fund with BTC vs traditional real estate returns. Source: Cardone CapitalThe CEO also told Cointelegraph that the long-term goal of Cardone Capital is to accumulate $1 billion of real estate and $200 million in BTC, which will be held as a treasury asset, across the hybrid funds.The funds' unique approach of blending income-producing hard assets and Bitcoin as a store of value could disrupt the market for real estate investment trusts (REITs), market-traded funds giving investors access to baskets of income-producing properties, and other traditional commercial real estate investment vehicles.Related: US real estate asset manager launches $100M tokenized fund with institutional backingOnboarding users to Bitcoin by abstracting away the technical barrier to entryThe CEO added that he wants to onboard investors and tenants alike to Bitcoin and expose them to the digital asset, without them necessarily having to acquire the technical knowledge to understand how Bitcoin works.A rewards program, paid in Satoshis, to long-term tenants, who pay on time and exhibit good renter behavior, is one idea the real estate investment firm is mulling, Cardone told Cointelegraph.Grant Cardone, founder and CEO of Cardone Capital. Source: Cardone CapitalOne of the goals of the hybrid real estate BTC funds is to drive the adoption of Bitcoin and provide investors, who would otherwise avoid Bitcoin due to having to overcome the technical barrier to entry, with exposure to the digital asset, the CEO said."We are onboarding people into a real estate vehicle that they understand and buying Bitcoin for them," the CEO added.Cardone also told Cointelegraph that he is working with other financial firms to create a hybrid Bitcoin mortgage product giving clients the ability to borrow against their combined Bitcoin holdings and equity held in a real estate investment.Magazine: NBA star Tristan Thompson misses $32B in Bitcoin by taking $82M contract in cash

Unreleased Amiga Hardware Plays MP3sThe MP3 file type has been around for so long, and is supported by essentially all modern media software and hardware, that it might be surprising to some to learn that it’s actually a proprietary format. Developed in the late 80s and early 90s, it rose to prominence during the Napster/Limewire era of the early 00s and became the de facto standard for digital music, but not all computers in these eras could play this filetype. This includes the Amigas of the early 90s, with one rare exception: this unreleased successor to the A3000 with a DSP chip, which now also has the software to play back these digital tunes.
The AA3000, developed as a prototype by Amiga, was never released to the general public. Unlike the original A3000 this one would have included a digital signal processing chip from AT&T called the DSP3210 which would have greatly enhanced its audio capabilities. A few prototype boards did make it out into the hands of the public, and the retrocomputing scene has used them to develop replicas of these rare machines. [Wrangler] used one to then develop the software needed for the MPEG layer 2 and 3 decoder using this extra hardware, since the original Amiga 3000 was not powerful enough on its own to play these files back.
If you want to follow along with the community still developing for this platform there’s a form post with some more detail for this specific build (although you may need to translate from German). [Wrangler] additionally points out that there are some limitations with this implementation as well, so you likely won’t get Winamp-level performance with this system, but for the Amiga fans out there it’s an excellent expansion of this computer’s capabilities nonetheless.
Thanks to [Andy] for the tip!

Soundspear SuperlimitPreview (YouTube): https://youtu.be/Pun_C7LAYdU Product Page & Demo download: https://soundspear.com/product/superlimit Superlimit redefines dynamic control by integrating classic analog warmth with modern precision. This limiter adds rich harmonic content, giving your tracks that sought-after glow and musical character. Its advanced lookahead architecture with signal ballistics ensures zero hard clipping and delivers remarkably smooth limiting transitions, preserving the natural dynamics of your audio. Read More

