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Last Notes npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Trump delays planned U.S. strike on Iran at request of Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE leaders. He agreed to pause a scheduled military operation against Iran to allow ongoing negotiations to continue. He emphasized that the U.S. remains ready for a large-scale strike if talks fail, and any deal must prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. https://blossom.primal.net/77cdb6920d5e74f43659857e178b0955d0148a5b5be19b52264bf5e6a1cf485c.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC According to ethics filings released this week, President Trump made over 3,600 stock trades during Q1 2026. Reuters reports the transactions were valued between $220 million and $750 million. The wide range exists because federal disclosure rules only require transactions to be reported in broad value bands, not exact dollar amounts. CNBC reports the trades were heavily concentrated in tech stocks. The disclosures were released the same week Trump publicly told Americans to "go out and buy Dell" while reportedly holding over $5 million in Dell stock he had purchased starting in February. Dell is one of the largest beneficiaries of the AI server buildout. Federal ethics rules require disclosure but do not prohibit the president from actively trading individual stocks while making policy decisions that directly affect those companies' valuations. https://blossom.primal.net/80c9877f1a63a1c97b7b554c9bc6cbf90d44ec8b8e85acf5b3d7385381f4d903.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Iran has launched "Hormuz Safe," a platform offering digital maritime insurance for ships transiting the Strait of Hormuz with payments settled in Bitcoin. Iran's Ministry of Economy has been developing the initiative since April, and officials estimate it could generate over $10 billion in revenue. The timing matters. Weeks ago, OFAC froze $344 million in USDT held in wallets attributed to the Central Bank of Iran with links to the IRGC-Qods Force and Hezbollah. Tether complied and froze the wallets on April 23. By settling in Bitcoin instead of stablecoins, Iran is explicitly routing around the enforcement mechanism that just cost them $344 million. Bitcoin has no freeze function. Before the official launch, Greek maritime risk firm MARISKS warned that unknown actors claiming to represent Iranian authorities were already sending messages to ships demanding transit fees in Bitcoin for "safe passage." At least one oil tanker was attacked after falling for what appeared to be a related scam. The Strait of Hormuz handles roughly 20% of global oil supply. Iran is positioning itself as the de facto insurer for the world's most critical energy chokepoint, using Bitcoin as the payment rail specifically because it can't be frozen or seized. https://blossom.primal.net/b1ee74350dbd6c5542bc4f28a3b09f44da194978598795bbcf8184452260891b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Ken Griffin went home on a Friday "fairly depressed" after watching AI agents at Citadel do work that used to take teams of PhDs in finance months to complete. Done in days. His words: "These are not mid-tier white collar jobs. These are extraordinarily high skilled jobs being automated by agentic AI." This is the head of one of the most successful hedge funds in history saying the people he pays seven figures to analyze markets and structure deals are being replaced by software that works in hours instead of months. Not theoretically. In his own office. Right now. The Coatue deck we covered earlier this week called agents "the biggest unlock" in AI. Griffin just confirmed it from the buy side. The shift from copilots to agents is not a future event. It is already happening at the highest levels of finance. https://blossom.primal.net/45908d87a0cd5d035906a06d12692964bb39dc4b0ea075aeca82430f0c8819e4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Lagarde rejects stablecoins and pushes the digital euro instead. "She doesn't ever say why. They need to trap capital. If you have the means, you're going to get your capital out of the jurisdiction where it's going to be debased." - (LeveredUSTs) https://blossom.primal.net/cf5e2d3fd337c3c64e816b91f1faa370cba18fd10dad23cdbf1edfa8f2967fb3.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "It can't be Bitcoin because once you take custody, that capital can leave the borders and flee." - (LeveredUSTs) The EU needs the digital euro to trap savings and print against them. The timeline just got pulled forward from 2029 to 2028. https://blossom.primal.net/12c10a113503ee29e53df9634d1987e83810df2e1e0876e1ea9f7cfd8e0b91d6.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 746 w/ (LeveredUSTs): "It's a capital war as well as a military war of attrition. These credit dollars, they're all fugazi. Fairy dust." We discuss: ⚡ Sovereign debt crisis ⚡ The real fight for control of the Fed ⚡ Why the EU needs to trap your savings https://blossom.primal.net/3eea0f2a644b7342af327558fa1ef26aeecd3ea50b4517e97a0598d383a3d518.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Trump voter says he can't afford the rising fuel costs. Trump's response: "We just hit the highest stock market price ever. The 401ks at their all-time high." https://blossom.primal.net/8bfab8173bd7626ceddd24330e6897dbb1d5aae8a71a84f1db8bff45e313848f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Trump on Venezuela: "The good thing is we've made a fortune with their oil." https://blossom.primal.net/1f39748e689592407a757c63bc6170a03c795996a5f39b7511f2cbbf6dfbe11c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Most nicotine products are loaded with chemicals you can't pronounce. Nic Nac | Nicotine Perfected makes clean lozenges with essential oils. No tobacco. No artificial sweeteners. No soggy pouches. Family-owned, American-made, accepts bitcoin. Code 'TFTC' for 20% off. https://www.tftc.io/nic-nac-1776458115425/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Ledger users are now receiving physical scam letters at their home addresses. This goes beyond phishing emails. Data from both the 2020 Ledger breach and a January 2026 third-party breach through Global-e is being used to target users with fake "firmware update" letters containing QR codes designed to steal seed phrases. https://blossom.primal.net/81bea3cc016ed71754759c6c93c529d9ebed0a1aadf5c64ac0c61b738aacb098.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC 40 million Kenyans just got a Bitcoin Lightning address. Send sats to their phone number. "We need more people building things that just work for people today." https://blossom.primal.net/eded3609dfb5d7e3de5e7706e9d7d42089b425c1975bc8d0df4530015f6c7dc0.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Where the Federal Reserve board stands on Bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/6e299007ed8e45ce6ff7a15db9c35465fbb91a80eab642ca79fd12ce2ab1d6c8.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Japan is the canary in the coal mine. They're completely losing control of their yield curve." The Bitcoin price may be depressed but this is one of the best bargain buy opportunities in Bitcoin's history. https://blossom.primal.net/db9606bd04bee8268d4a19718f637e9a5fc776db2793e52c98bc81e848d4c030.