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Bloomberg ETF analysts @EricBalchuna and @JSeyff are releasing a bitcoin book called "Both Sides of the Coin."
Spiral is integrating bitcoin payments into Mesh LLM, letting machines permissionlessly buy and sell AI compute without merchant accounts or traditional payment rails. @moneyball calls it "the most exciting bitcoin payment thing I've ever heard of."
Strike launches Stacks, a new feature that lets users organize their bitcoin savings into separate buckets with individual no-fee DCA plans for each.
CFTC Chairman Selig lays out a ladder framework for digital asset regulation. "This provides firms with a clear framework for evaluating how to best serve their customers in the United States."
"You don't have to go to college to have a good life. You can make a quarter of a million dollars a year as a CNC operator who knows how to use AI. There is a different way of living your life than what you've been sold." @sjkokinda on the path forward for Gen Z. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

Africa's Bitcoin ecosystem @afribitcoiners has grown to 180 verified Bitcoin-only projects across 23 countries.
Ray Dalio says a US debt crisis is imminent within the next three years. "We spend about seven trillion a year. We take in five. Spending 40 percent more than we're taking in. Debt service payments are building and squeezing out spending."

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5.
OpenSats announces four new grants and one renewal funding Bitcoin Core development and open-source infrastructure. Grantees are working on Guix (the system that builds Bitcoin Core's release binaries deterministically), libbitcoinkernel (extracting Core's validation engine into a reusable library), and Bitcoin Core's wallet and test framework.
"Gen Z has never lived in a productive society. Their grandparents lost jobs to NAFTA, their parents lost the house in 2008, then COVID hit. They've never seen a society that works." @sjkokinda on why this generation is the hardest to reach. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
Punches thrown at a Memphis city council hearing over a data center moratorium vote.
"A system of central banking and wars run on behalf of the empire. They were assuming 'we've taken care of Donald Trump.' But here he is back, overthrowing the last 125 years of British imperial policy." @sjkokinda on Trump dismantling the imperial architecture. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

Bloomberg ETF analysts @EricBalchuna and @JSeyff are releasing a bitcoin book called "Both Sides of the Coin."
Spiral is integrating bitcoin payments into Mesh LLM, letting machines permissionlessly buy and sell AI compute without merchant accounts or traditional payment rails. @moneyball calls it "the most exciting bitcoin payment thing I've ever heard of."
Strike launches Stacks, a new feature that lets users organize their bitcoin savings into separate buckets with individual no-fee DCA plans for each.
CFTC Chairman Selig lays out a ladder framework for digital asset regulation. "This provides firms with a clear framework for evaluating how to best serve their customers in the United States."
"You don't have to go to college to have a good life. You can make a quarter of a million dollars a year as a CNC operator who knows how to use AI. There is a different way of living your life than what you've been sold." @sjkokinda on the path forward for Gen Z. x.com/TFTC21/status/…

Africa's Bitcoin ecosystem @afribitcoiners has grown to 180 verified Bitcoin-only projects across 23 countries.
Ray Dalio says a US debt crisis is imminent within the next three years. "We spend about seven trillion a year. We take in five. Spending 40 percent more than we're taking in. Debt service payments are building and squeezing out spending."

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 5.5.
OpenSats announces four new grants and one renewal funding Bitcoin Core development and open-source infrastructure. Grantees are working on Guix (the system that builds Bitcoin Core's release binaries deterministically), libbitcoinkernel (extracting Core's validation engine into a reusable library), and Bitcoin Core's wallet and test framework.
"Gen Z has never lived in a productive society. Their grandparents lost jobs to NAFTA, their parents lost the house in 2008, then COVID hit. They've never seen a society that works." @sjkokinda on why this generation is the hardest to reach. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
Punches thrown at a Memphis city council hearing over a data center moratorium vote.
"A system of central banking and wars run on behalf of the empire. They were assuming 'we've taken care of Donald Trump.' But here he is back, overthrowing the last 125 years of British imperial policy." @sjkokinda on Trump dismantling the imperial architecture. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
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