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Rep. Mike Haridopolos on the CLARITY Act: "This is about the future currency and the world, and making sure American markets are the premiere markets in the world."

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Clarity Act "is at the 1-yard line" amid talks with lawmakers to advance the bill.

"If you're building the most important machine since the Manhattan Project, don't be surprised when the government decides it's a public good." -nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

We discuss: ⚡ The coming AI nationalization ⚡ The new choke point wars ⚡ Bitcoin's most bullish chart

"The combined sum of it can be better than the top five most valuable company in the world. A trillion dollar organization with 40 years of history... and still the crack kid from Poland can beat them." - DHH

"I'm not in the market for a better product. I'm in the market for the product I already bought. I want the shitty thing I already have because I know all the ways it is broken." - DHH

"If you have unlimited time, unlimited money, and unlimited people, you're going to build a blob."

DHH on why constraints make great software and unlimited resources produce blobs.

Sen. Lummis: “90% of the spot market is overseas. 80% of the digital asset futures market is overseas.”

“I don’t know if they understand how significant this would be if the CLARITY act failed and we allowed this industry… to grow overseas.”

"You can't have a truly capitalist system if the most important tool used to coordinate economic activity is centrally controlled."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy & nostr:npub1ath4je07y7py74nvu044fum3f8hz3exc3dtcv782qg94w5gaddusl74k6d on why the income inequality blame is pointed at the wrong system, and why Bitcoin fixes it.

"Bitcoin and the stock market are on a collision course. In 10-15 years, they'll cross, and everyone will have to choose between chasing fiat or going back to the castle."

nostr:npub1ath4je07y7py74nvu044fum3f8hz3exc3dtcv782qg94w5gaddusl74k6d breaks down Bitcoin's power trend vs exponential growth.

Frieberg's Netscape/Apache analogy, if the internet had been locked behind proprietary gates, it never would have taken off.

Open-source AI means value diffuses to a million businesses instead of two or three companies.

Anthropic pirated 7 million books from LibGen to train Claude and maintains the right to train on all the world's output under fair use. But when Chinese companies look at their model's outputs, suddenly it's IP theft.

Sacks: "They themselves never claimed it was IP theft because they know it would poison all of their fair use lawsuits."

"If you really care about distillation, you implement KYC."

Chamath on Anthropic pushing the government to restrict open-source competitors.

"We don't live in a truly capitalist society when the most important tool in a capitalist society, money, is centralized."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy on why Gen Z's anger is aimed at the wrong target. We don't have late-stage capitalism. We have socialism light.

"They created the perpetual future contract, never got hacked, never lost user funds, and may have saved Bitcoin from going to zero on March 12, 2020."

BitMEX is shutting down September 23rd. nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and (ODELLXYZ) pour one out. End of an era.

Sen. Dave McCormick on FOX urges action on the Clarity Act: “The bottom line is it’s time to move… there’s been negotiations around ethics language… we need to get this to the floor and vote on it… I think this is the time to play offense.”

Elon Musk rejects "far right" label from reporter: "We should have secure borders, safe cities, and sensible spending. Which of those 3 are 'far right?'"

He calls the media characterization "FALSE, MISLEADING, and NONSENSE."

White House Executive Director on CLARITY Act: "We are doing our best to answer every one of the issues that Democrats have raised in a good faith way..I'm trying to get creative to find solutions to achieve the objectives that they want."

Marc Andreessen: “This is the grand unification of AI and crypto. I think AI is the killer crypto app… It’s now obvious that AI agents are going to need money. It’s already happening.”

President Trump: "We're leading China and every other country by a lot in AI and just about every other category, including crypto. We want to stay in front in crypto."

Patrick McHenry says the CLARITY Act is "getting closer to the finish line" but questions remain in the Senate.

David Friedberg: The greatest lie of the 20th century was putting all your net worth in your home.

"When you do that, then the only way to keep Americans wealthy and to keep the middle class stable is to keep the price of homes going up, because that’s the only asset."

Jensen: "It is made up that there's going to be a singularity. It's made up that we're living in a simulation. These are all made ups."

Jensen on the Kimi selloff: "Free AI should be great for hardware. Free AI should be great for chips. Free AI should be great for data centers. The market just got it wrong. They got it wrong with DeepSeek, this is exactly the same thing."

Asked when the AI bubble will pop, Jensen says: "The bubble will come someday. It's just not today. It's very unlikely in the next five years."

Then explains why physical constraints on building actually protect against overinvestment.

Jensen on OpenAI & Anthropic: "These two companies will be the most successful IPOs in human history. How is it possible that two companies that are only a few years old are worth $1 trillion?"

Jensen Huang: "The fact that AI is going to be the end of humanity, it's complete nonsense. The fact that it's going to destroy half of American jobs, complete nonsense. All of the evidence points exactly to the opposite."

David Friedberg: AI job-theft narrative is "bullshit."

"I don't say it's bullshit to dismiss people's anxiety. I say it's bullshit to be truthful about the facts... Since 1963, mathematician, statistician, and accounting jobs all went up."

Travis Kalanick on the surprising hurdles of physical automation: "The hardest thing we do on food is actually put a bowl in a paper bag. Paper bags are not as standardized as you think... it's hard."

