"Just get the books, put them in PDF, hash, prove it was a certain point. Don't delete history on us." @MartyBent and Bryan Jacoutot on AI companies burning the books.

Jack Mallers breaking down his theory on Bessent's broader monetary strategy: "Why is Bessent allowing the move index to potentially cause a financial crisis? Well, he's blowing the euro system up... France has every single weakness at once. Massive debt, massive deficits, a huge government. The voters refuse to fight for cuts. And France can't print its own money. Scott Bessent blew up the Bank of England. If anyone knows, he knows."

Jeff Booth on walking away from a successful career to bet on something new: "My friends asked me, my parents asked, what are you doing? You're doing well in real estate, you're doing well in building company, why are you giving this all up to start a dot-com company?"

"Folks can capture the live stream, run it through a Gen AI program to make it look like something nefarious is going on." Bryan Jacoutot on hashing election footage into Bitcoin.

Saylor responds to MSCI removing bitcoin treasury companies from its indexes: "Not that important to us... They're imposing prejudicial values on digital assets. Digital assets are smarter, faster, and stronger. MSCI may not want to share in it, but investors and the nation will disagree."

Square unveiled a new self-service kiosk for restaurants with a 21.5-inch touchscreen and built-in voice ordering. Guests can speak their full order, ask menu questions, and pay with tap, dip, or PIN on the same screen. The kiosk uses sales data to make upsell suggestions based on time of day and what's already in the cart. It syncs with Square's POS system so menu and inventory changes push automatically.

Researchers at TU Wien are working to formally prove the security of the Ark protocol. Pim Keer from their Security and Privacy Group breaks down what that process looks like.

HEX and PulseChain founder Richard Heart (real name Richard James Schueler) has been arrested in Istanbul following a joint Turkish intelligence and police operation. Heart was wanted under an Interpol Red Notice issued at Finland's request, primarily for aggravated tax fraud. Police detained Heart and his wife at a residence in the Beşiktaş district after extensive surveillance. Authorities reportedly seized large amounts of cash, dozens of luxury watches, gold jewelry, firearms, and electronic devices, though exact figures vary across Turkish media reports. The SEC filed charges against Heart in 2023 for raising over $1 billion through unregistered crypto offerings, but a U.S. judge dismissed the case in early 2025 for lack of jurisdiction. The Interpol notice stems from separate Finnish criminal allegations.

TFTC 801 w/ (BryanJacoutot): "Not only are people believing that AI videos are real, they're now not believing that real videos are real. That's a nation state or an adversarial attacker's dream." We discuss: ⚡ Faking an election ⚡ Bitcoin as evidence ⚡ Timestamping the truth

"A system of central banking and wars run on behalf of the empire to keep the central bankers and these powerful financial interests in power." Susan Kokinda on what Trump is actually disrupting.

NY Fed President John Williams says one more rate hike is appropriate this year, but he doesn't expect the Fed to raise rates again in 2027. "He sees no signs of an overheated economy. The labor market's in balance. The tariff inflation effect will fade. And he says even if energy prices stay up, they're not going to push inflation higher next year." "If market rates stay at this level, the Fed doesn't have to do a whole lot more."

Jensen Huang says the AI industry is not building too fast. "Demand is much, much greater than the supply." He predicts supply and demand could balance out in about 5 to 10 years.

"We probably shouldn't blow up the world over Taiwan." Susan Kokinda on why the US shouldn't treat China as a permanent enemy.

Coinbase publishes article proposing a technical roadmap for Bitcoin's post-quantum security transition. "Coinbase believes that Bitcoin will continue to be the most trusted cryptocurrency in a post-quantum world." The company is pushing for quantum-resistant signatures, hybrid spending paths, and a migration plan for the estimated 6.7 to 7 million BTC held behind keys already exposed onchain. "Some questions, including how to handle abandoned or inaccessible coins, are difficult and deserve thoughtful debate. In our view, that discussion can continue alongside the technical work to add post-quantum signature support to Bitcoin." https://www.coinbase.com/blog/working-together-on-btc-post-quantum-readiness

Anthropic engineers released a free 1-hour crash course on building AI agents with Opus 5.5. Covers skills, loops, memory graphs, agent orchestration, and reverse engineering.

BIP Explorer puts all 213 Bitcoin Improvement Proposals into plain English with a visual map showing how each proposal led to the next across Bitcoin's entire upgrade history.

Jack Mallers on why the Fed's rate hikes might be making the problem worse, not better. "When the Fed raises rates, the treadmill speeds up because every dollar the government borrows costs more. And the legs slow down because higher rates slow the whole economy. The rate hike gives the government exactly what it can't afford."

Michael Saylor at DC Fintech Week with Chris Brummer, Founder & CEO of The Fintech Foundation.

UK authorities froze the London penthouse, watches, and jewelry of Thet Li, the man the U.S. Treasury calls the finance chief of Cambodia's Prince Group scam network. The penthouse overlooks Buckingham Palace and is valued at 8.9 million pounds. Freezing orders also cover 10.6 million pounds in watches and jewelry. Washington is moving to forfeit roughly $14 billion in bitcoin tied to the network, one of the largest crypto seizure efforts ever.

David Sacks on what he calls "rotating hoaxes" designed to turn people against AI. "We have a series of rotating hoaxes, where every six months there's a new one to try and convince us to sabotage the thing that's going to solve so many of our problems, especially the ones around affordability."