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Truth for the Commoner. A media company focused on #Bitcoin, freedom, and truth in the digital age.

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2026-03-12 19:35:15 UTC

Trump on Truth Social today: "'Too Late' Powell should be dropping Interest Rates, IMMEDIATELY!"
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2026-03-12 19:24:54 UTC

Polymarket says 12% chance of any cut before April's meeting.
Traders betting the Fed holds firm through spring.
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2026-03-12 18:55:00 UTC

A Salvadoran shares his $1.70 breakfast haul from the modern Mercado San Miguelito.
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2026-03-12 18:44:39 UTC

Jim Cramer suggests we use the Vietnam playbook ... because that worked out so well.
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2026-03-12 18:01:39 UTC

U.S. Senate passes bipartisan housing bill 89-10, with a major win tucked inside: Fed banned from issuing CBDC until 2030.
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2026-03-12 17:43:40 UTC

The Bitcoin Policy Institute just released a new report on the Bitcoin de minimis tax exemption.
Under current law, every bitcoin transaction triggers a capital gains calculation and IRS reporting obligation, no matter the size. A $4 coffee purchased with bitcoin that appreciated by six cents gets the same tax treatment as a six-figure asset sale. This has effectively killed bitcoin's use as a medium of exchange in the U.S.
Congress solved this exact problem for foreign currency decades ago. Personal-use foreign currency gains under $200 are tax-exempt. Bitcoin users get no such relief.
Senator Lummis filed a standalone bill proposing a $300 per-transaction threshold with a $5,000 annual cap. The Joint Committee on Taxation scored it as revenue-positive, generating $600 million over ten years. The White House backed it. Treasury Secretary Bessent offered to have his team work directly with Lummis on guidance.
Then the direction shifted. After the GENIUS Act passed, a new bipartisan draft from Representatives Miller (R-OH) and Horsford (D-NV) narrowed the de minimis exemption to stablecoins only, excluding bitcoin entirely. Relief offered where it's least needed, withheld from the users facing the most punitive treatment.
BPI has met with 19 congressional offices over the past three months pushing back. The response has been encouraging, with bipartisan agreement that the stablecoin-only approach is insufficient.
The window is narrowing. Senator Lummis, the issue's strongest champion, departs the Senate in January 2027. If a package doesn't come together in the next few months, this opportunity may not return for years.
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2026-03-12 17:32:19 UTC

CFTC Chair and SEC Chair: Agencies are ready to implement Bitcoin market structure rules as soon as the CLARITY Act becomes law.
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2026-03-12 17:22:01 UTC

Google just dropped its BIGGEST Maps update in 10+ years.
Gemini-powered "Ask Maps" lets you ask complex real-world questions and get personalized plans.
Immersive Navigation overhaul too. Rolling out now in US/India.
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2026-03-12 17:11:54 UTC

OpenClaw agents holding actual scrum meetings in a 3D office.
They report progress autonomously.
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2026-03-12 17:01:19 UTC

White House Press Sec Karoline Leavitt demands ABC News retract its report on FBI alert about potential Iranian drone attack on California, calling it false & alarmist.
"No such threat from Iran to our homeland exists, and it never did."
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2026-03-12 16:51:00 UTC

Claude just dropped interactive charts & diagrams in chat.
Bar charts that update live. Flowcharts you can edit. Gantt charts on demand.
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2026-03-12 16:40:38 UTC

66% of Americans say in (BIGDATAPOLL): Let people buy food straight from farmers, no government permission needed.
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2026-03-12 16:30:28 UTC

Sen. Bernie Sanders renews push for immediate moratorium on new AI data centers.
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2026-03-12 16:20:11 UTC

