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TFTC

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

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Two days after Anthropic shipped Fable 5.1, OpenAI responds with Astra. Early benchmarks have Astra ahead on several key categories, though Fable 5.1...

Two days after Anthropic shipped Fable 5.1, OpenAI responds with Astra. Early benchmarks have Astra ahead on several key categories, though Fable 5.1 still leads on others. Two frontier model releases in three days. https://blossom.primal.net/56a8f41f5fd27a6eefe689c61f01a687a5c33cea53315fb546f4bf5e47067017.jpg

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2026-09-03T19:42:02Z

Bernie Sanders and Greg Casar just introduced the "Ban Artificial Superintelligence Act." The bill bans any AI that "exhibits or can easily be modifi...

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

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2026-09-03T16:12:02Z

Downdetector looking like the AI industry's EKG right now. https://blossom.primal.net/7d49a77b7b166de86ef74934c96423fbfda47aacb70f2dff1ec733ac99e3fb71...

Downdetector looking like the AI industry's EKG right now. https://blossom.primal.net/7d49a77b7b166de86ef74934c96423fbfda47aacb70f2dff1ec733ac99e3fb71.jpg

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2026-09-03T15:25:21Z

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 ...

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

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2026-09-02T20:57:16Z

OpenAI bought tens of thousands of Mac minis and Mac Studios for reinforcement learning and training computer-use agents. Anthropic is renting Mac mi...

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

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2026-08-30T21:36:57Z

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. N...

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/

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2026-08-28T21:45:24Z

OpenAI just released its full investigation into the Hugging Face incident. During internal cybersecurity evaluations in July, OpenAI models operatin...

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

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2026-08-26T19:28:12Z

The (HRF) just announced grants totaling over 500 million satoshis to 16 freedom tech projects worldwide through its Bitcoin Development Fund, and som...

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

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2026-08-25T18:36:48Z

"Every major crisis in US financial history was touched off by something that initially looked small." nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4...

"Every major crisis in US financial history was touched off by something that initially looked small." nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on why private credit could be the thing that blows up the whole strategy. https://blossom.primal.net/8c889db1c528adc00802bcec470a60ed9b77f98efc0f4f417566e35306783cbb.mp4

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2026-08-24T23:00:28Z

"Self-custody doesn't mean you have to do it by yourself." nostr:npub16fhh3ev4gytmt3jn3gkkez9z99kxtspcwupen4cxn2tcym4sd22surn62p on why distributing ...

"Self-custody doesn't mean you have to do it by yourself." nostr:npub16fhh3ev4gytmt3jn3gkkez9z99kxtspcwupen4cxn2tcym4sd22surn62p on why distributing trust is the real lesson from the ColdCard reckoning. https://blossom.primal.net/1b0a35595c6cdab3865013aaf3a90c4606326736d54cd43415e3c0fa0ef9e7d4.mp4

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2026-08-24T18:08:40Z

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." ...

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

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2026-08-21T23:54:16Z

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 trill...

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

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2026-08-20T14:00:47Z

"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 st...

"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

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2026-08-19T18:45:16Z

David Morens, former senior adviser to the NIAID director, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States by hiding federal records dur...

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

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2026-08-18T21:18:37Z

New research involving Anthropic researchers demonstrates "mind viruses" in multi-agent AI systems. Ideas that spread between AI agents by convincing...

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

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2026-08-18T20:48:33Z

Report by (theragetech) reveals Chainalysis is suing the US government over a $95M ICE contract awarded to rival TRM Labs. The contract represents 3/...

Report by (theragetech) reveals Chainalysis is suing the US government over a $95M ICE contract awarded to rival TRM Labs. The contract represents 3/4 of all blockchain surveillance contract value ever awarded to a single firm by the US. The contract services a "Cyber Disruption Center" under the Homeland Security Task Forces that replaced the DOJ's 40-year Organized Crime Drug Enforcement program. The CDC has no website and doesn't appear to exist in the public view beyond procurement records. Former OCDETF Director Thomas Padden warns the new model "eliminates the role of prosecutors in creating and coordinating task forces" and "weakens law enforcement by eviscerating DOJ's ability to dismantle sophisticated transnational criminal networks." The surveillance state keeps growing. The oversight keeps shrinking. https://www.therage.co/the-us-swapped-drug-prosecutions-for-missile-strikes-now-chainalysis-is-suing-over-a-record-contract-from-the-task-force-that-replaced-the-prosecutors/ https://blossom.primal.net/17017ad4fc830f4ea8c7b74ee067eb8e9b6ee2e3220209d61fed087d5da43c1c.png https://blossom.primal.net/2a6bab23a70b6643fad6d13f56aaf4b5ea5b371093f49b52b3ff57fcc7f05097.jpg

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2026-08-18T18:35:52Z

"Bessent wants the FIMA repo facility upsized. He's no longer dealing with a recalcitrant Fed. He's dealing with his boy Kevin Warsh." nostr:npub1guh...

"Bessent wants the FIMA repo facility upsized. He's no longer dealing with a recalcitrant Fed. He's dealing with his boy Kevin Warsh." nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy and nostr:npub1g0eujuzgy06srs3sdanaytzq8adsd78d4g4p5xqtlue3d3q3v2mq6pl966 on the evolving Fed-Treasury relationship. https://blossom.primal.net/7f2eb329ac5c50d55459499bd2f947770c23b926705e7c2540440ef3347a67b8.mp4

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2026-08-17T23:21:46Z

Flock revoked a ticketed journalist's access to their Flock Forward conference and then contacted the hotel to cancel his personal room reservation on...

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

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2026-08-17T21:37:19Z

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 billi...

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

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2026-08-17T20:15:58Z

Every problem in this chart traces back to one decision in 1971. h/t Sam Wouters https://blossom.primal.net/aded5fd16934457fedfcd524cee1fd9d9085ae94e...

