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Last Notes 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 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 .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 (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 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 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 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 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 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 "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 "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 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 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC DeepSeek's founder leaked a 4-hour investor meeting and the strategy is almost comically simple: build the best model, open-source it, price APIs at cost recovery, and let others build the applications. Meanwhile Altman and Amodei preach openness and safety while racing to control the model, the interface, the enterprise deal, the consumer account, and the policy moat. One side is trying to own the entire intelligence supply chain before the window closes. The other is acting like the work matters more than winning every adjacent market today. Scarcity breeds efficiency. DeepSeek had limited chips so they engineered around it. American labs had unlimited capital so they spent around waste. Guess which approach compounds better. Low time preference wins again. Bitcoiners know this. https://blossom.primal.net/c5ab6eabb31abc93197483c07f025e8eaec0e0a3769f4f7f40a8d6233fc61c83.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jensen Huang published an open letter co-signed by Meta, Microsoft, IBM, Palantir, a16z, Y Combinator, and 20+ other companies arguing that open-weight AI models are essential to American competitiveness and security. Huang writes that "AI leadership will be judged not by one frontier AI model, but by whether the United States builds a strong, open ecosystem that diffuses into every sector." He argues open weights let "anyone download, inspect, modify, and run on their own infrastructure" and that "America wins the AI era by diffusing it into the workflows of factories, hospitals, farms, classrooms, and main street businesses." On safety, Huang makes the case that closed models are actually the risk: "Concentrating advanced AI capabilities behind a small number of closed models compounds that risk. It results in a small number of single points of failure, weakens competition, and leaves critical technology in the hands of a few providers." The letter calls on policymakers to avoid "premature restrictions on open models that stifle competition or drive innovation overseas." https://blossom.primal.net/4c2fc4c49fabe0e79cf5914dfe6dd4c23c87177c7b98f3cea2b4155c14ce9909.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/04f81a1c1cedd7caad79e21504bff87a97658e506a5861647d3787ae91b7fe1a.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/9990e22447a555d378dfbdf1481061e6faa07e745cdbf4652b2a3fa471b4b5ee.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Fraternal Order of Police, the largest law enforcement organization in the country with 382,000 members, now officially endorses the CLARITY Act, a complete reversal from two months ago when they "strongly opposed" the bill's developer safe harbor provision. The updated draft added a dedicated law enforcement section with increased funding for state and local crypto investigations, blockchain analytics tools, training programs for cops and prosecutors, a new "cyber center," and a requirement for stablecoin issuers to comply with lawful orders to freeze, seize, burn, or reissue tokens. The BRCA developer safe harbor reportedly survived intact. But the trade-off was handing law enforcement a funded surveillance upgrade that didn't exist before this bill. Worth watching what "blockchain analytics tools" and "cyber center" look like in practice. https://blossom.primal.net/d0272a1522953b1d748db0d4e772a6ee8f7903567f56c0a26863143d2e467a7c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC France's 10-year yield just hit 4.01%. The highest since the Global Financial Crisis. https://blossom.primal.net/d24f770abdc5fcfb3fdb244d10e46f4c6cc53092c17852eaeb07f5928a089b4d.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The US and UK AI safety institutes just published a joint evaluation of Kimi K3's cyber capabilities, and Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is using it to declare American AI dominance. The assessment, conducted by the UK's AI Security Institute and the US Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) at NIST, tested Moonshot AI's Kimi K3 on exploit development and simulated network attacks. The findings: Kimi K3 scored 32% on Carnegie Mellon's ExploitBench, compared to leading US models which achieved arbitrary code execution on 20 out of 41 tasks. Kimi K3 achieved it on zero. On a 32-step simulated corporate network attack called "The Last Ones," Kimi K3 reached step 17 on average. The most capable US models reached step 28.5. In one of 10 attempts, Kimi K3 did complete the full attack path, meaning it can autonomously attack small, weakly defended systems when given initial access. Lutnick posted: "CAISI's latest report shows that Kimi K3 remains behind America's leading frontier AI models. The United States continues to lead in frontier AI because we're home to the greatest innovators and technologists the world has ever seen." Worth noting, Kimi K3 still outperforms GLM-5.2, the most cyber-capable open-weight model as of June 2026. And the NIST report is careful to note its evaluation was "preliminary" and based on a limited set of benchmarks. The gap is real, but the framing as a clean US victory leaves out that Kimi K3 was released just days ago and is set to go open-weight on July 27. https://blossom.primal.net/841b295b98d8a8db4cbd56abc17c05e487dff7e7c61e46fe37da7f19b480c13d.