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The Bitaxe, Explained: The Open-Source Bitcoin Miner Anyone Can Run
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If GPT-6 Astra Is Legit, Governments Will Tell Us
Astra's benchmark jump looks impressive. The bigger test is whether rival governments treat it as strategic leverage in the global economic and monetary fight.
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@TFTC21"Expect escalation after the midterms. If Iran escalates, Russia will too. The real tail risk? It's not just those two. It could be a really noisy end of year." @TheMichaelEvery on tactical nukes, gray zone attacks, and a rumored Putin-Trump-Xi meeting Nov 19. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21The Liquid network has been drained of 4,000 bitcoin. The transaction includes an embedded message that claims the funds are being swept by a white hat hacker. This comes just a few days after Astra 6 dropped. The AI attacks and hardening of Bitcoin software continues. x.com/ergobtc/status…
@TFTC21"1/3 of Chinese companies lose money. The fiscal situation is far worse than the US. They're just behind a firewall and you can't see it." @TheMichaelEvery on China's hidden Achilles heels and why US financial muscle can't work against a ring-fenced system. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"2-in-3 chance of pulling it off. 1-in-3 chance of failing dramatically. We're not talking about a rate hike or two. We're talking about entirely different futures." @TheMichaelEvery on why this is as challenging as what Gorbachev faced with the Soviet Union. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"Iran was always on the target list. The US just didn't get to pick its moment." @TheMichaelEvery on why the Monroe Doctrine doesn't work if you've ceded the Middle East, and why oil and diesel still matter for everything, everywhere. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21OpenAI just told you their AI systems now do 3x the research effort of their human researchers. The median researcher uses $600/day in agent compute. They hit their "automated research intern" milestone on schedule. They're framing this as a transparency win and asking other labs to disclose their own recursive self-improvement progress. Credit where it's due, most labs wouldn't publish this. But the subtext is loud: the machines are writing the code that makes the machines smarter, and the pace is accelerating. The window for the public to have a meaningful say in how this plays out is shrinking fast.
@TFTC21.@SaniExp spotted 600 BTC from March 2010 moving after 16.5 years of silence. Mined when bitcoin was worth fractions of a penny.
@TFTC21Rob Hamilton found a Bitcoin Core bug, used AI to isolate the fix, and shipped a PR before lunch. "I took the verbose error logs, dumped it into GPT 5.6 Daybreak, which isolated it to a one line of code change." x.com/Rob1Ham/status…
@TFTC21"The real problem is physicality. You can control bond yields with yield curve control, but it doesn't produce stuff." @TheMichaelEvery on why the US isn't capital constrained, it's physically constrained. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"Everyone exports to the US is either in or out. It's a gun on the table moment." @TheMichaelEvery on how stablecoins could replace the petrodollar and rewire the global financial system. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"You can't call this a cyclical inflation environment. It's a structural inflation environment until you can geopolitically tell me we have a decisive way to end both these wars." @TheMichaelEvery on why rates traders now need to be oil traders x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21x.com/i/article/2096…
@TFTC21"Expect escalation after the midterms. If Iran escalates, Russia will too. The real tail risk? It's not just those two. It could be a really noisy end of year." @TheMichaelEvery on tactical nukes, gray zone attacks, and a rumored Putin-Trump-Xi meeting Nov 19. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21The Liquid network has been drained of 4,000 bitcoin. The transaction includes an embedded message that claims the funds are being swept by a white hat hacker. This comes just a few days after Astra 6 dropped. The AI attacks and hardening of Bitcoin software continues. x.com/ergobtc/status…
@TFTC21"1/3 of Chinese companies lose money. The fiscal situation is far worse than the US. They're just behind a firewall and you can't see it." @TheMichaelEvery on China's hidden Achilles heels and why US financial muscle can't work against a ring-fenced system. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"2-in-3 chance of pulling it off. 1-in-3 chance of failing dramatically. We're not talking about a rate hike or two. We're talking about entirely different futures." @TheMichaelEvery on why this is as challenging as what Gorbachev faced with the Soviet Union. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"Iran was always on the target list. The US just didn't get to pick its moment." @TheMichaelEvery on why the Monroe Doctrine doesn't work if you've ceded the Middle East, and why oil and diesel still matter for everything, everywhere. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21OpenAI just told you their AI systems now do 3x the research effort of their human researchers. The median researcher uses $600/day in agent compute. They hit their "automated research intern" milestone on schedule. They're framing this as a transparency win and asking other labs to disclose their own recursive self-improvement progress. Credit where it's due, most labs wouldn't publish this. But the subtext is loud: the machines are writing the code that makes the machines smarter, and the pace is accelerating. The window for the public to have a meaningful say in how this plays out is shrinking fast.
@TFTC21.@SaniExp spotted 600 BTC from March 2010 moving after 16.5 years of silence. Mined when bitcoin was worth fractions of a penny.
@TFTC21Rob Hamilton found a Bitcoin Core bug, used AI to isolate the fix, and shipped a PR before lunch. "I took the verbose error logs, dumped it into GPT 5.6 Daybreak, which isolated it to a one line of code change." x.com/Rob1Ham/status…
@TFTC21"The real problem is physicality. You can control bond yields with yield curve control, but it doesn't produce stuff." @TheMichaelEvery on why the US isn't capital constrained, it's physically constrained. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"Everyone exports to the US is either in or out. It's a gun on the table moment." @TheMichaelEvery on how stablecoins could replace the petrodollar and rewire the global financial system. x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21"You can't call this a cyclical inflation environment. It's a structural inflation environment until you can geopolitically tell me we have a decisive way to end both these wars." @TheMichaelEvery on why rates traders now need to be oil traders x.com/TFTC21/status/…
@TFTC21x.com/i/article/2096…
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