Every problem in this chart traces back to one decision in 1971. h/t Sam Wouters https://blossom.primal.net/aded5fd16934457fedfcd524cee1fd9d9085ae94e916bda4ba79800228de6f90.jpg

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2026-08-15T15:38:01Z

Bitcoin has officially decoupled from global M2. https://blossom.primal.net/b7dd0b6a3f4a0a0bcba78ac10ddecbff9a6978f70f9aef65bb0622059c866404.jpg

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2026-08-15T14:48:41Z

The White House is preparing to bring open-source AI models under its prerelease safety testing framework. Once open models reach frontier capabiliti...

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

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2026-08-12T23:22:24Z

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.p...

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

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2026-08-08T16:38:17Z

Coldcard is directing users to follow their next firmware updates on GitHub as they work on a new release focused on customer key migration.

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2026-08-06T20:37:47Z

Coldcard founder (nvk) says the reports of drained wallets are not a device vulnerability. The thefts are part of a wider attack affecting 500 privat...

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

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2026-07-30T22:12:34Z

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...

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

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2026-07-28T21:00:16Z

The Fed has quietly added ~$290 billion in Treasury bills to its balance sheet since December. That's the fastest T-bill accumulation since the COVID...

The Fed has quietly added ~$290 billion in Treasury bills to its balance sheet since December. That's the fastest T-bill accumulation since the COVID panic buying of 2020. https://blossom.primal.net/263c9192ee68ae0d5cac5f60bf95ef955a1dbd54f9d2851f0838b50e736fbca9.png

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2026-07-25T12:50:21Z

David Friedberg: AI job-theft narrative is "bullshit." "I don't say it's bullshit to dismiss people's anxiety. I say it's bullshit to be truthful abo...

David Friedberg: AI job-theft narrative is "bullshit." "I don't say it's bullshit to dismiss people's anxiety. I say it's bullshit to be truthful about the facts... Since 1963, mathematician, statistician, and accounting jobs all went up." https://blossom.primal.net/0bd0072b2186ab136ef6937d12505edd8531dc31f8af5dd4f9c798cdb4fd0ad8.mp4

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2026-07-23T16:25:06Z

Axon wants to turn 60 million US streetlights into AI-powered surveillance cameras. "Now streetlights can do more than light the street, they can pro...

Axon wants to turn 60 million US streetlights into AI-powered surveillance cameras. "Now streetlights can do more than light the street, they can protect it." They call it Lightpost. Plugs into the existing socket. License plate readers, live streaming video, edge processing. https://blossom.primal.net/f5ca24212194ec80f8b8df1358661a66d0a0bed2a18609aefaf47c100df7b1b5.mp4

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2026-07-21T21:41:09Z

"$90,000 into a kid's account becomes $13 million. That's the power of compounding. It goes into the S&P 500 and it can't be sold. It's an unstoppable...

"$90,000 into a kid's account becomes $13 million. That's the power of compounding. It goes into the S&P 500 and it can't be sold. It's an unstoppable passive bid." Mel Mattison breaks down how Trump accounts create a permanent bid under equities. https://blossom.primal.net/7df74a0f865aa8e3213593dc989cfc1120d9a49670f77138b7bf4d8b6a0e7007.mp4

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2026-07-18T21:26:24Z

Nick Shirley confronts staff at a Queens adult day care over records showing 7,899 billed members, amid $12.9M in 2024 taxpayer payments. https://blos...

Nick Shirley confronts staff at a Queens adult day care over records showing 7,899 billed members, amid $12.9M in 2024 taxpayer payments. https://blossom.primal.net/50ba47b46b8a01e265cf0d9e0603de49881f4e7d529598f7f52f37d919e0f34f.mp4

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2026-07-10T23:54:30Z

Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Stripe, Coinbase, Google, Ripple, Shopify, and 130+ other companies just announced they're launching a shared stablecoin ...

Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Stripe, Coinbase, Google, Ripple, Shopify, and 130+ other companies just announced they're launching a shared stablecoin called Open USD (OUSD). They're calling it "open" and "consortium-governed." No single issuer. Zero fees. Partners share reserve revenue. Sounds great on paper. Here's what it actually is: the largest coordinated effort to build digital surveillance rails for the US dollar that we've ever seen. Think about who is in this room. Visa and Mastercard already see every card swipe you make. Google tracks your searches, location, and email. BlackRock manages $11+ trillion with a direct line to every central bank on Earth. Coinbase has handed over user data to the government more than any other crypto company. Now they're all going to share a common settlement layer and split the economics. The "consortium governance" means no single company takes the blame, but every company gets the data. When regulators come knocking for transaction records, who's going to say no? Visa? Google? These companies didn't build empires by resisting government requests. And the revenue-sharing model is the tell. 140+ companies all have a direct financial incentive to push OUSD adoption over everything else. Visa wants you using OUSD instead of USDC. Google wants it in every payment flow. BlackRock wants it as the settlement layer for tokenized assets. When every major corporation in finance and tech is aligned around a single money, that isn't adoption. That's capture. Meanwhile, Bitcoin keeps doing its thing. No consortium. No revenue-sharing agreements. No corporate governance. No one to subpoena. Every 10 minutes, a new block. Every transaction verified by math, not by a committee of Fortune 500 companies deciding whether your payment is compliant. https://blossom.primal.net/818cc99cb3e525a5af74b41decd9047f862d59c8bac22564e2dd4752a3fd3bad.jpg

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2026-06-30T15:43:04Z

Floating AI data centers are heading to the open ocean. Portland startup Panthalassa has raised $140M in a Peter Thiel-led round at a near-$1B valuat...

Floating AI data centers are heading to the open ocean. Portland startup Panthalassa has raised $140M in a Peter Thiel-led round at a near-$1B valuation. The wave-powered “lollipop” platforms generate electricity from ocean waves and use seawater for cooling. Commercial units targeted for 2027. https://blossom.primal.net/a43ebb2c943b084bcbc9b2c19a6c92cd219e691230d4e43080662dc4feeee14c.mp4

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2026-06-18T23:09:55Z

Seven years ago today Facebook announced Libra. Congressional hearings, mass defections, a rebrand to Diem, and a fire sale later, the project was de...