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump on his Beijing summit with Xi Jinping: "I think it's a very historic summit, it's the two great countries. I call it the G2!" "I think it will be very historic, maybe more than anything else, a great moment of respect." https://blossom.primal.net/d336733df99e36002331bb89ef318f11bcf7f96a41e570f30cc4b956dce91234.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senators Sanders and AOC have introduced a bill to pause all AI data center construction in the United States. According to Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan, over 300 local bills targeting data center development have also been filed, and half of planned 2026 data centers are facing delays or cancellation. Each facility represents billions in local economic investment. The bill comes as the US and China are actively competing to build out AI infrastructure, with Trump and Xi meeting in Beijing this week to discuss trade and technology. https://blossom.primal.net/1f73b26ddcbe3363a79878639783596cbb51c492694f59e870526ce82cc0d740.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Received intel from the CLARITY Act hearing today: "Dems are coming for BRCA, specifically protections for devs." "Republicans are willing to remove developer protections to get some Democrats on board. Without developer protections we get absolutely nothing from this bill. Kill the bill. No bill is better than a bad bill." https://blossom.primal.net/35357fe2e60d83f52234fecd9fea34c9c9f47661be68af2d998d39e69239de09.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Joe Rogan: “I talked to Tim Dillon today. He told me that gas is $7.90/gallon in LA right now. We should have a national oil company and only sell in America. Mr. President, please fix that.” https://blossom.primal.net/b93bc6ca2f87db3c603966e489e0bb40dfff7e3602aa68360eef78586a9ff418.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Moreno: "In 2016, I became the first person in the United States to pay my taxes with Bitcoin. I paid $3,000 in taxes with two Bitcoin." Sen. Scott: "The $3,000 would today be worth how much?" Moreno: "Too soon." https://blossom.primal.net/065bf9b0afba3bfa4fd52893cb4b00ee4515bac68450a473caea53993efcb7a5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Lummis responding directly to Warren's argument that crypto enables Iranian sanctions evasion: “It expands Treasury's special measure authority to act swiftly against foreign money laundering. $30 million per year through 2031 for FinCEN.” https://blossom.primal.net/96f892863f046546ec9b84026182f1b1ba49715b4bd997aa666d2c8db3b18f9c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Elizabeth Warren during the CLARITY Act markup: "While we're at war, Iran is openly gearing up to collect crypto fees from oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz." https://blossom.primal.net/66df7b5dc4fea9823ff9b9610472bdadfb028bec23e0a51cf4345763cc1f099b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Google search interest for "Bitcoin" just hit its lowest point in the last 12 months. https://blossom.primal.net/342a2f4b6ec7a9096ba8e8d8ec1f13b203180cf327d549c2ce7831691e94f738.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Tim Scott's opening statement kicking off the CLARITY Act markup: "For years, the digital frontier was trapped in a regulatory gray zone." "Developers, entrepreneurs, and investors were left with uncertainty. They faced confusion in enforcement actions when, instead, the government should have been crafting clear rules of the road." "Those hurdles drove innovation overseas, left Americans exposed, and made it harder for law enforcement to do their job." "Today, we change that. The bill we are marking up achieves three simple goals. Number one, protecting consumers. Keeping innovation here at home. And safeguarding U.S. national security. Those are not partisan goals. They are American priorities." https://blossom.primal.net/e0358c1d737e0ba04d844b7eebe6b78c71dc576b39b1e0024a9d9ce419e343cd.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC US interest expense on public debt just crossed $1.27 trillion over the last 12 months. It took 73 years to 109x that number from 1947 to 2019. It has more than doubled in the six years since. The 30-year treasury just cleared 5% for the first time since 2007. Japan's 20-year bond hit its highest yield since 1997. This isn't an isolated move. This is a global repricing of sovereign debt risk happening in real time. The doom loop is simple: higher rates mean higher interest expense, which means more borrowing, which means more supply, which pushes rates higher. At this pace, interest on the debt will surpass Social Security as the largest line item in the federal budget. The US government will spend more servicing past borrowing than on the retirement safety net for 70 million Americans. Global money supply just crossed $121.9 trillion, up $17.1 trillion in two years, growing at 7-8% annually. Central banks are trapped between inflation that won't die and debt loads that require low rates to service. Cut rates and you pour gasoline on the inflation fire. Hold or hike and the interest expense spiral accelerates. There is no clean exit. The inflation side is getting worse. Electricity prices up 50% in five years. PPI leading CPI higher. Data center construction at $50 billion annualized, up 437% since 2021, now exceeding office construction. The Informationist's CPI overlay tracks the 1970s pattern with a 0.93 correlation. April 2026 CPI sits at 3.78%, right at the inflection point where inflation re-accelerated before peaking near 14%. The Fed declared victory prematurely then, too. Meanwhile the S&P 500 just set a record for the most components hitting new 52-week lows on a day the index poked above its prior all-time closing high. The six-week rally is the biggest since QE1, concentrated in a handful of AI and infrastructure names. The index is a mask. Underneath it, the average company is deteriorating. Twenty-one million against all of it. https://blossom.primal.net/103430f7378425053dba9feae3764266969510a882b3d3abc85c2d610e4aea9d.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Today's Bitcoin Brief: → US 30-year hits 5% for the first time since 2007 → Interest expense at $1.27T — took 73 years to 109x, 6 years to double → 1970s inflation overlay shows 0.93 correlation with today → Banking lobby wants to surveil your self-custody wallet → Claude recovered 5 BTC after 3.5 trillion failed passwords The sovereign debt trap is tightening. This is why Bitcoin exists. https://fountain.fm/episode/wialNi5cSjeuQq6bgNHA npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC O'Leary: "Would you prefer all of us stop while the Chinese accelerate theirs?" Tucker: "Do I want to become like China in order that we can 'beat China?' Not at all." https://blossom.primal.net/5f7ce5aa761e2aa970dd92b0178bad9c9038949ed16ad77fc75ff64bc873e2f4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump arrives in Beijing and shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a formal welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People. https://blossom.primal.net/d06412bb2dc68064b0e5d89557aa497992159a2e4ec5b35b9abfb3e0a0b87de1.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "I'm not too worried about any amendments tomorrow because the base text has gotten to a place with bipartisan collaboration that I think will carry the day." Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong on the CLARITY Act markup happening tomorrow. https://blossom.primal.net/01c7b67c49916fdbb1887ff751556854431e81a83d56908f6fa1f6699592f78c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Ryan Cohen isn't backing down after eBay called GameStop's $56 billion offer "neither credible nor attractive." https://blossom.primal.net/70608b7ceb857f3a341513db138be6bf37d48da5706ad29739f11b89336dc504.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A former Humana doctor admitted her job was to deny patients care. She rejected a lifesaving operation. The patient died. She saved the company $500,000 and got promoted. https://blossom.primal.net/89f883ffb878afecb2324cbb2df3382e213ab21bbd62c121561bf4a233855c1d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The US Senate has confirmed Kevin Warsh as the next Chairman of the Federal Reserve, replacing Jerome Powell. Warsh served as a Fed Governor from 2006 to 2011. He has called bitcoin "an important asset" and "a very good policeman for policy," arguing its price reflects confidence in the Fed's management of the dollar. He has also opposed aggressive CBDC expansion. A sharp departure from Powell's posture over the last eight years. https://blossom.primal.net/ff53f3fdc49c68733d2063b94e47b2196e785c0c06ee3fabdcbe372cad87c63e.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "A quarter of all iOS devices were vulnerable. You load a website and it breaks out of the browser, grabs your crypto keys off the secure enclave, pulls your photos. As models like Mythos become prevalent, we may see one of those every couple weeks." - Zach Herbert 🇺🇸 https://blossom.primal.net/01258f0cee8d76d5a4bf03ab3d21f694a061313c32c784dde111346b5053ba81.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senate passes 99-0 cloture vote on resolution to withhold senators’ pay during any government shutdown. https://blossom.primal.net/ff9f810a8579b02c45789048a688d7c6c19478c3c38cd45691917806a8343fa5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A Bitcoin holder (cprkrn) just used Claude to recover access to a wallet he'd been locked out of for over 11 years. He bought the bitcoin around 2014 when it was roughly $250 each. At some point he got stoned and changed his password, then could never get back in. He tried what he describes as "7 trillion passwords" over the years. Nothing worked. A few weeks ago he found an old mnemonic from before he changed the password. He thought he was still out of luck because the wallet file had been updated with the new password. As a last resort, he dumped his entire old college computer's files into Claude. Claude found an older version of the wallet file buried in the data. The original mnemonic successfully decrypted it. Claude identified a bug in how the wallet software concatenated the shared key and password, ran btcrecover with the correct algorithm, extracted the private keys, and converted them to WIF format. The address (14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6) received a total of 16.95 BTC over its lifetime. At today's prices, that is worth over $1.7 million. The wallet has since been emptied, meaning he likely moved the funds to a new wallet he controls. He paid around $250 per coin. He recovered them at over $100,000 per coin. An AI model did in one session what 11 years of manual attempts could not. https://blossom.primal.net/4df09bf48472eb0c69829fef6766f7ac4e231f302bddd1d539d27d3b4d47e4e1.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "We're dropping these AIs into monolithic operating systems built on top of code from 30 years ago. The attack surfaces are enormous. And the OS has no way to distinguish between a human user and an AI agent." - Zach Herbert 🇺🇸 https://blossom.primal.net/a68adfb3ae277fd3a46fcdc112bdaa65e8c8834871d5548c6a35a77a08c78851.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC King Charles: "My ministers will also proceed with the introduction of Digital ID." https://blossom.primal.net/f2816e83a7941d663cc1721ca05d38aa8a3e0aef4e234767a1db83f04acb5ebd.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 745 w/ Zach Herbert 🇺🇸: The entire approval layer in AI right now is fake. It's asking permission for something it already has the capability to do, that's a huge problem." We discuss: ⚡ Fake AI permissions ⚡ Storing AI credentials ⚡ Bitcoin security https://blossom.primal.net/becdd4f7dbf4aa33190b015af219cfbc97d3bbdae45e6ea8bc334d025639b375.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The winner of this week's giveaway is ... @nprofile…8m4j! #nevent1q…26hz npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Block and Spiral just launched Loupe, a free AI-powered vulnerability scanner for open-source Bitcoin projects. The tool scans Bitcoin codebases for security flaws across millions of lines of code. It is available as a free "scanning-as-a-service" tool for any open-source Bitcoin developer. As Bitcoin secures hundreds of billions in value and the codebase grows more complex, automated security scanning is no longer optional. Block and Spiral say it is "mission-critical" for the ecosystem, especially as open-source developers face growing pressure to secure infrastructure that most of the world's financial system is increasingly building on. https://blossom.primal.net/29c8e87fe155bfd854bd268bd6ef654cda90c503450e75ea928353c4c911501b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Eric Trump on incoming Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: "Not only will he be fantastic for the [crypto] industry, he actually understands it." https://blossom.primal.net/bded3949ca32eb1e850a2d267493fc784338e561ed99ff571043db91836d65e7.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "No healthy business can be destroyed by a tweet." CZ on the FTX collapse. He announced Binance was selling its FTT tokens. FTX imploded days later. https://blossom.primal.net/ec196ece46fbbd5986ea581fafa2d01171beb5a03b0ed241bcd54e734ba0a424.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senate confirms Kevin Warsh to 14-year term on Federal Reserve Board of Governors in 51-45 vote. https://blossom.primal.net/2675d5555d31a1a952f410dfd1f352994481aff7c8c0e6e3cf92eeb067d7ad3e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC 40 million Kenyans can now receive bitcoin through the phone number in their pocket. Built on Lightning by Tando. https://blossom.primal.net/2aff9bdefa52d38642c5aeb70d59b6acd4f377eab132fc78c625c581e237183a.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The 7 companies selling picks and shovels into the AI buildout are up 107% this year. The 5 companies actually buying them are up 4%. That 180% spread is the widest gap between infrastructure sellers and buyers in market history. Wider than dot-com. And it tells you exactly where the money is flowing. Coatue's May 2026 Public Markets Update breaks it down: NVIDIA, Broadcom, Micron, TSMC, SK Hynix, and GE Vernova are printing money selling scarce inputs. Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle are spending $680 billion in capex this year just to keep up. Semiconductor free cash flow: $525 billion. Coatue projects $12 trillion in cumulative AI capex from 2026 to 2031. But here's what most people are missing: Coatue studied 30 market bubbles across 400 years and says AI is still in the displacement phase. Not euphoria. Not a bubble. The Nasdaq peaked at 90x earnings in 2000. Today it trades at 28x, backed by actual profits. The dot-com era had 500+ IPOs a year. Today: fewer than 60. The next phase isn't better chatbots. It's autonomous agents that execute tasks, manage workflows, and transact independently. Coatue calls this the token economy, where AI workloads are measured and monetized per computation. That's the unlock that turns the adoption curve vertical. The infrastructure is being built right now. The speculation hasn't even started. https://blossom.primal.net/2ab0154325239e30d815bda851f758ded3cc986d61fa19a4e8cb2d0d04c3ef69.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Buried on page 230 of the CLARITY Act is arguably the biggest win for the digital asset industry in the entire 309-page bill. Section 604: The Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act. If you build open-source blockchain software and don't have unilateral control over users' funds, you are not a money transmitter. Not under FinCEN rules. Not under federal criminal law. Not under state registration requirements. Writing code ≠ money transmission. Building self-custody tools ≠ money transmission. Running node infrastructure ≠ money transmission. For years, developers have operated under the threat that publishing code could expose them to money transmission charges. Section 604 eliminates that ambiguity entirely. It establishes a clear, codified legal protection for the people who actually build the open-source infrastructure this industry runs on. Senate Banking markup is Thursday. Read the bill. https://blossom.primal.net/d4ec92726795578345abbd0b4f156a970e584060c9554a9a5d1e5a681a8028d3.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/28a4199cf1f76e57fe43d68fa50c3f97e009b2e7c8faa35573bb25f56a2e8c16.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/a653cee7925401aea8441df86a18657b300b5b80939ec468165adfc2e8a8e267.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TanStack, one of the most widely used open-source JavaScript libraries in the world, just disclosed a supply-chain attack. 42 TanStack npm packages were compromised earlier today. 84 malicious versions were published in a 10-minute window. The payload exfiltrates AWS credentials, Google Cloud credentials, Kubernetes secrets, Vault tokens, GitHub tokens, npm authentication tokens, and SSH keys. Anyone who installed a TanStack package during the 10-minute window between 19:20 and 19:30 UTC should treat the host machine as compromised and rotate all credentials immediately. TanStack packages are dependencies in millions of projects. React Query alone has over 10 million weekly npm downloads. This is not a niche library. It is infrastructure that sits inside applications at companies of every size. The malicious code was smuggled in through a git-resolved optional dependency whose install script runs a 2.3 MB payload hidden at the package root. npm's unpublish policy is blocking removal of most affected packages because third-party projects depend on them. All 84 versions are being deprecated and npm security is working to pull the tarballs at the registry level. Supply-chain attacks on open-source software are no longer theoretical. The dependencies that modern applications are built on are maintained by small teams, distributed through centralized package registries, and automatically installed by build systems that most developers never audit. One compromised publish token and 10 minutes is all it takes. https://blossom.primal.net/49958d432e7f210b087d71e088efa9404ac0c215540e341b78c027c03219e866.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI is giving the EU access to its most powerful cybersecurity AI model. Anthropic is not. OpenAI announced today it will grant EU partners, including governments, businesses, and EU institutions, access to GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model built specifically for cyber defense. George Osborne, OpenAI's Head of Countries, said advanced AI-powered defense tools should be accessible to Europe's broader community of defenders, not just a select few. The EU Commission welcomed the move. Spokesperson Thomas Regnier confirmed further discussions this week and said access "will allow us to follow deployment of the model very closely and address security concerns." Anthropic has not made the same offer. The EU has held four or five meetings with Anthropic about access to Claude Mythos, a competing cybersecurity model launched last month that Anthropic says can outperform human researchers at finding software vulnerabilities. But the Commission says those discussions are "not yet at the same stage as the solution we have on the table from OpenAI." https://blossom.primal.net/0bab0ec93967527f037e0d2c81cc0e8bbbdc0683e985fae08937d1148a878b1d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "It was either going to be the fall of Rome, or something very aggressive like this. There was never going to be a set of carefully considered white papers. That was just never going to happen." @npub1g0e…l966 on US re-industrialization. https://blossom.primal.net/24e8b97745854577bd0844abcca17dc3665169a4a0e59cdce30690b96b469702.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "All roads converge on this. Bitcoin is the one asset in the world with no conceivable supply response. Whether the AGI thesis is right or wrong, the dollar supply expands." -@npub1g0e…l966 We discuss: ⚡ Three vertical charts ⚡ The Trump-Xi setup ⚡ All roads lead to Bitcoin https://blossom.primal.net/51d9458dc7fa6b9609ac4fbdf3d21df1962a1e1ab3c3adf9c90dbf69cf955e2e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Using your biometrics as an identifier is not good. See China. Americans do not want to live in that world. It results in a society where people are fundamentally less free." (GeraldGlickman) on why biometrics should stay on your device, not in a corporate database or an orb. https://blossom.primal.net/a76641248315710a4b5b95bd5b6bbb3c03bcbea0ede4d2760a7d44f6fc717574.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Today, May 11, 2026, the statute of limitations expires for indicting Anthony Fauci for lying under oath about gain-of-function research. On May 11, 2021, Fauci testified before the Senate that the NIH "categorically" did not fund gain-of-function research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan. Senator Rand Paul filed a criminal referral to the DOJ, re-referred it in July 2025, and spent the last week publicly counting down the days until today's deadline. The federal statute of limitations for making false statements to Congress is five years. That clock runs out today. The DOJ under the Biden administration took no action on the referral. The DOJ under the Trump administration, despite having months to act, has not indicted either. Since Fauci's testimony, internal NIH documents and emails have shown that the agency was aware the research it funded at the Wuhan Institute of Virology met the definition of gain-of-function under its own policies. A House select subcommittee concluded that the pandemic was "most likely the result of a research-related incident" in Wuhan. Fauci himself acknowledged in closed-door testimony that the lab leak hypothesis was not a conspiracy theory. None of it mattered. Five years of evidence, congressional hearings, criminal referrals, and public pressure, and the clock simply ran out. No charges. No indictment. No accountability. (SenRandPaul) posted today: "Today, the statute of limitations expires on the possibility of indicting Anthony Fauci for denying under oath that he funded gain-of-function research involving bat coronaviruses in Wuhan, the origin city of the pandemic." https://blossom.primal.net/48f64cf3dbd1719cfb32736089f5c248c479c0bc6fd64f59c4131e41c1973b56.