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Last Notes npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rand Paul says letters seeking Fauci prosecution for contempt delivered to DOJ after Senate vote. https://blossom.primal.net/f24d1c3cc2edad46081e29e8e3bb75ef5a0bbc9ab7791492f448ac055ca0e67c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Van Hollen and SIFMA CEO debate Clarity Act. Van Hollen: “I think this is a warning for all of us that bill is not ready for prime time.” CEO: “We think the bill that came out of the Senate Banking Committee had a number of good things in it.” https://blossom.primal.net/22bf500e12e5b265bd5b918a185981b4826cc51c017ecb5dfd07e2dbaa806f7e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Saylor on why saving in dollars is a losing game. "One acre of land in Miami Beach cost $10,000 a hundred years ago. Today that same acre is $10 to $20 million. The dollar lost about 7% of its economic value every year for 100 years running." https://blossom.primal.net/10375778cb61c91cd2b2d21d026ee45cff2fc6ff7c356cdab692a7259357dc25.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Saylor on why Bitcoin is compelling for normal people. "The average person shouldn't have to be a real estate expert or a tax expert. Why shouldn't they just be able to put their money into an asset that appreciates and not have to worry about it?" https://blossom.primal.net/04be9559b7c0dd031d84d3feffe1272af015fd6ebd354e4e25636ecee88c21ac.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Big Oil is on track for ~$44B in Q2 profits, 3rd largest quarter ever. Exxon: $14.7B Chevron: $12.1B (record) Shell: $9.8B https://blossom.primal.net/1d54648b9e7041097acdc56d8f1a72c745d5a5fa198bbc554586a9c72dc52663.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Nikita Bier has resigned as X's Head of Product. He'll stay on as an advisor. https://blossom.primal.net/af5bd5da506a0ca3945d44cf4d8d680c063aecb3396caef17e8e94cd208a0a03.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Wave one happened in 41 minutes. Not one of those UTXOs was created before March 17th, 2021, when the cold card firmware bug was introduced." Alex Thorn breaks down the attack waves. https://blossom.primal.net/df4be13ce5dcaa5068341c83036f5fe2a411dbfa927b750c28f447434bd63582.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senate may delay August recess to vote on the CLARITY Act. Sen. Lummis: “I don’t think we’ll be leaving on Friday. I think we’ll go into the weekend.” https://blossom.primal.net/ae7370613b2859ddd26cace0117f11ca875c2569e8a753596de243a699683187.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "You did nothing wrong. You did not deserve this." Alex Thorn on why Coldcard victims should not be ashamed to come forward and share their drained addresses with Galaxy's forensic tracing team. https://blossom.primal.net/76f8ebb8052f9322406adc9ffc1bd9b1c8544d3bb0adea47611e9c7f2cd65e12.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Giacomo Zucco announced he's resigned from the board of OCEAN mining pool. He says he still has love for Luke Dashjr and believes in OCEAN's core ideas, miner-side block production, KYC-free coinbase payouts, and Lightning share markets, but felt he needed to "speak the truth." The resignation comes as BIP-110 support from miners remains below the 55% activation threshold, and some BIP-110 proponents are now floating a proof-of-work change hard fork. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC It's our favorite time of the week: TAKEDOWN TUESDAY Member paid $500 The Crowd picked up $500 Free yourself from health insurance. Join CrowdHealth https://blossom.primal.net/dd6591548ef1b8af6372901f569a35010b205c3a442f510147494dd21c62809b.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/3b9b7e2aca76f94c460eb70cea1af71f7706151bb69f05d67dc6f5a2a8b0e0fd.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC SpaceX just announced a partnership with Nvidia to build its Starmind AI-1 satellite payload, putting data center-class compute into orbit. Each Starmind satellite will run Nvidia's latest Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs, pushing SpaceX's peak satellite computing capacity to 250 kW. We're no longer just talking about putting AI in the cloud. We're literally putting it in space. The race for compute has gotten so intense that companies are now looking beyond Earth's surface to find capacity. SpaceX already has the largest satellite constellation in history with Starlink, now they're turning that infrastructure into an orbital compute network. https://blossom.primal.net/fedacf993bf20ff5ba881411f3fd3c14c042042d6ff513e5d0130d07951cf534.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coinkite published a new update on the ColdCard vulnerability. They say the bug "lived at a boundary between two unrelated submodules, not in the parent code, and not in the cryptographic or Bitcoin-specific logic that are the subject of most internal and third-party reviews." They ran AI-assisted review against their codebase in the weeks before the exploit and it didn't catch it. They've since tested frontier models including Kimi K3, Claude, and Codex 5.6, none of them caught it either. Coinkite is now warning other bitcoin projects: "If your team relies on AI review of security-critical code, we recommend you test it specifically against build and submodule boundaries." npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Chris Guida (cguida6) has rebased Luke Dashjr's 2017 proof-of-work change hard fork code onto a recent version of Bitcoin Knots, arguing it should be kept ready in case miners refuse to signal for BIP-110. "I think we should have this in our back pocket in case miners decide to collude to betray bitcoin." https://blossom.primal.net/def06494a2711338a6e98074bf56032d00f63b6e2e24bc37a99bbc05c4c79379.