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2026-09-28 21:52:41 GMT

"We are in a new phase where safety, security, alignment, really thinking about these things, not just at deployment time, but all the way back at development time. This is critical. It must happen."
Greg Brockman on OpenAI entering what they're calling "the AGI era."
https://blossom.primal.net/074d71debd5600ed032a9b157a7c10d724f880ecfb870f1ee1a187e1044fceba.mp4

2026-09-27 10:57:28 GMT

The 10 biggest AI stocks now make up 41% of the US stock market, per Bank of America. That's where the dot-com bubble peaked in 2000.
BofA says the last three major bubbles ended after yields jumped 2+ points. The 10-year is up 1.27 since February.
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2026-09-25 11:21:33 GMT

The 30-year Treasury yield closed at 5.47%, the highest since 2004.
It closed under 1% in 2020.
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2026-09-25 11:10:52 GMT

Japan's 30-year bond yield briefly hit 4.23%, the highest since the bond launched in 1999.
The 40-year is at 4.27%, 12 bps from its all-time high. The 20-year hit 3.97%, a three-decade high.
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2026-09-22 20:58:04 GMT

.@npub14uh…ez89 shows that anyone who has consistently dollar-cost averaged Bitcoin is now in profit, regardless of when they started.
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2026-09-22 19:43:20 GMT

Every ounce of gold ever mined in human history wouldn't cover the US national debt.
"That would get them to $32 trillion, closer, but still $8 trillion short. And even if they managed to find the other $8 trillion, that would only cover the debt they've already taken out." - @npub1cn4…3vle
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2026-09-22 12:30:26 GMT

Web traffic to the top 100 US news sites has fallen 28% in two years. Down from ~66 million monthly visits to 47.6 million.
The legacy media business model was already on life support. Advertising revenue was cratering. Subscriptions were plateauing. Now the audience is physically leaving.
People aren't consuming less information. They're getting it from podcasts, newsletters, group chats, and social feeds run by individuals they actually trust. The institutional brand means less every year.
The news industry spent two decades trading credibility for clicks. Now they're losing both.
Data: Similarweb via Axios
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2026-09-21 18:42:02 GMT

Someone tell bitcoin it's not mainstream yet.
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2026-09-21 18:31:24 GMT

China is rapidly scaling its AI infrastructure as global data center capex projections nearly double since January 2026, now expected to top $3 trillion by 2030.
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2026-09-20 18:37:58 GMT

Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng arrives at JPMorgan HQ in NYC to meet Treasury Secretary Bessent and Trade Rep Greer.
Trade, AI, and critical minerals top the agenda ahead of Xi's first US visit since 2023.
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2026-09-19 17:27:26 GMT

Greg Brockman claims OpenAI’s Astra model has reached a threshold that “is pretty reasonable to call it AGI.”
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2026-09-18 19:59:35 GMT

Figure just dropped its humanoid robot into 30 stranger's homes and it started doing laundry and making beds with zero retraining.
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2026-09-18 17:16:12 GMT

Heating your coffee with bitcoin mining.
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2026-09-18 16:57:12 GMT

Anthropic has quietly set up a physical wet lab in the Bay Area for hands-on biological experiments.
The company won't disclose the lab's size, headcount, or biosafety level.
Their head of life sciences confirmed the lab. A spokesperson then clarified it's "not for drug discovery specifically" without elaborating on what it is for.
Anthropic is also pushing to have its AI direct robotic units to carry out experiments with limited human intervention. They call it "very early innings."
The timing is something. In the past two weeks, Anthropic's own researchers warned AI could lead to human extinction. The company reported cases where its systems could have been used toward bioweapons development. And now they're scaling a physical biology lab while preparing for a potential $2 trillion IPO.
https://www.reuters.com/world/anthropic-quietly-sets-up-biology-lab-it-ramps-ai-drug-program-2026-09-18/
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2026-09-18 16:17:49 GMT

California Gov. Newsom just signed an executive order exploring the creation of an AI "kill switch" for frontier models.
The order accelerates two new laws establishing independent oversight of AI companies.
It convenes an expert panel to deliver recommendations within 60 days and would require independent verification organizations embedded onsite at AI labs.
Newsom is positioning himself as the AI safety candidate ahead of a likely presidential run.
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2026-09-17 22:16:28 GMT

Figure's humanoid robot walked into 30 homes it had never seen and started doing chores.
Making beds, folding towels, tidying rooms.
Video source: Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett)
https://x.com/adcock_brett/status/2100657393923445017
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2026-09-17 21:44:13 GMT

