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Last Notes npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin Mechanic says the rejection of BIP110 on Saturday "shattered a long-standing belief that Bitcoin's anti-fragility and hard-monetary properties would continue thanks to its decentralized network of nodes." He argues that mining pools acted as "a small cartel of centralized pool operators clearly acting on behalf of industry players who operated behind closed doors" to kill BIP110, while supporters "operated in public" using "neutral metrics that everyone had access to." His core concern is that "Proof of Work is completely pointless if the criteria for what constitutes validity is decided by the ones doing the work." He says he's now running a stalled Knots node at block 931,633 and is open to a hard fork with a new proof-of-work algorithm, stating "the only defense the network would have would be to hard-fork to a new Proof-of-Work algorithm." He closes by saying he has "no desire to attempt to call this new chain Bitcoin" and that captured Bitcoin "becomes a tool for the sickest of purposes." npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthropic is now embedding invisible watermarks into all text generated by Claude and attaching signed provenance metadata to all files it creates. The watermarks are woven directly into the text, they persist through copy/paste and even some editing. For files like images and SVGs, Claude attaches C2PA metadata that signals the content was AI-generated and flags any tampering. This is being done to comply with the EU AI Act's transparency requirements, but the implications go beyond Europe. Every piece of text Claude produces now carries a hidden fingerprint that can be detected by anyone with the right tools. We're entering an era where AI-generated content is marked at the source whether you want it to be or not. https://blossom.primal.net/f096564f6d8c6d787dd6e6aa44e78442f86f00a591b4eaf739ab33a808474042.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC 46% of all bitcoin is held in self-custody. No other asset class comes close to this level of self-sovereignty. https://blossom.primal.net/06b359cf81015740ecf94dbdae03ba40396b32b7fe8d5710962b150f2e75af70.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC White House Executive Director Patrick Witt: "The administration remains fully committed to getting the Clarity Act across the finish line in September." "Durable rules, the kind only legislation can provide, are needed now more than ever." https://blossom.primal.net/8e0e80d805c49a913f12631db387d70e2f910b824800917c2c0954a46796bcd9.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Trump Media & Technology discloses 14,139 BTC treasury worth ~$890 million in SEC filing as of July 31, 2026. https://blossom.primal.net/5857ab05b71fce7af1b756e07b3654db75911a5526ac4421adc4b36eeda9283d.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Luke Dashjr is stepping away from OCEAN as Chairman and CTO to focus on Bitcoin core development and open-source projects. https://blossom.primal.net/83501834e2a1c427307138c65618b3535e8466af54e478b56cddbde33c4b97df.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "I started crying. I looked over at my partner and I said, 'They made it.'" Jessica Rose on reading the paper showing HIV-like sequences in the spike protein. Days later, it was pulled from the preprint server without explanation. https://blossom.primal.net/8c01ca721cb3e3423cd0d4fed5ed6f4f4ebb27fcb4b967593d6c628f554b469f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senator Rand Paul confirms after Fort Knox visit: "Yes, the gold is there all (approximately) 147 million ounces. It is impressive." https://blossom.primal.net/e2792e85e92217704ce5eb744615e92ba400d23a4826a5ff8f5ae9e25abba1f0.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Bitcoin Policy Institute just published an open letter asking AI labs to give open-source bitcoin and digital asset defenders access to their strongest cybersecurity models. The problem: "Open-source defenders today occupy the least privileged position in the AI security landscape." Bitcoin secures over a trillion dollars in value, but the developers maintaining wallets, cryptographic libraries, and node software are getting blocked by guardrails when they try to use frontier AI for legitimate security work. The letter warns that "nation-state adversaries, criminal syndicates, and sophisticated hackers will not wait for permission to deploy AI against critical open-source infrastructure." Defenders are stuck using weaker open-weight alternatives while attackers face no such constraints. BPI is asking for early access to the best cyber models, compute budgets for real security reviews, and secure environments for sensitive code analysis. The coalition is massive: Coinbase, Block, Strategy, MARA, Blockstream, Chaincode, Brink, Ten31, Unchained, Trezor, Casa, Strike, River, OpenSats, and dozens more. "Frontier AI could become one of the most powerful defensive technologies ever developed, but only if defenders get fair access." https://www.btcpolicy.org/ailetter https://blossom.primal.net/39528ee66b40bdbf141918dec1fd3c8d03c05dd0330514c07ee01db022b1791e.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/8671fdbb180d0cc98ae5b6d62ed713ef1731f7812e86c3d789bf34eac92d631c.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/1605c63432917312661c34928fa473baeef72e3779cf838c1c493bc8e445a9ef.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/363a2613a475b23e9515c4dabcb7a6c4cb7de139a0386caf9a45dc72eca17bb9.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "I hope you feel like my foot is on your neck right now to get this done." Fauci to a Moderna trial researcher. Jessica Rose breaks down the email and the new mRNA flu vaccine the FDA just approved with no real placebo group. https://blossom.primal.net/3a053b8795a25b7aebf7f67ae18bf9ece3756472810248d2354ea8712e3ef755.