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC 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) https://blossom.primal.net/44a7e8809472b6304636965b93da3bb623b4296d80718a919a3a1f2d7e09f2e3.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The American Bankers Association just sent a letter to bank CEOs across the country calling for "immediate engagement" on stablecoin yield policy. The banking lobby's top priority right now is making sure Congress blocks stablecoins from paying interest to holders. The letter went out ahead of Thursday's Senate Banking Committee markup of the CLARITY Act, a landmark crypto market structure bill. ABA president Rob Nichols wrote: "We believe committee members may not be fully aware of the risks to the economy by the stablecoin loophole." He urged bank executives and their employees to contact senators immediately. A coalition of banking trade groups, including the ABA, Bank Policy Institute, Consumer Bankers Association, Financial Services Forum, Independent Community Bankers of America, and National Bankers Association, sent a joint letter to Chairman Tim Scott and Ranking Member Elizabeth Warren arguing that yield-bearing stablecoins would cause "deposit flight" and could "reduce consumer, small business, and agricultural lending by one-fifth or more." The average savings account in the United States pays 0.38% interest according to the FDIC. Stablecoin yields on major platforms currently range from 4% to 8%. The banking industry is not asking Congress to raise the rates they pay depositors to compete. They are asking Congress to make it illegal for anyone else to offer a better deal. The White House Council of Economic Advisers released an analysis in April suggesting stablecoin adoption would not damage the banking system. The ABA responded with its own study arguing the administration was "analyzing the wrong scenario" and that if stablecoins were allowed to pay yield, the market could scale from roughly $300 billion today to $2 trillion, putting significant pressure on bank funding. Senator Bernie Moreno responded to the lobbying push by posting: "The banking cartel is in full panic mode." This is not a debate about financial stability. Banks are not warning that the system will break. They are warning that customers will leave. The banking industry has operated for decades in an environment where most Americans had no realistic alternative to a savings account paying a fraction of a percent. Stablecoins represent the first credible threat to that arrangement, and the response is not to compete on rates but to lobby Congress to eliminate the competition. https://blossom.primal.net/c37a0bab5576c0982a857227e71515c1a7cf71b9b1ed095d24bf00cd72cc6321.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "We don't want a digital identity. We want to digitize identity. That starts with individual control, not corporate control and walled gardens." (GeraldGlickman) on why cryptography, not biometrics, should be the foundation. The tools exist. The window is open. https://blossom.primal.net/e582595fd809a1bd28c17cc5395a438dae4618147a710d03c3549672c0ec44e4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Local AI on a laptop is improving more than twice as fast as Moore's Law. The most expensive MacBook Pro you could buy in May 2024 had 128 GB of unified memory. Two years later, the hardware is identical. But the smartest open-weight model you can run on it went from a score of 10 to 47 on the AI Intelligence Index. A 4.7x improvement in 24 months on completely unchanged hardware. Moore's Law doubles transistor count every 24 months. Local open-weight AI is doubling capability every 10.7 months. The hardware ceiling barely moved. The software blew through it. https://blossom.primal.net/00a3bc7a0b956f98bf57a4e0df09652176f73e7e8a75b1b64bad6f80bb4345e6.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 744 w/ (geraldglickman): "In the next hour of this conversation, at least 3,000 Americans will be victims of identity theft. Through no fault of their own." We discuss: ⚡ Broken identity model ⚡ Window closing on privacy ⚡ How Bitcoiners save digital privacy https://blossom.primal.net/8f8f3f5e04c912210edbf7f629da0843c8dd9b6701d5d8d89c0274da74975fc8.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Only 25% of US renters expect to buy a home in the next 5 years. Lowest ever recorded. In 2013, 57% of young adults expected to buy. https://blossom.primal.net/35ca8749056f20bd8104c8a684e3961014f1e57f7b4f61d9d5ad249166533bd9.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump rejects Iran’s response to the U.S. 14-point peace proposal, calling it “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.” https://blossom.primal.net/2c733ae8f715c2c01fab7b8014509d1678598e280dc1114a5cb073b1d98c0916.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The same government that arrested Telegram's founder for protecting encryption is now charging X with violating the secrecy of electronic communications. France arrested Pavel Durov in 2024 for refusing to backdoor Telegram's encrypted messages. Now they're prosecuting Musk's X on nine charges including illegally collecting personal data, processing it without proper security, and extracting data from automated systems. Three weeks ago, France's own government ID agency was breached. Up to 19 million citizen records were stolen and sold on hacker forums by a 15-year-old. Names, emails, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers. The French government collected all that data and failed to secure it. The US Department of Justice refused to cooperate with the French investigation, calling it a "politically charged criminal proceeding." Governments don't prosecute tech companies over data privacy because they care about your privacy. They do it because they want to control who gets to collect the data. https://blossom.primal.net/01385359142991c745e065eac869aebc66600789894101991dbcb561e5800812.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthropic CEO: "We are working as quickly as possible to provide more compute." https://blossom.primal.net/129d50082b2762048a55bf5f1a5a42ba40f62b9b840dbaef4157099c57062668.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC 1 in 3 American men are not working and not looking for work according to Labor Department data. https://blossom.primal.net/ac69b6f7f7ec3f8e1dab8dfd096072c9233a7a2e3c196d2223c11ad3ce1cb5c6.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 743 w/ Eric Balchunas: "In the past 16 months, corporations and ETFs bought 1 million Bitcoin. Individuals sold 750,000. That's a silent IPO. That's why the price went down 45%." We discuss: ⚡ The OG selloff ⚡ What Saylor was forced to address ⚡ The macro engine https://blossom.primal.net/395c8ddd219dda3dbccd48efffcfc9102f289bf746bd5faea8bec6e3033c10ad.