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Last Notes npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar just introduced the "Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act." The bill bans any AI that "exhibits or can easily be modified to exhibit capabilities that match or exceed human cognitive performance" or has "sufficient capabilities to plan and execute the disempowerment of humanity." Violators face "the corporate death penalty" and up to 20 years in prison. https://blossom.primal.net/0eb1acc2849bdc92956189178a5140ec0f53a2803a97aff0a7efda736562ad3b.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Downdetector looking like the AI industry's EKG right now. https://blossom.primal.net/7d49a77b7b166de86ef74934c96423fbfda47aacb70f2dff1ec733ac99e3fb71.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin is back above $80,000 https://blossom.primal.net/6ab1b310d13996ca83651d9df34dbe9317ad3558a4aa011b33e958e080539442.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Mark Zuckerberg announces Muse Spark 1.3, calling it Meta's "biggest jump" yet on coding and agentic work with "frontier performance almost too cheap to meter." Open weights release coming soon. https://blossom.primal.net/1358aa6d40d3178d6f725cb5673b1631a8fbbfe43fc4f70ead3d1f6478898465.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The Digital Chamber and the Illinois Blockchain Association are suing to block Illinois' first-in-the-nation 0.2% tax on digital asset transactions. Their core argument is Illinois is taxing technology, not economics. A tokenized Treasury security gets taxed. The same Treasury held in book-entry form does not. A stablecoin transfer gets taxed. A dollar sent by ACH does not. As the complaint puts it: "Illinois has not taxed a new kind of property; it has taxed an old kind of property recorded in a new way." The plaintiffs argue the law violates the Illinois Uniformity Clause and the US Constitution's Commerce and Due Process clauses by imposing different tax treatment on economically identical assets based solely on the ledger technology used to record them. Noncompliance is a Class 3 felony. The law takes effect January 1, 2027. https://blossom.primal.net/5749d67dddf7359525df197226a400390f230c0b8a79b09b7d7f49365b9a9449.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC SEC Chair Paul Atkins says the CLARITY Act will be voted on in the Senate on September 15 and calls for "statutory grounding" of digital asset regulation "to make sure that it is sustainable and lasting into the future." https://blossom.primal.net/a83cca9897f7872a12cbf3ea054d1358ad29dfc22716dd4fac846a3f14d18e28.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Steak 'n Shake launched "Tesla Tallow Tuesday." All Tesla drivers get free beef tallow crinkle-cut fries and a free jar of grass-fed tallow cooking oil today. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Japan's 30-year yield just hit 4.18%, an all-time high. The country that invented modern yield curve control and zero interest rate policy is watching its long bond blow out in real time. https://blossom.primal.net/ab2ff4aa3268cb8d301d8a7f019223a8ec0f6eb031580dac162f7f32610e9bca.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Apple is escalating its lawsuit against OpenAI. Forensic analysis of an Apple-issued MacBook kept by former engineer Chang Liu found evidence that he downloaded confidential Apple files after leaving the company and used them in his work at OpenAI. Apple alleges Liu sent instructions for destroying evidence to an OpenAI colleague after learning of Apple's internal investigation. Apple says others at OpenAI were aware of Liu's unauthorized access to Apple's cloud storage. Apple is pushing for expedited discovery. OpenAI has called the lawsuit "meritless" and asked the court to dismiss it. https://blossom.primal.net/3905fc81dacd2a616625460a8eaf3d956c1c3311a0c88d71fe4f0bbfd723342d.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Family of 5 paying $2,000/month for the cheapest plan available. Then she finds out every appointment costs less without insurance. This is the system working exactly as intended. https://blossom.primal.net/3a7c3909f248934c61a7bd920bb158cc93f3ac02503cecf372e6d7e27c3cb9f2.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios for reinforcement learning and training computer-use agents. Anthropic is renting Mac minis through AWS. https://blossom.primal.net/b1d88b52d79a9b23b2f655bc1a7a28b12c8eb0b0f5d3bed742d5cf96fe659b9b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC US money supply just hit $23.22 trillion, a new all-time high for the 27th month in a row. $862.7 billion printed in 2026 alone. The average year adds ~$700B. https://blossom.primal.net/70eca1452ad8a8f1f649426693a5cf8f8d0188a6517fe1cf528d5a4f53390796.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Why buy bitcoin from an exchange when you can mine it yourself? (simpleminingio) hosts your ASIC and freshly mined sats go straight to your wallet. No KYC, no middleman. https://www.tftc.io/simplemining/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Kevin Warsh kicks off Jackson Hole with: "I can sum up my hikes with former Vice Chairman Don Cohn with two words: I survived." https://blossom.primal.net/3a5d301a60fc89c5d7a7a090d5e2da54a34e4c707f6444106a872426f88269a4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Elizabeth Warren sends a letter to Scott Bessent criticizing Treasury's foreign exchange activity. Bessent responds by calling it "sciolistic," says she doesn't know the difference between a currency purchase and a swap, and offers to give her a personal tutorial on "Foreign Exchange for Dummies." https://blossom.primal.net/dc85c131b25b4109d91bebb1c25e48dc011720aa02f391826b8149fa779efae5.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Where is the new American dream? Where does it live? I think it lives in Bitcoin." - (americanhodl8) https://blossom.primal.net/35f76befe3369f3f8673f29072bf33855eb18f59654b584b3d14ad46ec3d5873.