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI is hiring a "Power Trading Lead" to run hedging strategies for power and gas across their data centers. They're not just buying electricity anymore, they're trading it. The AI buildout is turning these companies into energy companies whether they like it or not. https://blossom.primal.net/e67e04a7c1d34611359839a9e095fedf664c1e23ad2c19f3e999018f167cc2fc.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC https://blossom.primal.net/d71c23bea73e5204f4b64f28c5132aa9c25083dcb31efefd4f3046de0b5c3eda.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The BIP-110 chain found its second block but is 7 blocks behind the main chain. https://blossom.primal.net/5f5744a998f1de5030be3794ee71eb8fdbbefd7b0b7ce39c998d1c39eecfc569.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .(simpleminingio) mined block 961,634 using Luke Dashjr’s DATUM protocol. This block extended the bitcoin main chain as it did not signal support for BIP 110 consensus rules. While many members of Ocean’s team support BIP 110, they created a protocol to let their customers decide what they think is best. This should be lauded. https://blossom.primal.net/2ee085ec7f00e24440a68e62d3274a5afabef2077248987a63ae804cca45677f.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC BIP-110 hit its mandatory signaling period today at block 961,632. When Ocean mined a non-signaling block, BIP-110 nodes rejected it and forked off the main chain. With less than 3% miner support, the BIP-110 chain now trails the canonical chain with virtually no hashrate behind it. https://blossom.primal.net/351f4d22e9bbd1412e19c648d9ff300c5be6f147e6b27e667ca60513feb037ba.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC BIP-110 nodes just forked off the main chain after rejecting a non-signaling block at height 961,632. https://blossom.primal.net/d1ecbe575638ab1a58a94d97ff0935332aa16ac555794823c20dcaf7325d26ac.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC 25 blocks until BIP-110 mandatory signaling. https://blossom.primal.net/1936219ba4ff8c73270be75ef0720c1515dda6a53d92c91c6a2e815f67f0fe4b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin ETFs just had their best week of inflows (~$1B) since April. IBIT, FBTC, and others saw inflows every single day this week. https://blossom.primal.net/c51521ae974407dcd0456a8cf80e028a19dc46313b3dee2e4bdfb66c9c92d579.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .Jessica Rose analyzed the FDA's briefing document for Moderna's mRNA-1010 flu injectable (mFlusiva) and found there was no saline placebo group in the trial. The comparator group got an existing flu vaccine instead. Deaths looked comparable at ~0.3% in both groups, but the mRNA-1010 group actually had 2.6x more deaths than the comparator. The FDA calls this a "numerical imbalance." Compared to a hypothetical saline placebo, "the likelihood of dying in either vaccine group would be approximately 30 times higher than in the saline placebo group." "You cannot compare an existing potentially problematic vaccine to a novel one and call the former a placebo. You mask the harms, which appears to be the intention, by doing so." "We're talking about death here, people. You can't recover from that. You can recover from flu, however." https://blossom.primal.net/89166dbc9602cfe75207b2b4705fc856792fdda28dec6258e416145eb6d2647c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Corporate America is on pace for the biggest earnings beat EVER recorded. S&P 500 companies are beating EPS estimates by +29.2%. The 5-year average is +7.0%. That's 4.2x the historical norm. Blended net margin hit 16.9%. All time high. Strip out Alphabet's $98B unrealized equity gain and Amazon's $53B Anthropic gain and earnings growth is STILL +32.0% YoY. We are in the middle of the largest investment boom in history. And it's just getting started. https://blossom.primal.net/8297a5415ace362f4c5e4ff8cc359113f55200fe1f4073f46b187547c2698c0d.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Digital detectives are going sleepless after Bitcoin wallet hack." Bloomberg profiles the community response to the $130M Coldcard exploit. Alex Thorn, who's spoken with 100+ victims: "These are average everyday people saving their money in Bitcoin. They were true believers." Becca Rubenfeld on the developers working around the clock: "It's like they're off at war. That's the vibe." https://blossom.primal.net/8728590aa6d209f77927b8430a11e1aba559d140b54388b4681d7b6739513a3e.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC All 8 Flock surveillance cameras in Winona, Minnesota were cut down and removed over a few days. Poles sawed at the base, cameras gone. It's part of a growing nationwide backlash against automated license plate surveillance. Multiple cities have now shut their Flock systems down entirely. https://blossom.primal.net/de20d215375482ea59d3520ab6c4ad4b79b34de7d21162060d74812cb2bbddc1.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senator Lummis after the Clarity Act vote delay: "We've come too far to quit. This fight is far from over." https://blossom.primal.net/8f5eb0bc5c8f47c261fe9cf0087dbc6ba7c5894a8764401e5e9d63657925937e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin's Red Team started as an emergency response to the Coldcard disaster. Less than 3 days later: 24 people, 425 projects scanned, ~6,700 findings, and 1,029 classified as high or critical. Moving at 7.7 projects per hour. But the real bottleneck isn't discovery. It's disclosure. Only ~19.5% of scanned projects had a SECURITY.md. Only ~13.1% listed a security email. By hour 55, the team had produced thousands of findings but had only contacted ~130 projects. The scanners move at machine speed. Responsible disclosure is still hunting around for an email address. @npub10pe…n34f stepped up and gave the effort a home. Code RED will prioritize support for red-teaming critical Bitcoin software and reimburse past LLM token costs. The dedicated Red Team Fund is live. This week exposed how cheap vulnerability discovery has become and how unprepared most open-source projects are to receive the results. If your code touches bitcoin, publish a security contact. If you can reproduce and triage findings, the Red Team needs you. https://blossom.primal.net/8fe16622e4c6180c33dbbe9c66c6b5945f21924dc787458c9b3edc2669d26cfc.