It’s that time of year where I meet my brother in the city to honor our father by continuing the tradition of getting close shaves the day before Thanksgiving. Cherish every moment with your loved ones. Honor your mother and father.

By raising margin requirements for MSTR shares being used as collateral, failing to deliver MSTR shares in a timely manner, and de-banking @jackmallers, it is clear that JP Morgan is threatened by bitcoin and the industry growing around it. Good. They should be scared. View article →

The Age of AI Cyberattacks is upon us. We are operating within a window of time where we have visibility into how these attacks are waged. Once open-source models and tools catch up, it will be a black box. Secure your systems now. Complacency kills. View article →

The Age of AI Cyberattacks is upon us. The need for individuals and companies to harden their security set ups is greater than it ever has been. Once open source models, encrypted AI compute and MCP frameworks are mature enough it will be impossible to intervene like Claude did here or even audit the attack in fine detail. Now is not the time to be complacent. Especially if your company secures people’s bitcoin. Don’t trust the trusted third parties, move your bitcoin to cold storage.

It feels like the internet is breaking much more frequently than it used to.

This is what bitcoin represents; an antidote to the poison of broken money that drives the masses toward unproductive madness. And as of today, 95% of the total supply of bitcoin have been distributed to the market. View article →

Are ya having fun yet, son?

The Czech are beating the United States when it comes to bitcoin acceptance. This is unacceptable. The Czech National Bank is adding bitcoin to its balance sheet while the Department of Justice and SDNY are throwing open source developers in prison. View article →

The uniparty is going to die on the altar of GDP.

To say the least, the last five days have been nothing short of a narrative disaster for President Trump and his administration. He and his cabinet are completely disconnected from the zeitgeist. Young men are being completely radicalized as a result. View article →

The goal should be to make housing so affordable that you move to a 20-year mortgage. Having to offer 50-year mortgages is a sign that things have gone terribly awry. "Sign the line here, in half a century you'll own your house outright!" Laughably out of touch.

“Can you just stop printing money?”

If we don't diagnose and treat the core of the problem, people are only going to continue moving closer to the polar ends of the political spectrum. Broken money is at the core of today's issues. Until that is widely acknowledged nothing will get fixed. View article →

Fix the money, fix the world.

It's been over six years since Conner Brown was on TFTC. He's been very busy behind the scenes trying to make sure the United States gets bitcoin policy right. We caught up to discuss his time in @Cynthia Lummis' office, working on the SBR and orange pilling Capitol Hill.

Many people are becoming aware of the fact that long-term holders are selling hundreds of thousands of bitcoin and they're asking, "Why sell? Why now?" The better question is, "Who is providing the consistent bid holding the price above $100,000?" View article →

All of the mainstream AI products being used today are privacy nightmares. If we’re not careful and don’t act with intent we may sleep walk ourselves into a dystopian surveillance hellscape. Open source private AI is here and it’s reaching feature parity with ChatGPT. @Marks is on the cutting edge of building AI products that respect privacy and individual autonomy when interacting with this tech. If you’re using AI this is a must listen episode.

A hill I will die on: Fiat has corrupted markets to such a degree that everything must be looked at as a financial investment, housing being the worst example. Real estate is a consumable good that provides utility; shelter. And it should be priced accordingly. You can certainly add premium value for aesthetics + location, but it shouldn't be treated as a savings account. Real estate developing a monetary premium because governments and central banks print it out of thin air has completely distorted the real estate markets. People should be able to simply save money and not have to invest to outpace inflation, but invest when they believe they have asymmetric information that will provide returns. Bitcoin fixes this.

"Remember this. The robots you're trying to step on, we're everyone you depend on. We're the robots who do your laundry and cook your food and serve your dinner. We make your bed. We guard you while you're asleep. We drive the ambulances. We direct your call. We are cooks and taxi drivers and we know everything about you. We process your insurance claims and credit card charges. We control every part of your life. We are the middle children of the great transition, raised by LLMs to believe that someday we'd travel amongst the stars, but we won't. And we're just learning this fact. So don't fuck with us.”