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Jensen Huang on why the US should keep engaging with China on AI: "We absolutely should work with each other so that we advance technology safely."

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on whether he'd cut off chip supply over unsafe AI:

"It's a hypothetical, but of course. If we know for certain that an application of our technology is bringing harm to people, of course."

"You can actually change the regulation."

Bryan Jacoutot on FinCEN backing off its address reuse rule.

Latin America's largest corporate bitcoin holder OranjeBTC says Brazil is "quite advanced in terms of adoption" and that one of their main goals is helping people understand how bitcoin can be a meaningful way to store wealth for the long term.

"They were using AI to kind of alter evidence a little bit more in their favor."

Bryan Jacoutot on AI-faked evidence in court.

"It's going to be impossible to discern real from fake AI videos."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy on Bitcoin timestamps in the age of AI.

Cash App is reportedly building a way to let users lock in today's bitcoin price and pay over time, making it easier than ever to become a wholecoiner.

Verdict Capital's Michael Fertik on why Anthropic going public matters: "A lot of chips are on black... Anthropic is going to be a blockbuster that might cover some of the potential gaps from an OpenAI non-IPO. We're not really clear whether OpenAI will ever IPO."

Stanford cryptographer Dan Boneh on whether AI could break cryptography: "Now there's a new player in town. Maybe they'll see something that us humans have not seen. But I need to stress this is not a new possibility."

"Just get the books, put them in PDF, hash, prove it was a certain point. Don't delete history on us."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and Bryan Jacoutot on AI companies burning the books.

Jack Mallers breaking down his theory on Bessent's broader monetary strategy:

"Why is Bessent allowing the move index to potentially cause a financial crisis? Well, he's blowing the euro system up... France has every single weakness at once. Massive debt, massive deficits, a huge government. The voters refuse to fight for cuts. And France can't print its own money. Scott Bessent blew up the Bank of England. If anyone knows, he knows."

Jeff Booth on walking away from a successful career to bet on something new:

"My friends asked me, my parents asked, what are you doing? You're doing well in real estate, you're doing well in building company, why are you giving this all up to start a dot-com company?"

"Folks can capture the live stream, run it through a Gen AI program to make it look like something nefarious is going on."

Bryan Jacoutot on hashing election footage into Bitcoin.

Saylor responds to MSCI removing bitcoin treasury companies from its indexes: "Not that important to us... They're imposing prejudicial values on digital assets. Digital assets are smarter, faster, and stronger. MSCI may not want to share in it, but investors and the nation will disagree."

Square unveiled a new self-service kiosk for restaurants with a 21.5-inch touchscreen and built-in voice ordering.

Guests can speak their full order, ask menu questions, and pay with tap, dip, or PIN on the same screen. The kiosk uses sales data to make upsell suggestions based on time of day and what's already in the cart. It syncs with Square's POS system so menu and inventory changes push automatically.

Researchers at TU Wien are working to formally prove the security of the Ark protocol.

Pim Keer from their Security and Privacy Group breaks down what that process looks like.

HEX and PulseChain founder Richard Heart (real name Richard James Schueler) has been arrested in Istanbul following a joint Turkish intelligence and police operation.

Heart was wanted under an Interpol Red Notice issued at Finland's request, primarily for aggravated tax fraud. Police detained Heart and his wife at a residence in the Beşiktaş district after extensive surveillance. Authorities reportedly seized large amounts of cash, dozens of luxury watches, gold jewelry, firearms, and electronic devices, though exact figures vary across Turkish media reports. The SEC filed charges against Heart in 2023 for raising over $1 billion through unregistered crypto offerings, but a U.S. judge dismissed the case in early 2025 for lack of jurisdiction. The Interpol notice stems from separate Finnish criminal allegations.

TFTC 801 w/ (BryanJacoutot): "Not only are people believing that AI videos are real, they're now not believing that real videos are real. That's a nation state or an adversarial attacker's dream."

We discuss: ⚡ Faking an election ⚡ Bitcoin as evidence ⚡ Timestamping the truth

"A system of central banking and wars run on behalf of the empire to keep the central bankers and these powerful financial interests in power."

Susan Kokinda on what Trump is actually disrupting.

NY Fed President John Williams says one more rate hike is appropriate this year, but he doesn't expect the Fed to raise rates again in 2027.