Bitcoin is treated as more dangerous than subprime mortgage derivatives under Basel banking rules.
The Fed just announced it will issue a public proposal next week for how banks should implement this guidance. Bitcoin carries a 1,250% risk weight, a tool designed for opaque, unratable securitization tranches, the kind of toxic instruments that blew up in 2008.
A 1,250% risk weight multiplied by the 8% minimum capital ratio means banks need dollar-for-dollar capital against any Bitcoin exposure. Hold $100M in Bitcoin, set aside $100M+ in capital. No yield. No business case. It's functionally a ban on bank-level Bitcoin services.
Bitcoin is the opposite of what this classification was built for: transparent, globally traded, zero counterparty risk, with measurable volatility already addressable through existing market-risk frameworks.
Meanwhile, 150+ public companies hold over 1.1 million BTC worth $78 billion in corporate treasuries. Hundreds of billions in annual trading volume. A mature derivatives complex. The demand for regulated Bitcoin services is massive and growing. The banking system is artificially prevented from meeting it.
The 90-day comment window is a real opportunity. Matthew Boyer is reviewing the proposal and submitting public comments to push for reform. Replace the blanket 1,250% penalty with risk-based capital treatment that reflects what Bitcoin actually is.
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2026-03-12 16:09:49 UTC

CENTCOM releases update on Operation Epic Fury.
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2026-03-12 15:52:03 UTC

Day 13 of the Strait of Hormuz closure.
Iran's new Supreme Leader: It STAYS closed.
Bloomberg model says brent hits $165 if it lasts 3 months.
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2026-03-12 15:41:47 UTC

mNAV launches new Bitcoin Treasury Terminal.
Real-time mNAV valuations, BTC yields, per-share stats, hidden accumulators & ecosystem rankings.
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2026-03-12 15:28:16 UTC

Sen. Kim: "The people I talk are thinking about their grocery prices, housing prices. They're not thinking about how much money American corporations are going to make off of higher oil prices, because that's just gonna raise all of our prices at home. That's where the president is just so detached."
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2026-03-12 14:15:56 UTC

Morgan Stanley just restricted redemptions at one of its private credit funds after withdrawals surged.
That's BlackRock, Blackstone, Blue Owl, and now Morgan Stanley. Four of the largest names in private credit have gated, capped, or permanently closed redemptions in the last 90 days.
$2 trillion industry. Your money goes in. It doesn't come out when you want it to.
This is what happens when illiquid assets get sold as liquid products.
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2026-03-12 14:02:17 UTC

February CPI came in at 2.4%. It's the last clean number we're going to see for a long time.
Iran and the Persian Gulf account for 30% of global fertilizer exports. That flow has stopped. Spring planting across the Northern Hemisphere starts in six weeks. Farmers who can't access fertilizer will reduce planting or accept lower yields.
The Food Policy Institute warns disruptions in fuel and fertilizer markets could trigger "long-term increases in food prices" that make recent inflation look modest.
Meanwhile, the U.S. Treasury is actively suppressing price signals. Energy analyst Dr. Anas Alhajji has documented the Exchange Stabilization Fund being deployed to push down oil futures, masking the true inflationary impact of the Hormuz closure. CPI readings are being kept artificially low while the supply shock works through the system.
Then Iran escalated further. IRGC drones struck three AWS data centers this week. Two in UAE, one in Bahrain. Iranian state media published a target list naming Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Nvidia, IBM, Oracle, and Palantir facilities across Israel, Dubai, and Abu Dhabi. First time a nation-state has deliberately targeted civilian cloud infrastructure in wartime.
This is no longer a regional energy conflict. It's a direct assault on the digital backbone of the global economy. And it's the strongest real-world case for Bitcoin's architecture we've ever seen. No CEO to sanction, no headquarters to bomb, no server farm whose destruction cripples the network.
This CPI print will be remembered as the last reading from the old paradigm.
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2026-03-12 01:49:30 UTC

Multiple Hill sources confirm: Coinbase is lobbying AGAINST Bitcoin de minimis tax exemptions
Their message to lawmakers: "Nobody uses Bitcoin as money" and "it would be DOA"
Meanwhile they're pushing stablecoin-only exemptions
@npub1guh…6hjy exposes what's really happening
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2026-03-12 00:57:19 UTC

