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@TFTC21Jason Calacanis on the White House Super Intelligence Summit: "Where's the teacher? Where's the teenager going into college? Where's the plumber?"
@TFTC21The difference between altcoins and Bitcoin explained by @jackmallers.
@TFTC21A former infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey industrial company has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for a ransomware-style attack on his own employer. Daniel Rhyne remotely accessed the network, deleted 13 domain admin accounts, changed passwords on 301 user accounts and locked admins out of 254 servers and 3,284 workstations. He then emailed coworkers demanding 20 BTC (~$750K at the time), claiming backups had been wiped and threatening to shut down 40 servers a day. The FBI traced it back to him through his home IP and web searches on his laptop, including "how to remotely shutdown a computer usign cmd." Typo and all.
@TFTC21Oleg Fomenko published an offline threshold Schnorr wallet for Bitcoin built in Rust, leveraging the ChillDKG and FROST3 BIPs for multisig without requiring signers to be online simultaneously. x.com/oleg_dl/status…
@TFTC21How freedom tech is being used by activists with @AnyaChekhovich and @arshmolu at Freedom Tech DC.
@TFTC21OpenAI's annualized revenue is approaching $50B, roughly $20B below the $70B figure widely reported last month.
@TFTC21New report from River: businesses now hold 1.64 million bitcoin, 7.8% of total supply. They've added 193,000 BTC in 2026, making them the largest buyers for the second straight year. But the pace has slowed, with dollar inflows down about two-thirds from the same point in 2025. Strategy and Strive account for over 100% of net business purchases, adding 197,000 BTC. All other treasury companies combined bought just 8,000 BTC. Strategy alone holds 848,000 BTC, more than half of all business holdings. Notable new entrants include Robinhood and SpaceX, which disclosed over $1.5B in bitcoin after going public. Meanwhile, miners sold 32,800 BTC to fund their AI pivot. Since 2020, businesses have averaged ~19,000 BTC/month. If that pace continues, holdings could grow by another 1 million bitcoin over five years, reaching 13% of supply.
@TFTC21Breez analyzed ~1,000 inbound developer requests since 2023 and the numbers are wild. Bitcoin integrations are up 14x since AI coding agents like Claude Code hit the scene. Non-crypto apps integrating Bitcoin grew 5x in 2026 alone, with Q2 up 61% over Q1. Fitness apps, messaging, travel eSIMs, even mushroom ID apps are adding Lightning payments. Some integration requests are now coming directly from AI agents building on behalf of companies. x.com/Breez_Tech/sta…
@TFTC21Clara Shih tells 60 Minutes that AI is coming for jobs. She founded a nonprofit called New Work Foundation to help young people adapt. "If AI is going to take over more jobs, we need to rebuild how people get that purpose and connection."
@TFTC21A German lawmaker just called for a trading ban on "ecologically harmful coins" and "highly volatile gambling assets" on the floor of the Bundestag.
@TFTC21Strategy announces its Q3 2026 earnings call for October 29 at 5 PM ET. x.com/Strategy/statu…
@TFTC21Netflix just dropped the trailer for "The Altruists," their limited series on the FTX collapse.
@TFTC21Jason Calacanis on the White House Super Intelligence Summit: "Where's the teacher? Where's the teenager going into college? Where's the plumber?"
@TFTC21The difference between altcoins and Bitcoin explained by @jackmallers.
@TFTC21A former infrastructure engineer at a New Jersey industrial company has been sentenced to 32 months in prison for a ransomware-style attack on his own employer. Daniel Rhyne remotely accessed the network, deleted 13 domain admin accounts, changed passwords on 301 user accounts and locked admins out of 254 servers and 3,284 workstations. He then emailed coworkers demanding 20 BTC (~$750K at the time), claiming backups had been wiped and threatening to shut down 40 servers a day. The FBI traced it back to him through his home IP and web searches on his laptop, including "how to remotely shutdown a computer usign cmd." Typo and all.
@TFTC21Oleg Fomenko published an offline threshold Schnorr wallet for Bitcoin built in Rust, leveraging the ChillDKG and FROST3 BIPs for multisig without requiring signers to be online simultaneously. x.com/oleg_dl/status…
@TFTC21How freedom tech is being used by activists with @AnyaChekhovich and @arshmolu at Freedom Tech DC.
@TFTC21OpenAI's annualized revenue is approaching $50B, roughly $20B below the $70B figure widely reported last month.
@TFTC21New report from River: businesses now hold 1.64 million bitcoin, 7.8% of total supply. They've added 193,000 BTC in 2026, making them the largest buyers for the second straight year. But the pace has slowed, with dollar inflows down about two-thirds from the same point in 2025. Strategy and Strive account for over 100% of net business purchases, adding 197,000 BTC. All other treasury companies combined bought just 8,000 BTC. Strategy alone holds 848,000 BTC, more than half of all business holdings. Notable new entrants include Robinhood and SpaceX, which disclosed over $1.5B in bitcoin after going public. Meanwhile, miners sold 32,800 BTC to fund their AI pivot. Since 2020, businesses have averaged ~19,000 BTC/month. If that pace continues, holdings could grow by another 1 million bitcoin over five years, reaching 13% of supply.
@TFTC21Breez analyzed ~1,000 inbound developer requests since 2023 and the numbers are wild. Bitcoin integrations are up 14x since AI coding agents like Claude Code hit the scene. Non-crypto apps integrating Bitcoin grew 5x in 2026 alone, with Q2 up 61% over Q1. Fitness apps, messaging, travel eSIMs, even mushroom ID apps are adding Lightning payments. Some integration requests are now coming directly from AI agents building on behalf of companies. x.com/Breez_Tech/sta…
@TFTC21Clara Shih tells 60 Minutes that AI is coming for jobs. She founded a nonprofit called New Work Foundation to help young people adapt. "If AI is going to take over more jobs, we need to rebuild how people get that purpose and connection."
@TFTC21A German lawmaker just called for a trading ban on "ecologically harmful coins" and "highly volatile gambling assets" on the floor of the Bundestag.
@TFTC21Strategy announces its Q3 2026 earnings call for October 29 at 5 PM ET. x.com/Strategy/statu…
@TFTC21Netflix just dropped the trailer for "The Altruists," their limited series on the FTX collapse.
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