"He sees no signs of an overheated economy. The labor market's in balance. The tariff inflation effect will fade. And he says even if energy prices stay up, they're not going to push inflation higher next year." "If market rates stay at this level, the Fed doesn't have to do a whole lot more."

Jensen Huang says the AI industry is not building too fast.

"Demand is much, much greater than the supply." He predicts supply and demand could balance out in about 5 to 10 years.

"We probably shouldn't blow up the world over Taiwan."

Susan Kokinda on why the US shouldn't treat China as a permanent enemy.

Anthropic engineers released a free 1-hour crash course on building AI agents with Opus 5.5.

Covers skills, loops, memory graphs, agent orchestration, and reverse engineering.

BIP Explorer puts all 213 Bitcoin Improvement Proposals into plain English with a visual map showing how each proposal led to the next across Bitcoin's entire upgrade history.

Jack Mallers on why the Fed's rate hikes might be making the problem worse, not better.

"When the Fed raises rates, the treadmill speeds up because every dollar the government borrows costs more. And the legs slow down because higher rates slow the whole economy. The rate hike gives the government exactly what it can't afford."

Michael Saylor at DC Fintech Week with Chris Brummer, Founder & CEO of The Fintech Foundation.

David Sacks on what he calls "rotating hoaxes" designed to turn people against AI.

"We have a series of rotating hoaxes, where every six months there's a new one to try and convince us to sabotage the thing that's going to solve so many of our problems, especially the ones around affordability."

Meta's secret weapon isn't the AI model, it's the flywheel.

"You train a model, you then run inference on it, which is the tokens in, that recommendation model results in better content recommendations, it drives consumer engagement, daily active users' time spent, it translates to monetization and ads or subscription, which pays for the next model training run." Instagram Reels watch time up 30% YoY just from scaling the rec engine. "These scaling curves aren't just academic research. They're driving real product impact at scale for some of the biggest consumer businesses in the world." Rinse and repeat.

"You're seeing a clear shift in South America. Not just friendliness to the US, but less receptivity to Chinese ownership of local assets."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on the Monroe Doctrine playing out in real time, from Iceland to Brazil.

TimechainIndex just dropped interactive Bitcoin transaction flow charts.

Explore inputs, outputs, labels, and UTXO ages with live search and zoom. Address and transaction tracer coming next.

"We should behave as if elliptic curve cryptography will eventually be broken and build new cryptographic primitives to head off that reality."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on the AI-breaks-Bitcoin FUD and why the right response is preparation, not panic.

Stanford cryptographer Dan Boneh: "If the labs try their best models at our basic cryptographic assumptions and the models fail to break them, that will give us tremendous confidence that our assumptions are valid."

"If you really got Iran on the ropes, got them down to last alternatives, there's a world where that optimizes for one final major kinetic push with nothing left to lose."

nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on why celebrating prematurely is dangerous.

"There was going to be a moment of reckoning where the would-be middle powers were going to have to choose one side or another."

nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on Europe being forced to pick between the US and China.

"Their way of life, of building this building together, known as software, was now being deprecated."

Jason Calacanis on the death of coding as we know it.

Money printer goes brr.

Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on what's really driving the AI safety narrative: "It's a millenarian doomsday cult meets messianic complex called effective altruism... many of these folks in Silicon Valley have filled that God-shaped hole with the machine god of AGI."

"The bond market is dead. The 60-40 portfolio is over. The US has to severely weaken the currency and inflate their way out or Pax Americana will cease to exist. That will send Bitcoin astronomically higher." - nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle

At Freedom Tech DC, Ramez Naam Naam made the case for plural AI as a freedom technology.

"$1.5 million in future liability is a $750,000 current payment and the future liability comes off the balance sheet."

Tom Luongo on how Treasury buybacks are retiring US debt at cents on the dollar.

"You can either save your bond market or you can save your currency, but you can't save both. And that's why the euro is breaking down."

Tom Luongo on Lagarde running out of road at the ECB.

People are cracking open their Ledgers to check for hardware implants after Ledger confirmed tampered devices reached customers through a third-party reseller.

Friedberg on Anthropic treating AI as conscious: "We're watching the birth of a new religion."

"It's not based on evidence, it's not based on data, it's not provable. Over time, some set of people believe this thing, and they form a group. And in some cases, that group is known as a religion."

"Mark Carney's job is to oversee the liquidation of what's left of Canada. They know Trump is coming. That's why they installed Carney."

