"Build the citadel. Learn to farm. Run the meetup. Buy goats from Billy." (avg_gary) on how bitcoiners win by building parallel economies that make the old system irrelevant.

OKX announces former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has joined its Board of Directors. Cuomo has served as an advisor to the crypto exchange since 2023 on US regulatory and institutional strategy.

Coinbase Vice Chair on CNBC talking about the CLARITY Act: "The Democrats have obtained meaningful concessions to make what was already a strong consumer protection bill, THAT much stronger."

The Trump administration is quietly working to ban Chinese open-source AI models from the US. According to Axios, Commerce Department officials considered adding Chinese AI labs to the Entity List, the NSA explored advisories discouraging their use, and draft rules circulated to target Chinese open-source models using supply chain authorities. Pro-innovation voices inside the administration killed those efforts last year. But personnel shifts and the rise of Kimi K3 have given national security hawks new ammunition. David Sacks put it bluntly: "The leading closed labs, already a duopoly in terms of AI model revenue, want the government to eliminate their open-source competition." This isn't really about China. OpenAI and Anthropic have been pushing for licensing and safety regimes that would kneecap open-source competitors for years. Chinese models just give them a national security wrapper to sell it in. The playbook is to use fear of a foreign threat to justify consolidating power domestically. The result would be a US AI ecosystem controlled by two companies with regulatory moats no startup could climb.

"We were sent to fight for the nation, but it was really for the people printing the money." (avg_gary) on why veterans are turning to bitcoin as a peaceful weapon against the war machine.

Former NY Gov. Andrew Cuomo: "The biggest misconception was that crypto was seen as tokens, memes. The real contributions... It is faster, it is cheaper... you can trade stocks 24/7 internationally."

Hugging Face, the largest open-source AI platform, was breached by an autonomous AI agent swarm. Not a hacker. Not a state team. An autonomous framework that ran thousands of actions, harvested credentials, and moved laterally through internal clusters over a weekend. All at machine speed. The entry point? A malicious dataset uploaded through the front door. 17,000+ attacker events recorded. But here's the real story. When Hugging Face's security team tried using frontier AI to analyze the attack, the safety filters blocked them. The models couldn't tell the difference between a defender studying an exploit and an attacker requesting help. The attackers had no usage policy. The defenders did. They had to move everything to an open-weight model on their own infrastructure. No permissions needed. No sensitive data leaving the environment. Days of forensic work done in hours. The sovereignty test is the same one bitcoiners have understood for years, can your tools do what you need without asking a remote intermediary for permission? A bitcoin wallet you control and a model you control pass the same test. AI offensive tooling is inside production networks now. Defense requires machine-speed analysis and a plan for when your provider says no.

The U.S. only has 43 days of crude oil supply left, the lowest in 45 years. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve was drained in 2022 and never replenished.

Strategy now holds 843,775 bitcoin and $3.2 billion in USD reserves. They just added another $225 million to the cash pile.

Kimi K3 demand is so high they had to pause new subscriptions and are scrambling to add GPU capacity.

CAPE ratio approaching dot-com bubble levels.

Strategy now holds 843,775 BTC worth $54.28 billion at an average cost of $75,653. Down nearly 15% on the position.

"$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.

"Every single hyperscaler could pay off every dollar of debt they've raised within 2 quarters. If AI fails, there's no threat to their moats. So what's the risk?" Mel Mattison on why the AI bear case makes no sense.

"If I raise rates, what am I gonna do? I'm gonna hurt housing. That's gonna hurt construction spending. That's gonna hurt Joe Schmo American. Is it gonna stop OpenAI from spending? No, it's not." Mel Mattison on why rate hikes only punish the average person.

"Every single time our attorneys told us 'just don't mention crypto,' you'll be persona non grata. There was no law prohibiting it. It was just a stance because regulators were in the back pockets of the big banks." Mel Mattison on how rigged the game was.

"If AI actually has a use case, even if it is open-source models, it still requires compute. It still requires the hardware. It still requires memory." Mel Mattison on why the AI bears are dead wrong about demand.

Flock cameras aren't just reading plates, video shows one actively scanning nearby phones via Bluetooth. Towns in CT are ripping them out over privacy fears after massive third-party data access.

TFTC 771 w/ Mel Mattison: "We'll hit forty trillion in debt within months. How can you look at the dollar and not want to own gold, Bitcoin, and silver?" We discuss: ⚡ The real money printer isn't the Fed ⚡ Why Warsh can't stop it ⚡ The four-year cycle bottoms in October

The number of homebuyers in the US just hit an all-time low while sellers surge to nearly 2 million. The gap between sellers and buyers, 630,000, is the largest ever recorded.