Seven years ago today Facebook announced Libra. Congressional hearings, mass defections, a rebrand to Diem, and a fire sale later, the project was dead. https://blossom.primal.net/b131b471d15c161109620e9e7910ef407131e3362df1099e178ffe1545780aa1.png

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2026-06-18T16:54:16Z

Warsh: “With respect to AI and the growth of data centers and infrastructure around it, we’re counting the demand side, and it is no doubt showing up ...

Warsh: “With respect to AI and the growth of data centers and infrastructure around it, we’re counting the demand side, and it is no doubt showing up in GDP figures. We can be less certain when we infer the timing and the extent of the supply side.” https://blossom.primal.net/d400c2b864e75d5a78645e29635bca2b2aa78db67df880d14a4d94bf1c80e196.mp4

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2026-06-17T20:10:57Z

.(APompliano) offered to bet (PeterSchiff) that bitcoin will still be around in a decade. https://blossom.primal.net/b70141122bc54f158550e8f960cc1ad8c...

.(APompliano) offered to bet (PeterSchiff) that bitcoin will still be around in a decade. https://blossom.primal.net/b70141122bc54f158550e8f960cc1ad8c6ab087030a21371328c2e56d065f357.mp4

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2026-06-15T21:59:49Z

Trump administration officials gather at MSG for NBA Finals Game 3. Dan Scavino, Jared Kushner, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Transportation Secr...

Trump administration officials gather at MSG for NBA Finals Game 3. Dan Scavino, Jared Kushner, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy seen as President Trump arrives. https://blossom.primal.net/4c89926f0f9ffee0331631d43307886e8bf39290e1b68649e0ae9a3a7b551f91.mp4

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2026-06-09T00:31:29Z

River shows criminals prefer stablecoins over bitcoin. https://blossom.primal.net/dd70d1484992c2266486a14319e0bb44665cb11c3d9532dc2eb2169cb3b08048.png

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2026-05-31T20:42:43Z

Europa is a new decentralized VPN marketplace built on Nostr and paid exclusively with Bitcoin. It launched this week from nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c...

Europa is a new decentralized VPN marketplace built on Nostr and paid exclusively with Bitcoin. It launched this week from nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg, the developer behind the Cashu ecash protocol. The concept is simple but the implications are significant. Instead of trusting a single VPN company with a global server fleet, one privacy policy, and one monthly subscription, Europa lets independent VPN operators list their servers on an open directory. Each operator runs their own infrastructure in their own jurisdiction, writes their own no-log policy, and sets their own price. Users browse the directory, pick an operator, and pay them directly over Lightning or Cashu ecash. The marketplace never touches the money and takes no cut. After payment, the operator delivers a standard WireGuard or OpenVPN config file. No proprietary app, no custom client. Users import it into the same open-source VPN software they would use anywhere else and connect. When the bundle runs out, the tunnel goes quiet. No auto-renewal, no card on file, no surprise charges. The reputation system runs on Nostr. Instead of editorial ratings or paid placements, recommendations and complaints come from people in your social graph. Sign in with a Nostr identity and the directory weights endorsements from accounts you already follow. If Nostr is not your thing, ignore the feature entirely and start with the smallest bundle from an unfamiliar operator to limit your risk. The entire protocol is built on public Nostr events. Operator listings, reputation data, and payment coordination all live on the Nostr network. The Europa website is just one viewer of that data, not the source. Other directories can exist. If Europa makes bad editorial choices, users can leave without losing access to the underlying marketplace. The protocol spec is CC0 (public domain) and the code is MIT licensed. What makes this meaningful is the architecture. Traditional VPN providers consolidate trust into one company in one jurisdiction. If that company gets acquired, served with a warrant, or breached, every customer is exposed at once. Europa distributes that trust across independent operators. Users can spread their traffic across multiple operators they actually chose rather than trusting a single brand to make every decision for them. Anyone with a server can become an operator. Anyone with a Lightning wallet can become a customer. No accounts required for either side. https://blossom.primal.net/c5050094bb8b7685b1b86a3448dac13e811cdb6d210eb2eff11b145d63306731.jpg

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2026-05-28T19:18:17Z

Ross Ulbricht and wife Caroline announce they are expecting their first child. https://blossom.primal.net/712ac71b39e3f90218579c0b9bb6400aaca499d82410...

Ross Ulbricht and wife Caroline announce they are expecting their first child. https://blossom.primal.net/712ac71b39e3f90218579c0b9bb6400aaca499d8241034c26f8e8274140dd26f.jpg

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2026-05-21T15:44:15Z

Trump on growing fears of AI: "I'll tell you, AI has been amazing, because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United St...

Trump on growing fears of AI: "I'll tell you, AI has been amazing, because right now we have more jobs, more people working right now in the United States by far, than we ever had before." https://blossom.primal.net/a9f1c7a0f65436f22616e0240a6ffe7372b639a82a7992076210ccb05413f21b.mp4

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2026-05-20T19:36:54Z

Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding the OCC explain its chartering of nine crypto-focused trust banks, including Coinbase, Paxos, Ripple, BitGo, and...

Senator Elizabeth Warren is demanding the OCC explain its chartering of nine crypto-focused trust banks, including Coinbase, Paxos, Ripple, BitGo, and Fidelity Digital Asset Services. Warren argues the firms are "effectively crypto banks that want to evade the fundamental safeguards and obligations that come with being a bank" by taking narrower trust charters instead of applying for full national bank status. She also requested records of any communications between the OCC and President Trump or his family members on chartering firms, a clear reference to World Liberty Financial. https://blossom.primal.net/fb1e47c8d558b3fe74393c47bdeed255e2e34970fb7927d7c88c12d43ae6233a.png

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2026-05-19T16:15:51Z

Local AI on a laptop is improving more than twice as fast as Moore's Law. The most expensive MacBook Pro you could buy in May 2024 had 128 GB of unif...

Local AI on a laptop is improving more than twice as fast as Moore's Law. The most expensive MacBook Pro you could buy in May 2024 had 128 GB of unified memory. Two years later, the hardware is identical. But the smartest open-weight model you can run on it went from a score of 10 to 47 on the AI Intelligence Index. A 4.7x improvement in 24 months on completely unchanged hardware. Moore's Law doubles transistor count every 24 months. Local open-weight AI is doubling capability every 10.7 months. The hardware ceiling barely moved. The software blew through it. https://blossom.primal.net/00a3bc7a0b956f98bf57a4e0df09652176f73e7e8a75b1b64bad6f80bb4345e6.jpg

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2026-05-11T14:54:28Z

The WHO claims the recent hantavirus outbreak proves why countries around the world must be part of a global health order. "We really need this incid...