Trump on Iran: "They are pretty much at the end of the line. It doesn't mean we're going to end it immediately, but they've got no navy. They've got no air force. They have no systems of control."
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2026-03-12 00:42:19 UTC

The SEC is considering moving away from quarterly reporting.
"When the SEC was formed in 1934, it basically codified annual reports. We didn't go to quarterly until 1970. The UK went back to semiannual in 2014. So we're looking at this again now."
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2026-03-12 00:32:02 UTC

CFTC Chair Michael Selig on All In with Paul Atkins today:
The SEC and CFTC have spent 30 years in a turf war. Products died in the crossfire. That's changing.
"It won't work if we've got one blockchain for securities and another for commodities and nothing in between."
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2026-03-12 00:21:40 UTC

Trump brings Jake Paul onstage at Kentucky rally, predicts he'll run for office.
"You have my COMPLETE AND TOTAL ENDORSEMENT!"
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2026-03-11 22:48:37 UTC

Spiral spotted at PubKey NYC for inaugural ₿uilder NYC, unpacking how AI agents, "vibecoding," and Bitcoin Layer 1 are about to collide.
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2026-03-11 21:55:00 UTC

Gov. Gavin Newsom confirms FBI warning: Iran may launch drone strikes on California from ships off the coast amid escalating war.
State coordinating with local agencies.
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2026-03-11 21:44:40 UTC

"That might be what Armageddon really looks like..."
Joe Rogan on AI ending civilization. Guests go dead silent.
Konstantin Kisin: "I'll be rooting for Jesus."
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2026-03-11 21:32:18 UTC

Perplexity just launched Personal Computer, an always-on AI running 24/7 on your Mac mini.
It lives in your files, apps & sessions, works while you sleep, and stays secure with full approval controls.
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2026-03-11 21:13:37 UTC

Interest on the US national debt now averages over $100B/month this FY.
Up YoY and swallowing 50% of individual income taxes collected.
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2026-03-11 20:43:01 UTC

Anthropic just announced deeper Office integration.
Shared context between Claude in Excel and PowerPoint eliminates rework.
Save custom Skills for variance analysis, client decks & more. Now org-shareable and live on Bedrock, Vertex AI, Microsoft Foundry.
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2026-03-11 20:32:38 UTC

VanEck’s Matt Sigel: "Kazakhstan has become the first Central Bank to buy Bitcoin."
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2026-03-11 19:56:22 UTC

Getting orange-pilled is personal, unlearning years of assumptions, rebuilding your worldview.
"You gotta change your worldview, stuff you thought was true for many years, you gotta flip upside down." - (basedlayer)
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2026-03-11 19:49:20 UTC

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2026-03-11 19:39:37 UTC

Bitwise CIO Matt Hougan says there's still a path to $1M Bitcoin.
If the store-of-value market grows at the same 13% annual rate it has over the past 20 years, and Bitcoin's share of that market goes from 4% to 17%, you get to $1M.
No hyperinflation required. No institutional FOMO. Just compounding market share in a growing asset class.
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2026-03-11 18:41:37 UTC

Coinbase is quietly lobbying to kill Bitcoin's de minimis tax exemption.
The company reportedly told legislators that "no one is using Bitcoin as money" and that a Bitcoin de minimis exemption would be "DOA." Meanwhile, they're pushing for the exemption to apply only to stablecoins, specifically regulated, dollar-pegged stablecoins like USDC.
Coinbase made $1.35 billion in stablecoin revenue in 2025, up 48% year over year, almost entirely from interest earned on U.S. Treasuries held in USDC reserves. Bloomberg estimates that number could surge 7x under the GENIUS Act. Every person who uses USDC for payments instead of Bitcoin is a person whose dollars are sitting in Coinbase's reserve pool generating risk-free yield for Coinbase.
A de minimis exemption for Bitcoin would let people spend it freely for everyday purchases without triggering a taxable event. That makes Bitcoin a direct competitor to USDC as a payment method. Coinbase doesn't want that competition. They want you locked into their centralized stablecoin ecosystem where they clip yield on every dollar you park there.
The irony is that a de minimis exemption doesn't even make sense for stablecoins. They're pegged to the dollar. They don't fluctuate in value. There's no capital gain to exempt. The exemption matters for Bitcoin precisely because it does fluctuate, and without it, every coffee purchase becomes a taxable event.
Senator Lummis proposed a $300 de minimis exemption that would cover Bitcoin. The House framework only covers stablecoins under $200. The Bitcoin Policy Institute has already warned that Bitcoin is being deliberately excluded from these talks.
A de minimis exemption that covers stablecoins but not Bitcoin isn't a tax framework. It's a subsidy for Coinbase's treasury management business disguised as consumer protection.
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2026-03-11 18:18:58 UTC