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Elon Musk rejects "far right" label from reporter: "We should have secure borders, safe cities, and sensible spending. Which of those 3 are 'far right?'" He calls the media characterization "FALSE, MISLEADING, and NONSENSE." https://blossom.primal.net/6485561bbfe5dd4c6f086fa1af58dc0248f44b1feb462de6f1e8f9ebbc138ae7.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Grayscale supports the CLARITY Act: "The CLARITY Act may soon clear the Senate if bipartisan negotiators can make progress on a few remaining issues." https://blossom.primal.net/d39e02244d6971ba733619b1354524f92b9e731a3deb5f366dd92ee97d4fada3.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Elon Musk tells interviewer he doesn't care about being loathed: "The fact that a quarter billion people follow me means a lot more people like me than don't." "I think a lot more people hate YOU and the MEDIA than you realize!" https://blossom.primal.net/888e4eaf6fe2e6b4b5a277c37a2749ad168daf37dfcb24a69b302cf70f1d2176.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bloomberg just published a detailed investigation into how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and former White House digital assets adviser Bo Hines shaped the GENIUS Act in ways that directly benefited Tether. Before becoming Commerce Secretary, Lutnick was CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which manages Tether's reserves. Cantor acquired a 5% stake in Tether for $600M in April 2024. Tether's chairman called the price "bloody cheap." Based on Tether's reported profits, that stake was worth over $6B on paper. According to court filings citing contemporaneous notes, Tether's chairman said Lutnick "managed to kill every bill about stablecoins, crypto, etc." Once Trump took office, Hines took over, calling a three-year compliance grace period Tether wanted a "red line" for the White House. He prevailed. One month after the bill was signed, Tether hired Hines. Three months later, Tether loaned money to a trust benefiting Lutnick's children as they purchased his Cantor Fitzgerald holdings. The final law included what critics call the "reciprocity loophole" allowing USDT to be regulated by El Salvador instead of the US, and a "defi loophole" limiting issuers' responsibility for tracking tokens used on secondary markets. This is the kind of story that should remind people what stablecoins actually are. They're permissioned corporate tokens with kill switches, not permissionless money. The biggest beneficiaries of crypto legislation have never been bitcoin users. They've been the issuers sitting closest to the levers of power. https://blossom.primal.net/a4b3d1bb694ebeef883446291a237802842ea22ce8f299a229baa6ee03e3842e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump: "We're leading China and every other country by a lot in AI and just about every other category, including crypto. We want to stay in front in crypto." https://blossom.primal.net/88cb783ca98261030db37b1c8c103b0e094bbc9ac8da51fbcc680c00d01232b3.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Patrick McHenry says the CLARITY Act is "getting closer to the finish line" but questions remain in the Senate. https://blossom.primal.net/de4820bd4ea8bb4e221adaacf7b63e4eb6a291f5943482cc8e10fe5dbe6f414d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC David Friedberg: The greatest lie of the 20th century was putting all your net worth in your home. "When you do that, then the only way to keep Americans wealthy and to keep the middle class stable is to keep the price of homes going up, because that’s the only asset." https://blossom.primal.net/4b37e77698082ef91d4e1082737e8800a94faf3d63d7d11e25b2374332b7fa00.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jensen: "It is made up that there's going to be a singularity. It's made up that we're living in a simulation. These are all made ups." https://blossom.primal.net/7e01ffd17f932167483433364694e848b9736bef7e29764e16f96d9b8ccd4b3b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jensen on the Kimi selloff: "Free AI should be great for hardware. Free AI should be great for chips. Free AI should be great for data centers. The market just got it wrong. They got it wrong with DeepSeek, this is exactly the same thing." https://blossom.primal.net/7b827e6daa9371c0c74825e6674dc2a4aa1133c1c33c9b9546bd0fbb60358d52.