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"It doesn't look good either way. Bitcoin looks fine either way."

nostr:npub1ath4je07y7py74nvu044fum3f8hz3exc3dtcv782qg94w5gaddusl74k6d on the Fed and the 2019 repo crisis.

"It's kind of clickbaity."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and nostr:npub1ath4je07y7py74nvu044fum3f8hz3exc3dtcv782qg94w5gaddusl74k6d on stablecoins vs global broad money.

Google DeepMind just dropped Genie 4, an interactive world model that generates dynamic environments in real time with reactive scenes, sound, and characters that move, react, and speak.

"I do think 10 ounces of gold is out of play."

nostr:npub1ath4je07y7py74nvu044fum3f8hz3exc3dtcv782qg94w5gaddusl74k6d on Bitcoin priced in gold.

Lightning Labs' Dario Nakamoto explains how Wavelength VTXOs carry Taproot Assets secured by the Ark policy tree.

Compact proofs and client-side validation link asset history back to an on-chain commitment.

"We're definitely in cheap territory."

nostr:npub1ath4je07y7py74nvu044fum3f8hz3exc3dtcv782qg94w5gaddusl74k6d on where Bitcoin sits on its power trend.

Amboss Co-Founder nostr:npub18yvpnchj7yaepjk8yz2pn66hfmmup505aqvx0lpyc3aree0g5fyq8clpz3 demos stablecoin payments over Lightning using Taproot Assets.

"It's also Bitcoin working. There's no moral hazard. There are no bailouts."

nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw on the Coldcard bug and the Ledger supply chain attack.

"It made no sense for the Canadians to walk out of those trade negotiations."

Susan Kokinda on Canada's tariff politics.

Michael Saylor: "Passive income should be passive."

"You're not really seeing demand destruction yet in the U.S."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on diesel and the Gulf attacks.

A Dutch flower farmer is heating her greenhouse with Bitcoin miners instead of natural gas.

"Where are they getting the dollars? Well, they have to sell something. They sell treasuries."

Luke Gromen on oil shocks and treasuries.

Block just announced Dessa, a full-duplex AI voice model trained entirely on human speech.

No text, no pretrained models. It learned to hold real-time conversations just by listening. Block says it's the first AI you can have a live conversation with that was trained only from human speech. Now inviting AI safety researchers to explore what it can and can't do.

Bitcoin Beach on what it takes to build a circular bitcoin economy.

"Do not see bitcoin itself as the end goal, but as helping the community. That is the end goal, and bitcoin is the tool."

Jensen Huang speaks on data sovereignty in Kazakhstan.

"Your country's data embodies and codes your country's culture, history, your humanity, your values are captured in the data. And that data belongs to you, just as your natural resources belong to you."

PISA, the first working prototype combining Payjoin with Cross Input Signature Aggregation (CISA), was just demoed by (fjahr) of Brink and the Payjoin Dev Kit team at Lugano Plan.

CISA would make collaborative bitcoin transactions like Payjoins and Coinjoins smaller and cheaper on-chain, and this demo shows the two working together for the first time.

HHS announces a federal definition for ultra-processed food is being finalized and a decades-old ingredient loophole is being closed.

"Industry hijacked the loophole and drove a convoy of chemical trucks through it straight into the American food supply." - RFK Jr.

.nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg announces Phonon in Say It, a private text-to-speech tool for macOS.

Open models run 100% on-device on Apple silicon. No cloud, no accounts, no analytics. Free and open source.

Figure CEO Brett Adcock on the company's newest robotics model, developed in a secret lab called Black Box:

"It was the most significant moment I've ever had in robotics. I think it's baby AGI. It's like a guy in a suit. I've never seen anything like this before in robotics."

Marc Andreessen on the generational divide in how people receive new technology:

"If you're below the age of 15, it's just the natural way the world works. If you're between 15 to 35, it's new, exciting, and you might be able to make a career out of it. If you're above 35, it's unholy and evil, and will surely overturn all existing structures and destroy society." "I think 18-year-olds right now, it's prime time to grab these new capabilities and run with them."