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Gavin Baker says GPU prices are going vertical. "They rented the exact same cluster, exact same size, essentially identical in every way, and they're hoping seven months later to pay just under $4," up from $2. https://blossom.primal.net/2af4d28b6412b3b999fe3bb0776674ab46f2452058ee434a457274cefb321d27.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Top AI investor, Gavin Baker, says GPU prices are going vertical. "They rented the exact same cluster, exact same size, essentially identical in every way, and they're hoping seven months later to pay just under $4," up from $2. https://blossom.primal.net/e536085c182a248cf743aa767bcc7d6da4d0fb04d9261c8624057bdd95a9d00c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC American HODL received a phishing email urging him to download a fake "ColdCard Desktop" app. Scammers are exploiting the panic around the ColdCard vulnerability to trick people into downloading malware. As he points out, there is no ColdCard desktop app and there never has been. Stay vigilant. https://blossom.primal.net/2c5586db0c847114489c372c19d335a58aad741a6a350ee3a5375f063cd16b4f.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/bfe55d665d024579e932c63b274d9873c932a026633c953e1d9fd470e3dac2c6.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/d4673af6b5fa857458264d74659f792bd16d91259ab3c948b24561e24035c585.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/6ca3e1fd8441f7cdfa30594d03b8aff9f7987d8112063cd0db2f9e6d22913704.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Boltz is shutting down swaps until further notice. They've been hit by multiple AI-assisted exploits and say attackers are now iterating faster than their team can patch. No user funds lost. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "India was selling diesel to South Africa. Someone in Singapore bought it. China panicked and redirected it. On the way, Japan took it. Two weeks later, still in the ocean." - Anas Alhajji https://blossom.primal.net/c6b98d3e2c8d93238e9bfce826c9eda060bc3f54c1b26284d05f0dc68772ad27.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Germany has all the choices from around the world, but they chose this one because it had the lowest CO2 per unit. It's cheaper, it's better, you're getting it anyway. Why do you have to play like this?" Anas Alhajji on Europe's self-inflicted energy crisis. https://blossom.primal.net/891c7e4fbd5291659dcd0bac7661b3023df84e4dc14879c9f2cf3f46c6b88cae.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Lots of people asking how Bitkey handles entropy after the Coldcard situation. Their security team dropped a full technical breakdown with citations. If you're shopping for a hardware wallet right now, this is worth your time. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC If your bitcoin was stolen in the Coldcard exploit, (deconflict_) put together a step-by-step guide on how to collect evidence and report it to the proper authorities. Don't assume your case is too small or too late. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The Strait of Hormuz is not only about oil. It's about helium, you can't make a computer chip without it. It's about fertilizers, you can't grow food without them." Anas Alhajji on why this crisis touches everything. https://blossom.primal.net/ee4793699f367298f2c801a6f4447ddd891772fb6529db4df9e68dedf3fe32c1.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Do people believe that this war is about Iran and its nuclear program, or is it part of a larger change happening around the world?" Anas Alhajji connects the dots on energy dominance. https://blossom.primal.net/05042997ad42bb83e38973c19dc447c3b032d6cd15a593a6f26e182a3d5e886e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy now holds 842,138 BTC and just bumped its USD Reserve to $4.0B while repurchasing $81M of $STRC. They're extending USD Duration to 2.3 years and tightening STRC's BTC Credit spread by 5 bps. https://blossom.primal.net/7674b8e4c5413907ac7d0a7782495d4f0e4852f60462e5468c2d24d567c840ae.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coinkite has halted all Coldcard shipments and destroyed remaining inventory with affected firmware. Customers with in-transit orders have been contacted directly with migration steps. https://blossom.primal.net/c34452ad5328648fc56c4adb208362828c0b67eec708e374ad52aa09ce4a1d06.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Users are reporting that Coldcard's emergency firmware update is bricking some devices. These reports are anecdotal and have not been confirmed by Coinkite, but if you're planning to update, move your funds off the device first. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Asia's leverage boom is unwinding fast. $67 billion in margin debt has been wiped across South Korea, China, and Taiwan since their recent peaks. South Korean leveraged ETFs tied to SK Hynix and Samsung have lost 63% of their assets, down $7 billion. h/t (KobeissiLetter) https://blossom.primal.net/6ab338aba4607d5a0148aee1c05ce7db6ddbc34fa228d5b562a03f0e1caf8d61.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A third wave of the Coldcard seed-entropy hack has been identified. 1,367 BTC (~$88.6M) drained across 4,585 addresses in three waves. Funds are 100% unspent, still sitting in the attacker's wallets. Galaxy Research has the full breakdown. https://blossom.primal.net/30b9a855b7bb1b84af4b6c8c19794ffaec2c196ed635846fc18e94fd88ebfe64.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Galaxy Research is tracking the Coldcard hack in real time. They've identified three waves of sweeps so far: 1,367 BTC (~$88.6M) drained from 4,585 addresses. The first wave hit 1,196 addresses in a 41-minute window, all paying an identical 30 sat/vB fee. Automated key scanning, not owners moving funds. Galaxy notes "the loss profile is dominated by sub-1 BTC addresses in count, but by larger addresses in value. This appears to be the shape of individual self-custody, not institutional holdings." Not one coin taken was created before the vulnerable firmware shipped in March 2021. https://blossom.primal.net/30b9a855b7bb1b84af4b6c8c19794ffaec2c196ed635846fc18e94fd88ebfe64.