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Last Notes npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Lagarde rejects stablecoins and pushes the digital euro instead. "She doesn't ever say why. They need to trap capital. If you have the means, you're going to get your capital out of the jurisdiction where it's going to be debased." - (LeveredUSTs) https://blossom.primal.net/cf5e2d3fd337c3c64e816b91f1faa370cba18fd10dad23cdbf1edfa8f2967fb3.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Ledger users are now receiving physical scam letters at their home addresses. This goes beyond phishing emails. Data from both the 2020 Ledger breach and a January 2026 third-party breach through Global-e is being used to target users with fake "firmware update" letters containing QR codes designed to steal seed phrases. https://blossom.primal.net/81bea3cc016ed71754759c6c93c529d9ebed0a1aadf5c64ac0c61b738aacb098.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Where the Federal Reserve board stands on Bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/6e299007ed8e45ce6ff7a15db9c35465fbb91a80eab642ca79fd12ce2ab1d6c8.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Joe Rogan: “I talked to Tim Dillon today. He told me that gas is $7.90/gallon in LA right now. We should have a national oil company and only sell in America. Mr. President, please fix that.” https://blossom.primal.net/b93bc6ca2f87db3c603966e489e0bb40dfff7e3602aa68360eef78586a9ff418.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Moreno: "In 2016, I became the first person in the United States to pay my taxes with Bitcoin. I paid $3,000 in taxes with two Bitcoin." Sen. Scott: "The $3,000 would today be worth how much?" Moreno: "Too soon." https://blossom.primal.net/065bf9b0afba3bfa4fd52893cb4b00ee4515bac68450a473caea53993efcb7a5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Elizabeth Warren during the CLARITY Act markup: "While we're at war, Iran is openly gearing up to collect crypto fees from oil tankers to pass through the Strait of Hormuz." https://blossom.primal.net/66df7b5dc4fea9823ff9b9610472bdadfb028bec23e0a51cf4345763cc1f099b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Google search interest for "Bitcoin" just hit its lowest point in the last 12 months. https://blossom.primal.net/342a2f4b6ec7a9096ba8e8d8ec1f13b203180cf327d549c2ce7831691e94f738.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump arrives in Beijing and shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a formal welcome ceremony at the Great Hall of the People. https://blossom.primal.net/d06412bb2dc68064b0e5d89557aa497992159a2e4ec5b35b9abfb3e0a0b87de1.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A former Humana doctor admitted her job was to deny patients care. She rejected a lifesaving operation. The patient died. She saved the company $500,000 and got promoted. https://blossom.primal.net/89f883ffb878afecb2324cbb2df3382e213ab21bbd62c121561bf4a233855c1d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A Bitcoin holder (cprkrn) just used Claude to recover access to a wallet he'd been locked out of for over 11 years. He bought the bitcoin around 2014 when it was roughly $250 each. At some point he got stoned and changed his password, then could never get back in. He tried what he describes as "7 trillion passwords" over the years. Nothing worked. A few weeks ago he found an old mnemonic from before he changed the password. He thought he was still out of luck because the wallet file had been updated with the new password. As a last resort, he dumped his entire old college computer's files into Claude. Claude found an older version of the wallet file buried in the data. The original mnemonic successfully decrypted it. Claude identified a bug in how the wallet software concatenated the shared key and password, ran btcrecover with the correct algorithm, extracted the private keys, and converted them to WIF format. The address (14VJySbsKraEJbtwk9ivnr1fXs6QuofuE6) received a total of 16.95 BTC over its lifetime. At today's prices, that is worth over $1.7 million. The wallet has since been emptied, meaning he likely moved the funds to a new wallet he controls. He paid around $250 per coin. He recovered them at over $100,000 per coin. An AI model did in one session what 11 years of manual attempts could not. https://blossom.primal.net/4df09bf48472eb0c69829fef6766f7ac4e231f302bddd1d539d27d3b4d47e4e1.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC King Charles: "My ministers will also proceed with the introduction of Digital ID." https://blossom.primal.net/f2816e83a7941d663cc1721ca05d38aa8a3e0aef4e234767a1db83f04acb5ebd.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 745 w/ Zach Herbert 🇺🇸: The entire approval layer in AI right now is fake. It's asking permission for something it already has the capability to do, that's a huge problem." We discuss: ⚡ Fake AI permissions ⚡ Storing AI credentials ⚡ Bitcoin security https://blossom.primal.net/becdd4f7dbf4aa33190b015af219cfbc97d3bbdae45e6ea8bc334d025639b375.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The winner of this week's giveaway is ... @nprofile…8m4j! #nevent1q…26hz npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC 40 million Kenyans can now receive bitcoin through the phone number in their pocket. Built on Lightning by Tando. https://blossom.primal.net/2aff9bdefa52d38642c5aeb70d59b6acd4f377eab132fc78c625c581e237183a.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Buried on page 230 of the CLARITY Act is arguably the biggest win for the digital asset industry in the entire 309-page bill. Section 604: The Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act. If you build open-source blockchain software and don't have unilateral control over users' funds, you are not a money transmitter. Not under FinCEN rules. Not under federal criminal law. Not under state registration requirements. Writing code ≠ money transmission. Building self-custody tools ≠ money transmission. Running node infrastructure ≠ money transmission. For years, developers have operated under the threat that publishing code could expose them to money transmission charges. Section 604 eliminates that ambiguity entirely. It establishes a clear, codified legal protection for the people who actually build the open-source infrastructure this industry runs on. Senate Banking markup is Thursday. Read the bill. https://blossom.primal.net/d4ec92726795578345abbd0b4f156a970e584060c9554a9a5d1e5a681a8028d3.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/28a4199cf1f76e57fe43d68fa50c3f97e009b2e7c8faa35573bb25f56a2e8c16.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/a653cee7925401aea8441df86a18657b300b5b80939ec468165adfc2e8a8e267.