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC PubKey says their Bitcoin payments are offline until further notice. "It was never meant to be easy. Survive and flourish." npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Critical vulnerability being actively exploited on BTCPay Server. Update to v2.4.2 immediately. If you can't update right now, turn your server off. https://blossom.primal.net/030fba724d437ff7d7f4f8dad72e80c450b95a57b8c7a4d30e2f59738de790c3.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rand Paul says letters seeking Fauci prosecution for contempt delivered to DOJ after Senate vote. https://blossom.primal.net/f24d1c3cc2edad46081e29e8e3bb75ef5a0bbc9ab7791492f448ac055ca0e67c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coldcard is directing users to follow their next firmware updates on GitHub as they work on a new release focused on customer key migration. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Van Hollen and SIFMA CEO debate Clarity Act. Van Hollen: “I think this is a warning for all of us that bill is not ready for prime time.” CEO: “We think the bill that came out of the Senate Banking Committee had a number of good things in it.” https://blossom.primal.net/22bf500e12e5b265bd5b918a185981b4826cc51c017ecb5dfd07e2dbaa806f7e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Saylor on why saving in dollars is a losing game. "One acre of land in Miami Beach cost $10,000 a hundred years ago. Today that same acre is $10 to $20 million. The dollar lost about 7% of its economic value every year for 100 years running." https://blossom.primal.net/10375778cb61c91cd2b2d21d026ee45cff2fc6ff7c356cdab692a7259357dc25.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Saylor on why Bitcoin is compelling for normal people. "The average person shouldn't have to be a real estate expert or a tax expert. Why shouldn't they just be able to put their money into an asset that appreciates and not have to worry about it?" https://blossom.primal.net/04be9559b7c0dd031d84d3feffe1272af015fd6ebd354e4e25636ecee88c21ac.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC $250 billion poured into passive equity funds over the last 4 weeks. A record. Meanwhile, active funds lost $50 billion. Combined net flows hit $200 billion, blowing past the previous all-time high of $165 billion from early 2021. https://blossom.primal.net/89df8d8f9097edba9ecf0779e47c8feed9577607d874dbf9f7b5e4f2238b89d4.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Big Oil is on track for ~$44B in Q2 profits, 3rd largest quarter ever. Exxon: $14.7B Chevron: $12.1B (record) Shell: $9.8B https://blossom.primal.net/1d54648b9e7041097acdc56d8f1a72c745d5a5fa198bbc554586a9c72dc52663.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Nikita Bier has resigned as X's Head of Product. He'll stay on as an advisor. https://blossom.primal.net/af5bd5da506a0ca3945d44cf4d8d680c063aecb3396caef17e8e94cd208a0a03.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Wave one happened in 41 minutes. Not one of those UTXOs was created before March 17th, 2021, when the cold card firmware bug was introduced." Alex Thorn breaks down the attack waves. https://blossom.primal.net/df4be13ce5dcaa5068341c83036f5fe2a411dbfa927b750c28f447434bd63582.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "All of the coins in wave one are just sitting inert. They have not moved." Alex Thorn on tracing the Coldcard hack funds through collector addresses, none of them laundered yet. https://blossom.primal.net/6a093a2d49713b3a701df43ef32f74f8b32f297eddb4c669cd60fc788ef35297.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senate may delay August recess to vote on the CLARITY Act. Sen. Lummis: “I don’t think we’ll be leaving on Friday. I think we’ll go into the weekend.” https://blossom.primal.net/ae7370613b2859ddd26cace0117f11ca875c2569e8a753596de243a699683187.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "You did nothing wrong. You did not deserve this." Alex Thorn on why Coldcard victims should not be ashamed to come forward and share their drained addresses with Galaxy's forensic tracing team. https://blossom.primal.net/76f8ebb8052f9322406adc9ffc1bd9b1c8544d3bb0adea47611e9c7f2cd65e12.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy matching the $1,000 Trump Account contribution for every employee's newborn plus $250/year per kid. https://blossom.primal.net/565d6c2b275912db04e575627cd485879ab01057cd5686d8ba157a8d07679d0c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Giacomo Zucco announced he's resigned from the board of OCEAN mining pool. He says he still has love for Luke Dashjr and believes in OCEAN's core ideas, miner-side block production, KYC-free coinbase payouts, and Lightning share markets, but felt he needed to "speak the truth." The resignation comes as BIP-110 support from miners remains below the 55% activation threshold, and some BIP-110 proponents are now floating a proof-of-work change hard fork. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Pavel Durov reveals that Telegram was briefly removed from the App Store last night after a takedown extortionist planted AI-modified illegal content by editing an old message in a public group chat, effectively hiding it from members so they couldn't report it. The extortionist then reported it directly to Apple to trigger the removal. Durov warns that "Apple removed Telegram from the App Store before contacting us. This creates a potential systemic risk for every mobile app that hosts user-generated content. If an app used by more than a billion people can be removed from the App Store without prior warning, any app can be." npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC It's our favorite time of the week: TAKEDOWN TUESDAY Member paid $500 The Crowd picked up $500 Free yourself from health insurance. Join CrowdHealth https://blossom.primal.net/dd6591548ef1b8af6372901f569a35010b205c3a442f510147494dd21c62809b.mp4 https://blossom.primal.net/3b9b7e2aca76f94c460eb70cea1af71f7706151bb69f05d67dc6f5a2a8b0e0fd.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC SpaceX just announced a partnership with Nvidia to build its Starmind AI-1 satellite payload, putting data center-class compute into orbit. Each Starmind satellite will run Nvidia's latest Rubin GPUs and Vera CPUs, pushing SpaceX's peak satellite computing capacity to 250 kW. We're no longer just talking about putting AI in the cloud. We're literally putting it in space. The race for compute has gotten so intense that companies are now looking beyond Earth's surface to find capacity. SpaceX already has the largest satellite constellation in history with Starlink, now they're turning that infrastructure into an orbital compute network. https://blossom.primal.net/fedacf993bf20ff5ba881411f3fd3c14c042042d6ff513e5d0130d07951cf534.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coinkite published a new update on the ColdCard vulnerability. They say the bug "lived at a boundary between two unrelated submodules, not in the parent code, and not in the cryptographic or Bitcoin-specific logic that are the subject of most internal and third-party reviews." They ran AI-assisted review against their codebase in the weeks before the exploit and it didn't catch it. They've since tested frontier models including Kimi K3, Claude, and Codex 5.6, none of them caught it either. Coinkite is now warning other bitcoin projects: "If your team relies on AI review of security-critical code, we recommend you test it specifically against build and submodule boundaries." npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Chris Guida (cguida6) has rebased Luke Dashjr's 2017 proof-of-work change hard fork code onto a recent version of Bitcoin Knots, arguing it should be kept ready in case miners refuse to signal for BIP-110. "I think we should have this in our back pocket in case miners decide to collude to betray bitcoin." https://blossom.primal.net/def06494a2711338a6e98074bf56032d00f63b6e2e24bc37a99bbc05c4c79379.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Gavin Baker says GPU prices are going vertical. "They rented the exact same cluster, exact same size, essentially identical in every way, and they're hoping seven months later to pay just under $4," up from $2. https://blossom.primal.net/2af4d28b6412b3b999fe3bb0776674ab46f2452058ee434a457274cefb321d27.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Gavin Baker went to Silicon Valley to pressure test the bear case. "My mission out here this week was to look for negative data points as hard as I could. I haven't been able to find one that is like a quantitative metric." https://blossom.primal.net/3772c063265283597f6545d5add00c809b526704919648ff544cc4c6e3f25757.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Top AI investor, Gavin Baker, says GPU prices are going vertical. "They rented the exact same cluster, exact same size, essentially identical in every way, and they're hoping seven months later to pay just under $4," up from $2. https://blossom.primal.net/e536085c182a248cf743aa767bcc7d6da4d0fb04d9261c8624057bdd95a9d00c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC American HODL received a phishing email urging him to download a fake "ColdCard Desktop" app. Scammers are exploiting the panic around the ColdCard vulnerability to trick people into downloading malware. As he points out, there is no ColdCard desktop app and there never has been. Stay vigilant. https://blossom.primal.net/2c5586db0c847114489c372c19d335a58aad741a6a350ee3a5375f063cd16b4f.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/bfe55d665d024579e932c63b274d9873c932a026633c953e1d9fd470e3dac2c6.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/d4673af6b5fa857458264d74659f792bd16d91259ab3c948b24561e24035c585.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/6ca3e1fd8441f7cdfa30594d03b8aff9f7987d8112063cd0db2f9e6d22913704.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Boltz is shutting down swaps until further notice. They've been hit by multiple AI-assisted exploits and say attackers are now iterating faster than their team can patch. No user funds lost. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "India was selling diesel to South Africa. Someone in Singapore bought it. China panicked and redirected it. On the way, Japan took it. Two weeks later, still in the ocean." - Anas Alhajji https://blossom.primal.net/c6b98d3e2c8d93238e9bfce826c9eda060bc3f54c1b26284d05f0dc68772ad27.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Germany has all the choices from around the world, but they chose this one because it had the lowest CO2 per unit. It's cheaper, it's better, you're getting it anyway. Why do you have to play like this?" Anas Alhajji on Europe's self-inflicted energy crisis. https://blossom.primal.net/891c7e4fbd5291659dcd0bac7661b3023df84e4dc14879c9f2cf3f46c6b88cae.