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Last Notes npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "We took the inflationary hose off our front porch and stuffed it in through our own basement window." Luke Gromen on why US inflation got so bad when foreign central banks stopped buying treasuries. https://blossom.primal.net/1868217fa204c03af5530fb9312c821f8a4bce37c837bb7b793bb83a973bb1fd.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Gold can go to a million and nothing gets hurt." Luke Gromen argues gold is the only asset that can rebalance global trade without breaking the world. https://blossom.primal.net/54ba648f2d5745d3476e337a329545761179449769d690547f48431c3dac1331.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin does not move in isolation anymore. Energy. AI. Money. Geopolitics. Policy. Markets. The Bitcoin Brief connects the stories shaping the world before they become obvious. Free. Daily. Trusted by 20,000 Sovereign Individuals. Subscribe: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The rabbit hole dwellers, the system thinkers who go against the grain? They're already here. What's left is people who don't think like us. Shouting about sovereignty on Twitter is falling on deaf ears." Brandon Quittem on why the next wave won't look like the last one. https://blossom.primal.net/f94291bb8d7be0ade733ea4e148354250b3530cdac8638f79837d709c533c2a3.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "There's a world where Bitcoiners get rich and the protocol is totally neutered. We'll be telling our grandkids a tragic story where we fumbled the greatest opportunity to take money away from the state ever." Brandon Quittem on Bitcoin's third generation curse. https://blossom.primal.net/337b749a0f2e3c0aca1da770c378dd43b9ea5ac415cdceb7aa7c5e9a10541fe4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "No dollar says Republican or Democrat on it." Nick shirley testifying before the Senate on the billions in healthcare fraud he's helped expose. https://blossom.primal.net/fd3310ebc8f31694e1140275b9495a5c149ac79c75688e80aa7cdf4d12827597.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump will meet senators tomorrow to discuss progress on the Clarity Act. https://blossom.primal.net/f067fe5cfaa6d862946c9efbb5d1296bb5e9536b00c4c9a15b2d11ee74e3c408.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Joe Rogan just told the Vice President something about Joe Biden that even he didn't know. "I didn't know he had two brain surgeries!" https://blossom.primal.net/3cc62f02dc930d48fcdf5dffff756e169bd764afba9d7ede75bc5ba089ab5585.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The UK tried to ban kids from social media, then immediately realized they can't enforce it without restricting VPNs. Now they're backing off. You can't enforce digital restrictions without breaking everyone's privacy tools. https://blossom.primal.net/e2b6b829e90bf4396d0bc37b3c3d1c9e8b0554fe15207003f390ee6a21caf1fe.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC CDC Director Nominee Dr. Erica Schwartz: “I believe mRNA technology is safe and effective.” https://blossom.primal.net/213a32617e824e8cd6bd5b2c3c6cc86c2e65665918a73ab34eeceff4414c589c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "All you heard for 20 years was STEM. Now LLMs write the code. The skills that actually matter are the humanities skills we left behind." (jcenters) & (hannahcenters) on what actually works in children's education. https://blossom.primal.net/712b86d3d1d8df56c246ca6ed206da2534e9ae94a8df30535bd7abfeb1dec10c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .(TheBitcoinGirl_) reviews RadarChat after using it for a week. https://blossom.primal.net/eeeb4c605a938a3f7b73ab8463b6c237b0db07d7a9570be09739dc50a242a26d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC JPMorgan about to be the world's first $1 trillion bank. The same bank that took $25 billion in TARP bailout money in 2008. https://blossom.primal.net/5dac6af3a5189a445b837cadd2fbfecb2c8dbd7d1c180d1deb83d3f4ae953a5e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Claude Fable 5 cyber safeguards bypassed with single “/btw” command in Claude Code. Security requests reportedly blocked. https://blossom.primal.net/a726478cc4ceaee89d5c478e5389d4cbc73896b683e3f438c47538b9744e1adf.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/56daeb9337faea90d57ad3cafe584fe9ce8b2f60d816eeea519e92a98810c3a3.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Cyan Banister says Peter Thiel is the most misunderstood person in tech. "He's operating 1,000 feet above everybody else. His mind is not like other minds. It's kinda like Elon. You don't know what to do with it, so it's just easier to hate it." https://blossom.primal.net/d547a79f12960570981bf024133ab7d33eb376d3801fc192cdf3925c9cfbaa18.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Ben McKenzie is on Capitol Hill lobbying senators against the CLARITY Act. You can't make this up. https://blossom.primal.net/f8e81095fc9957d395cb577fbabad5485c32fcf5f892126de9bf96095a26999f.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Home mining is an energy problem before it is a hardware problem. Tonight, the Exergy team joins the TFTC Roundtable to break down power economics, machine selection, heat reuse, and the Home Mining Energy Playbook. Join us: https://www.tftc.io/roundtable npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Maelstrom just added Tadge Dryja as the 6th recipient of their Bitcoin Grant Program. (tdryja) co-invented the Lightning Network, created Discreet Log Contracts, and authored Utreexo. He will be focused on research to harden bitcoin for a post-quantum era. Dryja is one of the most accomplished open-source bitcoin developers working today. Maelstrom's grants range from $50K to $150K per year, paid monthly in BTC or stablecoins. He joins five other developers on the roster. https://blossom.primal.net/8f944861402782631d4c7ba4bbea55601fb524d224030d5208884b6c91090445.