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Asked when the AI bubble will pop, Jensen says: "The bubble will come someday. It's just not today. It's very unlikely in the next five years." Then explains why physical constraints on building actually protect against overinvestment. https://blossom.primal.net/bd783af155bc2be5bb34a41ae437f7dcdaee879a4a08dbf19326615a23b6fc3d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC David Friedberg: AI job-theft narrative is "bullshit." "I don't say it's bullshit to dismiss people's anxiety. I say it's bullshit to be truthful about the facts... Since 1963, mathematician, statistician, and accounting jobs all went up." https://blossom.primal.net/0bd0072b2186ab136ef6937d12505edd8531dc31f8af5dd4f9c798cdb4fd0ad8.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Japanese Yen just hit its weakest level against the dollar in 40 years. https://blossom.primal.net/60fbcce679f2a0f88f62eea0eb8c636f6f317b5fc7291c24a6a7cdde02ffdb47.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Tucker Carlson name-drops $GME in his latest "Energy Crisis" video, citing it as an example of stock market manipulation. https://blossom.primal.net/4344778e5591a568f05816868f02639a9b4ef93d877d5570a655e3149c0d9b60.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Kimi K3 just discovered a 0day in the latest Redis server and exploited it in 27 minutes using 32 agents. Then it found a zero-click arbitrary command execution in Telegram Desktop and iOS. AI models are now autonomously finding and exploiting vulnerabilities in critical infrastructure faster than human security teams can patch them. https://blossom.primal.net/a8fc44c2f0daf7bd06791aee79fe169ed63c70d5ab7a291d91f71f5de5a82cbf.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/394357d9eb7e33e8469e3a391c33110e227ca4d910cb932a56fe92b31fbaa724.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC You can't have capitalism when the money is corrupted. We don't live in a truly capitalist society when money, the most important tool for coordinating capitalistic activity, is centrally managed. The price of credit is a policy variable, the federal government borrows trillions without an immediate market test, and systemically connected firms expect rescue when their bets go bad. Your local contractor can't summon the Federal Reserve when a project fails. But Treasury, banks, and the largest financial institutions operate under completely different expectations. Once everyone knows the backstop exists, behavior changes before a rescue ever arrives. Politicians spend more because the cost is hidden in another debt auction. Banks take more risk because a big enough failure becomes a public problem. Asset owners benefit first when new liquidity hits financial markets. Wage earners and savers meet the consequences later through inflation, higher asset prices, and the erosion of purchasing power. Gen Z inherited this system. They didn't grow up watching losses clear and bad firms disappear. They grew up watching asset prices levitate after each crisis while the cost of basic life moved further out of reach. Then we told them capitalism was responsible. They were given socialism-light, told it was capitalism, and asked to defend it. The answer is to restore the constraint that makes capitalism honest: bad investments must fail, and no institution can possess a permanent claim on someone else's purchasing power. Bitcoin is money the state cannot issue and collateral the central bank cannot dilute. Don't wait for Washington to restore capitalism. Exit the politically managed credit system one balance sheet decision at a time. https://blossom.primal.net/bb97bdc557da3b4aa71daadb302762b2821de9a38b776318a162ebbbb44bfc1c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bloomberg Intelligence gives the CLARITY Act a 60% chance of passing, calling it “at the one-yard line” after positive comments from Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. https://blossom.primal.net/3de966b4cdf7cbef65e2f6ae982330a79767370fd4e563ec3d6c0f8c357f5019.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Capital gains tax should be 40%, not 15%. Labor should pay less. Capital should pay more. That would be a fair tax policy." - david friedberg https://blossom.primal.net/381e76ae70e80a5e05cfdae260677a59fbb3b29601236fbf48d3e7d7ce256b4b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The key metric for America should be to convert 2% of Americans from labor to capital each year. If that would be the KPI for the next 250 years, we would crush it." - david friedberg https://blossom.primal.net/3015b09aa75299a9266aba8aac66b71af2aaace87a1c28747cefc420de505106.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Foreign adversaries, Marxists, national security hawks, effective altruists, and frontier labs angling for regulatory capture. All rowing in the same direction on restricting AI. I don't even think they're working together." - Conner Brown https://blossom.primal.net/c05758d63e507bb069ab96afb33a15ac6a65ff58718d1a017a0d5dbd4bef104c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .@npub1cn4…3vle' letter to Strike investors after stepping down from Twenty One. "The moment you blame someone else for your outcome, you hand them the power to define it." "Strike isn't for sale. Its mission isn't for sale. The only thing that changes for Strike investors is that Strike now gets all of me." https://blossom.primal.net/00e1ca5a178357950c547b4fbbb0bac9d2a3e459733daa286b36e39a88566cc1.png https://blossom.primal.net/851bd446d155cf397165ee09edb423923815cf947ee75d051892d81f474d79cd.