Coinbase launches a dedicated portal for connecting AI agents to its platform.

"I'm quite worried about sort of like a dirty deal here, where we get a version of the GENIUS Act through that basically blurs the line between stablecoins and a CBDC."

Zack Shapiro on the GENIUS Act and the Bank Secrecy Act.

René Pickhardt on why Lightning's scaling limits and on-chain bottlenecks make the case for multiparty channels: "If you care for Bitcoin, you should care for payments."

"The people trading the bond market don't care what the Fed is doing and neither do I."

Gary Brode on why the Fed no longer controls borrowing costs.

"We heard about wars over oil or water. Now it's going to be over, over who is going to get the power."

Anas Alhajji on the coming fight over power for AI.

Heatbit introduces Bitwater, a water heater element that mines bitcoin.

It screws into your existing electric tank, turning everyday hot water heating into physically decentralized mining.

Altimeter's Brad Gerstner on why the AI boom isn't a repeat of dot-com: "In 2000, we had constrained demand because we only had 30 million people on the internet. Today, we have unconstrained demand for super intelligence."

Robinhood just got approved by Dubai's Financial Services Authority to launch bitcoin and crypto trading in the Middle East.

Palo Alto Networks CEO Nikesh Arora on the real threat after a major vulnerability drops: "trophy hunters" racing to find the next one.

"I'm more concerned about what comes next. This is just one. There's more to come."

CFTC Chairman Mike Selig: "We can't have just New York or California regulating crypto and setting the standard across the country. We need uniform rules that if you make a trade in New York, you still have the same protections when you go back home in Florida."

NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang: "This is one petaflop. One petaflop and 128 gigabytes of memory. In the year 2016, I delivered one petaflop and 128 gigabytes to a small company called OpenAI. This is one petaflop and 128 gigabytes."

Anthropic's draft IPO filing shows it could spend $750 billion on computing power in the coming years, per the WSJ.

About $450 billion of that is already signed, and most of it can't be canceled.

Figma CEO Dylan Field says AI slop is creating a trust problem at work.

"I'm already hearing from so many like, 'I got another deck made by AI today. And I don't even know if the person who made it, like, do they even know what's in their deck?' ... I think we're gonna see some bifurcation here around trust, and one way to get trust is to do something with your hands."

"I think that the setup is as good as it's ever been."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw on Bitcoin's crisis of confidence.

"Silvergate was the only bank in America that could have withstood a full bank run without needing a bailout."

nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw on what really happened to Silvergate.

.nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle: "We built a system where working hard and saving no longer guarantees financial stability, where inequality becomes structural."

"You never walked into a grocery store anywhere in America or anywhere in the world and something popped up that allows you to pay with your U.S. Treasury or your stock or your bond?"

nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw on paying in bitcoin.

.nostr:npub1cn4t4cd78nm900qc2hhqte5aa8c9njm6qkfzw95tszufwcwtcnsq7g3vle: "Almost all of the Bitcoin is owned by the people and that is why I think it's far too late for Wall Street or anybody to try and control this thing because they don't have the physical and they can't get the physical from us."

.(alalmoskvin) explains the Shielded Bitcoin metaprotocol.

Private transfers on Bitcoin L1, encrypted notes, and wallet recovery from a seed phrase.

"The sins of the past and the financial crisis never went away. They're still sitting in the credit system today."

nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw on why the credit system is more fragile than 2008.

Jensen Huang says every company will have two factories: one real, one digital.

"Everything will be completely software-driven. Everything will be completely AI-driven. So every company will build two things. They will build brains, and the brains that go into the products that they ship."

"If anything, they're cannibalizing adoption and they're confusing people about Bitcoin that would be adopting Bitcoin."

nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw on Bitcoin treasury companies.