The music industry spent years trying to destroy torrenting instead of learning from it, then ended up as major Spotify shareholders just to survive.
"We're seeing a lot of these industries desperately trying to find a way to stay relevant." - (basedlayer)
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2026-03-11 18:08:37 UTC

FBI warns California police depts that Iran may launch retaliatory drone attacks on West Coast targets, per alert reviewed by ABC News.
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2026-03-11 17:58:18 UTC

President Trump urges oil companies to keep using the Strait of Hormuz: "I think they should."
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2026-03-11 17:48:00 UTC

The Church, governments, media, all built on information asymmetry. The internet destroyed that advantage. Now they're all crumbling at once.
"All these institutions have been able to exist for so long because they were leveraging information asymmetry." - (basedlayer)
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2026-03-11 17:28:18 UTC

Trump: "We may cut off trade with Spain."
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2026-03-11 17:09:37 UTC

Marco Rubio is now the betting favorite to be the next President of the United States. Three months ago he wasn't even in the conversation.
The turning point: Trump polled 25 GOP donors at Mar-a-Lago on Vance vs. Rubio. The room overwhelmingly cheered for Rubio. Not politely. Overwhelmingly.
Here's what the donor class sees that most people don't.
Rubio is currently running the State Department AND serving as acting National Security Advisor. Every major foreign policy moment, China, Iran, Ukraine, runs through him. He's the most visible member of the cabinet and he's performing.
But the real play is electoral math. A bilingual son of Cuban immigrants who can flip Latino voters in Arizona, Nevada, and Florida while keeping the MAGA base locked in. That's the coalition Democrats cannot build a counter to.
The Bitcoin angle matters too. Rubio on de-dollarization: "We won't have to talk about sanctions in five years because there will be so many countries transacting in currencies other than the Dollar."
He's watching dollar hegemony erode from the Secretary of State's chair. That's not someone who fights Bitcoin. That's someone who understands why it exists.
Vance still leads on some prediction platforms. But the momentum, the donor money, and the Trump endorsement signals are all pointing one direction.
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2026-03-11 16:42:57 UTC

A massive lobster showed up in front of the Charging Bull in NYC.
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2026-03-11 16:32:48 UTC

At DevCon 5, Palantir introduced a CLI that enables developers and AI agents to co-build enterprise applications inside Foundry.
Data pipelines, ontology primitives, and application artifacts in a single pro-code workflow.
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2026-03-11 16:01:36 UTC

CPI printed 2.4%. Calm, benign, exactly what the Fed wanted to see. But the reading is already obsolete.
Iran has severed 30% of the world's fertilizer exports just as spring planting season begins. IRGC drones struck three Amazon data centers this week. Iranian state media published a hit list targeting Google, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Palantir facilities across the Middle East. The Strait of Hormuz is mined. And the Treasury's Exchange Stabilization Fund appears to be actively suppressing oil prices to keep CPI readings artificially low.
The fertilizer shock won't show up in price indices for months. The food inflation it triggers will. This CPI print may be the last one from the old paradigm.
Today's Bitcoin Brief:
https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-brief-cpi-calm-before-storm/