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI is giving the EU access to its most powerful cybersecurity AI model. Anthropic is not. OpenAI announced today it will grant EU partners, including governments, businesses, and EU institutions, access to GPT-5.5-Cyber, a model built specifically for cyber defense. George Osborne, OpenAI's Head of Countries, said advanced AI-powered defense tools should be accessible to Europe's broader community of defenders, not just a select few. The EU Commission welcomed the move. Spokesperson Thomas Regnier confirmed further discussions this week and said access "will allow us to follow deployment of the model very closely and address security concerns." Anthropic has not made the same offer. The EU has held four or five meetings with Anthropic about access to Claude Mythos, a competing cybersecurity model launched last month that Anthropic says can outperform human researchers at finding software vulnerabilities. But the Commission says those discussions are "not yet at the same stage as the solution we have on the table from OpenAI." https://blossom.primal.net/0bab0ec93967527f037e0d2c81cc0e8bbbdc0683e985fae08937d1148a878b1d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Local AI on a laptop is improving more than twice as fast as Moore's Law. The most expensive MacBook Pro you could buy in May 2024 had 128 GB of unified memory. Two years later, the hardware is identical. But the smartest open-weight model you can run on it went from a score of 10 to 47 on the AI Intelligence Index. A 4.7x improvement in 24 months on completely unchanged hardware. Moore's Law doubles transistor count every 24 months. Local open-weight AI is doubling capability every 10.7 months. The hardware ceiling barely moved. The software blew through it. https://blossom.primal.net/00a3bc7a0b956f98bf57a4e0df09652176f73e7e8a75b1b64bad6f80bb4345e6.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Only 25% of US renters expect to buy a home in the next 5 years. Lowest ever recorded. In 2013, 57% of young adults expected to buy. https://blossom.primal.net/35ca8749056f20bd8104c8a684e3961014f1e57f7b4f61d9d5ad249166533bd9.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump rejects Iran’s response to the U.S. 14-point peace proposal, calling it “TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE.” https://blossom.primal.net/2c733ae8f715c2c01fab7b8014509d1678598e280dc1114a5cb073b1d98c0916.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The same government that arrested Telegram's founder for protecting encryption is now charging X with violating the secrecy of electronic communications. France arrested Pavel Durov in 2024 for refusing to backdoor Telegram's encrypted messages. Now they're prosecuting Musk's X on nine charges including illegally collecting personal data, processing it without proper security, and extracting data from automated systems. Three weeks ago, France's own government ID agency was breached. Up to 19 million citizen records were stolen and sold on hacker forums by a 15-year-old. Names, emails, dates of birth, addresses, phone numbers. The French government collected all that data and failed to secure it. The US Department of Justice refused to cooperate with the French investigation, calling it a "politically charged criminal proceeding." Governments don't prosecute tech companies over data privacy because they care about your privacy. They do it because they want to control who gets to collect the data. https://blossom.primal.net/01385359142991c745e065eac869aebc66600789894101991dbcb561e5800812.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC 1 in 3 American men are not working and not looking for work according to Labor Department data. https://blossom.primal.net/ac69b6f7f7ec3f8e1dab8dfd096072c9233a7a2e3c196d2223c11ad3ce1cb5c6.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 743 w/ Eric Balchunas: "In the past 16 months, corporations and ETFs bought 1 million Bitcoin. Individuals sold 750,000. That's a silent IPO. That's why the price went down 45%." We discuss: ⚡ The OG selloff ⚡ What Saylor was forced to address ⚡ The macro engine https://blossom.primal.net/395c8ddd219dda3dbccd48efffcfc9102f289bf746bd5faea8bec6e3033c10ad.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Brian Armstrong says Coinbase's exchange went down last night because an AWS data center room overheated when multiple chillers failed. "Our centralized exchange did not [survive the outage]. Exchanges have unique architectures that optimize for latency and co-location of clients." "Given this incident, we'll revisit these tradeoffs to ensure we're giving you the best possible venue to trade." https://blossom.primal.net/f871e86d282fe0eb02ea3ebc1aa41e918be683ddb3b4fddc175e67bb2a053f95.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "I can look my kids in the eye and say that I did what I thought was right and actually defend myself." The incentives to sell out have never been higher. The reasons not to haven't changed. https://blossom.primal.net/980bfa1ad2e7042d5667ce670a6d07d8dc1ac60dedff7a3c734f5685e88e276d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "We've never had more people that care about Bitcoin as freedom money. But percentage-wise, it's never been lower." Saylor was asked on the earnings call if he's worried about Bitcoin if the cypherpunk base loses interest now that the suits are in the castle. https://blossom.primal.net/86aca5e30848084d44fffee3facc7bf7750b885f8b8d42a1586a3fca3bd2ea11.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Swiss Bitcoin reserve initiative is running out of time. Campaigners have gathered roughly half the 100,000 signatures needed to force a national referendum on whether the Swiss National Bank should hold Bitcoin in its reserves, with only weeks left on the deadline. Switzerland already has indirect exposure through its massive holdings in companies like Strategy and Tesla via the SNB's equity portfolio. The irony is that the central bank is already accumulating Bitcoin exposure whether it wants to or not. The signature shortfall says less about Bitcoin's viability as a reserve asset and more about the difficulty of grassroots political campaigns in a country where direct democracy sets a high bar by design. 100,000 signatures in a nation of 8.8 million is not trivial. Either way, the conversation has been planted. Even failed referendums in Switzerland have a way of resurfacing once the conditions change. And the conditions are changing fast. https://blossom.primal.net/9b93b552a114a08a69bd55ba2b204b1cd3859c806300f760a00df93bc42361fe.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump announces a three-day ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war from May 9-11. The deal includes suspension of all kinetic activity and a prisoner swap of 1,000 from each side. https://blossom.primal.net/e53168e4c7b35135ab31ebe576eaa8c627b098e7347a3556e32e3519955f48de.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Keonne Rodriguez wrote from prison asking for help with $2M+ in legal fees from the Samourai Wallet case. "We have to stand up for our own." Donations are being tracked on-chain. When the state comes for one of us, we show up. https://blossom.primal.net/62b67f85914345e947297cc0001d2213b73a24f46ef58671edb4e68c38d67af4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jeff Walton: "Our balance sheet needs to go up about 5.5% annually to pay the dividends forever. The money supply is growing at 6.7% annually. We are underwriting the next 8 to 10 years of Bitcoin to go up 30 to 35% compound annual growth rate." Coffeezilla: "It's not going to do that." Walton: "That's just a disagreement. The world's never seen a fixed supply asset. The supply of Bitcoin is asymptotically approaching zero. You've got ETFs growing rapidly, institutions coming in, credit being issued against it. The entire credit market is $300 trillion. This is the biggest total addressable market on the planet." https://blossom.primal.net/3e74e5898a55284af9e7d8f0ad82c4820bc198aa83dcee8b501ab3ca8abb6ecc.