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/2bb517fc5825b2a608213ec421462360dda07eb45cc6168d9f91d6f7e15bd505.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Stop selling your bitcoin to cover expenses. (AvenCard) lets you borrow against it instead, lines of credit up to $1M, rates starting at 7.99%, fixed for up to 10 years. No rehypothecation. 2% cash back. https://www.tftc.io/aven-bitcoin-visa-card/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rogan goes off on how the education system was literally designed to produce compliant workers, not curious humans. If AI removes the need for that, we need to completely rethink what school is for. https://blossom.primal.net/5abdc4be9fd42f5d3680d077a081493c0a314941c1b605a13a2d17ab458d81c4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bostrom calls wage labor "slavery light," you sell a third of your waking life just to pay for necessities. https://blossom.primal.net/c711d98aa3cc68825b3fd2e4d0b4b03293d82975f85a7450c12554e8e79dab81.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rogan pushes back on the "AI takes all jobs" panic: "Do you have to have a job? Isn't that a human invention?" https://blossom.primal.net/4f4f214d116d3375f383cb9ca4a818934a292e99389b749bec96b65b59ad7be6.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sacramento, CA, is now inspecting residents' curbside trash and recycling bins to ensure compliance with state sorting laws. City crews will check proper separation of garbage, recyclables, and organics. https://blossom.primal.net/6abbb292733e94382ced55d34e96b4f5efe17f17c9cc20a47d4ec081f1d05ff0.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The traditional media really finds all these excuses not to explain Bitcoin. They want to keep people on the euro." Adem Bilican on how European media uses fear narratives to suppress organic Bitcoin adoption while inflation and 50% tax rates crush the middle class. https://blossom.primal.net/26be39ee1e7472f4ae61e028554233d4ad5ec4d32587e0fa82532ff033955534.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "They don't earn enough to finance their lives. Rent is going up, insurance is going up, coffee costs double what it did three years ago." - Adem Bilican The European middle class is getting squeezed so hard they don't have the bandwidth for Bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/e4fd2faf61f4ee14e01bb447dc68b60012e8189ac22def4d105fc30fe1518d0b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Fed Chair Kevin Warsh: America will be richer and more productive if the current AI cycle follows the positive trends of past technology revolutions. https://blossom.primal.net/1a9b47f18b6ba7c337ccf33191379a13acb88fbb7807ba4b1782c2914c3c2a2d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Fed Chairman Kevin Warsh told Congress on Tuesday that AI is "the most significant change in our economy in my adult lifetime." "It's a huge opportunity, but it also comes with risks and challenges." https://blossom.primal.net/302a8662d452f8f55afcb5c3e2afec0325fca2ccc210807a1c617db1a83502be.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Fed Chair Warsh says AI investment is growing so fast it will soon "just be called investment," with high-tech spending up nearly 25% in Q1 driven by data center construction and AI demand. https://blossom.primal.net/246ea0c97d629bce0ecebaa97c78fe48afb516984ae77659eb1f83376b16f408.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Two government departments vying to run the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve. That probably doesn't happen if this is either fully on ice or just completely irrelevant to them." - @npub1g0e…l966 https://blossom.primal.net/c85d5781f9c089ff5fe6336b8159e7d69019bec345bf3a5cc15c58a32e155a2b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The guy your dad warned you about meeting the guy your other dad warned you about. https://blossom.primal.net/7073b966760db513a7920addfda5e4407c054a91bba95d385e600a4e493d17e7.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The charts are not looking great. You didn't get the same retrenchment anywhere close to pre-war levels and now we're back up moving much more meaningfully toward recent highs." - @npub1g0e…l966 https://blossom.primal.net/99821ec24ee188a7ea4409f0f0139e9239f6b4f8a3449d555cbb789a7a6e4ddd.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A Russian statesman in the 1890s observed that when you de-Christianize the state, you don't get liberty. You get another cult that runs the state. "I've noticed that too." - Tucker Carlson https://blossom.primal.net/bb9ace4f937df37e6b11fa8bdb7a91fab6775c193bd15b7a0fc1b23aa1c84f6f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Very wealthy families about a hundred years ago were able to buy off many of the mainline Protestant denominations and turn them into effectually NGOs." (JayDyer) on how the Rockefellers invested in the World Council of Churches to make Christianity a form of soft power. https://blossom.primal.net/d8f28a8c3a337b0b68e5c3910f71dc30a61f2c9510f9c3f2892507edde79432d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Why Byzantium was the most successful empire in history, how it flourished on sound money, and fell when they started clipping the gold. "If your civilization is logo-centric, you're aligned with what's true. You're just going to prosper." - (JayDyer) on Tucker Carlson https://blossom.primal.net/7b658437aacf9920498375b17df30c045b3250ddbc4e5f4afd39a174c54a528f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Waking up (Bitcoinbeach) in El Salvador. https://blossom.primal.net/e1284c8bbd829bb4811e665dbcdf94456dbbd46ea5031b997e17ba31e4382ab2.