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Brian Armstrong says Coinbase's exchange went down last night because an AWS data center room overheated when multiple chillers failed. "Our centralized exchange did not [survive the outage]. Exchanges have unique architectures that optimize for latency and co-location of clients." "Given this incident, we'll revisit these tradeoffs to ensure we're giving you the best possible venue to trade." https://blossom.primal.net/f871e86d282fe0eb02ea3ebc1aa41e918be683ddb3b4fddc175e67bb2a053f95.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "I can look my kids in the eye and say that I did what I thought was right and actually defend myself." The incentives to sell out have never been higher. The reasons not to haven't changed. https://blossom.primal.net/980bfa1ad2e7042d5667ce670a6d07d8dc1ac60dedff7a3c734f5685e88e276d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "We've never had more people that care about Bitcoin as freedom money. But percentage-wise, it's never been lower." Saylor was asked on the earnings call if he's worried about Bitcoin if the cypherpunk base loses interest now that the suits are in the castle. https://blossom.primal.net/86aca5e30848084d44fffee3facc7bf7750b885f8b8d42a1586a3fca3bd2ea11.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Swiss Bitcoin reserve initiative is running out of time. Campaigners have gathered roughly half the 100,000 signatures needed to force a national referendum on whether the Swiss National Bank should hold Bitcoin in its reserves, with only weeks left on the deadline. Switzerland already has indirect exposure through its massive holdings in companies like Strategy and Tesla via the SNB's equity portfolio. The irony is that the central bank is already accumulating Bitcoin exposure whether it wants to or not. The signature shortfall says less about Bitcoin's viability as a reserve asset and more about the difficulty of grassroots political campaigns in a country where direct democracy sets a high bar by design. 100,000 signatures in a nation of 8.8 million is not trivial. Either way, the conversation has been planted. Even failed referendums in Switzerland have a way of resurfacing once the conditions change. And the conditions are changing fast. https://blossom.primal.net/9b93b552a114a08a69bd55ba2b204b1cd3859c806300f760a00df93bc42361fe.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump announces a three-day ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war from May 9-11. The deal includes suspension of all kinetic activity and a prisoner swap of 1,000 from each side. https://blossom.primal.net/e53168e4c7b35135ab31ebe576eaa8c627b098e7347a3556e32e3519955f48de.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Keonne Rodriguez wrote from prison asking for help with $2M+ in legal fees from the Samourai Wallet case. "We have to stand up for our own." Donations are being tracked on-chain. When the state comes for one of us, we show up. https://blossom.primal.net/62b67f85914345e947297cc0001d2213b73a24f46ef58671edb4e68c38d67af4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jeff Walton: "Our balance sheet needs to go up about 5.5% annually to pay the dividends forever. The money supply is growing at 6.7% annually. We are underwriting the next 8 to 10 years of Bitcoin to go up 30 to 35% compound annual growth rate." Coffeezilla: "It's not going to do that." Walton: "That's just a disagreement. The world's never seen a fixed supply asset. The supply of Bitcoin is asymptotically approaching zero. You've got ETFs growing rapidly, institutions coming in, credit being issued against it. The entire credit market is $300 trillion. This is the biggest total addressable market on the planet." https://blossom.primal.net/3e74e5898a55284af9e7d8f0ad82c4820bc198aa83dcee8b501ab3ca8abb6ecc.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jeff Walton: "Is an insurance company a Ponzi scheme?" Coffeezilla: "No. They have business activities that are providing cash flow. They're taking on risk." Walton: "Insurance companies have capital and they're taking on risk to pay liability into the future. Almost 100% of the claims that get paid out on insurance company balance sheets is from premiums that they're collecting in the door. So under your definition, you would call an insurance company a Ponzi scheme." Coffeezilla: "No, no. They have real profits. They have real cash flows." Walton: "The profits are the assets that are protected on their balance sheet." Coffeezilla: "People are paying for products." Walton: "What's the product?" https://blossom.primal.net/f738a68e022e56ef90064623f0dfbc922e5476fa3305645799c35590fbb37f0f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The U.S. government just put its classified UFO files online. No clearance required. The Department of War released its first batch of declassified UAP files as part of a new interagency program called PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters). The collection is live at http://WAR.GOV/UFO, with more files coming on a rolling basis. The effort involves the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Energy, AARO (the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office), NASA, the FBI, and additional intelligence agencies. The collection includes previously classified UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire U.S. government. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the files had been "hidden behind classifications" and had "long fueled justified speculation." DNI Tulsi Gabbard called it an "unprecedented review" of the Intelligence Community's holdings. FBI Director Kash Patel said it was "the first time in history" the American people have "unfettered access" to declassified UAP records. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency will "remain candid about what we know to be true, what we have yet to understand, and all that remains to be discovered." The files have been reviewed for security but many have not yet been analyzed for resolution of the anomalies they document. It's worth asking why every major intelligence and defense agency chose this moment to coordinate a joint public release. The files are live. https://blossom.primal.net/8cf68383033d81c1fa7edb2567f773e9096d28dc5d3ef54c3e579b0c7baad5cc.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A former inmate claims Epstein "definitely" committed suicide because the guy in the next cell heard bedsheets ripping. This is the level of evidence we're working with. https://blossom.primal.net/2dc140ecfe86ad3bc84ae0e3802030777e4f6847b750ddbfe78c8543c0aa61bd.