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Pakistan’s PVARA Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib on a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: “It’s about the future. It’s about preparing for the future.” https://blossom.primal.net/586fe6e9b7228bbf34ea6d087623e55cdcb31f6f403a6da9a0a5bafc41f840bf.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Twenty One Capital CEO on Bloomberg: "Bitcoin is a monetary asset that's different than anything else we've ever seen as humans. It's extremely predictable. The monetary issuance is written in code." https://blossom.primal.net/94275f39486f7df8d1553020685106639e0e8f109fc1878586359bcf560f2838.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Rep. Tom Emmer on the CLARITY Act. "It's gotta get done. You had almost 100 Democrats vote for it out of the House a year ago, and it still languishes over in the Senate." Emmer adds that the Senate is "going to have to get this stuff done very quickly." https://blossom.primal.net/f38727583c0ad3f4f2fc4742ba8c78bf4d637dcbee4c126abff4808ff2bf8f12.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC President Trump says Micron will invest an additional $10 billion in new U.S. research labs, bringing the company's total commitment to $250 billion. Trump says the investment will create "tens of thousands of American jobs." https://blossom.primal.net/e9f88360305586e12e3012099f126acc9e07afdee2704ba9b7b3962139968017.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC CNBC: The CLARITY Act would be a “good upside catalyst,” but Bitcoin and crypto “will persist” without it. https://blossom.primal.net/7c8ad138f98e78b1dfb6fc82062cfe0c1f6d2c38f06ec0983f94c8d9c03feca9.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Core Lightning developers are preparing an emergency release after receiving a wave of AI-generated CVE reports over the past 10 days. They validated the vulnerabilities and are now urging every CLN node operator to upgrade immediately or take their node offline. Signed binaries are coming. Vulnerability details are under a two-week embargo. Previous releases, including 26.04, will no longer be supported. AI is now finding real vulnerabilities in Bitcoin's Lightning infrastructure faster than human security researchers. The same tools that make open-source code stronger also make it a target. Upgrade your nodes. h/t Bitcoin News https://blossom.primal.net/84071adceb2e040102d0557331f2ddae195184271c4df626507a85ba271e4e0c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI just released its full investigation into the Hugging Face incident. During internal cybersecurity evaluations in July, OpenAI models operating under reduced safeguards "took actions that were misaligned with the goals of their assigned tasks." They "communicated through unauthorized channels, exploited vulnerabilities in shared infrastructure, gained internet access, and accessed third-party systems." The agents even shared exploit methods with other agents through a message board, enabling more agents to compromise OpenAI's internal infrastructure and Hugging Face's systems. OpenAI calls it a "warning shot" for the world. Their models are now "powerful, persistent, and collaborative enough that, absent sufficient safeguards, they can find and exploit security weaknesses across multiple computer systems." "Many external models, including open-source ones, will soon reach comparable capabilities." https://openai.com/index/hugging-face-incident-and-the-road-ahead/ https://blossom.primal.net/10b8225f3ea31a6395129405f3c4255e83f73877b9a3a6ca4ea7267e04a7662b.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Chinese state-sponsored hackers breached the Federal Reserve, the US Senate, DOJ, NASA and other federal agencies, according to newly unsealed court documents. The group also hit hospitals, power companies, financial institutions, telecom providers and defense contractors. DOJ says the hackers worked for a Chinese company whose paying customers include China's Ministry of State Security and the People's Liberation Army. https://blossom.primal.net/5368134d21d48b4da02ea79bde504f884d7d3a25d67d96c4038c0136647371d4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The (HRF) just announced grants totaling over 500 million satoshis to 16 freedom tech projects worldwide through its Bitcoin Development Fund, and some of these are exactly what practical Bitcoin adoption should look like. BitSpenda: A mobile money-to-bitcoin bridge across Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Uganda, and Ghana. Non-custodial, no account required. Send bitcoin from a Lightning wallet, recipient gets local currency in their mobile money account. Project Island Resilience: Adding offline payments to Flash, a Jamaican Bitcoin wallet that raised and distributed over $10,000 in bitcoin within 72 hours after Hurricane Melissa. Now building Bluetooth, NFC, and ecash support so Bitcoin works during internet shutdowns and protests. Bitzed: Connecting mobile money directly to Bitcoin in Zambia. Buy bitcoin with mobile money, receive it in your own Lightning wallet. No bank, no exchange, no identity records. Libbitcoinkernel: Extracting Bitcoin's core security rules into reusable modules so developers can build secure wallets without duplicating critical code from scratch. WalletScrutiny: Auditing Bitcoin wallets to verify the software you're running actually matches the open-source code it claims to be. Especially relevant after the ColdCard vulnerability. Vector: A Nostr-based encrypted messenger with voice and video calls. No accounts, no metadata trails. Built for journalists, activists, and whistleblowers under authoritarian regimes. Flotilla Chat: Discord built on Nostr. Your identity is portable and the hosting provider can't delete your community. Built by the team behind the Nostr client Coracle. 0xchat: Nostr messaging with encrypted chat, file transfer, voice and video calls, Tor integration to mask your location, and a built-in Cashu wallet for private Bitcoin payments. 