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jeff Walton: "Is an insurance company a Ponzi scheme?" Coffeezilla: "No. They have business activities that are providing cash flow. They're taking on risk." Walton: "Insurance companies have capital and they're taking on risk to pay liability into the future. Almost 100% of the claims that get paid out on insurance company balance sheets is from premiums that they're collecting in the door. So under your definition, you would call an insurance company a Ponzi scheme." Coffeezilla: "No, no. They have real profits. They have real cash flows." Walton: "The profits are the assets that are protected on their balance sheet." Coffeezilla: "People are paying for products." Walton: "What's the product?" https://blossom.primal.net/f738a68e022e56ef90064623f0dfbc922e5476fa3305645799c35590fbb37f0f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The U.S. government just put its classified UFO files online. No clearance required. The Department of War released its first batch of declassified UAP files as part of a new interagency program called PURSUE (Presidential Unsealing and Reporting System for UAP Encounters). The collection is live at http://WAR.GOV/UFO, with more files coming on a rolling basis. The effort involves the White House, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Department of Energy, AARO (the Pentagon's All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office), NASA, the FBI, and additional intelligence agencies. The collection includes previously classified UAP videos, photos, and original source documents from across the entire U.S. government. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said the files had been "hidden behind classifications" and had "long fueled justified speculation." DNI Tulsi Gabbard called it an "unprecedented review" of the Intelligence Community's holdings. FBI Director Kash Patel said it was "the first time in history" the American people have "unfettered access" to declassified UAP records. NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman said the agency will "remain candid about what we know to be true, what we have yet to understand, and all that remains to be discovered." The files have been reviewed for security but many have not yet been analyzed for resolution of the anomalies they document. It's worth asking why every major intelligence and defense agency chose this moment to coordinate a joint public release. The files are live. https://blossom.primal.net/8cf68383033d81c1fa7edb2567f773e9096d28dc5d3ef54c3e579b0c7baad5cc.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Germany's Left Party has submitted what's being described as one of the most aggressive anti-Bitcoin proposals in European history. The motion calls on the German government to abolish the country's 1-year holding rule that currently allows tax-free Bitcoin gains for long-term holders, tax Bitcoin profits like stock market gains, introduce an "exit tax" on unrealized crypto gains for anyone leaving Germany, expand blockchain surveillance, require identity verification even for self-hosted wallets interacting with regulated services, create a centralized EU crypto supervisory authority, and push for EU-wide trading bans on proof-of-work assets like Bitcoin, citing energy consumption. This isn't just the Left Party. German Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil has separately announced that crypto taxation will be revised as part of the 2027 federal budget. The 1-year tax-free holding period that made Germany one of the most attractive countries for long-term Bitcoin holders appears to be on the way out regardless of which proposal moves forward. The Left Party claims billions in untaxed crypto profits are being lost. Austria already tried this. They abolished a similar exemption in 2022 and imposed a 27.5% crypto gains tax. The result: far less tax revenue than expected, more complexity, and more bureaucracy. Bitpanda's CEO says the Austrian experience proves the approach doesn't work. The exit tax on unrealized gains is the most alarming part. If you hold Bitcoin in Germany and decide to leave, they want to tax gains you haven't even realized yet. That's not a tax on income. That's a claim on your property for trying to leave. https://blossom.primal.net/d25506c4bd13a41d608b2c34c1b5cc46098fb3e2be4e9e2773af2554fd3cf0e1.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "They quoted me $5,100 for an MRI with insurance. Without insurance, it drops to $700." Same scan. Same machine. Same hospital. Insurance didn't lower the price. It raised it by 7x and won't let you opt out. https://blossom.primal.net/04f82859fd75b9d55f7cf40838a850de93c5b6439241c60bbe8a3f5bcdf4cd4b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Warren: "Any crypto legislation that doesn't shut down this presidential corruption isn't worth the paper it's written on." https://blossom.primal.net/35083ad0eaf44e83505d6cac285217bcac92e4f6e0b02e769ab857faec24dba2.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump: “I had a great call with The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen.” The two leaders reaffirmed they are “completely united that Iran can never have a Nuclear Weapon.” https://blossom.primal.net/70f3de7870856cb5c2c22d693f942bc346fa66dab6c915eae49d87bcbe20ddd0.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI's former CTO Mira Murati testified under oath in the Musk v. Altman trial that Sam Altman lied to her about safety standards for a new AI model and routinely told different executives completely opposite things. Murati said Altman falsely claimed OpenAI's legal department determined a new GPT model did not need to go through the company's deployment safety board. When she checked with general counsel Jason Kwon, she found their accounts did not match. She overrode Altman and sent the model through the board anyway. Her testimony lines up with a 52-page memo from cofounder Ilya Sutskever previously read into the record, which said Altman "exhibits a consistent pattern of lying, undermining his execs, and pitting his execs against one another." Former board member Helen Toner made similar claims in 2024. Murati briefly served as interim CEO after the board fired Altman in November 2023 and said OpenAI was at "catastrophic risk of falling apart" during the transition. She left the company in 2024 and founded a competing AI firm, Thinking Machines Lab. The trial is part of Musk's $150 billion lawsuit against OpenAI and Microsoft. https://blossom.primal.net/11e9a9db65edde584abf3652fa8acaa0a0b4f46171b8a01f5f45df694974461e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC SF Fed President Mary Daly says it’s too early to tell if the central bank has finished its rate-cutting cycle. https://blossom.primal.net/edf52a8b2374ab2f4867533717ffbf8770b9d29c60d9ecd06c914419afa2066b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump concludes bilateral meeting with Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, discussing trade and tariffs. Trump called the talks "very well" and announced follow-up discussions between representatives. https://blossom.primal.net/c0ecda51420136f1c0a39f37468caef5c149b24be1949148e736b35fd86b668a.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Your morning briefing on bitcoin, macro, and freedom tech. Written for people who don't have time to waste. Subscribe: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC AOC: "There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can't earn a billion dollars." https://blossom.primal.net/07b273d38959a131a492a66e5535ef92f0343e2350038159ad62d52c700c7dd6.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Good to see Angela McArdle bringing the Samourai Wallet case to Tim Pool's audience. Most people still have no idea developers are facing prison for writing code. The more people who hear about this the better. https://blossom.primal.net/bb1194c09e1aebbe841a338b1665c18b3a83c2e5d362441ad3f605e85004f3d3.