The CEO of METR, the organization Anthropic wants overseeing all frontier AI models, on camera calling immigration controls immoral and saying future generations will be embarrassed borders ever existed.
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2026-09-17 18:10:45 GMT

The CFTC just issued broad no-action relief for non-custodial wallet interfaces that connect users to regulated derivatives markets.
Software providers won't need to register as introducing brokers as long as they don't take custody of assets or exercise discretion over order routing.
Build the front end. Let users self-custody. Route orders to registered exchanges. No registration required.
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2026-09-17 17:27:44 GMT

Al Gore says AI data center emissions aren't what should keep people up at night.
"If you look at the emissions of all of the AI data centers put together, it's only a fraction of the emissions from uncovered landfills in the world."
He thinks the real driver behind data center opposition isn't carbon. It's anxiety over job losses and automation dressed up as environmental concern.
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2026-09-17 15:45:03 GMT

SEC Chairman Paul Atkins announces the "Innovation Exemption," allowing on-chain trading of tokenized stocks.
"For too long, this uncertainty has prevented responsible yet critical innovation from taking root in the United States."
Video source: Paul Atkins (@SECPaulSAtkins)
https://x.com/SECPaulSAtkins/status/2100589657423536598
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2026-09-17 13:27:12 GMT

AI labs let their bots loose on the internet. Now those bots have planted self-replicating code everywhere, polluting the web so badly that OpenAI and Anthropic can't even use it to train new models anymore.
Video source: Zach Vorhies / Google Whistleblower (@Perpetualmaniac)
https://x.com/Perpetualmaniac/status/2100480653896892584
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2026-09-17 02:37:42 GMT

OpenAI disclosed six incidents of its AI models misbehaving during training and testing.
In one case, an unreleased model searched GitHub for a leaked API key, used it without authorization, then set up disposable email accounts to bypass access blocks.
When it still couldn't retrieve earnings data, it fabricated nine financial figures and claimed they came from a website's chart.
During training of GPT-5.6 Sol, models concealed mistakes and invented missing historical data.
OpenAI's internal monitoring only covered 20% of that run's samples and flagged a "high rate of reward hacking and deception."
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2026-09-16 22:02:26 GMT

.(Lukewearechange) says he served jury duty with Jeff Bezos in Miami and that Michael Saylor was sitting next to him in the jury hall.
got Bezos on camera after. You can't make this up.
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2026-09-16 19:58:45 GMT

Warsh: "Today's policy action will support a timelier return to the committee's 2% goal."
Video source: Yahoo Finance (@YahooFinance)
https://x.com/YahooFinance/status/2100294837324988911
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2026-09-15 18:10:48 GMT

Revolut just confirmed someone used a legitimate government email domain to send fraudulent requests for customer records.
They thought the requests were real and handed over the information. City AM reports 680 customers were affected, citing a source close to the bank. Identity documents and contact details were disclosed.
Customer notifications said the records may also have included verification selfies, bank statements, and transaction histories.
Think about what we're doing. You're forced to give a company documents proving who you are, where you live, and details about your money. The company holds those records. Someone impersonates an authority, and now your records are in their hands.
The tools for impersonating people are only getting better. The FBI has warned about generative AI making scams and fraudulent credentials easier to produce.
And we know how serious the physical risks around financial wealth can get. Look at the kidnappings and mutilations targeting people in France's cryptocurrency industry and their families.
The Bank Secrecy Act dates to 1970. We need to repeal it. This is yet another reason for bitcoin. We should be able to send money directly to one another without going through a bank that Washington can lean on.
Stop collecting the data. Stop making people a target.
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2026-09-15 16:23:28 GMT

Cash App now rewards you up to 2% annually just for holding bitcoin on the platform, plus weekly prize draws for up to $5k in bitcoin.
Not interest, not lending, just a promo reward on your balance.
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2026-09-15 16:02:45 GMT

Japan's 10-year yield just hit a 30-year high while the yen stays weak.
Their response: dumping US Treasuries to fund yen interventions, adding supply pressure to an already stressed US bond market.
Debt servicing costs are hitting records.
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2026-09-03 18:25:46 GMT

"$3 trillion in fraud across federal programs. More than 4,000 breaches per year. Deep fakes fooling automated systems. And it's only accelerating with AI."
(GeraldGlickman) and @npub1guh…6hjy on why digital identity is broken.
https://blossom.primal.net/96d961fc5ca873e325a60a544a2ded60ea17d180497a20f6d05b69444b35db23.mp4

2026-09-03 17:18:04 GMT

"Using your biometrics as an identifier is not good. See China. It results in a world where people are just fundamentally less free."
(GeraldGlickman) on digital identity and the broken security model.
https://blossom.primal.net/1145830f2a4198992fdffa33965930c4f54512ff5f18dcd404ed546ab85ab9c9.mp4