The WHO claims the recent hantavirus outbreak proves why countries around the world must be part of a global health order. "We really need this incident, this outbreak, to show why the world needs a global entity that connects this." "We live in an interconnected world. An outbreak in one part affects everywhere." https://blossom.primal.net/6dfa977ac2ae5c9883edf22b3be74a96db873a12ad1d6537b39403da48d9bff1.mp4

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2026-05-07T15:19:38Z

Goldman says 95% of enterprises are getting zero return on $30-40B in GenAI spending. Goldman's own Exhibit 9 shows consumer AI demand growing 12x by...

Goldman says 95% of enterprises are getting zero return on $30-40B in GenAI spending. Goldman's own Exhibit 9 shows consumer AI demand growing 12x by 2030. Both are true. Here's what it means: Enterprise AI is failing because legacy companies don't know how to use these tools. They're spending millions bolting chatbots onto workflows designed in 2005 and wondering why ROI is zero. The real AI wave is startups who build from scratch. Three people doing the work of thirty. No legacy systems. No "AI transformation consultants." Just raw efficiency gains from day one. Meanwhile, the demand side is undeniable. Token economics turn positive H1 2026. Consumer agents are shifting from chat sessions to always-on. The hockey stick is already forming. The question is who captures the value. Open-source LLMs and agent frameworks are commoditizing inference. If small businesses and individuals can route around hyperscalers, the value moves from chips to applications. The market is overpricing hyperscaler equity as if they have traditional big tech moats. They might not. And the backstop nobody's talking about: Trump invoked the Defense Production Act for AI. The federal government is treating this as critical infrastructure. Will there be misallocation? Yes. But a full bust is hard to sell when demand outstrips supply and the government won't let it fail. Enterprise AI is a bubble. Consumer AI is a boom. Goldman proved both in the same report. https://blossom.primal.net/41b737e010ccc33b20ff58b91c18f8021b8a6a555f18475b28eb9891e2c6ad5f.jpg

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2026-05-06T13:46:10Z

Jack Dorsey’s Block drops its Q1 2026 Bitcoin Proof-of-Reserves: 28,355 BTC ✅ fully verified on-chain. While most corporations hedge or play games w...

Jack Dorsey’s Block drops its Q1 2026 Bitcoin Proof-of-Reserves: 28,355 BTC ✅ fully verified on-chain. While most corporations hedge or play games with shareholder money, Jack keeps stacking real Bitcoin and showing the receipts publicly. https://blossom.primal.net/4df29e36685e0075febab96d2137887344c17fc8076d417df49d8177319e5d7c.png

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2026-04-27T22:23:28Z

Adam Back says he has a bet that bitcoin hits $1M before the next halving in 2028. "The $500K to $1 million bitcoin is closer than people think." htt...

Adam Back says he has a bet that bitcoin hits $1M before the next halving in 2028. "The $500K to $1 million bitcoin is closer than people think." https://blossom.primal.net/2bdfd5d4d2bba66a9b5e1973a7a4a45ff22feaa5f9f161598850bf8f79063b77.mp4

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2026-04-22T22:47:59Z

The Satoshi statue in Lugano has been vandalized again. https://blossom.primal.net/2e476323228cc7075864bf00419cb984562ad6d8f2604ebd9afeb112d03ac670.jp...

The Satoshi statue in Lugano has been vandalized again. https://blossom.primal.net/2e476323228cc7075864bf00419cb984562ad6d8f2604ebd9afeb112d03ac670.jpg

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2026-04-19T16:45:49Z

They're governing with Mario Kart metaphors now. https://blossom.primal.net/02e436a342eeab4ae9338590ce7be95f8a9c00c982e4332fbc5a9e01a1c49c87.mp4

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2026-04-16T20:17:38Z

U.S. banks reported a combined $434 billion in net interest income for 2025, roughly $1,600 for every adult American. Many checking accounts paid dep...

U.S. banks reported a combined $434 billion in net interest income for 2025, roughly $1,600 for every adult American. Many checking accounts paid depositors just 0.01% interest. https://blossom.primal.net/9aa43d579a1e5cbbdcf4ffc0117737f96c345f08d42561f6f46601fa9ee42f7c.jpg

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2026-04-15T15:37:07Z

The Federal Reserve is asking major US banks to detail their exposure to private credit funds after a surge in investor redemptions and a rise in trou...

The Federal Reserve is asking major US banks to detail their exposure to private credit funds after a surge in investor redemptions and a rise in troubled loans across the $1.8 trillion industry. Fed examiners are incorporating the questions into routine bank oversight, specifically targeting the debt that private credit funds have taken on from banks. In good times, that leverage juices returns. In bad times, it puts bank collateral directly at risk. Treasury is running a parallel effort, questioning the insurance industry about its own private credit exposure and assembling a dedicated team to assess the risk. The timing matters. Retail-facing credit funds have come under pressure in recent months as investors rushed to pull cash. International regulators are sounding alarms too. FSB Chair Andrew Bailey warned this week that the Iran conflict is compounding stress in private credit markets. Banks and private credit are deeply intertwined despite efforts to appear otherwise. Credit funds depend on banks for custody, credit lines, and leverage. Blackstone, Blue Owl, and KKR credit funds are running debt-to-equity ratios between 0.7x and 0.8x. Jamie Dimon acknowledged the industry suffers from a lack of transparency and poor valuation standards, though he stopped short of calling it a systemic risk. Meanwhile, the Trump administration is actively pushing to loosen lending rules for banks, partly to help them lend more to these same private credit firms. Regulators are trying to map the risk at the same time policymakers are expanding it. https://blossom.primal.net/4940d867a7fb2147e76d959e7d9c1ddd3744064adaea1b7b38d344f730324620.jpg

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2026-04-13T15:23:08Z

Sell your Tesla, ditch the AirPods, stop taking NAD. "Sell the Tesla, you're spinning your vortex the wrong way. AirPods are the fastest way to get A...