Tucker Carlson name-drops $GME in his latest "Energy Crisis" video, citing it as an example of stock market manipulation.

Kimi K3 just discovered a 0day in the latest Redis server and exploited it in 27 minutes using 32 agents.

Then it found a zero-click arbitrary command execution in Telegram Desktop and iOS. AI models are now autonomously finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure faster than human security teams can patch them. https://blossom.primal.net/a8fc44c2f0daf7bd06791aee79fe169ed63c70d5ab7a291d91f71f5de5a82cbf.jpg

"The US has structural fiscal deficits locked in by demographics and political polarization. The Fed has limited tools here. The reason hawkish monetary policy worked in the 70s is because debt to GDP was 35%. Now it's over 100%." - nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a

Bloomberg Intelligence gives the CLARITY Act a 60% chance of passing, calling it “at the one-yard line” after positive comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent.

"Capital gains tax should be 40%, not 15%. Labor should pay less. Capital should pay more. That would be a fair tax policy." - david friedberg

"If you had put all the extra money in Social Security since 1982 into the S&P 500, the trust fund would have an extra $37 trillion today."

david friedberg on the policy failure that left the bottom 50% behind.

Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Clarity Act is ready for a full Senate floor vote, calling it a bipartisan breakthrough that would establish the first comprehensive federal framework for digital assets.

"Napoleon would go back to the tent after the most intense fighting in history and dictate a letter about building a bridge in rural France. That is what these agents allow us to do. Multiply human agency." - Conner Brown

"Bitcoin is probably the most liquidity sensitive asset on the planet. Liquidity is losing momentum."

Michael Howell on why Bitcoin and gold are already signaling the cycle has turned.

"I don't believe there's a four-year cycle in Bitcoin. I think there's a 5 to 6 year liquidity cycle."

Michael Howell says the cycle is driven by average global debt maturity, not halvings.

"We were the first to put all the pieces together. The Party for Socialism and Liberation are functioning as important organizers in a lot of these debates."

Conner Brown on tracing foreign-linked dark money behind anti-data center activism across America.

"This was the first time I walked into a briefing. They had read our report cover to cover."

Conner Brown on briefing Taiwan's central bank after BPI's Bitcoin reserve paper went viral in their legislature.

CNBC on CLARITY Act progress: “There was a reported agreement yesterday between Republicans and The White House on ethics..as far as I've heard Democrats were not privy to this..they still have concerns..these next few weeks are critical.”

TFTC 773 w/ Conner Brown: "The first time I walked into a central bank briefing, they had read our Bitcoin report cover to cover and taken extensive notes."

We discuss: ⚡ Taiwan's central bank ⚡ The silicon shield ⚡ Open source vs China

"CEOs have no clue what is going on. None whatsoever."

Mark Cuban on why enterprise AI is way harder than anyone expected. "By definition you should just be able to ask AI to do what you need. Yet Microsoft is hiring 6,000 people."

"There's going to be a lot of data centers that are going to be turned into pickleball courts."

Mark Cuban on the AI bubble and why tech breakthroughs will do to data centers what fiber optics did to bandwidth.

Joe Kent on Israeli intelligence being candid in private.

"Candidly, if it was one-on-one, their intelligence guys with our intelligence guys, they would say 'now is the time for us to take down the regime.'"

Joe Kent reveals he proposed removing US air defense systems from Israel to prevent the 12-day war.

"We remove some of the air defense features that we give the Israelis... if you attack, we're not going to defend you." Nobody wanted to touch it.

Axon wants to turn 60 million US streetlights into AI-powered surveillance cameras.

"Now streetlights can do more than light the street, they can protect it." They call it Lightpost. Plugs into the existing socket. License plate readers, live streaming video, edge processing.

Sen. Kevin Cramer on the CLARITY Act: "I think we're almost there. We have to get this done, in my view, before the August recess."

"The big story here is the structural change to Bitcoin. It's credit being built on top of Bitcoin. It's instruments getting systemically plugged into how the world works." - Jeff Walton

"We're not waiting for people to find Bitcoin anymore. We're creating the right products to deliver to them where they are today." - Strive's Ben Workman

"You buy a car with your heartstrings. You buy a truck with a calculator. It's pure dollars and cents."

Applied Intuition co-founder on why self-driving trucks are a totally different beast than consumer autonomy.

"Nobody wants to be a truck driver. Why? Because it's a terrible job."

Applied Intuition co-founder says the "AI taking jobs" narrative misses the point entirely.

Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire on CNBC: "Once the GENIUS ACT goes into effect in January, every major institution, every major bank, every capital markets firm, payments companies, enterprises, can all now build on this infrastructure."

"It's 37 lines of code, it expires in 12 months, and if some unknown unknown occurs, all of it becomes available again in September 2027."

nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr argues BIP-110 isn't the existential threat critics make it out to be.

"Even if you're super bearish on open source's impact on frontier labs, what you're looking at is just another line item on the federal budget. Someone's going to be spending that money."

nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on why AI training spend goes up no matter what.

"Hugging Face got hit by an autonomous AI attack. They tried using Fable 5 and ChatGPT to defend against it. Both refused. They had to download GLM 5.2 locally to run the security audit."

nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 & nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy on why you can't cuck the models and expect to win.