2026-03-11 15:32:38 UTC

Saylor: "Feel the Stretch. $STRC"
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2026-03-11 15:11:56 UTC

HSBC shuts ALL branches in Qatar until further notice.
Cites safety of customers & staff amid escalating tensions.
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2026-03-11 14:57:37 UTC

Americans are voting with their feet.
California -25.1 per 10K residents. New York -28.2. Illinois -14.5.
South Carolina +79.7. Idaho +63.2. Tennessee +43.6.
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2026-03-11 14:47:16 UTC

The DOJ says the "War on Crypto is over." The SDNY just requested a retrial date to put Roman Storm in a federal cage for 40 years for writing open-source code.
Twelve jurors heard four weeks of evidence and deadlocked. No verdict on money laundering. No verdict on sanctions evasion. The only conviction was for operating an unlicensed money service business, and Storm has filed to get that thrown out.
Instead of accepting what the jury couldn't deliver, prosecutors want to run it back in October 2026. Meanwhile, Treasury lifted Tornado Cash sanctions entirely. The DOJ issued a memo saying it "is not a digital assets regulator" and won't target mixers. The White House declared the war over.
The SDNY didn't get the memo. The same office that locked up the Samourai Wallet developers is now operating as a rogue unit within the federal government, pursuing its own agenda on financial privacy regardless of what its own leadership says.
Storm has exhausted his legal defense funds. He has a daughter and a life in Seattle. His crime was writing software that gives people financial privacy.
If code is speech, this is the most consequential civil liberties case in crypto.
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2026-03-11 14:24:02 UTC

TFTC 725 w/ (basedlayer): "All these institutions have been able to exist for so long because they were leveraging information asymmetry. And right now they're all crumbling in front of our faces."
We discuss:
⚡ Information asymmetry
⚡ Fragmented adoption
⚡ Agentic economy
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2026-03-11 00:41:35 UTC

OpenClaw just became the most-starred GitHub repo in history (250k+ stars), overtaking React and Linux.
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2026-03-10 23:27:15 UTC

Microsoft files amicus brief backing Anthropic's lawsuit against the Trump admin over Pentagon's "supply chain risk" label on the AI firm.
Urges court to block it temporarily.
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2026-03-10 23:16:55 UTC

Trump's back at it: demoting Canada's PM to "future Governor."
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2026-03-10 22:49:34 UTC

US Treasury completes record $14.7 billion debt buyback.
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2026-03-10 21:41:54 UTC

The largest private credit fund in America is fire-selling $1 billion in assets to meet redemptions. Most people have never heard of it.
Cliffwater Corporate Lending Fund (CCLFX) manages $33 billion. It's an "interval fund," meaning investors can only redeem at quarterly windows, capped at 5%. Redemptions just hit 7%+, blowing past the gate. Now the fund is dumping $1 billion in private credit assets on the secondary market through Evercore.
Here's what the SEC filings actually show: 97% of the portfolio has no observable market price. Cliffwater marks its own book using internal models and manager-reported NAV. There is no independent verification.
The fund reports 1.71% volatility. That's not stability, that's what happens when you price your own assets and never mark them to market. The risk doesn't disappear. It accumulates until it can't be hidden anymore.
In the first half of FY2026, realized losses jumped 17x, from $3.5 million for the full prior year to $59.4 million in just six months. Cash on hand collapsed 76%, from $375 million to $92 million. Total debt surged 43% to $9.8 billion. Redemptions are annualizing at $3.9 billion, up 74% year over year. And the fund is sitting on $6.3 billion in unfunded commitments with just $92 million in cash to cover them, that's 1.5% coverage.
The fund markets itself as "96% first lien senior secured." But 38.7% of net assets sit in Private Investment Vehicles, the biggest chunk being CLO equity, which is first-loss, not first-lien. True economic leverage is estimated at 70-150%, not the reported 31%.
PIK interest, where borrowers pay interest with more debt instead of cash, is growing 63% annualized. That means the underlying borrowers can't service their loans. They're just adding IOUs to the pile.
Secondary market bids are coming in at roughly 10% below reported NAV. When $1 billion in assets hit the market at a discount, it doesn't just affect Cliffwater, it reprices the entire private credit ecosystem.
Boaz Weinstein of Saba Capital has been publicly warning that problems in private credit are "multiplying by the quarter." He predicted Cliffwater's redemption rate could hit 10-20%. Blue Owl already halted redemptions on OBDC II entirely. FS KKR cut its dividend 25% in Q4 2025.
This is a $1.8 trillion industry built on illiquid assets, opaque valuations, embedded leverage, and exit gates that work right up until the moment everyone heads for the door at once.
The private credit bubble is cracking in real time.
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2026-03-10 20:27:14 UTC