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Lots of people asking how Bitkey handles entropy after the Coldcard situation. Their security team dropped a full technical breakdown with citations. If you're shopping for a hardware wallet right now, this is worth your time. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC If your bitcoin was stolen in the Coldcard exploit, (deconflict_) put together a step-by-step guide on how to collect evidence and report it to the proper authorities. Don't assume your case is too small or too late. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The Strait of Hormuz is not only about oil. It's about helium, you can't make a computer chip without it. It's about fertilizers, you can't grow food without them." Anas Alhajji on why this crisis touches everything. https://blossom.primal.net/ee4793699f367298f2c801a6f4447ddd891772fb6529db4df9e68dedf3fe32c1.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Do people believe that this war is about Iran and its nuclear program, or is it part of a larger change happening around the world?" Anas Alhajji connects the dots on energy dominance. https://blossom.primal.net/05042997ad42bb83e38973c19dc447c3b032d6cd15a593a6f26e182a3d5e886e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy now holds 842,138 BTC and just bumped its USD Reserve to $4.0B while repurchasing $81M of $STRC. They're extending USD Duration to 2.3 years and tightening STRC's BTC Credit spread by 5 bps. https://blossom.primal.net/7674b8e4c5413907ac7d0a7782495d4f0e4852f60462e5468c2d24d567c840ae.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coinkite has halted all Coldcard shipments and destroyed remaining inventory with affected firmware. Customers with in-transit orders have been contacted directly with migration steps. https://blossom.primal.net/c34452ad5328648fc56c4adb208362828c0b67eec708e374ad52aa09ce4a1d06.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Users are reporting that Coldcard's emergency firmware update is bricking some devices. These reports are anecdotal and have not been confirmed by Coinkite, but if you're planning to update, move your funds off the device first. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Asia's leverage boom is unwinding fast. $67 billion in margin debt has been wiped across South Korea, China, and Taiwan since their recent peaks. South Korean leveraged ETFs tied to SK Hynix and Samsung have lost 63% of their assets, down $7 billion. h/t (KobeissiLetter) https://blossom.primal.net/6ab338aba4607d5a0148aee1c05ce7db6ddbc34fa228d5b562a03f0e1caf8d61.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC A third wave of the Coldcard seed-entropy hack has been identified. 1,367 BTC (~$88.6M) drained across 4,585 addresses in three waves. Funds are 100% unspent, still sitting in the attacker's wallets. Galaxy Research has the full breakdown. https://blossom.primal.net/30b9a855b7bb1b84af4b6c8c19794ffaec2c196ed635846fc18e94fd88ebfe64.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Galaxy Research is tracking the Coldcard hack in real time. They've identified three waves of sweeps so far: 1,367 BTC (~$88.6M) drained from 4,585 addresses. The first wave hit 1,196 addresses in a 41-minute window, all paying an identical 30 sat/vB fee. Automated key scanning, not owners moving funds. Galaxy notes "the loss profile is dominated by sub-1 BTC addresses in count, but by larger addresses in value. This appears to be the shape of individual self-custody, not institutional holdings." Not one coin taken was created before the vulnerable firmware shipped in March 2021. https://blossom.primal.net/30b9a855b7bb1b84af4b6c8c19794ffaec2c196ed635846fc18e94fd88ebfe64.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .Kevin Loaec 🧙♂️🐟 from Wizard Sardine just published a full technical breakdown of a critical Coldcard vulnerability. Every seed generated on the device since 2021 is compromised. Wallets are being drained right now. The chip has a perfectly working hardware random number generator. Nobody was calling it. "The Coldcard replaces MicroPython's randomness module with its own, deemed more conservative. To do so, it disables the original one... The catch is that MicroPython does not remove rng_get() when that flag is 0. It replaces it with a software imitation." The result: "a Coldcard seed no longer held a single bit of physical randomness." A compile-time safety check should have caught this but used `ifndef` instead of `if`. "One character stood between that safeguard and its purpose." It passed on every build for 5+ years. Seeds from 50+ dice rolls or pre-2021 are safe. Everyone else: move funds now. http://wizardsardine.com/blog/coldcard-rng-vulnerability/ https://blossom.primal.net/9974bab86ec31d6b846755c3862338d4a8f59ecb1d5b2ed023c49db09332865e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC As much as this hurts. The network will grow stronger from it. Don't give up. https://blossom.primal.net/ac6fe08756ec588df537ae84f233ff71fd535c8c3ab72c3a69f5d379ec297969.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 778 w/ (hot_town): "The playing field is being leveled. It's no longer limited by technical ability. This opens up whole new economies." We discuss: ⚡ Building with AI agents ⚡ Bitcoin & the agent economy ⚡ Why open source wins https://blossom.primal.net/d1dc96c0b24288cb89116581006e738b8fc1e2a76594f1297f0944640ce85b93.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Conner Brown of Matthew Boyer urges Coldcard victims not to destroy compromised devices after the firmware flaw that drained tens of millions in BTC. “If you have a Coldcard that was compromised, do not throw away or destroy the device.” https://blossom.primal.net/605c28fa7898cc106f6d3c27b2ab25c87ab6d8446e03a2312d055de6edf72ec3.