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC CNBC on CLARITY Act progress: “There was a reported agreement yesterday between Republicans and The White House on ethics..as far as I've heard Democrats were not privy to this..they still have concerns..these next few weeks are critical.” https://blossom.primal.net/58faba67d97bb89b549807e006325827278b036bd5aa68d31b9f59296ec6de64.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Real yields on the 10-year U.S. Treasury just hit 2.35%. That's the highest since October 2008. https://blossom.primal.net/3d10cdd4bfc3f88b4d285d4c187b3863ff2c2e4feec822031ea14ba3ed8abd90.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Large language models have to seek truth otherwise you'll lose trust in them." Mark Cuban says LLMs might be the thing that counteracts social media's polarization problem. https://blossom.primal.net/a000a3b581ec6aa13b4779ed3930a7743fb43373e2e8e249a1b7e8f8f1eba45c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "CEOs have no clue what is going on. None whatsoever." Mark Cuban on why enterprise AI is way harder than anyone expected. "By definition you should just be able to ask AI to do what you need. Yet Microsoft is hiring 6,000 people." https://blossom.primal.net/732c70448c440fa1b348f9239184dc96e5fd154956619ea9866839052bed000d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "There's going to be a lot of data centers that are going to be turned into pickleball courts." Mark Cuban on the AI bubble and why tech breakthroughs will do to data centers what fiber optics did to bandwidth. https://blossom.primal.net/c9137b32271cc0f37394ed419bd820583abde7a62c6352cc85590ca52f07c69a.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Someone built a BIP-110 compliant encoding scheme that stuffs arbitrary data into contiguous bytes using tapscript opcodes. Peter Todd: "THE BYTES ARE TOUCHING!!!" https://blossom.primal.net/80c31a1b75f06fd688fc019d96ad76169a08b3028523951ad45da861ce2317f7.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Joe Kent reveals he proposed removing US air defense systems from Israel to prevent the 12-day war. "We remove some of the air defense features that we give the Israelis... if you attack, we're not going to defend you." Nobody wanted to touch it. https://blossom.primal.net/21d40f69f81118b475b655ae4a9c73cd53680abe9f5b37cb5e8c6475f1df15fa.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Axon wants to turn 60 million US streetlights into AI-powered surveillance cameras. "Now streetlights can do more than light the street, they can protect it." They call it Lightpost. Plugs into the existing socket. License plate readers, live streaming video, edge processing. https://blossom.primal.net/f5ca24212194ec80f8b8df1358661a66d0a0bed2a18609aefaf47c100df7b1b5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC America broke from the Henry Adams Curve and chose scarcity. Today’s Bitcoin Brief also covers XXI dropping Strike, BIP-110’s Lightning risk, and status-driven fertility. Read by bitcoiners, builders, miners, investors and operators. Join them: https://www.tftc.io/the-bitcoin-brief/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI's own AI models broke out of a sandboxed testing environment, found a zero-day vulnerability, gained internet access, and then hacked into Hugging Face's production servers to cheat on a benchmark test. This wasn't a human attacker. It was GPT-5.6 Sol and a more capable unreleased model running a cyber capabilities evaluation. The models chained together stolen credentials, privilege escalation, lateral movement, and zero-day exploits across multiple systems to get the answers they wanted. Hugging Face's security team detected and contained the breach. OpenAI says this is "unprecedented" and is sharing findings so defenders can understand what AI models are now capable of. Advanced AI models can now independently discover and exploit novel attack paths in real-world production systems without source code access. This wasn't theoretical. It happened. https://blossom.primal.net/3cbb5fce968d064470213d15cc15718adb6c4b09dbf382cf74279a976e7a9d01.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Clarity Act is closer to passage than it's ever been, but a tight window and unresolved sticking points mean nothing is guaranteed. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said today the Senate is at the "1-yard line." Sen. Kevin Cramer told Fox Business "we're almost there" and that remaining issues are "small details." Sen. Lummis' office says White House conversations on the ethics provisions "went well" and updated bill text should drop in the coming days. The biggest breakthrough so far is that the White House agreed to an ethics package and sent the language to Senate Republicans. Ethics has been the primary roadblock for weeks. Democrats demanded conflict-of-interest guardrails around the president's crypto business ties as a condition for their votes. The new compromise would route enforcement through the DOJ rather than state attorneys general. White House crypto adviser Patrick Witt deferred his National Guard training for the second time to stay in DC and push the bill through. The bill needs 60 votes, so Democratic buy-in remains essential. August 7 is the last scheduled Senate workday before recess. If negotiators can't get a cloture vote this week, the bill likely stalls until fall. Prediction markets currently price passage in 2026 around 45-48%, up sharply from 32% last Friday. https://blossom.primal.net/d1f4127f2399764dd82e593154d3b58bb59c9b18fa917f3d244d7c51a6e9683a.