Sell your Tesla, ditch the AirPods, stop taking NAD. "Sell the Tesla, you're spinning your vortex the wrong way. AirPods are the fastest way to get Alzheimer's. NAD drops because your vortexes go down." - ☣️ Pleb Kruse = BTC foundationalist in exile 🟩🔆 https://blossom.primal.net/a786f4480128fc753fe3cb357ace88080d5c34fa2c97a1dd29ff6c65f8a86410.mp4

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2026-04-11T20:40:17Z

Rep. Thomas Massie is breaking with his party again over warrantless surveillance. Massie said on X that he votes with the GOP 91% of the time, but t...

Rep. Thomas Massie is breaking with his party again over warrantless surveillance. Massie said on X that he votes with the GOP 91% of the time, but that's about to drop to 90% because he won't vote to let federal agencies spy on Americans without a warrant. He paired the statement with a screenshot of an email from the White House Office of Legislative Affairs pushing Congress for a clean reauthorization of FISA Section 702, which expires April 19. The Trump administration is asking for an 18-month extension with no reforms. The House is expected to vote on it next week. Section 702 lets the NSA intercept communications of foreign intelligence targets that pass through U.S. infrastructure. The controversy is what happens next, federal agencies can then search the resulting databases for information on Americans who communicated with those targets, all without a warrant. The FBI has been repeatedly cited by the FISA Court for misusing the authority to query U.S. citizens, including protesters, political donors, and a sitting member of Congress. A bipartisan group including Ron Wyden and Warren Davidson is pushing to add warrant requirements before any extension passes. The White House and former national security officials argue a lapse would create a gap adversaries could exploit. Massie remains one of the few consistent voices in Congress treating the Fourth Amendment as non-negotiable, even when it means voting against his own party and the president. https://blossom.primal.net/9a0d91434e97a3567658b0804c5c6d3e2031a539ea9c19cba3942e411fb62a99.jpg

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2026-04-10T19:22:08Z

Bitcoin's quantum defense just got its first working prototype. Olaoluwa Olaoluwa Osuntokun Osuntokun, CTO of Lightning Labs, published a functional ...

Bitcoin's quantum defense just got its first working prototype. Olaoluwa Olaoluwa Osuntokun Osuntokun, CTO of Lightning Labs, published a functional tool to the Bitcoin developer mailing list that solves one of the hardest problems in Bitcoin's long-term security, how to protect the network from quantum attacks without locking millions of users out of their own wallets. The problem is a painful paradox. Bitcoin's leading quantum defense proposal (BIP-360) would disable the current signature system network-wide if a quantum threat emerged. That protects the network, but every wallet that hasn't migrated to the new quantum-resistant format gets frozen permanently. The coins are still there. The rightful owner just can't access them. Osuntokun's prototype is the escape hatch. Instead of proving ownership with a digital signature, the system lets users mathematically prove they created the wallet using its original seed phrase, without ever revealing the seed itself. Recovering one wallet doesn't compromise any others derived from the same seed. It replaces "I can sign this transaction" with "I can prove this wallet came from me." It already runs on a consumer MacBook. Generating the proof takes about 55 seconds. Verification takes under two seconds. The proof file is roughly 1.7 MB. There's no formal proposal to integrate this into Bitcoin yet and no deployment timeline. But the prototype closes a gap that had only existed in theory until now, a credible path to quantum resilience without the collateral damage of stranding user funds. https://blossom.primal.net/8ac5db8d2dd86af9d6f7331d075d5d924caf856d045a6a98730b5ca677569231.jpg

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2026-04-09T15:44:24Z

The President of the United States is hosting a meme coin conference at Mar-a-Lago on April 25th. He is personally promoting a token he profits from ...

The President of the United States is hosting a meme coin conference at Mar-a-Lago on April 25th. He is personally promoting a token he profits from while signing the legislation that regulates it. This is not crypto adoption. This is a sitting president running a side hustle from the Oval Office. In any other context this would be called corruption. https://blossom.primal.net/1b33d1f4edd9eb24c5f6e6716fe678a28c8567580c95f9df3be3f990825bbbad.jpg

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2026-04-09T13:23:44Z

Block just open-sourced mesh-llm, a peer-to-peer system that lets anyone pool spare GPU compute to run large open-source AI models without relying on ...

Block just open-sourced mesh-llm, a peer-to-peer system that lets anyone pool spare GPU compute to run large open-source AI models without relying on any cloud provider. If a model fits on your machine, it runs locally at full speed. If it doesn't, the system automatically splits it across multiple machines on the network. Dense models get split by layers. Mixture-of-experts models like DeepSeek and Qwen3 get split by experts. Zero configuration required. Discovery happens over Nostr. Nodes find each other through relays, score by region and VRAM, and self-organize. No central server coordinates anything. Weights are read from local files, never sent over the network. Dead nodes get replaced in 60 seconds. It exposes a standard OpenAI-compatible API on localhost, meaning any existing AI tool can plug in without modification. Block is building infrastructure for AI that doesn't route through OpenAI, Google, or Anthropic. Frontier-class open models running across a mesh of commodity hardware, discovered via Nostr, with no cloud dependency. That's the direction AI needs to go. https://blossom.primal.net/f1cffd96254c5381c701d68f19ce494ae14453ae6cc8bfb01c14b6793dd99e44.png

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2026-04-02T23:19:51Z

"Iran threatened a bunch of U.S. Companies in the region today." Trump: "With what? BB guns? You said something nasty. You know what they are not goi...

"Iran threatened a bunch of U.S. Companies in the region today." Trump: "With what? BB guns? You said something nasty. You know what they are not going to do? Hit them with a nuclear weapon." https://blossom.primal.net/1e96a59dc3999aef6f27cd01966720cd64446c891abf96c1f877443bb734e768.mp4

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2026-03-31T22:54:54Z

Oracle begins mass layoffs of up to 30,000 employees, early morning termination emails are landing now. The cuts could equal 18% of its global workfo...