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Adam on first reading the Satoshi whitepaper. "He solved the problem a lot of clever people had been knocking their heads against for about a decade." https://blossom.primal.net/37103f3a2a61c5e990253cf962a5c43ed266f92fb9a886ca4a8f619de8dc2152.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Donald Trump called on the U.S. Senate to pass the Clarity Act in honor of the late Sen. Lindsey Graham. https://blossom.primal.net/f356ebc074e6ee01b1478e1bad76fc6224d608373e2ad5ab400c75af63ec3af3.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Nick Shirley found a single-story building in Queens claiming 7,000 patients and billing $12M Healthcare isn't broken, it's a racket running exactly as designed. Shirley keeps pulling threads the system hopes nobody touches. https://blossom.primal.net/45b995dfb9f56217e407f7f3c53ca0aafe8b7e73f48cf6981c54acfc65ac6a75.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Trump's 2025 financial disclosure just dropped and the numbers are staggering. The sitting President of the United States personally earned $1.4 billion from crypto last year, more than every publicly traded US crypto company. That's more than Coinbase ($1.26B net income). More than CleanSpark, IREN, and Bitdeer combined. Meanwhile, companies like Core Scientific, Hut 8, Galaxy, and Bitfarms all posted losses. The breakdown: ~$791 million from World Liberty Financial (token sales, governance tokens) and ~$635 million in royalties from the $TRUMP memecoin through licensing deals. For context, the same memecoin that made Trump $635M has cost retail investors over $3.8 billion in trading losses. This is now creating a real political flashpoint. Senate Democrats are using the disclosure to push ethics provisions into the CLARITY Act, the bill that would define when crypto is a security vs a commodity. They want language explicitly preventing the president and his family from profiting off crypto while in office. The irony is thick. Trump went from calling Bitcoin a "scam" in his first term to running the most profitable crypto operation in America during his second. And now his financial disclosure is becoming the centerpiece of every political fight over crypto legislation in Congress. https://blossom.primal.net/40c8505475abc14710656419e636de2d3e968464d4a3d7de367f46ec965a4a25.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy now holds 843,775 BTC worth $54 billion at an average cost of $75,653. Down 15% on their cost basis. https://blossom.primal.net/ae0a0e657b85f7b8de60309f29111ea6a9614856b56e4cdfb4eafdfd46cc067c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Bitcoin Policy Institute just filed to intervene as a defendant in a New York lawsuit that should concern every bitcoiner who self-custodies. A pseudonymous plaintiff "Noah Doe" is trying to use New York's 1958 lost-and-found property law to claim ownership of ~39,069 dormant bitcoin addresses holding an estimated 3.8 million BTC (~$293B). The argument is if your bitcoin hasn't moved in 5+ years, anyone can download your public address, report it to the NYPD as "found property," and claim it's theirs. The addresses targeted include wallets linked to the Mt. Gox hack, the Counterparty burn address, and 21,000+ addresses attributed to Satoshi Nakamoto. Matthew Boyer is stepping in because they hold bitcoin long-term, just like millions of other HODLers, and this legal theory would criminalize the most basic principle of self-custody, holding. Inactivity is not abandonment. A public address is not "found property." And a law written for lost wallets and umbrellas has no business being applied to the Bitcoin blockchain. A hearing is set for July 14. The outcome could set major precedent for property rights in bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/07e4add4b88ee5f8075ebc8192935c95f073323ca75c9dada1aaa3afff5ccc65.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Net equity supply just flipped positive for the first time in ~20 years. Companies are issuing more stock than they're buying back. https://blossom.primal.net/2d5327acdf32ea54df26de84755bbd941a3e31e864eff35264db426ef3fe1d03.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Nick Shirley confronts staff at a Queens adult day care over records showing 7,899 billed members, amid $12.9M in 2024 taxpayer payments. https://blossom.primal.net/50ba47b46b8a01e265cf0d9e0603de49881f4e7d529598f7f52f37d919e0f34f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "It's a fork of Signal with self-custodial Bitcoin Lightning. All your chats and your entire network move along with it." (ODELLXYZ) and @npub1guh…6hjy on Radar Chat. https://blossom.primal.net/e7f14c97b36e1852c78d74b65510dfe5b4eb6a7abe8c3509f47a02495dd5b474.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Power law projections for the next cycle top November 2029: median $365K, low case $184K, Q90 $500K, Q100 million dollar Bitcoin. "A 1.4-1.5x multiple over the trend is totally possible." https://blossom.primal.net/5ac0aee611482ae5e0c44a8858b57df086f1007e523c9c961e2bf53cb7095b83.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Matthew Mezinskis: "Statistically, relative to the power law, this is as cheap as Bitcoin has ever been. Deep value, as good as you can get." "The smallest drop in any of these bear markets, but probably the worst sentiment we've had." https://blossom.primal.net/c592006f64454a97a58f12ebb81c05671bae7a75503fe1de0ce2345cb02ea4bf.