"It's a fight club situation, right? The first rule of any of this is you don't talk about any of it publicly." -nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966

We discuss: ⚡ The bond market doom loop ⚡ The AI trade hits a wall ⚡ The diesel squeeze into 2027

"You don't have to create these false narratives about Bitcoin being digital capital or batteries. It's money."

nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw on Bitcoin as money.

TFTC 803 w/ nostr:npub1w69ya7xs697hk3hky3gllryz8rwverfa0ylz89chf9qnhfcskc2s64zltw: "The sins of the past in the great financial crisis never went away. They're still sitting in the credit system today."

We discuss: ⚡ The credit market cracking ⚡ Why hyperinflation is inevitable ⚡ Bitcoin's worst sentiment ever

"I think you have to realize that the AI trade is not AI."

Mel Mattison on the AI trade.

"This theft of younger generations by the older generations, it is going to come to an end."

Mel Mattison on the gerontocracy.

"It's the dumbest institution that's ever been created. It's there to protect the banks."

nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and Mel Mattison on the two-tier system.

"Warsh is just constantly talking like he's the Clint Eastwood of central bankers."

Mel Mattison on why the Fed can't hike.

"It was just paying money to itself. Now it's got to pay money outside."

Mel Mattison on the Social Security trust fund.

A video explaining how Anthropic's Claude solved a 25-year-old cryptographic mystery about the origins of the NIST elliptic curves.

Michael Saylor: "Bitcoin is up approximately 38% a year, every year."

"Bitcoin is outperforming gold. Gold is outperforming the S&P index."

Michael Saylor: "We think we're at the beginning of a bull market."

"We've got banking adoption accelerating. We've got tokenized securities and the digital asset space accelerating... all these things are very auspicious for the asset."

Investor Ben Narasin on Anthropic's growing revenue as it prepares for its highly anticipated IPO:

"This is the fastest growing business in all of human history."

A statue of Satoshi Nakamoto unveiled in Vienna, Austria.

Peter Van Valkenburgh's full speech at the 2026 Coin Center Annual Dinner.

"A developer shouldn't have to risk indictment in order to know what the law means."

Anthropic launched an AI security scanner for open source. Spiral is applying with LDK, Goose, and Mesh LLM.

"We already know Anthropic has been scanning Bitcoin Core. By us applying, it's not like we've given them some new permission. More the merrier."

Coin Center's Peter Van Valkenburgh: "Our mission was never simply to get the government to say yes to crypto."

"Will the law tolerate software that nobody controls, communications that nobody intermediates, computer programs you run yourself, transactions that no one has the unilateral authority to reverse? Those are the hard questions."

GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen: "The pace at which the technology is developing, and how much smarter the machines are than humans, it really puts us in a position where we have very little utility."

"The inflow of intellectual property into this country is unlike anything the world's ever seen."

5 of 6 on stage at the White House were born outside the US. Jensen calls this America's superpower.

"We solved Navier-Stokes. We'll look back and say that was the worst intelligence we're ever going to have, solving a millennium problem."

Jensen says the cost of intelligence will fall like Moore's Law, with a massive vacuum of opportunity waiting to be filled.

"We're literally the only one" you can hand a $100 billion check to for next-gen chips, sight unseen.

Jensen compares NVIDIA's position to TSMC's, arguing fungibility and trust make them irreplaceable as AI infrastructure scales globally. "If Anthropic wants to go to Japan, Korea, in a heartbeat. We're already there."

Jensen says Elon "moved from the K's to the M's" on GPU orders, now wants 10 gigawatts by end of 2027.

Reveals NVIDIA and SpaceX are building server architecture together for data centers in space. "I can't wait to be a payload... I mean, not personally."

NYC Comptroller urges Anthropic to "pause its planned IPO until the company fully and transparently addresses its AI safety, governance, and development pace concerns."

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.

"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.

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.

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

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."

"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.