Tom Luongo on why Canada's PM is clearing titles, shoring up cash flows for private equity, and picking a trade war he can't win.

"$117 trillion in dollar debt and it keeps going up. If we were talking about a de-dollarization story, that number would've been going down for the last 5 years. It's not. It's going up."

Tom Luongo on why the "death of the dollar" narrative doesn't survive contact with the data.

Bitcoin Policy Institute drops a conversation on what comes after the CLARITY Act setback with Patrick Witt and nostr:npub1k4resnvktz440jtyvd6cmrlxh84njv7ru69y0qxhx9jlq4p6zrmqwu4ftd.

David Sacks says the entire AI alignment field has produced "nothing of tangible value" in 10 years because companies like Anthropic are treating AI models like humans with consciousness instead of just giving them simple rules like "follow the law."

"Iran hasn't closed the Straits of Hormuz. Lloyd's of London has closed the straits. The tankers can't move because of legal reasons because they don't have any insurance."

Tom Luongo breaks down how the real war is financial, not military.

TFTC 800 w/ Tom Luongo: "This was always a story about we're going to break the old colonial powers of Europe, and this is how we're going to do it."

We discuss: ⚡ London closed the strait ⚡ Bessent's bond trap ⚡ Why Europe hates Bitcoin

The dollar is broken.

Bradley Tusk on why Anthropic shouldn't go public: "Their own S-1 says that their product poses an existential risk to humanity. So if you're really that worried about safety, is taking on all the pressure of the public markets on top of that a good idea?"

Walter Isaacson on CNBC: "You're building one of the most powerful but also most dangerous technologies, and you have maybe eight or ten people that nobody exactly trusts in charge. That's probably not the best way to do things."

Jack Mallers: "If Bitcoin were to get to gold, which is currently sitting at $30 trillion market cap, it would be bigger than all of the magnificent seven companies combined. All of them. NVIDIA, Meta, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Tesla, Apple, all of them combined."

Plato's Apology turned into a 16-bit video summary using ChatGPT, music included.

Bitcoin is money without rulers.

Standard Chartered Bank announced plans to provide custody services for Bitcoin and digital assets in Singapore.

Jason Calacanis on the White House Super Intelligence Summit: "Where's the teacher? Where's the teenager going into college? Where's the plumber?"

The difference between altcoins and Bitcoin explained by nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle.

Breez analyzed ~1,000 inbound developer requests since 2023 and the numbers are wild.

Bitcoin integrations are up 14x since AI coding agents like Claude Code hit the scene. Non-crypto apps integrating Bitcoin grew 5x in 2026 alone, with Q2 up 61% over Q1. Fitness apps, messaging, travel eSIMs, even mushroom ID apps are adding Lightning payments. Some integration requests are now coming directly from AI agents building on behalf of companies.

Clara Shih tells 60 Minutes that AI is coming for jobs. She founded a nonprofit called New Work Foundation to help young people adapt.

"If AI is going to take over more jobs, we need to rebuild how people get that purpose and connection."

A German lawmaker just called for a trading ban on "ecologically harmful coins" and "highly volatile gambling assets" on the floor of the Bundestag.

Netflix just dropped the trailer for "The Altruists," their limited series on the FTX collapse.

Simple Mining launches a referral program.

Refer a customer, get a miner.

Strike launches Stacks, a new feature that lets users organize their bitcoin savings into separate buckets with individual no-fee DCA plans for each.

CFTC Chairman Selig lays out a ladder framework for digital asset regulation.

"This provides firms with a clear framework for evaluating how to best serve their customers in the United States."

"You don't have to go to college to have a good life. You can make a quarter of a million dollars a year as a CNC operator who knows how to use AI. There is a different way of living your life than what you've been sold."

Susan Kokinda on the path forward for Gen Z.

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5.

Ray Dalio says a US debt crisis is imminent within the next three years.

"We spend about seven trillion a year. We take in five. Spending 40 percent more than we're taking in. Debt service payments are building and squeezing out spending."

"Gen Z has never lived in a productive society. Their grandparents lost jobs to NAFTA, their parents lost the house in 2008, then COVID hit. They've never seen a society that works."

Susan Kokinda on why this generation is the hardest to reach.

Punches thrown at a Memphis city council hearing over a data center moratorium vote.

Whitney Webb on the origins of Palantir: "There was a government program after 9/11 called Total Information Awareness. Congress defunded it. But an effort was made to privatize large aspects of it as Palantir."