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The WHO claims the recent hantavirus outbreak proves why countries around the world must be part of a global health order. "We really need this incident, this outbreak, to show why the world needs a global entity that connects this." "We live in an interconnected world. An outbreak in one part affects everywhere." https://blossom.primal.net/6dfa977ac2ae5c9883edf22b3be74a96db873a12ad1d6537b39403da48d9bff1.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Hantavirus: 40% fatality rate. Zero approved treatments. The best modern medicine can offer is "supportive care," which means hope your body figures it out. Why have we not been studying treatments? Hantavirus is an RNA virus. Ivermectin blocks the nuclear import pathway that RNA viruses exploit to replicate. Peer-reviewed studies published in Antiviral Research, Nature, and the Journal of Virology show broad-spectrum antiviral activity against dengue, Zika, West Nile, chikungunya, and other RNA viruses. Three people are dead on a quarantined cruise ship. Five more are sick. The WHO has confirmed it's the Andes strain, the only hantavirus known to spread person to person. US health authorities are now monitoring passengers in three states. A Nobel Prize-winning drug with a decades-long safety profile and a documented antiviral mechanism exists. No one is claiming it's a proven cure. But when the fatality rate is 40% and there is literally no approved treatment, the question is simple: why isn't anyone studying it? h/t Mary Talley Bowden MD https://blossom.primal.net/475214ce934d123cbbe743566509a057e48731f8f9d8f73279209764f1879db3.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A federal judge has unsealed a purported suicide note written by Jeffrey Epstein after the New York Times petitioned the court to release it. The note had been sealed for six years. Epstein's former cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, says he found the note inside a graphic novel after Epstein's first suicide attempt in July 2019. The note reads: "They investigated me for months. FOUND NOTHING!!! It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye. Watcha want me to do. Bust out cryin!! NO FUN. NOT WORTH IT!!" It has no signature and has not been authenticated. After that July attempt, Epstein told jail officials Tartaglione had attacked him and that he was not suicidal. A Bureau of Prisons evaluation deemed him "low risk," quoting him saying "it would be crazy" to take his life. The watch was removed. He was dead weeks later. The Justice Department says it had never seen the note. No copy appeared in the millions of Epstein documents the agency has released. How it ended up inside a graphic novel, authenticated only by the cellmate's lawyers, and sealed from the public for six years raises more questions than it answers. https://blossom.primal.net/54d259792cc8a844d3a73285a0d563294217866c412e3fe916c38e4da4b20050.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Where wealth exists today will transfer into where wealth is going tomorrow." @npub1cn4…3vle on Bitcoin as the greatest wealth transfer in human history, $400-500 trillion in assets being monetized as savings, and Bitcoin is competing for all of it. https://blossom.primal.net/e3400ca1bb99dd36bb94adc3128d875292bdfe7b93409c0ff2f6cf9225003902.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "If you're working on something that they don't like and a user of your software could do something with it that we deem bad, we will come after you." - (leamuirleyn) The Samourai precedent puts every Bitcoin developer at risk. https://blossom.primal.net/1d08fd13667adaf1d92682b987e0b067d6ea63f2226dbd040800b2d465c41d00.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC VanEck Head of Digital Assets Research Matthew Sigel says $1 million Bitcoin is the base case over the next several years. https://blossom.primal.net/0a345d33960e0c45083b72c5c20809486a39b1ca7d74acd8ebac4e25be8eb5f8.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The new @npub1tke…wral dropped with a built-in secure screen and we're giving one away 🟠 No seed phrase. 2-of-3 multisig. Biometric login. Follow @npub1tke…wral and us, RT to enter. ✅ Winner announced Tuesday 5/12 at 4PM EST. https://blossom.primal.net/9ebaa39c07c38fe362ca88081e6294d87d94f47cfefc66437940268d1a60f86b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC In 2016, a U.S. home cost 137.86 BTC. In 2024, it cost 4.97 BTC. https://blossom.primal.net/3d42accf61dc0a0edc9dc1b4653ce1120ac560324876d0a07af804cc07442d47.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthropic just signed a deal to take over SpaceX's entire Colossus 1 data center, over 300 megawatts and 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs, going live within the month. They're also doubling Claude Code rate limits across all paid plans and raising API rate limits for their Opus models. This is the latest move in an escalating compute arms race. Beyond SpaceX, Anthropic has locked in a 5 GW agreement with Amazon, another 5 GW deal with Google and Broadcom, $30 billion in Azure capacity through Microsoft and NVIDIA, and a $50 billion infrastructure investment with Fluidstack. They also expressed interest in developing "multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute" with SpaceX, data centers in space. Nearly half of all U.S. data centers planned for 2026 have been canceled or delayed. Out of 12 GW announced, only about 5 GW is under active construction. The bottleneck isn't GPUs anymore, it's power. Transformer shortages, grid wait times stretching 3-5 years, tariffs on electrical equipment, and community opposition are stalling builds nationwide. AI data centers are projected to consume up to 12% of national electricity demand, up from 4%. That's why Anthropic's approach is so aggressive, buying access to facilities that already have power rather than building from scratch. The companies that win the AI race may not be the ones with the best models. They may be the ones who locked up the most electricity. https://blossom.primal.net/4466f3af1891e949e61dd0432f0005cc00909fb5dff07595c8d73be4444b76f2.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Goldman says 95% of enterprises are getting zero return on $30-40B in GenAI spending. Goldman's own Exhibit 9 shows consumer AI demand growing 12x by 2030. Both are true. Here's what it means: Enterprise AI is failing because legacy companies don't know how to use these tools. They're spending millions bolting chatbots onto workflows designed in 2005 and wondering why ROI is zero. The real AI wave is startups who build from scratch. Three people doing the work of thirty. No legacy systems. No "AI transformation consultants." Just raw efficiency gains from day one. Meanwhile, the demand side is undeniable. Token economics turn positive H1 2026. Consumer agents are shifting from chat sessions to always-on. The hockey stick is already forming. The question is who captures the value. Open-source LLMs and agent frameworks are commoditizing inference. If small businesses and individuals can route around hyperscalers, the value moves from chips to applications. The market is overpricing hyperscaler equity as if they have traditional big tech moats. They might not. And the backstop nobody's talking about: Trump invoked the Defense Production Act for AI. The federal government is treating this as critical infrastructure. Will there be misallocation? Yes. But a full bust is hard to sell when demand outstrips supply and the government won't let it fail. Enterprise AI is a bubble. Consumer AI is a boom. Goldman proved both in the same report. https://blossom.primal.net/41b737e010ccc33b20ff58b91c18f8021b8a6a555f18475b28eb9891e2c6ad5f.