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You Can't Print Abundance
We've run up more than $40 trillion in debt and are hoping AI will help us grow out of it. I'd rather fix the money than bet everything on threading that needle.
Sending bitcoin over Apple's Find My network. An ESP32 device built by @zeugmaster_ broadcasts Cashu ecash tokens by hijacking the same mesh network iPhones use to lost AirTags. x.com/callebtc/statu…
Clone Robotics showing off teleoperation of their anatomical hand design.

Fed rate hike odds for the October meeting fell from about 70% to 23% in four days after officials signaled no urgency for another increase.
Gavin Baker on the White House Accord on Super Intelligence: "I do not trust any 5-20 individuals to make the best possible decisions about the direction of this technology. I want as many AIs as possible to maximize the odds that they encompass the diversity of human values across the world."

In a new TIME interview, Trump rejected the idea of nationalizing frontier AI labs but floated taking Intel-style equity stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic. "I might. Maybe I could do that." He pointed to the government's 10% stake in Intel as a model. OpenAI reportedly offered Washington a 5% stake back in July. Anthropic has denied any such talks.
Rep. Nick Begich makes the case for a permanent U.S. bitcoin reserve with a 20-year hold.
Strategy drops a tutorial on $STRC.

A new Congressional Research Service report highlights how unstable the regulatory ground is for banks that want to touch bitcoin. Since 2017, federal regulators have repeatedly reversed course on which crypto activities banks can engage in as administrations and agency leadership change. Without legislation, any expansion stays vulnerable to reversal. The GENIUS Act already made stablecoin activities permissible for bank subsidiaries. But broader activities like custody, lending against Bitcoin collateral, and dealing in digital assets still depend on who's running the agencies.
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We have a system that makes it harder to save the fruits of your labor and then wonder why everyone is cutting corners. Cheap, easy money produces cheap goods. The price stays the same, there's less food in the package, and everyone pretends things haven't gotten more expensive. Sound money forces you to seriously consider what you're giving up when you spend it. Instead, we've created a system that punishes you for sitting still and encourages you to take more risk just to keep what you've already earned. The federal government has accumulated more than $40 trillion in gross debt. Bank of America thinks we'll be at $50 trillion by July 2029. And now we're supposed to believe an AI-driven productivity boom will let us grow our way out of the hole. Elon is pushing universal high income again, arguing AI and robotics will increase production faster than the money supply can grow. But you still need food, energy and somewhere to live. Sending everyone a bigger check while they're bidding for the same homes is going to drive prices up. Bitcoin gives us money that respects your time. Nobody gets to create more of it because they made a bad investment or promised voters something they can't afford. Fix the money, fix the world.
iTrustCapital CEO says over 50% of client capital is going into bitcoin. "Investors have been allocating over time since that $58,000 low."
Macro analyst Jordi Visser on why AI agents are the next bitcoin catalyst: "For the Incumbents to invest, two things need to happen. They need to question the assets they own that are worth $900 trillion. At the same time, there needs to be a translator that's a language they understand. AI agents are another bridge." x.com/BTCtreasuries/…
Sending bitcoin over Apple's Find My network. An ESP32 device built by @zeugmaster_ broadcasts Cashu ecash tokens by hijacking the same mesh network iPhones use to lost AirTags. x.com/callebtc/statu…
Clone Robotics showing off teleoperation of their anatomical hand design.

Fed rate hike odds for the October meeting fell from about 70% to 23% in four days after officials signaled no urgency for another increase.
Gavin Baker on the White House Accord on Super Intelligence: "I do not trust any 5-20 individuals to make the best possible decisions about the direction of this technology. I want as many AIs as possible to maximize the odds that they encompass the diversity of human values across the world."

In a new TIME interview, Trump rejected the idea of nationalizing frontier AI labs but floated taking Intel-style equity stakes in OpenAI and Anthropic. "I might. Maybe I could do that." He pointed to the government's 10% stake in Intel as a model. OpenAI reportedly offered Washington a 5% stake back in July. Anthropic has denied any such talks.
Rep. Nick Begich makes the case for a permanent U.S. bitcoin reserve with a 20-year hold.
Strategy drops a tutorial on $STRC.

A new Congressional Research Service report highlights how unstable the regulatory ground is for banks that want to touch bitcoin. Since 2017, federal regulators have repeatedly reversed course on which crypto activities banks can engage in as administrations and agency leadership change. Without legislation, any expansion stays vulnerable to reversal. The GENIUS Act already made stablecoin activities permissible for bank subsidiaries. But broader activities like custody, lending against Bitcoin collateral, and dealing in digital assets still depend on who's running the agencies.
High signal Bitcoin, macro, and AI news sent straight to your inbox every weekday. Sign up for The Commoner: tftc.io/commoner

We have a system that makes it harder to save the fruits of your labor and then wonder why everyone is cutting corners. Cheap, easy money produces cheap goods. The price stays the same, there's less food in the package, and everyone pretends things haven't gotten more expensive. Sound money forces you to seriously consider what you're giving up when you spend it. Instead, we've created a system that punishes you for sitting still and encourages you to take more risk just to keep what you've already earned. The federal government has accumulated more than $40 trillion in gross debt. Bank of America thinks we'll be at $50 trillion by July 2029. And now we're supposed to believe an AI-driven productivity boom will let us grow our way out of the hole. Elon is pushing universal high income again, arguing AI and robotics will increase production faster than the money supply can grow. But you still need food, energy and somewhere to live. Sending everyone a bigger check while they're bidding for the same homes is going to drive prices up. Bitcoin gives us money that respects your time. Nobody gets to create more of it because they made a bad investment or promised voters something they can't afford. Fix the money, fix the world.
iTrustCapital CEO says over 50% of client capital is going into bitcoin. "Investors have been allocating over time since that $58,000 low."
Macro analyst Jordi Visser on why AI agents are the next bitcoin catalyst: "For the Incumbents to invest, two things need to happen. They need to question the assets they own that are worth $900 trillion. At the same time, there needs to be a translator that's a language they understand. AI agents are another bridge." x.com/BTCtreasuries/…
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