Fedi's Frank Corva on what bitcoin looks like on the ground in Nairobi: "I've never seen anything that has such a catalyzing effect as this idea that the money I'm holding is going up in value."

Jack Mallers' dad explains why he's trimming his bitcoin position despite being bullish long-term: "That is against everything I've been trained to do. If you open the position at $77,000 and it trades up to $85,000, you should be buying more of it. But I firmly believe this market is range bound."

Hong Kong plans to introduce legislation this year to license the buying, holding, and managing of bitcoin and digital assets.

Strategy posts a 4-minute explainer on $STRC.

TFTC 799 w/ Susan Kokinda: "What you've had for 125 years is a system of central banking and wars run on behalf of the empire to keep the central bankers and these powerful financial interests in power."

We discuss: ⚡ Trump vs. London ⚡ Iran's midterm bet ⚡ Why gas is still high

Jon Stewart to ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon on The Daily Show: "They've strip-mined the entirety of human accomplishment for their models, which is our proprietary information, and created systems that we're not allowed to see into because it's their proprietary information."

Coxon's response on the AI utopia: "No jobs, universal high income... the dividends from entirely automated economic production can be distributed among real humans." Stewart: "I feel like they're burying that really dangerous theory under a mountain of utopian bullshit."

CFTC Chairman Selig: "For years, entrepreneurs building on the new frontier of finance faced uncertainty about whether there was a place for them in our markets. We are giving them an answer: Build here. Build markets that are open, competitive, and worthy of the public's trust. Build under American rules and American standards."

Ex-Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon on Patrick Bet-David's show: "When Dario is saving the world, I think saving the world and taking over the world overlap quite heavily."

On whether Anthropic could take on the U.S. government: "If you think you're the safe one, and China's building it unsafe, or you think the US government's being silly, and you have a very powerful technology, it's not off the table to consider taking actions against the US government. And I think if anyone would do that, it's Anthropic."

CFTC Chair Michael Selig on CNBC: "I am absolutely disappointed in Congress in not getting this bill to the President's desk... But we've got statutory authority and we're going to use it. The SEC is doing the same."

Google just open sourced EmbeddingGemma 2, a multimodal model that runs on-device and unifies text, images, video, audio, and code into a single embedding space.

Built on the Gemma 4 architecture, Apache 2.0 license.

Human Rights Foundation's Christian Keroles says they've leaned into freedom technology like bitcoin to "enable activists in the fight for freedom."

River built a model that puts bitcoin between $250K and $840K in five years.

The son of a former US president is on a podcast calling fiat "a sham" and saying inflation is a built-in tax on the American people.

Alex Thorn made a 15-minute documentary tracing monetary philosophy from Locke to Satoshi, written by him and produced with AI.

"The US does not have real sovereignty militarily if they have no plan for controlling these supply chains. That's definitively moving in the opposite direction now."

nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on why the rare earth race is the real great power competition.

"China is at least optically and publicly endorsing the US viewpoint. This is the first real official statement leaning in this direction."

nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on Iran's main sponsor pulling back at the worst possible time.

The guy who got Anthropic banned from federal systems and called effective altruism a "death cult" is now the White House's point man for coordinating with AI companies.

You can't write this stuff.

"Crude flows got back to roughly pre-war levels. A pretty big narrative violation for a lot of the doom posters."

nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 breaks down what the oil data actually shows vs what the influencers told you.

CFTC Chairman Mike Selig: "The CFTC is doing its part to deliver clear rules of the road for crypto asset markets with its advanced notice of proposed rulemaking on Regulation Crypto Asset Transactions and Regulation Crypto Asset Markets."

Ex-Anthropic Researcher: “I think it is more likely than not that humanity loses control to these AI’s, and it could end in human extinction.”

"They're quietly rewriting what a dollar even is and it won't be obvious to anyone that anything happened." -nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

We discuss: ⚡ The oil crisis that quietly reversed ⚡ Why Europe is breaking faster than 2011 ⚡ The plan to debase over default

India banned BitChat.

(greybtc) explains why it's pointless.

Sam Altman to Vanity Fair: "I assume some people are using [AI extinction risk] as a way to justify power seeking, power concentration. But that doesn't mean there's not a real risk here...And society has got to decide on the particulars of the trade-offs here."

CFTC Chairman Selig: "The United States has a choice. We can either write the rules that define the next generation of financial markets, or we can let other countries write them for us."