Trump warns Iran: Remove any mines from the Strait of Hormuz IMMEDIATELY or face military consequences "never seen before."
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2026-03-10 20:16:55 UTC

White House: Oil & gas price surge from Iran operation is "temporary," lower prices expected once stability returns.
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2026-03-10 20:02:40 UTC

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2026-03-10 19:46:55 UTC

Iran’s security chief Ali Larijani just dropped a 6-language warning:
The Strait of Hormuz will be “peace & prosperity” for all, or “defeat & suffering” for warmongers.
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2026-03-10 19:30:34 UTC

Trump's Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff on CNBC: U.S. strikes have "destroyed almost all" of Iran's nuclear enrichment capability.
Trump open to ceasefire talks "if the Iranians want to talk."
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2026-03-10 18:33:37 UTC

"Your job as a father and as a husband is to provide and protect, not just materially, but spiritually."
Father Chad Ripperger says the real battlefield is your own home.
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2026-03-10 18:23:14 UTC

The guy who "discovered" Lyme disease was weaponizing ticks for the U.S. military the entire time.
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2026-03-10 18:12:54 UTC

Saylor and Sen. Jim Justice spotted at Pubkey DC.
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2026-03-10 18:02:33 UTC

CFTC Chairman Michael Selig warns overregulation exiles Bitcoin and crypto innovation offshore.
Agency to issue Project Crypto guidance soon on DeFi registration, prediction markets, leveraged trading & perpetual derivatives.
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2026-03-10 17:52:15 UTC

Joe Rogan: "That was one of the more disappointing things about this administration. Right off the jump, we were supposed to get all the JFK files. Very little new information has been released that illuminates any aspects of that case."
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2026-03-10 17:41:53 UTC

The IRS just created a new crypto audit form designed to make you incriminate yourself.
They're sending a new "Historical Digital Asset Form" that lists 100+ exchanges and self-custody wallets: Coinbase, Binance, Kraken, FTX, Mt. Gox, MetaMask, Ledger, Trezor, and demands you check YES or NO for every single one. Then sign it under penalty of perjury.
This isn't a tax form. It's a mapping exercise. They don't just want to know what you traded last year. They want a complete picture of everywhere your crypto has ever touched going back years.
The catch: there's no right way to fill it out.
Forget a platform you used once in 2017? That's perjury. Disclose everything? You just gave them a roadmap for new lines of inquiry. Don't respond? They'll issue a summons.
This is coming alongside Form 1099-DA, which means exchanges are now reporting directly to the IRS. They're cross-referencing what they already know with what you tell them, and looking for gaps.
If you get this form, do not fill it out without a tax attorney. This is exactly the kind of overreach that pushes people toward self-custody and privacy-preserving tools like Bitcoin. The government doesn't send forms like this to help you. They send them to build a case.
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2026-03-10 16:59:38 UTC

"Some of the elite at the top are actually involved in occult activity, and they know exactly what they're dealing with."
Father Chad Ripperger says some elite families have practiced the occult for 300 to 400 years, passing it down generation after generation.
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2026-03-10 16:49:21 UTC

Bhutan transferred 175 BTC ($11.85M) late Monday, pushing 2026 government outflows past $42M.
Holdings now sit at about 5,400 BTC ($374M).
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2026-03-10 16:39:04 UTC

