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Brad Mills gave an AI swarm his bitcoin research and it spit out a fully produced music video with 75 cuts synced to the beat. x.com/bradmillscan/s…

The CFTC just released updated guidance on how digital assets can be used as collateral in derivatives markets.

TFTC 795 w/ @jvisserlabs: "We're about to unleash the 900 trillion in liquid form. That's what tokenization is. And the Ponzi scheme then ends." We discuss: ⚡ The $900T Ponzi hiding in the fiat system ⚡ Why the next crisis may never come ⚡ What actually sends Bitcoin to $1M

The 30-year Treasury yield just hit 5.43%, its highest level since June 2004. It was under 1% in 2020.

China's spot copper premium hit 1,375 yuan per ton, the highest since November 2021. Refined copper imports fell 11% in August, and LME copper is trading near $14,577 a ton.

Spot bitcoin ETFs took in $1 billion yesterday, their biggest day of 2026. That flipped year-to-date flows positive for the first time since April. Option 2 (year-over-year, from the chart) Spot bitcoin ETF net flows: 2024: +$35.2 billion 2025: +$21.3 billion 2026: +$349 million Yesterday's $1 billion day is what pulled this year back above zero.

A Morgan Stanley employee accidentally emailed out a list of 100+ deals the bank is working on in Asia. Potential IPOs, the private equity and pension funds backing them, and projects on hold.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 will deliberately fall back to a less capable model when asked about frontier LLM development tasks like ML kernel development.
.@w_s_bitcoin shows that anyone who has consistently dollar-cost averaged Bitcoin is now in profit, regardless of when they started.

The US is projected to spend 4.3% of GDP on debt interest payments by 2027, among the highest in the developed world. Japan, despite the largest debt-to-GDP ratio, pays just 0.9%. America's debt problem isn't just how much it owes. It's what it costs to carry.

$50B AUM Calamos Investments on CNBC: "It's not are you in Bitcoin, it's how much are you allocated... even the big sovereign wealth funds." The biggest banks went from not wanting to participate to fully in and lending against it.
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." - @jackmallers x.com/jackmallers/st…
Brad Mills gave an AI swarm his bitcoin research and it spit out a fully produced music video with 75 cuts synced to the beat. x.com/bradmillscan/s…

The CFTC just released updated guidance on how digital assets can be used as collateral in derivatives markets.

TFTC 795 w/ @jvisserlabs: "We're about to unleash the 900 trillion in liquid form. That's what tokenization is. And the Ponzi scheme then ends." We discuss: ⚡ The $900T Ponzi hiding in the fiat system ⚡ Why the next crisis may never come ⚡ What actually sends Bitcoin to $1M

The 30-year Treasury yield just hit 5.43%, its highest level since June 2004. It was under 1% in 2020.

China's spot copper premium hit 1,375 yuan per ton, the highest since November 2021. Refined copper imports fell 11% in August, and LME copper is trading near $14,577 a ton.

Spot bitcoin ETFs took in $1 billion yesterday, their biggest day of 2026. That flipped year-to-date flows positive for the first time since April. Option 2 (year-over-year, from the chart) Spot bitcoin ETF net flows: 2024: +$35.2 billion 2025: +$21.3 billion 2026: +$349 million Yesterday's $1 billion day is what pulled this year back above zero.

A Morgan Stanley employee accidentally emailed out a list of 100+ deals the bank is working on in Asia. Potential IPOs, the private equity and pension funds backing them, and projects on hold.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 5.5 will deliberately fall back to a less capable model when asked about frontier LLM development tasks like ML kernel development.
.@w_s_bitcoin shows that anyone who has consistently dollar-cost averaged Bitcoin is now in profit, regardless of when they started.

The US is projected to spend 4.3% of GDP on debt interest payments by 2027, among the highest in the developed world. Japan, despite the largest debt-to-GDP ratio, pays just 0.9%. America's debt problem isn't just how much it owes. It's what it costs to carry.

$50B AUM Calamos Investments on CNBC: "It's not are you in Bitcoin, it's how much are you allocated... even the big sovereign wealth funds." The biggest banks went from not wanting to participate to fully in and lending against it.
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." - @jackmallers x.com/jackmallers/st…
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