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2026-05-07 22:17:07 CEST

Sen. Warren: "Any crypto legislation that doesn't shut down this presidential corruption isn't worth the paper it's written on."
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2026-05-07 21:27:38 CEST

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.”
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2026-05-07 20:34:17 CEST

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/

2026-05-07 20:12:39 CEST

AOC: "There's a certain level of wealth and accumulation that is unearned. You can't earn a billion dollars."
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2026-05-07 17:29:57 CEST

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.
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2026-05-07 17:19:38 CEST

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."
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2026-05-07 13:53:57 CEST

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
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2026-05-07 01:56:35 CEST

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.
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2026-05-06 22:07:40 CEST

"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.
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2026-05-06 21:31:16 CEST

VanEck Head of Digital Assets Research Matthew Sigel says $1 million Bitcoin is the base case over the next several years.
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2026-05-06 21:10:34 CEST

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.
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2026-05-06 19:26:54 CEST

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.
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2026-05-06 15:46:10 CEST

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.
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2026-05-06 02:18:49 CEST

Congressman Thomas Massie visits PubKey.
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2026-05-06 00:59:49 CEST

President Trump announces a short-term pause of "Project Freedom" in the Strait of Hormuz at the request of Pakistan and other countries.
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2026-05-05 00:40:05 CEST

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.
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2026-05-04 21:02:45 CEST

President Trump calls Fed Chair Jerome Powell a “disaster for America” and says interest rates are “too high.”
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2026-05-04 19:51:10 CEST

"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
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2026-05-04 18:35:44 CEST

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.
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2026-05-04 18:11:24 CEST

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.
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2026-05-04 16:47:23 CEST

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.
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2026-05-03 21:27:58 CEST

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.
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2026-05-03 19:38:15 CEST

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.
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2026-05-03 18:32:39 CEST

Merchants at a Busan flea market (bitcoinpusan) are accepting contactless Bitcoin payments with the open-source (NumoPayApp).
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2026-05-03 18:22:20 CEST

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.
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2026-05-03 00:58:36 CEST

President Trump says he will review Iran’s latest proposal but “can’t imagine that it would be acceptable.”
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2026-05-03 00:32:16 CEST

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."
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2026-05-02 23:37:36 CEST

We got a job for you Marco.
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2026-05-02 21:24:57 CEST

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)
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2026-05-02 16:00:35 CEST

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)
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2026-05-02 03:06:53 CEST

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%.
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2026-05-02 02:07:13 CEST

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.
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2026-05-02 00:39:13 CEST

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.
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2026-05-01 23:25:53 CEST

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.
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2026-05-01 22:49:34 CEST

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."
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2026-05-01 20:47:11 CEST

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2026-05-01 20:36:57 CEST

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."
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2026-05-01 19:51:32 CEST

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.
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2026-05-01 18:33:05 CEST

"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)
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2026-05-01 17:07:26 CEST

"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."
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2026-05-01 16:38:23 CEST

"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.
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2026-05-01 16:28:03 CEST

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.
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2026-05-01 15:05:23 CEST

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?
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2026-04-30 21:10:22 CEST

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.
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2026-04-30 20:18:02 CEST

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.
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2026-04-30 19:24:42 CEST

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.
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2026-04-30 18:36:01 CEST

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.
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2026-04-30 17:39:41 CEST

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.
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2026-04-30 00:51:49 CEST

Hands-on look at the Block Proto Rig.
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2026-04-30 00:41:19 CEST

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.
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2026-04-29 19:48:59 CEST

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.
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2026-04-29 18:50:39 CEST

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.
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2026-04-29 18:19:59 CEST

First look at BlueWallet's redesigned mobile app UI.
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2026-04-29 17:26:58 CEST