Get Unfiltered Audio’s TRIAD Multi-Band FX Plugin for only $10
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Klaus Scheuermann releases FREE PodcastPlugins bundle for Speech Enhancement
Klaus Scheuermann has released PodcastPlugins, a free plugin bundle designed to simplify speech processing for podcasters on Windows, macOS, and Linux. As regular BPB readers might know, I’m always interested in plugins designed with a specific purpose in mind, or as I like to call them, specialty plugins. While all-purpose EQs, compressors, and limiters are [...]
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Industry exec sounds alarm on Ledger phishing letter delivered by USPSScammers posing as Ledger, a hardware wallet manufacturer, are sending physical letters to crypto users instructing them to "validate" their wallets or risk losing access to funds, in the latest phishing attack to impact the industry.BitGo CEO Mike Belshe shared a picture of the scam letter, which featured a QR code, presumably linked to a malicious phishing site. The letter was sent through the United States Postal Service (USPS), according to the executive."These are all scams do not fall for any of these," Troy Lindsey wrote after receiving a copy of the phishing letter. A copy of the scam Phishing letter. Source: Mike BelsheCointelegraph reached out to Ledger for comment but was unable to obtain a response by the time of publication.This phishing attempt highlights the ever-evolving complexity and tactics of social engineering scams designed to steal crypto private keys, user funds, and other sensitive data from unsuspecting victims.Related: Hackers using fake Ledger Live app to steal seed phrases and drain cryptoCoinbase and crypto users hit hard by phishing attacks in 2025In April 2025, $330 million in Bitcoin (BTC) was stolen from an elderly individual through a phishing attack, onchain detective ZackXBT confirmed in an April 30 X post."Two suspects in the $330 million heist include 'Nina/Mo' — a Somalian who operates a call scam center in Camden, UK — and an accomplice 'W0rk,' who assisted with the site and call," the onchain security analyst said in an update.On May 15, crypto exchange Coinbase announced it was the target of a ransom attempt after customer service contractors, who were later fired by the company, leaked user data to threat actors.The scammers demanded a $20 million ransom, which Coinbase refused to pay, and the stolen data included names, addresses, contact information, and a limited amount of other sensitive account data belonging to a small subset of Coinbase customers.No private keys, login credentials, or accesses to Coinbase Prime accounts were compromised during the leak, according to the exchange.TechCrunch founder Michael Arrington was highly critical of the exchange for the security failure, arguing that it will lead to physical violence against customers exposed in the hack.Magazine: Crypto-Sec: Phishing scammer goes after Hedera users, address poisoner gets $70K

A Presence-sensing drive for Securely Storing Secrets
When we hear about flash drives in the context of cybersecurity, we tend to think of them more as threats than as targets. When you’re using flash drives to store encryption keys, however, it makes sense to pay more attention to their security. [Juergen] designed the PECKUS (Presence Enforcing Crypto-Key USB-Storage) with this specifically in mind: a few-kilobyte storage device that only unlocks if the owner’s Bluetooth device is in the vicinity.[Juergen] needed to store an infrequently-used keyfile on an air-gapped system, and commercial encrypted flash drives were rather expensive and left much to be desired in terms of usability. Instead, he designed a CircuitPython custom firmware for MakerDiary’s nRF52840 micro development kit, which provided a BLE-capable system in the form of a USB dongle.After flashing the firmware to the board, the user sets it up with a particular Bluetooth device and a file to be stored; after writing the file during setup, it cannot be rewritten. Before reading from the device, the user must pair the previously-set device with the board and press a button on the board, and only then does the device appear to the computer.The limited amount of storage space means that this device will probably only serve its intended purpose, but in those cases, it’ll be handy to have an open-source and inexpensive protected storage device. [Juergen] notes that attackers could theoretically defeat this system by desoldering the microcontroller from the board and extracting the memory contents from the its storage, but if you have enemies that resourceful, you probably won’t be relying on a $20 board anyways. We’ve previously seen a few flashdrives cross these pages, including one meant to self-destruct, and one made from a rejected microSD card.