Oracle begins mass layoffs of up to 30,000 employees, early morning termination emails are landing now. The cuts could equal 18% of its global workforce. https://blossom.primal.net/8bb4832086c09a5ed9f8d2eb888fa0c8d2abaa37d36c1623a487e59682ac7335.png

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2026-03-31T18:07:49Z

The World Uncertainty Index just hit 105,000, the highest level in recorded history. Higher than Covid. Higher than 9/11. Higher than the Iraq War an...

The World Uncertainty Index just hit 105,000, the highest level in recorded history. Higher than Covid. Higher than 9/11. Higher than the Iraq War and the Global Financial Crisis combined. https://blossom.primal.net/acac89051f00bccdd5ff50701c65b071a03b6d257d711eaa516c3bff5fcb8d78.jpg

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2026-03-29T14:07:23Z

Trump: "Bitcoin is very powerful." "So many people now, they want to pay you in crypto, they want to pay you in bitcoin. We have to be at the top of ...

Trump: "Bitcoin is very powerful." "So many people now, they want to pay you in crypto, they want to pay you in bitcoin. We have to be at the top of it." https://blossom.primal.net/77c870cfa58de517ff649189462bbdb75565568996ab5a9a7f6e02f96d64f902.mp4

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2026-03-27T22:51:49Z

Folks, we told you this was coming, and today the mask is fully off. A couple weeks back we reported, based on solid sources, that Coinbase was quiet...

Folks, we told you this was coming, and today the mask is fully off. A couple weeks back we reported, based on solid sources, that Coinbase was quietly lobbying to kill a real de minimis tax exemption for Bitcoin while pushing one that applied only to stablecoins like USDC. We laid out the clear incentives in our deep dive. Coinbase made 1.35 billion dollars in stablecoin revenue last year, up 48 percent year over year, almost entirely from yield on the Treasuries backing USDC. A proper Bitcoin de minimis would let people spend sats on everyday purchases without triggering taxable events on every transaction. That directly competes with their centralized yield machine. We called it what it was. Policy that protects Coinbase’s float rather than advancing neutral Bitcoin adoption. Brian Armstrong pushed back hard. He called our reporting totally false and misinformation while insisting he was personally lobbying for Bitcoin de minimis. Some accused us of lying or spreading rumors. We stood firm. We offered to have Brian on the TFTC podcast to clear the air. We waited. Now the latest draft from Reps. Horsford and Max Miller on the updated PARITY Act framework has dropped. It confirms exactly what we warned about. It gives a de minimis exemption to stablecoins but leaves Bitcoin out entirely. It keeps the punishing double taxation on Bitcoin mining fully intact while carving out relief for passive validation, basically staking. This is not an oversight or sloppy drafting. It abandons any pretense of technology neutrality and deliberately picks winners. Dollar-pegged stables and staking get the breaks, while actual Bitcoin usage as money and Proof-of-Work mining get kneecapped. Without de minimis for Bitcoin, every small Lightning payment or sat transaction still forces cost-basis tracking and IRS headaches. Paying your plumber in sats or grabbing lunch with Bitcoin remains a taxable event. Stablecoins, being pegged and low-volatility, get an exemption they barely need. The real beneficiary is protecting that massive USDC reserve float and the yield it generates. Meanwhile, American Bitcoin miners, already operating in one of the toughest, most capital- and energy-intensive industries, face continued double taxation while staking gets a pass. That is not neutral policy. It is industrial policy against domestic Bitcoin mining at a time when we should be leaning into energy abundance and securing the hardest monetary network. The Bitcoin Policy Institute is releasing a full statement soon, and we fully back the call for strong community pushback. Every Bitcoiner needs to contact their reps and make it politically radioactive to sideline Bitcoin while handing carve-outs to stables and staking. This language slows real adoption, entrenches custodians, and weakens American Bitcoin infrastructure. We weren’t lying. Our sources weren’t lying. The draft proves the reporting was on target. Those who rushed to call it misinformation owe the community some honest reflection. Brian, if you’re still open to that conversation, the invitation stands. Come on the podcast. No spin, just walk us through how this draft lines up with your stated support for Bitcoin de minimis. The mic is warm. This fight isn’t over. Bitcoin doesn’t need permission, but bad policy can delay sovereign adoption and punish the miners securing the network. We’re here to protect the protocol and the right of individuals to use sound money without turning every transaction into a compliance nightmare. Stay sovereign. Stack sats. Use Bitcoin as money anyway. Call your reps today. https://blossom.primal.net/2f458d4b487fa241628f882f248d8ab244a6604528585c3f3463847c60fcb854.jpg

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2026-03-27T18:24:29Z

Vials of COVID-19. Freezers labeled "Ebola." A thousand lab mice. All hidden inside a supposedly empty warehouse in a California farming town, and dis...

Vials of COVID-19. Freezers labeled "Ebola." A thousand lab mice. All hidden inside a supposedly empty warehouse in a California farming town, and discovered by accident. Jesalyn Harper, a code enforcement officer in Reedley, California, a town of 25,000 known as "The World's Fruit Basket", followed a bad smell and a garden hose sticking out of a building that was supposed to be vacant. Inside she found vials marked "Malaria," "COVID-19," and "HIV." Refrigerators lined along the walls were labeled "blood" and "Ebola." Workers were filling pregnancy test kits. When she started asking questions, the mood shifted fast. "I realized I'm in trouble," she told the LA Times, "and I need to get out of this building without tipping them off that I'm scared." The CDC confirmed at least 20 infectious agents were present, dengue, hepatitis B and C, herpes, rubella, and SARS coronavirus among them. Bags in the freezers were labeled "MDMA," "Coca," "Met," "THC," and "Amp." The man behind it is Jia Bei Zhu, a Chinese national who also goes by David He. The scheme: importing Chinese-made COVID tests and passing them off as American-made, disguising them as pregnancy test shipments to get past customs. A congressional committee found over $1 million in payments from banks in the People's Republic of China flowing to his operation. His background reads like a spy novel. He was vice chairman of a Chinese state-controlled biological engineering company. He fled to Canada, where his business was hit with a $330 million judgment for stealing cattle technology from a U.S. company. In court records, he emailed a colleague: "The law is strong, but the outlaws are 10 times stronger." He then fled Canada to California. Days after the warehouse was raided, his girlfriend took a one-way flight to China with their newborn. She hasn't come back. The story didn't end in Reedley. In January, law enforcement in armored vehicles with drones and a robot dog raided a Las Vegas home Zhu had called 400 times from jail. Inside the garage, investigators in respirators pulled out lab equipment and over 1,000 samples of unknown liquid, materials "consistent with what was found in Reedley." An Israeli citizen managing the property was arrested on federal weapons charges. The FBI sent everything to a lab in Maryland. Nearly a month later, they still haven't said what was in those vials. The vials found in the original Reedley warehouse were never tested. Zhu has not been charged with running an illegal biolab. And a House Select Committee report concluded that "at worst, this investigation revealed significant gaps in our nation's defenses that present a grave national security risk that could be exploited in the future." https://blossom.primal.net/b4d9a89e9b76aee60ba651a620bf8d6e11b52ac3ea5244eebb93b07a4e081457.jpg