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .Kevin Loaec 🧙♂️🐟 from Wizard Sardine just published a full technical breakdown of a critical Coldcard vulnerability. Every seed generated on the device since 2021 is compromised. Wallets are being drained right now. The chip has a perfectly working hardware random number generator. Nobody was calling it. "The Coldcard replaces MicroPython's randomness module with its own, deemed more conservative. To do so, it disables the original one... The catch is that MicroPython does not remove rng_get() when that flag is 0. It replaces it with a software imitation." The result: "a Coldcard seed no longer held a single bit of physical randomness." A compile-time safety check should have caught this but used `ifndef` instead of `if`. "One character stood between that safeguard and its purpose." It passed on every build for 5+ years. Seeds from 50+ dice rolls or pre-2021 are safe. Everyone else: move funds now. http://wizardsardine.com/blog/coldcard-rng-vulnerability/ https://blossom.primal.net/9974bab86ec31d6b846755c3862338d4a8f59ecb1d5b2ed023c49db09332865e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC As much as this hurts. The network will grow stronger from it. Don't give up. https://blossom.primal.net/ac6fe08756ec588df537ae84f233ff71fd535c8c3ab72c3a69f5d379ec297969.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 778 w/ (hot_town): "The playing field is being leveled. It's no longer limited by technical ability. This opens up whole new economies." We discuss: ⚡ Building with AI agents ⚡ Bitcoin & the agent economy ⚡ Why open source wins https://blossom.primal.net/d1dc96c0b24288cb89116581006e738b8fc1e2a76594f1297f0944640ce85b93.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Conner Brown of Matthew Boyer urges Coldcard victims not to destroy compromised devices after the firmware flaw that drained tens of millions in BTC. “If you have a Coldcard that was compromised, do not throw away or destroy the device.” https://blossom.primal.net/605c28fa7898cc106f6d3c27b2ab25c87ab6d8446e03a2312d055de6edf72ec3.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Even the smart guys screwed up self-custody. How can we expect anybody will comfortably self-custody after this?" (jamesob) on the second-order effects of the COLDCARD vulnerability, why every hardware wallet maker has had a fatal misstep, and why the only categorical fix may be covenants. https://blossom.primal.net/c9afc2b8bff6ed724b36478562708627ad8233d835a1b69309b5796ecfd4fe7b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Security by obscurity is going to zero rapidly." (jamesob) and other researchers independently reproduced the COLDCARD vulnerability by pointing an AI model at the firmware history. This is the new reality for open-source security. https://blossom.primal.net/429e407bbf7a7a944b935f1c88cf75ff9d599b8941b2de1d076801ff90a5002f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coinbase Chief Policy Officer on CLARITY Act progress: "We've got ethics nailed down, we've got nominations nailed down, we've got a bipartisan bill on the substance, we should be good to go." https://blossom.primal.net/aeefb8071d96146e862b5ffa4a73f7a8a4ba6ec0da4a35ab163f10af07fcc508.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 777 w/ (jamesob): "If you're single-sig with no passphrase or dice rolls, you need to drive home and migrate your funds. These wallets are dangling in the wind." We discuss: ⚡ The flaw exposed overnight ⚡ How to check your risk ⚡ Why self-custody still wins https://blossom.primal.net/86b684d271fd14bcf78fba4683208cedf7412b9c0cdd48ba0d09a8eee5526b74.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coldcard founder (nvk) says the reports of drained wallets are not a device vulnerability. The thefts are part of a wider attack affecting 500 private keys across different wallet types, not just Coldcard. https://blossom.primal.net/6bc4cd1dfb4c3fba4a6d842a064a9e1805502dbc83eb9d79037352d9c315e3a0.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Cynthia Lummis says the CLARITY Act remains on track for a Senate vote before the August recess: “Sen. Thune has kept a place for the CLARITY ACT on the agenda...and I believe he does intend to go through with it...We will be moving forward.” https://blossom.primal.net/f3c786c393634fea4c011512ba448fd0923ff393fa595e4ae7a61cc45abf7798.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Cynthia Lummis: “This doesn’t come back next year… The realistic next chance at market structure legislation is likely 2030.” She urged passage of the CLARITY Act, adding the window to lead “is wide open.” https://blossom.primal.net/73ef82c62195e3c7b9c1f8b76eb2c107db0233376f384dbb0a07ff2fa374849c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC IRS warns digital asset investors of fake letters with QR codes directing to a nonexistent “Digital Asset Compliance Portal.” Coinbase also alerts clients. Do not scan the codes or enter any info. https://blossom.primal.net/b36b3d418cf4f18276f32ee1a3530bca036145b8b58cf6e0eb81ecf1ab00fcd5.