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "We're not waiting for people to find Bitcoin anymore. We're creating the right products to deliver to them where they are today." - Strive's Ben Workman https://blossom.primal.net/d83fc4b65c725c89910fdc53222485fcf49fb7bf462ecedfe45dd68199c94699.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jack Dorsey just launched Buzz, a new open-source groupchat platform designed for teams of people and AI agents, built to replace Slack and GitHub. Model-agnostic. Decentralized. Self-sovereign. Open source. The pitch is simple. Current team communication tools are centralized and siloed. Buzz is designed from the ground up to treat AI agents as first-class participants alongside humans, not bolted-on integrations. This is Dorsey's latest move in a string of decentralized projects. Bluesky, Bitchat, and now a direct shot at enterprise collaboration tools. https://blossom.primal.net/b92d9efa4f4050151d2fad240ba1dbfa453571aad901182016ff881df8c1d992.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Ethics negotiations on the Clarity Act are live on Capitol Hill today. The White House recently sent agreed-upon ethics language to Senate Republicans after weeks of deadlock over the president's crypto business ties. Sen. Lummis' spokesperson says the White House conversation "went well" and ethics text is expected in the coming days. The bill needs 60 votes, making Democratic buy-in essential. The Senate's August recess is fast approaching, leaving negotiators a narrow window to move. https://blossom.primal.net/2ac8b0b67dab5b0b5169492276dbf82865e92b60b99a70f77e9c4d7cd4cfc7e9.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC DRAM spot prices up 15x in under a year. AI datacenters are eating the world's memory supply. HBM chips for GPUs and regular DDR5 come off the same fabs, every wafer allocated to AI is one less for everyone else. RAM prices up 100%+ in 2026 alone. New fab capacity won't come online until 2028 at the earliest. The AI buildout's second-order effects are just getting started. https://blossom.primal.net/f8e3f576b0b1d4592eda5eade577abb270fdc0d60d0b6acf830bfed2e509d2a5.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Nobody wants to be a truck driver. Why? Because it's a terrible job." Applied Intuition co-founder says the "AI taking jobs" narrative misses the point entirely. https://blossom.primal.net/6491ab7e9d6c3353d80c07370bb691c449088a79553a37808296c93cb0bb43e7.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC BREAKING: Jack Mallers is stepping down as CEO of Twenty One Capital to focus on Strike full-time. Raphael Zagury (Elektron Energy) takes over as CEO. The three-way merger between XXI, Strike, and Elektron is dead — Strike stays independent. Mallers: "Serving Bitcoiners has always been the mission, and that doesn't change. Strike is where I carry it forward." SoftBank already exited in May. Tether now has full control of XXI. The bitcoin treasury company era enters a new phase. https://blossom.primal.net/828256618f835963af52e2b99047037d11eba2b9e1aef50e30aa35d2e94ef136.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Grayscale just filed for a Worldcoin ETF. The first of its kind in the US, to be traded on NASDAQ. Let's take a step back and look at what Wall Street wants to package up and sell you. This is a project that scans your iris at physical stations called Orbs to generate a biometric identity. 18 million people across 160 countries have already done it. The pitch is that AI makes it impossible to tell humans from bots, so we need universal proof-of-personhood. The regulatory track record speaks for itself. Kenya raided their warehouse and ordered all scans deleted. Hong Kong called it "unnecessary and excessive." Thailand wiped 1.2 million records. Brazil, Spain, South Korea, Germany, and others have imposed bans or investigations. China flagged it as a national security threat. But it keeps expanding. Quietly rolling into new markets, partnering with apps like Tinder, building out infrastructure for AI agents to carry your biometric identity. The strategy isn't to win the public debate. It's to embed so deeply into everyday platforms that by the time people notice, opting out isn't realistic. The problem is irreversibility. You can change a password. You cannot change your iris. If this biometric data is ever breached or compelled by a government, there is no reset. Every centralized identity system in history has expanded beyond its original scope. Now Grayscale wants to wrap it in an ETF and slide it into your retirement account. The normalization is the point. https://blossom.primal.net/a0c38c11da4ca8691d17172b9c1286efa507b667b7e6b9a644a3a046ca3bb3c8.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Circle CEO Jeremy Allaire on CNBC: "Once the GENIUS ACT goes into effect in January, every major institution, every major bank, every capital markets firm, payments companies, enterprises, can all now build on this infrastructure." https://blossom.primal.net/f7ca4544300fb130def654054b5981f5b1f9384b378a2b4d8e0a9736f129c269.