A dev just rebuilt the government war room and put it on GitHub.

Live 3D globe, 500+ news feeds, military movements, shipping lanes, flight paths, 56 map layers. Runs locally with no API keys.

"The Strait of Hormuz was called out in the national security strategy last year as a key priority. A tinfoil-hat theorist might say this was the outcome certain parties wanted." -nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

We discuss: ⚡ War & oil ⚡ The Fed blinks ⚡ AI arms race

"There's no malice. The commanding officers want to do good. But the 'do good' is to spend more. The system is designed to make you consume and spend over and over again."

(avg_gary) on the perverse incentives baked into every level of government.

"The exploitative and extractive nature that we play on the global scale is only going to be challenged if we are getting more immigrants into office."

Democratic Socialist Melat Kiros says the quiet part out loud.

Robot dogs are learning to weld.

There's a 400,000 welder shortage in the US and the average welder is 55 years old. (PathRobotics) is deploying robots to fill the gap.

"Build the citadel. Learn to farm. Run the meetup. Buy goats from Billy."

(avg_gary) on how bitcoiners win by building parallel economies that make the old system irrelevant.

Coinbase Vice Chair on CNBC talking about the CLARITY Act: "The Democrats have obtained meaningful concessions to make what was already a strong consumer protection bill, THAT much stronger."

"We were sent to fight for the nation, but it was really for the people printing the money."

(avg_gary) on why veterans are turning to bitcoin as a peaceful weapon against the war machine.

Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo: "The biggest misconception was that crypto was seen as tokens, memes. The real contributions... It is faster, it is cheaper... you can trade stocks 24/7 internationally."

"$90,000 into a kid's account becomes $13 million. That's the power of compounding. It goes into the S&P 500 and it can't be sold. It's an unstoppable passive bid."

Mel Mattison breaks down how Trump accounts create a permanent bid under equities.

"Every single hyperscaler could pay off every dollar of debt they've raised within 2 quarters. If AI fails, there's no threat to their moats. So what's the risk?"

Mel Mattison on why the AI bear case makes no sense.

"If I raise rates, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna hurt housing. That's gonna hurt construction spending. That's gonna hurt Joe Schmo American. Is it gonna stop OpenAI from spending? No, it's not."

Mel Mattison on why rate hikes only punish the average person.

"Every single time our attorneys told us 'just don't mention crypto,' you'll be persona non grata. There was no law prohibiting it. It was just a stance because regulators were in the back pockets of the big banks."

Mel Mattison on how rigged the game was.

"If AI actually has a use case, even if it is open-source models, it still requires compute. It still requires the hardware. It still requires memory."

Mel Mattison on why the AI bears are dead wrong about demand.

Flock cameras aren't just reading plates, video shows one actively scanning nearby phones via Bluetooth.

Towns in CT are ripping them out over privacy fears after massive third-party data access.

TFTC 771 w/ Mel Mattison: "We'll hit forty trillion in debt within months. How can you look at the dollar and not want to own gold, Bitcoin, and silver?"

We discuss: ⚡ The real money printer isn't the Fed ⚡ Why Warsh can't stop it ⚡ The four-year cycle bottoms in October

"The critical infrastructure, the rails that the Fed runs, should be available to those that can comply with our rules and regulations. This is a public good."

Fed Chair Warsh on skinny master accounts.

.(ODELLXYZ) with a classic: met a guy at a wedding, talked Bitcoin for 3.5 hours, became instant best friends. Then realized he was a B-casher.

"The 1% divide is the largest divide in the world."

"There's a farmer in Texas that's reporting since the data center was up and operational, he hasn't had a live birth in two years."

Erin Brockovich says AI data centers are impacting livestock, wildlife, and the environment.

"You start pissing off the moms, you better look out."

Erin Brockovich on what happens when communities organize against data centers in their backyards.

"I didn't vote for Meta or Google to own the water."

Erin Brockovich claims AI data centers are draining America's water supply while communities are kept in the dark.

"Their whole strategy is to get people to not buy Bitcoin, but to buy their stock instead."

nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw breaks down the broken incentive structure behind Bitcoin treasury companies.

Rep. Bryan Steil on the Clarity Act: "I'm optimistic that we get this across the line next week in the United States Senate."

Rep. Timmons: "The CLARITY Act is incredibly important in maintaining the U.S. economy as the center of the global economy."

"We're on the 1 yard line, we just gotta score the touchdown."

Steve Keen fires back at O'Leary: "China's been far more effective at dragging people out of poverty AND is whipping America's industrial ass."

O'Leary: "It's still the only country on Earth where people will risk their lives drowning under barbed wire in a river to get into."

O'Leary on AI warfare: "They will be tenderized constantly. Every data center built going forward in the US is going to have to give up at least 20% of its capacity to the US government."

OpenAI's Head of Compute: "We believe the world of recursion is not that far where AI will design the systems it needs to train and run the next generation of AI, including chips."

Joe Lonsdale on China going from a fraction to over a third of new therapeutics by stealing US IP.

The stat that kills: pre-IND approval in China takes 90 days. In the US it takes over 700 days. "We have to accelerate this if we're going to compete."

Palantir co-founder Joe Lonsdale: "The primes have congressional districts locked down. They automatically get the contract even if their stuff sucks because it's a jobs program. It's not about deterring our enemies."