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Germany's Left Party has submitted what's being described as one of the most aggressive anti-Bitcoin proposals in European history. The motion calls on the German government to abolish the country's 1-year holding rule that currently allows tax-free Bitcoin gains for long-term holders, tax Bitcoin profits like stock market gains, introduce an "exit tax" on unrealized crypto gains for anyone leaving Germany, expand blockchain surveillance, require identity verification even for self-hosted wallets interacting with regulated services, create a centralized EU crypto supervisory authority, and push for EU-wide trading bans on proof-of-work assets like Bitcoin, citing energy consumption. This isn't just the Left Party. German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil has separately announced that crypto taxation will be revised as part of the 2027 federal budget. The 1-year tax-free holding period that made Germany one of the most attractive countries for long-term Bitcoin holders appears to be on the way out regardless of which proposal moves forward. The Left Party claims billions in untaxed crypto profits are being lost. Austria already tried this. They abolished a similar exemption in 2022 and imposed a 27.5% crypto gains tax. The result: far less tax revenue than expected, more complexity, and more bureaucracy. Bitpanda's CEO says the Austrian experience proves the approach doesn't work. The exit tax on unrealized gains is the most alarming part. If you hold Bitcoin in Germany and decide to leave, they want to tax gains you haven't even realized yet. That's not a tax on income. That's a claim on your property for trying to leave. https://blossom.primal.net/d25506c4bd13a41d608b2c34c1b5cc46098fb3e2be4e9e2773af2554fd3cf0e1.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "They quoted me $5,100 for an MRI with insurance. Without insurance, it drops to $700." Same scan. Same machine. Same hospital. Insurance didn't lower the price. It raised it by 7x and won't let you opt out. https://blossom.primal.net/04f82859fd75b9d55f7cf40838a850de93c5b6439241c60bbe8a3f5bcdf4cd4b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Warren: "Any crypto legislation that doesn't shut down this presidential corruption isn't worth the paper it's written on." https://blossom.primal.net/35083ad0eaf44e83505d6cac285217bcac92e4f6e0b02e769ab857faec24dba2.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump: “I had a great call with The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.” The two leaders reaffirmed they are “completely united that Iran can never have a Nuclear Weapon.” https://blossom.primal.net/70f3de7870856cb5c2c22d693f942bc346fa66dab6c915eae49d87bcbe20ddd0.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI's former CTO Mira Murati testified under oath in the Musk v. Altman trial that Sam Altman lied to her about safety standards for a new AI model and routinely told different executives completely opposite things. Murati said Altman falsely claimed OpenAI's legal department determined a new GPT model did not need to go through the company's deployment safety board. When she checked with general counsel Jason Kwon, she found their accounts did not match. She overrode Altman and sent the model through the board anyway. Her testimony lines up with a 52-page memo from cofounder Ilya Sutskever previously read into the record, which said Altman "exhibits a consistent pattern of lying, undermining his execs, and pitting his execs against one another." Former board member Helen Toner made similar claims in 2024. Murati briefly served as interim CEO after the board fired Altman in November 2023 and said OpenAI was at "catastrophic risk of falling apart" during the transition. She left the company in 2024 and founded a competing AI firm, Thinking Machines Lab. The trial is part of Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. https://blossom.primal.net/11e9a9db65edde584abf3652fa8acaa0a0b4f46171b8a01f5f45df694974461e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC SF Fed President Mary Daly says it’s too early to tell if the central bank has finished its rate-cutting cycle. https://blossom.primal.net/edf52a8b2374ab2f4867533717ffbf8770b9d29c60d9ecd06c914419afa2066b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump concludes bilateral meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, discussing trade and tariffs. Trump called the talks "very well" and announced follow-up discussions between representatives. https://blossom.primal.net/c0ecda51420136f1c0a39f37468caef5c149b24be1949148e736b35fd86b668a.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Your morning briefing on bitcoin, macro, and freedom tech. Written for people who don't have time to waste. Subscribe: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC AOC: "There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can't earn a billion dollars." https://blossom.primal.net/07b273d38959a131a492a66e5535ef92f0343e2350038159ad62d52c700c7dd6.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Good to see Angela McArdle bringing the Samourai Wallet case to Tim Pool's audience. Most people still have no idea developers are facing prison for writing code. The more people who hear about this the better. https://blossom.primal.net/bb1194c09e1aebbe841a338b1665c18b3a83c2e5d362441ad3f605e85004f3d3.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC 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." https://blossom.primal.net/6dfa977ac2ae5c9883edf22b3be74a96db873a12ad1d6537b39403da48d9bff1.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Hantavirus: 40% fatality rate. Zero approved treatments. The best modern medicine can offer is "supportive care," which means hope your body figures it out. Why have we not been studying treatments? Hantavirus is an RNA virus. Ivermectin blocks the nuclear import pathway that RNA viruses exploit to replicate. Peer-reviewed studies published in Antiviral Research, Nature, and the Journal of Virology show broad-spectrum antiviral activity against dengue, Zika, West Nile, chikungunya, and other RNA viruses. Three people are dead on a quarantined cruise ship. Five more are sick. The WHO has confirmed it's the Andes strain, the only hantavirus known to spread person to person. US health authorities are now monitoring passengers in three states. A Nobel Prize-winning drug with a decades-long safety profile and a documented antiviral mechanism exists. No one is claiming it's a proven cure. But when the fatality rate is 40% and there is literally no approved treatment, the question is simple: why isn't anyone studying it? h/t Mary Talley Bowden MD https://blossom.primal.net/475214ce934d123cbbe743566509a057e48731f8f9d8f73279209764f1879db3.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A federal judge has unsealed a purported suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein after the New York Times petitioned the court to release it. The note had been sealed for six years. Epstein's former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, says he found the note inside a graphic novel after Epstein's first suicide attempt in July 2019. The note reads: "They investigated me for months. FOUND NOTHING!!! It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye. Watcha want me to do. Bust out cryin!! NO FUN. NOT WORTH IT!!" It has no signature and has not been authenticated. After that July attempt, Epstein told jail officials Tartaglione had attacked him and that he was not suicidal. A Bureau of Prisons evaluation deemed him "low risk," quoting him saying "it would be crazy" to take his life. The watch was removed. He was dead weeks later. The Justice Department says it had never seen the note. No copy appeared in the millions of Epstein documents the agency has released. How it ended up inside a graphic novel, authenticated only by the cellmate's lawyers, and sealed from the public for six years raises more questions than it answers. https://blossom.primal.net/54d259792cc8a844d3a73285a0d563294217866c412e3fe916c38e4da4b20050.