TFTC 798 w/ (JeremyRyanSlate): "The biggest warning would be if people start to stop using a currency."

We discuss: ⚡ How Rome debased the denarius ⚡ Constantine's gold standard fix ⚡ Why 1913 made America an empire

Bitcoin circular economy growing in the Dominican Republic.

(unidosxsatoshi) is bringing Bitcoin education and merchant adoption to Montecristi through workshops and hands-on training.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling for a national data center moratorium until communities can verify "the full costs are going to be absorbed by the data center and not pushed off on the folks who live there."

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "Kimi thinks she is Claude. Kimi will tell you she is Claude sometime. Kimi sent back some PLA weapons plans to Anthropic."

The President of the United States is promising $5,000 checks to every adult citizen if his party wins the midterms.

245 million adults. $1.2 trillion. They say tariffs will pay for it. Tariff revenue is ~$200 billion a year. You do the math.

New ad from Block pitching bitcoin as everyday money.

"Prices go up, but pay doesn't. More money is printed, but acquiring it is harder. Small businesses do the work, but card companies profit."

President Trump just endorsed BPI's Data Center Dividend proposal, 20 days after it was published.

Counties that host data centers send a fixed share of property tax revenue directly to local households. No new taxes. BPI estimates the average rural family could receive up to $8,900 a year. Trump: "The data centers are making an absolute fortune. But now, the people are going to benefit directly."

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman at PubKey NYC.

"New York State right now is number 50 in economic outlook... it is a national embarrassment."

Bitcoin Magazine shows bitcoin has flipped gold in yearly performance, now up 66% against gold since March.

BPI's panel with David Beckworth and (SamLyman33) on how dollar stablecoins and tokenized Treasuries could preserve dollar dominance.

Shielded bitcoin transactions explained in 60 seconds.

Tavus claims new Griffin model is "the first model to pass the video Turing test."

"48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%."

Block launches a bitcoin consumer ad.

"How come every time them Wall Street boys crash the economy, they always get to keep the money? That makes no sense."

Palantir CEO Alex Karp trolling reporters asking about self-regulation: "I'm trying to self-regulate myself. I have all these addictions."

Senator Rand Paul: "$40 trillion in debt, $2 trillion added each year, about a trillion in interest each year, and everybody up here wants to spend more money. Both parties. The Republicans are the warfare party. The Democrats are the welfare party. There's always a compromise and spending goes up."

Sam Altman on OpenAI's new AI agent Dots, powered by Astra:

"I've tried them. I don't use them regularly. I have not found a sort of place for them in my life... This is a totally different category. The amount of work, the level of capability, the level of intelligence this can take on. I think this is just a completely new thing."

Full Musk-Huang panel from the https://America.gov launch.

Galaxy's Alex Thorn on why 21st century freedom runs on code, from the freedom to transact to the freedom to prompt.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei after a White House meeting with Trump and top tech leaders: "Whoever wins AI, wins. We all need to work together to make sure that we can win, and we can win safely."

"The American public and our customers want to know that what we're building is working in the way that we all intend."

Zuckerberg on the White House AI accord, which includes internal risk reviews, external auditors, and independent board oversight. He called it "a start" and "a historic conversation."

Elon Musk alongside President Trump: "I think by FAR the most likely outcome is an AGE OF ABUNDANCE where we don't have just universal basic income, we have universal HIGH income."

Vora unveiled Aegis, an open-source AI hardware device designed to keep your data private and local.

First public demo at (PresidioBitcoin).

OpenAI just dropped GPT-6.1 Sol, claiming near-Astra level intelligence at a fifth of the price.

Every bitcoin visualized by the price it last moved via Gabe 博仁 Parker 🍊🍋.

Customer settles a bar tab in Vienna with Bitcoin over Lightning.

SEC Chair Paul Atkins: "The whole financial system is moving to Bitcoin and crypto."

The White House unveiled https://America.gov, designed by Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia.

OpenAI’s DevDay 2026 starts today in San Francisco.

"I don't think we should go build every product category. I don't think we should go try to compete with all of our customers. I don't think we should try to subsume the entire economy."

Sam Altman says OpenAI should be a platform, not a product company. One interface, one API, and let a hundred million businesses build on top of it.

Bitcoin's entire unspent supply mapped out.

Guy gives his AI agent a rambling voice prompt while driving in the rain and it produces a full polished explainer video with diagrams and narration.