Me when someone says they're waiting for bitcoin to drop back to $30k.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "AI is going to let small business compete with big business. A business that used to take 10 people to start, you can start with one or two."

Bessent: 90% of precursor chemicals for our medicines come from China.

"We worshiped efficiency and gave up resiliency, we wanted consumption but didn't focus on production."

.Jeffrey P. Snider says Marx's predictions map perfectly onto current lived experience, endstage capitalism, exploiting workers, housing unaffordable until 40.

And why it's actually a cyclical pattern, not the endgame.

Kalshi now letting you bet on whether a drug passes clinical trials.

We've gone from "prediction markets are a revolutionary information tool" to "place your bets on whether grandma's cancer drug gets approved."

"China subsidized factories. We subsidized bank bailouts and $3 trillion to take Afghanistan from the Taliban and give it back to the Taliban." - Luke Gromen

"The Chinese said, 'We'll send you silk. We'll take some ceramics. But you don't make anything else we want. We'll take bullion.' History is repeating."

Luke Gromen on China running the exact same playbook it ran against Britain in the 1760s.

"We took the inflationary hose off our front porch and stuffed it in through our own basement window."

Luke Gromen on why US inflation got so bad when foreign central banks stopped buying treasuries.

"Gold can go to a million and nothing gets hurt."

Luke Gromen argues gold is the only asset that can rebalance global trade without breaking the world.

"Europe is the global center of beauty, which is really meaningful to me. Things that are beautiful are worth preserving. Why would you want that to be destroyed?"

Tucker Carlson says America first means doubling down on Europe as an ally.

"You cannot allow a country of 9 million to make decisions that are critical to a country of 350 million. That's against nature. It's wrong. And it's against America's interest, as this war is."

Tucker Carlson to The Economist.

Tucker Carlson: "No one's even arguing that Iran's nuclear program posed such a threat that we had to launch a full-scale war... This war is clearly contrary to what he promised and contrary to the idea that your leaders should put your interests before those of foreigners."

"How can you not be inspired to be brave when you hear about Beowulf showing up and saying 'You got a problem? I'll solve it.' No heading that says 'Today's lesson is about courage.' No worksheet at the end."

(jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on living books vs dead textbooks.

BlackRock CEO Larry Fink tells CNBC: Bitcoin now has "more stability at these levels" and he's "very bullish on the market over the next 12 months."

"The rabbit hole dwellers, the system thinkers who go against the grain? They're already here. What's left is people who don't think like us. Shouting about sovereignty on Twitter is falling on deaf ears."

Brandon Quittem on why the next wave won't look like the last one.

"There's a world where Bitcoiners get rich and the protocol is totally neutered. We'll be telling our grandkids a tragic story where we fumbled the greatest opportunity to take money away from the state ever."

Brandon Quittem on Bitcoin's third generation curse.

"Juniors in high school. 'What's a noun?' Crickets. They can decode a sentence but can't tell you what it means. All processing, no thinking. Spreadsheet brain."

(jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on what's really broken in American education.

"No dollar says Republican or Democrat on it."

Nick shirley testifying before the Senate on the billions in healthcare fraud he's helped expose.

JD Vance on going to a Christmas party in downtown LA.

Convoluted directions to avoid Skid Row. Armed guards, fancy wine inside, squalor outside. "This reminds me of going to the US embassy in Port-au-Prince, Haiti."

Joe Rogan and JD Vance question election integrity.

"I'm not skeptical. I'm accusing them. I think they stole the election." "Do you think other races are incapable of going to the DMV? That's insane. It's actually super racist."

CDC Director Nominee Dr. Erica Schwartz: “I believe mRNA technology is safe and effective.”

"All you heard for 20 years was STEM. Now LLMs write the code. The skills that actually matter are the humanities skills we left behind."

(jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on what actually works in children's education.

You have all these great ideas, all these great things you want to do, but you don't have the tenacity. You don't have the courage to go out and try. You end up just drifting through life."

(jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on what education gets wrong.

.(TheBitcoinGirl_) reviews RadarChat after using it for a week.

Cyan Banister says Peter Thiel is the most misunderstood person in tech.

"He's operating 1,000 feet above everybody else. His mind is not like other minds. It's kinda like Elon. You don't know what to do with it, so it's just easier to hate it."

Rogan goes off on how the education system was literally designed to produce compliant workers, not curious humans.

If AI removes the need for that, we need to completely rethink what school is for.

Bostrom calls wage labor "slavery light," you sell a third of your waking life just to pay for necessities.

Rogan pushes back on the "AI takes all jobs" panic: "Do you have to have a job? Isn't that a human invention?"

Sacramento, CA, is now inspecting residents' curbside trash and recycling bins to ensure compliance with state sorting laws.

City crews will check proper separation of garbage, recyclables, and organics.

"They think it's too late. It's done a 100x so it's too late. They don't put in the time to understand it." - Adem Bilican

Retail chases whatever the neighbor made money on.

"They don't earn enough to finance their lives. Rent is going up, insurance is going up, coffee costs double what it did three years ago." - Adem Bilican

The European middle class is getting squeezed so hard they don't have the bandwidth for Bitcoin.

Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: America will be richer and more productive if the current AI cycle follows the positive trends of past technology revolutions.

Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh told Congress on Tuesday that AI is "the most significant change in our economy in my adult lifetime."

"It's a huge opportunity, but it also comes with risks and challenges."

Fed Chair Warsh says AI investment is growing so fast it will soon "just be called investment," with high-tech spending up nearly 25% in Q1 driven by data center construction and AI demand.

Fed Chair Warsh tells Congress the Fed has "no tolerance for persistently elevated inflation" and calls inflation "a choice" determined by monetary policy.

Senator Lummis on Clarity Act ethics rules: "We can't just legislate for one person… This needs to be something that will withstand the test of time."

Then reminds everyone Congress let Pelosi trade stocks while in office.

"Two government departments vying to run the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. That probably doesn't happen if this is either fully on ice or just completely irrelevant to them." - nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

"The bankers lobbying group sent a letter saying stop, pump the brakes. A few months later the OCC effectively said 'no, I don't think I will' and moved ahead with Circle and Kraken." - nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

"El-Erian frames everything Bessent laid out as permanent and systemic, not ad hoc. For this headline to be in the Times, there's some ideological pump priming going on." - nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

"What's interesting about both Strategy and Strive is they have dollar reserves that can hold them over from a dividend perspective without having to sell the Bitcoin. That should give folks more comfort." - (APompliano) on CNBC

"The charts are not looking great. You didn't get the same retrenchment anywhere close to pre-war levels and now we're back up moving much more meaningfully toward recent highs." - nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

"The ceasefire is dead, and there's no off ramp until one side blinks. The incentives on both sides are to keep this going and now Trump wants to be paid to guard the strait." - nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

We discuss: ⚡ 3 ships hit in 24 hours ⚡ The MOU is over ⚡ Nobody wants it to end

Former OpenAI researcher (DKokotajlo) on what happens when your AI timelines collapse.

"I used to be known as a pretty chipper and optimistic person." Then GPT-3 hit and he realized super intelligence was plausibly coming by end of decade.

"People believe what they need to believe in order to think that they're good people and that they need to keep doing what they're doing."

(DKokotajlo) on whether AI CEOs think there's a chance of extinction.

OpenAI's exit paperwork said (DKokotajlo) couldn't criticize the company or tell anyone about the clause. He refused to sign, nearly lost 80% of his net worth.

Sam Altman said he was "embarrassed he didn't know."

A Russian statesman in the 1890s observed that when you de-Christianize the state, you don't get liberty. You get another cult that runs the state.

"I've noticed that too." - Tucker Carlson

"Very wealthy families about a hundred years ago were able to buy off many of the mainline Protestant denominations and turn them into effectually NGOs."

(JayDyer) on how the Rockefellers invested in the World Council of Churches to make Christianity a form of soft power.

.(JayDyer) cites the Rothschild biography on wiring a million rubles to Lenin to make Russian Christians "pay for what they did for many centuries."

"No one's paid more dearly." - Tucker Carlson

Why Byzantium was the most successful empire in history, how it flourished on sound money, and fell when they started clipping the gold.

"If your civilization is logo-centric, you're aligned with what's true. You're just going to prosper." - (JayDyer) on Tucker Carlson

Waking up (Bitcoinbeach) in El Salvador.

Side-by-side test pits Muse Spark 1.1, Fable 5, GPT 5.6 Sol Pro, and Grok 4.5 against each other in generating 3D environments.

Cashu launches public beta of Cashu Me native wallet for iOS and Android with NFC tap-to-pay and Bitcoin support.

Adam Back on Bitcoin's quantum resistance: "There are solutions. We implemented it in liquid. Yesterday one of our researchers implemented it in the hardware wallet. It's more of a perception than a reality."

"Bitcoin is the hurdle rate. It's outperformed other asset classes over the long duration. If it converges to be savings technology that can preserve your spending power, that's actually quite useful." - Adam Back

Adam Back on first reading the Satoshi whitepaper.

"He solved the problem a lot of clever people had been knocking their heads against for about a decade."

Nick Shirley found a single-story building in Queens claiming 7,000 patients and billing $12M

Healthcare isn't broken, it's a racket running exactly as designed. Shirley keeps pulling threads the system hopes nobody touches.

Translating videos in real time as they play with GPT-Live.

"We got conditioned to think there wasn't a way to achieve privacy online. That's just not true. Signal feels like iMessage, no difference, and yet you get perfect message-level privacy."

nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g on breaking free from the surveillance conditioning.

"You can't dock code. Governments can shut us down, but you can download it and build it yourself. Now with AI, you just feed it into Claude and boom, it'll make you an app."

(vikrantnyc) and nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g on why the fight against freedom tech is futile.

"I'm not afraid. You can't comment on every little thing. They're always putting out the lure and the press goes running to it."

Jamie Dimon on why he doesn't chase every Trump headline.

Jamie Dimon on why Democrats lost, too far left, too anti-business, too much DEI.

Says the fix isn't better messaging, it's a real leader emerging who just says "this is what we're doing."

"We, business, made a mistake by not getting more involved earlier. I do not believe that the problems of society will be fixed by politicians alone."

Jamie Dimon says business leaders made a mistake by stepping back from public policy.