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Even the smart guys screwed up self-custody. How can we expect anybody will comfortably self-custody after this?" (jamesob) on the second-order effects of the COLDCARD vulnerability, why every hardware wallet maker has had a fatal misstep, and why the only categorical fix may be covenants. https://blossom.primal.net/c9afc2b8bff6ed724b36478562708627ad8233d835a1b69309b5796ecfd4fe7b.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Security by obscurity is going to zero rapidly." (jamesob) and other researchers independently reproduced the COLDCARD vulnerability by pointing an AI model at the firmware history. This is the new reality for open-source security. https://blossom.primal.net/429e407bbf7a7a944b935f1c88cf75ff9d599b8941b2de1d076801ff90a5002f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coinbase Chief Policy Officer on CLARITY Act progress: "We've got ethics nailed down, we've got nominations nailed down, we've got a bipartisan bill on the substance, we should be good to go." https://blossom.primal.net/aeefb8071d96146e862b5ffa4a73f7a8a4ba6ec0da4a35ab163f10af07fcc508.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 777 w/ (jamesob): "If you're single-sig with no passphrase or dice rolls, you need to drive home and migrate your funds. These wallets are dangling in the wind." We discuss: ⚡ The flaw exposed overnight ⚡ How to check your risk ⚡ Why self-custody still wins https://blossom.primal.net/86b684d271fd14bcf78fba4683208cedf7412b9c0cdd48ba0d09a8eee5526b74.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coldcard founder (nvk) says the reports of drained wallets are not a device vulnerability. The thefts are part of a wider attack affecting 500 private keys across different wallet types, not just Coldcard. https://blossom.primal.net/6bc4cd1dfb4c3fba4a6d842a064a9e1805502dbc83eb9d79037352d9c315e3a0.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Cynthia Lummis says the CLARITY Act remains on track for a Senate vote before the August recess: “Sen. Thune has kept a place for the CLARITY ACT on the agenda...and I believe he does intend to go through with it...We will be moving forward.” https://blossom.primal.net/f3c786c393634fea4c011512ba448fd0923ff393fa595e4ae7a61cc45abf7798.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Cynthia Lummis: “This doesn’t come back next year… The realistic next chance at market structure legislation is likely 2030.” She urged passage of the CLARITY Act, adding the window to lead “is wide open.” https://blossom.primal.net/73ef82c62195e3c7b9c1f8b76eb2c107db0233376f384dbb0a07ff2fa374849c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC IRS warns digital asset investors of fake letters with QR codes directing to a nonexistent “Digital Asset Compliance Portal.” Coinbase also alerts clients. Do not scan the codes or enter any info. https://blossom.primal.net/b36b3d418cf4f18276f32ee1a3530bca036145b8b58cf6e0eb81ecf1ab00fcd5.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Russia just charged Telegram founder Pavel Durov with "aiding terrorism" and put him on an international wanted list. The FSB says Telegram failed to remove channels used by Ukrainian intelligence for sabotage and recruitment. This is the same playbook every government runs. France arrested Durov in 2024 over similar claims. Now Russia is doing it from the other side of the same war. The pattern is always identical. A terrible act happens. Governments point at encrypted messaging. They demand backdoors, content removal, compliance. Anyone who refuses becomes an enemy of the state. But encryption cannot be secure for some people and insecure for others. That's not how math works. A backdoor for the FSB is a backdoor for every intelligence agency, every hacker, every authoritarian regime on earth. Russia is simultaneously pushing its own state messaging app called MAX that openly shares user data with authorities and doesn't use end-to-end encryption. That's the endgame. Replace tools you can't surveil with tools you control. Every government wants the same thing, a communication layer they can monitor. They just use different justifications. Russia says terrorism. France said child safety. The US says national security. The demand is always the same. Give us access. The 60 Minutes clip from 2016 is worth revisiting. Durov said it plainly, "Encryption cannot be secure just for some people." https://blossom.primal.net/537471ac492efd947152508613f4113d298c481c30e2a1de96c91c3a0aa28073.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Leopold Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness fund is up 439% on the year, levered to the gills on AI stocks, and is now scrambling to raise capital after the recent rout. Sound familiar? Every few years, an Effective Altruist makes a fortune, gets drunk on their own certainty about the future, levers up, and blows apart. SBF believed he had a moral obligation to make as much money as possible so he could redistribute it to save the world. That conviction gave him permission to cut corners, commingle funds, and lie. He's in prison. Aschenbrenner believes he has "situational awareness" that perhaps a few hundred people on earth possess. That conviction gave him permission to run a skeleton crew of 4 investment professionals, use massive leverage with no prior trading experience, and concentrate into the most crowded trade on the planet. The pattern isn't coincidence. It's the philosophy. EA teaches its followers that the expected value of the future is so enormous that almost any risk is justified in the present. If you truly believe AGI will reshape civilization and you're one of the few who sees it clearly, why wouldn't you lever 10:1? The math says you should. That's the trap. Certainty about the future plus moral permission to act on it is the most dangerous combination in markets. It turns smart people into walking blowup risk. The market doesn't care about your thesis. It cares about your margin call. https://blossom.primal.net/95f01563679638b3f77b7f719a448209e8d7f1302b3a8d51922701fad051e849.