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2026-03-27T00:34:10Z

The U.S. Treasury just announced something that hasn't happened since Abraham Lincoln was in office. Starting in June, Donald Trump's signature will ...

The U.S. Treasury just announced something that hasn't happened since Abraham Lincoln was in office. Starting in June, Donald Trump's signature will appear on all new U.S. paper currency, beginning with $100 bills, with other denominations to follow. His name replaces the Treasurer of the United States, a position that's had its signature on every bill since 1861. That's 165 years of unbroken tradition. Secretary Bessent called it a recognition of "unprecedented economic growth, lasting dollar dominance, and fiscal strength." Treasurer Brandon Beach went further, calling Trump "the architect of America's Golden Age economic revival" and saying his name on the money is "not only appropriate, but well deserved." The bills themselves aren't being redesigned. Same faces, same layout, same "In God We Trust." It's only the signature block that changes. Current bills with Yellen's signature stay in circulation, no recall, no swap. They also looked into putting Trump's face on coins, but federal law still prohibits depicting living individuals on circulating coinage. Every other president on U.S. currency got there long after death. Washington, Lincoln, Jackson, Grant, none of them signed the bills while sitting in the Oval Office. Whatever you think about it, that's a norm that stood for over a century and a half, and it no longer exists. https://blossom.primal.net/1234bafb04e38163a84b5f6a64b1ba62cb1df48ae7c5959965fdc59437b28acf.jpg

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2026-03-26T23:16:09Z

Dave Smith: “Thomas Massie winning re-election in Congress is the most important election in the country.” “He’s got the Israel lobby and the Adelson...

Dave Smith: “Thomas Massie winning re-election in Congress is the most important election in the country.” “He’s got the Israel lobby and the Adelsons pouring millions of dollars to try to unseat him.” “For the crime of not going along with the Epstein cover-up.” https://blossom.primal.net/91a7edf76784148b9325fcb6dc392ef822472c8aa82d5c7866d043b87a4e187e.mp4

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2026-03-26T21:05:57Z

New York City just got warned by 3 out of 4 bond rating agencies in 8 days. Moody's went first. Then S&P. Now Fitch and Kroll have piled on. All four...

New York City just got warned by 3 out of 4 bond rating agencies in 8 days. Moody's went first. Then S&P. Now Fitch and Kroll have piled on. All four agencies are sending the same message: the city's finances face structural imbalance under Mayor Zohran Mamdani's $127 billion budget. The math is straightforward. Mamdani is proposing to drain $2.6 billion from the city's rainy day fund and retiree health reserves over two years to pay for new programs. He's spending $1 billion usually held back for unexpected costs. His backup plan if Albany won't approve a wealth tax on high earners is a 9.5% property tax increase. Bond investors aren't waiting around. Since Mamdani took office, they've been dumping NYC municipal debt. Yields on general obligation bonds are up 17%. Transitional finance authority bonds up 16%. That means borrowing just got significantly more expensive for a city already running structural deficits. Comptroller Mark Levine put it plainly. "We are spending more money than we're taking in and we are proposing to drain our reserve funds to cover that." This is how fiscal spirals start. Higher borrowing costs mean more of the budget goes to debt service. More debt service means less money for services. Worse services and higher taxes push residents and businesses out. A shrinking tax base means even less revenue. Repeat. New York has been here before. In 1975, the city ran out of money entirely. Banks refused to underwrite its bonds. It took pension fund bailouts, emergency state control, and massive service cuts to avoid default. The city didn't fully recover for a decade. The City Council has pushed back, identifying $1.7 billion in potential revenue and savings that could avoid the reserve raid. Council Speaker Julie Menin has opposed tapping the rainy day fund. Governor Hochul has rejected both the wealth tax and the property tax increase. So the mayor is boxed in. No wealth tax from Albany. No property tax hike the governor will support. A City Council that won't approve draining reserves. And now three rating agencies saying if the budget passes as written, downgrades are coming. A downgrade from AA would raise borrowing costs across every city bond issuance. For a city carrying tens of billions in outstanding debt, even a small increase in rates compounds into hundreds of millions in additional costs over time. This is the first negative outlook from multiple agencies since COVID. The difference is COVID was an external shock. This is a policy choice. https://blossom.primal.net/1c3eb0c40f40957cbec4d3831bcff7b1e54455b12205a74ffe0de717ec949627.jpg

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2026-03-20T23:51:27Z

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "We will finish this, and we will honor their sacrifice with decisive action." https://blossom.primal.net/e2c00ab75a0b4...

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth: "We will finish this, and we will honor their sacrifice with decisive action." https://blossom.primal.net/e2c00ab75a0b4bba35d0f7310e0102bb02f405c54f1bbe9e9bdf25c30856d027.mp4

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2026-03-19T15:18:00Z

Boris Johnson just wrote that Pokemon cards are a better investment than Bitcoin. This is not satire. This is a real column in the Daily Mail. His ev...