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Russia just charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with "aiding terrorism" and put him on an international wanted list. The FSB says Telegram failed to remove channels used by Ukrainian intelligence for sabotage and recruitment. This is the same playbook every government runs. France arrested Durov in 2024 over similar claims. Now Russia is doing it from the other side of the same war. The pattern is always identical. A terrible act happens. Governments point at encrypted messaging. They demand backdoors, content removal, compliance. Anyone who refuses becomes an enemy of the state. But encryption cannot be secure for some people and insecure for others. That's not how math works. A backdoor for the FSB is a backdoor for every intelligence agency, every hacker, every authoritarian regime on earth. Russia is simultaneously pushing its own state messaging app called MAX that openly shares user data with authorities and doesn't use end-to-end encryption. That's the endgame. Replace tools you can't surveil with tools you control. Every government wants the same thing, a communication layer they can monitor. They just use different justifications. Russia says terrorism. France said child safety. The US says national security. The demand is always the same. Give us access. The 60 Minutes clip from 2016 is worth revisiting. Durov said it plainly, "Encryption cannot be secure just for some people." https://blossom.primal.net/537471ac492efd947152508613f4113d298c481c30e2a1de96c91c3a0aa28073.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund is up 439% on the year, levered to the gills on AI stocks, and is now scrambling to raise capital after the recent rout. Sound familiar? Every few years, an Effective Altruist makes a fortune, gets drunk on their own certainty about the future, levers up, and blows apart. SBF believed he had a moral obligation to make as much money as possible so he could redistribute it to save the world. That conviction gave him permission to cut corners, commingle funds, and lie. He's in prison. Aschenbrenner believes he has "situational awareness" that perhaps a few hundred people on earth possess. That conviction gave him permission to run a skeleton crew of 4 investment professionals, use massive leverage with no prior trading experience, and concentrate into the most crowded trade on the planet. The pattern isn't coincidence. It's the philosophy. EA teaches its followers that the expected value of the future is so enormous that almost any risk is justified in the present. If you truly believe AGI will reshape civilization and you're one of the few who sees it clearly, why wouldn't you lever 10:1? The math says you should. That's the trap. Certainty about the future plus moral permission to act on it is the most dangerous combination in markets. It turns smart people into walking blowup risk. The market doesn't care about your thesis. It cares about your margin call. https://blossom.primal.net/95f01563679638b3f77b7f719a448209e8d7f1302b3a8d51922701fad051e849.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rural electric utilities across America are quietly becoming bitcoin mining's best friends, and their customers are benefiting whether they know it or not. In Hopkinsville, Kentucky, a bitcoin mine has been running inside a local utility substation for three years without a single noise or water complaint. Now the city is debating zoning regulations that could shut the whole thing down. Tom Masiero, head of strategy at Sphere 3D (which owns the operation), told a public hearing that the mine participates in a flexible-load program. When extreme weather or high demand hits, the facility can quickly power down, freeing up electricity for residents. The local utility's general manager said the revenue helps avoid rate increases for 13,000 customers. The company wants to expand with a second 50-megawatt facility and would pay $8-10M to build a new substation, adding 15 megawatts of extra capacity for the community. But the proposed zoning draft would ban any facility over 75 megawatts and require setbacks up to 1,000 feet from residential property. NCLC's attorney warned it would effectively ban data centers in the city entirely. This is the pattern playing out in small towns everywhere. Bitcoin miners offering flexible load and real revenue to struggling utilities while local governments rush to regulate something they don't fully understand yet. https://blossom.primal.net/5c4ffa8fca32357272191f9df3eda5091560be6d1ae31f1d17efdc0027f9f33c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Stop selling your bitcoin to pay for life. (AvenCard) gives you a credit line backed by your BTC. Up to $1M. Rates starting at 7.99%, fixed for up to 10 years. No rehypothecation. No annual fees. 2% cash back. https://www.tftc.io/aven-bitcoin-visa-card/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Hackers just hit 30+ water systems in Minnesota in a coordinated cyberattack over two days. One plant went completely offline. The attack targeted operational technology, the actual control systems that manage water treatment and distribution. Minnesota activated a statewide cybersecurity incident response involving local, state, and federal agencies. Authorities haven't said who's responsible. This is what infrastructure vulnerability looks like in practice. These are small community water systems that often lack the resources to properly secure their control networks. When your water supply depends on internet-connected systems run by underfunded local operators, this is the inevitable result. As (ODELLXYZ) points out, clean water access should be a serious factor when considering where you live. The systems we take for granted are far more fragile than most people realize. https://blossom.primal.net/67ed484eadd6a3fa503403602d59773f3a6e78e8079923a8d6d633b35e7cbc34.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Kevin Warsh: "The economy is showing impressively resilience. Even with recent shocks, the trends are positive and reveal solid growth. Inflation remains elevated." https://blossom.primal.net/423887253309b2da2112ba3094dad9dcf42fe734d756732823086a316230a836.