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rural electric utilities across America are quietly becoming bitcoin mining's best friends, and their customers are benefiting whether they know it or not. In Hopkinsville, Kentucky, a bitcoin mine has been running inside a local utility substation for three years without a single noise or water complaint. Now the city is debating zoning regulations that could shut the whole thing down. Tom Masiero, head of strategy at Sphere 3D (which owns the operation), told a public hearing that the mine participates in a flexible-load program. When extreme weather or high demand hits, the facility can quickly power down, freeing up electricity for residents. The local utility's general manager said the revenue helps avoid rate increases for 13,000 customers. The company wants to expand with a second 50-megawatt facility and would pay $8-10M to build a new substation, adding 15 megawatts of extra capacity for the community. But the proposed zoning draft would ban any facility over 75 megawatts and require setbacks up to 1,000 feet from residential property. NCLC's attorney warned it would effectively ban data centers in the city entirely. This is the pattern playing out in small towns everywhere. Bitcoin miners offering flexible load and real revenue to struggling utilities while local governments rush to regulate something they don't fully understand yet. https://blossom.primal.net/5c4ffa8fca32357272191f9df3eda5091560be6d1ae31f1d17efdc0027f9f33c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Stop selling your bitcoin to pay for life. (AvenCard) gives you a credit line backed by your BTC. Up to $1M. Rates starting at 7.99%, fixed for up to 10 years. No rehypothecation. No annual fees. 2% cash back. https://www.tftc.io/aven-bitcoin-visa-card/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Hackers just hit 30+ water systems in Minnesota in a coordinated cyberattack over two days. One plant went completely offline. The attack targeted operational technology, the actual control systems that manage water treatment and distribution. Minnesota activated a statewide cybersecurity incident response involving local, state, and federal agencies. Authorities haven't said who's responsible. This is what infrastructure vulnerability looks like in practice. These are small community water systems that often lack the resources to properly secure their control networks. When your water supply depends on internet-connected systems run by underfunded local operators, this is the inevitable result. As (ODELLXYZ) points out, clean water access should be a serious factor when considering where you live. The systems we take for granted are far more fragile than most people realize. https://blossom.primal.net/67ed484eadd6a3fa503403602d59773f3a6e78e8079923a8d6d633b35e7cbc34.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Kevin Warsh: "The economy is showing impressively resilience. Even with recent shocks, the trends are positive and reveal solid growth. Inflation remains elevated." https://blossom.primal.net/423887253309b2da2112ba3094dad9dcf42fe734d756732823086a316230a836.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitchat, the offline Bluetooth mesh messaging app, is now available as a full client on Wear OS smartwatches. Acts as a decentralized walkie-talkie. https://blossom.primal.net/afbc28a68c84d3f0e0aadeee30eb49e79ebe693d06c5745ba6ab75224839e08e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC BitMart is shutting down and even on the way out they're extracting value from users. One user tried to withdraw $2. Minimum withdrawal was $5, so they deposited $10 to qualify. Fees took $11. Net result? Turned $2 into $1 and gave BitMart $10 for the privilege. The backstory is worse. BitMart got hacked for $196M in 2021. Funds went straight to Tornado Cash. They promised reimbursements that never came. Then in May 2026 a proof-of-reserves leak showed ~$169M on paper, but almost all of it was BMX, their own token. Actual USDT on hand for withdrawals? Reportedly $650K. BMX dumped 60%. Withdrawals stalled. Margin trading force liquidated. AMM bots suspended. Full wind-down announced. All within 24 hours. This is why self-custody matters. Not your keys, not your coins isn't a meme. Every cycle produces another exchange collapse that proves the point. https://blossom.primal.net/b58d9ae34cd80d153afa15308f45d50db437df4cc6d76b47880c94d9f21c8e94.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC DCG urges Senate to pass Clarity Act before August recess: "We respectfully urge you to schedule a floor vote on the Digital Asset Market Clarity Act before the August recess." https://blossom.primal.net/4c99d619e8773517804dbfd360f7b4f7be8f42cfdf58437df086de8165e91822.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sen. Ashley Moody grills Dr. Fauci on his preemptive Biden pardon: “Did you talk to President Biden and ask for this pardon?” https://blossom.primal.net/47744ac2db833a081022eb87265201f68ee1b4e5916c003b5b0572b24d828615.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Fauci invokes Fifth Amendment at Senate COVID hearing. Sen. Josh Hawley: “What day of the week is it today?” Fauci: “I decline to answer based upon my rights under the 5th Amendment.” https://blossom.primal.net/77b41e675ef05f6ed2c2edab7a589a9abcc7452b333c1cf577ba5e66fdbd36ee.