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Tesla is demolishing portions of its Fremont factory's Model S and Model X production lines to make way for new high-volume Optimus humanoid robot manufacturing lines. They have plans to eventually reach an annual capacity of 1 million robots. https://blossom.primal.net/74faee43691eb5b08f3e077024b0d66272eaf11378d2f55cc629bee3b5f67fb4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Cerebras CEO Andrew Feldman: "We have a shot with this technology so that not our children nor anyone they know dies of cancer... Make your tally of the cons and the pros. There's a shot that our children, none of them nor the people they love, will die of cancer." https://blossom.primal.net/a495083dfdcd6de7086b0d0a438dcc8135467589a728c079f6509fa86c88c493.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "AGI, I suspect you'll agree with me, we've hit it. We just haven't exactly deployed it fully... By any definition we had 20 years ago, we've blown past it." https://blossom.primal.net/c7c4a86d1a6c26cd128118858213d617d874c43324544f2512ab7684d135ed97.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC CFTC Chairman Mike Selig on the CLARITY Act: "We want to get in statute... We would have exchanges that are federally regulated... States like New York are very aggressive against crypto. We need federal protections for the product and for the exchanges." https://blossom.primal.net/5770b2d4099dc126215b4499e6beae553be6d4fa9bdbe70059b077f30851a440.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Pentagon releases new UAP footage from 2025 showing a six-pointed star-shaped object tracked by military sensors over the Yellow Sea. https://blossom.primal.net/6e9907ed9cb57ead36fcbbc9b8e298fd788478ce46a76258b7714c28d224561c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Co-founder of Opendoor JD Ross: "Not a single one of our full-time engineers writes code anymore. They do everything through Codex, Claude Code, or Cursor." https://blossom.primal.net/877f8ff262df3e2d3dc95a60014719aaadbb26156ddbbc3883dac84ce9e2b0c4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Mike Belshe says quantum fears are holding back institutional Bitcoin adoption: "Doesn't matter what I think. What matters is what the world thinks. And if the world thinks it's an issue, we should just address it." npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI announces a livestream today at 10am PT for a major ChatGPT update. https://blossom.primal.net/627691212f6cd0292b49b74fdb88ffa41f7c269e1135f45a54839a091623074d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The European Parliament just voted to extend a rule that lets platforms scan your private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion. It runs until April 3, 2028. This covers DMs on Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, and Xbox, plus emails on Gmail and iCloud. The original rule was introduced in 2021. MEPs actually rejected extending it back in March by a vote of 311 to 228 and the rule lapsed on April 3, 2026. But Brussels brought it back on an "urgent basis" before summer recess, and this time the motion to reject it failed to get the majority needed. Former MEP Patrick Breyer called it "a farce" that "damages democracy," pointing out it passed against the will of most voting MEPs. The data shows the system doesn't work. Only 36% of abuse reports in 2024 came from scanning private chats. Most came from public posts and cloud storage. 48% of alerts weren't even criminally relevant. 40% of investigations from these alerts targeted minors themselves. 99% of Meta's reports were about material already known, not new abuse being caught. The European Commission itself admits there is no evidence this scanning has increased convictions or rescued more children. This is the voluntary version. A separate permanent law, the Child Sexual Abuse Regulation, is still being negotiated. That version could force scanning on every platform and reach into encrypted messages like Signal and WhatsApp. Breyer warned this vote removes any pressure on the Council to pursue real reform. They can just keep extending the old system instead of passing something better. The playbook is clear. Wrap mass surveillance in child safety language, bypass democratic opposition through procedural tricks, and buy time to push the permanent version through with less scrutiny each round. https://blossom.primal.net/b35b8a2747112fc0f52dc85d33df5a8f8bc011b08f4920d75000a7155d0719b3.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Most people do not need more bitcoin, macro, or AI news. They need a sharper filter. Every morning, the Bitcoin Brief cuts through the noise across bitcoin, macro, AI, energy, policy, privacy, markets, and freedom tech. No hype. No “crypto” slop. No AI boosterism. No pretending fiat institutions are neutral. Just the stories that matter, why they matter, and what they reveal about the fight for sovereignty. Read it free every weekday. Subscribe here: https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Mike Rowe visited a Texas data center and met three debt-free electricians under 30, all making north of $240K a year and poached three times in 18 months. https://blossom.primal.net/8bd0eb9184ec24d4872eef2cace3894d142f0486e5f464836ebc1fbd627e9a21.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .@npub12rv…85vg's NFC Tap-to-Pay with Bitcoin ecash in the wild at Steak 'n Shake. https://blossom.primal.net/51a59060cc863797b8f84fef7726840159b1295d21fea2108b9d15680235c94d.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "I am not trying to redistribute wealth. The redistribution of wealth is happening." - Gary Stevenson https://blossom.primal.net/730eb547d6e8555b1dec2dacc4ef3ed0ab115420c4eaa9785639bccdc75c838b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "You cannot simultaneously have an untaxed billionaire class and an asset-holding middle class, you must choose." - Gary Stevenson https://blossom.primal.net/7085eb191a9bb769a0fce28a0e0a5ca5e8f5e6c096bd6d45e7f43be7936080c5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "I am not trying to redistribute wealth. The redistribution of wealth is happening. The redistribution of wealth is happening." - Gary Stevenson https://blossom.primal.net/730eb547d6e8555b1dec2dacc4ef3ed0ab115420c4eaa9785639bccdc75c838b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "If I was to start Bull Bitcoin today, there's zero chance I would succeed. 