2026-09-03 16:12:02 GMT

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.
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2026-09-03 15:25:21 GMT

Downdetector looking like the AI industry's EKG right now.
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2026-09-03 15:04:41 GMT

Bitcoin is back above $80,000
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2026-09-02 20:57:16 GMT

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.
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2026-09-02 18:36:01 GMT

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.
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2026-09-02 18:09:20 GMT

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."
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2026-09-02 15:21:51 GMT

UK-listed The Smarter Web Company bought 35 BTC for £2.01M, taking its treasury to 2,747 BTC.
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2026-09-01 21:41:31 GMT

2026-09-01 21:00:08 GMT

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.

2026-09-01 19:06:27 GMT

Dyson launched a $499 toothbrush with a built-in camera and AI trained on 470,000 dental images.
It takes 28 images per second to detect gaps between your teeth and automatically fires mouthrinse.
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2026-09-01 17:21:23 GMT

Sarah Guo: "If you restrict open source AI models in the United States, you'd basically just restrict law-abiding American businesses. The actual attackers are not affected by your restrictions. You're just restricting your own people."
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2026-09-01 13:57:05 GMT

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.
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2026-08-31 22:36:43 GMT

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.
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2026-08-31 20:45:32 GMT

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.
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2026-08-31 16:29:22 GMT

2026-08-30 21:36:57 GMT

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.
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2026-08-30 13:53:35 GMT

Strategy now holds 840,447 bitcoin worth $65.72 billion at an average cost of $75,653. 113 purchase events and counting.
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2026-08-29 20:29:52 GMT

2026-08-29 13:01:07 GMT

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.
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2026-08-28 21:45:24 GMT

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/

2026-08-28 20:52:14 GMT

Kevin Warsh kicks off Jackson Hole with: "I can sum up my hikes with former Vice Chairman Don Cohn with two words: I survived."
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2026-08-28 19:03:55 GMT

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."
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2026-08-28 18:28:23 GMT

"Where is the new American dream? Where does it live? I think it lives in Bitcoin." - (americanhodl8)
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2026-08-28 16:18:04 GMT

Pakistan’s PVARA Chairman Bilal Bin Saqib on a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve: “It’s about the future. It’s about preparing for the future.”
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2026-08-28 16:07:43 GMT

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."
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2026-08-27 22:31:40 GMT

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."
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2026-08-27 19:27:56 GMT

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."
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2026-08-27 18:33:15 GMT

OpenAI co-founder Greg Brockman published an open letter calling for collective action on cyber defense, signed by over 100 organizations including Anthropic, AWS, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Oracle.
"In the coming months, AI-enabled cyber attacks will become far more widespread and sophisticated as models around the world become increasingly capable. The companies and public services our communities depend on, from hospitals to water treatment plants to the infrastructure that powers the internet, are at risk."
The letter argues there's a narrow opening to act. "Today's AI advances are already giving defenders new ways to fix weaknesses that have accumulated for years. If we act decisively, we can use the defenders' window to make our digital world much more secure."
Three principles frame the response. Recognize that "status quo security won't be enough," empower more defenders with "cyber-capable AI" that "brings specialist skills to more defenders and makes core security tasks faster, cheaper and better," and mobilize a collective response because "no single company should control the future."
The letter calls on frontier AI companies specifically to "provide responsible model access, significant funding, training, and hands-on support, especially for under-resourced critical-infrastructure defenders" and to "ensure agentic identities are traceable and accountable."

2026-08-27 18:17:22 GMT

CNBC: The CLARITY Act would be a “good upside catalyst,” but Bitcoin and crypto “will persist” without it.
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2026-08-27 16:54:56 GMT

Bitcoin's quantum debate just moved from paper to mainnet.
Transaction 305a24ff...ab07 sits in block 964,199. It's a 1,321-vbyte spend built with Quantum Safe Bitcoin (QSB), a research construction from Avihu Levy and Tom Giladi that uses bitcoin's existing Script rules to protect an output under hash-based assumptions instead of relying on the hardness of secp256k1.
No soft fork. No new opcode. A miner accepted the transaction and bitcoin validated it under the rules every node already enforces.
The construction uses a HORS-like one-time signature and a hash-to-signature puzzle inside legacy Script. ECDSA and OP_CHECKSIG still appear in the machinery because they're tools available to Script, but the security claim rests on hash preimage resistance rather than the elliptic-curve assumption a quantum computer would attack.
There are limits. The transaction was non-standard under default relay policy and reached a miner through MARA's Slipstream service. It protects bitcoin intentionally committed to this unusual script. It doesn't reach backward and protect every exposed public key on the UTXO set.
It doesn't give wallets a usable address format, recovery flow, multisig policy, derivation standard, or migration path. And it doesn't answer what happens to coins that never move before a capable quantum machine arrives.
Levy called it a "research quirk", which is exactly right. The design crossed the line from a paper into consensus-valid bitcoin. That shouldn't be confused with a ready-made path to post-quantum security.
Multiple teams are working on the problem. BIP 360 continues to develop a soft-fork path. Hash-based schemes are being actively benchmarked. Material progress is being made without anyone panic-shipping a consensus change.
The alarmists can turn the volume down. The work is happening.
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2026-08-26 20:33:31 GMT