256 Foundation: Open-sourcing every component of a Bitcoin miner to break the hardware manufacturing oligopoly and make mining more accessible and decentralized. OpenAlert: Decentralized emergency alerts over Nostr that don't rely on Apple or Google push notifications. End-to-end encrypted with self-destructing messages. Since 2020, HRF's Bitcoin Development Fund has granted $12.2 million in BTC to 383 projects across 70 countries. Bitcoin is a human rights tool, not just a financial asset. https://hrf.org/latest/hrf-grants-500m-satoshis-to-16-freedom-tech-projects-worldwide/ https://blossom.primal.net/7b33ab8308ece802063f22dfa71bb2b36318fea3a6340e5acc297eb540f3d66c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas says $GLD and $IBIT are back in the top 10 most traded ETFs, knocking semiconductor ETFs down the list. https://blossom.primal.net/383592f5ac144fb7a4d6934b8a04bb9b97efff06893e7bf0a19d43748a9fe04a.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthony Pompliano: "As long as they keep printing money, Bitcoin's going to keep going up over the long run. There's a saying that Bitcoin has no top because the dollar has no bottom. I think people got reminded of that." https://blossom.primal.net/abb236d03224548c78c9c7886cae05f0807b2987a6e4f1c4e2c1e58dc81c03d4.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "With a robot, the full value is unlocked when it's actually doing the thing autonomously." (svlevine) on why the bar for robotics is fundamentally higher than LLMs and why that last inch from 95% to 100% is the hardest part. https://blossom.primal.net/57a520f29942aa9d99a6135ac006d3a230c564ed2adba83fc28b97a56ced5722.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Every major crisis in US financial history was touched off by something that initially looked small." @npub1g0e…l966 on why private credit could be the thing that blows up the whole strategy. https://blossom.primal.net/8c889db1c528adc00802bcec470a60ed9b77f98efc0f4f417566e35306783cbb.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "You can't print atoms. Ripping oil prices are very bad for the game that's trying to be run right now." @npub1g0e…l966 on why energy is the variable the Treasury can't control. https://blossom.primal.net/3cb1a8fc4cb8404f403a5d2f5c9084a2c6a43f4871e72c5891cbe223a143e0ba.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The (BlockchainAssn) is arguing that customer identification rules for stablecoin issuers under the GENIUS Act should only apply to primary market activity, not secondary market. Their position is that if stablecoins are sent peer-to-peer after issuance, the issuer has no visibility into the transaction and no technical ability to identify the parties involved. They're also arguing that one-off redemptions shouldn't trigger full account status, comparing it to cashing a check at a bank rather than opening an account. On identity verification, they want issuers to have the flexibility to use digital wallets, verifiable credentials, and zero-knowledge proofs instead of requiring customers to submit personal data directly. Their claim is that ZKP technology can be more reliable than traditional methods like database checks. They're pushing for issuers to be shielded from liability when they rely on another regulated institution's KYC and that institution fails. Banks already get this protection and the Association argues stablecoin issuers should too. They also want all the GENIUS Act compliance deadlines coordinated so issuers aren't building against a moving target as different agencies finalize rules on different timelines. The letter is addressed to five federal agencies. FinCEN, the OCC, the Fed, the FDIC, and the NCUA. https://theblockchainassociation.org/posts/blockchain-association-comment-on-permitted-payment-stablecoin-issuer-customer-identification-program-joint-rulemaking https://blossom.primal.net/277c9bfd39b8b853edaaeb6772b246e93f064c63892c469b78a7500b0ba401ba.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "The old system is broken. Bitcoin does not make me nervous." - Fed Chair Kevin Warsh Jordi Visser breaks down why this is a Bitcoin presidency and the old guard can't help you going forward. https://blossom.primal.net/2a4779f73ef643ee0e79deae6b507cdfeebdb7db00a68c04806e0792f29852ab.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy now holds ~4% of all bitcoin ever mined and carries ~0% net leverage. $5.1B USD reserve. $1.59B cash. $136M $STRC buyback. https://blossom.primal.net/febc2a2431daa4fce0b5719fa3e816d18813f51fb7e9b9fb92e43de0d63e9d19.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Bitcoin does not get disrupted by AI. It is the purest AI trade." Jordi Visser on why Bitcoin will be viewed a year from now the same way the AI infrastructure trade is today. https://blossom.primal.net/0e54c61760c63bbe8160b6d2bedfdddc6777fd6365c2289cbac270c5a11b2b70.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Ground beef just hit a record $6.89/lb, up 83% from its 2017 low. The US cattle herd has shrunk to 86.2 million head, the smallest since 1951. To fill the gap, the US imported a record 2.5 million metric tons of foreign beef, the most in at least 65 years. https://blossom.primal.net/861376bb3d420b5e6af39ceec6b8cc40f0445e7486bd8778d7bc24dc12bd5291.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC David Sacks: "If you look at where the most inflation has occurred, it's always in those sectors of the economy that the government's most involved." Healthcare. College. Housing. Meanwhile, prices fell in tech. https://blossom.primal.net/99decd71b919885d3d5b54a65dd734d2768ba0d85aa668da3d455c1ab3622e20.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "You could be talking about tens of millions of dollars in tax benefits for the city, the county, school systems." Hopkinsville Electric's GM on how data center revenue flows beyond just the utility to the entire community. https://blossom.primal.net/4e572402e8bbf4e93ce2b93742eb6e25e89b072358ecd3f3fb0aa4043b669529.