"Everyone's already in messaging apps, text, photos, docs. So why not money? Why can't Bitcoin flow through the same system?"

(vikrantnyc) on why Radar built Bitcoin payments into Signal instead of starting from scratch.

TFTC 769 w/ nostr:npub1tr4dstaptd2sp98h7hlysp8qle6mw7wmauhfkgz3rmxdd8ndprusnw2y5g & (vikrantnyc): "Everyone's already sending text, photos, and video through messaging apps. So why not money? We put self-custodial Bitcoin inside Signal & the genie's out of the bottle."

We discuss: ⚡ 150M users ⚡ Provably private ⚡ Self-custodial

Nick Shirley confronts staff at a Queens adult day care over records showing 7,899 billed members, amid $12.9M in 2024 taxpayer payments.

"It's a fork of Signal with self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning. All your chats and your entire network move along with it."

(ODELLXYZ) and nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy on Radar Chat.

"If you're not there, you automatically vote yes. This is getting brute forced through."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and (ODELLXYZ) on the EU sneaking chat control through while Parliament was on vacation.

"The industry has been cucking by overcomplying. There is a line in the sand that we need to draw."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and (ODELLXYZ) on Bull Bitcoin suing France over DAC 8.

Power law projections for the next cycle top November 2029: median $365K, low case $184K, Q90 $500K, Q100 million dollar Bitcoin.

"A 1.4-1.5x multiple over the trend is totally possible."

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Tesla is demolishing portions of its Fremont factory's Model S and Model X production lines to make way for new high-volume Optimus humanoid robot manufacturing lines.

They have plans to eventually reach an annual capacity of 1 million robots.

A website turns the 1-second Bitcoin price chart into an animated battlefield where buyers and sellers clash in real time.

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman: "We have a shot with this technology so that not our children nor anyone they know dies of cancer... Make your tally of the cons and the pros. There's a shot that our children, none of them nor the people they love, will die of cancer."

"AGI, I suspect you'll agree with me, we've hit it. We just haven't exactly deployed it fully... By any definition we had 20 years ago, we've blown past it."

Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman: "We have a $25 billion backlog... OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, AWS — all of these players are not chasing 'if you build it, they will come.' They're chasing the demand is booked. How do we keep them from leaving?"

Coinbase Vice Chair on the Clarity Act: "Democratic and Republican senators are working around the clock to get this across the finish line."

CFTC Chairman Mike Selig on the CLARITY Act: "We want to get in statute... We would have exchanges that are federally regulated... States like New York are very aggressive against crypto. We need federal protections for the product and for the exchanges."

Howard Lutnick: "We try to bring 40 to 50 percent of manufacturing of semiconductors home to America so we can take care of ourselves. This is critical capability, which also brings with it, for Micron alone, 100,000 American jobs. Just Micron alone."

Pentagon releases new UAP footage from 2025 showing a six-pointed star-shaped object tracked by military sensors over the Yellow Sea.

"You can have a couple million bucks and depending on where you live, it ain't going to get it done."

(KFCBarstool) on how a million-dollar salary in New York barely covers shelter, school, and groceries after the government takes half.

Co-founder of Opendoor JD Ross: "Not a single one of our full-time engineers writes code anymore. They do everything through Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor."

"These really great, smart, intelligent men decided in the middle of a zero interest rate environment that the best way to make money was to put depositors' money into 10-year T-bills." - Mike Belshe on SVB's collapse.

Researchers built software inside Apple Vision Pro that lets people on DMT tag the symbols they see in real time while logging brain scans and location data.

If the AI confirms different people see the same symbol in the same spot, it's proof of real encoded information.

Danny Goler spent years trying to prove what he saw on DMT was real. He soldered a laser from China, smoked DMT, and shined it on a wall.

"There's code in the wall."

OpenAI announces a livestream today at 10am PT for a major ChatGPT update.

Mike Rowe visited a Texas data center and met three debt-free electricians under 30, all making north of $240K a year and poached three times in 18 months.

OpenAI gets the green light to release GPT-5.6 globally.

"It's really paramount to get these new models out as fast as they can in the face of increasing opposition from the government."

.nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg's NFC Tap-to-Pay with Bitcoin ecash in the wild at Steak 'n Shake.

"You cannot simultaneously have an untaxed billionaire class and an asset-holding middle class, you must choose." - Gary Stevenson

"I am not trying to redistribute wealth. The redistribution of wealth is happening. The redistribution of wealth is happening." - Gary Stevenson

CFTC Chairman Michael Selig says the Clarity Act is "so close."

"We have to get this done. It's absolutely critical that we have a federal standard for crypto assets."

"If I was to start Bull Bitcoin today, there's zero chance I would succeed. 90% of all crypto companies just got kicked out of Europe. The compliance moat is massive." - Theo Mogenet

"If I ever get near power, I will responsibly defund the BBC. I think the BBC is dripping poison into the veins of Britain every day." - Rupert Lowe MP

Francis Pouliot's Bull Bitcoin is suing France in the Conseil d'État to block the EU's DAC8 crypto mass surveillance rules over privacy and safety risks.