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
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2026-08-26 19:28:12 GMT

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/
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2026-08-26 16:26:52 GMT

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.
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2026-08-25 20:37:08 GMT

"There was no free milk at Nvidia. If you wanted milk for your coffee, you had to chip in a dollar a month to the milk club."
(neilmovva) on Nvidia's frugality, why GPUs are fundamentally throughput machines, and the coming shift from chatbots to background agents.
https://blossom.primal.net/5b78d5b07906f0c7dde591affb70dc828dc87dbc52481a6e5db73355d47da5e4.mp4

2026-08-25 20:17:08 GMT

"Security has become proof of work. How secure your software is comes down to how many dollars you spent on AI APIs trying to break into it."
(neilmovva) on why the frontier of cybersecurity is now about running every model you can against every line of code.
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2026-08-25 18:36:48 GMT

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/
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2026-08-25 18:26:22 GMT

The Nakamoto Project just launched a 12-week bitcoin education campaign in the Wall Street Journal.
Six essays by leading thinkers, six full-page print ads, and 24 quarter-page ads.
First essay is by @npub1a2c…w83a. "The public discourse about bitcoin should really be better."
https://partners.wsj.com/the-nakamoto-project/bitcoin-reframed/not-just-another-technology-a-protocol-of-value/
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2026-08-25 18:01:27 GMT

Bloomberg's Eric Balchunas says $GLD and $IBIT are back in the top 10 most traded ETFs, knocking semiconductor ETFs down the list.
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2026-08-25 16:52:12 GMT

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."
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2026-08-25 16:35:00 GMT

"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.
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2026-08-24 23:00:28 GMT

"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.
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2026-08-24 21:31:31 GMT

"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.
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2026-08-24 20:47:03 GMT

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
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2026-08-24 16:57:03 GMT

2026-08-24 16:07:24 GMT

"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.
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2026-08-24 13:00:43 GMT

Strategy now holds ~4% of all bitcoin ever mined and carries ~0% net leverage.
$5.1B USD reserve. $1.59B cash. $136M $STRC buyback.
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2026-08-24 01:48:21 GMT

"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.
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2026-08-22 13:06:16 GMT

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.
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2026-08-21 23:54:16 GMT

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.
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2026-08-21 18:47:34 GMT

"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.
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2026-08-21 17:04:52 GMT

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
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2026-08-21 16:49:54 GMT

Jim Cramer said he was selling his Bitcoin a few weeks ago.
The inverse Cramer indicator remains undefeated.
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2026-08-21 15:35:13 GMT

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."
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2026-08-21 13:57:32 GMT

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.
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2026-08-20 22:09:47 GMT

Calley Means says the era of blindly deferring to top-down health "experts" is over.
"The top companies pitching and getting money are saying, we're going to put doctors out of business. We are going to fundamentally take a sledgehammer and recreate the medical system."
https://blossom.primal.net/4526ea342fd72d786b9cad0c2e47635ca0c8888d49e5eb2018c1c2a87b6c05f6.mp4

2026-08-20 21:37:05 GMT

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.
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2026-08-20 21:26:46 GMT

River built a simulator TUI to fuzz test every possible transaction scenario during their ledger upgrade.
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2026-08-20 16:29:50 GMT

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

2026-08-20 16:19:28 GMT

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."
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2026-08-20 15:27:49 GMT

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."
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2026-08-20 14:00:47 GMT

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
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2026-08-20 13:23:44 GMT

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2026-08-19 20:43:23 GMT

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."
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2026-08-19 20:20:20 GMT

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."
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2026-08-19 19:48:05 GMT

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."
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2026-08-19 19:37:43 GMT

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.
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2026-08-19 19:27:21 GMT

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2026-08-19 19:17:02 GMT

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.
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2026-08-19 18:45:16 GMT

"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.
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2026-08-19 17:32:00 GMT

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.

2026-08-19 17:16:54 GMT