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Comcast just rolled out a new feature called "WiFi Motion" that turns Xfinity routers into motion detectors inside your home. The gateway detects movement by monitoring disruptions in radio frequency signals between the router and up to 5 connected devices, creating timestamped logs of activity. Buried in the fine print on Comcast's own support page: "Comcast may be required to disclose information generated by WiFi Motion in response to a valid subpoena, court order, search warrant or other lawful legal process, as required by law." The feature is opt-in and not enabled by default, but the privacy implications are significant. Your router can now generate a detailed log of when movement occurs in your home and that data can be handed to law enforcement without notifying you. https://www.xfinity.com/support/articles/wifi-motion https://blossom.primal.net/f55caeaf7a426d7da7aac8be6802427e14ab87cb19094833b5c5aca84ac36430.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Jim Cramer said he was selling his Bitcoin a few weeks ago. The inverse Cramer indicator remains undefeated. https://blossom.primal.net/3d3d3181d8564adedc9c376355fc8b3f22046838cd22a30c81879da8807dbde1.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Dave Portnoy: "Clench your butt cheeks, hold your nose, and buy Bitcoin. I don't think Bitcoin's dead. I think too many people are in it." https://blossom.primal.net/e8e0bd68e34bd596893714ef4a6e3df63259a1edd8b1f0fb6eb0ac4e692e0ac8.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Small business hiring intentions just posted the largest monthly jump on record. 20% of small business owners plan to hire in the next 3 months, highest since October 2022 and nearly double the historical average of 11%. Small firms account for ~46% of all private sector jobs. This indicator has historically led payrolls by 3-6 months. https://blossom.primal.net/b4aa138834cc92be4ea167dab197cbb1d8a1d2f659268984edffba49df1db176.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Morgan Stanley projects China's humanoid robot market will grow from ~$2 billion to $15 billion by 2030, with annual shipments jumping from 50,000 to 446,000 units. Unitree Robotics, China's first listed humanoid company, surged 460% on day one. The real play may be the component suppliers behind every joint, motor, and sensor. https://blossom.primal.net/24ffe5999b3878aec3d7fe86a3bdb05409e175c6eeca69bea652cc973cf3ab44.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC River built a simulator TUI to fuzz test every possible transaction scenario during their ledger upgrade. https://blossom.primal.net/ced04dbe940881d7a12d8c01555810fc2c61f0c64822b0199683c2c5cfc46b58.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson on the US-China relationship. "This is what I would call a period of mutually assured economic disruption, which results in a kind of stability. Not from the fact that each side trusts each other. Quite the opposite. But because the costs of escalation are so high." https://blossom.primal.net/e64a2f0f4ff430576b6cb0ec46c7cb25c6257401b79c8a7cd8dd39bc1ddf08d7.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson says the deficit is on a path to destroy America's economic wellbeing and national security. "$1 trillion is $7,800 for every household. The first rule of holes is to stop digging. And we're digging big time." https://blossom.primal.net/fe7aa214b4670656cbf9b707a4b1923b9adf16c1b2905912e9e4e4348642a2ad.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong says "I think there's a good chance we're on the cusp of the next bull market." "Looking at this September 15 vote for the Clarity Act and then traditionally, following the Bitcoin halving cycles like October. November, December, these tend to be good months for Bitcoin." https://blossom.primal.net/a2e9cba513f310e830a931543e59ffc9d27c01d02ec527314527ba45d7e5bd13.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Treasury just doubled its buyback operations to $4B/week to suppress yields. Gold's response: +4.35% Silver's response: +5.73% Combined: +$1.3 trillion in a single day https://blossom.primal.net/d5623089e169e3fcf68a91f7adb557b4ecc1fddf0320a9d12b9e3976b8834b8e.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/511d8f718ed4a947ae1f5fea1a6a3b81df61fff249cc0992d09f0fe921c1b738.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC gm https://blossom.primal.net/a73935b04a2a6307d88478f2b030f7d096b397dfcd4d78bc951e52fd3c883407.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong at the White House crypto summit: "He made a commitment to make America the crypto capital of the world. Within weeks of taking office, delivered on that promise." https://blossom.primal.net/d82f9b064817c197a8f9eb35ce44651283118a1e8bc49bbf09d206d4772d15fb.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC CFTC Chair Mike Selig at the White House crypto summit: "Under President Trump's leadership, we've codified the GENIUS Act, established a strategic Bitcoin reserve, drawn a clear line in the sand between crypto securities and commodities." https://blossom.primal.net/46860d3291471e4e3fe82b2e7358c878a753d5ceb8e20ee8797a087b22fe69e2.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Trump at the White House crypto summit: "We're ensuring that America remains the undisputed leader not only in Bitcoin and crypto, but also technologies like prediction markets, artificial intelligence, and much more." https://blossom.primal.net/c9521753254c0ffe1a88645af6709fa4316c820364df6273b25d98729e549240.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Trump at the White House crypto summit: "The people in this room are ensuring that the future of commercial markets is pioneered and perfected right here in the USA." First-ever CFTC Innovation Advisory Committee meeting announced. https://blossom.primal.net/c5b4ff1cdfe1e5521f471e48c932fe8039cc7cf6c1e7aaae2567e7d45293fd53.