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC CTA, the U.S. largest tech association, says the CLARITY Act prevents capital flight and job losses: “The longer we delay, the more investment moves elsewhere. Capital flows to jurisdictions with clearer rules. America loses jobs and leadership.” https://blossom.primal.net/642ca1a7c7a36ea94d00c915b8e5f7a68b191b97b34ddc614b4766ba782a67fc.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Palmer Luckey unveils the ModRetro M64: "It's an heirloom-grade tribute to the Nintendo 64, compatible with all your Nintendo 64 games, but with a lot of really cool new features as well." https://blossom.primal.net/1c9902aabcc8213ce10194454c99739c0ff5033f24aa053ecb6d706e70ab88d4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .(nvk) resurfaces a Mircea Popescu post from 2012 mocking quantum FUD against bitcoin. "Bitcoin is doomed because quantum computers" was the argument then. The FUD cycle never changes, only the price does. https://blossom.primal.net/9df44b703ab4bf8df8faf57a35b0cdac8c0ce1384335747ced275faf18a51274.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bank of Russia drafts first regulations to launch cryptocurrency market: “The Bank of Russia has created conditions for organised trading in digital currencies and digital rights.” https://blossom.primal.net/090a37021f5022ebca9da45bc2560ae939a63605fb4bd51ff7252da65f6fce7f.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jim Cramer on data centers: "If you are borrowing money to buy something related to the data center, here’s what you’re going to do. Tomorrow morning, 9:30 AM, sell it. No matter what. You will not regret it." https://blossom.primal.net/3a3ec75d7336734c34fca9f11ec0c5c2bb762979da10fb4804b036baa617a5da.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rep. Mike Haridopolos on the CLARITY Act: "This is about the future currency and the world, and making sure American markets are the premiere markets in the world." https://blossom.primal.net/1cafd1afa55266da39e025010b2b67330771bb05e6f3fbda014e75f4db7acc21.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitchat can now share its own APK offline to other Android phones via Wi-Fi hotspot or Nearby Share, no internet required. https://blossom.primal.net/a483afd33914b416378f2ad5d9dbb02a8396e9093e79b2aa7227017ea3c3d6d2.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Alphabet's estimated capex over the next 12 months just went vertical past $200 billion. For context, they spent less than $30 billion as recently as 2022. https://blossom.primal.net/31d02d2b84446dafc8736b18da8663de3a005d14bfaa83b25795f7f78473f64b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC New York City just launched a government-backed grocery network with $70 million in public capital and a required 30% discount on a city-approved basket of staples. The city supplies turnkey sites, covers rent and property taxes, and makes annual "Affordability Payments" to cover the gap. No one has disclosed the size or formula for those payments. The $70M is startup capital, not the recurring subsidy. Average food-retail margins are 2.1%. A 30% mandated discount doesn't repeal spoilage, labor, logistics, or theft. It moves the shortfall to taxpayers. At the same time, the Department of Finance published a surcharge target roll of 959,710 property records for a new non-primary-residence tax. Owners must prove exemption with tax returns, IDs, leases, and affidavits. The city isn't just collecting a tax, it's building an administrative test for who deserves to keep what they own. One group gets a discount at the register. The other gets a surcharge notice and a demand for paperwork. Different agencies, same political logic: define the favored use, set the preferred price, force private property to absorb the difference. Free at checkout is not free. A public target roll is not neutral. New York is building the store and the list at the same time. https://blossom.primal.net/ea8dc2385065ab93cbb2497efa5630b92ec70dd85f5b4cd24015c62d1749e175.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Microsoft just released its first in-house AI built to fight cyberattacks. Called MAI-Cyber-1-Flash. It powers a team of AI agents that find and fix threats on their own, with a public tryout starting August 3 in Microsoft Defender. https://blossom.primal.net/d81da6c4d02f44adcfc327cbd106ec05bae2228fda61a33f2d0175e38af09101.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin critic and actor Ben McKenzie urges Congress to block the Clarity Act. "You can not be against Trump's crypto corruption and then vote for a bill that enables that corruption to continue." https://blossom.primal.net/0a400fafba133a5829e0c2db06c1cef0a03dc79ba420029e975e272480d11b9e.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says the Clarity Act "is at the 1-yard line" amid talks with lawmakers to advance the bill. https://blossom.primal.net/e27c56817e9513803a60d7100c550c8cb503b869f0d3365aae654e192a9a6b14.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Senate Majority Leader Thune on Clarity Act: “There’s a lot of swirl around it, on yield, some of the things that the banks care deeply about.” Expects “fairly robust amendment process” if cloture is reached. https://blossom.primal.net/3bcf9050103d6ada729cc0a76f78857a842aaaf77991daed6280623ff070c38c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Franklin Templeton supports the CLARITY Act: “The bill would make clear how crypto is regulated. Investors would know what protections apply. Firms would know which regulators they answer to.” https://blossom.primal.net/cc3c6415c8a02392f9f22de9fdd39b583e919583c3f7158f5f937db2ba5b346a.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC .Erik Voorhees showing Kimi K3 running on (AskVenice) answering a prompt about the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, uncensored. https://blossom.primal.net/206a2dbc5ca9defed3231ab3e1d2b2f9747c7bb5658ac581e5b5b6c17633984d.jpg