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Where wealth exists today will transfer into where wealth is going tomorrow." @npub1cn4…3vle on Bitcoin as the greatest wealth transfer in human history, $400-500 trillion in assets being monetized as savings, and Bitcoin is competing for all of it. https://blossom.primal.net/e3400ca1bb99dd36bb94adc3128d875292bdfe7b93409c0ff2f6cf9225003902.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .Quentin Ehr is premiering a four-part documentary on Bitcoin circular economies at the Unconference in Prague. Filmed in Kibera, Nairobi, one of Africa's largest informal settlements where residents built a functioning Bitcoin economy with no government funding. https://blossom.primal.net/ff53cf81120c8dc09e8ea5d41d63f0693272297d4d23844de37e1ec8f5b2309b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "If you're working on something that they don't like and a user of your software could do something with it that we deem bad, we will come after you." - (leamuirleyn) The Samourai precedent puts every Bitcoin developer at risk. https://blossom.primal.net/1d08fd13667adaf1d92682b987e0b067d6ea63f2226dbd040800b2d465c41d00.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump says talks with Iran over the last 44 hours “went very well” and that a deal is now “very possible.” https://blossom.primal.net/3bee9624ad1e4c83c6b04738e3ae08c96d665931406782882a43ad505bf9523e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC VanEck Head of Digital Assets Research Matthew Sigel says $1 million Bitcoin is the base case over the next several years. https://blossom.primal.net/0a345d33960e0c45083b72c5c20809486a39b1ca7d74acd8ebac4e25be8eb5f8.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "If you don't have financial privacy, you can't have financial freedom." (leamuirleyn) on why privacy matters even if you think you have nothing to hide. https://blossom.primal.net/9ddc9b1aee28958c0ec0ac7e054fcf3d593f8c3820b8815581db917687690e89.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The new @npub1tke…wral dropped with a built-in secure screen and we're giving one away 🟠 No seed phrase. 2-of-3 multisig. Biometric login. Follow @npub1tke…wral and us, RT to enter. ✅ Winner announced Tuesday 5/12 at 4PM EST. https://blossom.primal.net/9ebaa39c07c38fe362ca88081e6294d87d94f47cfefc66437940268d1a60f86b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC In 2016, a U.S. home cost 137.86 BTC. In 2024, it cost 4.97 BTC. https://blossom.primal.net/3d42accf61dc0a0edc9dc1b4653ce1120ac560324876d0a07af804cc07442d47.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "One of the scariest phrases you can hear is, I'm from the government and I'm here to help." - (leamuirleyn) The DOJ seized Samourai's website to "protect the American people," then let it lapse and watched scammers take it over. https://blossom.primal.net/a4681b0c08d45670b00e425a196f2b0e4ec98917c9420c0f511faa6d22991141.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthropic just signed a deal to take over SpaceX's entire Colossus 1 data center, over 300 megawatts and 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs, going live within the month. They're also doubling Claude Code rate limits across all paid plans and raising API rate limits for their Opus models. This is the latest move in an escalating compute arms race. Beyond SpaceX, Anthropic has locked in a 5 GW agreement with Amazon, another 5 GW deal with Google and Broadcom, $30 billion in Azure capacity through Microsoft and NVIDIA, and a $50 billion infrastructure investment with Fluidstack. They also expressed interest in developing "multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute" with SpaceX, data centers in space. Nearly half of all U.S. data centers planned for 2026 have been canceled or delayed. Out of 12 GW announced, only about 5 GW is under active construction. The bottleneck isn't GPUs anymore, it's power. Transformer shortages, grid wait times stretching 3-5 years, tariffs on electrical equipment, and community opposition are stalling builds nationwide. AI data centers are projected to consume up to 12% of national electricity demand, up from 4%. That's why Anthropic's approach is so aggressive, buying access to facilities that already have power rather than building from scratch. The companies that win the AI race may not be the ones with the best models. They may be the ones who locked up the most electricity. https://blossom.primal.net/4466f3af1891e949e61dd0432f0005cc00909fb5dff07595c8d73be4444b76f2.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "We no longer live in a free society if this is the case." (leamuirleyn) on a DOJ that charged Keonne and Bill 6 months after FinCEN told them Samourai wasn't violating any law. https://blossom.primal.net/45e892b968dba58ecd36b092b3e070724785f5a5e516d06988f30abc65dadb37.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Goldman says 95% of enterprises are getting zero return on $30-40B in GenAI spending. Goldman's own Exhibit 9 shows consumer AI demand growing 12x by 2030. Both are true. Here's what it means: Enterprise AI is failing because legacy companies don't know how to use these tools. They're spending millions bolting chatbots onto workflows designed in 2005 and wondering why ROI is zero. The real AI wave is startups who build from scratch. Three people doing the work of thirty. No legacy systems. No "AI transformation consultants." Just raw efficiency gains from day one. Meanwhile, the demand side is undeniable. Token economics turn positive H1 2026. Consumer agents are shifting from chat sessions to always-on. The hockey stick is already forming. The question is who captures the value. Open-source LLMs and agent frameworks are commoditizing inference. If small businesses and individuals can route around hyperscalers, the value moves from chips to applications. The market is overpricing hyperscaler equity as if they have traditional big tech moats. They might not. And the backstop nobody's talking about: Trump invoked the Defense Production Act for AI. The federal government is treating this as critical infrastructure. Will there be misallocation? Yes. But a full bust is hard to sell when demand outstrips supply and the government won't let it fail. Enterprise AI is a bubble. Consumer AI is a boom. Goldman proved both in the same report. https://blossom.primal.net/41b737e010ccc33b20ff58b91c18f8021b8a6a555f18475b28eb9891e2c6ad5f.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Congressman Thomas Massie visits PubKey. https://blossom.primal.net/e769cb8afb6a102cd3f44cda62f443de7d095b38eae2d0ef65df95bbfc85a136.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump announces a short-term pause of "Project Freedom" in the Strait of Hormuz at the request of Pakistan and other countries. https://blossom.primal.net/5b088a6f6295ce907ecd6a20cf98607c7d7590d1584bd4d7a9ad9fa11abf22b3.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Nothing has outperformed Bitcoin over any sustained time period. Nothing." @npub1qw6…2v52 on why the Bitcoin-only thesis is stronger today than it was 10 years ago. https://blossom.primal.net/56a64843bd6f79d73f29f2f286741285d06e8942a32b76c2ebc19bca80e9c79e.mp4