Amazound Motion Synths Designed from scratch on the Supernova II and the XV5080, these two synths have a common character, to generate rich motion textures, synths and pads that can fill and create spaces with the touch of a few keys. This collection captures that particular characteristic on 68 exclusive sounds. Great for ambient, cinematic, sci-fi and any track that demands complex textures but played in a simple way. The library includes a selection of patches for the Native Instruments Kontakt Sampler. All instruments are multi-sample recorded at a crystal clear 24-bit stereo quality with more than 1GB of audio data. Each patch was carefully edited to take the most expressive touch possible. In addition to the Kontakt instruments you can use every WAV sample included in this library with any other compatible virtual or hardware sampler capable to load WAV files.. Each Kontakt program has 62 automatable knob and switches to tweak most common parameters and effects as you can see in the pictures. https://soundcloud.com/amazound/motion-synths-demo-kontakt-mpc-expansion-soundfonts-reason-refill-motif-modx-moxf-montage Patch list 01 MOTION PAD 1 02 SOFT SYNTH 1 03 PULSATING 1 04 SOFT SYNTH 2 05 MOTION PAD 2 06 MOTION PAD 3 07 MOTION SYNTH 1 08 MOTION SYNTH 2 09 FAST MOTION 10 SLOW MOTION 1 11 SLOW MOTION 2 12 SLOW MOTION 3 13 MOTION PAD 4 14 MOTION PAD 5 15 MOTION PAD 6 16 MOTION VOX 17 GLIDE MOTION 1 18 GLIDE MOTION 2 19 MOTION SYNTH 3 20 MOTION SYNTH 4 21 PULSATING 2 22 MOTION PAD 7 23 MOTION PAD 8 24 HARSH MOTION 25 MOTION SYNTH 5 26 MOTION SYNTH 6 27 MOTION SYNTH 7 28 DETUNED MOTION 1 29 DETUNED MOTION 2 30 PULSATING 3 31 PULSATING 4 32 MOTION SYNTH 8 33 MOTION SYNTH 9 34 PULSATING 5 35 MOTION PAD 9 36 SOFT SYNTH 3 37 SOFT SYNTH 4 38 SOFT SYNTH 5 39 SOFT SYNTH 6 40 MOTION SYNTH 10 41 MOTION SYNTH 11 42 SLOW MOTION 4 43 SLOW MOTION 5 44 MOTION THINGS 45 PULSE MOTION 46 ACID MOTION 47 MOTION BITS 48 MOTION THING 1 49 MOTION THING 2 50 MOTION PAD 10 51 MOTION PAD 11 52 MOTION SYNTH 12 53 MOTION SYNTH 13 54 MOTION WAVES 1 55 MOTION WAVES 2 56 MOTION WAVES 3 57 GLASS MOTION 58 STEEL MOTION 59 DARK MOTION 1 60 DARK MOTION 2 61 ORGEL MOTION 62 GLIDE MOTION 3 63 GLIDE MOTION 4 64 GLASSY MOTION 65 MOTION PAD 12 66 MOTION SYNTH 14 67 DUMPED MOTION 68 SHADOW MOTION Specifications Minimum Requirements 68 Exclusive NKI Presets. 501 WAV Samples (44.1hz, 24-bit stereo format). 1.06 GB Library. Sounds sampled from real hardware (Supernova II, XV5080). Studio grade quality sample content. 62 automatable knobs and switches. Amp envelope with 5 stages. Multimode filter: LP, BP, HP. 1 assignable LFO with multi waveforms. Modulation and velocity controls. Sample start with random assignment. 6 full customizable effects: Hall reverb, delay, chorus, phaser, rotary speaker, distortion. Mac OS X 10.11 or higher. Windows 7 or higher 4GB of RAM, 8GB recommended. Kontakt 5 full or higher (Free Kontakt Player not supported). Works in standalone mode or within any DAW capable to run Kontakt. Read More

Why a new anti-revenge porn law has free speech experts alarmed The newly signed Take It Down Act makes it illegal to publish nonconsensual explicit images – real or AI-generated – and gives platforms just 48 hours to comply with a victim’s takedown request or face liability. While widely praised as a long-overdue win for victims, experts warn its vague language, lax standards for verifying claims, and tight compliance window could pave the way for overreach, censorship of legitimate content, and even surveillance. 

Music Business News Last Week: Spotify, Mental Health, MoreA busy week by any definition, and music business news last week was no exception, with Spotify stock sales, a ticket resale survey, radio stats, quantum computing meets music and more.
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Independent Musician News Last Week: Bandcamp, Playlists, MoreLast week, our tips, advice and independent musician news last week covered a Bandcamp upgrade, how website improvements increase revenue, 2025 playlist marketing updates, and more...
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CB Electronics introduce the ER-MicAmp The latest addition to the ER-Range is a preamp module that offers a way to integrate mic, line-level and instrument signals into a Eurorack setup.

How Oliver (Kim Petras, Chromeo) makes his signature drum loops
Oliver (Kim Petras, Chromeo) opens up his Ableton Live session to give us an exclusive inside look into how he makes his signature drum loops.