Nearly half of all US data centers planned for 2026 have been delayed or canceled.
Out of 12 GW of AI data center capacity announced for this year, only about 5 GW is actually under construction. The rest is stalled. The bottleneck isn't money. Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, and Microsoft have committed over $650 billion in AI infrastructure spending. The bottleneck is power.
The US power grid can't keep up. Lead times for high-voltage transformers have stretched from 12-18 months pre-2020 to 3-5 years today. A single missing transformer or piece of switchgear can halt an entire project. Data centers are being built in 18 months but the electrical infrastructure they need takes 60 months to deliver.
Tariffs are making it worse. A significant share of power delivery equipment comes from China. With tariffs adding 15-25% cost increases on critical components, projects that were already tight on budget are getting pushed back or killed entirely.
The pipeline gap extends far beyond this year. For 2027, only 6.3 GW of 21.5 GW announced has broken ground. Through 2032, more than 50 GW of announced capacity lacks firm completion dates. Even OpenAI's $500 billion Stargate project has seen no significant physical progress as of April.
Community opposition is growing too. Residents in Virginia, Georgia, and Texas are pushing back on water usage, noise, and local grid strain. Projects are being canceled at the county level.
The AI demand is real. The infrastructure to support it is not materializing fast enough. Capital cannot outrun physics.
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2026-04-29 16:49:38 CEST

Canada is moving to ban crypto ATMs nationwide, calling them a key tool for scams and illicit money flows.
The country has the highest crypto ATM density per capita in the world, with nearly 4,000 machines set to be impacted.
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2026-04-28 21:08:35 CEST

Lightspark CEO David Marcus unveiled a Bitcoin wallet designed for AI agents to autonomously purchase and transact with BTC.
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2026-04-28 20:47:54 CEST

Czech National Bank Governor Aleš Michl says a 1% Bitcoin allocation would deliver higher expected returns with almost no noticeable increase in risk.
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2026-04-28 17:49:34 CEST

Yesterday we ran a live demo of the new @npub1tke…wral with (max_guise).
Address verified on the device. Amount verified. Signed and sent.
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2026-04-28 15:38:33 CEST

OpenAI missed its internal revenue and user growth targets for Q1 2026. Wall Street is panicking. "AI bubble" headlines are everywhere.
Read the fine print. The demand didn't disappear. It moved.
Anthropic's annualized revenue hit $30 billion in April, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025 and $1 billion at the end of 2024. Claude now holds 29% of the enterprise AI assistant market, up from 18% in 2024. 70% of Fortune 100 companies use Claude. Over 500 businesses are paying Anthropic more than $1 million a year, up from roughly a dozen two years ago. Claude Code alone is generating $2.5 billion in annualized revenue.
The WSJ report itself says it plainly: OpenAI "lost ground to Anthropic in coding and enterprise markets."
This isn't demand for AI cooling off. This is demand shifting. Anthropic is eating OpenAI's lunch in the segments that generate the most revenue per customer. Enterprise clients are moving. Developers are moving. The money isn't leaving AI. It's leaving OpenAI.
The AI bubble narrative assumes the entire market is overbuilt. The actual data says the market is growing fast and one company is taking share from another. That's not a bubble. That's competition working exactly as it should.
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2026-04-28 15:28:13 CEST

China's property market has now wiped out two decades of price appreciation. According to Hedgeye, the country's real estate sector has given back all gains accumulated over the past 20 years.
Researchers estimate that 85% of the gains seen between 2011 and 2021 alone are already gone. The broader collapse stretches further back, erasing valuations to levels not seen since the mid-2000s.
For context, real estate accounts for roughly 70% of Chinese household wealth. This isn't just a housing story. It's the largest destruction of middle-class wealth happening anywhere in the world right now.
The Chinese government repealed its "three red lines" policy in January 2026 in an attempt to stabilize the sector, but prices continue to fall. The property crisis that began with Evergrande in 2021 has now entered its fifth year with no bottom in sight.
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2026-04-28 00:23:28 CEST

Jack Dorsey’s Block drops its Q1 2026 Bitcoin Proof-of-Reserves:
28,355 BTC ✅ fully verified on-chain.
While most corporations hedge or play games with shareholder money, Jack keeps stacking real Bitcoin and showing the receipts publicly.
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2026-04-27 22:41:24 CEST

TFTC 740 w/ (SadiSKhan): "The tools that have been only for the uber wealthy... We're bringing that to everyday consumers."
We discuss:
⚡ Aven's Bitcoin-backed Visa card
⚡ Borrowing against BTC without selling
⚡ Why BTC should be the lowest-cost collateral
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2026-04-27 21:17:27 CEST

A 5% bitcoin allocation on a $20M treasury outperformed the all-cash position by 340% over five years. Even with drawdowns.
The playbook for business owners ready to act:
https://www.tftc.io/download-the-playbook-here/

2026-04-27 21:02:08 CEST

Wife of Samourai Wallet developer Keonne Rodriguez (leamuirleyn): "Escorted out of The Bitcoin Conference for holding #freesamourai signs."
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2026-04-27 20:24:48 CEST