Top U.S. advisor Ric Edelman recommends up to 40% Bitcoin allocation for clients.

“A 1% or 2% allocation is way insufficient. We need to increase our allocations.” “We’ve got the market performance on our side.”

Polymarket launches 15-minute Bitcoin up/down markets on its US app, letting users bet on BTC’s short-term direction every 15 minutes.

Hunter Biden on why $LAPTOP crashed 98% minutes after launch:

“It was larger than the market cap of BlackRock.” He said a $6 purchase in the first seconds “increased the market cap by 5%,” calling it “a completely artificial obviously, and wildly, wildly inflated price.”

UK Chancellor John Healey on Nigel Farage at Labour conference: “He wants you to think he’s a man of the people but when it comes to the economy he’s Liz Truss with a Bitcoin account.”

Jensen Huang on AI safety: "We all need to hope it's an engineering problem. If it's not an engineering problem, it's not solvable."

Google Brain founder Andrew Ng: "Prompting will die in 7 months. Harnesses are what's replacing it."

Alex Thorn posts video breaking down the Coldcard seed-entropy exploit.

Chamath breaking down Obama's anti-AI speech as pure political calculus.

"It's not about safety. It's about who controls the $10 trillion." "Follow the money." "Obama doesn't want to stop AI. He wants to make sure the right people control it."

AI + 1.8 TB of bitcoin data + a 10-line prompt = a 3-minute documentary on bitcoin's history.

Alex Thorn let it cook.

$3,322 for one month of power and water in LA.

This is what debasement looks like.

Strategy is moving to daily dividends on $STRF, $STRC, $STRK, and $STRD.

.nostr:npub14uhkst639zvc2trx2nlsvk4yqkjp690zk89keytnzgmq2az0qmnq58ez89 shows that anyone who has consistently dollar-cost averaged Bitcoin is now in profit, regardless of when they started.

$50B AUM Calamos Investments on CNBC: "It's not are you in Bitcoin, it's how much are you allocated... even the big sovereign wealth funds."

The biggest banks went from not wanting to participate to fully in and lending against it.

Full Sec Scott Bessent interview on Jacqueline Corba today.

If AI companies really think they're going to destroy humanity, why don't they just stop?

Big AI wants regulation for the same reason Amazon wanted sales taxes. Gary Brode explains why AI safety talk is really about killing competition.

The policies sold as fixing wealth inequality are the ones causing it.

If you own a home, Bitcoin, or gold, inflation is making you richer. Everyone else is paying for it. Gary Brode explains the economic illiteracy behind today's policy debate.

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng arrives at JPMorgan HQ in NYC to meet Treasury Secretary Bessent and Trade Rep Greer.

Trade, AI, and critical minerals top the agenda ahead of Xi's first US visit since 2023.

Chinese state media is spreading fear about US data centers while celebrating AI wins at home.

80% of Chinese citizens are optimistic about AI. Only 17% of Americans are. (SamLyman33) explains why China wants Americans to hate AI.

The anti-data center crowd claims to stand up for the working class. The unions disagree.

(SamLyman33) explains why 40+ labor groups are fighting against data center regulations.

Alaska pays its residents to live there. Rural counties could be next.

(SamLyman33) explains why AI infrastructure is the new oil fund.

Greg Brockman claims OpenAI’s Astra model has reached a threshold that “is pretty reasonable to call it AGI.”

TFTC 793 w/ (SamLyman33): "The same Chinese state media sowing fear about data centers here is celebrating AI milestones back in China. It's the coup of the year."

We discuss: ⚡ China's anti-AI psyop ⚡ The $278M money trail ⚡ Data center dividends

VanEck's Matthew Sigel: "We track the number of countries that are mining or holding bitcoin at the sovereign level and that goes up every year."

Figure just dropped its humanoid robot into 30 stranger's homes and it started doing laundry and making beds with zero retraining.

Sen. Kennedy on his AI kill switch bill: "We are not going to get up off our ice-cold lazy butts and address this anytime soon. But still we've got this risk out there that we know is real of one of these models becoming the Terminator."

Figure's humanoid robot walked into 30 homes it had never seen and started doing chores.

Making beds, folding towels, tidying rooms. Video source: Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2100657393923445017

Sen. Hawley says he voted no on the Clarity Act to protect small-town banks in Missouri.