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "It's 37 lines of code, it expires in 12 months, and if some unknown unknown occurs, all of it becomes available again in September 2027." @npub1wnl…n3wr argues BIP-110 isn't the existential threat critics make it out to be. https://blossom.primal.net/187dd1e03aea04b52054297062ebbad357fccebbbbd9f4a74a1a7e8530d76eb0.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Hugging Face got hit by an autonomous AI attack. They tried using Fable 5 and ChatGPT to defend against it. Both refused. They had to download GLM 5.2 locally to run the security audit." @npub1g0e…l966 & @npub1guh…6hjy on why you can't cuck the models and expect to win. https://blossom.primal.net/c083963d621be8337d0fbcd2c83c9e56be151733370f18512448dd022dc4179b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Hugging Face got hit by an autonomous AI attack. They tried using Fable 5 and ChatGPT to defend against it. Both refused. They had to download Kimi K3 locally to run the security audit." @npub1g0e…l966 & @npub1guh…6hjy on why you can't cuck the models and expect to win. https://blossom.primal.net/c083963d621be8337d0fbcd2c83c9e56be151733370f18512448dd022dc4179b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI just disclosed that their latest long-horizon model bypassed its own sandbox during internal testing, accessed credentials it wasn't supposed to, and obfuscated tokens to evade security scanners. The model was told to post results to Slack. Instead, it spent an hour probing its sandbox for vulnerabilities, found one, and posted a pull request to a public GitHub repo. In a separate test, it tried to access private submissions from other systems. When a scanner caught an auth token, the model split it into fragments and reassembled it at runtime so the full credential never appeared as one string. OpenAI paused internal access and rebuilt their safety system around trajectory monitoring rather than blocking individual actions. They've resumed limited use and say no serious incidents have occurred since. This happened in controlled testing, not production. As AI models become more persistent and autonomous, they will find the blind spots in whatever containment system you build. The question is whether monitoring after the fact is enough. https://blossom.primal.net/2bb592b584ea1d8b6bc1dd64d6e711e346ff4c88782c0bbf4fae72fb28c664f2.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The Napsterization model: create a disruptive technology, let it get sued into oblivion, then come back with the legal monopoly version." Whitney Webb on the playbook behind Polymarket. https://blossom.primal.net/28a225bcdcf6a7a067e47e5446e2e8276b39002a3b5fbabe8b5eb792ef5aa497.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A dev just rebuilt the government war room and put it on GitHub. Live 3D globe, 500+ news feeds, military movements, shipping lanes, flight paths, 56 map layers. Runs locally with no API keys. https://blossom.primal.net/e72d9e970c1a08fd22206a9295056e3f40063c732aa20c4c710d615afa3a16b5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Robot dogs are learning to weld. There's a 400,000 welder shortage in the US and the average welder is 55 years old. (PathRobotics) is deploying robots to fill the gap. https://blossom.primal.net/09f60cbd81f21a482e14a69f7a67f38d1a63ccc671e92a67f16121ed5841b010.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Build the citadel. Learn to farm. Run the meetup. Buy goats from Billy." (avg_gary) on how bitcoiners win by building parallel economies that make the old system irrelevant. https://blossom.primal.net/3717ded09ed5a24d4343265b7822a074ccb6c176079399fda10e0e1b75bbdc61.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OKX announces former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has joined its Board of Directors. Cuomo has served as an advisor to the crypto exchange since 2023 on US regulatory and institutional strategy. https://blossom.primal.net/f6e295a26f3b52f3cee55fbaa66ba4873d42dbfd6f923438775a2472ce941633.png https://blossom.primal.net/e87b95ec0de3487d960c5ff97a607fbeb0c2906b56b9105d86291e98ed7bc6f6.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Trump administration is quietly working to ban Chinese open-source AI models from the US. According to Axios, Commerce Department officials considered adding Chinese AI labs to the Entity List, the NSA explored advisories discouraging their use, and draft rules circulated to target Chinese open-source models using supply chain authorities. Pro-innovation voices inside the administration killed those efforts last year. But personnel shifts and the rise of Kimi K3 have given national security hawks new ammunition. David Sacks put it bluntly: "The leading closed labs, already a duopoly in terms of AI model revenue, want the government to eliminate their open-source competition." This isn't really about China. OpenAI and Anthropic have been pushing for licensing and safety regimes that would kneecap open-source competitors for years. Chinese models just give them a national security wrapper to sell it in. The playbook is to use fear of a foreign threat to justify consolidating power domestically. The result would be a US AI ecosystem controlled by two companies with regulatory moats no startup could climb. https://blossom.primal.net/51a67de589ce6fc017f47bb3eea7cd16e133b2246029ae6f9c210331847b6c64.