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Congressman Thomas Massie visits PubKey. https://blossom.primal.net/e769cb8afb6a102cd3f44cda62f443de7d095b38eae2d0ef65df95bbfc85a136.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump announces a short-term pause of "Project Freedom" in the Strait of Hormuz at the request of Pakistan and other countries. https://blossom.primal.net/5b088a6f6295ce907ecd6a20cf98607c7d7590d1584bd4d7a9ad9fa11abf22b3.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Global airlines have cut 2 million seats and 12,000 flights from their May schedules in the last two weeks. Jet fuel costs have nearly doubled since the Iran war began. Spirit Airlines ceased operations on May 2 after 30+ years, unable to absorb the fuel shock. Lufthansa has pulled 20,000 flights from its May through October schedule. Turkish Airlines and Air China have each cut roughly half a million seats. Gulf carriers are still operating well below pre-conflict capacity after the closure of Gulf airports disrupted roughly a third of all European routes to Asia. Singapore and Tokyo airports have asked carriers not to add extra services to conserve fuel. Vietnam has introduced jet fuel rationing. The Strait of Hormuz disruption is no longer just an oil market story. It's reshaping global travel, killing airlines, and driving up costs for consumers worldwide. The second-order effects of the conflict are accelerating. https://blossom.primal.net/198af329caa2a42659b26853fe135ea031fce305fb45274f44daaec998971a8e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC BlackRock CEO Larry Fink says demand for computing power is so large that a new asset class will spring up around it. https://blossom.primal.net/adf81267a18a5fe58db1a747aff373c855a36782317f6befa60fd55e391affc2.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Kraken's parent company Payward is suing former custody partner Etana and its CEO, alleging a "Ponzi-like" scheme that misappropriated more than $25 million in client funds. According to the complaint filed today in Colorado federal court, Etana commingled custodial assets, spent them on operating expenses and risky investments, and falsely reported balances as intact. When Kraken attempted to withdraw $25 million in reserve funds in April 2025, Etana allegedly stalled with fabricated reconciliation issues. It didn't have the money. Payward claims at least $16 million was funneled into promissory notes from Seabury Trade Capital, which defaulted. Etana also allegedly used client assets to run a forex hedging strategy while pocketing the returns. Throughout, account dashboards continued showing customer balances as fully secure. Colorado regulators issued a cease-and-desist in 2025. Etana entered court-supervised liquidation in November. Not your keys, not your coins. The lesson keeps repeating itself. https://blossom.primal.net/af6de5e468179e52d632ec0014829d5c453544a2924032842ca7f7ebc65d52ae.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC SEC Chair Paul Atkins: We must focus on giving innovators, especially in digital asset markets, the ability to innovate at home under U.S. laws. https://blossom.primal.net/66f6ec768e67d9449e7885257e43ac3674f6a0e949c2bb9324a87698bca64901.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump calls Fed Chair Jerome Powell a “disaster for America” and says interest rates are “too high.” https://blossom.primal.net/836aa9a259dc0b500afa89df932d57eb3b6b70d6014204eccbcf08be632900ba.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "It's a tough look to me to be bearish Bitcoin right now with everything going on fundamentally under the hood. The Defense Production Act, dollar swap lines, UAE leaving OPEC. Everything is lining up." - @npub1g0e…l966 We discuss: ⚡ DPA returns ⚡ Funding plan ⚡ OPEC cracks https://blossom.primal.net/f2714ebb9bb28a11ff3554bec0da7b8808dd70d1e509a299d2530313cd4ad6d5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC CFTC Chairman Michael Selig declares zero tolerance for insider trading. https://blossom.primal.net/111d5248e43560eb32b9a5f8215f67e5ad4c577d15e8bbbfd66cfca0a2c134d5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC France’s Capital B secures €1.1M from Adam Back to buy more Bitcoin. The public company’s treasury division now holds about 2,943 BTC and continues building its stack. https://blossom.primal.net/f8628ae3b5ef85db5a9f8e7c2d9b531687fc9515ad9bd8e1455ffdfd156c6d7a.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC GameStop CEO Ryan Cohen has signaled an unsolicited bid to acquire eBay in a deal valued at approximately $56 billion, or $125 per share. The offer is structured 50% cash and 50% stock. https://blossom.primal.net/a068e4bb6b9421fbf01156d1988a3b8da488c4e795bc79edd46e5dcb4c3ba72a.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Every $1 a small business spends on Bitcoin rewards generates $10+ in additional customer revenue. Oshi just dropped the most rigorous data we've seen on Bitcoin payments. They analyzed 40,000+ customers across 7 merchants in food, health, and skincare. The findings demolish every "Bitcoin payments aren't worth the setup effort" argument. Bitcoin loyalty members have 3x higher lifetime value than non-members. Their repeat purchase rate is 66% vs 27%. They average 3.7 purchases vs 1.6 for everyone else. And despite being the minority of customers, loyalty members generate 57% of total revenue. The revenue multiplier ranged from $5.24 to $22.14 per $1 of rewards at a 1% reward rate. Across 7 merchants. Statistically significant with 6 correction layers applied. P-values from <0.001 to 0.030. This is not anecdotal. The infrastructure already exists. Oshi integrates with Shopify, WooCommerce, Square, BTCPay Server, and Zaprite. Reward rates run 1-5% of purchase value. No platform fee. Bitcoin 2026 had 800,000 merchants in attendance. The technology is mature. The data is now conclusive. The only thing missing is small business operators waking up to the fact that the orange-pilled customer is the best customer in the world. Bitcoin merchants are still thinking in fiat terms. They see volatility and miss the customer quality. The companies that figure this out first are going to dominate their categories. The data finally proves what Bitcoiners always knew. https://blossom.primal.net/13b85527b996cb42d006115b948caa58131ff13f4b0ddccfc13962322b4fbbe3.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman & Greg Brockman discuss 2015 negotiations with Elon Musk in a new podcast. Brockman claims Musk demanded majority equity and full control, the breaking point over fears of one person controlling AI’s future. https://blossom.primal.net/97c975bd1c5c68f1638a5b21917e7b04082910d32130973951a91f39d9ea3b7d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Every CFO knows their cash is losing purchasing power. Most don't know what to do about it. Allocation. Custody. Exit planning. Built for businesses doing $2M-$100M+ EBITDA. https://www.tftc.io/download-the-playbook-here/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Merchants at a Busan flea market (bitcoinpusan) are accepting contactless Bitcoin payments with the open-source (NumoPayApp). https://blossom.primal.net/bfc51bcb381d424ee2b84e083c3a6c17624e412db2d2af53711df04f3f6c5860.