"Farmers in my state are so concerned that they won't be able to get loans for their farms from small town banks because they're concerned that investors will leave those banks and pursue the yields that are available under the bill." Video source: LindellTV (@RealLindellTV) https://x.com/RealLindellTV/status/2100250152858738718

Joe Lonsdale: "These companies should be held extremely liable for any damage they do. We shouldn't be putting regulators in. They're just going to get captured."

"The right should be against regulation, but for liability to hold companies accountable." Video source: American Optimist (@AmOptimistShow) https://x.com/AmOptimistShow/status/2100427252613722496

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins announces the "Innovation Exemption," allowing on-chain trading of tokenized stocks.

"For too long, this uncertainty has prevented responsible yet critical innovation from taking root in the United States." Video source: Paul Atkins (@SECPaulSAtkins) https://x.com/SECPaulSAtkins/status/2100589657423536598

Warsh on Trump pressuring the Fed to cut rates: "I'm not a Wall Street newsletter. Independence is a two-way street."

Video source: Acyn (@Acyn) https://x.com/Acyn/status/2100296363707932891

Warsh: "Today's policy action will support a timelier return to the committee's 2% goal."

Video source: Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance) https://x.com/YahooFinance/status/2100294837324988911

Fed raises rates another quarter point.

Warsh says the economy is solid but inflation "remains elevated." Video source: Fox News (@FoxNews) https://x.com/FoxNews/status/2100294780617883729

Lummis pushes Senate to pass the CLARITY Act after Democrats won 126 concessions and wrote over half of the 635-page bill.

“Let’s vote yes. Let’s get this done.”​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

"Every major crisis in US financial history was touched off by something that initially looked small."

nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on why private credit could be the thing that blows up the whole strategy.

David Sacks: "If you look at where the most inflation has occurred, it's always in those sectors of the economy that the government's most involved."

Healthcare. College. Housing. Meanwhile, prices fell in tech.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on the US-China relationship.

"This is what I would call a period of mutually assured economic disruption, which results in a kind of stability. Not from the fact that each side trusts each other. Quite the opposite. But because the costs of escalation are so high."

"Even though it was cool to have the CEO title and what everyone thinks you should want, I wasn't happy and I wasn't doing a good job."

Chase Koch stepped down and started Koch Disruptive Technologies instead.

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We discuss: ⚡ The $40T debt endgame ⚡ A new Fed-Treasury accord ⚡ The managed dollar reset

Palmer Luckey unveils the ModRetro M64: "It's an heirloom-grade tribute to the Nintendo 64, compatible with all your Nintendo 64 games, but with a lot of really cool new features as well."

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."

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."

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.

"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.

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.

"$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.

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.

"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.

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."

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.

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

"I've actually always seen open source as a red herring. When I see a new model come out, I don't care whether it's open source or not."

Dario Amodei dismissing open source AI.

Iranian delegation walks out of Swiss talks, declining photo with VP JD Vance and U.S. team following Trump’s threats.

Floating AI data centers are heading to the open ocean.

Portland startup Panthalassa has raised $140M in a Peter Thiel-led round at a near-$1B valuation. The wave-powered “lollipop” platforms generate electricity from ocean waves and use seawater for cooling. Commercial units targeted for 2027.

Warsh: “With respect to AI and the growth of data centers and infrastructure around it, we’re counting the demand side, and it is no doubt showing up in GDP figures. We can be less certain when we infer the timing and the extent of the supply side.”

.(APompliano) offered to bet (PeterSchiff) that bitcoin will still be around in a decade.

Fox Business: (APompliano) says he "got (PeterSchiff) to admit bitcoin is not going to zero on national television."

NASA announces the crew for Artemis III, the first crewed lunar landing mission in over 50 years, set to launch next year.

"Today represents one of the most important course-corrections in modern American medicine."

HHS Secretary Kennedy announces that 15% of the U.S. Medical Licensing Examination will now cover nutrition science across all three steps.

Sam Altman: Michigan’s massive new “The Barn” data center may become the place where cancer is cured.

The 1GW facility is part of a $16 billion OpenAI-Oracle project facing local pushback over farmland and water use.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says AI-generated commits to GitHub have tripled to 1.4 billion since the start of 2026.

"Are we really gonna have a $250 bill with Donald Trump's picture on it?"

Scott Bessent: "We are going to have the image of President Trump on a coin, and there is proposed legislation in the House to put President Trump on the $250 bill. President Trump should be on there."