FBI Director Kash Patel and Deputy AG Todd Blanche appearing remotely at Bitcoin 2026.
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2026-04-27 19:09:43 CEST

EXCLUSIVE with (max_guise) from Block: "The default is that velocity is one of the best possible tools we can give people."
We discuss:
⚡ The new Bitkey
⚡ Solving wrench attacks
⚡ Why the Bitcoin everyday money
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2026-04-27 14:22:45 CEST

AI talent is now a national security asset that governments will physically prevent from crossing borders.
China's NDRC blocked Meta's $2 billion acquisition of Manus, an agentic AI startup founded in China and headquartered in Singapore. Both parties have been ordered to terminate the deal. Co-founders Xiao Hong and Ji Yichao were summoned to Beijing in March and barred from leaving the country.
Manus built what it called the first general AI agent capable of autonomously executing complex tasks. Two million people joined the waitlist. Meta bought it in December to power Zuckerberg's personal AI agent vision. Beijing saw it as leaking strategically important AI technology to a geopolitical rival.
The US restricts American investment in Chinese AI. China is now doing the same in reverse. Both sides are building walls around the same thing: frontier AI capability. The era of cross-border AI acquisitions just got significantly harder, and the founders are stuck between two governments that each want what they built but won't let the other side have it.
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2026-04-26 19:19:06 CEST

The essential singularity is when stock market growth crosses Bitcoin's growth rate.
"Bitcoin is actually gonna, clearly it's a superior asset, but in dollar terms it's actually growing slower. There's gonna be major tension. All I can say is fireworks." - @npub1ath…4k6d
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2026-04-26 18:36:59 CEST

Another Strategy buy is coming.
815,061 bitcoin on the balance sheet.
$63.46 billion.
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2026-04-25 16:33:52 CEST

TFTC 739 w/ @npub1ath…4k6d: "Bitcoin grows at 40% per year compounded. Better than anything in the markets. Central bank balance sheets only grow at 12.5%."
We discuss:
⚡ The power law math
⚡ $22M Bitcoin target
⚡ Why fireworks are coming
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2026-04-24 23:01:47 CEST

Worldcoin's orb verification is quietly getting plugged into everyday apps.
"You scan your eyeballs with the orb and then they say that's like the most elite KYC you can do. It's like the early days of social credit score stuff."
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2026-04-24 20:44:46 CEST

Treasury Secretary Bessent just confirmed the $344 million Tether freeze was an OFAC action targeting wallets tied to the Iranian regime.
Gulf nations are opening up Iranian bank accounts as Tehran tries to surge assets out of the country.
Bessent: "We will follow the money that Tehran is desperately attempting to move outside of the country and target all financial lifelines tied to the regime."
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2026-04-24 20:10:20 CEST

Two years ago today, the developers behind Samourai Wallet were arrested for building open-source privacy software.
They wrote code that lets people transact privately with bitcoin. The government called it money laundering.
This case set a precedent that should concern every developer writing freedom tools. Never forget.
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2026-04-24 19:11:03 CEST

The thing everyone warned about with CBDCs is being built in front of us with stablecoins.
"No matter what the US government says about not wanting a CBDC, there is a CBDC-like system being erected in front of us in the form of stablecoins. Functionally they are the same."
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2026-04-24 19:00:40 CEST

Project Eleven announced today that it awarded its Q-Day Prize, 1 BTC, for what it called the largest quantum attack on elliptic curve cryptography to date.
A researcher ran a variant of Shor's algorithm on a publicly accessible quantum computer against a 15-bit ECC key. The headlines followed, 6.9 million BTC exposed, $2.5 trillion at risk, the window is closing.
Bitcoin developer (jamesob) pointed out what the headlines leave out. Like every other public application of Shor's algorithm to date, this one involves classical pre-computation that encodes the solution into the quantum circuit before it runs. The quantum computer isn't solving the hard problem. It's executing an algorithm on a problem that's already been worked out on a normal computer first. It's a demonstration, not a break.
Project Eleven is a post-quantum security startup that raised $20 million in January at a $120 million valuation. Their investors include Castle Island Ventures, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, and Balaji Srinivasan. They sell post-quantum security tools. They created the Q-Day Prize bounty. They awarded it. Then they used the result to market urgency around the very threat their product exists to solve.
The gap between 15 bits and the 256 bits Bitcoin actually uses is a factor of 2^241. Current quantum hardware runs at roughly 1,000 qubits. Even the most optimistic estimates for a real 256-bit attack require between 10,000 and 500,000 physical qubits with error correction breakthroughs that don't exist yet.
Quantum risk to Bitcoin is real on a long enough timeline. But when the company sounding the alarm is the same company selling the solution, and awarding its own prizes to generate the headlines, it's worth asking whether the timeline justifies the urgency, or whether the urgency justifies the valuation.
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2026-04-24 17:30:19 CEST