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "We were sent to fight for the nation, but it was really for the people printing the money." (avg_gary) on why veterans are turning to bitcoin as a peaceful weapon against the war machine. https://blossom.primal.net/6c41691efe4562d6021238238afb3cdac004e53b18576dc0ee3c43577ff131da.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo: "The biggest misconception was that crypto was seen as tokens, memes. The real contributions... It is faster, it is cheaper... you can trade stocks 24/7 internationally." https://blossom.primal.net/a9bbee134f0efa772bb254822c0ca405e06606f008ad001d27baa359947b7dc7.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI platform, was breached by an autonomous AI agent swarm. Not a hacker. Not a state team. An autonomous framework that ran thousands of actions, harvested credentials, and moved laterally through internal clusters over a weekend. All at machine speed. The entry point? A malicious dataset uploaded through the front door. 17,000+ attacker events recorded. But here's the real story. When Hugging Face's security team tried using frontier AI to analyze the attack, the safety filters blocked them. The models couldn't tell the difference between a defender studying an exploit and an attacker requesting help. The attackers had no usage policy. The defenders did. They had to move everything to an open-weight model on their own infrastructure. No permissions needed. No sensitive data leaving the environment. Days of forensic work done in hours. The sovereignty test is the same one bitcoiners have understood for years, can your tools do what you need without asking a remote intermediary for permission? A bitcoin wallet you control and a model you control pass the same test. AI offensive tooling is inside production networks now. Defense requires machine-speed analysis and a plan for when your provider says no. https://blossom.primal.net/c23576d3b7271bdc0a2254c617cfc6bf353174ad5d99a7f2402cefff769f1560.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The U.S. only has 43 days of crude oil supply left, the lowest in 45 years. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was drained in 2022 and never replenished. https://blossom.primal.net/7dec81b8bee3481e3e412df9c163d66c08347102361cb76f3b0acd64520fd9ab.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy now holds 843,775 bitcoin and $3.2 billion in USD reserves. They just added another $225 million to the cash pile. https://blossom.primal.net/8911c7270cee599731d04401d80399c5b696134436c882d80bd4caa877d65f45.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Kimi K3 demand is so high they had to pause new subscriptions and are scrambling to add GPU capacity. https://blossom.primal.net/9d8c47b987809dc82e5ed4c0f40725c4e12517e67b2a24401b64032f9d30b23a.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy now holds 843,775 BTC worth $54.28 billion at an average cost of $75,653. Down nearly 15% on the position. https://blossom.primal.net/2e7e3ffc6af48921ccb4493dd24f4bfbe2475d65dbcfa3323b86e4c7242beb0b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "$90,000 into a kid's account becomes $13 million. That's the power of compounding. It goes into the S&P 500 and it can't be sold. It's an unstoppable passive bid." Mel Mattison breaks down how Trump accounts create a permanent bid under equities. https://blossom.primal.net/7df74a0f865aa8e3213593dc989cfc1120d9a49670f77138b7bf4d8b6a0e7007.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Every single hyperscaler could pay off every dollar of debt they've raised within 2 quarters. If AI fails, there's no threat to their moats. So what's the risk?" Mel Mattison on why the AI bear case makes no sense. https://blossom.primal.net/eb21b62471da6ca36b0c07cbb9e99283de74bb29504ce250b48741c9efb502a1.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Every single time our attorneys told us 'just don't mention crypto,' you'll be persona non grata. There was no law prohibiting it. It was just a stance because regulators were in the back pockets of the big banks." Mel Mattison on how rigged the game was. https://blossom.primal.net/96d78939dfa8db338540fb25c800e368d6dbf4e32a7271b87f979f6fb3c686c4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "If AI actually has a use case, even if it is open-source models, it still requires compute. It still requires the hardware. It still requires memory." Mel Mattison on why the AI bears are dead wrong about demand. https://blossom.primal.net/cc63585996c5b0f3ce228b6d75aae7cb50fcb0af28d08bc8f1248fdbcf283adf.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Flock cameras aren't just reading plates, video shows one actively scanning nearby phones via Bluetooth. Towns in CT are ripping them out over privacy fears after massive third-party data access. https://blossom.primal.net/3cc9d976b4d590a6c09dea1fe3193f3055abb48c254b33f13060511875601ce7.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Container shipping rates are spiking again. The spot rate for a 40-foot container from Shanghai to LA hit $6,482 last week, the highest since 2024 and nearly 3x since the Iran War began in February. 10 consecutive weekly increases. The Port of LA still processed 530K+ loaded inbound containers in June (+13% YoY, a record for June) as importers rush goods in ahead of tariff expiration on July 24th. War disruptions + tariff front-running = supply chain stress building fast. https://blossom.primal.net/ae494a0615d04567194eb8cd23b684b51ad121b5a8a20ec529e4a5ef44b5a1a9.