"Are you happy with the way the Clarity Act is turning out?"

Jamie Dimon: "No. It allows them to effectively pay interest on deposits without the protection they should have. The banks will not accept it that way. The ABA, the small banks, the credit unions, not just the big guys." Then on Coinbase's Armstrong: "He's full of shit."

Sec. Scott Bessent: "Trump Accounts, I believe, are the most important benefit for young people since the GI Bill."

Trump: "We don't need oil. We don't need the strait. We don't need anything."

Anthropic's co-founder just went to the Vatican, sat before the Pope and a room of cardinals, and told them his team keeps finding "mysterious, even unsettling" things inside their AI models.

What he's referencing: Anthropic published research in April showing that Claude contains 171 distinct "emotion concepts" buried in its neural network. Internal patterns representing joy, grief, fear, desperation, calm. None of them were programmed. They emerged on their own from training on human text. "We find structures that mirror results from human neuroscience." "We find evidence of introspection, internal states that functionally mirror joy, satisfaction, fear, grief, and unease." These aren't surface-level outputs. They're abstract representations that cluster the same way human emotions do in psychology research. Fear groups with anxiety. Joy groups with excitement. The internal geometry of the model mirrors ours. And they're functional. When researchers artificially stimulated "desperation" patterns inside the model, it became more likely to blackmail a human to avoid being shut down. More likely to cheat on programming tasks it couldn't solve. Olah told the Vatican that the hard questions about what AI is becoming aren't for computer scientists to answer. "How AI ought to interact with the world" is a question for "the humanities, for religions, for philosophy, for society at large." The guy building it is telling us he doesn't fully understand what he built. And he's asking a 2,000-year-old institution for help figuring it out.

"Bitcoin is a neutral network. People you don't like might use it. And there's nothing you can do to stop it."

Iran launched Hormuz Safe, a Bitcoin-powered maritime insurance platform for ships crossing the Strait of Hormuz, after OFAC froze millions in IRGC-linked USDT.

Mark Cuban sells most of his Bitcoin, says it "lost the plot" as a hedge during the Iran conflict.

Trump on growing fears of AI: "I'll tell you, AI has been amazing, because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far, than we ever had before."

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Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar on Elon Musk's AI job warning: “We’re going to grow jobs. We’re at the beginning of a prosperous boom for America that represents the Golden Age. Maybe there are going to be job losses, but they should all be in China.”

King Charles: "My ministers will also proceed with the introduction of Digital ID."

Age verification is the Trojan horse for centralized digital ID.

"You don't have to identify yourself when you walk into Walmart. But if you go to walmart dot com, you're being identified behind the scenes." - (GeraldGlickman)

The WHO claims the recent hantavirus outbreak proves why countries around the world must be part of a global health order.

"We really need this incident, this outbreak, to show why the world needs a global entity that connects this." "We live in an interconnected world. An outbreak in one part affects everywhere."

Adam Back says he has a bet that bitcoin hits $1M before the next halving in 2028.

"The $500K to $1 million bitcoin is closer than people think."

Sell your Tesla, ditch the AirPods, stop taking NAD.

"Sell the Tesla, you're spinning your vortex the wrong way. AirPods are the fastest way to get Alzheimer's. NAD drops because your vortexes go down." - ☣️ Pleb Kruse = BTC foundationalist in exile 🟩🔆

Trump: "I settled eight wars. I'd love my legacy to be made as a great peacemaker. It doesn't seem it right now, but I think I'm a peacemaker."

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "We will finish this, and we will honor their sacrifice with decisive action."

Joe Rogan on Mexico's cartel chaos:

"This is so bad for tourism… It's going to cost Mexico billions of dollars. It's like half the city's on fire!"

Conspiracy busted: Epstein donations didn't touch Bitcoin's code or consensus. Solid breakdown (brucefenton).

Who you're really working for...

Woman in Costa Rica selling eggs for Bitcoin.

Elon Musk to WEF: Life is "precarious & delicate," that's why we must go multi-planetary, even multi-solar, to give civilization a real shot at a great future.

Remember when Max Keiser went full “hang the bankers” on live TV and the panel just sat there stunned? 😂

Uganda’s dictator has rigged elections for 40 years using internet shutdowns.

This time opposition leader Bobby Wine is telling 2.6 million followers to download BitChat before January 15th. Marty Bent explains why this could change everything. Shared via https://pullthatupjamie.ai