Peter Thiel sits down with Milei. Signature chainsaw on the table.
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2026-04-24 16:22:39 CEST

The AI doom narrative about college grads getting wiped out just got a reality check.
Hiring of new college graduates is up 5.6% year over year. Youth unemployment for degreed 20-24 year olds dropped from 8.9% to 5.3%.
Remember when we were told AI was going to eliminate 50% of entry-level jobs? The data says the opposite is happening right now.
This is the melt-up hitting the labor market. CapEx spending from the Mag 7 is flowing into real companies that need real workers to build real infrastructure.
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2026-04-24 00:48:27 CEST

US Army soldier Gannon Ken Van Dyke charged with using classified intel from the Maduro raid to win $410K on Polymarket bets.
DOJ unsealed indictment today.
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2026-04-24 00:38:08 CEST

President Trump threatens tariffs on the UK over its £800m-a-year Digital Services Tax on big tech.
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2026-04-23 23:47:27 CEST

Anthropic just launched memory for Claude Managed Agents in public beta.
Agents can now retain context across sessions, learning from past interactions, corrections, and discoveries without starting from scratch each time.
The memory is file-based. Claude saves memories to a filesystem it can read and write with bash and code execution, the same tools it already uses for agentic tasks. Memories can be exported, managed via API, and audited with full version history.
The enterprise angle is where it gets interesting. Memory stores can be shared across multiple agents with scoped permissions, an org-wide store can be read-only while per-user stores allow writes. Multiple agents can work concurrently against the same store without overwriting each other.
Early results from teams already using it: Rakuten cut first-pass agent errors by 97%. Wisedocs sped up document verification by 30%. Netflix is using it to carry insights across sessions instead of manually updating prompts.
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2026-04-23 22:54:56 CEST

Robert Downey Jr. on Wall Street in 1993: "Low IQ, high energy."
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2026-04-23 19:36:40 CEST

Microsoft just offered voluntary retirement to 7% of its US staff, the first buyout program in the company's 51-year history. It's part of a broader reckoning hitting the entire software sector.
IBM dropped 10.3%. ServiceNow fell 15%. Salesforce lost 8.7%. Microsoft slid 2.7%. Adobe, CrowdStrike, Intuit, and Datadog all fell between 3% and 6%. The S&P 500 Software & Services index dropped over 4% in a single session, snapping the Nasdaq's 13-day winning streak, the longest since 1992.
Meanwhile, chip stocks went up. Texas Instruments surged 10% on strong guidance. The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index hit a record high. The iShares Semiconductor ETF is up 43% in 2026. The iShares Software ETF is down 16%.
The market is drawing a hard line. Companies that build AI infrastructure are winning. Companies whose products AI can replace are getting repriced. IBM's software revenue slowed. ServiceNow's subscriptions got delayed. Both still beat earnings estimates. Didn't matter.
Microsoft is on both sides of this trade. It spent $88 billion on AI infrastructure last year, posted record revenue of $281.7 billion, cut 15,000 jobs in 2025, froze hiring in March, and is now offering buyouts. Record profits and record headcount cuts in the same fiscal year.
The AI boom is creating a two-tier tech market. Hardware and infrastructure companies are printing all-time highs. Software companies are getting asked the same question: can AI do what your employees do? The answer is starting to show up in the stock price.
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2026-04-23 18:37:30 CEST