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Gulf states that previously tolerated Iranian money in their banking systems are now handing over account details to the U.S. Treasury, allowing the government to freeze IRGC-linked assets across the region. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the shift happened because Iran bombed its own Gulf neighbors during the conflict. Countries that were "somewhat permissive" with Iranian regime money suddenly became cooperative. So far, the U.S. has seized nearly $500 million in Iranian cryptocurrency. It is also freezing IRGC retirement funds held abroad and tracking regime-linked real estate worldwide. Iran's currency is down 60-70% against the dollar. Its largest bank collapsed in December. Bessent says the main oil export terminal at Kharg Island is at a "virtual standstill," and once storage fills, wells will need to be capped, causing permanent damage to production capacity. https://blossom.primal.net/f8060af56da02d07dc5110dfc85190f395af6d7da3b1e32e7ceb428e0de1e0de.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Saylor announcing "no buys this week" is now a market-moving event in itself. https://blossom.primal.net/dbbc5f25e4b6c29c8a3508d2d4aa5d703d61512e4d1964cce8edd75f14d72df5.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump says he will review Iran’s latest proposal but “can’t imagine that it would be acceptable.” https://blossom.primal.net/42310fc5046816b36f0cb4b63bbf517fcfd7da13e67d3472278e341bed8b35bc.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rep. Eric Burlison, who chairs a House Oversight subcommittee, says a pattern of disappearances among scientists connected to sensitive U.S. government research is "not normal." At least five cases share striking similarities. Four occurred near Los Alamos National Laboratory. In each one, the individual left home on foot, leaving behind their phone, keys, wallet, and car. Several took only a handgun. The missing include a retired Air Force general who led a $2.2 billion weapons research program, a retired Los Alamos nuclear weapons engineer, a government contractor with top security clearance at a nuclear stockpile facility, and an aerospace engineer connected to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. There is no public evidence linking the cases. But the House Oversight Committee has formally launched an investigation, and Trump confirmed a White House meeting on the subject last month, saying, "Some of them were very important people, and we are going to look at it." https://blossom.primal.net/63ce8d373561fd8f2101dac897aaf2b3a85ba8eaf86d9bfe4228f7405e80cc87.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC We got a job for you Marco. https://blossom.primal.net/0b7847f34da91344d19b6aefc7c8877039ae1efc107b4cb98f413f95d25d11ed.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Quantum gives off the same energy as enterprise blockchain. "My instincts tell me it's a nothing burger but my logical brain is like, even if technically it's probably a nothing burger, it's a memetic attack on Bitcoin and we need to have the memetic defense." - (jamesob) https://blossom.primal.net/c1bd3d43c994e126859b0dcd9e464ac61b269e9904974056739e529c4dd211c2.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Berkshire Hathaway just hit a record $397 billion in cash. That's 14 consecutive quarters of net stock sales, with another $8.1 billion sold last quarter alone. h/t (KobeissiLetter) https://blossom.primal.net/c579d165cc26fea96713a4ae86a12b9ebba12e5383521ab6699b296bc3f26e03.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC GameStop is preparing to make an offer for eBay, according to the Wall Street Journal, part of CEO Ryan Cohen's plan to build the company into what the Journal calls "a $100 billion-plus juggernaut." GameStop has been quietly building a stake in eBay ahead of a potential offer, which could come later this month. If eBay isn't receptive, Cohen could take the offer directly to shareholders. The size gap is notable. GameStop's market cap is around $12 billion. eBay's is roughly $46 billion. GameStop is sitting on about $9 billion in cash and $368 million in bitcoin, but how it would finance a deal nearly four times its size is unclear. GameStop shares rose about 7% after hours. eBay jumped 12%. https://blossom.primal.net/d817db6ec5cb31faf2baf0646e02899259d0a13ca42f302bd84ab5b62e4ff748.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sam Altman announced that OpenClaw now supports direct sign-in with ChatGPT accounts. Subscribers can now use their OpenAI subscription directly on the open-source AI agent. https://blossom.primal.net/c9facdf80bff113d684fc94c424c5b43ef40ac7781676d7eec9be1566b9939d3.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Paradigm researcher Dan Robinson published a proposal called PACTs (Provable Address-Control Timestamps). Robinson argues if quantum computing ever becomes a real threat to Bitcoin, the network may need to respond with an emergency soft fork that freezes spending from vulnerable addresses. Freezing vulnerable addresses would stop quantum attackers from draining wallets, but it would also lock out the legitimate owners. PACTs would attempt to solve this by using zero-knowledge proofs to let holders secretly timestamp their knowledge of a private key. The timestamp is generated offchain and anonymously, without revealing address ownership or moving any funds. If a freeze ever happened, a holder who generated a PACT beforehand could use it to prove they knew the private key before any quantum computer could have derived it, separating them from an attacker. Robinson says dormant Bitcoin addresses would be the most exposed under this scenario. Wallets belonging to early miners, long-term holders, and what he estimates as Satoshi Nakamoto's 1.1 million BTC haven't moved in years. Their owners may not be monitoring developments or in a position to upgrade. He frames PACTs as a preparatory measure rather than a complete solution. From his paper: adopting PACTs now "would help give holders as much time as possible to secure their coins against an emergency sunset, while allowing us to leave the more difficult decisions, including whether a sunset is necessary or desirable, until later." The catch: holders would need to generate a PACT before quantum computers arrive or before any emergency fork kicks in. Anyone who doesn't act in time would risk permanently losing access to their coins under this framework. https://blossom.primal.net/4dce56df7dc23491fe67a8e1f0ffe70f951df1dfda9e5e7c2f8d9886ec61943a.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senators Thom Tillis (R-NC) and Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD) have finalized a compromise on stablecoin yield, clearing the way for the Clarity Act to move forward in the Senate Banking Committee. The deal bans rewards offered "in a manner that is economically or functionally equivalent to the payment of interest or yield on an interest-bearing bank deposit." Companies could still offer rewards tied to stablecoins, but only if those rewards pass a regulatory test proving they aren't functioning like bank deposit interest. The compromise also directs regulators to develop a new stablecoin disclosure regime and define a list of permissible reward activities. Stablecoin yield has been the central holdup for the Clarity Act for months. Banks argued that stablecoins offering 5-6% yields were directly competing with traditional savings accounts outside the banking regulatory framework. Tillis says he will push for the bill to enter markup after the May recess. Separately, Tillis expressed support for Senator Cynthia Lummis' framework to protect non-custodial software developers from prosecution under 1960s-era money transmitting statutes, drawing a legal line between developers who write open-source code and entities that actually control customer funds. https://blossom.primal.net/98c1ca837e3c6dbe61d3bcfef2ad03fa8da4a21a08c71dffa71e7731b5aeb967.