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitchat, the offline Bluetooth mesh messaging app, is now available as a full client on Wear OS smartwatches. Acts as a decentralized walkie-talkie. https://blossom.primal.net/afbc28a68c84d3f0e0aadeee30eb49e79ebe693d06c5745ba6ab75224839e08e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC BitMart is shutting down and even on the way out they're extracting value from users. One user tried to withdraw $2. Minimum withdrawal was $5, so they deposited $10 to qualify. Fees took $11. Net result? Turned $2 into $1 and gave BitMart $10 for the privilege. The backstory is worse. BitMart got hacked for $196M in 2021. Funds went straight to Tornado Cash. They promised reimbursements that never came. Then in May 2026 a proof-of-reserves leak showed ~$169M on paper, but almost all of it was BMX, their own token. Actual USDT on hand for withdrawals? Reportedly $650K. BMX dumped 60%. Withdrawals stalled. Margin trading force liquidated. AMM bots suspended. Full wind-down announced. All within 24 hours. This is why self-custody matters. Not your keys, not your coins isn't a meme. Every cycle produces another exchange collapse that proves the point. https://blossom.primal.net/b58d9ae34cd80d153afa15308f45d50db437df4cc6d76b47880c94d9f21c8e94.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC DCG urges Senate to pass Clarity Act before August recess: "We respectfully urge you to schedule a floor vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the August recess." https://blossom.primal.net/4c99d619e8773517804dbfd360f7b4f7be8f42cfdf58437df086de8165e91822.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Ashley Moody grills Dr. Fauci on his preemptive Biden pardon: “Did you talk to President Biden and ask for this pardon?” https://blossom.primal.net/47744ac2db833a081022eb87265201f68ee1b4e5916c003b5b0572b24d828615.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Senate COVID hearing. Sen. Josh Hawley: “What day of the week is it today?” Fauci: “I decline to answer based upon my rights under the 5th Amendment.” https://blossom.primal.net/77b41e675ef05f6ed2c2edab7a589a9abcc7452b333c1cf577ba5e66fdbd36ee.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC CTA, the U.S. largest tech association, says the CLARITY Act prevents capital flight and job losses: “The longer we delay, the more investment moves elsewhere. Capital flows to jurisdictions with clearer rules. America loses jobs and leadership.” https://blossom.primal.net/642ca1a7c7a36ea94d00c915b8e5f7a68b191b97b34ddc614b4766ba782a67fc.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC 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." https://blossom.primal.net/1c9902aabcc8213ce10194454c99739c0ff5033f24aa053ecb6d706e70ab88d4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .(nvk) resurfaces a Mircea Popescu post from 2012 mocking quantum FUD against bitcoin. "Bitcoin is doomed because quantum computers" was the argument then. The FUD cycle never changes, only the price does. https://blossom.primal.net/9df44b703ab4bf8df8faf57a35b0cdac8c0ce1384335747ced275faf18a51274.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bank of Russia drafts first regulations to launch cryptocurrency market: “The Bank of Russia has created conditions for organised trading in digital currencies and digital rights.” https://blossom.primal.net/090a37021f5022ebca9da45bc2560ae939a63605fb4bd51ff7252da65f6fce7f.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jim Cramer on data centers: "If you are borrowing money to buy something related to the data center, here’s what you’re going to do. Tomorrow morning, 9:30 AM, sell it. No matter what. You will not regret it." https://blossom.primal.net/3a3ec75d7336734c34fca9f11ec0c5c2bb762979da10fb4804b036baa617a5da.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rep. Mike Haridopolos on the CLARITY Act: "This is about the future currency and the world, and making sure American markets are the premiere markets in the world." https://blossom.primal.net/1cafd1afa55266da39e025010b2b67330771bb05e6f3fbda014e75f4db7acc21.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitchat can now share its own APK offline to other Android phones via Wi-Fi hotspot or Nearby Share, no internet required. https://blossom.primal.net/a483afd33914b416378f2ad5d9dbb02a8396e9093e79b2aa7227017ea3c3d6d2.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Alphabet's estimated capex over the next 12 months just went vertical past $200 billion. For context, they spent less than $30 billion as recently as 2022. https://blossom.primal.net/31d02d2b84446dafc8736b18da8663de3a005d14bfaa83b25795f7f78473f64b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC New York City just launched a government-backed grocery network with $70 million in public capital and a required 30% discount on a city-approved basket of staples. The city supplies turnkey sites, covers rent and property taxes, and makes annual "Affordability Payments" to cover the gap. No one has disclosed the size or formula for those payments. The $70M is startup capital, not the recurring subsidy. Average food-retail margins are 2.1%. A 30% mandated discount doesn't repeal spoilage, labor, logistics, or theft. It moves the shortfall to taxpayers. At the same time, the Department of Finance published a surcharge target roll of 959,710 property records for a new non-primary-residence tax. Owners must prove exemption with tax returns, IDs, leases, and affidavits. The city isn't just collecting a tax, it's building an administrative test for who deserves to keep what they own. One group gets a discount at the register. The other gets a surcharge notice and a demand for paperwork. Different agencies, same political logic: define the favored use, set the preferred price, force private property to absorb the difference. Free at checkout is not free. A public target roll is not neutral. New York is building the store and the list at the same time. https://blossom.primal.net/ea8dc2385065ab93cbb2497efa5630b92ec70dd85f5b4cd24015c62d1749e175.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Microsoft just released its first in-house AI built to fight cyberattacks. Called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash. It powers a team of AI agents that find and fix threats on their own, with a public tryout starting August 3 in Microsoft Defender. https://blossom.primal.net/d81da6c4d02f44adcfc327cbd106ec05bae2228fda61a33f2d0175e38af09101.