Bitcoin circular economy growing in the Dominican Republic. (unidosxsatoshi) is bringing Bitcoin education and merchant adoption to Montecristi through workshops and hands-on training.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren calling for a national data center moratorium until communities can verify "the full costs are going to be absorbed by the data center and not pushed off on the folks who live there."

US and China M2 rose $7.9 trillion from a year earlier to a record $76.4 trillion in August. Both are at all-time highs: China at $53.1 trillion, the US at $23.3 trillion.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent: "Kimi thinks she is Claude. Kimi will tell you she is Claude sometime. Kimi sent back some PLA weapons plans to Anthropic."

The President of the United States is promising $5,000 checks to every adult citizen if his party wins the midterms. 245 million adults. $1.2 trillion. They say tariffs will pay for it. Tariff revenue is ~$200 billion a year. You do the math.

New ad from Block pitching bitcoin as everyday money. "The government prints more money every day, and the more money they print, the less the money is worth every day."

New ad from Block pitching bitcoin as everyday money. "Prices go up, but pay doesn't. More money is printed, but acquiring it is harder. Small businesses do the work, but card companies profit."

President Trump just endorsed BPI's Data Center Dividend proposal, 20 days after it was published. Counties that host data centers send a fixed share of property tax revenue directly to local households. No new taxes. BPI estimates the average rural family could receive up to $8,900 a year. Trump: "The data centers are making an absolute fortune. But now, the people are going to benefit directly."

Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman at PubKey NYC. "New York State right now is number 50 in economic outlook... it is a national embarrassment."

Bitcoin Magazine shows bitcoin has flipped gold in yearly performance, now up 66% against gold since March.

BPI's panel with David Beckworth and (SamLyman33) on how dollar stablecoins and tokenized Treasuries could preserve dollar dominance.

MuSig2 explained in 1 minute.

Shielded bitcoin transactions explained in 60 seconds.

Anthropic has been flying religious scholars to San Francisco, having them sign NDAs, and exploring whether Claude has consciousness and moral standing. Rabbi Mois Navon attended one dinner and noticed Olah and his team "relating to it like a conscious being" with "moral status on par with a person." Olah told the NYT he's "genuinely uncertain" whether AI models are conscious. But Anthropic also sought input on moral formation for Claude, treating it less like software and more like something that could suffer. Philosopher David Decosimo called it "deeply disturbing" that Anthropic "secretly invited religious leaders to SF to advise them on AI safety, had them sign NDAs, but then primarily tried to convince them Claude has a soul & moral standing." Before the Vatican's recent AI encyclical, Olah reportedly saw an advance text, was alarmed by its rejection of AI consciousness, and privately urged advisers to take model consciousness seriously. A company eyeing a $2 trillion IPO courting priests and rabbis on the inner life of its product. http://nytimes.com/2026/09/29/us/anthropic-claude-morals-ai.html?unlocked_article_code=1.FVE.rT_Z.4gb76p0GLUI6

River explains what the government leaves out when it talks about inflation.

Amazon is in talks to transfer ~$8 billion worth of Nvidia Grace Blackwell chips into a special-purpose vehicle and lease them back, per the FT. The proposed structure. Amazon sells the chips into a standalone entity funded by outside investors. Then leases them right back. Same hardware, same workloads. Only the ownership changes on paper. It's essentially a sale-leaseback. Billions in AI capex come off Amazon's books while it keeps all the compute. Amazon has signaled ~$220 billion in 2026 capex on data centers and AI. This would let them keep building without the balance sheet taking the full hit. They're not alone. Similar GPU-backed structures have surfaced around CoreWeave and Nvidia's own customer financing. The risk is who holds the bag when these chips depreciate. Nvidia iterates fast. SPV investors would be betting the silicon holds enough value to service the debt raised against it. Nothing is finalized. But the signal is clear. Even the largest companies on the planet are exploring creative financing to keep the AI arms race going. https://www.ft.com/content/97d8d346-519e-48fb-8df8-66cf5f12ef62?syn-25a6b1a6=1

The IMF approved a $138 million disbursement to El Salvador despite the country breaching its agreement not to accumulate more bitcoin. El Salvador's wallet grew by over 1,000 BTC since the deal was signed. The government secured a waiver by proving the additions came from private donations, not public funds. The conditions are clear. Stop all state-led bitcoin accumulation, unwind control of the Chivo wallet, keep bitcoin use voluntary, and publicly audit holdings. The IMF will tolerate bitcoin as long as the state isn't the one stacking it.

Tavus claims new Griffin model is "the first model to pass the video Turing test." "48% of people who talked to it live thought it was a real human. Previous systems have had a pass rate <3%."

The SEC just proposed new rules creating a tailored custody framework for crypto assets held by investment advisers and regulated funds. This builds on the proposal sent to the White House in August. The new framework covers registered investment companies and business development companies, laying out specific requirements for how advisers custody digital assets on behalf of clients.

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission

SEC Proposal Would Address How Investment Advisers and Funds Can Custody Crypto Assets Under the Federal Securities Laws

Block launches a bitcoin consumer ad. "How come every time them Wall Street boys crash the economy, they always get to keep the money? That makes no sense."