World, Sam Altman's digital identity project, just unveiled World ID 4.0, what the company calls "full-stack proof of human" infrastructure.
The partner list: Tinder, Zoom, DocuSign, Shopify, Okta, AWS, and Vercel.
Altman opened by saying we're heading to a world where AI generates more content than humans. Pantera Capital says we've already crossed that threshold. World's answer is an iris-scanning device called the Orb that creates a unique cryptographic ID proving you're a real person. 18 million people across 160 countries have already verified.
Tinder is rolling out "verified human" badges in the U.S. after a Japan pilot. Zoom built a feature called "Deep Face" that verifies the person on a video call isn't a deepfake. DocuSign is adding proof-of-human checks to digital signatures. Shopify is enabling verified-human commerce.
The most significant announcement is AgentKit, infrastructure that lets AI agents carry cryptographic proof they're acting on behalf of a verified human. Okta built an agent delegation system on top of it.
The problem World is solving is real. The question is whether a centralized iris-scanning identity layer controlled by the same person whose company helped create the problem is the right answer.
Altman is the CEO of OpenAI. He built the flood. Now he's selling the ark.
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2026-04-23 18:02:05 CEST

FBI Director Kash Patel and Acting AG Todd Blanche will speak at Bitcoin 2026 next week on a panel titled "Code Is Free Speech: Ending the War on Bitcoin."
Two years ago, this would have been unthinkable. The heads of the FBI and DOJ appearing at a Bitcoin conference to affirm that code is protected speech is genuinely significant.
But the gesture rings hollow if Samourai Wallet developers and Tornado Cash developers remain under prosecution or behind bars while these officials take the stage.
The right move is obvious. Pardon them before stepping up to the microphone.
If the pardons come during the panel, it reads as a publicity stunt. If they come before, it reads as conviction.
The title of the panel is "Ending the War on Bitcoin." You cannot credibly claim to end a war while still holding prisoners of that war.
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2026-04-23 17:38:20 CEST

Fold just announced Fold Business, a new B2B platform that lets employers give recurring Bitcoin bonuses through existing payroll.
Employers send one USD invoice per pay cycle, while Fold handles the Bitcoin conversion, custody, and built-in vesting to encourage retention.
Steak ’n Shake is already live with the program for over 10,000 hourly workers.
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2026-04-23 17:28:01 CEST

Tinder partners with World to reward verified users with profile boosts.
“Trusted humans” get extra visibility, says CPO Mark Kantor.
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2026-04-23 17:17:18 CEST

Tether just froze $344 million in USDT across two Tron wallets at the request of OFAC and US law enforcement. This is why Bitcoin exists.
Tether CEO Paolo Ardoino said the company "acts immediately and decisively" when links to sanctioned entities or criminal networks are identified. To date, Tether has cooperated with 340+ law enforcement agencies across 65 countries, supported over 2,300 cases, and frozen more than $4.4 billion in assets.
They frame this as a feature. In their own words: "Public blockchains give investigators and issuers something cash cannot. A visible trail. Transactions can be followed, wallets can be flagged, and assets can be frozen before they are moved further."
Stablecoins are programmable dollars with a kill switch. And the entity holding that switch cooperates with the US government on demand.
Here's the part that should make everyone uncomfortable: the US government's posturing about banning CBDCs is a misdirection. There is no functional difference between a government-issued CBDC with account-level freeze capabilities and a government that can call Tether and have $344 million frozen within hours.
The CBDC ban lets politicians claim they're protecting financial freedom while the actual surveillance and control infrastructure gets built through regulated stablecoin issuers instead.
It always starts with the easy cases. Sanctioned entities, terrorist financing, fraud that nobody will publicly defend. But the tooling doesn't stay pointed at the easy cases. It never does. Operation Chokepoint started with payday lenders and ended with legal gun shops losing their bank accounts.
The freeze capability that targets the Lazarus Group today gets aimed at politically inconvenient actors tomorrow. That's not speculation. It's the documented pattern of every financial surveillance power ever granted to a government.
Bitcoin is a bearer instrument. No CEO to call. No company to subpoena. No kill switch to flip.
Nobody can freeze a Bitcoin wallet unless they control the private keys.
Stablecoins are a useful tool for some. Bitcoin is the exit.
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2026-04-23 15:20:38 CEST

Tether just froze $344 million in USDT in coordination with OFAC and US law enforcement.
Your stablecoins are not your stablecoins. They never were.
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2026-04-23 00:47:59 CEST

Adam Back says he has a bet that bitcoin hits $1M before the next halving in 2028.
"The $500K to $1 million bitcoin is closer than people think."
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2026-04-23 00:09:03 CEST