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin critic and actor Ben McKenzie urges Congress to block the Clarity Act. "You can not be against Trump's crypto corruption and then vote for a bill that enables that corruption to continue." https://blossom.primal.net/0a400fafba133a5829e0c2db06c1cef0a03dc79ba420029e975e272480d11b9e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Clarity Act "is at the 1-yard line" amid talks with lawmakers to advance the bill. https://blossom.primal.net/e27c56817e9513803a60d7100c550c8cb503b869f0d3365aae654e192a9a6b14.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senate Majority Leader Thune on Clarity Act: “There’s a lot of swirl around it, on yield, some of the things that the banks care deeply about.” Expects “fairly robust amendment process” if cloture is reached. https://blossom.primal.net/3bcf9050103d6ada729cc0a76f78857a842aaaf77991daed6280623ff070c38c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Franklin Templeton supports the CLARITY Act: “The bill would make clear how crypto is regulated. Investors would know what protections apply. Firms would know which regulators they answer to.” https://blossom.primal.net/cc3c6415c8a02392f9f22de9fdd39b583e919583c3f7158f5f937db2ba5b346a.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .Erik Voorhees showing Kimi K3 running on (AskVenice) answering a prompt about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, uncensored. https://blossom.primal.net/206a2dbc5ca9defed3231ab3e1d2b2f9747c7bb5658ac581e5b5b6c17633984d.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .(DavidBCollum) and @npub1guh…6hjy on why Gen Z is leaning socialist and the Rorschach test playing out in real time: "It makes sense why they're leaning socialist. They've been taught that this is a capitalist system." "My main enemy is the people that have been running this country." "The Charlie Kirk Tyler Robinson story — you can see people picking sides in ways that you go, I did not see that coming." "I don't think you can convict Tyler Robinson based on what I've seen. Not in a standard court of law." https://blossom.primal.net/55f747ed7bedaae10ae772a9d49f6e6208ecab1a66e9bd3d775bf179f6dc30a9.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .(DavidBCollum) and (RudyHavenstein) on the unchecked expansion of executive power and why both parties are the problem: "We gave the executive way too much power under Bush and Cheney and it's just metastasized over the years." "Everything Trump does is gonna be done by some president in the future that you really hate." "There's no cops on the beat. Trump is just making a farce of the whole thing. He's blatantly selling to major criminals." "He seemed like our last hope and now our last hope is gone." "He's done the opposite of everything he promised. And it's pathetic." https://blossom.primal.net/e7f1ae4fffea4ebc84f8ef4f27d66626093be5286e2b7a2b867f215d5e90c1ec.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "If you're building the most important machine since the Manhattan Project, don't be surprised when the government decides it's a public good." -@npub1g0e…l966 We discuss: ⚡ The coming AI nationalization ⚡ The new choke point wars ⚡ Bitcoin's most bullish chart https://blossom.primal.net/3167b86d244f19c1cac8dd6a9e7b27adcc428f390cdd8ce78e1f6ebc06b1aaf9.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Michael Saylor calls BIP-110 "the latest outbreak of the 'I just heard about Bitcoin, and I’m here to fix it' syndrome." https://blossom.primal.net/0a5f2c1516a271e1a59093888819874d97a134cd72bca6b90720bd9bc47917f0.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .(DavidBCollum) went on Twitter to crowdsource the truth about statins, and 495 out of 500 people said the same thing: "Your body has cholesterol for a reason. It's not something you want to drive to zero." "The side effects turn out to be excruciating lower limb pain, swelling, early onset dementia. People end up in wheelchairs within two years." "I did a poll, 62% major side effects." "Instead of trusting the 'experts,' trust people who've been through this." https://blossom.primal.net/7475a8aef52ca3ea6a2b917503ea4146a3fbf7e999e315e4afe7e46468930d1f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Kimi just dropped the model weights and technical report for K3, a 2.8 trillion parameter open-weight model with native vision and a 1M token context window. 2.5x the intelligence per unit of compute. Not just bigger. More efficient. They also open-sourced the infrastructure stack behind it: attention kernels, MoE communication library, and agent environment tooling. https://blossom.primal.net/a5d16dba6c81341cd94971637158992f93152637c81a0c560cc4db236c0bae2a.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A man returning to the US through Atlanta gave border agents a PIN to his GrapheneOS phone. But it wasn't his real PIN, it was a duress code that wiped the device clean. Now the DOJ is charging him with destruction of property to prevent government seizure. CBP claims the authority to copy the entire contents of your phone into a central database without a warrant, on suspicion alone. They told this man they didn't need a warrant. They refused to let him speak to a lawyer. They didn't read him his Miranda rights. And when he used a privacy feature, one specifically designed for situations where you're being coerced into handing over access to your device, they charged him with a federal crime. The government wants full access to your digital life at the border, and it wants to criminalize any tool that makes that harder. GrapheneOS built the duress PIN for exactly this kind of scenario. The fact that using it could land you in federal prison tells you everything you need to know about where the lines are being drawn between privacy and compliance. This case is going to set precedent. If the DOJ wins, every privacy tool that allows you to protect your data under duress becomes a potential felony. That should concern everyone, regardless of what you think about this particular defendant. https://blossom.primal.net/1cd03e53382d82818d2b6af3079b98407a015ef10abc0f125b84e5792d672b86.