"Credit card delinquencies, 90-day delinquencies, are matching the 2008 levels. People have fully 100% embraced the debt-based economy and they live on debt." - James Lavish

"When Powell cut rates by 100 basis points, what happened to the 10-year? The yield went up 100 basis points. The bond traders called the bluff." - James Lavish

"Tyranny is not gonna look like you think. It's not gonna be a military government kicking down your door. It's gonna be an ever-growing set of small rules which turn you into a docile sheep. At some point you just gotta say no." - Theo Mogenet

CFTC Chairman Mike Selig on derivatives markets and prediction markets as hedging tools during the Iran conflict. "We are seeing a transformation of our markets and this new frontier of finance is something we have to have built here in the United States."

"DAC8 is in my opinion the single biggest threat to both the cypherpunk principles of Bitcoin and to the lives of our users." - Theo Mogenet

OpenAI teases the all-new ChatGPT Voice in a new teaser video and will reveal details during a livestream at 10 AM PT today.

TFTC 768 w/ Theo Mogenet: "They're building a list of every Bitcoiner. In France a million records leak every month and when this database leaks, people will be murdered."

We discuss: ⚡ Sold to kidnappers ⚡ One taken every 2 days ⚡ Coming to the US next

"The most terrifying part is sometimes there's nothing underneath. It's just outright fraud."

(APompliano) and (ankurnagpal) on how private market SPVs can be layered deep enough that no one knows what's actually at the bottom.

"One of the many reasons the general public doesn't love AI is they're not benefiting from any of the economic boon. Who are the people who love AI? The venture capitalists, people getting paid really high salaries. The average American is fully locked out of that wealth creation." - (ankurnagpal)

Andrew Cuomo asked about crypto legislation: "They're in the room talking about what the rules are going to be. Should they then be allowed to trade on those rules?"

"When I think about Jamie Dimon or Warren Buffett saying bitcoin is rat poison, completely and utterly wrong. And when people say this is how AI is going to evolve, do not believe any of them."

nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 on why tech gurus can't predict what technology actually becomes.

"A lot of Bitcoiners start taking Christ seriously. And it's usually slow and very methodical and very rational."

nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 on the phenomenon of Bitcoiners finding faith not through emotion, but through the same evidence-based pursuit of truth that led them to bitcoin.

"Bitcoin is a little taste of truth. It's a little bit bitter because you've been lied to the entire time, but it's very satisfying."

nostr:npub10vlhsqm4qar0g42p8g3plqyktmktd8hnprew45w638xzezgja95qapsp42 on how Bitcoiners chase truth in every area of life after the monetary red pill.

"This is the lowest sentiment I've ever seen on bitcoin."

nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a says this bear feels worse than 2022 despite higher prices.

"I don't think there's anything coming to save bitcoin. The asset just has to survive on its own merits."

nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a on why legislation and strategic reserves won't drive the next move. The market has to find its own bid.

ERShares Joel Shulman: "Elon Musk is very much like a modern-day Rockefeller."

"They see memory stocks doubling in months, in some cases 10x. A lot of capital has gone into those markets."

nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a on how AI chip stocks replaced bitcoin as the fastest horse in the race.

Polymarket now supports instant Bitcoin deposits over Lightning, powered by Spark.

"The most important media property won't be watched. The most important author isn't read. The most important philosopher is not understood. In a world of fiat currency, everything sort of becomes this weird fiat thing." - Jeremy Giffon

"There's a good probability that the powers that be will declare that a recession started sometime in 2026. I would give that a 50% probability at least." - Jeffrey Gundlach

"The private credit situation is shockingly similar in size to what subprime and non-guaranteed mortgages were in 2006." - Jeffrey Gundlach

"That is just not really a world that's compatible with anything but fiscal largesse."

nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on why the AI buildout makes tight monetary policy impossible and what that means for Bitcoin.

"If it wasn't obvious to you before, we are definitively moving in the direction of AI being a key strategic priority for the country. You can short that at your peril." - nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

SpaceX unveils new logo and tag.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: One SpaceX founder donated nearly 2 million shares to Trump Accounts.

"If you really want to see that number go up, you have to self-custody the Bitcoin. Every person talking Bitcoin needs to show proof of reserves. If they don't show it, how do you know they have it?" - Tony | thebitcoinway.com

"By the time Hal gets to look at it over the weekend, the blockchain is already at block 49. I couldn't believe it. It's too easy. That's why no one looked."

(raw_avocado) on Bitcoin's earliest days.

"Bitcoin was created for one purpose and one purpose only. The separation of money and state." - Tony | thebitcoinway.com

"If you were the US government and wanted an insurmountable Bitcoin lead, budget neutral, no five-year plan to front-run, buying from willing sellers, how would you do it?" -nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

We discuss: ⚡ The quiet accumulation ⚡ No telegraphing ⚡ Hiding in plain sight

"The network halted 8 times. There were only 2 nodes. They always went down together. Clearly, they must be the same entity."

(raw_avocado) on the evidence that Satoshi was running a second node just to keep Bitcoin alive.

"That's just another tool in the tool belt. Use the tool of mining to improve the business." - Steve Barbour on flare gas mining

"I just could not believe there's nothing written about this. Zilch. Nothing."

(raw_avocado) dug into Hal Finney's original debug.log file from Bitcoin's first days, a public file nobody had actually analyzed.