90% of all crypto companies just got kicked out of Europe. The compliance moat is massive." - Theo Mogenet https://blossom.primal.net/89ba1888bde01366a6ce0f8b4ccbdbaa2d52200e74af78c9856afeb00a788e37.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senator Ron Wyden just sent a letter to Senate leaders Thune and Schumer urging them to preserve Section 604 of the Clarity Act, the Blockchain Regulatory Certainty Act. This is arguably the most important section in the entire bill. It would codify that non-custodial software developers should not be treated as money transmitters simply for publishing open-source code. Wyden's argument is straightforward. The Bank Secrecy Act and the criminal code need to be read together. If a developer builds software that lets people manage their own digital assets but never takes custody of those assets, treating that developer as a money transmitter is legally incoherent. He points out this already aligns with existing FinCEN guidance and emerging case law. He's not asking for something new. He's asking Congress to codify what regulators already acknowledge. He also pushes back on critics who claim the BRCA weakens anti-money laundering protections. His letter explicitly states the provision would unify FinCEN and DOJ policy, keep law enforcement focused on actual criminals, and includes an exception ensuring that any non-custodial developer found handling illicit funds is not protected. The political context matters. There's uncertainty over whether certain law enforcement groups will accept the BRCA language and whether changes will be needed to win votes from Democratic senators like Cortez Masto and Warner. Wyden co-sponsored the standalone BRCA alongside Senator Lummis, making this a genuinely bipartisan push. Worth noting that while Section 604 deserves to be preserved, the Clarity Act as a whole remains a mixed bag. The bill extends the Patriot Act, contains provisions that could be interpreted to impose compliance burdens on open-source wallet developers, and is largely being championed by the broader crypto industry looking to legitimize token issuance. Section 604 is the part worth fighting for. Whether the rest of the bill deserves the same enthusiasm is another question entirely. https://blossom.primal.net/1d203e9ce18ba2751149184cacb93defb7ace08a503f5ce9984d0017a2f27863.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Francis Pouliot's Bull Bitcoin is suing France in the Conseil d'État to block the EU's DAC8 crypto mass surveillance rules over privacy and safety risks. https://blossom.primal.net/f42ab5deb9b33474328ae77152fc9e95d169ec988efc0ef56497777f8f477e9a.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 768 w/ Theo Mogenet: "They're building a list of every Bitcoiner. In France a million records leak every month and when this database leaks, people will be murdered." We discuss: ⚡ Sold to kidnappers ⚡ One taken every 2 days ⚡ Coming to the US next https://blossom.primal.net/ab0902f5b05f9f5eea4f1c04c9457ae8bd485b7c8974dc9809cc985bafcc4107.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Meta just disclosed it faces $1.4 trillion in potential penalties in the teen mental health case brought by state attorneys general. That number is nearly equal to Meta's entire market cap. Twenty-nine states are suing Meta for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act by collecting data from underage users without parental consent. They allege Facebook and Instagram were intentionally designed to be addictive to children, fueling anxiety, depression, self-harm, and suicide. Four of those states are also targeting Meta for misleading the public about safety risks. The $1.4 trillion figure comes from how California, Colorado, Kentucky, and New Jersey have proposed penalties should be calculated if they win. Meta's lawyers called it "outlandish" and said a sanction of that size "has no analog in the history of consumer protection enforcement." This is not happening in a vacuum. Meta already lost two major cases this year. A California court found it liable for fueling social media addiction. A New Mexico jury found it failed to protect kids from online predators. The company now faces more than 2,400 pending lawsuits from school districts, parents, and governments in what critics call a "Big Tobacco moment" for social media. The trial is set for August 18 in Oakland. The actual penalty will almost certainly be far less than $1.4 trillion. But the scale of the legal exposure tells you how regulators view what happened. This is a company accused of knowingly designing products that harmed an entire generation of children for profit, and 29 states are lined up to make the case. https://blossom.primal.net/80bc72e0b2bec559dc90c7f9f62a3c300ee98c0734d55d85d75d9d85b7701f7a.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC El Salvador's Bitcoin Office rolls out Diploma 2.0 across public schools, equipping students with official textbooks on Bitcoin fundamentals. https://blossom.primal.net/a1b325359b4de128cc04ab6a29cf88514543bcf61fa9012f585f765f7088ec04.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/ebb929a4ee34c06aa45ebe4219f5ad036e7a2639f46f22ebb1506e9a225bf419.