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC GitHub asks @npub12rv…85vg to delete the Bitchat code after India moves to ban it. He refuses. https://blossom.primal.net/2929b10f4d8a44a3db6ba8a0ca3ff05fb87b68c594a96b7936e09ae612520ef1.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Real-time inflation tracking from Truflation has US CPI at 2.11% YoY. https://blossom.primal.net/6fea7f2a83d1d41423fb9c3b11f49ce54b60a13bbac81edb6e40e6022c517bb8.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy now holds 843,775 BTC and $3.75 billion in USD reserves while initiating buybacks of $STRC below $100/share. They repurchased 288,930 shares for $25M at an average of $86.52 and have $975M remaining for preferred buybacks. 2.1 years of dividend coverage secured. https://blossom.primal.net/ad7cde3f2c5a81e312031b9e8ad4ae447171414e02cae6341ada8285396a9867.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/fdff61dd91f67cfa6dd02d4d1269deae0ecf6750088a80cff7e15292553afacd.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A federal judge ordered Meta to explain under oath how four visa holders ended up on its May layoff list. Meta's HR director responded with a 13-page sworn declaration that reveals how the company actually makes termination decisions. Some of what came out: Meta has 7 performance tiers. "Met Most Expectations" is officially below expectations. One employee with "Consistently Met Expectations," the lowest passing rating, was cut anyway. Org chart depth was a criterion. Employees six levels below Zuckerberg could be flagged for elimination. Managers with fewer than 7 direct reports were targets when the average team ran 10. One plaintiff was terminated less than two weeks after returning from maternity leave. Meta's defense: "nearly 40% of Doe 26's team was selected for termination, demonstrating that Doe 26 was not singled out." Meta explicitly denied AI was used in the selection process and says its activity monitoring tool launched April 22, after selections were "already well underway." Termination notices went out May 20. The four visa holders face a 60-day window to find a new sponsor or leave the country. The 13-page declaration never mentions that clock or what happens when it runs out. The word Meta chose, under penalty of perjury, for the plaintiffs' leave histories: "coincidental." https://blossom.primal.net/efb47c475292209aef769c038ec9fa49cd5585900e4baa50a891389c76bcb1dc.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The combined sum of it can be better than the top five most valuable company in the world. A trillion dollar organization with 40 years of history... and still the crack kid from Poland can beat them." - DHH https://blossom.primal.net/7301c33128e5256155b21054b5100a634ed1ebb3d6529a254af0de9fc21f53d9.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "I'm not in the market for a better product. I'm in the market for the product I already bought. I want the shitty thing I already have because I know all the ways it is broken." - DHH https://blossom.primal.net/0737f8f0f95df65accef876fab9acb6d8358e47603d441a76774a6a495037a44.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "If you have unlimited time, unlimited money, and unlimited people, you're going to build a blob." DHH on why constraints make great software and unlimited resources produce blobs. https://blossom.primal.net/e62950e694d568cb0c8c98c26372e6971f539f2919ca8244c704359acfd56d47.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Lummis: “90% of the spot market is overseas. 80% of the digital asset futures market is overseas.” “I don’t know if they understand how significant this would be if the CLARITY act failed and we allowed this industry… to grow overseas.” https://blossom.primal.net/bcd96ba8173c82ef6a359fa2528e036ad675f2939982405c7d18ca6e18d3df30.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Roughly 600 Claude AI conversations were just indexed by Google, exposed to anyone with a search engine, after users shared links publicly and Anthropic's crawl protections fell short. What was exposed? Crypto wallet keys, API credentials, legal strategy discussions, internal company documents with staff names and emails, and deeply personal conversations. All discoverable with a simple Google search. Anthropic says conversations are private by default and that indexing only happened because share links were posted publicly by users. They say they blocked crawlers and never submitted those directories to search engines. But technical analysis suggests interactions between their robots.txt rules and noindex signals reduced the effectiveness of those protections. Bottom line, there's a big difference between "sharing a link with someone" and having it show up in Google results. Results have largely been scrubbed as of today, suggesting Anthropic moved quickly. But removal from search doesn't mean the links are dead. Anyone who saved or bookmarked those URLs may still be able to access the conversations. This isn't unique to Claude. Similar issues have hit ChatGPT and other AI chatbots. The lesson is, treat every AI conversation as potentially public. Never paste private keys, passwords, or sensitive information into any AI chat, and if you use a share feature, assume anyone could eventually find it. https://blossom.primal.net/381d5645ee82dea2addb06c458308a6e5bdb974249de30571a8c605457e2059a.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Goldman: equity volatility spikes ahead of every midterm election. The S&P 500 is a political instrument whether you want to admit it or not. https://blossom.primal.net/6d4f29a60d91a920066b4bab24afb59df1f9d90f5b1eb1848d872970cf4f1f53.