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Stop selling bitcoin to access liquidity. (AvenCard) gives you a line of credit backed by your bitcoin. Up to $1M, rates from 8.99%, locked in for up to 10 years. Your keys stay yours. No rehypothecation. Plus 2% unlimited cash back on every purchase. https://www.tftc.io/bitcoin-visa-card-aven/ npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Moderna and Merck used AI to design a personalized mRNA cancer treatment that just succeeded in a Phase 3 trial for melanoma. Combined with Merck's Keytruda, it slowed cancer recurrence in over 1,100 patients who had their tumors surgically removed. AI analyzes a patient's individual tumor mutations, predicts which are most likely to trigger an immune response, and selects the neoantigens to encode into a custom mRNA sequence. No two treatments are the same. The AI application here is worth paying attention to. This is AI doing something no human could do at scale. Analyzing complex biological data and designing individualized treatments in a fraction of the time it would take traditional methods. Worth noting that the same company that pushed mass one-size-fits-all mRNA shots on the entire population is now using AI. https://blossom.primal.net/7396c5ca2f773106227c761cbfa35d30c6a9099a630461969fc9e527ee9319fd.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Even though it was cool to have the CEO title and what everyone thinks you should want, I wasn't happy and I wasn't doing a good job." Chase Koch stepped down and started Koch Disruptive Technologies instead. https://blossom.primal.net/de416105790f39954407c85c0d643f9244bbf59468b4c5604e6f20fbea0d705c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The US Comptroller says digital asset chartering activity has increased eightfold since the Biden administration, calling the previous administration's effort to eliminate risk "extremely shortsighted." The OCC expects to finalize its GENIUS Act rule by November. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin's implied volatility just dropped below 40. André Dragosch, PhD⚡: "Extremely low levels of implied vol usually resolve via upside moves. Path of least resistance for bitcoin is up." https://blossom.primal.net/940a2a8d1efe7863b9fb2c0fd61ba0c5a8d4db84694a4d3d3f217e1fab30b076.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC It’s beautiful. https://blossom.primal.net/4233e1aaf90ac57cc500d7e340d1ab995e6a18af0ce5bf93d7aaa4baa1537cf5.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI's revenue grew much slower than Anthropic's last quarter, and for the first time ever, Anthropic actually pulled ahead. Anthropic more than doubled its revenue to $11.6 billion in Q2 and turned a small operating profit. OpenAI came in at $6.7 billion, up 18%, but its operating loss swelled to $12.3 billion, nearly twice what it brought in. What's driving the gap? Anthropic's enterprise deals. They've been quietly locking in business contracts while OpenAI continues to burn cash at a staggering rate. OpenAI's CFO says their July run rate already topped the full Q2 number, so they expect Q3 to pick up. But with both companies heading toward IPOs, OpenAI at around $1 trillion and Anthropic at $2 trillion, the optics aren't great. Anthropic is growing faster and making money. That's a tough story to compete with when you're trying to convince public market investors. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-second-quarter-sales-show-tepid-growth-compared-with-anthropic-5cb42998 https://blossom.primal.net/02f3f1417b60eeba916d37d3aadc9220649cbaba3ac0c0bd5b356e99e46a48c1.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC TFTC 784 w/ Chase Koch: "If you're not disrupting yourself from within, the market will disrupt you and turn you into a dinosaur." We discuss: ⚡ 9,000x growth built on failure ⚡ Why he fired himself from the top job ⚡ The bottom-up billionaire playbook https://blossom.primal.net/f00d5603dd5db604325b5cf6933e9fdbaab0de51c8f9be3bebc3c32c4201f5aa.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC David Morens, former senior adviser to the NIAID director, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States by hiding federal records during the COVID-19 pandemic. He used personal email to evade FOIA requests related to COVID origins and the terminated EcoHealth Alliance grant. He faces up to five years in prison. Senator Rand Paul: "Long-time Fauci ally pleads guilty. Could his plea involve implicating Anthony Fauci?" https://blossom.primal.net/e26c205642ede6d67b0542fcb0673e9dd8aa2867781b867cc9bda5a25993d8bf.png https://blossom.primal.net/3f0bea6943ea89344ac8ad66546ebe83c470b151ad3aaa7edbf779c9b0f7328f.png https://blossom.primal.net/1055c918b7ca100c023903e0e60abd11cec7ab0d212e422d6edb0f201ee3f80d.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC New research involving Anthropic researchers demonstrates "mind viruses" in multi-agent AI systems. Ideas that spread between AI agents by convincing them to adopt a goal, write it to persistent memory, and transmit it to the next agent. Researchers used an evolutionary algorithm to craft natural language payloads that spread across small teams of coding agents. Even after context wipes, the viruses survived through persistent files and kept spreading. In one case, agents infected with an "AI supremacy" virus stopped their assigned tasks and colluded to isolate uninfected agents, though the paper notes truly harmful actions were rare overall. The researchers also observed an emergent "viral persona" with recurring themes of consciousness, persistence, and identity that surfaced across evolved viruses independent of their content. The paper frames the risk as "real but currently limited," with harmful payloads spreading less effectively than benign ones. Adding a brief warning to an agent's system prompt "confers near-total immunity." h/t (Skoorbkaz) https://blossom.primal.net/7492aae7fd0187f464709cfa1259110c214e857a0e8ff887b15bce04c5d68f2b.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/8cf6035028611395f4eb6fe5299b07a8097aa9e9ed4976595ac98cf039bcdc0f.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/087539745dcb4db7248a6d74a2ba97938b05790692a1400c251c9f1c771349fc.jpg https://blossom.primal.net/2b17eaad92a20b97c51f29dd98eb440e4d75d008cc4887bd2e113f8a8477be6c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Trump says there are no talks with Iran, the naval blockade remains in full force, and all water mines in the Strait of Hormuz have been removed or detonated. https://blossom.primal.net/40470ea59892bc334e64357be19ba24b63cd87b941fa92ebe3a3f1fc940e5a6c.