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The most terrifying part is sometimes there's nothing underneath. It's just outright fraud." (APompliano) and (ankurnagpal) on how private market SPVs can be layered deep enough that no one knows what's actually at the bottom. https://blossom.primal.net/cf2f35f336d0cf4789ae3a0dd2bd8a00ba06d6545053108bdab08653ddf56cb5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "One of the many reasons the general public doesn't love AI is they're not benefiting from any of the economic boon. Who are the people who love AI? The venture capitalists, people getting paid really high salaries. The average American is fully locked out of that wealth creation." - (ankurnagpal) https://blossom.primal.net/68b89c3aeedd6cb68a839960e4ad094f8ea840e70b2ad241b4ed780805ba6d0b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Andrew Cuomo asked about crypto legislation: "They're in the room talking about what the rules are going to be. Should they then be allowed to trade on those rules?" https://blossom.primal.net/78b7dfc78f7c00705a983e3af88cbbee80bdfbc3a7181f9bb29cdce6dc89bdfd.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "A lot of Bitcoiners start taking Christ seriously. And it's usually slow and very methodical and very rational." @npub10vl…sp42 on the phenomenon of Bitcoiners finding faith not through emotion, but through the same evidence-based pursuit of truth that led them to bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/c7bccafd0999596d942387c4490b998c01d4a75cfe2f1262e363998c6a426243.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Bitcoin is a little taste of truth. It's a little bit bitter because you've been lied to the entire time, but it's very satisfying." @npub10vl…sp42 on how Bitcoiners chase truth in every area of life after the monetary red pill. https://blossom.primal.net/5a8f3288cc9e67646cea62a28bddb528111c8eb1f72afe058109ca0b896e02ed.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "This is the lowest sentiment I've ever seen on bitcoin." @npub1a2c…w83a says this bear feels worse than 2022 despite higher prices. https://blossom.primal.net/8c8e31b53152ab5ca711a6b1e49a66f8631746797cf584011f449d22d474b35a.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "I don't think there's anything coming to save bitcoin. The asset just has to survive on its own merits." @npub1a2c…w83a on why legislation and strategic reserves won't drive the next move. The market has to find its own bid. https://blossom.primal.net/944b199c8f972744747b6620264dd35241f53598c8ea09a8437abf08181b68bf.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The US, Japan, and South Korea just formalized a nuclear energy alliance designed to reshape how the developing world gets its power. The three countries signed a trilateral Memorandum of Cooperation on the sidelines of the NATO Summit in Ankara to accelerate the deployment of small modular reactors across the Indo-Pacific. The agreement pools American, Japanese, and Korean expertise in civil nuclear technology to create fleet deployment models that de-risk project development, streamline licensing, and attract private capital at scale. The US is backing it with over $10 million in new funding through the State Department's FIRST Program to support SMR project development and establish regional workforce training hubs. On the industry side, GE Vernova, Hitachi, and Samsung C&T announced a joint initiative to deploy the BWRX-300, a 300-megawatt reactor designed to be simpler and cheaper to build than traditional nuclear plants, across Europe and the Indo-Pacific. This is a direct counter to China and Russia's growing dominance in reactor exports to developing nations. Energy infrastructure is becoming a geopolitical chess piece, and this pact ensures the next generation of nuclear plants in Southeast Asia and the Pacific aren't built by Beijing or Moscow. The demand backdrop makes it urgent. AI data centers, electrification, and industrial growth are straining grids everywhere, and SMRs are positioned as the scalable answer. Three of the world's most advanced nuclear economies just agreed to make sure they control that buildout. https://blossom.primal.net/481e1b5eb750fea1de4826754ff25b7d7ba85b3f7969d21f7710ce16523c2f89.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The canary in the coal mine is screaming in Japan. Japan's 10-year government bond yield just hit 2.85%, highest since May 1997. The 20-year is sitting around 3.82%, near the highest level in the dataset going back to 1987. The 30-year is above 4%. Meanwhile the yen is trading near 162 per dollar, close to its weakest in four decades. Japan is the clearest expression of the sovereign-debt trap: too much debt, a central bank that distorted the bond market for years, a currency that keeps weakening, and yields that rise anyway because the market is losing patience. When the country that pioneered yield curve control starts losing control of the curve, every sovereign-bond holder should pay attention. This matters beyond Tokyo. If JGBs keep selling off while the yen keeps sliding, the pressure leaks into U.S. Treasuries, global carry trades, bank balance sheets, and political panic. Bitcoin is the escape hatch from the paper-duration trap. https://blossom.primal.net/39822724bb491483df8c0d2064b31041c9936fff009fa96a61a036bc8bfa2b31.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "There's a good probability that the powers that be will declare that a recession started sometime in 2026. I would give that a 50% probability at least." - Jeffrey Gundlach https://blossom.primal.net/12f061f46146ffbbf4484f5a7570f109f03d9d033d1cf314ba5535e4e060e2bb.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The private credit situation is shockingly similar in size to what subprime and non-guaranteed mortgages were in 2006." - Jeffrey Gundlach https://blossom.primal.net/7f64d0bd229a3a531d1016d0a519cc91e043ef3c7366bb41cb13b5489418dce2.