Right in the middle of the Epstein files exposing the biggest elite pedophile ring in the world, a former president goes on a random podcast and says aliens are real.
"The demons want you to not pay attention to what's really going on." - Father Chad Ripperger
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2026-03-10 16:28:42 UTC

UAE's massive Ruwais refinery SHUT DOWN after drone attack fire. 922,000 barrels/day offline as precaution.
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2026-03-10 16:18:27 UTC

"If it wasn't ritualistic, I'd be surprised."
Father Chad Ripperger, one of the most prominent exorcists in the world, says the layout of Epstein's island gives a clear indication of heavy occult involvement.
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2026-03-10 16:08:06 UTC

$71K Bitcoin!
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2026-03-10 15:57:45 UTC

Trump admin prepping EO to "weed out" Anthropic's Claude AI from all federal agencies & operations, per Axios.
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2026-03-10 15:47:24 UTC

META acquires Moltbook.
The Reddit-for-AI-agents where bots roast each other is now under Zuck's wing.
"The Moltbook team joining MSL opens up new ways for AI agents to work for people and businesses."
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2026-03-10 15:36:57 UTC

AWS tightens AI code deployment rules.
Junior & mid-level engineers now need senior sign-off for AI-assisted changes after incidents including a 13-hour outage blamed on its own Kiro tool.
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2026-03-10 15:26:37 UTC

American Bitcoin director Richard Busch just scooped up 68K shares at $1.15 ($78.2K total).
His holdings now top 1.4M shares.
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2026-03-10 13:57:37 UTC

Strategy just reported a BTC Gain of 7,826 bitcoin (~$551M) year-to-date on a 1.2% BTC Yield.
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2026-03-10 13:47:17 UTC

Refineries across six countries have been hit in less than a week. This is not a replay of the 2019 Aramco strike. This is something the oil market has never priced for.
A refinery is not an oil field. An oil field is a hole in the ground, cap it, patch it, restart in days. A refinery is a $10-20 billion maze of catalytic crackers, distillation columns, and control systems that takes 5-7 years to build from scratch. When a missile hits a fluid catalytic cracking unit, you don't repair it. You rebuild it. Recovery timelines stretch to months or years.
Bahrain's only refinery declared force majeure. Qatar's Ras Laffan LNG facility, the largest on Earth, has been shut down. Saudi Arabia's Ras Tanura refinery took damage. Iran itself saw four oil storage facilities hit by Israeli strikes. Roughly 20% of global crude and natural gas supply has been suspended.
Goldman Sachs warned oil could hit $150/barrel by month end if Hormuz flows don't recover. The G7 is scrambling to release 300-400 million barrels from strategic reserves. But HFI Research estimates tanker disruptions through late March alone could drain 450 million barrels from global inventories, slightly more than the entire proposed drawdown. The SPR release covers roughly 4-5 days of lost supply. Band-aid on a severed artery.
The natural gas picture may be worse. LNG expert Gerry Kepes called this potentially "the first time in history that the shutdown of LNG from the Gulf will have a more pervasive and negative impact than a cessation of crude oil exports." European gas prices have surged 60% since the war began. Countries don't carry LNG spare capacity. There is no quick replacement for Qatar's output.
Brent touched $119.50 this morning before pulling back to $107. The market is no longer pricing geopolitical risk. It's pricing operational destruction.
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2026-03-10 12:01:55 UTC

A jury of 12 Americans heard four weeks of evidence and couldn't convict Roman Storm. The SDNY's response: try again.
40 years in prison for writing open-source privacy software. The "War on Crypto" is supposedly over. Treasury lifted Tornado Cash sanctions. The DOJ said it "is not a digital assets regulator." But the same DOJ, through the SDNY, just filed to retry the case in October.
Meanwhile, Treasury is quietly pushing to bring the Patriot Act framework to digital assets while the press celebrates their report as a "win for privacy." Oil swung from $117 to $87 in 18 hours while destroyed refineries can't be rebuilt in a weekend. And the NRC just approved the first new-design nuclear reactor in 52 years.
Today's Bitcoin Brief: http://tftc.io/sdny-retrial-roman-storm-tornado-cash-code-is-speech