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Saylor: "Everything gets too big. Big government, big charity, big bank, big education, big medicine, big foreign policy, big defense. In nature when a creature gets too big it collapses under its own weight. The elephant is the limit to what nature can create." "The smaller the better. The smallest possible government. Most government intervention is iatrogenic. It cripples everything." https://blossom.primal.net/964c571e0562ab1fb00aec2bc0e0fee53dbd96059cb0ce4b00f09de759411720.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Josh Hawley’s GUARD Act, which bans AI chatbots from simulating emotional companions, encouraging self-harm, or engaging in explicit conduct with minors, passed the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously. https://blossom.primal.net/a9f5ddb427b0f9f8bf377e44e284b92defae6288f377d0713ed0fcb8ae5842d2.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC No tobacco. No artificial sweeteners. No soggy pouches. Nic Nac | Nicotine Perfected makes clean nicotine lozenges with essential oils and synthetic nicotine. Family-owned American business that accepts bitcoin. New customers get 20% off with code 'TFTC.' https://www.tftc.io/nic-nac-1776458115425/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Saylor on what gets demonetized in the AI era. "Hard work and talent are getting demonetized. Human capital is getting demonetized." "If you think the glass beads are money and someone comes along with gold then the glass beads get demonetized and you'll be poor if you hold onto them." https://blossom.primal.net/cfb64cc64e5f34e3a3d36779429ea437e39a2cc88d145b36bec909abdd3a79d1.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Gas just hit $4.39 a gallon nationally. Up 27 cents in one week. Up 9 cents since Thursday alone. This isn't seasonal pricing. This is what happens when 20% of the world's oil supply gets choked off in the Strait of Hormuz for two months straight. Brent crude is above $126 a barrel. Trump says the blockade could last "months." Iran is taunting "$140 next." The last time the national average was this high was August 2022. We're on pace to blow past it. Every American is paying a war tax at the pump right now. https://blossom.primal.net/a28707845adac7a4880c59bd786229cf046d1a6d436f74476a5010515947f9be.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "It's good to have your principles and speak the truth and have a f*cking backbone and be a man in this life. This is what I stand for. This is what I believe." - (americanhodl8) "Western civilization developed because a bunch of guys were willing to say, actually it would be worth dying to prove a f*cking point." https://blossom.primal.net/ae8b1f8300c65c37599c4337058bdfd7dc6d5bb3a64a6dad6bf5fc37d0f0982d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "AI systems do lean Bitcoin maxi because they scrape Twitter and Reddit. When you ask them about Bitcoin they'll be like, yeah, obviously Bitcoin's going to millions of dollars a coin. That was us biasing the AIs." - (americanhodl8) https://blossom.primal.net/3855d32de4d2d9ddaa95a903b3683d74a725cf0a992e69a71d72acfd22ea6103.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Joe Rogan: "I think privacy is kind of gone. And it's going to be super gone with these quantum computers. It's over. There's no privacy. The real problem is with the financial markets. If someone breaks through with this technology and shuts it off, it's over. Doesn't Bitcoin also get compromised?" https://blossom.primal.net/0ff68b5beed5df3ef33c59821518a30bbccac0a117335e070252aa7a2b28ae71.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The state f*cking hates you. It always has hated you." - @npub1hk0…20pf "You should prepare your life accordingly. Things like Bitcoin, Nostr, and other powerful decentralized technologies that utilize asymmetric cryptography are some of the most powerful tools that we have to resist this." https://blossom.primal.net/e9500467dbcd9798961042a26916198a97903f4d845f83397a566c32a13d700c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "You can't access the bitcoin, so you're not a custodian." That single sentence from @npub12rv…85vg , the creator of the Cashu ecash protocol, just unlocked the biggest scaling breakthrough Bitcoin has had in years. The reason ecash scaling has been limited to small community mints is because running a larger one makes you a money transmitter. Calle's solution: non-custodial Cashu mints running inside hardware enclaves. The bitcoin keys are generated inside the enclave and never leave it. The mint operator literally cannot access them. Even with full admin access to the server, they cannot steal the bitcoin. Remove the custodial barrier and the design space explodes. Public organizations, businesses, community groups can all run mints without taking on custodial liability. The security model is battle-tested. ACINQ already uses the same approach with AWS Nitro Enclaves to protect their massive Lightning node holding hundreds of millions in BTC. The historical lineage is what gets me. In 2004, Hal Finney built RPOW (Reusable Proofs of Work) using IBM's secure cryptographic coprocessor. The server was "more trustworthy than an ordinary bank" because the hardware itself guaranteed the software hadn't been tampered with. Finney's system wasn't tied to an existing currency. Calle's is. Cashu ecash backed by Bitcoin, running in a modern enclave, is RPOW's spiritual successor. Except this time it's built on the hardest money in human history. The honest caveats: this doesn't reduce risk to zero. The biggest practical risk is denial of service. The operator could turn the mint off. But since they can't steal the bitcoin, there's no financial incentive to do so. We're getting closer to having everything we want: privacy, ease of use, and reduced custodial risk, all on Bitcoin rails. Hal Finney's vision, finally realized. https://blossom.primal.net/3d1b2c699a83ad98fd5f9ed6ef32a6385acea4413aea17464350bb6667319f8e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC US national debt just surpassed the size of the entire economy for the first time since World War II. Public debt: $31.27T GDP: $31.22T The math is broken. The endgame is obvious. https://blossom.primal.net/69166cbfd14fbf6d838ad016421af613e8739ca905f29a945ca8f26db77274fd.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Tim Cook just warned investors that Apple is facing "significantly higher" memory costs starting in June, and the crunch will last multiple quarters. SK Hynix, Samsung, and Micron have all confirmed that their HBM, DRAM, and NAND capacity is essentially sold out through 2026 and into 2027. Customers are reserving supply years in advance. Goldman Sachs is forecasting a 4.9% DRAM undersupply in 2026, the worst deficit in over 15 years. The cause: every major AI company on earth is panic-buying memory chips. Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, xAI, and every sovereign AI program from Saudi Arabia to France are hoarding every wafer they can get. High-bandwidth memory prices have spiked over 1,000%. They're calling it "RAMageddon." The downstream effects are already cascading. Sony delayed the PS6 to 2028 or 2029 because they can't get chips. Western Digital is sold out of hard drives for all of 2026. Analysts are saying the entry-level PC market will "disappear" by 2028 because cheap components no longer exist. And now Apple, the most powerful supply chain operator on the planet, is telling you they can't escape it either. When Apple can't source components, what do you think happens to everyone else? https://blossom.primal.net/00205ee99bd61e506c652380e8b29720de82fdded24f9b3d4b42be57470bbbdf.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin 2026 is a wrap. Plenty of white pills to go around. Ignore the noise. There has never been a better time to contribute to bitcoin, open source, and freedom tech. Don't listen to the doomers. Go build something. Help someone take custody of their coins for the first time. There is no shortage of meaningful work to do. And if you can't build, back the people who are. Some of them are sitting in prison right now for doing exactly what the rest of us came into bitcoin for. We're going to win. Support the effort to free the Samourai developers at http://freesamourai.com. https://blossom.primal.net/d791c94932c44627c2c1e35447e523a184e8105a0dc8ca190ec5318770f4ceb7.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Musk is still testifying on day 4 of the trial in Oakland. Altman has been sitting in the courtroom listening from about 25 feet away. Musk told the jury "it is not OK to steal a charity" and said a win for OpenAI would "give license to looting every charity in America." He called the equity OpenAI offered him after Microsoft's investment "a bribe" and said he refused it. He also told OpenAI's lawyer his questions were "definitionally complex, not simple" and accused him of trying to trick him. The judge told both Musk and Altman to "start with a clean slate" and keep social media posts "to a minimum" after OpenAI's lawyers raised concerns about Musk's posts during the trial. Jurors have been shown text messages between Musk and Altman exchanged after Microsoft's investment became public. Trial continues. https://blossom.primal.net/3e9a8a3ac9792efe40368aa102c4bc58d1170b4131fbd6dcd09614ba4535c01f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Claude Security is now in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers. It scans GitHub repositories for vulnerabilities, validates findings to reduce false positives, and suggests patches you can review and approve. https://blossom.primal.net/805cfa7061c16a229567c514ee117fcd8eaba502af95d217c36737dd52f89d96.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Canada's $195 billion Alberta pension fund just made its first bitcoin allocation. $219 million in Strategy stock. Alberta Investment Management Corporation (AIMCo), which manages $195 billion in assets for Alberta's pension plans, endowments, and the Heritage Savings Trust Fund, just bought 1.38 million shares of Strategy worth $219 million. It's the fund's first bitcoin-linked allocation ever. AIMCo joins a growing list of Canadian institutional money flowing into bitcoin exposure through Strategy's stock. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) opened a position in MSTR last year. RBC and HOOPP are also holders. These are not hedge funds or venture capital firms chasing upside. These are pension managers responsible for the retirement savings of teachers, firefighters, and public workers choosing to allocate to bitcoin through the most liquid institutional vehicle available. Strategy now holds 815,061 BTC worth over $63 billion. The stock has become the default regulated proxy for institutions that want bitcoin exposure without the operational complexity of direct custody. The trend is accelerating. When pension funds with multi-decade time horizons start allocating, it signals something fundamentally different than speculative retail interest. This is long-duration capital entering the market with no intention of selling anytime soon. https://blossom.primal.net/dc1d125f32c7f6819a32350b77ca9df4bd185e8d282d621ac49f6e1eaeea6da9.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Daniel Batten launches “The Bitcoin Evidence Base.” A new open-source tool at that counters common Bitcoin FUD claims (energy use, environment, quantum threats, bubbles, etc.) with peer-reviewed research and data from Cambridge University, ERCOT, and 22+ studies. https://blossom.primal.net/5f32ebe041cd624b476f87692ab7d232bb29451021615a67280f0a2a6ffda3dc.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC AI Will Push Bitcoin Off the Grid "AI is going to be a forcing function to push Bitcoin mining off the grid. Stranded gas, mining at home. It's going to distribute hashrate naturally." - @npub1guh…6hjy https://blossom.primal.net/8a4f5e0f5fcde3b4214484c2b429661b0c790a4f8959d72f108ee1963be73db0.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Hands-on look at the Block Proto Rig. https://blossom.primal.net/070febef75a15d9df941a2b5dda45bb933c70b927c477cca06c1fc562fd35891.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/22d7292122c208336cf828b73c5a46506e1bb2d289768787b363097ecf742545.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Tether Investments just proposed a series of mergers that would combine Twenty-One Capital (XXI), Strike, and Elektron Energy into a single publicly traded entity. Strike, founded by Jack Mallers, brings a profitable Bitcoin financial services platform available in 100+ countries. Elektron, led by Raphael Zagury, operates roughly 50 EH/s of Bitcoin mining capacity, approximately 5% of the global network, with all-in production costs below $60,000 per bitcoin. Elektron has mined over 5,500 BTC and runs cash-flow positive. Tether intends to vote its XXI shares in favor of both mergers and is recommending Zagury serve as President alongside Mallers. If completed, the combined company would integrate Bitcoin treasury, mining, financial services, lending, and capital markets into one public platform. Tether is calling it the "premier listed Bitcoin company in the world." Transaction terms and timelines are still being worked out. https://blossom.primal.net/19205de86b5fb38d1db241e5b69f027af2b7db0991f0755b8f733881efbe3b39.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senator Thom Tillis says he's ready to push the Clarity Act to a committee markup. "I'm going to ask the chair to move forward with scheduling a markup when we get back." Tillis says most bank concerns on stablecoin yield have been "heard and addressed." Legislative text on yield is expected 4 to 5 days before markup. The remaining loose ends are developer protections and DeFi language. Senator Lummis, who has been leading on the issue, says "we've made significant progress on safeguards for non-controlling developers with respect to money transmitting laws." How the bill treats non-custodial software under existing money transmission law will set the precedent for open-source development in the US. https://blossom.primal.net/9ff289bec6a7d577a232b24390276eecd5050eb86a41f66f055b88850f8d633c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Cash App now gives you 5% back in bitcoin when you pay over Lightning at eligible Square merchants. Find nearby sellers on the Bitcoin Map. Earn up to $30/month. https://blossom.primal.net/c50a8b4b02b0aa612e949a772f4cb7b38afa666ee66f5430be379b20755f2cb6.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC First look at BlueWallet's redesigned mobile app UI. https://blossom.primal.net/74106aabb684f08b50d4f36f7d651a4581acf7d24f9e2e41d1c19e9a3184d14c.mp4