$BTC $ETH $SOL On October 3, 2023, in the Federal Court in Manhattan, New York, Sam Bankman-Fried stood up from his seat and turned to a group of strangers who might decide his fate. He wore a dark suit, and his once-signature messy curls had been cut short. Judge Lewis Kaplan introduced the 31-year-old defendant, who founded a cryptocurrency exchange called FTX and now faces seven counts of fraud and conspiracy. Eleven months ago, he was the most watched young billionaire in the crypto industry; on this day, he sat in the defendant's chair. The date needs to be clearly distinguished. Jury selection began on October 3, 2023, marking the official start of the criminal trial; opening statements from the prosecution and defense took place on October 4. New York was observing daylight saving time at the time, 12 hours behind Taiwan, so the daytime court session still corresponded to October 3 in Taiwan, with no cross-day issue. Reuters' case timeline and the AP on-site report both recorded the trial start date as October 3. Most of the first day was spent selecting jurors. The judge asked each candidate whether they had heard of FTX, owned cryptocurrency, had investment losses, and whether they could set aside preconceived notions. Some said they had lost money in crypto investments; one man said his twin brother suffered severe losses, and his life was almost ruined because of it. The court needed to find 12 official jurors and 6 alternates to decide over the coming weeks one thing: the collapse of FTX was ultimately caused by

$xAAPL $AAPL In 1985, thirty-year-old Steve Jobs left Apple. Nine years earlier, he, along with Steve Wozniak and Ron Wayne, signed partnership documents to turn a computer motherboard into a company; nine years later, the board supported CEO John Sculley, whom Jobs had personally recruited, and Jobs lost actual control of the Macintosh division. He later described this experience very frankly in a Stanford speech: he was fired from the company he had founded. That was one of Silicon Valley's most humiliating failures. The company was still there, the name was still there, the products were still there, but the founder was left outside. Jobs once didn’t know what to do next and sold almost all of his Apple stock. The following eleven years did not immediately prove he was right. The NeXT computer was expensive and had limited sales, Pixar burned money for a long time, and Jobs’ management style continued to hurt people. He spent large amounts of capital and came close to success several times. At the end of 1996, the struggling Apple decided to acquire NeXT. Regulatory filings showed the total transaction price was about $424 million. The software technology Apple bought also sent Jobs back to the company he had been kicked out of. This time, he brought back an operating system, a stake in an animation company, over a decade of failure experience, and a clearer method of making choices. Before fame: an adopted child growing up between a garage and fonts Steve Paul Jobs was born in 1955

$ETH is a traditional money market fund, usually hidden between subscription forms, custodian accounts, valuation systems, and bank transfers. Investors submit instructions, fund managers verify identities, registrars update shares, and custodians reconcile funds. Each company has its own ledger, and the same transaction may be recorded multiple times. On October 2, 2023, UBS Asset Management began trying a different approach: writing fund shares into Ethereum smart contracts. On that day, UBS announced the launch of the first tokenized variable capital company fund pilot. It is a money market fund and also a real asset tokenization experiment under the Monetary Authority of Singapore's Project Guardian framework. The pilot uses UBS's self-built Tokenize platform, with smart contracts deployed on the Ethereum public blockchain, and the first batch of transactions has been completed. There is no cross-time zone dispute about the date. UBS's official page records it as October 2, 2023; Singapore and Taiwan are both in UTC+8; the page shows Central European Summer Time 03:00, which converts to 9 a.m. Taiwan time on the same day. This pilot first tests fund subscriptions and redemptions. When investors subscribe, the system can generate tokens representing fund shares according to set conditions; after redemption is completed, the corresponding tokens are canceled, and share records are updated accordingly. The smart contract links fund movements, share changes, and transaction records, reducing repeated file transfers and manual reconciliations between different systems. These tokens also have not turned the money market fund into one that can be freely

$BTC On October 1, 2021, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele posted a screenshot of a mining account on social media. The numbers on the screen were small: 0.00483976 BTC marked as "pending payment," and another 0.00599179 BTC as "expected to be mined," totaling 0.01083155 BTC, worth just over 500 USD at the time. For a country, this income is not even enough to cover many government meeting expenses. However, its significance far exceeds the amount itself. Bukele later wrote that the equipment was still being tested and installed, but this was the first batch of Bitcoin officially mined by the "volcano node." This made El Salvador the first government to publicly use national geothermal facilities for Bitcoin mining. x.com The date is undisputed. Bukele's original post, local media, and international reports all record it as October 1, 2021; The Block published a report at 04:27 Eastern Time on the same day, corresponding to 4:27 PM Taiwan time, also October 1. The Block's so-called "volcano mining" does not mean placing mining machines inside a volcano. Underground rock layers heat water sources, producing steam or high-temperature fluids, which geothermal power plants use to drive turbines to generate electricity. After the power is connected to ASIC miners, the equipment continuously performs hash calculations, competing with miners worldwide for the right to record new blocks and earn Bitcoin rewards. The volcano provides heat energy, and the miners complete the computations, "Volcanode"

On April 13, 1953, the Galería de Arte Contemporáneo in Mexico City held the only solo exhibition of Frida Kahlo's life in Mexico. Doctors had ordered her to rest in bed, and her friends thought the star of the show would have to be absent. After the exhibition opened, an ambulance stopped outside. Kahlo was carried into the gallery on a stretcher and laid on a four-poster bed that had been set up in advance. She wore vibrant Mexican clothing, drank, sang, and told jokes from the bed, surrounded by paintings of spines, blood, plants, miscarriages, marriage, and her own face. This attendance carried a heavy reality. Her body had severely deteriorated, and her right leg was amputated below the knee due to gangrene a few months later. The bed in the gallery was both a stage and the boundary of her real life. At that time, Kahlo was forty-five years old, had held exhibitions in New York and Paris, and the French government had collected her works; yet in her own country, she was still often introduced as the wife of muralist Diego Rivera. She did not wait for her body to recover, nor did she wait for art history to assign her a central place. She brought the bed into the exhibition hall and personally attended under her own name. Seventy-three years later, she has long since moved beyond that sickbed. In 2025, "The Dream (Bed)" sold for $54.66 million, setting a public auction record for a female artist's work; in 2026, Tate Modern held a major exhibition discussing how she transformed from a painter into a global cultural and commercial icon. Her compound interest is full of contradictions: pain turned into works, works turned into recognition, recognition

$ETH $USDT On September 30, 2021, at 9:38 AM, a transaction was recorded on Ethereum. The initiator neither deposited a large amount of funds into Compound nor took on a corresponding scale of borrowing, yet received about 91,000 COMP from the protocol. At that time, it was worth approximately $27 million, with a gas fee of only about $155. This was not an attacker secretly modifying the ledger. The smart contract checked the conditions and then, according to its own code, normally issued the tokens. A few hours earlier, Compound had just executed Governance Proposal No. 62. Compound is an on-chain lending protocol. Users can deposit assets like ETH and USDC to earn interest, or borrow funds by collateralizing assets. To attract depositors and borrowers, the protocol also issues COMP governance tokens as rewards. Previously, COMP rewards for each market were fixed, split evenly between suppliers and borrowers. Proposal No. 62 aimed to make this mechanism more flexible, allowing the community to set reward speeds separately for both sides, while also fixing several issues left by the old version. The proposal received 729,781 votes in favor and zero against, then was executed after a time lock. Unfortunately, the new Comptroller contract introduced a reward calculation bug. Addresses that interacted with markets like cTUSD, cMKR, cSUSHI, cYFI, cAAVE, and cSAI began accumulating COMP far beyond normal levels. There is a time zone difference regarding the incident date. Co