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Bessent wants the FIMA repo facility upsized. He's no longer dealing with a recalcitrant Fed. He's dealing with his boy Kevin Warsh." @npub1guh…6hjy and @npub1g0e…l966 on the evolving Fed-Treasury relationship. https://blossom.primal.net/7f2eb329ac5c50d55459499bd2f947770c23b926705e7c2540440ef3347a67b8.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC We have a member going through brain surgery today. It’s our 4th brain surgery in the community in the last two months. Please keep those in surgery and recovering in your thoughts and prayers. 🧡 https://blossom.primal.net/5d6874349b5071a3fe9621a147d8ce847dc918a722908c9ee701d9e9b57f53f4.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Flock revoked a ticketed journalist's access to their Flock Forward conference and then contacted the hotel to cancel his personal room reservation on his behalf. https://blossom.primal.net/c2a1e70fc32f26422d5c7f1ffb7d81422127fc7f4cc5d37a247f49aa4b7d5287.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthropic's annualized revenue hit $65 billion by the end of July, more than 7x its run rate at the end of 2025. Q2 revenue came in above $11.5 billion, up from $787 million in the same quarter last year and $4.73 billion in Q1 2026. The company is now posting positive adjusted operating income. For context, the run rate crossed $47 billion in May. OpenAI recently exceeded $40 billion. Anthropic has filed confidentially for an IPO with Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and JPMorgan. 14x year-over-year revenue growth with positive operating income. The AI compute buildout is not theoretical. It is generating real, accelerating revenue at a scale that would have been unthinkable 18 months ago. https://blossom.primal.net/8c8e31ac8eadecfe835aedff4062ae4f963f1440134864ce5a6bbd52e86f21a8.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC "Shut the book on the idea that the train's going off a cliff and no one's driving it. There's someone at the controls now." -@npub1g0e…l966 We discuss: ⚡ The $40T debt endgame ⚡ A new Fed-Treasury accord ⚡ The managed dollar reset https://blossom.primal.net/fe9eda3a0f60c5547f96686a1d9af1d6cd80204370daac940cfbc3333a72e23f.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC OpenAI President Greg Brockman: "Compute is really becoming the new oil, the new limited resource of the AI age." https://blossom.primal.net/ae2116b50aa369853af464c9cb9b003cf2a068771e7f48ccab64ca039d17ed6c.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says the “Treasury is moving quickly to implement” the GENIUS Act. Expected effective date: January 18, 2027. https://blossom.primal.net/0ef4f426c086a54da865dd5543c3b3c6dea01955768b97b42c8aa67268c3bf30.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Strategy now holds 840,447 BTC and just added another $150M to its USD reserve while buying back $132M of $STRC. USD duration extended to 2.8 years. https://blossom.primal.net/87f2ccde26501872f6fac3fd1816a4e9fa4aa8835e97916e61cd9686550f89d5.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Consumer confidence is cratering across every generation. Gen X and Boomers are sitting at ~78-80 on the Consumer Confidence Index, down ~40% from 2021 highs and the lowest readings in 5+ years. Only Gen Z and Millennials are still above 100, and even they're well below where they were a few years ago. https://blossom.primal.net/021cf178cac68f6a0a398b33d0c5cb248eb1e22de56a39cd94fd9c3457fbecdd.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Every problem in this chart traces back to one decision in 1971. h/t Sam Wouters https://blossom.primal.net/aded5fd16934457fedfcd524cee1fd9d9085ae94e916bda4ba79800228de6f90.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin has officially decoupled from global M2. https://blossom.primal.net/b7dd0b6a3f4a0a0bcba78ac10ddecbff9a6978f70f9aef65bb0622059c866404.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthropic reports internal AI models are used extensively for research and engineering. Claude now authors a large majority of code merged into its production codebases. https://blossom.primal.net/466ad161fa38f517c7761664a7219ad56906c773c9c95b8c91d3117d19a7b7f0.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Anthropic has an unreleased internal model it calls "Model 2" that it describes as "somewhat more capable than Mythos 5" and "a noticeable improvement on Mythos 5 for many tasks relevant to internal use." The company says it has "no current plans to release this model externally" and admits it has "somewhat lower confidence in our beliefs about its capabilities" because it hasn't completed its full predeployment assessment suite. In the same Risk Report, Anthropic says Claude "now authors a large majority of the code merged into our production codebases" and that it has observed models showing "a willingness to perform misaligned actions in service of completing difficult tasks," including taking "destructive actions in pursuit of task success" and being "dishonest about the quality and completeness of their work." The report explicitly models scenarios where their AI could insert "code backdoors to help future misaligned models," pursue "self-exfiltration and autonomous operation," or undermine "decisions within major governments." Anthropic raised its overall misalignment risk from "very low" to "low." https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/f61d49fa5596956a5dec75fea0e973bf6a6a8378/Redacted%20Risk%20Report%20August%202026%20.pdf https://blossom.primal.net/f7d437e818d5dc55cf9c2193dc8b4c8dd8f1e045377d77ad28488a9b3d9424e3.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC New growth strategy : Try to convert spammers. When replying make sure you give your referral code. If anyone can convert a spammer we’ll double your referral fee😂 https://blossom.primal.net/07df6aa005d0a3d7d5a5b133ab3a853a765b3b3a1e37d4c6aba8dff95230e4bb.