Florida's attorney general just escalated his investigation into OpenAI from civil to criminal.
It's the first time a state has pursued criminal liability against an AI company for the actions of a user.
The case centers on the FSU shooting last April. Court records show the suspect used ChatGPT in the days and hours before the attack, asking about weapons, ammunition, timing, and location. Two people were killed, six were injured.
The AG says if a human gave those same answers, they'd face murder charges.
OpenAI says ChatGPT "provided factual responses to questions with information that could be found broadly across public sources on the internet," and that it proactively shared the suspect's account with law enforcement after the shooting. The information was publicly available. The question is whether packaging it in a conversational, step-by-step format creates a different kind of responsibility.
That's the real debate here. Every search engine indexes the same information. Libraries carry books with worse detail. The legal theory is genuinely uncharted, and reasonable people disagree on where the line should be.
The subpoenas target OpenAI's internal policies on user threats and crime reporting going back to March 2024. Whatever comes of it, this case will set the template for how states think about AI liability.
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2026-04-22 22:44:54 CEST

Kalshi just suspended three politicians for betting on their own elections.
One of them, Minnesota State Senator Matt Klein, is literally sponsoring a bill to ban prediction markets in his state while placing bets on one.
The fines ranged from $539 to $6,229, pocket change for politicians. But a sitting legislator trying to outlaw the platform he's secretly using is the kind of story you can't make up.
This is Kalshi's second enforcement round this year. In February they caught a MrBeast editor and a California governor candidate who bet $200 on himself.
The platform is CFTC-regulated and publishing every enforcement action publicly. More transparency from a startup prediction market than from the politicians trading on it.
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2026-04-22 21:38:47 CEST

OpenAI’s implied valuation just hit $1 trillion. Three years ago it was worth $28B.
Pre-IPO instruments trading onchain are now pricing the company above a trillion dollars, up 163% since last October. It hasn’t filed to go public.
Anthropic is nearing an $800B valuation. SpaceX is targeting $1.75 trillion. Three private companies are approaching or clearing $1T simultaneously. That’s never happened.
The biggest companies of the AI era may have already done most of their appreciation before a single share trades publicly.
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2026-04-22 20:56:19 CEST

My wife after I tell her I bought more Bitcoin this morning.
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2026-04-22 19:52:22 CEST

U.S. Indo-Pacific Commander Adm. Samuel Paparo tells Senate: Bitcoin is a valuable computer science tool as power projection with incredible potential for cybersecurity.
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2026-04-22 19:03:20 CEST

UFO researcher David Wilcock died by apparent suicide on Sunday after a mental health crisis call from his Colorado home. Deputies arrived and he shot himself within minutes. He was 53.
In 2022, anti-gravity scientist Amy Eskridge was found dead at 34. Ruled a suicide. No autopsy made public.
A month before, she texted: "If you see any report that I killed myself, I most definitely did not."
- Her father was a retired NASA engineer. She said on camera she'd been warned by officials to stop her work
- She reported directed energy weapon attacks that left burns on her body
- A retired British intelligence officer concluded it was not a suicide. His findings were submitted to Congress
- Her own father says there's "nothing suspicious"
She's the 11th person tied to U.S. space or nuclear secrets to die or vanish under unclear circumstances. Wilcock makes 12.
"If you stick your neck out in public, at least someone notices if your head gets chopped off."
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2026-04-22 18:26:39 CEST

Google announced the Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform at Cloud Next.
It focuses on building, scaling, governing, and optimizing AI agents using Vertex AI tools plus new features like Agent Studio.
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2026-04-22 18:00:44 CEST

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent tells Congress digital assets will be “a very important payment rail” for the economy and urges passage of legislation to provide regulatory clarity.
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2026-04-22 17:05:20 CEST

Elizabeth Warren: "You know what banking system Scott Bessent wants? The one we had right up until 1933, just deregulate the banks, and they crash. The alternative is to say we need better regulation over the private credit market."
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2026-04-22 02:08:26 CEST

They want you to selfie-verify your humanity and hand your biometrics to Sam Altman's company. Hard pass.
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2026-04-22 01:58:07 CEST

The DOJ just indicted the SPLC for paying $270,000 to an individual who was part of the leadership group that planned the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville.
The tiki torches. The "very fine people" narrative. The media coverage that was used to define an entire political movement as white supremacist.
One of the people involved in making that happen was on the SPLC's payroll, paid through shell companies and prepaid cards by an organization that raised hundreds of millions claiming to fight hate.
The DOJ says they weren't dismantling extremism. They were funding it.
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