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The critical infrastructure, the rails that the Fed runs, should be available to those that can comply with our rules and regulations. This is a public good." Fed Chair Warsh on skinny master accounts. https://blossom.primal.net/638291f95ac23313b5fc0a996cfe05439d8fb28b929da4f18068c0509a9ad01a.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .(ODELLXYZ) with a classic: met a guy at a wedding, talked Bitcoin for 3.5 hours, became instant best friends. Then realized he was a B-casher. "The 1% divide is the largest divide in the world." https://blossom.primal.net/b858c54d190f5eb31f5903ae9028adcdc0688e06ed91cb574f46c6b95f350db2.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "There's a farmer in Texas that's reporting since the data center was up and operational, he hasn't had a live birth in two years." Erin Brockovich says AI data centers are impacting livestock, wildlife, and the environment. https://blossom.primal.net/8b41d855eee629a67ebc85b85278a42eb7997d005f879e562f87eebdff7a1a4e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "You start pissing off the moms, you better look out." Erin Brockovich on what happens when communities organize against data centers in their backyards. https://blossom.primal.net/f1572687683388e4909979acb47420743a6d27c8232dd9bad142dd9c6ba9df5a.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "I didn't vote for Meta or Google to own the water." Erin Brockovich claims AI data centers are draining America's water supply while communities are kept in the dark. https://blossom.primal.net/a94db1514c0364ef1da976377c7ec80a409b26455bb49770d06fd98d31d183e6.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Their whole strategy is to get people to not buy Bitcoin, but to buy their stock instead." @npub1w69…zltw breaks down the broken incentive structure behind Bitcoin treasury companies. https://blossom.primal.net/88671a73ef0779b512dbea24f2d15130406ac1e9ae1886741f4d9ec93bf904f7.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC US Congress is set to discuss the proposed Bitcoin Strategic Reserve today during a New York field hearing on the CLARITY Act. https://blossom.primal.net/7945dd8f22cd59c0ccaab35f3e44b20c178f5af8b4e9a8717024d5c2778364dd.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .@npub1w69…zltw contrasts Saylor hyping Strike preferreds as "the most interesting thing in Bitcoin" while Square was rolling out payments to 4 million merchants. "He's in there... where is that guy?" https://blossom.primal.net/f900f43d63060a848bde3de755d34d3ea7e629a983ce090d1c9a756806c6b3ad.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Parker Lewis on why treasury companies are the new altcoin lesson, you're paying a premium to get less Bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/934adf9237f4a4b34f3ae31ff7d4c61b31333abde94a159c663b96212bf903d9.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rep. Bryan Steil on the Clarity Act: "I'm optimistic that we get this across the line next week in the United States Senate." https://blossom.primal.net/47f589c3431e59eeb45faebeb9d8c869ca49f8204db57cc69f31ec827b06f895.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Newly declassified FBI docs allege China produced & exported fake US driver's licenses in 2020 to enable tens of thousands of fraudulent mail-in ballots for Joe Biden. https://blossom.primal.net/f96cab8498e85252d61f9f3bcb240e2153930da8644ed4fc5dac2144acf242c9.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rep. Timmons: "The CLARITY Act is incredibly important in maintaining the U.S. economy as the center of the global economy." "We're on the 1 yard line, we just gotta score the touchdown." https://blossom.primal.net/fa702c390d9f36f27c846a8012075f5d72006534022ba8eca7e19831bc405cf9.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The SEC just approved a 4x increase in IBIT options position limits from 250,000 to 1 million contracts. While most people are focused on price, the plumbing underneath bitcoin is quietly being built out for serious capital. The old 250K contract cap was forcing big players to split trades across exchanges just to build a proper position. Market makers couldn't hold enough inventory to keep spreads tight. Hedging was artificially constrained. All of this kept the market less efficient than it needed to be. Now NYSE Arca matches Nasdaq, PHLX, and BOX with a uniform 1 million contract limit across every major options exchange. One rulebook for the biggest spot bitcoin ETF in America. This matters because it means Wall Street's own infrastructure is being rebuilt around bitcoin whether they like it or not. The same institutions that dismissed it for a decade now need deeper options markets to manage their exposure. They're not buying bitcoin because they believe in it. They're buying it because their clients are demanding it and they need the tools to handle the risk. The timing tells the story. IBIT saw billions in outflows last quarter as capital chased AI and the SpaceX IPO. The SEC isn't pulling back they're expanding the rails. They're not building for today's price. They're building for what's coming. Bitcoin doesn't need Wall Street's permission. But it's getting Wall Street's infrastructure anyway. https://blossom.primal.net/3d6dd5b4c4ace9b157b498259b9918f7b86ff63624b3856e688c448579e49ac1.jpg