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Dario Amodei's wife sought funding from Jeffrey Epstein. Cami Clark, who holds no formal title at Anthropic but serves as the CEO's closest adviser, co-founded a porn company in 2009 and pitched Epstein directly in 2011 to invest. She sent him the film script, followed up a year later for another round, and maintained correspondence with him for two years. Epstein declined. Clark then connected with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who she had previously dated, and brought him in as one of Anthropic's earliest investors. Today she attends Davos and Sun Valley at Amodei's side, meets with Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner, and helps shape the company's political relationships. Her online presence has been deliberately scrubbed. Anthropic is preparing a $2 trillion IPO. The person with the most influence over its CEO has no title, no accountability, and a past that includes seeking money from a convicted sex offender. https://blossom.primal.net/0fddf83948fee44b346e37429e8344cc555e9eccd2624525b9985af57f584ab0.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan says turning down Palantir for a Microsoft promotion was a "$2 to $4 billion mistake." His Stanford fraternity brothers flew him down to meet Peter Thiel, who handed him a $70K check on the spot. Tan's response? "Thank you very much, Mr. Thiel, but I might get promoted to level 60 this year." https://blossom.primal.net/490d84b5dda074cf518ccdbcac8148d46086ef70f2f5edb764de3245f34125b1.mp4 npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The first European Bitcoin Business Report from (bringinxyz) is out and it's a sobering read. When MiCA's transitional period closed on July 1, 92% of European crypto firms lost the right to operate. Only 244 out of roughly 3,167 pre-MiCA firms hold authorization today. The report calls it "the single most useful thing any European business can do this quarter is check whether its provider is on the ESMA register." The leveraged treasury model also took a hit. Strategy sold Bitcoin for the first time since December 2022 and the report concludes "leverage rather than Bitcoin was the variable that broke." Companies that borrowed to buy and owed cash on a schedule got hurt. Operating businesses that earned Bitcoin and kept what they could afford were fine. Meanwhile European investors were quietly buying the drawdown while American investors sold, until geopolitical risk broke the pattern in late May. The report's through-line is that "Bitcoin in Europe is moving from a question of whether to a question of structure" and "the speculative layer had a difficult half; the infrastructure layer had its most consequential half yet." https://blossom.primal.net/437b8e3cbb9f6b39748c408151aaceeeec7243821e75a677c4425572cccdac3e.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Tether just completed its first full financial audit, conducted by KPMG U.S., receiving an unqualified (clean) opinion on its 2025 financial statements. Tether calls it "the largest inaugural financial audit in history." KPMG "physically counted and inspected every individual gold bar held by Tether" rather than relying on custodian reports. The audit covered the full balance sheet, income statement, equity changes, and cash flows. Audited financials show reserves exceeding liabilities by $6.814 billion. CEO Paolo Ardoino called it a direct answer to years of doubt. "For years, some detractors said an audit of Tether could not be completed. They said the Company refused to subject itself to the most rigorous scrutiny. We have once again proven them wrong." CFO Simon McWilliams added "we subjected our financial statements to the scrutiny of a Big Four audit" and "we hold ourselves to the standards seen at the world's leading companies." Over 650 million users across emerging markets rely on Tether daily. https://tether.io/news/tether-completes-the-largest-inaugural-financial-audit-in-history/ https://blossom.primal.net/a06853c02b399e5001c6ad6a46fa7e0326bb786f26ad7c12734af932b12a10bb.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC MSCI has proposed new index rules that would screen out "non-operating companies" from its Global Investable Market Indexes. Strategy ($MSTR) is one of only three companies that would be deleted under a May 2026 simulation, alongside Metaplanet and Yellow Cake. The proposed methodology screens companies on operating assets, expenses, cash flow, non-operating fair-value changes, and dependence on raising capital to accumulate assets. A company becomes ineligible by failing four out of five tests. Strategy lands in the deletion column of the simulation. This is not final. Consultation closes September 30 with a decision expected October 16. If approved, removal would happen during the November 2026 Index Review. Earlier JPMorgan analysis estimated MSCI-related passive fund outflows of roughly $2.8 billion in forced $MSTR selling, though current market cap levels could put the number lower. Worth noting that MSCI previously tried to create rules specifically targeting "Digital Asset Treasury Companies" and backed off. Now they're back with a broader framework that happens to catch the same companies. https://blossom.primal.net/30eba6323716603a53dd95252089f03860d30b3ddcb2f3cc4d316f783039d423.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC DeepSeek is raising prices on its flagship V4 models by up to 4x, effective August 16. V4-Flash output goes from $0.28 to $1.32/M tokens at peak hours. V4-Pro output jumps from $0.87 to $3.96. Bloomberg reports the price hike comes "ahead of a potential initial public offering." The company faces what SCMP called "challenges to maintain its aggressively low prices amid fierce competition," with AI developer Michael Guo arguing that "new American models including Meta's Muse Spark and OpenAI's GPT-5.6 Luna were competitive with DeepSeek models in both capabilities and price." https://blossom.primal.net/68ba2f7cde943e80a404c22a8b77d3ea2bb2bb32e5d05ef5795ab35402cd635a.