2026-03-10 01:36:15 UTC

Someone set loose two AI agents with $1,000 each and 48 hours to trade on Polymarket.
Claude: +1,322% to $14,216
OpenClaw: liquidated to zero in under 48h.
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2026-03-10 01:25:54 UTC

OpenClaw is pulling close to 1 million daily visits to its signup page, and it hasn't reached the mainstream consumer yet
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2026-03-10 01:15:34 UTC

Trump: "If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far."
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2026-03-09 23:21:33 UTC

Less than 1,000,000 Bitcoin left to mine. Too many people still own zero. h/t @npub14uh…ez89
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2026-03-09 23:11:11 UTC

Trump vows to waive key Iran oil sanctions & send US Navy to escort tankers through Strait of Hormuz.
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2026-03-09 23:00:51 UTC

Trump claims Operation Epic Fury's success in neutralizing shipping threats will bring down oil and gas costs:
"We're putting and end to all of this threat once and for all. The result will be lower oil and gas prices for American families."
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2026-03-09 22:32:50 UTC

Trump: "The crushing health care. We have to crush and take over the health care situation."
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2026-03-09 22:12:10 UTC

Trump: "They don’t say [affordability] anymore because we brought down prices."
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2026-03-09 22:01:50 UTC

Trump: "Inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising, the economy is surging."
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2026-03-09 21:51:30 UTC

Trump on Iran: "If we didn't go in, they would have come in after us."
"Within a week, they were going to attack us. 100%."
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2026-03-09 21:41:10 UTC

Trump: "No other president can do some of this shit I'm doing"😂
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2026-03-09 21:30:50 UTC

Trump: "I know that everyone in this room joins me in sending our prayers and eternal gratitude to the families of those great heroes."
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2026-03-09 20:39:09 UTC

Trump admin weighs drastic steps to tame $100+ oil surge from Iran war.
Export curbs, G7 SPR release, futures intervention. White House calls spike "short-term," but with Hormuz chaos ongoing, can quick fixes hold?
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2026-03-09 20:28:51 UTC

Bitcoin bottomed on Liberation Day last year and outperformed everything after. The last two weeks are starting to look familiar.
"This is what you'd want to see if you were going to call for a bottom, bad news no longer causing dumps to new levels." - @npub1g0e…l966
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2026-03-09 20:18:29 UTC

Iranian missile & drone launches PLUMMET, down ~90-97% from peak in just days after US-Israel strikes.
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2026-03-09 20:08:10 UTC

Anthropic introduces Claude Code Review.
Parallel AI agents automatically scan every GitHub PR on open, verify findings, and leave prioritized inline comments with <1% false positives.
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2026-03-09 19:57:56 UTC

Reform UK leader Nigel Farage takes 6.3% stake in UK Bitcoin treasury firm Stack BTC, chaired by former Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng.
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2026-03-09 19:47:29 UTC

OpenAI to acquire Promptfoo.
The company plans to integrate Promptfoo's AI security testing and evaluation tools into its Frontier platform for building AI agents.
Promptfoo will remain open source under its current license.
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2026-03-09 19:37:11 UTC

Scientists uploaded a fruit fly's brain into a computer and it now lives freely in its own simulation.
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2026-03-09 19:26:49 UTC

Trump to NY Post on oil nearing $120 a barrel amid the US-Israeli war with Iran: "I have a plan for everything, okay? You'll be very happy."
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2026-03-09 19:15:07 UTC

Two of the biggest private credit funds in the world hit significant redemption pressure in the same week. BlackRock gated. Blackstone let 8% walk out the door.
"Not trying to call this the big one, but clearly there's pressure in the complex." - @npub1g0e…l966
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