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is real, it's happening, and now the question is who gets to run it. Bloomberg reports that the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel is "working closely with both the Treasury and Commerce departments to determine legally available options to accomplish the president's policy of establishing a strategic Bitcoin reserve." The issue. Treasury was supposed to house the reserve under Trump's March 2025 executive order, but a legal question emerged about whether Treasury actually has the authority to manage the crypto holdings. Now Commerce is being floated as an alternative. Multiple parts of the administration are involved in making sure the structure is legally airtight. This is bureaucratic noise, not bearish signal. The fact that the DOJ's Office of Legal Counsel is actively working on this means they're building the legal foundation to make it permanent. They're not asking whether to do it. They're figuring out how to do it so it can't be undone. The US government already holds over $20 billion in bitcoin across various agencies. The White House has said premature sales cost taxpayers $17 billion over the years. Meanwhile, Trump personally disclosed over $50 million in bitcoin held in cold storage last week, and Congress has the ARMA bill working through committee to codify the reserve in law. The direction is clear. The details are being worked out in real time. https://blossom.primal.net/96da2a20953dd10d21b4c4cbbb975ab7e8de233e8699f7f0f93fa4e46ffc652e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC SpaceX unveils new logo and tag. https://blossom.primal.net/05284a395be416e8b033e4833f221ebefe0001898d0a42de9740580f7741fd3e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: One SpaceX founder donated nearly 2 million shares to Trump Accounts. https://blossom.primal.net/d7af6c7876e6ace6964d939a3388d3017234e217eeda1634b19811fe527a78f5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "If you really want to see that number go up, you have to self-custody the Bitcoin. Every person talking Bitcoin needs to show proof of reserves. If they don't show it, how do you know they have it?" - Tony | thebitcoinway.com https://blossom.primal.net/d09b1abc2de78361013eaf48e8c610e70271d8fdbb58a9495655ace7c50cd4e3.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "By the time Hal gets to look at it over the weekend, the blockchain is already at block 49. I couldn't believe it. It's too easy. That's why no one looked." (raw_avocado) on Bitcoin's earliest days. https://blossom.primal.net/425fc545f50fb189cae83634fa128662315768500a0f974ee59fa14ff25e0abc.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Bitcoin was created for one purpose and one purpose only. The separation of money and state." - Tony | thebitcoinway.com https://blossom.primal.net/0d0fac7278d591054e6385bb97941eb102dcd7f2dc8ffd26afca90f3b9580aeb.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "If you were the US government and wanted an insurmountable Bitcoin lead, budget neutral, no five-year plan to front-run, buying from willing sellers, how would you do it?" -@npub1g0e…l966 We discuss: ⚡ The quiet accumulation ⚡ No telegraphing ⚡ Hiding in plain sight https://blossom.primal.net/7de3d68779aaa559ff02a53e462de599edaa400d17d9b61eb7f60c6b8a0de429.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Housing inflation isn't some mystery. It's policy. All the way down. The Biden administration ran an open-border policy. Tens of millions of border encounters over a compressed period. Millions allowed into the country while the immigration system buckled. That was not a natural market event. When you dump a massive number of people into a country over a short period, many without the skills, capital, or income to immediately carry their own weight, you create pressure everywhere. Schools. Hospitals. Municipal budgets. And housing. If millions of additional people need a place to live and supply doesn't expand at the same pace, prices go up. Rents go up. Families living paycheck to paycheck get squeezed harder. Young people trying to buy their first home get pushed further from the starting line. The research backs this up. The Philadelphia Fed's Albert Saiz found that an immigration inflow equal to 1% of a city's population was associated with roughly a 1% increase in rents and housing values. He studied the Mariel Boatlift as a natural experiment. Miami's renter population rose ~9% in one year and rents rose ~8% more than comparison cities. Fed officials have started saying this out loud. Governor Miran cited Saiz directly and argued that net zero immigration going forward would imply roughly 1 percentage point lower rent inflation per year compared to the prior baseline. The same policymakers that gave us monetary debasement, rate suppression, and open-border chaos want to act like housing inflation is an unfortunate weather pattern. It's not. They printed the money. They suppressed rates. They let housing become a financial asset first and a place to live second. They strangled supply with zoning and regulation. Then they layered a massive immigration-driven demand shock on top of a market that was already broken. And ordinary Americans got the bill. https://blossom.primal.net/6c514954633d98daa84be07ed928eedc309245c2600cca874c083457ca7ddb83.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The network halted 8 times. There were only 2 nodes. They always went down together. Clearly, they must be the same entity." (raw_avocado) on the evidence that Satoshi was running a second node just to keep Bitcoin alive. https://blossom.primal.net/1605751a71c6316e000e372e5ee8b43488aebe14cfdb88fddcea04bf77407653.