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy is sitting on 843,775 bitcoin at a $75,653 average cost. Down about 15%. https://blossom.primal.net/918888543b4e85748ce0bd7f5fde3b4a039ffd426cf17c4043aa1d7fd3100520.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "You can't have a truly capitalist system if the most important tool used to coordinate economic activity is centrally controlled." @npub1guh…6hjy & @npub1ath…4k6d on why the income inequality blame is pointed at the wrong system, and why Bitcoin fixes it. https://blossom.primal.net/9eb4c1729c1273e448bf383265454adb06e975a1ef5c9ad13143265b6309174c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Bitcoin and the stock market are on a collision course. In 10-15 years, they'll cross, and everyone will have to choose between chasing fiat or going back to the castle." @npub1ath…4k6d breaks down Bitcoin's power trend vs exponential growth. https://blossom.primal.net/42eb267d7d0e4c1b7bda2b7afc0125f0b92a1cef258e60126f1d02ad3f73a9e3.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The CLARITY Act quietly included federal protection for self-custody, your bitcoin can't be deemed "abandoned" just because it's sitting on-chain. https://blossom.primal.net/372544433c18f17f739c3e9c8a8f47bc726e16605cdffdb487eaa5a0b89011f2.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Fed has quietly added ~$290 billion in Treasury bills to its balance sheet since December. That's the fastest T-bill accumulation since the COVID panic buying of 2020. https://blossom.primal.net/263c9192ee68ae0d5cac5f60bf95ef955a1dbd54f9d2851f0838b50e736fbca9.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Frieberg's Netscape/Apache analogy, if the internet had been locked behind proprietary gates, it never would have taken off. Open-source AI means value diffuses to a million businesses instead of two or three companies. https://blossom.primal.net/18565d63963757c6edc841d6597de97d70444a84020f80a503c798720832ccab.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthropic pirated 7 million books from LibGen to train Claude and maintains the right to train on all the world's output under fair use. But when Chinese companies look at their model's outputs, suddenly it's IP theft. Sacks: "They themselves never claimed it was IP theft because they know it would poison all of their fair use lawsuits." https://blossom.primal.net/1d6de5dae440185bb280ae27aef95367800851d980a3c2e0e5c91ad1ebde8acf.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "If you really care about distillation, you implement KYC." Chamath on Anthropic pushing the government to restrict open-source competitors. https://blossom.primal.net/8b29ca39064f33d76067d18000d316a4dfcdfcd4479c39188b185ec8b44f44ea.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC India ordered GitHub to remove BitChat repositories within three hours. The government's argument: the app's offline, decentralized Bluetooth messaging lets protesters communicate during internet shutdowns, making "lawful interception" difficult. BitChat downloads in India jumped 32x on July 19 after authorities began restricting internet access around the student-led protests in New Delhi. India now accounts for 85% of global downloads, with over 91,000 installs in five days and 330,000 daily active users. The Indian government isn't targeting specific illegal content. They're targeting the architecture itself, the fact that BitChat works without central servers and can't be shut off by flipping a switch. As the Internet Freedom Foundation pointed out, "deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code." This is the Samourai Wallet playbook applied to communication. Prosecute the tool because you can't control the protocol. Open source, peer-to-peer, no servers. That's why they're scared of it. https://blossom.primal.net/446286e17fb1e1b34159c60d806bd4f6df3db208dd8d1f70cc57c09600798624.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Fidelity, with $7.1T in assets, urges the Senate to pass the Clarity Act for clear digital asset rules. https://blossom.primal.net/64c9d5af8a63f92e9768004663107cd2fe3322c364abbc312df239822f1e46c0.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "We don't live in a truly capitalist society when the most important tool in a capitalist society, money, is centralized." @npub1guh…6hjy on why Gen Z's anger is aimed at the wrong target. We don't have late-stage capitalism. We have socialism light. https://blossom.primal.net/ceb7939ee7cae7f08c6f9d258230a517e61230b3b59a2fe1ff5437c634b2b334.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Elon Musk announces that next month every line of code for the X platform will be open-sourced and third-party audited. “Only total transparency deserves trust.” https://blossom.primal.net/8fb8990ffe9042bc6d8e3d2f75fb219871fb8f24df1fca8bd068022c957f6d4c.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5, stating the model approaches Fable 5 performance at half the price. https://blossom.primal.net/24f946503abeca2048cebc4db0dcbb6d9f7ef7b212dd49c6e263d96dddd75cd5.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "They created the perpetual future contract, never got hacked, never lost user funds, and may have saved Bitcoin from going to zero on March 12, 2020." BitMEX is shutting down September 23rd. @npub1guh…6hjy and (ODELLXYZ) pour one out. End of an era. https://blossom.primal.net/7896675f96c3246266f4d265854cac76b5039327aeac938a7e10d1ab9a6b2b8e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Dave McCormick on FOX urges action on the Clarity Act: “The bottom line is it’s time to move… there’s been negotiations around ethics language… we need to get this to the floor and vote on it… I think this is the time to play offense.” https://blossom.primal.net/0520c2c44b8f5f24957aea9eea17df8eaca7568e5cea88f3b5788730ce711140.mp4