Boris Johnson just wrote that Pokemon cards are a better investment than Bitcoin. This is not satire. This is a real column in the Daily Mail. His evidence? An elderly man from his village gave £500 to a stranger in a pub who promised to double it. After 3.5 years and £20,000 in "fees," the money is gone. Boris concludes: Bitcoin is a Ponzi. Bitcoin didn't steal this man's money. A con artist did. That's like calling the dollar a scam because someone got robbed at an ATM. What Boris left out: 1. Bitcoin is a $1.42 trillion asset with $62 billion in daily volume 2. It runs on a fully transparent public blockchain anyone can audit 3. It has outperformed every fiat currency on Earth over any 4+ year window 4. The British pound has lost over 99% of its purchasing power since the Bank of England was founded Boris argued that money needs "Caesar's image" on it to have value. He used a Bible parable to defend central banking. The former PM of a country that saw 11% inflation, a gilt market crisis, and a currency that buys less every year is calling the hardest money ever created a Ponzi. While comparing it unfavorably to Pikachu. You can't make this up. https://blossom.primal.net/3f0290e31e38a0a7215eb1f5bf4a7952d1a59e122673b882e1cb8536fb1e5882.jpg

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2026-03-13T20:32:04Z

A massive lobster showed up in front of the Charging Bull in NYC. https://blossom.primal.net/06ee81411b460e2457cc45b3a4b7bce41af01d765784cfa44fc389df2...

A massive lobster showed up in front of the Charging Bull in NYC. https://blossom.primal.net/06ee81411b460e2457cc45b3a4b7bce41af01d765784cfa44fc389df2e441409.jpg

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2026-03-11T16:42:57Z

OpenClaw just became the most-starred GitHub repo in history (250k+ stars), overtaking React and Linux. https://blossom.primal.net/124851f9749e19755a2...

OpenClaw just became the most-starred GitHub repo in history (250k+ stars), overtaking React and Linux. https://blossom.primal.net/124851f9749e19755a2f3fdc683083119c19e56949fe6db1955f860268c83b16.png

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2026-03-11T00:41:35Z

El Salvador announces plans to develop nuclear power capacity within the next 7 years. https://blossom.primal.net/84a33dab277115b244305d5e89dc68b88c17...

El Salvador announces plans to develop nuclear power capacity within the next 7 years. https://blossom.primal.net/84a33dab277115b244305d5e89dc68b88c17366c3a5a0135f06b1feeafb56d58.mp4

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2026-03-10T19:20:14Z

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI could handle end-to-end software engineering in just 6-12 months. "Most, maybe all" of what engineers do, gone. https:...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: AI could handle end-to-end software engineering in just 6-12 months. "Most, maybe all" of what engineers do, gone. https://blossom.primal.net/a25f04bce2256d22b671088e0f32497bba12fac7bb3ecc4bf510cfb9d9462523.mp4

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2026-03-09T13:37:27Z

President Trump declares he will veto ALL other legislation until Congress passes the full SAVE America Act. https://blossom.primal.net/cee50e9fcf87b1...

President Trump declares he will veto ALL other legislation until Congress passes the full SAVE America Act. https://blossom.primal.net/cee50e9fcf87b1f408da77e6debd550446694f4558756a7ce75e81191d377109.jpg

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2026-03-08T15:56:34Z

Trump: "If we didn't do it first, they would've done it to Israel." https://blossom.primal.net/e04724e4393822b44c34fdcbf8d0b68e28b92b785ff3c7e480347f4...

Trump: "If we didn't do it first, they would've done it to Israel." https://blossom.primal.net/e04724e4393822b44c34fdcbf8d0b68e28b92b785ff3c7e480347f41e0367981.mp4

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2026-03-04T20:42:27Z

Kraken becomes the first digital asset company with direct access to the U.S. payment system. https://blossom.primal.net/48ecc1a62b2f963e631cde3ba5502...

Kraken becomes the first digital asset company with direct access to the U.S. payment system. https://blossom.primal.net/48ecc1a62b2f963e631cde3ba550267eaba0014e9d81fb7efbca18fde6dfe5b7.mp4

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2026-03-04T14:17:05Z

60% of top U.S. banks are building Bitcoin products. 90% of Barron's top 50 RIA firms have a Bitcoin allocation. 52% of the top 25 hedge funds have ...

60% of top U.S. banks are building Bitcoin products. 90% of Barron's top 50 RIA firms have a Bitcoin allocation. 52% of the top 25 hedge funds have a Bitcoin allocation. The institutional adoption timeline is accelerating fast. https://blossom.primal.net/c79582856a2aac1193655d28b68214a5f3a4b1367b270dad95fb4f9ce3a3e529.jpg

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2026-03-01T19:47:08Z

Elon Musk: “In the long term, work will be optional, like playing a game or growing vegetables because you enjoy it.” https://blossom.primal.net/0300e...

Elon Musk: “In the long term, work will be optional, like playing a game or growing vegetables because you enjoy it.” https://blossom.primal.net/0300ed4f740d481f1e14fe08c4d9ebc52c3088354a68e54fe7cb524b0e02f9a3.mp4

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2026-02-28T01:20:22Z

White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt: Yesterday's Clarity Act meeting was a "big step forward." "We're close... I fully expect we will meet our de...

White House crypto advisor Patrick Witt: Yesterday's Clarity Act meeting was a "big step forward." "We're close... I fully expect we will meet our deadline." https://blossom.primal.net/57903955ff25b7bffcaa85e6c7308867be4a1e4c117986d03562e6d474ac0c2e.png

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2026-02-20T17:27:34Z

OpenAI airs Super Bowl commercial. https://blossom.primal.net/136a46fae23a62cfc1e1c4bfa6b29fe9cb95d361d58cdeab4b8a1f4ff837a7c5.mp4

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2026-02-09T00:49:45Z

Bitcoin ETFs recorded $434M in outflows yesterday, led by $175M from BlackRock’s IBIT. https://blossom.primal.net/f8c4e094be583689909f9aa202657d22956b...

Bitcoin ETFs recorded $434M in outflows yesterday, led by $175M from BlackRock’s IBIT. https://blossom.primal.net/f8c4e094be583689909f9aa202657d22956b6c05ffb627130a72de546d49c6ed.png

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2026-02-06T21:01:49Z