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Yeah. So it seems like him and his wife got kidnapped, which is, you know, horrifying. At the time when this was first coming out, there was lots of conflicting stories. There was actually stories about different people at Ledger that had been kidnapped, so there was clearly a lot of confusion going around. But, it turns out that it was an individual called David Balland. Actually quite an unfortunate name. Sorry to to make light of this, but David Balland. Yeah. Well, it's Balland. Balland. Oh, okay. B a, double l, a n d. That's really insensitive. I apologize.

Lawmakers in El Salvador have reneged on the Bitcoin legal tender status after securing a big wad of cash from the IMF. So this is quite sad to see, really, because I'm sure there's many people that have moved to El Salvador probably with big fat stashes of Bitcoin thinking, oh, I can go and live the good life over there. And people you know, I can spend it literally everywhere because it's legal tender. And that is no longer the case. Basically, it's still able to be spent voluntarily. But, obviously, that means that, you know, if a merchant doesn't wanna accept it, they're no longer legally obliged to to do so. So it might significantly kneecap your ability to spend Bitcoin in the country.

Ross is out. He's free. And I know this seems a bit weird for us to bring up now because the previous show two weeks ago was called Ross is free. For context, the reason that was we recorded morning UK time when America was still asleep and Trump hadn't given his pardon to Ross, so we were still speculating. The show was then released two days later on the Wednesday, by which time the pardon had been passed. So we had enough time to change the name, but obviously not the content of the show. So, yes, Ross is free. Long, long overdue. Made me extremely happy, and there's been some really emotional tweets come out from his account.