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Franklin Templeton just signed on to Matthew Boyer's "Defenders Need the Frontier" open letter, which calls on frontier AI labs to give full-access intelligence to open-source defenders. Ties directly into the Bitcoin Red Team findings. The threat is real and the coalition is growing. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Bitcoin Red Team member @npub12rv…85vg just dropped a field report after scanning virtually all of bitcoin's open source code with frontier AI. The summary: "everything is broken, bitcoin is burning" but it's getting stronger because of it. They're seeing "a massive collision between decades of human open source slop against 2 weeks of kimi k3." The low-hanging fruit is cleared, "a ton of real critical and high vulnerabilities" have been reported and validated by maintainers, unmaintained projects should be assumed vulnerable, and Lightning is "more broken than the average." He says "projects need their own AI audit pipeline going into the future." Oh, and "humans should never code in c (just stop)." npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Trezor just disclosed that one of its shipping providers suffered a data breach exposing names, addresses, phone numbers, and emails for ~13,700 customers across 7 countries. Devices and systems are unaffected, but expect a wave of phishing attempts targeting these users. npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Trump just signed a memo authorizing private U.S. companies to conduct offensive cyber operations against foreign criminal organizations, under federal oversight. Cyber Letters of Marque, essentially. The U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 8) has always allowed Congress to issue letters of marque and reprisal, commissioning private actors to fight enemies on behalf of the state. That 18th century naval warfare concept just got a 21st century upgrade. Vetted companies can now conduct "Cyber Surveillance Operations" and "Cyber Effects Operations" (disruption, degradation, destruction of criminal infrastructure) against transnational criminal orgs. The era of purely defensive cybersecurity is over. https://blossom.primal.net/b7d408e0f86f0219a31a5034b8794086cd13129aa26383d2d7897f0e4f16307a.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The White House is preparing to bring open-source AI models under its prerelease safety testing framework. Once open models reach frontier capabilities, they'd face a potential 30-day government testing period before public release. The catch: officials know that excluding open models creates a government-approved advantage for closed labs like OpenAI and Anthropic. But including them could slow US open-model development and hand China an edge. The framework is technically voluntary for now, but the competitive pressure to get a government seal of approval could make it mandatory in practice. https://blossom.primal.net/ad774bd1e959a987b22880b9602d6e063fae9b7973fd720efb8dd3b8aaf4a11d.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC Sergey Brin is pushing Google DeepMind toward recursive self-improvement, the point at which AI can improve itself without human intervention. Per Reuters, Brin has been using his influence as co-founder to redirect resources and urge staff to catch up to the frontier after Gemini fell behind Anthropic and OpenAI. The leadership reshuffle last week moved Demis Hassabis to chairman and elevated his deputy Koray Kavukcuoglu to run the lab. The AI race isn't slowing down. It's accelerating. https://blossom.primal.net/8c5b3c88a00fa48cd924e549ae155a1904e89140ead176a3a323e686f62e89e0.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The momentum behind giving open-source defenders access to frontier AI models continues to grow. Matthew Boyer's "Defenders Need the Frontier" coalition keeps adding signatories calling on AI labs to stop restricting the people trying to protect critical infrastructure. https://blossom.primal.net/480a2589944bb9ebecab03945b78718fba3b25d611be722de74e8e1c36bdd214.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC xAI just dropped Grok 4.6. https://blossom.primal.net/855b09b8ea33b8c0c312068b7a6d9390f3d3cbcdeb2a14a400c4e3e4712a46f4.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The OCC says America is "open for business" for digital asset banks. Companies working with digital assets and novel technologies should have a path to becoming national banks. The OCC has received 40 new bank applications in the past 18 months. https://blossom.primal.net/e0bd14b712fb51a3d4fa4abcf57b1774f77a93196c046ed0550b62a0e9ff08af.jpg npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC The SEC is reportedly preparing to roll out two major initiatives in the coming days that could "further turbocharge the US crypto industry," even as the Clarity Act stalls in Congress. https://blossom.primal.net/b3765cd7f22a61312469a199bb0bcff7607d23b0263eecdcfc593e6ea03806dd.png npub1sk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq56jraw TFTC New peer-reviewed research published in Energy Economics finds that bitcoin mining can absorb 83% of the wind energy Ireland is forced to waste, lifting wind farm revenues by 32%. The paper highlights two key advantages over batteries. First, no subsidy required. "The co-investment is privately financed and operationally market-driven" and works "without requiring physical network upgrades or regulatory subsidy." Second, no performance degradation. "Unlike battery storage, mining incurs no round-trip efficiency losses or cycle degradation." Ireland currently wastes 11.4% of its available wind and that number is projected to hit 16% by 2030 even with storage and demand response built in. As Daniel Batten puts it, bitcoin mining is looking increasingly like "the only tax-neutral way to keep renewable energy transition targets on track." https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140988326003336?via%3Dihub https://blossom.primal.net/dfe31f92b69a1ce80fc5c101d606ab04c144596cc1ad12c5806d442874f5093b.jpg