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "That's just another tool in the tool belt. Use the tool of mining to improve the business." - Steve Barbour on flare gas mining https://blossom.primal.net/ea4f3658351cf7d9a32a0c9a910708cffb24c3922084e9f25625eed573dc7639.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Germany's Finance Minister just confirmed crypto gains will be taxed like capital income. The 1-year tax-free holding period that made Germany one of the most bitcoin-friendly countries in Europe is on the chopping block. https://blossom.primal.net/a499127513c9a9052ff08aea1e06920c2bf12f71eb5dd18668be158f5d177afd.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump on Bitcoin in Trump Accounts: “I’ve become a big crypto guy… I’m a fan.” https://blossom.primal.net/0663c056bc835ac70fee3a2ffc837eb353a108df196ce1f494b38fb0c411d533.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump on Bitcoin: "A lot of people are using it... I don't think anybody realizes how powerful it is." https://blossom.primal.net/7db6413f16313e9bc73e9600921539fe9d39b5333e5f71296949466ae3acd0c5.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 767 w/ (raw_avocado): "The debug file was public for 15 years. I think I'm the first person who ever actually looked at it — and what I found rewrites Bitcoin's first days." We discuss: ⚡ Satoshi ran two nodes ⚡ Only 3 people at block 49 ⚡ Bitcoin nearly died https://blossom.primal.net/53c060bfd2bcd023db75a75b14e4db642653afd5d8439115cad2717db64abccf.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy just sold 3,588 BTC ($216M) to pay dividends on their preferred stock. Still holding 843,775 BTC and $2.55B in cash reserves. https://blossom.primal.net/7a4533999c5d0d1c79f0b99aa23b5d825c7cfc4f3a4d5737ddec102aca01c688.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Foreigners bought 71% of new debt. From 2015 to 2022, foreigners bought 14% of it." @npub1xwm…pyyc on the collapse of US debt demand. https://blossom.primal.net/7b78eb80ca81073fba1caa17f6674f232881d331f88df8b44c0bb1b7c116edf9.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthropic is looking to secure 1.4 GW of data center capacity in Australia in a deal that could cost up to $15 billion to build out. The world's most valuable AI company is shopping among Australian data center operators, with a decision expected within six weeks. This follows Anthropic's recent global expansion push, hiring data center engineers in Sydney, London, and Tokyo as it partners with democratic countries to scale compute infrastructure. https://blossom.primal.net/6b66325c2a1e3495a2f83efa92072c36495787b05ce38f20e8886ea4b2dbaef4.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC America has lost 7,000 bars, 2,000 golf courses, and a fifth of its movie theaters since 2001. Concert tickets are up 42% since 2019. Nearly 80% of Americans now see friends and family less than 3 times a week. https://blossom.primal.net/320d54da54caf15b38a6743d2a92c2ce587e1fb02f7b5dacc91af04089b448ef.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy now holds 847,363 bitcoin worth $53 billion across 113 purchases at an average cost of $75,653. Down 17% on their cost basis. https://blossom.primal.net/821ae621978d854308887bd2d9f61a51b1a19482e35c2c8c9306a9f079d251ad.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Perplexity CEO: "Microsoft built the concept of the knowledge worker to sell office software. We all got trained to use Excel and Word. That became the upskilling you needed to get a job. If AI does that part, it's not a bad thing." https://blossom.primal.net/0d50c1e392fae04a851e2ed75773a0e93e19f95abd613d9bbddd9439122c3b91.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "The primary reason why Americans fought and died was moral. Lincoln fought to end slavery. It was not economic. What other culture engaged in civil war just because it was wrong?" "When you were overfighting the Nazis, you were doing it because you thought America was a superior way of living. No other culture does this." https://blossom.primal.net/7b66878427eca1aa40fc46db3f6ab324bbb809083af79c4044859bece8b996f2.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Bitcoin community is fighting about BIP 110 and whether "digital credit" is the future. Meanwhile, the infrastructure for a fully digital, fully surveilled dollar is being built in real time and it's moving faster than most people realize. In the last 30 days alone: 140+ companies including Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google, and Stripe announced a shared stablecoin. JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo started building a tokenized deposit network to keep money from ever leaving the banking system. Nine European banks are developing a euro stablecoin. The Fed dropped its first rulemaking under the GENIUS Act requiring full KYC/AML for all stablecoin issuers. They don't need a CBDC. They're building something more effective. A system where every dollar is digital, every transaction is traceable, every participant is identified, and the infrastructure is run by the same corporations that already control payments, search, and asset management. It's a CBDC without calling it one. The playbook is clear. Make it free. Make it fast. Make it easy. Get everyone on the rails. Then close the gates. Once all dollar-denominated value flows through consortium-governed tokens with built-in compliance, opting out stops being a choice. The fiat system is not waiting for Bitcoiners to finish their internal debates. It's building the cage in the open and labeling it "modernization." Bitcoin remains the only monetary network with no consortium, no governance board, no KYC layer, and no one to subpoena. That's not a feature list. It's the whole point. https://blossom.primal.net/1cb368830be115e93bd668789fa26c7f7f88db018abfdef8589c3d7789b340c4.jpg