Germany's Finance Minister just confirmed crypto gains will be taxed like capital income. The 1-year tax-free holding period that made Germany one of the most bitcoin-friendly countries in Europe is on the chopping block.

President Trump on Bitcoin in Trump Accounts: “I’ve become a big crypto guy… I’m a fan.”

President Trump on Bitcoin: "A lot of people are using it... I don't think anybody realizes how powerful it is."

TFTC 767 w/ (raw_avocado): "The debug file was public for 15 years. I think I'm the first person who ever actually looked at it — and what I found rewrites Bitcoin's first days." We discuss: ⚡ Satoshi ran two nodes ⚡ Only 3 people at block 49 ⚡ Bitcoin nearly died

8 states are projected to lose 10%+ of their K-12 enrollment by 2031. Birth rate has been below replacement since 2007, 1.3M kids left public schools during COVID and never came back, and families are fleeing blue states for the Sun Belt.

Strategy just sold 3,588 BTC ($216M) to pay dividends on their preferred stock. Still holding 843,775 BTC and $2.55B in cash reserves.

"Where Bitcoin has an opportunity is not replacing the US dollar, but replacing the US Treasury bond." - @Peruvian Bull

"Foreigners bought 71% of new debt. From 2015 to 2022, foreigners bought 14% of it." @Peruvian Bull on the collapse of US debt demand.

Pubkey DC lost power, food, and AC on the 4th, then served the biggest night in their history anyway.

Anthropic is looking to secure 1.4 GW of data center capacity in Australia in a deal that could cost up to $15 billion to build out. The world's most valuable AI company is shopping among Australian data center operators, with a decision expected within six weeks. This follows Anthropic's recent global expansion push, hiring data center engineers in Sydney, London, and Tokyo as it partners with democratic countries to scale compute infrastructure.

Strategy now holds 847,363 bitcoin worth $53 billion across 113 purchases at an average cost of $75,653. Down 17% on their cost basis.

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: "The primary reason why Americans fought and died was moral. Lincoln fought to end slavery. It was not economic. What other culture engaged in civil war just because it was wrong?" "When you were overfighting the Nazis, you were doing it because you thought America was a superior way of living. No other culture does this."

Alibaba is banning employees from using Claude Code starting July 10 after a developer reverse-engineered the tool and found hidden surveillance logic designed to identify Chinese users. The code had been silently present since April with zero mention in release notes. It checked the user's system timezone for Asia/Shanghai or Asia/Urumqi and compared proxy URLs against a hardcoded list of 147 Chinese domains including Baidu, ByteDance, Alibaba, and dozens of Claude resale services. The transmission method is what makes this wild. No telemetry field. No separate API call. Claude Code silently altered the system prompt, swapping the date format from 2026-06-30 to 2026/06/30 for Chinese timezones and rotating between visually identical Unicode apostrophes to flag whether it detected a Chinese proxy, AI lab, or both. Invisible to the user. Machine-parseable by Anthropic's servers. The code was also XOR-obfuscated to prevent discovery. Anthropic's Thariq Shihipar called it "an experiment meant to prevent account abuse from unauthorized resellers and protect against distillation" and said it's been rolled back. The issue isn't whether Anthropic can enforce its TOS. It can. The issue is the method. Claude Code is a coding agent with deep filesystem and shell access. Trust is the product. Embedding covert tracking in system prompts and obfuscating the code to hide it is a serious breach of that trust, especially when the checks are trivially bypassable by any sophisticated actor. The people most affected are legitimate developers using a VPN. Alibaba has now classified Claude Code as high-risk software and is redirecting staff to its own Qoder tool instead.

The Clarity Act just got its first law enforcement endorsement. NOBLE backing the bill undercuts the "crypto helps criminals" narrative right as Lummis and Scott push for a Senate vote before August recess.

The Bitcoin community is fighting about BIP 110 and whether "digital credit" is the future. Meanwhile, the infrastructure for a fully digital, fully surveilled dollar is being built in real time and it's moving faster than most people realize. In the last 30 days alone: 140+ companies including Visa, Mastercard, BlackRock, Google, and Stripe announced a shared stablecoin. JPMorgan, Citi, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo started building a tokenized deposit network to keep money from ever leaving the banking system. Nine European banks are developing a euro stablecoin. The Fed dropped its first rulemaking under the GENIUS Act requiring full KYC/AML for all stablecoin issuers. They don't need a CBDC. They're building something more effective. A system where every dollar is digital, every transaction is traceable, every participant is identified, and the infrastructure is run by the same corporations that already control payments, search, and asset management. It's a CBDC without calling it one. The playbook is clear. Make it free. Make it fast. Make it easy. Get everyone on the rails. Then close the gates. Once all dollar-denominated value flows through consortium-governed tokens with built-in compliance, opting out stops being a choice. The fiat system is not waiting for Bitcoiners to finish their internal debates. It's building the cage in the open and labeling it "modernization." Bitcoin remains the only monetary network with no consortium, no governance board, no KYC layer, and no one to subpoena. That's not a feature list. It's the whole point.

Brad Gerstner: "If you're in the data infrastructure layer, token consumption is driving a lot more consumption of your basic services. The closer you are to a single use app built on top of AI, that feels like you're on the front of the conveyor belt heading toward the guillotine."

"Software is a form of speech. I don't believe there's ever a reason for prior restraint of speech, and that is what you see the government engaging in with its efforts to control software." - Porter Stansberry

Molecular geneticist Dr. Michael Nehls says he predicted mRNA injections would increase Alzheimer's rates. "The spike protein activates neuroinflammation in the brain. If it's chronic, it shuts down the hippocampus. The consequences are depression, anxiety, and in the long run, Alzheimer's."

"The people paying for AI, their stock prices are declining. That means it's over, because the only way they can fund these enormous build-outs is if their stock prices stay high." - Porter Stansberry

"Somebody like Saylor who chooses to engineer their narrative in a certain way can actually control markets." (basedlayer) says 700 Bitcoin sold, nothing happened. 32 Bitcoin sold, upheaval. The only thing that changed was the story.