Germany's Finance Minister just confirmed crypto gains will be taxed like capital income.

The 1-year tax-free holding period that made Germany one of the most bitcoin-friendly countries in Europe is on the chopping block.

President Trump on Bitcoin in Trump Accounts: “I’ve become a big crypto guy… I’m a fan.”

President Trump on Bitcoin: "A lot of people are using it... I don't think anybody realizes how powerful it is."

TFTC 767 w/ (raw_avocado): "The debug file was public for 15 years. I think I'm the first person who ever actually looked at it — and what I found rewrites Bitcoin's first days."

We discuss: ⚡ Satoshi ran two nodes ⚡ Only 3 people at block 49 ⚡ Bitcoin nearly died

"Where Bitcoin has an opportunity is not replacing the US dollar, but replacing the US Treasury bond." - nostr:npub1xwmyzp64xx03kw9ecd7fzsj3e9dgwah6an0rdng0cc6ux4dswwjs28pyyc

"Foreigners bought 71% of new debt. From 2015 to 2022, foreigners bought 14% of it."

nostr:npub1xwmyzp64xx03kw9ecd7fzsj3e9dgwah6an0rdng0cc6ux4dswwjs28pyyc on the collapse of US debt demand.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "The primary reason why Americans fought and died was moral. Lincoln fought to end slavery. It was not economic. What other culture engaged in civil war just because it was wrong?"

"When you were overfighting the Nazis, you were doing it because you thought America was a superior way of living. No other culture does this."

Brad Gerstner: "If you're in the data infrastructure layer, token consumption is driving a lot more consumption of your basic services. The closer you are to a single use app built on top of AI, that feels like you're on the front of the conveyor belt heading toward the guillotine."

"Software is a form of speech. I don't believe there's ever a reason for prior restraint of speech, and that is what you see the government engaging in with its efforts to control software." - Porter Stansberry

Molecular geneticist Dr. Michael Nehls says he predicted mRNA injections would increase Alzheimer's rates.

"The spike protein activates neuroinflammation in the brain. If it's chronic, it shuts down the hippocampus. The consequences are depression, anxiety, and in the long run, Alzheimer's."

"The people paying for AI, their stock prices are declining. That means it's over, because the only way they can fund these enormous build-outs is if their stock prices stay high." - Porter Stansberry

"Somebody like Saylor who chooses to engineer their narrative in a certain way can actually control markets."

(basedlayer) says 700 Bitcoin sold, nothing happened. 32 Bitcoin sold, upheaval. The only thing that changed was the story.

"Bitcoin is like a punk rock band from Bushwick that's now playing Wembley. We went mainstream. And now there's no solid narrative to cling on." - (basedlayer)

"Central banks have abandoned Treasury bonds. All around the world they're stockpiling gold instead. That is an enormous sea change." - Porter Stansberry

And the US government can't print its way out of a gold-based system.

"In 10 years, Bitcoin will become the digital reserve asset of the world. It'll be as important as the US dollar. Governments around the world will own BTC, and we'll be the largest holder." - Strategy CEO Phong Le

Claude Code creator Boris Cherny: "Fable 5 does in a day what used to take your team a month. Most people will keep using it wrong."

"By 2029 people won't be able to get enough food to eat. That's when the violence will emerge." - Porter Stansberry

We're watching the pressure build in real time.

"For the first time since 1971, what is considered liquidity will have fundamentally changed. People are going to run towards gold and towards Bitcoin. They're not going to run to Treasury bonds." - Porter Stansberry

TFTC 766 w/ Porter Stansberry: "In 1930, the federal government was 3% of GDP. Today, government is about 60%. Nobody is that rich."

We discuss: ⚡ Social Security is a Ponzi ⚡ 2029 is the deadline ⚡ Civil war is coming

Outset CEO Aaron Cannon on why people are more honest with AI: "When you're talking to someone, they want to impress you. They want to look a certain way."

"Before you know it, people are talking about how they want to live long enough to see their grandkids graduate high school."

CNBC interviewer questions Trump on family crypto profits.

Trump: "I could know about it. There's nothing illegal, there's nothing wrong with it. I could know."

Miller Value Partners on CNBC: "The fundamental case for Bitcoin has never been stronger. The marginal obligations being created that are unfunded by our country is 50% bigger than the entire market cap of Bitcoin."

"We have no confusion that China has every intention to make Americans angry about data centers."

Matthew Boyer traced the pipeline from the CCP through Neville Singham, a US tech millionaire turned Marxist funneling $278M into far-left US nonprofits from China.

.nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp just launched Proof of Sound, a site that turns live Bitcoin network data into music and visuals in real time.

"As an industry we should pull together ASAP and get a quantum-resistant algo in the protocol. Just put one in and get going on it."

BitGo CEO Mike Belshe says quantum FUD is the #1 thing holding back traditional investors.

Adam Back on Bitcoin Standard Treasury ($BSTR): "Trying to create a relatively conservative return on Bitcoin using capital market strategies. We would do things differently compared to other treasury companies."

"The Federal Reserve exists to enrich those who own assets and to control the money to control you. Global M2 is expanding at its fastest rate since 2021. The asset owners benefit massively. Those who don't own assets don't benefit. It's a money problem." - Smeet Bhatt